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Devious Maids
''Devious Maids'' is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, produced by ABC Studios, and executive produced by Cherry, Sabrina Wind, Eva Longoria, Paul McGuigan, Larry Shuman, David Lonner, John Mass, Paul Presburger, and Michael Garcia. It is based on the Mexican series ''Ellas son... la alegría del hogar'' created by Eugenio Derbez. It originally aired on Lifetime for four seasons from June 23, 2013, to August 8, 2016. Set in Beverly Hills, California, ''Devious Maids'' followed the lives of four Latina maids working for the area's wealthiest and most powerful families. The series featured an ensemble cast led by Ana Ortiz as Marisol Suarez, Dania Ramirez as Rosie Falta, Roselyn Sánchez as Carmen Luna, and Judy Reyes as Zoila Diaz. While working for Beverly Hills' most glamorous and powerful citizens, the maids are exposed to and often a part of secrets, mysteries and crimes hidden behind their employers' wealthy facade a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Owens
Nathan John Owens (born March 9, 1984) is an American actor, model, and producer. Owens portrayed Cameron Davis (Days of Our Lives), Cameron Davis on ''Days of Our Lives'' and was a series regular as Jesse Morgan on the Lifetime (TV network), Lifetime comedic-drama series ''Devious Maids''. Career Owens began his career working as a model. He has appeared in several issues of GQ, as well as many commercial and print campaigns for Vuori, Gap Inc., Gap, Ralph Lauren Corporation, Polo, Izod, Tommy Hilfiger, J.Crew, Peter Millar (clothing company), Peter Millar, Sperry Top-Sider, Sperry, Tommy Bahama, and Abercrombie and Fitch to name a few. He also has the distinction of being the second African-American ever to be featured in a fragrance campaign for Polo Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Big Pony. Owens moved from NYC to LA initially as a host for 1st Look on NBC He remained hosting the show but made his acting debut (Outside of commercials) starring opposite Rihanna in the music vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Derbez
Eugenio González Derbez (; born September 2, 1961) is a Mexican actor and comedian. He has appeared in many films and television series, including '' The Book of Life'', ''The Angry Birds Movie 2'', and '' CODA''. In the 2010s, he appeared in many American films and television series, such as '' Jack and Jill'', '' Girl in Progress'', '' Rob!'', and '' Miracles from Heaven''. Derbez provided the Spanish dubs for many characters in the Spanish versions of American films, including '' Dr. Dolittle'', ''Mulan'', ''102 Dalmatians'', and the ''Shrek'' franchise. Early life Derbez was born and raised in Mexico City and expressed interest in acting at an early age, landing his first roles as extras in soap operas at age 12. He made his directing debut in 1997 with a Mexican soap opera named . Career 1980s During the early 1980s, Derbez was a regular in , a Mexican television show. He also participated in , a children's television show. In 1988, he got his first recurring televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Van Acker
Drew Van Acker (born April 2, 1986) is an American actor, model and producer. He is known for playing Jason DiLaurentis, the older brother of Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse), on Freeform's ''Pretty Little Liars'' (2010–2017) and Ian Archer in Cartoon Network's '' Tower Prep'' (2010). He has also starred as Remi Delatour on Lifetime's '' Devious Maids'' (2013–2015), and as Detective Tommy Campbell on the 2017 CBS police drama '' Training Day''. Drew also gained a lot of attention for playing the male love interest in Addison Rae's music video for Diet Pepsi (song). Early life Van Acker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but lived in Medford, New Jersey his entire life. Van Acker is of Belgian descent. He attended Shawnee High School, where he began acting in their high school drama classes, where he also played on his school's soccer and lacrosse teams. His soccer abilities led him to receive a scholarship to Towson University in Maryland. While attending Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Longoria
Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón ( Longoria; born March 15, 1975) is an American actress, producer, director, and businesswoman. After several guest roles on television, she became recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' (2001–2003). Her breakthrough role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2004–2012) netted her two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe nomination. She has appeared in the films '' The Sentinel'' (2006), '' Over Her Dead Body'' (2008), '' For Greater Glory'' (2012), '' Frontera'' (2014), '' Lowriders'' (2016), and '' Overboard'' (2018), winning an Imagen Award for the latter. She guest-starred on the Hulu mystery comedy-drama series '' Only Murders in the Building'' (2024), earning her a third Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In 2005, Longoria founded UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, a film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Shearmur
Edward Shearmur (also known as Ed Shearmur; born 28 February 1966) is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age seven he sang in the boys' choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at Eton College, he studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He worked as orchestration and conducting assistant to Michael Kamen on such films as ''Licence to Kill'', ''Die Hard'', ''Lethal Weapon'' and the acclaimed ''Don Juan DeMarco'') before scoring his first full-length feature film '' The Cement Garden'' which won the director's prize at the Berlin Film Festival. His first major feature score was that of ''The Wings of the Dove'' (1997). He has since scored a diverse range of popular films, including both ''Charlie's Angels'' outings, '' Cruel Intentions'', '' Species II'', and '' K-PAX''. In 2023 he composed the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's last novel ''Across the River and into the Trees''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sol Rodríguez
María Soledad Rodríguez Belli (; born 17 April 1990), known by her stage name Sol Rodríguez, is an Argentine actress and model. She is best known for the role of Mecha in the Nickelodeon Latin America's series '' Grachi''. Rodríguez has released several songs from the soundtrack of ''Grachi'', sung along with other members of the cast. Rodríguez also played Teresa Ramirez in the second season of '' Star Trek: Picard''. Biography and career Born in 1990 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sol Rodríguez is of Spanish and Italian descent. She started dancing when she was 5. At the age of 8 she moved with her family to Guatemala, where she continued dancing and singing. She was part of a girl group in school who performed in parent reunions and school activities, and she started doing TV commercials when she was ten. In 2006 she moved with her parents to Miami where she studied in Miami Dade College, but she then dropped to sign up with a talent agency in Miami. Some weeks later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristián De La Fuente
Cristián Andrés de la Fuente Sabarots (; born March 10, 1974) is a Chilean actor, presenter, model and producer. He began his career appearing in the Chilean telenovelas before moving to United States for starring in television series ''Family Law (American TV series), Family Law'' (1999–2001) and ''Hidden Hills'' (2002–2003). De la Fuente later made his big screen debut in the 2001 action film ''Driven (2001 film), Driven'' and later appeared in films ''Vampires: Los Muertos'' (2002) and ''Basic (film), Basic'' (2003). In later years he was a regular cast member in ''In Plain Sight'' (2008–12) and ''Devious Maids'' (2015). De la Fuente also acted in a number of Spanish-language telenovelas. Early life Cristian De la Fuente was born in Santiago, Chile, Santiago, Chile, the only child of chemist Hugo de la Fuente (died 1996) and Adriana Sabarots, a homemaker of French people, French descent. He served in the Chilean Air Force reserve prior to attending the Pontifical Cathol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Marini
Gilles Marini (; born 26 January 1976) is a French actor known for his roles in the film ''Sex and the City'', and in the American television shows '' Brothers & Sisters'', '' Switched at Birth'' and ''Devious Maids''. He was also the runner-up in season 8 of ''Dancing with the Stars'', and was one of the returning celebrities in season 15. He was also a French co-host on the Netflix show '' Ultimate Beastmaster''. Early life Marini was born in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France, to a Greek mother and Italian father. He worked as a baker in his father's bakery from the age of eight. After completing high school, he joined the French army and was stationed in Paris, where he served as a fireman in the Paris Fire Brigade. There, Marini met Fred Goudon, a photographer who introduced him to the world of modeling. After fulfilling his military duties in his early twenties, he went to the United States to learn English while working as a model. One of his first jobs was a television co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Woodell
Colin Todd Gerard Woodell is an American actor. He grew up in Burlingame, California. He is known for playing Winston Scott on the Peacock miniseries '' The Continental'' (2023). He also played Buckley on the HBO Max series '' The Flight Attendant'' and Matias in the 2018 film '' Unfriended: Dark Web''. Other television roles include Rick Betancourt on '' The Purge'' on USA Network and Aidan on The CW's '' The Originals'', and other film credits including ''Unsane'', ''Searching'', and ''The Call of the Wild''. On the stage, Woodell has appeared Off-Broadway in Second Stage Theater's 2019 production of ''Dying City'' by Christopher Shinn. In 2017, Woodell played the role of Edmund Tyrone in The Geffen Playhouse's production of ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' in Los Angeles. Education Woodell attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, and began his training and first professional theater performances at The American Conservatory Theater as a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Mahaffey
Valerie Mahaffey (June 16, 1953 – May 30, 2025) was an American actress. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera '' The Doctors'' (1979–81), for which in 1980 she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 1992, Mahaffey won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the CBS drama series ''Northern Exposure''. She later appeared in television shows such as '' Wings'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' Devious Maids'', '' Young Sheldon'', and '' Dead to Me''. Mahaffey also appeared in a number of movies, including '' Senior Trip'' (1995), '' Jungle 2 Jungle'' (1997), '' Jack and Jill'' (2011), '' Sully'' (2016). For her role in '' French Exit'' (2020) she received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Early life Mahaffey was born on June 16, 1953, in Sumatra, Indonesia, to a Canadian mother and an American father who met in New B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Adams
Dominic Adams (born 17 March 1985) is a British actor and model, known for his role as Tony Bishara in the Lifetime comedy-drama ''Devious Maids'' and in '' Six''. Life and career Adams was born in Bristol, England on March 17, 1985, to an Iranian father and British mother, and attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Goldsmiths, University of London. In England, he appeared in a number of stage productions, and in 2008 made his screen debut in a walk-on part in film '' Telstar: The Joe Meek Story''. In 2014, Adams was cast as series regular for second season of Lifetime comedy-drama ''Devious Maids ''Devious Maids'' is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, produced by ABC Studios, and executive produced by Cherry, Sabrina Wind, Eva Longoria, Paul McGuigan, Larry Shuman, David Lonner, John Mass, ...'' as Tony Bishara, Rebecca Wisocky's character bodyguard. In July 2014, shortly after the second-season finale aired, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna P
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from . Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice, Jean, and Jeanne. The earliest recorded occurrence of the name Joanna, in Luke 8:3, refers to the disciple "Joanna the wife of Chuza," who was an associate of Mary Magdalene. Her name as given is Greek in form, although it ultimately originated from the Hebrew masculine name יְהוֹחָנָן ''Yəhôḥānān'' or יוֹחָנָן ''Yôḥānān'' meaning 'God is gracious'. In Greek this name became Ιωαννης ''Iōannēs'', from which ''Iōanna'' was derived by giving it a feminine ending. The name Joanna, like Yehohanan, was associated with Hasmonean families. Saint Joanna was culturally Hellenized, thus bearing the Grecian adaptation of a Jewish name, as was commonly done in her milieu. At the beginning of the Christian era, the names Iōanna and Iōannēs were already common in Judea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
