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Michelle Lynn Monaghan was born on March 23, 1976, in Winthrop, Iowa. She is the youngest of three children and the only daughter of Sharon (Hamel), who ran a day care center, and Robert L. Monaghan, a factory worker and farmer. She is of mostly Irish and German descent. After graduating from high school in Iowa, she studied journalism for three years at Chicago's Columbia College. In order to pay for college, she took a job as a model. In 1999, she quit college and moved to New York to work full-time as a fashion model. She traveled the world doing stints on the runways in Milan, Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, and also appeared in a number of magazines and catalogs.

In 2000, she made her TV debut in two episodes of Young Americans (2000), then appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She made her big screen debut with a small role of Henrietta in Perfume (2001). Monaghan shot to fame in 2002 when she co-starred as Kimberly Woods for one season on the TV series Boston Public (2000). After appearances in several supporting roles, she starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005). Later in 2005, Monaghan was filming in China, Italy, and the United States on Mission: Impossible III (2006), as the female lead opposite Tom Cruise.

In August of 2005, in Sydney, Australia, she married her long-time sweetheart, Peter White, a New York based graphic designer, whom she met at a Manhattan party five years earlier.

Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, activist and author. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He is also known for his roles in several television drama series, including as Silvio Dante in The Sopranos (1999-2007) and as Frank Tagliano in Lilyhammer (2012-2014). Van Zandt has his own solo band called Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, intermittently active since the 1980s. In 2014, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band. Van Zandt has produced music, written songs, and had his own songs covered by Bruce Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Nancy Sinatra, Pearl Jam, Artists United Against Apartheid, and the Iron City Houserockers, among others.

Pat Woodell was born on 12 July 1944 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Roommates (1973), Petticoat Junction (1963) and The Big Doll House (1971). She was married to Robert Vern McDade and Gary Clarke. She died on 29 September 2015 in Fallbrook, California, USA.

Lin Tucci was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), Showgirls (1995) and Law & Order (1990).

Don Segall was born on 11 August 1933 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Ball Four (1976), The Four Seasons (1984) and Who's the Boss? (1984). He died on 16 July 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to Otto and Aurelia Schoeber Plath, both professors. When Sylvia was eight, Otto died of complications from diabetes. Her mother struggled to give Sylvia and her younger brother every advantage of a superior education. Self-consciousness and anxiety about status and money contributed to profound insecurity Plath concealed all her life beneath a facade of energy and brilliant achievement. Sylvia published her first poem at age eight. By the time she entered Smith College on scholarship in 1950, she had published many poems and short stories in newspapers and ladies' magazines. She was selected as a guest editor of Mademoiselle Magazine in 1953. Amid feverish overwork at Smith, she broke down in her junior year and attempted suicide. She spent almost a year in a mental hospital and was given electroconvulsive shock treatments. Sylvia eventually returned to Smith, graduating summa cum laude and winning a Fulbright fellowship to study at Cambridge University in England. In February 1956, she met poet Ted Hughes, and married him four months later. After Sylvia received her MA from Cambridge, the couple lived in Massachusetts (teaching at Smith and Amherst Colleges), then returned to England. The marriage was for six years a strong union of supremely dedicated writers. Ted's poem collections were critically praised, as was Sylvia's first volume of poetry, The Colossus, published in 1960. Sylvia worked on her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, which narrated a college student's nervous breakdown and recovery. Despite thriving careers and the birth of two children, personal jealousies and a return of Sylvia's depression troubled the marriage. Sylvia soon faced Hughes's infidelity, expressing herself through increasingly angry and powerful poems. After the couple separated in fall 1962, Sylvia's deep depression was fueled by the worst winter in a century, poverty, and the struggle to care for two infants. She committed suicide in February 1963, just two weeks after The Bell Jar's publication. In the 40 years following her death, Sylvia Plath has become a heroine and martyr of the feminist movement, with her work foreshadowing the feminist writing that appeared in the 1960s and 1970s. Sylvia's poems remain a terrifying record of her encroaching mental illness--graphically macabre and hallucinatory, but full of ironic wit, technical brilliance, and tremendous emotional power. Her Selected Poems, published by Ted Hughes in 1981, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Richard Whorf was born on 4 June 1906 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Blues in the Night (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and The Beverly Hillbillies (1962). He was married to Margaret Harriet Smith (actress). He died on 14 December 1966 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Mark Bavaro was born on 28 April 1963 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He has been married to Susan Downes since 2 May 1987. They have three children.

Mike Eruzione was born on 25 October 1954 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for The Game Plan (2007), Miracle on Ice (1981) and Do You Belive in Miracles? (2001).

Dane Knell was born on 27 September 1932 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Law & Order (1990) and The Family Web (1998).

Jack McEdward was born on 23 October 1898 in Winthrop, Maine, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for The Pink Panther (1963), Peter Gunn (1958) and The Great Race (1965). He was married to Lillian Virginia Grommet. He died on 9 March 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dick O'Connell was born on 19 September 1914 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 18 August 2002 in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

Richard Sperber was born on 22 January 1917 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for The Boys from Brazil (1978), Damien: Omen II (1978) and The Driver (1978). He died on 17 June 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dolores Sirianni was born on 24 September 1957 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for You've Got Mail (1998), Meet the Mobsters (2005) and Close Up (1996).

Mickey McLaughlin is a visionary executive producer and director known for his exceptional talent and unmatched creativity in the entertainment industry.

With a career spanning over two decades, Mickey has made a significant impact on both the small and big screens. He is recognized for his ability to bring compelling stories to life while captivating audiences with his unique storytelling style.

Throughout his career, McLaughlin has collaborated with some of the industry's most renowned talents, earning him a reputation as a respected and sought-after professional. His passion for his craft shines through in every project he undertakes, solidifying his status as a trailblazer in the world of entertainment.

Henry Famolare was born on 28 July 1942 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for J Watching (2018) and Henry's Dreaming (2017). He died on 23 July 2022 in Saugus, Massachusetts, USA.

Robert J. Williams was born on 15 December 1986 in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, USA. Robert J. is an editor and producer, known for Raymond Did It (2011), Careless (2011) and Onion Talks (2012).

Art Ditmar was born on 3 April 1929 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 11 June 2011 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.

Ernie Capponi had always loved the film and radio arts, and saw many of his Kenosha, Wisconsin contemporaries go on to acting fame. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ernie founded the Midwest Classic Radio Actors in Kenosha, which performed original works over area stations including WGN, Chicago. By the 1980s, Ernie had begun to build a modest acting career in films shot in the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor, usually portraying a street-wise detective or gangster in small roles, including his part as an Al Capone mobster in the well-remembered "Untouchables" round-table scene with Robert De Niro. Ernie found himself in growing demand for such parts, and he was proud to have completed his first lead role as a tough Chicago detective in an urban crime drama with the working title "The Mangler" (no connection to the later Stephen King-based film of the same name). He never saw the final results, because a neglected respiratory infection led to his sudden death by pneumonia at 69.

Kenneth Macgowan was a theatrical producer who headed the Provincetown Playhouse in the 1920s with Eugene O'Neill, his close friend and Robert Edmond Jones. He produced plays on Broadway, giving Katherine Hepburn her first role. He moved out to Hollywood in the early 1930s, working for RKO, Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. He produced the first full-length color film, Becky Sharp. His last film was a documentary was "Maya Through the Ages." He left Hollywood to found the first theatre and film school at UCLA in 1947. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote a dozen books on theatre, film and anthropology.

Gaylord DuBois was born on 24 August 1899 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA. Gaylord was a writer, known for Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (1997) and Turok: Son of Stone (2008). Gaylord died on 20 October 1993 in Orange City, Florida, USA.

Verne Muehlstedt was born on 15 August 1914 in Winthrop, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for When the Legends Die (1972). He died on 16 December 2001 in Durango, Colorado, USA.

Gordon McEdward was born on 23 October 1898 in Winthrop, Maine, USA. He was an actor, known for The Shepherd King (1923) and The Silent Command (1923). He died on 9 March 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.