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Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is an American and Canadian actress and comedienne. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, on stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series, SCTV.
Martin, the oldest of three children, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947, the daughter of Sybil A. (née Manoogian) and John Papazian Martin. Her paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants who moved to the U.S. from Turkey to escape the Armenian Genocide. Her father owned Martin's Foods, a grocery store chain. Her maternal grandparents were Armenians from Yerevan and Istanbul.
She has two sons, Jack (born ca. 1980) and Joe (born 1983), with ex-husband Bob Dolman, a screenwriter. Through this marriage, she was the sister-in-law of Dolman's sister, actress Nancy, and her husband Martin Short.
Soon after graduating from Emerson College, she won a role in a touring company of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. After frequent visits to Toronto, she relocated from New York City to Toronto in 1970 and immediately found steady theater work.
Melissa De Sousa (born September 25, 1967) is an American actress. De Sousa was born in New York City, New York of Panamanian descent. She is an Afro-Latino.
Melissa De Sousa was raised in New York by Panamanian parents. She began ballet at a very young age studying under Joan Millin. She attended the High School of Performing Arts and acting naturally followed.
Her film credits include The Best Man, Miss Congeniality, 30 Years to Life, and Lockdown. Her television credits are ER, Married... With Children, Moesha, Living Single, and One on One.
De Sousa was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in a Film from the NAACP Image awards for her performamce in The Best Man. Her other credits include 30 Years to Life, an independent picture starring Allen Payne, Tracy Morgan and Erika Alexander; Lockdown, an independent picture with Richard T. Jones, executive produced by Master P.; Ride and the short films, The Fire This Time and Spark. De Sousa's television credits include Damon, ER, Married... with Children, Moesha, The Wayans Bros. and Living Single. De Sousa co-starred in UPN's Second Time Around, short-lived sitcom alongside future husband and wife Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker which lasted for one season only during the 2004-05 season. She was most recently seen as 'Lady Anne' in An Evening of Shakespare with Charles Dutton at the Hudson and the Court theatres in Los Angeles.
Damon was a US comedy television series starring Damon Wayans. The show lasted for eleven episodes between March and July 1998. It was created by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, and Damon Wayans and directed by John P. Whitesell.
Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach, Damon Wayans, Dick Blasucci
Sam Henry Kass and Brenda Hanes-Berg.
Two brothers, one a bachelor and undercover detective, the other a married rent-a-cop, are reunited in Chicago. Things come easily to Damon, a clever but politically incorrect undercover cop. He has a quick wit, beautiful women and a challenging job. His older brother Bernard is a rent-a-cop home security officer who longs to be the real thing. Down on his luck and separated from his wife, he spends most of his time on Damon's couch. Down at the precinct, Captain Carol Czynencko is Damon's hard-as-nails boss who is trying to get in touch with her sensitive side; Stacy Phillips is a strong career-driven Latina who has a "no dating cops" rule; Carrol Fontain is a hypochondriac who makes his co-workers cringe with graphic descriptions of his problems; Jimmy Tortone is a Cuban con-artist who walks a fine line between shady and legit; and Billy Cavanaugh is a gung-ho, gullible new kid in the department who falls prey to everyone's practical jokes.
Actors: Les Perkins (editor), Jackie Moore (actress), Tom McLaren (actor), Ofir Engel (actress), Mac Jay (director), Mac Jay (producer), Mac Jay (writer), Mac Jay (actor), Mac Jay (writer), Mark Di Maria (actor), Jane Kapriss (actress), Jenny Vongsa (actress), Mel Wingfield (actor), Juan Lecanda (actor), Lilianna Evelyn (actress),
Plot: Mac Giani (Mac Jay) is a notorious ladies man, who takes pleasure in seducing women and making them fall in love. He becomes a legend in the town, and well-skilled in breaking hearts. His skills earn the respect of two friends, who themselves experience the hardships of falling in and out of love, and become jaded about finding true love. In a twist of fate, their teacher becomes the student, as Mac unexpectedly falls in love, and must now confront his dark past, in order to save his dismal future.
Keywords: gigolo, haunted-by-the-past, heartbreak, italian-mafia, ladies-man, lover, mistrust, seductionActors: Shannon Lanier (actor), Jonathon Ruckman (actor), Gabriel Voss (actor), Brian St. August (actor), Paul Wiedecker (actor), Corey Williams (producer), Chris O'Brocki (actor), Kelvin Drama (actor), Phil Amico (actor), Kim Hoang (actor), Nelson Irizarry (actor), Alvin Gray (writer), Alvin Gray (writer), Alvin Gray (editor), Alvin Gray (director),
Plot: The government takes homeless people out of a small town and throws them out into the woods. After years of the homeless living in the woods, they become deadly scavengers. One day, a group of kids decides to cut school and end up breaking down in the same woods as the homeless people. The seniors must fight to survive and make it through the night.
Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Jonathan Haswell (director), The Royal Opera Chorus (actor), Wayne McGregor (miscellaneous crew), Wayne McGregor (miscellaneous crew), Paul Agnew (actor), Steven McRae (actor), Danielle de Niese (actress), Lauren Cuthbertson (actress), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (actor), Iohna Loots (actress), Christopher Hogwood (actor), Charles Workman (actor), Dancers of the Royal Ballet (actor), Cindy Jourdain (actress), John Gay (writer),
Genres: Music,Actors: Nicholas Aubrey (actor), Nicholas Aubrey (writer), Nicholas Aubrey (director), Nicholas Aubrey (producer), Jessica Fitzgerald (actress), Michael Aubrey (editor), Michael Aubrey (actor), Carolyn Tranghese (writer), Hugh Reiss (actor), Michael Aubrey (producer), Carolyn Tranghese (actress), Carolyn Tranghese (producer), Greg Sutter (actor), John Krause (actor), Caleb Sutter (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Horror,Actors: Roy Frumkes (actor), Glenn Andreiev (producer), Glenn Andreiev (writer), Glenn Andreiev (director), Glenn Andreiev (actor), Glenn Andreiev (editor), Kevin Sean Michaels (actor), Frank Franconeri (actor), Vernon Gravdal (actor), Ashley Wren Collins (actress), Bryan Fitzgerald (actor), Shawna Bermender (actress), Shawna Bermender (writer), Paul Kanter (producer), Paul Kanter (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Ralph Rieckermann (composer), Alan Pao (writer), Erin Gray (actress), Corey Large (producer), Alan Pao (producer), Corey Large (writer), Lochlyn Munro (actor), Jimmy Jean-Louis (actor), Vinnie Jones (actor), Alan Pao (actor), Corey Large (actor), Nicole Eggert (actress), Noel Gugliemi (actor), Erika Canchola (miscellaneous crew), Alan Pao (director),
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Cheyenne Silver (actress), Brad Bartram (actor), Robert Donavan (actor), Herschel Savage (actor), Alain Siritzky (producer), Shauna O'Brien (actress), Holly Sampson (actress), Daniel Anderson (actor), Jason Schnuit (actor), Danny Pape (actor), John McCafferty (actor), Anthony Skordi (actor), Peter Diamond (producer), Jill Hayworth (director), Jill Hayworth (writer),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: B. Richard Jeffery (miscellaneous crew), Tracy Ryan (actress), Edward Holzman (producer), Ken Meyer (miscellaneous crew), Chris Anderson (composer), Lauren Hays (actress), Carl Schurtz (composer), Curtis Edge (editor), Elizabeth Grisak (miscellaneous crew), Nancy O'Brien (actress), Woody Wagner (miscellaneous crew), Deborah Ceballos (costume designer), Diane Laney (miscellaneous crew), William Burke (producer), Dan Lichtenstein (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Fulvio Cecere (actor), Tygh Runyan (actor), Steve Railsback (actor), Corey Large (actor), Stephen E. Miller (actor), James Marsden (actor), Terry David Mulligan (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), Jay Brazeau (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Ethan Embry (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Nick Stahl (actor), William Sadler (actor),
Plot: After the suicide of the teenager Allen Clark, his family decides to move from Chicago to the quiet Cradle Bay Island seeking a peaceful life for the siblings Steve and Lindsay Clark. When Steve joins the local high-school, the outcast Gavin Strick befriends Steve and introduces his also rejected friend Rachel Wagner to the newcomer. Gavin exposes to Steve in the refectory the punks, the nerds and the different tribes of the school and he defends the weird theory that a sinister force changes the behavior of the annoyingly perfect "Blue Ribbons", a group of good students that wear identical jackets and gather in the Yogurt Shoppe. Further he tells that he had witnessed the blue ribbon Andy Efkin killing their schoolmate Mary Jo that is missing and the local Officer Cox covering the murder. Steve does not believe on Gavin words, but when his friend is submitted to the treatment of Dr. Edgar Caldicott and immediately changes his behavior, joining the Blue Ribbons, Steve and Rachel decides to investigate the mystery discovering the dark secret of the perfect behavior.
Keywords: 1990s, albino, ankle-tattoo, bake-sale, bandaged-hand, bare-breasts, barge, beach, beating, beerActors: Michele Soavi (writer), Pino Donaggio (composer), Dario Argento (writer), Mariangela Giordano (actress), Giovanni Lombardo Radice (actor), Gianni Romoli (writer), Vittorio Cecchi Gori (producer), Tomas Arana (actor), Herbert Lom (actor), Donald O'Brien (actor), Richard Sammel (actor), Michele Soavi (actor), Dario Argento (producer), Michele Soavi (director), Mario Cecchi Gori (producer),
Plot: A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.
Keywords: bunny, reference-to-satan, satanism, supernatural-horror