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JodieFoster

Jodie Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and her first significant role came in 1976 as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver (left), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her third Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Her other best-known work includes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One (2007). Foster made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate; she also directed the films Home for the Holidays (1995) and The Beaver (2011). In addition to her two Academy Awards, she has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

JerryOConnell

Jerry O'Connell is best known for his roles as Vern Tessio in the film Stand by Me (left), Quinn Mallory in the TV series Sliders, Derek in Scream 2, Charlie Carbone in Kangaroo Jack, and Detective Woody Hoyt on the drama Crossing Jordan. On July 14, 2007, O'Connell married actress and former model Rebecca Romijn.

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Haley Joel Osment played a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character's son, Osment rose to fame for his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward. In 2013, Osment, 26, appeared in a series of episodes of Amazon's Alpha House. He also co-starred in the Will Ferrell and Adam McKay-produced comedy melodrama miniseries The Spoils of Babylon for IFC.

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Dustin Diamond an American actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian best known for his role as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the television shows Saved by the Bell. On an October 2012 interview, Diamond, 37, confirmed that he had been married since 2009. He currently resides in Port Washington, Wisconsin.

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Danica McKellar played Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later wrote four non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics. McKellar, 39 divorced from her husband in 2013.

BenSavage

Ben Savage is best known for his role as Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993-2000) and its Disney Channel sequel series Girl Meets World (2014).

AngusJones

Angus T. Jones is best known for playing Jake Harper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, for which he had won two Young Artist and a TV Land Award during his 10-year tenure as one of the show's main characters. In November 2012, Jones made statements critical of Two and a Half Men. He said he was a "paid hypocrite" because his religious beliefs conflicted with his job as an actor in expressing the show's adult themes. In October 2012, Jones, 20, described his path to a new faith in detail during an interview with Seventh-day Adventist sponsored Voice of Prophecy radio program. In November, his views gained the attention of the media after Jones appeared in a video posted on the YouTube channel of ForeRunner Chronicles, an independent ministry run by Christopher Hudson.

AlyssaMilano

Alyssa Milano is known for portraying Samantha Micelli on the ABC sitcom series Who's the Boss? (1984-92), Jennifer Mancini on the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997-98), and Phoebe Halliwell on The WB series Charmed (1998-2006). Since 2013, she has played Savannah Davis in the ABC drama Mistresses. Milano, 41, is married to CAA agent David Bugliari. They have two children: son Milo Thomas and daughter Elizabella Dylan.

ABIGAIL-BRESLIN

Abigail Breslin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Little Miss Sunshine in 2006. Now 18 years of age, she most recently starred in August: Osage County (2013); The Call (2013); and Ender's Game (2013).

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Christopher Johnstone, as Eva Peron's first love, tango singer Augustin Magaldi, sings "On This Night of a Thousand Stars" in the production of Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical "Evita." (Photograph by Richard Termine)

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Josh Young (seated), as the narrator Che, with a cinema crowd performing the song "Oh What a Circus" in the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical. (Photograph by Richard Termine)

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Denzel Washington (background) stars in "The Equalizer," his always reliable performance on of the more memorable parts of this film, directed by Antoine Fuqua. (Associated Press)

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This Jan. 30, 2013, photo provided by ESPN Images shows Bill Simmons on the set of NBA Countdown in New Orleans. ESPN has suspended Simmons for three weeks after he repeatedly called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a liar during a profane tirade on a podcast. ESPN announced the suspension Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/ESPN Images, Don Juan Moore)

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Classical crossover singer Jackie Evancho, who wowed audiences at age 10 on NBC Network's "America's Got Talent", poses for a portrait in promotion of her forthcoming album "Awakening" on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Drew Gurian/Invision/AP)