Chyler
Leigh (born Chyler Leigh Potts on April 10, 1982) is an
American actress.Leigh was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She
was raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia until the age of twelve
when she moved with her mother to Miami, Florida. During eighth
grade she started modeling. She soon moved on to acting by appearing
in local television commercials and a syndicated teen news show
called Hall Pass.
In 2001, Chyler Leigh had
the lead role in the film Not Another Teen Movie as Janey Briggs.
She also appeared in Marilyn Manson's music video "Tainted Love",
a song which appeared in the film. She was ranked #65 on the Maxim
Hot 100 Women of 2002.
In 2002, Leigh was cast in two short-lived TV series:
Girls Club, in which she played lawyer Sarah Mickle, and That '80s
Show, in which she played punk rocker June Tuesday. Following that,
she joined the cast of Reunion in September, 2005. In ABC's Grey's
Anatomy, Chyler
Leigh, seen as the women in Joe's bar, tries to pick up
Derek Shepherd. She has reportedly been asked to star in Grey's
for a 13 episode arc next season. In the third
season finale it was revealed she will be playing Lexie Grey, Meredith's
half-sister.
On July 20, 2002, she married actor Nathan West
and together they have one son, Noah Wilde. She gave birth to her
second child, and first daughter, in September 2006.Chyler's older
brother is Christopher Khayman Lee, better known as Andros, the red
Space Ranger from Power Rangers in
Space. Her first name is pronounced "Kyler",
not "Shyler" as it is commonly mispronounced.
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Anna Paquin
Actress
It was in New Zealand in 1991 that
Anna Paquin became an actress by chance. Director Jane
Campion was looking for a little girl to play a key role
in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper
advertisement was run announcing an open audition.
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Claire
Danes Movie Actress
When she is not working, Claire Danes likes
spending time on her school studies, especially the humanities and science.
She tries to keep up her interest in dance, and wants to continue with
her new enthusiasm for surfing while she's living in Los Angeles.
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Cobie
Smulders Television Actress
As a child Cobie Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine biologist
but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in
several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens,
she started to model internationally, including in locations such as Paris,
Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
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Courtney
Thorne Smith TV Actress
Courtney Thorne Smith first appeared as Stacy Hamilton on Fast Times, the
television series spin-off of the successful teen movie Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
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Jennifer
Aniston Movie and Television Actress
In 2000, after a widely publicized
battle with NBC, Aniston and her fellow cast members negotiated
a salary of $750,000 per episode. The show won its first
Emmy for its 8th season in 2002. That same year, Aniston
received a Best Actress Emmy for her role as Rachel. Jennifer
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Eva Mendes
Model and Actress
Eve Mendes attended California State
University, Northridge and majored in marketing. Her debut
in acting came because she needed a little extra spending
money and appeared as an extra on various films. One day
she caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue
acting more steadily. Eva
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Movie
Actress Keira Knightley
She was born in Teddington, south-west
London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career
took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule
of "I before E except after C" but making the
name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Keira
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