August 2009
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Vanessa Hudgens
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Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She appears as Gabriella Montez in the Disney Channel film High School Musical hit series. Hudgens began a music career and released her debut album, V, in 2006. Her second album, Identified, was released July 1, 2008.
Hudgens’s father is an American of Irish and Native American descent, and her...
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Rob Schneider
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Robert Michael “Rob” Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedies Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick.
Schneider’s father was a secular Jew, while his...
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Victoria Principal
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Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American actress, best known for her role as Larry Hagman’s sister-in-law and Patrick Duffy’s wife, Pamela Barnes Ewing, “Pam”, on the long-running CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987. She is well-known for her line of cosmetic products. On Lifetime Television’s Intimate Portrait, she revealed that she...
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Hervé Villechaize
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Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (April 23, 1943 - September 4, 1993) was a French actor who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke’s assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island (1978 - 1984). He was also well known for playing the evil henchman Nick Nack in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.
Villechaize was born and raised in...
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Tamlyn Tomita
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Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born January 27, 1966) is an Asian American actress. She is of one quarter-Filipino descent (her mother is half Filipina, half Japanese).
In 1986, Tomita made her acting debut in The Karate Kid, Part II, playing Ralph Macchio’s love interest.
She also had a starring role in The Joy Luck Club, in addition to roles in The Day After Tomorrow, The Eye,...
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Phoebe Cates
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Phoebe Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins.
Cates’ maternal grandfather was of Chinese Filipino descent, and her father as well as her maternal grandmother were of Russian Jewish origin. Cates attended the Professional Children’s School and the Juilliard...
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Tia Carrere
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Tia Carrere was born Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Audrey Duhinio Janairo, a computer supervisor, and Alexander Janairo, a banker.[1] She is of Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino descent.
She is an American actress, model, and singer, perhaps most widely known for her role as Cassandra in the feature films Wayne’s World and Wayne’s World 2 and as...
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Rachel Grant
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Actress Rachel Louise Grant De Longueuil was born on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines. She is related to British royalty through her grandfather, the late Baron Raymond De Longueuil (second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II of England) whose mother was Ernestine Maude Bowes-Lyon.
She was also a Bond girl in the film Die Another Day
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Ramiele Malubay
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Ramiele Macrohon Malubay
(born September 6, 1987 in Dammam, Saudi Arabia)[1][2] is an American singer and the NINTH PLACE FINALIST on the seventh season of the television series American Idol.
Malubay was born in Saudi Arabia to Filipino parents Roger Malubay and Alicia Macrowon, who worked in Saudi Arabia. [3] When the Gulf War broke out, Malubay’s parents sent her to the...
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Manny Pacquiao
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Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (IPA: /’pækjaʊ/; born December 17, 1978), known as
Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao
is a professional Filipino boxer. He is currently the WBC Lightweight Champion. He is the former WBC super featherweight world champion, IBF super bantamweight world champion, and WBC flyweight world champion. He has also held the Ring Magazine titles for featherweight and...
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Vanessa Minnillo
So all shallowness aside…why isn’t Derek Jeter still dating this girl? She’s GORGEOUS! Below is how she looked in May 2009 attending Maxim Magazine’s 10th Annual Hot 100 Celebration, Santa Monica, CA. [via]
Vanessa Joy Minnillo
is an American television personality, host, model, and actress of Filipino (maternal) and Italian and Irish (paternal) descent. She...
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Margie Moran
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Margie Moran
Maria Margarita Moran-Floirendo, (born Maria Margarita Roxas Moran) from the Philippines, won the Miss Universe crown in 1973 in Athens, Greece. She is also the granddaughter of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas.
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