Teri
Polo (born on June 1, 1969) is an American actress best
known for her role of Pamela Martha Byrnes in the movie Meet
the Parents (2000)
and its sequel Meet the Fockers (2004). She was one of the stars
in the sitcom I'm with Her, as well as the political drama series
The West Wing.
Teri Polo was born in Dover,
Delaware, the daughter of Jane, a homemaker, and Vincent Polo, a
stereo systems designer. Polo studied ballet
for twelve years beginning at age five. By age 13 she was attending
New York's School of American Ballet. After winning a modeling contest,
she moved to New York City at the age of seventeen to pursue an acting
career. In April 1997 Polo married photographer Anthony Moore. In
2003 Polo and Moore were divorced. A year later, while on the set
of a video, she met drummer Jamie Wollam (of the bands Avion and
Venice). Polo has two children a son Griffin (b. Summer 2002 with
Moore) and a daughter Bailey (born December 20, 2007 in Los Angeles
with Wollam).
Teri Polo has guest-starred on many TV shows like
The Practice, Felicity, Chicago Hope, Sports Night, Numb3rs, and
Frasier.
Polo's primetime
debut was in TV 101. She also starred in The Phantom of the Opera
(1990 miniseries) as Christine Daae. She played Detective Ash on
the TV series Brimstone and became a regular cast member on the last
season of Northern Exposure. In the sixth and seventh seasons of
The West Wing playing the role of Helen Santos, the wife of Democratic
presidential candidate Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits). She has also hosted
several ceremonies. Recently, she appeared on Fox's The Wedding Bells,
portraying the wedding planner Jane Bell.
In 2009 she starred in the Hallmark Channel TV
movie Expecting a Miracle with Jason Priestley and Cheech Marin.
Polo is in the 2009 television pilot for Washington
Field. The show is about the National Capital Response Squad, a unit
of the FBI composed
of elite experts in different areas who travel around the world,
responding to events that concern American interest. In 2010, Polo
will reprise her role as Pamela Martha Byrnes in Little Fockers,
the sequel to Meet the Parents (2000)
and
Meet the Fockers
(2004).
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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
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Smulders Television Actress
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but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in
several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens,
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Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
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Thorne Smith TV Actress
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Jennifer
Aniston Movie and Television Actress
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Eva Mendes
Model and Actress
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University, Northridge and majored in marketing. Her debut
in acting came because she needed a little extra spending
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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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