1.
Kim Delaney
–
Kim Delaney is an American actress known for her starring role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama television series NYPD Blue, for which she has won an Emmy Award. Early in her career, she played the role of Jenny Gardner in the ABC daytime television drama All My Children and she later had leading roles in the TV dramas Philly, CSI, Miami, and on the Lifetime television drama Army Wives. Delaney, an Irish American, was born on November 29,1961, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delaneys mother was a homemaker and her father a union official and former head of the United Auto Workers. Delaney grew up in Roxborough and has four brothers, Ed, John, Keith, while she was attending J. W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School, she worked as a model for the Elite agency. After her graduation, she went to New York and found employment there as a model, at the same time, she studied acting with William Esper. Delaney first became known for her stint as innocent teenager Jenny Gardner Nelson on the soap opera All My Children, which also was her first job. They come up and will say theyve followed everything Ive done, and they stopped watching the show after I left, after leaving the show, Delaney began acting in feature films. In 1985, she appeared with Emilio Estevez in That Was Then and this Is Now, a film version of the S. E. Hinton novel of the same name. In 1986, she played a nun in the military action movie The Delta Force. In 1987, Delaney was cast as Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful opposite Peter Gallagher, also in 1987, she appeared both as Jessie in Christmas Comes to Willow Creek, and as associate attorney Leslie Kleinberg during the 2nd season of L. A. Law. In 1988, Delaney starred in the thriller The Drifter, in 1994, she appeared in the film The Force. In 1988, Delaney became a regular on the CBS television series Tour of Duty. After leaving the show in 1989 to give birth to her and husband Joseph Cortese son, theres a lot of things I did to pay the mortgage, Delaney says resignedly. Roles from this include her 1992 appearance as Lucky Santangelo in the television miniseries. In 1995, Delaney began portraying the role of NYPD Blue Detective Diane Russell, originally slated for only four episodes, the role became permanent after her characters relationship with Detective Bobby Simone became a hit with viewers. In this role, she won her first Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama and was nominated for two other Emmy Awards. After Smits left NYPD Blue, producer Steven Bochco chose Delaney for the lead in the new television series Philly, despite critical acclaim, the show lasted only one season. CBS then courted Delaney to take on the lead on its new drama television series CSI, Miami
2.
Beau Bridges
–
Lloyd Vernet Beau Bridges III is an American actor and director. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner and he is also a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. Bridges was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 7,2003 at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the television industry and he is the elder brother of fellow actor Jeff Bridges. Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Lloyd and he was nicknamed Beau by his parents after Ashley Wilkes son in Gone with the Wind. His younger brother is actor Jeff Bridges, and he has a younger sister, another brother, Garrett, died in 1948 of sudden infant death syndrome. Beau has shared a relationship with Jeff, for whom he acted as a surrogate father during childhood. He and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, in 1959, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and served for eight years. In 1948, Bridges had a juvenile role in the iconic film Force of Evil. In the 1962–1963 television season, Bridges, along with his brother, Jeff, appeared on their fathers CBS anthology series. He appeared in television series too, including National Velvet, The Fugitive, Bonanza, Mr. Novak. In 1965, he guest-starred as Corporal Corbett in Then Came the Mighty Hunter, Season 2, Episode 3 of the military series and he found steady work in television and film throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He appeared in feature films during that time as The Other Side of the Mountain, Greased Lightning, Norma Rae, Heart Like a Wheel. In 1989, in perhaps his best known role, he starred opposite his brother Jeff as one of The Fabulous Baker Boys. In the 1993–94 television season, Bridges appeared with his father in the 15-episode CBS comedy/western series, Harts of the West, set at a dude ranch in Nevada. In 1995, Bridges starred with his father and his son Dylan in The Sandkings, in 1998, he starred as Judge Bob Gibbs in the one-season Maximum Bob on ABC. He had a role in the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers. In 2001, he guest-starred as Daniel McFarland, the stepfather of Jack McFarland and he played a single father and college professor in the fantasy adventure film, Voyage of the Unicorn, based on the novel by James C. From 2002 to 2003, he took on the role of Senator Tom Gage, newly appointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in January 2005, he was cast as Major General Hank Landry, the new commander of Stargate Command in Stargate SG-1
3.
John Schneider (screen actor)
–
John Richard Schneider is an American actor and country music singer. Alongside his acting career, Schneider has been a singer since the early 1980s, releasing nine studio albums and a greatest hits package, as well as eighteen singles. Schneider was born April 8,1960, in Mount Kisco, New York, the son of Shirley Conklin and John Jack Schneider III and his family included an older brother Robert, an artist living in southern New York. Johns life as an entertainer began at the age of eight and this once got him into trouble, when he had himself chained up and tossed into a swimming pool with the intention of re-creating Harry Houdinis legendary escape act. When he was 14, he and his moved to Georgia. Beginning in 2001, he portrayed Jonathan Kent, the father of Clark Kent on Smallville. Schneider directed some episodes of Smallville, including Talisman, some episodes contain references to Schneiders work in The Dukes of Hazzard, e. g. the season five episode Exposed is notable for reuniting Schneider with his former Dukes co-star Tom Wopat. Schneider guest starred for the half of season five appearing in the episodes Void. Schneider returned for the season 10 premiere of Smallville, reprising his role as Jonathan Kent in a recurring role, Schneider has appeared in many films and TV series, including five guest spots on Hee Haw and the miniseries 10.5. He had a role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and made guest appearances on such shows as Diagnosis, Murder, Touched by an Angel, JAG and Walker. In 2009, Schneider made an appearance on CSI in an episode titled Kill Me If You Can and he appeared in the first season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, in which his real-life son Chasen Schneider had a recurring role. During the summer of 2008 and early 2009, John portrayed Marshall Bowman and he declined to continue through the second season and his character was killed off. In 2011, he starred in the film Doonby, as a drifter who comes into a small town, however, a menacing force stalks him. Its Its a Wonderful Life without the part, Schneider explains. Reach down into the throat of Its a Wonderful Life, pull it inside out and he returned to the role of Bo Duke in a commercial for Autotrader. com in 2014. Tom Wopat returned as Luke Duke, a indiegogo campaign from the upcoming movie intituled A Gift Of The Heart starring John Schneider and Austin St. John was launched. During the 1980s, Schneider parlayed his success as Bo Duke with a string of country music hits, Schneider has recorded 10 albums to date, including works on Scotti Brothers Records and MCA Nashville. His co-star, Tom Wopat, also enjoyed success on the music charts
4.
Kaley Cuoco
–
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress. Cuoco has also appeared in such as To Be Fat like Me, Hop. In October 2014, Cuoco was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Cuoco was born in Camarillo, California, the elder daughter of Layne Ann, a homemaker, and Gary Carmine Cuoco, a realtor. Her father is of Italian descent while her mother is of English and her sister, Briana, competed on the fifth season of The Voice. As a child, Cuoco was a ranked amateur tennis player. She stopped playing at the age of 16, Cuoco made her first feature film appearance as the young Karin Carter in the 1995 action thriller Virtuosity. In September 2002, Cuoco began a role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. Bridget was the oldest child, despite Cuoco being six years younger than Amy Davidson, because of low ratings, ABC canceled the series on May 17,2005. In addition to the season of 8 Simple Rules, Cuoco had starring roles on the NBC miniseries 10. Cuoco voiced the character of Kirstee Smith in Bratz from 2004 to 2005, in the eighth season of the TV show Charmed, Cuoco appeared as Billie Jenkins, a powerful young witch with the powers of telekinesis and projection. Executive producer Brad Kern stated that Cuocos character was brought in as a possible spin-off. Prior to the 2010–2011 season, she earned $60,000 an episode for the series, in 2010, the cast negotiated a raise for each actor to make $200,000 per episode. On September 13,2010, she broke her leg in a horse-riding accident, a video of the event was posted on YouTube and became a viral success. A clip from the performance was played during Cuocos January 8,2013 appearance on the late night talk show Conan. As of August 2014, Cuoco and her co-stars from The Big Bang Theory Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons, Cuoco starred in the Lifetime film To Be Fat Like Me, which premiered on January 8,2007. She played a role in the Prison Break episodes The Message and Chicago. She also appeared in the 2010 film The Penthouse, in 2011, Cuoco appeared in Allure magazines annual Naked Truth feature. That same year, she appeared in the films Hop and The Last Ride and she was also chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards in 2011, as well as the Peoples Choice Awards in 2012 and 2013
5.
United States
–
Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
