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Retta Sirleaf, better known simply as Retta, is an American stand-up comedian and actress, who is currently appearing as Donna Meagle on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation. She has appeared in several films and television shows, and has performed stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend.
Retta is from New Jersey, and graduated from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She started working in the pharmaceutical research field before moving to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in comedy. Retta started performing stand-up comedy in 1996, although she said she did not start "earning money" until 1998, when she started touring on the college circuit. Retta said she used to get "really nauseous" before a performance, but that the feeling passed with experience. Retta has said her stand-up material tends to be slightly embellished stories from her regular everyday life, family, and friends. She has also made jokes about her own obesity. Retta has stated she would give up stand-up comedy for a full-time acting career if possible: "I'm not married to stand-up, just because it's a road thing. It's very lonely with all the traveling."
Actors: Khari Ajene (actor), Khari Ajene (producer), Khari Ajene (writer), Khari Ajene (director), Khari Ajene (editor), Eli Harris (actor), Sarah Dewey (actress), Francesca Forte (actress), James Devin (actor), Lindsay Hawkins (actress), Delores McEachin (actress), Atera Niko Tafoya (actress), Keta James (actress), Marika Carter (actress),
Genres: Crime,Actors: Philip Saville (director), Sara Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Anjelica Huston (actress), David Fox (actor), Michael Rhoades (actor), Jaap Broeker (miscellaneous crew), Tara Strong (actress), Janet-Laine Green (actress), Dermot Mulroney (actor), Sam Neill (actor), Kyra Sedgwick (actress), Simon Reynolds (actor), Corey Sevier (actor), Les Alexander (producer), Don Enright (producer),
Plot: Nina Eberlin comes home to visit her now-divorced parents and while looking through a collection of pictures taken by her father and herself, she reflects on how the pictures illustrate the nature of families. She begins to tell the story of how her parents discovered their son Randall was autistic and how each reacted to that. Her mother had three more kids, all daughters, "the perfect children." The controversy over that and Randall's treatment pulls the parents apart. It also forces Nina and her older brother Mack to re-evaluate their relationship with each other and each parent.
Keywords: autism, based-on-novelActors: Siegfried Rauch (actor), Viktor Afritsch (actor), Frantisek Cáp (director), Bernhard Eichhorn (composer), Peter Ostermayr (writer), Walter Janssen (actor), Veronika Fitz (actress), Franz Loskarn (actor), Barbara Rütting (actress), Wolf Neumeister (writer), Carl Möhner (actor), Maria Hofen (actress), Til Kiwe (actor), Claus von Boro (editor), Ottmar Ostermayr (producer),
Genres: Drama,