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Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress, director, and producer, best known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. She is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
Jackson began her career in the late 1960s in summer stock at the Stowe Playhouse in Stowe, Vermont, before landing her first major TV roles in Dark Shadows (1970–71) and The Rookies (1972-76). She also appeared in the film Night of Dark Shadows (1971). On March 21, 1976, Jackson first played Sabrina Duncan in Charlie's Angels, alongside Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith. The show aired as amovie of the week before debuting as a series on September 22, 1976. The huge success of the show saw the three actresses appear on the front cover of Time. Jackson received two Emmy nominations for her role, before leaving in 1979 after three seasons. Jackson starred for four years in the TV series Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–87). For this role, she won three Bravo Golden Otto awards inGermany for Best Female TV star from 1986-88. She also co-produced the series through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises Ltd. She then starred in the short-lived television adaptation of the film Baby Boom (1988–89). Also in the 1980s, she starred in the films Making Love (1982) and Loverboy (1989). She has continued to star in numerous TV movies including, Quiet Killer (1992), Empty Cradle (1993), and Satan's School for Girls (2000), a remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name in which Jackson also starred. more...... Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz; October 29, 1971) is an American actress. One of the most profitable and iconic 1990s actresses,[1][2][3] she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. As Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988), she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition. After various appearances in film and on television, Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film Heathers (1988), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life that has since become a landmark teen film. She later appeared in the coming of age drama Mermaids (1990), earning a Golden Globe nomination, in Burton's dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands(1990), and in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic romance Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
Having played diverse roles in many well-received films in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in The Age of Innocence in 1993 as well as another Academy Award nomination, as Best Actress, for the literary adaptation Little Women the following year. She later appeared in the Generation Xhit Reality Bites (1994), Alien: Resurrection (1997), the Woody Allen comedy Celebrity (1998), and Girl, Interrupted (1999), which she also executive-produced. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honouring her legacy in the film industry.[4] more....... |
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Holland's Opus, and The Goodbye Girl.
Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for The Goodbye Girl (1977), and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.Dreyfuss was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus[1] in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Geraldine Dreyfuss (née Robbins; 1921-2000), a peace activist, and Norman Dreyfuss (1920-2013), an attorney and restaurateur,[2] and was raised in Bayside, Queens.[3] Dreyfuss is Jewish.[4][5] He has commented that he "grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and [he] are of the same family."[6] His father disliked New York City, and moved the family first to Europe[clarification needed], and later to Los Angeles, when Dreyfuss was nine.[7][8] Dreyfuss attended Beverly Hills High School.[8] more....... Ali Velshi (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian television journalist and host of Ali Velshi on Target on Al Jazeera America. Best known for his work on CNN, he was CNN's Chief Business Correspondent, Anchor of CNN's Your Money and a co-host of CNN International's weekday business show World Business Today. In 2013, he joined Al Jazeera America, a channel that launched in August 2013.[1]
Born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of Murad Velshi, the first Canadian of Indian origin elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and his wife Mila, who grew up in South Africa. He is an Ismaili Muslim of Indian descent[2] and earned a degree in religious studies[3] from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1994.[4] During his time at Queen's he made news by organizing protests againstPreston Manning and Canada's Reform Party. In 2010, Velshi was awarded the Queen's University Alumni Achievement Award.[5] He previously attended Toronto's Northern Secondary School during which time he was elect school president. Velshi was married briefly in his 20s; in 2009, he married his second wife, New York-born hedge fund manager Lori Wachs,[6] the president of Philadelphia-based Cross Ledge Investments, whom he met when she was a guest on his show.[7] more....... |
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