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Naya Rivera

Naya Rivera was born on January 12, 1987 and was raised primarily in Valencia, California. Her ethnic background is personally described as, ”… Half Puerto-Rican, a quarter German, and a quarter African-American.” Her mother named her Naya after a mermaid on 1970’s American TV Show, Fantasy Island. Naya has an older sister, younger brother, and a younger sister. Naya was introduced to show business at a very young age because of her mother’s personal modeling/acting ambitions. Since then, Naya has modeled for K-Mart, acted fairly regularly on television, and has also been in music videos.

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Chris Colfer

Christopher Paul Colfer (born in Clovis, California on May 27th, 1990) is an American dancer, actor, singer and part of the Glee Cast. He grew up performing in community and regional theater, and when he was 14, assistant-directed a theatrical benefit for Valley Children’s Hospital. He was very active throughout high school: he was involved in drama, was the president of the writer’s club, was editor of the school literary magazine and was a speech and debate champion.

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Kristin Chenoweth

Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American soprano and actress. She released her fourth album and debut country album Some Lessons Learned on September 13, 2011. Chenoweth was born in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma City University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in musical theater and a master's degree in opera performance. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.

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Heather Morris

Heather Elizabeth Morris (born February 1, 1987) is an American actress and dancer best known for her role as Brittany S. Pierce in the musical comedy series Glee. Morris's first significant appearance was in 2006 on So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 where she made the "green mile" but failed to make the final 20 by a vote of 3-2. Not discouraged, Morris decided to move to LA and actively pursue a career in dancing. Her big break came in 2007 via Beyoncé.

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Glee Cast

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox. It focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, set within the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Glee features multiple major and secondary roles who have contributed vocals to the show; Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Dianna Agron, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Mark Salling, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Naya Rivera, Heather Morris, Jayma Mays, Jane Lynch, Chord Overstreet, Harry Shum, Jr.

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Amber Riley

Amber Patrice Riley (born February 15, 1986, Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Mercedes Jones in the hit Fox TV show "Glee". As a member of the Glee Cast sing 2009, Riley has sung numerous solos, including "Bust Your Windows", "Hate On Me", "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", "Beautiful", "I Look To You", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water." At the age of seventeen, Riley auditioned for American Idol but was turned down by the producers. Amber graduated from La Mirada High School, La Mirada, California in 2004.

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Chord Overstreet

Chord Overstreet, born in 1989, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is an American actor and musician. Overstreet started his acting career in 2009. He has appeared on the hit Nickelodeon series “iCarly” and "iSpeed Date". Currently playing the recurring character Sam Evans in Fox's musical comedy "Glee"

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Kevin McHale

Kevin Michael McHale born, June 14, 1988 is an American actor and pop singer. Formerly of boy band NLT, McHale is best known for his recent role as Artie Abrams in the Fox hit television series Glee.McHale was born in Plano, Texas. Before becoming an actor, McHale joined an American Boy Group, NLT, which is short for "Not Like Them". The R&B group was discovered by Chris Stokes. On March 13, 2007 they released their first single "That Girl". The band had a guest appearance in Bratz: The Movie. On April 30, 2009, group member Travis Garland announced that NLT had split.

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