Best known to audiences as the androgynous, nerdy "Pat" from Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member from 1990 to 1994, Julia Sweeney actually began her comedy career as an accountant, of all things. Working as a numbers-cruncher for Columbia Pictures in the mid-'80s, Sweeney ignored her degree in economics to pursue comedy. In 1986, she joined the Groundlings, the famous L.A. improvisational troup ...

Heather Hunter, hailed as this generation’s most well-regarded sexual icon is ready to start another phase of her career.......as a rap superstar. As an artist who has consistently and successfully re-invented herself as an actress, artist, and performer, Heather has returned to her roots—hip hop— with the recent release of her debut CD entitled, Heather Hunter: The Unexpected, released by David Copeland an ...

The afternoon talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show established O'Donnell as "The Queen of Nice" after its 1996 debut. O'Donnell was a former stand-up comedian whose career took off when she landed a role alongside Madonna and Tom Hanks in the 1992 baseball movie A League of Their Own. She played the wisecracking second fiddle in other films like Sleepless in Seattle (1993, with Meg Ryan), until she moved into ...

The afternoon talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show established O'Donnell as "The Queen of Nice" after its 1996 debut. O'Donnell was a former stand-up comedian whose career took off when she landed a role alongside Madonna and Tom Hanks in the 1992 baseball movie A League of Their Own. She played the wisecracking second fiddle in other films like Sleepless in Seattle (1993, with Meg Ryan), until she moved into ...

African-American actress, comedian, author, reality-show host, and occasional scriptwriter Aisha Tyler came of age in San Francisco and studied poly sci at Dartmouth College before mounting a (brief) career as an advertising executive in her hometown. Dissatisfied by this pursuit, and pining to launch herself as a full-time entertainer, Tyler "dropped out" of the corporate world and hit the road with a solo ...

Actress-cum-singer/dancer Sabrina Bryan achieved fame by way of a Disney Channel project, when she joined the cast of that network's popular telemovie The Cheetah Girls, playing a member of an all-female pop band. The success of that picture, in fact, launched the Cheetah Girls (Bryan included) as a mainstream recording act in real life and prompted several filmed sequels. Bryan's recognition increased subs ...

Jennifer Nicole Lee is the CEO and visionary power house behind JNL Worldwide, Inc. Due to her wildly successful globally broadcasted and marketed fitness and wellness products, books, digital products, e-commerce, and merchandise, she is internationally recognized in over 110 different countries. In short, “JNL” is an extremely successful global mega-brand. Mrs. Lee is a fitness celebrity, a bestselling au ...

A former child model who parlayed her early experiences before the camera into a successful career as an Emmy Award-winning soap opera star, Hinsdale, IL, native Heather Tom got her start in show business after her family relocated to Seattle and she made her stage debut in a Seattle Children's Theater production of The Nutcracker Suite. Walk-on roles in such shows as Who's the Boss? and Kids Incorporated f ...

Known to Oprah fans simply as Dr. Oz, Mehmet Oz was born in Ohio, though he later grew up in Delaware. After completing undergrad at Harvard, Oz attended medical school at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School, where he got both his M.D. and an MBA. He would go on to become a professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia University, director of the Heart Assist Device Program, a re ...

Musician. Born August 17, 1958, as Belinda Jo Kurczeski to Walt and Joanne Kurczeski in Hollywood, California. Belinda's father abandoned the family when she was 5 years old. Her mother remarried, and the family's lower middle-class household eventually expanded to include seven children. As a youth, Belinda was often tasked with babysitting her three younger brothers and three younger sisters. She soon reb ...