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Rachel Zegler is a singer and songwriter, raised in New Jersey by her American father and Colombian mother. Having been one of 30,000 people to audition, she was selected to play the role of Maria in Steven Spielberg's remake of the classic West Side Story (2021), opposite Ansel Elgort as Tony. She first played the role in a Performing Arts School presentation at Bergen Performing Arts Center. She reached a large audience with her cover of Lady Gaga's song "Shallow", known from the movie A Star Is Born (2018).- Samantha Ivers was born on 29 November 1982 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Inside Man (2006), Enchanted (2007) and The Rebound (2009).
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Tall, blond and of rugged proportions, handsome actor Philip Carey started out as a standard 1950s film actor in westerns, war stories and crime yarns but didn't achieve full-fledged stardom until well past age 50 when he joined the daytime line-up as ornery Texas tycoon Asa Buchanan on the popular soap One Life to Live (1968) in 1979. He lived pretty much out of the saddle after that, enjoying the patriarchal role for nearly three decades.
He was born with the rather unrugged name of Eugene Carey on July 15, 1925, in Hackensack, New Jersey. Growing up on Long Island, he served with the Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War. He attended (briefly) New York's Mohawk University and studied drama at the University of Miami where he met his college sweetheart, Maureen Peppler. They married in 1949 and went on to have three children: Linda, Jeffrey and Lisa Ann.
The 6'4" actor impressed a talent scout with his brawny good looks while appearing in the summer stock play "Over 21" in New England, and he was offered a contract with Warner Bros as a result. Billed as Philip Carey, he didn't waste any time toiling in bit parts, making his film debut billed fifth in the John Wayne submarine war drama Operation Pacific (1951). Phil could cut a good figure in military regalia and also showed strong stuff in film noir. A most capable co-star, he tended to be upstaged, however, by either a stronger name female or male star or by the action at hand. He was paired up with Frank Lovejoy in the McCarthy-era I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951), and Steve Cochran in the prison tale Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951). Warner Bros. star Joan Crawford was practically the whole movie in the film noir This Woman Is Dangerous (1952) co-starring the equally overlooked David Brian and Dennis Morgan; Calamity Jane (1953) was a vehicle for Doris Day; and he donned his familiar cavalry duds in the background of Gary Cooper in the Civil War western Springfield Rifle (1952).
In 1953, Carey left Warner Bros. and signed up with Columbia Pictures where he was, more than not, billed as "Phil Carey." Here again he fell into the rather non-descript rugged mold as the stoic soldier or stolid police captain. He did find plenty of work, however, and was frequently top-billed. He battled the Sioux in The Nebraskan (1953); played a former subordinate member of the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid gang who has to clear his name in Wyoming Renegades (1955); was a brute force to be reckoned with in They Rode West (1954); and had one of his standard movie roles (as an officer) in a better quality movie, Columbia's Pushover (1954), which spent more time promoting the debut of its starlet Kim Novak as the new Marilyn Monroe. Overshadowed by James Cagney and Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955) and by Van Heflin, young Joanne Woodward (in her movie debut) and villain Raymond Burr in the western Count Three and Pray (1955), Phil turned his durable talents more and more to TV in the late 1950s.
The man of action took on the role of Canadian-born Lt. Michael Rhodes on the series Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956) alongside Warren Stevens. He eventually left Columbia studios to do a stint (albeit relatively short) playing Raymond Chandler's unflappable detective Philip Marlowe (1959). Most of the 60s and 70s, other than a few now-forgotten film adventures such as Black Gold (1962), The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) and Three Guns for Texas (1968), were spent either saddling up as a guest star on The Rifleman (1958), Bronco (1958), The Virginian (1962) and Gunsmoke (1955) or hard-nosing it on such crime series as 77 Sunset Strip (1958), Ironside (1967), McCloud (1970), Banacek (1972) and The Felony Squad (1966). He also played the regular role of a stern captain in the Texas Rangers western series Laredo (1965).
Phil was a spokesperson for Granny Goose potato chips commercials, and his deep voice served him well for many seasons as narrator of the nature documentary series Untamed Frontier (1967). One of his best-remembered TV guest appearances, however, was a change-of-pace role on the comedy All in the Family (1971) in which he played a vital, strapping blue-collar pal of Archie Bunker's whose manly man just happened to be a proud, astereotypical homosexual. His hilarious confrontational scene with a dumbfounded Archie in Kelsey's bar remains a classic.
Phil's brief regular role in the daytime soap Bright Promise (1969) in 1972 was just a practice drill for the regular role he would play in 1979 as Texas oilman Asa Buchanan in One Life to Live (1968). His popularity soared as the moneybags manipulator you loved to hate. Residing in Manhattan for quite some time as a result of the New York-based show, he played the role for close to three decades until diagnosed with lung cancer in January of 2006. Forced to undergo chemotherapy, he officially left the serial altogether in May of 2007, and his character "died" peacefully off-screen a few months later.
Divorced from his first wife, Phil married a much younger lady, Colleen Welch, in 1976 and had two children by her -- daughter Shannon (born 1980) and son Sean (born 1983). Phil lost his battle with cancer on February 6, 2009, at the age of 83.- Carol Arthur was born on 4 August 1935 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Blazing Saddles (1974), Intrepid (2000) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). She was married to Dom DeLuise. She died on 1 November 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
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Marc Kudisch was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the second child of four (older brother, two sisters, all connected to the medical profession in some way). He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1989. He was engaged to Kristin Chenoweth for three years; the relationship ended in 2001.
Marc appeared as "TV Guy" in Toyota commercials, 1999-2000. He starred as Conrad Birdie in the national tour of "Bye Bye Birdie" in 1992, and reprised the role in the 1995 ABC TV movie remake. He has also starred on Broadway in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", as Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast" (1995-97), "High Society" (1998), 'The Scarlet Pimpernell" (1999), "The Wild Party" (2000) and as Jeff Moss in "Bells Are Ringing" (2001)..- Actress
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Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on September 22, 1956 to Pat Boone and Shirley Boone. The third of four daughters, Debby followed the success of her father when she rocketed to stardom with the #1 song "You Light Up My Life" in 1977, earning Debby a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In the 1980s, Debby's work mostly consisted of producing Contemporary Christian music albums, as well as starring in the 1984 TV movie Sins of the Past (1984). She is married to Gabriel Ferrer and is the daughter-in-law of the late actor José Ferrer and singer Rosemary Clooney.- Actor
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Cody Calafiore was born on 13 December 1990 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Set It Up (2018), Welcome to Hope (2021) and What Happened Last Night (2016).- Actor
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Phil Arnold (1909 - 1968) was an American screen, stage and television actor who appeared in approximately 200 films and television shows between 1938 and 1968 - in bit parts most of the time. A regular in the Three Stooges shorts, he also participated in many B movies, a few A ones and a host of TV series episodes. Easily recognizable by his small stature, his expressive face and his bald head, he played mainly popular types, whether good or bad ones. As a villain, he could easily embody a henchman or an escaped convict . Among the rare white collar roles he played he was a dentist once and a professor twice. But he was mostly cast as a common man, often with a big big mouth. Several times a cabbie, a delivery man, a vendor or a cop he was also hired to play a waiter, bellboy, an elevator boy, a parking attendant, a stage hand or even a bum.- Set Decorator
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Kathleen Dolan was born on 10 August 1960 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. She was a set decorator and art director, known for Hudson Hawk (1991), Jacob's Ladder (1990) and Whatever Works (2009). She died on 9 February 2016 in the USA.- Actress
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Abigail Espinal is an actress, writer, and filmmaker best know for Cover Up (2023), Estimated Time of Arrival (2020), Bibi and Carlotta Tell Your Fortune, and Precious. Her other works include several stage plays and short films in production. In 2024, Espinal made her directorial film debut with Cover Up and was an official selection in multiple LGBTQ+ film festivals.- Writer
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Natalie Abrams is a dynamic and enthusiastic queer writer most known for co-creating the series Gotham Knights for The CW. Abrams started out as an entertainment journalist for outlets such as TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly, where she also co-hosted Sirius XM's weekly live radio show Superhero Insider.
Having grown up being impacted by the stories she'd obsessively watch on TV, Abrams traded in her decade-long reporting career with a goal of having that same impact on others. Abrams became a writers' assistant on All American, where she wrote and produced her first episode of television. After that, she penned a freelance episode of Supergirl before being staffed on Batwoman, where she worked her way up to Executive Story Editor and penned a Batwoman tie-in comic for DC Comics.
From there, Abrams made the jump to creator. With Berlanti Productions, she helped pen the DC Comics adaptation of Gotham Knights for WBTV and CW. Natalie was recently honored as a graduate of the highly acclaimed WGA Showrunner Training Program. An avid comic book reader, with an astute ability to decipher the intricacies of even the most puzzling genre shows, Abrams strives to tell diverse stories that feature authentic queer representation.- Actor
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Glenn Taranto was born on 27 January 1959 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The New Addams Family (1998), Stolen (2009) and Mafia: Definitive Edition (2020).- Actor
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Chris Spinelli was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Christmas Love (2020), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) and All That (1994).- Actress
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Nancy McLoughlin was born on 14 November 1956 in Hackensack, New Jersey. She is an actress and writer, known for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Sometimes They Come Back (1991) and Any Day Now (1998). She has been married to Tom McLoughlin since 2 July 1983. They have two children.- Writer
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Don Nelson was born on 20 January 1927 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), Bridget Loves Bernie (1972) and Nanny and the Professor (1970). He was married to Connie Harper, Barbara Eiler and Marilyn. He died on 10 September 2013 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ross Bickell was born on 14 January 1947 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for The Fighter (2010), The Drop (2014) and Airport '77 (1977). He has been married to Deirdre Madigan since 15 May 1993. He was previously married to Loni Anderson.
- Chris Wragge was born on 19 June 1970 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), Saturday Early Show (1997) and XFL Football League (2001). He was previously married to Victoria Silvstedt.
- Darleen Anita Roddenberry was born on 4 April 1948 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Antoine J Bacha, Frank Vincent Incopero Jr., Michel Cervantes and William Luther Lewis. She died on 29 October 1995 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Pranav Patel is a a professional actor, model, dancer, biomedical engineer, and a recent law grad. Pranav is most known for playing himself on the hit Netflix reality competition show, The Mole (2022), which filmed in the summer of 2021 in Australia. Pranav was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and grew up in Bergen County. He graduated from Paramus High School and completed higher education at Northwestern University (BS Biomedical Engineering), George Washington University (Master of Public Health), and the University of Florida (Juris Doctor). While at Northwestern, Pranav helped lead his dance team, Northwestern Anubhav, to a national title at the coveted Bollywood America 2014 championships. Outside of his academic work, Pranav has since been a touring professional choreographer. In 2018, Pranav co-founded AfroDesi, an international dance company fusing Afro and Indo elements and regularly teaching workshops around the world (New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Mumbai, Copenhagen, Dar Es Salaam, etc.). After rising to stardom after his performance on The Mole, Pranav has seen success in many national acting and modeling campaigns. Pranav is a dedicated, multi-faceted individual who is dedicated to inspiring and entertaining his audience.
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Eric Arndt was born on 8 December 1986 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE NXT (2010) and WWE Raw (1993).- Ronnie Welsh was born on 4 July 1940 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for As the World Turns (1956), Patterns (1956) and The Edge of Night (1956). He died on 5 January 1993 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Jeffrey Gutkin was born on 9 September 1987 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. Jeffrey is a production manager, known for Danny Collins (2015), Reverie (2018) and The Neighbors (2012).- Animation Department
Richard H. Thomas was born on 3 January 1915 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Sleeping Beauty (1959), Baggy Pants & the Nitwits (1977) and Jonny Quest (1964). He was married to Shirley. He died on 31 December 1996 in Taos, New Mexico, USA.- Actor
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Jason Horton was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. Jason is an actor and producer, known for Mini-Mocks (2018), History's Greatest Mysteries (2020) and Rachel Dratch's Late Night Snack (2016).- Actor
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Josh Robinson was born on 16 May 1974 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Blood for the Muse (2001), The Sexy Sixth Sense (2001) and The Lord of the G-Strings: The Femaleship of the String (2003). He died on 26 May 2018 in York, Pennsylvania, USA.