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Joan Chong Chen is a Chinese actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film... Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose, White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl. Chen Chong was born in Shanghai, China to a family of pharmacologists. . She and her older brother, Chase, were raised during the Cultural Revolution. At the age of 14, Chen was discovered on the school rifle range by Jiang Qing, the wife of leader Mao Zedong and major Chinese Communist Party power figure, as she was excelling at marksmanship.
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Jennifer Mary "Jenna" Elfman is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her roles as Dharma Freedom Finkelstein Montgomery on... the 1997-2002 American television sitcom Dharma & Greg and as Anna Riley in the 2000 feature film Keeping the Faith. Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, California, the youngest daughter of three children, to Sue Butala, a homemaker, and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive. Her father's younger brother, Elfman's uncle, is Tony Butala, lead singer since 1958 of the American vocal trio The Lettermen. She is of Croatian ancestry on her father's side and was raised Roman Catholic. Taking ballet class since the age of five, Elfman became a classically trained ballet dancer and attended high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts . She then attended college at California State University, Northridge Elfman began her professional career as a dancer, appearing in the music video for "Halo", a song by Depeche Mode from the 1990 album Violator, a video that was exclusively included on the band's 1990 music video compilation Strange Too.
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Deborah Lynn Scott , also known as Deborah Scott is a costume designer and set designer, best known for her work in the James Cameron's directorial... venture Titanic which won her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Her first movie as a costume designer was Don't Answer the Phone . Some of her other movies include E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial , Back to the Future , Legends of the Fall , The Patriot , Transformers , Avatar , and Love & Other Drugs . She has completed her education from California State University, Northridge, California. She has two daughters namely, Hannah and Tess. She has also worked as Assistant costume designer in Shakespeare in Love , as Set designer in Alouette, je te plumerai , Midsummer .
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