Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963, in Bennington, Vermont, U.S.) is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television.

Biography[link]

Gibb grew up in Westport, Connecticut, and got her big break at the age of 14 when she was discovered by the Eileen Ford Agency in New York City. She was on the cover of Vogue and Young Miss. Woody Allen saw her in one of those magazines and cast her in her first film role in his 1980 movie Stardust Memories. In the 1986 war film Salvador, directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods, she portrayed an American nun in El Salvador who was raped and murdered.

Gibb's best known TV role was on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Susan "Suzi" Martin Wyatt Carter from 1981 to 1983. She was also a regular for three seasons on the original Fame TV show and appeared in the first three Diagnosis: Murder movies in 1992 as Dr. Amanda Bentley.

In the TV adaptation of Gypsy, she starred as the adult Rose Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee, opposite Bette Midler as Mama Rose. She later starred in the 1995 short lived TV series Deadly Games. She has also played in many TV movies, including the role of Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story (1989).

Gibb stays active teaching and coaching private voice lessons from her studios in Los Angeles and her home state of Connecticut. She also judges several voice competitions both in the U.S. and abroad.

Filmography[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Cynthia Gibb at the Internet Movie Database
• Cynthia Gibb at AllRovi

David James Elliott
David James Elliott (left) with Judge Advocate General of the Navy, RADM Donald Guter, and fellow actors of the series JAG, Catherine Bell and John M. Jackson
Born	David William Smith (1960-09-21) September 21, 1960 (age 51) Milton, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Nanci Chambers (1992-present) 2 children

David James Elliott (born September 21, 1960) is a Canadian American actor who was the star of the series JAG, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr. from 1995 to 2005.

Early life[link]

He was born David William Smith in Milton, Ontario, Canada. During his teenage years he was part of a band, quitting Milton District High School in his final year to pursue his dream of becoming a rock star. At 19 however he realized this wouldn't happen and returned to finish high school.^[1]

After graduating from high school, he attended Ryerson University in Toronto, auditioned for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Ontario and was accepted as a member of its Young Company.

Career[link]

Subsequently moving to Los Angeles he took the stage name of David James Elliott having found there was already an actor named David Smith. He appeared in the film Police Academy 3: Back in Training in 1986, and subsequently in the television series Street Legal, Knots Landing as Bill Nolan, and in 1993's The Untouchables as Agent Paul Robbins. The following year Elliott landed a recurring role on the hit series Melrose Place, playing "Terry Parsons", and a guest appearance in an episode of Seinfeld as an anti-abortion furniture mover.

He married Canadian-born actress Nanci Chambers in 1992. She also appeared in JAG as the ambitious "Lt. Loren Singer". They have a daughter, Stephanie (b. March 15, 1993 in Chicago) and a son, Wyatt (b. March 3, 2003 in Los Angeles). David and Nanci both became U.S. citizens.

In 1995, Elliot landed the role he would hold for ten years, the role of Naval Aviator-turned JAG lawyer Captain Harmon Rabb Jr. in the NBC/CBS television drama JAG. His tenure on JAG ended in 2005, with the series finale, in which Capt. Harmon Rabb proposed to his partner Lt Col. Sarah MacKenzie (Catherine Bell) .

In 1996, David Elliott starred in the made-for-cable movie Holiday Affair with Cynthia Gibb.^[2] This is a remake of the 1949 classic Holiday Affair which starred Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. In 2005, Elliott starred in a Canadian television movieThe Man Who Lost Himself, which was based on the true story of Terry Evanshen, a Canadian football player who was in a car accident and lost his memory due to severe head injuries. Nanci Chambers also appeared in this movie as a doctor. In October 2006, Elliott joined the cast of legal drama Close to Home (2005–2007) as Chief Deputy Prosecutor James Conlon. During 2008, he had a recurring role in the Canadian series The Guard. He starred in Sci Fi Channel's four hour miniseries, Knights of Bloodsteel (2009). Elliott was cast as an Internet millionaire in "Terror Trap," directed by Dan Garcia.^[3]

Elliot replaced Neal McDonough as the male lead in the TV show Scoundrels. In 2010, Elliott was cast as FBI Agent Russ Josephson on CSI: NY, a recurring role as Detective Jo Danville's (Sela Ward) ex-husband, a role which he first portrayed in January, 2011.^[4]

Elliot also co-starred as Ripp Cockburn, the husband of Kristin Chenoweth's character Carlene, on ABC's comedy-drama series GCB.

References[link]

External links[link]

• David James Elliott at the Internet Movie Database
• David James Elliott Bio at CBS - JAG
• David James Elliott Bio at CBS - Close To Home
• Milton: David James Elliott

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Virenia Gwendolyn "Nia" Peeples (born December 10, 1961) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nicole Chapman on Fame. She is also known for her role as Karen Taylor Winters on The Young and the Restless and as Sydney Cooke on Walker, Texas Ranger.

Personal life[link]

Peeples was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Elizabeth Joan (née Rubic), a flamenco dancer, and Robert Eugene Peeples.^[1][2] She was raised in West Covina. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from the Philippines, and were of Filipino, Spanish, French, and German descent.^[3] Her father, who was originally from Mississippi, was of Scottish, Irish, English, Native American, and Italian ancestry.^[2][4][5]

She attended UCLA on a music scholarship, during which time she performed as Liberace's opening act in Las Vegas on weekends.

Career[link]

Peeples started her career as part of the performance group The Young Americans.

Music[link]

In 1988 she hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Trouble," which climbed to #35 on the Hot 100. Her most successful pop single is "Street Of Dreams," which hit #12 on the Hot 100 in 1991.

She made a music video in 1986 of "All You Can Dream", directed by Alan Bloom and conceptualised by Keith Williams, for the purposes of promoting the values of UCLA. She appeared in Prince's video for Raspberry Beret.

Acting[link]

Notably, Peeples portrayed performing arts student Nicole Chapman on the hit TV series Fame. In 1987 she was in the movie North Shore as Kiani. She hosted the short-lived American version of Top of the Pops as well as a weeknight dance music program called The Party Machine with Nia Peeples, and portrayed Texas Ranger Sydney Cooke in the CBS hit series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1999-2001.

Nia Peeples joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in 2007, playing the role of Karen Taylor, and was released from the role in the spring of 2009. Her last air date was in May 2009.

Peeples has been cast in the 2010 ABC Family TV series Pretty Little Liars, based on the book series by Sara Shepard.^[6]

Discography[link]

• Girlfriend (1987)
• Nothin' But Trouble (1988)
• Nia Peeples (1991)
• Songs of the Cinema (2007)

Filmography[link]

See also[link]

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Template:Nia's Elements Of Life
• Nia Peeples at the Internet Movie Database

Valerie Landsburg (born August 12, 1958) is an American actress, television and film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Doris Schwartz in the 1982 series Fame, interpreting, for television, the role that Maureen Teefy had originated in the film. She was also the lead singer on the UK top five hit "Hi Fidelity".^[1] Producer Alan Landsburg is her father, and she appeared in at least one installment of True Confessions, an anthology series program he produced.

Biography[link]

Born in New York City, Landsburg made her acting debut in 1978 disco movie Thank God It's Friday. In 1982, she appeared in the NBC television series Fame. During the series run, Landsburg wrote and directed one episode of the series. Shortly after Landsburg left the show in 1987, she co-starred in two different comedy TV series, which practically ran at the same time. The first, You Again?, starred Jack Klugman, and lasted for one season. The second series was All Is Forgiven, which was cancelled after just nine episodes.

Outside of doing recurring roles in Hotel and Dream On she did not star in another TV-series. She appeared in about a dozen made-for-TV movies and guest appearances on other TV-series including Murder, She Wrote, Beverly Hills, 90210, Empty Nest, Nip/Tuck and The Unit among others. In between TV and film projects she has appeared on stage plays. In addition to acting, Landsburg has also directed several feature films and episodic television shows.

In 2001 she released an album of mostly her own compositions, called Grownup. Among the tracks was a re-recording of "Hi Fidelity".^[2]

She is the life member of Asian Academy of Film & Television.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Valerie Landsburg Website
• Valerie Landsburg at the Internet Movie Database

Erica Fawn Gimpel (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on television shows Fame as Coco Hernandez^[2] and on Profiler as Angel Brown. She is also known for her major recurring roles on the television shows ER as Adele Newman and on Veronica Mars as Alicia Fennel.

Gimpel was a judge on RTE One's Fame: The Musical, an Irish TV talent show seeking a boy and a girl to play Nick and Serena respectively in the Irish touring production of Fame.^[3]

In January 2010, Gimpel released her first CD, Spread your Wings and Fly.

Personal life[link]

Gimpel was born in Manhattan, New York. In 1982, she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts.^[3] She had toured the United States and Europe with her mother, singer Phyllis Bash, in the play "Porgy and Bess." Her father is Joseph Gimpel, a short story writer.

See also[link]

• The Kids from "Fame"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Erica Gimpel at the Internet Movie Database

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