Backstreet Girls

Paula Abdul grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. When she was eight years old, she began taking dance lessons. Van Nuys High School was her high school. She was also the cheerleader of the year and the senior class president. She graduated from high school in 1980. After graduating she enrolled in the college process at Cal State Northridge. There she studied radio and television. After joining the L.A. Lakers cheerleaders, she became head cheerleader/choreographer after only a few months, eventually dropping out of college to dance and choreograph full-time. She was recruited by The Jacksons to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, the first in a long list of films and videos she would choreograph. Her first album "Forever Your Girl" the singer's career began to take off. But the hit single "Straight Up" was a huge success and she has been a successful dancer/singer ever after. This was made possible by her time on American Idol (2002-200...

Mary McDonnell, a two-time Oscar(r),-nominated actress, is most well known for her portrayals on screen in both modern and historical roles. She also has a long history of roles on stage as well as screen. Mary Eileen McDonnell was the daughter of John McDonnell (a computer consultant) and Eileen (Mundy), the daughter of a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native. She was raised in Ithaca, New York, she graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. Then, she went to the drama school and was accepted to the Long Wharf Theatre Company in East Coast. A decade later she got her first film role in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) in which she played "Stands with a Fist" she was a white girl that is raised by Sioux Indians. The role was so well-loved that she was awarded her first Academy Award nomination. McDonnell's credits in films include Lawrence Kasdan films Grand Canyon (1991) and Mumford (1999) (opposite such veteran actors such as Robert Red...

Paula Faris, an American journalist, was previously a television correspondent at ABC News. Her most well-known work is her work as co-anchor for Good Morning America Weekend from 2015 to 2018, and as co-host of The View from 2015 to 2018. Prior to this, she hosted World News Now as well as America This Morning. After graduating, she worked in several communications-related jobs including an operations position at Mills/James Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Due to the limited opportunities on TV she was employed in sales for radio. Her next job was one year as a producer assistant at WKEF/WRGT . She then occasionally anchor or report. From 2002 to 2005 she was the sports anchor for weekends and the weekday sports anchor for WPO-TV in Cincinnati. After her contract was up in 2005, she was a anchor and sports reporter at the NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV in Chicago between November 2005 and December 2011. In December 2011, she was hired by ABC News the division for news of ABC. On January 2, 2012...

Markie Post was born in Walnut Creek, California. She started her career in film and television productions like "Card Sharks" (1978) or "The New Card Sharks” (1986). Later, she produced such projects as Double Dare (1976). She has also appeared on TV programs such as 1st to Die (2003) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996) and Electra Woman (2000). Her most notable TV part was "Christine Sullivan" in Night Court (1984). From 1984 to 1992 , she was a part of 156 shows. She was the daughter of Marylee (Armstrong) Post, poet, and noted nuclear physical scientist Richard Freeman Post (November 14 1918 - April 7 15th, 2015). Alongside her second husband Michael A. Ross, she had two children: Katie Ross (born June 26, 1986) and Daisy Ross (30 March 1990). Was born in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. Attended Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California; she was a cheerleader. Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon awarded he...

Sarah Chalke was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on 27 August 1976. Angie Chalke, and Doug Chalke are her parents. Sarah is the middle of two siblings, the older one, Natasha Chalke, one younger, Piper Chalke. Sarah's acting debut came in City Boy (1992), a movie made for TV. In 1993, shortly after her debut film, she auditioned for the part of "Becky" in the TV series Roseanne (1988). The show was looking for someone to fill in for Alicia Goranson quit the show to attend college. Sarah completed her high school graduation in the year 1995, while filming the 1994-1995 season of Roseanne (1988). In 1994, Sarah co-starred in the film Ernest Goes to School (1994) alongside Jim Varney. In 1996, she was in two films, including Robin of Locksley (1996) as well as Stand Against Fear (1996) where she was a cheerleadernamed "Krista Wilson". Sarah was asked to play a character in a TV series named Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998), one year following Roseanne (1988). Ba...

Lauren Ash is a recent Second City Chicago Mainstage alumna. She is also a graduate of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and is one half of the sketch comedy duo "Cory!". She's twice a winner of the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also took home the 2008 Best Comedic Play and 2006 Best Sketch Troupe awards. She's been in various roles on "Scare Tactics" and the Canadian TV series, "Almost Heroes." She was a regular on "The Ron James Show" and appeared in guest roles in "Call Me Fitz,"""Cracked,"" “Bomb Girls” as well as "Lost Girl." She was also featured in "Video on Trial," Hotbox, and the Oscar Award-nominated film "Lars and the Real Girl." She also voiced Sam in animated Canadian show "The Dating Guy." Her wealth has grown substantially between the years 2019 and 2020. How much is Lauren Ash's net worth when she is 37? Lauren Ash's prima...

Paula Patton was born in Los Angeles, California, to Joyce (Vanraden) and Charles Patton. Her father is African American and her mother is caucasian. She has German, English, Dutch and English family ancestry. Her family lived right next to the 20th Century Fox lot as she grew up, and she was an avid fan of movies from her very early years. Her mom was a teacher and her father worked as an attorney. Paula claims that she used to hide from her mother by pretending to be someone else while when she was a kid. It's not a surprise that she was involved in Hamilton Magnet Arts High School's high school productions. Her favorite character was one played by Abigail in "The Crucible". She continued her studies at University of Southern California, where she completed a program for summers in film. The program was a success, and she was awarded a 3-month assignment to make documentaries for PBS. The result was that she began working as a production assistant on television docu...

Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn (Illinois) and spent the majority of her childhood living in Chicago. But when Amy was in junior high her family also lived in the Middle East where her parents, Bob and Barb, taught at the American School. Amy is the youngest of three siblings, sisters Betsy and Lori and Joe, the brother. Joe. Amy has traveled all over Europe with her family as well as independently. Both of them were teachers and were able to travel and camp together each summer due to this. In reality, they've camp in every state with the exception of Alaska. Amy was also in Rwanda following the 1994 war to aid in relief efforts. Amy was a gifted artist from the beginning through acting in school plays, as well as taking part in writing competitions. She was a promising athlete during high school, and was a participant in the first ever 3200-meter relay in Illinois girls track. After an injury, she returned to school and played many parts on the stage, beginning with Lanford ...

Penelope Cruz Sanchez is the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a Madrid hairdresser, as well as Encarna Sanchez. When she was a toddler she was an obsessive performer. She would even re-enact commercials from the television to entertain of her parents. But, she decided to concentrate on dancing. She continued her dance training alongside a group of highly respected dancers following her nine years learning classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory. She realized her passion at the age 15 after she defeated over 300 girls in an audition for an agency for talent. The contract she got secured her roles on Spanish TV shows , and music videos. It opened the doors to a promising career in the world of film. Cruz made her movie debut in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth), then appeared briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her next film was the Oscar-winning Belle Epoque (1992), in which she played one of four sisters fighting for the love of a handsome desert...

Milena Govich, a writer, actor and musician, has directed numerous episodes of TV including Chicago Med (2015), The Equalizer (2021), FBI: Most Wanted(2020), Chicago Fire (2012) and many more. Additionally, she was the Co-EP/Producing Director on Dick Wolf's CBS series FBI (2018). She is currently working on two pilots currently in progress. Milena was one of eight filmmakers selected for AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, and also the only Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. The short film she made and the TV series proof-of-concept called Unspeakable, starring Laura Vandervoort and Jeff Kober It saw its World premiere at SXSW and was awarded the Best Episodic Award at Seattle International Film Festival and Best Pilot at the SoHo International Film Festival. The film she made, Temporary (2017) was shown across the country. She won the award for Best Narrative Short at Anthem Film Festival. Best Dark Comedy Award at Atlanta ShortsFest. and the Dire...

Piper Perabo was nominated for the Golden Globes as a stage, television and film actress. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and living in New Jersey, she graduated with a summa cum Laude degree from Ohio University. She was in the film the film's breakout character, CoyoteUgly in the year 2000. Since then she has been featured in films such as Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton and "First Snow" with Guy Pearce, "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin, "Imagine Me and You" with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime thriller "10th & Wolf" featuring an ensemble cast, which included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper. In Rian Johnson's sci fi action movie "Looper," she starred with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Perabo was Annie Walker's TV role in five seasons of USA Network's spy show "Covert Affai...

Ayelet Zuer is an Israeli actress who has been praised for her performances. She was born in Tel Aviv and was first noticed by Hollywood when Steven Spielberg cast her in her first English-speaking role as Eric Bana’s wife in Munich (2005). Zurer has been in a variety of Studio films since arriving in the United States, including Sony Pictures' Vantage Point with William Hurt and Dennis Quaid Samuel Goldwyn's Fugitive Parts, which starred Stephen Dillane, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected opposite Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe. Ron Howard's Angeles and Demons is opposite Tom Hanks. Darling companion, a Lawrence Kasdan cast with Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, and Warner Bros. Man Of Steel with Russell Crow. Russell Crow, is Ron Howard. Ewan McGregor was the director of Rodrigo Garcia, Last Days in the Desert. She also waited for the release of The Last Knights, a film directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, starring Clive Owen. Recently, she was honored with the Gold Nymph Award as Outs...

Pollyanna McIntosh is from Scotland. She was born in Portugal, Colombia and then returned to Scotland. It was here that she began performing on stage in The Edinburgh Festival. When she was 16, she moved to London and soon found herself involved in independent filmmaking (her first paid gig was as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre, both as an actress and director. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought on more theatre as well as a production of "The Woolgatherer" where she directed Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) as well as David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to excellent reviews. Her first US film role was "Stacy" an empathetic woman who was a born again Christian who appeared in Headspace (2005). It was as the crazy "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker and Winona Ryder), by Heathers (1988) author Daniel Waters, that the critics started to become awa...

Paget Valerie is an American actress, singer, and voice actor. First recognized for her role as Kathy in the fourth season of NBC sitcom Friends as well as being vocalist and voice actor. Her breakout role was as the Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds that she was a regular on the show from 2006 until 2012 and has since returned to as a guest on the show before returning regularly in 2016. She also played Mr. Mumbles and Elise on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in Community's final season Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman Attorney at law, Sara Kingsley in Fox's Grandfathered and Donald Duck's twin sister Della on DuckTales 2017, marking the first appearance on animated television for the character. Brewster was born on March 10, 1969, in Concord, Massachusetts. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster. (nee Tew), worked in the government. Her father Galen Brewster worked as school administrator. Brewster was raised in Massachusetts and then moved to New York Cit...