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Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother, Richard, Jr. She was raised in an exclusive society town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. Courteney was the archetypal daddy's girl, and therefore was understandably devastated when, in 1974, her parents divorced, and her father moved to Florida.
She became a rebellious teen, and did not make things easy for her mother, and new stepfather, New York businessman Hunter Copeland. Now, she is great friends with both. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. In her final year, she received her first taste of modeling. She appeared in an advert for the store, Parisians. Upon graduation, she left Alabama to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. After one year she dropped out to a pursue a modeling career in New York, after being signed by the prestigious Ford Modelling Agency. She appeared on the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat and Little Miss, plus numerous romance novels. She then moved on to commercials for Maybeline, Noxema, New York Telephone Company and Tampax.
While modeling, she attended acting classes, as her real dream and ambition was to be an actress. In 1984, she landed herself a small part in one episode of As the World Turns (1956) as a young débutante named Bunny. Her first big break, however, was being cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video "Dancing in The Dark". In 1985, she moved to LA to star alongside Dean Paul Martin in Misfits of Science (1985). It was a flop, but a few years later, she was chosen out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox's girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in Family Ties (1982).
In 1989, Family Ties (1982) ended, and Cox went through a lean spell in her career, featuring in unmemorable movies such as Mr. Destiny (1990) with Michael Caine. Fortunes changed dramatically for Cox, when in 1994, she starred alongside Jim Carrey in the unexpected hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and a year later she was cast as Monica Geller on the hugely successful sitcom Friends (1994). It was this part that turned her into an international superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination. In 1996 Cox starred in Wes Craven's horror/comedy Scream (1996) . This movie grossed over $100 million at the box office, and won Cox rave reviews for her standout performance as the wickedly bitchy and smug TV reporter Gale Weathers. She went on to play this character again in each of the three sequels. Not only did her involvement in this movie lead to critical acclaim, but it also led to her meeting actor husband David Arquette. He played her on-screen love interest Dewey, and life imitated art as the two fell in love for real. Their wedding took place in San Francisco, at the historic Grace Cathedral atop Nob Hill, on June 12th, 1999. Joined by 200 guests, including Cox's film star friends Liam Neeson and Kevin Spacey, the happy couple finally became Mr. and Mrs. Arquette.- Actor
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David Ross Paterson is an Australian born actor working in film, television and theatre in the US and Australia. Equally adept in dramatic and comic roles with a knack for accents, Paterson has portrayed a united nations of characters. He has championed Australian writing by producing and/or appearing in Australian plays in the US including his Broadway World Best Leading Actor Award winning role in Australian Theatre Co's Los Angeles production of Grey Nomad.- David-Dorian Ross is "America's favorite" Tai Chi master teacher. He has been studying Tai Chi since 1979 from some of the top Masters in the world. He's also a US and world record holder in Tai Chi forms competition.
David-Dorian began his Tai Chi lineage by studying from Sifu Kuo Lien-ying in San Francisco. Sifu Kuo brought Guang Ping - the predecessor to Yang style - to the US, and was one of the first Chinese masters to teach Tai Chi to non-Chinese students. David-Dorian's Yang family lineage comes directly from Yang Chen-fu to GrandMaster Hu Yuen Jou to GrandMaster Doc Doc-Fai Wong of San Francisco and then to his disciple Jane Hallander. David-Dorian has studied with both Jane Hallander and then GrandMaster Wong after she passed away. In the 1990's, David-Dorian made numerous visits to China to study with coaches there - in particular with Coach Wu Bin, the master who discovered Jet Li. David-Dorian's current teacher is Wei Jingling from Jiangsu province, a former member of the Jiangsu professional Wushu team and a Chinese national Tai Chi champion. Coach Wei's teacher is Men Huifeng, who is considered one of the most knowledgable martial artists in China. Among other accomplishments, he was the person who developed the hand-to-hand system used by the China defense force. He was also on the committee of masters who created the 48-movement combined form. David-Dorian is also currently studying with Huang Chungliang, focusing on the Tai Chi principle of wu wei.
David-Dorian is also an international competitive Tai Chi champion. He is a former member of both the San Francisco Wushu team, the US National Tai Chi team and two U.S. National Wushu teams. He competed at the first World Wushu Championships in Beijing in 1991 and was the only non-Asian out of 42 participating countries to win a medal. He is an 8-time US gold medalist, World silver medalist and 2-time World bronze medalist in Tai Chi forms competition. He is the only American, and the only non-Asian, in the world with this record. Inside Kung-fu Magazine called David-Dorian "the man who brought Tai Chi mainstream."
David-Dorian is the #1 best-selling author of Tai Chi media in the world. He has written, starred in and hosted more than 150 instructional dvds, television specials and television series. He is a Professor for The Great Courses, and his program The Essentials of Tai Chi and Qigong is the #1 selling dvd collection in the world. He is a featured expert for YMAA Publications, and his dvd "Tai Chi Fit Over 50" is the #1 best-selling Tai Chi dvd on Amazon. David-Dorian is also the executive producer of "24 Hours of World Peace Livestream," a live webcast of World Tai Chi Qigong Day events. Bill Douglas, the founder of World Tai Chi Qigong Day, dedicated the 20th Year to David-Dorian for his contributions to the theme of world peace and harmony. International action film star Jet Li called David-Dorian "the American Idol of Tai Chi" and brought him to China to be the international face of his online TaijiZen Academy. David-Dorian is the only master of the TaijiZen method outside of China.
David-Dorian is a pioneer in multi-media methods for educating people about mind-body methods like Tai Chi, yoga and meditation. He is the CEO of TaijiFit International, the first Tai Chi school in the world to use live streaming technology. Recently, David-Dorian and TaijiFit were chosen to be the national coordinators of the Tai Chi for Veterans instructor network - a part of the Veterans Administration Community Care Network. - Additional Crew
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Whether producing documentaries for broadcast television or photographing the Third World, David Ross Smith always immerses himself in the concepts of storytelling and the nuances of communication (and lack thereof), continually engaged in capturing and expressing the emotional details of life in images and words...
At National Geographic Television (1999-2011), DRS helped create highly rated, trend-setting programs as field director, co-writer and researcher, including National Geographic's Most Amazing Moments, The World's Most Dangerous Drug, and episodes of Mega Structures and the popular prison series, Lockdown.
In 2009-2010 David lensed a variety of images in Beijing and Boston for HandReach, a non-profit organization that raises funds for young burn victims in China. His work in Beijing resulted in the short, impromptu film, Bright River, which screened at several film festivals in 2010 and won laurels at The Indie Fest in La Jolla, CA. His photography for HandReach represents some of his most intimate work.
In 2008-2009 David helped shoot director Iara Lee's feature-length documentary, Cultures of Resistance, as well as several short-form documentaries and arts & culture shorts - on location on four continents, predominantly in the Third World. DRS also shot the Washington, DC sequences of Candace Schermerhorn's feature-length doc, The Naked Option: A Last Resort.
From 1998 to 2003 David freelanced as a music and film critic. His critiques, interviews and articles are widely published in print and online, most prominently by Rovi's All Music Guide. During this time he was also a staff writer for Quincy Jones' short-lived music website, Qradio.
In 2014 David started piecing together footage he captured five years earlier at Orpheus Records (in Clarendon, Virginia) to create Record Store, a series of short Webisodes about the "record store" experience.- Actress
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Katrina Tameling is an American actress born in Woodruff, WI. She is currently writing and starring in a TV show coming 2024. She is a strong presence on screen and frequently books lead roles in short films, giving her the skills necessary to carry a project. In her free time, she relentlessly rehearses her favorite scenes from House of Dragon.