March 2011

Saira Mohan Cooper started her long career as a model when she won a contest run by the Elite agency in Los Angeles... Read more

After college, instead of taking refuge in graduate school, Chaon Cross went on the road: For two years, the young actress toured the country with a troupe called Shenandoah Shakespeare... Read more

“Growing up, nobody ever went hungry at our house,” says Julie Darling. “We’re Italian, so we like to entertain...” Read more

As a kid in Rochester, Frank Dattalo loved to draw and doodle. His talents might have been only a passing fancy, he says, were it not for a high-school teacher who introduced him to graphic design, a profession that combines fine arts with technology. “There was a commercial side to it that I really enjoyed,” he explains... Read more

When Anna Davlantes reported the news for the evening broadcast, she says that her friends and family got used to never seeing her for dinner or drinks at the end of the normal workday. But since last August, Davlantes has had to adjust to an entirely new schedule: As the co-anchor of Fox’s Good Day Chicago, she... Read more

If you grow up in New Delhi, India, the World Bank building is a familiar and awe-inspiring symbol of modernity. So says Rohini Dey, who, when she was 12, informed a World Bank employee during a visit that she, too, would work there someday... Read more

How do you break into the moviemaking business? For Billy Federighi, his moment came a few years ago when he and his directing partner, Brett Snider, hopped on the user-generated-content trend in advertising... Read more

Ty Fujimura moved to Ukrainian Village in 1997, the day after he graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. An aspiring DJ and event promoter, he did boring office work by day and studied the bar-and-club scene by night... Read more

In Venezuela, when young girls decide they would like to float like a butterfly, they don’t just sign up for ballet class at the neighborhood dance school. So says Yumelia Garcia-McClaren, whose grandmother encouraged Yumelia’s mother to send the child to tryouts for a prestigious professional ballet school. Garcia-McClaren won a spot, beating out hundreds of other nine-year-olds, and graduated two years early at age 15... Read more

During a recent review of his bank statement, Stephen Grush faced the reality of his record-collecting addiction. “I spend twice as much on vinyl as I do on nutrition,” says the actor, who currently plays a best-selling blogger/author in the risqué Steppenwolf Theatre production of Sex with Strangers. The role gives audience members a peek at some of Grush’s tattoos, another fetish... Read more