The Fox show "24," which turns one day into a season, has picked up three Emmys, including best drama series and best actor for star Kiefer Sutherland. "The Office" wins for best comedy.
One Emmy front-runner, sexy medical drama "Grey's Anatomy," was shut out in the awards. Mariska Hargitay of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" and Julia Louis-Dreyfus of the first-year comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine" won Emmy gold with lead actress awards in the drama and comedy categories...
WHO IS SHE?:
The 29-year-old former Catholic school girl from Queens graduated from film school at NYU's competitive Tisch School of the Arts (where she took Spanish with Rush Hour director Brett Ratner). Before her acting career took off, the avid Black Sabbath devotee tattered, studded and laced vintage rock and roll T-shirts to sell in her boyfriend's store. Still a bona fide rock and roll chick, Drea (pronounced "Dray") has her leather clothes custom-made by girlfriend AGAFA, who ...
Judy Reyes portrays the caring but slightly jaded nurse Carla Espinosa on NBC's comedy series "Scrubs." "I really admire Carla – she's smart and sassy and a very good nurse," says Reyes. "I like that she remains confident and unapologetic in a world where nurses don't receive the same respect as doctors."
Reyes grew up in the Bronx and became interested in acting while attending Hunter College in Manhattan. In 1992, she landed her first major acting role in the independent featur...
Elizabeth Perkins is a graduate of the Goodman Theater School, one of America's oldest and most respected theatre training schools. Founded as the Goodman School of Drama in 1925, The Theatre School is the Midwest's oldest theatre conservatory and is recognized nationally as one of the top conservatory programs in the United States. Ms. Perkins moved to NYC in the early 1980s and landed a role in Neil Simon's touring company's production of "Brighton Beach Memoirs", later reprisi...
Romany Malco was the first American born into his West Indian family. He began his career at the age of seven, when he picked up a microphone and started rapping. As a teen, he moved to Texas and formed the rap group, R.M.G. When Malco relocated his group to Los Angeles from Baytown, Texas in the early '90s, his perseverance paid off almost immediately. He fell into a crew of up-and-comers like Snoop Dog, Ricky Harris and Chris Tucker who made the VIP record store in Long Beach their headqua...
Tall, droll former stand-up comedian who, after tending bar and sometimes performing at Los Angeles's legendary Improvisation Comedy Club in the late 1970s, joined "Saturday Night Live" as a cast regular in 1986. Best known for his characters "Pump You Up Franz", the Austrian bodybuilder, "Mr. Subliminal" who says the correct thing, but then blurts out his real thoughts, and for four years of Weekend Update, Nealon made his feature debut in a bit part as a drunk in "Roxanne" (1987) and playe...
Tom started out as a construction worker and a Calvin Klein model before becoming an actor. He is best known for his role as Clark Kent on "Smallville." Most recently, he starred in the thriller movie "The Fog." Sorry ladies, but Tom is off the market! He married Jamie White in July 2002, after they'd been dating for three years. They have several dogs together.
The Emmy Awards are administered by three sister organizations; the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The Emmy Awards recognize excellence within various areas of the television industry. The awards are a symbol of peer recognition from over 12,000 members of the Academy. Each member casts a ballot for the category of competition in their field of expertise.
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Born in Williamstown, Mass., and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Matthew Perry had his first taste of acting when he was in the seventh grade. He recalls, "After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked."
At age 15 he moved to Los Angeles to live with his father, actor John Bennett Perry. Matthew's interest in acting increased after he performed in several high-school stage productions. In addition to acting, he excelled at tennis -- he was rated No. 17 nationally in the junior singles cate...
The youngest of four children raised in Birmingham, Ala., Courteney (note the spelling) is a former model who signed with the Ford Modeling Agency shortly after finishing high school. Soon, the stunning brunette was appearing on magazine covers and in television commercials. Cox was People magazine's 1995 cover girl for the "50 Most Beautiful People" issue.
In 1984, Courteney made her acting debut on the daytime drama As the World Turns, but got her first big break later that year when sh...
