T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh

T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (born October 13, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, writer, director, producer, singer, and comedian.

Early life

She was born Crystal Walker in Chicago, Illinois. From the age of three, Keymáh enjoyed entertaining her family--singing, dancing, and reciting original poems and stories. She wrote her first play and her first song in elementary school. She performed with Ali LeRoi and Lance Crouther in the Mary Wong Comedy Group in high school before Florida A & M University's School of Business and Industry recruited the National Merit Scholar. During and after college, Keymáh taught theater, dance, and pantomime. She has also done many theater performances and produced and directed films.She became drunk one year then cut it all and went into acting.

Career

One of the original cast members of Fox Television's Emmy winning variety show, In Living Color, Keymáh starred for three seasons on the Disney series That's So Raven as Raven's mom, Tanya Baxter. In the fourth season of the show her character was written out by saying she went to England to continue pursuing her career in law school. Keymáh was also a series regular on Cosby, where she played flight attendant turned lawyer turned pastry chef turned wife and teacher Erica Lucas, TV daughter of Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad. She also starred in The Show, where she played writer Denise Everett, and on On Our Own, where she played contractor Scotti Decker. On In Living Color, she played a number of characters, including Cryssy, the central character of her self written signature piece, "In Black World". She also sang and danced on the show.

T'Keyah is currently an Artistic Associate of Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Inc. located in Jacksonville, FL where she recently performed her hit variety show T'Keyah Live! with Founder Darryl Reuben Hall in the Annual Aurora Jacksonville Black Arts Festival. T'Keyah Live! was performed July 28, 2008 at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall in Gateway Town Center.

Corbin Bleu

Date of Birth
21 February 1989, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name
Corbin Bleu Reivers

Nickname
Bleu Man
Corbie
The Bleu

Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)

Corbin Bleu Reivers Born: February 21, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York, Corbin Bleu followed in his father's footsteps and began appearing in television commercials at the age two, for products such as Life cereal, Bounty, Hasbro, and Nabisco. It was at that time he also discovered his love for dance when he began taking jazz and ballet classes, usually the only boy in the class. By the age of four he was a model with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York. He appeared in print ads for stores such as Macy's, Gap, Target, and Toys R Us, and fashion spreads in Child, Parent, and American Baby magazines, as well as having his image on toys and game packaging. At age six Corbin appeared in his first professional theater production off Broadway playing an abandon homeless mute in the play "Tiny Tim is Dead".

Corbin and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and he quickly landed a recurring role on the television series "High Incident" (1996). He continued to land small roles in such feature films as Soldier (1998/I) with Kurt Russell, Mystery Men (1999) with Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, and Greg Kinnear, and Galaxy Quest (1999) with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman. He also guest starred on such television shows as "ER" (1994), "Malcolm & Eddie" (1996), "Cover Me" (1999), and "The Amanda Show" (1999). Corbin also continued dancing, eventually becoming one of the first students at the prestigious Debbie Allen Dance Academy. He then attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major, this time following in his mother's footsteps who attended New York City's famed High School of Performing Arts. While in his freshman year Corbin was cast in his first lead role in the feature film Catch That Kid (2004). Back in school in his sophomore year he played the lead role of Ren in the musical "Footloose" and the role of Sonny in the musical "Grease". That same year Corbin was honored with the award of Theatre Student of the Year. In the summer of 2004 Corbin became a part of the ensemble cast for the new Discovery Kids television series "Flight 29 Down" (2005), filmed on location in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. During the summer of 2005 Corbin was cast as Chad in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical (2006) (TV) which was directed by Kenny Ortega. Being a big fan of musical theater, Corbin was thrilled to be a part of this musical movie project in which he gets to showcase his dance skills.

Cody Linley

Date of Birth
20 November 1989, Lewisville, Texas, USA

Birth Name
Cody Martin Linley

Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)

Cody Matteo Linley is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Jake Ryan in the television series Hannah Montana and for being a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing With The Stars. Linley was partnered with Julianne Hough. He was eliminated in the semifinals, finishing fourth.

Career

Linley made his acting debut in the 1994 made-for-television film Still Holding On: The Legend of Cadillac Jack. Subsequently, he had supporting roles in four films released in 2000: My Dog Skip, Where the Heart Is, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Miss Congeniality. In 2003, Linley had a major role in the independent film When Zachary Beaver Came to Town and appeared in the movie Cheaper by the Dozen.

Most recently, Linley appeared on Disney Channel in seven episodes of Hannah Montana as Jake Ryan. He also appeared in That's So Raven, in the episode "Five Finger Discount" as Daryl. Linley appeared during the world premiere of The Cheetah Girls 2, while conversing alongside hit Disney Channel celebrity, Brenda Song, opening the film with their comments. When Brenda introduced him, she said "Hannah Montana Star" which arose rumors that he may receive a spot on the show.

He appeared in the children's film Hoot, which opened on May 5, 2006, portraying Mullet Fingers and co-starring with Logan Lerman and Brie Larson as three youngsters who try to save a local colony of Burrowing owls. The movie is an adaptation of the children's book by Carl Hiaasen. In 2007, he had a lead role in the movie The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It alongside Emily Osment. He has also appeared in the movie Where the Heart Is alongside Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd where he played Ashley Judd's oldest son Brownie Coop. He played the son of the Vikings coach in the film Rebound.

Linley helped host the 2008 Disney Channel Games alongside Brian Stepanek from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Meaghan Jette Martin from the Disney Channel movie Camp Rock.

As of June 2008, he is filming Forget Me Not, a thriller in which he plays Eli Channing. Linley's co-stars include Hannah Montana veteran Brie Gabrielle and Disney alumna Carly Schroeder (Melina from Lizzie McGuire).

It is unclear if Linley will have any involvement whatsoever with Hannah Montana: The Movie. On the IMDB cast list, Linley was not listed,[1] although he does still participate on the television show.

He also appeared in commercials for Zaxby's, some alone and some with Alyson Stoner.

Brandon Baker

Date of Birth
28 April 1985, Orange County, California, USA

Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)

Brandon Baker is an American actor.He is known for the made-for-TV movies, such as Disney movies Johnny Tsunami and its sequel Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board as well as for his role on the short lived NBC sitcom One World. In 2002, he appeared in episodes of the Disney Channel original series Even Stevens.

He was born in Anaheim, California. He is part English, German, and Filipino. Baker lives with his family including his sister, Cassie and his brother, Kullen. He started acting when he was 11 years old after seeing some of his friends going to auditions. At 12 years old, Baker landed his first big break with the starring role of "Mowgli" in Walt Disney's Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story. Baker was invited to the 2007 Disney Channel games after Zac Efron dropped out. He currently lives in Santa Barbara, California. He also starred alongside Jessica Alba in the 1999 movie P.U.N.K.S.

Brittany Curran

Date of Birth
2 June 1990, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Nickname

Britt

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)


Brittany Curran was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on June 2nd 1990. After living in Avon for her first three years her family moved to Mockingbird Lane in Marston's Mills, Cape Cod. Brittany spent several of her elementary school years living on Cape Cod and attended Marston's Mills East Elementary School. Her performing years began as a little girl studying ballet, jazz, and tap at the Sandwich Community School: in addition to summer theatre she also performed as a mouse & reindeer for several seasons in The Nutcracker Suite!

Before 3rd grade Brittany and her family moved to Hingham, Massachusetts. Attending William L. Foster Elementary School Brittany continued her dance, added Violin, and performed in the Foster Follies. This was the time Brittany began to memorize dialogs and scenes from movies; she would walk around her back yard reciting dialogs and acting out every scene of The Parent Trap. During a family vacation to Disney World, Brittany handed Cinderella a letter she wrote asking to be a lead in a Disney movie, or an extra if she had to. The letter included every Disney resort she would be staying at, dates, and phone numbers!

A few years later Brittany was attending a concert with her dad. After the concert Brittany saw an advertisement for acting classes. She quickly cajoled her dad into letting her attend, which led to her participating in a recital - then, "discovered" - long story short she was off to Hollywood and under contract with a premier kids talent agency!

Shortly after moving to Hollywood at the age of eleven Brittany booked roles on Mad TV and Power Rangers. She shot her first commercial for Chevrolet opposite a childhood hero, Olympian skater Michelle Kwan. She went on to shoot principle roles in about twenty commercials(KFC, Campbell's Soup, Post Cereal, Sears, T-Mobile, AT&T, Hewlett Packet, etc.).

With a combination of talent, school, acting teachers, manager & agents, and family, Brittany has blossomed into one of Hollywood's premiere young actors! At the beginning of 2007 Kidzworld.com - a leading child and teen magazine - selected Brittany as one of the "Top-Five-Faces-To-Watch-2007-The Kidzworld Girls." Brittany has shown them to be right by adding on to her resume with a myriad of leading roles in film and television .

Brian Stepanek

Brian Stepanek is an American actor.He is best known for his role as Arwin in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. He also guest starred in the sixth episode of The Suite Life on Deck, It's All Greek to Me as Arwin and Milos. Other roles include "The Mathter" on Kim Possible, "Nugent the Dog" in Over the Hedge, and Gandu Three Echo in the film The Island and a Sector Seven Agent in Transformers. He played the Riddler in one ad from the Batman OnStar commercials. He did additional voiceovers in the movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Another appearance is as a strange chef named Lowell in What I Like About You and the sit-com, Malcolm In The Middle. He was also one of the co-hosts for the first ever Disney Channel Games. He also portrayed one of two Caucasian cops in Friday After Next. Another appearance was a few episodes in The West Wing. He is also well known as "The Dex Guy" Dex, and has also done commercials for Ace Hardware, Advil, Toyota, and Dairy Queen as well as radio commercials for Microsoft. Currently he stars in a 5-minute short show called Brian O'Brian, a silent slapstick-style show aired on Disney Channel.He also stars in the new Disney Channel Original Movie Hatching Pete as the Coach.

Brenda Song

Brenda Song was born in Carmichael, California on 27th March 1988. Her mother is Thai-American and her father is Hmong. Brenda, her parents, and her younger brothers, Timmy and Nathan, now live in a suburb of Los Angeles.

Brenda was named an All-American Scholar in ninth grade and holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

She stars as London Tipton, the hotel owner's spoiled daughter, in Disney Channel's new hit sitcom, "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody." Having acted since age six, Brenda is already a familiar face to Disney Channel viewers. Before beginning production on the new series, she had a recurring role as the hip and trendy Tia on "Phil of the Future." She also starred in the top-rated Disney Channel Original Movies "Stuck in the Suburbs," the mystery "Get A Clue" with Lindsay Lohan, and "The Ultimate Christmas Present" with Hallee Hirsh and Spencer Breslin.

Her other television credits include guest starring roles on "That's So Raven," "George Lopez," "The Bernie Mac Show," "7th Heaven," "One On One," "The Nightmare Room," "Judging Amy," "Popular," "Once and Again," and as a panelist on "Small Talk." Brenda also had a starring role on the series "100 Deeds For Eddie McDowd."

On the big screen, she starred in "Like Mike" opposite Lil' Bow Wow and Jonathan Lipnicki, and appeared in "Leave It To Beaver" and "Santa With Muscles" starring Hulk Hogan.

A self-proclaimed "total dork," she loves sampling international cuisine, shopping and studying. She is an avid Los Angeles Lakers fan.