Famous Faces From Orange County: Michael Blatchford

Since the 2012 Olympics start tomorrow we picked a  cyclist who will be in the London Olympics: Michael Blatchford. Michael Blatchford was born in Cypress, CA.  According to NBC Olympics:

Only 26, Blatchford has already racked up an impressive palmares, winning the 2007 Pan American Championship in the sprint, as well as two national titles. In 2008, he teamed with American Olympians Giddeon Massie and Adam Duvendeck to set a new American record in the team sprint. In 2004, when only 18, he followed up a junior world championship in the sprint with an elite level national title. This made him the first junior to ever do so.

Source:  http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=michael-blatchford/index.html   

Famous Face From Orange County: Steve Aoki

This week's Famous Face From Orange County is Steve Aoki of Newport Beach, CA. Steve Aoki is an American electro house musician record producer and the founder of Dim Mak Records.

According to Wikipedia:

Steve Hiroyuki Aoki was born in Miami and grew up in Newport Beach, California. He graduated from Newport Harbor High School in 1995; he was a star player on the varsitybadminton team. He is the third child ofRocky Aoki and Chizuru Kobayashi.^[2] His father was a former Japanese Olympicwrestler who also founded the restaurant chain Benihana. He has two older siblings, sister Kana (who is sometimes called by her middle name "Grace"), and brother Kevin (owner of Doraku Sushi restaurant). He also has three half-siblings, all of whom are younger: half-brother Kyle and half-sisters Echo, and Devon, the supermodel and actress. As a child, Steve lived with his grandfather,^{[citation needed]} his mother, and his two older siblings.

Aoki attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with two B.A.s; one in Women's Studies and the other in Sociology. In college, he produced do-it-yourself records and ran underground concerts out of his Biko room in the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative, which was located in Isla Vista, a section of residential land adjacent to UCSB. As a concert venue, the apartment became known as The Pickle Patch.^[3][4] By his early 20s, Aoki had built his own record label, which he named Dim Mak after his childhood hero, Bruce Lee.^[5] He has also been in numerous bands, including This Machine Kills, which released an album on Ebullition Records, Esperanza, and The Fire Next Time.

Source: Wikipedia

Famous Face From Orange County: Melinda Clarke

 

 This week's Famous Face From Orange County is Melinda Clarke. According to Wikipedia:

Melinda Patrice Clarke (born April 24, 1969)^[1] is an American actress who has primarily worked in television. Clarke is best known for playing Faith Taylor on the daytime drama Days of our Lives, the manipulative and cunning Julie Cooper-Nichol on The O.C., and the professional dominatrix Lady Heather on CSI. She currently portrays the role of Amanda on the television series Nikita.

Clarke was born in Dana Point, California, the daughter of Patricia Lewis, a ballet dancer, and John Clarke, an actor who was an original cast member of the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives.^[2] She has a brother, Joshua, and a sister, Heidi, who died in 1994 of a malignant heart tumor. ^[3] She has a daughter named Catherine Grace Mirich. 

Source: Wikipedia.com

Famous Face From Orange County: Marc Cherry

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This week's Famous Face From Orange County is Marc Cherry of Long Beach. Marc is an American writer and producer. He graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton, CA and went on to California State Fullerton.

You probably know him best as the creator of the hit television show Desperate Housewives. Here's a little history behind how he got the show to air:

After HBO, FOX, CBS, NBC, Showtime, and Lifetime all passed on the show, Cherry got his big break when his agent was arrested and sent to jail for embezzlement. His new agents brought the show to ABC, which decided to pick it up. The series, Desperate Housewives, was an immediate ratings smash and generated enormous national (and subsequently, international) debate. Cherry received several lucrative offers from various parties, but chose to sign a long-term deal with Touchstone, since their network had shown faith in Desperate Housewives when no one else would.

Cherry appeared as himself in an episode of Arrested Development, which was created by fellow Golden Girls writer Mitchell Hurwitz.

Have you seen Marc Cherry around Orange County? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Wikipedia