The star of The Disney Channel’s That’s So Raven, Raven-Symoné (sometimes credited as Raven) has been on television since she was a toddler. A native of Georgia, she moved to New York as a child and spent three years playing Bill Cosby’s granddaughter on The Cosby Show (1989-92). Since then she has worked in television and feature films, including…
Actress. Born Vivica Anjanetta Fox on July 30, 1964, in South Bend, Indiana. Her mother, Everlyena Fox, worked as a pharmaceutical technician, and her father, William Fox, was a school administrator. Vivica Fox’s parents divorced when she was 3 years old, and she was raised primarily by her mother. Fox describes herself as a hyperactive child…
Writer, actor, producer, director. Born Emmitt Perry Jr. on September 13, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tyler Perry has forged his own way in the entertainment industry, building an empire that consists of successful films, plays, and even a best-selling book. One of four children, he had a difficult childhood, suffering years of abuse at the hands of…
Actor. Born November 15, 1940, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sam Waterston grew up in New England with his three siblings and parents. His father, George Chychele, emigrated from England and was a semanticist and language teacher in North Andover, Massachusetts. Waterston’s mother, Alice Atkinson, was a landscape painter. As a child, he acted in school productions and in plays…
Ashley Tisdale is a Disney Channel star, known to viewers as Maddie on the Sprouse brothers’ series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and as the supersnob Sharpay in the High School Musical movies (with Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Corbin Bleu). Tisdale has been performing most of her life, including stints on stage in the early 1990s. Her…