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Barbizon Modeling And Acting School
Barbizon Modeling and Acting School is an international modeling and acting school headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The school provides instructional courses in the domain of modeling and personal development. History The first Barbizon School of Modeling and Acting was opened in 1939 on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York, by Helen Fraser, a fashion model and teacher with her husband, Dr. Fraser, a dentist. The Barbizon name was developed from the Fraser's vacations to France where they became interested in the town of Barbizon, a village outside of Paris known for the 19th-century Barbizon school of painters. She wrote a book ''Assignment in Modeling: A Guide to a Career in Fashion and Photographic Modeling. In 1950, Helen met Ronald Reagan, who would later become President of the United States, and awarded him with the Best-Dressed Man in America award she established. In 1951, Helen acted as a celebrity judge for the Miss Brooklyn Pageant, alongside actress Denise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampa, Florida
Tampa ( ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Tampa's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the county seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County. With an estimated population of 403,364 in 2023, Tampa is the List of United States cities by population, 49th-most populous city in the country and the List of municipalities in Florida, third-most populous city in Florida after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville and Miami. Tampa was founded as a military center in the 19th century, with the establishment of Fort Brooke. The cigar industry was brought to Tampa by Vicente Martinez Ybor, Vincente Martinez Ybor, after whom Ybor City is named. Tampa was reincorporated as a city in 1887 following the American Civil War, Civil War. Tampa's economy is driven by tourism, health care, finance, insurance, technology, construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born January 7, 1987) is an American actress. She began her career by appearing as Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'', on which she starred between 2001 and 2005. Thereafter, she had a series of other recurring roles, including Penny Mosby on the CBS sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'', Donna on HBO's ''Big Love'', and Dylan Mayfair on the fourth season of the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives''. From 2010 to 2013, Fonseca starred as Alex Udinov on The CW's '' Nikita'', and from 2015 to 2016 she played Angie Martinelli on ABC's '' Agent Carter''. She has also appeared in a variety of film roles, including Jenny in '' Hot Tub Time Machine'' (2010) and Katie Deauxma in '' Kick-Ass'' (2010) and its 2013 sequel. Early life Lyndsy Marie Fonseca was born on January 7, 1987, in Oakland, California, United States, the daughter of Lima Lynn () and James Victor Fonseca. She has described her ethnicity as "ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Faris
Sean Faris (born March 25, 1982) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jake Tyler in '' Never Back Down'', Kyo Kusanagi in ''The King of Fighters'', and Rick Penning in '' Forever Strong''. He also played Tom in '' Ghost Machine''. Early life Faris was born on March 25, 1982, in Houston, Texas, the son of Katherine and Warren Stephen Faris. His family was working-class and lived in a small house in Houston; he moved to Ohio at age 12, where he attended Padua Franciscan High School in Parma and Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Cleveland. In 1999, Faris competed at the International Model and Talent Association. Career Faris has starred in many different projects, including two television shows, '' Life as We Know It'', and '' Reunion'', both canceled before the end of their first season. He also played William Beardsley in '' Yours, Mine & Ours''. Faris also appeared in '' Sleepover'' with Alexa Vega in 2004. Faris was also nominated for the Young Actors A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-help Book
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from ''Self-Help'', an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position to being a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late twentieth century. Early history Informal guides to everyday behaviour might be said to have existed almost as long as writing itself. Ancient Egyptian "Codes" of conduct "have a curiously modern note: 'You trail from street to street, smelling of beer...like a broken rudder, good for nothing....you have been found performing acrobatics on a wall!. Micki McGee writes: "Some social observers have suggested that the Bible is perhaps the first and most significant of self-help books". In classical Rome, Cicero's '' On Friendship'' and '' On Duties'' became "handbooks and guides...th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Electra
Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick, April 20, 1972) is an American actress, model, singer, and media personality. She began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis where she met Prince (musician), Prince who produced her Carmen Electra (album), self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993. Electra began modeling in 1996 with appearances in ''Playboy'' magazine, before relocating to Los Angeles, where she had her breakthrough portraying List of Baywatch characters, Lani McKenzie in the action drama series ''Baywatch'' (1997–1998). In 1997, Electra hosted the MTV dating show ''Singled Out'' and made her film debut in the comedy horror American Vampire (film), ''American Vampire''. She has achieved recognition for her work in parody films, such as ''Scary Movie'' (2000), ''Scary Movie 4'' (2006), ''Date Movie'' (2006), ''Epic Movie'' (2007), ''Meet the Spartans'' (2008), and ''Disaster Movie'' (2008). Her other film credits include Get Over It (film), ''Get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss America
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: ''Private Interview'' (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, ''On Stage Question'' (10%) – answering a judge's question onstage, ''Talent or HER Story'' (20%) – a performance talent or 90 second speech, ''Health and Fitness'' (20%) – demonstrated physical fitness onstage dressed in athletic wear, and ''Evening Gown'' (20%) – modeling evening-wear onstage. The previous year's titleholder crowns the winner. Miss America 2025 is Abbie Stockard of Miss Alabama, Alabama, who was crowned on January 5, 2025. She will crown her successor at Miss America 2026. Overview On February 1, 1919, a beauty pageant was held at the Chu Chin Chow Ball at the Hotel des Artistes in New York City. The winner, Edith H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caressa Cameron
Caressa Venal Cameron-Jackson (born August 4, 1987) is an American beauty pageant titleholder and occasional singer from Fredericksburg, Virginia who was Miss Virginia 2009 and Miss America 2010. She is the eighth African American Miss America titleholder, the first Black Miss Virginia to be crowned Miss America. Early life and education The Virginia native is a graduate of Massaponax High School and Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2002, Cameron graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Virginia. Pageantry Before 2009 Cameron placed second runner-up to Tori Hall at the Miss Virginia Teen USA 2005 pageant. She was second runner-up to Amber Copley at the Miss Virginia USA 2006 pageant. She was placed second runner-up in the 2006 and 2007 Miss Virginia pageants. At the 2008 competition, Cameron was named first runner-up. Due to this placement, Cameron qualified to compete in the National Sweetheart 2008 pageant, where Miss Virginia later was named the fourth ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haley Bennett
Haley Loraine Keeling (born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the romantic comedy ''Music and Lyrics'' (2007) and has since appeared in films such as '' The Equalizer'' (2014), '' The Magnificent Seven'' (2016), '' Hillbilly Elegy'' (2020), and '' Cyrano'' (2021). Early life Bennett was born Haley Loraine Keeling in Fort Myers, Florida, on January 7, 1988. Her parents, Leilani () and Ronald Keeling, met in church and hitchhiked to Florida while Leilani was pregnant with her. Bennett has Lithuanian ancestry through a maternal great-grandmother and Scottish ancestry through a paternal great-grandmother. She was raised in Naples, Florida. Her parents divorced when she was six years old and she moved to Ohio with her father, who opened an automobile repair shop there. They moved regularly around the state, with Bennett later saying, "There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Tyler Bell
Drew Tyler Bell (born January 29, 1986) is an American actor. He graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Akron, Ohio. He also graduated from the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge. He earned an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Career Bell is perhaps most known for his role as Thomas Forrester in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', which he held from 2004 until 2010, for which he won the 2010 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series. He has made other television appearances, including the television series '' Jake 2.0'', '' Standoff'', and ''Desperate Housewives''. He was also in the television movie, ''Love's Abiding Joy''. He has also performed in numerous television commercials. Bell made his feature film debut in '' Jeepers Creepers II'', which was released in August 2003. He also appeared in '' The Seeker: The Dark is Rising'' as James Stanto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moisés Arias
Moisés Arias (born April 18, 1994) is an American actor. He portrayed Rico in the Disney Channel series ''Hannah Montana'', Biaggio in the 2013 Sundance film '' The Kings of Summer'', Cokestraw in the 2019 SXSW comedy-drama '' The Wall of Mexico'', Bigfoot in the Colombian war drama '' Monos'', and Norm MacLean in the Amazon Prime Video drama series '' Fallout''. He has also appeared in '' Pitch Perfect 3'', '' Five Feet Apart'', ''Ender's Game'', '' The Stanford Prison Experiment'', ''Jockey'', '' The Perfect Game'', '' The Middle'', and '' The King of Staten Island''. Early life Moisés Arias was born on April 18, 1994, in New York City, the son of Mónica and César Arias. His parents are Colombian, and he was raised bilingual. His brother is '' Kickin' It'' actor Mateo Arias. Before starting his acting career, Moisés graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Tampa, Florida. Career He appeared in music videos for Pearl Jam, the Jonas Brothers (for their song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Idol
''American Idol'' is an American Music competition, singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by Fremantle (company), Fremantle North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by Fremantle North America. It aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from June 11, 2002, to April 7, 2016, for 15 seasons. It was on hiatus until March 11, 2018, when a revival of the series began airing on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It started as an addition to the ''Idol (franchise), Idol'' format that was based on ''Pop Idol'' from British television, in which the programme's Pop Idol series 1, first series, which was won by Will Young, ended over four months before the show began, as it later became one of the most successful shows in the history of Television in the United States, American television. The concept of the series involves discovering recording stars from unsigned singing talents, with the winner determined by American viewers using phones, In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
