Alyson Renae Michalka (/mɪˈʃɑːkə/; born March 25, 1989) is an American actress and recording artist. She gained fame for playing the role of Keely Teslow in the Disney Channel series Phil of the Future and has participated in film and other television roles including the CW series Hellcats and iZombie. Michalka and her sister, actress AJ Michalka, are members of the musical duo Aly & AJ.
Meet Laurette Marcia “Laura” Gemser, born October 5, ’50 in Surabaya, a retired Indonesian-Dutch actress, model, and costume designer. She’s best known for rockin’ Italian erotic flicks, especially the Black Emanuelle series. She teamed up a ton with directors Joe D’Amato and Bruno Mattei. Also went by Moira Chen, like in Love Is Forever (’83).
Meet Ariane Labed, born May 8, ’84, a Greek-born French actress. She kicked off her big-screen game with Attenberg (2010), snaggin’ the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Then she popped up in Alps (2011) and Before Midnight (2013).
In ’14, she was in short films like High and Dry and took the lead as Alice in Fidelio, Alice’s Odyssey, earnin’ a César Award nod for Most Promising Actress. By ’15, she was rockin’ it in The Forbidden Room and The Lobster.
Meet Natascha Hockwin (‘born May 9, ’82 in Berlin), a German actress. She kicked things off as a teen punker in the TV series Wolkenstein episode “Die Band.” Since 2000, she’s been poppin’ up in all sorts of movies and shows. From ’02 to ’05, she played Tanja Ewermann in the RTL series Die Camper.
Meet Brooke Langton (born Nov 27, ’70), an American actress. She lit up the screen as Samantha Reilly in the Fox soap Melrose Place from ’96 to ’98. After that, she took the lead in the USA Network’s drama The Net (’98-’99) and played the female lead in the 2000 comedy flick The Replacements.
Meet Joan Goodfellow (born February 2, 1950), an American actress and singer who lit up stages, screens, and TV back in the ’70s and ’80s.
She shined in Buster and Billie (1974) and popped up in TV flicks like Returning Home (1975) and Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill (1979). Her last movie was Victor Nuñez’s A Flash of Green in 1984. On stage, she was in the original crew for Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues (1985).
Kylie Travis (born 27 April 1966) is an Australian actress. Travis was born in London, England; her family moved to Australia shortly afterward. She modelled for various agencies in Paris, London, and New York before taking up acting.
Her first major role was in the Aaron Spelling soap opera Models Inc. where she played the part of Julie, a vindictive yet loyal model. After the show was cancelled, she was approached by Darren Star, creator of Melrose Place, from which Models Inc was a spin-off, to star in his new prime time drama Central Park West, in which she played scheming fashion editor, Rachel Dennis.
She then went on to play parts in several motion pictures, including Retroactive and Gia. She is married to Louis R. Cappelli, a property developer active in Westchester County, New York. She retired from acting shortly afterwards.
Ingrid Bergman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd ˈbærjman]; 29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942) and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains.
Before becoming a star in American films, Bergman had been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her introduction to American audiences came with her starring role in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). At her insistence, producer David O. Selznick agreed not to sign her to a contract – for four films rather than the then-standard seven-year period, also at her insistence – until after Intermezzo had been released.
Selznick’s financial problems meant that Bergman was often loaned to other studios. Apart from Casablanca, her performances from this period include Victor Fleming’s remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945). Her last films for Selznick were Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). Her final film for Hitchcock was Under Capricorn (1949).
After a decade in American films, she starred in Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli (1950), following the revelation that she was having an extramarital affair with the director. The affair and then marriage with Rossellini created a scandal in the US that forced her to remain in Europe for several years, when she made a successful Hollywood return in Anastasia (1956), for which she won her second Academy Award. Many of her personal and film documents can be seen in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives.
According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Bergman quickly became “the ideal of American womanhood” and a contender for Hollywood’s greatest leading actress. In the United States, she is considered to have brought a “Nordic freshness and vitality” to the screen, along with exceptional beauty and intelligence; David O. Selznick once called her “the most completely conscientious actress” he had ever worked with. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Bergman as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of classic American cinema.
Rachele Brooke Smith, born November 7, 1987, is an American actress and dancer. Her dance skills shone in films like Center Stage: Turn It Up, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, and Burlesque.