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Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father was Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City where her parents divorced when she was nine. Jennifer was raised by her mother and her father landed a role, as "Victor Kiriakis", on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives (1965). Jennifer had her first taste of acting at age 11 when she joined the Rudolf Steiner School's drama club. It was also at the Rudolf Steiner School that she developed her passion for art. She began her professional training as a drama student at New York's School of Performing Arts, aka the "Fame" school. It was a division of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts. In 1987, after graduation, she appeared in such Off-Broadway productions as "For Dear Life" and "Dancing on Checker's Grave". In 1990, she landed her first television role, as a series regular on Molloy (1990). She also appeared in The Edge (1992), Ferris Bueller (1990), and had a recurring part on Herman's Head (1991). By 1993, she was floundering. Then, in 1994, a pilot called "Friends Like These" came along. Originally asked to audition for the role of "Monica", Aniston refused and auditioned for the role of "Rachel Green", the suburban princess turned coffee peddler. With the success of the series Friends (1994), Jennifer has become famous and sought-after as she turns her fame into movie roles during the series hiatus.

Aubree Miller was born on 15 January 1979 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985), The Ewok Adventure (1984) and The Message (2012).

Craig Huxley is an Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated musician and soundtrack producer who has been involved in a wide range of entertainment-related projects.

Peter James Kirk on Star Trek TOS Star Trek (1966) (Captain James T. Kirk's nephew) kicked off 50 years of involvement in the Star Trek Universe. From child acting, to composing for the movies, to performing on his Blaster Beam invention. Operation -- Annihilate! (1967) Also seen as Tommy Starnes on And the Children Shall Lead (1968). At the age of 10, he guest starred on two episodes of Bewitched (1964) (more notably on A Strange Little Visitor (1965) as a mischievous young warlock being looked after temporarily by Aunt Samantha). He went on to lead The Craig Hundley Trio, while simultaneously making a name for himself as a concert pianist, performing Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and his own adaptation of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with major symphonies and on network prime-time broadcasts. He composed dozens of his own songs and unique multimedia pieces. He also appeared in an episode of The Brady Bunch (1969) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972) as a musician. His appearance on Kung Fu (1972) began a long friendship with David Carradine, which led to Craig composing the score to Americana (1981), the Cannes winning film directed by Carradine.

Huxley won the NBC Showcase 68 prime time competition show (akin to America's Got Talent (2006)), tying with Sly and the Family Stone. He headlined Madison Square Garden with Deep Purple together with Deep Purple. As a musical phenomenon he appeared around the world as the guest star with Bill Cosby, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, and Jerry Lewis. He guest-starred and was musical director for Pat Boone, Debby Boone, and Trini López. He played piano on Frank Sinatra's hit song "New York, New York", and on the soundtracks for such movies as Dead Poets Society (1989), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Night Shift (1982), Total Recall (1990), White Nights (1985), and Purple Rain (1984).

At the age of18, Huxley took a two-year hiatus, during which time he studied progressive, multi-dimensional philosophy, with a number of important futurists within this field. The shift in perspective gained through these teachings subsequently led to a desire and passion for musical innovation. This resulted in the creation and patenting of several new instruments. The most recognizable of these is the Blaster Beam, featured in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) as the "V'ger sound", and also featured on the score, composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The instrument with its dark and ominous tones has been used in many other fantasy and science fiction movies over the years. Huxley also created much of the special music for the first four Star Trek movies.

Featured in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) with his keyboards, modular synthesizer, and Blaster Beam, Huxley's composition of "Genesis Project" for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) holds the world record for music score to the first entirely CGI film scene. The music was released on Huxley's album of the same name, but never appeared on any Star Trek soundtrack until the 2010 release of an expanded version of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). After this, he began performing most of the synthesizers on a variety of Stevie Wonder albums, and later with Earth Wind & Fire. This era culminated with a half-year project in which Huxley performed most of the keyboard, synth and sound design work on Michael Jackson's "Thriller". His patented Blaster Beam is featured on "Billie Jean", "Beat It", and "Earth Song". Further notable projects within this time period are the composition and production of the music for the twenty-year and still running Captain EO exhibit at Disneyland, and producer of the hit soundtrack for Arthur C. Clarke's film, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).

In 1984, Huxley founded Enterprise Studios, where he built giant THX Stages, surround-sound mix rooms, and dozens of edit suites. As CEO of his team of 100 pioneers, Enterprise was a cutting-edge, multi-media conglomerate that provided services in audio, video, DVD, interactive, & live productions. Enterprise in 2004 was named the #2 mixing studio in the world for hits by Billboard. Enterprise hosted well-known, distinctive artists. across a panorama of genres. Including Beyoncé, Prince, Slash, Snoop Dogg, Streisand, Stephen Sondheim, Kelly Clarkson, Linda Perry, Quincy Jones, Maurice Jarre, Sir George Martin, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Mariah Carey, Ozzy Osbourne, Placido, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Sir Paul McCartney. 2PAC, & Dr. Dre.

Michael Jackson hit songs, music videos, and special projects often feature Craig soloing and sound designing. From "ET Storybook" to "Beat It" to "Bad" to "The Way you Make Me Feel" to "Captain EO". Including a substantial presence in the #1 selling album of all time, "Thriller".

Huxley continued to produce and create within his own studio, for ten years composing music for Knots Landing (1979) with co-composer Jerrold Immel, and later (for many years) episodes and the title theme song for Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), as well as producing the soundtrack to China Beach (1988) for all four years. Full Sound Services of editorial, Foley, ADR, and sound design for the first five seasons of the Imagine Entertainment television series 24 (2001) was provided by Huxley's Enterprise Studios. He created ambient musical soundscapes for San Francisco Ballet's production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". He ventured into Broadway, first producing the soundtrack for "Shogun: The Musical" and later creating the synthesizer orchestrations for the Larry Gelbart-Cy Coleman Broadway musical "City of Angels".

Huxley launched SlingShotEntertainment in 1997, producing and releasing the first DVD in history (outside of Japan). He has led SlingShot in multiple firsts. Huxley made the first IMAX film on DVD; the first 3D film on DVD, the first 8 languages on a DVD, the first interactive movie DVD, the first IMAX Multipack and the first wildlife four-packs and exploration four-packs on Blu-ray. He created the comedy hit CD and DVD of perfect-pitch-pooches named Top Dog. To date, he has recorded three albums.

Huxley is the producer of eight films on endangered species and extreme expeditions, released globally. Extreme expedition was first explored in Huxley's GoPlanet series with Explorers: From the Titanic to the Moon (2006) (starring Buzz Aldrin and James Cameron). Huxley produced portions of the score to Baraka (1992). By 2022, he has produced over 40 videos featuring the musical, acting and comedic talents of Fiona Huxley, his daughter, Fiona Huxley.

Corbin Timbrook, raised in Hollywood, is an award winning actor and filmmaker. Over 40 years in film, television and stage acting along side some of the best in the business. . As a Director/Producer, Timbrook has won multiple awards in all genres but his bulk is in Horror/Thriller where he has been endorsed by some of the great icons of the genre, Tobe Hooper and Roger Corman.

Cheryl Lynn Miller was the archetypal 1960s American 'girl-next-door'. A gorgeous blonde with a peaches-and-cream complexion, she hailed from Sherman Oaks, California, born to an architect father and a mother who worked in the accounting department at Sears, Roebuck and Co. Having graduated from high school with a predilection for science and music, Cheryl pursued further studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. She then did some modelling work and began acting in occasional supporting roles on television from 1957. In her spare time, she enjoyed varied outdoor activities, such as skiing, jogging and horseback riding.

Cheryl's pivotal years were 1965 and 1966. In 1965, she appeared with an elephant and a chimpanzee in several episodes of the popular family series Flipper (1964). This was noticed by Walt Disney, who personally signed her under contract for a small role in the comedy The Monkey's Uncle (1965), describing her as 'the typical American girl'. More importantly, Cheryl also came to the attention of writer-producer Ivan Tors. Tors was impressed by her ability to work with animals and proceeded to cast Cheryl in a co-starring role as the spirited Paula Tracy (daughter of a veterinarian based at an East African animal hospital) in Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965). This cinematic release served as the de facto pilot for the ensuing CBS TV series Daktari (1966). Her fortuitous casting also coincided with Cheryl becoming one of twelve young actresses awarded the title of Hollywood Deb Star of 1966, as well as being named Miss Golden Globe (as co-presenter with Andy Williams of the Golden Globe Awards).

Before filming began, Cheryl trained for a month at a 200-acre animal farm called Africa U.S.A., located forty miles north of Los Angeles. It was operated by Ivan Tors in conjunction with animal behaviorist and author Ralph Helfer, who also created Marine World. While there, Cheryl learned to walk among and interact with lions, chimps, cheetahs and leopards. She ended up forming a special bond with a tame tiger named Sarang.

Daktari had a run of four seasons and 89 episodes. By present standards, the show has not aged particularly well. It could be argued, that its strongest points were the cute and highly photogenic Cheryl, Clarence the lovable lion (who really was cross-eyed and extremely tame) and Judy the Chimpanzee (also familiar to viewers as 'Debbie the Bloop' from Lost in Space (1965), but rumoured to have been rather less docile than Clarence). On the minus side: simplistic scripts bordering on twee, wooden acting from Cheryl's (human) co-stars and excessive use of frequently incongruous stock footage, some of it repeated over and over in the course of multiple episodes. No new footage for the series was ever shot in Africa.

In August 1970, Cheryl had a brief run as the Dodge "Fever Girl," promoting the car brand in magazine spreads, TV ads and national car shows. This gig lasted a couple of years. Until the end of the decade, Cheryl continued to make sporadic guest appearances in shows like Cade's County (1971), Barnaby Jones (1973), Gemini Man (1976) and Police Story (1973). She left the world of acting in 1980, later declaring "I had earned enough money. I wanted to concentrate purely on my family."

Peggy Crosby was born on 29 May 1940 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Raising Helen (2004), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) and Quincy, M.E. (1976). She was previously married to Jack Klugman and Phillip Crosby.

Denise Di Novi was born on 21 March 1956 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Heathers (1988), Little Women (2019) and Ed Wood (1994).

Kandice Stroh was born on 14 June 1948 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Sound of My Voice (2011), Lying in Wait (2001) and Mad TV (1995).

Lorena Segura York was born in 1980 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She is an actress and costume designer, known for Catching Faith (2015), Home Sweet Home (2012) and Bob Steel (2004).

Gordon Hunt was born on 26 April 1929 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. He was a director, known for Mad About You (1992), The Pagemaster (1994) and Dilbert (1999). He was married to B.J. Ward and Jane Elizabeth Novis. He died on 17 December 2016 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

Laura Ziskin was an American film producer and screenwriter who is known for producing the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and The Amazing Spider-Man. She also produced Pretty Woman, What About Bob?, As Good as It Gets, Hero, Stealth, No Way Out, The Rescue and The Butler. She was married to Julian Barry and later Alvin Sargent. She passed away in 2011 due to breast cancer.

Byron Fox (Foxy B.) was born in Kensington, England. His father, an Oxford Professor, Berry Fox and his mother, Sheri, moved to Los Angeles where Bryon landed a part on _"Lizzy McGuire" (2001)_. After deciding he liked being behind the camera, he contacted Max Speilberg and together they worked on Snap Shot, in which he starred.

Joyce Menges was born on 6 August 1947 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She is an actress, known for To Rome with Love (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972) and The Dating Game (1965). She has been married to Dr. James A Tamborello since 25 March 1972. They have two children.

Shane Butterworth was born on 3 October 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Bad News Bears (1979), Vibrations (1996) and Circus of the Stars #15 (1990).

Born and raised in Sherman Oaks, California. Attended Notre Dame High School and has a BFA from the Meadows School for the Arts at Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas. Member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Also a member of the classical acting company The Porters of Hellsgate at the Whitmore-Lindley theatre in North Hollywood, CA.

Carole Ann Campbell was born on 27 March 1944 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure (1956), The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm (1957) and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955). She was married to Gerald W. Murphy. She died on 6 March 2010 in Laguna Woods, California, USA.

Donna Russell was born in 1944 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Beach Party (1963), Catalina Caper (1967) and Surf Party (1964).

Jack Shih was born on April 12, 1974 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. He attended Vanderbilt University graduating in 1995. He then attended the University of Southern California graduating in 1997. Since graduating from USC, he has gone on to become an award winning Director and Producer known for his work on South Park (1997), and Out There (2013).

Madda originally trained to be an opera singer before returning to her hometown of Los Angeles to train at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Madda resides in LA working as an actor and voiceover artist, in addition to teaching the Suzuki/Viewpoints techniques at various venues throughout the city. Madda has trained with the SITI Company as well as at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.

Chad Braverman was born on 26 May 1982 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

Carroll Timothy O'Meara was born on 22 April 1943 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Hoosiers (1986), The Last Starfighter (1984) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). He died on 16 May 2007 in Chatsworth, California, USA.

Paul Dedona was born on 24 April 1960 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

Estelle Lawrence was born on 28 September 1931 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She was a producer. She was married to Lawrence, David. She died on 12 October 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

James Goux was born on 11 March 1986 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. He is known for Last Girl (2013), The Necessary Assassination of George Lucas (2008) and Walk of Shame (2009).

Allison Lurie was born on 4 December 1987 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Perfect Date (2019), Romeo! (2003) and Life with Derek (2005).