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Mark Wahlberg Actor, Boogie Nights Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born June 5th, 1971 in the poor working class district of Boston known as Dorchester, the youngest of nine children. His parents were Alma & Donald Wahlberg. The large Wahlberg brood didn't have a lot growing up, especially after his parents divorced when he was eleven... | |
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Matt Damon Actor, Good Will Hunting Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston Massachusetts to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, Realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother named Kyle who is now a sculptor. The family lived in Newton until his parents divorced... | |
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Chris Evans Actor, The Avengers Christopher Robert Evans was born on June 13th, 1981 in Sudbury, Massachusetts to a father who works as a dentist and a mother who is a dancer. Chris Evans, as he is known to the showbiz industry also has three other siblings, an older sister named Carly Evans, and two younger siblings, a brother named Scott Evans... | |
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Clark Gregg Actor, The Avengers | |
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Edward Norton Actor, Fight Club Edward Norton was born on August 18, 1969 to parents Edward, an attorney who works for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Robin Norton, a former foundation executive and teacher who passed away of brain cancer on March 6, 1997. Edward also has two younger siblings named James and Molly... | |
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Leonard Nimoy Actor, Star Trek Raised in a Boston tenement, acting in community theaters since age eight, Leonard Nimoy did not make his Hollywood debut until he was 20, a bit part in Queen for a Day and another as a ballplayer in the perennial Rhubarb. After two years in the United States Army, he was still getting small... | |
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James Spader Actor, Stargate James Todd Spader was born on February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Todd and Jean Spader. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover with director Peter Sellars; he dropped out in eleventh grade. He bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga before landing his first roles. Spader's first major film role was as Brooke Shields' brother in the romance drama Endless Love... | |
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Uma Thurman Actress, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Uma Karuna Thurman, daughter of Robert Thurman and Nena Thurman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1970. Uma grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where her father worked at Amherst College. She left boarding school at just 15, already determined to become an actress. She moved to New York to follow her dream... | |
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Eli Roth Producer, Grindhouse Eli Roth began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien and vomiting, and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. With his brothers and friends, ketchup for blood and his father's power tools, he made over fifty short films before attending film school at N.Y.U.... | |
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Eliza Dushku Actress, True Lies Eliza Dushku was discovered at the end of a five-month search throughout the United States for the perfect girl to play the lead role of Alice opposite Juliette Lewis in the film That Night. Since then, she has been in several films and has worked with actors such as Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin... | |
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Connie Britton Actress, A Nightmare on Elm Street Connie Britton has portrayed the country music fading sensation Rayna Jaymes in Nashville after having wrapped production for the five season long Friday Night Lights alongside Kyle Chandler. She previously appeared in Universal's Friday Night Lights -the movie- directed by Peter Berg and starring opposite Billy Bob Thornton; and Edward Burns' independent feature Looking for Kitty... | |
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Ben Foster Actor, 3:10 to Yuma Ben Foster, born October 29, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, was swiftly moved by his parents to be raised in Fairfield, Iowa - a town that had four community theaters. His passion for acting was discovered early on, and after starring in the title role in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", put on by one of the community theaters... | |
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Jennifer Coolidge Actress, American Pie Jennifer Coolidge is a versatile character actress and experimental comedienne, best known for playing Stifler's mom in American Pie. She was born on August 28, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her father, Paul Coolidge, was a plastics manufacturer. Young Coolidge was dreaming of becoming a singer... | |
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Ari Graynor Actress, Mystic River | |
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James Remar Actor, Crocodile Rugged, intense character player with average-guy good looks and a slightly squinty stare, adept at vicious, sometimes psychopathic roles. Remar gained recognition as a punk who gets chained to a park bench by a woman cop in his second film, The Warriors. That same year he garnered acclaim on Broadway as Richard Gere's lover in the concentration camp drama "Bent"... | |
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Daniela Ruah Actress, Red Tails Descending from a family of Portuguese doctors, Daniela was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived in the US until she was 5. She attended St. Julian's School in Portugal, where she grew up, landing her first acting role at the age of 16. She kept working on diverse projects and finished high school... | |
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Maura Tierney Actress, Liar Liar On the viewing horizon since the late 1980s, actress Maura Tierney has been a steady product of independent features, some hits and some misses, for close to a decade and a half. An odd and compelling beauty, she came from an upperscale Bostonian family and was raised in the Hyde Park district. Born February 3... | |
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Hettienne Park Actress, Young Adult Hettienne Park was born in Boston, MA. She studied classical flute and piano at the Longy School of Music and continued training at the New England Conservatory before acquiring BA's in both Economics and Religion at the University of Rochester. After graduation, she moved to New York City and completed the two-year acting program at the William Esper Studio... | |
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John Slattery Actor, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes John Slattery was born in 1962 and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He landed his first TV gig on the 1988 series Dirty Dozen: The Series and has worked steadily since then. His television career has included the short-lived series Under Cover, Homefront, Maggie and Feds; and the mini-series A Woman of Independent Means with Sally Field and From the Earth to the Moon... | |
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Donnie Wahlberg Actor, The Sixth Sense He was born Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. on August 17, 1969 in Dorchester Massachusetts, into a Swedish/Irish-Catholic family, the eighth of nine children of Donald Sr. and Alma Wahlberg. His parents eventually divorced and Donnie, finding himself already in trouble, found a positive outlet performing in school plays and became involved in varied aspects of theater -- acting... | |
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Anne Dudek Actress, White Chicks Anne was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. She got the role of Iphigenia in "The Iphigenia Cycle" in Chicago while still in theater school at Northwestern University. She was a resident artist at The Court Theatre in Chicago. The production moved off-Broadway to New York City, where she won the Joseph E... | |
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Lisa Edelstein Actress, What Women Want Lisa Edelstein began her professional acting career while studying theater at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. After performing in a wide range of productions off and on Broadway, authored and performed the AIDS-related musical "Positive Me" at Ellen Stuart's La Mama, in Manhattan. It was one one of the earliest AIDS-related theater productions... | |
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Patrick Renna Actor, The Sandlot Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts Patrick began acting at an early age in school plays. He started his film career as Hamilton 'Ham' Porter in the popular movie, The Sandlot with James Earl Jones and Denis Leary and went on to star in The Big Green and Son in Law. Since then, he has kept busy working in such feature films as_Very Mean Men (2000)_ starring Martin Landau... | |
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Madeline Kahn Actress, Blazing Saddles Madeline Kahn was born Madeline Gail Wolfson on September 29, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. She began her acting career in high school and went on to university where she trained as an opera singer and starred in several campus productions, ultimately earning a doctorate in her chosen field. Her finest years came in Paper Moon with Ryan O'Neal... | |
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Dane Cook Actor, Mr. Brooks | |
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Alessandro Nivola Actor, Face/Off | |
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Colm Feore Actor, The Chronicles of Riddick | |
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Kenny Wormald Actor, Footloose Kenny Wormald grew up in Stoughton, Massachusetts, and began taking dancing lessons at the age of six. He won a string of dance contests throughout the Northeast in his teens and took to dancing professionally. He worked as a dancer and choreographer, appearing in a number of music videos and touring with Justin Timberlake... | |
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G. Hannelius Actress, Den Brother The Boston, Massachusetts native began her acting career at the age of seven at the Children's Theater of Maine. She starred in several productions including "Madeline's Rescue," and "Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing,"and with the Yarmouth Theater, "Fish Tales," "Grease" and "Narnia." G has a starring... | |
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John Cazale Actor, The Godfather: Part II An Italian-American, Cazale only made five feature films in his career, all which many fans and critics alike call classics. But before his film debut, the short The American Way he won numerous Obie Awards for his stage performances in "The Indian Wants the Bronx" and "The Line". Cazale scored the role of Fredo Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather... | |
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Barbara Walters Self, 20/20 | |
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John Michael Higgins Actor, Yes Man | |
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Brian White Actor, The Cabin in the Woods | |
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T.J. Thyne Actor, How the Grinch Stole Christmas TJ was born in Boston, Massachusetts, attended high school in Plano, Texas, graduated high school in 1993, and moved to Los Angeles to attend college. He attended the University of Southern California's theatre program, graduating in 1997. Through college, he worked as an extra in films (including "Forrest Gump", which filmed at USC) and in student produced plays. | |
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Andrew Stanton Writer, Finding Nemo Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton was raised in Rockport, Massachusetts. He was educated at The California Institute of the Arts (or "CalArts") in Los Angeles, where he studied character animation. After graduation, Stanton began working as a writer on the TV series Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures. In 1990, he became only the second animator and ninth employee to join Pixar Animation Studios... | |
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Paris Themmen Actor, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory The former child actor Paris Themmen was born on June 25th, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, the self-proclaimed "Hub" of the Universe, to classical musicians. Young Paris first appeared on stage in 1965, while his parents were performing in summer stock in Michigan. After the family returned to New York... | |
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Mike O'Malley Actor, Eat Pray Love | |
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Callie Thorne Actress, Next Stop Wonderland | |
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Jonathan Tucker Actor, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Jonathan is a film and television actor, born in Boston May 31, 1982. While still in third grade he was a part of a ballet production of The Nutcracker. After High School he got into Columbia University but went on to pursue his acting carrier. His first accredited appearances were in Night before Christmas (1994) as Moses Junior and Troublemakers (1994). | |
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David Walton Actor, Fired Up! | |
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Natasha Yi Self, Playboy: Girlfriends | |
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Jasmine Guy Actress, Cats Don't Dance Actor-dancer-director Jasmine Guy has enjoyed a diverse career in television, theater and film. She began her professional career at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. Jasmine starred on Broadway in the original productions of Beehive and Leader of the Pack, and reprised hit productions of Grease... | |
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Noah Bean Actor, Morning Glory Noah Bean hails from Mystic, Connecticut. He attended Boston University's College of Fine Arts where he received his BFA and then continued his studies at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Academy of Musical and Dramatic Arts. In addition to his work in film and television he continues to work on stage in New York and around the country. | |
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Ethan Terra Writer, Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1 | |
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Meshach Taylor Actor, Mannequin Surrounded by four dazzling Southern-styled ladies on the hit sitcom Designing Women, genial African-American Meshach Taylor made a name for himself as the beleaguered male foil consistently at the mercy of the ladies' antics during its seven-season run. The Boston-born actor who was raised in New Orleans... | |
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Conan O'Brien Writer, Conan Conan O'Brien grew up in a large, Irish Catholic family in Massachusetts. At an early age, he began a love of comedy and goofing off, this carried on when he entered the prestigious Harvard University, acting out many pranks in his time, as well as become the president of the Harvard humor magazine... | |
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Scott Wolf Actor, Go | |
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Christine Elise Actress, Child's Play 2 | |
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Nicholas R. Grava Actor, Ruby Slippers Nicholas Grava is a proud Boston native. He began modeling at the young age of 12 when he made his National debut on Toys R' Us shelves appearing on multiple toy boxes and in advertisements. Prior to making the move to LA, he studied Acting at Pace University in NYC. His most recent roles on stage include "Our Town" (2012) alongside the Oscar winning actress Helen Hunt... | |
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Paul Guilfoyle Actor, L.A. Confidential | |
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