Not many people can legitimately claim the title of “professional adventurer,” but prospective astronaut and Pakistani artist Namira Salim is blazing trails. Born into a conservative family, Salim has yearned to explore space since she was a child…
Zoe Kazan is a natural in Hollywood. The actress, screenwriter, and playwright is the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. Her paternal grandparents were film and theatre director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan. Her sister, Maya, is an actress and director, and her long-time partner, Paul Dano, is an award-winning actor…
American producer and actress of stage and screen Aunjanue Ellis has made it her mission to make Black women proud. “I want to speak for them and to them in ways where they feel honored, where they feel that I’m doing and saying something that reflects their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their aspirations,” she said in a June 2022 interview with Variety…
Leading lady Connie Britton has delivered so many notable character portrayals over the years that it’s challenging to keep track of them all. This fact is especially heartening since she has played many of them since turning 40 in an industry that tends to worship youth. At 55, Britton is still going strong. Britton was born Constance Elaine Womack in Boston, Massachusetts, and started acting by performing in plays at her high school…
Aimee Garcia broke into the entertainment industry at age 7 as a professional dancer in Paul Mejia’s “Cinderella” and hasn’t slowed down since. A Chicago native of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, she is best known for her roles as Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom “George Lopez,” Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS period drama “Vegas,” Jamie Batista…
Beautiful as ever at 55, Tracey Edmonds has been established for decades as a businesswoman, television producer, and personality, with successes all across the American entertainment industry. She was born Tracey McQuarn in 1967 in Los Angeles, California to scholar parents and grew up in an upper middle class Black family…
Katherine McNamara is an American actress who rose to fame playing the roles of Clary Fray in the Freeform fantasy series “Shadowhunters” and Mia Smoak in the CW superhero series “Arrow.” McNamara was born in 1995 and had an unusual education compared to most children…
Actress and comedian Ellie Kemper comes from a long line of incredibly successful Kempers. Her father, David Woods Kemper, is a son of one of the wealthiest families in Missouri and the executive chairman of Commerce Bancshares. Her grandmother, Mildred Lane Kemper, was the namesake of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum…
Leelee Sobieski first found fame as a teenage actress. After being cast in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” at the age of 13, her star quickly rose and she went on to be cast in more than 30 film and television roles throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. She appeared in many popular films…
Jodie Foster has been famous nearly her entire life. She first began acting in commercials at the age of two. By the time she was 12, she had appeared in more than 50 commercials, had recurring roles on “Gunsmoke,” “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” “My Three Sons,” and starred in her own short-lived series, “Paper Moon”…
