television actors and actresses

Actress Teri Hatcher draws from childhood experiences, her divorce, single motherhood, career problems, and turning forty to explain how she learned to love herself and expect success rather than plan to fail.

Describes the television show "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," its characters, and the actors who play them, with an emphasis on the popular star Will Smith.

A brief biography of African-American actress Raven-Symone, that profiles her life and successful career.

"It Girl" Blake Lively is on her way to the top and the trip looks like smooth sailing all the way! When she auditioned for 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, her resume boasted one credit: playing the tooth fairy in one of her father's films. But the unknown landed the role of Bridget and hasn't looked back. Today, she is one of the stars of The CW's Gossip Girl as bad girl-gone-good Serena van der Woodsen.

Miley Cyrus describes her life, including her childhood in rural Tennessee, education, and family, along with the ups and downs of her career as a singer and actress.

Married at the age of twenty to rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, Valerie Bertinelli was America's sweetheart. Part of the hit TV show, One Day at a Time, she frankly discusses her life backstage and in the spotlight; the ups and downs of teen stardom; her complicated marraige to a brilliant, tormented musical genius, the joys of motherhood with her only son, Wolfie, and her very public struggle with her weight.

Betty DeGeneres tells the story of her acceptance of the fact that her daughter is gay. As the first, nongay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's National Coming Out Project, she shares the painful and inspiring stories she has heard on the road and speaks of her own complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter.