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Rebecca De Mornay is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business... opposite Tom Cruise. Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining. She was born Rebecca Pearch on August 29, 1959 in Santa Rosa, California. Her father was Wally George , a disc jockey at the time. When she was two, her parents divorced and at the age of five, she became known by her stepfather's surname, De Mornay. She has two step-brothers: Jonathan, a businessman, and Peter, a guitarist. She attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England, but her high school degree was awarded in Kitzbühel, Austria. She later trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She had a two year relationship with actor Tom Cruise; the two lived together in New York after working together on Risky Business.
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Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress best known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th... Street, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, and West Side Story. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old. Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and at age eight was given a co-starring role in the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street. As a teenager, her performance in Rebel Without a Cause earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in the musical films West Side Story and Gypsy , and received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass and Love with the Proper Stranger . Her career continued with films such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice . After this she took a break from acting and had two children, appearing in only two theatrical films during the 1970s.
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Guy Fieri is a United States restaurateur, author, television personality, and game show host. He co-owns five restaurants in California and is... widely known for his television series on the Food Network. By mid-2010, the Food Network had made Fieri the "face of the network." In 2010, the New York Times reported that Fieri brought an "element of rowdy, mass-market culture to American food television," and that his "prime-time shows attract more male viewers than any others on the network." Although Fieri has no training as a chef, he worked at various restaurants during high school, and then went on to manage and own restaurants. After graduation in 1987, he went to work for Stouffer's, developing restaurant concepts in Southern California and managing their flagship restaurant in Long Beach, California. After three years, he became District Manager of Louise's Trattoria, managing six locations along with recruiting and training for the restaurants. Fieri attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Management in 1990.
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Ray Tyson, better known by his stage name Ray Luv, is an American rapper from Santa Rosa, California. Ray Luv performed with Tupac Shakur in the... group Strictly Dope. Early in his career, Luv was signed to the independent labels Strictly Business and Young Black Brotha. Raised in West Ninth Street in Santa Rosa California.Ray Luv has stated that he got his name from Tupac Shakur, and that his original name was MC ROC. His first album Who Can Be Trusted was released in 1993 by Mac Dre's record label Strictly Business. "Get Your Money On" from Trusted was popular on local radio at the time. Forever Hustlin', released in 1995 by Atlantic Records through the Bay Area label Young Black Brotha run by Khayree, was his major label debut; it reached #39 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. That same year, Luv was featured on the soundtrack to the film New Jersey Drive. In 1997, Luv contributed to the Bay Area rap compilation Khayree Brings You the Blackalation from the Young Black Brotha label. Ray Luv is co-owner of the online video series Pushin' The Bay TV, alongside the show's host Emcee T.
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Marshall Cook is a director, actor and film producer.

Julie London was an American singer and actress. She was best known for her smoky, sensual voice. London was at her singing career's peak in the... 1950s. Her acting career lasted more than 35 years. It concluded with the female lead role of nurse Dixie McCall on the television series Emergency! , co-starring her best friend Robert Fuller and her real-life husband Bobby Troup, and produced by her ex-husband Jack Webb. Born Gayle Peck in Santa Rosa, California, she was the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team. When she was 14, the family moved to Los Angeles. Shortly after that, she began appearing in movies. She graduated from the Hollywood Professional School in 1945. In July 1947 she married actor Jack Webb . Her widely regarded beauty and poise contrasted strongly with his pedestrian appearance and streetwise acting technique . This unlikely pairing arose from their mutual love for jazz. They had two daughters: Stacy and Lisa Webb. London and Webb divorced in November 1954.
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Marshall Cook is a director, actor and film producer.

Leo D. Maloney was an American film actor, director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 156 films between 1911 and 1929. He... also directed 47 films between 1914 and 1929. Maloney was born in Santa Rosa, California and built the "Leo Maloney Studio" in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. Maloney's final film was one of the first sound pictures, 1929's "Overland Bound". While at a party in Manhattan to celebrate the completion of that picture, Maloney suffered a fatal stroke.
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Preston Maki Wamsley is an American television actor. Wamsley is best known for his recurring role as "Ronnie Wilson" on the late 1990s sitcom, The... Hughleys. Wamsley has also made appearances on other sitcoms including My Wife and Kids, The Nanny, and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.
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Mark Eddinger is an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, music producer, record company executive, and music and entertainment industry... consultant. Eddinger is also involved as an executive and consultant in other business sectors unrelated to the entertainment industry. Mark Eddinger was born in Santa Rosa, California on December 11, 1958. He began studying classical piano at the age of 5 under Frances Kelly, a student of classical composer Sergei Prokofiev. He continued his studies and competed in several young pianists competitions. Although unpopular in the strict classical music circles, Eddinger became interested in rock music and in particular analog synthesizers. While still studying under Ms. Kelly, and later with Sonoma County pianist Norma Brown, he began studying analog synthesizer programming with analog synthesizer pioneer Patrick Gleeson. In the summer of 1975 while traveling in England with a close friend, he met Peter Bardens of the band Camel and producer Alan Tarney, both of whom he would work with in later years. While living in Las Vegas in 1977 and again in 1980 and 1981, Eddinger worked primarily as a musician and producer.
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Nicole DuPort is an actress.