It takes a lot for a buxom blonde to stand out in Hollywood, but Carrie Keagan has been doing just that since 2007 when she was invited to join No Good TV, a web-based production company launched by internet entrepreneurs Kourosh Taj and Jay Vir. “I came in sort of towards the beginning and we put this whole thing together because we wanted to see something different,” she explains. “We all got bored watchi ...

Angel Locsin was born and raised in the Philippines, and though her parents split up when she was 14, much of her adolescence was spent in the care of both her mother and father. Her entry into the entertainment industry was fortuitous, as she was spotted by a talent scout while skipping school and hanging out at a nearby mall. Following a series of auditions for local commercials and advertisements, Angel ...

Amisha Patel was born June 9, 1975, in Bombay, India. The granddaughter of Indian freedom fighter Rajni Patel, Amisha was an outstanding student who excelled at John Connon High School in Bombay before heading overseas to study economics at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Although the setting may have been different, the results were the same and Amisha graduated from the school with distinction ...

Born and raised in Brooklyn to Italian-American parents, actress Alyssa Milano started acting on the stage in a national tour of Annie at the age of eight. She rose to teen stardom as the tomboyish Samantha Micelli on the ABC sitcom Who's the Boss, which ran from 1984-1992. Never really making the transition to feature films, she appeared in sleazy made-for-TV movies, provocative ad campaigns, and nude phot ...

Both a former Victoria's Secret model and card-carrying member of MENSA, Geena Davis established herself in Hollywood by playing the quirky protagonist in a wide variety of dramas and romantic comedies, though she has also tested the waters in action films and sci-fi horror. Davis showed an interest in show-business from childhood on, and transferred from New England College to Boston University in order to ...

A correspondent for CBS's The Early Show and an anchor of The CBS Morning News, Julie Chen is also host of the CBS reality-show series, Big Brother, conducting interviews with contestants from the show on a live, weekly special. Big Brother places 10 contestants in a small house, with no modern appliances, for 89 days and follows their every move on camera. An edited version is aired each weeknight. Once a ...

Gloriously flamboyant American entertainer Bette Midler was born in Honolulu, HI, to the only Jewish family in the neighborhood. After dropping out of a drama class at the University of Hawaii, she took a tiny role in the 1966 film Hawaii, playing a seasick boat passenger (though it's hard to see her when viewing the film). Training for a dancing career in New York, Midler made the casting rounds for severa ...

The longtime drummer for the Band, Levon Helm wore many musical hats throughout his long career, including multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, impresario, studio owner, studio engineer, and producer. He grew up working on a farm in Arkansas; his first instrument was guitar, which he began playing at age eight, but after seeing the F.S. Walcott Rabbits Foot Minstrels, he decided to switch to drums. As ...

Anyone who watched the old TV sitcom Make Room for Daddy will remember that it was produced by a company called Marterto. This corporate name was an amalgam of the names of Danny Thomas' children: Margaret, Terry, and Tony. By 1959, Margaret Thomas had undergone a little cosmetic surgery, changed her name to Marlo Thomas, and launched an acting career on stage and TV. After guest starring in dozens of progr ...

A goggle-eyed, ditzy blonde, Goldie Hawn's looks alone make her a natural for the kind of breathless comedy in which she originally made her name. Though she has built a lucrative career with her screen persona of a vivacious, giggly, and befuddled naif, Hawn's onscreen antics conceal her real-life level-headedness: Beneath the wide expanse of her blue eyes lies a shrewd, intelligent, and multi-talented wom ...