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Charisse Melany Moll is a beauty pageant contestant who represented Suriname in Miss World 2007 in China.
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Charisse Jones is an American journalist and essayist.
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Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" which peaked in the top twenty of the Billboard Dance singles chart and top five of the Billboard Dance breakout chart. Her last charting single "Ain't No Way" was released in 1997, it peaked at number ninety-two on the Billboard R&B singles chart.
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Cyd Charisse's surname came from her first husband, Nicholas "Nico" Charisse. Charisse seems to have been "Franco-ization" of his family's former surname Charissi. They were from Greece originally. However, his mother Calliope Charissi was a famous dancer herself and I think there is a possibility that even "Charissi" was not the family's original surname but was an invented stage name back in Greece, based on "charis". As a surname in modern Greece Charissi seems to be quite rare, though there is an Athina Charissi who is a Doctor of Education at the University of Ioannina:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Athina_Charissi
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016893084/
https://www.philoptochos.org/assets/files/socialservices/NATIONAL%20HERALD%20-%20OVARIAN%20CANCER%20INFO_PAGE%206.pdf
(scroll down to page 7 on the reference above)
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Athina_Charissi
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016893084/
https://www.philoptochos.org/assets/files/socialservices/NATIONAL%20HERALD%20-%20OVARIAN%20CANCER%20INFO_PAGE%206.pdf
(scroll down to page 7 on the reference above)
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Cyd Charisse died in 2008, so the dates would probably be need to be updated. [noted -ed]
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