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Paige Turco
Jean Paige Turco (born May 17, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her role as April O'Neil in '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze'' and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III''. Other notable roles include Melanie Cortlandt on the ABC soap opera ''All My Children'', Terri Lowell in the CBS series '' The Agency'', Gail Emory in the CBS series ''American Gothic'' and appearances in '' NYPD Blue'', '' Party of Five'' and ''Person of Interest''. From 2014 to 2019 she starred as Abigail Griffin in the post-apocalyptic drama series, ''The 100''. Early life Turco was born to Joyce Jean (Jodoin) and David Vincent Turco in Boston, Massachusetts. At one year old her mother moved them to Springfield, Massachusetts where she was raised, after the death of her father. She is of Italian, French-Canadian and English ancestry. She took ballet lessons as a little girl and planned to become a classical ballerina. She attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballerina
A ballet dancer ( it, ballerina fem.; ''ballerino'' masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on years of extensive training and proper technique to become a part of a professional ballet company. Ballet dancers are at a high risk of injury due to the demanding technique of ballet. Training and technique Ballet dancers typically begin training at an early age if they desire to perform professionally and often take part in international competitions such as YAGP and Prix de Lausanne. At these events, scholarships are being granted to the most talented dancers, enabling them to continue their training at renowned ballet schools around the world, such as the John Kranko Schule in Germany and the Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace in Monaco. Pre-professional ballet dancers can audition to enroll at a vocational ballet school suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Hicks
Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American actress. She played the character Annie Camden on the long-running television series '' 7th Heaven''. Other roles included Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' (1976–1978), her Emmy Award-nominated performance as Marilyn Monroe in '' Marilyn: The Untold Story'' (1980), Dr. Gillian Taylor in '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' (1986), and Karen Barclay in '' Child's Play'' (1988). Early life Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks, an electronics salesman. She is of Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, during her childhood. After attending Saint Mary's College (Indiana), where she studied English literature and theology, Hicks won a prestigious acting fellowship to Cornell University. While at Cornell, she was a member of the Ithaca Repertory Theater Company. Career After graduating from Cornell with a master of fine arts degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnetka Road
''Winnetka Road'' is an American television drama which premiered on NBC on March 12, 1994, and concluded on April 16, 1994 after six episodes. The series was created by John Byrum, and follows the lives and loves of an oddly interconnected group of people in a suburban Chicago town. Cast and characters * Sandy McPeak as Sterling Grace * Eddie Bracken as Father Burke * Benjamin Caya as Bratty Boy * Kristen Cloke as MayBeth Serlin * Richard Gilliland as Jason Peterson * Harley Venton as Stanley 'Stan' Oldman * Ed Begley Jr. Edward James Begley Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor and environmental activist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He played Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series ''St. E ... as Glenn Barker * Josh Brolin as Jack Passion * Kurt Deutsch as Kevin Page * Catherine Hicks as Jeannie Barker * Meg Tilly as George Grace * Paige Turco as Terry Mears * Megan Ward as Nicole Manning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinah Marler
Dinah Marler is a fictional character from the CBS Daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light'', last portrayed by Gina Tognoni from July 5, 2004 to September 18, 2009. Casting The character was originated by Jennifer Gatti from June 1986 to June 1987. Paige Turco assumed the role on June 24, 1987 and played Dinah until February 1989. Wendy Moniz next portrayed the character from February 20, 1995 to March 1999. In May 2004, it was announced that former '' One Life to Live'' actress Gina Tognoni would step into the role of Dinah. She debuted in the role on July 6, 2004. Following the cancellation of ''Guiding Light'', Tognoni opted out of her contract early. Tognoni has won two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role in 2006 and 2008, and was also nominated in 2007. Storylines Vanessa gave birth to Dinah at the age of seventeen in 1970 and felt she was incapable of being a good mother to her newborn at the time. With no one to turn to for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiding Light
''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. It is listed in ''Guinness World Records'' as the third longest-running drama in television in American history. ''Guiding Light'' aired on CBS for 57 years between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio between January 25, 1937, and June 29, 1956. With 72 years of radio and television runs, ''Guiding Light'' is the longest running soap opera, ahead of '' General Hospital'', and is the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program ''Grand Ole Opry'' (first broadcast in 1925), the BBC religious program '' The Daily Service'' (1928), the CBS religious program '' Music and the Spoken Word'' (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program '' Lørdagsbarnetimen'' (1924–2010) have been on the air longer. When the show debuted on radio in 1937, it centered on Reverend J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area listings magazine ''The TeleVision Guide'', which was first released on local newsstands on June 14 of that year. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the short-lived variety show, variety series ''The Gloria Swanson Hour'', appeared on the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hartford and 90 minutes from Boston. UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, becoming the University of Connecticut in 1939. Over the following decade, social work, nursing and graduate programs were established, while the schools of law and pharmacy were also absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university has been considered a Public Ivy. UConn is one of the founding institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The population was 15,853 at the 2020 census. History Longmeadow was first settled in 1644, and officially incorporated October 17, 1783. The town was originally farmland within the limits of Springfield. It remained relatively pastoral until the street railway was built , when the population tripled over a fifteen-year period. After Interstate 91 was built in the wetlands on the west side of town, population tripled again between 1960 and 1975. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Longmeadow was best known as the site from which Longmeadow brownstone was mined. Several famous American buildings, including Princeton University's Neo-Gothic library, are made of Longmeadow brownstone. In 1894, the more populous and industrialized "East Village" portion of the town containing the brownstone quarries split off to become East Longmeadow. Designed by famed golf course architect Donald Ross in 1922, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Path University
Bay Path University is a private university in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Bay Path offers both all-women bachelor's degree programs (both on-campus and online), co-educational master's degree programs (both on-campus and online), an occupational therapy doctorate program, and an EdD in Higher Education Leadership & Organizational Studies program for men and women. The university also has The American Women's College on-ground and online offering bachelor's degree programs to adult women. Founded in 1897 as the Bay Path Institute, the college has gone through several name changes. From 1988 to 2014 it was known as Bay Path College. Bay Path University is a member of the Cooperating Colleges of Greater Springfield, an eight-college consortium. History Bay Path was founded in 1897 as Bay Path Institute in Springfield, Massachusetts. Bay Path started as an urban, coeducational institute offering business teacher training, secretarial science, business administration and account ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amherst Ballet Theatre Company
The Amherst Ballet Theatre Company is a dance school located at 29 Strong Street in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is a non-profit (501(c)3) organization overseen by a volunteer board of directors and administered by an executive director. Though it has a few classes in Contemporary and Jazz dance, the preponderance of its classes teach the Vaganova syllabus of ballet. History Amherst Ballet School was founded in 1971, by Therese Brady Donohue, as a private, for-profit business. Classes were based on the syllabus of London's Royal Academy of Dancing. In 1976 Donohue founded the non-profit Amherst Ballet Theatre Company to provide for a greater range of performance opportunities for the students and the community. The for-profit Amherst Ballet School and the non-profit Amherst Ballet Theater Company existed as separate entities until 2000 when they were merged into a single non-profit organization. Between 2003 and 2011 the executive director was Catherine Fair. In 2012, Suean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
