Tracy Scoggins was born November 13, 1953.

Tracy Dawn Scoggins is an American actress known for her roles as Monica Colby in the 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off series The Colbys, Cat Grant in the 1993 – 1997 television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and as Captain Elizabeth Lochley during the final season of Babylon 5 in 1998.

She was in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Destiny.

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Whoopi Goldberg was born November 13,1955.

Whoopi Goldberg is the actress and comedienne who portrayed Guinan on occasion from Season 2 through Season 6 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also appeared uncredited as Guinan in the films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek Nemesis. She earned a Saturn Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for her appearance in Generations.

Goldberg was born in New York City, New York, USA, as Caryn Elaine Johnson. As a young girl, she saw Nichelle Nichols on the original Star Trek and ran to her mother, shouting, “There’s a black lady on TV and she ain’t no maid!”. She was eager to appear in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and there was some discussion about her possibly portraying a Klingon princess, though the idea was declined by Leonard Nimoy. (The View from the Bridge – Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood, hardcover ed., p. 211) Goldberg is a “huge fan” of The Next Generation and was eager to star in the show. She was later responsible for getting Dwight Schultz his role as Reginald Barclay on The Next Generation, having co-starred with Schultz in the 1990 film The Long Walk Home.

Director Les Landau recalls, “Whoopi is a pleasure to work with. She’s very, very creative and inventive. From a personal point-of-view, what was really thrilling was that I was the first director in Hollywood to work with Whoopi after she won the [Best Supporting Actress] Oscar for Ghost. Whoopi is enthusiastic. Whenever she gets on the set, she knows how to approach the scene. And her instincts are generally right.” (The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 21, p. 46)

The writers of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Rivals” intended the character of Martus Mazur to be a son of Guinan who was also to appear in the episode, but Whoopi Goldberg was unavailable. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) Both she and Chris Sarandon, who was cast to play the rewritten character, appeared in the 1996 motion picture Bordello of Blood. DS9 guest star William Sadler also starred in the movie.

Goldberg dated and lived with DS9 guest actor Frank Langella for five years, from 1996 through 2000. The two met on the set of the 1996 comic film Eddie.

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John Hollis was born November 12, 1927.

John Hollis was born November 12, 1927 and passed away October 18, 2005.

He played the role of Lobot in The Empire Strikes Back and the German porter at the chateau in The Dirty Dozen. He appeared in the Christopher Reeve Superman films Superman and Superman II as an elder of Krypton, and in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as a Russian General.

He also played the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the cold open of the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, going uncredited due to the controversy over the film rights and characters of Thunderball. In this sequence, his character was famously lifted from a wheelchair and dropped to his death down a chimney stack by Bond (Roger Moore) after he had attempted to kill Bond by using a remote control link to Bond’s MI6 helicopter.

Hollis’ other film work included minor roles in Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter for Hammer Films and Gene Wilder’s The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother. In television, Hollis took the role of Sondergaard in the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who in the story The Mutants, and appeared in The Avengers episode The Cybernauts as a sensei and also in The Tomorrow People. He also appeared as “Kaufmann” with a young Julie Christie in the BBC classic ‘lost series’ A for Andromeda.

John Hollis was a versatile character actor for BBC Radio. Notable roles include Magwitch in Great Expectations, Leonard Bast in Howards End, Conan Doyle’s Inspector Lestrade and Shakespeare’s Bardolph. He also took part in some commercial recordings, in parts as various as the March Hare in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the Murderer of the Duke of Clarence in Richard III.

He broadcast his own recollections of a cockney childhood, for the BBC in the 1970s.

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Max Grodenchik was born November 12, 1952.

Max Grodénchik, also credited as Michael Grodénchik, is an actor best known for his portrayal of Rom on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Grodénchik was born in Queens, New York. Before getting the role of Rom, he auditioned for the role of Rom’s brother, Quark. He was at one time romantically involved with production staff associate Lolita Fatjo.

He wrote and performed Rom’s Song and performed the song The Lady is a Tramp in the Deep Space Nine episode “The Siege of AR-558”. His appearance as a Trill ensign in Star Trek: Insurrection, who made a joke with Jonathan Frakes’ character was deleted from the final aired version but included in the Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition) DVD “deleted scenes” feature, where it can be found as scene #40 “Flirting”. His name, however, remained in the end credits of the film. Grodénchik filmed his scenes for the TNG fifth season episode “The Perfect Mate” between Tuesday 18 February 1992 and Thursday 20 February 1992 on Paramount Stage 8 and 9.

Grodénchik made his first on-screen appearances as Michael Grodénchik in the ’80’s. He played a small role in the 1981 comedy Chu Chu and the Philly Flash, alongside the late Vincent Schiavelli, as well as in the drama Out (1982) and in the Night Court episode “The Cop and the Lady” (1989, with cast member John Larroquette).

In the ’90’s, he made guest appearances in the television series Civil Wars (1992, episode His Honor’s Offer, with John Cothran, Jr., Ronny Cox, Juliana Donald, Robin Gammell, Anne Haney, and John Vickery), Tales from the Crypt (1994, episode “The Bribe”, written by Scott Nimerfro and alongside Terry O’Quinn, Wayne Grace, and John Kassir), Sliders (1996, episode “Dragonslide”, directed by David Livingston, with series regular John Rhys-Davies, and with Francis Guinan and Saxon Trainor), and The Drew Carey Show (1996, episode “What the Zoning Inspector Saw”, with Diedrich Bader).

Grodénchik appeared in the three time Academy Award nominated Barton Fink (1991), the comic adaptation The Rocketeer (1991), with Paul Sorvino, William O. Campbell, Clint Howard, Ed Lauter, and DS9 co-star Tiny Ron (at whose hands Max’s character meets an unfortunate end) – and once more of course Terry O’Quinn, the comedy Sister Act (1992), starring Whoopi Goldberg and with Ellen Albertini Dow (playing an unfortunate mob whose murder Goldberg’s character witnesses), Ron Howard’s two-time Academy Award winning Apollo 13 (1995), with Brett Cullen and Clint Howard, and in the leading role in the horror film Rumpelstiltskin (1996), alongside Sherman Augustus, Valerie Wildman, Mark Holton, Ousaun Elam, and Patrick Massett.

In 2000, he acted again with Whoopi Goldberg in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (also with Jason Alexander) and played small parts in the comedy Bruce Almighty (2003), with Mark Kiely, and King of California (2007). Among the television series he guest starred in are ER (2003, episode “Finders Keepers”, with Jamie McShane, Jennifer Tung, and Michelle Bonilla), Crossing Jordan (2004, episode “He Said, She Said”, with Miguel Ferrer), Six Feet Under (2004, episode “Parallel Play”, alongside James Cromwell, James Black, Erica Mer, and Mark L. Taylor), and Hustle (2007, with William Lucking).

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Ina Balin was born November 12, 1937.

Ina Balin was born November 12, 1937 and passed away on June 20, 1990.

In 1959, Balin landed her first film role in The Black Orchid. She was Paul Newman’s love interest in the 1960 screen adaptation of John O’Hara’s From the Terrace. In 1961, she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman. Co-starring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy, Balin also had a secondary part in 1965’s The Greatest Story Ever Told. She also co-starred with Elvis Presley in his 1969 film Charro! She co-starred in the 1971 film The Projectionist. She also co-starred in the 1982 comedy The Comeback Trail, and she appeared in The Young Doctors.
Balin first appeared on television on The Perry Como Show.

She guest-starred on dozens of television shows, including Wonder Woman, Adventures in Paradise, Bonanza, The Lieutenant, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, It Takes a Thief, Ironside, Twelve O’Clock High, Quincy, M.E. and Magnum, P.I. She appeared with Joseph Cotten, Fernando Lamas and Dean Jagger in the 1969 made-for-television movie The Lonely Profession.
Balin died on June 20, 1990, in New Haven, Connecticut, aged 52, from pulmonary hypertension brought on by coronary heart disease. A single mother, she was survived by her three children, Nguyet Baty, Ba-Nhi Mai, and Kim Thuy.

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Wallace Shawn was born November 12, 1943.

Wallace Shawn is the American actor and playwright who played Zek, the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Outside of Star Trek, Shawn is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Vizzini in The Princess Bride, the acclaimed 1987 comedy/fantasy film co-starring Chris Sarandon. He is also known for his work in Woody Allen films, for his role in the 1995 film Clueless, and for voicing Rex the toy dinosaur in the Toy Story films produced by Pixar.

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Anne Hathaway was born November 12, 1982.

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress and singer. After several stage roles, Hathaway appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She came to prominence after playing Mia Thermopolis in the Disney film The Princess Diaries (2001) and in its 2004 sequel. Since then, Hathaway has starred in dramatic films such as the 2005 movies Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. She has also starred in The Devil Wears Prada in 2006 and in Becoming Jane (2007) as Jane Austen and also in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) as Dr. Brand.

In 2008, she won several awards for her performance in Rachel Getting Married, also earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, she starred in the box office hits Valentine’s Day, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Love and Other Drugs and won an Emmy Award for her voice-over performance on The Simpsons. In 2011, she had a voice role in the animated film Rio.
In 2012, she portrayed Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Fantine in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. Her performance in the latter earned her rave reviews and several accolades, including the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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