Michelle Johnson Biography (1965-)

Born in Alaska, blonde actress Michelle Johnson had to journey to an entirely different hemisphere to attain screen stardom. Cast as Michael Caine’s topless teenaged amour in 1984′s Blame it On Rio, Johnson received excellent notices, most of which forecast a long and fabulous career for the 19-year-old actress (reviewers barely paid attention to Johnson’s young co-star Demi…

Kelsey Chow Biography (1991-)

Kelsey Asbill Chow was born on September 9, 1991.  Originally from Columbia, South Carolina, Kelsey is the oldest of three siblings.  She has a brother who is two years younger and a sister who is eight years younger. Kelsey grew to love performing at an early age while studying dance.  School plays led to community theatre where she…

Angela Cartwright Biography (1952-)

Though she was best known as a young TV star, Angela Cartwright also appeared in perennial movie musical favorite The Sound of Music (1965). Born in England, Cartwright’s family moved to Los Angeles when she was three. Cartwright soon made her film debut, at the ripe old age of three and a half, in Somebody Up There Likes…

Wanda Sykes Biography (1964-)

Comedian, actress. Wanda Sykes was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on March 7, 1964. She grew up in Gambrills, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Her father, a colonel in the United States Army, worked at the Pentagon, while her mother was a banker; Sykes also has an older brother, Harry. Sykes enjoyed a comfortable middle-class childhood and attended Arundel High…

Julia Sawalha Biography (1968-)

Best-known to American TV audiences as Saffy, the frighteningly sensible daughter of Edina Monsoon on Absolutely Fabulous, Julia Sawalha has earned a reputation as one of Britain’s more beloved comedic actresses.

The daughter of respected Jordanian actor Nadim Sawalha (who immigrated to England in the 1960s) and an English mother, Sawalha was born in London on September 9, 1968….

Julie Gonzalo Biography (1981-)

The image of singer and actress Julie Gonzalo makes many fans think of the blond-haired, blue-eyed, all-American girls that she’s played, like cheerleader Amber in Dodgeball and high-school queen bee Stacey in Freaky Friday. Gonzalo’s roots, however, are very diverse, leading back to Argentina, where she was born in 1981. After moving to the U.S. at age eight,…

Constance Marie Biography (1965-)

Constance Marie floored audiences with her performance as Selena’s mother in Selena (1997), the biographical drama about the pop artist’s rise and the tragic ending of her life. Through extensive makeup preparation, Marie was transformed to look substantially older than her on-screen daughter, played by Jennifer Lopez — the actual age difference between the two actresses was merely…

Zoe Kazan Biography (1983-)

Daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and granddaughter of prominent director Elia Kazan, actress Zoe Kazan joined the family business after graduating from Yale University in 2005. Beginning with acclaimed productions of off-Broadway plays like The Prime of Miss Jean Brody and The Things We Want, Kazan soon made her Broadway debut, starring alongside S. Epatha…

Taraji P. Henson Biography (1970-)

Taraji P. Henson is the Oscar-nominated actress who played Queenie, the mother in the David Fincher film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, starring Brad Pitt). A graduate in theater arts from Howard University, Henson began her career in Hollywood in the late 1990s, first in television. She had a memorable role in the 2001 feature…

Heather Thomas Biography (1957-)

A former child model who parlayed her early experiences before the camera into a successful career as an Emmy Award-winning soap opera star, Hinsdale, IL, native Heather Tom got her start in show business after her family relocated to Seattle and she made her stage debut in a Seattle Children’s Theater production of The Nutcracker Suite. Walk-on roles in…

Spencer Locke Biography (1991-)

Comely, fair-haired actress Spencer Locke debuted onscreen during her teen years with bit roles and supporting parts in Hollywood features. She received one of her first major assignments by voicing one of the key supporting characters in the CG-animated feature Monster House, then, in 2007, signed for the role of K-Mart in the action-packed horror extravaganza Resident Evil:…