Alana De La Garza Photos and Biography

Alana de la Garza (born June 18, 1976) is an American actress. She was born in Columbus, Ohio to a Mexican-American father and an Irish-American mother. She was raised in El Paso, Texas. Alana de la Garza was born in Columbus, Ohio. She was brought up in El Paso, Texas, by her Mexican-American father and Irish-American mother. In 1989, Alana entered the El Paso Miss Teen USA beauty pageant. She was awarded the title of Miss Photogenic, which served to pay off later in her acting career.

After completing high school, Alana took on the role of teacher for special-needs children. She then decided to attend The University of Texas where she studied physical therapy and social work. It was after Alana completed her degree that the acting bug bit her.

Alana traveled from Austin, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, where she managed to get her start in acting. Her first role came in 1999 when she appeared on the short-lived television series Mortal Kombat: Conquest. After one episode of work, she did not reappear on the show, and decided to move to New York City for a larger television calling: soap operas. Alana landed the role of Rosa Santos on All My Children in 2001. The celebrated soap brought her enough television attention to make the next three years of her acting career a rollercoaster ride of guest-starring roles.

Alana de la Garza made her film debut in the 2002 drama Carnival Knowledge. The film had no major stars and Alana’s role was only a bit part. Alana’s flop in the film domain prompted her to return to television for work, and it wasn’t long before she found a few series to call her own.

In 2003, Alana guest-starred on the long-running NBC series JAG. She appeared in only one episode of the show, but once that job was complete she stayed with NBC for another role. Alana made an appearance on Las Vegas in 2003, working with talented veteran James Caan.

She won the “Miss Photogenic” title in the Miss El Paso Teen USA local beauty pageant. She then became a special-needs teacher and enrolled at The University of Texas, studying physical therapy and social work. Upon graduating, she landed some small roles while living in Orlando, Florida, and soon moved to New York City. She obtained the role of Rosa Santos on the soap opera, All My Children, guest-starring roles in JAG, Charmed, Two and a Half Men, and Las Vegas. She starred as Maria in the short-lived television series The Mountain, in which she received high marks for her acting.

Between 2005 and 2006, Alana de la Garza went on a rampage through some of television’s most popular series. She started her trip by making a stop on Smallville, starring Kristin Kreuk and Tom Welling, for one episode in 2005. She then left the world of superheroes and villains to try her talent with the power of three in Charmed, starring Alyssa Milano. In 2006, Alana de la Garza saw a little more continuity on the series for which she obtained more roles.

Alana appeared in three episodes of the controversial comedic drama The Book of Daniel before the show began to be pulled by networks and later canceled after only eight full episodes. She found herself in 11 episodes of the popular crime drama CSI: Miami as Marisol Delko.

Alana joined the cast of Law & Order in 2006 for the show’s 17th season as Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa. She also took a little time to return to the film world to make Mr. Fix It (2006), a romantic comedy costarring television heartthrob David Boreanaz.

In 2005, she starred in the film Mr. Fix-It co-starring David Boreanaz. She also guest-starred as an evil Kryptonian woman (named “Aethyr” in promotional materials) in the fifth season premiere episode of Smallville titled “Arrival” and played the recurring role of Marisol Delko on the CBS television series CSI: Miami. She has twice been featured in the “Girls of Maxim” online gallery. In 2006, she joined the cast of NBC’s Law & Order during the premiere of the seventeenth-season, portraying Connie Rubirosa.

Is ‘Terminator’ unstoppable?

Terminator TV: Judgment Day
Searches Spike for the Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an American television series that premiered on Sunday, January 13, 2008 on the U.S. television network Fox. It is a continuation of the Terminator film franchise. Produced by Warner Bros. Television and C2-Pictures, it revolves around the life of Sarah Connor, and her son, John Connor after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The series is being executively produced by the Terminator 3 producers and C2 Pictures co-presidents, Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna, C2 Senior Vice President James Middleton, David Nutter, and Josh Friedman, who is also writing.

Sunday night, Fox aired the debut episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” By Monday morning, the show’s message board was raking in the comments. In threads with titles like “This show doesn’t make sense” and “THIS IS A NO SHOW!!!!!!!!,” many fans fumed about how the new series deviated from the original “T” storyline.

Judging by buzz, though, the sci-fi drama may actually be an unstoppable, musclebound “yes.” After the show aired, searches for the cyborg series spiked nearly 400%, busting into our top movers. Lena Headey, who plays Sarah Connor, Interest in fellow actors Thomas Dekker and Summer Glau soared. Glau’s character, the re-programmed teen Terminator Cameron Phillips, also surged in Search Engines.

Even if the series does eventually crumble in the face of some fans’ resistance, it’s already benefited the larger good of the franchise. Searches for “terminator,” “terminator 2,” and “terminator 3″ are all on the rise. Demand for “terminator 4″ and its trailer has blasted upwards. For now, the world is looking safe for the ongoing saga of the Connor family.

Sarah Connor Chronicles Trailer:

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Here’s a press release recently released by FOX:

Again facing relentless Terminators that will stop at nothing until John Connor, the future leader of the resistance, is eliminated, Sarah Connor stops running and starts fighting back against fate and the machines that are out for her son in the highly anticipated new series TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES premiering Monday, Jan. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

Unfolding where the film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” leaves off, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES finds SARAH (Lena Headey) and her 15-year-old son JOHN CONNOR (Thomas Dekker) alone in a dangerous world. As fugitives from the law, they are confronted by the ever-evolving technological enemy bent on destroying their lives, and perhaps the world. Balancing his inevitable fate as the possible savior of mankind and his current life as an ordinary high school student, John must learn what it takes to become the future leader of the people’s resistance. His only friend is CAMERON (Summer Glau), an enigmatic and otherworldly student at his high school who soon proves to be much more than his confidante – she assumes the role of Sarah and John’s fearless protector. Together, Sarah, John and Summer, all extraordinary in their own right, attempt to become a “normal” family. On their trail are not only threats from the future, but an intelligent and tough FBI agent, JAMES ELLISON (Richard T. Jones), who just may become a powerful ally.

TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES represents an exciting reinvention of the “Terminator” film franchise, in which the strong and intrepid Sarah discovers that protecting her son and stopping the rise of the machines is more difficult than she had ever imagined.

Produced by C2 Pictures in association with Warner Bros. Television, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES is executive-produced by Josh Friedman and John Wirth. James Middleton serves as consulting producer, while Toni Graphia serves as co-executive producer and Natalie Chaidez serves as a consulting producer for the series. The pilot was directed by David Nutter.

Casting: The casting process of the series took 16 weeks during which the producers auditioned actors not only from America but also from Australia, Canada, and England. Over 300 actresses auditioned for the role of Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator series.Series creator Josh Friedman described the actress he was looking for was someone “who embodied that spirit and who was believable in that role and not just some glammed up, Hollywood, actressy thing.” After a friend recommended English actress Lena Headey for the role, Friedman watched her audition tape, and thought she was “a tough, tough woman”. Headey was officially cast on November 7, 2006.

On December 7, 2006, the actor cast in the role of 15-year-old John Connor was announced to be Thomas Dekker. Regarding the Terminator films, Dekker says, “They are like my favorite films when I was younger. So it’s very ironic that I’m getting to do this. And I know for the younger generation and for myself, John was equally important to me as Sarah was, and I know a lot of the people that I hear from really, really care about John.”

The remaining two principal cast members of the series, Richard T. Jones and Summer Glau, were announced in January 2007 and February 2007 respectively. Jones likens his character, an FBI agent, to that of Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Moreover, he is allowed to improvise a few lines to provide “a little bit of comic relief” to the show. Unlike Dekker, Glau had not seen the Terminator films prior to being cast as Cameron Phillips, whose role in the series was initially kept concealed but was later revealed to be a Terminator sent from the future to protect John. Friedman had previously wanted to cast Glau in a pilot he wrote four years prior to The Sarah Connor Chronicles but she was already committed to Serenity. Glau admitted that she felt “intimidated” by the role because the character is comprised of both human and robot characteristics.

The role of Cromartie, a Terminator sent back to kill John Connor, first went to Owain Yeoman, who appeared in the pilot. The trade press reported on September 24, 2007, that Garret Dillahunt has joined the show in that same role. The cast also features veteran TV actor Dean Winters as a former boyfriend of Sarah’s.

Filming: The pilot episode was primarily filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The principal photography started on January 24, 2007 and took approximately one month to complete. Subsequent episodes in the series are filmed in the backlot of the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, where the set was previously used by Gilmore Girls to depict their fictional town, Stars Hollow.

The Story:
At the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah, John, and the Terminator successfully destroy the T-1000 and the arm and computer chip from the first Terminator. Sarah and John then watch as the Terminator is lowered into a molten steel pit in an attempt to destroy all future technology that could be used to create Skynet. Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous and complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies — from the future and the present — could attack at any moment.

Prompted by the return of Terminators into their lives, Sarah and John decide to stop running and focus on stopping the launching of Skynet. They are aided by Cameron, a Terminator who poses as a student at John’s school and whose mission is to protect John. Meanwhile, FBI Agent James Ellison pursues Sarah and John with the belief that Sarah is deranged. The pilot episode as broadcast takes place in August and September 1999 with a jump to September 2007.

Characters and Cast:

• Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) is a major character in the Terminator series. She is seen as a deranged fugitive by the authorities, who do not believe her story about the terminators.

• John Connor (Thomas Dekker) is Sarah’s son. The future leader of the human resistance, he is only fifteen years old in the show’s time setting.

• Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) is a cyborg sent back in time to protect John Connor. She is an unknown model and, according to the trailer, the most human yet; being able to convincingly mimic human emotions better than her predecessors.

• James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) is an FBI agent pursuing the Connors.

• Cromartie (Owain Yeoman) is a Terminator sent back to kill John in the pilot episode. He is shown to take damage to his biological covering, similar to the Model 101. Garret Dillahunt is also reported to have been cast in this role.

• Charley Dixon (Dean Winters) Sarah’s former fiancé, who will be looking for her for a number of episodes. In the original pilot, this character was named Burke Daniels, and played by Tim Guinee.

Wentworth Miller for most searched on actors !

Every once and a while, an actor appears in a role that seems tailor-made. For Wentworth Miller, that role came when he was cast as young Coleman Silk in “The Human Stain” (2003), a race drama about a man (the older version played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) hiding the true nature of his identity—one born from a white mother and black father. Miller’s own background was a mirror image of the character, which naturally gave him an edge on the competition despite his sparse resume.

Prior to his feature debut, Miller paid his dues in small unforgiving roles on various television shows. Eventually, Miller began appearing in more prominent parts, including the lead role on the escape drama, “Prison Break” (Fox, 2005- ), an action-packed series that had set him up to become a breakthrough star.

Though Miller was born in Chipping Norton, England, where his father was a Rhodes Scholar, he grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back when it was far less trendy. The cultural diversity of his neighborhood allowed him to ignore issues of race—with so many around and within him, Miller never really thought much about it.

His family later moved to Sewickley, Pennsylvania where he attended Quaker Valley High School his senior year. After graduation, he attended Princeton and majored in English. Though he loved acting and appeared in school productions since he was in kindergarten, Miller blenched at the prospect of pursuing acting in the business-oriented climate of the Ivy League school. Upon graduation in 1995, Miller moved to Los Angeles and began his entertainment career as a lowly assistant at a development company, presumably to put his Princeton degree to good use.

Working at the development company rekindled his desire to act, however, and later, while working behind the counter at a Border’s Bookstore, he began going on auditions. Three years after landing in Los Angeles., he got his first role on an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (WB-UPN, 1996-2003), then went on to a recurring role on the short-lived Fox series, “The Time of Your Life” (1999-2000), a spin-off from “Party of Five” (Fox, 1994-2000) starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. In a 2000 episode of “ER” (NBC, 1994- ), he played a high school quarterback injured in a student riot.

After another recurring role on the teen comedy “Popular” (WB, 1999-2001) was cut short, Miller appeared as a waiter in “Room 302” (2001), a short film featured in Showtime’s 9th annual Black Filmmaker Showcase. An appearance in the cliché-ridden miniseries, “Dinotopia” (ABC, 2002), a CGI fantasy about a lost continent where humans and dinosaurs co-exist peacefully, added a major—albeit cheesy—role to his resume.

In 2003, Miller was set to make a major breakthrough after being cast as a younger version of Anthony Hopkins in “The Human Stain.” Miller had an intense personal connection to the racially ambiguous character—as a person of mixed racial make-up, he ran into trouble for making derogatory, though misconstrued, remarks about African-Americans, much like the character in the movie.

While a junior at Princeton, he published a cartoon in the Daily Princetonian featuring Cornel West, then professor of African-American studies who was hired away by Harvard, as teaching white students a class called ‘Rhythm – Why None of You Have It, and How You Can Get It.” The cartoon also referred to West as “newly-purchased,” an innocent academic term for newly hired that was taken as a reference to slavery. The New York Times ran a story, novelist Toni Morrison wrote an angry letter and Miller—despite his racial background—was considered a campus racist. And like Coleman Silk, Miller refrained from revealing his true nature.

After filming the movie, Miller wrote a letter to West apologizing for the cartoon, but it went unanswered. West was, however, a friend of actress Anna Deveare Smith, who played Silk’s mother, and showed up at the premiere. He unexpectedly gave Miller a bear hug and all was well.

The film, on the other hand, did not fair so well—it made a paltry $5 million at the box office despite the star power of Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.

Meanwhile, Miller had a small supporting role in, “Underworld” (2003), a sci-fi thriller about a secret war between vampires and werevolves.

But the weak showing of “The Human Stain” forced Miller to take a step back to reevaluate his life and career, leaving him without an appearance in 2004. He did make a strong comeback in 2005, starting with the music video for Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together,” in which he steals the singer away from Eric Roberts at the alter. Not exactly a shining moment, but it got him back into circulation—repeatedly on VH1, at least.

After a couple of episodes on “Joan of Arcadia” (CBS, 2003-2005), he gave his best HAL impression in the big budget bomb, “Stealth” (2005), voicing EDI, the onboard computer of a runaway aerial combat plane equipped with nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence gone haywire.

Miller then landed the role of Michael Scofield on the Fox series, “Prison Break,” playing a structural engineer who robs a bank in order to get arrested and placed in the same prison as his brother (Dominic Purcell), a wrongly-accused death row inmate. Despite criticism for stretching the boundaries of plausibility, the show was hailed for its suspense and excitement. The show made an impressive debut, pulling 10.5 million viewers its first night and holding 8.5 million its second episode. Meanwhile, he appeared in the pilot episode of “The Ghost Whisperer” (CBS, 2005), which was set to air late September.

Kelly Ripa Photos and Biography

Kelly Maria Ripa (born October 2, 1970) an American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress, television personality and talk show host. Since February 2001, she has served as the co-host of Live with Regis and Kelly.

Earlier in her career, Ripa played Hayley Vaughan Santos on All My Children; She also played Faith Fairfield on Hope & Faith, both television series on ABC.

While attending Eastern High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, Ripa began acting in high school plays. This led to roles at local theaters and a regular spot on the USA Network’s Dance Party USA – an afternoon teen music program.

She was then cast as gothic teen turned suffering heroine Hayley Vaughan on the soap opera All My Children. Starting on the show in 1990, the character of Hayley quickly drew a large following. While she was selected to work alongside Regis Philbin for the long-running talk show, Live, Ripa was on double duty, but the following year in 2002, Ripa left All My Children.

In September 2003, Ripa was back on double duty when she co-starred (with Faith Ford) on Hope & Faith, a situation comedy. She portrayed Faith Fairfield, a former soap star whose character is killed off and who moves in with (and subsequently wreaks havoc on) her sister Hope’s family. Hope & Faith survived for three seasons before a ratings decline led to its cancellation.

In June 2004, Ripa agreed to continue as Live co-host for at least five more years, at a salary that the tabloid television show Extra reported was $8 million/year.

In October 2006, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos, also a actor, were partnering with producers from Hope & Faith on a sitcom for The CW Television Network that would be loosely based on the couple’s experiences as soap opera actors.

In April 2007, Ripa hosted the 2007 TV Land Awards. In May 2007, Ripa stated that she most likely is done with acting for the time being.

On August 14, 2002, guest Judith Light created a stir on Live with Regis and Kelly when she got into a shouting match with Kelly after Kelly corrected Judith’s pronuciation of “worcestershire”.  This became a recurring topic on the show, with the on-air talent frequently making light of the incident. On November 3, 2002, Light made a public apology to Kelly.

On November 17, 2006, Clay Aiken was a guest host on Live with Regis and Kelly. During an interview, Aiken covered Kelly Ripa’s mouth with his hand. There was considerable reaction after Kelly mentioned the incident on her show 4 days later. Aiken mocked the controversy on the 2006 American Music Awards a few days later with Tori Spelling.

Ripa won five Soap Opera Digest Awards for playing Hayley on All My Children in 1996, 1998 & 2000. She has been nominated for 8 Daytime Emmy Awards. Three of these nominations were for playing Hayley on All My Children, and 5 were for performing hosting duties alongside Regis.

In April 2006, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special for co-hosting the 2005 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade with Regis Philbin and Ryan Seacrest.

On September 15, 2006, Ripa broke the Guinness World Record for custard pie throwing, tossing 24 banana cream pies in one minute at actor Wilmer Valderrama, as part of a Guinness World Record Breaker theme week on Live with Regis and Kelly. She beat the record broken by NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth on the previous day, when he threw 17 pies at Ripa herself.

Ripa was born in Camden County, New Jersey to Joseph and Esther Ripa. In 1995, Ripa met Mark Consuelos, her co-star on All My Children; the two married on May 1, 1996. The couple have three children — Michael Joseph Consuelos, born June 2, 1997; Lola Grace Consuelos, born June 16, 2001; and Joaquin Antonio Consuelos, born February 24, 2003. Ripa’s father has been a freeholder for Camden County, New Jersey since January 2004.

• Kelly Ripa profile at WhoABC Guide

Lindsey Shaw Photos and Biography

Lindsey Marie Shaw (born on May 10, 1989) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Jennifer Mosely on Nickelodeon’s sitcom, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. and Claire Tolchuck in Aliens in America.

From 2004-2007 Lindsey starred in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. She is currently starring in the show Aliens in America, which premiered fall 2007 on The CW.

American actress Lindsey Shaw was born on May 10, 1989, in Lincoln, NE. Lindsey is best known for her starring role as Jennifer ‘Moze’ Mosley on Nickelodeon’s sitcom “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.” The actress has also appeared in the films “Aliens in America” and “The Great Lie.”

In 2002, Lindsey and her mother moved to San Mateo, California, where she attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. She is a client of Kansas City, Missouri’s, I and I Agency and loves to root for the University of Nebraska’s team, The Cornhuskers.

The archetyple middle-American everygirl, Nebraskan actress Lindsey Shaw first reached viewers in the mid-2000s when the then-teenager signed for a lead role in the Nickelodeon series Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.

In that program – a silly and goofy sitcom about a 6th grader’s adventures at a new middle school – Shaw plays Mose, the lead character’s one and only female friend and the object of affections from the local tough.

Shaw was born in in Lincoln, Nebraska. For many years, Shaw and her mother traveled from Lincoln to Omaha, mainly because her agent was located there.

In 1998, Shaw became a client of Kansas City, Missouri’s I and I Agency, and upon doing so, traveled with her mother back and forth from Lincoln to Kansas City twice a month, doing print ads and commercials. In 2002, Shaw and her mother moved to San Mateo, California.

Lindsey finished middle school at St. Francis Xavier School in Burbank. She attended Notre Dame High School for her freshman year. Due to scheduling conflicts, she was forced to continue her schooling through Laurel Springs home school program. She is involved in various charities such as the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation.