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Catherine Bach is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson.- Actor
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Actor Austin Pendleton was born March 27, 1940 in Warren, Ohio to Frances and Thorn Pendleton. He graduated from Yale University. He later became an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, and acted in several of the theater's productions. His first film appearance was in Petulia (1968), a minor and uncredited role. Since, he has made over 100 appearances in television and film.- Actor
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Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters front-man, will always be remembered as the drummer for Nirvana. But, drumming for a great band such as Nirvana is not Dave's only claim in the world of music. Dave's musical career began at age 15 as the guitarist and later as the drummer for a punk band called "Freak Baby". A year later, he was behind the drums for "Mission Impossible" and later that summer drumming for "Dain Bramage". Another year down the road, an opportunity to drum with one of his favorite punk bands, "Scream", was just too great to pass up. This leads us to 1990 when "Scream" seemed to be coming to an end and "Nirvana" was in need of a drummer. While recording and touring with "Nirvana", Dave continued to write lyrics and music that he would record during breaks with "Nirvana". After the tragic end of "Nirvana", Dave eventually turned to his music to create Foo Fighters. While playing guitar and singing with Foo Fighters is his main job, you can also find Dave channeling his musical genius throughout the world of rock. Dave has drummed for Queens of the Stone Age and Killing Joke. He has also recorded and guest performed with his buddies Tenacious D. All the while recording for his own hardcore project, "Probot".- Actor
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Chris Zylka was born on May 9, 1985 in Ohio, U.S. as Christopher Michael Settlemire, but later took his mother's maiden name, "Zylka". He attended Howland High School and graduated in 2003. His hobbies have included guitar, painting, association football, basketball, baseball and reading. He studied Art at The University of Toledo in Ohio for two years, but dropped out and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting.
Zylka began his career with a guest appearance on 90210 in 2008. He was soon cast in a recurring role in Everybody Hates Chris before also having guest appearances on the shows Hannah Montana, Cougar Town and Zeke and Luther. Zylka would then land another recurring role as Joey Donner, for 16 episodes, in 10 Things I Hate About You (2009). Zylka began to move into films around this time, starring as Brigg in the Made-for-TV horror My Super Psycho Sweet 16 (2009) and My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2 (2010). Zylka also appeared in Kaboom (2010).
Zylka is known for his role as Jake Armstrong in the CW series The Secret Circle (2011), and for his roles in the movies Shark Night (2011), Piranha 3DD (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), and Tom Garvey in the HBO series The Leftovers (2014).- Actor
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Lemasters was born Braeden Matthew Lemasters in Warren, Ohio on January 27, to Dave and Michelle Lemasters. He and his family then moved to Santa Clarita where they now reside. He has one brother Austin.
Lemasters started acting at the age of 9, where he first starred in Six Feet Under as Frankie. He was a series regular on "Men of a Certain Age" where he was Ray Romano's son on TNT. He later was a series regular on the ABC series " Betrayal" He also has guest starred on several series including NCIS, House, Grey's Anatomy, ER, Criminal Minds,The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Saving Grace, Cold Case, Saving Grace and Wedding Band. He can also be seen in the films The Stepfather,Easy A and R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls. Look for Lemasters in 2017 in the upcoming series T@gged Also coming soon is are a Blumhouse Production called "Totem" and "Flock of Four" In 2009, he started a band called the Feaver(later renamed The Narwhals) with Dylan Minnette, which includes Zack Mendenhall on bass and Cole Preston on drums Lemasters is the singer and guitarist. In April of 2017 they officially became Wallows and released their first single "Pleaser"- Actor
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Rex Lee was born on 7 January 1969 in Warren, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Entourage (2004), Entourage (2015) and Keeping Company (2021).- Amber Skye Noyes is an American Actress, Singer and Songwriter. She gained an early start in the entertainment business alongside her brother as a youth actor and growing up on sets in NYC. After attending and graduating from Emerson College and NYU, Amber pursued her music career, directing her own music videos, performing her music live and releasing several singles and EP's before landing a role on the CW's "Beauty and the Beast" as female-beast Tori Windsor. Amber later went on to guest star in several dramas including NBC's "The Blacklist," "Blindspot," "Law and Order S.V.U." "F.B.I." "The Village" and "Macgyver." Amber also guest starred in HBO's 1970's drama "The Deuce" and alongside Priyanka Chopra in ABC's "Quantico" as the spirited Celine Fox.
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Troy Bishop was born on 21 September 1972 in Warren, Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for Scream (1996), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Apartment 206 (2003). He has been married to Brandy L. Bickford since 30 August 2003.- Writer
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Chris Kratt graduated from Carleton College, Minnesota in 1992 with a B.A. in Biology. In 1990 Chris was the recipient of a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for study abroad. Chris is a founder of Kratt Brothers' Creature Heroes, a nonprofit society dedicated to enabling children to help the wild animals of the world. Chris is also the founder of the Carleton Organization for Biodiversity; a group working to increase public awareness about conservation and wildlife. In 1999, Chris was given the Award of Appreciation for his on-going commitment and public service on behalf of conservation and environmental education by US Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt.- Writer
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Nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for the Pixar blockbuster "Inside Out", LeFauve won an Annie Award for that screenplay. LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films which were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and she was awarded a Peabody for the Showtime film, "The Baby Dance." LeFauve also produced "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" which won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature. LeFauve has been a consultant to Screen New South Wales and Screen Australia and has been a mentor at many writing labs, including The Sundance Labs, Cinestory Script Sessions, and the Meryl Streep Lab. LeFauve taught at AFI and served as co-chair of the Graduate Producers Program at UCLA's School of Film and Television, where she taught master level story and development classes for over seven years. Raised in Warren, Ohio, LeFauve graduated from the Syracuse University Newhouse School.- Writer
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Fred Vogel was born on 18 April 1976 in Warren Township, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Final Interview (2018), August Underground (2001) and Sella Turcica (2010). He has been married to Shelby Lyn Vogel since 13 October 2006.- Charles Lucia was born on 3 January 1946 in Warren, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Tank Girl (1995), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and Society (1989).
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Martin is an innovative wildlife filmmaker, zoologist (Duke University Graduate), and is dedicated to teaching people about wild creatures and working for the preservation of endangered species. In 1990, Martin and his brother Chris Kratt founded The Earth Creatures Company, which specializes in wildlife entertainment. Martin and brother Chris have authored eight wildlife books for children (including Creatures in Crisis and Where're the Bears?) published by Scholastic. They are recipients of an Award of Appreciation for their on-going commitment and public service on behalf of conservation and environmental education by US Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt.- Rebecca is half Brazilian and has dual citizenship to Brazil and America. Rebecca speaks Portuguese, sings and plays the ukulele. She has been involved in several world premiers of plays by playwrights such as Rachel Bonds, Lauren Gunderson, Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Treem, Beau Willimon and more. She has performed in regional theaters such as Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, The Shakespeare Theater of NJ and the Mark Taper Forum. She received the 2015 Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Mike Bartlett's west coast premier of COCK.
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Danielle Donahue grew up in the small Pennsylvania town of Ridgway. She is known for her roles within the independent horror film genre. Some of her more well-known characters came along when she started working with Polonia Bros. Entertainment. While pursuing interesting roles she is also active in drawing, reading, writing, and Kung Fu.- Producer
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Roger Eugene Ailes was born in Warren, Ohio, the son of Donna Marie and Robert Eugene Ailes, a factory foreman at a local factory. Later in life, Roger Ailes was inducted into the Warren High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.
Roger Ailes graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio with a BA in 1962. Soon afterwards, Ailes began his television career as a property assistant on The Mike Douglas Show (1961). Working in Cleveland and Philadelphia, Roger Ailes quickly rose to producer in 1965 and executive producer between 1967 and 1968. "The Mike Douglas Show" was also the show that allowed Roger Ailes to be nominated for an Emmy in 1968.
It was during Roger Ailes' work on "The Mike Douglas" show that he engaged in a lively discussion about Television and the role it plays in Politics with then-Presidential candidate Richard Nixon. Nixon, having recognized Roger Ailes talent and foresight, brought him on as media adviser to Nixon's presidential campaign from 1967-1968.
In 1968, Roger Ailes founded Ailes Communication in New York, a media production and consulting firm which consulted for a number of different politicians and businesses. He produced two Broadway plays: "Mother Earth" in 1972 and "Hot-L Baltimore", which premiered in 1973 and ran for three years.
Roger Ailes' exposure and success in his political consulting during the Nixon campaign, allowed him to once again consult for a presidential campaign. This time, for the 1984 campaign of Ronald Reagan. It is widely believed that Ailes' coaching of Reagan was the deciding factor which allowed Reagan to win the second presidential debate with Walter Mondale.
Again in 1987 and 1988, while acting as producer for several television specials, Roger Ailes successfully coached and consulted George Bush to victory in both the Republican primaries and, afterwards, the presidential election beating opponent Michael Dukakis. Roger Ailes announced his withdrawal from political consulting in 1992.
After his successful political consulting efforts, Roger Ailes helped produce a television special called "Television and the Presidency", which was later expanded to be a multi-part series. In 1988, Roger Ailes wrote a book called "You Are the Message: Secrets of the Master Communicators", in which he divulged some of the strategies and philosophies for successful performances in public.
In 1993, Roger Ailes was named president of CNBC. During Ailes' presidency at CNBC, he planned and executed the inception of another CNBC channel, "America's Talking", which debuted in 1994. It was on this channel that Roger Ailes hosted a nightly talk show called "Straight Forward".
Once the decision by Microsoft and NBC to create an online and cable news outlet became clear, and it was decided that "America's Talking" would be abandoned, Roger Ailes left - the newly named - MSNBC. Shortly after his departure from NBC/MSNBC, he was hired by Rupert Murdoch to create the now-famous "Fox News Channel" for Murdoch's News Corporation. Fox News quickly became the most-watched cable news network in the United States, in part due to notable names such as Geraldo Rivera, as well as the memorable tagline - which to this day is still used - "Fair and Balanced". Fox News is also credited with big name stars, such as Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren.
To this day, he remains chair and CEO of Fox News Channel and also chairs Fox Television Stations, Twentieth Television, MyNetwork TV and Fox Business Network.- Actor
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Scott is an actor/writer/producer who grew up in Marshall, Michigan where he got his start in acting at the age of 7. Scott is a resident company member of a theatre company in nearby Battle Creek, Michigan, and he is a founding member of the improv troupe, Chaos and Main. Scott is a co-founder, producer and writer at West Prospect Pictures, as well as V.P. of Development for Friel Films. Scott and his wife, Angela (who is also a producer with West Prospect Pictures), have a combined 6 children and one grandchild.- Producer
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Jennifer Ann Wilson is a television producer, journalist and storyteller with a background in comedy and an adventurous streak. She has run marathons with Team in Training for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, been a coach for Girls on the Run and a volunteer "Angel" with My Team Triumph helping those who are not able to walk or run cross the finish line. A champion for those pushing boundaries and facing fears, a celebrator of victories both little and large, an empathetic listener and proactive producer, Jennifer loves telling stories that educate, empower, inform, uplift and entertain. She has years of experience in heightened emotional situations and conducting highly sensitive interviews, yet also enjoys creating memorable moments within fun lighthearted projects that leave viewers smiling and feeling more connected to the community. Jennifer excels at detailed research and shoot preparation as well as being present in the moment on set or in the field with those she is interviewing and producing/directing.- Animation Department
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Peter Raymundo was born on 26 December 1972 in Warren, Ohio, USA. Peter is a writer, known for Lilo & Stitch (2002), The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Peter has been married to Williams, Dorothy since 19 February 2000. They have one child.- Additional Crew
Heidi Berry was born on 6 October 1964 in Warren, Ohio, USA. She is known for Fireflies in the Garden (2008) and Passion in the Desert (1997).- Casey Anthony was born on 19 March 1986 in Warren, Ohio, USA.
- Michael Carollo was born on New Year's Eve 1988 in Warren, Michigan. Michael is of Italian-American and French-Canadian descent. Carollo featured in ABC's cop drama, Detroit 1-8-7, with series lead Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, Goodfellas), followed by an appearance on NBC's Chicago PD with series lead Jon Seda (Selena, La Brea). Carollo's film career kicked off with an appearance alongside Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan) in Greyhound, described as one of Michael's most memorable career moments. Carollo went on to land a supporting role in Wicked alongside Anne Maiche (Tiny Pretty Things) and will soon be seen in a supporting role in Ana Lily Amirpour's upcoming thriller fantasy, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, starring Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) and Craig Robinson (The Office) produced by Oscar winner John Lesher (Birdman).
- Helen Amelia Gilbert was one of those finds for whom everyone had high hopes, and who quickly made a splash in Hollywood, though not due to her acting, which was average at best. She appeared more in gossip columns than on the silver screen, and as her acting career waned, her notoriety grew because of her affairs, marriages, separations, and divorces. And then suddenly she vanished from the spotlight only to have her name appear just one last time in an obituary column.
Helen is born into a musical family, her father, Vaughn Gilbert, owning a music store where she played a variety of instruments as a child. She's inspired by Pablo Casals and dives into studying the cello, winning a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
After graduating, Helen becomes a concert artist, playing at a variety of locations, but it's while performing at the Hollywood Bowl where she is discovered by Herbert Stothart and is given a seat in his MGM orchestra.
In November of 1936, she marries the assistant musical director at Columbia, Mischa Bakaleinikoff, in Tijuana, Mexico. He's 46; she's 21.
Two years later while her orchestra is recording for the upcoming musical Sweethearts (1938), director Fred M. Wilcox spots her and her acting career begins.
Her first role is as Miss Rose Meredith, Andy Hardy's high school "crush" and drama teacher in Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939).
Not long after that she separates from her husband in October of 1939, declaring that she will soon file suit for divorce. When asked, she claims, "It was an amicable separation," and is next spotted around the town with Lew Ayres. She responds to gossip columnists that they are just "good pals who happen to be working on the same picture," The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939).
In November she wins an uncontested divorce from Bakeleinkoff on charges that he was rude to her and her friends. She's next spotted with Howard Hughes at the annual Motion Picture Guild Christmas charity party. Now Hughes was quite famous for his attraction to Hollywood beauties, and Helen Gilbert is most definitely a beauty, but it's her fling with Hughes that starts to quash her rise to stardom.
Over the next two years she's seen everywhere by columnists, accompanied by a host of gentlemen friends: Victor M. Orsatti, William Marshall, Billy Blackewell, Richard Denning, Tom Harmon, and finally Seymour J. Chotiner, whom she marries in March of 42.
All this time she's been receiving star treatment from MGM. She's touted as "the new personality" in the trailer for the upcoming Dr. Kildare film in which she plays a patient with psychosomatic blindness. She's also landed the lead in Florian (1940). But as film historian David J. Hogan writes, "In the eyes of MGM Chief Louis B. Mayer, a contract actress who associated with Hughes was foolish and probably not deserving of star treatment."
Hogan also believes that it was because of Hughes that Gilbert lost the role of Glinda the good witch in the The Wizard of Oz (1939) to Billie Burke.
In 1942 she plays the role of the femme fatale in The Falcon Takes Over (1942) and separates from Chotiner after five short months of marriage.
This time it's Chotiner who gets the uncontested divorce, complaining that "during five months of marriage, I had only one meal at home," but she and Chotiner soon reconcile before the divorce decree becomes final.
Less than two years later, they part again. Helen files for divorce, and this time while Chotiner tells columnists that "careers and marriages do not mix," she's charging him with extreme cruelty without provocation. It's during this roller coaster of a marriage that Helen is cast in the not very coveted role of "girl on a trolley" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).
She might not have had much to offer movie goers at that time, but the tabloids are quickly lit up again when, after a whirlwind romance with Victor Makzoume, the owner of Victor's Café on Sunset Strip and ex-husband of Claire Alexander, they marry. He is 12 years her senior.
She lands a lead role in the 1946 film God's Country (1946), shot in Cinecolor, but the reviews are mixed and the next time we hear about her is again in the newspapers when she and her husband, Makzoume report that their Hollywood home had been burglarized of jewelry, clothing, and a number of bottles of expensive perfumes. The take is estimated at $15,000.00.
After finishing up Death Valley (1946), lauded as "A Dramatic Screen Triumph in Gorgeous Color, Set Against the Background of Nature's Most Treacherous and Mysterious Land," moviegoers are not at all impressed, so Helen decides to take time off to escort her husband to Lebanon to visit his family. Unfortunately, Makzoume has a heart attack at the Grand Hotel in Rome, and Helen is at his bedside as he passes away at age 45.
Helen had been preparing to make her movie comeback while in Europe with one film being shot in Paris and another in Rome, but in June of 1948, Dorothy Manners reports in her column that, "She is so shaken and grief stricken she called off both contracts to bring his body back to this country."
The courts grant Helen an allowance of $650 (nearly $6,000 in today's money) pending distribution of Makzoume's estate, of which she'll eventually get half, with the rest going to his mother and sister.
By September of that year, gossip columnists report her back "as pretty as ever" at the Band Box, a jazz and comedy club in Hollywood, accompanied by Jimmy Valentine, a famous one-legged dancer.
But it's the following February when newspapers are deliciously abuzz with the story of her secret marriage to Johnny Stompanato, a bodyguard and money man for Mickey Cohen, head of the Cohen crime family. This time Helen is 33 and Stompanato is 23.
In July of that same year, she testifies at her divorce hearing that, "Johnny had no means. I did what I could to support him."
Johnny would eventually be killed by Lana Turner's daughter, who stabbed him to death in 1958. In court it came out that he'd been violent with Turner and his death was ruled justifiable homicide, because Cheryl had been defending her mother from a vicious beating.
Just two months after divorcing Stompanato, Helen marries James E. Durant, the Flamingo Hotel casino manager. The ceremony is short and sweet, and performed by a Justice of the Peace, but the gossip columns get it wrong when they report this being her sixth marriage. Somehow in the count, they'd tossed in Bill Marshal, with whom she'd had a fling, but never married.
Historians aren't quite sure why the Las Vegas marriage had to have a "do-over" but in February of 1950, they are again married, this time in Coolidge, Arizona. It would be just four short months' later when Helen files for divorce, charging him with cruelty.
Not one to rest on her reputation, while awaiting her divorce she promises herself to Charles, A. Hubbard, heir to a fortune in the Bahamas. He gives her a $17, 000.00 ($180,000.00 in today's money) diamond ring on Christmas Day, 1949 with the understanding that they will soon be wed.
However, in January, her love for Hubbard has cooled, and she refuses to return the ring, opting instead to reconcile with Durant. They will stay married for almost two years, and their divorce will make history as the courts cannot decide if they are married or not.
She claims that he tried to throw her out of a window of an 11th floor apartment, and he claims they were already divorced back in Phoenix.
So two months later she marries her seventh and final husband, H. O. Bryant, someone who apparently has no background, no history, but just a future with the lovely Helen Gilbert who is now 35.
Now that she's happily married and the distribution of Makzoume's estate puts her late husband's restaurant in her control, she finally drops her divorce suit against Durant, no longer claiming their Arizona divorce to be invalid.
Her sister, Mari Finley would soon move in with her and producer Alex Gordon starts seeing both of them on a professional basis. He's thinking of casting Helen in the title role of The She-Creature (1956), but the part eventually goes to Marla English.
Helen has been out of films for six years and yearns to make a comeback. She lands a key role in the film Thief of Damascus (1952), which turns out to be a pot boiler made on a tight budget by recycling all the scenery from big budget epics of the forties such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1943) and Arabian Nights (1942). The color is spectacular and the scenery is offset by a beautiful female cast in flowing gowns, all spouting quotable lines written tongue in cheek. But the satire falls flat and it bombs at the box office. Her next three appearances are in TV series, but it's Girls in Prison (1956) where she expects finally to make her comeback.
She lands a rather racy role as Joan Taylor's lesbian cellmate, but is overshadowed by the tough-talking, plump-cheeked, peroxide blonde Adele Jergens whose performance steals the show. Helen's sister lands a bit part in the film, but other than another bit part in The She-Creature, her film career goes nowhere.
Helen would do two more episodes in TV series and then, because she is happily married, the gossip columns go silent. She quietly walks away from Hollywood never to be heard from again until her death.
Her husband, H. O. Bryant will die of a heart attack in 1987, and she follows him 8 years later having also succumbed to cardiac arrest.
Her body is cremated; her ashes scattered at sea. - Actor
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Andy Gates is an American Film and Television actor. He has trained at Emerson College, American Conservatory Theatre and The Actors Workshop in Boston. He has also trained with Cliff Osmond, Michelle Danner, Ron Max, Rick Pagano and Susie Landau to name a few.
His first film role was in the film The Cleaning Lady (2005) and his professional stage debut was back in 1990 at ACT's annual favorite 'A Christmas Carol'. This performance had to be in the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco due to the severe damage of the Geary Theatre by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Ironically Andy appeared in a National Geographic Special in 2005 as a tourist from Oklahoma trapped on the Bay Bridge during the same devastating quake.
He specializes in portraying the everyman, and his "boy next door" looks and charm obscure the fact that his true love in cinema and his reason for becoming an actor in the first place is the Horror genre. Andy lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter and probably a dog depending on when you are reading this.- Kimberly Evan is an Actor and Singer born in Warren, PA to Michael Fredrick Evan, a international executive with GTE and Barbara Lundgren Evan, a teacher and principal. She is of direct Swedish descent from her maternal side of the family and distant Czech descent from her paternal. She found her true passion for acting at age 10 when she attended a movie, by herself, after swim team practice as her parents were double booked with her brother and sisters sporting events. Her swim team career had pecked with 3 record breaking times. She told the woman at the front desk of the YMCA where she was going and she went to see "The Philadelphia Story" starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. She remembers thinking to her self, "I can do that". It was a world she wanted to be a part of. Years later she would earn a place at New Yorks' Academy of Dramatic Arts with a audition scene from"The Philadelphia Story". In High School she sang and danced in musicals, and toured Europe singing in an A Capella Choir. She didn't consider acting as a career until she took an acting class with Dr. Lammel at Westminster College, PA. She earned the only A given in class that year. She continued her studies of french theater in Cannes France, meisner technique at The Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York and enrolled in a masters program in Psychology at Columbia University. She has starred and co-starred in multiple independent films and guest starred on television shows such as "Bones" and "Desperate Housewives". Her best work is yet to come.