Marshall native Brea Grant 

Beginning in the 2000s, Marshall native Brea Grant was in several movies and TV shows in the horror/science fiction genre.

She is best known as Daphne Middlebrook on the TV series “Heroes.” 

Grant also appeared in “Halloween II,” “Ice Road Terror,” “Dexter,” “Game Shop” and “The Real Housewives of Horror.” On this date in 2016, she was in the movie  “Dead Awake.”

 In the Spotlight 

— 2018: Golden native Kacey Musgraves is the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.”

— 2016: “Undone,” a single by Joe Nichols, of Tyler, begins playing on country radio.

— 2014:  D.J. Pierce, who grew up in Paris and also is known by his drag queen persona Shangela, has a guest role on “Bones.”

— 2013: U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert, of Tyler, is a guest on “Fox and Friends.”

— 2013: Adam Mayfield, who grew up in Texarkana, is seen on an episode of “The Client List.”

— 2008: Jason Castro, of Rowlett, is a guest on “Ellen DeGeneres Show” after being eliminated on “American Idol.” 

— 2006: “Size Matters (Someday)” by Joe Nichols, of Tyler, peaks at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

— 2000: Longview native Forest Whitaker stars in the critically panned “Battlefield Earth.”

— 2000: Terrell native Jamie Foxx stars in “Held Up.”

— 1997: Neal McCoy, of Longview, releases his hit single “The Shake.”

— 1989: “Grand Hotel” debuts on Broadway under direction and choreography of Tommy Tune, who attended Lon Morris College in Jacksonville.

— 1976: As a member of The Oak Ridge Boys, Lamar County native Duane Allen performs on Dinah Shore’s talk show “Dinah.”

— 1964: At the Grammy Awards, Corsicana native Lefty Frizzell is a nominee for Best Country & Western Recording (“Saginaw, Michigan”).

— 1950: Wills Point native Lee “Lasses” White and Whitewright native Guy Wilkerson appear in “Please Believe Me.”

— 1949: Whitewright native Guy Wilkerson appears in “The Sun Comes Up.”

— 1939: Smith County native Everett Brown appears in “Tell No Tales.”

— 1934: Kaufman native Ted Healy and The Three Stooges (Larry Fine and Moe and Curly Howard) star in the comedy short “The Big Idea.”