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Halle Berry Actress, X-Men: The Last Stand Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio to U.S. African father Jerome Berry, a former hospital attendant, and U.S. European mother Judith Berry, a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle also has an older sister named Heidi Berry. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant... | |
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Monica Potter Actress, Along Came a Spider The second of four daughters in a tight-knit Catholic family. She attended Villa Angela Catholic School for girls and became a mother at 19. She pursued modeling in Chicago and Miami before moving to Los Angeles in 1994. | |
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Alan Ruck Actor, Ferris Bueller's Day Off Alan Ruck was born on July 1, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, and has made over 100 appearances in films and television, and on stage. He is best known for his role as the friend of Matthew Broderick and hopeless hypochondriac Cameron Frye, in John Hughes's Ferris Bueller's Day Off. During the 1980s he appeared... | |
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Hal Holbrook Actor, Into the Wild Hal Holbrook is an Emmy- and Tony-Award winning actor who is one of the great craftsman of stage and screen. He is best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on television... | |
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Debra Winger Actress, Terms of Endearment Mary Debra Winger was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1955 to a Jewish family. Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Debra. (Her father named her Debra after his favorite actress, Debra Paget). The family moved to California when Debra was five. She fell in love with acting in high school but kept it a secret from her family... | |
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Wes Craven Writer, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Rising out of the mid-western suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold visions since the release of his first feature film, The Last House of the Left, which he wrote, directed, and edited in 1972. Craven reinvented the youth horror genre again in 1984 with the classic A Nightmare on Elm Street... | |
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Carol Kane Actress, Annie Hall | |
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Burgess Meredith Actor, Rocky One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century who often suffered lesser roles, Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1907 and educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. He became a favorite of dramatist Maxwell Anderson... | |
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Yvette Nicole Brown Actress, (500) Days of Summer | |
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James Pickens Jr. Actor, Another World James Pickens Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1954. While attending college at Bowling Green State University, Pickens began pursuing an interest in acting. He graduated from BGSU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976. Afterwards, Pickens began work on the stage at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City... | |
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Drew Carey Self, The Aristocrats | |
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Bill Cobbs Actor, Night at the Museum Bill Cobbs was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where his parents were hard-working people, who instilled in him a sense of self-reliance and humility. As an amateur actor in the city's Karamu House Theater, he starred in the Ossie Davis play "Purlie Victorious". Cobbs was an Air Force radar technician for eight years; he also worked in office products at IBM and sold cars in Cleveland... | |
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Margaret Hamilton Actress, The Wizard of Oz | |
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Mary Carey Actress, Pervert! Cleveland native Mary Carey was born into what could be charitably called a dysfunctional family. Both of her parents were mentally handicapped (her mother had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic) and she was taken away from her parents by her grandparents when she was three months old. After her parents divorced... | |
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Keir Dullea Actor, 2001: A Space Odyssey Tall, slim, remote and boyishly handsome, one of Keir Dullea's most arresting features are his pale blue eyes and, at one time, they were featured all over the screen in a number of watershed films of the 1960s. A major, up-and-coming film star from the "Camelot" years straight through the turbulent Vietnam era... | |
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Jim Backus Actor, Rebel Without a Cause Jim Backus was born James Gilmore Backus on February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was one of the few actors to do it all: radio, Broadway, movies, television and cartoons. After attending preparatory school in his hometown Cleveland, Backus enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, to ply his trade... | |
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Brad Schmidt Actor, 1968 Tunnel Rats | |
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Bree Michael Warner Actress, Impostor Bree Michael Warner is best known for her portrayal of "Marilyn Raymer" in the Nickelodeon series iCarly. She was encouraged in the arts at an early age by her parents, both of whom performed on stage. With the inspiration of her musical theatre mother and singer-songwriter father, her own interest in performing was cultivated from the start... | |
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Arsenio Hall Actor, Coming to America | |
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Paula Jai Parker Actress, Phone Booth | |
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Marianne McAndrew Actress, Hello, Dolly! | |
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Sean Kanan Actor, General Hospital Sean Kanan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but was raised in New Castle, Pennsylvania. His parents encouraged him to pursue a wide range of interests, such as acting and martial arts. One of his first roles was in the low-budget horror movie Hide and Go Shriek, but the young actor is also known for his theater work, especially with Sam Shepard's plays. | |
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Jack Weston Actor, Dirty Dancing Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a shoe repairman, Jack Weston began acting at the age of ten. Encouraged by his father and a perceptive teacher in his public school, he was brought to the Cleveland Playhouse, where he joined their children's theater. He stayed with the company until he was drafted into the army at the age of 19... | |
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Joel Grey Actor, Dancer in the Dark | |
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Jonathan Freeman Actor, Aladdin | |
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Vanessa Bell Calloway Actress, Coming to America | |
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Ruby Dee Actress, American Gangster | |
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Gary Cairns Actor, Hero Wanted Gary is an Actor/Writer who was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He most recently appeared in the ABC series for Lifetime The Protector and the FX series Justified with Timothy Olyphant. Gary also appears in the Sony feature Hero Wanted opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ray Liotta and stars in the independent features Mad World... | |
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Stephen Gyllenhaal Director, Homegrown | |
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Bumper Robinson Actor, Enemy Mine | |
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Max Perlich Actor, Blow | |
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Howard Da Silva Actor, The Lost Weekend Howard da Silva was one of 324 actors, writers and directors who fell victim to the Hollywood blacklisting of the early 1950s, and had his career halted in the blink of an eye. Originally was a steelworker before making his stage debut at age 20 in New York. He made a name for himself on Broadway before going to Hollywood... | |
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Greg Morris Actor, Pilot Born in Cleveland, Morris came to Hollywood in the early 1960s. His acting experience at that time consisted of a few minor roles on the Seattle stage. He found work appearing on Television series such as The Dick Van Dyke Show and Twilight Zone before being cast in Mission: Impossible. Morris played quiet, efficient electronics expert Barney Collier from 1966-1973... | |
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Jack Riley Actor, Boogie Nights Cleveland-born comedy actor Jack Riley switched his career interest from baseball to acting after obtaining a radio job, writing and performing skits while attending John Carroll University. He toured military bases throughout the world in comedy shows after being drafted in the Army in 1958. Following his discharge... | |
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Vince Lozano Actor, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Vince Lozano was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Where he excelled in sports from baseball, basketball, football & boxing. There was no sport that he thought he could not play. Constant overachiever and always the underdog he was always proving people wrong when they would say he was too short or too small... | |
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Quinton Flynn Actor, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty | |
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Martha Smith Actress, Animal House Out of her hundreds of TV appearances, Martha Smith is perhaps best known as "Francine Desmond", intelligence agent (and nemesis of star Kate Jackson) on the CBS series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Raised in Farmington, MI, Martha--an honor student with a mention in "Who's Who of American Students"--enrolled in Michigan State University at 17 to study psychology... | |
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Dorothy Dandridge Actress, Carmen Jones Dorothy Jean Dandridge was born in Cleveland, Ohio on November 9, 1922. Under the prodding of her mother, Dorothy and her sister, Vivian Dandridge, began performing publicly, usually in black Baptist churches throughout the country. Her mother, Ruby Dandridge, an entertainer herself, would often join her daughters on stage... | |
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LaWanda Page Actress, Friday | |
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Josh Robert Thompson Actor, Yogi Bear Josh Robert Thompson is a comedian, voice and television actor known for his uncanny celebrity impressions and outrageous original characters. He is perhaps best recognized as the voice of Craig Ferguson's robot skeleton sidekick, Geoff Peterson, on CBS-TV's "The Late Late Show." A mainstay on Ferguson's talk show for at least four seasons... | |
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John Toll Cinematographer, Braveheart | |
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Richard Brooks Actor, The Crow: City of Angels Commanding actor Richard Brooks was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1962. He is an actor, director and singer. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at Interlochen Academy of Arts in Michigan. Later, he moved to New York City and was a student of the Circle in the Square... | |
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Imani Hakim Actress, Reign Over Me | |
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Paul Eiding Actor, WALL·E Paul Eiding has performed in practically every acting medium known. From outdoor pageant in Berlin, Germany, to interactive CD ROM. Procenium stage to a three story Italian villa. Animated series and features, radio drama, commercial voiceovers, live industrial shows, stand-up, roasts, improvisation... | |
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Brian Stepanek Actor, The Island | |
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Leon Isaac Kennedy Actor, Lone Wolf McQuade | |
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Ken Lynch Actor, North by Northwest If there was ever an actor born to play a tough Irish cop, it was Ken Lynch, and he played so many of them in his long career that he could probably do it in his sleep. His suspicious manner, aggressive attitude, steely eyes and snarling voice broke down many a quavering suspect. He also played military officers... | |
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Lee Unkrich Editorial Department, Finding Nemo Lee Unkrich attended Chagrin Falls High School in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He was born in 1967 and graduated in 1985. He was a great French student and created a character in his movie, Toy Story 2 after his high school French teacher. He was featured in the local paper twice for Monsters, Inc. and for Finding Nemo. | |
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Cristina Ferrare Self, The Weather Man Cristina Ferrare, the TV personality and former wife of former auto executive John DeLorean, was born on February 8, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio into an Italian-American Catholic home. Her family relocated to Los Angeles when she was 14 years old. Beause of her beauty, she was offered work as a teenage model while she was still 14... | |
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Jazsmin Lewis Actress, Barbershop | |
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