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Teyonah Parris was born on 22 September 1987 in Hopkins, South Carolina, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dear White People (2014), Chi-Raq (2015) and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018). She is married to James Parris.- A seasoned entertainment news journalist and two-time Emmy-nominated TV personality, Samantha Harris is currently seen on the world's #1 entertainment news program, Entertainment Tonight (1981), as a correspondent. In just her first months with the show, she covered the Cannes Film Festival, traveled to two film sets in Hawaii (for interviews with Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman), and also interviewed stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Russell Crowe, Sting, Cate Blanchett, Michael Douglas and more!
Samantha is best-known for her eight seasons co-hosting the live ABC hit, Dancing with the Stars (2005), which averaged more than 30 million viewers weekly and was the #2 most-watched show in the U.S. in each of those years. In Season 2, she even kicked up her heals on the ballroom floor to perform a Jive routine with World Smooth Champion and DWTS professional dancer, Jonathan Roberts.
Simultaneously with her time on DWTS, Samantha pulled double hosting duty as she passionately shared her opinion nightly as a panelist and correspondent on the entertainment news program, CBS Television Distribution's The Insider (2004).
In her first year with the program, she covered President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington, D.C.; surfed the North Coast of Oahu during an interview with 19-year-old surfing champion Bethany Hamilton - who lost her arm to a shark attack at age 13; interviewed Oprah Winfrey in Chicago and Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan in LA, in the days following her father's death; as well as interviewed Hollywood's A-list on the red carpet at the Emmys, SAG Awards, Golden Globes and Oscars.
Additionally, Samantha made her Broadway debut in summer 2009 in New York City, singing and dancing for sold-out audiences, playing the iconic role of "Roxie Hart" in the long-running musical, "Chicago".
Samantha has been seen on a myriad of TV shows, including: filling in for Meredith Vieira as a guest host for a week on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002); multiple times as a guest host on ABC's The View (1997); contributing as a special correspondent on ABC's Good Morning America (1975).
One of her greatest honors was hosting, alongside Regis Philbin, the live official red carpet pre-show for ABC's 80th Annual Academy Awards: Oscar's Red Carpet 2008 with Regis Philbin (2008), which garnered nearly one billion viewers, worldwide.
Beginning in January 2005 and continuing for four years, Harris was seen in over 130 countries in 600 million homes on E! Entertainment Television. In addition to writing, producing and reporting daily for E! News, she co-hosted the network's live award-show coverage for the Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmys. Samantha has also found herself reporting from inside San Quentin Penitentiary as host for E!'s "THS Investigates", a spin-off series from the producers of E! True Hollywood Story (1996).
Prior to her work on The Insider (2004) and E!, Samantha served as the weekend co-host and full-time correspondent for the nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine, Extra (1994), which she joined in 2003. As a correspondent who sought out unique stories, Samantha took to the stage performing with Cirque du Soleil, sang a duet with Wayne Newton during his live show in Las Vegas, as well as dancing her way into the arms of the late beloved Patrick Swayze backstage, while he was starring in the LA tour-stop of "Chicago".
Samantha's other hosting credits include FOX's The Next Joe Millionaire (2003), "AMC Access" (a show produced by NBC's Access Hollywood (1996) for the AMC network).
Harris' triple-threat talents were noticed within her first years living in Los Angeles. Hot off the North American musical tour Eric Idle: Exploits Monty Python (2002) (where Samantha's comedic, vocal, and dance performance electrified audiences at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and other prestigious venues), CBS cast her as America's sweetheart, "Dawn Wells aka Mary Ann", in its made-for-TV movie Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History (2001). Samantha's other acting credits include the multi-award winning "Reefer Madness!: The New "Hit" Musical (original cast) as well as multiple feature films and television shows.
In addition to gracing the cover of Muscle & Fitness HERS magazine a record four times, Samantha has also been seen on the covers of a variety of other magazine including USA Today magazine, FIRST, Fit Parent. She has been featured in many magazines including Shape, People, Health, Self, and others. As a fitness enthusiast, she loves dancing, cardio-sculpting, Bikram yoga but will also confess... she's a dessert fanatic!
Samantha is actively involved in various charities. She is on the Entertainment Council of Feeding America and has actively supported the Revlon Run/Walk and What A Pair for cancer research, Operation Smile, P.S. Arts, the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America and others.
In 2009, Samantha was given the honor of making her Wall Street debut by "Ringing The Bell" to open trading at the New York Stock Exchange in front of a television audience of more than 120 million.
Born and raised in Hopkins, MN by a rock concert promoter father and dancer mother - who together created and produced one of the country's first Renaissance festivals, King Richard's Faire - Samantha went on to graduate with honors from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, IL. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband, Michael Hess, and their two daughters, Josselyn Hess and Hillary Hess. - Billie Gibson was born on 21 December 1928 in Dike, Hopkins County, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Shining (1980). She died on 8 July 2012 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA.
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Aaron Brown was born on 10 November 1948 in Hopkins, Minnesota, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Wide Angle (2002), Swing Vote (2008) and ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999). He has been married to Charlotte Hawkins Raynor since 23 May 1982. They have one child. He was previously married to Chantal Frederica Jacob.- A'ja Wilson was born on 8 August 1996 in Hopkins, South Carolina, USA.
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Nickolaus Swedlund was born on 14 December 1982 in Hopkins, Minnesota, USA. He is a producer, known for Bough Brothers (2023), All the Time in the World (2015) and Aletheia (2013).- Additional Crew
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Brittney's acting career began in 2003 when she became lead actress in "The Hobbit", for a high school play. From there, she landed a leading role in 2005 for "Once on this Island", a high school musical. She then ventured out in the TV/Film Industry in 2021. It has been success after success after that with many roles in the works!- Chuck Lane was born in Hopkins, Minnesota, USA.
- William T. Anderson--aka "Bloody Bill Anderson"--was born in Hopkins County, KY, in 1840. His family moved to Kansas when he was a youngster. As a young man he made money by rustling horses and selling them to unsuspecting buyers. His father, a diehard Southerner, got into an argument with a judge who was a Union loyalist, resulting in his father being shot dead. Bill, fearing for his own life, took off for Missouri, where he made a living robbing travelers. Union soldiers pursued him, and he killed several of them. Shortly after the Civil War broke out Anderson joined up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas led by former schoolteacher William Quantrill. Anderson developed a useful skill as a guerrilla--setting up ambushes of Union soldiers and their civilian allies, which earned him the admiration and trust of the gang's leaders. It wasn't long before the authorities found out who Anderson was, and they arrested and imprisoned his sisters, one of whom died in custody, leading Anderson to vow bloody revenge. He played a vital part in what became known as the "Lawrence Massacre"--on August 21, 1863, Quantrill's gang attacked the small Kansas town of Lawrence, which had a reputation of being a center of abolitionists and pro-Union militias, known as Jayhawkers, and a particularly violent group of anti-slavery vigilantes known as Redlegs, who themselves were responsible for the killings of many pro-Confederate and/or pro-slavery civilians. Approximately 450 guerrillas attacked Lawrence shortly after 5:00 am, taking over a hotel for their headquarters and fanning out across town with lists of men to be killed. Many of those killed were unarmed, including approximately 20 young men who had just been recruited into the Union army, although they had not yet been sworn in. Altogether approximately 150 men and boys--some as young as 12--were executed, some of them shot or knifed, and others tied up and thrown into burning buildings. The guerrillas set fire to as many buildings as they could, and approximately one-quarter of the town eventually burned to the ground. Anderson himself was implicated in some of the most brutal murders committed during the incident, and it was estimated that he personally killed more than a dozen unarmed prisoners.
After the raid Quantrill and his band went to Texas to spend the winter, and it was here that Quantrill and Anderson had a falling out. Anderson accused Quantrill of the murder of one of the guerrillas, resulting in Quantrill's arrest by Confederate authorities. Anderson then formed his own band of guerrillas and returned to Kansas, becoming one of the most feared of the guerrilla bands infesting the area. On Sept. 27, 1864, Anderson led his band in an attack on the Kansas town of Centralia. He captured 24 Union soldiers, and after assuring them of good treatment, proceeded to execute them all. He then laid a trap for Union forces coming to relieve the town, which resulted in more than 100 militiamen being killed.
Approximately a month after that incident, Anderson was himself the victim of an ambush by Union troops. Caught by surprise, many of his men were killed, wounded or fled. Anderson was recognized by a pursuing Union officer, who fired several shots at him. He was hit behind the ear with at least one bullet and, apparently, died instantly. - James L. Allen was born on 2 February 1942 in Hopkins County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Nash Bridges (1996). He died on 19 September 2009 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- David Patten was born on 19 August 1974 in Hopkins, South Carolina, USA. He died on 2 September 2021 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
- Grant Wallace was born on 10 February 1867 in Hopkins, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for The Fuel of Life (1917) and A Blowout at Santa Banana (1914). He died on 12 August 1954 in Berkeley, California, USA.
- Brooks Morton was born on 3 October 1930 in Hopkins, Kentucky, USA. He was an actor, known for The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977), The Three Sisters (1966) and The Adams Chronicles (1976). He died on 31 July 1984 in New York, New York, USA.
- Amir Coffey was born on 17 June 1997 in Hopkins, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for The NBA on TNT (1988), NBA on ESPN (1982) and Los Angeles Clippers (2020).
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Born in the tiny town of St. Charles, Kentucky (population 400) Lewis fell in love with movies and how they were made at a very early age. Around 1982, his parents, David and Janie Chaney, purchased a video camera and Lewis began his first attempts at making movies and editing them with two VHS machines slaved together.
After earning two Associate Degrees, Lewis moved into the world of television news as a videographer in 1985, first at WFIE (briefly) then onto WEHT, both in Evansville, Indiana. It was at WEHT he met his mentor, Leonard Judd, who would become a good friend and encouraged Lewis to continue his work producing shorts and music videos. Along with friends, Dave Snyder (now a Hollywood Makeup Artist), and Theresa Chadwick, Lewis spent weekends turning out short films like "Puppy Love: An Old Fashioned Ghost Story"; "Man of Her Dreams"; "Grain of Truth"; "The Affair"; and music videos including "Cold Winds Blow". These were broadcast across the state of Kentucky as part of Kentucky Educational Television's film and video festival.
Winning multiple awards from the Associated Press and Indiana News Photographer Association, he has also shot and edited two Emmy Award winning and one Emmy nominated stories for WEHT.
Moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1998, Lewis worked for Jim Owens and Associates which produced three shows for The Nashville Network, those being "Crook and Chase"; "This Week in Country Music"; and "Today's Country". This afforded him the opportunity to work with hundreds of celebrities, as videographer on countless stories, including an eight day stint with Garth Brooks on the last leg of his World Tour in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
It also allowed him the chance to be on the sets of TV shows (such as Diagnosis Murder and JAG) and many music videos. He also had the chance to spend a few days assisting the makeup department on "Babylon 5". All of these were like a film school as Lewis studied how things were being done and had the chance to learn from some very talented people, all of it feeding his desire to make more films.
"victimEYES" was his first feature length film, and was chosen as an official selection and winning Best Story, at the World Independent Film Expo in 2010. He has since worked on the fan film "Batman Metaphors" with fellow film director and business partner Neil Kellen along with other films, including Remaindered, the directorial debut short film of Lee Goldberg of "Monk" fame. Lewis continues to write features and will produce/ direct more in the future as well as be a part of as many films as he can in his mid-western hometown area.
He lives in Henderson, Kentucky with his wife Karessa and two sons, Spencer and Evan.