Zach Braff Biography (1975-)

Zach Braff plays J.D. on the television hospital comedy Scrubs and is the writer, director and star of the 2004 feature film Garden State (co-starring Natalie Portman). Braff is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied film. A professional actor even as a teen, he made his big screen debut in…

Lily Tomlin Biography (1939-)

Comedienne, actress, and writer. Born on September 1, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan. Over the years, Lily Tomlin made people laugh with her humorous characters from the child Edith Ann to the snarky operator Ernestine. Some of these wacky characters were showcased on the hit comedy series Laugh-In, which ran from 1969 to 1973. Her work on the series…

Amanda Tapping Biography (1965-)

Amanda is quite possibly known best for her role of Captain / Major / Colonel Samantha Carter in highly successful MGM television series Stargate SG-1. In order to understand how and why Amanda has become a role model to great many people all over the world, a highly successful and respected actor and now executive producer of science fiction…

Madeleine Stowe Biography (1958-)

The daughter of a California-based civil engineer and a Costa Rican émigré, Madeleine Stowe attended the University of Southern California, but cut classes to watch plays. Her life as a waitress came to an end when she was fired for being “too spacey,” but she was anything but spacey when it came to pursuing an acting career on…

Rosanna Arquette Biography (1959-)

Rosanna Arquette is still best known for her early film roles in 1985′s Desperately Seeking Susan (co-starring Madonna) and After Hours (directed by Martin Scorsese), even though she has appeared on screen regularly since her debut in the late 1970s. She frequently appears in independently made films and is known for offbeat characters and a distinctive overbite. Her…

Lisa Ann Walter Biography (1963-)

Edgy female comic Lisa Ann Walter may look like your wholesome, All-American former high-school prom queen, but don’t be fooled by appearances — she can work blue with the best of them. As a featured performer on the all-female standup special The Naughty Show, Walter brought down the house with her raucous stage presence. Of course, standup…

Illeana Douglas Biography (1965-)

Saucer-eyed actress Illeana Douglas has been regularly appearing in major films since 1987, when she debuted in the Shelley Long comedy Hello Again. The granddaughter of actor Melvyn Douglas and actress-turned-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan, Douglas was born July 25, 1965, in Massachusetts.

After her film debut, the actress worked for years in relative obscurity, at one point dubbing a chilling…

Lonette McKee Biography (1954-)

From stage to screen to recording studios, Lonette McKee has worked as both an actress and vocalist. Although actors who also sing have been a dime a dozen since the earliest days of stage and cinema, McKee’s groundbreaking performance as the first African-American actress to portray the character of Julie in a major American production of Show Boat…

Audrey Landers Biography (1956-)

Audrey Landers is an accomplished actress, singer, writer, composer, and producer She is best known to fans all over the world for her memorable role as “Afton Cooper” for eight years on Dallas, her controversial Playboy pictorial (with her clothes on), and hundreds of television gigs in the 1980s and 1990s.

But Audrey Landers has been somewhat under the…

Vin Diesel Biography (1967-)

Actor, director, writer, producer. Born Mark Vincent on July 18, 1967, in New York City. Diesel managed to parley several self-produced, low-budget films into big-budget leading man status.

Born to a theater director and a psychologist (and sometimes astrologer), in interviews, Diesel has been guarded about his ethnic background. He started acting at the age of 7 at the…

Andrea Bocelli Biography (1958-)

Tenor, born on September 22, 1958 in Lajatico, Tuscany, NW Italy. Interested in music from an early age, he learned to play the piano, flute, and saxophone, and was often asked to sing at family gatherings. Visually impaired from birth, he became blind at the age of 12 following a soccer injury.

Bocelli later studied law at the University…