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Daisy Ridley
Ridley began her career with minor roles in the television programmes "Youngers", "Toast of London", "Silent Witness", "Mr Selfridge", and "Casualty". She appeared in the short film "Blue Season", which was entered into the Sci-Fi-London 48-Hour Film Challenge. Ridley played the lead in film three of "Lifesaver", an interactive film which was nominated for a BAFTA Award. She also appeared in the music video for Wiley's song "Lights On", playing the character of Kim. Ridley made her film debut in the 2015 British independent horror film "Scrawl", after her scenes from the British comedy film "The Inbetweeners 2" were removed in the final cut.
In April 2014, Ridley's casting as Rey, one of the lead characters in "", was announced. She was chosen for the film in February 2014. At the time of her casting she was, according to "Rolling Stone", a "total unknown." Her choice by director J. J. Abrams was seen as a repeat of George Lucas's move of casting relatively unknown actors for the lead roles in the first "Star Wars" film in 1977. Ridley began filming her scenes in May 2014 at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, and prior to the film's release in December 2015, she appeared at the launch of a set of "Star Wars" postage stamps issued by the UK postal service Royal Mail, with her character Rey featuring on a stamp along with the droid BB-8. With international revenues of over $2 billion, "The Force Awakens" was a major box-office hit and the highest-grossing film of 2015. After an early screening of the film, Brian Viner of the "Daily Mail" called Ridley the "real star of the show", adding that her performance as Rey should "send her career into orbit." Her performance received critical acclaim, with Richard Roeper describing her portrayal as "a breakout performance" and adding "Ford has a terrific father figure chemistry [shared] with Ridley and [John] Boyega".
Hayley Mills
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film "Tiger Bay" (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's "Pollyanna" (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film "The Parent Trap" (1961). Her performance in "Whistle Down the Wind" (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.
Daisy Haggard
Haggard's television acting debut occurred in "Heartstones", a 1996 episode of ITV's "Ruth Rendell Mysteries" directed by her father. Piers Haggard had asked his daughter to help him during the audition process by reading opposite the candidates. She later reported that because she is dyslexic "he had to work on it with me so that I didn't ruin it for the other person reading." During the auditions, the producer stated that he wanted to audition Daisy, despite opposition from her father who did not want his daughter to take up the difficult life of an actor.
Joanna Cassidy
In 1982, Cassidy had her first major feature film role as the replicant Zhora Salome in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner". The following year, she co-starred in "Under Fire" with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte. She continued to appear in both films and television; she co-starred in the television miniseries "Hollywood Wives" (1985), and appeared in "The Fourth Protocol" (1987), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "1969", "The Package" (1989), "Where the Heart Is" (1990) and "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" (1991). In 1993, she co-starred with Dudley Moore on the sitcom "Dudley", but the series only lasted for six episodes. She played the ex-wife of James Garner's lead character in the television movie, "The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A." (1994).
Daisy Earles
Daisy Earles was born Hilda Emma Schneider on April 29, 1907 in Stolpen, Germany. Her parents were Emma and Gustav Schneider. Their three daughters, less than average height, migrated to the United States. They were encouraged by their father to work in the entertainment field taking advantage of their "hypopituitary" midget status. 
Daisy's brother Kurt and sister Frieda were the first to migrate to California in 1916 after they had met Bert W. Earles and his wife, who became their agents. The Earles had toured with the Dancing Dolls family prior to their joining films and acting with new names. Kurt and Frieda changed their names to Harry and Grace to act in films and they adopted the surname "Earles" of their manager. Their first dance appearance was for the Buffalo Bill Show in the roles as "Hansel and Gretel" for which they were hailed as the "Smallest Dancing Couple in the World”. Hilda, who later came to be known as Daisy Earles, joined her brother and sister in California in the early 1920s. Another sister, Elly, joined them in 1926; she was called "Tiny", because of her appearance. All four siblings, who had earlier taken the surname Earles, changed it to "Doll" after the death of their manager, Earles.
Daisy Earles' was most well known for her part in "Freaks" in 1932. However, the film was considered horrifying and was shown in the U.S. with many cuts, banned in England, and in Canada was called "brutal and grotesque".
In 1928, Earles had appeared in the 1928 film "Three-Ring Marriage". She and her siblings Tiny, Grace, and Harry, performed as "Munchkins" in a song and dance sequence along the Yellow Brick Road, in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). They were not credited individually in the film, but as "The Singer Midgets, despite having been generally well-known as "The Doll Family". She had a small uncredited role in 1952's "The Greatest Show on Earth", for which she won an award for her "blink-and-you-miss-it" photo shot.
Rachel Dennison
In 1982, Dennison landed her first and only acting role in the ABC television sitcom incarnation of "9 to 5". Before the show premiered, she stated in a "People" magazine interview: "I'm sure people will compare me to Dolly—it's only human nature." Her role, as bombshell secretary Doralee Rhodes, had been originated by her older sister, Dolly Parton, in the hit 1980 theatrical film of the same name. "9 to 5" was shot before a live studio audience and co-starred Rita Moreno and Valerie Curtin. The series had an impressive beginning in the ratings, but after a retooling (including the addition of Leah Ayres to the cast), the series was canceled by ABC after 33 episodes in 1983. The sitcom proved popular in reruns, leading producers to revive it in first-run syndication in 1986. Sally Struthers joined the cast, and the sitcom's popularity revived, producing another 52 episodes before ending in 1988.
Tracee Ellis Ross
The daughter of actress and Motown recording artist Diana Ross and her ex-husband Robert Ellis Silberstein, Ross adopted her mother's last name in the hope that it would be of benefit to her acting career. She began acting in independent films and variety series. She hosted the pop-culture magazine "The Dish" on Lifetime. From 2000 to 2008, she played the starring role of Joan Clayton in the UPN/CW comedy series "Girlfriends", for which she received two NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has appeared in the films "Hanging Up" (2000), "I-See-You.Com" (2006), and "Daddy's Little Girls" (2007), before returning to television playing Dr. Carla Reed on the BET sitcom "Reed Between the Lines" (2011), for which she received her third NAACP Image Award.
Dianne Wiest
Her early screen roles include small roles in "It's My Turn" and "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can", both starring Jill Clayburgh in the lead roles. In 1984, she starred in "Footloose", as the reverend's wife and Ariel's mother.
Under Woody Allen's direction, Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Hannah and Her Sisters" in 1987 and "Bullets over Broadway" in 1995. She also appeared in three other Woody Allen films: "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), "Radio Days" (1987) and "September" (1987).
She followed her first Oscar success with performances in "The Lost Boys" (1987) and "Bright Lights, Big City" (1988). She also starred with Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard's "Parenthood", for which she received her second Oscar nomination.
Other major film roles include Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), Jodie Foster's "Little Man Tate" (1991) and "The Birdcage" (1996), Mike Nichols' remake of "La Cage aux Folles".
Dolores Hart
Hicks converted to Catholicism when she was 10. By age 11, she was living again in Beverly Hills with her mother, a restaurant greeter, who married owner Al Gordon. After high school, she studied at Marymount College. Using the stage name of 'Dolores Hart' in 1956 she was signed to play a supporting role as the love interest to Elvis Presley in the 1957 release "Loving You". After this appearance, Hart found herself in frequent demand, and she made two more films before appearing with Presley again in 1958's "King Creole". She has denied ever having had an 'intimate' relationship with Presley off-screen. In interviews during her movie career she was often asked, "What is it like kissing Elvis?" She chuckled a bit at the memory, "I think the limit for a screen kiss back then was something like 15 seconds. That one has lasted 40 years." Hart then made her debut on Broadway, winning a 1959 Theatre World Award as well as a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress for her role in "The Pleasure of His Company".
In 1960 Hart starred in "Where the Boys Are", a teenage comedy about college students on spring break, which developed a near cult-like following. In the film Hart plays a co-ed who struggles to define herself when confronted with her newly discovered sexuality and popularity with the opposite sex. Hart starred in the film, "Francis of Assisi" in 1961, in which she played Saint Clare of Assisi. Hart also made a sketch of a St. Francis statue, arms outstretched, while working on the movie .
She went on to star in four more films, including the lead role in "The Inspector" ("Lisa") which was based on a novel by Jan de Hartog, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Picture – Drama".
Esther Rolle
Rolle released an album of music titled "The Garden of My Mind" in 1975. Rolle's first screen appearance is a small, uncredited role in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), and she later appeared in Gordon Parks' "The Learning Tree" (1969). Her sister, actress Estelle Evans, appeared in both films as well. Esther Rolle appeared early in her career in the film, "Nothing But a Man" (1964). After "Good Times" ended, she appeared in a number of made-for-television movies and films, including "Driving Miss Daisy" and "My Fellow Americans". A memorable role was that of Aunt Sarah in the film "Rosewood" (1997). She had a major role in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" based on Maya Angelou's memoir of the same name, and has the distinction of having won the first Emmy Award for the category Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, in 1979, for her work in the television movie "Summer of My German Soldier". She is also credited for her role in the film, "The Mighty Quinn" (1989), starring Denzel Washington and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and featuring Robert Townsend. Her last film, "Train Ride" was released in 2000 despite being filmed in 1998.
Marlene Dietrich
Dietrich, with encouragement from Josef von Sternberg, she accepted producer Joe Pasternak's offer to play against type in her first film in two years: that of the cowboy saloon girl, Frenchie, in the western-comedy "Destry Rides Again" (1939), opposite James Stewart. This was a significantly less well paid role than she had been accustomed to. The bawdy role revived her career and "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have", a song she introduced in the film, became a hit when she recorded it for Decca. She played similar types in "Seven Sinners" (1940) and "The Spoilers" (1942) both opposite John Wayne.
Lisa Riley
Riley trained at the Oldham Theatre Workshop from the age of nine, and was signed by an agent three years later. Riley's early roles included appearances as an extra in "Coronation Street" and as a cast member in "Butterfly Kiss" which was directed by Michael Winterbottom. She then appeared in a guest role as Mandy Dingle in the British soap opera "Emmerdale" in 1995. After proving popular with the audience, Riley was invited to join the soap's regular cast the following year. In 1996, Riley won the National Television Awards for "Most Popular Newcomer" for her work in "Emmerdale". She continued to play Mandy until 2001 after deciding to pursue other television roles.
Rachel Ames
Ames debuted professionally in 1949 in "Pilgrimage Play", and she joined her parents in acting in "One Foot in Heaven" at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. She transitioned into film under the stage name Judith Ames, and was
under contract with Paramount Pictures for three years in the early 1950s; her first feature film was "When Worlds Collide" (1951), a science fiction thriller based on the 1933 novel of the same name. The same year, she had appeared in "Toast to Our Brother", a short film documenting fraternity life at UCLA, where she was a student at the time.
She had an uncredited role in the film noir "The Turning Point" (1952), followed by a minor part in the Western "Arrowhead" (1953) with Charlton Heston. The following year, she had a supporting role in the Western comedy "Ricochet Romance" (1954). In her only regular role on prime-time television, Ames played Policewoman Sandy McAllister on "The Lineup" in that program's final season during 1959. Ames also had dozens of other guest-starring appearances in television, on series such as "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", "The Virginian", "Ironside", "Wagon Train", "Trackdown", "Ben Casey", "Perry Mason", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", and six different appearances on "Science Fiction Theater". She appeared in a lead role in the 1960 Western "Gunfighters of Abilene", opposite Buster Crabbe and Barton MacLane.
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
Around this time, Disney considered making a live-action-and-animated version of "Alice in Wonderland" (similar to his short "Alice Comedies") that would star Ginger Rogers and would utilize the recently developed sodium vapor process. Lisa Davis (who later voiced Anita Radcliffe in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians") and Luana Patten were also considered for the role of Alice. However, Disney soon realized that he could do justice to the book only by making an all-animated feature, and in 1946 work began on "Alice in Wonderland". With the film tentatively scheduled for release in 1950, animation crews on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Cinderella" effectively competed against each other to see which film would finish first. By early 1948, "Cinderella" had progressed further than "Alice in Wonderland".
Dalida filmography
Throughout her acting career, Dalida had mainly thriller, comedy, drama, and romance films. She has appeared in twelve films, of which are ten action movies and two documentaries. She has two commercial appearances on TV. Before she started her singing career in 1956, she had two film roles, both in 1954. Her first movie was supposed to be stunt for Rita Hayworth in 1954 movie Joseph and his Brethren, but the shooting was cancelled. Eventually her first role was a minor one, in early 1954 after winning Miss Egypt, in movie Le Masque de Toutankhamon where she acted a dancer that is actually a spy. Same years she appears in Sigarah wa kas, from which came an iconic scene that was later often mentioned through her singing career, recalling on her debut years; Iolanda dances, sings and seduces her boss doctor in his family home, in front of eyes of his wife and other guests.
Keira Knightley
In her first major role, the 2001 Walt Disney Productions feature film "Princess of Thieves", Knightley played the daughter of Robin Hood. To prepare for the film, she trained for several weeks in archery, fencing and horse riding. Concurrently, she appeared in "The Hole", a thriller that received a direct-to-video release in the United States. The film's director Nick Hamm described her as "a young version of Julie Christie". Knightley also took on the role of Lara Antipova in the miniseries adaptation of "Doctor Zhivago", which first aired in 2002 to positive reviews and high ratings. In the same year, Knightley starred as a pregnant drug addict in Gillies MacKinnon's drama film "Pure". Co-starring Molly Parker and Harry Eden, the film had its world premiere at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. In a retrospect review for AboutFilm.com, Carlo Cavagna noted Knightley's screen presence and wrote that "[although Knightley] doesn't have half of Parker's ability [...], she has spunk and grit [and] shines brightly in "Pure"".
Dawn Addams
Addams' face and physique attracted the attention of talent agents. In December 1950, she signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Her film career began with a role in "Night into Morning" (1951), and she soon co-starred with Peter Lawford in "The Hour of 13" (1952). She then appeared in a small role in "The Moon is Blue" (1953), the film which helped end the system of censorship of Hollywood films which had been in place since 1934. She also embarked on a USO tour the same year to help entertain troops in Korea, followed by a small but heavily publicised role as Richard Carlson's model girlfriend in the science fiction film "Riders to the Stars" (1954). Another performance was as the female lead opposite actor-director-filmmaker legend Charlie Chaplin in his final comedy to star himself, "A King in New York" (1957). During the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared mainly in British TV shows and French films.
Fay Ripley
Having left "Cold Feet", Ripley began to take on more leading roles; her first role was as housewife Deanna in the BBC thriller "Green-Eyed Monster", which was broadcast in September 2001. She researched her character, a murderer, by visiting a coroner. "Guardian" critic Gareth McLean wrote of her performance, "Ripley did a good job of exorcising the ghost of Jenny Gifford [...] by coolly cranking up the insane desperation and needy malevolence to an impressive degree." In 2002, she played domestic abuse victim Donna Massey in Danny Brocklehurst's "The Stretford Wives". Ripley was initially not eager to play another character from around Manchester so soon after leaving "Cold Feet", but she changed her mind after reading the script. She did not research spousal abuse to play her character, a woman struggling to bring up her two children in a run-down house while her husband is imprisoned, because she did not find it difficult to "work out what it's like to be scared and want to protect your kids". Also in 2002, Ripley played Rose Bell in the ITV post-war period drama "Dead Gorgeous", alongside Helen McCrory. The following year, she provided the voice of Meg in the ITV adaptation of the "Meg and Mog" children's books, before playing Jill in the third series of the BBC One sitcom "Bedtime" at the end of 2003.
Deepika Chikhalia
Deepika made her debut as lead actress in "Sun Meri Laila" (1983), opposite Raj Kiran, but though her debut film was successful, she did not get A grade films till 1987. Chikhalia was part of the popular television serial "Dada Daadi Ki Kahani" in 1985. She meanwhile did supporting roles in flop films like "Bhagwan Dada" (1986), "Kala Dhanda Goray Log" (1986) and "Doorie" (1989) and played lead heroine in the B grade horror film "Cheekh" (1986) and "Raat Ke Andhere Mein" (1987), which were box office duds. Later on in 1987, she played the female lead role of Sita in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series "Ramayan", which gave her national fame. She continued getting lead roles in hit TV serials like "Vikram Aur Betaal" (1988), "The Sword of Tipu Sultan" and "Luv Kush" (both in 1989). Her only hits in Hindi films were "Ghar Ka Chiraag" (1989) and "Rupaye Dus Karod" (1991), both of which had Rajesh Khanna in the lead and she had supporting roles with lesser footage in these films. She got more footage in the film "Khudai", but the film was a commercial failure in 1994. She played the romantic lead of Rajesh Khanna in 2 films, "Ghar Ka Chirag" and "Khudai". Her Kannada film as the lead heroine opposite Shankar Nag was a box office hit in 1990 and her Bengali films "Asha O Bhalobasha" (1989), opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee and Tamil film "Naangal" (1992) opposite Prabhu were box office hits. She also got a supporting role in a Malayalam movie, "Ithile Iniyum Varu" (1986), which had Mammootty in the lead. She met with limited success in Hindi films in the after 1992, as "Sanam Aap Ki Khatir" (1992) flopped, which had her in as main lead heroine, she only got supporting roles in Hindi films. Chikhalia followed up her television and film career with a move into politics, riding her fame as a religious icon to an election victory as a Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha from Baroda constituency in 1991 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. Deepika was also seen in the TV serial "Chutta Chheda" (2017) on Colors Gujarati channel. The Gujarati film "Nattsamrat" is to be released in August 2018 and she will be seen in her upcoming Hindi movie "Gaalib" (2018-2019). Dipika Chikhalia is working again.
Sally Field
Field began her professional career on television, starring in titular roles on the short-lived sitcoms "Gidget" (1965–1966), "The Flying Nun" (1967–1970), and "The Girl with Something Extra" (1973–1974). In 1976, her career saw a turning point when she garnered critical acclaim of her portrayal of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder in the television miniseries "Sybil", for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Although her film debut was as an extra in "Moon Pilot" (1962), her film career escalated during the 1970s with starring roles in successful films including "Stay Hungry" (1976), "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977), "Heroes" (1977), "The End" (1978), and "Hooper" (1978). Her career further expanded during the 1980s, twice receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Norma Rae" (1979) and "Places in the Heart" (1984), and continued to appear in a wide range of acclaimed and successful films including "Smokey and the Bandit II" (1980), "Absence of Malice" (1981), "Kiss Me Goodbye" (1982), "Murphy's Romance" (1985), "Steel Magnolias" (1989), "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), and "Forrest Gump" (1994).
Kaitlyn Dias
Kaitlyn Dias (born May 11, 1999) is an American actress and voice artist. She is known for voicing Riley in the Disney/Pixar movie "Inside Out" (2015) and "Riley's First Date?" (2015).
At the age of five, Kaitlyn began acting and singing in school and church productions. Born and raised in Northern California, Kaitlyn signed with a local talent agent and began working immediately in commercials, voiceovers, and independent films.
Dolly Parton
In her first feature film, Parton portrayed a secretary in a leading role with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the comedy film "9 to 5" (1980). The movie highlights the discrimination of women in a working environment and created awareness of the National Association of Working Women (9-5). She received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. Parton wrote and recorded the film's title song. It received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Song and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Released as a single, the song won both the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. It also reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart and it was No. 78 on the "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs" list released by the American Film Institute in 2004. "9 to 5" became a major box office success, grossing over $3.9 million its opening weekend, and over $103 million worldwide. Parton was named Top Female Box Office Star by the "Motion Picture Herald" in both 1981 and 1982 due to the film's success.
Alice Ripley
In her 1993 debut, Ripley played a Local Lass and the Specialist's Assistant in the original cast of "The Who's Tommy"; she also understudied the role of Mrs. Walker. Broadway roles that followed were Betty Schaefer in "Sunset Boulevard" (1994), Bathsheba in "King David" (1997), Violet Hilton in "Side Show" (1997), Fantine in "Les Misérables" (1998), Molly Ivors in "James Joyce's The Dead" (2000), Janet Weiss in "The Rocky Horror Show" (2000), one of The Sweethearts in "Dreamgirls", the concert (2001), and Diana Goodman in "Next to Normal" (2009). With the exception of "Les Misérables", Ripley was part of the original casts.
Shirley MacLaine
MacLaine made her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry" (1955), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. This was quickly followed by her role in the Martin and Lewis film "Artists and Models" (also 1955). Soon afterwards, she had a role in "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956). This was followed by "Hot Spell" and a leading role in "Some Came Running" (both 1958); for the latter film, she gained her first Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination. Her second Oscar nomination came two years later for "The Apartment" (1960), starring with Jack Lemmon. The film won five Oscars, including Best Director for Billy Wilder. She later said, "I thought I would win for "The Apartment", but then, Elizabeth Taylor had a tracheotomy." She starred in "The Children's Hour" (1961), also starring Audrey Hepburn and James Garner, based on the play by Lillian Hellman, and directed by William Wyler. She was again nominated, this time for "Irma la Douce" (1963), which reunited her with Wilder and Lemmon. Don Siegel, her director on "Two Mules for Sister Sara" (1970), said of her: "It's hard to feel any great warmth to her. She's too unfeminine, and has too much balls. She's very, very hard." At the peak of her success, she replaced Marilyn Monroe in "Irma la Douce" and "What a Way to Go!" (1964). Other films from this period include "Gambit" (1966), with Michael Caine, and the film version of the musical "Sweet Charity" (1968), based on the script for Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria" released a decade earlier.
MacLaine's documentary film "" (1975), co-directed with Claudia Weill, concentrates on the experiences of women in China. It was nominated for the year's Documentary Feature Oscar. In 1976 MacLaine appeared in a series of concerts at the London Palladium and New York's Palace Theatre. The latter of these was released as the acclaimed live album "Shirley MacLaine Live at the Palace". Co-starring with Anne Bancroft in "The Turning Point" (1977), MacLaine portrayed a retired ballerina much like herself; she was nominated for an Oscar as the Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 1978, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry. She appeared with Peter Sellers in the satire "Being There" (1979), and was cast as a photojournalist in a short-lived television sitcom, "Shirley's World" (1971–1972), co-produced by Sheldon Leonard and ITC and shot in the United Kingdom.
Dorothy Bromiley
The Girls of Pleasure Island, 1953 promotion photo. Left to right: Don Taylor, Audrey Dalton, Gene Barry, Joan Elan, Peter Baldwin, Dorothy Bromiley]]
Bromiley successfully auditioned for a role of Gloria in the Hollywood film "The Girls of Pleasure Island" (Paramount, 1952). Her major roles in several British films include sixth former Paulette at Angel Hill Grammar School (aged 26 at the time) in "It's Great to Be Young" (1956) in which Bromiley's singing voice for the Paddy Roberts/Lester Powell Ray Martin song "You are My First Love" was dubbed by Edna Savage (and by Ruby Murray in the pre-credits sequence), Rose in "A Touch Of The Sun" (1956) co-starring with Frankie Howerd, Sarah in "Zoo Baby" (1957) with Angela Baddeley, "Small Hotel" (1957), Angela in "The Criminal" (1960) and a minor role in "The Servant" (1963), the latter two directed by Losey.Bromiley made her television drama debut as Pauline Kirby in "The Lady Asks For Help" (1956) an episode of "Television Playhouse" produced by Towers of London for ITV. This was followed by the role of Ann Fleming in "Heaven and Earth" (1957) part of the "Douglas Fairbanks Presents" series for ATV. Directed by Peter Brook, it also starred Paul Scofield and Richard Johnson, and was set on board a plane that develops engine trouble. Bromiley also had roles in such popular television series as "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1956) as Lady Rowena ("Hubert" episode), "Armchair Theatre" (1957), "Play of the Week" ("Arsenic and Old Lace") (1958), "Saturday Playhouse" ("The Shop at Sly Corner") (1960), "Z-Cars" (1964), "The Power Game" (1966) and "No Hiding Place" (1965, 1966), and the television play "Jemima and Johnny" (1966). Her last television drama role was as Sarah Malory in "Fathers and Families" (BBC Television, 1977) directed by Christopher Morahan.
Kasi Lemmons
In 1979, Lemmons made her acting debut in the television movie "11th Victim" (1979). She performed with the Boston Children's Theater and later attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts but transferred to UCLA to major in history. She eventually left UCLA and enrolled in the film program at the New School for Social Research. As a young child, she got her first role on TV on a local soap opera called "You Got a Right", a courtroom drama. She played the first and only black girl who integrated to an all-white school. Her acting credits include episodic parts on shows like "As the World Turns", "Murder, She Wrote", "The Cosby Show" or "ER" and films such as Spike Lee's "School Daze" (1988), "Vampire's Kiss" (1988), the Academy Award winner for Best Picture "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), "Candyman" (1992), "Hard Target" (1993), "Fear of a Black Hat" (1993), "Gridlock'd" (1997) and "'Til There Was You" (1997).
Aimee Kelly
At 16, she auditioned for the role of Minnie McGuinness in E4's "Skins", however the role got cast to Freya Mavor. After this audition, casting director Jane Ripley contacted Kelly about "Sket." Kelly got the part of Kayla Richards, making this her debut film. The story of the British production follows Kayla as she tries to find the man who killed her sister, and along the way, she joins a gang who helps her in her search. Kelly was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the British Film Institute for this role. In 2013, she was also nominated for 'best performer' at the British Academy Children's Awards, for her role as Maddy in the CBBC show entitled "Wolfblood." However, the award went to her fellow co-star, Bobby Lockwood, who plays Rhydian Morris in "Wolfblood." Since then, Kelly has also filmed in an episode of "Call the Midwife." Debbie Moon (the creator of "Wolfblood") stated on her blog "Never Get off The Bus" that at the end of Series 2 Kelly decided to leave "Wolfblood" to return to college. On Twitter, Kelly stated that she couldn't pursue the role of Maddy because she was busy studying: ""On the contrary of the speculations I'd like to say that finishing my year at university was the reason for not returning to WB season 3"". Later she wrote: ""It wasn't an easy decision but sometimes education comes first! Thank you so much to all of you that supported me along the way! Xx"".
Gal Gadot
Gadot's first international film role came as Gisele Yashar in "Fast & Furious", a role she reprised in subsequent installments of the film franchise. She went on to earn worldwide fame for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with "" (2016), followed by the solo film "Wonder Woman" and the ensemble "Justice League" (both 2017). In 2018, Gadot was included on "Time"s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Marissa Ribisi
Ribisi's first role in a feature film was in the 1993 film "Dazed and Confused". She starred alongside Matthew McConaughey and Adam Goldberg, who were then, like Ribisi, unknowns. The actress played Cynthia, a socially marginalized girl who runs with two verbose outsiders (Goldberg and Anthony Rapp).
Birdy (film)
Elizabeth Whitcraft had been working as a waitress in Philadelphia before she was cast as Rosanne, a teenage girl who makes out with Al. The film marked her feature film debut. Maude Winchester secured the role of Doris Robinson, a teenage girl who Birdy encounters, during auditions in San Francisco. Dolores Sage, also making her film debut, plays Birdy's mother. Danny Glover secured the role of Mr. Lincoln, a bird owner who befriends Birdy, but Parker had his scene removed from the final film, explaining that it "was rather misplaced within the framework of [the] story".
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Von Scherler Mayer's feature-film directing debut was the 1995 film "Party Girl". She also co-wrote the film, which starred Parker Posey and von Scherler Mayer's mother, with her partner Harry Birckmayer. The success of the film led to a Fox television series starring Christine Taylor.
Dan O'Herlihy
His first acting role came in 1944, when he played the lead in the play "Red Roses For Me" written and directed by Sean O'Casey.
O'Herlihy first appeared in film in Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out" in 1947. His first American film role was as Macduff in Orson Welles' version of "Macbeth" (1948). In 1952, he starred in the Red Scare film "Invasion U.S.A." and, in 1954 in Luis Buñuel's "Robinson Crusoe", which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. O'Herlihy recalled that the producers of the film wanted Buñuel to use Orson Welles for the role, with Buñuel refusing saying he was too big and too fat. They arranged a screening of Welles' "Macbeth" to show how a bearded Welles would look but Buñuel demanded O'Herlihy who appeared in the film.
Anne Shirley (actress)
Born in New York City, Shirley began acting under the name of Dawn O'Day. As a baby she began modeling, and made her film debut with a featured role in 1922's "Moonshine Valley". Shirley began acting at the age of five as the live action "Alice" in Walt Disney's pre-Mickey Mouse silent animated series "Alice in Cartoonland". She had a highly successful child star career in Pre-Code movies, appearing in such films as "Liliom", Tom Mix's "Riders of the Purple Sage", "So Big", "Three on a Match" and "Rasputin and the Empress".
Daisy Ridley
Ridley has a tattoo of three stars on her left foot that she got when she was 15, a tattoo of the alchemical symbol of air on her right hip, and a peace symbol tattoo behind her right ear. As of April 2016, Ridley has a dog named Muffin. Ridley supports Premier League football club Arsenal F.C. Ridley has appeared in "People" magazine's World's Most Beautiful 2016 list. Her rise to stardom saw Ridley appear on Debrett's 2016 list of the most influential people in the UK.
Nikki Reed
Reed said that her early decision to avoid acting in television series or in mainstream cinema was naïve. She had thought at the time they were not right for her, but had since gained valuable experience in them. She had a lead role in "Mini's First Time", which received a limited release in the United States on July 14, 2006. Reed played a teenager who, through seduction, involves her stepfather in a plot to murder her mother. Reed has noted that her character does not "understand the weight of consequence". She said she had enjoyed playing someone who she describes as "crass" and having a "trucker's mouth". Reed's character has sex scenes. As Reed was 16 at the time and legally unable to film such scenes in an explicit way, she was filmed from the back to hide her face. On February 12, 2008, it was announced that Reed would portray Rosalie Hale in the film adaption of "Twilight", the first book of a popular four-novel series. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, it became an international success.
Dorothy Dandridge
Dandridge's first credited film role was in "Four Shall Die" (1940). The race film cast her as a murderer and did little for her film career. Because of her rejection of stereotypical African American roles, she had limited options for film roles. She had small roles in "Lady from Louisiana" with John Wayne and "Sundown" with Gene Tierney (both in 1941). Dandridge appeared as part of a "Specialty Number", Chattanooga Choo Choo, in the hit 1941 musical, "Sun Valley Serenade" for 20th Century Fox. The film marked a first time she performed with the Nicholas Brothers. Aside from her film appearances, Dandridge appeared in a succession of "soundies" – film clips that were displayed on jukeboxes, including "Paper Doll" by the Mills Brothers, "Cow, Cow Boogie", "Jig in the Jungle", and "Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter's Rent Party" aka "Swing for my Supper", among others. These films were noted not only for showcasing Dandridge as singer and dancer and her acting abilities, but also for featuring a strong emphasis on her physical attributes.
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Ralph began her career on the stage, and was nominated in 1982 for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Deena Jones in "Dreamgirls". In 1984, Ralph released her only album "In the Evening", in which the title track peaked at #6 on the "Billboard" "Dance Music/Club Play Singles" chart that same year. In 1988 she starred in the Disney movie "Oliver & Company", providing the voice of Rita. Her first leading role in a film came as Denzel Washington's wife in "The Mighty Quinn", released in 1989. In 1992 she starred with Robert De Niro in the title role in "Mistress". That same year, she co-starred with Eddie Murphy in "The Distinguished Gentleman". During the 1990s she also had roles in "The Flintstones", "Deterrence", and "Unconditional Love".
Amber Riley
Riley appeared at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, sang the national anthem at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and is currently working on a debut solo studio album. She also co-wrote a track titled "Leave a Light On" for British group The Saturdays, which is featured on their album "Living for the Weekend". Riley's debut single, "Colorblind", premiered live on April 3, 2014, on "The Queen Latifah Show". The song was written by Emeli Sandé, Claude Kelly and Steve Mac, and was released as a digital download on April 8, 2014. The song was also performed by Riley on "Glee". In 2015, it was reported that Riley would star in a Christmas television film, her first movie role, and her first acting role, since "Glee". In December 2015, she portrayed Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North, in NBC's live performance of "The Wiz". In February 2016, it was announced that Riley would portray the lead role of Effie White in "Dreamgirls", at the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, beginning performances in November 2016. Riley recorded a number of tracks for Todrick Hall's visual album "Straight Outta Oz".
Live action
Disney's first live action movie was "Treasure Island" in 1950. Both "Mary Poppins" (1964) and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) are examples of Disney's live action and animation combination movies. After witnessing the success of Marvel and Pixar, The Walt Disney Company decided to produce re-makes of earlier subjects, such as "The Jungle Book" in 1994 (and in 2016, another re-make was made, this time combining live action with realistic computer animation). Other successful films, such as "101 Dalmatians" and "Alice in Wonderland", as well as their respected sequels would again become live action movies, followed by "Sleeping Beauty" (narrated from Maleficent's point of view this time), "Cinderella", and "Beauty and the Beast".
Sigourney Weaver
Weaver's first role is often said to be in Woody Allen's comedy "Annie Hall" (1977) playing a non speaking role opposite Allen. Weaver appeared two years later as Warrant Officer / Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's blockbuster film "Alien" (1979), in a role initially designated to co-star British-born actress, Veronica Cartwright, until a late change in casting. Cartwright stated to World Entertainment News Network (WENN) that she was in England ready to start work on "Alien" when she discovered that she would be playing the navigator Lambert in the project, and Weaver had been given the lead role of Ripley.
Sean Young
Young was cast as Tess Trueheart in the 1990 movie "Dick Tracy". However, she was dismissed in favor of Glenne Headly for not appearing maternal in the role. Young later claimed her dismissal was punishment for her having rebuffed Warren Beatty's advances, a claim Beatty denies. In 1991, she was awarded the Worst Actress and the Worst Supporting Actress Razzies for her roles in "A Kiss Before Dying". She played a supporting role in the 1994 comedy "". She also played Helen Hyde in the 1995 comedy "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde", in which she performed the first two-way footsie (foot-in-crotch) scene in cinema.
Dido Miles
Miles made her first high profile appearance and film debut in the movie "Black Beauty" (1994) in a supporting role, before going on to star in "First Knight" during 1995 before gaining further recognition from various guest roles in television shows such as "Casualty", "Wycliffe" and "Frontiers". Miles starred in the movie "Emma" (1996) as Isabella Knight, the movie went n to be awarded two Primetime Emmy Awards. Following this, Miles went on to appear in British shows such as "The Bill" (2003),"Making Waves" (2004), "Silent Witness" (2006), "EastEnders" (2009) and "Dani's House" (2009). In 2012, Miles went on to make her first appearance in the BBC One soap "Doctors" in the episode "Reports of My Death" as Dr. Emma Reid. On her new role in "Doctors" Miles stated that there "twists and turns" coming up for her character, and that the storyline will become darker and the viewers will "see that as it unfolds". Whilst on the show Miles's character's storylines have included dealing with her marriage breakdown, being raped, having a very difficult relationship with her son as he goes toward criminality, almost killing her husband, medical malpractice, struggling with coming out as a lesbian, having a relationship with a married woman and suffering from depression. For her portrayal of Emma Reid in the show over the years Miles has garnered several nominations at "The British Soap Awards", under the category of "Best Onscreen Partnership" paired with Ian Kelsey at the 2016 awards and also under "Best Dramatic Performance" at the 2013 and 2017 awards.
Jessica Walter
Her earliest notable film role was in the movie "Play Misty for Me" (1971), in which she played a young woman with behavior consistent with borderline personality disorder who becomes infatuated with and ultimately stalks a disc jockey. For her performance, Walter received a Golden Globe Award nomination in the Best Motion Picture Actress – Drama category and critical praise, with Roger Ebert describing Walter as demonstrating "unnerving effectiveness" in the role. Walter's other film credits from that era include "Lilith" (1964), "Grand Prix" (1966), "The Group" (1966), "Bye Bye Braverman" (1968) and "Number One" (1969).
Daisy Ridley
Also in 2018, Ridley will film "Daddio", a film that follows a woman who is picked up by a cab at JFK airport and driven to her apartment in Manhattan. On the way there, the woman and cabdriver begin discussing their past and current relationships and the effects those relationships have had on their lives. Additionally, Ridley will reteam with director J. J. Abrams for "Kolma", which Abrams will also produce, a supernatural drama that finds a young woman who has suffered from a car crash that killed her boyfriend. When she dies decades later, she is given the choice of returning to the day of the accident to live her life again or being reunited with her love. Ridley will star in "The Lost Wife" as Lanka, a Polish art student who has a love affair with her best friend's older brother that is torn apart by the German invasion during the onset of World War II. Ridley has also signed on to star in "A Woman of No Importance", another Abrams-produced biographical political-thriller film based on Sonia Purnell's book of the same name. Ridley will portray American heiress and super-spy Virginia Hall, who attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Ridley will reteam with actor Josh Gad in the superhero-comedy "Super-Normal", to be released by Netflix. Ridley will also star in "Piece of Mind".
Daisy Ridley
In March 2019, Ridley will co-star in the "Chaos Walking", an adaptation of the young adult novel by Patrick Ness, as Viola Eade opposite Tom Holland as Todd Hewitt. The project was filmed from August to November 2017. In December 2019, Ridley will reprise her role as Rey in "", the last film in the sequel trilogy, filming in the summer of 2018.
Laura Dern
Dern also auditioned for the iconic character Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), but lost the role due to studio's skepticism about her bankability.
In 1992, she and her mother became the first mother and daughter to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in the same film in "Rambling Rose" although, unlike in "Wild at Heart", they did not play mother and daughter in the film. Dern starred as Dr. Ellie Sattler in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Jurassic Park". That same year, Clint Eastwood contacted the actress for his film "A Perfect World". She also starred as Ruth in the 1996 film "Citizen Ruth", the directorial debut of Alexander Payne. Dern's mother makes a cameo appearance, playing Dern's character's mother, with Dern's character screaming a torrent of abuse at her.
Daisy Ridley
Ridley became executive producer of the documentary "The Eagle Huntress" in January 2016. Director Otto Bell said of her commitment, "Like so many other theatergoers around the world, I was blown away by Daisy's recent portrayal of an empowered female protagonist. I'm thrilled she'll be bringing that same energy to supporting a real-world heroine who is also on an epic journey to win victory in a far away land." The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2016, with Ridley narrating. She was one of several actors featured on Barbra Streisand's 2016 album "". Along with Anne Hathaway, Ridley and Streisand perform the song "At the Ballet" from "A Chorus Line", with Ridley performing the role of Bebe, one of a trio of dancers hoping to be cast in an upcoming show.
Judy Davis
After making her feature film debut in the 1977 buddy comedy "High Rolling", Davis first came to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga "My Brilliant Career" (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer. Davis was particularly praised for her performance; Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" admired her for bringing "an unconventional vigor to every scene she's in, even in a film that's as consistently animated as this one," while Luke Buckmaster, writing for "The Guardian" in 2014, opined that Davis gave "a rousing performance as bull-headed protagonist Sybylla Melvyn. The term “once in a lifetime” tends to be slapped around like a bumper sticker, but this meaty role lives up to the accolade." Her breakthrough success continued with lead roles in the Australian New Wave classics "Winter of Our Dreams", as a waif-like heroin addict, the drama "Heatwave", as a radical tenant organizer, and the thriller "Hoodwink", as a sexually-repressed clergyman's wife. Of her performance in "Winter of Our Dreams", Roger Ebert noted, "Davis brought a kind of wiry, feisty intelligence to "My Brilliant Career", playing an Australian farm woman who rather felt she would do things her own way. She's wonderful again this time, in a completely different role as an insecure, distrustful, skinny street waif. [She] performs her movement magnificently."
Diana Rigg
Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle", and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of "Abelard & Heloise". Her film roles include Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1968); Lady Holiday in "The Great Muppet Caper" (1981); and Arlena Marshall in "Evil Under the Sun" (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1989 BBC miniseries "Mother Love", and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in the 1997 adaptation of "Rebecca". Her other television credits include "You, Me and the Apocalypse" (2015), "Detectorists" (2015), and the "Doctor Who" episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) opposite her daughter, Rachael Stirling.
Aimee Kelly
Before pursuing a career in acting, Kelly attended Sacred Heart Catholic High School which was where her English teacher persuaded her to go further in performing arts at the age of 11. She also did extra-curricular drama lessons at the Sage Academy of Performing Arts (along with her twin, Katie). She then applied to take A levels at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, which is where Daisy Ridley also attended, leaving her mother and two sisters in Newcastle to become a boarder for two years at the Hertfordshire campus. Before getting the role of Kayla in Sket, Kelly worked as a waitress in a bar and as a shop assistant.
Keira Knightley
After getting an agent at the age of six, Knightley began working in commercials and small television roles. Her first on-screen appearance was in the 1993 television film, "Royal Celebration". She then played Natasha Jordan, a young girl whose mother is involved in an extramarital affair, in the romantic drama "A Village Affair" (1995). After appearing in a spate of television films through the mid-to-late 1990s, including "Innocent Lies" (1995), "The Treasure Seekers" (1996), "Coming Home" (1998), and "Oliver Twist" (1999), Knightley landed the role of Sabé, Padmé Amidala's handmaiden and decoy, in the 1999 science fiction blockbuster "". Her dialogue was dubbed over by Natalie Portman, who played Padmé. Knightley was cast in the role because of her close resemblance to Portman; even the two actors' mothers had difficulty telling their daughters apart when they were in full make-up.
Dominique Dunne
In 1981, she was cast in her first feature film, "Poltergeist". Dunne portrayed Dana Freeling, the teenaged daughter of a couple whose family is terrorized by ghosts. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, the film opened on June 4, 1982, and went on to gross more than $70 million. This was her only theatrical film appearance before her death. After "Poltergeist", she appeared in the final season premiere episode of "CHiPs" and the 1982 television film "The Shadow Riders", starring Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott.
Fay Ripley
Ripley's early television and film career was characterised by minor roles as prostitutes or mistresses; in what was to be her film debut, she filmed two scenes as a prostitute in the film "Frankenstein" (Kenneth Branagh, 1994). In the first scene, her character was strangled by the creature (played by Robert De Niro's stand-in). The second scene featured De Niro himself, though Ripley's character was lying dead in a mortuary throughout. Pleased with what looked like her breakout role, Ripley bought a dress for the premiere, though she was distraught when Branagh sent her a card apologising for cutting her scenes from the finished film. The same year, she filmed the role of Karen Hughes, the sister of a mute character who believes she sees a murder, in the low-budget film "Mute Witness" (Anthony Waller, 1995). After "Mute Witness"s British television premiere in 1999, a "Daily Record" critic wrote that Ripley's dramatic scenes were not as good as her comic ones.
Doris Day
Day's film career began during the latter part of the Classical Hollywood Film era with the 1948 film "Romance on the High Seas", and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in "Calamity Jane" (1953), and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the bedroom comedies she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner, such as "Pillow Talk" (1959) and "Move Over, Darling" (1963), respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom "The Doris Day Show" (1968–1973).
Diana Ross
In 1971, Diana Ross began working on her first film, "Lady Sings the Blues", which was a loosely based biography on singer Billie Holiday. Despite some criticism of her for taking the role, once the film opened in October 1972, Ross won critical acclaim for her performance in the film. Jazz critic Leonard Feather, a friend of Holiday's, praised Ross for "expertly capturing the essence of Lady Day". Ross's role in the film won her Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. The soundtrack to "Lady Sings the Blues" became just as successful, reaching No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200 staying there for two weeks.
Alison Pill
Pill decided to become an actor when she was 10 years old. As a member of the Toronto Children's Chorus, she was chosen to narrate one of their performances. Her mother tried to discourage Pill by getting her a job as a background performer on the series "". By the time she was 11, she'd played a guest role on an episode of the kids' series "The New Ghostwriter Mysteries". At 12, she landed roles in two TV movies and a mini-series, a guest appearance on the TV series "PSI Factor" and voiced a character on an animated series. After roles in two more television movies, she landed her first feature film role, a small budget Canadian movie called "The Life Before This" in 1999, followed by the role of Jacob's older sister Marfa in "Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang". Pill played roles in four more TV movies before the age of fourteen. The next year, she landed a small role in "Skipped Parts" in 2000 starring Drew Barrymore and Mischa Barton, then appeared in four more TV movies and features that year, including playing Farrah Fawcett's daughter in the TNT network movie "Baby" and a lead role in the Canadian film "The Dinosaur Hunter", which was originally intended to be shown at a dinosaur museum and on a provincial education channel, but which made its way to the Burbank International Film Festival, winning Pill an award for "Best Child Actress". She landed the role of young Lorna in the ABC-TV biopic "" in 2001, based on the memoir by Garland's daughter, Lorna Luft. That year, Pill also played Sissy Spacek's daughter in the TV flick "Midwives".
Vin Diesel
Diesel's first film role was a brief uncredited appearance in the drama film "Awakenings" (1990). He then wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short drama film "Multi-Facial" (1994), a semi-autobiographical film which follows a struggling multiracial actor stuck in the audition process. The film was selected for screening at the 1995 Cannes Festival. Diesel made his first feature-length film, "Strays" (1997), an urban drama in which he played a gang leader whose love for a woman inspires him to try to change his ways. Written, directed, and produced by Diesel, the film was selected for competition at the 1997 Sundance Festival, leading to an MTV deal to turn it into a series. He was then cast in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Oscar-winning film "Saving Private Ryan" on the poignancy of his performance in "Multi-Facial".
Jodie Foster
A child prodigy, Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom "Mayberry R.F.D." In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series and made her film debut with Disney's "Napoleon and Samantha" (1972). Following appearances in the musical "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), Foster's breakthrough came with Scorsese's psychological thriller "Taxi Driver" (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; at age 14, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other praised roles as a teenager were in the musical "Bugsy Malone" (1976) and the thriller "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's "Freaky Friday" (1976) and "Candleshoe" (1977), as well as "Carny" (1980) and "Foxes" (1980).
Little Annie Rooney
Prior to the creation of the identically titled comic strip, Mary Pickford starred as a girl of the slums in William Beaudine's 1925 silent comedy-drama "Little Annie Rooney" (United Artists), set in New York's Lower East Side. Audiences found nothing unusual about 32-year-old Mary Pickford portraying a 12-year-old, and this became one of her more successful films. Turner Classic Movies has aired a restored version. The Fleischer Studios did a "Little Annie Rooney" animated "Screen Song" in 1931. Shirley Temple did her first teenage role (receiving her second screen kiss) in "Miss Annie Rooney" (1942); the George Bruce screenplay is not an adaptation of the comic strip but instead dramatizes the situation of a poor girl with a wealthy boyfriend. In Gavin Lambert's 1963 novel "Inside Daisy Clover," which is set in the 1950s, Daisy becomes a star after appearing in her first movie, a musical remake of Mary Pickford's "Little Annie Rooney."
Daisy Ridley
In January 2018, Ridley starred in "Ophelia", a reimagining of the Hamlet tale, alongside Naomi Watts and Clive Owen, in the titular role. The project was filmed from April to July 2017 and debuted at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. In February 2018, Ridley voiced the role of Cottontail in "Peter Rabbit", an adaptation of the children's stories of the same name by Beatrix Potter.
Diana Decker
Her first film appearance was in 1943, an uncredited role in "San Demetrio London", and the following year she appeared in the musical comedy "Fiddlers Three". Further film roles followed, including parts in "The Root of All Evil" (1947), "When You Come Home" (1948), "Murder at the Windmill" (1949), "Saturday Island" (1952), "Will Any Gentleman...?" (1953), and "Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?" (1953). She specialised in "dizzy blonde" roles in light comedy films and also played this stereotype in a small part in her most significant film appearance in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954). In 1947 Decker was also one of the first performers to gain fame from a TV ad campaign, playing "Miriam" in a Pepsodent commercial, with the catch phrase "Irium, Miriam?"
Liza Minnelli
Her first appearance on film is as the baby in the very last shot of her mother's film, "In the Good Old Summertime" (1949). Her first credited film role was as the love-interest in Albert Finney's only film as director and star, "Charlie Bubbles" (1967), although four years earlier, she did voice-over work for the animated film "Journey Back to Oz", a sequel to the 1939 MGM film "The Wizard of Oz". Minnelli was the voice of Dorothy (a character played in the earlier film by her mother Judy Garland) in what would have been her first credited film role had it been released in 1964 as planned—the Filmation production was delayed, eventually being released in the UK during 1972.
Spike Lee
In 1985, Lee began work on his first feature film, "She's Gotta Have It". With a budget of $175,000, he shot the film in two weeks. When the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7,000,000 at the U.S. box office. Lee's 1989 film "Do the Right Thing" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. Many people, including Hollywood's Kim Basinger, believed that "Do the Right Thing" also deserved a Best Picture nomination. "Driving Miss Daisy" won Best Picture that year. Lee said in an April 7, 2006, interview with "New York" magazine that the other film's success, which he thought was based on safe stereotypes, hurt him more than if his film had not been nominated for an award.
Dolores Gray
Her career commenced as a cabaret artist in restaurants and supper clubs in San Francisco. In 1945 she appeared in her own radio program. While she was appearing in "Annie Get Your Gun" in London (1947 – 1950), she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1948. As a fundraiser to help rebuild the RADA theatre, she appeared as Nell Gwynne in "In Good King Charles's Golden Days" at Drury Lane Theatre (Oct 1948). She appeared at the London Palladium in 1958 while doing a concert tour of Europe and in cabaret at The Talk of the Town in February 1963. Among her many stage roles, she appeared in "Two on the Aisle" (1951), "Carnival In Flanders" (1953); "Destry Rides Again" (1959); "Sherry!" (1967); and "42nd Street" (1986). She also performed the lead role in "Annie Get Your Gun" in its first London production (1947). Gray won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her role in "Carnival in Flanders", even though this Broadway musical, with a script by Preston Sturges, ran for only six performances. She therefore holds a record that is unlikely to be broken: briefest run in a performance which still earned a Tony. She is the first person to have sung the English version of the French song "C'est si bon" in a movie : "" directed by John Nasht.
Daisy Burrell
Burrell's first screen role came in "The Valley of Fear" (1916), an early Sherlock Holmes film, in which she was the leading lady. She was offered the part after the producer G. B. Samuelson saw her playing "Cinderella" at the London Palladium. Burrell was represented by Julian Wylie, who boasted in "The Stage Year Book": "During 1916 I made Contracts for the following Artistes: Bairnsfather's "Fragments from France", Daisy Burrell, Gladys Cooper, Phyllis Dare, ... Mabel Love ... Vesta Tilley, Madge Titheradge &c. &c." Several other film roles followed. In her second film, "Just a Girl" (1916), she plays the Australian heiress Esmeralda, who spurns an English lord (played by Owen Nares) to marry a miner.
Charles Nelson Reilly
Reilly made his film debut with an uncredited role in "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), directed by Elia Kazan, although most of his early career was spent on the stage. He was a regular and popular performer in comic roles for several summer seasons in the 1950s at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. Reilly appeared in many Off Broadway productions. His big break came in 1960 with the enormously successful original Broadway production of "Bye Bye Birdie". In the groundbreaking musical, Reilly had a small onstage part and was the standby for Dick Van Dyke in the leading role of Albert Peterson.
Ashley Judd
Judd appeared as Ensign Robin Lefler, a Starfleet officer, in two 1991 episodes of "", "Darmok" and "". From 1991 to 1994, she had a recurring role as Reed, the daughter of Alex (Swoosie Kurtz), on the NBC drama "Sisters". She made her feature film debut with a small role in 1992's "Kuffs". In 1993, Judd fought for and was cast in her first starring role playing the title character in Victor Nuñez's Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize dramatic winner "Ruby in Paradise". Convinced that this role would shape the rest of her career, Judd was extremely nervous for the audition, nearly getting into a car accident en route. "From the first three sentences, I knew it was written for me", she told the "San Jose Mercury News". She received rave reviews playing Ruby Lee Gissing, a young woman trying to make a new life for herself, and it was this performance that would launch her career as an actress. Nuñez told author James L. Dickerson that the resonance of the character was Judd's creation: "The resonance, those moments, was not contrived. It was just a matter of creating the scene and trusting that it was worth telling."
Liza Snyder
Snyder began her career appearing in episodes of television dramas such as "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" and "Murder, She Wrote". In 1993, she landed the leading role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and then syndicated crime drama "Sirens". After the series was canceled, she co-starred in two made-for-television movies, and guest starred on "Chicago Hope", and "Pacific Blue". From 1998 to 2000, she was regular cast member in the NBC sitcom "Jesse" starring Christina Applegate. She made her big screen debut in a secondary role in "Pay It Forward" directed by Mimi Leder. Later that year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom "Yes, Dear". The series ended in 2006.
Rosario Dawson
Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress, producer, singer, comic book writer, and political activist. She made her feature film debut in the 1995 independent drama "Kids". Her subsequent film roles include "He Got Game" (1998), "Josie and the Pussycats" (2001), "Men in Black II" (2002), "25th Hour" (2002), "Rent" (2005), "Sin City" (2005), "Death Proof" (2007), "Seven Pounds" (2008), "" (2010), "Unstoppable" (2010) and "Top Five" (2014). Dawson has also provided voice-over work for Disney and DC Comics.
Daisy Duck
Janet Waldo, Voiced Daisy in her debut in "Mr. Duck Steps Out" with a "marking the debut of Daisy's "normal" voices for 7 of her nine speaking appearances during the classic shorts era. After Janet Waldo returned for one more performance, Peggy Lee voiced Daisy in her 1 classic cartoon, "Crazy Over Daisy" (1950), Jean Vander Pyl voiced Daisy (and also her grandmother duck) voiced by Joan Gardner in her final classic cartoon, "Donald's Diary" (1954). In 1983 Daisy was voiced by Patricia Parris in "Mickey's Christmas Carol". Daisy was then voiced by Kath Soucie, in "Down and Out with Donald Duck" (1987) and then throughout her first regular television series "Quack Pack" (1996). In 1998 Daisy was voiced by Diane Michelle in the anthology film "The Spirit of Mickey". Also in "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas" (1999) along with Tress MacNeille. In 1999 Tress MacNeille took over as Daisy's full-time voice. Tress MacNeille has voiced Daisy in the television series "Mickey Mouse Works", "Disney's House of Mouse", and "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse". MacNeille has also voiced Daisy in television specials and movies. Daisy was also voiced by Russi Taylor in "Fantasia 2000" although she had no lines; just a scream.
Daisy Duck
Daisy was introduced in the short film "Mr. Duck Steps Out" (1940) and was incorporated into Donald's comic stories several months later. She appeared in 11 short films between 1940 and 1954, and far later in "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983) and "Fantasia 2000" (1999). In these roles, Daisy was always a supporting character, with the exception of "Donald's Dilemma" (1947). Daisy has received considerably more screen time in television, making regular appearances in "Quack Pack" (1996), "Mickey Mouse Works" (1999-2000), "Disney's House of Mouse" (2001–2003), and "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" (2006–2016). Daisy has also appeared in several direct-to-video films such as "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas" (1999) and "" (2004).
Mary Lee (actress)
Mary Lee's first screen appearance was with Warner Bros., in "Nancy Drew... Reporter", released February 18, 1939, where she portrayed Mary Nickerson, the younger sister of Nancy Drew's (Bonita Granville) boyfriend, Ted Nickerson (Frank Thomas, Jr.). The film utilized her vocal talents in the "Nursery Rhyme Medley". In the fall of 1939, Mary Lee accepted a job at Republic Pictures where she starred alongside Gene Autry and June Storey in "South of the Border" (15 December 1939). Republic signed her to a five-year contract in June 1940. She starred in a total of nine Autry films, the first five of those with June Storey, always playing the leading lady's younger sister "Patsy" except in "Melody Ranch" (15 November 1940) where her character's name was "Penny". Mary Lee's last appearance in an Autry film was in "The Singing Hill" (26 April 1941) with Virginia Dale. She also appeared in nine additional Republic feature films, including "Barnyard Follies" in 1940 with June Storey and younger sister Norma Jean Wooters and two Roy Rogers films in 1944, plus three of Republic's "Meet the Stars" shorts.
Alyson Reed
Reed made her Broadway debut in "Dancin'" in 1978. Additional Broadway credits include "Oh Brother", "Dance a Little Closer", "Cabaret", "A Grand Night for Singing", and "". She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for "Cabaret" and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for "Marilyn". In 1992, she starred opposite Michael O'Keefe in the national touring company of "A Few Good Men" in the role of Lt. Cmdr. Galloway, and also toured as Cassie/Val in "A Chorus Line", and Catherine in "Pippin". She has numerous regional credits and can be heard on various cast albums.
Reed's most notable screen role was Cassie in Richard Attenborough's film adaptation of "A Chorus Line", and she also appeared in the comedy "Skin Deep" with John Ritter. Her many television credits range from: "Modern Family", "Mad Men", "Grey's Anatomy" and "Bones" back to "Matlock", "L.A. Law", "Murder, She Wrote", "Frasier", "Law & Order", "Without a Trace", "ER", "Judging Amy", "Chicago Hope", "The X-Files" to "", "Nip/Tuck", "Crossing Jordan", "Numb3rs", "Boston Legal", "NYPD Blue" and "Desperate Housewives".
Rita Quigley
A visit to the commissary of Universal Pictures in 1939 led to Quigley's film career. She was seen by producer Joe Pasternak as she ate lunch with her mother and her sister, and that contact resulted in a role for her in the Deanna Durbin film "First Love".
Minnie Driver
Driver's television debut was in a 1991 TV advertisement for Right Guard deodorant. Driver also made her stage debut in 1991, supplementing her income by performing as a jazz vocalist and guitarist. She appeared on British television with comedians Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci, and had small parts in "Casualty", "The House of Eliott", "Lovejoy" and "Peak Practice". Driver gained broader public attention when she played the lead role in "Circle of Friends" in 1995. She followed this with supporting roles in "GoldenEye" (1995), "Sleepers" (1996), "Big Night" (1996) and "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997). She played opposite Matt Damon as Skylar in the drama "Good Will Hunting" (1997), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Daisy Head
In May 2017 it was announced that she would be starring alongside Daisy Ridley in "Ophelia".
Dorothy Page (actress)
That same year, Universal Pictures signed her to a contract. Her first film was "Manhattan Blue", starring opposite Ricardo Cortez, which saw moderate success and placed a spotlight on her talent as a singer and an actress. She then starred in "King Solomon of Broadway" opposite Edmund Lowe and Pinky Tomlin. That film was only moderately successful, and it wasn't until 1938 that she starred in another film, this time alongside Mary Boland and Ernest Truex in "Mama Runs Wild". That movie also was not successful, and Page was not given any singing parts in the film.
Demi Moore
Moore made her film debut with a brief role in the 1981 teen drama "Choices", directed by Silvio Narizzano. Her second film feature was the 3-D sci-fi horror film "Parasite" (1982), for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen." Moore then joined the cast of the ABC soap opera "General Hospital", playing the role of an investigative reporter until 1983. During her tenure on the series, she made an uncredited cameo appearance in the 1982 spoof film "Young Doctors in Love".
Diane Bond
Bond appeared as Emily Lawrence in a 1964 episode of "Petticoat Junction" called "Mother of the Bride". She received featured billing in 1965's "A Swingin' Summer", as the "girl in the polka dot bikini" and the opening credits show her in her pink and white bikini dancing on water skis. The film starred James Stacy, William Wellman Jr., Quinn O’Hara and a newcomer, Raquel Welch. Her next film, "Tickle Me" (1965), starring Elvis Presley was limited to a few appearances at the swimming pool. She returned to television with a couple of appearances in 1965 on "The Beverly Hillbillies" with a role as a beach extra, and then did a role doubling for Claudia Cardinale in "Blindfold" (1966).
Aisling Walsh
In 1985, Walsh wrote and directed her first short film, which was titled "Hostage". She followed this up with her feature film directorial debut, "Joyriders" (1989), before transitioning into television work throughout the 1990s. Her television work in this period includes episodes of "The Bill" (1991–1994), "Doctor Finlay" (1993), "Roughnecks" (1995), and "Trial & Retribution" (1997–2002). In 2003, Walsh wrote and directed her second feature film, "Song for a Raggy Boy", which won multiple awards at international film festivals, including the Best Film award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival. Her third feature film, "The Daisy Chain", a horror-thriller film, was released in 2008.
Frances Ruffelle
Ruffelle's first West End appearance was as Louisa in Terence Rattigan's "The Sleeping Prince". In 1984, she took on the principal role of Dinah in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Starlight Express" in the original London cast. A year later, she had left "Starlight" and joined the original London cast of "Les Misérables" as Éponine. Though virtually an unknown outside of the West End, she and Colm Wilkinson were invited to reprise their roles for the Broadway launch. Ruffelle won multiple awards (including the Tony) for her role. She returned to the role she originated in 1997 in the West End of London. Her subsequent work on stage included the Ian Dury musical "Apples" in 1989 and Stephen Schwartz's "Children of Eden" in 1990, featuring on the cast albums of both. She has also starred as the female lead Roxie Hart in "Chicago", as well as appearing in "Lucky Stiff",
Daisy Duke
In the 2007 film, "", Daisy starts out as an innocent Bible school girl and does not dress particularly attractively. She wears large flannel shirts, jeans, big glasses, and her hair in a bun. To get a job as a waitress at the Boar's Nest and to attract Hughie Hogg (Boss's nephew), she decides to change her look. She goes through several outfits before finally settling on her signature look. She is also a brunette in this movie. Daisy is played by April Scott.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and appeared alongside her brother in the cult favorite "Donnie Darko" (2001). She received critical acclaim for her starring roles in the independent films "Secretary" (2002) and "Sherrybaby" (2006), earning Golden Globe nominations in the Comedy and Drama categories, respectively. In 2008, she received widespread recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in Christopher Nolan's superhero film "The Dark Knight". Her other film credits include "Adaptation.", "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (both 2002), "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003), "Happy Endings" (2005), "Paris, je t'aime", "World Trade Center", "Stranger Than Fiction" (all 2006), and "Away We Go" (2009). For her performance in "Crazy Heart" (2009), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the films "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang" (2010), "Won't Back Down" (2012), "Hysteria" (2011), "White House Down" (2013), and "Frank" (2014).
Daisy Irani (actress)
Daisy Irani (born 1950) is an Indian actor of Bollywood and Tollywood films. She was a popular Bollywood and Kollywood child actor in the 1950s and 1960s. She is most known for films such as "Bandish" (1955), "Ek Hi Raasta" (1956), "Naya Daur" (1957), "Hum Panchhi Ek Dal Ke" (1957), "Jailor" (1958), "Qaidi No 911" (1959) and "Do Ustad" (1959). As a supporting actress, she acted in "Kati Patang" in 1971.
Dana Ivey
Ivey's first film appearance was in Joe Dante's 1985 science fiction fantasy film "Explorers" with Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. Her first major screen appearance was in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" later that same year. Among her other film credits are "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", the 1995 remake of "Sabrina", "Simon Birch", "Postcards from the Edge", "", "The Addams Family", "Addams Family Values", "", "The Adventures of Huck Finn", "Orange County", "Rush Hour 3", the 2011 version of "The Importance of Being Earnest", and as Sandra Bullock's character's mother, Mrs. Kelson, in "Two Weeks Notice". In 2011, she played the role of Grace Higginbotham in the critically acclaimed film, "The Help", and starred in "Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight".
Princess Daisy
Daisy was one of the main characters of 1993's "Super Mario Bros." film, loosely based on the games, in which she was portrayed by Samantha Mathis. In the film, Daisy is a student of archaeology at New York University whom Luigi falls in love with. While digging for dinosaur bones under the Brooklyn Bridge, Daisy is kidnapped by two henchmen of President Koopa, the dictator of an alternate world in which dinosaurs rule, of which Daisy is actually the princess. Due to the larger role she plays in the movie, it is speculated that her role was merged with Princess Peach's. Luigi and Mario give chase in order to rescue her. Daisy also appeared once again as the prisoner of Tatanga in some episodes of the "Nintendo Comics System".
Paula Wessely
Wessely, who was not particularly photogenic, was passed over in favor of Magda Schneider for the role of Christine in Max Ophüls' 1933 filmization of Arthur Schnitzler's "Liebelei", a part she had played at Theater in der Josefstadt. Her first major movie role was that of Leopoldine Dur in the 1934 film "Maskerade" directed by Willi Forst, together with Adolf Wohlbrück. Further appearances in films like "Episode" by Walter Reisch, for which she was awarded the Volpi Cup as best actress at the 1935 Venice Film Festival, finally made her a star. In 1938 she was the speaking voice of Snow White in the first German-dubbed version of Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Immediately banned by the Nazi authorities after the Austrian "Anschluss" in the same year, this version was re-released in 1948 in Austria and in 1950 in West Germany (the first public performance ever), for the last time performed in 1957. As Disney Germany re-dubbed this movie in 1966 and again in 1994, both older versions are no longer available — although they are archived at London. Like her brother-in-law Paul Hörbiger, Wessely had publicly acclaimed the "Anschluss", after which she smoothly continued her film and theatre career. Her most notorious movie appearance was in the anti-Polish Nazi propaganda film "Heimkehr" ("Homecoming") by Gustav Ucicky in 1941. Heavily criticized by Austrian intellectuals after World War II, she later publicly regretted her involvement.
Blue Velvet (film)
The cast of "Blue Velvet" included several then-relatively unknown actors. Isabella Rossellini had gained some exposure before the film for her Lancôme ads in the early 1980s and for being the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. After completion of the film, during test screenings, ICM Partners—the agency representing Rossellini—immediately dropped her as a client. Furthermore, the nuns at the school in Rome that Rossellini attended in her youth called to say they were praying for her. Dennis Hopper was the biggest "name" in the film, having starred in "Easy Rider" (1969), while Kyle MacLachlan had played the central role in Lynch's critical and commercial failure "Dune" (1984), a science fiction epic based on the novel of the same name. MacLachlan later became a recurring collaborator with Lynch, who remarked: "Kyle plays innocents who are interested in the mysteries of life. He's the person you trust enough to go into a strange world with." Dennis Hopper—said to be Lynch's third choice (Michael Ironside has stated that Frank was written with him in mind)—accepted the role, reportedly having exclaimed, "I've got to play Frank! I am Frank!" as Hopper confirmed in the "Blue Velvet" "making-of" documentary "The Mysteries of Love," produced for the 2002 special edition. Harry Dean Stanton and Steven Berkoff both turned down the role of Frank because of the violent content in the film. For the role of Dorothy Vallens, Lynch met Isabella Rossellini at a restaurant, and she accepted the role. Laura Dern, then just 19 years old, was cast after various successful actresses at the time turned it down, including Molly Ringwald.
Merete Van Kamp
Van Kamp's first film role was in the 1983 espionage thriller, "The Osterman Weekend", directed by Sam Peckinpah. She played the lead roles of Princess Daisy Valenski and Dannie Valenski that same year in the NBC TV miniseries "Princess Daisy", written by Judith Krantz. She was then chosen from 700 hopeful actresses to feature as a major cast member in the TV series "Dallas", appearing as Grace in all 17 episodes of the 1985-86 dream season.
Rachel Weisz
Weisz started her film career with a minor role in the 1994 film "Death Machine", but her first major role came in the 1996 film "Chain Reaction", which also starred Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman. While the film received mostly negative reviews–it holds a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes-it was a minor financial success. She next appeared as Miranda Fox in "Stealing Beauty", directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, where she was first labelled an "English rose".
Kathy Najimy
Najimy's film career began in the early 1990s, with a number of offbeat minor roles in "The Fisher King", "Soapdish", "This Is My Life", "The Hard Way". Her first major role was as Sister Mary Patrick in the 1992 comedy "Sister Act". She reprised this role in 1993 in "Sister Act 2". She also starred in "Hocus Pocus" as Mary Sanderson, alongside Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker. Premiering in August 2015, Najimy appeared in Disney's "Descendants" as the Evil Queen. In 1999, she played the Stepmother in "CinderElmo", a primetime special for "Sesame Street". In 2001, she co-starred in the hit comedy film "Rat Race" alongside John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Lovitz and Seth Green. She has made four movies with Goldberg ("Soapdish", "Sister Act 1" and "2", and "Rat Race"). Najimy starred in Pixar's Academy Award winning film "WALL-E" and Tyler Perry's "A Madea Christmas". She appeared in Netflix's 2018 film "Dumplin'" alongside Jennifer Aniston.
Deborah Foreman
Four weeks after arriving in Los Angeles, Foreman earned her SAG card after appearing in a McDonald's of England commercial. Resolving to become a serious actress, she took acting lessons from a variety of teachers. Her first acting job was in a comedy pilot for NBC's "The Grady Nutt Show". More TV work and two supporting film roles soon followed. After a 1983 appearance on the popular sitcom "Family Ties", her first starring role in a feature film was "Valley Girl" (1983) with the then-little-known Nicolas Cage, which brought her national fame. Initially, a "New York Times" reviewer did not understand the movie "Valley Girl" while her counterpart at the "Los Angeles Times" enjoyed the same movie. Mark Deming of AllMovie wrote that Foreman "made an indelible impression on fans of 1980s pop culture with her performance in the title role of the film "Valley Girl"."
Rey (Star Wars)
Rey is a fictional character in the "Star Wars" franchise portrayed by English actress Daisy Ridley. First appearing as the main character in "", Rey is a scavenger who was left behind on the planet Jakku when she was a child, and later becomes involved with the Resistance's conflict with the First Order when her solitary life is interrupted by BB-8, the droid of ace Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, and a runaway Stormtrooper named Finn.
Ashley Judd
Judd has had leading roles in films including "Ruby in Paradise" (1993), "Norma Jean & Marilyn" (1996), A Time to Kill (1996 film), "Kiss the Girls" (1997), "Double Jeopardy" (1999), "Where the Heart Is" (2000), "High Crimes" (2002), "De-Lovely" (2004), "Bug" (2006), "Dolphin Tale" (2011), "Divergent" (2014), "Dolphin Tale 2" (2014), and "" (2015). She starred as Rebecca Winstone in the 2012 television series "Missing", for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. In 2010, she earned a one-year mid-career master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is a well-known Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball fan, being present at most games.
Diana Rigg
She appeared on television as Mrs. Danvers in "Rebecca" (1997), winning an Emmy, as well as the PBS production "Moll Flanders", and as the amateur detective Mrs. Bradley in "The Mrs Bradley Mysteries". In this BBC series, first aired in 2000, she played Gladys Mitchell's detective, Dame Beatrice Adela Le Strange Bradley, an eccentric old woman who worked for Scotland Yard as a pathologist. The series was not a critical success and did not return for a second season.
Rileah Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt's film debut was "Hatchet", where she played the Young Victor Crowley. She reprised the role in "Hatchet 2" and played Officer Dougherty in "Hatchet 3"; she also had minor roles in "Spiral" and "Frozen".
Merry Anders
In 1962, Anders was cast in the first English-language live action film adaptation of the 18th century French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". In 1965, she appeared opposite Elvis Presley in the musical comedy "Tickle Me".
The following year, she appeared in the recurring role of "Alice" in the teen soap opera "Never Too Young". Later that year, Anders had a supporting role in the B movie "Women of the Prehistoric Planet". From 1967-68, she appeared in seven episodes of Jack Webb's "Dragnet" series on NBC, in which she played policewoman Dorothy Miller. She appeared in a recurring role on "Lassie".
Daisy Burrell
In July 1924 she joined a touring company for George M. Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly", playing the lead part of Nellie. In late August, she was taken ill and Patrina Carlyon stepped into the role. By this point in her stage career she was represented by the Akerman May Agency, of 16 Green Street, London WC2. "Who Was Who in the Theatre, 1912–1976" records no performances for Burrell after 1924, which was the year of her second marriage, but until February 1925 "The Stage" continued to carry a notice that she was disengaged. Palmer's "British Film Actors' Credits, 1895–1987" identifies her with the Daisy Burrell who played two minor parts in the British films "Woman to Woman" (1947) and "Green Fingers" (1947), as does the online database of the British Film Institute. She later appeared on BBC Television in "The Perfect Alibi" (1949) and in "The Golden Year" (1951), the first musical comedy produced for television, and disappeared from the performing record again after that.
Jodie Foster
Aware that child stars are often unable to successfully continue their careers into adulthood, Foster became a full-time student at Yale in fall 1980, and her acting career slowed down in the following five years. She later stated that going to college was "a wonderful time of self-discovery", and changed her thoughts about acting, which she had previously thought was an unintelligent profession, but now realised that "what I really wanted to do was to act and there was nothing stupid about it." She continued making films on her summer vacations, and during her college years appeared in "O'Hara's Wife" (1982), television film "Svengali" (1983), John Irving adaptation "The Hotel New Hampshire" (1984), French film "The Blood of Others" (1984), and period drama "Mesmerized" (1986), which she also co-produced. None of them were however successful, and Foster struggled to find work after graduating in 1985. The neo-noir "Siesta" (1987), in which she appeared in a supporting role, was a failure. "Five Corners" (1987) was a moderate critical success and earned Foster an Independent Spirit Award for her performance as a woman whose sexual assaulter returns to stalk her. In 1988, Foster made her debut as a director with the episode "Do Not Open This Box" for the horror anthology series "Tales from the Darkside", and in August appeared in the coming of age romantic drama "Stealing Home" (1988) opposite Mark Harmon. The film upon release was a critical and commercial failure, with film critic Roger Ebert even "wondering if any movie could possibly be that bad". Although, years later the film found success in television re-runs and DVD release and is hailed as a cult film.
Frances Dade
In 1931 Dade was cast in the biggest role of her career, Lucy Weston in "Dracula", which starred Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler. The scene with Bela Lugosi hovering over her prostrate body remains an indelible part of pop culture. That role would catapult her to brief notoriety, and would result in her being selected one of thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars, including Marian Marsh, Karen Morley, and Marion Shilling, that same year.
Despite her performance in "Dracula", Dade's film role offers dwindled. She starred in six films in 1931, three of which were horror films. In 1932, she was featured in only one film, "Big Town", and she appeared on Broadway in the play "Collision". Shortly thereafter, she retired from acting and married wealthy socialite Brock Van Avery. She eventually moved back home to Philadelphia, and went into nursing. She died there in 1968 at the age of 57.
Shari Headley
Headley made her acting debut appearing in an episode of NBC sitcom "The Cosby Show" in 1985. Headley later has appeared on "Miami Vice", "Quantum Leap", and "Matlock". In 1988, she was cast in the female leading role opposite Eddie Murphy in the romantic comedy film, "Coming to America". The film was a box-office success grossing worldwide total of $288,752,301. The following year, Headley had starring role alongside Louis Gossett, Jr. in the short-lived ABC drama series, "Gideon Oliver". Later that year, she co-starred in the "Kojak" television film series. In 1991, Headley joined the cast of ABC daytime soap opera, "All My Children" playing police officer Mimi Reed. At the 25th NAACP Image Awards, she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series nomination, but lost to Victoria Rowell. She was regular on "All My Children" from 1991 to 1994, and returned to the series in 1995 and 2005. After leaving the soap, she guest-starred on "New York Undercover", "Walker, Texas Ranger", and "Cosby". In 1996, she had supporting role in the comedy-drama film "The Preacher's Wife" directed by Penny Marshall. In 1997, Headley has landed a leading role in the short-lived FOX drama series, "413 Hope St." alongside Richard Roundtree. The series was cancelled after only ten episodes, but Headley received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nomination for her performance.