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Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, in 1970 to Donald and Jeannec Fey. Going by the name of Tina, Ms. Fey considered herself a “supernerd” during her high school and college years. She studied drama at the University of Virginia, and after graduating in 1992, she headed to Chicago, the ancestral home of American comedy. While working at a YMCA to support herself, she started Second City’s first set of courses. After about nine months, a teacher told her to just skip ahead and audition for the more selective Second City Training Center. She failed but about eight weeks later, she re-auditioned and got into the year-long program. She ended up spending many years at The Second City in Chicago where many SNL cast members first started out. Then in 1995, “Saturday Night Live” (1975) came to The Second City’s cast, including Fey’s friend, Adam McKay, as a writer, searching for new talent. What they found was Tina Fey. When Adam was made Head writer, he suggested Fey should send a submission packet over the summer with six sketches, 10 pages each. Tina took the advice and sent them. After Lorne Michaels met her and saw her work she was offered a job a week later. She admitted that she was extremely nervous working in the legendary Studio 8H; being a foot shorter than everyone else, younger, and being one of the only female writers at the time. After a few years, Tina made history by becoming the first female head writer in the show’s history. Tina also made her screen debut as a featured player during the 25th season by co-anchoring Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon. Since Tina and Jimmy have taken over Weekend Update it has been considered the best ever. This year she made it to full fledged star by becoming a regular cast member, though she is hardly on the show, besides Update. And during the past two summers, Tina and Rachel Dratch performed their two-woman show to critical acclaim in both Chicago (1999) and New York (2000) and made their Aspen Comedy Festival Debut. Tina is married to Jeff Richmond, a Second City director and currently lives in New York City.

Amanda Crew (born June 5, 1986) is a Canadian television and film actress. She is best known for her work on the television series 15/Love and Whistler, and in the feature length films Final Destination 3, Sex Drive, The Haunting in Connecticut, and Charlie St. Cloud.

Crew got her big break at age 18 for playing Tanis McTaggart on the YTV teen dramedy series 15/Love. After leaving the show in 2005, she guest starred on the television series Life As We Know It and Smallville. From 2006 to 2008, she played Carrie Miller on the CTV drama series Whistler, for which she won Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series at the Vancouver-based Leo Awards.

Charlie St. Cloud is a 2010 fantasy-romance film based on the Ben Sherwood’s 2004 novel, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. The film is directed by Burr Steers and stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. The story is of Charlie St. Cloud’s choice between keeping a promise he made to his brother, who died in a car accident, or going after the girl he loves

Kelly Reilly was born in July 18, 1977 in Chessington, her father was in the police and her mother was a part-time secretary at Kingston Hospital and she attended Tolworth Girls’ School where she became interested in drama – though she never did go to drama school.

Inspired to seek acting work beyond school, she wrote to the producers of the television drama Prime Suspect and six months later was granted and won the audition, for a role in an episode of Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle), which aired on ITV on May 7, 1995, she was then seventeen. Six years later, on the cast of Last Orders with Helen Mirren where they met once more, Mirren said,”Oh I knew I’d see you again.”

Her first professional role was followed by a series of parts on the English stage. She worked with Terry Johnson in four productions, Elton John’s Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000) and Piano/Forte (2001). Johnson wrote Piano/Forte for her and said “Kelly is possibly the most natural, dyed-in-the-wool, deep-in-the-bone actress I’ve ever worked with. She is utterly instinctive, and she seems to know absolutely what it is to be human.” Patrick Marber, her director in After Miss Julie (2004) said, “Not only is she utterly instinctual but she is also totally honest. She inhabits a part without any mannerism at all, to the extent that you don’t even notice her act.” Despite this enthusiasm, Reilly herself has stated that she learned the most as an actor from Karel Reisz who directed her in The Yalta Game in Dublin (2001). She said, “He was my masterclass. There is no way I would have been able to do Miss Julie if I hadn’t done that play.”

The amazing Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten by her well-to-do Lebanese-Mexican businessman father and her Mexican-born opera-singing mother.

At long last, Salma made her way to Los Angeles. The 24 year old actress approached Hollywood with naïve enthusiasm, and quickly learned that Latin actresses were, if at all, typecast as the mistress maid or local prostitute. By late 1992, Hayek had landed only bit parts. She appeared on “Street Justice” (1991), “The Sinbad Show” (1993), “Nurses” (1991), and as a sexy maid on the HBO series “Dream On” (1990). She also had one line in the Allison Anders film Mi vida loca (1993). Feeling under-appreciated by Anglo filmmakers, Hayek vented her frustrations on comedian Paul Rodriguez’s late-night Spanish-language talk show in 1992.

She remains one of the most hardworking actresses in Hollywood. New films include a high profile classic-style western comedy, Bandidas (2006), co-starring pal Penélope Cruz, with whom she has been friends for years. They play two bank robbers becoming Mexico’s Thelma and Louise. Another of her new films is the highly anticipated Ask the Dust (2006) directed by the brilliant Robert Towne.

In Columbia Pictures’ new comedy Grown Ups, the filmmakers found a trio of extremely talented women to play the guys’ better halves. “Salma Hayek, Maria Bello and Maya Rudolph are all really excellent actresses and comediennes,” says director Dennis Dugan. “When the girls have their scenes together, it’s a very different kind of comedy than what’s going on with the guys. A movie needs that kind of change of pace, and these women, all incredible talents, gave us that.”

Ashley Victoria Benson was born on December 18, 1989. She has been dancing competitively since she was 2 with hip hop, jazz, ballet, tap and lyrical. She has been singing since she was about 5 and she hopes to pursue that along with her acting. Ashley started modeling at the age of 5 for dance catalogs. Ashley was then pursued by The Ford Modeling Agency at the age of 8. She worked steadily in print and is still with the Agency. At the age of 10, she wanted to pursue acting. Ashley went on to do 35 commercials, and then on to theatrical roles. Acting was now Ashley’s passion. Ashley put all her focus into acting which left little time for modeling and dancing, anymore. Ashley’s most recent role is “Abby Deveraux” on the hit soap “Days of Our Lives” (1965). Ashley also had a cameo in ‘Lil Romeo’ and Solange Knowles’s music video for the song “True Love”. She did a photo shoot with Britney Spears for Vogue Magazine. She is in NLT’s music video “That Girl”.

The new show Pretty Little Liars has all the high school types: the good girl, the bad girl, the mean girl, etc. Ashley Benson is playing the mean girl type in the new show, based on the Sara Shepard books.

Katie Cassidy was born Katherine Evelyn Cassidy on November 25, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, David Cassidy, was a pop star in the 1970s. Her mother, Sherry Williams, was a high fashion model in the early 1970′s. Sherry left her career to concentrate on raising her 3 daughters, with husband, Richard Benedon M.D., Katie’s step-dad. Her famous relatives include uncles Shaun Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy and Ryan Cassidy, and grandparents Jack Cassidy, Evelyn Ward and Shirley Jones.

Ruby is portrayed by Katie Cassidy in the CW paranormal drama television series Supernatural. She is an enigmatic figure who hunts demons like the brothers Dean and Sam Winchester. However, her methods are much more ruthless and brutal. Ruby is also sexy and attractive, though her gorgeous appearance belies her deadly skills.

Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian film, TV, and stage actress who is best known for being one of the youngest actors to ever win an Oscar, for her role in Jane Campion’s movie The Piano. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on July 24, 1982, Anna was raised in New Zealand where she was eventually discovered by the Academy Award-winning director. Anna was merely ten years old when she brilliantly portrayed the interpreter of Holly Hunter’s mute… More character.

In 1995, Anna moved in with her mother as her parents divorced. Throughout the second half of the ’90s, she continued to play varied roles in several movies such as Fly Away Home (1996), Jane Eyre (1996), Amistad (1997). The year 2000 saw Anna appear in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous and Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester. That same year, she was also cast as Rogue in the first installment of the X-Men series.

Aside from her work on the big screen, Anna has also performed in various theater productions, most notable of which is in the play The Distance From Here which earned the cast a Drama Desk Award nomination in 2004. In 2008, Paquin landed her first major role on television playing Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid with telepathic powers, in HBO’s drama series True Blood.

Julia Fiona Roberts, born in Smyrna, Georgia, never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. When her brother, Eric Roberts, achieved some success in Hollywood, Julia decided to try acting. Her first break came in 1988 when she appeared in two youth-oriented movies Mystic Pizza (1988) and Satisfaction (1988). The movies introduced her to a new audience who instantly fell in love with this pretty woman. Julia’s biggest success was in the signature movie Pretty Woman (1990), for which Julia got an Oscar nomination, and also won the People’s Choice award for Favorite Actress. Even though Julia would spend the next few years either starring in serious movies, or playing fantasy roles like Tinkerbell, the movie audiences would always love Julia best in romantic comedies. With My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) Julia gave the genre fresh life that had been lacking in Hollywood for some time. Offscreen, after a brief marriage, Julia has been romantically linked with several other actors. Julia has also become involved with UNICEF charities and has made visits to many different countries, including Haiti and India, in order to promote goodwill. Julia is one of the most popular and sought-after talents in Hollywood.

And now Julia Robert played as Liz Gilbert in the Movie Eat Pray Love. Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having a husband, a house, a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali. Based upon the bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Private Practice has promoted Caterina Scorsone to series regular, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

“It’s so fantastic for so many reasons,” Scorsone, who plays Dr. Amelia Shepherd, sister to Grey’s Anatomy’s Derek (Patrick Dempsey), tells TVGuide.com of her promotion. “The set is really a wonderful environment. Everyone is generous and fantastic, so to know that’s going to be my home for a while is pretty nice.”

Amelia was introduced late last season, when she clashed with the Oceanside Wellness docs over whether she could save one of their patient’s lives. “She’s very complex,” says Scorsone, who actually went to medical school before deciding she’d rather play a doctor than be a doctor. “She inspires a whole rainbow of emotions in all the people around her. She’s lovable and annoying at the same time,” Scorsone says. “She’s also tough and fragile at the same time.”

Though she plays Derek’s sister, Scorsone has yet to work with Dempsey, but is itching to do so. “It is a little bit intimidating, knowing how passionate people are, wanting to honor their expectations in the relationship with Derek, who is so deeply a part of people’s emotional journey on this show.”

Executive producer Shonda Rhimes told TVGuide.com earlier this year that the writers were already discussing a Shepherd-centric crossover. “We’ve absolutely been talking about that,” adds Scorsone. “Based on the history we’ve already established between Amelia and Derek, there definitely has to be some sort of encounter at some point.”

As for the Season 4 premiere of Private, which the cast is currently shooting, Scorsone says the story will jump ahead a few weeks from Dell’s death. “Everyone’s had a little time to process and grieve,” she says.

Born in Shoreham, England and raised in Australia, Naomi Watts has been working actively in the film industry for 15 years. After she moved to Hollywood, she worked regularly, acting in small roles in film projects she was less than enthusiastic about. Finally, her big break came when she was contacted to audition for a coveted spot in David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (2001). Her star-turning performance in the dual role of Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn has garnered an array of critic’s awards and the attention of some major players in Hollywood and beyond. Watts is now enjoying greater choice of film roles and played (with great success)the lead in Gore Verbinski’s remake of the Japanese horror classic The Ring (2002/I). She also starred opposite Kate Hudson in Merchant/Ivory’s adaptation of the Diane Johnson novel Le divorce (2003). Subsequently, Watts’ creative acting abilities have continued to grow and deepen. She has been cast in an array of films with only the best directors and actors and continues to stun critics and amaze filmgoers with her versatility and range.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It features Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, and Naomi Watts. The film follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds.