Who Is The Most Famous Colleen In The World?
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Vote up all of the Colleens you've heard of.
- 1Colleen Kay Hutchins (May 23, 1926 – March 24, 2010) was Miss America 1952.
- Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah
- 2Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut. A huge star in her day, approximately half of Moore's films are now considered lost, including her first talking picture from 1929. What was perhaps her most celebrated film, Flaming Youth (1923), is now mostly lost as well, with only one reel surviving. Moore took a brief hiatus from acting between 1929 and 1933, just as sound was being added to motion pictures. After the hiatus, her four sound pictures released in 1933 and 1934 were not financial successes. Moore then retired permanently from screen acting. After her film career, Moore maintained her wealth through astute investments, becoming a partner of Merrill Lynch. She later wrote a "how-to" book about investing in the stock market. Moore also nurtured a passion for dollhouses throughout her life and helped design and curate The Colleen Moore Dollhouse, which has been a featured exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois since the early 1950s. The dollhouse, measuring 9 square feet (0.84 m2), was estimated in 1985 to be worth of $7 million, and it is seen by 1.5 million people annually.
- Birthplace: Port Huron, Michigan, USA
- 3Colleen Ann Williams (born March 6, 1955) is an American journalist. She is a news anchor of KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles, currently serving on the 5 and 11 p.m. weekday broadcasts. She also reports on occasion for NBC News and MSNBC. Williams is one of the most-recognized anchors in the Los Angeles area, the second-largest media market in the United States. Williams once could be recognized for her trademark hairstyle which until the late 1990s included a prominent silver streak.
- Birthplace: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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Colleen Foy
Colleen Foy is a film actor. - 5Colleen or Cécile Schott (born 1976) is a composer of electronic and ambient music based in France.
- Birthplace: Paris, France
- 6Colleen Corby (born August 3, 1947) is a retired American model. She is best known for her work as a teen in the 1960s, as well as for her modeling work in department store catalogs from the 1960s and 1970s, including those of Sears, JC Penney, Montgomery Ward, and others. Corby's modeling career began in 1959 when she was eleven years old.
- Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- 7Colleen Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress born on June 3, 1924 in Montreal, Quebec best known for her interpretation of Eugene O'Neill plays on the stage and television appearances in the 1980s. Dewhurst was nominated for eight Tonys and won two, and was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmys, of which she won four. Dewhurst was the son of Fred Dewhurst, a hockey player turned sales manager, and Frances Dewhurst, a Christian Scientist whose faith Colleen followed. The family moved to America when Dewhurst was 13, and she graduated from Riverside High School in Milwaukee in 1942. She attended Milwaukee-Downer College for a time, but moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. There, she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she met future husband and fellow actor James Vickery. The couple married in 1947, and five years later, in 1952, Dewhurst made her professional acting debut with a small dancing part in Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms." She worked extensively with theater producer Joseph Papp for his New York Shakespeare Festival in 1956, which brought her a first taste of notoriety and critical acclaim. Dewhurst made her television debut in an episode of "Studio One in Hollywood" (CBS, 1948-1958) in 1957, but would prefer the stage for much of her career. She met future husband and acclaimed actor George C. Scott while the pair worked together on the Broadway play "Children of Darkness"; Dewhurst and Vickery would divorce in 1960, and her and Scott would marry the next year. Dewhurst and Scott had two sons, writer Alexander and actor Campbell, but would divorce in 1965 before remarrying in 1967. The couple ultimately divorced for good in 1972. She made her film debut in the Audrey Hepburn-led movie "The Nun's Story" (1959) and won her first Tony for her performance in "All the Way Home" in 1961. Dewhurst acted in a string of productions in which her performances were Tony-nominated, including "A Moon for the Misbegotten" (1974), for which she won. Through most of the 1960s and '70s, Dewhurst also worked extensively in anthology shows and TV movies, garnering Emmy nominations frequently, but landed a pair of notable film roles; in John Wayne's "The Cowboys" (1972) and as Annie's mom in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" (1977). Dewhurst was also the president of Actors Equity from 1985 to 1991. But her lasting legacy may lie in a few 1980s television series. She played Marilla Cuthbert in three "Anne of Green Gables" series, including the eponymous miniseries (CBC, 1985), "Anne of Avonlea" (CBC, 1987), and "Road to Avonlea" (CBC, 1990-96). Dewhurst's role as the titular character's mother in "Murphy Brown" (CBS, 1988-1998) was the second of these most well-known TV roles. She won her first Primetime Emmy in 1986 for her role in the TV movie "Between Two Women" and her second and third in 1989 for "Murphy Brown" and "Those She Left Behind." Dewhurst provided various voices for Ken Burns' seminal documentary miniseries "The Civil War" (PBS, 1990), acted alongside her son Campbell in "Dying Young" (1991), and made her last film appearance in "Bed & Breakfast" (1991), starring Roger Moore. She received her final Emmy for her role on "Murphy Brown" in 1991, and passed away from cervical cancer the same year at age 67 in South Salem, New York, where she had lived with her partner, theater producer Ken Marsolais.
- Birthplace: Montréal, Québec, Canada
- 8Colleen Atwood grew up in the state of Washington where she gravitated towards art. As she came of age in the 1970s, she studied painting before transitioning to a fashion-focused career and journeying across the country to New York City. Through her social circles, Atwood wound up working in film as an assistant working on scenic design and costumes. Before long, she took on full-fledged costume designer roles, with her first lead credit on the Corey Haim-starring "Firstborn" (1983). That somewhat forgettable flick was just a footnote for her work on Sting's "Bring on the Night" (1985) documentary and tour, which was very well received. For the rest of the '80s, Atwood kept busy, but it wasn't until she moved to Los Angeles and started working with Tim Burton that her career really took off. She first worked with Burton on "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), the same year she was the costume designer for "The Silence of the Lambs" (1990). Her first Oscar nomination came a few years later for her work on the Winona Ryder-starring "Little Women" (1994) adaptation. She became a fixture in Hollywood, spending the '90s working on a variety of films including "Wyatt Earp" (1994), "Mars Attacks!" (1996), and "Sleepy Hollow" (1999). She broke through and won an Oscar for her costuming work with Best Picture winner "Chicago" (2002) and then turned around and won another one for "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005). She continued to work with Tim Burton over the years as well, eventually winning an Oscar with him for "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) after several nominations. In the 2010s, Atwood turned to television, working on the costumes for "Arrow" (The CW 2012- ), "The Flash (The CW 2014- ), and "Supergirl" (CBS/The CW 2015- ). In 2017, she added another Oscar to her name with her work on "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (2016).
- Birthplace: Yakima, Washington, USA
- 9Colleen Doran is an American writer-artist and cartoonist. She illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, including the autobiographical graphic novel of Marvel Comics editor and writer Stan Lee entitled Amazing Fantastic Incredible Stan Lee, which became a New York Times bestseller. She adapted and did the art for the short story "Troll Bridge" by Neil Gaiman, which also became a "New York Times" bestseller. Her books have received Eisner, Harvey, and International Horror Guild Awards. She illustrated the works of Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Joe R. Lansdale, Anne Rice, J. Michael Straczynski, Peter David and Tori Amos. Notable credits include: The Sandman, Wonder Woman, Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans, The Vampire Diaries comics, Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and her space opera series, A Distant Soil.She was one of two people listed among the top 25 female comic creators of all-time in both the writer and artist categories, ranking #7 among artists and #21 among writers. Comics Alliance listed Doran as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition.
- 10Colleen Kay Sostorics (born December 17, 1979 in Kennedy, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian retired women's ice hockey defenseman. She has played extensively for Canada at the international level, including three Olympic gold medals (2002 in Turin, 2006 in Salt Lake City, and 2010 in Vancouver). At the Women's World Championships, Sostorics has helped Canada to three gold and three silver medals, and at the 4 Nations Cup, she has captured five gold medals and one silver medal. When not playing with Canada, she competes at the club level for the Calgary Oval X-Treme who now play in the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL).
- Birthplace: Kennedy, Canada
- Colleen Callaghan is a film hair stylist.
- 12Colleen Zenk (born January 20, 1953) is an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Ryan in the daytime TV drama As the World Turns, a role she played from September 1978 until the show left the air in September 2010.
- Birthplace: USA, Barrington, Illinois
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Colleen Coover
07/14/1969Colleen Coover (born July 14, 1969) is a comic book artist and author based in Portland, Oregon and is known for creating the lesbian-themed erotic comic book Small Favors from Eros Comix, illustrator of the comic book limited series Banana Sunday from Oni Press, and for illustrating several short stories in X-Men: First Class from Marvel Comics.- Birthplace: Iowa
- 14Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (born April 17, 1943) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and was Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- 15Colleen Wakako Hanabusa (born May 4, 1951) is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party and ran for her party's nomination for governor of Hawaii in 2018, challenging and losing to incumbent Governor and fellow Democrat David Ige. Before her election to the United States House of Representatives, Hanabusa was a member of the Hawaii Senate. She served as the Senate Majority Leader before being elected Hawaii's first female president of the state senate in 2007. On August 24, 2011, she announced her intention to run for reelection to Congress.On December 17, 2012, after the death of Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, it was announced that Inouye had sent a letter shortly before his death to Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, stating his desire that Hanabusa be appointed to the seat. Abercrombie decided against appointing Hanabusa and selected Lieutenant Governor Brian Schatz instead. Hanabusa challenged Schatz in the Democratic primary for the 2014 special election, but narrowly lost.In 2016 Hanabusa announced her intention to run in the 1st congressional district special election to fill the remaining term of Representative Mark Takai, who died in July 2016, and she won the Democratic primary for the race on August 13. Hanabusa also won the election on November 8, 2016, and was sworn in on November 14.In 2017 Hanabusa announced her decision to run for governor of Hawaii in 2018 rather than reelection to the House. She lost to incumbent Democratic Governor David Ige in the primary. Ige was subsequently reelected to a second term.
- Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- 16Colleen J. McElroy is an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.
- Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
- 17Colleen Mae Ballinger (born November 21, 1986) is an American YouTuber, comedian, actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide, and creating a Netflix original television show based on the character. She created the comically talentless, egotistical and eccentric character to satirize the many YouTube videos featuring people singing badly in hopes of breaking into show business, but who appear unaware of their lack of talent. In her videos and stage act, the narcissistic character sings and dances badly, discusses current events that she misunderstands, gives inept "tutorials", collaborates with other YouTubers, and rants about her critics, whom she calls the "haters". Ballinger conceived, produced, wrote for and starred as Miranda in the Netflix series Haters Back Off, which explored Miranda's origins and family life.
- Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California, USA
- 18Colleen Shannon is an American DJ, actress, and model known as is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 2004 and the magazine's 50th anniversary Playmate.
- Birthplace: USA, Arkansas
- 19Colleen Beaumier (born November 8, 1944) is a Canadian politician, who served in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2008.
- Birthplace: Chatham-Kent, Canada
- 20The voice of Colleen Clinkenbeard can be heard bringing many animated characters to a new level. Clinkenbeard held a steady career in television through the early 2000s, lending her voice to shows like "Witchblade" (IFC, 2007-08) and "Hell Girl" (IFC, 2008-09). Most recently, Clinkenbeard worked on the action-packed animated movie "Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone" (2009) with Kotono Mitsuishi.
- Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
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Colleen Graffy
Colleen Graffy is a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy for Europe and Eurasia, and associate professor of law and Director of Global Programs at Pepperdine University School of Law and Academic Director of their London campus. She is Chairman of SEAL, the Society of English and American Lawyers. Graffy is originally from Santa Barbara, California. She earned her B.A. from Pepperdine University and her M.A. from Boston University. She attended Pepperdine’s study abroad program in Heidelberg while an undergraduate and later became co-Director of Pepperdine’s campus in Heidelberg, Germany.She moved to the United Kingdom after completing her master's degree to start Pepperdine’s new London undergraduate program where she was the director and taught international relations and British government. She earned a law degree at City University and the Inns of Court School of Law and an LLM at King's College London. She was called to the Bar of England & Wales and is a Barrister and Bencher at The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. She was chairman of Republicans Abroad for the United Kingdom.She joined the U.S. State Department in 2005 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, the first person to hold that position. She reported to both the Assistant Secretary, Daniel Fried in the Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs and the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Karen Hughes, (later James Glassman). She spoke and wrote on Guantanamo issues. On suicides in Guantanamo: "It does sound like this is part of a strategy - in that they don't value their own lives, and they certainly don't value ours; and they use suicide bombings as a tactic," Colleen Graffy, the deputy assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy, told BBC's Newshour yesterday. "Taking their own lives was not necessary, but it certainly is a good PR move." Graffy has also been quoted as saying to Kate Allen of Amnesty International UK via e-mail in 2004 that, "In the Second World War, Americans and Britons who were captured were held until the end of hostilities. They were not read rights or given a dime to call their lawyer."She was the first high level US government official to actively advance "Public Diplomacy 2.0" and use Twitter. In response to criticism for tweeting as a diplomat she wrote an Op-Ed on the importance of social media as a tool of public diplomacy in the Washington Post. She introduced green diplomacy and the importance of visual communications in public diplomacy and launched the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship as well as the first "media hub" for the U.S. government with radio and television broadcasting facilities based in Brussels, Belgium.She is a frequent commentator in the broadcast media and the press. She debated for Intelligence Squared on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and wrote an article from that arguing that Iraq was a catalyst for the Arab Spring. In an op ed for the Los Angeles Times she drew attention to evidence of war crimes in Syria. She appeared on BBC’s Question Time with former Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Jerry Springer in the run-up to the US presidential elections. - 22Colleen Marie Haskell (born December 6, 1976) is a former American reality show contestant, and actress. She was a contestant on the first season of the American reality show Survivor in 2000.
- Birthplace: Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- 23Colleen McEdwards (born May 31, 1964 in southern Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian journalist and educator who spent 16 years anchoring for CNN International and 10 years reporting for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CNNI Bio Photo: Journalist and Educator She continues to consult in the digital media and journalism entrepreneurship industry. She has been a professor of Communications, journalism and digital media at multiple universities including Georgia State University where she directed study abroad programs in new media and entrepreneurship in Asia, and served as director of the department's writing center. She has taught at Georgia Tech (International Affairs), Kennesaw State (Journalism), and teaches online in graduate programs at the University of Florida's top-rated Communication and Web Design program, as well as Saybrook University's online Social Impact Media specialization in its Transformative Social Change MA and Ph.D. program. An experienced online teacher and course-developer, McEdwards won a "Digital Champions" fellowship at GSU, and a Scripps Howard Fellowship to the Cronkite School to promote and develop media entrepreneurship curricula. After some 30 years in journalism, McEdwards completed both an MA and Ph.D. in education (instructional design, Education leadership and technology management). GSU Biography As a member of GSU's "President's Society" McEdwards supports scholarships for minority students studying abroad and women's philanthropy initiatives more broadly. She serves on a Georgia Communications and Government Relations Advisory Council related to educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. As a globally renowned journalist, McEdwards won awards for her political coverage and for her coverage of the sensational Paul Bernardo trial in Canada. Covering legal affairs, she was an outspoken critic of the various court imposed publication bans that prevented accurate trial information from being reported to the public. Right to Know She reported in Canada, the U.S., Prague and Haiti for the CBC, and for CNN and CNN International from Moscow during Vladimir Putin's first term Moscow Link. She covered the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia and developed expertise in Eastern European affairs. Her international assignments for CNNI included the Lockerbie Bombing trial, the global SARS outbreak, as well as the 2008 U.S. Election campaign and leadership tours of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She received international recognition for her anchoring during the downing of SwissAir 111, the Iraq conflict, the Asia tsunami, the global financial crisis, Taiwan's Red Shirt uprising, the September 11th attacks and many other global events. She has interviewed global leaders including Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Hamid Karzai, Benjamin Netanyahu, Muhammad Yunus, and celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Lleyton Hewitt, Alexander Ovechkin, Sergei Fedorov, Erin Brokovich, Julia Ormond, Murad Sofizade and Mick Fleetwood. Before his death in 2010, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke described her as one of the most intelligent interviewers and professional presences on international television, someone by whom he always appreciated being interviewed. Holbrooke McEdwards was referenced as a member of a "dream team" for international news coverage in a Financial Times column. FT Column She became a U.S. citizen in 2008; however, maintains her Canadian citizenship.
- 24Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (born March 8, 1970 in Westfield, New Jersey) is an American author, speaker, cultural commentator, and podcaster. Patrick-Goudreau advocates veganism as a means by which to prevent cruelty to animals.
- 25Colleen Rennison (born December 2, 1987) is a Canadian singer/songwriter and actress of feature films, television movies and television series.
- Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
- Colleen Goggins is a member of the Johnson Johnson Executive Committee and serves as worldwide chairman, Consumer Personal Care Group. She was named to this position in June, 2001.
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Colleen Barrett
09/14/1944Colleen Barrett (born 14 September 1944 in Bellows Falls, Vermont) is the President Emerita and Corporate Secretary of Southwest Airlines. She joined Southwest in 1978, having previously worked for several years as founder Herb Kelleher's executive assistant at his law firm. She has served as Secretary of the Corporation, as Vice President Administration from 1986 through 1990, and Executive Vice President from 1990 through 2001. Barrett has been consistently named and recognized as one of the most powerful American businesswomen. In October, 2007, she received the Tony Jannus Award for distinguished achievement in commercial air transportation. Barrett stepped down as President and Corporate Secretary of Southwest, effective July 16, 2008.- Birthplace: Bellows Falls, Vermont, USA
- 28An underappreciated favorite among movie fans for over four decades, actress Colleen Camp began her career in saucy, lightweight comedies like "The Swinging Cheerleaders" (1974) that emphasized her California-bred looks. She occasionally received a role that allowed her to display her knack for comedy, such as "Smile" (1975) or "They All Laughed" (1981), the latter directed by one-time boyfriend Peter Bogdanovich. Frustrated by the lack of substantive roles, she settled into a string of comic character roles in films like "Valley Girl" (1983), "Wayne's World" (1992) and "Election" (1999), while developing a second career as a producer. Camp's career remained busy as she entered her fifth decade, which stood as a testament to both her determination and versatility.
- Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
- 29Colleen Dion-Scotti (also credited as Colleen Dion) (born December 28, 1964 in Newburgh, New York) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Felicia Forrester on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, a role she played from 1990 to 1992, in 1997, and from July to December 2004.
- Birthplace: Newburgh, New York, USA
- 30Colleen Leigh Violet Farrington (August 5, 1936 – October 12, 2015) was an American model, Playboy Playmate, and nightclub singer. She was the mother of actress Diane Lane.
- Birthplace: Davisboro, Georgia
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Colleen Hartland
02/01/1959Colleen Mildred Hartland (born 1 February 1959) is a former Australian politician, and a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2006 to 2018. - 32
Colleen Higgs
01/01/1962Colleen Higgs (born 1962 in Kimberley, South Africa) is a South African writer and publisher. As a writer, she has published poems and stories in literary magazines in South Africa since 1990. As a publisher, she is both renowned and respected as the founder of independent publishing house, Modjaji Books.- Birthplace: Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa
- 33Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi, the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy.
- Birthplace: Wellington, Australia
- 34Over the course of her career, Colleen O'Shaughnessey has lent her memorable voice to a variety of Hollywood productions. Additionally, O'Shaughnessey added her pipes to "Digimon: the Movie" (2000) with Jeff Nimoy. In addition to her voice work, she appeared on camera in "The King of Queens" (CBS, 1998-2007). In addition to her voice work, she appeared on camera in "Important Things with Demetri Martin" (Comedy Central, 2008-2010). Most recently, O'Shaughnessey worked on the Billy Crystal hit animated sequel "Monsters University" (2013).
- Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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Colleen Howe
02/17/1933Colleen Joffa Howe (February 17, 1933 – March 6, 2009) was a sports agent who founded Power Play International and Power Play Publications to manage the business interests of her husband, Hall of Fame hockey player Gordie Howe, as well as those of their sons Marty and Mark. She was married to Gordie for 55 years, until her death. As a civic leader, she brought the first Junior A hockey team to the United States, built the first indoor rink for public use in Michigan, and ran for Congress. In 2000, as "Mrs. Hockey", Howe received the Wayne Gretzky International Award, presented to individuals "who have made major contributions to the growth and advancement of hockey in the United States"—from the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, along with her husband (known as "Mr. Hockey") and their two sons Mark and Marty.- Birthplace: Sandusky, Michigan
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Colleen Callahan
01/01/1958Colleen Callahan Burns is an agribusiness news reporter and Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. She was the Democratic nominee for Illinois' 18th congressional district in 2008.
