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Cedric The Entertainer

Stand-up comedian Cedric "The Entertainer" Kyles is also a comic actor who was a cast member of TV's The Steve Harvey Show (1996-2002) and Ice Cube's co-star in the films Barbershop (2000) and…

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne played the tough, mysterious, leather-clad Morpheus in the box office hit The Matrix (1999, with Keanu Reeves) and its sequels. Fishburne was acting on a national level from a…

Michael Mann Biography

Michael Manndirector, producer, writerBorn: 2/5/1943 Birthplace: Chicago After writing for the 1970s TV series Starsky and Hutch and Police Story, Mann won an Emmy Award as cowriter for the TV movie…

Pat Paulsen Biography

Pat Paulsen(Layton Paulsen)comedianBorn: 7/6/1927Birthplace: South Bend, Washington During the 1960s, Paulsen was performing in folk clubs as a comic guitarist when the Smothers Brothers hired him to…

Andrea Mitchell Biography

Andrea MitchellTV news correspondent After growing up in New York City, Mitchell earned a BA in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1967 Mitchell became a reporter for…

The Year in Television

2000 was a year of big name stars, but no must-see hits by Beth Rowen   2000: The Year in Review The Year in Music Almanac: Broadcasting Broadcasting Awards The Emmys…

Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones was Oscar-nominated in 2015 for playing scientist Stephen Hawking’s wife in the drama The Theory of Everything, but she may be better known as Jyn Erso, in the the film Rogue One: A…

Kate Gosselin

Kate Gosselin became famous with her husband Jon and their eight children on the cable TV series Jon & Kate Plus 8, which aired from 2007 to 2009. Gosselin was trained to be a nurse, but the…

Danny Bonaduce

Name at birth: Dante Daniel BonaduceDanny Bonaduce started acting at age four, but it was his role as red-haired, smart-aleck Danny Partridge in TV's The Partridge Family (1970-74, also starring…

Merv Griffin

Name at birth: Mervyn Edward Griffin, Jr.Merv Griffin was the television host and entrepreneur who started two of the most famous game shows in American TV history: Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.…