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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Broadway theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.081 billion worth of tickets in calendar year 2011, compared with $1.037 billion for 2010. Attendance in 2011 was 12.13 million.
New York did not have a significant theatre presence until about 1750, when actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean established a resident theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street, which held about 280 people. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggar's Opera. In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, and especially so with the arrival of the Virginia Minstrels in the 1840s.
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Juilliard School
The Juilliard School /ˌdʒuːliˈɑrd/ located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established during 1905. It is identified informally as simply "Juilliard," and currently trains about 800 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music.
During 1905 the Institute of Musical Art was initiated on the premise that the United States did not have a premier music school and too many students were going to Europe to study music. At its formation, the Institute was located in Manhattan at Fifth Avenue and 12th Street. During its first year, the institute enrolled 500 students. It relocated during 1910 to Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. During 1920, the Juilliard Foundation was created, named after textile merchant Augustus D. Juilliard, who bequeathed a substantial amount of money for the advancement of music in the United States. During 1924 the foundation purchased the Vanderbilt family guesthouse at 49 East 52nd Street to start the Juilliard Graduate School. During 1926 it merged partially with the Institute of Musical Art with a common president, the Columbia University professor John Erskine. The schools had separate deans and identities. The conductor and music-educator Frank Damrosch continued as the Institute's dean, and the Australian pianist and composer Ernest Hutcheson was appointed dean of the Graduate School. During 1937, Hutcheson succeeded Erskine as president of the two institutions, a job he had until 1945. As of 1946, the combined schools were named The Juilliard School of Music. The president of the school at that time was William Schuman, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. During 1951, the school added a dance division, directed by Martha Hill.
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Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College (RIC) is a nationally ranked, coeducational, state-supported comprehensive college founded in 1854, located in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Rhode Island College is the oldest of the three public institutions of higher education that operate under the aegis of the Board of Governors for Higher Education; the two other institutions are the University of Rhode Island and the Community College of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island College was first established as the Rhode Island State Normal School by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1854. Its creation can be attributed to the labors of Henry Barnard, the first state agent for education in Rhode Island who had established the Rhode Island Teachers Institute at Smithville Seminary in 1845, and his successor, Elisha Potter. Rhode Island State Normal School was one of the nation's first normal schools (teacher preparatory schools), which grew out of the humanitarian groundswell of the mid-19th century spurred by educational missionaries like Horace Mann. The school attracted hard working young people who came chiefly from ordinary backgrounds, who wanted to teach and who had no other way of preparing themselves.
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Adriane Lenox
Adriane Lenox (born September 11, 1956) is an American stage and film actress whose performance in the play Doubt: A Parable garnered her the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2005. She also appeared as Hattie in the Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate and had a role in the 2009 film The Blind Side, as Denise Oher.
Lenox has appeared as Sherry, who works the nanny for Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin) baby, on the television series, 30 Rock, since 2011.
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Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her role as C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.
Janney was born in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Macy Brooks (née Putnam), a former actress and homemaker, and Jervis Spencer Janney, Jr., a real estate developer and jazz musician. She has an older brother, Jay, and a younger brother, Hal. She attended The Miami Valley School in Dayton, where she was named a distinguished alumna in 2004, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She then attended Kenyon College. At Kenyon, Janney studied under another Kenyon alum, Paul Newman.[citation needed] She went on to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[citation needed] She attended The Neighborhood Playhouse the same years as actor Dylan McDermott.[citation needed]
Janney's first roles on television were as comedic foils on soap operas: she first played Vi Kaminski for a short time on As the World Turns, following up with a two-year stint as one of the Spaulding maids, Ginger on Guiding Light. In the spring of 1994, she appeared in the season finale of Law & Order, as a reluctant witness against a member of the Russian mob.
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Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress and singer. Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy to American parents, and began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters, before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous. After a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, she was cast in the role of Brenda Strong in 2002's Catch Me If You Can, but her breakthrough role was in the 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Adams subsequently starred in Disney's 2007 film Enchanted, a critical and commercial success, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Princess Giselle. She received her second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations the following year for her role as a young nun, Sister James, in Doubt. Though she has appeared in a range of dramatic and comedic roles, Adams has gained a reputation for playing characters with cheerful and sunny dispositions. Adams starred in Sunshine Cleaning with Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin, and the following year appeared as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. She appeared in Julie & Julia in 2009 portraying writer Julie Powell followed by Leap Year in 2010. Her recent role as Charlene Fleming in The Fighter earned Adams her third Academy Award nomination, her third Golden Globe Award, second BAFTA Award, and fifth Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In 2011, Adams appeared in the critically acclaimed musical film The Muppets alongside Jason Segel. She is scheduled to play Lois Lane in the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel in 2013.
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Angela Lansbury
Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English-born US-naturalized actress and singer in theatre, television, and motion pictures. Her career has spanned eight decades and earned an unsurpassed number of performance Tony Awards (tied with Julie Harris), with five wins. Her first film appearance was in the film Gaslight (1944) as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Anastasia (1997).
She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her twelve-year run starring as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the American television series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996). Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the film Nanny McPhee (2005), Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.
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Anna Boden
Anna Boden is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known as the co-writer of the 2006 film Half Nelson. She is known for her collaborations with fellow filmmaker Ryan Fleck.
While studying film at NYU, Boden met Ryan Fleck on the set of a student film. Soon they began dating and decided to collaborate. Together they made the short documentaries Have You Seen This Man? and Young Rebels before they wrote and he directed the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, a sample feature aiming to attract potential financiers to their undeveloped script, Half Nelson. The short won a prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Boden and Fleck then made the film, Half Nelson starring Ryan Gosling in 2006.
Boden and Fleck have since co-written and co-directed the 2008 film Sugar, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, about a 19 year-old Dominican who immigrates to the United States to play minor league baseball. They wrote the screenplay together after doing extensive research about Dominican immigrants who arrive in America to play in minor league towns.
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Audra McDonald
Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the ABC television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett. She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas, such as Ragtime and A Raisin in the Sun. She maintains an active concert and recording career, performing song cycles and operas as well as performing in concert throughout the US. She has won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress four times, twice each for plays and musicals.
Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Fresno, California, the elder of two daughters, she began to study acting at a young age to counteract her diagnosis as "hyperactive". McDonald graduated from the Roosevelt School of the Arts program within Theodore Roosevelt High School in Fresno. She got her start in acting with Dan Pessano and Good Company Players, beginning in their Junior Company. "I knew I wanted to be involved in theater when I had my first chance to perform with the Good Company Players Junior Company." "The people who have had the most impact on my life: Good Company director Dan Pessano and my mother." She studied classical voice as an undergraduate under Ellen Faull at the Juilliard School, graduating in 1993.
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August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the twentieth century.
Wilson's maternal grandmother walked from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in search of a better life. Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, Jr. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the fourth of six children, to Sudeten-German immigrant baker/pastry cook, Frederick August Kittel, Sr. and Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning woman, from North Carolina. Wilson's mother raised the children alone until he was five in a two-room apartment above a grocery store at 1727 Bedford Avenue; his father was mostly absent from his childhood. Wilson would go on to write under his mother's surname. The economically depressed neighborhood in which he was raised was inhabited predominantly by black Americans, and Jewish and Italian immigrants. Wilson's mother divorced and married David Bedford in the 1950s and the family moved from the Hill District to the then predominantly white working class neighborhood of Hazelwood, where they encountered racial hostility; bricks were thrown through a window at their new home. They were soon forced out of their house and on to their next home.
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Bryce Dallas Howard
Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American film actress, writer, director, and daughter of director Ron Howard. She made her acting debut in her father's 1989 film Parenthood and went on to have small roles in films and make stage appearances for the next several years. During this time she also attended New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts, later getting a BFA, and went to drama schools. After gaining the attention of M. Night Shyamalan, he cast her in what would be her breakout film, The Village (2004), and 2006's Lady in the Water, which was a commercial and critical failure. Her performance in As You Like It (2006) earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination in 2008.
Howard became more recognizable to audiences as Gwen Stacy in 2007's Spider-Man 3 and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), playing Victoria, a villainous vampire seeking revenge. Those two projects, as well as the 2009 Terminator Salvation release, are among her most financially successful movies, but all three garnered mixed reviews from the press. She also starred in The Help, alongside Emma Stone and Viola Davis. The film became a critical and box office success.
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Cate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (/ˈblɑːntʃ.ət/; born 14 May 1969) is an Academy Award–winning Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett appeared as the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001 to 2003. In 2004, Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator brought her numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Blanchett's other films include Babel (2006), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).
Blanchett's work has earned her several accolades, including a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, and an Academy Award. Due to her success and character variety, critics have often called her "the new Meryl Streep" or "the Meryl Streep of the next generation".
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Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron (American English pronunciation:
/ʃɑrˈliːs ˈθɛrən/; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ʃɐrˈlis tron]; born 7 August 1975) is a South African actress and fashion model. She started her acting career in the United States and rose to fame in the late 1990s following roles in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), becoming the first African to win an Academy Award in a major acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for her performance in North Country (2005). Theron became a US citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship.
Theron was born in Benoni, in the then Transvaal Province of South Africa, the only child of Gerda (née Maritz; who has also called herself Gerta) and Charles Theron (born 27 November 1947).Second Boer War figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle. Her ancestry includes French, German, and Dutch; her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. "Theron" is an Occitan surname (originally spelled Théron) pronounced in Afrikaans as [tron], although she has said that the way she pronounces it in South Africa is [θron]. She changed the pronunciation when she moved to the U.S. to give it a more "American" sound.
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Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress and recipient of the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She currently stars as Dr. Evans on NBC series Awake.
Jones may be best known for her role as President Allison Taylor on the Fox series 24, for which she won an Emmy. However, most of her career has been in the theatre on Broadway, including her Tony-winning lead performances in Lincoln Center's 1995 production of The Heiress and John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt, a role which earned her the 2005 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. The play opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2005.
Other Broadway credits include Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends (with Swoosie Kurtz); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, the 2000 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.[citation needed]
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Chris Lowell
Christopher "Chris" Lowell (born October 17, 1984) is an American television actor. He played the role of Stosh "Piz" Piznarski in the CW noir drama Veronica Mars and most recently played the character William "Dell" Parker in the ABC Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice.
Lowell was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended the Atlanta International School, where he became interested in theatre and filmmaking. He currently attends the University of Southern California, where he was discovered in his first year while playing beach volleyball. In his spare time, he enjoys amateur filmmaking, theatre, and traveling.
Discovered in 2003 after going through his first major audition, he landed a role on the ABC teen drama Life As We Know It. Of the show's trio of male characters, Lowell portrayed Jonathan Fields, the "least confident but most creative and grounded of the three". The series was cancelled after 13 episodes.
In 2006, Lowell had lead roles in the coming-of-age film Graduation and also in a small film entitled You Are Here.
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Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for her Oscar-nominated role in the film Sounder and the television movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots.
Tyson was born and raised in Harlem, New York, the daughter of Theodosia, a domestic, and William Tyson, her father, who worked as a carpenter, a painter, or any other jobs he could find. Her parents were immigrants from the island of Nevis of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies; Her father arrived in New York City at the age of 21 and was processed at Ellis Island on August 4, 1919. Tyson married legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on November 26, 1981. The ceremony was conducted by Atlanta mayor Andrew Young at the home of actor Bill Cosby. Tyson and Davis divorced in 1988. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. On May 17, 2009, Tyson received an honorary degree from Morehouse College, an all-male college.
Tyson was discovered or found by a photographer for Ebony magazine and became a popular fashion model. Her first credited film role was in Carib Gold in 1956, but she went on to do television such as the celebrated series East Side/West Side and the soap opera The Guiding Light. In 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genet's The Blacks, the longest running off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. The original cast also featured James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett, Jr., Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone. She appeared with Sammy Davis, Jr. in the film A Man Called Adam (film) (1966) and starred in the film version of Graham Greene's The Comedians (1967). Tyson had a featured role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and was in a segment of the movie Roots.
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Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, a Grammy Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.
Nixon was born in New York, New York, the daughter of Anne Knoll, an actress from Chicago, and Walter E. Nixon, a Texas-born radio journalist. She graduated from Hunter College High School, and attended Barnard College. During her college years she also studied abroad with Semester at Sea in the spring of 1986.
From 1988 to 2003, Nixon was in a relationship with photographer Danny Mozes. They have two children together, a daughter born in 1996 and a son born in 2002. Since 2004, Nixon has been in a relationship with education activist Christine Marinoni. Nixon and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009. Marinoni gave birth to a son in 2011. Nixon and Marinoni were married on May 27, 2012. Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman." She identified herself as bisexual in 2012.
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Deanna Dunagan
Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1940, Monahans, Texas) is a Chicago based American actress. Although Dunagan has appeared on television and in films, she is most admired for her work as a stage actress. She is best known for her Tony Award-winning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County.
Dunagan was born and raised in Monahans, Texas. The eldest of five children, her father was a Coca-Cola bottler and president of the Texas Historical Association; her mother was a stay-at-home parent with an active presence in the community. In an interview Dunagan light-heartedly described her extended family, "My heritage is a long line of Southern Baptist and Methodist preachers—who were all just frustrated actors."
Dunagan earned a degree in music education. She married her high school sweetheart and gave birth to a son; but the marriage ended a few years later. Following her divorce, Dunagan's parents agreed to fund graduate studies at the Dallas Theater Center. While writing her Master's thesis, Dunagan lived in Mexico. She was engaged to a bullfighter, but they never married, and she went on to pursue her acting career in the United States.
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Edie Falco
Edith "Edie" Falco ( /ˈiːdi ˈfælkoʊ/; born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress, known for her roles in Oz as Diane Whittlesey, as Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, and as the titular character on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie.
Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Judith Anderson, an actress, and Frank Falco, a jazz drummer. Her father was of Italian descent and her mother's ancestry was Swedish and English. Falco's siblings are Joseph, Paul and Ruth. Her uncle is novelist, playwright and poet Edward Falco, an English professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She was raised in West Islip, on Long Island. Falco graduated from Northport High School in 1981, after playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady. She attended the Acting Program at SUNY Purchase with fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames; she remains friends with both.
Early in her career, Falco made appearances on television shows like Law & Order and Homicide: Life on the Street. Tom Fontana, executive director of Homicide, cast Falco as Eva Thormann, the wife of an injured police officer, after watching Falco's performance in Laws of Gravity, a 1992 film directed by Nick Gomez. Fontana said of her, "She's an actress who's unadorned by any embroidery. She does everything with such simplicity and honesty, it's breathtaking." A struggling actress at the time, Falco said her salary from these television episodes paid for one month's worth of rent. Fontana cast Falco as a regular character, prison officer Diane Whittlesey, in his HBO series Oz based on her work in the Homicide episodes "Son of a Gun" and "A Shot in the Dark".
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Ellen Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an American actress.
She was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Evelyn (née Rozin), a hospital administrator who worked at Jamaica Hospital, and Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman. Barkin was raised in a lower-middle-class Jewish family, a descendant of immigrants from Siberia and the Russia-Poland border.
Barkin received her high school diploma at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. She then attended Hunter College and double majored in history and drama. At one point, Barkin wanted to teach ancient history. She continued her acting education at New York City's Actors Studio. According to Time, she studied acting for ten years before landing her first audition.
Her break-out role was in the comedy-drama film Diner (1982), written and directed by Barry Levinson, for which she received favorable reviews. Barkin was cast in the drama film Tender Mercies (1983) after impressing its director Bruce Beresford during an audition in New York City, despite her inexperience and his lack of familiarity with her work. Robert Duvall, who played the lead role in Tender Mercies, said of Barkin, "She brings a real credibility for that part, plus she was young and attractive and had a certain sense of edge, a danger for her that was good for that part." She also appeared in the 1983 rock & roll drama film Eddie and the Cruisers.
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Emma Stone
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress.
Stone was a cast member of the TV series Drive, and made her feature film debut in the comedy Superbad (2007). She appeared in The House Bunny (2008) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). She then starred in the horror-comedy Zombieland and the indie comedy Paper Man in 2009. In 2010, Stone voiced the character Mazie in Marmaduke, and starred in the high school comedy Easy A, which earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. In 2011, she starred in the films Crazy, Stupid, Love. and The Help, both of which were well received by critics and commercial successes. Stone will play Gwen Stacy in the Amazing Spider-Man film, a reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise.
Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Krista (née Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeff Stone, a contractor. She has a brother, who is two years her junior. Stone's paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, and his family's surname was anglicized to "Stone" when immigrating to the U.S. through Ellis Island; some of her ancestors also lived in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
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Eve Best
Emily "Eve" Best (born 31 July 1971) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Dr. O'Hara in the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie, as Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech, and Dolley Madison in the 2011 American Experience television special about that First Lady.
Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove, London and attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford, where she read English. Among her earliest public performances were with the W11 Opera children's opera company in London at the age of nine. After graduating from Oxford where she had appeared in OUDS productions, and toured to the Edinburgh Festival, she made her professional debut as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Southwark Playhouse.
After a period working on the London fringe, Best trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After graduating in 1999 she appeared in a revival of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the Young Vic for which she won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle best newcomer awards; she adopted her grandmother's name as a stage name, as an Emily Best was already registered with British Actors' Equity Association.
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Frances de la Tour
Frances de la Tour (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the British sitcom Rising Damp, and as Madame Olympe Maxime in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour. She was educated at London's Lycée Français and the Drama Centre London
She is the sister of actor and screenwriter Andy de la Tour, and was briefly married to playwright Tom Kempinski. She has a son and a daughter.
On leaving drama school she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1965 where she studied with Michel Saint-Denis. Over the next six years, she played many small roles with the RSC in a variety of plays, gradually building up to larger parts such as Hoyden in The Relapse and culminating in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in which she played Helena as a comic "tour de force". In the 1970s, she worked steadily both on the stage and on television. Some of her notable appearances were Rosalind in As You Like It at the Playhouse, Oxford in 1975, Isabella in The White Devil at the Old Vic in 1976. She enjoyed a collaboration with Stepney's Half Moon Theatre, appearing in the London première of Dario Fo's We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay (1978), Eleanor Marx's Landscape of Exile (1979), and in the title role of Hamlet (1980).
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Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an American film and stage actress. She has starred in a number of films, including her Academy Award-winning performance as Marge Gunderson in Fargo, in 1996. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2011 for her performance in Good People as Margie Walsh, having been nominated for the same category in 1988 for the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
McDormand is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Mississippi Burning, Almost Famous, and North Country, and has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, three BAFTA Awards, and an Emmy Award. She also starred in the Coen Brothers debut, Blood Simple.
McDormand was born in Chicago and was adopted by the McDormands, a Canadian couple – Noreen, a registered nurse and receptionist, and Vernon, a Disciples of Christ pastor. She has said that her biological mother may have been one of the parishioners at Vernon's church. She has a sister, Dorothy A. McDormand, who is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain, as well as another sibling, both of whom were adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children. As her father specialized in restoring congregations, he frequently moved their family, and they lived in several small towns in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, before settling in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area town of Monessen, where she graduated from high school in 1976. She attended Bethany College, West Virginia, and earned a B.A. in Theater in 1979.
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry ( /ˈhæli ˈbɛri/; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2012, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokesmodel. She has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed.
Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant (1986), and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She made her film debut with a small role in 1991's Jungle Fever. This led to starring roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person—one of the few performers to do so.
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Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913–1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909–1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain, when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family.
His son, Helen Mirren's father, changed the family name to the Scottish-sounding Mirren in the 1950s and became known as Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".
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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, and playing the villainess Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, as well as for frequently collaborating with director and domestic partner Tim Burton in films such as Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.
A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with six Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama, and received the award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 2012.
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Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American film actress. She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, as Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1999) and as struggling waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (2004). She also put in a notable performance in Insomnia, working alongside Al Pacino. Since 2003, Swank has also worked as an executive producer.
Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother, Judy Kay (née Clough), was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael Swank, was an officer in the Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman. She has a brother, Daniel, who is eight years her senior. Her surname, originally Schwenk, is of German origin. Many of Swank's family members hail from Ringgold County, Iowa, and her maternal grandmother was of Spanish and Shoshone (Native American) ancestry. After having lived in Spokane, Washington, Swank's family moved to a trailer park near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when Swank was six.
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Jan Maxwell
Jan Maxwell (born November 20) is an American stage and television actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee.
She is the daughter of former First District Judge Ralph B. Maxwell (who served served in North Dakota from 1967–1978) and Elizabeth Maxwell, a lawyer for the EPA. She attended West Fargo High School, West Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead State University. She has a sixteen year old son, Will Maxwell-Lunney, who is currently attending Laguardia High school.
Maxwell made her Broadway debut as an understudy in the Cy Coleman – David Zippel musical City of Angels in 1989. She eventually took over the dual roles of Carla Haywood and Alaura Kingsley.
She appeared in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. She replaced original cast member Brid Brennan in the role of Agnes. She appeared in A Doll's House in 1997 opposite Janet McTeer; Neil Simon's The Dinner Party in 2000 opposite John Ritter and Henry Winkler and Sixteen Wounded in 2004 with Judd Hirsch and Martha Plimpton.
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Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE (born 5 August 1961)Dubious: Discuss is an English actress.
McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the daughter of Jean (née Morris) and Alan McTeer, and spent her childhood in York. She attended the now defunct Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, and worked at the Old Starre Inn, at York Minster and at the Theatre Royal. She then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, beginning a successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating.
McTeer's television work includes the BBC production of Nigel Nicolson's book Portrait of a Marriage in which she played Vita Sackville-West and the popular ITV series The Governor written by Lynda La Plante. She made her screen debut in Half Moon Street, a 1986 film based on a novel by Paul Theroux. In 1991, she appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown, with Bob Peck and Geraldine Somerville; this won the International Emmy award for best drama. She appeared in the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1995 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce).
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Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle ( /ˈiːliː/; born December 29, 1969) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is known for her BAFTA winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice.
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle, Ehle made her stage debut as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche Dubois.[citation needed] She spent her childhood between the UK and US, attending 18 different schools including the Interlochen Arts Academy. She was raised largely in Asheville, North Carolina, which was close by her hometown. Her drama training was split between the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.[citation needed]
In 1992, Peter Hall cast her as Calypso in a television adaptation of Mary Wesley's novel The Camomile Lawn, in which she and her mother played the same character at different ages. This story, produced by UK's Channel 4, was a five part miniseries about the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. The two would later reprise this different age portrayal of a character as Valerie in István Szabó's 1999 movie Sunshine.
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Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain is an American theater, film, and television actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Coriolanus, and The Tree of Life. She broke out in 2011 with seven films premiering. She won over 35 critics awards and was widely named as breakout star. For her role in the film The Help she received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2012, she was named to the list of Time 100 most influential people of the world.
Chastain was born and raised in Northern California. She is one of five children. Her mother is a vegan chef, and her father (one source says stepfather) is a firefighter. Chastain is also vegan herself. She grew up as Jessica Howard, and later took her mother's maiden name as her stage name. Chastain had a "blue collar" upbringing around San Francisco.
She graduated from El Camino High School in Sacramento in 1995 and attended Sacramento City College, where she was a member of the debate team (1996–1997). In 1998, she appeared as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet staged by TheatreWorks, a professional theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.
Shanley was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a telephone operator mother and a meat-packer father. Per his Editorial Review by Amazon, he was thrown out of St. Helene's kindergarten, banned from St. Anthony's hot lunch program and expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School. When asked why he had been treated in this way, he burst into tears and said he had no idea. Then he went into the United States Marines.
He is a graduate of New York University, and is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."
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Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Golden Globe Awards and Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias (1989) and Pretty Woman, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich (2000). Her films My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Mystic Pizza (1988), Notting Hill (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), Valentine's Day (2010), The Pelican Brief (1993), Ocean's Eleven (2001), and Ocean's Twelve (2004) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.
Roberts had become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporter's annual "power list" of top-earning female stars from 2005 to 2006. Her fee for 1990's Pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2010, Roberts's net worth was estimated to be $140 million.
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Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960) is a British-American actress and a children's book author. She has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Moore began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 1990s, in films such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Fugitive. Her performance in Short Cuts (1993) won her and the rest of the cast a Golden Globe for their ensemble performance, and her performance in Boogie Nights (1997) brought her widespread attention and nominations for several major acting awards.
Her success continued with films such as The Big Lebowski (1998), The End of the Affair (1999) and Magnolia (1999). She received particular acclaim for her portrayal of a betrayed wife in Far from Heaven (2002), winning several critic awards as best actress of the year, in addition to several other nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award. The same year, she was also nominated for several awards as best supporting actress for her work in The Hours. In 2010, Moore starred in the comedy drama The Kids Are All Right, for which she received a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination.
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Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England, where she attended boarding school.
In 1961, she began her acting career in a BBC television series, and the following year, she had her first major film role in a romantic comedy. In 1965, she became known internationally as "Diana Scott" in the film Darling, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar. That same year she also played the part of "Lara" in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago.
Christie was born on 14 April 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire. She is the elder child of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Her father ran the tea plantation where she was raised. Her mother, from Hove, was a painter. Christie has a younger brother, Clive, and an older half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. Christie's parents separated during her childhood.
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Julie White
Julie White (born June 4, 1961) is an American actress. She is known for her role in Grace Under Fire and for her role as Judy Witwicky in the Transformers film series.
White was born in the Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, California, the daughter of Sue Jane, a therapist, and Edwin White, a dentist. White and her family moved to Austin, Texas, to take up ranching when she was three years old. She started acting in local plays and became a semi-professional at 16. While she was playing the lead role in the musical, The Baker's Wife, the show's authors encouraged her to take her talent to New York City. After graduating from high school, she followed their advice, enrolling as a history major at Fordham University.
White has been a prolific stage actress, getting her start in regional theatre. Her theater credits include roles in Absurd Person Singular, Money and Friends, Marvin's Room, Largo Desolato and On the Verge. White made her off-Broadway debut as the lead in Lucky Stiff. Her other off-Broadway credits include The Stick Wife, Early One Evening, Just Say No, Over Texas, and a starring role in Spike Heels with Kevin Bacon and Tony Goldwyn. White also appeared in a one-woman show, Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates, written especially for her.
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Katie Finneran
Katie Finneran (born January 22, 1971) is an American actress of film, stage, and television noted for her Tony Award-winning performances in the Broadway play Noises Off in 2002, and the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.
She was raised in Miami, Florida where she attended the acclaimed New World School of the Arts for high school. Finneran is of Irish descent and was raised Roman Catholic. For college, Finneran attended Carnegie Mellon University[citation needed] in Pittsburgh for one year before moving to New York City at age 19 to study acting with Uta Hagen.[citation needed] Outside of acting, Finneran has had many "day jobs" to augment her income, including a ringside girl at a boxing ring, waitress, and perfume spray girl at Bloomingdale's.[citation needed] In a ceremony presided over by actor and Buddhist priest in training Peter Coyote, Finneran married actor Daren Goldstein on August 22nd 2010, and on February 3, 2011, gave birth to a son, Ty Michael Goldstein.
Finneran's biggest film role was a leading role in the remake of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Her film credits include You've Got Mail, Chicken Little, Liberty Heights, Bewitched, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, and Death to Smoochy.
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Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937) is an American singer and actress. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her Broadway performances.
After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began acting on Broadway in the 1960s, earning notice in "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman" in 1966 and receiving her first Tony Award nomination in Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1970. She moved to Hollywood in 1973 and began to work in television, making recurring appearances on Barney Miller before getting the title role in Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985. She appeared in many telefilms and later in other TV work. She has also had roles in several feature films.
In 1987, she returned to Broadway, starring in Broadway Bound (winning a Tony Award), Gypsy (1990), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), The Diary of Anne Frank (1997–1998) and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000–2001), among others. In 2010, she appeared as Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories, garnering her fifth Tony nomination. Thrice married, Lavin spends time at her North Carolina home on charitable activities.
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Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in Private Lives, and another Tony Award nomination for her role in Les Liaisons dangereuses. Lindsay has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome (2005–2007), and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009). On film she voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and she played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010). She was awarded a CBE in 2009 for services to drama.
Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in a working class family; her father had served in the army for 21 years before becoming a civil servant. Her parents moved to Leeds, then Birmingham when she was still a child. Duncan attended King Edwards VI High School for Girls in Birmingham through a scholarship. Despite her origins, she speaks with a Received Pronunciation accent. As of 2011, her only role with a Scottish accent is AfterLife (2003).
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Lois Smith
Lois Smith (born November 3, 1930) is an American actress whose career in theater, film, and television has spanned five decades.
Smith was born as Lois Arlene Humbert in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Carrie Davis (née Gottshalk) and William Oren Humbert, who was a telephone company employee. She is a graduate of the University of Washington.
After two TV appearances, Smith made her film debut in East of Eden (1955). Other film credits include Five Easy Pieces, Up the Sandbox, Four Friends, Fatal Attraction, Fried Green Tomatoes, How to Make an American Quilt, Hard Promises, Dead Man Walking, Twister, Minority Report, Tumbleweeds, and Hollywoodland
She has been active in television, appearing in early anthology series (Studio One, Robert Montgomery Presents), soap operas (Another World, Somerset, The Edge of Night, All My Children, One Life to Live), prime-time dramas (The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, Route 66, thirtysomething, The Practice, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, ER, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case and True Blood), and sitcoms (Just Shoot Me! and Frasier).
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Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Grant in 2007. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009 for Ruined.
Born in Brooklyn in 1964 to a schoolteacher and a child psychologist, Nottage attended New York's High School of Music and Art. Inspired by school productions of Annie and The Wiz, she penned her first play, The Darker Side of Verona, which told the story of an African American Shakespearean company. After attending Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Nottage worked in Amnesty International's press office for four years.
Her best-known play is Intimate Apparel, co-commissioned and produced at Baltimore's Center Stage (where it premiered in February 2003) and South Coast Repertory. It was highly acclaimed in its Off-Broadway production in 2004, starring Viola Davis. She wrote a companion piece to Intimate Apparel, the OBIE award winning Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, which is set 100 years later. The West Coast premiere of her Crumbs from the Table of Joy, at South Coast Repertory, earned two NAACP Theatre Awards for performance.
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Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress.
A member of the well-known British acting family, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963), and Georgy Girl (1966) which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
In 1967, she made her Broadway debut, and performed in several stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to London's West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role in a television production of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received another Academy Award nomination.
Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother is the late actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. She is the aunt of actor Carlo Gabriel Nero and actresses Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave and the late Natasha Richardson.
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Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and theatre actress. Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing (1990) and then The First Wives Club (1996) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the comedy Flubber (1997) and Meet Joe Black (1998). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). She has starred in a string of successful mainstream and independent movies, such as Space Cowboys (2000), Into the Wild (2007), and The Mist (2007). Harden's recent credits include Lasse Hallström's film, The Hoax, opposite Richard Gere, and The Walt Disney Company's The Invisible, directed by David S Goyer. She was also recently seen in Lakeshore Entertainment's The Dead Girl, directed by Karen Moncrieff and starring Toni Colette, Kerry Washington, Mary Steenburgen, and Brittany Murphy. In 2009, Harden received a Tony Award for the Broadway play God of Carnage. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award two times.
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Martha Plimpton
Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress, singer and former model. Plimpton is a screen, stage and television actress. She first appeared as Jonsy in the feature film The River Rat (1984) before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies (1985) portraying the character Stef. She then appeared in The Mosquito Coast (1986) portraying Emily Spellgood. Plimpton's role garnered her further success within the feature film industry. Throughout her career Plimpton has appeared in many feature films including critically successful films Running on Empty (1988), Parenthood (1989), Eye of God (1997), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), Hair High (2004) and Small Town Murder Songs (2011).
Plimpton has also developed and established a very successful career in stage productions. She has appeared on Broadway and in theatre throughout her career. She is recognised on Broadway for her roles in The Coast of Utopia (2006–2007), Top Girls (2007–2008), Pal Joey (2008–2009) and Shining City (2006–2007). She has performed in theatre productions of The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Heidi Chronicles and Uncle Vanya. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in Boston Marriage (2002), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (2002) and Runaways (2002).
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Mary Steenburgen
Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress. She won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's 1980 film Melvin and Howard.
Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas, the daughter of Nellie Mae (née Wall), a school-board secretary, and Maurice Steenburgen, a freight-train conductor who worked at the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Steenburgen grew up in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972, working at Doubleday while studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse under Will Esper. Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin' South. She had a leading role in the 1979 film Time After Time as a modern woman who falls in love with author H. G. Wells, played by her first husband-to-be Malcolm McDowell.
In only her third film, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1980 film Melvin and Howard, playing the wife of a man who claims to have befriended reclusive eccentric Howard Hughes. Another notable film appearances came in the well-received 1983 film Cross Creek.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time.
Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Academy Award nomination and the latter her first win. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, an Australian Film Institute Award, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actress in each award's history.
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Michele Pawk
Michele Pawk (born November 16, 1961) is an American actress and singer.
Born in Butler, Pennsylvania, Pawk attended Allegheny College and the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, after which she spent a year working in a musical revue at Disney World. In 1988, she made her Broadway debut in a short-lived musical entitled Mail, but it wasn't until 1992 that she made her mark with her performance in the Ira and George Gershwin-inspired production Crazy for You, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. From there she went on to three successful revivals—Merrily We Roll Along (1994), Chicago (1996), and Cabaret (1998) - and an original musical, Seussical (2000), based on the works of Dr. Seuss.
In 2002, Pawk earned critical raves for her performance in Hollywood Arms, the Carrie Hamilton – Carol Burnett play adapted from Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Her portrayal of an alcoholic who dreams of success as a movie magazine writer, a character based on Burnett's mother, won her the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was featured in Hairspray as Velma Von Tussle, after appearing in Mamma Mia! as "Donna" (Oct 19, 2005 - Feb 20, 2006).
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Mike Vogel
Michael James "Mike" Vogel (born July 17, 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. Vogel began acting in 2001, and has since appeared in several films and series, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Grind, Poseidon, and Cloverfield.
Vogel was born in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and raised in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania; both of his grandfathers fought in World War II, with one being a tank commander and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, and the other being a Seabee in the Navy. Vogel has two younger siblings: a brother, Daniel Aaron, and a sister, Kristin. Vogel attended William Tennent High School, the same high school as Sprint spokesman Brian Baker and boxer Kermit Cintron, where Vogel was on the Freshman wrestling team. During the early 2000s, he frequently traveled to New York City in order to audition for acting roles and modeling slots.
In 1993, Vogel competed, under the name Mike "Flea" Vogel, on an episode of Nickelodeon GUTS, and took home the silver medal that day.
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Natalie Portman
Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג; born June 9, 1981), better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005). In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.
In 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In 2005, Portman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for the drama Closer. She won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance, and a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival's shorts competition in 2008. Portman directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You.
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Ned Vizzini
Edison Price "Ned" Vizzini (born April 4, 1981) is an American writer who is the author of books for young adults. His novels are It's Kind of a Funny Story, Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... He has been a columnist for the New York Press since his teens. He has written for The Daily Beast, and season 2 of MTV's Teen Wolf. As of 2012[update], Vizzini writes reviews for The New York Times and L Magazine. Ned Vizzini frequently speaks at schools and libraries around the world about mental health, writing, and how students can use writing as a medicine for mental health. He has spoken at UCLA; the Dalton School; the Brooklyn, New York, and Chicago Public Libraries; Murray State University; NYU; the National Council of Teachers of English; and at a Master's Tea at Yale.
Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. At fifteen he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.
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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress, singer, film producer, and humanitarian. Kidman began her career in 1983, starring in various Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). Kidman followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s. It was her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge! (2001) which earned Kidman her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf the following year in the drama film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Kidman's other notable films include To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), The Interpreter (2005), and Australia (2008). Her performance in 2010's Rabbit Hole (which she also produced) earned Kidman further accolades including a subsequent Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. Kidman's work has earned her a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honor, and was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry. As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States.
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Octavia Spencer
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Minny, the outspoken maid in the 2011 film, The Help, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, among other accolades including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she is the sixth of seven children. Her mother worked as a maid. Spencer graduated from Jefferson Davis High School in 1988, spent two years at Auburn Montgomery studying drama (1988–89), and received a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts from Auburn University.
At 16, she worked as an intern on the set of The Long Walk Home, a film starring Whoopi Goldberg.
Spencer made her film debut as a nurse in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill based on the book by John Grisham. She was originally hired to work on casting, but asked Schumacher if she could audition for a small part. Other film credits include: Never Been Kissed, Big Momma's House, Bad Santa, Spider-Man, Coach Carter, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and Pretty Ugly People. She has made a number of guest appearances on a myriad of hit series including: Raising the Bar, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Big Bang Theory, Wizards of Waverly Place, NYPD Blue, Grounded for Life, ER, Titus, Becker and Dharma & Greg. However, she is best known for her starring roles as Serenity Johnson on Comedy Central's Halfway Home, and Constance Grady, the amorous INS caseworker on Ugly Betty.
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Phylicia Rashād
Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American Tony Award-winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
In 2004, Rashād became the first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun.
She resumed the role in the 2008 television adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun, which earned her the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.
Rashād was dubbed "the mother" of the African-American community at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards.
Rashād was born in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Vivian Ayers (for whom the mother in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was named), was a Pulitzer-prize nominated artist, poet, playwright, scholar, and publisher. Her father, Andrew Arthur Allen (d. 1984), was an orthodontist and dentist. Rashād's siblings are jazz-musician brother Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen, Jr., born 1945), sister Debbie Allen (1950), an actress, choreographer, and director, and brother Hugh Allen (a real estate banker in North Carolina). While Rashād was growing up, her family moved to Mexico, and as a result, Rashād speaks Spanish fluently.
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Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower. In 1996, Witherspoon appeared in Freeway and followed that appearance with roles in three major 1998 films: Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight. The following year, Witherspoon appeared in the critically acclaimed Election, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date. 2003 saw her return as lead actress and executive producer of Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. In 2005, Witherspoon received worldwide attention and praise for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, which earned her an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) (which she reprised in its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).
She has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a BAFTA Award, was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009, and established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses as of 2007.
Zellweger was born in Katy, Texas. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is from Au in the canton of St. Gallen,Switzerland, and is a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business. Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (née Andreassen), is Norwegian; of part Sámi and Kven (Finnish) descent, Kjellfrid grew up in Kirkenes and Ekkerøy, and is a nurse and midwife who moved to the United States to work as a governess for a Norwegian family in Texas. Zellweger has described herself as being raised in a family of "lazy Catholics and Episcopalians".
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Rondi Reed
Rondi Reed (born October 26, 1952; Dixon, Illinois) is an American stage actress, singer and performer.
Reed has been a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois, for 30 years, appearing in 51 productions with the company.
Reed graduated from Illinois State University in 1977.
She has starred on Broadway in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and The Grapes of Wrath, among others. Beginning July 13, 2005, she originated the role of Madame Morrible in the Chicago production of the musical Wicked. She departed the production May 8, 2007 and was replaced by Barbara Robertson. She then originated the role of Mattie Fae Aiken in the Broadway production of August: Osage County for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
She later reprised her role of Madame Morrible in Wicked in Chicago, beginning June 27, 2008. Her second run ended November 18, 2008 and she was again replaced by Robertson. She then reprised her role as Mattie Fae Aiken in the London production of August: Osage Country before returning to Madame Morrible in the Broadway production of Wicked. She began performances March 17, 2009, replacing Jayne Houdyshell and bowed out as the evil headmistress on June 27, 2010, to star in the Australian production of August in Sydney. The limited engagement of the show ran from August 13-September 25, 2010. She is also a recurring guest star on the CBS's sitcom Mike & Molly, as Peggy Biggs, Mike's mother. She has currently starred in 15 episodes.
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Ryan Fleck
Ryan K. Fleck (born September 20, 1976) is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known for directing and writing the 2006 film Half Nelson and the 2008 film Sugar. He is known for his collaborations with fellow filmmaker Anna Boden.
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Sandra Bullock
Sandra Annette Bullock ( /ˈbʊlək/; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. In the new millennium she appeared in such films as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House, and Crash, the third of which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of US$85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in two of the more financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side. She is listed in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $56 million.
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Her father, John W. Bullock (born 1925), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother, Helga D. Meyer (1942–2000), was a German opera singer and voice teacher. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. John Bullock, then in charge of the Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met his wife. They married in Germany, soon moving to Arlington, where John Bullock worked with the Army Materiel Command, before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon.
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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress, model and singer.
Johansson made her film debut in North (1994) and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo (1996). She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Ghost World (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Both films earned her Golden Globe Award nominations.
A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) earned Johansson a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Johansson garnered another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with her role in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005). She went on to star in two further Allen movies: Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson has appeared in other successful films, such as Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006). Johansson played popular Marvel comic book character Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in the films Iron Man 2 (2010) and The Avengers (2012).
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Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie (based on the first novel by Stephen King) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times, and is also known for her role as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands.
Spacek is mainly a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $1 billion worldwide.
Spacek was born on Christmas Day, 1949, in Quitman, Texas. She is the daughter of Virginia Frances (née Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Spacek's paternal grandparents, Mary Červenka and Arnold A. Špaček (who served as Mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County), were of Czech (Moravian) and German ancestry. Her mother, of English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
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Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (/ˈsoʊdərbɜrɡ/; born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing critically acclaimed commercial Hollywood films like Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich and Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven. He has also directed smaller, less conventional works, such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Schizopolis, Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience and Che. His most recent works are Contagion and Haywire.
Soderbergh was born in Atlanta, the son of Mary Ann (née Bernard) and Peter Andrew Soderbergh, who was a university administrator and educator. His paternal grandfather was a Swedish immigrant, from Stockholm. When he was a child, his family moved from Atlanta to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his adolescence, then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University (LSU). There he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students.
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Tate Taylor
Tate Taylor is an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
He was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He is a close friend of writer Kathryn Stockett, whom he has known since they were in preschool together in Jackson.
Taylor worked for 15 years in New York and Los Angeles. As of 2011 he lives on Wyolah Plantation in Mississippi.
He debuted as a feature film director in Pretty Ugly People. He also directed the film The Help, based on Stockett's novel The Help. She gave him rights to make the film adaptation in June 2008, before the book was published.
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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.
She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards. On screen, she has starred in more than 80 films; including Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora, Julia, The Bostonians, Mission: Impossible and Atonement. Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times," and she remains the only British actress ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards. She was also the recipient of the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship "in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film."
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of the late Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (the actress Rachel Kempson), the sister of the late Lynn Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave, the mother of Hollywood actresses Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave.
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Viola Davis
Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress.
Beginning her career on the stage, Davis won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). She won a second Tony and a third Drama Desk Award for her role in Fences (2010).
Some of her notable films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), Solaris (2002) and The Help (2011). Her eleven-minute-long performance in the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008) earned several honors, including an Academy Award nomination. Her role in the film The Help has garnered two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a BAFTA Award nomination, another Academy Award nomination, and a Golden Globe nomination. In addition to her success, she was listed in Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Davis was born on her grandmother's farm, at the former Singleton Plantation, in St. Matthews, South Carolina. She is the second youngest of six children. Her mother, Mary Alice, was a maid, factory worker, and homemaker, and her father, Dan Davis, was a horse trainer. Her family moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island a few months after she was born. Davis has described herself as having "lived in abject poverty and dysfunction" during her childhood.
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Davis, Viola Filmography
- Beautiful Creatures (2013)
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers (2013)
- The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His (2013)
- Prisoners (2013)
- Ender's Game (2013)
- 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2012)
- Critics' Choice Movie Awards Red Carpet (2012)
- 2012 Writers Guild Awards (2012)
- Love, Marilyn (2012)
- 43rd NAACP Image Awards (2012)
- Oprah's Oscar Special (2012)
- Won't Back Down (2012)
- The Orange British Academy Film Awards: Red Carpet (2012)
- The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012)
- The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2012)
- 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2012)
- Teachers Rock 2012 (2012)
- The 65th Annual Tony Awards (2011)
- The Help (2011)
- A Poem Is... (2011)
- Touch of Evil (2011)
- Dark Girls (2011)
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
- The 76th Annual Drama League Awards (2010)
- Knight and Day (2010)
- Eat Pray Love (2010)
- Trust (2010)
- The Unforgiving Minute (2010)
- The 64th Annual Tony Awards (2010)
- It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
- The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (2009)
- Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
- La noche de los Oscar (2009)
- Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
- Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
- State of Play (2009)
- 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009)
- The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2009)
- The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
- Doubt (2008)
- Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
- Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
- Fort Pit (2007)
- DP/30: Conversations About Movies (2007)
- Disturbia (2007)
- Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006)
- World Trade Center (2006)
- Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006)
- Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
- The Architect (2006)
- Black Theater Today: 2005 (2005)
- Stone Cold (2005)
- Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
- The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments (2005)
- Syriana (2005)
- Father Lefty (2002)
- Driving Fish (2002)
- Far from Heaven (2002)
- Antwone Fisher (2002)
- Solaris (2002)
- The Shrink Is In (2001)
- Amy & Isabelle (2001)
- Kate & Leopold (2001)
- The 55th Annual Tony Awards (2001)
- Traffic (2000)
- Out of Sight (1998)
- Grace & Glorie (1998)
- The Pentagon Wars (1998)
- The Substance of Fire (1996)
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[In Full] Viola Davis Wins Best Actress At The Screen Actors Guild Awards 2012
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Such a nice clip and achievement for Davis who urges people to "dream big and fierce" after tearing up and paying tribute to The Help co-Star Cicely Tyson and Meryl Streep with Angelina Jolie and Michelle Williams looking on. www.samsonpharaohbloggin.com All content © Screen Actors Guild 2012.
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Such a nice clip and achievement for Davis who urges people to "dream big and fierce" after tearing up and paying tribute to The Help co-Star Cicely Tyson and Meryl Streep with Angelina Jolie and Michelle Williams looking on. www.samsonpharaohbloggin.com All content © Screen Actors Guild 2012.
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis
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Scott Feinberg chats with the actress Viola Davis about her life and career. (Los Angeles, 2/6/12)
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Scott Feinberg chats with the actress Viola Davis about her life and career. (Los Angeles, 2/6/12)
- published: 11 Feb 2012
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Theron to Davis: "You're Hot as Shit"
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- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
In this clip from Newsweek's 2012 Oscar Roundtable, the actors discuss why there are so few roles for black actresses, or for women in general. And Charlize confronts Viola about her humility.
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In this clip from Newsweek's 2012 Oscar Roundtable, the actors discuss why there are so few roles for black actresses, or for women in general. And Charlize confronts Viola about her humility.
- published: 23 Jan 2012
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The Help - Aibileen talking about her son
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'They killed my son" scene in The Help
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A Sit Down with Viola Davis
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Actress, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), in a candid interview with pastor Holly Wagner of Oasis Church. Please visit oasisla.org for more information.
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Actress, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), in a candid interview with pastor Holly Wagner of Oasis Church. Please visit oasisla.org for more information.
- published: 05 Sep 2011
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- author: Loumademe
18th SAG Awards - Viola Davis - Female Actor in a Leading Role
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18th SAG Awards - Viola Davis - Female Actor in a Leading Role
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18th SAG Awards - Viola Davis - Female Actor in a Leading Role
- published: 30 Jan 2012
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Viola Davis and a Surprise from Shutterfly
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Education is an important cause for award-winning actress Viola Davis. Ellen's friends at Shutterfly have a very big surprise for her!
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Education is an important cause for award-winning actress Viola Davis. Ellen's friends at Shutterfly have a very big surprise for her!
- published: 24 Sep 2012
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Touch of Evil: Viola Davis
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A video gallery of cinematic villainy, inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers from the year in film. Directed by Alex Prager. Related Link: nyti.ms
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A video gallery of cinematic villainy, inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers from the year in film. Directed by Alex Prager. Related Link: nyti.ms
- published: 07 Dec 2011
- views: 18523
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Meryl Streep & Viola Davis - Access Hollywood 2012
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Viola Davis Tackles Fear, Shines In 'Doubt'
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Tony Award-winning actress Viola Davis has managed to stay out of the Hollywood limelight, despite a consistent acting resume that includes roles in everything from TV shows like 'Law & Order' to films like 'Antwone Fisher.' Now, a new movie could win her some well-deserved recognition. She plays a key role in the new film, 'Doubt,' based on the Broadway play of the same name. It's a story about recriminations and allegations at an all-white Catholic school in the Bronx during the 1960s. She speaks with Farai Chideya.
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Tony Award-winning actress Viola Davis has managed to stay out of the Hollywood limelight, despite a consistent acting resume that includes roles in everything from TV shows like 'Law & Order' to films like 'Antwone Fisher.' Now, a new movie could win her some well-deserved recognition. She plays a key role in the new film, 'Doubt,' based on the Broadway play of the same name. It's a story about recriminations and allegations at an all-white Catholic school in the Bronx during the 1960s. She speaks with Farai Chideya.
- published: 10 Dec 2008
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TAVIS SMILEY | Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer | PBS
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See the full episode at video.pbs.org Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer have a spirited and thoughtful conversation with Tavis about the ambivalence that some African Americans have about their Oscar nominations for playing maids in "The Help." To see additional interviews visit: video.pbs.org For more information on Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, visit www.pbs.org
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See the full episode at video.pbs.org Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer have a spirited and thoughtful conversation with Tavis about the ambivalence that some African Americans have about their Oscar nominations for playing maids in "The Help." To see additional interviews visit: video.pbs.org For more information on Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, visit www.pbs.org
- published: 07 Feb 2012
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The Help "Meet Aibileen" Featurette Official (HD)
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Watch The Help Trailer - youtu.be bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! TheHelp hits theaters on August 12th, 2011. Cast: Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, "The Help" stars Emma Stone ("Easy A") as Skeeter, Academy Award®--nominated Viola Davis ("Doubt") as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny—three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed—even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times. Deeply moving, filled with poignancy, humor and hope, "The Help" is a timeless and universal story about the ability to create change. Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, "The Help" is a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship. The Help footage courtesy DreamWorks Studios and Participant Media.
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Watch The Help Trailer - youtu.be bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! TheHelp hits theaters on August 12th, 2011. Cast: Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, "The Help" stars Emma Stone ("Easy A") as Skeeter, Academy Award®--nominated Viola Davis ("Doubt") as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny—three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed—even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times. Deeply moving, filled with poignancy, humor and hope, "The Help" is a timeless and universal story about the ability to create change. Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, "The Help" is a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship. The Help footage courtesy DreamWorks Studios and Participant Media.
- published: 12 Aug 2011
- views: 8753
- author: ClevverMovies
Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal on Motherhood
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"Won't Back Down" co-stars Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal talk about balancing a career and motherhood. Subscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com www.andersoncooper.com http www.facebook.com anderson.tumblr.com http www.youtube.com To find out when "Anderson Live" airs in your town, go to AndersonCooper.com.
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"Won't Back Down" co-stars Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal talk about balancing a career and motherhood. Subscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com www.andersoncooper.com http www.facebook.com anderson.tumblr.com http www.youtube.com To find out when "Anderson Live" airs in your town, go to AndersonCooper.com.
- published: 25 Sep 2012
- views: 1416
- author: Anderson
You're a godless women. The Help scene.
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- Duration: 0:53
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
When the announce the nominees at the ceremony they should play this.
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When the announce the nominees at the ceremony they should play this.
- published: 10 Jan 2012
- views: 73202
- author: Ralftheblue
Viola Davis on 'The Help'
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Two time Oscar nominated actress Viola Davis discusses 'The Help'. Watch more at makingof.com
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Two time Oscar nominated actress Viola Davis discusses 'The Help'. Watch more at makingof.com
- published: 31 Jan 2012
- views: 3596
- author: MakingOf
Viola Davis at Critics Choice Awards 2012
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Backstage at the Critics Choice Awards in Jan. 2012, Viola Davis chatted with reporters about her Best Actress victory for "The Help"
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Backstage at the Critics Choice Awards in Jan. 2012, Viola Davis chatted with reporters about her Best Actress victory for "The Help"
- published: 13 Jan 2012
- views: 5082
- author: goldderby
Viola Davis accepting NDWA's Voice of Love Award
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At LEADING WITH LOVE: Celebrating 5 Years of NDWA. November 14, Washington, DC
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At LEADING WITH LOVE: Celebrating 5 Years of NDWA. November 14, Washington, DC
- published: 16 Nov 2012
- views: 107
- author: domesticworkers
'The Help' Trailer HD
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- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
For more info on 'The Help' visit: www.hollywood.com
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For more info on 'The Help' visit: www.hollywood.com
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 2238044
- author: hollywoodstreams
Viola Davis at the 84th Academy Awards® Nominees Luncheon
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Viola Davis, nominated for Actress in a Leading Role ("The Help") at the 84th Academy Awards® Nominees Luncheon on February 6, 2012.
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Viola Davis, nominated for Actress in a Leading Role ("The Help") at the 84th Academy Awards® Nominees Luncheon on February 6, 2012.
- published: 07 Feb 2012
- views: 14916
- author: Oscars
Viola Davis Interview
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- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
Actress Viola Davis talks to Harry Smith about her recent Tony nomination for her role in the revival of August Wilson's "Fences."
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Actress Viola Davis talks to Harry Smith about her recent Tony nomination for her role in the revival of August Wilson's "Fences."
- published: 03 Jun 2010
- views: 6156
- author: CBS
2012 Oscars: Viola Davis
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The Best Actress nominee shares what it was like taking on her role in "The Help" and breathing life into her non-stereotypical character.
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The Best Actress nominee shares what it was like taking on her role in "The Help" and breathing life into her non-stereotypical character.
- published: 27 Feb 2012
- views: 8384
- author: EEntertainment
Oscars 2012 Winners: Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer vs Hattie McDaniel = Progress?
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Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer will most likely be the big winners at the Oscars 2012 for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. But considering that Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar seventy years ago for the same role, is this progress? Host Grace Randolph discusses Viola Davis's own comments on the matter, plus a look at black actors and Oscar. Do you think the 2012 Academy Awards are making progress with winners for the same roles? Enjoy the Oscars 2012 hosted by Billy Crystal!
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Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer will most likely be the big winners at the Oscars 2012 for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. But considering that Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar seventy years ago for the same role, is this progress? Host Grace Randolph discusses Viola Davis's own comments on the matter, plus a look at black actors and Oscar. Do you think the 2012 Academy Awards are making progress with winners for the same roles? Enjoy the Oscars 2012 hosted by Billy Crystal!
- published: 23 Feb 2012
- views: 12129
- author: BeyondTheTrailer
Viola Davis and the cast of The Help on their SAG Award Win
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- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
After Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer both walked off with awards for Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively, it was no wonder that the cast took home Best Cast of a Motion Picture. We caught up with Viola and the rest of the cast back stage for 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Ceremony. LOS ANGELES (Jan. 29, 2012) - Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2011 at the "18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®" in ceremonies attended by film and television's leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 29, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The "18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®" was simulcast live coast-to-coast by TNT and TBS at 8 pm (ET) / 5 pm (PT). An encore presentation was telecast on TNT at 10 pm (ET) / 7 pm (PT). The complete list of recipients of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® follows. 18th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® RECIPIENTS THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role JEAN DUJARDIN / George - "THE ARTIST" (The Weinstein Company) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role VIOLA DAVIS / Aibileen Clark - "THE HELP" (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Hal - "BEGINNERS" (Focus Features) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role OCTAVIA SPENCER / Minny ...
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After Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer both walked off with awards for Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively, it was no wonder that the cast took home Best Cast of a Motion Picture. We caught up with Viola and the rest of the cast back stage for 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Ceremony. LOS ANGELES (Jan. 29, 2012) - Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2011 at the "18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®" in ceremonies attended by film and television's leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 29, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The "18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®" was simulcast live coast-to-coast by TNT and TBS at 8 pm (ET) / 5 pm (PT). An encore presentation was telecast on TNT at 10 pm (ET) / 7 pm (PT). The complete list of recipients of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® follows. 18th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® RECIPIENTS THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role JEAN DUJARDIN / George - "THE ARTIST" (The Weinstein Company) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role VIOLA DAVIS / Aibileen Clark - "THE HELP" (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Hal - "BEGINNERS" (Focus Features) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role OCTAVIA SPENCER / Minny ...
- published: 31 Jan 2012
- views: 2643
- author: blacktreetv
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Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis
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Scott Feinberg chats with the actress Viola Davis about her life and career. (Los Angeles, 2/6/12)
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Scott Feinberg chats with the actress Viola Davis about her life and career. (Los Angeles, 2/6/12)
- published: 11 Feb 2012
- views: 1762
- author: Scott Feinberg
A Sit Down with Viola Davis
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- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Actress, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), in a candid interview with pastor Holly Wagner of Oasis Church. Please visit oasisla.org for more information.
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Actress, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), in a candid interview with pastor Holly Wagner of Oasis Church. Please visit oasisla.org for more information.
- published: 05 Sep 2011
- views: 5765
- author: Loumademe
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, and Ahna O'Reilly
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- Duration: 39:42
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, and Ahna O'Reilly about their lives, careers, and collaboration on 'The Help.' (New York, 1/10/12)
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Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, and Ahna O'Reilly about their lives, careers, and collaboration on 'The Help.' (New York, 1/10/12)
- published: 18 Jan 2012
- views: 2250
- author: Scott Feinberg
DP/30: Doubt, actor Viola Davis
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- Duration: 39:04
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
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Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez
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- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez about their lives, careers, and collaboration on 'Won't Back Down.' (New York, 9/24/12)
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Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez about their lives, careers, and collaboration on 'Won't Back Down.' (New York, 9/24/12)
- published: 28 Sep 2012
- views: 155
- author: Scott Feinberg
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance of The Year - Viola Davis
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www.seeyourmemories.com On Friday, January 27th Viola Davis was presented SBIFF's Outstanding Performance of The Year Award! Ms. Davis' heartfelt performance in The Help along with an incredible retrospective of her career energized The Arlington Theatre. Before the show we asked Ms. Davis and her co-star Academy Award Nominee Octavia Spencer some questions about their performances! Moderated by acclaimed Hollywood journalist Anne Thompson the tribute featured numerous highlights of Ms. Davis' vast career. To present her award SBIFF went all out, arranging an appearance from the iconic Civil Rights Movement Activist Myrlie Evers, who's husband Medgar Evers' murder inspired the plot of The Help. Ms. Evers was the first chairwoman of the NAACP and ran for Congress in the State of California. This truly was a night for the history books! Stay tuned for our continued coverage of the 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival!
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www.seeyourmemories.com On Friday, January 27th Viola Davis was presented SBIFF's Outstanding Performance of The Year Award! Ms. Davis' heartfelt performance in The Help along with an incredible retrospective of her career energized The Arlington Theatre. Before the show we asked Ms. Davis and her co-star Academy Award Nominee Octavia Spencer some questions about their performances! Moderated by acclaimed Hollywood journalist Anne Thompson the tribute featured numerous highlights of Ms. Davis' vast career. To present her award SBIFF went all out, arranging an appearance from the iconic Civil Rights Movement Activist Myrlie Evers, who's husband Medgar Evers' murder inspired the plot of The Help. Ms. Evers was the first chairwoman of the NAACP and ran for Congress in the State of California. This truly was a night for the history books! Stay tuned for our continued coverage of the 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival!
- published: 29 Jan 2012
- views: 522
- author: YoureTheStarVideo
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance Award to Viola Davis (Complete Coverage Part 1 of 3)
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SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance Award to Viola Davis (Complete Coverage Part 3 of 3)
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Q&A; with 'The Help' Star Viola Davis
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THR's Scott Feinberg moderates a Q&A; session with 'The Help' star Viola Davis. Davis is nominated for an Oscar in the Actress In a Leading Role category. The movie is also nominated for Best Picture.
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THR's Scott Feinberg moderates a Q&A; session with 'The Help' star Viola Davis. Davis is nominated for an Oscar in the Actress In a Leading Role category. The movie is also nominated for Best Picture.
- published: 13 Feb 2012
- views: 427
- author: thrnetwork
The Talk-10-19-2012-Viola Davis & Peter Krause
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- Duration: 30:07
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
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Theater Talk: August Wilson's "Fences."
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- Duration: 26:47
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Actors Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley Henderson and director Kenny Leon on their revival of "Fences," August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.) The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts. Watch more at www.cuny.tv
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Actors Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley Henderson and director Kenny Leon on their revival of "Fences," August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.) The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts. Watch more at www.cuny.tv
- published: 13 May 2011
- views: 489
- author: cunytv75
Cell Phone Tower Meeting & SPLOST IV with Jay Cunningham: DeKalb Parents against Cell Towers Party 3
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October 25, 2010 An open meeting occurred Tuesday, October 25th, at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Lithonia. District 5 Jay Cunningham held a meeting with parents, homeowners, and the general community to talk about the upcoming SPLOST IV vote and the placement of cell phone towers on school property. District 5 School Board member Jay Cunningham attended the meeting to discuss a cell tower approval for MLK Jr. High School, as well as the SPLOST IV project list and the status of SPLOST III projects. The meeting started approximately 7 pm at the school located at 3991 Snapfinger Road, Lithonia, Georgia. Please take the time to hear the meeting in it entirety for yourself which was recorded by Viola Davis with the Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter. We ask that you contact your School Board representative and demand they reconsider the decision made to place cell phone towers on DeKalb County school grounds due to the following reasons: 1. Improper notification 2. Increase health risk 3. Decrease property value 4. Decrease quality of life For more information visit the website Get The Cell Out Atlanta at www.getthecelloutatl.org or email voterwhocares@gmail.com. Please inform everyone you know and ask them to get involved especially parents and homeowners at the follow nine schools where the cell phone towers are planned for construction to include: 1. Jolly Elementary 2. Briarlake Elementary 3. Narvie Harris Elementary 4. Flat Rock Elementary 5. MLKing Jr. High School 6 ...
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October 25, 2010 An open meeting occurred Tuesday, October 25th, at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Lithonia. District 5 Jay Cunningham held a meeting with parents, homeowners, and the general community to talk about the upcoming SPLOST IV vote and the placement of cell phone towers on school property. District 5 School Board member Jay Cunningham attended the meeting to discuss a cell tower approval for MLK Jr. High School, as well as the SPLOST IV project list and the status of SPLOST III projects. The meeting started approximately 7 pm at the school located at 3991 Snapfinger Road, Lithonia, Georgia. Please take the time to hear the meeting in it entirety for yourself which was recorded by Viola Davis with the Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter. We ask that you contact your School Board representative and demand they reconsider the decision made to place cell phone towers on DeKalb County school grounds due to the following reasons: 1. Improper notification 2. Increase health risk 3. Decrease property value 4. Decrease quality of life For more information visit the website Get The Cell Out Atlanta at www.getthecelloutatl.org or email voterwhocares@gmail.com. Please inform everyone you know and ask them to get involved especially parents and homeowners at the follow nine schools where the cell phone towers are planned for construction to include: 1. Jolly Elementary 2. Briarlake Elementary 3. Narvie Harris Elementary 4. Flat Rock Elementary 5. MLKing Jr. High School 6 ...
- published: 30 Oct 2011
- views: 230
- author: RNwhocares
Won't Back Down FULL LENGTH MOVIE
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Watch the full movie at: tiny.cc Two determined mothers, a bartender (Gyllenhaal) and a teacher (Davis), look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and corruption from the teacher's union president[citation needed] (Hunter) and the school's principal (Nunn), they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. won't back down, drama, maggie gyllenhaal, viola davis, oscar isaac, holly hunter, "watch", "full length", "full", "movie", "part 1", of part1 exclusive leaked clips entire film scenes HD HQ high quality "definition", "new", "release", "online", "free", "feature", "complete", "footage", "stream", "2012", "trailer", "3D", "3-D", "official", "blockbuster" "sequel", "news", "reviews", "latest", "2011"
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Watch the full movie at: tiny.cc Two determined mothers, a bartender (Gyllenhaal) and a teacher (Davis), look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and corruption from the teacher's union president[citation needed] (Hunter) and the school's principal (Nunn), they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. won't back down, drama, maggie gyllenhaal, viola davis, oscar isaac, holly hunter, "watch", "full length", "full", "movie", "part 1", of part1 exclusive leaked clips entire film scenes HD HQ high quality "definition", "new", "release", "online", "free", "feature", "complete", "footage", "stream", "2012", "trailer", "3D", "3-D", "official", "blockbuster" "sequel", "news", "reviews", "latest", "2011"
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 387
- author: MellisaAugusto
2012 Oscars, Chris Brown, Nicki MInaj Addresses Fans, Whitney Houston Biopic & More
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- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 51800
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Trust - 2011
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14-year-old Annie Cameron lives in suburban Chicago. She enjoys a healthy relationship with her family. On her birthday, her parents give her a laptop. She is rather naive in respect of some of the ways in which the Internet can be harmful. When she meets Charlie in an online chat room, she establishes an instant connection with him. At first, Charlie states that he is sixteen years old. Over time, as the two bond by sending phone text messages and through instant messaging, he bumps his age up to 20, then 25. Annie is taken aback at first. She then dismisses these concerns. She continues the on-line relationship, not wanting to end things with him because she is flattered by the attention. After three months of communicating electronically, Charlie invites Annie to meet him at the mall. When they first come into contact, Annie discovers that Charlie is significantly older than he presented himself to be. He appears to be in has late thirties or early forties. Annie is upset about him having lied about his age. Despite the fact that Annie is a minor, Charlie proceeds to inappropriately touch her. He then takes her to a nearby hotel where he makes her model lingerie. He then coaxes her onto the bed and then rapes her. He secretly films what he does to Annie.
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14-year-old Annie Cameron lives in suburban Chicago. She enjoys a healthy relationship with her family. On her birthday, her parents give her a laptop. She is rather naive in respect of some of the ways in which the Internet can be harmful. When she meets Charlie in an online chat room, she establishes an instant connection with him. At first, Charlie states that he is sixteen years old. Over time, as the two bond by sending phone text messages and through instant messaging, he bumps his age up to 20, then 25. Annie is taken aback at first. She then dismisses these concerns. She continues the on-line relationship, not wanting to end things with him because she is flattered by the attention. After three months of communicating electronically, Charlie invites Annie to meet him at the mall. When they first come into contact, Annie discovers that Charlie is significantly older than he presented himself to be. He appears to be in has late thirties or early forties. Annie is upset about him having lied about his age. Despite the fact that Annie is a minor, Charlie proceeds to inappropriately touch her. He then takes her to a nearby hotel where he makes her model lingerie. He then coaxes her onto the bed and then rapes her. He secretly films what he does to Annie.
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 258292
- author: Kaala Khatta
My Dvd Collection Update 4/21/2009
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Follow me on Twitter twitter.com Dvd Collection update for April 21 2009 showing the dvds Ive gotten over the last couple weeks. In the update I talk about and give my reviews of the dvds and the movies themselves. The Dvds I got and Review in this update are: * Caesar and Ottos Summer Camp Massacre : Directed by Dave Campfield - Starring Dave Campfield, Paul Chomicki, Felissa Rose, Deron Miller, Brinke Stevens, Joe Estevez, Ken MacFarlane, Scott Aguilar, Avi K. Garg, Trai Byers, Jen Nikolaus, Summer Ferguson, Derek Crabbe, Robin Ritter and Dawn Burdue * Laid to Rest : Directed by Robert Hall - Starring Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage,Lena Headey, Sean Whalen, Richard Lynch, Johnathon Schaech, Thomas Dekker, Nick Principe, Jana Kramer, Lucas Till, Anthony Fitzgerald and Seri DeYoung * The Burrowers : Directed by JT Petty - Starring Clancy Brown, Doug Hutchison, Laura Leighton, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Robert Ri'chard, Seri DeYoung, Jocelin Donahue and Karl Geary * Slaughter High : Directed by George Dugdale and Mark Ezra - Starring Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine iannaccone, Donna Yeager, Gary Martin and Bill Hartin * House : Directed by Robby Henson - Starring Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Lew Temple, Leslie Easterbrook and Bill Moseley * Doubt : Directed by John Patrick Shanley - Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis * The Wrestler : Directed by Darren Aronofsky - Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tome and Evan ...
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Follow me on Twitter twitter.com Dvd Collection update for April 21 2009 showing the dvds Ive gotten over the last couple weeks. In the update I talk about and give my reviews of the dvds and the movies themselves. The Dvds I got and Review in this update are: * Caesar and Ottos Summer Camp Massacre : Directed by Dave Campfield - Starring Dave Campfield, Paul Chomicki, Felissa Rose, Deron Miller, Brinke Stevens, Joe Estevez, Ken MacFarlane, Scott Aguilar, Avi K. Garg, Trai Byers, Jen Nikolaus, Summer Ferguson, Derek Crabbe, Robin Ritter and Dawn Burdue * Laid to Rest : Directed by Robert Hall - Starring Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage,Lena Headey, Sean Whalen, Richard Lynch, Johnathon Schaech, Thomas Dekker, Nick Principe, Jana Kramer, Lucas Till, Anthony Fitzgerald and Seri DeYoung * The Burrowers : Directed by JT Petty - Starring Clancy Brown, Doug Hutchison, Laura Leighton, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Robert Ri'chard, Seri DeYoung, Jocelin Donahue and Karl Geary * Slaughter High : Directed by George Dugdale and Mark Ezra - Starring Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine iannaccone, Donna Yeager, Gary Martin and Bill Hartin * House : Directed by Robby Henson - Starring Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Lew Temple, Leslie Easterbrook and Bill Moseley * Doubt : Directed by John Patrick Shanley - Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis * The Wrestler : Directed by Darren Aronofsky - Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tome and Evan ...
- published: 22 Apr 2009
- views: 41453
- author: coolduder
THE HELP Movie - Black Women review the movie- SISTAH TALK TV SHOW- Televised LIVE AUG. 20, 2011.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:55
- Updated: 02 Aug 2012
www.facebook.com Televised LIVE from NYC on Aug. 20, 2011 THE SISTAH TALK TV SHOW panel reviews the hit movie THE HELP. Hosted and moderated by DIETRA KELSEY with Actress Comedian PENWAH , Author MONIFA MAAT and Actress PETRONIA PALEY. Produced and directed by ZAKKEE Z. STARMAN, SISTAH TALK TV SHOW - MNN.ORG Channel 1 Saturdays 2:00pm Eastern
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www.facebook.com Televised LIVE from NYC on Aug. 20, 2011 THE SISTAH TALK TV SHOW panel reviews the hit movie THE HELP. Hosted and moderated by DIETRA KELSEY with Actress Comedian PENWAH , Author MONIFA MAAT and Actress PETRONIA PALEY. Produced and directed by ZAKKEE Z. STARMAN, SISTAH TALK TV SHOW - MNN.ORG Channel 1 Saturdays 2:00pm Eastern
- published: 29 Aug 2011
- views: 7255
- author: Kelseyproductions1
Michael Tippett - Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 30:56
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79) [0:00] Medium fast - [12:12] Interlude: Medium slow - [14:18] Very slow - Calmer still - [23:14] Interlude: Medium fast - Medium slow - [23:59] Medium fast A concerto by English composer Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998). While working on this composition, Tippett visited the island of Bali where he heard the music of gamelan orchestras, and some of the gamelan sound world permeated into the Triple Concerto. Violinist: Daniel Hope Violist: Philip Dukes Cellist: Christian Poltéra Conductor: Andrew Davis BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79) [0:00] Medium fast - [12:12] Interlude: Medium slow - [14:18] Very slow - Calmer still - [23:14] Interlude: Medium fast - Medium slow - [23:59] Medium fast A concerto by English composer Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998). While working on this composition, Tippett visited the island of Bali where he heard the music of gamelan orchestras, and some of the gamelan sound world permeated into the Triple Concerto. Violinist: Daniel Hope Violist: Philip Dukes Cellist: Christian Poltéra Conductor: Andrew Davis BBC Symphony Orchestra
- published: 12 Jun 2011
- views: 2350
- author: musicanth
The Morning Wood Show: Oscars 2012, Chris Brown, Estelle, and More...
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:23
- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Episode 110: Subscribe, Share, Like, Rate, Comment, and Tweet this! Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @RichieSkye @BouvierShow @MorningWoodShow Download The Morning Wood Song: itunes.apple.com Download more music by @RichieSkye: itunes.apple.com
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Episode 110: Subscribe, Share, Like, Rate, Comment, and Tweet this! Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @RichieSkye @BouvierShow @MorningWoodShow Download The Morning Wood Song: itunes.apple.com Download more music by @RichieSkye: itunes.apple.com
- published: 29 Feb 2012
- views: 556
- author: MorningWoodShow
Oscar Nominaciones 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:09
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Jennifer Lawrence and Academy president Tom Sherak make the big announcement Oscar nominations 2012 - Oscars 2012 - Oscar nominations 2012 list - 2012 oscar nominations Oscars 2012 Oscars 2012 Best Picture War Horse The Artist Moneyball The Descendants The Tree of Life Midnight in Paris The Help Hugo Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Best Supporting Actress Bernice Bejo -- "The Artist" Jessica Chastain -- "The Help" Melissa McCarthy -- "Bridesmaids" Janet McTeer -- "Albert Nobbs" Octavia Spencer -- "The Help" Best Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh -- "My Week With Marilyn" Jonah Hill -- "Moneyball" Nick Nolte -- "Warrior" Christopher Plummer -- "Beginners" Max Von Sydow -- "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" Best Actress Glenn Close -- "Albert Nobbs" Viola Davis -- "The Help" Rooney Mara -- "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Meryl Streep -- "The Iron Lady" Michelle Williams -- "My Week With Marilyn" Best Actor Demian Bichir -- "A Better Life" George Clooney -- "The Descendants" Jean DuJardin -- "The Artist" Gary Oldman -- "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Brad Pitt -- "Moneyball" Directing Michel Hazanavicius -- "The Artist" Alexander Payne -- "The Descendants" Woody Allen -- "Midnight in Paris" Martin Scorsese -- "Hugo" Terrence Malick -- "The Tree of Life" Original Screenplay The Artist Bridesmaids Margin Call Midnight In Paris A Separation Adapted Screenplay Descendants Hugo Ides of March Moneyball Tinker Tailor 2012 Academy Award Nominations
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Jennifer Lawrence and Academy president Tom Sherak make the big announcement Oscar nominations 2012 - Oscars 2012 - Oscar nominations 2012 list - 2012 oscar nominations Oscars 2012 Oscars 2012 Best Picture War Horse The Artist Moneyball The Descendants The Tree of Life Midnight in Paris The Help Hugo Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Best Supporting Actress Bernice Bejo -- "The Artist" Jessica Chastain -- "The Help" Melissa McCarthy -- "Bridesmaids" Janet McTeer -- "Albert Nobbs" Octavia Spencer -- "The Help" Best Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh -- "My Week With Marilyn" Jonah Hill -- "Moneyball" Nick Nolte -- "Warrior" Christopher Plummer -- "Beginners" Max Von Sydow -- "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" Best Actress Glenn Close -- "Albert Nobbs" Viola Davis -- "The Help" Rooney Mara -- "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Meryl Streep -- "The Iron Lady" Michelle Williams -- "My Week With Marilyn" Best Actor Demian Bichir -- "A Better Life" George Clooney -- "The Descendants" Jean DuJardin -- "The Artist" Gary Oldman -- "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Brad Pitt -- "Moneyball" Directing Michel Hazanavicius -- "The Artist" Alexander Payne -- "The Descendants" Woody Allen -- "Midnight in Paris" Martin Scorsese -- "Hugo" Terrence Malick -- "The Tree of Life" Original Screenplay The Artist Bridesmaids Margin Call Midnight In Paris A Separation Adapted Screenplay Descendants Hugo Ides of March Moneyball Tinker Tailor 2012 Academy Award Nominations
- published: 25 Jan 2012
- views: 3859
- author: astridcapon
P2P THE HELP Brunson Green & Georges Bermann
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 27:32
- Updated: 16 Jan 2012
Partizan's Georges Bermann [APC] interviews Harbinger Pictures' Brunson Green [PGA] about how the smash hit La Couleur des Sentiments/THE HELP went from small indie to studio darling.
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Partizan's Georges Bermann [APC] interviews Harbinger Pictures' Brunson Green [PGA] about how the smash hit La Couleur des Sentiments/THE HELP went from small indie to studio darling.
- published: 27 Oct 2011
- views: 330
- author: producteurscinemaAPC
Tax Free - 1970 (Full Album - Featuring Wally Tax, John Cale, Richard Davis)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 41:25
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
The short-lived Tax Free consisted of Wally Tax (vocals), David Oliphanr (guitar), Jody Purpora (vocals, guitar) and Leendert Busch (drums). Tax and Busch had both been members of legendary Dutch band The Outsiders, who'd broken up in mid-1969. They soon befriended the British-born Oliphant and the US-born Purpora in Amsterdam and - together with Ray Gordel - began to jam in a studio beneath a railway bridge, though they had to play in the dead of night to avoid the noise of passing trams. With management in place, in the spring of 1970 they travelled to New York, where they stayed in the infamous Chelsea Hotel. Having secured a record deal through contacts at Radio Luxemburg, they returned to NY that September (without Gordell) and set about taping an album at Jimi Hendrix's recently completed Electric Lady studio. The producer was Lewis Merenstein, who was also their co-manager (with Marty Thau). Merenstein is best known for his production of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, an album with which Tax Free shares a certain introspective, jazz-tinged vibe. The influence of Tim Hardin (with whom Tax was personally acquainted) can also be detected. Merenstein had also worked with John Cale on his Vintage Violence album, and Cale contributed some viola to the Tax Free recordings, alongside other session heavyweights such as string bassist Richard Davis (who'd featured prominently on Astral Weeks). The sessions weren't smooth, however. Tax later complained that 'Lewis was going ...
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The short-lived Tax Free consisted of Wally Tax (vocals), David Oliphanr (guitar), Jody Purpora (vocals, guitar) and Leendert Busch (drums). Tax and Busch had both been members of legendary Dutch band The Outsiders, who'd broken up in mid-1969. They soon befriended the British-born Oliphant and the US-born Purpora in Amsterdam and - together with Ray Gordel - began to jam in a studio beneath a railway bridge, though they had to play in the dead of night to avoid the noise of passing trams. With management in place, in the spring of 1970 they travelled to New York, where they stayed in the infamous Chelsea Hotel. Having secured a record deal through contacts at Radio Luxemburg, they returned to NY that September (without Gordell) and set about taping an album at Jimi Hendrix's recently completed Electric Lady studio. The producer was Lewis Merenstein, who was also their co-manager (with Marty Thau). Merenstein is best known for his production of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, an album with which Tax Free shares a certain introspective, jazz-tinged vibe. The influence of Tim Hardin (with whom Tax was personally acquainted) can also be detected. Merenstein had also worked with John Cale on his Vintage Violence album, and Cale contributed some viola to the Tax Free recordings, alongside other session heavyweights such as string bassist Richard Davis (who'd featured prominently on Astral Weeks). The sessions weren't smooth, however. Tax later complained that 'Lewis was going ...
- published: 06 Nov 2012
- views: 441
- author: Ulysses Joven
✪ Entertainment - Mykelti Williamson
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 62:34
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Would you like to host your own radio show? Visit: tgn.tv =-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-= ■ No technical expertise needed ■ Go Live on the air in minutes ■ Share your messages everywhere ■ Connect with friends in real-time =-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-= by JBlairBrown Entertainment Mon, October 1, 2012 Actor and director Mykelti Williamson's career spans film, TV and Broadway. Films such as Ali, Con Air, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Heat, Lucky Number Slevin, Primary Colors, Three Kings, Waiting to Exhale, and television roles, including: 24, CSI: NY, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Monk, Single Ladies, Rizzoli and Isles, The Good Wife, Third Watch, Boomtown and currently in the FX series, Justified. The versatile and always busy actor also completed a successful run on Broadway opposite Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson's Tony award-winning play, Fences. But the role he is perhaps best known for is one of the most beloved characters in cinematic history, the kind-hearted "Bubba" in the Oscar-winning film, Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks. Join us Monday, Oct 1st at 3pm EST when this talented actor shares with us, how he continues to 'live his dream' in the competitive world of celebrity and entertainment.
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Would you like to host your own radio show? Visit: tgn.tv =-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-= ■ No technical expertise needed ■ Go Live on the air in minutes ■ Share your messages everywhere ■ Connect with friends in real-time =-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-= by JBlairBrown Entertainment Mon, October 1, 2012 Actor and director Mykelti Williamson's career spans film, TV and Broadway. Films such as Ali, Con Air, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Heat, Lucky Number Slevin, Primary Colors, Three Kings, Waiting to Exhale, and television roles, including: 24, CSI: NY, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Monk, Single Ladies, Rizzoli and Isles, The Good Wife, Third Watch, Boomtown and currently in the FX series, Justified. The versatile and always busy actor also completed a successful run on Broadway opposite Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson's Tony award-winning play, Fences. But the role he is perhaps best known for is one of the most beloved characters in cinematic history, the kind-hearted "Bubba" in the Oscar-winning film, Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks. Join us Monday, Oct 1st at 3pm EST when this talented actor shares with us, how he continues to 'live his dream' in the competitive world of celebrity and entertainment.
- published: 03 Oct 2012
- views: 105
- author: BlogTalkRadio
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Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis
Scott Feinberg chats with the actress Viola Davis about her life and career. (Los Angeles,...
published: 11 Feb 2012
author: Scott Feinberg
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis
Scott Feinberg chats with the actress Viola Davis about her life and career. (Los Angeles, 2/6/12)
- published: 11 Feb 2012
- views: 1762
- author: Scott Feinberg
25:10
A Sit Down with Viola Davis
Actress, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), in a candid interview with pastor Holly Wagner of ...
published: 05 Sep 2011
author: Loumademe
A Sit Down with Viola Davis
Actress, Viola Davis (The Help, Doubt), in a candid interview with pastor Holly Wagner of Oasis Church. Please visit oasisla.org for more information.
- published: 05 Sep 2011
- views: 5765
- author: Loumademe
39:42
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, and Ahna O'Reilly
Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, an...
published: 18 Jan 2012
author: Scott Feinberg
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, and Ahna O'Reilly
Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, and Ahna O'Reilly about their lives, careers, and collaboration on 'The Help.' (New York, 1/10/12)
- published: 18 Jan 2012
- views: 2250
- author: Scott Feinberg
39:04
DP/30: Doubt, actor Viola Davis
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published: 28 Feb 2012
author: TheHotButton
DP/30: Doubt, actor Viola Davis
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 1613
- author: TheHotButton
43:42
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez
Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez ab...
published: 28 Sep 2012
author: Scott Feinberg
Scott Feinberg Interviews Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez
Scott Feinberg chats with the actresses Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rosie Perez about their lives, careers, and collaboration on 'Won't Back Down.' (New York, 9/24/12)
- published: 28 Sep 2012
- views: 155
- author: Scott Feinberg
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SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance of The Year - Viola Davis
www.seeyourmemories.com On Friday, January 27th Viola Davis was presented SBIFF's Outstand...
published: 29 Jan 2012
author: YoureTheStarVideo
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance of The Year - Viola Davis
www.seeyourmemories.com On Friday, January 27th Viola Davis was presented SBIFF's Outstanding Performance of The Year Award! Ms. Davis' heartfelt performance in The Help along with an incredible retrospective of her career energized The Arlington Theatre. Before the show we asked Ms. Davis and her co-star Academy Award Nominee Octavia Spencer some questions about their performances! Moderated by acclaimed Hollywood journalist Anne Thompson the tribute featured numerous highlights of Ms. Davis' vast career. To present her award SBIFF went all out, arranging an appearance from the iconic Civil Rights Movement Activist Myrlie Evers, who's husband Medgar Evers' murder inspired the plot of The Help. Ms. Evers was the first chairwoman of the NAACP and ran for Congress in the State of California. This truly was a night for the history books! Stay tuned for our continued coverage of the 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival!
- published: 29 Jan 2012
- views: 522
- author: YoureTheStarVideo
24:02
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance Award to Viola Davis (Complete Coverage Part 1 of 3)
www.seeyourmemories.com...
published: 01 Mar 2012
author: YoureTheStarVideo
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance Award to Viola Davis (Complete Coverage Part 1 of 3)
www.seeyourmemories.com
- published: 01 Mar 2012
- views: 46
- author: YoureTheStarVideo
32:40
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance Award to Viola Davis (Complete Coverage Part 3 of 3)
www.seeyourmemories.com...
published: 03 Mar 2012
author: YoureTheStarVideo
SBIFF 2012 - Outstanding Performance Award to Viola Davis (Complete Coverage Part 3 of 3)
www.seeyourmemories.com
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 25
- author: YoureTheStarVideo
40:19
Q&A; with 'The Help' Star Viola Davis
THR's Scott Feinberg moderates a Q&A; session with 'The Help' star Viola Davis. Davis is no...
published: 13 Feb 2012
author: thrnetwork
Q&A; with 'The Help' Star Viola Davis
THR's Scott Feinberg moderates a Q&A; session with 'The Help' star Viola Davis. Davis is nominated for an Oscar in the Actress In a Leading Role category. The movie is also nominated for Best Picture.
- published: 13 Feb 2012
- views: 427
- author: thrnetwork
30:07
The Talk-10-19-2012-Viola Davis & Peter Krause
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published: 24 Oct 2012
author: AnxietySurvior B-MAN
The Talk-10-19-2012-Viola Davis & Peter Krause
- published: 24 Oct 2012
- views: 97
- author: AnxietySurvior B-MAN
26:47
Theater Talk: August Wilson's "Fences."
Actors Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley Henderson and director Kenny Leon on their revival...
published: 13 May 2011
author: cunytv75
Theater Talk: August Wilson's "Fences."
Actors Viola Davis and Stephen McKinley Henderson and director Kenny Leon on their revival of "Fences," August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.) The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts. Watch more at www.cuny.tv
- published: 13 May 2011
- views: 489
- author: cunytv75
97:46
Cell Phone Tower Meeting & SPLOST IV with Jay Cunningham: DeKalb Parents against Cell Towers Party 3
October 25, 2010 An open meeting occurred Tuesday, October 25th, at Martin Luther King Jr....
published: 30 Oct 2011
author: RNwhocares
Cell Phone Tower Meeting & SPLOST IV with Jay Cunningham: DeKalb Parents against Cell Towers Party 3
October 25, 2010 An open meeting occurred Tuesday, October 25th, at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Lithonia. District 5 Jay Cunningham held a meeting with parents, homeowners, and the general community to talk about the upcoming SPLOST IV vote and the placement of cell phone towers on school property. District 5 School Board member Jay Cunningham attended the meeting to discuss a cell tower approval for MLK Jr. High School, as well as the SPLOST IV project list and the status of SPLOST III projects. The meeting started approximately 7 pm at the school located at 3991 Snapfinger Road, Lithonia, Georgia. Please take the time to hear the meeting in it entirety for yourself which was recorded by Viola Davis with the Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter. We ask that you contact your School Board representative and demand they reconsider the decision made to place cell phone towers on DeKalb County school grounds due to the following reasons: 1. Improper notification 2. Increase health risk 3. Decrease property value 4. Decrease quality of life For more information visit the website Get The Cell Out Atlanta at www.getthecelloutatl.org or email voterwhocares@gmail.com. Please inform everyone you know and ask them to get involved especially parents and homeowners at the follow nine schools where the cell phone towers are planned for construction to include: 1. Jolly Elementary 2. Briarlake Elementary 3. Narvie Harris Elementary 4. Flat Rock Elementary 5. MLKing Jr. High School 6 ...
- published: 30 Oct 2011
- views: 230
- author: RNwhocares
105:52
Won't Back Down FULL LENGTH MOVIE
Watch the full movie at: tiny.cc Two determined mothers, a bartender (Gyllenhaal) and a te...
published: 10 Oct 2012
author: MellisaAugusto
Won't Back Down FULL LENGTH MOVIE
Watch the full movie at: tiny.cc Two determined mothers, a bartender (Gyllenhaal) and a teacher (Davis), look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and corruption from the teacher's union president[citation needed] (Hunter) and the school's principal (Nunn), they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. won't back down, drama, maggie gyllenhaal, viola davis, oscar isaac, holly hunter, "watch", "full length", "full", "movie", "part 1", of part1 exclusive leaked clips entire film scenes HD HQ high quality "definition", "new", "release", "online", "free", "feature", "complete", "footage", "stream", "2012", "trailer", "3D", "3-D", "official", "blockbuster" "sequel", "news", "reviews", "latest", "2011"
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 387
- author: MellisaAugusto
66:11
2012 Oscars, Chris Brown, Nicki MInaj Addresses Fans, Whitney Houston Biopic & More
Follow Us On Twitter Kevin www.twitter.com Makael www.twitter.com The Skorpion Show www.tw...
published: 28 Feb 2012
author: theskorpionshow
2012 Oscars, Chris Brown, Nicki MInaj Addresses Fans, Whitney Houston Biopic & More
Follow Us On Twitter Kevin www.twitter.com Makael www.twitter.com The Skorpion Show www.twitter.com Facebook Kevin www.facebook.com Makael www.facebook.com
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 51800
- author: theskorpionshow
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Mason Jar Music Presents... Josh Garrels
"Words Remain"
Written and Performed by Josh Garrels
Produced, Arranged, Recorded, Mixed,...
published: 26 Oct 2010
author: Mason Jar Music
Mason Jar Music Presents... Josh Garrels
"Words Remain"
Written and Performed by Josh Garrels
Produced, Arranged, Recorded, Mixed, Filmed, and Edited by Mason Jar Music
Recorded and filmed live in an old church late at night.
Please listen with speakers or headphones.
Produced and mixed by Dan Knobler & Jon Seale
Arranged by Ian Davis & Kris Nolte
Conducted by Kris Nolte
Engineered by Dan Knobler, Alan Gordon, and Jacob Blumberg
Video Directed and Edited by Andrew Ellis
Filmed by Andrew Ellis and Sasha Aleksandra Arutyunova
Color by Alan Gordon
Mason Jar Music Logo by Sonya Dissin
Musicians:
Susan Mandel - Cello
Rick Quantz - Viola
Josh Henderson - Violin
Patti Kilroy - Violin
Pat Swoboda - Bass
Meryl Zimmerman, Cassie Kirk, and Justin Ballard - Choir
Heather Harz, Rose Rutledge - Flutes
Mike McCoy - Alto Flute
Matt Porter, Zack Rosen, John Bishop, David McTiernan, and Zubin Hensler - Bell Choir
Special Thanks to Matt Veligdan
For more info on Josh Garrels:
http://www.JoshGarrels.com
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"Mason Jar Music Presents" is a video concert series inspired by the peacefulness and tranquility of the old buildings that continue to dot New York City's 21st-century landscape. These productions provide a setting and space for fresh, unique music with compelling arrangements that breathe new life into each song.
Each episode is dreamed up and brought to life wholly by the Mason Jar Music team. Songs are carefully selected from the artist’s repertoire and re-imagined with arrangements for strings, woodwinds and other assorted orchestral colors.
Mason Jar Music is a collective of music makers trained in production, arranging, composition and recording. They all live and work together in a residential studio in Brooklyn, NY.
In addition to producing, recording and/or mixing records for a variety of artists, Mason Jar Music specializes in film scores, original music for film and television, concert videos, and other audio/visual productions.
http://www.MasonJarMusic.com
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Mason Jar Music Presents... The Wood Brothers
"Blue and Green"
Written and Performed by The Wood Brothers
Produced, Arranged, Recorded,...
published: 14 Mar 2011
author: Mason Jar Music
Mason Jar Music Presents... The Wood Brothers
"Blue and Green"
Written and Performed by The Wood Brothers
Produced, Arranged, Recorded, Mixed, Filmed, and Edited by Mason Jar Music
Recorded and filmed live in an old Brooklyn elementary school
Please listen with speakers or headphones
Produced and mixed by Dan Knobler & Jon Seale
Arranged by Ian Davis & Kris Nolte
Conducted by Kris Nolte
Engineered by Dan Knobler, Jon Seale, and Alan Gordon
Video Directed by Matt Porter and Andrew Ellis
Cinematography by Andrew Ellis and Sasha Aleksandra Arutyunova
Additional Cinematography by Michelle Watt and Katrina Sorrentino
Edited by Matt Porter
Color by Alan Gordon
Additional Post Production by Alix Pentecost Farren
Art Direction by Tara Perry and Ann Hackett
Mason Jar Music logo by Sonya Dissin
Musicians:
Oliver Wood - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
Chris Wood - Upright Bass and Vocals
Jano Rix - Percussion and Vocals
Gabriel Lefkowitz - Violin
Trevor New - Viola
Sam Quiggins - Cello
Michael McCoy - Alto Flute
Heather Harz - Flute
Catherine Kim - Clarinet
Billy Aukstik & Zubin Hensler - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Frank Cohen - Trombone
Adam Shatz - Tenor Sax
Raphael Buyo - Tuba
John Bishop - Glockenspiel
Special Thanks to Father Krische, Liz Penta, Jimmy Chalk and Hyun-Joo Park
For more info on The Wood Brothers: www.TheWoodBrothers.com/
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Viola Davis
James Wallace of gordonandthewhale.com's interview with DOUBT Academy Award Nominee, Viola...
published: 11 Feb 2009
author: Chase Whale
Viola Davis
James Wallace of gordonandthewhale.com's interview with DOUBT Academy Award Nominee, Viola Davis
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Trust - 2011
14-year-old Annie Cameron lives in suburban Chicago. She enjoys a healthy relationship wit...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: Kaala Khatta
Trust - 2011
14-year-old Annie Cameron lives in suburban Chicago. She enjoys a healthy relationship with her family. On her birthday, her parents give her a laptop. She is rather naive in respect of some of the ways in which the Internet can be harmful. When she meets Charlie in an online chat room, she establishes an instant connection with him. At first, Charlie states that he is sixteen years old. Over time, as the two bond by sending phone text messages and through instant messaging, he bumps his age up to 20, then 25. Annie is taken aback at first. She then dismisses these concerns. She continues the on-line relationship, not wanting to end things with him because she is flattered by the attention. After three months of communicating electronically, Charlie invites Annie to meet him at the mall. When they first come into contact, Annie discovers that Charlie is significantly older than he presented himself to be. He appears to be in has late thirties or early forties. Annie is upset about him having lied about his age. Despite the fact that Annie is a minor, Charlie proceeds to inappropriately touch her. He then takes her to a nearby hotel where he makes her model lingerie. He then coaxes her onto the bed and then rapes her. He secretly films what he does to Annie.
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 258292
- author: Kaala Khatta
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My Dvd Collection Update 4/21/2009
Follow me on Twitter twitter.com Dvd Collection update for April 21 2009 showing the dvds ...
published: 22 Apr 2009
author: coolduder
My Dvd Collection Update 4/21/2009
Follow me on Twitter twitter.com Dvd Collection update for April 21 2009 showing the dvds Ive gotten over the last couple weeks. In the update I talk about and give my reviews of the dvds and the movies themselves. The Dvds I got and Review in this update are: * Caesar and Ottos Summer Camp Massacre : Directed by Dave Campfield - Starring Dave Campfield, Paul Chomicki, Felissa Rose, Deron Miller, Brinke Stevens, Joe Estevez, Ken MacFarlane, Scott Aguilar, Avi K. Garg, Trai Byers, Jen Nikolaus, Summer Ferguson, Derek Crabbe, Robin Ritter and Dawn Burdue * Laid to Rest : Directed by Robert Hall - Starring Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage,Lena Headey, Sean Whalen, Richard Lynch, Johnathon Schaech, Thomas Dekker, Nick Principe, Jana Kramer, Lucas Till, Anthony Fitzgerald and Seri DeYoung * The Burrowers : Directed by JT Petty - Starring Clancy Brown, Doug Hutchison, Laura Leighton, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Robert Ri'chard, Seri DeYoung, Jocelin Donahue and Karl Geary * Slaughter High : Directed by George Dugdale and Mark Ezra - Starring Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine iannaccone, Donna Yeager, Gary Martin and Bill Hartin * House : Directed by Robby Henson - Starring Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Lew Temple, Leslie Easterbrook and Bill Moseley * Doubt : Directed by John Patrick Shanley - Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis * The Wrestler : Directed by Darren Aronofsky - Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tome and Evan ...
- published: 22 Apr 2009
- views: 41453
- author: coolduder
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THE HELP Movie - Black Women review the movie- SISTAH TALK TV SHOW- Televised LIVE AUG. 20, 2011.
www.facebook.com Televised LIVE from NYC on Aug. 20, 2011 THE SISTAH TALK TV SHOW panel re...
published: 29 Aug 2011
author: Kelseyproductions1
THE HELP Movie - Black Women review the movie- SISTAH TALK TV SHOW- Televised LIVE AUG. 20, 2011.
www.facebook.com Televised LIVE from NYC on Aug. 20, 2011 THE SISTAH TALK TV SHOW panel reviews the hit movie THE HELP. Hosted and moderated by DIETRA KELSEY with Actress Comedian PENWAH , Author MONIFA MAAT and Actress PETRONIA PALEY. Produced and directed by ZAKKEE Z. STARMAN, SISTAH TALK TV SHOW - MNN.ORG Channel 1 Saturdays 2:00pm Eastern
- published: 29 Aug 2011
- views: 7255
- author: Kelseyproductions1
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Michael Tippett - Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79)
Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79) [0:00] Medium fast - [12:12] Interlu...
published: 12 Jun 2011
author: musicanth
Michael Tippett - Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79)
Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola and Cello (1978-79) [0:00] Medium fast - [12:12] Interlude: Medium slow - [14:18] Very slow - Calmer still - [23:14] Interlude: Medium fast - Medium slow - [23:59] Medium fast A concerto by English composer Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998). While working on this composition, Tippett visited the island of Bali where he heard the music of gamelan orchestras, and some of the gamelan sound world permeated into the Triple Concerto. Violinist: Daniel Hope Violist: Philip Dukes Cellist: Christian Poltéra Conductor: Andrew Davis BBC Symphony Orchestra
- published: 12 Jun 2011
- views: 2350
- author: musicanth
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
29 Dec 2012
Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for burial ... Gatherings of more than five people have been banned in the city centre ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
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30 Dec 2012
A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said ... Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge on Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. She faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... On Dec ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
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28 Dec 2012
The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed in particular to France, Central African Republic's former colonial ruler ... 516 Share ... News ... ....(size: 19.5Kb)
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30 Dec 2012
London. UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’ ... (ANI). For Zee News’s Updates, follow us on Twitter , Facebook, Google+, Pinterest. First Published ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
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28 Dec 2012
Galaxy Note 2 vs. iPhone 5. Do The Companies Have Their Game Plans Right?. Posted by Jay099 on December 28, 2012 02.15 pm 0. via. Mountain View at California seems to be a busy center now. Google is stepping up the gas on the march towards a holistic environment and experience for the consumers ... My Blog . My FB Page ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
New York Post Online
28 Dec 2012
Michael Riedel ... Joan Marcus. Denzel Washington may be heading back to Broadway to star in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” — both he and Viola Davis (above) won Tonys for their roles in “Fences.” ... A quick aside ... I saw it, and boy, was it a doozy! ... And he was sensational in “Fences,” facing off against an equally impressive Viola Davis in several riveting scenes ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
Huffington Post
28 Dec 2012
Loading Slideshow ... NEW YORK - JUNE 13. Actors Viola Davis and Denzel Washington pose with their awards at the 64th Annual Tony Awards at The Sports Club/LA on June 13, 2010 in New York City ... Pauletta Washington and actor Denzel Washington onstage during the 30th anniversary Carousel of Hope Ball to benefit the Barbara Davis center for childhood diabetes held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 25, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California ... ....(size: 14.7Kb)
Seattle Times
27 Dec 2012
Best performance in a lost cause. Jane Fonda in “Peace, Love and Misunderstanding,” Christopher Walken in “Seven Psychopaths,” Jeremy Irons in “The Words,” Charlize Theron in “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Viola Davis in “Won’t Back Down,” Johnny Depp in “Dark Shadows,” and pretty much everybody in “The Paperboy.”. Worst book-turned-movie idea ... ....(size: 7.6Kb)
Huffington Post
27 Dec 2012
The chic always rise to the top, which made pulling together the list of this year's best-dressed stars a cinch ... And that's just a few of our top picks ... Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix making the list ... Loading Slideshow ... (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Viola Davis in Vera Wang ... Actress Viola Davis arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California ... ....(size: 6.7Kb)
The Examiner
27 Dec 2012
Stage Aurora has previously had many exciting shows in 2012 such as “The Wiz”, “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, “The Color Purple” and recently “A Very Merry Jacksonville Christmas” just to mention a few of the theatrical accomplishments that Mr ... Denzel Washington and Viola Davis won Best Actor and Best Actress Awards in the play for their portrayal of Troy and Rose. Location. Stage Aurora Theatrical. 30.371818 ; -81.664153 ... 5.00 p.m ... Location ... ....(size: 2.8Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
24 Dec 2012
share. Illustration by. Todd Detwiler ... This story first appeared in the Jan. 10, 2013 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommends ... THR Cover ... Just as L.A ... Welcome to Holy-wood! ... St ... Also trending toward hip is the 3,000-strong Oasis (5100 Wilshire Blvd.), which draws Viola Davis, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green (as well as a welter of aspiring actors) for sermons at its Art Deco-styled theater space along the Miracle Mile....(size: 9.1Kb)
The Examiner
23 Dec 2012
Merry Christmas Everybody!. I hope you have a blessed and relaxing Holiday Season. I also hope you are thinking about your goals for the new year! To that end, I'm posting a an advert from Studio Boh, which is offering many outstanding classes, such as "Police Training for Actors" and "New York Commercial/Television Intensive" ... PRINCIPLES OF ACTING with KEVIN JIGGETTS ... *exchanging dialogue with Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal* ... STARTS ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
IMDb
21 Dec 2012
... of Fortune”) Oscar® nominee Viola Davis (“The Help,” “Doubt”), Emmy Rossum (TV’s “Shameless”), Thomas Mann (“Project X”) and Academy Award®....(size: 1.1Kb)
GQ Magazine
21 Dec 2012
Rex Features. Open Gallery. After three years as Danny Hunter on Spooks and some headline-grabbing performances on the London stage, 36-year-old Oxford-born actor David Oyelowo decamped to Los Angeles to crack Hollywood - and succeeded ... David Oyelowo. Yes, I do feel that way ... But I want to be in the world of Viola Davis and Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard, these great actresses and [to do that] I would go anywhere ... ....(size: 7.6Kb)
Entertainment Weekly
20 Dec 2012
Looks like we won’t be seeing any steamy love scenes between Ben Affleck and Kristen Stewart after all ... Focus is currently scheduled to begin filming in April. Read more. ... Viola Davis boarding ‘Prisoners.’ Plus ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
Huffington Post
20 Dec 2012
The HuffPost Style girls know firsthand how a new hair color or haircut can make a major difference in your appearance and attitude ... Celebrity hairstylists brought their A-game this year, dying and cutting some of the most influential looks we've seen in decades ... Mrs ... All we can really say is “Wow!”Viola Davis. One of the highlights of this past awards season was when Davis debuted her natural curly hair.Charlene, Princess of Monaco ... ---....(size: 7.1Kb)
Lexington Herald-Leader
20 Dec 2012
ANNA KARENINA 3 stars ... 2 hrs. 10 R (sex, violence, adult themes) - Steven Rea. ARGO 3 1/2 stars. Ben Affleck stars in, and directs, the far-fetched but nonetheless factual tale of a CIA plot to extricate six U.S ... 2 hrs ... Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as a struggling single mom who organizes a parent takeover of the failing school where her daughter goes, and where Viola Davis - a once great teacher who has lost her passion and purpose - works....(size: 18.4Kb)
Sacramento Bee
20 Dec 2012
ANNA KARENINA 3 stars ... 2 hrs. 10 R (sex, violence, adult themes) - Steven Rea. ARGO 3 1/2 stars. Ben Affleck stars in, and directs, the far-fetched but nonetheless factual tale of a CIA plot to extricate six U.S ... 2 hrs ... Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as a struggling single mom who organizes a parent takeover of the failing school where her daughter goes, and where Viola Davis - a once great teacher who has lost her passion and purpose - works....(size: 18.4Kb)
| Viola Davis | |
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 Davis in November 2010 |
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| Born | (1965-08-11) August 11, 1965 (age 46) St. Matthews, South Carolina, United States |
| Alma mater | Rhode Island College (1988) Juilliard School (1993) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Home town | Central Falls, Rhode Island |
| Spouse |
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| Children | 1 daughter; 2 stepsons |
Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress.
Beginning her career on the stage, Davis won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). She won a second Tony and a third Drama Desk Award for her role in Fences (2010).
Some of her notable films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), Solaris (2002) and The Help (2011). Her eleven-minute-long performance in the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt (2008) earned several honors, including an Academy Award nomination. Her role in the film The Help has garnered two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a BAFTA Award nomination, another Academy Award nomination, and a Golden Globe nomination.[1] In addition to her success, she was listed in Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.[2]
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Early life[link]
Davis was born on her grandmother's farm, at the former Singleton Plantation, in St. Matthews, South Carolina.[3] She is the second youngest of six children.[4] Her mother, Mary Alice, was a maid, factory worker, and homemaker, and her father, Dan Davis, was a horse trainer.[5][6][7] Her family moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island a few months after she was born.[8] Davis has described herself as having "lived in abject poverty and dysfunction" during her childhood.[9]
Davis partially credits her love of stage acting with her involvement in the arts at her alma mater, Central Falls High School.[10] Davis majored in theatre at Rhode Island College, graduating in 1988; in 2002 she received an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the college.[11] She was involved in the federal TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Student Support Services programs.[12] While Davis was a teenager, her talent was recognized by Bernard Masterson when, as director of Young People's School for the Performing Arts in West Warwick, Rhode Island, he awarded Davis a scholarship into that program.[13]
She also attended the Juilliard School for four years,[6] as a member of the Drama Division's Group 22 (1989–1993).[14]
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In 2001, she won the Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her portrayal of Tonya in King Hedley II, a "35-year-old mother fighting eloquently for the right to abort a pregnancy."[15] She has also won another Drama Desk Award for her work in a 2004 off-Broadway production of Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage.[citation needed]
Davis appeared in numerous films, including three films directed by Steven Soderbergh - Out of Sight, Solaris and Traffic, as well as Syriana, which Soderbergh produced. Viola was also the uncredited voice of the parole board interrogator who questions Danny Ocean (George Clooney) in the first scene in Ocean's Eleven.[citation needed] She also gave brief performances in the films Kate & Leopold and Antwone Fisher. Her television work includes a recurring role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; starring roles in two short-lived series, Traveler and Century City; and a special guest appearance in "Badge", a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode.
In 2008, Davis played Mrs. Miller in the film adaption to the Broadway play, Doubt with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. She was nominated for several awards for this performance, including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.[citation needed]
On June 30, 2009, Davis was inducted into The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[citation needed]
On June 13, 2010, Davis won her second Tony Award for her role as Rose Maxson in a revival of August Wilson's Fences.[citation needed] She is the second African-American woman to win the award, after Phylicia Rashād.
Davis played the role of Dr. Minerva in It's Kind of a Funny Story, a coming-of-age film written and directed by Anna Boden with Ryan Fleck, adapted from the 2006 novel by Ned Vizzini.[16]
In August 2011, Davis played the role of Aibileen Clark in the screen adaptation of the novel The Help, directed by Tate Taylor. For her performance, Davis garnered numerous award nominations, including a Golden Globe Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild,[1] and an Academy Award
In 2012, Time Magazine listed Davis as one of the most influential people in the world.[17]
Personal life[link]
Davis has been married to actor Julius Tennon since June 2003. They have a daughter, Genesis, whom they adopted as a newborn in October 2011. Davis is stepmother to Tennon's two sons from previous relationships.[18]
Filmography[link]
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | NYPD Blue | Woman | Episode: "Moby Greg" |
| 1996 | New York Undercover | Mrs. Stapleton | Episode: "Smack is Back" |
| 1998 | Pentagon Wars, TheThe Pentagon Wars | Platoon Sgt. Fanning | |
| 1998 | Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | |
| 2000 | Judging Amy | Celeste | Episode: "Blast from the Past" |
| 2000 | City of Angels | Nurse Lynnette Peeler | 19 episodes |
| 2001 | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | |
| 2001 | Providence | Dr. Eleanor Weiss | Episode: "You Can Count On Me" |
| 2001 | Guardian, TheThe Guardian | Episode: "The Men from the Boys" | |
| 2001 | Third Watch | Margo Rodriguez | Episode: "Act Brave" |
| 2002 | Father Lefty | ||
| 2002 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Terry Randolph | Episode: "Badge" |
| 2002 | Division, TheThe Division | Dr. Georgia Davis | Episode: "Remembrance" |
| 2002 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Attorney Campbell | Episode: "The Execution of Catherine Willows" |
| 2003 | Hack | Stevie Morgan | Episode: "Third Strike" |
| 2003 | Practice, TheThe Practice | Aisha Crenshaw | Episode: "We the People" |
| 2004 | Century City | Hannah Crane | 9 episodes |
| 2005 | Jesse Stone: Stone Cold | Molly Crane | |
| 2005 | Threshold | Victoria Rossi | Episode: "Shock" |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | |
| 2006 | Without a Trace | Audrey Williams | Episode: "White Balance" |
| 2006 | Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | |
| 2007 | Fort Pit | ||
| 2007 | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | |
| 2007 | Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 8 episodes |
| 2008 | Brothers & Sisters | Ellen Snyder | Episode: "Double Negative" |
| 2008 | Andromeda Strain, TheThe Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | |
| 2003–08 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Donna Emmett | 7 episodes from 2003 until 2008 |
| 2009 | United States of Tara | Lynda P Frazier | Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series |
Theatre credits[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Seven Guitars | Vera | Broadway Mar 28, 1996 - Sep 8, 1996 Theatre World Award Nominated — Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Nominated — Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play |
| 1997 | God's Heart | Eleanor | Off Broadway |
| 1998 | Pericles | 2nd Fisherman/Lychorida/Bawd | Off Broadway |
| 1999 | Everybody's Ruby | Ruby McCollum | Off Broadway Nominated — Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| The Vagina Monologues | Performer (Replacement) | Off Broadway | |
| 2001 | King Hedley II | Tonya | Broadway May 1, 2001 - Jul 1, 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play |
| 2004 | Intimate Apparel | Esther | Off Broadway Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Nominated —Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress |
| 2010 | Fences | Rose | Broadway Revival Apr 26, 2010 - Jul 11, 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play |
References[link]
- ^ a b SAG Awards 2012: Complete list of winners The Associated Press via New York Daily News, January 30, 2012.
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112127,00.html
- ^ http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/02/25/2681858/best-actress-nominee-viola-davis.html
- ^ "Viola Davis’ path from poverty in Central Falls to Hollywood glamour" February 22, 2009, Providence Journal
- ^ Veteran Actors, First Time Nominees
- ^ a b Buckley, Michael (March 14, 2004). "Chats with Intimate Apparel's Viola Davis and New York Newcomer, King Lear's Geraint Wyn Davies". Playbill.com. http://www.playbill.com/features/article/84927.html.
- ^ "Viola Davis: "The Help" and "Daring Yourself to Dream Big" August 1, 2011, Life Goes Strong
- ^ http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/26/2167558/best-actress-nominee-viola-davis.html
- ^ "Viola Davis Tackles Fear, Shines In 'Doubt'" December 10, 2008, NPR
- ^ A.V. Club Viola Davis interview, Feb. 2009
- ^ RIC to Award 1,300 Degrees at Commencement Exercises, from the website of Rhode Island College
- ^ TVGuide Viola Davis: Biography}
- ^ Brown, Gita, "Exclusive What’s News @ RIC interview: Viola Davis talks about her life and her new film", What's News, Rhode Island College, August 2, 2011
- ^ "Alumni News". Juilliard School. October 2011. http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2011-2012/1110/index.php.
- ^ Truly, Madly, Intimately, September 2004. American Theatre magazine
- ^ Sciretta, Peter (November 30, 2009). "Ryan Fleck’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story Begins Production". /Film. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5qQBRv9ri. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
- ^ http://news.moviefone.com/2012/04/18/time-100-most-influential-people-kristen-wiig-viola-davis_n_1434887.html
- ^ "Viola Davis Adopts a Daughter, Genesis" October 18, 2011, People Magazine
External links[link]
- Viola Davis at the Internet Broadway Database
- Viola Davis at the Internet Movie Database
- Viola Davis on Charlie Rose
- Works by or about Viola Davis in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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| Name | Davis, Viola |
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| Short description | American actress |
| Date of birth | August 11, 1965 |
| Place of birth | St. Matthews, South Carolina, United States |
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| Meryl Streep | |
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 Meryl Streep in Spain, 2008 |
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| Born | Mary Louise Streep (1949-06-22) June 22, 1949 (age 63) Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Vassar College; Yale School of Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Spouse | Don Gummer (m. 1978–present; 4 children) |
| Partner | John Cazale (1975–1978, his death) |
| Children | 4 (including Mamie Gummer and Grace Gummer) |
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949[1]) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time.[2][3][4]
Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Academy Award nomination and the latter her first win. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, an Australian Film Institute Award, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actress in each award's history.
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Early life and background[link]
Streep was born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey.[5] Her mother, Mary Wolf (née Wilkinson; 1915-2001), was a commercial artist and former art editor, and her father, Harry William Streep, Jr. (1910-2003), was a pharmaceutical executive.[6][7][8] She has two brothers, Dana David and Harry William III.[9] Her patrilineal ancestry originates in Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, emigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor. Another line of her father's family was from Giswil in the canton of Obwalden, a small town in Switzerland. Her maternal ancestry originates in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and partly traces back to 17th century immigrants from England.[8] Her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and records show that her family were among the first purchasers of land in the state.[10][11][12]
She was raised a Presbyterian,[13][14] and grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School.[15] She had many school friends who were Catholic, and regularly attended Mass because she loved its rituals.[16] She received her B.A., in Drama at Vassar College in 1971 (where she briefly received instruction from actress Jean Arthur), but also enrolled as an exchange student at Dartmouth College for a quarter before it became coeducational. She subsequently earned an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. While at Yale, she played a variety of roles onstage,[17] from the glamorous Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream to an eighty-year-old woman in a wheelchair in a comedy written by then-unknown playwrights Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato.[18][19][20]
Career[link]
Early career[link]
Streep performed in several theater productions in New York and New Jersey after graduating from Yale School of Drama,[21] including the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew with Raúl Juliá, and Measure for Measure opposite Sam Waterston and John Cazale. She started a relationship with Cazale, and was to live with him until his death three years later. She starred on Broadway in the Brecht/Weill musical Happy End, and won an Obie for her performance in the all-sung off-Broadway production of Alice at the Palace.
Streep began auditioning for film roles, and later recalled an unsuccessful audition for Dino De Laurentiis for the leading female role in King Kong. De Laurentiis commented to his son in Italian, "She's ugly. Why did you bring me this thing?" and was shocked when Streep replied in fluent Italian.[22] In New York City, she appeared in the 1976 Broadway double bill of Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. For the former, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Her other early Broadway credits include Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical Happy End in which she originally appeared off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center. She received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions.
Streep's first feature film was Julia (1977), in which she played a small but pivotal role during a flashback scene. Streep was living in New York City with Cazale, who had been diagnosed with bone cancer.[23] He was cast in The Deer Hunter (1978), and Streep was delighted to secure a small role because it allowed her to remain with Cazale for the duration of filming. She was not specifically interested in the part, commenting, "They needed a girl between the two guys and I was it."[24]
She played a leading role in the television miniseries Holocaust (1978) as a German woman married to a Jewish artist in Nazi era Germany. She later explained that she had considered the material to be "unrelentingly noble",[24] and had taken the role only because she had needed money.[25] Streep travelled to Germany and Austria for filming while Cazale remained in New York. Upon her return, Streep found that Cazale's illness had progressed, and she nursed him until his death on March 12, 1978. She spoke of her grief and her hope that work would provide a diversion; she accepted a role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) with Alan Alda, later commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot",[24] and performed the role of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew for Shakespeare in the Park.[26] With an estimated audience of 109 million, Holocaust brought a degree of public recognition to Streep, who was described in August 1978 as "on the verge of national visibility".[25] She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie[27] for her performance.
The Deer Hunter (1978) was released a month later, and Streep was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
Streep played a supporting role in Manhattan (1979) for Woody Allen, later stating that she had not seen a complete script and was given only the six pages of her own scenes,[28] and that she had not been permitted to improvise a word of her dialogue.[29] Asked to comment on the script for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), in a meeting with the producer Stan Jaffee, director Robert Benton and star Dustin Hoffman, Streep insisted that the female character was not representative of many real women who faced marriage breakdown and child custody battles, and was written as "too evil".[24] Jaffee, Benton and Hoffman agreed with Streep, and the script was revised.[24] In preparing for the part, Streep spoke to her own mother about her life as a mother and housewife with a career,[30] and frequented the Upper East Side neighborhood in which the film was set.[24] Benton allowed Streep to write her dialogue in two of her key scenes, despite some objection from Hoffman.[31] Jaffee and Hoffman later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting, "She's extraordinarily hardworking, to the extent that she's obsessive. I think that she thinks about nothing else but what she's doing."[32]
Streep drew critical acclaim for her performance in each of her three films released in 1979: the romantic comedy Manhattan, the political drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan and the family drama, Kramer vs. Kramer.[21] She was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in the three films. Among the awards won for Kramer vs. Kramer were the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.[21]
1980s[link]
After prominent supporting roles in two of the 1970s' most successful films, the consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Deer Hunter and Kramer vs. Kramer, and praise for her versatility in several supporting roles, Streep progressed to leading roles. Her first was The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). A story within a story drama, the film paired Streep with Jeremy Irons as contemporary actors, telling their modern story as well as the Victorian era drama they were performing. A New York Magazine article commented that, while many female stars of the past had cultivated a singular identity in their films, Streep was a "chameleon", willing to play any type of role.[33] Streep was awarded a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her work.
Her next film, the psychological thriller, Still of the Night (1982) reunited her with Robert Benton, the director of Kramer vs. Kramer, and co-starred Roy Scheider and Jessica Tandy. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, noted that the film was an homage to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, but that one of its main weaknesses was a lack of chemistry between Streep and Scheider, concluding that Streep "is stunning, but she's not on screen anywhere near long enough".[34]
As the Polish holocaust survivor in Sophie's Choice (1982), Streep's emotional dramatic performance and her apparent mastery of a Polish accent drew praise.[21] William Styron wrote the novel with Ursula Andress in mind for the part of Sophie, but Streep was very determined to get the role. After she obtained a pirated copy of the script, she went to Alan J. Pakula and threw herself on the ground begging him to give her the part. Streep filmed the "choice" scene in one take and refused to do it again, as she found shooting the scene extremely painful and emotionally exhausting.[35] Among several notable acting awards, Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Roger Ebert said of her performance, "Streep plays the Brooklyn scenes with an enchanting Polish-American accent (she has the first accent I've ever wanted to hug), and she plays the flashbacks in subtitled German and Polish. There is hardly an emotion that Streep doesn't touch in this movie, and yet we're never aware of her straining. This is one of the most astonishing and yet one of the most unaffected and natural performances I can imagine."
She followed this success with a biographical film, Silkwood (1983), in which she played her first real-life character, the union activist Karen Silkwood. She discussed her preparation for the role in an interview with Roger Ebert and said that she had met with people close to Silkwood to learn more about her, and in doing so realized that each person saw a different aspect of Silkwood.[36] Streep concentrated on the events of Silkwood's life and concluded, "I didn't try to turn myself into Karen. I just tried to look at what she did. I put together every piece of information I could find about her... What I finally did was look at the events in her life, and try to understand her from the inside."[36]
Her next films were a romantic drama, Falling in Love (1984) opposite Robert De Niro, and a British drama, Plenty (1985). Roger Ebert said of Streep's performance in Plenty that she conveyed "great subtlety; it is hard to play an unbalanced, neurotic, self-destructive woman, and do it with such gentleness and charm... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms."[37]
Out of Africa (1985) starred Streep as the Danish writer Karen Blixen and co-starred Robert Redford. A significant critical success, the film received a 63% "fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes.[38] Streep co-starred with Jack Nicholson in her next two films, the dramas Heartburn (1986) and Ironweed (1987), in which she sang onscreen for the first time since the television movie, Secret Service, in 1977. In A Cry in the Dark (1988), she played the biographical role of Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter in which Chamberlain claimed her baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for several other awards for her portrayal of Chamberlain.
In She-Devil (1989), Streep played her first comedic film role, opposite Roseanne Barr. Richard Corliss, writing for Time, commented that Streep was the "one reason" to see the film and observed that it marked a departure from the type of role for which she had been known, saying, "Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose."[39]
1990s[link]
From 1984 to 1990, Streep won six People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Actress and, in 1990, was named World Favorite.
In the 1990s, Streep continued to choose a great variety of roles, including a drug-addicted movie actress in a screen adaptation of Carrie Fisher's novel Postcards from the Edge, with Dennis Quaid and Shirley MacLaine. Streep and Goldie Hawn had established a friendship and were interested in making a film together. After considering various projects, they decided upon Thelma and Louise, until Streep's pregnancy coincided with the filming schedule, and the producers decided to proceed with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.[22] They subsequently filmed the farcical black comedy, Death Becomes Her, with Bruce Willis as their co-star. Time's Richard Corliss wrote approvingly of Streep's "wicked-witch routine" but dismissed the film as "She-Devil with a make-over".[40]
Biographer Karen Hollinger describes this period as a downturn in the popularity of Streep's films, which reached its nadir with the failure of Death Becomes Her, attributing this partly to a critical perception that her comedies had been an attempt to convey a lighter image following several serious but commercially unsuccessful dramas, and more significantly to the lack of options available to an actress in her forties.[41][clarification needed] Streep commented that she had limited her options by her preference to work in Los Angeles, close to her family,[41] a situation that she had anticipated in a 1981 interview when she commented, "By the time an actress hits her mid-forties, no one's interested in her anymore. And if you want to fit a couple of babies into that schedule as well, you've got to pick your parts with great care."[33]
In 1995, Streep played opposte Clint Eastwood in the love story The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Based on a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller,[42] it relates the story of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has a love affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife in Iowa named Francesca (Streep). Streep and Eastwood got along famously during production and such was their on-screen chemistry that a number of people believed that the two were having an affair off-camera, although this was denied by both.[43] The film was a hit at the box office and grossed $70 million in the United States.[44] The film, unlike the novel, surprised film critics and was warmly received. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that Clint had managed to create "a moving, elegiac love story at the heart of Mr. Waller's self-congratulatory overkill", while Joe Morgenstern of the The Wall Street Journal described The Bridges of Madison County as "one of the most pleasurable films in recent memory".[44]
In 1999, Streep portrayed Roberta Guaspari, a real-life New Yorker who found passion and enlightenment teaching violin to inner-city kids in East Harlem, in the music drama Music of the Heart. A departure from director Wes Craven’s previous work on films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series, Streep replaced singer Madonna who left the project before filming began due to creative differences with Craven. Required to perform on the violin, Streep went through two months of intense training, four to six hours a day.[45]
In addition, Streep appeared with Glenn Close in the movie version of Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits; The River Wild; Marvin's Room (with Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio); and One True Thing.
2000s[link]
Main article: Meryl Streep in the 2000s
Streep entered the 2000s with Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a science fiction film about a child-like android, played by Haley Joel Osment, uniquely programmed with the ability to love, voicing the Blue Fairy.[46] The same year, Streep co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert concert with Liam Neeson which was held in Oslo, Norway on December 11, 2001 in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the United Nations and Kofi Annan.[47]
In 2002, Streep returned to the stage for the first time in more than twenty years, playing Arkadina in The Public Theater's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.[48] The same year, she began work on Spike Jonze's comedy-drama Adaptation (2002), in which she portrayed real-life journalist Susan Orlean. Lauded by critics and viewers alike,[49] the film won Streep her fourth Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category.[50] Also in 2002, Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, based on the 1999 novel by Michael Cunningham. Focusing on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, the film was generally well received and won all three leading actresses a Silver Bear for Best Actress the following year.[50]
The following year, Streep had a cameo as herself in the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003) and reunited with Mike Nichols to star with Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in the HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner's six-hour play Angels in America, the story of two couples whose relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan Era politics. Streep, who was cast in four roles in the mini-series, received her second Emmy Award and fifth Golden Globe for her performance.[50] In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute,[50]. She appeared in Jonathan Demme's moderately successful remake of The Manchurian Candidate,[51] co-starring Denzel Washington, playing the role of a woman who is both a U.S. senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of a vice-presidential candidate.[52] The same year, she played the supporting role of Aunt Josephine in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events alongside Jim Carrey, based on the first three novels in Snicket's book series. The black comedy received generally favorable reviews from critics,[53] and won the Academy Award for Best Makeup.[54]
Streep was next cast in the 2005 comedy Prime, directed by Ben Younger. In the film, she played Lisa Metzger, the Jewish psychoanalyst of a divorced and lonesome business-woman, played by Uma Thurman, who enters a relationship with Metzger's 23-year-old son (Bryan Greenberg). A modest mainstream success, it eventually grossed US$67.9 million internationally.[55] In August and September 2006, she starred onstage at The Public Theater's production of Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.[56] The Public Theater production was a new translation by playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America), with songs in the Weill/Brecht style written by composer Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change); veteran director George C. Wolfe was at the helm. Streep starred alongside Kevin Kline and Austin Pendleton in this three-and-a-half-hour play in which she sang and appeared in almost every scene.
Also in 2006, Streep, along with Lily Tomlin, portrayed the last two members of what was once a popular family country music act in Robert Altman's final film A Prairie Home Companion. A comedic ensemble piece featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline and Woody Harrelson, the film revolves around the behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. The film grossed over US$26 million, the majority of which came from domestic markets.[57] Commercially, Streep fared better with a role in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), a loose screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. Streep portrayed the powerful and demanding Miranda Priestly, fashion magazine editor (and boss of a recent college graduate played by Anne Hathaway), and her performance drew rave reviews from critics and earned her many award nominations, including her record-setting 14th Oscar bid, as well as another Golden Globe. Upon its commercial release, the film became Streep's biggest commercial success yet, grossing more than US$326.5 million worldwide.[58]
In 2007, Streep was cast in four films. She portrayed a wealthy university patron in Chen Shi-zheng's much-delayed feature drama Dark Matter (2007), a film about a Chinese science graduate student who becomes violent after dealing with academic politics at a U.S. university. Inspired by the events of the 1991 University of Iowa shooting,[59] and initially scheduled for a 2007 release, producers and investors decided to shelve Dark Matter out of respect for the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007.[60] The drama received negative to mixed reviews upon its limited 2008 release.[61] Streep played a U.S. government official who investigates an Egyptian foreign national suspected of terrorism in the political thriller Rendition (2007), directed by Gavin Hood.[62] Keen to get involved in a thriller film, Streep welcomed the opportunity to star in a film genre for which she was not usually offered scripts and immediately signed on to the project.[63] Upon its release, Rendition was less commercially successful,[64] and received mixed reviews.[65]
Also in 2007, Streep had a short role alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in Lajos Koltai's drama film Evening, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot. Switching between the present and the past, it tells the story of a bedridden woman, who remembers her tumultuous life in the mid-1950s.[66] The film was released to lukewarm reactions by critics, who called it "beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull [and] a colossal waste of a talented cast."[67][68] Streep's last film of 2007 was Robert Redfords Lions for Lambs, a film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan, a U.S. senator, a reporter, and a California college professor.
In 2008, Streep found major commercial success when she starred in Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia!, a film adaptation of the musical of the same name, based on the songs of Swedish pop group ABBA. Co-starring Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Colin Firth, Streep played a single mother and a former backing singer, whose daughter (Seyfried), a bride-to-be who never met her father, invites three likely paternal candidates to her wedding on an idyllic Greek island.[69] An instant box office success, Mamma Mia! became Streep's highest-grossing film to date, with box office receipts of US$602.6 million,[70] also ranking it first among the highest-grossing musical films of all-time.[71] Nominated for another Golden Globe, Streep's performance was generally well received by critics, with Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe commenting "the greatest actor in American movies has finally become a movie star."[72] Streep's other film of 2008 was Doubt featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. A drama revolving around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings charges of pedophilia against a popular priest (Hoffman), the film became a moderate box office success,[73] but was hailed by many critics as one of the best of 2008.[74] The film received five Academy Awards nominations, for its four lead actors and for Shanley's script.[50]
In 2009, Streep played chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia, co-starring Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci. The first major motion picture based on a blog, it contrasts the life of Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell (Adams), who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 365 days, a challenge she described on her popular blog, The Julie/Julia Project, that would make her a published author. The same year, Streep also starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated, with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. She also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both of these films and won the award for the former.[75] Streep later received her 16th Oscar nomination for Julie & Julia.[76] She also lent her voice to Mrs. Felicity Fox in the stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox.
2010s[link]
Streep's first film of the 2010s was Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady (2011), a British biographical film about Margaret Thatcher, which takes a look at the Prime Minister during the Falklands War and her years in retirement.[77] Streep, who sat through a session at the House of Commons to observe British MPs in action in preparation for her role,[78] called her cast "a daunting and exciting challenge," and further added: "I am trying to approach the role with as much zeal, fervour and attention to detail as the real Lady Thatcher possesses – I can only hope my stamina will begin to approach her own."[79] While the film met with mixed critics, Streep's performance got rave reviews, earning her Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs as well as a third statuette at the Academy Awards.[80][81][82]
In July 2010, it was announced that Streep will star in an upcoming comedy entitled Mommy & Me alongside Tina Fey who will play her daughter. The film is being directed by Stanley Tucci.[83]
Accents and dialects[link]
Streep is well known for her ability to imitate foreign and domestic accents,[21] from Danish in Out of Africa (1985); to British RP in Plenty (also 1985), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and The Iron Lady (2011); and from Italian in The Bridges of Madison County (1995); to a Minnesota accent in A Prairie Home Companion (2006). In A Cry in the Dark (1988), critics were impressed with Streep's ability to master an Australian accent with shades of New Zealand English.[84] For her role in the film Sophie's Choice (1982), she took language courses to speak both English and German with a Polish accent. In The Iron Lady, she reproduced the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher, from the time before she became Britain's Prime Minister, and after she had taken elocution lessons to change her pitch, pronunciation and delivery. Despite the accolades accorded to her, Streep has emphasised that adopting accents is an element she simply considers an obvious part of creating a character. When asked whether accents helped her get into character, she responded, "I'm always baffled by this question... How could I play that part and talk like me?" When questioned as to how she reproduces different accents, Streep replied, "I listen."[85]
Music[link]
After Streep appeared in Mamma Mia!, her rendition of the song "Mamma Mia" rose to popularity in the Portuguese music charts, where it peaked at #8 in October 2008.[86]
At the 35th People's Choice Awards, her version of Mamma Mia won an award for "Favorite Song From A Soundtrack".[87] In 2008, Streep was nominated for a Grammy Award (her fifth nomination) for her work on the Mamma Mia! soundtrack.
Philanthropy[link]
Streep is the spokesperson for the National Women's History Museum, to which she has donated a significant amount of money (including her fee for The Iron Lady) and hosted numerous events. [88]
Personal life[link]
Streep lived with actor John Cazale for three years until his death in March 1978.[89][90] Streep married sculptor Don Gummer on September 15, 1978.[91] They have four children: Henry "Hank" Wolfe Gummer (born November 13, 1979), Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer (born August 3, 1983), Grace Jane Gummer (born May 9, 1986), and Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born June 12, 1991). Both Mamie and Grace are actresses.[6] Hank is a musician who performs under the name Henry Wolfe.[92]
When asked if religion plays a part in her life, in an interview in 2009, Streep replied, "I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram."[93] Streep does not rule out the possibility that God exists, “I do have a sense of trying to make things better. Where does that come from?”[94]
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Meryl Streep
In 1999, Streep was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.[95] Streep holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor, having been nominated 17 times since her first nomination in 1979 for her performance in The Deer Hunter (fourteen for Best Actress and three for Best Supporting Actress) – five more than both Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson, who are tied in second place.[96] With her third Oscar win for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) in 2012, Streep became the fifth performer to receive three Academy Awards: Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman and Walter Brennan all earned three, while Hepburn won four.[97]
In 2009, Streep became the most-nominated performer in Golden Globe Awards history when her double lead actress nods for Doubt (2008) and Mamma Mia! (2008) gave her 23 in total, breaking the tie with Jack Lemmon, who had received 22 lead nominations before his death in 2001.[98] The following year, Streep surpassed Jack Nicholson and Angela Lansbury, with six Golden Globe awards wins each, after receiving her seventh Globe for her performance as Julia Child in Julie & Julia (2009).[98] In 2012, she broke her own record when she garnered her 26th nomination and overall eighth win for The Iron Lady at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.
As with both the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards, Streep holds the BAFTA record for most nominations at 14 in total.[99] She received her second Best Actress award for The Iron Lady at the 65th ceremony in February 2012, following her first win in 1981 for her performance in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).[99]
In 1983, Yale University, from which Streep graduated in 1975,[100] was the first university to award her an honorary degree, a Doctorate of Fine Arts.[101] In 1998, Women in Film awarded Streep with the Crystal Award, an honor for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.[102] The same year, Streep received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2003, Streep was awarded an honorary César Award by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. In 2004, at the Moscow International Film Festival, Streep was honored with the Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting and devotion to the principles of Stanislavsky's school. Also in 2004, Streep received the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2008, Streep was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.[103] In 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Princeton University.[104] In 2010, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by Harvard University.[105][106]
On December 4, 2011 (program aired on CBS-TV on December 27, 2011), Streep received the 2011 Kennedy Center Honor (along with Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins, and Barbara Cook). On February 14, 2012, Streep received the Honorary Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.[107] She previously won the Berlinale Camera at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.[108]
Selected filmography[link]
Main article: Meryl Streep filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Linda | American Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
| 1979 | Manhattan | Jill | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Seduction of Joe Tynan and Kramer vs. Kramer) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Seduction of Joe Tynan and Kramer vs. Kramer) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Seduction of Joe Tynan and Kramer vs. Kramer) Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Seduction of Joe Tynan and Manhattan) National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan) National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (also for The Seduction of Joe Tynan and Manhattan) New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (and also The Seduction of Joe Tynan) Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Sarah/Anna | BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1982 | Sophie's Choice | Sophie Zawistowski | Academy Award for Best Actress Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Karen Silkwood | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Karen Blixen | David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniero) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1987 | Ironweed | Helen Archer | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1988 | A Cry in the Dark | Lindy Chamberlain | Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival) Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Suzanne Vale | American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1992 | Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton | Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1995 | The Bridges of Madison County | Francesca Johnson | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1998 | One True Thing | Kate Gulden | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role |
| 1999 | Music of the Heart | Roberta Guaspari | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Susan Orlean | Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Silver Bear for Best Actress Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2002 | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan | Silver Bear for Best Actress in Berlin International Film Festival (with Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman) Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated - Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Eleanor Shaw | Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Villain Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Donna | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated - London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year |
| 2008 | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated - London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Julia Child | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2009 | It's Complicated | Jane Adler | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher | Academy Award for Best Actress AACTA International Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Actress London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress UK's Annual Regional Film Awards for Best Actress Nominated - Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actress Nominated - Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Actress Defying Age and Ageism Nominated - Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Female Icon Award Nominated - Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (runner-up) Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated - Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actres Nominated - Iowa Film Critics Awards for Best Actress Nominated - Irish Film & Television Award for Best International Actress Nominated - National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated - Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Nominated - St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated - Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2012 | Hope Springs | Maeve Soames |
See also[link]
- List of people from New Jersey
- List of American actresses
- List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
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| Name | Streep, Meryl |
| Alternative names | Streep, Mary Louise |
| Short description | American actress |
| Date of birth | June 22, 1949 |
| Place of birth | Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Tavis Smiley | |
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 Tavis Smiley, 2011 |
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| Born | (1964-09-13) September 13, 1964 (age 47) Gulfport, Mississippi United States |
| Education | Indiana University (B.A., public affairs, 2003) |
| Occupation | Talk show host Author Entrepreneur Advocate Philanthropist |
| Notable credit(s) | Tavis Smiley host (2004–present) The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI (radio) host (2005–present) "Smiley & West" co-host (2010–present) BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley host (1996–2001) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Website | |
| http://www.tavistalks.com/ | |
Tavis Smiley (pronounced /ˈtævɨs/; born September 13, 1964) is a talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist.[1][2] Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year. Smiley then began hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR from 2002 to 2004 and currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS on the weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" from PRI. In 2010 Smiley and Dr. Cornel West have joined forces for their own radio talk show, Smiley & West. They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film Still Bill.[3]
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Early years[link]
Tavis Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the son of Joyce Marie Roberts, a single mother who first became pregnant at age 18.[4] On September 13, 1966, just shy of his second birthday, his mother married Emory Garnell Smiley, a non-commisioned officer in the U.S. Air Force.[5] It would not be until a few years later that Tavis would learn the identity of his biological father, whom he identifies in his autobiography, What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America only as "T."[6]
His family soon moved to Indiana because his stepfather had been transferred to Grissom Air Force Base near Peru, Indiana. Upon arriving in Indiana, the Smiley family took up residence in a crowded mobile home in the small town of Bunker Hill, Indiana.[7] Smiley's immediate family size was increased following the homicide of his aunt, whose death left five children with no stable home. Smiley's parents agreed to take in and raise their five orphaned nieces and nephews. Joyce and her husband also had eight children of their own over the years, resulting at one point in 13 children and Mr. and Mrs. Smiley all living in the trailer-home. Smiley's mother was a very religious person, and the family attended the local New Bethel Tabernacle Church, part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.[8] The Smiley children were forbidden from listening to secular music at home and going to the movie theater and could watch television shows that their parents felt were family-friendly.[9] When Tavis Smiley was in seventh grade, New Bethel pastor Elder Rufus Mills accused Tavis and his siblings of "running wild, disobeying their teacher, disrespecting their teacher, disrespecting the sanctity of this building, and mocking the holy message being taught" during Sunday School.[10] According to Smiley's account of the incident, Smiley's Sunday School teacher became more confused as she was asking questions about the Book of John, and while other students "responded by giggling and acting a little unruly", he and his sister Phyllis "remained quiet".[11] Garnell whipped Tavis and Phyllis with an extension cord, wounding the two children.[12] The next day at school, administrators found out about the children's injuries.[13] The local newspaper in Kokomo reported on the beating and the legal proceedings against Garnell, and Tavis and Phyllis were sent to foster care temporarily,[14] Garnell told his children that the judge decided that he had "overreacted" and found he and Joyce as "concerned parents who were completely involved in our children's lives and well-being".[15]
Smiley became interested in politics at age 13 after attending a fundraiser for U.S. Senator Birch Bayh.[8] At Maconaquah High School in Bunker Hill, Indiana, a school that Smiley described as "98 percent white",[16] Smiley was active in student council and the debate team, even though his parents were "skeptical of all non-church extracurricular activities".[17]
College and political career[link]
In 1982, Smiley enrolled in Indiana University Bloomington (IU). Because Smiley's parents refused to complete financial aid papers, Smiley entered Indiana University with only $50 and a small suitcase.[18] Administrators let Smiley complete the paperwork to become a full-time student.[19] The summer after his freshman year, Smiley worked, attended summer classes, and lived off campus with Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball players, then being coached by Bob Knight.[20] Smiley was accepted into the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity during his sophomore year and became business manager of his dormitory, a member of the student senate, and director of minority affairs.[21] After his friend Denver Smith was killed by Indiana police officers who claimed to have acted in self-defense, Smiley helped lead protests to defend Smith, whom he believed had been wrongfully killed.[22] Those protests led Smiley to a work-study internship at the office of Bloomington mayor Tomilea Allison. Being paid $5 an hour, Smiley wrote letters to local residents, researched for Mayor Allison, and helped write positions on local issues. Mayor Allison rebuked Smiley for padding his time sheets and had Smiley work off the extra hours without pay.[23] During his first semester of junior year, Smiley was under academic probation and blamed his extracurricular activities for interfering with his studies.[24] When Smiley visited Los Angeles to attend a national student leaders' convention, the cousin of his roommate introduced Smiley to football star Jim Brown. Brown introduced Smiley to fellow football player George Hughley, who worked for Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley and connected Smiley to Mayor Bradley's staff.[25] Every week since meeting Bradley's staff, Smiley wrote a letter to the mayor's office asking for an internship and once personally flew to Los Angeles to appeal. However, by summertime he received a letter from the city stating that all internship positions were filled.[26] Smiley then handwrote a letter to the mayor that he said represented his feeling "from the heart", and Bradley called Smiley to say that he had a position available for Smiley.[27] As the internship was unpaid but counted for college credit, the Bloomington Community Progress Council funded Smiley with $5,000 for living expenses in Los Angeles, and Brown allowed Smiley to live as a houseguest during September 1985. Starting the next month, Smiley lived in the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity house in the University of Southern California. At City Hall, Smiley worked at the Office of Youth Development on the 22nd floor.[28]
Twice, Smiley considered quitting college, first during junior year,[29] and then after finishing his internship with Mayor Bradley. Bradley successfully convinced Smiley to return to college, and Smiley did.[30] Smiley took the LSAT twice, as he was considering attending Harvard Law School.[31] However, in his senior year, he failed a test in a computer class after being accused of copying another student's, so he failed that class and several others and lacked nine hours of credits and thus did not graduate from IU.[32] Following a hiring freeze by the government of Los Angeles, Smiley served as an aide to Mayor Bradley until 1990.[33] A 1988 article in the Los Angeles Times identified Smiley as "a Bradley administrative assistant who works in South Los Angeles".[34] In 2003, Smiley officially received his degree from Indiana University in public affairs.[35]
Radio and television career[link]
Campaigning for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council in 1991 against incumbent Ruth Galanter, Smiley finished fourth among 15 candidates. Smiley became a radio commentator, broadcasting one-minute daily radio segments called The Smiley Report on KGFJ radio.[8] With Ruben Navarrette, Jr., Smiley co-hosted a local talk show in Los Angeles where his strongly held views on race and politics, combined with his arguments regarding the impact of institutional racism and substandard educational and economic opportunities for inner-city black youth, earned him attention on the Los Angeles Times. His commentaries focused on local and national current-affairs issues affecting the African-American community.[36] For six months, Smiley worked on a community news program on a local cable network and spent six more months working on television in Montreal.[37]
In 1996, Smiley became a frequent commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, a nationally syndicated radio show broadcast on black and urban stations in the United States.[38] He developed a friendship with host Joyner; together they began hosting annual town hall meetings beginning in 2000 called "The State of the Black Union", which were aired live on the C-SPAN cable television network. Each of these town hall meetings focused on a specific topic affecting the African-American community, featuring a panel of African-American leaders, educators, and professionals assembled before an audience to discuss problems related to the forum's topic, as well as potential solutions.[39] Smiley also used his commentator status on Joyner's radio show to launch several advocacy campaigns to highlight discriminatory practices in the media and government and to rally support for causes such as the awarding of a Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Smiley also began building a national reputation as a political commentator with numerous appearances on political discussion shows on MSNBC, ABC, and CNN.
Also in 1996, Smiley began hosting and executive producing BET Tonight (originally BET Talk when it first premiered), a public affairs discussion show on the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network. Smiley interviewed major political figures and celebrities and discussed topics ranging from racial profiling and police brutality to R&B music and Hollywood gossip. Smiley hosted BET Tonight until 2001, when in a controversial move, the network announced that Smiley's contract would not be renewed. This sparked an angry response from Joyner, who sought to rally his radio audience to protest BET's decision. Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET, defended the decision, stating that Smiley had been fired because he had sold an exclusive interview to ABC News without first offering the story to BET, even though Smiley's contract with BET did not require him to do so. Smiley countered with the assertion that he had offered the story — an interview with Sara Jane Olson, an alleged former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army — to CBS, which, along with BET, was owned by Viacom. Smiley ultimately sold the interview to rival network ABC, he said, only after CBS passed on the interview, and suggested that his firing was payback for the publicity he gained as a result of providing an exclusive interview to ABC.[40] Ultimately BET and Viacom did not reverse their decision to terminate Smiley's contract.
Smiley was then offered a chance to host a radio talk show on National Public Radio. He served as host of The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR until December 2004 when he announced that he would be leaving his NPR show, citing the network's inability to reach a more diverse audience.[41] Smiley launched a weekly version of his radio program The Tavis Smiley Show on April 29, 2005, distributed by NPR rival Public Radio International. On October 1, 2010, Tavis Smiley turned the second hour of his PRI program into Smiley & West co-hosted by his longtime collaborator Dr. Cornel West. Smiley also hosts Tavis Smiley, a late night talk show televised on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network and produced in association with WNET in New York.[42]
Smiley moderated two live presidential candidate forums in 2007: a Democratic forum on June 28 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.,[43] and a Republican forum on September 27 at Morgan State University in Baltimore.[44]
Smiley appears on the Democracy Now! show.[45]
Controversy over Presidential Candidate Barack Obama[link]
On April 11, 2008, Tavis Smiley announced that he would resign in June 2008 as a commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. He cited fatigue and a busy schedule in a personal call to Joyner. However, Joyner, referring to several commentaries in which Smiley was critical of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, indicated otherwise on his program, stating: "The real reason is that he can't take the hate he's been getting regarding the Barack issue—hate from the black people that he loves so much."[46] Prior to the public controversy and being elected President, Obama had been on Smiley's PBS show six times.
In 2012, Smiley participated in a "Poverty Tour" with Princeton University professor Cornel West in promoting their book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. The stated aim of the tour was to highlight the plight of the impoverished population of the United States prior to the 2012 Presidential Election, whose candidates Smiley and West stated had ignored the plight of the poor.[47][48][49][50]
[edit] The Covenant with Black America
In March 2006, The Smiley Group and Third World Press published The Covenant with Black America, a collection of essays by black scholars and professionals edited by Smiley. The book covered topics ranging from education to healthcare. The book was a New York Times Bestseller.[51]
Awards and contributions[link]
Smiley was honored with the NAACP Image Award for best news, talk, or information series for three consecutive years (1997–99) for his work on BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley.
Smiley's advocacy efforts have earned him numerous awards and recognitions including the recipient of the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award from the National Association of Minorities in Communications.
In 1999, he founded the Tavis Smiley Foundation, which funds programs that develop young leaders in the black community. Since its inception, more than 6,000 young people have participated in the foundation's Youth to Leaders Training workshops and conferences.
His communications company, The Smiley Group, Inc., serves as the holding company for various enterprises encompassing broadcast and print media, lecturers, symposiums, and the Internet.
In 1994, Time named Smiley one of America's 50 Most Promising Young Leaders.[52] Time would later honor him in 2009 as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". In May 2007, Smiley gave a commencement speech at his alma mater, Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana (the university recently honored Smiley by naming the atrium of its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) building, The Tavis Smiley Atrium).
In May 2008, he gave the commencement address at Connecticut College, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate. In May 2009, Smiley was awarded an honorary doctorate at Langston University after giving the commencement address there.
On December 12, 2008, Smiley received the Du Bois Medal from Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
He would also be awarded the 2009 Interdependence Day Prize from Demos in Istanbul, Turkey.
Smiley would be named No. 2 change agent in the field of media behind Oprah Winfrey in EBONY Magazine's POWER 150 list.
Bibliography[link]
- Just a Thought: The Smiley Report (ISBN 0-963-69523-1)
- Doing What's Right: How to Fight for What You Believe—And Make a Difference (ISBN 0-385-49931-0)
- Hard Left (ISBN 0-385-48404-6)
- Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America (ISBN 0-385-72169-2)
- How to Make Black America Better: Leading African Americans Speak Out (ISBN 0-385-72087-4)
- On Air:The Best of Tavis Smiley on the Tom Joyner Morning Show (ISBN 1-890194-33-6)
- The Covenant with Black America (ISBN 0-88378-277-4)
- What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America (ISBN 978-0-385-50516-1; ISBN 0-388-50516-7)
- Accountable: Making America As Good As Its Promise
- Fail Up (ISBN 1-401-93390-4)
- The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (with Cornel West) (ISBN 1-401940-63-3)
References[link]
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ Chicago Tribune
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 1
- ^ "Harrison - Guflport District, MS". Marriage License Link. Harrison County Mississippi. 1997-01-09. http://www.deltacomputersystems.com/cgi-iim4/IIMMCGI2?HTMCNTY=MS241&HTMBASE=C&HTMKEYBOOK=133&HTMKEYPAGE=0128&. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 49–50
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 17
- ^ a b c "Tavis Smiley". Contemporary Black Biography. Gale. 2006. http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/smiley_t.htm.
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 48
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 63
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 62
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 64–65
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 66–67
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 72–82
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 83
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 94
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 95, 98
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 128–131
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 136–138
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 149
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 149–150
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 151–153
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 159–162
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 165
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 167–170
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 170–174
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 177–180
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 184–186
- ^ Boyer, Edward J. (July 22, 1996). "Fast Track, Left Lane". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-22/local/me-26697_1_tavis-smiley. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 190–191
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 194–195
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 195–198
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 205–207
- ^ Baker, Bob (September 6, 1988). "Partners Make Watts Market a Meaty Venture". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-06/local/me-1693_1_market-share/2. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ^ "Tavis Smiley". Rootwords. Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~ibe/enlighten.shtml. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ^ Puig, Claudia (November 6, 1994). "What's The Frequency, Gen X?". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-06/entertainment/ca-59273_1_talk-radio. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ^ Smiley 2006, pp. 214–215
- ^ "Tavis Smiley". Current Biography. TavisTalks.com. 2003. Archived from the original on May 16, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060516175753/http://www.tavistalks.com/CONTENT/About_Tavis_Smiley/index7.html.
- ^ Smiley 2006, p. 252
- ^ Smiley's termination from BET
- ^ Farley, Christopher John (December 13, 2004), "10 Questions For Tavis Smiley", Time 164 (24): p. 8, http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,880301,00.html
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ Nagourney, Adam (June 29, 2007). "Domestic Issues Frame Democratic Debate in a Mostly Minority Setting". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/us/politics/29debate.html. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ^ Cooper, Michael (September 28, 2007). "Advertise on NYTimes.com 4 Top G.O.P. Candidates Skip Debate With Minority Focus". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402EFDF1430F93BA1575AC0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ^ "Tavis Smiley on the State of the Black Union, Economic Inequality and the Obama Administration’s Boycott of the World Conference Against Racism". 2009-03-02. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/2/tavis_smiley_on_the_state_of.
- ^ Tavis Smiley Will Cut Ties With Joyner Radio Show, Washington Post, Saturday, April 12, 2008; Page C01
- ^ "Cornel West & Tavis Smiley on Obama: "Many of Us Are Exploring Other Possibilities in Coming Election”". Democracy Now!. August 9, 2011. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/9/cornel_west_tavis_smiley_on_obama. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ Tavis Smiley, Hard Left, p. 11
Further reading[link]
- LaRue, William. "Tavis Smiley: NPR Host Brings Latenight Talk to PBS". The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York), 1 February 2004, STARS section, pp. 4–6.
- Slade, Scott. "Author Issues Wakeup Call". Kokomo Tribune (Indiana), 20 June 1996, p. 7.
- Smiley, Tavis (2006), What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America, New York City, New York, United States: Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50516-7, http://books.google.com/books?id=lBHwtgmBJ1IC </ref>
External links[link]
- Official website
- Tavis Smiley on Twitter
- Tavis Smiley on WNET/PBS
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Tavis Smiley on Charlie Rose
- Tavis Smiley at NPR
- Works by or about Tavis Smiley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Tavis Smiley: The State of the Black Union Interview
- Tavis Smiley on Rev. Martin Luther King and His Opposition to the Vietnam War - video by Democracy Now!
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| Name | Smiley, Tavis |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | Talk show host, author, entrepreneur, advocate, philanthropist |
| Date of birth | September 13, 1964 |
| Place of birth | Gulfport, Mississippi |
| Date of death | |
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| Octavia Spencer | |
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 Octavia Spencer, May 2005 |
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| Born | Octavia Lenora Spencer May 25, 1970 (age 42) Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Auburn University |
| Occupation | Actress |
Octavia Lenora Spencer[1] (born May 25, 1970)[2][3][4] is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Minny, the outspoken maid in the 2011 film, The Help, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, among other accolades including the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Early life and education[link]
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she is the sixth of seven children. Her mother worked as a maid.[5] Spencer graduated from Jefferson Davis High School in 1988,[6][7] spent two years at Auburn Montgomery[8] studying drama (1988–89), and received a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts from Auburn University.[9]
Career[link]
At 16, she worked as an intern on the set of The Long Walk Home, a film starring Whoopi Goldberg.[10]
Spencer made her film debut as a nurse in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill based on the book by John Grisham. She was originally hired to work on casting, but asked Schumacher if she could audition for a small part.[11] Other film credits include: Never Been Kissed, Big Momma's House, Bad Santa, Spider-Man, Coach Carter, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and Pretty Ugly People. She has made a number of guest appearances on a myriad of hit series including: Raising the Bar, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Big Bang Theory, Wizards of Waverly Place, NYPD Blue, Grounded for Life, ER, Titus, Becker and Dharma & Greg. However, she is best known for her starring roles as Serenity Johnson on Comedy Central's Halfway Home, and Constance Grady, the amorous INS caseworker on Ugly Betty.
In 2003, she made her stage debut in Los Angeles, in Del Shores' award-winning play, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, starring opposite veteran actress Beth Grant. It was her first and only play, as she told Back Stage Magazine that she suffers from "stage fright."[12] Later that year, she starred opposite Emmy Award-winner Allison Janney in Tate Taylor's critically lauded and award-winning short feature, Chicken Party.
In 2008, Spencer's brief appearance in Seven Pounds as Kate, Rosario Dawson's home care nurse, garnered her high praise and media attention.[13]
In April 2009, Entertainment Weekly listed Spencer in its list of 25 Funniest Actresses in Hollywood.[14]
In August 2009, Spencer appeared in Rob Zombie's Halloween II. She also had a role in the American remake of the Danish classic Love at First Hiccup opposite Scout Taylor-Compton. Spencer starred in the hit web series-turned feature film Herpes Boy alongside Beth Grant, Ahna O'Reilly, and Byron Lane; and, can be heard as the voice of "Minny" on the audio version of The Help, the award-winning "New York Times Best Seller" by Kathryn Stockett. Later that year, Spencer's short film The Captain was honored by the CICFF as a finalist for the coveted REEL Poetry Award.
In August 2010, Spencer joined Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard in DreamWorks' production of The Help. She played the feisty and unflappable domestic, "Minny Jackson." The film was directed by Tate Taylor, and produced by Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, and Mark Radcliffe. Her role garnered her critical acclaim, and started buzz for various awards nominations. She won the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her work in The Help.[15]
On February 12, 2012 she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her Performance in The Help, and on February 26 she won the Academy Award/Best Supporting Actress for the same performance; making it her first Oscar nomination and first win.
Filmography[link]
- Films & Televison
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Roark's Nurse | |
| 1997 | The Sixth Man | Nativity Watson | |
| Sparkler | Wanda | ||
| 1999 | Lansky (TV movie) | Evelyn the Maid | |
| Never Been Kissed | Cynthia | ||
| Being John Malkovich | Woman in Elevator | ||
| Blue Streak | Shawna | ||
| 2000 | The Sky Is Falling | Nurse #2 | |
| Malcolm in the middle | Cashier | TV series; season 2, episode 09 | |
| Everything Put Together | Nurse B | ||
| Missing Pieces (TV movie) | Elegant Guest | ||
| American Virgin | Agnes Large | ||
| What Planet Are You From? | Baby Nurse | ||
| Auto Motives | Rhonda | ||
| Big Momma's House | Twila | ||
| Four Dogs Playing Poker | Waitress | ||
| 2001 | Sol Goode | Unemployment Clerk | |
| The Journeyman | Black Belly | ||
| Follow the Stars Home (TV movie) | Hildy | ||
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Check-In Girl | |
| Little John (TV movie) | Waitress | ||
| 2003 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Security Guard | |
| S.W.A.T. | Neighbor in Alley | ||
| Chicken Party | Laqueta Mills | ||
| Bad Santa | Opal | ||
| 2004 | Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! | Janine | |
| Breakin' All the Rules | Stylist | ||
| 2005 | Coach Carter | Mrs. Battle | |
| Pretty Persuasion | Woman | ||
| Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School |
Ayisha Lebaron | ||
| Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous | Octavia – Bookstore | ||
| Beauty Shop | Big Customer | ||
| Wannabe | Lady Chanet Janney Jones | ||
| 2006 | Pulse | Landlady | |
| 2006–2007 | The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman |
Cheryl / Female Security Guard | TV series; 4 episodes |
| 2007 | The Nines | Streetwalker | |
| Halfway Home | Serenity Johnson | TV series; 10 episodes | |
| Ugly Betty | Constance Grady | TV series; "Sofia's Choice", "I'm Coming Out""Icing on the Cake", "Punch Out" | |
| 2008 | Next of Kin | Grace | |
| Pretty Ugly People | Mary | ||
| The Spleenectomy | Nurse | ||
| Seven Pounds | Kate (Home Health Care Nurse) | ||
| Wizards of Waverly Place | Dr. Evilini | TV series; 2 episodes | |
| 2009 | The First Time (Love At First Hiccup) | Mrs. Hambrick | |
| Drag Me to Hell | Bank Co-Worker #1 | ||
| Jesus People: The Movie | Angel Angelique | ||
| The Soloist | Troubled Woman | ||
| Just Peck | Detention Room Teacher | ||
| Halloween II | Nurse Daniels | ||
| Dollhouse | Professor Jackie | TV series; 1 episode | |
| Herpes Boy | Rochelle | ||
| Small Town Saturday Night | Rhonda Dooley | ||
| Raising the Bar | Arvina Watkins | TV series; 5 episodes | |
| 2010 | Dinner For Schmucks | Madame Nora | |
| 2011 | The Help | Minny Jackson | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress African American Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Black Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actress Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Ensemble NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Breakthrough Performance Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Black Reel Award for Breakthrough Performance Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Houston Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| Peep World | Allison | ||
| Flypaper | Madge Wiggins | ||
| 2012 | Smashed | Jenny |
References[link]
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External links[link]
- Octavia Spencer at the Internet Movie Database
- Octavia Spencer biography – Comedy Central
- "Perfect Casting", BlogStage, Back Stage magazine, May 2010
- Riley, Jenelle, "Octavia Spencer: The quip queen", AllBusiness.com
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| Maggie Gyllenhaal | |
|---|---|
 Gyllenhaal at the 66th Golden Globe Awards, January 11, 2009 |
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| Born | Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal (1977-11-16) November 16, 1977 (age 34) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse | Peter Sarsgaard (2009–present) |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Jake Gyllenhaal (brother) |
Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal[1] ( /ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/;[2][3] born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (née Achs) and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films. Gyllenhaal achieved recognition in a supporting role in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001). Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 sadomasochistic romance Secretary, for which she received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination.
Gyllenhaal has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the indie film Sherrybaby (2006), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, the romantic comedy Trust the Man (2006), and big-budget films such as World Trade Center (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008). She next starred in the 2009 musical-drama Crazy Heart, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Gyllenhaal has also appeared in theatrical plays, including Closer (2000), and television productions, including Strip Search (2004).
Gyllenhaal has been in a relationship with actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2002. In 2006 the two became engaged, and Gyllenhaal gave birth to their daughter, Ramona, on October 3, 2006. On May 2, 2009, she married Sarsgaard in Italy. The second daughter, Gloria Ray, was born April, 19, 2012. Gyllenhaal is a politically active Democrat and, like her brother and parents, supports the American Civil Liberties Union. Prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq she participated in anti-war demonstrations. She is actively involved in human rights, civil liberty, and anti-poverty campaigns.
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Early life[link]
Gyllenhaal was born in New York City to film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (née Achs).[4] Jake Gyllenhaal, her younger brother, is also an actor. Her father, who was raised in the Swedenborgian religion, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and is a member of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.[5] Her last purely Swedish ancestor was her great-grandfather, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings.[6] Her mother is Jewish (with ancestors from Russia and Lithuania),[7] from New York City, and is the ex-wife of Eric Foner,[8] a history professor at Columbia University.[9][10] Gyllenhaal has stated that she "grew up mostly Jewish, culturally", though she did not attend Hebrew school.[11] Her parents, who married in 1977, filed for divorce in October 2008.[12]
Gyllenhaal grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the Harvard–Westlake prep school.[9] In 1995 she graduated from Harvard–Westlake and moved to New York to attend Columbia University, where she studied literature and Eastern religions;[9][13] she graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[9] After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London,[14] she took a summer job working as a waitress in a Massachusetts restaurant.[15]
Career[link]
Early work[link]
Gyllenhaal's first films – her feature film debut at the age of 15, Waterland (1992); A Dangerous Woman (1993); and Homegrown (1998) – were directed by her father; the last two also featured her brother; they had supporting roles as children.[9] With their mother, she and Jake appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network.[16] After graduating from college, she played supporting roles in films like Cecil B. Demented (2000) and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001).[17] Gyllenhaal later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real brother's on-screen sister in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001).[18]
She made her theatrical debut in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of Patrick Marber's Closer,[19][20] for which she received favorable reviews.[21][22] Production started in May 2000 and ended in mid-July of that year.[21] Gyllenhaal has performed in several other plays, including The Tempest,[23] Antony and Cleopatra, The Butterfly Project, and No Exit.[24]
2002–2005[link]
Gyllenhaal's break-out role was in the black comedy Secretary (2002), a film about two people who embark on a mutually fulfilling BDSM lifestyle.[25] New York Times critic Stephen Holden noted: "The role of Lee, which Maggie Gyllenhaal imbues with a restrained comic delicacy and sweetness, should make her a star."[25] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Maggie Gyllenhaal, as the self-destructive secretary, is enigmatic and, at moments, sympathetic."[26] The film received generally favorable reviews,[27] and Gyllenhaal's performance earned her the Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures,[28] her first Golden Globe nomination,[29] and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.[30] Secretary was Gyllenhaal's first film role which featured full frontal nudity.[31][32] Although impressed with the script, she initially had some qualms about doing the film, which she believed could deliver an anti-feminist message. Yet after carefully discussing the script with the film's director, Steven Shainberg, she agreed to join the project.[33] Although insisting Shainberg did not exploit her, Gyllenhaal has said she felt "scared when filming began" and that "in the wrong hands ... even in just slightly less intelligent hands, this movie could say something really weird."[18] Since then, she is guarded about discussing her role in the film, saying only that "despite myself, sometimes the dynamic that you are exploring in your work spills over into your life."[18]
She next played a supporting role in the comedy-drama Adaptation. (2002), a film that tells the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's struggle to adapt The Orchid Thief into a film.[34] She later appeared in the unauthorized biography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), part of an ensemble cast that included Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts.[35] The movie grossed $33 million worldwide.[36] That same year, she had a smaller role in the comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights.[37]
In 2003 she co-starred with Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile in the role of Giselle.[38] In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she revealed the reason for accepting the role was "to play somebody who feels confident in herself as a sexy, beautiful woman".[39] The film generated mostly critical reviews,[40] with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as "smug and reductive".[41] Her next roles were in smaller independent films: Casa de los Babys (2003), a story about six American women impatiently waiting out their lengthy residency requirements in an unidentified South American country before picking up their adoptive babies,[42] and Criminal (2004), a remake of the Argentinian film Nine Queens, with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna.[43] Gyllenhaal plays an honest hotel manager forced to help her crooked brother (Reilly) by seducing one of his victims.[43] Gyllenhaal was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2004.[44] She starred in the HBO film Strip Search (2004), where she portrayed an American student in China suspected of terrorism.[45]
In 2004 Gyllenhaal returned to theater in a Los Angeles production of Tony Kushner's Homebody/ Kabul as Priscilla, the Homebody's daughter, who spends most of the play searching for her elusive mother in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kushner gave her the role in Homebody/ Kabul on the strength of her performance in Closer.[46] Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Gyllenhaal provides the essential bridge between the parts of the play's title."[47] John Heilpern of The New York Observer noted that Gyllenhaal's performance was "compelling".[48] Viewed as a sex symbol, she was ranked in the "Hot 100 List" by Maxim magazine in 2004 and 2005.[49][50]
Gyllenhaal's next film role was in the 2005 comedy-drama Happy Endings, in which she played an adventuress singer who seduces a young gay musician (Jason Ritter) as well as his rich father (Tom Arnold). She recorded songs for the movie's soundtrack,[38][51] calling the role the "roughest, scariest acting ever" and adding she is more natural when singing on screen than when acting.[51] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly declared Gyllenhaal's performance "as wonderfully, naturally slouchy-sexy as her character is artificial".[52]
2006–present[link]
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Following Happy Endings, she starred in the 2006 films Trust the Man, Stranger than Fiction, Monster House, World Trade Center, and Sherrybaby. In Trust the Man, featuring Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, and Billy Crudup, she played Elaine, who has been dating Tobey, Crudup's character, for seven years and has begun to feel that it is time for her to settle down and start a family.[53][54] The film was critically and financially unsuccessful.[55][56] Ethan Alter of Premiere felt that the performances by Gyllenhaal and Duchovny were "much more at ease" and concluded with "that's probably because they're [sic] played these characters many times before".[57] In Stranger than Fiction, Gyllenhaal played a love interest of Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell.[58] Her performance in the film received favorable reviews; Mike Straka of Fox News wrote: "Gyllenhaal has never been sexier in any film before and her interplay with Ferrell will propel her to more A-list films, leaving her indie-darling days behind, no doubt."[59] She voiced Elizabeth "Zee" in the computer animated horror film Monster House.[60] Gyllenhaal played Allison Jimeno, the wife of Port Authority officer Will Jimeno, in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, based on the September 11 attacks in New York City.[61] She regarded this as "one of the films she most enjoyed making".[18] The film received favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $162 million worldwide.[62][63]
In Sherrybaby, Gyllenhaal played a young drug-addicted thief trying to put her life in order after prison so she can reconcile with her daughter. During promotion of the film, she noted of her portrayal of the character: "I think she's in such dire straights [sic] that all she has are these kind of naive, fierce hope. And while I was playing the part I was looking for pleasure and hope in everything, even in these really bleak things. And so it was really mostly after I finished the movie that I felt pain."[64] Her performance in the film was well received: David Germain of the Associated Press wrote, "Gyllenhaal humanizes her so deeply and richly ... that Sherry elicits sympathy even in her darkest and weakest moments",[65] and Dennis Harvey of Variety called her performance "naturalistic".[66] For her work, Gyllenhaal earned her second Golden Globe Best Actress nomination[67] and won the Best Actress category award at the 2006 Stockholm International Film Festival.[68]
She appeared in The Dark Knight (2008), the sequel to Batman Begins (2005), in which she replaced Katie Holmes as Assistant District Attorney, Rachel Dawes.[69][70] Gyllenhaal acknowledged her character was a damsel in distress to an extent, but said director Christopher Nolan sought ways to empower her character, so "Rachel's really clear about what's important to her and unwilling to compromise her morals, which made a nice change" from the many conflicted characters she had previously portrayed.[71] The Dark Knight was a financial and critical success, setting a new opening weekend box office record for North America. With revenue of $1 billion worldwide,[72] it became the fourth highest grossing film of all time,[73] and remains Gyllenhaal's most commercially successful picture to date. In a Salon.com review of the film, Stephanie Zacharek called Gyllenhaal's character "a tough cookie in a Stanwyck-style bias-cut gown" and stated that "the movie feels smarter and more supple when she's on-screen".[74] IGN film critic Todd Gilchrist wrote, "Gyllenhaal adds real depth and energy to Rachel Dawes."[75]
Gyllenhaal played Yelena in the Classic Stage Company's 2009 Off Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in New York City.[76][77] The cast also included Peter Sarsgaard, Mamie Gummer, Denis O'Hare, and George Morfogen.[76][77] The production, directed by Austin Pendleton, began previews on January 17 and ended its limited run on March 1.[76][77] Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News was less than enthusiastic about her performance, writing: "Gyllenhaal, who was so dynamic as a druggie in the film Sherrybaby, plays Yelena with a slow-mo saunter and monotonous pasted-on smile that makes it seem as if she's been in Sherry's stash."[78] However, Malcolm Johnson of the Hartford Courant was complimentary, noting that she "ultimately blossoms" as the character.[79]
Gyllenhaal agreed to appear in the comedy film Away We Go, where she plays a bohemian college professor who is an old friend of John Krasinski's character.[80][81] The film generated broadly mixed reviews,[82] with Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly describing Gyllenhaal's subplot as "over-the-top".[83] However, A. O. Scott of the New York Times praised Gyllenhaal and co-star Allison Janney for their performances, writing that "both [are] quite funny".[84] Scott concluded with, "Ms. Gyllenhaal’s line about sex roles in 'the seahorse community' is the screenplay’s one clean satirical bull’s-eye".[84] Her next role came in the musical-drama Crazy Heart, in which she played journalist Jean Craddock, who falls for musician Bad Blake, played by Jeff Bridges.[85] The movie received favorable reviews,[86] with Gyllenhaal receiving praise from critics. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone reported that Gyllenhaal was "funny, touching and vital as Jean" and that her part was "conventionally conceived, but Gyllenhaal plays it with a tough core of intelligence and feeling."[87] Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[88]
In 2010 Gyllenhaal appeared in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, the sequel to the 2005 film Nanny McPhee.[89] The role required her to speak with an English accent.[90] The feature received mixed reviews,[91] and earned $93 million worldwide.[92] Away from acting, she served as host of the PBS television documentary series Independent Lens.[93] Gyllenhaal also appeared in Hysteria, an independent movie focusing on the creation of the vibrator.[94]
In February 2011 Gyllenhaal starred in another Anton Chekhov production as the character Masha in Austin Pendleton's Three Sisters at the Classic Stage Company.[95] The play focuses on the Prozorov sisters (Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hecht, and Juliet Rylance) "unlucky in love, unhappy in the provinces and longing to return to Moscow", as summarized by Bloomberg's Jeremy Gerard.[96] The off-Broadway production began preview performances on January 12, with a limited engagement through March 6.[97]
Personal life[link]
Gyllenhaal has been in a relationship with actor Peter Sarsgaard,[98] a close friend of her brother Jake, since 2002.[38] They announced their engagement in April 2006,[99][100] and married on May 2, 2009 in a small chapel in Brindisi, Italy.[101][102] The couple has two daughters: Ramona (born October 3, 2006)[103] and Gloria Ray (born April 19, 2012).[104] The family lives in Brooklyn, New York.[105]
Activism[link]
Politics[link]
Gyllenhaal is politically active. At the 18th Independent Spirit Awards, she spoke out against the Iraq war, stating the reason for the invasion was "oil and imperialism".[106][107] Gyllenhaal took part in Artists United to Win Without War, a campaign started by Robert Greenwald with the aim of advancing progressive causes and voicing opposition to the Iraq War.[14][108] She and her brother Jake filmed a commercial for Rock the Vote, and visited the University of Southern California (USC) campus to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election,[109] in which she supported John Kerry.[110][111] Gyllenhaal supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.[112][113] She has campaigned on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an organization her family strongly supports.[114][115]
Charity work[link]
Besides acting, she has modeled for Miu Miu[116] Reebok,[117] and Agent Provocateur,[118] and recorded the first unabridged audiobook version of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar.[119] Gyllenhaal is a supporter of Witness, a non-profit organization that uses video and online technologies to expose human rights violations.[120][121] She co-hosted a benefit dinner with founder Peter Gabriel in November 2007.[122][123] Gyllenhaal helped raise funds for TrickleUp.org, a non-profit organization that helps impoverished people start a micro-enterprise.[124] For one of the fundraisers, Gyllenhaal helped design and promote a necklace that sold for $100; all proceeds from sales went to the charity.[125] In October 2008 she hosted a fashion show event called "Fashionably Natural", which was presented by Gen Art and SoyJoy in Los Angeles.[126][127] The show featured four up-and-coming designers who only worked with all-natural and eco-friendly fabrics and materials.[126][127]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Waterland | Maggie Ruth | |
| 1993 | A Dangerous Woman | Patsy | |
| 1996 | Shattered Mind | Clothes clerk | TV |
| 1998 | Homegrown | Christina | |
| 1998 | Patron Saint of Liars !The Patron Saint of Liars | Lorraine Thomas | TV |
| 1999 | Resurrection | Mary | TV |
| 2000 | Photographer !The Photographer | Mira | |
| 2000 | Cecil B. Demented | Raven | |
| 2001 | Riding in Cars with Boys | Amelia Forrester | |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko | Elizabeth Darko | |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Debbie | Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Caroline Cunningham | Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer |
| 2002 | 40 Days and 40 Nights | Sam | |
| 2002 | Secretary | Lee Holloway |
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| 2003 | Mona Lisa Smile | Giselle Levy | |
| 2003 | Casa de los Babys | Jennifer | |
| 2004 | Criminal | Valerie | |
| 2004 | Strip Search | Linda Sykes | TV |
| 2005 | Great New Wonderful !The Great New Wonderful | Emme | |
| 2005 | Happy Endings | Jude | Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female |
| 2006 | Stranger than Fiction | Ana Pascal | Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress |
| 2006 | Trust the Man | Elaine | |
| 2006 | Sherrybaby | Sherry Swanson |
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| 2006 | Paris, je t'aime | Liz | Segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges" only |
| 2006 | World Trade Center | Allison Jimeno | |
| 2006 | Monster House | Elizabeth "Zee" | Nominated — Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production |
| 2008 | Dark Knight !The Dark Knight | Rachel Dawes |
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| 2009 | Away We Go | Ellen "LN" | |
| 2009 | Crazy Heart | Jean Craddock | |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee Returns | Mrs. Green | |
| 2011 | Hysteria | Charlotte Dalrymple | |
| 2012 | Won't Back Down |
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Further reading[link]
- Berkshire, Geoff. "'Dark Knight' Q&A: Maggie Gyllenhaal." Chicago Metromix. July 13, 2008. Accessed December 15, 2008.
- Blanks, Tim. "Maggie Gyllenhaal." Interview Magazine. November 17, 2008. Accessed January 13, 2009.
- Brinton, Jessica. "Maggie Gyllenhaal's rising star." The Times. July 20, 2008. Accessed October 9, 2008.
- DiLiberto, Rebecca. "Finding her place in a new world order." The Boston Globe. July 22, 2008. Accessed December 14, 2008.
- Fischer, Paul. "Maggie Gyllenhaal Dark Knight Interview." Femail. Accessed October 9, 2008.
- Freydkin, Donna. "'Dark Knight' puts spotlight on publicity-shunning Gyllenhaal." USA Today. July 13, 2008. Accessed September 27, 2008.
- Freydkin, Donna. "Gyllenhaal does something for herself: Star in 'Crazy Heart'." USA Today. January 3, 2010. Accessed January 4, 2010.* Head, Steve. "IGN: Happy Endings for Ms. Gyllenhaal." IGN Movies. January 3, 2005. Accessed November 4, 2008.
- Heyman, Marshall. "The Pictures: Sad-Eyed Siblings." New York Magazine. July 22, 2002. Accessed January 14, 2009.
- Hill, Lawrence. "Lady of the Knight." Sunday Herald. September 27, 2008. Accessed September 27, 2008.
- Kelly, Nick. "A light that never goes out." Irish Independent. July 25, 2008. Accessed April 3, 2009.
- Lytal, Cristy. "Maggie Gyllenhaal in ‘The Dark Knight’." Los Angeles Times. July 17, 2008. Accessed February 2, 2009.
- Rees, Serena. "Maggie Gyllenhaal: Romantic chemistry." The Daily Telegraph. May 9, 2007. Accessed September 27, 2008.
- Riggs, Jonathan. "Maggie Begins." Instinct Magazine. August 1, 2005. Accessed December 14, 2008.
- Rosen, Alison. "The Hot Seat–Maggie Gyllenhaal." Time Out New York. Issue 570: August 31 – September 6, 2006. Accessed December 14, 2008.
- Schwartz, Missy. "Maggie, Maybe...." Entertainment Weekly. July 28, 2006. Accessed May 28, 2009.
- Snook, Raven. "Features–Maggie Gyllenhaal interview." Time Out New York Kids. Issue 38: December 1–30, 2008.
- Stewart, Sara. "Maggie Gyllenhaal." New York Post. July 6, 2008. Accessed September 27, 2008.
- Wolf, Jeanne. "Maggie Gyllenhaal Is No Stay At Home Mom." Parade. July 11, 2008. Accessed January 13, 2009.
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