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Jimmy Smits was born in Brooklyn on July 9, 1955, son of Cornelius Smits, a silk-screen plant manager who came from Dutch Guyana and Emelina Smits from Puerto Rico.

Two upcoming TV shows are going to be shot in the metro Atlanta area: the CW's "Vampire Diaries" and Fox's "Past Life." Thank last year's tax incentives boosts for these two shows being here, along with Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva." Neither show has any major stars.

Attractive brunette actress Jorja Fox got her start with a brief modeling career before landing roles in some of television's most popular and critically acclaimed series including "ER" and "The West Wing" .... Attractive brunette actress Jorja Fox got her start with a brief modeling career before landing roles in some of television's most popular ...

"A Capitol Fourth" : Jimmy Smits hosts the Independence Day concert, possibly because he was on "The West Wing." With Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Natasha Bedingfield and more.

The obsession of British politicians with this TV creation proves them to be small people, satisfied with a facsimile of power As surprises go, news that David Cameron is planning a West Wing-style reorganisation of Downing Street, should he win the election, is up there with the revelation that Michael Jackson's Caucasian kids may not be his ...

Isna TMt it great when this show starts over from the beginning on Bravo? Dona TMt get us wrong, those later, Obama-forecasting episodes were fun, and who doesna TMt love Alan Alda? But therea TMs absolutely nothing like those first few magical seasons of The West Wing when the show was under Aaron Sorkin's rule.

Rihanna is expected to testify today at a preliminary trial hearing for Chris Brown.

We miss our weekly visit with the president and his cohorts on "The West Wing.'' The Obama fly swatting was entertaining, but it pales to President Bartlet's turkey pardoning.

It was more than a little unsettling to read the reports last week about Twilight star Robert Pattinson being clipped by a taxi in New York in an incident that at least some reports attributed to a throng of fans that had tracked him to the filming location of his new movie, Remember Me .

LOS ANGELES - After more than 16 years of marriage, actors Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek are divorcing.

Former "Malcolm in the Middle" co-star Jane Kaczmarek and her husband, "The West Wing" actor Bradley Whitford, have filed for divorce after 16 years of marriage, according to People magazine.

TV vets Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek filed divorce papers on Friday in Los Angeles, People reports.

Even in these tough economic times, networks order far more scripts than will ever become pilot episodes and many more pilots than will be picked up as series.

Johanna Schneller Friday, Jun. 12, 2009 03:22PM EDT A llison Janney has a thankless part in the new comedy Away We Go , and she knows it.

Videos advocating for Yes and No votes on SAGa s proposed TV-theatrical contract have been popping up over the last two weeks like actors at a gifting suite.

HTV was there as Martin Sheen jokes with fans and tells an interviewer about putting on heels to portray the famous Australian comedian Dame Edna.

Alice Ripley Alice received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Helen Hayes Award nominations for this performance.

Setting: the colonnade-and-marble district of the nation's capital. Characters: an idealistic young politician and his good-looking friends.

Really, who doesn't love Allison Janney? She was hilarious in Drop Dead Gorgeous , heartbreaking in American Beauty , warm and cynical in Juno , and some combination of all those things for seven seasons of The West Wing .