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100 Girls (comics)
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100 Girls is a comic book series created by Adam Gallardo and Todd Demong, and published by Arcana Studio. Sylvia Mark is a girl who feels like an outcast from the other kids her age. She skipped two grades, is strong, and has Olympic-level gymnastic agility. Sylvia also feels incomplete, and occasionally has strange dreams, night after night these dreams seem to be harbingers of something dark. What she does not know is that she is just one of one hundred girls created as part of a genetics experiment, eight girls were taken out of the facility, and grew up secretly across the country, Sylvia was one of them
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Jonathan Tucker
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Jonathan Moss Tucker is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Virgin Suicides, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hostage, In the Valley of Elah and he has appeared in the television series The Black Donnellys and Parenthood. As of October 2014, he co-stars in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom created by Byron Balasco and his paternal great-grandfather was historian and ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes. His aunt and uncle, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University and his father is of Irish Catholic background and his mother is Jewish. Tucker was raised in Charlestown, Massachusetts, but attended The Park School in Brookline and he attended the Boston Ballet and played Fritz in their production of The Nutcracker for 5 years starting when he was in the third grade. He was featured in a Boston Ballet calendar and attended The Thacher School in Ojai, Tucker said of his ballet experience, Ballet is one of the more difficult rigors that Ive ever done. The Ballet instructors are some of the most intimidating people Ive met, Tucker first started off in film by appearing in the early 90s films Botte di Natale, Two If by Sea and Sleepers before being cast in the 1999 film The Virgin Suicides as Tim Weiner. He starred as Matthew in the 2000 comedy film 100 Girls, a year later, he co-starred in Sundance hit The Deep End with Tilda Swinton and Josh Lucas. In 2003, Tucker was cast in the much anticipated re-imagining of the 1974 horror film of the name, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre produced by Michael Bay. In 2004, he appeared in the films Stateside and Criminal, in the 2005 film Hostage, Tucker worked alongside Bruce Willis and Ben Foster. Tucker plays Dennis Cooper, one of the brothers that, along with their mysterious accomplice Mars, in 2008, he was cast in The Ruins, a thriller based on the best selling book by Scott Smith and directed by Sundance award-winner Carter Smith. Tucker said he practiced Transcendental Meditation to offset the loneliness while filming the movie in Australia and he portrayed emerging artist Patrick Angus in the 2009 film An Englishman in New York, opposite John Hurt as Quentin Crisp. The biographical drama chronicles Crisps later years spent in New York City and he played the role of Mayor Bob Little from 2011 to 2014. Tucker currently co-stars on the DirecTV drama series Kingdom, Tucker also appeared in the final five episodes of the TV series Justified on FX as the crazy-eyed Boon — a cross between Billy the Kid and Travis Bickle. Continuing his relationship with Bryan Fuller, Tucker next stars at Low-Key Lysmith in Starzs upcoming Neil Gamon adaption American Gods, Tucker co-wrote the song Champagne Problems on Nick Jonass 2016 album Last Year Was Complicated. Jonathan Tucker is married to Tara Tucker, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning economic historian Liaquat Ahamed and they were married on June 16,2012. Tucker is the founder of the Pegasus Fund, Jonathan Tucker at the Internet Movie Database Jonathan Tucker on Twitter
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Emmanuelle Chriqui
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Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui is a Canadian film and television actress. She is known for her performance on HBOs Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as Dalia and she is also known for her role on The Mentalist television series as Lorelei Martins, accomplice to Red John. In May 2010, she topped the AskMen. com Most Desirable Women of 2010 list, Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Sephardi Jewish parents from Morocco. Her mother, Liliane, was born in Casablanca, and her father, Albert, in Rabat and her family practiced Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition. Chriqui has a brother, Serge, and an older sister. When she was almost two, her moved to Toronto, Ontario. She grew up in Markham, Ontario, a suburb northeast of the city and her mother, an aesthetician who once told Emmanuelle she would become an actress, died when Chriqui was sixteen years old. As a child, she took acting classes, for which her brother paid, Chriqui attended the drama program at Unionville High School. After high school, Chriqui decided to pursue a career in acting, Chriqui began acting as a 10-year-old in a McDonalds commercial. She moved to Vancouver in the mid-1990s, guest-starring in series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark, forever Knight, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor, Chronicles of the Paranormal. Her first Hollywood role was as a character in Detroit Rock City. Chriquis first feature role was in Chris Kochs Snow Day and she later appeared in several movies, such as 100 Girls, Wrong Turn, On the Line and In the Mix. She played Eve in the 2005 comedy National Lampoons Adam & Eve, Chriqui was nominated for a Best Actress DVD Exclusive Award for her performance in 100 Girls and was nominated, with Lance Bass, for a Choice Liplock Teen Choice Award in On the Line. In April 2008, she won the Standout Performance Trophy at the Young Hollywood Awards, Chriqui also starred in several music videos including Hinders Lips of an Angel, Zac Brown Bands Whatever It Is, and Charles Perrys I Could Be the Best Time of Your Life. She threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on June 8,2008, Chriqui was on the cover of the Autumn 2008 issue of Naked Eye. She appeared in the 2008 film Cadillac Records as Revetta Chess, Chriqui was seen in 2009 as one of several women whose lives interconnect in the comedy Women in Trouble and appeared in its 2010 sequel Elektra Luxx. In 2010, Chriqui joined Showtimes 2011 series, The Borgias and she is also the voice of Cheetara in the ThunderCats 2011 animated series. Emmanuelle Chriqui on Twitter Emmanuelle Chriqui at the Internet Movie Database
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Katherine Heigl
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Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress, film producer and former fashion model. She played Izzie Stevens on ABCs medical drama Greys Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, Heigl has also had a prominent film career, with appearances in Knocked Up,27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, Killers, Life As We Know It and New Years Eve. She played the role on the short-lived NBC television series State of Affairs from 2014 to 2015. Heigl started her career as a model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting. She made her debut in That Night and later appeared in My Father the Hero as well as Under Siege 2. From 1999 to 2002, Heigl co-starred as Isabel Evans on the television series Roswell, additionally, she has established herself as a cover model, appearing in numerous publications including Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. Heigl is married to singer Josh Kelley, with whom she has two adopted daughters and a biological son, Heigl was born in Washington, D. C. in Columbia Hospital for Women. She is the youngest of four children of Nancy, a manager, and Paul Heigl. Her father is of German and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry and her siblings are Meg, Jason, and Holt. In 1986, her older brother Jason died of injuries suffered in a car accident and his organs were donated by his family after death. Her brothers death led Heigls parents to convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, when Heigl was nine, an aunt visiting the family decided to take a number of photographs of her. After returning to her home in New York, her aunt sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies, within a few weeks, she signed with Wilhelmina Models as a child model. Soon after signing with the agency, a client slated Heigl for use in an advertisement where she made her debut. At the time, she was earning $75 an hour posing for Sears, Heigl first appeared in a national television spot for Cheerios cereal. During this time, Heigl continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her film, Heigl dropped out of New Canaan High School after her sophomore year to pursue her career in Hollywood. In 1995, she starred in the Steven Seagal action thriller Under Siege 2, Heigl portrayed a 16-year-old traveller on a train across a mountain pass to visit the grave of her deceased father with uncle Casey Ryback, an ex-SEAL counter-terrorist expert. The main plotline has the train hijacked by mercenaries in Colorado, much of her work in the film was opposite Morris Chestnut, Sandra Taylor and Everett McGill. Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, after her high school graduation in 1997, she moved into a four-bedroom house in Malibu Canyon, California with her mother, who also became her manager
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Jaime Pressly
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Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl and she has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy, The New Seduction, Joe Dirt, DOA, Dead or Alive, and I Love You, Man. She is currently in the cast of the CBS sitcom, Mom, Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue, a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman. In 1992, she moved with her family to Costa Mesa, California and she spent her childhood and early teenage years training as a gymnast, which led her to modeling jobs. At age fourteen, Pressly appeared on her first cover, Teen Magazine, at fifteen, she left school and went to Japan on a modeling contract. She succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of fifteen so she could travel to Japan, Pressly starred as Violet in the 1997 film Poison Ivy, The New Seduction. In 1998 she starred as Nikki on the short-lived TV series Push, from 1999-2001, she played Audrey on the drama series Jack and Jill. Pressly starred in the independent film Poor White Trash, playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake, in 2001, she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You. In 2002, she was ranked #8 in Stuff magazines 102 Sexiest Women in the World, in 2003, she launched a lingerie line, JAime, which later became a full sleepwear and ready-to-wear line. In 2006, Maxim magazine named her #34 on its annual list, Pressly posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy. She also appeared nude in the May 2006 issue of Allure, Pressly guest-starred in episodes of several TV shows. She appeared in an episode of the prank series Punkd, in 2005, Pressly was cast in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, as Joy Turner. In 2007, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show, Pressly sang Fever in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls. She has appeared in a number of videos, including The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band, Girls of Summer by Aerosmith. On May 31,2006, she hosted the first annual VH1 Rock Honors, Pressly was a producer, as well as a star, in the 2005 movie Death to the Supermodels. She hosted the October 7,2006, episode of Saturday Night Live, on December 3,2009, it was announced that she would guest-star on an upcoming episode of the CBS comedy, Rules of Engagement. She would play a possible surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey and she reprised her role in the fifth-season premiere. She appeared in the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter, in July 2012, Pressly starred in Jimbo Lees Abby in the Summer
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Marissa Ribisi
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She is the twin sister of actor Giovanni Ribisi. Ribisi was born Santina Marissa Ribisi in Los Angeles, California and her mother, Gay, is a manager of actors and writers, and her father, Al Ribisi, is a musician. Ribisi began acting when she was nine years old and her twin brother, Giovanni, is also an actor. Like her husband and her brother, she is a Scientologist, Ribisi first appeared on television in 1988, playing a minor red-haired character named Ginger in Shell Get Over It, an episode of My Two Dads. This was followed by similar brief appearances in Baywatch, DEA, ribisis first role in a feature film was in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused. She starred alongside Matthew McConaughey and Adam Goldberg, who were then, like Ribisi, the actress played Cynthia, a socially marginalized girl who runs with two verbose outsiders. In 1998, Ribisi cowrote the film Some Girl and starred in it alongside Juliette Lewis, Michael Rapaport, the film, directed by Rory Kelly, relates the story of insecure young women searching for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles. She has had roles in the films True Crime, The Brady Bunch Movie, Pleasantville and she has also appeared in television shows such as Felicity, Friends, Grace Under Fire, and Watching Ellie, as well as the TV miniseries Tales of the City. She also appeared on the short-lived TV series Grown Ups from 1999 to 2000, in 2001 she played the role of Dora in the movie 100 Girls. In October 2007, Ribisi launched a line, Whitley Kros. Ribisi married musician and recording artist Beck in April 2004, shortly before giving birth to their son, the couples second child, daughter Tuesday, was born in 2007. Marissa Ribisi at the Internet Movie Database Her personal website, hosted by the Church of Scientology
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Lionsgate
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment & media company. The company was formed on July 10,1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia and it owns a variety of subsidiaries such as the American film production company Summit Entertainment, and Debmar-Mercury, a television syndication company acquired by Lionsgate in 2006. Giustra had recently retired as CEO from Yorkton, an investment bank, Giustra then merged Lionsgate with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Beringer Gold Corp. to take the company public. Beringers mining assets were sold off. Lionsgate then began a series of acquisitions to get into the film industry, the company bought a number of small production facilities and distributors, starting with Montreal-based Cinépix Film Properties and North Shore Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mandalay Television was acquired by Lionsgate from Peter Guber for a 4% Lionsgate stake, in 1998, Lionsgate helped Guber form Mandalay Pictures with a 45% investment in Mandalay. Lionsgate followed that up with a June purchase of International Movie Group, Inc. a bankrupt film distributor previously invested in by Guber and Yorktown Securities, iMGs CEO Peter Strauss became president of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. Lionsgates U. S. film & TV production & distribution subsidiary, Lions Gate Media subsidiary was also formed to produce for television. Completing its first year of operation, Lionsgate had revenue of $42.2 million with loss of $397,000, the company share price dropped to a low of $1.40. This limited the ability to make acquisitions via stock swaps. Lionsgate instead made its acquisition of Termite Art Productions, a reality-based television production company. Lionsgate created US based Avalanche Films and acquired half of Sterling Home Entertainment, again, Lionsgate registered losses in its second year of $9.3 million on revenues of $78.3 million with most of the losses were from its stake in Mandalay Pictures. Thus in the summer, Lionsgate placed its studios up for sale with no buyers, TV operations were changed to non-network hourlong series over riskier network shows and ended its relationship with Mandalay Television. The corporation sought out more capital and cash with a filing of a prospectus for the sale of preferred stock and common stock warrants. This led to Feltheimer taking over as CEO from Giustra thus the passed over Doroniuk left the company, Feltheimer increased film making including several $1 million films at Avalanche. However, Federgreen still remains one of the owners of the company and is extremely involved in the making of all their major movies. In June, Lionsgate acquired Trimark Holdings, Inc. for approximately $50 million in stock, Lionsgate continued making acquisitions during the decade to boost distribution and its film library. On December 15,2003, Lionsgate acquired Artisan Entertainment for $220 million, in 2004, Erik Nelson reacquired Termite Art and renamed it to Creative Differences
