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If work is what you love, then you love your life… And you never stop working.
As a film/tv and theater actress in New York City you can find me in everything from character-driven independent features to comedic ‘funny or die’ shorts. When I’m not acting, I’m writing and producing my own webseries. And when I’m not doing that, I’m practicing yoga, dancing and of course, sampling vegan cupcakes.

That’s right, cupcakes. As founder of GoSweetandSkinny.com, I’m dedicated to demystifying the low fat and vegan lifestyles. I’m here to prove that taking care of your body and making healthy choices are easy when you don’t have to give up the foods you love!

My all-time crush is Audrey Hepburn, the embodiment of classic femininity. Her example inspired women to their highest aspirations. I’ve committed my career to honoring her example, and to empowering the women of my generation to a life of class and integrity.
Life is a lot like baking cupcakes, sometimes it’s a big, sticky mess and it sure gets hot with the oven always on but when you combine the right ingredients and mix it all up with love, it always ends up sweet and skinny.

Carrie Wiita

Birthday: Date of Birth Not Available
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Carrie Wiita is the actress who portrays Kara Hayback.

In addition to Heroes, Carrie has worked on the television shows Weeds, Reno 911!, Root of All Evil, and The Ex List. Also, she has had notable roles in the films The Awakening of Spring, The McCaingels, and The Phoenix. Official website
 

Caroline Dhavernas

 

Birthday: 15 May 1978, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)

Biography

Caroline Dhavernas commands the attention of filmgoers and television viewers with her beauty, talent and poise. Beginning her career at age 11, the Montreal native is already an acclaimed young actress who has also made her mark in Hollywood. She is the recipient of two Gemeaux Awards, one for "Best Interpretation in a Youth Series" for "Zap" (1993) and the second for "Best Supporting Role" in "Tag" (2000). She was also nominated for a Genie Award for "Best Supporting Actress" in Niagara Motel (2005).

Dhavernas made her American television debut in 2004 in the critically acclaimed FOX series "Wonderfalls" (2004) and starred in the ABC television series "Off the Map" (2011). She appeared in the supernatural thriller Devil (2010) produced by M. Night Shyamalan, The Switch (2010/I) with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman and can be seen in the film Wrecked (2009/I) starring Adrien Brody. She also starred as "Vera Keller" in "The Pacific" (2010), a mini-series about World War II that debuted on HBO in March 2010. Dhavernas appeared in the widely acclaimed Canadian feature Passchendaele (2008), which won the 2009 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. Dhavernas also starred in the film Breach (2007), with Chris Cooper and 'Ryan Phillippe'x . In 2006 she starred in the Focus Features film Hollywoodland (2006) opposite Adrien Brody. Her first feature film, Thick as Thieves (1999), was followed by L'île de sable (1999). She also co-starred in English director Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. Dhavernas divides her time between Montreal and New York City 

Dhavernas was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the Québécois actors Sébastien Dhavernas and Michèle Deslauriers. Her first name is pronounced kah-ro-LYN because of her French-Canadian heritage. Her last name is roughly pronounced dah-vair-NAH. Her sister Gabrielle Dhavernas is also an actress and specialises in dubbing. The voice timbre of both actresses is very similar, so similar that Gabrielle can dub the voice of Caroline. She learned English at a very young age, as her parents sent her to an English-speaking elementary school called The Priory School.
She began her career at the age of 8, dubbing voices for television productions such as Babar. At the age of 12 she began her acting career in the film Comme un Voleur (1990).
Dhavernas portrayed swimmer Marilyn Bell in the made-for-television movie Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (1999). She trained for 2 months with the Pointe-Claire Swim Club to convincingly portray Marilyn Bell who was the first to cross 32-mile Lake Ontario in 1954. Other notable films have included a leading role in Edge of Madness (2002), and supporting roles in Out Cold (2001) and Lost and Delirious (2001). She also had a notable role on Law & Order as a closeted, gay teenager who killed her girlfriend in the episode "Girl Most Likely" (12x17).

Her most high-profile work to date is as the central character in Wonderfalls. Dhavernas plays Jaye, an underachiever university graduate from a wealthy family, who lives in a trailer and works at the Wonderfalls Gift Emporium, a Niagara Falls gift shop. One of the quirks of the show is Jaye's ability to hear inanimate objects speaking to her, and encouraging her to help other people. Dhavernas has described the show as being like "Touched by an Angel on acid". The show received widespread critical praise, but Fox canceled the show after four airings. Millions of fans signed a petition to try to get the show to stay but only partly succeeded with 20th Century Fox only releasing the DVD with the 13 completed episodes. She did her own voice-overs for the French translation of Wonderfalls.
Since the cancellation of Wonderfalls, Dhavernas has continued to appear in Canadian-made features, including Niagara Motel and These Girls. She also appears in the 2006 film Hollywoodland about the death of actor George Reeves, as well as in the 2007 film Breach.

She also has the lead role in Surviving My Mother (which went under the working title of The Yellow Woman), a movie directed by Émile Gaudreault which premiered at the Festival des films du monde of Montreal on August 28, 2007. The wider theatrical release was November 2, 2007. In 2008 Dhavernas starred in Passchendaele, a film written and directed by Paul Gross about the Battle of Passchendaele. Passchendaele accounted for half of 2008's box office revenue from made-in-Canada anglophone films and as of 2009 is the most expensive film in Canadian history.

It's a beautiful film and I'm really, really happy to be part of it. It's about Battle of Passchendaele, which was a very important battle for Canadians and it's a big part of our history. It was just so amazing to be privileged to live a little part of that history.^[1]

Recent projects include The Cry of the Owl, a movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, and the popular Quebec comedy De père en flic. She also appeared in the first and last episodes of HBO's miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and she guest starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, playing Maya in the episode "Love Sick" in May 2010.
In 2012, audiences have seen her in Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril, a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name.^[2][3]
She has been cast as the female lead, Dr. Alana 'Al' Bloom in Hannibal, reuniting her with Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller.

 

Awards and nominations

• Nominated for a Genie at the Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Niagara Motel (2006)
• Nominated for a Genie at the Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Music - Original Song for La belle bête (2006) shared with Patrick Watson for the song Trace-Moi

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Cap Tourmente	Valerie Huot
1996	L'oreille de Joé		Short film
1999	L'île de sable	Manou
1999	Running Home	Jessica
2001	Lost and Delirious	Kara
2001	Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story	Marilyn Bell
2001	Out Cold	Anna
2002	Les moutons de Jacob	Caroline
2002	Edge of Madness	Annie Herron
2002	The Baroness and the Pig	Emily
2003	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Passion Hockmeister
2003	The Tulse Looper Suitcases: Antwerp	Passion Hockmeister
2003	Red Nose	Nathalie Lachance
2005	These Girls	Keira St. George
2006	Niagara Motel	Loretta
2006	Mr. Average	Claire
2006	Hollywoodland	Kit Holliday
2006	The Beautiful Beast	Isabelle-Marie
2007	Breach	Juliana O'Neill
2007	Surviving My Mother	Bianca
2008	Passchendaele	Sarah Mann
2009	The Cry of the Owl	Nickie Grace
2009	Father and Guns	Geneviève
2010	One Last Dance	Young Norma	Short film
2010	The Switch	Pauline
2010	Devil	Elsa Nahai
2010	Wrecked	Woman
2012	Mars et Avril	Avril
2013	Goodbye World	Becky	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Les filles de Caleb	Rose Pronovost age 8-11	Episode: "17"
1991	Marilyn	Abeille	TV series
1993	Zap	Isabelle Daigneault	TV series
1996	Urgence	Josianne Villeneuve	TV series
1997	Lobby		TV series
1998	Réseaux	Christine	TV series
1999	Le polock	Camille Langlois	TV series
2000	Tag	Stéphanie	TV series
2000	The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne	Angelique Dore	Episode: "The Golem"
2002	Law & Order	Alicia Milford	Episode: "Girl Most Likely"
2004	Wonderfalls	Jaye Tyler	Lead role (14 episodes)
2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Maya Sills	Episode: "Love Sick"
2010	The Pacific	Vera Keller	TV miniseries
2011	Over/Under	Vicky Harmon-Castle	Episode: "Pilot"
2011	Off the Map	Dr. Lily Brenner	13 episodes
2013	Hannibal	Dr. Alana Bloom	Main role (13 episodes)

 

Carmen Ejogo

 

Birthday: 1974, London, England, UK

Height: Height Not Available

Biography

Carmen Ejogo grew up in London. She began her acting career in the UK working with directors such as Micheal Winterbottom and Kenneth Brannagh. She broke through to international acclaim in 1997, as Eddie Murphy's on screen paramour in the the movie Metro. Later, Ejogo disclosed the full extent of her dramatic range with a skilled portrayal of Sally Hemings - Thomas Jefferson's mistress - in the acclaimed television miniseries Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000). She has since worked on numerous movies the US, and has done exemplary supporting work in such pictures as 

Born and raised in London, Ejogo is the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ejogo née Douglas.^[3] Her father was Nigerian and her mother was Scottish.^[4] During her childhood, Ejogo remembers her mother as being "a bit of a hippie".^[5] Her younger brother is also named Charles Ejogo.^[6][7] She attended the Oratory Primary Roman Catholic primary school in Chelsea until 1984.

Ejogo's television career began in the UK in the early 1990s, where she presented the children's series Saturday Disney. Subsequently, she has had an acting career in the US. She has appeared in Metro with Eddie Murphy, What's the Worst That Could Happen? with Martin Lawrence, and Love's Labour's Lost with Kenneth Branagh, among other films, and also presented The Carmen Ejogo Video Show — her own video show on BSB's Power Station channel. She starred as Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress in the television drama Sally Hemmings: An American Scandal and also as Sister Anderson in the remake version of the cult classic original film Sparkle. Although the film has received mixed reviews, Ejogo has received significant acclaim for her performance, being cited by many critics as the breakout star of the film. Liz Smith, of the Huffington Post wrote: "As for Carmen Ejogo, as the cynical Sister, she is mind-blowing. "What a performance! Carmen has been around for a while, and has a fanatical fan base. Now I know why. If this turn doesn't cop her an Oscar nomination, there is no justice"; Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle also went as far as to suggest in his review that Ejogo's performance might place her under serious consideration for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. LaSalle comments: "...very few people will walk out of Sparkle talking about either Sparks or Houston, at least not at first. Instead they will be saying, "Who was that?" And they'll be referring to Carmen Ejogo...If there is any justice, Ejogo will become very famous very soon. As in, maybe today...It's rare to see someone become a movie star right before your eyes, but that's what happens with Ejogo in Sparkle....For an actress, this was the opportunity of a lifetime, and Ejogo plays it that way. She leaves nothing out, holds nothing back."

Music

Ejogo is also a vocalist, having collaborated with several artists in the 1990s. She wrote and sang lead vocals on the song "Candles" by English drum 'n' bass DJ Alex Reece — she appeared in the music video and is listed in the production credits as 'Carmen'.

Aside from "Candles", Ejogo appears on four songs of the Sparkle original soundtrack album from the movie of the same name, singing lead on "Yes I Do" (as a solo), and co-lead vocals with Jordin Sparks and Tika Sumpter on "Jump", "Hooked On Your Love" and "Something He Can Feel".

Personal life

Ejogo has been married since August 2000 to American actor Jeffrey Wright, whom she met while they were making the HBO film Boycott. They live in Brooklyn, New York,^[5] and have two children.^[8]

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	Absolute Beginners	Carmen	Director: Julien Temple
1997	Metro	Ronnie Tate	Director: Thomas Carter
1998	I Want You	Amber	Director: Michael Winterbottom
	The Avengers	Brenda	Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
2000	Love's Labour's Lost	Maria	Director: Kenneth Branagh
2001	Perfume	Chloe	Directors: Michael Rymer & Hunter Carson
	What's the Worst That Could Happen?	Amber Belhaven	Director: Sam Weisman
2004	Noel	Dr. Matthew Batiste	Director: Chazz Palminteri
2007	The Brave One	Jackie	Director: Neil Jordan
2008	Pride and Glory	Tasha	Director: Gavin O'Connor
2009	Away We Go	Grace De Tessant	Director: Sam Mendes
2012	Sparkle	Tammy "Sister" Anderson	Director: Salim Akil
	Alex Cross	Maria Cross	Director: Rob Cohen
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Cold Lazarus	Blinda	Director: Renny Rye
1998	Catherine Cookson's Colour Blind	Rose Angela	Director: Alan Grint
	Tube Tales	Girl in "Steal Away"	Director: Charles McDougall
2000	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal	Sally Hemings	Director: Charles Haid
2001	Boycott	Coretta Scott King	Director: Clark Johnson
2005	Lackawanna Blues	Alean	Director: George C. Wolfe
2006–2007	Kidnapped	Turner	Directors: Various
2007	M.O.N.Y.	Francine Tyson	Director: Spike Lee
2008	Law & Order (Episode: "Burn Card")	April Lannen	Director: Mario Van Peebles
2011	CHAOS	Fay Carson	Directors: Various
2013	Zero Hour	Rebecca 'Beck' Riley	Director: Pierre Morel

 

Carla Gugino

Birthday: 29 August 1971, Sarasota, Florida, USA

Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)

 

Biography

Carla was born in Sarasota, Florida. Moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But she remained a straight-A student throughout high school and graduated as valedictorian. A major modeling agency discovered Carla in San Diego and sent her to New York to begin a new career when she was 15. New York was more than she could handle at that young age, so she returned to LA in the summer, modeling and enrolling in an acting class at the suggestion of her aunt, Carol Merrill, known from "Let's Make a Deal" (1963). During her free 

Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist of Italian descent,^[1] and a mother of English-Irish descent^[2] described as "Bohemian".^[3] Her parents separated when she was two,^[4] after which she traveled between her father and half-brother Carl Jr.'s home in Sarasota, and her Paradise, California home, to which her mother moved her when she was four. She has described her bicoastal childhood, saying, "I lived in a tepee in Northern California and a van in Big Sur. With my dad, I lived in a beautiful house with a swimming pool and a tennis court and went to Europe for the summers. So I feel like I lived two childhoods." She worked as a teenage fashion model, and took acting classes at the suggestion of her aunt, former Let's Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill.^[3] She eventually came to support herself, and with her parents' support, was legally emancipated by the time she was 16

Gugino's television work during the late 1980s and early 1990s included appearances on Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss?, ALF, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Wonder Years and a recurring role on Falcon Crest.

In film, Gugino appeared the Shelley Long film, Troop Beverly Hills and co-starred with Pauly Shore in the 1993 romantic comedy Son in Law. She later appeared in the video to Bon Jovi's 1994 song "Always".

After playing Michael J. Fox's love interest, Ashley Schaeffer, during the first season of the sitcom Spin City in 1996, Gugino starred with Nicolas Cage in Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes, and in Judas Kiss, which she also co-produced. She appeared as Dr. Gina Simon during the 1999–2000 final season of Chicago Hope.

Gugino Giving an Interview to CNN 2011

In 2001, she appeared as family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in the first Spy Kids film (as well as the film's two sequels in 2002 and 2003). That same year she appeared as Jet Li's love interest in the martial arts action thriller The One.

She starred in two short-lived TV series: ABC's Elmore Leonard crime drama Karen Sisco in 2003, and CBS's science fiction series Threshold in 2005. That same year, Gugino appeared as Lucille in the feature film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, Sin City. The following year, she appeared in the movie Night at the Museum.

Gugino appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company play After the Fall opposite Six Feet Under's Peter Krause. In late 2006, she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer opposite Blythe Danner.^[5]

Gugino appeared as Amanda, Vincent Chase's agent, in a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage.^[6] Gugino appeared nude in the May 2007 issue of Allure.^[7] That same year she appeared in the feature film American Gangster. The following year, she played the female lead in the thriller Righteous Kill, opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

Gugino starred in Chicago's Goodman Theater production of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms from January 17 to February 17, 2009, in the role of Abby. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised Gugino's performance, saying, "Ms. Gugino displays a depth and range of expression that I cannot imagine any other actress achieving with such blazing honesty and wrenching truth. She is simply magnificent."^[8] During the first three months of 2009, three feature films premiered featuring Gugino: the thriller The Unborn, the film Watchmen, in which she played Sally Jupiter,^[9] and the adventure remake Race to Witch Mountain, in which she starred opposite Dwayne Johnson. That April, she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination^[10] for Outstanding Actress In a Play for her performance in Desire Under the Elms. Later in November of that year, she appeared as a pornographic actress in the comedy film Women in Trouble, which spawned a sequel in 2010, Elektra Luxx, titled after her character.

In 2011, Gugino appeared as Madame Vera Gorsky in Zack Snyder's action-fantasy film Sucker Punch alongside Abbie Cornish and Emily Browning. Gugino sang a duet with co-star Oscar Isaac, which appeared in the end credits and in the film's soundtrack. She also played Henry "Hank" Moody's attorney and love-interest for the 4th season of Californication on Showtime.

In the summer of 2012 Gugino had a lead role as Susan Berg, a Washington D.C. investigative reporter, on the USA Network's miniseries Political Animals.

Personal life

Gugino is a life and film partner with American film director, screenwriter and film producer Josh Adams. They met as actors in the 1996 film Wedding Bell Blues, and she has appeared in ten other films and television series that he has written or directed since then.

 

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	Troop Beverly Hills	Chica Barnfell
1990	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Young Roxy
1993	This Boy's Life	Norma Hansen
	Red Hot	Valentina
	Son in Law	Rebecca ' Becca' Warner
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Leslie Marcus
1996	Jaded	Megan 'Meg' Harris
	Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco	Delilah	Voice Role
	The War at Home	Melissa
	Wedding Bell Blues	Violet
	Michael	Bride
1997	Lovelife	Amy
1998	Snake Eyes	Julia Costello
	Judas Kiss	Coco Chavez
2001	Spy Kids	Ingrid Cortez
	The Center of the World	Jerri
	The Jimmy Show	Annie
	The One	T. K. Law/Massie Walsh
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Ingrid Cortez
2003	The Singing Detective	Betty Dark/Hooker
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Ingrid Cortez
2005	The Life Coach	Carla
	Sin City	Lucille
2006	Even Money	Veronica
	Night at the Museum	Rebecca Hutman
2007	The Lookout	Janet
	Rise: Blood Hunter	Eve
	American Gangster	Laurie Roberts
2008	Righteous Kill	Det. Karen Corelli
2009	The Unborn	Janet Beldon
	Sparks	Robin	Short film
	Watchmen	Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre
	Race to Witch Mountain	Dr. Alex Friedman
	Women in Trouble	Elektra Luxx
	Under the Hood	Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre	Direct-to-Video Release
2010	The Mighty Macs	Cathy Rush
	Elektra Luxx	Elektra Luxx
	Every Day	Robin
	Faster	Cicero
2011	I Melt With You	Laura
	Girl Walks Into a Bar	Francine Driver
	Sucker Punch	Dr. Vera Gorski
	Mr. Popper's Penguins	Amanda
	New Year's Eve	Dr. Morriset
2012	Hotel Noir	Hanna Click
2013	By Virtue Fall	Actress
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Who's the Boss?	Jane	Episode: "Prom Night II"
	Good Morning, Miss Bliss	Karen	Episode: "Summer Love"
1989	ALF	Laura	Episode: "Standing in the Shadows of Love"
	Saved by the Bell	Karen	Episode: 1.1 Pilot
1989 – 1990	Falcon Crest	Sydney St. James	11 episodes
1990	Ferris Bueller	Ann Peyson	Episode: "Stand-In Deliver"
1991	Doogie Howser, M.D.	Sara Newman	Episode: "Planet of the Dateless"
	The Wonder Years	Sandy Tyler	Episode: "Triangle"
1992	Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story	Allison Connors	TV-Movie Alternative title: "Best Intentions"
	Quantum Leap	Michelle Temple Cutter	Episode: "Ghost Ship"
	Davis Rules	Kathi	Episode: "A Father Makes All the Difference", Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Them"
	A Private Matter	Mary Beth	TV-Movie Alternative title: "Miss Sherri"
1994	Motorcycle Gang	Leann	TV-Movie
1995	The Buccaneers	Nan St. George	Miniseries
1996, 1998	Spin City	Ashley Schaeffer	12 episodes
1998	Alexandria Hotel
1999	A Season for Miracles	Emilie Thompson	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie
1999 – 2000	Chicago Hope	Dr. Gina Simon	23 episodes
2001	Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature	Lily	TV-Movie Alternative title: "She Creature"
2003 – 2004	Karen Sisco	Karen Sisco	10 episodes
2005 – 2006	Threshold	Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey	13 episodes
2007 – 2010	Entourage	Amanda Daniels	10 episodes
2010	Californication	Abby	Season 4 Episodes 1 – 12
2011	Hide	Warren	TV-Movie
2012	Justified	Karen Goodall	Season 3 Episode 2
	Political Animals	Susan Berg	6 episodes
	New Girl[11]	Emma	3 episodes

 

Awards and nominations

 

In 2009, Gugino was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). During the Foundation's 34th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., she received NIAF's Special Achievement Award for Entertainment, presented by her close friend, actress Connie Britton.^[12]

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1999	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Favorite Supporting Actress in a Suspense	Snake Eyes	Nominated[13]
2008	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	American Gangster	Nominated[14]

Cara Santa Maria

Birthday: 19 October 1982, Texas, USA

Cara Louise Santa Maria (born October 19, 1983)^[1] is an American neuroscience enthusiast and science educator. She is the senior science correspondent and host of the "Talk Nerdy to Me" series for The Huffington Post.^[2][3]

Santa Maria is a native of North Texas and is a 2001 graduate of Plano East Senior High School. She is from a Mormon family although she is atheist herself ^[4] and of mixed Italian and Puerto Rican descent.^{[5] [6]}

From 2009 to 2011, Cara Santa Maria dated television host and political commentator Bill Maher.^[7]

Santa Maria has been a frequent panelist on The Point, a spin-off talk show of The Young Turks^[8] and an occasional host of The Young Turks itself.^[9]

 

After graduating with her masters degree in neuroscience, Cara enrolled in a doctoral program but dropped out shortly thereafter.