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95 unusual facts about Hollywood


Action Hollywood

You can choose to start at a Hollywood shoot set in "Temples of Chaos," "Excaliwood," "Transilvania" or "Galaxy War."

Aidan Roark

Aidan Roark (October 23, 1905 - March 27, 1984) was an Irish 10-goal polo player and in Hollywood he acted as a personal assistant to Darryl Francis Zanuck.

American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics

All-American Albie Booth of Yale as well as Erny Pinckert and All-American Johnny Baker of USC decided not to play when offered paying jobs in Hollywood.

Andrew Stein

On May 27, 2010, Stein was indicted and arrested for lying about his involvement during the investigation of the multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme involving Ken Starr, a financial advisor to various Hollywood celebrities.

Arthur Renowitzky

Arthur has appeared on national television, on radio stations, he speaks frequently to juvenile hall incarcerated youth, high schools, he has been a key note speaker at numerous events and is now well known in Hollywood for his music and unforgettable inspiring story.

Benjamin Wishnietsky

He was a great supporter of the Hollywood Stamp Club in Hollywood, Florida and served as editor of their newsletter and on their board of directors for many years.

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Benjamin Wishnietsky retired to Florida and served on the board of the Hollywood Stamp Club, in Hollywood, Florida and was editor of their newsletter, the Hollywood Philatelist for more than 30 years.

Biff Rose

Born in New Orleans, Rose moved to Hollywood where he found a job working as a comedy sketch writer with George Carlin working sometimes on the Mort Sahl show.

Big Screen Preview Network

The Big Screen Preview Network (BSPN) is a digital cable channel focusing on upcoming movies and the current happenings in Hollywood.

Broadway Is My Beat

Beginning with the July 7, 1949 episode, the series was broadcast from Hollywood with producer Elliott Lewis directing a new cast in scripts by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin.

Camelback Inn

Established in 1936 by Jack Stewart and John C. Lincoln, the resort's popularity among Hollywood celebrities and political leaders made it a significant contributor to the region's growth.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Catalina Pottery

The pottery opened free standing stores to sell their wares in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Hollywood, Olvera Street in Los Angeles, and in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix.

Characters in Molly Moon

He was later seen with Mrs. Trinklebury that November, and went out for dinner with the main characters of the series to a French restaurant, along with the rest of the famous Hollywood stars.

Choctaw code talkers

During recent decades Hollywood has "discovered" code talkers, but not the Choctaw code talkers.

Christopher Dallman

It was produced by George Stanford and recorded at his home studio in Hollywood.

Chrome Specialties

As the Harley-Davidson craze swept through Hollywood many celebrities and rock stars looking for authentic biker gear wore the company’s leather jackets.

Craig Sawyer

Sawyer is also the owner of Tactical Insider, which brings technical advice on weapons and combat to Hollywood films and actors.

CWFH Heritage Tag Team Championship

The CWFH Heritage Tag Team Championship is a tag team championship controlled by Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.

Dahn Ben-Amotz

He then traveled to the United States and went to Hollywood.

David Ambrose

David Ambrose (born 1943) is a British novelist and screenwriter whose credits include at least 20 Hollywood films, 3 stage plays, and countless hours of television, including the controversial Alternative 3.

Dean Chance

The 1962 campaign would be notable for the Angels as Chance and fellow phenom Bo Belinsky would team on both the mound and in the Hollywood social circles, much to the enjoyment of the Los Angeles beat writers and the consternation of manager Bill Rigney and the rest of the Angels' front office.

DeWayne Quirico

At the unavailability of drummer Dalton Powell, Bobby Fuller personally chose Quirico to be the band's drummer upon their relocation to Hollywood from El Paso.

Dick Briefer

At the time of his death, Briefer was living in the Hollywood / Pembroke Pines area of Broward County, Florida.

Dj SchizophreNik

Records in Canada, and dance label iMusic in the UK, and is also currently working with A&R Select in Hollywood.

Docs Keepin Time

He went from having an unsuccessful racing career to being one of Hollywood's most sought after equine performers.

Doug Frith

From July 1996 to January 2008, Frith served as president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, which is affiliated with the Motion Picture Association of America, and represents the interests of the American film industry in Canada.

Earl Hofmann

Earl and Jean Hofmann lived in a house and studio they built in Hollywood, Maryland, not far from Leonardtown, Maryland.

Earl Reginhard

As he accelerated his knowledge in film making, he realized that his heart lied in making movies or to be a part of movies, which are globally appealing; breaking the barriers between Hollywood and Bollywood.

Fortunino Matania

Matania was also recommented to Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille and produced a number of paintings of Rome and Egypt from which authentic designs could be made for the movie The Ten Commandments.

Fubar 2

Early plot ideas regarding Terry and Dean trying to conquer Hollywood were scrapped, in favour of the Fort McMurray storyline.

Gabriele Muccino

He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after L'ultimo bacio won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of the American film industry.

George M. Odom

During his career, George Odom operated a public stable whose clients over the years included Robert L. Gerry, Sr., Marshall Field III, and Hollywood film mogul Louis B. Mayer who owned Odom's most famous runner, Busher, a future Hall of Fame filly who was voted 1945 American Horse of the Year honors.

Harry Gant

He was known as Handsome Harry Gant due to his Hollywood-style good looks, The Bandit after his longtime sponsor Skoal Bandit, Mr.

Haspop

Once he reached Las Vegas, the judges selected him as among the 10 acts to move directly to the quarterfinals in Hollywood without having to compete in another round of eliminations.

Haunting the Chapel

Recorded in Hollywood the recording process proved difficult when recording drums in a studio without carpet, although it resulted in drummer Dave Lombardo meeting Gene Hoglan who was to become an influence in his drumming style and speed.

Herbert Lichtenfeld

While Wolfgang Petersen moved to the cinema and today works successfully in Hollywood, Lichtenfeld remained a writer for television.

History of the San Diego Chargers

Gerald Courtney of Hollywood won an all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City and Acapulco for submitting "Chargers" in a name-the-team contest.

Hollywood cycles

In the classic era of Hollywood cinema (1930 – 1945) "cycles" or genres matured.

Hollywood principle

In computer programming, the Hollywood principle is stated as "don't call us, we'll call you."

Hollywood Trials

The series followed ten Irish actors trying to break into Hollywood.

Hollywood, County Wicklow

About 3 km northeast of the village is the picturesque Poulaphouca, where the Liffey cascades in three stages.

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Hollywood, like its namesake in California, has an illustrious past in the entertainment industry.

Hooah

While used in Hollywood and in common usage among upper ranks in an effort to raise morale, many lower enlisted find its use to be irritating, especially when it comes from soldiers they perceive as sycophantic towards the chain of command or the armed services in general.

Hotel Bolívar

In the 1940s and 1950s, the hotel attracted Hollywood movie stars such as Orson Welles, Ava Gardner, and John Wayne, where many also discovered the local cocktail, the Pisco Sour.

Ibunda

It did not turn a profit, a situation the Subentra Group blamed on imported Hollywood films being more popular.

India Dupre

At seventeen she moved to Hollywood to attend UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been acting in plays, film and television ever since.

Irene Mayer Selznick

Considered by her peers within the entertainment industry as one of the foremost historians of Hollywood and Broadway, in 1983 Irene M. Selznick published her autobiography A Private View.

Isle of Missing Men

Oswald was an exiled Austrian director who had fled Germany when the Nazis came to power going to France, Britain and finally to Hollywood where he made a handful of films.

Jack Joyce

About that time, on the flip of a coin, he decided to go to Europe rather than start a career in Hollywood movies.

Joe Medjuck

Joseph Medjuck (born February 17, 1943) is a Canadian-born film producer in Hollywood.

Kodambakkam, Chennai

Kodambakkam is the centre of the Tamil film industry known as Kollywood, a portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood.

Kyrgyzstan–United States relations

Hollywood movies such as Borat have tended to portray this region of the world as backwards or undeveloped; Кyrgyzs who served in the Soviet government or military remember the U.S. as the Cold War enemy.

Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance

Live at the Aquarius Theater: The Second Performance is a double live album of the band The Doors, released as a double CD recorded live on the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood on 21 July 1969.

Live: A Night on the Strip

Live: A Night on the Strip is a live recording by L.A. Guns which occurred October 7, 1999, at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

MacArthur, West Virginia

Originally, it was named Hollywood and renamed MacArthur in 1942.

Marie-Hélène de Rothschild

Marie-Hélène took charge of refurbishing the huge château, making it a place where European nobility mingled with musicians, artists, fashion designers and Hollywood movie stars at grand soirées.

Mary Morain

In 1938, she moved to Hollywood to work with Donald McLean as one of his staff of therapists working under the principles of General Semantics.

Matthew d'Ancona

The same newspaper reported in late October 2009 that d'Ancona was set to become a Hollywood scriptwriter for a film about the art historian Bernard Berenson.

Max Van Ville

Max Van Ville (born January 13, 1987), a.k.a. VANVILLE, is an American DJ/producer/from Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Michael Worth

Surviving on odd jobs and construction work, Michael accepted whatever small parts he could as he climbed the Hollywood ladder.

Mid-air retrieval

The Genesis mission returned a sample of solar wind that was so delicate that it would have been damaged by a parachute landing, so a mid-air retrieval using helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots contracted by NASA was planned.

Mike Fanning

In his years at Notre Dame he shared the practice field with Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger whose saga was made into a Hollywood film, "Rudy."

Mimi Freedman

Mimi Freedman is an American documentary filmmaker who specializes in films about Hollywood history.

Moore Brothers

The Moore Brothers were three Irish born brothers who became famous in the motion picture business in early Hollywood.

Noel's Saturday Roadshow

These 'locations' were in fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble each week's location, such as the North Pole, a space station, Hollywood, or Niagara Falls.

Pandemonium Shadow Show

It was the first product of his three-year, $50,000 recording contract with RCA Records, and was recorded in their Hollywood studio.

Pareh

During this period cinemas in the country mainly showed Hollywood productions.

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

At Pro Tour Hollywood he reached the quarterfinal, losing to eventual player of the year Shuhei Nakamura.

Pearry Teo

Pearry Reginald Teo Zhang Pingli (born 23 July 1978), film director/producer, is the first Singaporean movie director to make a Hollywood film.

Pierre Frondaie

Frondaie soon caught the attention of Hollywood, then in its infancy, where several cinematographic adaptations were made of his works for an English- speaking audience by Paramount Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn.

Pontiac Star Chief

When the storyline of I Love Lucy pointed towards a Hollywood setting in the 1954-1955 season, the characters "drove" (in episode 110, "California Here We Come") to the West Coast in a 1955 Star Chief convertible.

Pradeep Kumar Majhi

His hobbies are like Driving, reading national and international news magazines and watching Hollywood and Bollywood action movies.

R. R. Venkat

The producer has also made his foray into Hollywood with the 2012 English movie Divorce Invitation starring Jonathan Bennett directed by veteran S. V. Krishna Reddy which is a remake of S. V. Krishna Reddy's Srikanth and Ramya Krishnan starrer Aahwanam.

Randal Malone

Malone was born as the sole living heir to a tobacco farming empire dating back to the early 19th century, but he was more attracted to working in show business and Hollywood than managing the family industry in Kentucky.

Rick Sylvester

Rick Sylvester (Born April 3, 1942) is a climber and was a Hollywood stuntman, most famous for his BASE jump using skis and a Union Flag parachute from Canada's Mount Asgard for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976.

S. V. Krishna Reddy

He ventured into Hollywood with the upcoming 2012 English romantic comedy, Divorce Invitation, a remake of his 1997 acclaimed Telugu film, Aahvaanam in post production, produced by R. R. Venkat.

Shootout on Juneau Wharf

At The Magic Castle nightclub, in Hollywood, California, July 8 is the annual Soapy Smith Party, complete with costume contests, charity gambling, and magic shows to memorialize the day of the shootout.

Strichen

Her 1925 collection of short stories Doorways in Drumorty was written when she lived in Hollywood and is based upon her memories of Strichen.

Sunset Crater

In 1928, a Hollywood film company - Famous Players-Lasky Corporation - planned to detonate large quantities of explosives on the side of Sunset Crater in order to create an avalanche for Zane Grey's motion picture, "Avalanche".

Swaroop Kanchi

Kanchi also collaborated with DreamWorks to make a film on the similarities and differences between Bollywood and Hollywood; the film featured many notable film personalities of Indian film industry.

Teague Egan

The entertainment promotions company held events at entertainment venues throughout the Hollywood area, including the J Restaurant and Lounge.

The Dance of Passion

An early premiere along the lines of Hollywood movie premieres was held on April 24, 2006 at the International Finance Centre Palace.

The Long Way Out

The Long Way Out is an American-made short film dealing with Hollywood and the lengths a person will go to regain fame.

The Mercer Hotel

Also owned by André Balazs Properties are the Standard Hotels, including The Standard, Hollywood; The Standard, Downtown LA; The Standard Spa, Miami Beach; The Standard, High Line and the newest addition, The Standard, East Village.

The Phantom Edit

The Phantom Edit was originally circulated in Hollywood studios in 2000 and 2001, and was followed by media attention.

The Red Skelton Show

The program was produced at Desilu Productions and CBS Television City in Hollywood, and over five years, from 1955 through 1960, was telecast in color approximately 100 times.

The Strike

However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino (played by Richardson) as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) as his wife.

Tick-Tock

When the Hangman assumed control of the Night Shift, he encouraged each member to join him in a campaign of terror against Hollywood, pointing to their backgrounds for reasons why they should hate Hollywood.

Tommy Tang

After emigrating to the U.S., Tang took a day job as chef and manager at a small Thai restaurant in Hollywood, California.

United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2004

In what some dubbed "Heartland vs. Hollywood," Davis rode a Republican tidal wave to victory, defeating Clooney by a fair margin.

Venus Ramey

She was wooed by Hollywood in 1947, but dissatisfied with show business, she returned home to her Eubank, Kentucky tobacco farm (which she has maintained for over 50 years) in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Vishal Kanoi

Under the tutelage of Frank Hatchett, Hollywood's ace choreographer for four months, Vishal got the rare and golden opportunity of performing solo at the annual Student Showcase event at Broadway in 2006 which spearheaded his journey as an entrepreneur in the entertainment field and landed him on the cover page of India Today's Kolkata edition in August 2006.

Vittorio Moroni

Among the short films made, Eccesso di zelo (Too Much Zeal) (1997) won awards at many festivals - including the Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Silver Award and Universal Studios Award, which allowed Moroni to make a masterclass at the studios of Universal Pictures in Hollywood.

Whitlocks End railway station

It is also located a short walk from the Majors Green area of Worcestershire, and is a short bus ride away from the new village of Dickens Heath.


Ace Atkins

As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century.

Aeneas MacKenzie

MacKenzie wrote many notable Hollywood films, including: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Ivanhoe (1952), and The Ten Commandments (1956).

Aguinaldo Filho

2 years later the station went bankrupt, and Naldo and Rosa decided to go into business for themselves, and bought a TCBY franchise at Hollywood Beach in Florida.

Ann May

She practiced dancing with modern dance pioneer and choreographer, Ruth St. Denis, on the front lawn of May's Hollywood home.

Blood of the Innocent

Breck Eisner is set to direct the upcoming Hollywood film adaptation.

Broken Springs

Broken Springs had its world premier on June 4, 2010 in Hollywood at the Dances With Films festival on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Bugle Call Rag

The song appears in several Hollywood films, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Orchestra Wives (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and The Aviator (2004).

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen

He swipes string-section sounds (icy and twangy by turns) from the moderns, steals chords from Bartók's string quartets, throws in some Hollywood soundtrack stuff, conks on the bare piano strings, and fools around with counter-rhythms.

Charles Gordone

His acting credits included Brother Jerro in "The Trials of Brother Jerro Bohem," Hickey in "Of Mice and Men," and The Valet in Jean Genet's The Blacks (1961–1966) alongside of James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, and many other Black actors who went on to change Hollywood.

Coastal Studios

The company has previously provided ADR work for Hollywood films and television in the 1990s such as Batman & Robin, The Lion King, and Dawson's Creek.

Cosmix

However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.

Culmore

The Hollywood feature film, "L.A. Story", starring Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker is, according to Martin in "Born Standing Up", partly based on an Irish traditional song, The Maid Of Culmore.

Del Reeves

In the late 1960s, he recorded an album paying tribute to Jim Reeves (no relation) and also appeared in several Hollywood films, including a starring role in "Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers", and a supporting role in Burt Reynolds' first big movie Sam Whiskey.

Duane Thompson

In 1925, she was one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" alongside future Hollywood legend June Marlowe.

Edward Beale McLean

Edward McLean then suddenly announced he had already married Rose Douras, a sister of Hollywood film star Marion Davies.

Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Fernie Alpine Resort

During spring 2009, Fernie Alpine Resort was temporarily transformed into the fictional Kodiak Valley ski resort, circa 1986, for exterior location shots for the Hollywood film Hot Tub Time Machine.

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

Henry MacRae

In addition to the many westerns and adventure films to his credit, he directed the first Thai-Hollywood co-production, Miss Suwanna of Siam, in 1923.

Herbert Stothart

In 1929, Stothart was signed to a large Hollywood contract by another would-be playwright of the day, Louis B. Mayer.

History of VFX in Indian Films

The recent film "Krrish" had hollywood vfx supervisor Craig Mumma and was completely executed in India by Prasad EFX.

Hollywood and Vine

Later Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the astronauts of the first lunar landing mission Apollo 11, were awarded television stars for coverage of the mission, and given the places of honor at the exact corners of Hollywood and Vine.

John Wozniak

On June 6, 1997, at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Hollywood, Woz joined Toad the Wet Sprocket on stage during the band's encore, trading verses with Toad frontman Glen Phillips, to sing a cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust".

June Juanico

Adams would talk often about Natalie Wood to Elvis, constantly discussing her figure and her beauty, something else that caused Juanico to feel that she would soon lose Elvis to the glitz of Hollywood.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Proskurov has been the site of an intimate outdoor theatrical performance for many summers, and the family (and Helena's interns) are preparing the final details of the show when successful Hollywood actress Oona Hart (Victoria Foyt) arrives.

Mazda RX-7

Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a Naturally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.

Mir Zafar Ali

Ali has worked on visual effects and graphics in many Hollywood movies, including The Day After Tomorrow, X-Men (in which he was primarily in charge of the character Banshee as effects technical director), Stealth, Monster House, The Golden Compass, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy and Aliens in the Attic.

Ned Scott

Ned Scott arrived in Hollywood in February, 1935 and took up residence with Fred Zinnemann, Henwar Rodakiewicz and Gunther von Fritsch in a studio apartment complex at 7900 Honey Drive, North Hollywood.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

Prakash Mehra

The movie was to include Hollywood actors such as Charles Bronson among others, but the project though funded heavily initially, never came to fruition.

Ramfis Trujillo

She was an American of Hungarian immigrant parents, who had a short but relatively successful film career in Hollywood, most notably in The Left Handed Gun, opposite Paul Newman.

Ranald Graham

In 1974 Graham wrote the screenplay for the horror film Shanks, directed by "Hollywood B-movie veteran" William Castle and starring Marcel Marceau.

Richard Hough

After leaving school, he joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) at the beginning of World War II and received his initial flight training at an airfield not far from Hollywood.

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Steal This Record

Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Image Recording, Inc. in Hollywood, California

Sun Valley Serenade

The film became a Hollywood hit, and served as a recruiting effort for the elite ski corps of the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Camp Hale in Colorado.

Teng Nong kon maha hia

On its release, despite negative reviews by film critics, the film was No. 1 at Thailand cinema box offices, topping such Hollywood films as Shrek the Third, Ocean's Thirteen and another Thai film, Ploy.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer hired to pen the script was Eric Bress, who has written scripts for the television show, Kyle XY.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

1934, the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inis Mór to make a documentary about life on the islands.

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood (also called The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood) is a 1980 film starring two-time Bond girl Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Adam West and Phil Silvers.

The Isle of Pingo Pongo

Additionally, it was recently viewed with other films part of the Censored Eleven at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood on April 24, 2010 as part of a classic film series, presented by Donald Bogle.

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

Moore announced plans to return in a new sitcom in the fall of 1980, but instead turned to Broadway, where she starred in a revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway? (winning a special 1980 Tony Award for her performance of a role originally played by Tom Conti), and then went back to Hollywood, where she played the emotionally crippled mother in the acclaimed film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford.

Toyota USA Automobile Museum

1. Hollywood/Futuristic: the Lexus “Minority Report” Tom Cruise movie prototype, three very rare Toyota 2000GTs, along with a poster of the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”, where the car appeared, plus a cutaway drawing and technical schematics

Vienna, Georgia

It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.