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- Genelle Williams is a Canadian actress who is best known for her roles as Kim Carlisle in Radio Free Roscoe, as DJ in The Latest Buzz, and as the innkeeper Leena in Warehouse 13. Acting in high school led to the beginning of Williams's professional career when a teacher saw her perform in a musical and recommended an agent to Williams.
Williams's first notable role was on the Family's Radio Free Roscoe, which aired between 2002 and 2004. In 2003, she played Kim Carlisle, a DJ for "Cougar Radio", and love interest of Robert McGrath. Over three years, she also played multiple roles on the popular CTV series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
After taking a break in her career, she appeared in the Family's new show, The Latest Buzz, as Diane Jeffreys (abbreviated "DJ"), the editor and supervisor of the young writers of Teen Buzz. She then portrayed Leena on the Syfy series Warehouse 13 from the series's start in July 2009 until the midpoint of season four in October 2012. In 2014, Williams appeared in Lifetime's The Lottery. Williams has recurring roles on Remedy and Bitten.
Williams' film work includes It's a Boy Girl Thing, The Incredible Hulk and Orphan. - Over the last few years actress Gabrielle Elyse has quickly become known for her natural talent, charm, beauty, and passion for her craft, positioning her as "one to watch" in the entertainment business. In 2017 she can be seen starring as Hayley Chamberlain (lead) in the horror-comedy series "Snatchers," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight Episodic Showcase in January.
Created and written by Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman, and Scott Yacyshy, the eight-episode series follows a status-obsessed teen who has sex for the first time and finds herself pregnant, with an alien. She teams up with her nerdy ex-best friend (Elyse) to fight back against an extraterrestrial threat and hopefully keep her mom and friends from finding out. "Snatchers" will be available to watch on the new streaming service Stage 13, a division of Warner Bros. In addition to "Snatchers" Gabrielle can also be seen in an episode of the upcoming anthology series "Dimension 404" for HULU opposite Lea Michele, Joel McHale, and Sarah Hyland. She will also appear in the Valentine's Day episode of "Blackish," for ABC.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Gabrielle's passion for acting came at an early age. At 10 years old she knew she wanted to be an actress, and asked her parents to put her into classes and for the opportunity to audition for local casting jobs. By 15 years old she had started to book some notable roles, and made the move to Los Angeles with her mom. Gabrielle got her start working for Disney appearing on top shows including "Liv and Maddie" and "Austin & Ally." In 2014 she landed her first series regular role as Josie on Nickelodeon's "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, & Dawn." She continued her work with Nickelodeon recurring on the network's long running hit series "The Thundermans" from 2014-16. While getting her start on Disney & Nick was an amazing opportunity to open doors for Gabrielle, she wanted to pursue characters and opportunities outside of that world and accomplished that goal throughout 2016. Gabrielle appeared on the hit TNT drama series "Rizzoli & Isles," then on "Teen Wolf" for MTV, and went on to book "The Catch" for ABC, "Dimensions 404" and "Blackish."
On the film front, Gabrielle's credits include a starring role in the silent short film "The Money Tree" and a co-starring role in the indie film "Good After Bad" opposite Billy Burke (The Twilight Saga) and Maddie Hasson (The Finder).
When Gabrielle isn't on set she is an avid music and comedy fan, and can likely be found shopping at a record store or enjoying a comedy show. She is currently training at UCB, honing in on her own comedy skills. Gabrielle prides herself on being multi-racial and is passionate about breaking African American stereotypes, and bringing light to racism in the US. She currently resides in the Los Angeles area. - Actress
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Anne-Marie Johnson was born on 18 July 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for In the Heat of the Night (1988), Robot Jox (1989) and JAG (1995). She has been married to Martin Grey since 1 January 1996.- Actress
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Tracy Reed was born on 28 October 1949 in Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for Running Scared (1986), McCloud (1970) and Trouble Man (1972).- Arista Arhin is an Emmy-nominated actress from Toronto, Canada. At the age of 10, Arista decided to pursue her passion for acting. Her first big break came when she was cast as Ozlyn in the award-winning children's live-action educational television series Odd Squad (TVOKids/PBS Kids). Since then, Arista has been cast as Young Michael Burnham in the latest reboot of the iconic television series Star Trek: Discovery (CBS), Alicia Windsor in the family comedy series Bajillionaires (Family Channel), Sam in the web series Lockdown (Sinking Ship/YouTube), and as Kasi in Parker Anderson/Amelia Parker (Marble Media). Outside of acting, Arista enjoys dancing, playing volleyball and softball, fashion, and travelling.
- Sienna Arif - Knights is a young British actress known for her role of Sally Hope in Seasons 1 - 5 of Malory Towers, TV (2020 - 2023), Keziah in Season 2 of Good Omens, TV (2023) and Tia in Blabbermouth, Short Film (2024).
Sienna begun her professional career when she featured in the 2017, First Choice "Go With The Know" worldwide campaign as part of the Turner Family. She has also appeared in commercials for The CO-OP (2019) and BT Sports (2018).
Sienna Arif - Knights trains at the BRIT School in London (2024). - Actress
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Jayne Kennedy (born Jane Harrison on October 27, 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress, model and sportscaster.
Jayne was crowned Miss Ohio USA 1970 (she was the first African American woman to win the title), and was one of the 10 semi-finalists in the 1970 Miss USA pageant. It was rare for an African American woman at that time to be in the contest. While starting her modeling career, she met Leon Isaac Kennedy, who was a DJ and a struggling actor/writer. They fell in love and married in 1970. Motown's Smokey Robinson served as best man at the wedding. They moved to California to pursue careers in acting. During the 1970s, she had over 10 notable TV guest appearances, and roles in seven movies. In 1978, she was one of the first women to infiltrate the male-dominated world of sports announcing with a role on The NFL Today.
In the early 1980s, she produced exercise videos; however, she was later diagnosed with Endometriosis. She and Kennedy were divorced in 1982; she married actor Bill Overton in 1985. In spite of the prior problem with endometriosis, they have three daughters, Savannah Re (b. Nov. 20, 1985), Kopper Joi (b. May 17, 1989) and Zaire Ollyea (b. Sept. 15, 1995).- Lynne Moody was born on 17 February 1946 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for Knots Landing (1979), Magnum, P.I. (1980) and General Hospital (1963).
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Kamaia Fairburn was born in England and raised in Toronto, Canada. She started acting at the age of 9 and attended Wexford School for the Arts before being homeschooled. She has 2 younger siblings, Amoi and Kai. Aside from acting, Kamaia is a passionate vegan and loves to learn new languages.- Always playing pretend and finding comfort in her own imagination, Navia Robinson began pursuing the performing arts at just age 5. At the age of 6, Robinson's acting career began and her dreams came to fruition, as she starred as Mary Jane Paul's (Gabrielle Union) niece, D'Asia, in the hit BET Network drama, "Being Mary Jane." In early 2016, Nicki Minaj hand-picked Navia, much to her delight, to portray Tasha, Nicki's childhood best friend, for a pilot/ordered to series revolving around her life growing up in Queens, NY entitled, "Nicki," which was shot for ABC's Freeform Network. Shortly after, Robinson's passion took her to the United Kingdom where she starred as Rosie in Netflix's Emmy® Award-winning series, "Free Rein." Once she returned to the United States, she appeared in The CW's critically acclaimed "Vampire Diaries" as Janie.
Perhaps, Navia Robinson is most recognized as Nia Baxter, Raven's Baxter's (Raven Symone) smart and socially conscious teenage daughter, in Disney Channel's live-action comedy, "Raven's Home," a spin-off of the iconic comedy series, "That's So Raven."
Robinson is also the voice of endeared characters Zayla, daughter of Invisibilio and Shocktress in Marvel's "Marvel Rising: Playing With Fire" and Valkyrie on Disney's animated series, "Rocketeers." - Ruth Righi was born on 7 September 2005 in Santa Cruz, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Happy! (2017), Unbroken (2022) and Disney Channel Stars: Put the Happy in the Holidays (2020).
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Skai Jackson stars as the adorable "Zuri Ross" on the Disney Channel sitcoms Jessie (2011), with Debby Ryan, and Bunk'd (2015). Before that, we've seen her in small roles on Boardwalk Empire (2010) and Royal Pains (2009), and even in the film, The Smurfs (2011).- Actress
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Tamera Darvette Mowry was born on July 6, 1978, two minutes before her twin sister, Tia Mowry, in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany, to Darlene Mowry and Tim Mowry, who was serving in the U.S. Army at the time of her birth and later became a custody officer/jailer with the City of Glendale Police Department, when the family moved to California. Her mother worked as a security guard and managed Tamera and Tia's acting careers. When the girls were 16, they discovered tremendous success with their hit TV series, Sister, Sister (1994), about twins who are separated at birth who learn of each other and come back together in their teen years which became a huge hit. After "Sister, Sister" ended in 1999, she was in many movies and shows such as Seventeen Again (2000), The Hot Chick (2002), Twitches (2005) and Double Wedding (2010). On May 15, 2011, she married her boyfriend of six years, Adam Housley, in Napa Valley, and the couple has two children.- Actress
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Tia Mowry was born on 6 July 1978 in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Sister, Sister (1994), The Hot Chick (2002) and The Game (2006). She was previously married to Cory Hardrict.- Greta Onieogou was born on 14 March 1991 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is an actress, known for Fever Pitch (2005), Miss Sloane (2016) and Undercover Grandpa (2017).
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Brenda Sykes was born on 25 June 1949 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Mandingo (1975), Black Gunn (1972) and Ozzie's Girls (1973). She has been married to Paul Claude Hudson since 19 May 1995. She was previously married to Gil Scott-Heron.- Neekah Richards is known for The Other Kingdom (2016).
- Shadia Simmons was born on 28 June 1986 in Toronto, Canada. She is an actress, known for Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (2002), The Color of Friendship (2000) and Zenon: The Zequel (2001).
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Telma Hopkins was born on 28 October 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Family Matters (1989), The Love Guru (2008) and Half & Half (2002). She was previously married to Donald B. Alen.- Actress
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BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times (1974), but there's much more to her than that. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as she was, she still became TV's first black sex symbol or "It" girl. Thelma/BernNadette and the Evans family also proved many stereotypes wrong about the ghetto and the young black girl, such as that all black girls and black families in the ghetto had no hopes, dreams, or class. Thelma showed that a "ghetto girl" had hopes and dreams, intelligence, respect, dignity, and grace, and it wasn't just acting--BernNadette was that naturally. She introduced a new definitive image of the young black girl and woman.
BernNadette was a wonderful, graceful dancer, which she displayed several times on the series. Everything she did was marked with delicacy, diminutive beauty, form, or grace, all very welcome in TV in the 1970s. Her dramatic, comedic charm, witty one-liners, daintiness, winsomeness, and sexy but innocent image were versatile qualities that made her a great talent and great favorite who will never be forgotten.- Dana Heath was born on 10 April 2006 in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for Danger Force (2020), Fancy Nancy (2018) and PEN15 (2019).
- A Virginia native, Shelby Simmons loved bringing characters to life in her school plays. Her favorite playing princess Fiona in "Shrek."
Soon after moving to Los Angeles, Shelby enjoyed a range of roles including a guest star on "Game Shakers" a recurring on "Andi Mack" and a super fun guest star on "School of Rock."
Her love of comedy landed her one of the lead roles in the Netflix show "Prince of Peoria." It is the network's first series filmed in front of a live studio audience.
One of her favorite books is "Stargirl." She is over the moon to be a part of the cast in the Disney film. She believes the higher meaning of the story will truly touch the audience.
She is thrilled to officially be a part of the Disney family as a series regular playing Ava in the hit show "Bunk'd."
Shelby excels in sports and plays outfield on a champion soft ball team. A great lover of animals, she adores being home with her fabulous doggy Daisy & her magical white rabbit Luenell.