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Dana Reeve was born on 17 March 1961 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Everyone's Hero (2006), Loving (1983) and Oz (1997). She was married to Christopher Reeve. She died on 6 March 2006 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Born in New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, veteran actress Amy Aquino stars in the Amazon hit series "Bosch." Aquino plays Lt. Grace Billets, immediate superior and close friend of homicide detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) at LAPD's Hollywood Division. The series returns for its sixth season April 2020. Amy will also be seen on the upcoming season of "The Good Fight" on CBS All Access.
Over her thirty-plus year career, Aquino has recurred in numerous television series, including "Glee," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Being Human," "ER," "The Practice", "Judging Amy," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Felicity," and "Brothers and Sisters." Her films include "Working Girl," "Moonstruck," "Boys on the Side," "The Singing Detective," "White Oleander," "A Lot Like Love," "In Good Company," and "Beautiful Boy" with Steve Carrell.
Graduating with a BA in Biology from Harvard University, she went on to earn her MFA at the Yale School of Drama. Aquino then split her acting career between New York and LA, doing TV, film and theater, including a stint on Broadway in the original production of Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" with Tony Shalhoub, David Hyde Pierce and Christine Lahti. She settled in LA to play the mother Phyllis in CBS' critically acclaimed "Brooklyn Bridge" and has remained in California since.
She has also maintained her love for the stage, appearing in theaters on both coasts, including NY's Lincoln Center, LA's Geffen and Mark Taper Forum, San Diego's Old Globe, and South Coast Rep in Irvine.
Amy has also devoted over 20 years to union work, serving as a Screen Actors Guild officer from 1994 to 2004, taking part in contract negotiations and spearheading a complete revamping of its communications. Elected SAG's second highest-ranking national officer in 2009, Aquino was instrumental in bringing about merger with sister union AFTRA in 2012, resulting in her appointment as founding Co-Secretary Treasurer of the new SAG-AFTRA. She serves on the Boards of the SAG Pension and SAG-AFTRA Health Plans.
Aquino lives in a 1915 Pagoda-style bungalow in Hollywood, which she and her husband, financial advisor Drew McCoy, restored and had landmarked. She is active in LA's historical preservation movement, helping establish protected status for her Sunset Square neighborhood, and being appointed by the mayor to its Historical Preservation Overlay Zone Board. She's also on the Board of Arts for LA, the leading voice for arts equity in LA County.- Producer
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Damon Lindelof was born on 24 April 1973 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Lost (2004), The Leftovers (2014) and The Hunt (2020). He has been married to Heidi Fugeman since 28 May 2005. They have one child.- Actress
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The American actress was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Delaware, Illinois, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. Garlington was recently nominated for a 2018 Primetime Emmy Award / Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her role as 'Darlene' in Broken. Garlington was a series regular on several series Lenny, Townies, and Blame it on Ernie as well as eleven other pilots that did not go to series. She had recurring roles in several notable television series, including The West Wing, The Killing, Flashforward, Everwood, The Riches, The Bridge, Will & Grace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Mistresses, and Roseanne. She also played Kirsten, Rose Nylund's (Betty White) daughter in the final season of The Golden Girls, Ronni, the mistress of Joey Tribbiani's father on Friends, and the waitress Claire at Pete's Luncheonette in the pilot episode, The Seinfeld Chronicles. Her first professional acting job was "Myrna the Mean Waitress" in the sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Psycho II in 1983 and its successor, Psycho III in 1986. The same year she starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen in the action/thriller Cobra. Garlington feels she was blessed that writer/director Phil Alden Robinson decided she was his "good luck charm" and cast her in almost all of his movies: In The Mood, Field of Dreams, Sneakers, Sum of All Fears, and The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. Garlington was also nominated for a 2015 (ISA) Indie Series Award / Best Guest Actress- Comedy for Mentor. Having appeared in over 25 plays in Los Angeles and winning numerous Dramalogue Awards, she won the 1999 Ovation Award (L.A.'s answer to the Tony's) for a Featured Role in the play Risk Everything.- Actor
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Ricky Nelson was born on May 8, 1940 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA as Eric Hilliard Nelson. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952) and Rio Bravo (1959). He was married to Kristin Harmon. He died on December 31, 1985 in De Kalb, Texas, USA.- Actor
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Jess Harnell is an American actor and singer from New Jersey. He provided the voices of Wakko Warner from Animaniacs, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon from Spyro: A Hero's Tail, Scary Terry from Rick & Morty, Ki-Adi Mundi and Darth Maul from Star Wars video games, Captain Hero from Drawn Together, Ironhide from Transformers, Dr. Finkelstein from The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge and Kingdom Hearts, the Plumber from Ratchet & Clank and the announcer of America's Funniest Home Videos. In addition he voiced in the 1994 Sierra Online game Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness as Franz and also voiced in 2004 video game sequel The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge as Dr. Finkelstein.- Actress
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You know Jamie Donnelly from her double-wide smile and champagne personality. A veteran actress of stage, television, and movies, Jamie is a bonafide cult figure for not one but two major 20th century cultural events: The original "Rocky Horror Show", both at the Roxy in Los Angeles and on Broadway with Tim Curry, in which she coined the roles of Trixie and Magenta, and "Grease" on Broadway and in the movie with John and Olivia in which she played Jan, the "brusha brusha" Pink Lady.
After growing up in New Jersey where she could see the glittering skyline of New York City across the river, Jamie did a couple dozen summer stock musicals before she landed on Broadway at the age of seventeen in Kander and Ebb's, "Flora, The Red Menace". She both understudied Liza Minelli's Tony award winning title role and originated the character of Lulu. A darling of the New York theatre crowd, she continued starring in a succession of Broadway musicals such as "George M" at the Palace opposite Joel Grey. One of her favorite memories is having been taught "Falling in Love with Love" by Richard Rodgers which she sang at the Helen Hayes Theatre in "Rodgers and Hart".
Jamie also worked off-Broadway in the original company of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", in regional theatre for "Hot L Baltimore", overseen by the playwright, Lanford Wilson, in soap opera for a recurring role as Dusty Maguire on "The Guiding Light", guest starring on television series "Policewoman" and "Barnaby Jones", and television movies as a country western star with James Franciscus, "The Dream Makers".
In another favorite part of her life, Jamie spent years on a ranch in Montana riding horses and writing screenplays for Hollywood, including "Desperado" from the Eagles album, with the love of her life, her husband, novelist Stephen H. Foreman ("Toehold"). They have a son and daughter, Sevi (b. 1987) and Madden (b. 1989), young musicians in their own right. While her kids were growing up Jamie became the beloved acting coach of some of the best actors and actresses in Hollywood today.
She's excited about coming back to her public opposite Marisa Tomei and John C. Reilly in the upcoming Fox Searchlight feature, "The Untitled Duplass Brothers Film", a guest starring role in the final season of the Golden Globe and Emmy winner, "Monk", Nickelodeon's "The Naked Brothers Band", and Lifetime's "The Legend of Lucy Keyes". It should surprise no one that Jamie's blood type is, honest to God, "B Positive".- Dalya Knapp was born on 22 September 2010 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for She Said (2022), Evil (2019) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
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Vocal artist and character actor supreme Robert Ridgely was born on December 24, 1931 under the name of Robert Ritterbusch in New Jersey. Ridgely started out as a cabaret entertainer. In the late 1950s, he recorded 45 RPM singles for Decca Records under the name of Bob Ritterbush and as Bob Ritterbusch and Robert Ridgely after changing his name to the latter. He began his television acting career in the early 1960s with guest appearances on such TV shows as Surfside 6 (1960), Sea Hunt (1958), and Maverick (1957). He had a recurring role as Lt. Frank Kimbro on the short-lived World War II TV series The Gallant Men (1962). He made his film debut in the 1963 feature FBI Code 98 (1963). Ridgely was occasionally cast as sleazy charmers such as unctuous emcees and announcers.
He popped up in four comedies for Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles (1974), High Anxiety (1977), Life Stinks (1991), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). Moreover, Ridgely was in several pictures for director Jonathan Demme; he's especially memorable (and delightful) as smarmy game show host Wally "Mr. Love" Williams in the wonderful Melvin and Howard (1980). Other noteworthy movie roles are boozy, moonshine-running airplane pilot Lester Boggs in the rowdy redneck romp The Great Lester Boggs (1974), radio talk show host Bob Morton in Heart Like a Wheel (1983), and Los Angeles Mayor Ted Egan in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).
Ridgely lent his voice to countless animated TV programs and cartoon features; the characters he voiced include Tarzan in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1976), Flash Gordon in Flash Gordon (1979), the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak in the The World of Strawberry Shortcake (1980) and TV specials, and Thundarr in Thundarr the Barbarian (1980). Among the TV shows on which he had guest spots were Designing Women (1986), Newhart (1982), Night Court (1984), Hunter (1984), The Incredible Hulk (1977), WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), Kung Fu (1972), and Get Smart (1965). In addition, he did voice-over work for numerous TV commercials. He gave a robust and engaging performance as jolly porno producer the Colonel James in the fantastic Boogie Nights (1997), which turned out to be his last movie and a worthy closer to his long and distinguished career.
Robert Ridgely died at age 65 from cancer on February 8, 1997 in Toluca Lake, California.- Actress
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Kirrilee Berger was born on 18 August 1999 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Unsung Hero (2024), One Dollar (2018) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017).- Cinematographer
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Lawrence Sher was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Joker (2019), The Hangover (2009) and Garden State (2004).- Susan Morrow was an American actress, who was primarily active during the 1950s. She was the older sister of Judith Exner (1934-1999), a woman who claimed to have served as the mistress of politician John F. Kennedy, gang leader Sam Giancana (boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966), and gangster John Roselli (a Chicago Outfit member who helped the organization in its control over Hollywood).
Morrow was born under the name "Jacqueline Ann Teresa Bernadette Immoor", daughter to Frederick W. Immoor and his wife Katherine Shea. Morrow made her film debut with the comic strip adaptation "Gasoline Alley" (1951), based on the long-running comic strip (1918-) by Frank King (1883-1969). She was 20-years-old at the time of her film debut.
Morrow played the character Hope Wallet in both "Gasoline Alley" and its sequel "Corky of Gasoline Alley" (1951). She had a supporting role in the suicide-themed drama "On the Loose" (1951).
Morrow played female lead Tally Hathersall in the Western "The Savage" (1952). Her subsequent roles included adventure film "The Blazing Forest" (1952), and the mystery film "Problem Girls" (1953). She was the female lead in the science-fiction movie serial . "Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders" (1953), where she played undercover agent Kay Conway of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) .
Morrow's next prominent role was that of cat-woman Lambda in the science fiction film "Cat-Women of the Moon" (1953). Her only subsequent film roles were in the war drama "Batle Cry" (1955) and the horror film "Macabre" (1958). She was reduced to supporting roles in both films.
Morrow's television career consisted primarily of guest star roles in then-popular television series, such as "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason", and "Maverick". By 1960, her television appearances had ended. She apparently retired from acting, at the age of 29.
Morrow lived in relative obscurity until her death in 1985. She was 53-years-old at the time. Some of Morrow's roles are fondly remembered by genre film fans, but not much is known for her off-screen life. - Actor
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Kevin Jonas was born as Paul Kevin Jonas Jr. on November 5,1987 in New Jersey. His parents are Paul Kevin Jonas Sr. and Denise Jonas. He has 3 brothers Nicholas Jerry Jonas, Joseph Adam Jonas, and Franklin Nathaniel Jonas. He got his start doing commercials. Later he and his brothers wrote a song called please be mine and that is when they realized that that could be something. They formed their band in 2005. They came up with the name J3 but changed it right before their first show. They kept writing songs until 2013 when their band broke up. While Nick and Joe kept making music just on their own/with another group, Kevin decided to start a family with his wife Danielle. They got married back in Dec. 2009 and decided it was time to have kids. Their first daughter Alena Rose Jonas was born on Feb. 2,2014 and their second daughter Valentina Angelina Jonas on Oct. 27,2016. They raised them and had fun. Then the Jonas Brothers decided to reunite as a band while shooting their documentary Chasing Happiness. They went on tour in 2019 and Kevin's family came too. During 2020 Kevin has stayed home with his family but done zoom calls and video recorded singing and playing guitar so we can keep up with him and his brothers during the pandemic.- Writer
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Chris Brancato was born on 1 July 1962 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Godfather of Harlem (2019), Species II (1998) and First Wave (1998).- Actor
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Josh Sussman was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Glee (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place (2007) and Tangerine (2015).- Actress
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Julianne Michelle was nominated three times for "Best Actress" in a feature film and TV series, and winner "Best Actress" for the feature film, "The House Is Burning".
She was nominated for "Best Actress Under Age 10" for the movie, "Family Prayers"...Youth in Film Awards, Los Angeles. The film also starred Joe Mantegna, Paul Reiser, Anne Archer and Patti LuPone.
Julianne was nominated for "Best Actress in a TV Series" for "Bus No. 9". She starred as a series regular. She was also nominated for her guest star appearance on "Who's The Boss?" starring Tony Danza. ...Youth in Film and Young Artists' Awards, Los Angeles
December 2006, she won "Best Actress" award for "The House Is Burning" directed by award-winning director, Holger Ernst and produced by Win Wenders at the Flash Foundation's Young Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. This feature film was filmed in the United States and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.- Actor
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Born in The Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey, he grew up in the small town of River Vale. He graduated from Pascack Valley Regional High School and attended Bergen Community College in Paramus New Jersey. In the early 80s he started performing in local theater, then brought his talents to the Off-Broadway stage. By the mid 80s he did the New York Soap Opera circuit and was cast in a few supporting movie roles; such as Tommy in "Sea Of Love", opposite Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin. In 1990 he moved to California in pursuit of his acting career, where he was cast in the series role of Eddie G. in a pilot for a TV series called, "The World According To Straw", starring Kevin Pollak. He soon went on to Guest Star on Ally McBeal as Michael Young. Since then he has appeared on over 30 television shows, including Criminal Minds, Without A Trace, CSI: Miami and NCIS on CBS. He has also Guest Starred on the final episode of NYPD Blue, the hit FOX show 24, as Joe Prado, Boston Legal, Heroes, Mad Men, Harry's Law and Rizzoli & Isles, to name a few. He has also written theatrical scripts, two of which have been optioned (Outlaws and Lunatics, Refuge). He also wrote a television pilot "You, Me and Johnny" that was produced and filmed at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach.- Chris O'Neal was born on 4 April 1994 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Amp House Massacre (2024), Colin in Black & White (2021) and Greenhouse Academy (2017).
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Joseph Minion was born in 1957 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and director, known for After Hours (1985), Motorama (1991) and Trafficking (1999).- Actor
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Ken Holmes was born in Teaneck, New Jersey in the United States, and his family moved to Vermont when he was three. Ken always had a passion for performing. In first grade, he would act out in front of his classmates pretending to be several characters, including a fundamentalist preacher who warned the kids of an impending apocalypse. He would later be home-schooled, but his love of acting continued. He spent long hours as a child in his room taping pseudo-radio programs on his tape recorder, where countless characters (all of whom he would do the voices for) dropped by to be interviewed. He also acted in a couple of home-school plays. When he was twelve, Ken landed a role as Robin in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Castleton State College (now Castleton University) in Vermont. It was this experience that made him realize that performance and a career in the arts was what he wanted to do with his life.
In 2006, he spent a semester abroad in London where he went to a play nearly every night, sometimes seeing several in one day. While there, he took a master class on the craft of acting with Jeremy Irons. The following year, he attended Castleton State College where he studied Theatre with a concentration in Acting and Directing and a minor in Writing. Ken graduated from CSC cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre.
Since graduating, Ken has been going stronger than ever, acting in films and plays, as well as writing. Film work includes the Burglar in "Cold in July" with Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, and directed by Jim Mickle; a Hipster in "Hits" with Matt Walsh, James Adomian, Wyatt Cenac, Michael Cera, David Koechner, Amy Sedaris, Julia Stiles, Derek Waters, and directed by David Cross; and Nikola Tesla in the New England Emmy Award-winning TV show "The Folklorist."
Ken has been a lead, supporting, and featured actor in over thirty films, and is also a screenplay writer. He is the founder of the film company Rain & Neon Productions.- Actor
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Michael Broderick was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for True Detective (2014), NCIS: Hawai'i (2021) and Power (2014). He has been married to Dana Commandatore since 2000. They have one child.- Cynthia Martells was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She is known for Nurse Betty (2000), Gattaca (1997) and Strange Luck (1995).
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Ben Jorgensen is a musician and filmmaker. He is the founder, lead singer, and songwriter for the rock band Armor For Sleep. Their concept album "What To Do When You Are Dead" sold over 400,000 copies and launched them as a defining act in their genre. NJ.Com included the album on their "50 greatest New Jersey albums of the 21st Century" list. Their song "Remember to Feel Real" was featured on the Snakes on a Plane (2006) soundtrack, and their song "End of the World" was featured on the Transformers (2007) soundtrack. Ben was the cinematographer for the acclaimed short film Misfortune (2017), which would go on to win multiple awards including a production deal from Shout! Factory. In 2019 Ben wrote, directed, edited, and scored the short film Prime (2019), which was made for the Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge. It was an official judge's selection at the festival and won multiple awards including awards for writing, directing, and acting. In 2022 Armor for Sleep released a new full-length album titled "The Rain Museum" and embarked on tour across the country with other acts such as Dashboard Confessional, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, and Hawthorne Heights.- Dina Pearlman was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and went on to attend Carnegie Mellon University. Based in New York City, this actress, stand-up comic, and voice-over artist is best known for her appearances on Sex & The City (as Ruby Rosen, jeweler extraordinaire) and several Spike Lee films, notably "Bamboozled" in the role of slick network TV consultant Myrna Goldfarb. In HBO's "Bad Education", Dina portrayed Wendy, a member of the doomed Roslyn Board of Ed frantically attempting to cover up missing funds, and Gina in Bo Burnham's "Eighth Grade", a sun-block-obsessed mom pulling partygoers aside to apply and re-apply. Dina is recurring on "The Good Fight" Season 5 as the lawsuit-averse rule-follower Katherine from Human Resources.
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Dorian Frankel was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. She is known for Veep (2012), Baskets (2016) and Future Man (2017).