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Melinda Clarke Biography

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Melinda Clarke (born April 24, 1969 in Dana Point, California, USA) is an American actress who has worked on television series and independent films. Clarke appeared in the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives (where her father, John Clarke was a senior cast member), and starred on Soldier of Fortune, Inc. for both of its seasons. She also guest starred on Xena: Warrior Princess, Firefly, Charmed, and has had three memorable appearances on CSI where she occasionally plays the dominatrix, Lady Heather. Coincidentally, one of her appearances on CSI was with Kelly Rowan, who would later be her co-star on The O.C.. She appeared as a guest star on the FOX drama The O.C., and due to fan response was offered a contract for her role as Julie Cooper, a cunning socialite who marries for money. Clarke accepted the role and has since become an integral part of the show’s success. She has a daughter, Kathryn with husband, Ernie Mirich. She resides in Beverly Hills, California.

Ciara Biography

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Ciara Princess Harris was born October 25, 1985. She moved from several places, because her father was in the army. When her mom knew that she was going to be a singer/superstar is when she picked Ciara up from day care in California and she knew every song on the radio, and she would sing her butt off. Ciara moved to Atlanta when she was 8 years old. One day when she was 14 she came home from school and told her mom that she really wants to be a singer, and her mom said “Ciara I don’t know if this what you really want that”. So Ciara teamed up with Jazze Pha and recorded songs when she was 16. In fact, some of the songs that she recorded when she was 16 is on her double platinum album “Goodies”. So when Ciara got her record deal from T.A. (Owner of Musicline Records), Jazze Pha (Owner of Sho’ Nuff Records), Zomba Label Group, and L.A. Reid (Owner of LaFace Records) she was on her way to stardom.

Charlotte Church Biography

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Charlotte Maria Church was born on February 21, 1986 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom to Michael Reed and his wife Maria. The couple separated shortly after the child’s birth, and she was left in her mother’s care. She started singing publicly when she was only three and a half years old, singing the _Ghostbusters (1984)_ theme with her cousin at a seaside holiday camp in Caernarfon, Wales. She came to public notice after an appearance on the UK daytime magazine program, “This Morning” (aka “Richard and Judy”) and then made an impromptu appearance on ‘The Big, Big Talent Show’. She came on to say a few words about her aunt Caroline, who was also making an appearance on the show, and the show’s host, Jonathan Ross, asked her to sing. She stole the show and immediately became an overnight sensation in her native Wales. More television and concert appearances followed, such as the ones at Cardiff Arms Park in Wales, the London Palladium, and the Royal Albert Hall, and opening for Shirley Bassey in Antwerp, Belgium. She was signed to Sony Music (UK) and has released three best selling albums of popular classics.

Julie Christie Biography

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Combining radiant, striking beauty and genuine talent, Julie Christie emerged as one of the more engaging female leads of the 1960s and 70s. She got her break as star of British TV’s “A For Andromeda” (1960) and had small parts in two Ken Annakin films before achieving big-screen success with leading roles in John Schlesinger’s “Billy Liar” (1963) and the tailor-made “Darling” (1965), for which she won an Oscar as Best Actress. Although usually exemplifying the sexually liberated, contemporary woman, Christie also starred as the object of desire in lavish period films: David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), with Omar Sharif, and Schlesinger’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” and Joseph Losey’s “The Go-Between” (both 1971), alongside Alan Bates.

Erika Christensen Biography

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One of the clearest illustrations of Erika Christensen’s talent as an actress is the fact that when she played a teenage drug addict to perfection, complete with heavy lids and desperate eyes, she had never so much as puffed a cigarette. Though she was only 17 when she landed her breakout role in the movie “Traffic” in 2000, Christensen had been doggedly pursuing her acting dream for over 5 years.

With her round face and full lips, questioning eyes and flawless complexion, Christensen found acting work easily in her younger years. Growing up outside Los Angeles, she also had access to training and auditions. She had made up her mind by the age of 12 that she wanted to act for the rest of her life. Her mother helped her realize her goal by being supportive but was careful not to try and push Christensen into a life she wasn’t sure she wanted. But she was absolutely sure of her calling and eventually her parents came to see that their daughter was very serious about her dream. She was trained in dance, singing and acting and was schooled at home. She received her G.E.D at the age of 16 to free her up to pursue acting full time.

Emmanuelle Chriqui Biography

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Emmanuelle Chriqui was born on December 10th, 1977 in the Canadian city of Montreal. The Chriqui (pronounced shree-kee) family is Moroccan and Emmanuelle has both an older sister and an older brother. They moved to Toronto when Emmanuelle was about 6 years old and this is where she grew up. When she was 9, she realized that acting was something she wanted to do more than anything else. Her parents couldn’t afford acting lessons for their youngest daughter but Serge, her older brother who was 18 at the time, dipped into his own pockets and paid for the classes himself. With her family’s unshakable support, a 10-year-old Emmanuelle began her acting career in a McDonald’s commercial, with a dancing cheeseburger on her sweatshirt. More commercials followed but she had yet to be a superstar. After a few years, Chriqui relocated to Vancouver and began auditioning for TV shows. Supporting herself by working as a waitress — a flexible job that let her make her own schedule — she landed guest-starring roles in the mid-’90s, in Canadian series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Forever Knight, Kung Fu, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor. Then came a succession of TV movies that allowed her to receive more exposure, including Harrison Bergeron (1995) with Christopher Plummer and Sean Astin, Unwed Father (1997), Principal Takes a Holiday (1998) with Kevin Nealon, and Futuresport (1998) with Wesley Snipes and Vanessa Williams. With these projects under her belt, Chriqui was ready for meatier parts. Hollywood came calling and she was offered a supporting role in Detroit Rock City (1999), the story of four teenage boys who try to attend a KISS concert. Even though her screen time was limited, it served as a stepping stone and her next movie, Snow Day (2000), put her on the map. In this Nickelodeon production, Emmanuelle portrayed Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in school. Once again, her name wasn’t on the marquee but she left an impression and even starred in the Hoku music video for “Another Dumb Blonde” (from the Snow Day soundtrack).

Anna Chlumsky Biography

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Anna Chlumsky was born on December 3rd, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois. She is a startling and immensely encouraging contrast to the long standing rule that child celebrities are emotionally and psychologically damaged. She comes off as the girl down the street who gets good grades in school, loves her parents, and even considers the price before ordering items from a menu. She isn’t the type of person to turn heads wherever she goes as she dresses like every other teen, wearing a striped cotton sweater, jeans and high-tops. She doesn’t wear a whole lot of jewelry and very little makeup, and she wears her hair just as every other teenager does. Anna is no stranger to show business, she appeared in her first magazine advertisements when she was only ten months old. She has also appeared in industrial films, TV commercials, and in two productions of “Annie“, as well as an on stage performance in “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Music Man“.

Â Â Â Â She made her film debut as a hypochondriac tomboy in “My Girl (1991)” opposite Macaulay Culkin. Her role in this movie led to the sequel “My Girl 2 (1994)” where she travels to Los Angeles to discover her dead mother. Her next movie, “Trading Mom (1994)” was again about mothers where she co-starred with Sissy Spacek, who played the mother that was replaced by her evil clone. Anna played a neglected tom-boy and shared the screen with Christina Ricci in “Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)“. The two become friends and share a number of adventurous scrapes with the spoiled city girl played by Ricci. She played two more roles in 1997: “A Childs Wish” and “Miracle in the Woods“. 1998 brought her a part in the tv-series “Cupid”, where she played a homeless girl called Jill, and a part in “Early Edition”.