By Annie Walker
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Albertina Marie Majorino (/meɪdʒoʊˈriːnoʊ/; born February 7, 1985) is an American film and television actress. She started her career as a child actor, starring in films such as Andre; When a Man Loves a Woman; Waterworld; Corrina, Corrina; and Alice in Wonderland.
After her early success as a child actor, she returned to acting at age 18 as the character Deb in the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite. From 2004 to 2007, she portrayed Cindy “Mac” Mackenzie on Veronica Mars, and reprised the character in the 2014 spinoff film; she was offered the chance to play the character once again in the eight-episode fourth season in 2019, but turned it down. She has also appeared in the TV series Big Love, True Blood and Grey’s Anatomy. She has played the part of Maggie Harris on the television series Legends. She later appeared in the recurring role of Florence in the television series Scorpion.
EARLY LIFE
Majorino was born in Westlake Village, California, a city in Los Angeles County, to Sarah and Bob Majorino. She has Italian ancestry on her paternal side. Majorino has an older brother, Kevin, with whom she has formed a rock band, The AM Project.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- John Deere (farm equipment manufacturer) –
- Charles Dickens (author) –
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (author) –
- Sinclair Lewis (novelist) –
- James Spader (actor) –
- Garth Brooks (musician) –
- Chris Rock (comedian & actor) –
- Steve Nash (basketball player) –
- Ashton Kutcher (actor) –
- Tina Majorino (actress) –
Died
- Doug Henning (magician) –
- Dale Evans (actress) –
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (aviator & author) –
- Richard Hatch (actor, writer, producer) –
Events
- Madame Francisquy Hutin first introduced ballet in the U.S. when she staged The Deserter at the Bowery Theater in New York City –
- American Guernsey Cattle Club founded, in New York City–
- Fire began that destroyed 1,526 buildings, Baltimore, Maryland–
- Aviatrix Amelia Earhart wed George Putnam–
- Walt Disney’s movie Pinocchio debuted–
- Shoe rationing was announced in the United States in response to the shortage of leather during World War II. Citizens were restricted to three pairs of new shoes a year until 1945–
- U.S. astronaut, Bruce McCandless II, became the first human to fly in space with a jet backpack while untethered to a spacecraft–
- Stardust probe launched, Cape Canaveral, Florida–
- Ellen MacArthur set a new world record by sailing around the world in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds –
Weather
- Gouverneur, New York, recorded a temperature of -40 degrees F–
- Snow accumulated a foot deep, Berrien County, Michigan–
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