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- Joanna Pacula was born on 30 December 1957 in Tomaszów Lubelski, Lubelskie, Poland. She is an actress, known for Tombstone (1993), Gorky Park (1983) and The Kiss (1988).
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Tuulikki Paananen had a short but an impressive career as an actress. Her father was a Finnish concert violinist and her mother an accompanist from Michigan USA, an area with fairly heavy Finnish population. Tuulikki was born in Finland but the family returned to the USA in 1919. She lived in there until 1935 but then returned to Finland to star in a few most well known films of that era (like "Jääkärin morsian" and "Varastettu kuolema"). When WWII had reached Finland in 1940 she moved back to the United States to stay. Under the name of "Tula Parma" she worked in a few Hollywood productions but her only bigger role on the silver screen was in Jacques Tourneur's "The Leopard Man" (1943). She then returned to dancing, her other passion in her youth, and opened a dance studio and also performed as a dancer herself. Later she lived in Honolulu where she also died in 1974.- Actress
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Rinna Paatso was born on 5 August 1969 in Turku, Finland. She is an actress and writer, known for V2 - jäätynyt enkeli (2007), Lapland Odyssey (2010) and Rillumarei ja reipastamenoa (1995). She is married to Marko Waara. They have one child.- Liisa Paatso was born on 2 November 1945 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for Vaaksa vaaraa (1965), Päivän kakkaroita (1983) and Barr-niminen mies (1984). She was married to Olli Ahvenlahti and Ilari Paatso. She died on 23 April 2018.
- Sapna Pabbi is British Indian actress, known for her role as India's Kim Bauer in the India adaption of the 24 series (2013) as Kiran Rathod and for her role in PrimeVideo's Inside Edge (2019-present) as Mantra Patil, being India's first ever Emmy nomination in history. Also known for her performance as Ria Ganguly in PrimeVideo India's second original series; Breathe (2017). Sapna is also well known for her role of Sanjana in Disney India's cult female YouTube series The Trip (2016) Drive (2019) portrays her as the Indian equivalent of Letty (Michelle Rodrigues) from the Fast and Furious film franchise.
Sapna Pabbi was born and brought up in London, United Kingdom, of Indian origin moved to Mumbai after she studied Public Policy and Management and Sociology at Aston Business School. Her first job was a Sunsilk campaign, after which, she managed to bag one of the main roles in the Indian adaptation of the popular American television series, 24. Playing Kiran Rathod, in 24, was her first acting gig. Sapna also made her B-Town debut in 2015 with a lead role in the romantic horror film, Khamoshiyaan, starring Ali Fazal and Gurmeet Choudhary. She went on to bag the biggest blockbuster in the Punjabi film industry such as Ardaas Karan . Her first Netflix feature by Dharma productions saw her as Naina in Drive (2019)
Former brand ambassador for Galaxy Chocolate, Nirma soap, Pepsi, Honda, Sunsilk, 7up and many more.
Currently playing Mantra Patil in Inside Edge (2019) on PrimeVideo and Ria Ganguly in Breathe (2017), PrimeVideo. - "Daily Variety", many publications and critics called Judy Pace one of the most beautiful women to ever appear on screen. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty, but restricting her to just being a "black" beauty is a slap in the face because she's a beauty, period. Most importantly, however, she was a fine actress. She became a familiar face in the 1970s on the big and little screens, appearing in the most popular blaxploitation movies and popular television shows like Batman (1966), Bewitched (1964), The Flying Nun (1967), I Spy (1965), The Young Lawyers (1969), Mod Squad (1968), Brian's Song (1971), That's My Mama (1974), Sanford and Son (1972) and What's Happening!! (1976), among others. Her presence was always welcoming, warm, sexy but innocent. She was truly graceful and a vision of loveliness. But don't make the mistake of knowing her for just beauty. She was truly a grand actress. Her dark-brown complexion is always mentioned because she was the first dark-complected beauty on-screen. She proved to whites and blacks alike that beauty doesn't discriminate and a woman with dark skin can be a beauty, too.
Judy Pace was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She came from a humble upbringing. After graduating from high school, she attended Los Angeles City College, where she majored in sociology. Always striking, she was taught modeling by her sister, then got an offer to join the prestigious Ebony Fashion Fair; she auditioned and became the youngest model for the show. Modeling was something new and adventurous for Judy. She went on to model in many leading publications that catered to both black and white audiences. Judy had no aspirations to be a movie or TV star until director William Castle saw her pictures in "Ebony" magazine and chose her for a part in his film, 13 Frightened Girls (1963). She received favorable reviews and showed great potential as an actress. She realized that she was meant to be an actress so she began taking acting classes and performing in L.A. theater. Small parts on television and films started coming her way, leading to bigger and better roles, such as Three in the Attic (1968), in which she played one of three femme fatales who band together to turn the tables on a white gigolo by loving him to death. This film was one of Hollywood's first interracial love/sex movies. Judy played her part so daringly, enticingly and erotically that you forgot her race and color and were hypnotized by her powerful aura.
Judy had nothing but success from then on. After losing out to Diahann Carroll for the lead role in Julia (1968) that seemed meant for her, Judy found TV success in the nighttime soap opera Peyton Place (1964). She played "Vickie Fletcher", television's first black female antagonist. Judy was excellent as the manipulative, lying, cheating, backstabber who ruins the life of everyone who crosses her path. When the series was canceled, others found it hard to find work but Judy didn't. She was given the lead in a made-for-TV movie called The Young Lawyers (1969). Judy played one of three young lawyers who took on cases dealing with the poor and oppressed. The film would later be turned into a weekly series, with Judy reprising her role.
The 1970s was the start of a new, exciting, experimental era that'll never be seen again. It was the era of black power and black beauty. Judy, more than anyone, exemplified that era of thinking. She was black and beautiful, truly. She was the "new" black woman--confident, strong, sweet, sexy, vivacious and beautiful. She was referred to as "The Black Babydoll" or "The Black Barbie" because she looked just like a perfect doll.
Judy became the ultimate favorite of the 1970s on the big and little screens. She was one of many gorgeous black leading ladies of blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) was her big break and the film was the start of the blaxploitation era. It was about a black leader who plans to steal poor blacks' money with a bogus "back to Africa" movement, basically a remake of The Black King (1932). It was an all-star cast, with Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd Foxx, Cleavon Little and Calvin Lockhart, directed by the legendary Ossie Davis.
She never acted "black" or "white", she simply just acted and her portrayals were moving to anyone watching her; she made you become deeply involved in her roles. Even as a bad lady, she made you hate her but love her a little. Judy was a natural, versatile actress; she could play the sweet, innocent girl next door or an evil femme fatale. She could also play the "dumb" beauty and make it believable. She made you understand her and have a little heart for her. That's an actress! No one else of the screen of her time was so versatile; other black actresses were monotonous.
"Cotton Comes to Harlem" should have made Judy an iconic blaxploitation movie star, as it did the black male actors, but it didn't. Pam Grier was the only black female to enjoy major success in blaxploitation films. Perhaps Judy was too much of a lady for blaxploitation, though. There was no sign of stopping for her. Roles followed in movies and TV. She had guest appearances on such hit shows as Sanford and Son (1972), Good Times (1974), That's My Mama (1974) and What's Happening!! (1976), where she had significant parts and left a lasting impression on viewers. She always was the most popular TV guest star. Judy was in her 30s during the 1970s, which was her prime, but she still flaunted youthful beauty and zest.
Judy Pace went on to conquer the stage. She was in the well-acclaimed Las Vegas production of "Guys and Dolls" that had a successful run. It was a black version, in which she played "Adelaide". Judy's first marriage was to actor Don Mitchell, who had success on Ironside (1967). She had two children from that union and, later, she married baseball legend Curt Flood. Since Flood's death in 1997, Judy has been a major spokesperson for her husband's role in establishing free agency in professional sports. Judy is also the founder and supporter of the Kwanzaa Foundation with "Star Trek" legend, Nichelle Nichols. Judy's sister, singer Jean Pace, was married to music legend Oscar Brown Jr..
Throughout her career Judy broke the color line in TV and Hollywood. She was the first to do many things that helped future black actresses. Not many, as of yet, have filled her shoes. Judy appeared on many successful TV shows and had parts in movies where she was the only appealing presence. It's also historic to mention she was one of the first black bachelorettes on the legendary The Dating Game (1965).
Judy Pace is starting to get her well-deserved recognition with the help of loyal fans. She's been honored through the years also. People who are becoming fans are surprised at the fact that they hadn't known of her earlier. - Actress
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Alicyn Packard is an award-winning voice actress, comedian, musician, and writer.
Alicyn's voice can be heard on popular animated television series including NBC & Spouts' Poppy Cat (Alma), Space Racers (Robyn), and Cartoon Networks' The Tom and Jerry Show (Toodles). Packard also starred in Cartoon Networks' The Mr. Men Show (2008-2009) as Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Naughty and Little Miss Whoops. She voiced roles for Disney's Pixie Hollow Games (Zepher), Nickelodeon's Olivia (Connor & Caitlyn), and the animated short film An Okay Place to Eat.
In 2014, Alicyn was recognized for her promo work with a Voice Arts Award nomination. Additional promo and commercial credits include McDonalds, Target, ABC, Dunkin Donuts, CVS, Disney, Nick Jr., Vongo, Starz, WB, Sara Lee, HealthNet, and Taco Bell. Alicyn has also voiced various Books on Tape including the bestseller Lucky Us by Amy Bloom.
Perhaps most recognizable to video game enthusiasts for her role as the Female Blood Elf in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Additionally, Alicyn lends her voice to Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, Star Ocean and Vandal Hearts. As a stand-up comedian, Alicyn has graced the stages of The World Famous Improv, The Comedy Store, The Purple Onion, and has been featured on videos on Funny or Die.
On screen, she has starred in the award-winning indie comedy feature Alondra Smiles, the psychological thriller, World Full of Nothing, as well as originating the role of Jenn in the world-premiere of cosmic rock musical Earth Sucks. Alicyn's abilities have allowed for her to smoothly transition into the world of writing. Her original video shorts, featured on her YouTube Channel are written, produced and directed by Alicyn. In addition Alicyn also penned the "Snowflake Lake" episode for Poppy Cat.
Alicyn was born and raised in Hanson, Massachusetts and received her degree at Emerson College, where her talent was discovered as a DJ on local radio station WERS. Packard resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two cats, Monkee and Foley.- Actress
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Kelly Chemane Packard is an American actress and television personality. She is best known for her roles as Tiffani Smith on California Dreams, as well as April Giminski on Baywatch and co-hosting Ripley's Believe It or Not!. She also co-hosted the late segment of GSN Live from September 15, 2008 until November 28, 2008. Packard also guest starred in the television series The Wonder Years, Blossom, Step by Step, Boy Meets World, USA High and The Wild Thornberrys. As a child, she was also a contestant on the Bob Eubanks' daytime version of Card Sharks, during "Young People's Week".- Actress
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Prime character veteran Doris Packer has one of those placid, glowering veteran faces you know you've seen over and over again but just can't seem to place. Close your eyes, however, and that bosom-heavy voice of hers is absolutely unmistakable. Found quite comfortably amid plush settings, she usually was the possessor of the bluest blood in town.
A Michiganite, the delightfully austere "Mrs. Moneybags" was born on May 30, 1904, and was still quite young when her family relocated to Southern California. Doris enjoyed acting in plays in high school and studied at UCLA. Eventually she decided to move to New York and attended The Drama School under the guidance of Evelyn Thomas.
Doris graced such Broadway productions as "Back Fire" (debut, 1932), "Something More Important," "The Old Women," "Strip Girl" and "Elizabeth the Queen," while also meeting and marrying stage director Rowland G. Edwards. An avid radio performer in New York, she was a popular player on such shows as "Henry Aldrich" and "Mr. & Mrs. North."
In 1943, during World War II, Doris enlisted in the U.S. Army Women's Army Corps (WACs) and reached the rank of Technical Sergeant before her discharge. Following her husband's death in 1953, Doris relocated to the West Coast to try out film and TV. Though she never obtained a series of her own, she found a niche for herself as a haughty comedy foil, offering her inimitably huffy self to scores of sitcoms.
Doris found a recurring role on the popular comedy series, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950), but is even better remembered for her stern, by-the-book "Principal Rayburn" on Leave It to Beaver (1957) and as disdainful society snob "Mrs. Chatsworth Osborne, Sr." on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959). TV guest appearances would include the comedies "I Love Lucy," "The Andy Griffith Show, "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Jack Benny Show," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Pete and Gladys," "Green Acres," "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" and a final spot on "A Touch of Grace" in 1973. More dramatic appearances occurred on "City Detective," "State Trooper," "Maverick," "The Thin Man," "Perry Mason" and "The Twilight Zone."
A few minor movie roles came Doris' way, but not many. They included Meet Me at the Fair (1953), Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955), Anything Goes (1956), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), Walt Disney's Bon Voyage! (1962), Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) and The Perils of Pauline (1967). Her last film was a small part in Shampoo (1975) starring Warren Beatty. Unforgettable no matter how small the part, 74-year-old Doris passed away on March 31, 1979, in Glendale, California, of natural causes.- Netta Packer was born on 26 December 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Good Sam (1948), The Guilty (1947) and Reg'lar Fellers (1941). She was married to ? Walsh. She died on 6 November 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Maria Pacôme was born on 18 July 1923 in Paris, France. She was an actress and writer, known for La crise (1992), Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960) and Si Perrault m'était conté (1966). She was married to Maurice Ronet. She died on 1 December 2018 in Ballainvilliers, Essonne, France.- Actress
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Sarah Padden was born on 16 October 1881 in Sunderland, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Woman's Face (1941), The Mad Monster (1942) and Women Won't Tell (1932). She was married to George Clarence Sackett. She died on 4 December 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Born Krista Carino Sullivan, better known by her screen name, Bela Padilla, is of Filipino - British ancestry. She is a television and film actor, film producer and screenwriter.
Bela is related to the Padilla clan of actors in the Philippines.
In 2017, she published a poetry book inspired by the movie she starred in "100 Tula Para Kay Stella".- Actress
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Kylie Padilla was born on 25 January 1993 in Calatagan, Batangas, Philippines. She is an actress, known for Encantadia (2016), Blusang itim (2011) and Unravel: A Swiss Side Love Story (2023).- Actress
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Zsa Zsa Padilla was born on 28 May 1964 in Manila, Philippines. She is an actress and producer, known for ZsaZsa Zaturnnah Ze Moveeh (2006), Ako legal wife: Mano po 4? (2005) and Batang PX (1997).- Actress
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Padmapriya was born on 28 February 1980 in Delhi, India. She is an actress, known for Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (2009), Pokkisham (2009) and Thavamai Thavamiruntu (2005).- Actress
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Padmini was born on 12 June 1932 in Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore, British India. She was an actress and director, known for Kaajal (1965), Thillana Mohanambal (1968) and Poove Poochudava (1985). She was married to Dr. K. T. Ramachandran. She died on 24 September 2006 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.- Lea Padovani was born on 28 July 1923 in Montalto di Castro, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Anatomy of Love (1954), Give Us This Day (1949) and Princess of Cleves (1961). She died on 23 June 1991 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Dira Paes is one of the most awarded actresses in Brazilian Cinema and her curriculum has more than 35 feature films. She started her career in the overproduction of Embassy Pictures "The Emerald Forest" (Cannes film Festival), of the diretor John Boorman. At the cinema we can highlight movies such as "Baixio das Bestas" of Claudio Assis (Tiger Award-Rotterdan International Film Festival), "A Festa da Menina Morta" of Matheus Natchergale (Cannes Film Festival-Un Certain Regard) and one of the most seen brazilian movies "Two sons of Francisco" from Breno Silveira.
In total, Dira has 7 tv series, 7 novels and 37 feature films. Her career is based in a successful image and popularity in the main stream of Brazilian teledramaturgy even as in independent and authoral cinema.
Recently Dira played the protagonist of director Gabriel Mascaro new film. At beginings of 2018 she will start filming "Veneza", the first long of Miguel Falabella where she will act with Carmen Maura.
Dira is also know as one of the founders of the NGO Human Rights Movement (MHuD), which has developed a series of activities for peace and human rights. It looks specifically at the problems of slave labor, abuse of children and adolescents, issues of quilombolas, the environment and indigenous peoples.- Known throughout Brazil for her outstanding roles in soap operas, the actress and model Juliana Paes began her artistic journey in 1998, with a small role as an extra in "Malhação". Her first character came soon after, in 2000, when she played the maid "Ritinha" in the soap opera "Laços de Família". After that, her career as an actress took off, which gave Juliana many notable roles in several successful soap operas on Rede Globo, such as "Celebridade" (2003), "América" (2005), "Caminho das Índias" (2009), "Gabriela" (2012), "Totalmente Demais" (2015), "A Força do Querer" (2017), "A Dona do Pedaço" (2019) and many others.
Juliana also collects roles in major productions, such as "Mais Uma Vez Amor" (2005), "Amor Por Acaso" (2010), "A Despedida" (2015), "Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos" (2017) e "Predestinado - Arigó e o Espírito de Dr. Fritz" (2022), which will be released in September. However, the actress' presence on the big screen isn't limited to Brazilian cinema. Juliana also has a career in dubbing, giving her voice to characters in the animations "Kung Fu Panda (2008)", "Kung Fu Panda: Holiday" (2010), "Happy Family" (2017) and "The Croods: A New Age" (2021).
Juliana played the character "Maria Marruá" in the first part of the remake of "Pantanal", currently shown on Rede Globo. - Actress
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A native New Yorker who lives in Los Angeles, Angelica continues to balance her contribution to theater, film and television-in that order. Developing many works at the legendary Actors Studio in New York where she is a lifetime member and serves on its board of directors, Angelica mounted Eugene O'Neill's classic "Anna Christie" and tackled the title role under the direction of Tony nominated Wilson Milam. Sold out exclusive engagements of the first workshop hailed as "magnificent" by Cindy Adams, in New York and Los Angeles have preceded the highly anticipated full production slated for 2013.
The award winning solo play "Edge" garnered her an Outer Critics Circle Nomination (Best Solo Performance 2003) and has enjoyed critically acclaimed runs in New Zealand, Australia, Texas, Miami (New Times Award Best Actress 2005) and Los Angeles after its triumphant, sold-out run in London.
Angelica received The Helen Hayes Award (Best Actress 2000) for assuming the lead role in the Tony Award-winning "Sideman" at Kennedy Center. This followed closely after being honored with the New York People's Choice Award in the Best Supporting Actress category (1999) for her portrayal of Patsy, a role she originated for the same production. Nominated for her second Helen Hayes Award (Best Actress 2010) for her critically praised portrayal of Ivy Weston in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning "August:Osage County" (1st National Broadway Tour), Angelica's performance was heralded as "revelatory" by the Chicago Tribune when landing in the Steppenwolf production's home turf.
In television, Angelica has made her mark by playing sympathetic tragic figures with seemingly effortless ease as in her role as Julia Brinn in "Law and Order Special Victim Unit "(2005). Her final confession was filmed in one take. Her numerous other television credits include "Law and Order", "Criminal Intent", "The Sopranos", "100 Centre Street", "In The Line of Fire, D.C.", "As The World Turns", "Songs In Ordinary Time" (CBS), "Ruby's Bucket of Blood" (Showtime) and "Talk To Me" (TNT).
The films Angelica has appeared in have unceasingly stretched her character work as well as her leading lady capacity. In her first film appearance in Robert Benton's "Nobody's Fool" (1994), Angelica played opposite Paul Newman in her cameo as Ruby. Leads, supporting leads and cameos followed as she balanced her dedication to her stagecraft with screen work. "The Sixth Sense" proved one of the most notable cameos with a screen time of only two minutes for her performance as the emotionally barren Mrs. Collins - a role that has captured the imagination of a generation.
Supporting roles include the Polish stuttering prostitute Vitka in Amos Kolleck's "Fast Food Fast Women" (2000), the fame hungry waitress Dierdre in the Oscar-nominated "The Contender" (2000), smoldering grifter Patty opposite John Travolta in "Domestic Disturbance" (2001), and the lust-filled youth hunting Roberta in Michael Imperioli's "The Hungry Ghosts" (2009). "The Mouse" (1996) opposite John Savage and recently released "Mint Julep" (2010), also starring David Morse and James Gandolfini, and "Lucky Days" (2010) have secured Angelica's reputation as a transformational force that captures the hearts and minds of directors, critics and filmgoers everywhere.
From mousy housewife to mercurial manipulator to love torn virgin, these film roles illuminate her unfathomable versatility and bottomless capacity for emotional depth. "Lucky Days" marks Angelica's first film produced by her film company. She wrote, co-directed and stars in this debut.
Angelica Page who most recently starred on Broadway in "The Best Man", is currently developing "Turning Page", a new play about her mother, the legendary Geraldine Page which began in development at the Actors' Studio before moving to its exploratory Off Broadway run at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Angelica has also dedicated herself to a book and documentary about her mother to be completed this year.
Angelica Page is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and serves on its board of directors. She is actively involved raising funds for the charities PAVE and The Trevor Project through Musical Momentum, and is developing a foundation for the arts to foster emerging artists.- Actress
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Beautiful Anita Page was one of the most famous and popular leading ladies during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the talkie era. She was best known for starring in The Broadway Melody (1929), the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her leading men included John Gilbert, Clark Gable, Buster Keaton, and Robert Montgomery.
Only in her late teens when stardom beckoned, Anita had a huge following that earned her record amounts of fan mail, but she was seldom given lead roles, most often playing second lead, perhaps due to her youthful inexperience as an actress. She was a charming, much-loved screen personality, but by 1932 MGM seemed to lose interest in her career despite impressive work in such films as Night Court (1932) and Skyscraper Souls (1932), and before the year was out her contract was not renewed. She slipped off into "B" stardom in films at Columbia, Universal, and even more minor studios. She retired from the screen in 1936, making a return 25 years later in The Runaway (1961) with Cesar Romero, and she lived quietly out of the limelight for over half a century. In the 1990s, the now widowed star was rediscovered by the media, which enjoyed her light-humored journeys down memory lane about her career, MGM, the silent and early talkie eras, and the stars she knew, earning the actress a devoted cult of young fans and a few brief appearances in ultra-low-budget films of the 1990s.- Actress
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Dominique Page was born on 1 September 1933 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Mission spéciale à Caracas (1965), Young Girls Beware (1957) and Inspector Maigret (1958). She died on 2 May 2019 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for which they received a Gemini nomination and a Young Artist Awards nomination. Later, Page appeared in Marion Bridge (2002), which won the award for Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival. They won a Gemini Award for their role of Lilith in the first season of ReGenesis (2004), a one-hour drama for TMN/Movie Central, and for the cable feature, Ghost Cat (2004), for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series. In addition, Page appeared in the cult hit TV series Trailer Park Boys (2001).
As the lead in David Slade's Hard Candy (2005), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Page garnered much praise for their tour de force performance as a 14-year-old who meets a 30-year-old photographer on the Internet and then looks to expose him as a pedophile. Films that followed included the title role of Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments (2007); An American Crime (2007), also starring Catherine Keener; and the third installation of the X-Men franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), where Page played Kitty Pryde.
With their breakout role in Jason Reitman's hit comedy Juno (2007), about an offbeat teenager who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, Page received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Best Actress nominations, and won the Independent Spirit Award for their performance. They followed up that turn with the lead in Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, the roller-derby comedy-drama Whip It (2009), Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Inception (2010), the independent film Peacock (2010), and the dark comedy Super (2010), opposite Rainn Wilson and Liv Tyler.
Page co-starred alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Alison Pill, Alec Baldwin, and Greta Gerwig in the Woody Allen ensemble comedy To Rome with Love (2012), and appeared in the thriller The East (2013), a story centered on a contract worker (played by Brit Marling) tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group, only to find herself falling for its leader (played by Alexander Skarsgård).- Actress
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Born on July 29, 1910, to R.L. and Isabel Rutter in Spokane, Washington, Gale Page was christened Sally Perkins Rutter in the beginning. Coming from a political family, her uncle, Miles Poindexter (1868-1946), was a U.S. senator from the state of Washington who later became an ambassador to Peru. Her great-grandfather was Joseph Gale (1807-1881), the first governor of Oregon.
A one-time radio actress and singer with Ted Weems' Orchestra, she appeared on radio soaps such as "Masquerade" (as blues singer Gertrude Lamont) and as Gloria Marsh on "Today's Children." Spotted for films by Warner Bros, she moved to Hollywood in 1938 and her moniker immediately changed by the studio to the more marquee-friendly "Gale Page."
A lovely, wholesome-faced, curly-haired brunette, Gale was a brief fixture in films nominally consigned to play pleasant, decorative roles in such potboilers as Crime School (1938) (her debut), Indianapolis Speedway (1939), and They Drive by Night (1940). She was handed the role of her career as one of musical sisters in the classic tearjerker Four Daughters (1938) co-starring with the three Lane sisters (Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane) when Universal passed on casting their fourth sister, Leota Lane. She went on, with the others, to co-star in the three sequels Daughters Courageous (1939), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941).
Gale appeared in only 16 films during her career, including the action adventure Heart of the North (1938); the Humphrey Bogart crime drama You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939); the musical comedy Naughty But Nice (1939); the action drama Indianapolis Speedway (1939), the domestic drama A Child Is Born (1939), the film noir They Drive by Night (1940); the William Saroyan classic The Time of Your Life (1948). Gale additionally won the lead femme role as the altruistic wife of Knute Rockne All American (1940) starring Pat O'Brien in the title role and Ronald Reagan whose famous catchphrase ("Win just one for the Gipper") showed up here.
After completing a secondary role in the film noir Anna Lucasta (1949) starring Paulette Goddard, Gale abandoned the screen for family life. She reappeared just once in a movie a few years later with the soapy Shirley Booth vehicle About Mrs. Leslie (1954). She also was sporadically seen on several episodes of the TV anthology Robert Montgomery Presents (1950), as well as guest appearances on "The United States Steel Hour," "Hawaiian Eye," "Sam Benedict" and, her last, "The Eleventh Hour" in 1964.
Page was first married to Frederick Tritschler, with whom she had a son. Following their 1939 divorce, she married Count Aldo Solìto de Solis, a pianist and composer. Their son, Luchino Solito de Solis Jr., was featured on Broadway in a juvenile role in the 1956 production of "Waiting for Godot." Gale died of lung cancer on January 8, 1983, in Santa Monica, California, at age 72.