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For an entire generation, Hilary Duff did not simply play a teenager growing up. She seemed to grow up alongside them. Middle-school embarrassment. Best friends. Crushes. Awkward family moments. Animated inner thoughts saying what you wished you could say out loud. Then came Rome. “What Dreams Are Made Of.
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A loose necktie. A white tank top. Heavy black eyeliner. Baggy trousers. A skateboard. And a voice that sounded as if it had absolutely no interest in fitting neatly into the polished pop world surrounding it. When Avril Lavigne arrived in 2002, she did not simply introduce herself with a
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At only 24, Jenna Ortega has already lived through several versions of a Hollywood career. Child actor. Disney Channel lead. Teen drama performer. Horror breakout. Scream queen. Wednesday Addams. Producer. Tim Burton collaborator. And now one of the most recognizable young actors of her generation. Jenna Marie Ortega celebrates her
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Some actors become inseparable from an era. For anyone who spent the 1990s watching comedies, video-game adaptations, teen horror and Hollywood blockbusters, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is one of those faces. Today, September 25, she celebrates her 53rd birthday. Born in Gold Beach, Oregon, on September 25, 1973, Wilson went
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Today, September 23, 2026, marks the 46th birthday of Aubrey Dollar, an actress whose career has quietly moved through an unusually wide range of American television. She has played a soap-opera heroine. A resident of a town descending into supernatural chaos. An ambitious crime reporter. A homicide detective. A
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For some viewers, Sammi Hanratty will always be the mischievous young girl who kept appearing across Disney-era television. For others, she is Kassidi from Shameless—intense, chaotic and almost impossible to predict. And for a newer generation of television fans, Hanratty is inseparable from one character in particular: Teenage
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It had Nicolas Cage playing a Depression-era Spider-Man. It let viewers choose between black-and-white and full color. Critics embraced its strange collision of hard-boiled detective fiction and superhero mythology. It earned 11 Emmy nominations—the most of any Prime Video program in 2026. And its
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Sadie Sink has reached the kind of career moment where two photographs can make her look like two completely different people. In one, she is Jean Grey. Intense. Watchful. Dangerous. A young mutant capable of manipulating minds and moving objects with thought, carrying the emotional weight of one of Marvel&
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VLC media player has passed another enormous milestone. More than 7 billion cumulative downloads have now been recorded for the famous orange-cone media player, extending the remarkable lifespan of a piece of open-source software that has survived multiple generations of computers, smartphones, codecs, streaming services and entertainment platforms.
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When Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman premiered on ABC on September 12, 1993, audiences were technically getting another Superman television series. Yet it quickly became clear that the woman standing beside the Man of Steel was not going to remain in his shadow. Teri Hatcher's
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Happy 60th birthday to Halle Berry. Born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, Berry reaches a major milestone on August 14, 2026 after more than three decades spent building one of Hollywood's most varied and historically significant careers. She has been a beauty-pageant contestant, television performer,
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Happy birthday to Mila Kunis, who turns 43 today, August 14, 2026. Born Milena Markovna Kunis on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kunis has built one of Hollywood's most unusually versatile careers. For one generation, she will probably always be