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Agnieszka Truskolaska


Agnieszka Marianna Truskolaska (1755 – 30 November 1831) was a Polish actress, opera singer and theatre director. She was one of the most admired female artists of her time in Poland. Agnieszka Truskolaska was born and died in Warsaw, and was one of the first female stars of the Polish theatre. When the first Polish-speaking theatre opened with Polish actors of both genders in 1765, there was a severe shortage of female actors. The first Polish actresses were Wiktoria Leszczyńska and Antonina Prusinowska, who took part in the
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Kim Hyun-soo (actress)


Kim Hyun-soo (born June 23, 2000) is a South Korean actress. She often starred as the younger version of female protagonist in television dramas such as "Bridal Mask" and "My Love from the Star", before receiving her first leading role in "Solomon's Perjury". Kim Hyun-soo started to work in entertainment industry as a child model. She debuted as an actress through 2011 film "The Crucible", in which her role as a deaf student who suffered abuse landed her the
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Salma Agha


Salma Agha (; born 25 October 1956) is a Pakistani born British singer and actress who sang as well as acted in Bollywood films of India in the 1980s and the early 1990s. She was born in Karachi and raised in London, where she received several film offers from Indian directors. Her first film was "Nikaah", in which she starred as heroine and also sang her songs herself. She was nominated for the Filmfare awards that year in both the Best Actress category and the Best Female Playback Singer category. It
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Knhom Jea Neakna


Knhom Jea Neakna (English: "Who Am I?") is a Cambodian television film that aired on Cambodian Television Network on April 1, 2009. The film was directed by Parn Puong Bopha, and stars Ny Monika and Keo Sreyneang. The story depicts a foreign born female, Keo Sreyneang, attracted to a Cambodian actress, Ny Monika. The foreign traveler does everything she can to get the actress's attention while interfering the relationship of the actress and her fiancé. It has been described as first Khmer gay film
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Evelyn Scott (actress)


Evelyn Scott (April 20, 1915 – January 31, 2002) was an American film and television actress. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Scott began her career as a disc jockey for KMPC, the first female DJ at that Los Angeles radio station. Her work as an actress began on radio on the 1940s, guest starring on such series as Let George Do It. Scott transitioned to television in 1952, guest starring in several shows, including "Schlitz Playhouse", "Gunsmoke", "The Danny Thomas Show
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Alice Tzeng


Alice Tzeng () was born on 22 April 1984. She is a Taiwanese Golden Horse Award nominated actress. Alice debuted as a model and starred in a few advertisements. She also appeared on Taiwanese entertainment show "Guess Guess Guess" hosted by Jacky Wu. In 2007, she made her first movie appearance in "Secret", a movie directed by Jay Chou. Alice was cast as Qing Yi, better known as 'Sky', as the supporting female actress who has a crush on the lead protagonist, Yie
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Angela Mao


Angela Mao Ying (born Mao Fujing; 20 September 1950) is a Taiwanese actress and martial artist who appeared in many martial arts films in the 1970s. One of the most famous martial artist actresses of her time, she is nicknamed "Lady Whirlwind" and "Lady Kung Fu". She was positioned as a female version of Bruce Lee. Mao was born as Mao Fujing in 1950. She is the daughter of Mao Yung Kang, Peking Opera star, who escaped China to Taiwan in 1949. Her family was
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Andrea Palma (actress)


Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán, better known as Andrea Palma (16 April 1903 – 6 October 1987) was a Mexican film stage and television actress. She was considered the first major female star of the Mexican cinema after her role in the Mexican film "La Mujer del Puerto" (1934). Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán was one of eleven children of Julio Bracho Zuloaga, born in Durango, a wealthy land and textile factory owner who lost all his possessions during the Mexican Revolution. One of her brothers was the
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Mati Diop


Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) is a French actress and film director who starred in the 2008 film "35 Shots of Rum". She also directed the 2019 film "Atlantics", for which she became the first black female director to be in contention for the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or. At Cannes, "Atlantics" won the Grand Prix. Diop was born in Paris, France, and is a member of the prominent Senegalese Diop family. Her father is musician Wasis Diop
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Hòa Minzy


Nguyễn Thị Hòa (born May 31, 1995 in Bắc Ninh), known professionally as Hòa Minzy, is a Vietnamese singer and actress. She is the champion of the reality television competition "Star Academy Vietnam" in its first season. Hòa Minzy is known to the audience as a young Vietnamese female singer who possesses a strong and inspirational voice. Not only showing talent in the field of music, Hòa Minzy is also a TV star admired by audiences, because of her energetic performances, her clever and flexible improvisation ability
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Asuka Tono


Asuka Tono is an actress who was a top star (musumyaku) for Star Troupe of Takarazuka Revue. She joined the revue company in 1998 and became the top star along with Kei Aran. She is from Chiba Prefecture, her birthday is November 28, 1978 and her nicknames are Asuka and Fukui. She was the second pupil of her class to reach top star status, also the first musumeyaku (Takarazuka actresses who play female roles) from Cosmos Troup to reach top status. As one of the second group of new
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Jennifer Ulrich


Jennifer Ulrich (born 18 October 1984) is a German actress who has starred in such films as "The Wave" and "We Are The Night". She was born in Lichtenberg, Berlin. Jennifer Ulrich started her actress career with "Big Girls Don't Cry", released in 2002, in which she played the role of Yvonne. After participating in films such as "The Elementary Particles" in 2006, and "Seven Days Sunday" in 2007. She played the female lead role in 2008's film
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Mithra Kurian


Mithra Kurian (born Dalma Kurian), is an Indian film actress who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films. After appearing in supporting roles in two Malayalam films, she starred in two Tamil films, before playing lead female roles and gaining attention in Malayalam cinema. Her portrayal of Sethulakshmi in "Bodyguard" (2010) won her critical acclaim and she went on to reprise the role in its Tamil remake "Kaavalan". Her another notable role was in "Rama Ravanan" starring Suresh Gopi. She first appeared in a
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Melleny Melody


Melleny Melody (born Melleny Brown, May 12, 1969) also known as Melleefresh, is a Canadian actress, voice actress, singer, music producer, video producer and artist. Melleny Brown was born in Toronto, Ontario. Originally known for her vocal work in cartoons, she played Cheer Bear and Baby Tugs in DIC Entertainment and Nelvana's animated "Care Bears" franchise. During the 1980s, she starred as female villains in "Inspector Gadget", and "". She also appeared in Nelvana's first feature
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Dagmar (American actress)


Dagmar (born Virginia Ruth Egnor, November 29, 1921 – October 9, 2001) was an American actress, model, and television personality. In the 1950s, she became one of the first major female stars of television, receiving much press coverage. Egnor was born in Yawkey, West Virginia, and went to high school in Huntington, West Virginia, where she was known as Ruthie. She attended Huntington Business School and worked at Walgreens as a cashier, waitress, sandwich maker, and soda jerk. After her
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Karen Sheperd


Karen Sheperd (born November 12, 1954) is an American martial artist, stunt double and actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. Sheperd was the first woman to hold the title of #1 Women's Black Belt Forms Champion and was instrumental in pioneering recognition for female martial arts forms competitors. During her reign as the #1 Women's Black Belt forms champion, Sheperd received an offer from Tadashi Yamashita to star in The "Shinobi Ninja". This was her first film. After filming "Shinobi
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Türkan Şoray


Türkan Şoray (born 28 June 1945) is a Turkish actress, writer and film director. She is known as "Sultan" of the Cinema of Turkey. She started her career in 1960, and won her first award as the most successful actress at the 1st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for the movie "Acı Hayat". Having appeared in more than 222 films, Şoray has starred in the most feature films for a female actress worldwide. On 12 March 2010, Şoray was chosen as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in
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List of awards and nominations received by Lady Gaga


, Gaga starred in the remake of "A Star Is Born". Her performance garnered critical acclaim and won her the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. She also contributed to
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Drag (clothing)


for the stage may or may not identify as being either gay or female in their real-life personal identities. A faux queen, bio queen, or female-bodied queen, on the other hand, is usually a biological woman identifying as female while performing in the same context as traditional (men-as-women) drag and displaying such features as exaggerated hair and makeup (as an example, the performance of the actress and singer Lady Gaga during her first appearance in the 2018 film A Star is Born)
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Pat Crowley


Patricia Crowley (born September 17, 1933) is an American actress. Crowley was born in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Helen ("née" Swartz) and coal mining foreman Vincent Crowley. Her sister Ann was also an actress. Crowley played Sally Carver in the film "Forever Female" (1953), starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden. She starred as Doctor Autumn Claypool alongside Martin and Lewis in "Money from Home" (1953), and in their final film together "Hollywood or Bust"
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Jane De Leon


Jane Florence Benitez De Leon (born November 22, 1998) is a Filipino actress, singer, model, and dancer. She is one of the members of "Girltrends", a female dance group of ABS-CBN's noontime variety show "It's Showtime". On July 17, 2019, De Leon was announced as the new actress who will star in the upcoming superhero film "Darna" as the comic book superheroine. Before De Leon, both Angel Locsin and Liza Soberano were cast in the title role
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Meena Kumari


Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano, 1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972) was an Indian film actress, singer and poet under the pseudonym "Naaz", who starred in classic films of Hindi Cinema. Popularly known as "The Tragedy Queen", "Chinese Doll" and "Female Guru Dutt", she is often remembered as "Cinderella of Indian films". She was active between 1939-1972. Indian film critics regarded Meena Kumari as a "historically incomparable" actress of Hindi cinema. In a career
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Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar (TV series)


in his first dual role as the lead male roles of Mayan and Aravind. His previous serials are "Madhurai", "Saravanan Meenatchi" and "Mappillai". Actress Raksha Holla, who plays the lead female role of Devi, formerly featured in the series "Tamil Kadavul Murugan". .Rashmi Jayraj who plays the female role of Thamarai, formerly featured in the series "Vidhi". The Series was released on 26 March 2018 on STAR Vijay and STAR Vijay HD. The series was also broadcast internationally on Channel's
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Trap Street (film)


mood darkens, and Li himself then disappears from the bar. "Trap Street" was filmed in the city of Nanjing in central East-coast China, and marks the directorial debut of female Chinese film-maker Vivian Qu (文晏), a former film producer, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars the Sichuan-born Chinese film scriptwriter and actor, Lu Yulai, and Chinese film director and actress, He Wenchao. The film has not yet been released in mainland China, as it must first be
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ARY Film Award for Best Star Debut Female


ARY Film Award for Best Star Debut Female is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to recognize the female actor who has delivered an outstanding debut performance while working in the film industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the AFA for Best Star Debut Female. While actors are nominated for this award by AFA members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the AFA membership as a whole. The Best Star Debut
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Charlotte Lucas


Charlotte Lucas (born 29 May 1978) is an English actress and painter. Born into an acting family, Lucas is the granddaughter of Linden Travers, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" and Guy Leon. Charlotte is the great niece of Bill Travers who appeared in "Born Free". Charlotte's mother is Susan Travers who starred in "Peeping Tom". Lucas is the second cousin of actresses Penelope Wilton, Bill Travers' son Will, Richard Morant and Anna Massey. Her first cousin is
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Rehana (actress)


Mushtar Jehan was an Indian and Pakistani film actress. She was born in Bombay, British India. After doing dancing roles and small roles in films like the K. L. Saigal-Suraiya-starrer "Tadbir", she got her major break in "Hum Ek Hain (1946 film)", which was incidentally Dev Anand's first film. "Sajan" had Mushtar in the female lead, and following the success of this film, as well as "Shehnai" (1947), she became an "overnight star
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Kim Hyun-soo (actress)


nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the "49th Grand Bell Awards". Kim then starred as the younger version of female protagonist in a few hit dramas, notably "Deep Rooted Tree", "Bridal Mask", and "My Love from the Star". She played her first regular role in TV drama with "Gunman in Joseon". In 2016, she acted alongside Kim Hye-soo in the well-received dramedy film "Familyhood", as a high school girl who got caught up in teenage pregnancy
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Jade Lopez


Jade Hanzel Dimapilis Lopez (born October 22, 1987) is a Filipino actress. A former Seventeen Best Female Model, She entered Philippine showbiz through the first wave of "StarStruck", the reality-based star search of GMA 7. She is one of finalists, dubbed as the Final 14. Lopez, together with those who were eliminated at the course of the show are now known as Starstruck Batch 1 Avengers. Jade has also appeared in print ads for several clothing lines and women's magazines. Jade excels in
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D Company (film)


The film is inspired by the controversial book "Freedom at Midnight" by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. According to the director, the film evolved from the final pages of the book, which describes what Godse went through before assassinating Gandhi. "Godse" will start filming as soon as Kailas finishes his project "Madirasi". Veteran director Joshiy, who directed the film starring Mohanlal, first approached Kerala-borne Tamil actress Trisha to play the female lead. However, she opted out citing her busy schedules. However,
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Akiko Solon


Akiko Solon (born January 3, 1994, as Akiko Maria Leslie Solon) is a Filipino singer and actress. She joined "Star Power: Sharon Search For the Next Female Superstar" in 2010 and placed fifth in the contest. She is now currently under Star Magic. A resident of Lapu-Lapu City, Akiko started singing in school events when she was a fourth grader. Her first TV exposure was as a contestant for another ABS-CBN singing tilt for kids "Little Big Star, Cebu", hosted
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Louise Lester


Louise Lester (August 8, 1867 – November 18, 1952) was an American silent film actress. She was the first female star of Western films. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lester came to California in 1910 with one of the first companies assembled to make motion pictures. She made her debut in movies as a member of the "Flying A Company" in Santa Barbara, California after a noteworthy career on stage. She starred in over 150 films before her retirement in 1935. Louise Lester is most famous for
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Kathleen Kinmont


Kathleen Kinmont (born February 3, 1965) is an American actress who starred in film and on television. Kinmont is best known for starring in horror movies. Kathleen Kinmont Smith was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress Abby Dalton and Jack Smith. Her first feature film role was in the comedy "Hardbodies" (1984). Her best-known roles include the horror movie "" (1988) as Kelly Meeker and in "Bride of Re-Animator" as the title character. She
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TVB Fadans


Star Award for Favourite Lead Actress. In 2017, Lee starred in Provocateur, where she was the female lead for the first time, and Legal Mavericks. For her work in Provocateur, Lee received the StarHub TVB Awards for Favorite Actress. For her work in Legal Mavericks, Lee received a nomination for Favorite TVB Female Character at the StarHub TVB Awards. Tracy Chu debuted in the industry through the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 2012, finishing as the 2nd runner-up. Her first role was in the high-profile
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Lakshmi Menon (actress)


Lakshmi Menon (born 19 May 1996) is an Indian film actress and singer, who mainly appears in Tamil films along with Malayalam films After making her acting debut in a supporting role in the Malayalam film "Raghuvinte Swantham Raziya" (2011), she played the female lead in her debut Tamil film "Sundarapandian" in 2012. "Sundarapandian", as well as her next three Tamil releases, were commercial successes and she was labelled as "the fastest rising star in Tamil cinema" by Sify.She received Tamil
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Dorothy Johnson (actress)


Bernardine". She was the female lead in Columbia Pictures' teen romance film "Life Begins at 17" with co stars Edd Byrnes and Mark Damon. She was a working actress who performed in Hollywood productions in the studio of Warner Bros., Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. Johnson traveled with Conrad Hilton to participate in the week-long grand opening ceremonies of the newly built Havana Hilton Hotel in Cuba in March 1958. She was born in Superior, Wisconsin. Five years later in 1941 Johnson's parents
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Ratna Asmara


Ratna Asmara ( 1914 – before 1981) was an Indonesian actress and film director. Originally active in theatre, in 1940 she starred in the romance film "Kartinah", which her first husband Andjar directed. After appearing in several further films, she made her directorial debut in 1950 with "Sedap Malam" ("Sweetness of the Night"), which made her the first female film director in Indonesian history. Although her work was generally ignored, later female Indonesian directors have found critical acclaim. Ratna was born in
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Annie Chen


. In 2008, she gets her first recognition as an actress after starring in Judy Chou's music video, who came a runner-up in the "One Million Star" singing competition. Subsequently, she starred on her first acting career in CTS' "Prince + Princess 2" as the female lead, Zhao Kerou. In 2009, she starred in Will Pan's song entitled "Silence Room for Rent" (寂屋出租) included in his "007" album. She was also cast in CTV's "Momo
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Ileana D'Cruz


Ileana D'Cruz (born 1 November 1987) is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Telugu and Hindi films. She has also starred in a couple Tamil films. D'Cruz won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South for the 2006 Telugu film "Devadasu. "She established herself in Telugu cinema with such commercially successful films as "Pokiri" (2006), "Jalsa" (2008), "Kick" (2009) and "Julayi" (2012). In Tamil cinema, D'Cruz has starred in
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Akari Endo


Akari Endo Sepúlveda (born November 8, 1989) is a Dominican-Japanese actress. Her first major role was as a supporting actress in the film "Who's the Boss?" (2013), Spanish: "¿Quién Manda?" as Melissa, for which she received a nomination in La Silla Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In December 2013, she starred in the film "Cristo Rey" screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Akari Endo and Casper Van Dien starred in the
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Anna Moór


Anna Moór (1773-1841) was a Hungarian stage actress. She belonged to the first professional actresses in Hungary, the star actress of the first Hungarian language theater company. Anna Moór performed in the inauguration performance of the first Hungarian language theater company on 25 October 1790. The first Hungarian theater company in Hungary was formed by Kelemen László and composed of the first pioneer generation of Hungarian stage actors, such as Sehy Ferenc Lángné Elizabeth Clement Kontz József Láng Ádám János, and Anna Moór is referred to as the female star
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Kriti Sanon


Kriti Sanon (born 27 July 1990) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi films. She pursued an engineering degree from the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, after which she briefly worked as a model. After making her debut in Telugu cinema with the psychological thriller "" (2014), Sanon won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in Sabbir Khan's action comedy "Heropanti" (2014), which marked her first Bollywood release. Sanon has since starred in three commercially successful films,
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David Lean


to "Ryan's Daughter", the film opened to universally enthusiastic reviews; the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and Lean himself nominated for three Academy Awards in directing, editing, and writing. His female star, in the complex role of a confused young British woman who falsely accuses an Indian man of rape, gained Australian actress Judy Davis her first Academy nomination. Peggy Ashcroft, as the sensitive Mrs. Moore, won the Oscar for best supporting actress, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win
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Han Hye-jin (actress)


Han Hye-jin (; born October 27, 1981) is a South Korean actress. Han made her breakthrough in 2005 when she starred as a young widow in her 20s working as an outgoing hairdresser in the hit daily drama "Be Strong, Geum-soon!". Among her notable leading roles include Soseono in historical epic "Jumong", Korea's first female doctor of Western medicine in "Jejungwon", and a sharpshooter in the manhwa film adaptation "26 Years". She also hosted the popular talk show
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Fann Wong


popularity in Asia through film and television productions, she became the first Singaporean actress to break into Hollywood, playing Chon Lin in the 2003 film "Shanghai Knights". She was also the youngest actress to have earned an All-Time Favourite Artiste at the Star Awards after winning the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award from 1995-2004 respectively with Xie Shaoguang. Born in Singapore to Hakka tailor parents, Fann shared her childhood with three siblings—an older sister, as well as a younger brother and a younger sister
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Myolie Wu


Myolie Wu Hang-yee (born 6 November 1979), is a Hong Kong actress and singer. Born in Hong Kong with Guangdong Taishan ancestry, she is signed under for the Hong Kong TVB television station and a singer under contracts with Neway Star. In 2011, She has won "Best Actress" for her role in Curse of the Royal Harem, a TVB grand production, "Most Favourite TV Female Character" for her role in Ghetto Justice and also won "Extraordinary Elegant Actress" at the TVB Anniversary Awards
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Myrtle Sarrosa


Myrtle Sarrosa (born Myrtle Abigail Porlucas Sarrosa; December 7, 1994) is a Filipina actress, cosplayer, host, singer and songwriter who rose to prominence after being declared the "" Big Winner. Sarrosa is currently managed and under contract to Star Magic, ABS-CBN's home based talent agency where she was launched as one of the Star Magic Angels. Sarrosa is the Official VJ or Anime Jockey for "Hero TV", the main female presenter for ABS-CBN Sports and Action's NCAA Basketball Championship (
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Shin Eun-soo


Shin Eun-soo (born October 23, 2002) is a South Korean actress. She made her acting debut as the female lead in 2016 film "". She also starred in television series "Legend of the Blue Sea" (2016) and "Bad Papa" (2018). Shin Eun-soo joined JYP Entertainment (JYPE) in 2014 to train as both a singer and an actress. In 2015, she auditioned for the female lead role in movie "", written and directed by Um Tae
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Keerthy Suresh


Keerthy Suresh (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian film actress who appears in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. She is the daughter of producer Suresh Kumar and actress Menaka. Keerthy made her debut as a child actress in the early 2000s and returned to fill lead roles after completing an education in fashion design. She played her first lead role in the 2013 Malayalam film "Geethaanjali", which garnered her the 2014 South Indian International Movie Award for Best Female Debutant Malayalam. Keerthy was born to Malayalam film producer,
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Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum


for Best Female Director of the year. Prior to that, Liz directed "Aquamarine" starring Emma Roberts in her leading role debut, as well as singer Jojo and Sara Paxton in their first starring roles. The film was nominated for two Teen Choice Awards for "Choice Breakout Female" and "Choice Chick Flick", as well as a nomination for Paxton for Best Actress at the Young Artist Awards, a nomination for Jojo for Best Supporting Actress, and a win for Emma Roberts at the 2007 Young Artist Awards.
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Melinda O. Fee


Melinda O. Fee (born Melinda Evelyn Fee; October 7, 1942) is an American actress who has starred in films and on television. Her mother was actress Astrid Allwyn, her father was Charles O. Fee (the second husband of Astrid Allwyn). Her younger sister, Vicki Fee, is also an actress. Her first starring role was on the television series "Love of Life". Most of Fee's other television roles were on soap operas like "Guiding Light" as Charlotte Waring Fletcher Bauer from 1971–1973,
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Elizabeth Olsen


Elizabeth Chase Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came in 2011 when she starred in the independent thriller drama "Martha Marcy May Marlene", for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, among other awards. She subsequently starred in the films "Silent House" (2011), "Liberal Arts" (2012), "Oldboy" (2013), "Godzilla" (2014), "
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June Ritchie


June Ritchie (born 31 May 1941) is a British actress. Ritchie trained at RADA, where she graduated in 1961, having won the Emile Littler Award for Most Promising Actress and the Ronson Award for the outstanding female student. She came to prominence after starring in the role of Ingrid Rothwell opposite Alan Bates in the 1962 film adaptation of "A Kind of Loving. " In 1963, she starred with Margaret Rutherford in the comedy "The Mouse on the Moon" and appeared as a 'dance hostess' with Sylvia
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Frencheska Farr


Marie Frencheska Mae Tobias Farr-Jose (born September 9, 1992) is a Filipina singer, model and actress. She was the Are You the Next Big Star? grand champion along with Geoff Taylor. Farr was born in Pasay City, Philippines. She graduated from St. Paul College of Parañaque. She was named the "Next Female Big Star" along with Geoff Taylor as the "Next Male Big Star" on the television show "Are You the Next Big Star?". Along with winning the contest,
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Beverly Lunsford


Beverly Lunsford (January 5, 1945 - May 22, 2019) was an American actress best known as the annoying female character, Shirley Fletcher, on the situation comedy television series, "Leave it to Beaver", starring Jerry Mathers. Lunsford was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Lunsford's early career encompassed several stage performances as well as television and movies. She first appeared at the age of twelve in the 1957 Broadway production of "The Rope Dancers" starring Siobhán McKenna and Art Carney. Lunsford's big-screen
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Atossa Leoni


Atossa Leoni (born 1978) is an actress who has been working internationally in film, television and theater since childhood. Her mother is of Iranian descent, her father is of Afghan Hazara-German descent Atossa was born in Berlin, Germany, has lived in Rome, Italy, and schooled in the United States. She is fluent in five languages and currently resides in Los Angeles. Atossa made her American screen debut starring as Soraya, the female lead in the film adaptation of "The Kite Runner". The film
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Kausalya (actress)


Kausalya (born Kavitha on 30 December 1979), also known as Nandini, is an Indian film actress and model, who has starred mainly in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. Kausalya was pursuing a modelling career, before she debuted in the 1996 Malayalam film "April 19" by Balachandra Menon. The following year, she appeared in her first Tamil film "Kaalamellam Kadhal Vaazhga" and went on to star in several successful films in Tamil and Malayalam. She had starred in over 30 films in Tamil and
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Sultana (actress)


Sultana, also known as Sultana Razaaq, was one of the earliest film actresses from India and acted both in silent movies and later in talkie movies. She was daughter of India’s first female film director, Fatima Begum. Zubeida (leading actress of India's first talkie film Alam Ara (1931)) was younger sister of Sultana. She was among the few girls who entered films at a time when it was not considered an appropriate profession for girls from respectable families, let alone Royalty. Born in the Surat city
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Dolores del Río


Dolores del Río (; born María de los Dolores Asúnsolo López-Negrete; 3 August 1905 – 11 April 1983) was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theater. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood, with an outstanding career in American films in the 1920s and 1930s. She was also considered one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. del Río is also remembered
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy


The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on a musical or comedy television series for the calendar year. It was first awarded at the 19th Golden Globe Awards on March 5, 1962 under the title Best TV Star - Female to Pauline Fredericks. The nominees for the award announced annually starting in 1963. The award initially honored
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Trevor Eve


D.Litt) from Newman University in Birmingham. In 1979, Eve met actress Sharon Maughan when they both had parts in the West End production of "Filumena". They married in 1980 and have three children, Alice Sophia (born 1982) who is also an actress who starred in "Star Trek Into Darkness", film-maker Jack (born 1985) and George (born 1994) who is front-man for the band Two Bottle Jump. While raising their children, the couple divided their time between Britain and
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Melissa O'Neil


Melissa Crystal O'Neil (born July 12, 1988) is a Canadian singer and stage and screen actress who was the winner of the third season of "Canadian Idol" in 2005. She was the first Canadian female winner. She is also an actress, known for her roles as Two/Portia Lin on "Dark Matter" and as Officer Lucy Chen on "The Rookie". O'Neil was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is half-Chinese and speaks Cantonese. She attended Terry Fox Junior
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Sherry Lansing


Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944) is an American former actress and film studio executive. She is a former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when she was the president of production at 20th Century Fox, she was the first woman to head a Hollywood movie studio. In 1996, she became the first woman to be named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of the Motion Picture Pioneers, and she was the first female movie studio head to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2005,
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Wang Quan'an


, including his first four films, who all starred actress Yu Nan. Wang's 2009 film, "Weaving Girl" took him to familiar territory, exploring working class female experiences in modern-day China. Wang's most recent film, "Apart Together"—his first without Yu Nan in the starring role—follows an old Kuomintang soldier who returns to China from Taiwan after fifty years to find his first love. "Apart Together" opened the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. In 2011, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuqi had a
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Sun Li (actress)


in the role, Sun was awarded the Outstanding Actress award at the Flying Apsaras Awards. In 2018, Sun starred in Zhang Yimou's historical film, "Shadow" as the female lead. In 2019, Sun was cast in the drama "Your Home Is My Business" as a star property agent. Sun and actor Deng Chao registered their marriage in 2010 and held an official wedding ceremony in 2011 when she was five months pregnant. They have two children, a son named Deng Han Zhi (born in November 2011
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Sally Smith (actress)


Sally Smith (born 19 April 1942) is a British actress born in Godalming, Surrey, England. Although primarily a star of both dramatic and musical theatre she appeared in several films and dozens of television shows. She made her film debut as a child in "The Magic Box" (1951) with Robert Donat, and another early movie was "The Story of Esther Costello" (1957) with Joan Crawford. In the 1960s she was the female lead in the films "Trouble with Eve" (1960)
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Paul Weitz (filmmaker)


of actress Susan Kohner and Berlin-born novelist/menswear designer John Weitz. His brother is filmmaker Chris Weitz. Weitz is the grandson of Czech-born agent and producer Paul Kohner who managed the careers of Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and Ingmar Bergman, and actress Lupita Tovar on his maternal side. Tovar, who was from Oaxaca, Mexico, starred in "Santa", Mexico's first talkie, in 1932, as well as a Mexican version of "Drácula". Weitz' paternal grandparents escaped Nazi Germany
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TVB Fadans


accolades with nominations at the StarHub TVB Awards for Favorite Actress and Favorite Female TV Characters, winning the latter. At the TVB Star Awards, Wong received nominations for Favorite Actress in a Leading Role and Favourite Top 15 TVB Drama Characters. In 2017, Wong once again played the lead actress role in and . For , Wong received nominations for the StarHub TVB Awards in the categories of Favorite Actress and Favorite Female TV Characters. Grace Chan first gained recognition after receiving the titles of Miss Hong Kong 2013 and Miss Chinese International 2014
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Valerie Niehaus


Valerie Niehaus (born 11 October 1974 in Emsdetten) is a German Actress. Valerie Niehaus grew up in Emsdetten where she went to the local primary school. After that she moved to Fulda and later to Berlin. At the age of thirteen Niehaus made her first TV appearance in the television series "Rote Erde". She came to public prominence starring as Julia von Anstetten in "Verbotene Liebe". In 1995 and 1996 Niehaus won the bronze "Bravo Otto" as female TV star. When she left Verbotene Liebe in
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge


Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress and writer. She is known for creating, writing, and starring in the BBC comedy-drama series "Fleabag" (2016–2019), and for developing and writing the BBC America thriller series "Killing Eve" (2018–present), on which she also served as the showrunner for the first season. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for the former. Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in West London,
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Helen Twelvetrees


Helen Marie Twelvetrees (née Jurgens, December 25, 1908 – February 13, 1958) was an American film and theatre actress, who became a top female star through a series of "women's pictures" in the early 1930s. She was born in Brooklyn, where she attended Public School 119. Her family moved to Flatbush, where her younger brother was born. One night during the winter of 1919, the four-bedroom apartment in which the family resided caught fire. Twelvetrees's brother perished in the burning structure
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Dominican Americans


a unique identity. Designer Oscar de la Renta, born in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, is one of the most recognized names in the fashion industry. Maria Montez was dubbed "The Queen of Technicolor" for the numerous Hollywood adventure films that she starred in the 1940s. Zoe Saldana, the female leading star of the movie "Avatar", is an actress born in New Jersey to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. Michelle Rodriguez, born of a Dominican mother and
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Pauline Henriques


Pauline Clothilde Henriques (1 April 1914 – 1 November 1998), known to all as Paul, was a Jamaican-born English actress. In 1946, she became the first black female actress for British television. She was also the first black female Justice of the Peace, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She worked extensively with unmarried mothers and worked as a counsellor with, and later Secretary to, the Brook Counselling and Advisory Clinic. Pauline Henriques was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to
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Number One (Star Trek)


for Barrett. There was reluctance from the NBC executives to agree to an actress who was almost unknown. Roddenberry did see other actresses for the part, but no one else was considered. According to Gene Roddenberry and Stephen Whitfield, the prominence of a woman among the crew of a starship was one of the reasons the original "Star Trek" pilot was rejected by NBC, who, in addition to calling the pilot "too cerebral," felt the alien Spock and a female senior officer would be rejected by audiences,
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Eileen Dennes


Eileen Dennes (1 February 1898 – 22 January 1991) was an Irish-born actress of the silent era. Eileen Dennes, born Eileen Amhurst Cowen was an Irish silent film actress who was born in 1898 in Dublin, Ireland. She began on the stage in the early 1910s. She travelled to America in 1917. She found work at the Empire Al Star Film Co. and was offered the role of Ethel Fielding in her first film ‘The Unforseen’. She made more than one film in Hollywood that year with
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Takarazuka Revue


noble princes played by female actresses, Tezuka created "Princess Knight" the first manga aimed at a female audience, which tells the story of Princess Sapphire, a girl born with both a male and female heart who struggles between the desire to fight as a noble prince and to be a tender, gentle princess. The great success of "Princess Knight" and other Tezuka stories began the tradition of manga written for a female audience, especially the very influential "Rose of Versailles" and "Revolutionary Girl Utena" series,
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Julie London


Julie London (born Nancy Gayle Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress, whose career spanned more than 40 years. Born in Santa Rosa, California to vaudevillian parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in downtown Los Angeles, and began her career as an actress. London's 35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the female lead in numerous Westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in "The Fat Man" (
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Charlotte Spencer (actress)


Charlotte Spencer (born 26 September 1991 in Harlow, England) is a British actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her playing the female lead in "The Living and the Dead". Screen International named her a Star of Tomorrow 2015. She was born in Harlow, Essex, to Peter and Karen. She has a younger sister and brother. Spencer said of her background "I come from a working class background; my dad’s a builder and my mum works in a school". She started
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Cristela Alonzo


Cristela Alonzo (born January 6, 1979) is an American comedian, actress, writer and producer, who created and starred in the ABC sitcom "Cristela." She is the first Latina woman to create, produce, write, and star in her own US primetime comedy. Alonzo was born in San Juan, Texas, the youngest of four children of mother Natalia Gonzalez, who worked double shifts at a Mexican restaurant for about 20 years, and father Adalberto Alonzo, who is Mexican. When Alonzo's mother was
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Star Awards for Favourite Female Character


The Star Awards for Favourite Female Character was an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 2010, at the 16th Star Awards ceremony; Jeanette Aw received the award for her role in "Together" and it is given in honour of an actress (not necessary to be contracted under Mediacorp) who portrayed a drama series or variety character that is deemed as the most popular among the television audience. Prior to 2012, the nominees were determined by a team
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Luo Yan (screenwriter)


Luo Yan (; born 1957 (age 60 ) is a Chinese American actress and screenwriter. She was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang. After having a successful acting career in China, she came to the U.S. in the mid-1980s. She started her own business during the early 1990s and later became the first female Chinese filmmaker to produce, write, and star in a Hollywood film. Both her parents were biology professors. She was raised by her grandparents in Shanghai. When she was 10 years old, her grandfather was arrested and
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Nieves Navarro


Nieves Navarro García (born November 11, 1938 in Almería, Spain) is a retired Spanish-born Italian actress and fashion model. Navarro worked extensively in Italian cinema appearing alongside actors such as Totò and Lino Banfi in the 1960s and 1970s. She later adopted the Americanized stage name Susan Scott for many of her productions after 1969. Navarro was also one of the first female stars of the Spaghetti Western genre making her feature film debut in "A Pistol for Ringo" and its sequel "The Return of Ringo" along
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Dixie Peabody


Dixie Peabody (December 11, 1947 – February 28, 2005) was an American actress who appeared in early ’70s exploitation films from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Before she became an actress, she was a model who went by the name Diane Potter. Born in San Diego, the six-foot-tall actress is best known for her starring role in the Barbara Peeters–directed low-budget drive-in film "Bury Me an Angel", her first real role aside from an uncredited appearance as
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Sanchita Shetty


Sanchita Shetty is an Indian film actress, who has appeared in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. After appearing in supporting roles, she got her first breakthrough after starring in female lead role in "Soodhu Kavvum" (2013). She made her first film appearance in the Kannada an all-time Blockbuster hit film "Mungaru Male" as a friend to the film's female lead (Pooja Gandhi). In the next three years, she appeared in supporting roles in three Kannada films. She also appeared in a
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Mária Kráľovičová


Mária Kráľovičová (born 7 June 1927) is a Slovak actress, who has played over 400 roles across the mediums of film, stage and television. She was the first Slovak television actress, having starred in the 1957 television film "Do videnia, Lucienne!" alongside Elo Romančík. She studied acting at the between 1947 and 1950, joining the Slovak National Theatre in 1948. In 1957 Kráľovičová became the first Slovak television actress due to her role alongside Elo Romančík in the television film "Do videnia, Lucienne!"
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Catherine Parks


Catherine LaBelle Parks (born December 10, 1956) is an American actress who has starred in movies and on television. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the 1982 horror movie "Friday the 13th Part III", as Vera Sanchez, and the 1989 comedy "Weekend at Bernie's". Parks was born in Tampa, Florida. She was a runner-up in the Miss America 1978 pageant. She has starred on television shows, her first being "Behind the Screen", and she later starred
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Jun Sena


, is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue's Moon Troupe, a Japanese theatre organization in which women portray all parts. She was born April 1, 1974 and grew up in Suginami, Tokyo. During her time in the Revue, she was an "otokoyaku", an actress who specializes in male roles. After two years of intensive training at the Takarazuka Music School, she joined the revue in 1992 and reached top star status in 2005. Her nicknames are Asa and Asako. The first
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Gaye Advert


Gaye Advert (born 29 August 1956), also Gaye Black, is an English punk rock musician, who played bass guitar in the band the Adverts in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock stars of the punk rock movement, whom "The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music" called the "first female punk star". She was "one of punk’s first female icons". Dave Thompson wrote that her "photogenic" looks, "panda-eye make-up and omnipresent leather jacket
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Lisa Michaelis


Lisa Michaelis was a female actress/singer/musician/children's performer who was born in New York City and lived in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was the founder of Laughing Pizza Productions, a children's record and video label. She was also a contestant on "Star Search", was a performer on Broadway and is an accomplished songwriter, writing for both Dance acts and child performers. One of the tracks she co-wrote and performed was "Rainfalls" with Frankie Knuckles. The track was a number
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Rimi Sen


Rimi Sen (born 21 September 1981) is an Indian former actress and film producer who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu and Bengali films. Sen first debut as child actress in the Bengali film Damu. Sen made her debut Lead Actress in the Telugu movie "Nee Thodu Kavali". In 2003, she made her Hindi acting debut in the hit comedy "Hungama" for which she was nominated at Filmfare Awards for Best Female Debut. Subsequently, she appeared in several successful films including "Baghban" (2003),
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Ali Ewoldt


Ali Ewoldt (born October 6, 1982) is an American actress and soprano, who made her Broadway debut in the "Les Misérables" revival in 2006 in the role of Cosette. She has also performed on national and international tours and in U.S. regional theatre. She became well known as the first Asian-American actress to star as Christine Daaé in "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway. Ewoldt was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a Caucasian father and raised in Pleasantville, New York. After
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Ashlynn Yennie


Ashlynn Yennie (born May 15, 1985) is an American actress from Riverton, Wyoming. She is known for playing the role of Jenny in the 2009 Dutch horror film "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)", and for starring as herself (the actress who played Jenny) in the sequel to the first film, "The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)" (2011). In 2016, she played Ashley in the Showtime TV mini-series "Submission". Yennie's first major role in
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Ivan Heng


Ivan Heng (; born 20 September 1963) is a Singaporean actor and theatre director of Peranakan descent. He is the founding artistic director of W!LD RICE, a theatre company in Singapore, and an outspoken advocate for respect for diversity and freedom of expression. Heng is the first male Singaporean actor to break into English-speaking roles in Hollywood films with his role in Luc Besson's "The Fifth Element", the first female actress from Singapore being Lydia Look, who played a Fuzhou actress in a Jackie Chan Hollywood film.
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Angeline Quinto


Angeline Quinto (born November 26, 1989) is a Filipino singer, actress, and winner of "Star Power: Sharon's Search For The Next Female Pop Superstar" in 2011. She is managed by ABS-CBN Talent arm, Star Magic. Angeline is one of the members of the Filipino girl group DIVAS along with KZ Tandingan, Yeng Constantino and Kyla. Angeline "Angge" Quinto was born on November 26, 1989, as the only daughter of Pop Quiros and Rosemarie Susan Mabao. Mabao initially wanted an
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Kari Berg


Kari Berg is a Swedish singer-songwriter, actress, model, DJ and author. She was born in Östersund, Jämtland in Sweden. She was the female singer of Ashbury Heights and is now part of the EBM-band Chaos All Stars and doing a solo career. She has starred in a film and has modelled for designers in several genres. Kari was born August 18, 1986 in Östersund, Jämtland in Sweden and lived on a farm in the small village of Borgvattnet, Jämtland (famous for its haunted vicarage
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Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress


The Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actress was an award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at their annual Golden Globe Awards. The award was first introduced at the 6th Golden Globe Awards in 1948 where it was given to actress Lois Maxwell for her performance in the 1947 film "That Hagen Girl". It was awarded as the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female until 1975. There were no awards in 1949, and between 1954 and 1965 there were multiple winners. From 1976 to 1979
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Rayveness


Rayveness (born 19 June 1972) is an American pornographic actress. She is a inductee of both AVN Hall of Fame and XRCO Hall of Fame. Rayveness started in the porn industry at age 18 and initially performed only with her then-husband (who went by the pseudonym of Red Bone) and other female stars. Her stage name is of Indian origin and means "of the spirit". In 1997, she divorced Red Boan and started working with other male performers. By 2000, she had remarried, this
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Tulisa


Sight of You" were also hits reaching the top twenty in the UK. In November 2012 released her debut album "The Female Boss", which peaked at number 35 on the UK Albums Chart. As an actress, Tulisa has starred in the British horror film "Demons Never Die" and the comedy film "Big Fat Gypsy Gangster" in 2011. Tulisa was born on 13 July 1988 in Camden Town, London, to Anne Byrne (who, with her three sisters, was a member of the 1980s band
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Robert Kent (actor)


Robert Kent (born Douglas Blackley, Jr.; December 3, 1908 – May 4, 1955), was an American film actor. His career included starring roles in several film serials of the 1940s, including "The Phantom Creeps", "Who's Guilty?", and "The Phantom Rider". He also had a role in the 1938 film "The Gladiator" and was Virginia Vale's leading man in "Blonde Comet", a 1941 movie about a female racing driver. He married actress Astrid Allwyn
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Yvonne Hudson


Yvonne Hudson (born July 9, 1954) is an American television actress who is best known for being the first African-American female cast member on "Saturday Night Live". She joined the cast as a featured player in the show's 1980–1981 season. (The first black female repertory player was Danitra Vance.) She is also the third African-American to become an "SNL" cast member following Garrett Morris and Eddie Murphy. Hudson first appeared on the show in 1978 as an uncredited extra in many episodes
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