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Morgan Freeman Actor, The Shawshank Redemption With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Born in June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, the young Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College before serving several years in the US Air Force as a mechanic between 1955 and 1959... | |
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Justin Timberlake Soundtrack, Love Actually Justin Randall Timberlake was born to Lynn Harless and Randy Timberlake on January 31, 1981, in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of 11, he appeared on the show Star Search, and even though he didn't win, it didn't dampen his ambitions. He also appeared on The All New Mickey Mouse Club, where his costars included Britney Spears... | |
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Ginnifer Goodwin Actress, Walk the Line Ginnifer Michelle Goodwin was born on 22nd May 1978, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bright and talented, Ginnifer carried her love for theater and acting through her high school years. She graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in 1996 and spent a year at Hanover before going to Boston University where she received her BFA in Acting... | |
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Lucy Hale Actress, Scream 4 Lucy is an American born actress and singer. She is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. She started out as a singer, appearing on American Juniors in a search for band members. She successfully won her place in the band. The group disbanded in 2005. Lucy turned to acting. She is best known for roles in TV shows Privileged and Pretty Little Liars... | |
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Kathy Bates Actress, Titanic Kathleen Doyle Bates was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, the youngest of three daughters born to Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer, and his homemaker wife Bertye Talbot. Kathy's great-great Irish grandfather, who emigrated to New Orleans, once served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor... | |
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Shannen Doherty Actress, Mallrats Shannen Doherty was born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, on April 12, 1971, to parents Tom and Rosa. Her father worked in a bank while her mother owned a beauty parlor. She has an older brother named Sean. In 1978 at the tender age of seven, she and her family moved to Los Angeles, where her father started a West Coast branch of the family transportation business... | |
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Chris Parnell Actor, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Chris Parnell enrolled at Germantown High School where he took drama and auditioned for every play. In 1985, when he was a senior at Germantown, he was voted "Most Talented" by his classmates. Right after graduating high school, Chris attended North Carolina School of Arts in Winston-Salem... | |
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Cybill Shepherd Actress, The Last Picture Show Cybill Lynne Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Patty, a homemaker, and William Shepherd, a small business owner. Named after her grandfather, Cy, and her father, Bill, Shepherd's career began at a young age in modeling, when she won the "Miss Teenage Memphis" contest in 1966 and the "Model of the Year" contest in 1968... | |
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Ben Browder Actor, Stargate: Continuum Ben Browder was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, earned a BS in psychology at Furman University, and then went on to study drama at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, where he met his wife, Francesca Buller. As of 2002, he resides in Australia... | |
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George Hamilton Actor, The Godfather: Part III Noted these days for his dashing, sporting, jet-setter image and perpetually bronzed skin tones in commercials, film spoofs and reality shows, George Hamilton was, at the onset, a serious contender for dramatic film stardom. Born George Stevens Hamilton IV in Memphis, TN, on August 12, 1939, the son of gregarious Southern belle beauty Ann Potter Hamilton Hunt Spaulding... | |
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Lisa Marie Presley Self, Elvis by the Presleys | |
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Virginia Williams Actress, One Life to Live | |
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William Sanderson Actor, Blade Runner Prolific and versatile character actor William Sanderson was born on January 10, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a landscape designer. William served two years in the US Army. Following his military service he attended Southern Methodist University... | |
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Michael Beck Actor, The Warriors | |
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Red West Actor, Safe Haven Robert "Red" Gene West was a close friend of Elvis Presley and a member of Presley's inner circle, known as "The Memphis Mafia". He first met Elvis in high school, where he was a year behind him. West played football for the Memphis Tigers high school football team, boxed in the Golden Gloves and played football for Jones Junior College playing center... | |
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Aretha Franklin Soundtrack, The Blues Brothers Several Grammy award wins, the first women to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and dubbed as the Queen Of Soul. Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Aretha was born to parents, Barbra Singers homemaker, and Clarence Franklin a baptist minster. Aretha Franklin started to sing due to her father being a minister... | |
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Sarah Jane Morris Actress, Seven Pounds | |
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Clare Grant Actress, Walk the Line Clare Grant is a Memphis born actress who grew up heavily involved in the local theater scene. Upon graduating from the University of Memphis for Theater Performance, she had a short modeling career overseas before she began acting professionally after booking a small but pivotal role in Walk the Line, after which, she moved to LA to pursue acting full time... | |
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Anne Haney Actress, Liar Liar Anne Haney held prominent roles acting on stage, on the screen, and on TV. All these achievements came in her mid 40s, after she had raised a daughter and buried a husband. It wasn't until after she had packed her daughter off to college and "the maid quit", as she said, that she decided to try her hand at acting... | |
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Dan Schneider Writer, Big Fat Liar Daniel J. Schneider was born into a family with three older sisters in Memphis, Tennessee on January 14th, 1966. He became his Senior class president at White Station High School. After high school, he went to his father's alma mater, Harvard, for one semester. He decided to come back home to Memphis and get a job at a computer store... | |
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Ashley Jones Actress, Old School | |
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Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson Actor, The A-Team | |
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Steven Williams Actor, The Blues Brothers | |
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Kali Rocha Actress, Meet the Parents | |
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Leslie Jordan Actor, The Help For such a diminutive (4' 11") frame, character actor Leslie Jordan has a tall propensity for scene-stealing. He hails from the South, as his dead-giveaway drawl quickly exposes, and was raised in a highly conservative, deeply religious atmosphere in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Army... | |
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Elise Neal Actress, Scream 2 Elise Neal was born in Memphis, Tennessee and began dancing at age six. She contributes her success to her mother, Arletha Neal, who always supported her and drove her to numerous talent shows and recitals. After moving to New York and quickly booking many Off Broadway shows and musical revivals, she thought Broadway would be her winning ticket... | |
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Andrew Stevens Producer, The Boondock Saints Andrew Stevens, President/CEO of Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group, has produced and/or financed over one hundred and seventy films through his various production and distribution companies. Unique in the motion picture industry, Stevens has functioned in almost every capacity in the entertainment business... | |
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Lane Smith Actor, The Mighty Ducks | |
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Frank McRae Actor, Last Action Hero African-American former NFL player, with plenty of height and built like an ox, has scored over 40 film appearances predominantly as tough thugs, authority figures or even successful comedy roles. McRae first came to attention playing a grinning jail inmate, "Reed Youngblood", helping Warren Oates escape in Dillinger... | |
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Linda Thompson Actress, The Bodyguard | |
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Robert Baker Actor, Out of Time | |
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Samantha Saint Actress, Hustler's Untrue Hollywood Stories: Oprah Tall (5'8'), buxom, and shapely blonde bombshell Samantha Saint was born Elizabeth Ann Weaver on June 8, 1987 in Memphis, Tennessee. At age nineteen Saint moved to Denver, Colorado. Samantha attended the Aveda Institute, where she studied esthetics and received a license to practice within the state... | |
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John Laughlin Actor, Footloose So far, actor John Laughlin, has had a remarkable career spanning over several decades. At nineteen, John felt compelled to pursue his passion and moved to Los Angeles to learn his craft and become a serious actor. He initially went about it by taking two years at the Film Industry Workshop and then went on to study with some of the best in the business... | |
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Jerry Minor Actor, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | |
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Vicellous Reon Shannon Actor, The Hurricane | |
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Hal Needham Stunts, Little Big Man As the highest paid stuntman in the world, Hal Needham broke 56 bones, his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director. He wrote and directed some of the most financially successful action comedy films... | |
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Trace Ayala Miscellaneous Crew, Edison | |
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Jerry Lawler Actor, Man on the Moon | |
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Olivia Cole Actress, Coming Home | |
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Donald Dunn Soundtrack, Argo | |
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Shane Salerno Writer, Shaft Shane Salerno has been a professional screenwriter since the age of 19. In the years that have followed Detour Magazine has named Salerno as "one of Hollywood's true shapers of popular culture" and Fade In magazine selected him as one of the "100 people you need to know in Hollywood". His diverse screenwriting... | |
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Katherine Kendall Actress, Swingers Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Katherine "Kate" Kendall spent most of her early life in the South. When she was in the second grade, she and her family moved to Washington D.C., where her parents, Syd and Kay, worked for the Carter Administration. Katherine has three siblings - one brother, Syd, the bassist of Les Savy Fav and "French Kiss" Record Label Director... | |
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Dominic Dierkes Writer, Mystery Team | |
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Ric Flair Self, WrestleMania VIII Richard Morgan Fliehr isn't what you'd expect from a professional wrestler. A medical student at Minnesota University (his father was a doctor, his mother an actress), Flair dropped out college to train for the mat wars under legendary former AWA World champ Verne Gagne. He made his professional wrestling debut on December 10... | |
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Wendy Worthington Actress, Cast Away Born in Memphis and raised in Philadelphia, Wendy started making student films in the summer of 1969 and began acting because she wanted to be able to write for and direct other actors. She discovered a love of acting that became a lifetime commitment, but only turned into a full-time pursuit when Jonathan... | |
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Willard E. Pugh Actor, The Color Purple | |
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Adriane Lenox Actress, The Blind Side | |
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Macon McCalman Actor, Falling Down | |
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Courtney Hunt Director, Frozen River | |
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Rosanne Cash Self, Rosanne Cash/Norah Jones/Kris Kristofferson/John Mellencamp | |
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