Nia Vardalos

Nia Vardalos

Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She's also known for starring in the sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and the TV series My Big Fat Greek Life. She starred in the films Connie and Carla, My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, and Helicopter Mom. She starred on TV as Domino in Team Knight Rider and as Annie Spiro in Graves. She hosted The Great American Baking Show along with her then husband, actor Ian Gómez.

  • Title: Nia Vardalos
  • Popularity: 6.789
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1962-09-24
  • Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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  • Also Known As: Antonia Eugenia Vardalos, Antonia Vardalos , Αντωνία Ευγενία Βαρδάλου, Νία Βαρντάλος
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Nia Vardalos Movies

  • 2009
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    I Hate Valentine's Day

    I Hate Valentine's Day

    5.4 2009 HD

    A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new...

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  • 2009
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    My Life in Ruins

    My Life in Ruins

    6.129 2009 HD

    A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them...

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  • 2002
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    6.5 2002 HD

    A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and...

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  • 1999
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    Meet Prince Charming

    Meet Prince Charming

    4.6 1999 HD

    Jonathan 'Jack' Harris is a waiter, who hopes to start a newspaper called The Tribeca Times, after the part of Manhattan where he lives, and while...

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  • 2004
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    Connie and Carla

    Connie and Carla

    5.882 2004 HD

    After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers...

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  • 2012
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    For a Good Time, Call...

    For a Good Time, Call...

    5.8 2012 HD

    College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's...

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  • 2011
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    Larry Crowne

    Larry Crowne

    6 2011 HD

    When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes...

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  • 2013
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    Dealin' with Idiots

    Dealin' with Idiots

    5.5 2013 HD

    Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son's youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the...

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  • 2015
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    Helicopter Mom

    Helicopter Mom

    5 2015 HD

    Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.

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  • 2023
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    6.1 2023 HD

    Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old...

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  • 2022
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    Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go

    Ivy + Bean: The Ghost That Had to Go

    7 2022 HD

    Cold, white mist. Clanking pipes. And an eerie voice that's coming from the drain. Is the school bathroom... haunted? Ivy and Bean are on the case!

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  • 2022
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    The Curse of Bridge Hollow

    The Curse of Bridge Hollow

    6.53 2022 HD

    A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's decorations come to...

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  • 1997
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    Men Seeking Women

    Men Seeking Women

    4.6 1997 HD

    Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars in a bank account, with the...

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  • 2016
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

    6 2016 HD

    The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

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  • 2006
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    Greece: Secrets of the Past

    Greece: Secrets of the Past

    5.8 2006 HD

    GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST, directed by two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, is the stirring story of how a Greek...

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  • 2018
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    Charming

    Charming

    6.4 2018 HD

    Three fairy tale princesses find themselves engaged to the same guy, Prince Charming.

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  • 2017
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    Car Dogs

    Car Dogs

    5.7 2017 HD

    Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto, the dealership that...

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  • 2012
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    An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars

    An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars

    6.8 2012 HD

    A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.

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  • 2019
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    Wonder Woman: Bloodlines

    Wonder Woman: Bloodlines

    6.9 2019 HD

    Witness the legendary origin of renowned Justice League member Wonder Woman as she fights for good with her sword and magic lasso. Equally strong in...

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  • 2019
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    Same Time, Next Christmas

    Same Time, Next Christmas

    6.8 2019 HD

    Olivia Anderson is a successful young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being...

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  • 2020
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    Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story

    Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story

    6.2 2020 HD

    Stacey Ruth Castor weathered the storm of her first husband's death and managed to find love again with her boss, David. But when David is discovered...

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  • 2020
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    Tiny Beautiful Things

    Tiny Beautiful Things

    1 2020 HD

    In this play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Sugar is an anonymous online advice columnist—later revealed to be...

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  • 2020
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    A Taste of Christmas

    A Taste of Christmas

    6 2020 HD

    When Natalie (Anni Krueger) learns her cousin Francesca (Nia Vardalos) must cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant,...

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  • 2007
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    The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos

    The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos

    1 2007 HD

    NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding,...

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  • 1970
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    33 Liberty Lane

    33 Liberty Lane

    1 1970 HD

    A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.

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  • 2006
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    Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

    Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

    6.5 2006 HD

    Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

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  • 2022
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    Ivy + Bean

    Ivy + Bean

    6.7 2022 HD

    Ivy and Bean never expected to be friends. Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless. However, sometimes an...

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  • 2009
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    I Hate Valentine's Day

    I Hate Valentine's Day

    5.4 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    I Hate Valentine's Day

    I Hate Valentine's Day

    5.4 2009 HD

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  • 2002
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    6.5 2002 HD

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  • 2004
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    Connie and Carla

    Connie and Carla

    5.882 2004 HD

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  • 2021
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    Tiny Beautiful Things

    Tiny Beautiful Things

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2021
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    Tiny Beautiful Things

    Tiny Beautiful Things

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2011
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    Larry Crowne

    Larry Crowne

    6 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    Larry Crowne

    Larry Crowne

    6 2011 HD

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  • 2023
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    6.1 2023 HD

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  • 2016
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

    6 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

    6 2016 HD

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  • 2004
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    Connie and Carla

    Connie and Carla

    5.882 2004 HD

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  • 2023
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    6.1 2023 HD

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  • 2023
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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

    6.1 2023 HD

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  • 2020
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    Tiny Beautiful Things

    Tiny Beautiful Things

    1 2020 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Drew Carey Show

    The Drew Carey Show

    6.5 1995 HD

    Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with...

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  • 1993
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    Boy Meets World

    Boy Meets World

    8.3 1993 HD

    The coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man.

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  • 1997
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    The View

    The View

    4.5 1997 HD

    ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...

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  • 1992
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    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    5.4 1992 HD

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and...

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  • 2003
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    My Big Fat Greek Life

    My Big Fat Greek Life

    5.6 2003 HD

    From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in love and marries a...

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  • 2015
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    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

    6.8 2015 HD

    Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm...

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  • 1997
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    Team Knight Rider

    Team Knight Rider

    7.123 1997 HD

    Team Knight Rider is a syndicated television series that was adapted from the Knight Rider franchise and ran between 1997 and 1998. TKR was created...

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  • 2009
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    Drop Dead Diva

    Drop Dead Diva

    7.718 2009 HD

    A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 2004
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    The Soup

    The Soup

    6 2004 HD

    With this satirical series, the E! Entertainment Network returns to a format they helped create with the popular '90s show Talk Soup. Only this time...

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  • 1975
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    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

    6.9 1975 HD

    A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture...

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  • 2014
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    Jane the Virgin

    Jane the Virgin

    7.922 2014 HD

    A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 2015
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    Dr. Ken

    Dr. Ken

    5.6 2015 HD

    Dr. Ken is a brilliant physician with no bedside manner. He is always trying to be a good doctor, as well as a good husband and dad to his two kids....

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  • 2000
    imgS12 E10

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    8 2000 HD

    The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by...

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  • 2015
    imgS4 E37

    Star vs. the Forces of Evil

    Star vs. the Forces of Evil

    8.37 2015 HD

    Intergalactic warrior Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diaz family. She continues to battle villains throughout the universe and high...

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  • 2023
    imgS1 E8

    Battle of the Decades

    Battle of the Decades

    1 2023 HD

    Teams of two chefs from different generations tackle challenges that require them to incorporate popular ingredients and gadgets from the past, as...

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  • 2016
    imgS2 E10

    Graves

    Graves

    5.2 2016 HD

    Former two-term President Richard Graves embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25...

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  • 2014
    imgS1 E100

    Celebrity Name Game

    Celebrity Name Game

    6 2014 HD

    Celebrity Name Game is an American syndicated game show which premiered on September 22, 2014. Based on the board game Identity Crisis (created by...

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  • 2000
    imgS1 E2

    Sammy

    Sammy

    4.5 2000 HD

    Sammy is an American animated television series that aired from August 8 until August 15, 2000. Inspired by Spade's own family tree, the show turns...

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  • 2021
    imgS3 E8

    Chucky

    Chucky

    7.9 2021 HD

    After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin...

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  • 2017
    imgS3 E22

    DuckTales

    DuckTales

    7.82 2017 HD

    The adventures of billionaire Scrooge McDuck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, their famous uncle Donald Duck, pilot extraordinaire Launchpad,...

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  • 2015
    imgS10 E11

    Celebrity Family Feud

    Celebrity Family Feud

    7.8 2015 HD

    Celebrity Family Feud pits celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to survey-type questions...

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  • 2015
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    The Great American Baking Show

    The Great American Baking Show

    6.2 2015 HD

    A selection of America's best amateur bakers compete in a series of themed challenges and eliminations as they look to be crowned America's Best...

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  • 2010
    imgS1 E20

    The Good Guys

    The Good Guys

    7.2 2010 HD

    Once upon the 1970s, Dan Stark and his partner, Frank Savage, were big-shot Dallas detectives. So big, in fact, that they were lauded as American...

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  • 2009
    imgS21 E178

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    4.9 2009 HD

    Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

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  • 2009
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    Cougar Town

    Cougar Town

    6.4 2009 HD

    Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her...

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  • 2022
    imgS1 E8

    Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

    Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

    7.58 2022 HD

    Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

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  • 2018
    imgS7 E10

    Station 19

    Station 19

    8.2 2018 HD

    A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of...

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  • 2005
    imgS21 E6

    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey's Anatomy

    8.231 2005 HD

    Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

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  • 1981
    imgS43 E81

    Entertainment Tonight

    Entertainment Tonight

    3.5 1981 HD

    Daily tabloid television news show on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, exclusive...

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  • 2020
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    Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

    1 2020 HD

    In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his...

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  • 2004
    imgS1 E87

    On Air with Ryan Seacrest

    On Air with Ryan Seacrest

    9.5 2004 HD

    On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated television talk show, which ran from January 12, 2004 through September 17, 2004. It was...

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  • 2021
    imgS4 E10

    Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

    Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

    7.1 2021 HD

    Hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, celebrity contestants spin the wheel and solve word puzzles for a chance to win up to one million dollars for...

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  • 2015
    imgS4 E37

    Star vs. the Forces of Evil

    Star vs. the Forces of Evil

    8.37 2015 HD

    Intergalactic warrior Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diaz family. She continues to battle villains throughout the universe and high...

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  • 2014
    imgS1 E14

    Marry Me

    Marry Me

    6 2014 HD

    Six years ago, Annie and Jake bonded over their mutual love of nachos and they've been inseparable ever since. Now, after returning from a romantic...

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  • 1970
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    Marry Me

    Marry Me

    5.6 1970 HD

    From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in love and marries a...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E7

    Marry Me

    Marry Me

    5.6 1970 HD

    From an early age, Nia is mortified by her old-fashioned Greek family's patriotic, over-the-top ways. But, when she falls in love and marries a...

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