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FILM producer and actress Challen Cates appears to have found the elixir of eternal youth, as the former Nickelodeon star still maintains her ageless beauty almost a decade after appearing in hit show.

Challen, 56, is best known for playing the role of family matriarch Jennifer Knight, the mother of characters Kendall and Katie, in teen sitcom Big Time Rush.

The Virginia-born actress appeared in all four seasons as a recurring character on the hit teen sitcom, from 2009 to 2014 and would often by referred to on the show as Momma Knight.

The actress regularly posts stunning pics on Instagram to her devoted 105,000 followers, who send the actress affirming comments, such as "Gorgeous!" and "Drop the beauty secret, please!"

CHALLEN'S BEAUTY REGIMEN

The mother-of-two credits her youthful glow to staying hydrated and burning calories by playing with her children.

She told SELF magazine back in 2012: "Staying hydrated is so vital to your health and complexion, so drink up! Sunglasses also help to protect the skin around my eyes, helping to protect sun exposure."

Challen continued: "Protecting the delicate skin around the eyes can take years off of your appearance."

"I feel so young, playful and spontaneous when I have hanging out with Colton and Jasper! Running, jumping and swimming helps to burn many calories!"

Challen also does her best to avoid "sugary juices or sodas [fizzy drinks]", choosing to "drink water, coffee or a delicious glass of Pinot Noir."

In addition to this, she confesses that Pilates helped to transform her body, telling the magazine: "Pilates! The gym did not work for me, Pilates did."

The Passions actress continued: "I was amazed with the change and definition I saw in my body. I have done [Pilates] for years and I will alway

Challen Cates

Personal life[]

Challen Cates was born in the very scenic and beautiful Roanoke, Virginia. She grew up on a farm where she developed a passion for riding horses, wine tasting (her family has a winery), reading, and photography. “I was riding horses before I could walk.” Her father was a photographer, as well as a winemaker, which led to Challen doing print work and commercials as a child, finding yet another passion, however it took her awhile to realize that it could be more than fun, it could be her career.

This realization came after she had a large guest-starring role on the NBC TV show In the Heat of the Night, in 1991 while she was living in Atlanta, Georgia.

“I played a witness to a murder who lived in a run down trailer in rural Georgia. When I asked a friend to have a demo made for me the editor said ‘she’s good but too bad about her accent.’ Guess he thought it was real.”

Her pursuing of this career was not unwrought with trials, she found herself as the “second choice” to many of the roles she tried out for in the early years. The frustration led to her giving up acting after the birth of her first son. Her retirement was short-lived however because soon she found herself working more and more.

Career[]

In her career she has worked with several notable names such as; Betty White, Dick Van Dyke, Carol O’Conner, William Forsythe, John Slattery, Eva Longoria, Roseanne, Cybil Shepherd, Alan Rosenberg, Marie Osmond, Jane Lynch, Heather Locklear, Gloria Reuben, Robert Forster, Maureen McCormick, Jon Cryer, Tony Shalhoub, John Ratzenberger, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jerry Springer, Rick Springfield, Barbara Hershey, Gary Sinise, Alex Rocco, Brendan Sexton III, Matthew Gray Gubler, James Brolin, and most recently on Nickelodeon's new hit show Big Time Rush... Erik Estrada and

In mid-October 2013 the publisher Limelight released my book A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide. The book has entries on well over 3,000 films noirs and related movies from all over the world, including over 2,000 from the US alone.

The purpose of Noirish is to act as an extension to the Encyclopedia -- an annex, if you like -- where I can add entries for movies that for one reason or another didn't make it into the printed book.

In some instances, this is just because the movie concerned was released too late for inclusion.

Most often, though, the reason was logistic. Although the Encyclopedia takes the broadest possible view of film noir, there were some movies that were either too obscure or too tangential to the theme to merit the use of precious page space: 800+ large-format pages -- nearly 700,000 words -- may seem a lot but, when you're trying to cover in excess of 3,000 movies, you soon learn to appreciate the constraints.

That's why this enterprise has the title it has: Noirish. Many of the movies here are very borderline noir, and some aren't noir at all but have associational interest.

Just because a movie's obscure doesn't mean it's lousy . . . although there'll be some lousy movies covered here. There'll also be plenty of movies that are, shall we say, undistinguished -- which is not to say they're without at least some points of interest, and certainly isn't to say they're not lots of fun to watch.

After posting a bunch of entries to get myself started, I'll be adding new movies to Noirish as and when I watch them.