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Autumn Reeser saw her breakout role as the individualist Taylor Townsend on the popular Fox drama series "The O.C." Since then she's become known for her intelligent and heartfelt performances in roles such as firecracker junior agent Lizzie Grant on HBO's "Entourage" and become an in-demand and beloved star in Hallmark movies.
Acting came into Autumn's life as a clear calling when she was six years old and her parents took her to see her first play at the community theater in the small surf town of Carlsbad, California. She begged to audition for the next one, the jumping off point for a lifelong love-affair with art, musical expression and the exploration of the human character and psyche. Strongly connected to Spirit, she followed her guidance to apply for only one college, a new musical theatre program being launched at UCLA, and was accepted. After many late nights waitressing to support herself and rigorous training at various acting programs throughout Los Angeles, she began working steadily in film and TV and has not stopped since.
Her first role was as an alien girl on 'Star Trek: Voyager' at the age of 20, followed by honing her comedic chops on sitcoms such as 'The George Lopez Show' and 'Grounded For Life', and pouring her heart out in dramas such as 'Cold Case' and 'CSI'. Her breakout role came in 2005, as the quirky-cute and socially awkward Taylor Townsend on the final two seasons of The O.C. (2003), for which she received high critical acclaim. She's also known for her role as firecracker junior agent Lizzie Grant on HBO's 'Entourage' as scientist Katie Andrew in ABC's No Ordinary Family (2010), along with actors Michael Chiklis, Julie Benz. In 2012, she starred as sexy weapons expert Kylie Sinclair in Shawn Ryan's short-lived political thriller Last Resort (2012), on ABC. She also appeared as Dr. Gabrielle Asano on Hawaii 5-0, sports agent Abby Bruce opposite John Stamos on Necessary Roughness, and lead the cast in numerous romances for Hallmark.
In 2021 she directed her first short film and earned her first executive-producer credit for developing Hallmark's "The 27-Hour Day," followed by 'The Wedding Veil' trilogy with Lacey Chabert and Ali Sweeney, which was Hallmark's most-watched series of 2022.
In addition to her film and television career, she has appeared onstage in "For the Record: Tarantino" at Rockwell, "The OC Musical" at the Montelban, "Too Much Sun" at the Odyssey, and numerous cabarets. She is a member of The WorkJuice Players alongside Paul F. Tompkins and Busy Phillips, best known for their ongoing radio play series and podcast, "The Thrilling Adventure Hour." In the last few years, she has directed two new musicals: 'City of Light' at Feinsteins 54 Below in New York and 'Modern' in USC's LiveRead Workshop program and is the co-creator of the musical 'Particle.'
Autumn lives in Los Angeles with her sons Finn & Dash and has served on the board of the SAG-AFTRA union. She is an advocate for women, performers and working parents, as well as a counselor and intuitive guide. She offers mentorship to artists through her website.- Actress
- Producer
Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. The family relocated often -- she first became interested in the theatre when the family was living in Greece, and she had attended plays in Athens. Harden began her college education at American universities in Europe and returned to the US to complete her studies at the University of Texas in 1983; went on to earn an MFA at NYU, and, thereafter, embarked on her acting career.
Although she had acted in a movie as early as 1986, in the little-known The Imagemaker (1986), her first mainstream role, coming alongside some TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie, Miller's Crossing (1990). Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll. Harden thereafter worked steadily in supporting roles, including the portrayal of Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra. Harden also worked in the theater and, in 1993, was part of the Broadway cast of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America", playing Harper, the alienated wife of a closeted gay man. It was a demanding dramatic role, and Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination. She returned to movie making in the mid-1990s, continuing to turn in superb supporting performances in films and television.
Harden's road to success was a long one, her work generally being overlooked because the productions were either critically panned or ignored by audiences. However, it was just a matter of time before Harden got a chance to truly show her quality on-screen, and that time came in 2000, with Ed Harris's Pollock (2000), in which she played Lee Krasner, artist and long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock. Harden's performance was deeply moving and unforgettable and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress. Continuing to work prolifically in features and television, she earned another Oscar nomination in 2003 for her supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Harden having earlier worked with Eastwood in 2000's Space Cowboys (2000).
Harden's work often makes otherwise mediocre productions worth watching, fully inhabiting any character she portrays. She was married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), from 1996 to 2012. The couple have three children, a daughter Eulala Scheel, and twins Julitta and Hudson.- Actress
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Together with her younger sister, Crystal McKellar, she began acting at a young age in her mother's dance studio. In 1982 the family moved to Los Angeles and a few years later she appeared in her first commercial. A few guest appearances in The Twilight Zone (1985) was followed by her breakthrough in The Wonder Years (1988). She has had good grades in math and French. In her spare time she likes to go skiing, swimming and surfing.- Actor
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Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt he had a stable childhood. His fondest memories are of his grandmother taking him to the movies every week and of his dog, which followed him everywhere. He studied pre-med at UC-Berkeley and, while there, got bitten by the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway after graduation. His debut was in Emlyn Williams' play "The Morning Star" (1942). By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory (1944).
Stardom came with his next film, The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Peck's screen presence displayed the qualities for which he became well known. He was tall, rugged and heroic, with a basic decency that transcended his roles. He appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) as an amnesia victim accused of murder. In The Yearling (1946), he was again nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Globe. He was especially effective in westerns and appeared in such varied fare as David O. Selznick's critically blasted Duel in the Sun (1946), the somewhat better received Yellow Sky (1948) and the acclaimed The Gunfighter (1950). He was nominated again for the Academy Award for his roles in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), which dealt with anti-Semitism, and Twelve O'Clock High (1949), a story of high-level stress in an Air Force bomber unit in World War II.
With a string of hits to his credit, Peck made the decision to only work in films that interested him. He continued to appear as the heroic, larger-than-life figures in such films as Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He worked with Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, Roman Holiday (1953). Peck finally won the Oscar, after four nominations, for his performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). In the early 1960s, he appeared in two darker films than he usually made, Cape Fear (1962) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), which dealt with the way people live. He also gave a powerful performance as Captain Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (1961), one of the biggest box-office hits of that year.
In the early 1970s, he produced two films, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972) and The Dove (1974), when his film career stalled. He made a comeback playing, somewhat woodenly, Robert Thorn in the horror film The Omen (1976). After that, he returned to the bigger-than-life roles he was best known for, such as MacArthur (1977) and the monstrous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele in the huge hit The Boys from Brazil (1978). In the 1980s, he moved into television with the miniseries The Blue and the Gray (1982) and The Scarlet and the Black (1983). In 1991, he appeared in the remake of his 1962 film, playing a different role, in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was also cast as the progressive-thinking owner of a wire and cable business in Other People's Money (1991).
In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was also been awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Always politically progressive, he was active in such causes as anti-war protests, workers' rights and civil rights. In 2003, his Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. Gregory Peck died at age 87 on June 12, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.- Actress
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Zoe McLellan is an American television actress, known for roles in JAG, Dirty Sexy Money, NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2016) and Designated Survivor. McLellan was born in La Jolla, California, and raised in Washington. In 1992, she was homecoming queen at South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, Washington.- Steven Culp was born on December 3 in La Jolla, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Thirteen Days (2000) as Robert F. Kennedy, JAG (1995) as CIA Agent Clayton Webb and Desperate Housewives (2004) as Rex Van de Kamp. Despite being killed-off in season 1, Rex has appeared since in every season (excluding season 4 and 6). During the 2003-04 television season, the hardworking Culp successfully juggled recurring roles on an unheard of four series at one time: on CBS's JAG (1995) (as CIA Agent Clayton Webb), NBC's The West Wing (1999) (as GOP Speaker of the House Jeff Haffley), NBC's long-running hospital drama ER (1994) (as schoolteacher Dave Spencer), and on UPN's futuristic series Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) (as MACO commander Major Hayes). He also managed to squeeze in guest spots on The Lyon's Den (2003) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). At the end of that season, Culp had the unusual misfortune to have two of his characters (Webb on JAG and Major Hayes on Star Trek: Enterprise) killed off in the shows' season finales the same week (though Webb turned up very much alive in the subsequent season premiere of JAG). In 2013 Culp joined the cast of NBC's post-apocalyptic drama Revolution (2012) as the clean-cut Patriot Edward Truman, a dignified authority figure. Culp has been married to Barbara Ayers since September 29, 1990. They have two children.
- Francesca Angelucci Capaldi was born on June 8th, 2004 to parents of Italian descent. She was born in the neighborhood of La Jolla, which is located in San Diego, California. Capaldi is best known for her role as Chloe James on Disney's Dog With a Blog, since 2012. She appeared in the Goodwin Games with Sabrina Carpenter and has been in the television film, 3 Day Test.
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Shane Harper began dancing, singing, and acting in community theater at the age of 9. He was offered agency representation in the spring of 2006, at a regional dance competition. Shane obtained a black belt in Kempo Karate, and is an accomplished musician and songwriter, as well as a professionally trained dancer. After booking the first 3 jobs that he auditioned for, he continued to work hard, and pursued a career in the entertainment industry. Shane has become an established actor in television and feature films. He resides in Los Angeles, Ca.- Actress
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- Producer
Deprise Brescia was born on 30 October 1965 in La Jolla, California, USA. She is an actress and assistant director, known for She Spies (2002), House of Lies (2012) and Let It Bleed (2016).- Chanel Celaya was born in La Jolla, California. Her father Andrew Celaya, is from Florence, Arizona while her mother Betsey is from La Jolla, California. Chanel comes from a mix of Mexican and Russian ethnicity. Chanel started modeling from the age of 13. After her mother encouraged her to take some acting classes, which she was reluctant to join at first, she happily started her acting career. After just a few years of taking acting classes, she was able to appear in the movie 21 Jump Street and after that made her big scene in Justin Bieber's hit music video: "As Long As You Love Me." She will soon star in the new MTV series: "Inbetweeners."
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- Writer
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Courtney Taylor Burness was born on 8 October 1995 in La Jolla, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Premonition (2007), Thank You for Smoking (2005) and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006).- Valentina Gordon was born as Valentina Sky Gordon on September 18, 2010 in California, USA. Valentina is a American actress who is best recognized for her recurring television appearances and feature film roles. She starred as a Young Traci Abbott on the television series Days of Our Lives (1965) and also starred as the Ghostly Daughter in the 2019 Netflix feature film Velvet Buzzsaw (2019). She started her acting career in 2015, appearing in several short films such as Eleven (2016) & Maryellen and the Brightest Star (2015). She then made her television debut in 2017 when she starred in an episode of Runaways (2017) as young Karolina Dean. She is known for having earned representation from several different management agencies including Artistic Endeavors and Paloma Model and Talent. She also loves to sing & dance. She can also play the guitar & piano.
- Actress
- Producer
Zita Vass was born on 11 June 1989 in La Jolla, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Californication (2007) and Children of the Corn (2009).- Actor
- Soundtrack
David Ford was born on 30 October 1925 in La Jolla, California, USA. He was an actor, known for 1776 (1972), Dark Shadows (1966) and Search for Tomorrow (1951). He was married to Nancy Barrett. He died on 7 August 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jonathan Rosenthal was born on 6 August 1988 in La Jolla, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Abandon (2022), Alone (2020) and Killers and Diplomats.- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Lovely blonde Michele Drake was born on February 7, 1958 in La Jolla, California. Michele was the Playmate of the Month in the May, 1979 issue of "Playboy." Drake had roles in the films "American Gigolo," "The Hollywood Knights," "History of the World: Part I," and "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie." Moreover, she made a guest appearance as a Playmate on an episode of "The Jeffersons." Outside of her acting gigs, Michele was also a member of the Singing Playmates group and appeared on Johnny Carson's 1982 New Year's Eve show, performed live with Bob Hope, and filmed specials for Jane Fonda, Mike Douglas, and George Burns, to name a few. Michele's entertainment career has continued to the other side of the camera, where she is involved in feature film production at an international level.- Danny McCarthy was born on 2 October 1989 in La Jolla, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Benchwarmers (2006), Zoom (2006) and Malcolm in the Middle (2000).
- Actress
- Casting Department
Carey Lessard was born on 16 September 1969 in La Jolla, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Rock Star (2001), The Pretender (1996) and Crash Point Zero (2001). She has been married to Marklen Kennedy since 21 December 2007. They have two children.- Writer
- Actor
Miles McMillan was born in La Jolla, California, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Fluidity (2019), Fernando (2017) and Architectural Digest (2010).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Amy Johnston was born on 22 September 1954 in La Jolla, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Buddy Holly Story (1978), Charlie's Angels (1976) and Rooster: Spurs of Death! (1978). She was married to Steven. She died on 17 March 2021 in West Fork, Arkansas, USA.- Producer
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Mark Maine was born in La Jolla, California at the old Scripps hospital which was located at 464 Prospect Street, in the "Village" of La Jolla. Maine grew up in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego, CA, and graduated in 1976 from Clairemont High School, which was the inspiration for the 1982 movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Maine runs Angelic Pictures, which was formed in 1996. Maine is the Founding Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Angelic Pictures, Inc.. Maine is a DGA Movie Director, Writer & Producer and the "Helmer" of each of Angelic's movies. Maine has a diverse background in Corporate Management, executive-level positions in Global Petroleum, International Trade and in the early 1980's Maine served 5-years as a highly decorated San Diego Police Officer. In the mid 1990s Maine served as President and CEO of Sonotec USA, an international, privately held manufacturing and shipping highway component construction company. Maine has continually participated within the San Diego political arena. Maine was an active member of the Building Industry Association, the San Diego Regional Chamber Foundation, the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable For Education, a Corporate Leader for the Junior Achievement and served on the Citizens Advisory Council of the San Diego City College District.- Actor
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Erik Thompson was born on 22 July 1959 in La Jolla, California, USA. He is an actor, known for A Murder of Crows (1998), Expedition Bigfoot (2019) and Nox (2000). He has been married to Christine Harrington since 12 May 2001. They have two children. He was previously married to Patricia Woodfill.- Additional Crew
- Actress
- Sound Department
Jennessa Rose was born on April 4 in La Jolla, Ca and went to school in Del Mar/Carmel Valley until relocating to Los Angeles.
She has appeared in numerous professional plays in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. Jennessa also has done voiceover for many films, TV shows, radio and TV commercials.
A singer,actress,voiceover actress and host.
Jennessa is studying her improv and sketch comedy to broaden her acting skills and be able to take on all types of roles, she feels the improv is so important and lots of fun.
She resides in Los Angeles now with her family and her dog, Maxie.
Jennessa has a sister, Julianna Rose who is also an actress.- Actor
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Lance Loud was born on 26 June 1951 in La Jolla, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992), The Fast: Moontan (1983) and Tales of the City (1993). He died on 22 December 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Robbin Crosby was born on 4 August 1959 in La Jolla, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for The Wrestler (2008), That's My Boy (2012) and Super Troopers 2 (2018). He was married to Laurie Ann Carr. He died on 6 June 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.