"starred Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, Heather Burns, Diedrich Bader, and Treat Williams. The sequel was less successful both critically and commercially, earning only $101,393,569. Miss Congeniality (film) Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and starring Sandra Bullock with Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, and Candice Bergen. ""Miss Congeniality"" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 22, 2000 and was a box office hit grossing $212 million worldwide. Bullock also garnered a nomination for the"
"starred in the film ""What's Your Number?"" (2011), she held a recurring role opposite Zach Galifinakis in the HBO series ""Bored to Death"" and plays Trish in the Amazon webseries ""Sneaky Pete"" (2017). Heather Burns Heather Burns (born April 7, 1975) is an American actress, known for her role as Miss Rhode Island in the 2000 film ""Miss Congeniality"". Her other film appearances include ""You've Got Mail"" (1998), ""Two Weeks Notice"" (2002) and ""Bewitched"" (2005). Burns was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is married to actor Ajay Naidu. She graduated from Evanston Township High School. She is a graduate of"
"Sara Lindsey Sara Lindsey (born Washington, D.C., United States of America) is an American actress best known for playing surgical assistant Gracie opposite Will Smith in the 2015 biopic film ""Concussion"". Born in Washington, Lindsey was raised in Ellicott City, Maryland as the youngest of four children to two physicians. She attended Wilde Lake High School in nearby Columbia, followed by the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting. Starting with ""Super 8"" in 2011 she had extra and bit part roles in various films including ""Won't Back Down"", ""Fun"
"transgender woman on ""Ally McBeal"" (2000); and Ben Covington's (Scott Speedman) girlfriend on ""Felicity"" (2001). She also continued to land guest-star spots on such shows as ""ER"", ""Frasier"", ""Just Shoot Me!"", ""Without a Trace"", and ""Judging Amy"", as well as small parts in the films ""What Women Want"", ""Keeping the Faith"", ""As Good as It Gets"", and ""Daddy Day Care"". From 2004 to 2011, she portrayed her biggest and most notable role to date, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and frequent adversary, friend, and eventual girlfriend of title character Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) on"
"Size"", ""Promised Land"" and ""Jack Reacher"". Her biggest role thus far came in 2015's ""Concussion"" where she played supporting character Gracie. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Sara Lindsey Sara Lindsey (born Washington, D.C., United States of America) is an American actress best known for playing surgical assistant Gracie opposite Will Smith in the 2015 biopic film ""Concussion"". Born in Washington, Lindsey was raised in Ellicott City, Maryland as the youngest of four children to two physicians. She attended Wilde Lake High School in nearby Columbia, followed by the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where she graduated with a Bachelor"
"as Lilly Luxmore, in ""Cards on the Table"" in 2006; the 2008 British movie ""The Crew"" as Debs and in the ""Doctors"" episode ""Someone Else's Shoes"" as Branwen Owen in 2013. Cordelia Bugeja Cordelia Bugeja (born 5 March 1976 in Chichester, West Sussex) is a British actress, best known for her roles as Melanie Hart in the soap opera ""Family Affairs"", and the prostitute Kate in ""Respectable"" on Five. In 2006, she appeared briefly in an episode of sitcom ""Not Going Out"" as waitress Julie. (The producers had said in an interview that they had promised Bugeja a role after"
"Laura Haddock Laura Jane Haddock (born 21 August 1985) is an English actress. She is best known for portraying Kacie Carter in ""Honest"", Lucrezia in ""Da Vinci's Demons"", Meredith Quill in ""Guardians of the Galaxy"" and its sequel ""Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"", Alison in ""The Inbetweeners Movie"" and Viviane Wembly in """". Born in Enfield, London and raised in Harpenden, Hertfordshire (where she attended St George's School), She left school at the age of 17 and moved to London to study drama. She trained at Arts Educational School in Chiswick. Haddock made her television debut in the television"
"Keri Russell Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer. She came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the WB drama series ""Felicity"" (1998–2002), for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Russell also starred as KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings on the FX spy thriller series ""The Americans"" (2013–2018), for which she received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. Russell has appeared in several films, including """" (2006), ""Waitress"" (2007), ""August Rush"" (2007), ""Extraordinary Measures"" (2010), ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"" (2014), and ""Free State of"
"Russell has been in a relationship with her ""The Americans"" co-star Matthew Rhys. They have a son, born in 2016. Keri Russell Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress and dancer. She came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the WB drama series ""Felicity"" (1998–2002), for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Russell also starred as KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings on the FX spy thriller series ""The Americans"" (2013–2018), for which she received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. Russell has appeared in several films, including """" (2006),"
"Congeniality"" (2000), ""Sweet Home Alabama"" (2002), ""The Women"" (2008), ""Bride Wars"" (2009), and ""Book Club"" (2018). Bergen was born in Beverly Hills, California. Her mother, Frances Bergen (née Westerman), was a Powers model who was known professionally as Frances Westcott. Her father, Edgar Bergen, was a famous ventriloquist, comedian, and actor. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish-born immigrants who anglicized their surname, which was originally Berggren (""mountain branch""). As a child, Candice was irritated at being described as ""Charlie McCarthy's little sister"" (referring to her father's star dummy). She began appearing on her father's radio program at a young age, and"
"Cordelia Bugeja Cordelia Bugeja (born 5 March 1976 in Chichester, West Sussex) is a British actress, best known for her roles as Melanie Hart in the soap opera ""Family Affairs"", and the prostitute Kate in ""Respectable"" on Five. In 2006, she appeared briefly in an episode of sitcom ""Not Going Out"" as waitress Julie. (The producers had said in an interview that they had promised Bugeja a role after she stood in for someone at a read-through, but were forced to give her only a small part as ""Respectable"" was taking up most of her time.) She appeared in over"
"Gloria Votsis Gloria Votsis (born February 9, 1979) is an American film and television actress. She is known for her roles in several television series such as ""Hawaii Five-0"", ""The Gates"", """", ""Person of Interest"", and ""Suburgatory"". She also had a recurring role as Alex Hunter on the USA drama series ""White Collar"". Gloria Votsis was born on February 9, 1979 in Pittsford, New York. Votsis grew up in Upstate New York in a self-professed ""big Greek family"". At the age of 17, she studied abroad for her senior year of high school in France. She attended New York University"
"Get Away with Murder"". Roxanne Hart Roxanne Hart (born July 27, 1952) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Brenda Wyatt in the 1986 film ""Highlander"", and as Nurse Camille Shutt on the CBS medical drama series ""Chicago Hope"" (1994–1998). Hart also received Tony and Drama Desk Awards nominations for her stage works. Hart was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan Irene (née McKee) and Edward J. Hart, Jr. Her father was a teacher and later became the principal at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. She graduated from Greeley in 1969."
"novel ""Killing Mr. Griffin"" and played a gymnast with an eating disorder in ""Perfect Body"". Johnson also participated in the film ""Without Limits"". She also reprised her role as Kimberly Hart in """". In 1998, Johnson was invited to play Julie Emrick in The WB series ""Felicity"". She held a main role on ""Felicity"" for three seasons and was a special guest in its fourth and final season. In the early 2000s, Johnson had roles in ""Interstate 60"", ""Pursuit of Happiness"", and ""Infested"", as well as television film ""Hard Ground"". She also had guest starring roles on ""Spin City"" and"
"Helen Hunt Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She is best known for starring as Jamie Buchman in the sitcom ""Mad About You"" (1992–1999), for which she won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and for starring as Carol Connelly in the romantic comedy film ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Hunt's other notable films include ""Twister"" (1996), ""Cast Away"" (2000), ""What Women Want"" (2000), ""Pay It Forward"" (2000), and ""The Sessions"" (2012). Hunt's performance in"
"Katherine Justice Katherine Justice (born October 28, 1942) is an American actress with many television guest star roles in the 1960s on through the 1980s and a few major film roles. She had a leading role in the made-for-TV movie, ""Columbo: Prescription Murder"" (1968), which later became the popular television mystery series ""Columbo"". She played the recurring role of Sheila Hogan in ""Falcon Crest"" starting in 1982. She portrayed Rita Jones in the syndicated drama ""Dangerous Women"" (1991). Katherine ""Kathy"" Justice was born and grew up in Ohio. She briefly was the 1960 Miss Ohio Universe, but wasn't able to"
"the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event, in the comedy ""Miss Congeniality"" (2000). It was a financial success, grossing US$212 million worldwide, and earned Bullock another Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2000, she also played a newspaper columnist obliged to enter rehabilitation for alcoholism in the dramedy ""28 Days"", which was a moderate commercial success, with a global gross of US$62.1 million. Bullock produced the romantic comedy ""Kate & Leopold"", released in 2001, which she followed with acting work in the psychological thriller ""Murder"
"and supporting roles in ""Pulse"" (1988), ""Once Around"" (1991) and ""Moonlight Mile"" (2002). Hart also starred in a number of made for television movies. From 1994 to 1998, Hart played Nurse Camille Shutt in the CBS medical drama series ""Chicago Hope"". She had recurring roles on the 1990s HBO sitcom ""Dream On"" and NBC's ""Medium"" (2006–2010), and the HBO comedy ""Hung"" (2010–2011). She also guest starred on ""ER"", ""Law & Order"", ""Criminal Minds"" , ""Oz"", ""Grey's Anatomy"", ""The Closer"", and """". In 2016, Hart was cast in a recurring role on the second season of ABC legal drama ""How to"
"in 2001. She voiced the character of ""Nanny"" in """" and Aunt Pristine Figg in """". She also appeared as Gammy Hart in ""Girl Meets World"". In 2015, she returned to film in the feature film ""Ricki and the Flash"", with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Rick Springfield. In November 2015, Rae released her autobiography, ""The Facts of My Life"", which was co-written with her son, Larry Strauss. She was born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky on April 22, 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian Jewish immigrants Esther (née Ottenstein) and Meyer Lubotsky. Mr. Lubotsky was a retail tire business owner. Rae's"
"Greta Gerwig Greta Celeste Gerwig (; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, writer, and director. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in a number of films by Joe Swanberg, some of which she co-wrote and co-directed. Since the early 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including ""Greenberg"" (2010), ""Frances Ha"" (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and ""Mistress America"" (2015). She has also performed in ""Damsels in Distress"" (2011), ""To Rome with Love"" (2012), ""Jackie"" (2016), and ""20th"
"September 2000. Dr. Sullivan Travis (aka ""Dr. T."") (Richard Gere) is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate (Farrah Fawcett), suffers a rare type of infantalizing syndrome of wealthy women, receding into a childlike state and, after she disrobes in a shopping mall fountain is committed to the state mental hospital. When Dr. T visits Kate , she rebuffs his kisses as improper and he sees her pre-teen psychic age cannot be brought back to adulthood by his affection. Dr. T's eldest"
"degrees, as have younger half-sisters Alexandra Gilliams, Samantha Gilliams & Mackenzie Hart. Hart started acting influenced by her older sister Melissa. In 1998, she won a Young Artist Award for her role in the television movie ""The Right Connections"". She was also nominated that year for a guest appearance on the series ""Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"", which her sister Melissa Joan Hart starred in. A later episode of that series, entitled ""Witchright Hall"", served as a pilot for a possible spin-off series starring Hart as Sabrina's younger cousin Amanda, but the show was not picked up by the WB. In"
"Hailee Steinfeld Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She has been nominated for awards including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and four Critics Choice Awards, winning one for Best Young Performer. Her breakthrough role was that of Mattie Ross in ""True Grit"" (2010), for which she was nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Thereafter, Steinfeld gained prominence for roles in ""Ender's Game"" (2013) and ""Romeo & Juliet"" (2013). She appeared as Emily Junk in ""Pitch Perfect 2"" (2015) and ""Pitch Perfect 3"" (2017), and she received"
"for her portrayal of Marion Silver in the 2000 drama ""Requiem for a Dream"". In 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for her supporting role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's 2001 biopic drama ""A Beautiful Mind"". Her subsequent credits include the 2003 Marvel superhero film ""Hulk"" where she played Bruce Banner's love interest Betty Ross; the 2005 horror film remake ""Dark Water""; the 2006 drama ""Blood Diamond""; the 2008 science fiction remake ""The Day the Earth Stood Still""; the 2009 romantic comedy ""He's Just Not That Into You""; and the 2009"
"up in a Christian home, but she says that her family was not very strict. Carmen Hart Carmen Hart (born March 12, 1984) is the stage name of a Native American former pornographic actress and exotic dancer from North Carolina. Hart attributes the 1996 Demi Moore movie ""Striptease"" as her inspiration to begin exotic dancing. Hart drove to Fayetteville one night and stopped at the first strip club she saw. In October 2005, Hart signed on as a contract girl with Wicked Pictures for two years. Over the course of her career Hart predominantly worked for the production company Wicked"
"(Amy Madison), Julia Lee (Chantarelle/Lily Houston), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), and Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall). Bianca Lawson, who played vampire slayer Kendra Young in season 2 of the show, originally auditioned for the role of Cordelia Chase before Charisma Carpenter was cast in the role. The title role went to Sarah Michelle Gellar, who had appeared as Sydney Rutledge on ""Swans Crossing"" and Kendall Hart on ""All My Children"". At age 18 in 1995, Gellar had already won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series. In 1996, she was originally cast as Cordelia Chase"
"Hart died On October 16, 2016, aged 68, from ovarian cancer, in Westport, Connecticut. Cecilia Hart Cecilia Hart (February 19, 1948 – October 16, 2016), sometimes credited as Ceci Jones, was an American television and stage actress. Hart is best known for her role as Stacey Erickson in the CBS police drama ""Paris"", which originally ran from 1979 until 1980. Hart co-starred with her future husband James Earl Jones in the series. A native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the daughter of an Army colonel and his wife, Hart moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. She appeared"
"Glenne Headly Glenne Aimee Headly (March 13, 1955 – June 8, 2017) was an American actress. She was widely known for her roles in ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Dick Tracy"", and ""Mr. Holland's Opus"". Headly received a Theatre World Award and four Joseph Jefferson Awards and was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2017, she starred in ""The Circle"" and ""Just Getting Started"", the latter marking her final film role, released six months after her death. She also starred with Ed Begley Jr. and Josh Hutcherson in ""Future Man"", Hulu's half-hour comedy television series produced by Seth Rogen and Evan"
"Debbie Allen Debbie Kaye Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series ""Fame"", where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant, and served as the series' principal choreographer. She currently portrays Catherine Avery on ""Grey's Anatomy"". She is the younger sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashad. Allen was born in Houston, Texas, the third child to orthodontist Andrew Arthur Allen Jr. and Pulitzer Prize-nominated artist, poet, playwright, scholar, and"
"the franchise. Shatner co-starred in the movie ""Miss Congeniality"" (2000) as Stan Fields, playing the role of co-host of the Miss United States Pageant alongside future ""Boston Legal"" co-star Candice Bergen. He reprised the role in the sequel """" (2004), in which Stan Fields was kidnapped in Las Vegas along with the winner of the pageant of the previous year. (Shatner hosted the Miss USA Pageant in 2001 as a real presenter in Gary, Indiana.) In the live-action/animated film ""Osmosis Jones"" (2001), he voiced Mayor Phlegmming, the self-centered head of the ""City of Frank"", a community comprising all the cells"
"to help young girls around the country organize charity events in their hometowns. The charity also has the goal of empowering young women. JoAnna Garcia JoAnna García Swisher (born JoAnna Garcia on August 10, 1979) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Sam in ""Are You Afraid of the Dark?"" (1993–96), Vicki Appleby in ""Freaks and Geeks"" (1999–2000), and Cheyenne Hart-Montgomery on The WB/CW sitcom ""Reba"" (2001–07). She has also gained popularity with her acting roles in ""Privileged"" (2008–09), ""Better with You"" (2010–11), ""Animal Practice"" (2012), ""Once Upon a Time"" (2013–18) and ""The Astronaut Wives Club"""
"attended Harvard University's Summer Program before shooting ""Suburgatory"" in 2011. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Allie Grant Allie Grant (born February 14, 1994) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Isabelle Hodes on the Showtime television series ""Weeds"" appearing in the series from 2005 to 2009. She also co-starred as Lisa Shay on the ABC sitcom ""Suburgatory"". She has a recurring role on ""The Goldbergs"". Grant was born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Bob and Angie Grant. When she was three years old, she went to the Model and Talent Expo in"
"Allie Grant Allie Grant (born February 14, 1994) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Isabelle Hodes on the Showtime television series ""Weeds"" appearing in the series from 2005 to 2009. She also co-starred as Lisa Shay on the ABC sitcom ""Suburgatory"". She has a recurring role on ""The Goldbergs"". Grant was born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Bob and Angie Grant. When she was three years old, she went to the Model and Talent Expo in Dallas, Texas. She was invited to New York. From 2005 to 2007, she guest starred on"