Jillana Laufer
Actor · b. 1966 · Anaheim, California, USA
Jillana Laufer was born to professional dancer parents and weaned in a ballet studio. She traveled with her family to Barcelona and Paris, embracing dance, music, academia and foreign culture. After graduating high school, she became a principal dancer at the Lido in Paris and also performed in Monte Carlo. Upon her return to the States, the great Tommy Tune brought her to Broadway in the original company of The Will Rogers Follies. From there, she entered the pantheon of Broadway dancers with roles in The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Sunset Boulevard. She then met legendary Ann Reinking, who cast her in a Victoria Secret commercial and as Hunyak in the musical Chicago. Over the course of many years, Jillana has performed in Chicago's Broadway, first national and international companies. She also toured with the first national companies of The Producers and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In 2000, Jillana moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles where she met her wonderful husband. She has since pursued film and TV as well as dance, with roles in such movies as The Artist (winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture), and Little Fockers with Dustin Hoffman. Most recently, Tony-nominated Liesl Tommy cast Jillana as Gerda in the acclaimed new musical Frozen, currently playing at Disney's Hyperion Theater.
Movies5
Movie7.4DramaComedyHollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
The Artist
2011 · 3.6K votes
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceIt has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.
Little Fockers
2010 · 3.5K votes
Movie6.1RomanceComedyAfter the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.
The Prom
2020 · 725 votes
Movie6.1ActionVietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize student falls in with the wrong crowd and turns up dead, Frank teams up with his pal Bernie to take matters into their own fists and prove that justice never gets old.
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014 · 222 votes
MovieMusicThe Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."