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Swintayla Marie Cash , better known as Swin Cash, is an American WNBA player who plays for the Chicago Sky. A prolific scorer and rebounder, as well... as a capable ball handler and defender, she helped lead the University of Connecticut women's basketball team to national titles in 2000 and 2002. In her second WNBA season, she led the Detroit Shock to their first ever WNBA title. Cash was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport and raised by her mother, Cynthia. She has two brothers named Stephen and Kevin Menifee and one sister, Angelique Menifee. She holds basketball camps and clinics under her company, Swin Cash Enterprise LLC, and is involved in charity events through the WNBA. Cash attended McKeesport Area High School in McKeesport, where she participated in many activities. She "tried her hand at" baseball, track, and cheerleading, but her true passion was entertainment, which she expressed in school plays and drama class. Cash is best known for her basketball skills, which earned her a place on the national WBCA All-American. She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored fourteen points, and earned MVP honors.
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Tamara Renee Tunie is an American film, stage and television actress, director and producer. She is best known for her portrayal of attorney Jessica... Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, and medical examiner Melinda Warner on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. From 2000 to 2007 , she appeared on both series simultaneously. Tunie was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Homestead, the daughter of Evelyn and James W. Tunie. Tunie is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, and medical examiner Melinda Warner on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She is also known for her recurring roles as Lillian Fancy in NYPD Blue and as Alberta Green in the first season Fox's 24. Tunie guest starred in many television series, including Spenser: For Hire, Tribeca, SeaQuest DSV, New York Undercover, Swift Justice, Feds, Chicago Hope, Sex and the City and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
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Aline MacMahon was an American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in... 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed . Aline Laveen MacMahon was born to William M. MacMahon and Jennie C. Simon in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Her parents married on July 14, 1898 in Columbus, Ohio. According to the 1910 United States Federal Census, her father was born in 1878 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania to an Irish-born father, whose occupation was a telegraph operator. Her mother, Jennie, was born in 1879 in Russia of Jewish origin; Jennie MacMahon died in 1984, aged 105. Aline MacMahon was raised in New York City and educated at Erasmus Hall High School and Barnard College. MacMahon began appearing on Broadway in 1921. Her first film role was in 1931 in Five Star Final; she alternated between Broadway and Hollywood throughout her career. MacMahon was married to Clarence Stein, an architect and city planner, who founded the Regional Planning Association in 1928. He died in 1975. They had no children.
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Karl Brown was a pioneer American cinematographer who had a close association with director D. W. Griffith during the early part of his career.... Brown also became a noteworthy director and screenwriter. Brown's first entertainment-related job, while still in his teens, was working at a development lab for the Kinemacolor Film Company in Los Angeles. After the collapse of Kinemacolor, he worked as a still photographer on The Spoilers. Having become enamored with Griffith's work, especially The Battle at Elderbush Gulch , Brown became an assistant to G. W. Bitzer as well as a film loader and equipment caretaker. The most successful film Brown worked on as cinematographer was The Covered Wagon . Brown's first directorial effort, Stark Love , is today considered a rural cinematic masterpiece. Brown was cinematographer on Wallace Reid's last film, Thirty Days . In the 1970s, Brown was one of the Hollywood pioneers interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for his television series Hollywood . In the series, Brown talked at length about Reid's addiction and death.
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Amy Lawhorn is an actress.