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Meagan Good as a Cheerleader

Posted on 11 Sep 2009 at 12:24am

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Meagan Monique Good (born August 8, 1981) is an American actress.
Biography
Early life

Good was born in Panorama City, California where she lived with her parents and her three siblings, one of whom was adopted. Good resided in a part of California that was mainly Caucasian; The Goods were one of the first non-white families to enter the area, she explained in a Sister2Sister magazine interview. As a young girl, she recalls being treated differently while at school especially at the hands of a teacher she considered to be racist. She had a particularly hard time with fitting in, because of her hairstyle. Lip gloss was not allowed by her parents. She even blames this teacher for suffering grades that same year. Good did not, however, pick up on these subtleties until she became older.

Meagan Good does not describe her mother as religious, but rather describes her as a spiritual person who inspired her to become spiritual as well. Good did not attend church as a young girl, but God is very important to her in life.

Because of her role as a child actress, she was home-schooled after a period of time in public school.
Career

With encouragement from her mother, Good entered the entertainment industry with appearances in commercials at the age of four. To date, she has been in over 60 national commercials. Her television portfolio is quite vast with having been on every side of the spectrum ranging from The Parent ‘Hood and Touched by an Angel to starring roles on Raising Dad with Bob Saget and the Nickelodeon series, Cousin Skeeter.

Despite her television appearances, she is best known for her work in movies. According to Sister2Sister magazine, Good decided she would become an actress at the age of twelve, and received her first speaking role at the age of 12. As a youngster, acting was simply “just something to do for fun” (Sister2Sister magazine, 2005). Her big break-through came when she garnered critical acclaim and earned an Image Award nomination for her starring role in Kasi Lemmons’ film Eve’s Bayou, opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Some consider Eve’s Bayou to be Good’s “coming-out party as the 16-year-old dominated the screen”. Her persistence paid off although she originally wanted to play the role of Eve. By the time of the movie’s production, she was too old for Eve’s role and instead entertained the idea of playing Cisely.

Meagan Good’s tenure in the entertainment industry has spanned nearly twenty years with almost twenty movies and about the same number in television shows. Good, in an interview with Savoy magazine, explained that she has been around longer than some actors she considers legends. In the same February 2003 interview, she does say that there is a down side to being a celebrity, because of rumors directed at her. For a long while, she has also had to deal with being known as the pretty girl on the screen. In an interview with Essence magazine, she has voiced her disappointment with constantly being put into a corner. “My goal is to do something that’s not about race or a certain look” she states.

Though she does not appreciate being judged based on her looks as far as her career goes, she does recognize that she is widely popular amongst her fans in part because of her looks. AskMen.com finds that “Good possesses of one of the finest packages in showbiz”. For this reason, she has been numerous magazines with special dedications to her, most notably in Black Men and King. In an 2003 King interview, she reflected on past comments about her appearance by saying, “Boys I been around my whole life were like, ‘You Got Booty.’ I was like ‘For real?’”

She would like to continue producing movies. Miles From Home was her first.
Personal life

Good does have aspirations for the future. Primarily, she wants to play Aaliyah in a movie about the late entertainer, if such a movie should ever reach the point of fruition. ContactMusic.com quotes Good as saying “”I would love to play Aaliyah. For all the things that black women go through in this industry, telling her story would be incredible”

Currently, she lives in The San Fernando Valley in California.
Awards and nominations

In 1998, Meagan Good was nominated for Image Award for Outstanding Youth Actor/Actress for her role on Eve’s Bayou.

In 1998, Meagan Good was nominated for Young Star Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film for her role on Eve’s Bayou.

In 2005, Meagan Good was nominated for Black Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role on D.E.B.S..

In 2006, Meagan Good won the Independent Black Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role on Miles From Home.

In 2006, Meagan Good is nominated for Teen Choice Award for Best Female Breakout for her role on Waist Deep.
Filmography
Film

* Fast Girls (2007)
* The Take (2007)
* Stomp The Yard (2007) as April
* Waist Deep (2006) as CoCo
* Brick (film) (2005) as Kara
* Venom (2005) as CiCi
* Roll Bounce (2005) as Naomi
* The Cookout (2004) as Brittany
* You Got Served (2004) as Beautifull
* D.E.B.S. (2004) as Max
* Ride or Die (2003) as Fake Venus
* Deliver Us from Eva (2003) as Jacqui Dandrige
* Biker Boyz (2003) as Tina
* 3 Strikes (2001) as Buela
* The Secret Life of Girls (1999) as Kay
* Eve’s Bayou (1997) as Cisely Batiste
* Make a Wish, Molly (1995) as Jenny
* Friday (1995) as Kid #2

Television

* Kevin Hill (2005) as Melanie
* My Wife and Kids (2003) as Vanessa
* The Famous Jett Jackson (2001) as Tara Essex
* The Division (2001) as Kara Talor
* Raising Dad (2001) as Katie
* The Steve Harvey Show (2000) as Alicia
* Moesha (2000) as Nicole
* The Jersey (1999) as Tamika
* Cousin Skeeter (1998) as Nina
* The Gregory Hines Show (1997) as Pauley
* Just One of the Girls (1997) as Starkeesha
* Touched by an Angel (1997) as Nikki
* The Parent Hood (1997 & 1998) as Ariana
* Pacific Blue (1997) as Shalona James
* On Our Own (1994) as Tracee

Music videos

* Girl, Paul Wall
* 21 Questions, 50 Cent.
* This Very Moment, K-Ci & JoJo.
* Black Suits Comin’ (Nod Ya Head), Will Smith.
* No Doubt, Imajin.
* Do My, Memphis Bleek.
* I Got You, Lil Johnny.
* Get Wit Me, 3rd Storee.

Facts

* Meagan Good is the sister of Lamyia Good of the music group Isyss.
* Good is the cousin of actor/singer Dijon Talton.
* Good went to the same high school as Lauryn Garrett, and Heather Lauren Olson.

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Posted on 08 Sep 2009 at 11:42pm

Her Bio
Hailed as the teen queen of the mid-’90s, Alicia Silverstone rapidly ascended the summit of idolism with the help of an infamous Aerosmith video and starring roles in the cult trash favorite The Crush, and Amy Heckerling’s sleeper hit Clueless. Despite such a promising beginning to her career, however, the vivacious, green-eyed blonde subsequently weathered a series of professional set-backs, due to poor film choices, weight issues, and an industry increasingly congested with such similarly ebullient young starlets as Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt. By the end of the decade, Silverstone’s future looked uncertain, although many observers noted that her youth and talent made her chances for a comeback entirely plausible.

Born to English parents in San Francisco on October 4, 1976, Silverstone is the daughter of a real-estate agent and an airline stewardess. She began working as a child model at the age of six after her father sent several pictures of her in a bathing suit to a few agencies. Modeling work led to TV commercials, which in turn led to work on a number of TV series including an episode of The Wonder Years which cast her as Fred Savage’s literal dream girl. At the age of 15, Silverstone landed her first starring role in The Crush (1993), a Fatal Attraction for the Noxema set in which she portrayed a young woman obsessed with an older man (Cary Elwes). Although the film was trashed by critics, it was a hit among its teenage target audience, and Silverstone — who had become legally emancipated from her parents while making the film in order to work longer hours — was feted at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards with trophies for Best Villain and Breakthrough Performance. Around the same time, she starred in the popular music video for Aerosmith’s “Crazy.” Her onscreen antics with Liv Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven, coupled with her vampish turn in The Crush virtually ensured Silverstone’s status as Hollywood’s latest embodiment of nubile, underage female sexuality.

Silverstone’s real break came with her starring role as the spoiled, meddlesome, but ultimately endearing Cher Horowitz in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995). A very loose and modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s -Emma, the film was a huge sleeper hit, and Silverstone was roundly praised for her effervescent performance. In the wake of the film’s success, the actress signed a ten-million-dollar deal with Columbia that included a three-year first-look deal for her own company, First Kiss Productions. She also won the coveted role of Batgirl in Batman && Robin, something that allowed her to contemplate breaking out of the teen sexpot mode.

Unfortunately, the actress was subsequently besieged with a number of problems, ranging from unending industry criticism of her weight to her first excursion as a producer, Excess Baggage (1997). The film, which also served as a starring vehicle for Silverstone, was a thoroughly misguided kidnapping comedy that failed to win favor with either audiences or critics. To add insult to injury, Silverstone’s other major 1997 project, the long-awaited Batman && Robin, was one of the year’s most expensive critical and commercial flops.

After a nearly two-year absence from the screen, Silverstone resurfaced in 1999 with Blast from the Past. A likable romantic comedy that cast her as a cynical Valley girl opposite Brendan Fraser, the film enjoyed modest success. Silverstone followed it with a starring role as the French princess in Kenneth Branagh’s much-anticipated musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000), which saw the actress interpreting the Bard and Irving Berlin alongside the likes of Branagh, Nathan Lane, Matthew Lillard, and Alessandro Nivola.

In 2001, Silverstone played an American rocker in England for the straight-to-video Rock My World (aka Global Heresay), which, despite providing little more than a blip on her resumé, gave her the opportunity to work with the iconic Peter O’Toole. After serving as executive producer for the animated television series Braceface, Silverstone went on to star in NBC’s 2003 sketch comedy Miss Match, which featured the young actress as a divorced lawyer cum matchmaker whose good intentions were not necessarily met with equally positive results. In the same year, she starred opposite Rachael Leigh Cook in Scorched; this time playing a disgruntled bank teller. Silverstone played a role in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed alongside fellow twentysomethings Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in the summer of 2004. A subsequent trip to the salon in Beautyshop found Silverstone continuing to keep audiences in stitches, and in 2006 she would join Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Missi Pyle, and Alex Pettyfer in bringing author Anthony Horowitz’s adolescent daredevil to the screen in the family-oriented action adventure Stormbreaker. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide