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The fifth season of Madam Secretary an American political drama television series, originally aired in the United States on CBS from October 7, 2018, through April 21, 2019. This season was produced by CBS Television Studios, with Barbara Hall and Lori McCreary serving as showrunner and executive producer, respectively. Madam Secretary was renewed for a fifth season on April 18, 2018. In May 2019, Madam Secretary was renewed for a sixth and final season. Cast and characters Main Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the United States Secretary of State Tim Daly as Henry McCord, Elizabeth's husband and a Central Intelligence Agency operative Erich Bergen as Blake Moran, Elizabeth's personal assistant and later deputy policy advisor. Željko Ivanek as Russell Jackson, White House Chief of Staff Wallis Currie-Wood as Stephanie "Stevie" McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's older daughter; later, Dmitri's girlfriend Patina Miller as Daisy Grant, Elizabeth's press coordinator Evan Roe as Jason McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's son Geoffrey Arend as Matt Mahoney, Elizabeth's speechwriter Katherine Herzer as Alison McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's younger daughter Keith Carradine as Conrad Dalton, President of the United States Sebastian Arcelus as Jay Whitman, Elizabeth's chief of staff (Previously policy advisor) Sara Ramirez as Kat Sandoval, Elizabeth's new policy advisor Chris Petrovski as Dmitri Petrov, a former Russian spy who joins the Central Intelligence Agency to work for Henry Guests Madeleine Albright as herself, a former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as herself, a former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell as himself, a former U.S. Secretary of State Ali Olomi as Baddar Nabi Episodes Production Madam Secretary was renewed for a fifth season on April 18, 2018. On May 9, 2019, it was renewed for a sixth season. On May 15, it was revealed the sixth season, to consist of 10 episodes, would be the series' last. Broadcast Season five of Madam Secretary premiered on October 7, 2018. Ratings References External links Season 5 2018 American television seasons 2019 American television seasons
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The second season of Madam Secretary an American political drama television series originally aired in the United States on CBS from October 4, 2015, through May 8, 2016. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios, with Barbara Hall as showrunner and executive producer. Debuting on September 21, 2014, the series was renewed for a second season on January 12, 2015. Madam Secretary was renewed for a third season on March 25, 2016. The series follows Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni), a former CIA analyst and professor who becomes United States Secretary of State at the behest of President Conrad Dalton (Keith Carradine) after her predecessor is killed in a plane crash. Elizabeth works alongside a dedicated staff, including Nadine Tolliver (Bebe Neuwirth). Cast and characters Main Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the U.S. Secretary of State Tim Daly as Henry McCord, Elizabeth's husband and an N.S.A. operative Keith Carradine as Conrad Dalton, President of the United States Erich Bergen as Blake Moran, Elizabeth's personal assistant Patina Miller as Daisy Grant, Elizabeth's press coordinator Geoffrey Arend as Matt Mahoney, Elizabeth's speechwriter Kathrine Herzer as Alison McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's younger daughter Evan Roe as Jason McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's son Wallis Currie-Wood as Stephanie "Stevie" McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's older daughter Željko Ivanek as Russell Jackson, White House Chief of Staff Bebe Neuwirth as Nadine Tolliver, Elizabeth's Chief of Staff Recurring Sebastian Arcelus as Jay Whitman, Elizabeth's policy advisor Jill Hennessy as Jane Fellows, Henry's former DIA handler and Ishbal Jahed task force member Carlos Gómez as Jose Campos, an Ishbal Jahed task force member Francis Jue as Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Angela Gots as Russian President Maria Ostrov Mandy Gonzalez as Lucy Knox, President Dalton's aide Guests Morgan Freeman as Frawley, the Chief Justice of the United States Julian Acosta as Craig Sterling Madeleine Albright as herself, the first woman U.S. Secretary of State Kate Burton as Maureen McCord-Ryan, Henry's sister Jane Pauley as herself Episodes Production Development Madam Secretary was renewed for a second season on January 12, 2015. Madam Secretary was renewed for a third season on March 25, 2016. Casting Madeleine Albright guest role as herself a former Secretary of State, Jill Hennessy joined cast in a recurring role as Jane Fellows, Chris Petrovski was cast in a recurring role for the second season as Dmitri Petrov. Broadcast Season two of Madam Secretary premiered on October 4, 2015. Ratings Home media The DVD release of season two is set to be released in Region 1 on September 13, 2016. References 2015 American television seasons 2016 American television seasons Season 2
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Madam Secretary is an American political drama television series created by Barbara Hall. It stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth "Bess" Adams McCord, an ex-CIA analyst who becomes the United States Secretary of State. Madam Secretary was ordered to series in May 2014, and premiered on September 21, 2014, on CBS. Madam Secretary was renewed for a sixth and final season in May 2019, which premiered on October 6, 2019. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2014–15) Season 2 (2015–16) Season 3 (2016–17) Season 4 (2017–18) Season 5 (2018–19) Season 6 (2019) Ratings Season 6 References External links Madam Secretary Episodes
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Beyond Tomorrow (also known as And So Goodbye and Beyond Christmas) is a 1940 American fantasy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and produced by noted cinematographer Lee Garmes; Garmes was one of a handful of cinematographers who became film producers. Structured as a B film, the production did not engage any stars who would receive billing above the title, relying instead on a quartet of veteran character actors, Charles Winninger, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith and Harry Carey, second-tier young leads Richard Carlson and Jean Parker as well as "other woman" Helen Vinson, a minor lead/second lead actress during the early- and mid-1930s, here approaching the end of her career. All seven actors received a "Featuring" billing after the title. The remaining supporting cast included Rod La Rocque, a top leading man of the silent era, now reduced to playing minor supporting roles. Because the events of the plot take place during the Christmas season, it is a contemporary, but little-remembered example of the Christmas film. The original print has been digitally remastered and preserved by the National Film Museum, Incorporated. Plot Engineers George Melton and Allan Chadwick work furiously to complete a design on time, even though it is Christmas Eve. Michael O'Brien, the third partner in the firm, arrives with presents for all and kindly lets their employees leave. The three old men then go home to the mansion they share with Madame Tanya, an elderly countess dispossessed by the Russian Revolution, for a dinner with prestigious guests. When the guests cancel at the last minute, George is convinced it is because of his dark past. To relieve George's black mood, Michael comes up with an idea to obtain new guests for dinner. Each man throws out a wallet containing $10 and his business card into the street. George's is found by Arlene Terry, who merely gives the money to her driver and discards the wallet. However, the other two are returned by more considerate people: Texas cowboy James Houston and teacher Jean Lawrence. They stay for dinner and soon become good friends with the three men and Madame Tanya. James and Jean also fall in love with each other, delighting the three men. When the engineers have to travel to another city on business, Madame Tanya begs Michael to take the train rather than fly. He assures her it is perfectly safe, but Madame Tanya's premonition proves tragically correct when their aircraft crashes in a storm, killing all three. When James and Jean come to announce that they are engaged, they receive the bad news. The ghosts of the three men return home, where they are dimly sensed by Madame Tanya. It turns out that Michael had bequeathed some bonds to the young couple so they could afford to marry. The story is picked up by the press, and as a result, James is invited to be a guest on a radio show. This is the opportunity he has been waiting for to showcase his wonderful
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Audrey Christie (June 27, 1912 – December 19, 1989) was an American actress, singer and dancer. Early life Christie was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended a fine arts school in Chicago, but she quit at age 15 after finding success as a performer with the Six Chicago Steppers. Career Originally, Christie worked as a singer and dancer, starting as a teenager in vaudeville shows, but she later acted in dramatic roles as well. Early roles on Broadway included Follow Thru (1929), Sailor, Beware! (1933), The Women (1936), I Married an Angel (1938), and Without Love (1942). She had a lead role in The Desk Set (1956). She performed in the films Keeper of the Flame (1943), Deadline – U.S.A. (1952), Carousel (1956), Splendor in the Grass (1961), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Harlow (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966), The Ballad of Josie (1967), Mame (1974), and Harper Valley PTA (1978). Christie acted in several episodes of the anthology TV series Studio One and another TV series, Fair Exchange. During the 1964–1965 television season, she had a recurring role on the situation comedy The Cara Williams Show. In 1975, she appeared on the sitcom Maude, playing the role of Maude’s overbearing mother. And on TV's Barney Miller appeared in two episode, 'The Courtesans' as a "Madame", and in the episode 'Old Love' as an overbearing stage mother. She won a Donaldson Award for her performance in the play The Voice of the Turtle. Personal life and death She was married to Guy Robertson, also a performer, and they had a daughter. Her second marriage was to actor Donald Briggs, who predeceased her. They had a son and three grandchildren. Christie died of emphysema on December 19, 1989, at her home in West Hollywood, California. Filmography Notes References External links 1910s births 1989 deaths Year of birth uncertain Actresses from Chicago 20th-century American actresses American film actresses Deaths from emphysema
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Marsha Mason is an American actress and theatre director. She has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Goodbye Girl (1977), Chapter Two (1979), and Only When I Laugh (1981). The first two also won her Golden Globe Awards. She was married for ten years (1973–1983) to the playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, who was the writer of three of these films. Mason's film debut was in the 1966 film Hot Rod Hullabaloo. Her other films include Blume in Love (1973), The Cheap Detective (1978), Max Dugan Returns (1983), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Stella (1990) and Drop Dead Fred (1991). On television, she appeared in the soap opera Love of Life (1971–72) and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her recurring role on the sitcom Frasier (1997–98). She has also had an extensive career on stage, making her Broadway debut as a replacement in the comedy Cactus Flower in 1968. She starred in a 1999 revival of The Prisoner of Second Avenue in London, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for the 2000 recording. In 2006, she starred in the American premiere production of Hecuba at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Her other Broadway credits include The Night of the Iguana (1996), Steel Magnolias (2005), and Impressionism (2009). Mason guest-starred in Madam Secretary (2015–16) and The Good Wife (2016), and has had recurring roles on the ABC sitcom The Middle from 2010 to 2017 and the Netflix series Grace and Frankie since 2016. Career After seeing her 1973 film debut in Blume in Love, Neil Simon cast Mason in his Broadway play The Good Doctor. Shortly afterwards, Mason and Simon, a widower, fell in love and got married. That same year, Mason co-starred opposite James Caan in the 20th Century Fox film Cinderella Liberty, which netted her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In 1977, Mason's performance in Simon's smash hit film, The Goodbye Girl, won her a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination. In 1979, Simon successfully cast Mason as Jennie MacLaine in the screen adaptation of his hit play Chapter Two, which was based on Mason's relationship with Simon up to their marriage. The film proved to be another big hit, garnering her a third Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In 1981, Mason starred along with Kristy McNichol, James Coco, and Joan Hackett in Only When I Laugh, Simon's film adaptation of his Broadway comedy-drama The Gingerbread Lady; it was another box-office success. For her performance as Georgia Hines, Mason was highly praised and earned a fourth Best Actress Oscar nomination. Mason's Max Dugan Returns (1983), also written by Simon, grossed a modest $17.6 million at the box office. Despite a stellar cast led by Mason, Donald Sutherland, Jason Robards and Matthew Broderick, the film was a slow starter, becoming more popular after premiering on cable TV and VHS. By this time, Mason and Simon had divorced, and her film career lost momentum. She
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Carolyn Inez McCormick (born September 19, 1959) is an American actress who played Dr. Elizabeth Olivet in the Law & Order franchise. Life and career McCormick was born and raised in Midland, Texas, and graduated first in her class from The Kinkaid School in Houston in 1977. She graduated with honors from Williams College in 1981 with a B.F.A. She also holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She has worked in television, movies, theatre, and voice acting. Her breakthrough role was in Enemy Mine, directed by Wolfgang Petersen with Dennis Quaid. Her other film credits include Woody Allen's Whatever Works, You Know My Name with Sam Elliott, and A Simple Twist of Fate with Steve Martin. She played Hannah's Mom in Barney's Night Before Christmas. Her first notable television credit was as district attorney Rita Fiore in Spenser: For Hire, in 1986-1987. She appeared as the holodeck simulation Minuet in "11001001", a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and later as Minuet Riker (William Riker's holodeck girlfriend) in a fantasy-alternate universe during the fourth-season episode "Future Imperfect". The role for which McCormick would become best known was as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, a consulting psychologist for the prosecution on Law & Order. She appeared in approximately half of the episodes of the NBC series between 1994 and 2006. In 1997, she played the unhappy wife of a police psychiatrist, played by Robert Pastorelli, in the short-lived Americanized version of the British series Cracker. She has been a guest star on series including Madam Secretary, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Judging Amy, The Practice, Body of Proof, Cold Case, Homicide: Life on the Street, and LA Law. McCormick also performs on stage. She appeared at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre in Eve-olution with The Cosby Show star Sabrina Le Beauf in 2004. She has also appeared in Dinner with Friends, Oedipus, Ancestral Voices, The Donahue Sisters, Laureen's Whereabouts and In Perpetuity. She worked with Thomas Kail at The Flea Theatre in A. R. Gurney's Family Furniture (2013). In 2015, she appeared in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the PaperMill Playhouse and What I Did Last Summer at the Signature 2015. She appeared in the Broadway productions of The Dinner Party in 2001 as Mariette Levieux, Private Lives (standby) in 2002, and in Equus in 2008 as Dora Strang. In 2012, she appeared opposite her husband, Byron Jennings, in the Off-Broadway production of Ten Chimneys. She appeared Off-Broadway in Will Eno's play The Open House in 2014 (Lucille Lortel nomination, Drama Desk Award). She has recorded many audio books, including the Hunger Games series, and has narrated many Ken Burns documentaries. Filmography Film Television Video games Audiobooks All audiobooks McCormack narrated. References External links 1959 births American stage actresses American television actresses American voice actresses Living people People from Midland, Texas The Kinkaid School alumni Williams College alumni Actresses from Texas 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American Conservatory Theater alumni
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In Secret (also known as Thérèse) is a 2013 American erotic thriller romance film written and directed by Charlie Stratton. Based on Émile Zola's classic 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin and the 2009 stage play by the same name penned by Neal Bell, the film stars Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Lange. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received a regional release on February 21, 2014. Plot In the lower echelons of Parisian society in the 1860s, Thérèse Raquin is a beautiful, sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, who she was forced to marry by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Thérèse spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame Raquin play dominoes with an eclectic group of acquaintances. After she meets her husband's alluring friend Laurent LeClaire, the two embark on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. During an outing on the lake with Laurent and Therese, Camille is beaten to death by Laurent and subsequently drowns. Madame Raquin finds it difficult to come to terms with her son's death and is soon incapacitated by a stroke, but overhears Laurent and Therese speaking about what they did. With great effort, she alerts one of their friends, who informs the authorities. To escape being sentenced for the murder, Laurent and Therese choose to take their own lives. They go down to the river and share one final kiss after drinking poison mixed with champagne, and thus they die in front of Madame Raquin. Cast Elizabeth Olsen as Thérèse Raquin Lily Laight as young Thérèse Tom Felton as Camille Raquin, Thérèse's husband and first cousin. Dimitrije Bogdanov as young Camille Oscar Isaac as Laurent LeClaire, a childhood friend and co-worker of Camille who seduces his wife, Thérèse. Jessica Lange as Madame Raquin, Camille's mother and Thérèse's aunt. Matt Lucas as Olivier Shirley Henderson as Suzanne Mackenzie Crook as Grivet John Kavanagh as Inspector Michaud Production Filming On May 9, 2012, principal photography began in Belgrade, Serbia and Budapest, Hungary. Reception In Secret received mixed reviews. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 41% approval rating, with an average score of 5.34/10, based on reviews from 88 critics. The consensus states: "Although it benefits from a strong cast, In Secrets stars can't totally compensate for the movie's sodden pacing and overly familiar story." Despite mixed reviews, Lange's performance has received critical acclaim. Avi Offer from NYC Movie Guru proclaimed Lange as "...one of the greatest actresses of our time, [who] delivers a mesmerizing, magnificent performance and sinks her teeth into her role quite smoothly." David Lee Dallas from Slant Magazine called Lange's character's "latent severity dangerous and surprising." Michael O'Sullivan from The Washington Post noted that "Subtlety may not be this film's strong suit, but it certainly is Lange's." Dustin Putman of the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
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Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American actress. She is a main cast member on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, providing the voice of Mrs. Puff. She is also known for originating the role of Ernestina in the 1964 Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! and for playing Pearl Gallagher, the third housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes. Catlett was born in Denver, Colorado, where she performed in a variety of plays and eventually directed a company of Pirates of Penzance. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she performed in Off-Broadway and Broadway musicals, often taking light-hearted, humorous roles. Since the late 1960s, Catlett has appeared in television shows such as M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard, and General Hospital. Catlett received Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards in 1978 and 1980, a nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the Ovation Awards in 1995, and a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1990. In 1998, Catlett joined the main cast of the then-upcoming cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants as the voice of Mrs. Puff, the title character's driving school teacher, who has become her longest-running and most well-known role. Series creator Stephen Hillenburg had seen Catlett perform on stage and sought her out for the part himself. She quickly accepted and has since voiced Mrs. Puff in every season of the cartoon, in addition to all of the theatrical SpongeBob films and video games. In 2001, she received an Annie Award nomination for her voice-over work as Mrs. Puff. Early life Catlett was born in Denver, Colorado, on September 2, 1938, the daughter of Cornelia M. (née Callaghan) and Robert J. Catlett. She has a sister, Patricia Marie, who is a nun with the Dominican Order. Catlett is a Catholic. Career In 1974, Catlett originated the role of Mrs. Tiffany in Fashion: or, Life in New York. Her performance was well-received; The New York Times theater critic Clive Barnes called Catlett and co-star Henrietta Valor "exceptional ... both particular delights," and Jerry Tallmer of the New York Post said that the play's casting was "top-notch, with particular praise from this quarter for Mary Jo Catlett." Catlett would reprise her role in the 1994 revival of Fashion. Catlett described herself as a character actress. In a 1988 interview with the Orlando Sentinel, she said, "It has been a plus to be a character actress. There are plenty of them out there but far fewer than ingenues and leading ladies, who perhaps eventually become character actresses. But I always was a character actress. I always was round and funny." In 1976 and 1980, Catlett received Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for her roles in Come Back, Little Sheba and Philadelphia, Here I Come!, respectively. In 1995, Catlett's role as Madame de la Grande Bouche in Beauty and the Beast earned her a nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the Ovation Awards. Catlett became a main cast member on Diff'rent Strokes in its fifth season, playing the third housekeeper, Pearl Gallagher.
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Jason Ralph (born April 7, 1986) is an American actor and theater producer. Ralph began his career in theater, most notably performing in Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway and off-Broadway and producing The Woodsman. From 2015 to 2019, he starred as Quentin Coldwater in the Syfy television series The Magicians. He has also had recurring roles on shows including Aquarius and Younger. Early life Jason Ralph was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was raised in McKinney, Texas, a city outside of Dallas, and attended McKinney High School, graduating in 2004. He studied acting at Collin College and then attended State University of New York at Purchase, where he graduated with a BFA degree in 2010. Career In 2010, he co-founded the theater company named Strangemen Theater Company, now Strangemen & Co., with his peers from Purchase College. As an artistic director of his company, Strangemen produced several plays including the Obie Award-winning production of The Woodsman by James Ortiz and Edward W. Hardy. In the 2010s, Strangemen produced off-Broadway productions and workshops of The Little Mermaid, Free Delivery, On the Head of a Pin, The Woodsman, and Bernie and Mikey's Trip To the Moon, as well as an annual theater festival. In 2015 and 2018, they produced various workshops at the Guild Hall of East Hampton. As of 2018, Ralph serves as the company's Artistic Director and President. In 2014, he starred in the comedy-drama movie I'm Obsessed with You alongside Manish Dayal, Rachel Brosnahan and Thomas McDonell. Also that year, he played the role of Ian Thompson in the film A Most Violent Year and starred in the pilot episode of Looking. In 2015, he played the role of Harrison Dalton, the son of President Dalton in the CBS TV series Madam Secretary and as Mike Vickery in the NBC TV series Aquarius. He also played Stan in Manhattan. The same year, Ralph was cast as Quentin Coldwater, the lead role in the Syfy fantasy drama series The Magicians, which premiered on December 16, 2015. He starred in the show from 2015 to 2019. Personal life It was reported in 2018 that Ralph had married actress Rachel Brosnahan, but Brosnahan later revealed in early 2019 that they had been married "for years" before their relationship became public. Both attended the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2019, where she thanked him during her acceptance speech. Acting credits Film Television Stage Video games References External links 21st-century American male actors American male television actors American male film actors Living people Male actors from Texas State University of New York at Purchase alumni 1986 births
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Pascale Armand is an American actress. She has appeared in off Broadway and Broadway productions, most notable Eclipsed, for which she received Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Life and career Armand was born in Brooklyn, New York. She studied acting at the Howard University and Georgetown University, before graduated acting program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She began her career in early 2000s, appearing in regional stage productions. On screen, Armand appeared in films Queenie in Love (2001), Kings County (2003) and Kinsey (2004). On television, Armand made guest appearances in Strangers with Candy, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She also done voice-over work in the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV. Armand appeared in off-Broadway plays Four, Belleville, Relevance, Natural Shocks, Merry Wives and Bernarda's Daughters. In 2011, she starred in the Danai Gurira' play The Convert receiving Ovation Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and Joseph Jefferson Award nomination. She later made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Trip to Bountiful, starring Cicely Tyson. She starred in the Danai Gurira' 2015 off-Broadway play Eclipsed, receiving Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Ensemble and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. She reprised her role in the Broadway production receiving Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. After her stage breakout, Armand began appearing on television, playing guest-starring roles on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Blacklist, American Odyssey, Madam Secretary, Prodigal Son, Chicago Med, East New York and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She played the leading role in the second season of Allblk horror-anthology series, Terror Lake Drive in 2022. Filmography References External links Howard University alumni Georgetown University alumni New York University alumni African-American actresses Living people American television actresses American stage actresses 21st-century American actresses Obie Award recipients Year of birth missing (living people)
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Michi Kobi (2 November 1924 – 1 March 2016), born Machiko Kobinata Okamoto, was an American actress. Life Kobi was born 2 November 1924 in Sacramento, California as Machiko Kobinata Okamoto. Her father, Rikikazu Okamoto, came to America at age 17 in 1902 and became a doctor. In 1923 her father went to Japan, married Ito Kobinata, and brought her to Sacramento. During World War II, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, Kobi and her mother were sent to Tanforan Assembly Center and then Topaz War Relocation Center. After the war she went to New York City, seeking to become an actor, and lived there the rest of her life. She studied acting at New York University. In addition to acting on stage, screen, and television, she worked as a model, secretary, and translator. As a translator she worked for the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). She was very outspoken about the sanitized depictions of the conditions in the World War II internment camps and also campaigned for an apology and reparations. She left acting due to the few quality roles for Asian women. She died in Manhattan, New York City on 1 March 2016. Filmography 1954: "The New Adventures of China Smith" (TV) 1959: Tokyo After Dark playing Sumi Fukita 1960: 12 to the Moon playing Dr. Hideko Murata 1960: Hell to Eternity playing Sono 1961: Cry for Happy playing Hanakichi 1991: American Rickshaw playing Old Madame Luna 2004: Law & Order (TV) episode "Gaijin", playing Mrs. Ito Theater 1963–1964: original Broadway production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" playing 'Nurse Nakamura' See also Hiroaki Sato, who knew Kobi for 30 years and wrote an article upon her death References External links Michi Kobi Papers, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections 1924 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actors from Sacramento, California American actresses of Japanese descent American film actresses American television actresses Japanese-American internees 21st-century American women
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Edna Lewis Thomas (November 1, 1885 – July 22, 1974) was an American stage actress whose career began in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. She appeared on Broadway, with the Lafayette Players theater company, and in productions by the Federal Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration. Her portrayal of Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles' all-Black "Voodoo" Macbeth in 1936 was much acclaimed. She was an influential figure in Black theater, and was a member of the Alhambra Players and the Harlem Experimental Theatre. She only appeared on screen once, in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Thomas was born in Virginia and raised in Boston. After moving to New York around 1916, she worked as a social secretary for the beauty entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker. Though she was married to Lloyd Thomas, she started a long-term romantic relationship with British socialite Olivia Wyndham around 1930 and the three lived together for many years in a Harlem co-op. Early life Edna Lewis was born on November 1, 1885, in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Author Saidiya Hartman, in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, wrote that Lewis's father was a white man who raped her Black mother in his household when she was a 12-year-old nursemaid. Edna grew up in Boston where she attended public schools. She married around 1914 and moved with her husband to New York City, possibly in 1916. She worked as a social secretary for the Black beauty entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and through her was introduced to a variety of people in Harlem and Greenwich Village. In New York she became an influential figure in Black theater during the Harlem Renaissance. Stage career Thomas was a prolific actress in all-Black vaudeville productions and theaters. She acted and sang in numerous productions at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, making her stage debut with the Lafayette Players in the 1920 play Turn to the Right. She was then cast in the plays Confidence (1920), The Heartbreaker (1921), and Comedy of Errors (1923). She had her Broadway debut in 1925 and had a role in the 1927 play Porgy. Thomas joined the Alhambra Players in 1928, performing at The Harlem Alhambra and was in a 1929 revival of Porgy staged at the Martin Beck Theater. She joined the Harlem Experimental Theatre in 1930, acting in the premier public performance at the New York Public Library's 135th Street Branch. She remained active in theater in the 1930s, having roles in the musical Lulu Belle at the Belasco Theater and in the musical Shuffle Along. She also had lead roles in the all-Black 1933 folk opera Run, Little Chillun at the Lyric Theatre and Paul Peters' 1934 production Stevedore. In 1936, Thomas was cast in the role of Lady Macbeth in an all-Black production of Macbeth at Lafayette Theater. The so-called "Voodoo" Macbeth was directed by Orson Welles and was a production of the Federal Theater Project of the Works Progress Administration. Rose McClendon was originally cast for her part, but
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Pierina Burlando (September 2, 1916 – May 12, 1999) was an American film, stage and television actress, who played the role of Mama Rosa Novelli in the American crime drama television series Matt Houston. Santon died in May 1999 in Burbank, California, at the age of 82. Partial filmography Interrupted Melody (1955) - Madame Gilly's Secretary (uncredited) Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 2 Episode 6: "Toby") as Italian Tenant The Wrong Man (1956) – Spanish Woman (uncredited) Full of Life (1956) – Carla Rocco Dino (1957) – Mrs. Minetta This Earth Is Mine (1959) – Mrs. Petucci Cry Tough (1959) – Señora Estrada The Miracle (1959) – Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) West Side Story (1961) – Madam Lucia (uncredited) Lover Come Back (1961) – Hotel Maid (uncredited) Rawhide (1961) (Season 4 Episode 1: "Rio Salado") – Servant California (1963) – Dona Ana Sofia Hicenta Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) – Mama Rossini Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) – Waitress at Blue Grotto (uncredited) Wagon Train (1963) (Season 6 Episode 27: "The Adam MacKenzie Story") – Carlota Perez The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) – Grandma Monteri Don't Just Stand There! (1968) – Renée Funny Girl (1968) – Mrs. Meeker Kotch (1971) – Mrs. Segura The Last Word (1979) – Mrs. Tempino Rhinestone (1984) – Mother Fletch (1985) – Velma Stanwyk Short Circuit (1986) – Mrs. Cepada One Good Cop (1991) – Mrs. Cristofaro References External links Rotten Tomatoes profile 1916 births 1999 deaths Actresses from New York (state) American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses 20th-century American actresses American theatre people
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Kimberley Fiona Manning (born May 7, 1960, in California), better known as Kim Manning, is an American TV presenter, actress and dancer who has developed her career in Spain. Career Presenter She became popular in Spain through the game-show Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, where she was one of the team of secretaries, a team of girls who co-hosted the show and did dancing and musical Broadway-like performances each episode. Manning became the secretary who did the highest number of episodes among all secretaries in the history of the show, 131 episodes in 4 seasons, starting on May 20, 1983, and ending on January 4, 1988. She became popular in Spain for the complicated choreographies she performed and for her outgoing and talkative personality when she spoke with the main host Mayra Gómez Kemp and the contestants. She eventually got the part of lead accountant secretary from November 9, 1987, being the only foreign accountant secretary in the show's running time. She is still one of the most remembered secretaries that appeared in the show. In 1992, she co-hosted with Fernando Carrillo the daily magazine El show de la una in TVE-1. Actress After returning for some years to America to study acting and doing some minor roles on Broadway, she returned to Spain to focus on her career as an actress, appearing in an episode of Farmacia de guardia and being her most renowned role in Manos a la obra, in Antena 3, where she played, from 1997 to 2001, Tanya, a polish worker who assisted Manolo (Ángel de Andrés) and Benito (Carlos Iglesias). In 2003, she appeared in another Antena 3 series, London Street, where she played Mrs. Robinson, a Londoner housewife that takes in the main character, played by Fernando Ramallo. In August 2006, she appeared in The Cheetah Girls 2, a Disney Channel original movie, where she played Lola Durán. The same year, on October, she participated in the Spanish talent-show Desafío bajo cero, where she showed her background as an ice skater and ended in third place. From 1992, she manages a restaurant named Cornucopia in Madrid. She returned to America in the end of the 2000s. Nowadays, she resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where she works as an acting teacher for children in the Childsplay Theatre Company. Filmography Herself: 1983-1988: Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez 1992-1995: El show de la una 2006: Desafío bajo cero As Actress: 1992-1995: Farmacia de guardia as Alice. 1998-2001: Manos a la obra as Tanya. 2000: Punto de mira as Teacher. 2002-2005: Bellas durmientes as Rebecca. 2003: London Street as Mrs. Robinson 2006: The Cheetah Girls 2 as Lola Durán. 2015: Velvet References 1960 births Living people American television actresses American female dancers American television hosts American women television hosts American emigrants to Spain 20th-century American actresses
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Kristine E. Nielsen (born May 28, 1955) is an American actress known for her work on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Nielsen was nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance as Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. Personal life Nielsen grew up in the Washington, D.C., and Bethesda, Maryland, areas, the daughter of Homer Nielsen (1912–2005), who was born in the Philippines, and Eloise (née Gerard) Nielsen (1918–2009). Her mother, a Democrat, worked in government, at one point for president Jimmy Carter, and her father was a U.S Navy captain. The family spent summers at Cape Cod. Her sister was Karen (Nielsen) Grammaticas (1951–2007), wife of Dr. Andrew Grammaticas. Her paternal grandfather was Harold Nielsen (1879–1958), who fought in World War I and had Danish ancestry. Her great-grandfather, Lewis Gerard (1833–1914), was an immigrant from France who fought for the Union in the Civil War. She trained at Northwestern University (B.A) and the Yale School of Drama (M.F.A). At Yale her classmates included Frances McDormand and Tony Shalhoub. She is married to actor Brent Langdon. Career Broadway Nielsen has appeared in several Broadway shows. Her first appearance was in the 1985 production of The Iceman Cometh as Pearl. She next appeared in Jackie: An American Life (1997) playing various characters, including Rose Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. In 2000 she played the role of Ninetta in a new production of The Green Bird. In 2005, she played Eunice Hubbell opposite Natasha Richardson's Blanche Dubois and Amy Ryan's Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2008 she played Madame de Volanges opposite Laura Linney as Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons and also played Anna in To Be or Not to Be. In 2010 she played The Storyteller in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. She later appeared on Broadway in Christopher Durang's play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as Sonia. For this role, Nielsen was nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. In 2014, she returned to Broadway, playing the role of Penny Sycamore in You Can't Take It with You. She played the role until the show closed on February 22, 2015, after 169 performances. In 2017, she played the role of Monica Reed in the limited run of Present Laughter, along with Kevin Kline and Cobie Smulders. Off-Broadway Nielsen has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway shows. She won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her role as Madeline Newell in Dog Opera (1995). Nielsen won the Obie and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Featured Actress for her role as Mrs. Siezmagraff in Betty's Summer Vacation (1999) by Christopher Durang. Her first Off-Broadway appearance was in a 1984 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Henry V at the Delacorte Theater in which she played Mistress Quickly. In 1988 she appeared
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Rondi Anne Reed (born October 26, 1952) is an American actress of stage and screen. A longtime member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, she has appeared in more than 50 productions at that theater. Also active on Broadway, she won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Mattie Fae Aiken in August: Osage County. She is also known for the role of Peggy on the television sitcom Mike & Molly which she played from 2010-2016. Early life Reed was born in Dixon, Illinois. She graduated from Illinois State University in 1977. She then met a Broadway theatrical producer named Stephen Eich in 1976 during her time in Steppenwolf Theater and married him in 1982. They divorced in 2016, after being married for 34 years. Career Reed has been a member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company for many years, appearing in 51 productions with the company. She appeared on Broadway in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice in 1994 and The Grapes of Wrath in 1990, among others. On July 13, 2005, she originated the role of Madame Morrible in the Chicago production of the musical Wicked. She originated the role of Mattie Fae Aiken in the Broadway production of August: Osage County in 2007, for which she won the 2008 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,<ref>Bacalzo, Dan (February 24, 2009). [http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/02-2009/rondi-reed-to-be-broadway-wickeds-new-madame-morri_17747.html "Rondi Reed to Be Broadway 'Wickeds New Madame Morrible"]. theatermania.com.</ref> 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 returned to the New York production of "Wicked" from July 31, 2017, to January 28, 2018. She appeared in the Seinfeld episode "The Kiss Hello" (originally aired on February 16, 1995). She starred on the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly, as Peggy Biggs, Mike's mother. She also appeared on Roseanne'' as Jackie's therapist. Filmography References External links Interview at Broadway.com 1952 births Living people American stage actresses Actresses from Illinois People from Dixon, Illinois Illinois State University alumni Steppenwolf Theatre Company players 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses
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Lana Turner (1921–1995) was an American actress who appeared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned four decades. Discovered in 1937 at age 16, she signed a contract with Warner Bros. but soon transferred to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The studio's co-founder, Louis B. Mayer, helped further her career by casting her in several youth-oriented comedies and musicals, including Dancing Co-Ed (1939) and Ziegfeld Girl (1941), the latter of which was a commercial success and helped establish her as one of the studio's leading performers. Turner subsequently co-starred with Clark Gable in the drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1943), the first of four films she would appear in with him. Turner's role as a femme fatale in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) advanced her career significantly and established her as a dramatic actress. It earned her acclaim with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times deeming it "the role of her career." In addition to her film roles, Turner frequently appeared on radio programs throughout the 1940s, including Suspense and The Orson Welles Almanac. In 1952, she co-starred in the drama The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) opposite Kirk Douglas, portraying an alcoholic actress. Turner made her final film appearance with Gable in the drama Betrayed (1954). After the critical and commercial failure of Diane (1956), MGM opted not to renew Turner's contract. At the time, her films with the studio had collectively earned over $50 million In 1957, she took a leading role portraying Constance MacKenzie in 20th Century Fox's Peyton Place, a film adaptation of the Grace Metalious novel of the same name. The film was a major box office success, and Turner earned her first and only Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance. In 1959, she accepted the lead role in Douglas Sirk's remake of Imitation of Life, a drama for Universal Pictures in which she portrayed a struggling stage actress, which was another commercial success at the box office. Turner's final leading role was in 1966's Madame X, for which she earned a David di Donatello award for Best Actress. She spent the majority of the 1970s in semiretirement, appearing in touring stage plays, such as Forty Carats and Bell, Book and Candle. In 1982, she was cast in a recurring guest role on the television soap opera Falcon Crest. She made her final film appearance in the comedy horror film Witches' Brew in 1980. Film Unrealized projects Television Radio Stage Awards and nominations Notes References Sources External links Lana Turner filmography at the American Film Institute Lana Turner filmography at AllMovie Actress filmographies American filmographies filmography Lists of awards received by American actor
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Sheila Terry (born Kathleen Eleanor Mulhern; March 5, 1910 – January 1957) was an American film actress. Early years Although she wanted to be an actress, young "Kay" Mulhern studied to be a teacher in accordance with the desires of a rich uncle. After training as an educator from 1927 to 1929, she taught in a country school to meet the requirement for receiving her inheritance from that uncle. The inheritance was in stocks, however, and its value vanished in the 1929 crash of the stock market. Career She first studied dramatics at Dickson-Kenwin academy, a Toronto school affiliated with London's Royal Academy. For approximately seven months, she acted in stock theater in Toronto. Later she moved to New York, where she continued her studies and appeared in a number of plays. A film scout saw her on Broadway in The Little Racketeer and offered her a test that resulted in a contract with Warner Bros. She appeared in such films as You Said a Mouthful, Scarlet Dawn, and Madame Butterfly (all 1932). She appeared with John Wayne in the Western films as Haunted Gold (1932), 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934), and The Lawless Frontier (1934). In 1933, she left Hollywood briefly for the New York stage. Personal life She married Major Laurence Clark, a wealthy Toronto socialite, on August 16, 1928. They separated on August 15, 1930, and she divorced him on February 15, 1934. In 1937, she married William Magee of San Francisco, and retired from show business. After his death, Terry wanted to return to show business, but couldn't find a job. Death In January 1957, her body was discovered in her third floor apartment, which was both her home and office. A friend and neighbor, Jerry Keating, went to her apartment after he failed to reach her on the telephone. The door was locked, and Terry did not answer the bell. Keating called the police, who broke in and found Terry's body on the bedroom floor, her back leaning against the bed, with five empty capsules on the floor beside her. Friends told the police that she had returned from a trip to Mexico some time before her death and that she was ill when she came home. It was later discovered that she died broke, leaving only a scant wardrobe. She was 46 years old. She was buried on Hart Island, New York. Partial filmography Week-End Marriage (1932) - Connie Jewel Robbery (1932) - Blonde Decoy (uncredited) Crooner (1932) - Hat Check Girl (uncredited) Two Against the World (1932) - Miss Edwards - Norton's Secretary (uncredited) Big City Blues (1932) - Lorna St. Clair (uncredited) A Scarlet Week-End (1932) - Marjorie Murphy They Call It Sin (1932) - Telephone Operator (uncredited) Three on a Match (1932) - Naomi (uncredited) Scarlet Dawn (1932) - Marjorie I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - Allen's Secretary (uncredited) You Said a Mouthful (1932) - Cora Norton Lawyer Man (1932) - Flo - Gilmurry's Moll (uncredited) Haunted
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The 2010 Ghana Movie Awards was the maiden edition of the ceremony to reward cinematic achievement in Ghana Film Industry. The event was held at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Accra on 25 December 2010. Sinking Sands, Juliet Ibrahim, Nadia Buari, Yvonne Okoro, Majid Michel, John Dumelo & Genevieve Nnaji were among the winners. Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role (English) Senanu Gbedawu (Check Mate) Majid Michel (The Beast) J.O.T Agyemany (I Sing of a Well) Prince Osei (Kiss Me If You Can) Eddie Nartey (Kiss Me If You Can) Van Vicker (Dna Test) Ruffy Samuel (Love & Lust) Best Actress in a Leading Role (English) Martha Ankomah (Kiss Me If You Can) Akorfa Edjeani Asiedu (I Sing of a Well) Ama K. Abebrese (Sinking Sands) Lydia Forson (A Sting in a Tale) Lucky Lawson (Desperate To Survive) Jackie Appiah, Yvonne Okoro, Juliet Ibrahim & Roselyn Ngissah (4 Play) Best Actor in a Leading Role (Local) Kofi Adu a.k.a. Agya Koo (Ama Ghana) Akwesi Boadi A.K.A Akrobetu (Sika Akuaba) Francis Kusi (Yaa Asantewaa War) Timothy Bentum (Devil's Seed) Ebenezer Donkor (Madam Moke) Best Actress in a Leading Role (Local) Rose Mensah A.K.A Kyeiwaa Emelia Brobbery (Tumi) Vivian Jill (Ama Ghana) Mercy Asiedu (Abrokyire Beyie) Theresah Mensah (Yaa Asantewaa War) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (English) John Dumelo (The Game) Ekow Blankson (Check Mate) Ekow Smith Asante (Naked Faces) Kofi Adjorlolo (Beast) Adjetey Anang (A Sting in a Tale) Kweku Sintim Misa (Check Mate) Omar Sheriff Captan (4 Play) Gavivina Tamakloe (Black Mail) Chris Attoh (Sinking Sands) Best Actress in a Supporting Role (English) Nadia Buari (Check Mate) Yvonne Nelson (The Game) Beverly Afaglo (The Game) Rama Brew (Who Loves Me) Kalsoume Sinare (Trinity) Naa Ashorkor (Check Mate) Khareema Aguiar (Check Mate) Nana Hayford (Beast) Doris Sackitey (Sinking Sands) Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Local) Kofi Davis Essuman (Adults Only) Ofori Attah (Awieye) Clement Bonney (Ama Ghana) Kofi Laing (Ama Ghana) Lord Kenya (Devil's Seed) Samuel Ofori (Akrasi Burger) William Addo (Madam Moke) Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Local) Nana Ama McBrown (Madam Moke) Barbara Newton (Abrokyire Bayie) Pearl Kugblenu (Devil's Seed) Alexis Ntsiakoh (Abrokyire Bayie) Gloria Osei Safo (Madam Moke) Best Writing/Adapted/Original Screenplay Leila Djansi (I Sing Of a Well) Leila Djansi (Sinking Sands) Shirley Frimpong-Manso (A Sting in a Tale) Benjamin K. Adu (Ama Ghana) Kobbi Rana (Kiss Me If You Can) Best Visual Effects Barry Isa Quaye (Flash Fever) Afra Marley (The Game) Ken Attoh (A Sting in a Tale) Godfrey Grant (A Sting In A Tale) Kalifa Adams (Devil’s Seed) Best Wardrobe Mabel Germain (Sinking Sands) Lydia Laryea (A Sting in a Tale) Samira Yakubu (Black Mail) George Atoba (Ama Ghana) Best Original Song Who Loves Me (Wutah) Delilah (Ofori Amponsah) Kiss Me If You Can (Rana) A Sting In A Tale (VIP) Ama Ghana (Patrick Adu) Game (Bisa Kdei) A Sting in a Tale (4×4) Chelsea (Dasebre Dwamena) Best Directing - English Shirley Frimpong-Manso (A Sting in a Tale) Kobbi Rana (Kiss Me
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Becoming Madame Mao is a historical novel by Anchee Min detailing the life of Jiang Qing (spelled in the novel as "Jiang Ching"). She became Madame Mao after her marriage to Mao Zedong. In this story Min tries to cast a sympathetic light on one of the most controversial political figures in the People's Republic of China. Plot summary The novel starts with the main character's suicide, before moving on to her early childhood. Madame Mao is born to a very poor family around 1910 (early enough to have had her feet bound although due to a severe infection the bindings were taken off). She has an abusive father who kicks her and her concubine mother out of the house at an early age. Her mother ends up as a concubine and servant and the young 'Madame Mao' runs away to her grandparents. Anchee Min, the author, seems to attribute a lot of Madame Mao's later actions to her childhood—and that a lot of her incessant claims to power actually come from a need to be desired and to feel close to Mao rather than a deep need for power herself. Madame Mao's dream is to become an actress but she only achieves mediocre success. Using the stage name Lan Ping, she spends a few years in Shandong province (where she becomes a Communist due to a lover of hers) and then Shanghai. In Shanghai she had some success in playing Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, and the author clearly parallels Nora's strength and inability to be controlled with Lan Ping's strong personality and need to be in control and the center of attention. The play is closed down since it is perceived to be too subversive by the authorities. She even ends up in prison for a short time but is released after signing a document denouncing Communism. After what seems like a string of rejections as well as a few serious lovers and two husbands, she travels to Yan'an, Mao's revolutionary base, to become part of his movement. The book does not offer much explanation for the switch from actress to countryside revolutionary except that she certainly had been involved in revolutionary elements (anti-Japanese plays, etc.) and that with the absence of work as an actress she did not have many options. Also, joining the Communist revolution seemed to be a common choice for young discontented students and others in their 20s. In Yan'an, she soon meets Mao as the leading actress in patriotic plays. They meet frequently and finally become lovers. Mao is still married to his second wife He Zizhen (his first died as a revolutionary), who is in Russia and mentally unstable, but by the time she returns to China, Mao and Lan Ping have married and she is put in a mental hospital. The Communist Party is very much against Mao's affair with Lan Ping, in large part because they have worked hard to build up the image of his second wife
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Martha Cranmer Oliver (1834 – 20 December 1880), also known as Pattie Oliver or M. Oliver, was an English actress and theatre manager. Beginning as a child actor near her home in Salisbury, Oliver was performing in London by age 13. She played in major theatre companies in the West End, including those of Madame Vestris and J. B. Buckstone. She was the leading comic actress at the Strand Theatre for several seasons in the late 1850s. She also played Mary Meredith in the hit play Our American Cousin at the Haymarket Theatre, among other engagements. In March 1866, Oliver became manager of the New Royalty Theatre, often taking leading roles. In November 1866, she produced F. C. Burnand's burlesque on Black-eyed Susan. The piece was an enormous hit, playing for nearly 500 nights at the theatre, with Oliver starring in the title role. She was also known for helping members of her profession. She gave up management in 1870, acting in New York for a time with Lydia Thompson's troupe, but soon retired from the stage. Early life and career Oliver was born at Salisbury, the daughter of Ann Oliver and John Cranmer Penson, an actor manager in Salisbury. Her sister was Frances Cranmer Oliver who married the actor Frederick Hastings Bullen. She first appeared on stage in Salisbury when only six years old. Here and at Southampton her performances of children's parts attracted attention, until in 1847 she made her London début at the Marylebone Theatre. Her early success gained her an engagement with Madame Vestris at the Lyceum Theatre, London, which lasted from 1849 to 1855. In 1855 she went to Drury Lane, where she soon played Matilda in Married for Money, and, in 1856, Celia in As You Like It. In the same year, her performance of Helen in the Hunchback won such praise from the critics that J. B. Buckstone offered her an engagement at the Haymarket Theatre. There she was seen in Francis Talfourd's burlesque of Atalanta in 1857. Accepting an offer from Miss Swanborough, she became the leading actress in comedy and burlesque at the Strand Theatre for several seasons. in 1858 she acted Amy Robsart in the burlesque of Ye Queen, ye Earl, and ye Maiden; in 1859 she was Pauline in H. J. Byron's burlesque, the Lady of Lyons and Lisetta in Talfourd's burlesque Tell and the Strike of the Cantons; and in 1860, she played the Prince in Byron's burlesque of Cinderella. At the Haymarket, in 1861, she was Mary Meredith in Our American Cousin, on Edward Askew Sothern's first appearance as Lord Dundreary in London. In 1863 she was at the Princess's Theatre, where she took the title rôle in Byron's burlesque, Beautiful Haidee. Royalty Theatre and later years On 31 March 1866, she became manager of the New Royalty Theatre and opened with a revival of The Ticket-of-Leave Man, and Robert Reece's burlesque, Ulf the Minstrel. In a clever and successful piece by H. T. Craven, entitled Meg's
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Jayne Atkinson (born 18 February 1959) is a British-American actress. She is best known for the role of Karen Hayes on 24, as well as her Tony Award–nominated roles in The Rainmaker and Enchanted April. She has also appeared in Criminal Minds as BAU Section Chief Erin Strauss, Madam Secretary as United States Vice President Teresa Hurst, and House of Cards as U.S. Secretary of State Catherine Durant. Early life Atkinson was born on 18 February 1959 in Bournemouth, England. Her family moved to the United States in 1968 when she was 9 years old. She grew up in North Miami Beach, Florida, and graduated from Pine Crest School, where she was elected Homecoming Queen in 1977. She attended Northwestern University (BS Communications, 1981), where she was initiated as a member of Alpha Chi Omega and a sorority sister of Laura Innes; and graduated with an MFA from the Yale Drama School in 1985. Career After working in regional theatres, Atkinson appeared off-Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Bloody Poetry in 1987. She made her Broadway debut the same year in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Subsequently, she landed title roles in more stage productions, which include Henry VIII, Tru, and The Art of Success. She earned a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The Skriker in 1996. Atkinson's work in the Roundabout Theatre Company's 1999 production of The Rainmaker earned her a Tony Award nomination, and her performance in the 2003 play Enchanted April earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award, another Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk nomination. In 2009, she starred as Ruth Condomine in a Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, which co-starred Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole, and Angela Lansbury. She has appeared in such films as Free Willy, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, 12 and Holding, Blank Check, The Village and Syriana. Her television acting credits include A Year in the Life, Parenthood, The X-Files, Law & Order, The Practice, Criminal Minds, 24, Gossip Girl and House of Cards, opposite Kevin Spacey and husband Michel Gill. Her performance in the made-for-TV movie Our Town garnered her a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Personal life Atkinson is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. She is married to actor Michel Gill, with whom she has one son. Atkinson and Gill met when they appeared together in a 1989 production of The Heiress at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut. They both appeared in House of Cards, though not as a couple: Gill played President Garrett Walker and Atkinson played Secretary of State Catherine Durant. Filmography Film Television Stage References External links Jayne Atkinson at Lortel Archives: The Internet Off-Broadway Database 1959 births 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Florida David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni English emigrants to the United States Living people Northwestern University School of Communication alumni People from
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Norma-Jean Smyser ( Norton; 7 December 1927 – 29 December 2013), better known as Kerry Norton-Smyser, was an Australian actress who performed in stage shows, night-club acts, and radio shows in the early 1950s in Australia, and is best-remembered as Australia's "Blondie". Biography Early life Kerry Norton was born as Norma-Jean Norton on 7 December 1927. She was an A-grade student throughout her school life, excelling in English and Grammar. Career In February 1947, Norton screen tested for a role in director Roy Darling's movie, The Intimate Stranger. Although filming began that April, the movie was never completed. Her first stage appearance was a minor role in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday in 1948 for J. C. Williamson at the Royal. At the same time when she was taking acting lessons at the Independent, and in 1949 she took part in the Independent's production of Father Malachy's Miracle. That same year she auditioned for Macquarie's radio station 2GB and gained an A-Grade pass, which meant she started acting for 2GB almost immediately. That year she was in Kay Keavney's radio serial Nurse White; she also appeared on the radio as Diana Reed in Superman. She was in the Caltex Theater play Prison Without Bars, which starred Babs Mayhew, Peter Bathurst, and Betty McDowall. At the same time she was working as a secretary to 2GB writer Bob MacKinnon, typing his scripts as he dictated them. She said that anyone who wanted to make a career as an actress should have a permanent job until well established. This secretarial stint came to an end early in 1950. On 2UE she won the important role of Angel White in Hagen's Circus, written by Max Afford; she was in episodes of I Hate Crime, starring Ken Wayne as Larry Kent; and she was part of the team working with comedian Mo McCackie in Cavalcade. For 2GB she was in the serial Kitty Foyle, and she had her first starring role in the Caltex Theater in Adam and Evelyne with Reg Goldsworthy. On stage, she replaced Betty Lucas, who was leaving for England, in One Wild Oat at the Palace Theatre. This was followed by Madam Louise. Both these light comedies were written by Vernon Sylvaine. After the Sydney season, Norton toured in both of these productions to the Kings Theater in Melbourne. She then started working with Jack Davey in The Club Show, continuing to work with him for more than two years, when she went to America. Important parts in radio plays continued in 1951: a lead in the Actor's Choice play A Star Reborn on 2UE; the General Motors Hour play He Came To Stay, starring Allan Trevor, and the Caltex play The Dark Corner, starring Neva Carr Glyn and Moray Powell on 2GB. On stage she acted with Hollywood comedian Mischa Auer in Benn Levy's comedy Springtime For Henry, which played at the Theater Royal in Sydney, toured New South Wales country towns, then played in Hobart, Tasmania. At the Independent,
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Johanne Sophie Dorothea Albrecht (née Baumer; December 1756, Erfurt – 16 November 1840, Hamburg) was a German actress and writer. She played leading roles in plays by Friedrich Schiller, who was a good friend of hers. She wrote poetry, novels, and prose, and was married to the doctor and writer Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht. Life Sophie Albrecht was born to the Baumer family. Her father was a Professor of Medicine at University of Erfurt, until he died when Sophie was 14. At age 15, she married Dr. Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht, who was one of her father's students. In 1776, Friedrich and Sophie traveled to Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), where Friedrich was the personal physician of Count Manteuffel. There, Friedrich edited a literary anthology, which included Sophie's first published poems. The Albrechts returned to Erfurt in 1781 due to Sophie's mother's failing health. Her mother died the next year. In Erfurt at age 25, Sophie published her first book of poetry and started acting. Actress Albrecht's first performance as an actress was in an amateur production of Christian Felix Weiße's Romeo and Juliet with great success in her hometown of Erfurt. Her debut as a professional actress happened in 1782, with the Grossmann troupe. The troupe did performances in Frankfurt and Mainz. A year later, she met Friedrich Schiller and played Luise Miller in his first performance of Kabale und Liebe. Sophie Albrecht and Friedrich Schiller had similar interests and became close friends. In 1786, Albrecht joined the Bondini troupe at Dresden Court Theater. In 1787, she traveled to Leipzig to act in the Leipzig premier of Schiller's Don Carlos, where she played Princess Eboli. The following year, Albrecht traveled to a small court theater in Schwerin, where her performance often consisted of acting like a naive girl. Later, she traveled to Prague, Mannheim and eventually Hamburg to be a guest performer at the Theater am Gänsemarkt. In 1796, Albrecht and her husband, now a popular playwright, managed the National Theater in Altona (at that time part of the Kingdom of Denmark). Sophie commemorated the event with her Antrittsrede bei Eröffnung des Nationaltheaters (Welcoming Address at the Opening of the National Theater) on September 1, 1796. A year later, Albrecht quit the Altonaer Nationaltheater and divorced her husband. Works Poetry In Reval, Albrecht's poems were first published in a literary anthology edited by her husband. Although Sophie never did find popularity among male literary establishments, she did have a strong network of women on whom she relied to write about female relations. Her works drew attention to the importance of female friends in her life. Sophie dedicated her first two volumes of poetry (1781; 1785) to women friends. She wrote a love poem for fellow actress, Catharina Felicitas Abt, whom Albrecht never met and who had recently died. The poem was entitled An dem Grabe der Madame Abt in Göttingen den 19ten August 1784 (At the grave of Madame Abt in Göttingen the 19th of August 1784). Sophie Albrecht wrote
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Janice Elaine Maxwell (November 20, 1956 – February 11, 2018) was an American stage and television actress. She was a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner. In a career spanning over thirty years, Maxwell was one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed stage actresses of her time. Maxwell made her Broadway debut in 1989, as an understudy in the musical City of Angels. She received her first Tony nomination in 2005 for the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Her other nominations were for Coram Boy in 2007, Lend Me a Tenor and The Royal Family both in 2010, and Follies in 2012. Her nominations in two separate Tony Award categories in 2010, made her only the fourth actress to achieve two nominations in a single year. Her 2012 nomination for Follies made her only the second actress to receive a Tony nomination in all four acting categories. Her other Broadway credits include Dancing at Lughnasa (1992), A Doll's House (1997), The Sound of Music (1998) and The Dinner Party (2001). Maxwell appeared in films and television shows such as I Am Michael with James Franco, Neil LaBute's Billy and Billie (2014–15), The Divide (2014), The Good Wife (2014), and Gossip Girl (2009–2011). From 1994-2003, she appeared in four episodes of the NBC drama Law & Order, each time as a different character. She also appeared in season 3 of Madam Secretary in 2016. Early life Maxwell was born in Fargo, North Dakota, as the fifth of six children to former First District Judge, Ralph B. Maxwell, who served in North Dakota from 1967 to 1978, and his wife, Elizabeth "Liz" Maxwell (née Fargusson; 1926–2015), later a lawyer for the EPA. She attended West Fargo High School, West Fargo, North Dakota, University of Utah, and Moorhead State University. She played the lead role as Calamity Jane in her high school's 1973 production of Deadwood Dick. Career 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 in 1992, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. She replaced original cast member Brid Brennan in the role of Agnes. In 1997, she appeared in A Doll's House opposite Janet McTeer. In 1998, she played Elsa Schraeder in the first Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. She then starred opposite John Ritter and Henry Winkler in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party in 2000 and in Sixteen Wounded in 2004 with Judd Hirsch and Martha Plimpton. On television during this time, between 1994 and 2003, she made four guest appearances in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order, each time as a different character. In 2005, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, for the role of Baroness Bomburst in the stage production of Chitty Chitty
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Valerie Bergere (born Valerie Zenobia de Beaumont Lieb, February 8, 1867 – September 16, 1938) was a French-born American actress who had a near fifty-year career in theatre and cinema. She began in the chorus of a touring opera company before acting in repertory theatre productions for nearly a decade. Bergere rose to play leading roles, but found her true success in vaudeville where for some seventeen years she remained one of the top draws in variety theatre. Over her later years Bergere also took on character roles in some twenty Broadway and Hollywood productions. Early life Valerie Zenobia de Beaumont Lieb was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine. As Valerie Bergere, she began her theatrical career in about 1890 after a brief stint with a San Francisco newspaper. Bergere first appeared on stage with her sister Leona as a chorus singer with the Conried Opera Company and later as an actress in German-language theatre productions. Career In 1892 she made her English-language debut with a stock company in San Francisco, California, as Dora Vane in Harbor Lights, a melodrama by George Robert Sims and Henry Alfred Pettitt. The following year Bergere created the part of Mrs. Russell Ritchie in The Journalist, a play first presented in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Bergere next played ingénue parts with Maud Granger in tours of California and the Pacific Northwest. She was Blanch Livingston opposite Steve Brodie at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in the Robert Neilson Stephens 1894 play On the Bowery. In 1895 Bergere played Jen in Stephens’ A White Rat, and starred as the French adventurer Marie Vernet in On the Mississippi. Over the season of 1897–98 Bergere was a member of the stock company affiliated with the Girard Avenue Theatre in Philadelphia, where she played Henrietta in The Two Orphans, adapted for the American stage by N. Hart Jackson and Albert Marshman Palmer from the original 1874 French play Les Deux Orphalines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon; Mrs. Rawlston, in James L. Ford’s Jim the Penman; Suzanne, in The Masked Ball; adapted by Clyde Fitch from the original French by Alexandre Bisson and Fabrice Carré; Miriam, in The Butterflies; and the title role in an adaptation of Carmen. Bergere closed out the decade as a leading lady with the Dearborn Stock Company in Chicago. At New York's Grand Opera House on November 26, 1900, Bergere played Cora, the hosiery model, in David Belasco's comedy Naughty Anthony, and the tragic Cho-Cho-San in the show's featured attraction, Madame Butterfly. The roles were originally played earlier in the year in New York and London by Blanche Bates. During this run Bergere’s popularity as Madame Butterfly was due in part to Belasco’s efforts in helping her become a more versatile actress. Even before Madame Butterfly, she had held a long-time interest in all things Japanese and would go on to play similar roles in the future. For the season 1901–02 Bergere played leading roles with the Columbia Stock Company in Brooklyn, New York. On September 21,
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Hwang Seung-eon (; born October 31, 1988) is a South Korean actress, model and singer. She was a member of the co-ed project group Temporary Idols under YG Entertainment. She has appeared in numerous films, television series, variety shows, and music videos. She is best known for her roles in Let's Eat 2 (2015), Madame Antoine: The Love Therapist (2016), Love for a Thousand More (2016), Time (2018), XX (2020), When I Was the Most Beautiful (2020) and Alice (2020). Early life Hwang was born in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul, South Korea on October 31, 1988. She attended Anyang Arts High School and graduated from Kyung Hee University. She started acting when she was in her third year of high school, and she was also an idol trainee. Career 2009–2013: Career beginnings Hwang Seung-eon started her entertainment career by appearing as a friend of actress Im Jung-eun in MBC's entertainment program, Introduce the Star's Friend, which was broadcast in December 2008. She made her acting debut in 2009, in the horror film A Blood Pledge as Park Ji-mi, which was released on June 18, 2009. In August 2009, she starred in the horror film Yoga Hakwon. She made a cameo in City of Fathers playing the role as Mina. In 2010, Hwang made her television series debut in the 2010 MBC TV Golden Fish, playing the role of Yoon Myeong-ji, a housekeeper. In December 2011, she played Lee Joo-hee, a ghost who haunts Yeo-ri (Son Ye-jin) in the horror film, Spellbound, starring Son Ye-jin and Lee Min-ki. She was also cast in Drama Special – Ji-hoon's Born in 1982. In 2012, Hwang was cast as the lead in the short film The Trinity and also Whatcha Wearin'?. 2014–2016: Rising popularity and departure from Urban Works Media She made several cameos in films and appeared in short films in 2014. Her popularity rose after her lead role in The King of Jokgu, where she was nominated for the Best New Actress at the 2nd Wildflower Film Awards. It was announced that Hwang would be cast in the OCN drama Bad Guys and MBC Every 1's Sweden Laundry. In 2015, Hwang joined the cast of Heart to Heart which aired on January 9, 2015. She also starred on Sweet 20. She gained more attention after she was cast in Let's Eat 2. Hwang was cast as the lead in the JTBC drama Madame Antoine: The Love Therapist along with actor Han Ye-seul and Sung Joon which was delayed to January 22, 2016, after the originally planned November 27, 2015. Later that year, she made a cameo in Signal before she was cast as the main lead of Thumping Spike. She officially left Urban Works Media in 2016. 2016–present: YG Entertainment, music debut and continued success Hwang joined YG Entertainment and its model agency YG KPlus on October 26, 2016. She then starred as the female lead in the YG produced web series, Love for a Thousand More aired on December 5, 2016.
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Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy". She found her milieu in revue, in which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress Hermione Gingold. Baddeley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Room at the Top (1959) and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore in 1963. She portrayed Mrs Cratchit in the 1951 film Scrooge and Ellen the maid in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins. She voiced Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in the 1970 Disney animated film, The Aristocats. In 1975, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series for her portrayal of Nell Naugatuck on the TV series Maude. Early life Baddeley was born in Broseley, Shropshire, to W.H. Clinton-Baddeley and Louise Bourdin who was French. Baddeley was a descendant of British American War of Independence General Sir Henry Clinton. Her elder sister, Angela Baddeley, was also an actress. Her half-brother, William Baddeley, was a Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Brisbane and Rural Dean of Westminster. An early stage appearance came in 1923 when she appeared in Charles McEvoy's play The Likes of Her in London's West End. Career Baddeley was known for supporting performances in such films as Passport to Pimlico (1949), Tom Brown's Schooldays and Scrooge (both 1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), Mary Poppins (as Ellen, the maidservant), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (both 1964), although she first began making films back in the 1920s. One of her more important roles was in Brighton Rock (1948), in which she played Ida, one of the main characters, whose personal investigation into the disappearance of a friend threatens the anti-hero Pinkie. Baddeley also had numerous stage credits. She had a long professional relationship with Noël Coward, appearing in many of his plays throughout the 1940s and 1950s. The most successful was her teaming with Hermione Gingold in Coward's comedy Fallen Angels, though the two women were reportedly "no longer on speaking terms" by the end of the run. Baddeley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Simone Signoret's best friend in Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959). With 2 minutes and 19 seconds of screen time, her role is the shortest ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. In 1960 she played prostitute Doll Tearsheet in the BBC's series of Shakespeare history plays An Age of Kings, acting alongside her sister Angela as Mistress Quickly. In 1963, she was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. She was known to American audiences for roles in Bewitched, The Cara Williams
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Molière is a 1919 play written by Philip Moeller, who subtitled it "A Romantic Play in Three Acts". It has a medium-sized cast, moderate pacing, and two sets; Acts I and III share the same set. Some of the play's characters are historical, figures from the French court of the 1670s. The first two acts have a single scene, while the third has a curtain drop to signal the passage of two hours time. The play shows a few scenes from the twilight of Molière, as he loses the favor of Louis XIV but retains his independence. The play has an atypical approach for Moeller, who usually wrote historical satires that some critics said verged on burlesque. Also unusual was Moeller's reduced involvement with the original production. At the time he was wrapped up with staging the first Theatre Guild productions. Instead, Molière was shaped for the stage by producer-director Henry Miller, who also played the eponymous lead. Moeller acknowledged Miller's creative contribution in the dedication for the published play. Characters Characters are listed in order of appearance within their scope. Lead Armande Béjart — young wife to Molière. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin — known to the world as Molière. Louis XIV — the King of France. Françoise — Madame de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV. Supporting Baron — a seventeen year old member of Molière's company. La Forest — a sixty-eight-year-old woman, cook and friend to Molière. Colinge — an old actor, with Molière since the beginning. De Luzon — a young courtier. La Fontaine — the writer of the fables. Giovanni Lulli — a court musician, a rival to Molière for the royal favor. Claude Chapelle — a friend to Molière. The Actress Who Plays Toniette — A lead player in the third act's The Imaginary Invalid. Featured The King's Chamberlin. Hercules — a black page to Madame de Montespan. First Lady in Waiting. Second Lady in Waiting. Lackey — This is a non-speaking role in the published text. A Doctor. Second Actress — A player in the third act's The Imaginary Invalid. Walk-on Courtiers and Ladies-in-Waiting, Actors and Actresses. Synopsis Original production Background A newspaper columnist reported in December 1918 that Henry Miller, just coming off of a flop, was looking for a new play to produce, adding that "Blanche Bates and Holbrook Blinn are in the same boat". Whether coincidence or not, within two months all three would start rehearsals for Molière. Henry Miller, whose pockets were deeper and who had a larger company than the other two actor-managers, wound up producing and staging Moeller's play. Estelle Winwood, Forrest Robinson, and Sidney Herbert were also reported in early February 1919 to have been signed by Henry Miller. The sets were by Lee Simonson; the costumes by Rollo Peters, made by Mme. Freisinger; incidental music was composed by Cassius Freeborn. Tryouts and revisions Molière had its first tryout at Ford's Grand Opera House in Baltimore, on February 24, 1919, where it played for a week. The audience was so
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Wallis Currie-Wood (born December 12, 1991) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Stephanie "Stevie" McCord on the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary. Early years Currie-Wood was born December 12, 1991, in Austin, Texas. She studied violin at the University of Texas String Project and the Austin Chamber Music Academy. Currie-Wood attended the Juilliard School, where she performed in productions such as Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, and Buried Child. Career After graduating from Juilliard, Currie-Wood first appeared in Nancy Meyers' 2015 comedy The Intern. She played Stephanie "Stevie" McCord, the eldest daughter of Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, on Madam Secretary. The six-season series aired from 2014 to 2019. References External links 1991 births 21st-century American actresses American film actresses American television actresses Juilliard School alumni Living people
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Gladys George (born Gladys Clare Evans; September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954) was an American actress of stage and screen. Though nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), she spent most of her career in supporting roles in films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Flamingo Road (1949). Early life George was born on September 13, 1904 in Patten, Maine to British parents, Sir Arthur Evans Clare, a "noted Shakespearean actor", and his wife, Lady Alice. Another source indicated "Gladys was born in a little town in Missouri, where the troupe her parents belonged to happened to be stranded at the time." Career George went on the stage at the age of 3 and toured the United States, appearing with her parents, who were British actors. She starred onstage in the 1920s, and she had made several films during the early part of that decade. For her role in the film Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), she received a Best Actress nomination at the 9th Academy Awards. Other roles were in Madame X (1937), Marie Antoinette (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Way of All Flesh (1940), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Hard Way (1943), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), He Ran All the Way (1951), Detective Story (1951), and Lullaby of Broadway (1951). George's Broadway credits include The Distant City, Lady in Waiting, and The Betrothal. Personal life Gladys George was married and divorced four times. All of the unions were childless. On March 31, 1922, she and actor Ben Erway eloped and were married by a judge in Oakland, California. "They were remarried in San Luis Obispo August 3 of the same year. They separated September 14, 1930." The couple divorced in October 1930. Her second husband was millionaire paper manufacturer Edward Fowler, who walked out in 1933 after finding the actress in the arms of her leading man Leonard Penn. At the time, George was playing a nymphomaniacal star in the Broadway hit Personal Appearance. George and actor Leonard Penn were married in a probate court in New Haven, Connecticut, September 19, 1935. Her last husband Kenneth Bradley, whom she married when she was 41, was a hotel bellboy 20 years her junior. Health George was afflicted with numerous ailments, including throat cancer, heart disease, and cirrhosis of the liver. She died from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1954 in Los Angeles, California, aged 50, and was interred in the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in Burbank, California. Filmography References Further reading External links 1904 births 1954 deaths Actresses from Maine American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery American people of English descent People from Patten, Maine Vaudeville performers 20th-century American actresses Alcohol-related deaths in California Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players Warner Bros. contract players
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Rebecca Faulkenberry is a Bermudian singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway, West End theatre and screen. She has performed in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages and The Irishman. Early life Faulkenberry was born in Texas and raised in Bermuda. She moved back to the U.S. to attend the Connecticut boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall and Indiana University before completing a masters at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Career Theatre Faulkenberry made her West End debut in High School Musical, in 2008, and went on to star in High School Musical 2 before going on the US tour of the show. Her Broadway debut followed in 2011 as the female lead, Sherrie, with Rock of Ages following her role on the Rock of Ages national tour. After a nine-month stay with the show, Faulkenberry left Rock of Ages to join Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark in 2011 in the lead role of Mary-Jane. In 2017 she starred as Nancy in Tim Minchin and Danny Rubin's Tony-nominated musical Groundhog Day. Film and television Faulkenberry is known for guest-starring roles in Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist and Instinct. She appeared as Barbara Hoffa alongside Al Pacino in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Filmography Film Television Theatre References External links 1980 births Living people Bermudian musicians Bermudian actresses
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Jenny Galloway is a British actress and singer best known for her stage career, which includes Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables. She has received numerous awards and nominations, winning the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance in Mamma Mia!. She had previously won the award seven years earlier for her portrayal of the character Luce in George Abbott's The Boys from Syracuse. Galloway can be heard on the cast recordings of Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Concert, Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert, Oliver!, Mamma Mia! and Mary Poppins. In the 2001 ITV children's series Weirdsister College, Galloway portrayed the college porter known as the Beetle. Her film credits include In Transit, About a Boy, Fierce Creatures and the role of the Foreign Secretary in Johnny English. She appeared in Madame de Sade alongside Judi Dench and Deborah Findlay as Charlotte in 2008. Galloway had a principal role in a fifth series episode of Marple, The Pale Horse, alongside Julia McKenzie. Her role was Bella Ellis – the town's local witch and cook to Thyrza Grey (played by Pauline Collins) – who are considered prime suspects at many points during the episode. The episode aired as the first part of the fifth series in the UK in August 2010, before the fourth series had finished airing. She reprised her role as Madame Thénardier in the 25th Anniversary Concert of Les Misérables at the O2 Arena in October 2010. She was briefly reunited with her former co-star Alun Armstrong at the end of the performance, when he appeared alongside the rest of the original cast of the musical for the finale. She and Armstrong had appeared as the Thénardiers in the 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Galloway also played the character in the 2006 Broadway revival of the show. Galloway worked at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Berkshire in 1982, returning periodically, to assist stage management, drive the van, and lead sing-alongs. In 2013, she appeared as Sister Thomas in the Father Brown episode "The Bride of Christ". In 2017, she featured as the Nanny in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Crooked House, alongside Glenn Close, Max Irons and Terence Stamp. In March 2023, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Mrs Garton-Hill. Theatre credits Sandra – Zigger Zagger (1967) – National Youth Theatre Madame Thénardier – Les Misérables (1992–1994, 1995, 2006–2008 and 2010) Widow Corney – Oliver! (1994; revival cast) Rosie – Mamma Mia! (1999; original cast) Mickey - My One and Only 2002; Original West End Cast Mrs. Lovett – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mrs. Brill – Mary Poppins (2004; original cast, 2009) Mrs. Pearce – My Fair Lady (Paris production, 2010) Selected filmography Come Away (2020) Johnny English (2003) The Clandestine Marriage (1999) Doctors (2023) References External links Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) British film actresses British musical theatre actresses Living people British television
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Vina Evelyn Hayes (1 June 1912 - 26 December 1988), better known as Evie Hayes, was an American-born actor and singer, best known for her stage success in Australia. She was once described as "the most popular box office attraction in Australian musical comedy since Gladys Moncrieff." Biography Born in Seattle to George Hayes and Eva Upton, a soubrette. In 1928, while attending Seattle's Blessed Sacrament High School, Evie was already acting, taking a part as the artist in the Senior Play, "The Ninth Promise." Evie Hayes appeared on stage from an early age and worked steadily in vaudeville, radio and nightclubs. Having moved to New York, she worked as a song plugger at the publishing house of Irving Berlin. She was the leading lady for Will Mahoney, in his tour of the United Kingdom and Europe and sang for the BBC and appeared in cabaret and made her own recordings. She appeared in the film Hold Everything in 1930 and had other small roles in musicals Hayes married Mahoney at a Registry Office in Westminster, London on March 26, 1938, and the couple went to Australia to appear on the Tivoli circuit, and proved very popular, eventually deciding to stay in the country permanently. They appeared in the film Come Up Smiling (1939), managed the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, presenting everything from revues, pantomimes and musicals and entertained the American and Australasian troops and raising funds for the war effort. Hayes played the lead role in the Australian production of Annie Get Your Gun, which ran for more than three years. On television since its inception, she appeared as a compere, singer, comedian and a commercial presenter on the Graham Kennedy show IMT. Despite being diagnosed with MS in 1969, she continued her career. She later appeared regularly on television, including as a judge on light entertainment program Young Talent Time. She also opened her own talent school, and acted in productions of Mata Hari, The Flame of Istanbul, Funny Girl, Kiss Me, Kate, a revival of Oklahoma! and Call Me Madam. She died of a heart attack, early in the morning of 26 December 1988, in Melbourne, Victoria. Filmography Come Up Smiling (1939) (Kitty Katkin) Caravan Holiday (short) (1972) References External links Evie Hayes at Australian Dictionary of Biography Evie Hayes Australian Theatre credits at AusStage Evie Hayes at National Film and Sound Archive 1912 births 1988 deaths 20th-century American actresses American television actresses American film actresses Actresses from Seattle Actresses from Melbourne American emigrants to Australia American stage actresses People with multiple sclerosis
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Carlotta Nillson (February 25, 1876 – December 30, 1951) was a Swedish-born American actress who appeared in at least ten Broadway productions over the first decade of the twentieth century. She was probably best remembered for her portrayal of Rhys Macchesney in the play The Three of Us. Early life Carlotta Nillson was born on February 25, 1876, in Småland, Sweden and was raised by her widowed mother. When she was about ten her mother brought her to America where they first settled in Wisconsin and later Minnesota. Nillson's mother was very poor at the time and it was soon decided that she should live with a more affluent neighbor with a large family. Though too young to be a nanny, Nillson was expected to entertain the younger children of the household. Because of her circumstances Nillson was not a happy child (later describing herself as being "born old") and at first found this chore somewhat challenging. This she overcame when it was discovered she had a knack for conjuring up fairy tales rich with goblins, sea pirates and fairies who lived in ice caves along the North Sea. Several years later Nillson and her mother moved to San Francisco where the young teenager managed to be hired as a walk-on player with Madame Modjeska's stock company. Nillson's stage debut followed in a road production of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart. Modjeska had noticed how emotional Nillson became during Mary's (Modjeska) execution scene and cast her as one of the maids that accompanied the Scottish Queen to the scaffold. Career Carlotta Nillson later moved to New York where she worked for Augustin Daly for a time and then went on a grueling forty-week tour of one-night stands as the ingénue in William Gillette's The Private Secretary (a.k.a. Digbey's Secretary) and later toured in John Stetson's The Crust of Society. After touring in Bronson Howard's Civil War play Shenandoah, Nillson decided to take some time off to hone her craft in England under the tutelage of William Farren Jr. and Geneviève Ward. She returned to the theatre in 1898 as Mrs. Dasney in the West End production of Pearl Craigie's The Ambassador at the St. James Theatre and the following year at Terry's Theatre as Evelyn in The Happy Life. Nillson made her Broadway debut as the slave girl Eunice, in a revival of Stanislaus Stange's Quo Vadis in December 1900 at the Academy of Music Opera House and would remain in demand throughout the decade in Broadway productions and road tours. She was probably best remembered by audiences of that time for her performances as Mrs. Elvsted in Hedda Gabler opposite Minnie Maddern Fiske, the title role in Pinero's Letty and Rhys Macchesney in the Rachel Crothers play The Three of Us, over its long run at the Madison Square Theatre. She twice played the title role in C. M. S. McLellan's melodrama Leah Kleschna, first in the silent film version (her only film released by the Famous Players Film
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Lisa Arrindell (born March 24, 1969), also credited as Lisa Arrindell Anderson, is an American actress. Beginning her career in the early 1990s, Arrindell is most known for her role as Vanessa Breaux-Henderson in Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Heather Comstock in the series In the House (1995), and Toynelle Davis in Livin' Large (1991). Early life and education Lisa Arrindell was born in the Bronx on March 24, 1969 and brought straight home to Brooklyn, where she grew up. Arrindell attended the High School of Performing Arts, now called Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. Arrindell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre from The Juilliard School in New York City. Career Arrindell made her film debut in Walt Disney's One Good Cop alongside Michael Keaton in 1991. That same year, she played the lead in the comedy Livin' Large. She later appeared in Trial by Jury (1994) and Spike Lee's Clockers (1995). Arrindell was a series regular in the NBC sitcom, In the House in 1995. She co-starred in several made-for-television movies, including A Lesson Before Dying (1999) alongside Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson, and Disappearing Acts (2000) starring Sanaa Lathan. In 2006, Arrindell appeared in three films, Big Momma's House 2, The Second Chance, and Madea's Family Reunion. In 2010, she appeared in The Wronged Man with Julia Ormond and Mahershala Ali. Arrindell appeared opposite Isaiah Washington in the thriller The Sin Seer (2015), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), starring Oprah Winfrey. She also had guest starring roles on The Cosby Show, The Practice, The Steve Harvey Show, Drop Dead Diva, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Elementary. In 2017, she had a recurring role in the Bounce TV prime-time soap opera Saints & Sinners. She also appeared in Fox's Our Kind of People in 2022. Arrindell recently starred in the film 12 Angry Men And...Women on Apple TV with Wendell Pierce and BET's Favorite Son (2021). Arrindell opened the revival of Law & Order (2022) in its first episode as Veronica King. Arrindell has guest starred on several other network series, including Random Acts of Flyness, Bull, Elementary, Madam Secretary, Law & Order SVU, and Notorious. Some of her stage performances include the Broadway revival of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad, Jubilee (Arena Stage), Reparations (Billie Holiday Theatre), Richard III (Delacorte Theater), Heliotrope Bouquet (Playwrights Horizons), and Earth & Sky (Second Stage). Personal life Arrindell married Basil Anderson in 1993. Together, they have two children. The couple divorced in 2015, and she reverted to her maiden name. Arrindell currently resides in New York City. Filmography Film Television References External links 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses African-American actresses American stage actresses American film actresses American television actresses Juilliard School alumni Living people Actresses from the Bronx 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American people 1969 births
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Mathilde Casadesus (1921–1965) was a French film actress. Biography Born into a family of renowned musicians, she is the daughter of cellist and composer Marius Casadesus and cellist Lucette Laffite. She is the half-sister of Gréco Casadesus and first cousin of Gisèle Casadesus. However, she chose to become an actress and, in 1945, began her film career. She appeared in almost thirty films, alongside Bourvil, Fernandel, Gabin and Jean Marais, among others. At the same time, she played numerous roles on stage, and appeared in operettas, notably with Marcel Merkès and Paulette Merval. Mathilde Casadesus, mother of dancer Lucile Casadesus, died during the filming of How to Steal a Million Dollars with Audrey Hepburn, in which she did not appear. She died of a heart attack at the age of 44. She is buried in the Longs Réages cemetery in Meudon. The Bibliothèque nationale de France holds a portrait of Mathilde Casadesus drawn by Jean Dorville. Partial filmography Box of Dreams (1945) - L'Agitée La part de l'ombre (1945) The Idiot (1946) - Adélaïde Epantchine The Murdered Model (1948) - Madame Malaise Tous les deux (1949) - La cliente Marlene (1949) - Betty The Sinners (1949) - Madame Barattier la Patronne de l'Auberge Branquignol (1949) - Suzanne King Pandora (1950) - Marika The Sleepwalker (1951) - Mademoiselle Thomas Le Plaisir (1952) - Madame Louise dite Cocotte (segment "La Maison Tellier") The Lady of the Camellias (1953) - Prudence The Air of Paris (1954) - Voyageuse Ce soir les jupons volent... (1956) - Madame Pommeau Gervaise (1956) - Mme Boche - la concierge curieuse Burning Fuse (1957) - Mimi Me and the Colonel (1958) - Secretary (uncredited) Love Is My Profession (1958) - Anna - la patronne du restaurant (uncredited) Life Together (1958) - La cuisinière d'Odette Le petit prof (1959) - Mme. Boulard The Bureaucrats (1959) - Madame Nègre Certains l'aiment froide (1960) - Mathilde Rouet, née Valmorin Meurtre en 45 tours (1960) - Elsa Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle (1960) - La baronne de Thunder-Ten-Tronck À rebrousse-poil (1961) - Mme. Durand Les amours de Paris (1961) - L'infirmière-major Conduite à gauche (1962) - La cliente The Law of Men (1962) - Madame Thiebaut6 Le couteau dans la plaie (1962) - Mme. Duval, Concierge Moonlight in Maubeuge (1962) - La dame aux courses The Reluctant Spy (1963) - Maria Linas - la diva Les mordus de Paris (1965) Les combinards (1966) - La bouchère de Cussac References Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links 1921 births 1965 deaths French film actresses French television actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French women French expatriates in Spain
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Geoffrey Arend (born February 28, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Ethan Gross on the ABC drama series Body of Proof, Matt Mahoney on the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary, and a young stoner in Super Troopers. Biography Arend is the son of Geoffrey D. Arend Sr. and Sabiha Khan Arend. His father is an American of German and English descent, whereas his mother is Pakistani. He graduated from New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in 1996. Career In 1998, Arend joined the cast of Daria as the voice artist for obnoxious flirt Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III. He would voice Upchuck until the end of the series in 2002, as well as in the video game Daria's Inferno. After the show finished, Arend landed small roles in films such as Super Troopers, where he played a stoner who eats an entire bag of mushrooms to avoid getting caught by the cops after his friend gets pulled over, and Bubble Boy. He played a man with an intellectual disability in the film The Ringer, and then had a supporting role in the romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer. Arend previously appeared in the medical drama television series Body of Proof, which aired on ABC from March 29, 2011 to May 28, 2013 and played speech writer Matt Mahoney on the CBS drama Madam Secretary. Arend joined the cast as a series regular in the fourth and final season of the Amazon Prime Video drama television series Goliath, aired fall of 2021. Personal life On October 11, 2009, Arend married actress Christina Hendricks. It was announced in October 2019 that they had separated, with a divorce finalized in December of that year. Filmography Film Television Video games References External links 1978 births Living people American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors American male video game actors American male voice actors American people of English descent American people of German descent American people of Pakistani descent Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors
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Chantal Thuy is a Canadian actress known for her role as Grace Choi in Black Lightning. Early life and education Thuy was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. Her parents are refugees from Vietnam, having fled the Vietnam War by boat and eventually arriving in Quebec. Her father is a former IBM engineer. Thuy is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. She is fluent in English, French, and Vietnamese. Career Thuy is known for her portrayal of the DC Comics character Grace Choi on the CW Network show Black Lightning (2018), which ran for four seasons. In October 2020, she was promoted to series regular on the series. Thuy has also appeared on television series like Madam Secretary, Pretty Little Liars and Matador. In 2018, Thuy optioned Caroline Vu's novel, That Summer in Provincetown, about three generations of Vietnamese Canadians and is currently looking to adapt it into a screenplay. In 2021, Thuy began portraying detective Lia Kaleo on the CBS action-crime drama series Magnum P.I.. Theater In February 2019, Thuy co-starred in Tracy Letts' play, Linda Vista, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and later reprised her role on Broadway with the Second Stage Theater at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Her theatre credits also include Pan Asian Repertory Theater's play "We Are", Harold Clurman Lab Theatre's "The Seagull" (Nina) and "Winter's Tale" (Perdita), and reading series with the Ma-Yi Lab Theatre, African American Playwrights Exchange and Teesri Duniya Theatre. She appeared as Marie Louise-Yvette L'Amour in the play "The Lady Was Gentleman" with the Broads' Word Ensemble in Los Angeles. Personal life Thuy grew up Catholic but currently practices Buddhism under a Tibetan Buddhist teacher. Filmography Film Television References External links Actresses from Montreal Canadian television actresses Canadian Buddhists Tibetan Buddhists from Canada Living people Canadian actresses of Vietnamese descent 1990 births Canadian film actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian stage actresses
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Gilda Varesi (September 28, 1887 – May 27, 1965), also known as Gilda Varesi Archibald, was an Italian-born actress and playwright. Early life Gilda Varesi was born in Milan, and adopted as the daughter of opera singer Elena Boccabadati Varesi. Her maternal grandparents Felice Varesi and Cecilia Boccabadati Gazzudo were also opera singers. Luigia Boccabadati was Gilda's great-grandmother. Gilda Varesi, who was named for a character in Verdi's Rigoletto, moved to Chicago as a child, with her family. Career Varesi started on stage in Chicago, with the Ben Greet Players, before joining Helena Modjeska's troupe, then working with Minnie Maddern Fiske in Salvation Nell (1908) and Little Italy. She toured as the lead in War Brides in 1915. She covered John Barrymore's role for ten performances of The Jest when he was ill in 1920. She recalled her days as an understudy in her later work, saying, "No one ever lost a position by giving a lift to someone else. Remembering how helpful understudying was to me, I always try to give my own understudy at least one chance to appear publicly." Varesi co-wrote (with Dolly Byrne) and starred in Enter Madame, a comedy about an opera singer based on her mother, who died months before the show opened on Broadway in 1920. Based on this performance, critic Maude Sperry Turner called Varesi, "the most gifted actress on Broadway," and Alexander Woollcott declared her "a first-rate actress, with a distinct tragic power and an inborn capacity to send chills up and down your spine." Enter Madame was adapted for the screen twice, as a silent film in 1922, starring Clara Kimball Young and Elliott Dexter, and as a sound picture in 1935, with Cary Grant and Elissa Landi. It was also included in The Best Plays of 1920-1921 (1921). She appeared in two silent films, The Man of Mystery (1917) and Romance (1920, now lost). Personal life Gilda Varesi was introduced to English lawyer John Gordon Archibald by actress Doris Keane and playwright Alfred Sutro in London. They married in 1922. She died in 1965, aged 77 years, in London. References External links Gilda Varesi on IBDB. 1887 births 1965 deaths American women dramatists and playwrights American stage actresses 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Milan Italian emigrants to the United States
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Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts (21 November 1894 – 14 December 1949) was a British author, barrister, and journalist. Biography Roberts was born and raised in London but relocated to Germany to study classics. He worked as a professional writer, producing works on travel, biography, criminology, fiction, paranormal, translation and drama. He contributed to The New Age magazine. During World War I he was a trooper of the 9th Lancers. He met Grigori Rasputin during a visit in Saint Petersburg. Roberts met Gurdjieff in Tiflis in 1919. His book In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920 (1921) contained the first description of Gurdjieff published in English. His 1928 novel This Side Idolatry (by the pseudonym "Ephesian") was the first public presentation of the relationship between Charles Dickens and the actress Ellen Ternan. He was private secretary to Lord Birkenhead (1924-1930). His books were recommended by George Orwell. Roberts died in a motor accident in December 1949. Psychical research Roberts took interest in psychical research and spiritualism, but approached these subjects from a mostly skeptical position. He was the author of The Mysterious Madame: A Life of Madame Blavatsky (1931), a highly critical biography of Helena Blavatsky. In his book The Truth about Spiritualism (1932) he came to the conclusion that there is no evidence for the spirit hypothesis in mediumship. According to the research of Roberts all séance and spiritualist phenomena can be explained by "telepathy, self-deception, fraud or neurosis". Roberts was convinced that the medium Helen Duncan was a fraud and wrote a foreword to the book The Trial of Mrs. Duncan (1945) by Helena Normanton. Publications Non-fiction Russia at the Cross-Roads (1916) A Russian Anthology in English (1917) Through Starving Russia (1921) In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920 (1921) A Wanderer’s Log (1922) The Literary Renaissance in America (1923) Lord Birkenhead: being an account of the life of F.E. Smith, first earl of Birkenhead (1926) Winston Churchill (1927) Philip Snowden: An Impartial Portrait (1929) The Mysterious Madame: A Life of Madame Blavatsky (1931) The Truth about Spiritualism (1932) Nurse Cavell: A Play in Three Acts (1933) The new world of crime; famous American trials (1933) Sir Travers Humphreys: His Career and Cases (1936) Stanley Baldwin: Man or Miracle (1936) Paul Verlaine (1937) Sir John Simon: Being an Account of the Life And Career of John Allesbrook Simon (1938) Famous American Trials (1947) Fiction This Side Idolatry (1928, as "Ephesian") The Coat of Many Colours (1930, as "Ephesian") The Jury Disagree (1934, with George Goodchild) A. B. C.’s Test Case (1936, as "Ephesian") Bread and Butter. A Novel based on the Life of W. M. Thackeray (1936, as "Ephesian") A. B. C. Investigates (1937, as "Ephesian") A. B. C. Solves Five (1937, as "Ephesian") We Shot an Arrow (1939, with George Goodchild) The Dear Old Gentleman (1940, with George Goodchild) Let’s Begin Again (1940) Danger Abroad (1942) Don Chicago (1944) Sunrise in the West (1945) See also E. Clephan Palmer References External links The Truth about Spiritualism 1894 births
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Caroline Sidney Aaron (née Abady; born ) is an American actress. She has appeared in multiple Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, and Woody Allen films and is also known for her role in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Early life Aaron was born in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Nina Abady ( Friedman) was a civil rights activist; Alabama-born, she was of Syrian Jewish descent, and worked full time to support her three kids after the death of Aaron's father, who was of Sephardic Jewish (Lebanese-Jewish) descent. Aaron's elder sister, Josephine Abady, a theatre director and producer, died from breast cancer on May 25, 2002, aged 52. Aaron attended American University in Washington, D.C., studying performing arts. She studied acting at HB Studio in New York City. Career Aaron is known for her performances in films like Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986) and Primary Colors (1998), as well as Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Alice (1990), and Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle (1993). She also appeared in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Stanley Tucci's Big Night (1996). She also appeared in 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel 22 Jump Street (2014). She is also known for her work on television, including guest roles on Wings, Frasier, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Transparent, Madam Secretary, and The Good Fight. Her Broadway roles include Woody Allen's Relatively Speaking, I Hate Hamlet, Social Security, and The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards. She was a regular on the critically acclaimed and Primetime Emmy Award-winning show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023), with her comic performance of a Jewish mother winning her two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series alongside the rest of the series' cast. Aaron is a guest instructor at HB Studio. Personal life She has been married to James Foreman since 1980; they have two children. Filmography Film Television Theatre Video games Audio dramas Award and nominations References External links American film producers American University alumni Jewish American actresses Actresses from Richmond, Virginia 1952 births Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Businesspeople from Richmond, Virginia American women film producers American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American people of Lebanese-Jewish descent American Mizrahi Jews 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American Sephardic Jews 21st-century American Sephardic Jews American people of Syrian descent American people of Syrian-Jewish descent
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Six Characters in Search of an Author ( ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" ("Madhouse!") and "Incommensurabile!" ("Off the scale!"), a reaction to the play's illogical progression. Reception improved at subsequent performances, especially after Pirandello provided for the play's third edition, published in 1925, a foreword clarifying its structure and ideas. The play was given in an English translation in the West End of London in February 1922, and had its American premiere in October of that year at the Princess Theatre, New York. Characters The characters are: The Father The Mother The Stepdaughter The Son The Boy The Child Madame Pace The Manager/Director Leading Lady Leading Man Second Lady L'ingénue Juvenile Lead Other Actors and Actresses Property Man Prompter Machinist Manager's Secretary Door-Keeper Scene-Shifters Synopsis An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people. The Director of the play, furious at the interruption, demands an explanation. The Father explains that they are unfinished characters in search of an author to finish their story. The Director initially believes them to be mad, but as they begin to argue among themselves and reveal details of their story, he begins to listen. The Father and The Mother had one child together (The Son), but they have separated and Mother has had three children by another man – The Stepdaughter, The Boy and The Child (a girl). The Father attempted to buy sex from The Stepdaughter, claiming he did not recognize her after so many years, but The Stepdaughter is convinced he knew who she was the entire time. The Mother walked in on The Father and The Stepdaughter shortly after The Father's proposal and informs The Stepdaughter that he is her ex-husband; they both express their disgust and outrage. While The Director is not an author, he agrees to stage their story despite disbelief among the jeering actors. After a 20-minute break, The Characters and The Company return to the stage to perform some of the story so far. They begin to perform the scene between The Stepdaughter and The Father in Madame Pace's shop, which the Director decides to call Scene I. The Characters are very particular about the setting, wanting everything to be as realistic as possible. The Director asks The Actors to observe the scene because he intends for them to perform it later. This sparks the first argument between The Director and The Characters over the acting of the play because The Characters had assumed that they would be performing it, seeing as they are The Characters already. The Director continues the play, but The Stepdaughter has more problems with the accuracy
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Evalyn Knapp (born Evelyn Pauline Knapp; June 17, 1906 – June 12, 1981) was an American film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movie serial actress in the 1930s. She was the younger sister of the orchestra leader Orville Knapp. Life and career Knapp started acting in silent films, her first role being in the 1929 film At the Dentist's. She was cast as leading lady in Smart Money in 1931, the only film starring both Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. In 1932, Knapp was one of 14 girls, along with Ginger Rogers and Gloria Stuart, selected as WAMPAS Baby Stars. She achieved success in cliffhanger serials, which were popular at the time. She played the title character in the 1933 serial The Perils of Pauline. The same year, she starred, with top billing, alongside 26-year-old John Wayne in His Private Secretary, a light comedy in which Wayne portrays a playboy determined to win her over. She also appeared in Corruption that year opposite Preston Foster. One of her better known film roles was opposite Ken Maynard in the 1934 film In Old Santa Fe featuring Gene Autry in his first screen appearance, in which he sang with a bluegrass band. She worked through 1941, but her career slowed afterward. In 1943, she played her last role, uncredited, in Two Weeks to Live, one of the Lum and Abner films starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. Personal life In 1931, Knapp spent several months in the hospital after she fell from a cliff during a hike with her brother, Orville. Two vertebrae were fractured. Knapp married Dr. George A. Snyder in 1934. Death On June 9, 1981, Knapp died of heart disease at St. Vincent's Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography At the Dentist's (1929) Sinners' Holiday (1930) – Jennie Delano River's End (1930) – Miriam McDowell Mothers Cry (1930) – Jenny Williams 50 Million Frenchmen (1931) – Miss Wheeler-Smith The Millionaire (1931) – Barbara Alden Smart Money (1931) – Irene Graham The Bargain (1931) – Vorencia Side Show (1931) – Irene Taxi! (1931) – Actress in Movie Clip (uncredited) High Pressure (1932) – Helen Wilson Strange Marriage (1932) – Evalyn Knapp with Jason Robards Sr. Fireman, Save My Child (1932) – Sally Toby The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932) – Doris Madame Racketeer (1932) – Alice Hicks The Vanishing Frontier (1932) – Carol Winfield The Night Mayor (1932) – Doree Dawn Big City Blues (1932) – Jo-Jo (uncredited) This Sporting Age (1932) – Mickey Steele A Successful Calamity (1932) – Peggy Wilton Slightly Married (1932) – Mary Smith Bachelor Mother (1932) – Mary Somerset Corruption (1933) - Evalyn Knapp with Preston Foster Air Hostess (1933) – Kitty King State Trooper (1933) – June Brady His Private Secretary (1933) – Marion Hall Corruption (1933) – Ellen Manning Dance Girl Dance (1933) – Sally Patter Police Car 17 (1933) – Helen Regan The Perils of Pauline (1933, Serial) – Pauline
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Don't Call Me Charlie! is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1962-1963 television season on Friday nights from 9:30 pm to 10:00 pm Eastern Time. Created by Don McGuire, the 18-episode series starred Josh Peine, Linda Lawson, John Hubbard, Arte Johnson, Penny Santon, Cully Richards, Louise Glenn, and Alan Napier. Synopsis Dr. Judson McKay (Josh Peine) is a small-town veterinarian from Muscatine, Iowa, who suddenly gets drafted into the United States Army and finds himself stationed as a private at an Army veterinary post in Paris. Upon arriving, Judson finds that the officer in charge of his post, Colonel U. Charles Barker (John Hubbard), had requested a bandmaster who played the trombone to be sent to the unit, but due to a clerical error Judson had been assigned to Barker instead. Judson′s fellow soldiers attempt to get him to change his small-town ways, but he refuses to let the sophistication of Europe change him. Misadventures ensue as he tries to remain the simple country boy he had been in Muscatine, often leading to conflicts with Colonel Barker. Among the soldiers Judson serves with in addition to Colonel Barker are First Sergeant Stanley Wozniak (Cully Richard) and Corporal Lefkowitz (Arte Johnson). General Steele (Alan Napier) is Colonel Barker′s superior officer. Patricia Perry (Linda Lawson) is General Steele′s secretary, Selma Yossarian (Louise Glenn) is Colonel Barker′s secretary, and Madame Fatime (Penny Santon) is the concierge. The Army veterinary station sees little action, and Colonel Barker has a lot of free time. Barker is pompous, but friendly with the troops under his command and loves to play gin rummy. Barker hates to be called "Charlie" and often tells people, "Don't call me Charlie!". Cast Josh Peine as Judson McKay, D.V.M. Louise Glenn as Selma Yossarian John Hubbard as Colonel U. Charles Barker Arte Johnson as Corporal Lefkowitz Linda Lawson as Pat Perry Alan Napier as General Steele Cully Richards as First Sergeant Stanley Wozniak Penny Santon as Madame Fatime Production The series originally was titled Vive Judson McKay! after its main character, but advance surveys showed that potential viewers thought it was going to be a series about a Mexican revolutionary. The title was changed to Don't Call Me Charlie! Don McGuire, who previously had created, co-produced, directed, and written scripts for the 1959–1962 military comedy-drama series Hennesey, also created, produced, directed, and wrote for Don't Call Me Charlie! and guest-starred in the 1962 episode "Play It, Sam." Frank Inn trained the many animals used in Don′t Call Me Charlie! Reception Just after Don't Call Me Charlie!′s eighth episode was broadcast in mid-November 1962, United Press International distributed a scathing review of the series by critic Rick Du Brow titled "Don't Call It Comedy." Describing the show as "daringly billed as comedy," a "catastrophe," and "a witless, amateurish abortion," Du Brow asserted that "anyone who comes in contact with Don′t Call Me Charlie! is bound to suffer," that it "putrefies the public property that is the airwaves," and that it
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From These Roots is an American soap opera that aired from June 30, 1958, to December 29, 1961. It was created and written by Frank Provo and John Pickard. The show was seen on NBC. Storyline Actress Ann Flood starred as Elizabeth "Liz" Fraser Allen, a successful writer who had returned to her New England hometown of Strathfield to run her family's newspaper, the Strathfield Record. Her father, Ben Fraser, Sr. had suffered a heart attack, thus causing Liz, who had been living and working in Washington, D.C. to come home, leaving her D.C. fiance, Bruce Crawford. Another former beau, from her earlier days in Strathfield, Dr. Buck Weaver, eventually married his secretary, Maggie Barker. Her family included a brother Ben, Jr. who worked a family farm, was married to Italian Rose Corelli; had three children, including a son, named Dan, and didn't have much to do with the newspaper; and a sister Emily, who was married to Jim Benson and, after Jim's death, to Frank Teton. Jim and Emily had a daughter, named Lyddy, who worked with her aunt Liz on the newspaper. Liz's first adversary was wealthy Enid Chambers, who was the first wife of the man she would eventually marry, David Allen. Her later adversary was alcoholic actress, Lynn Franklin, who, despite her own marriage to Tom Jennings, was very much in love with David and wanted him for herself. Famous actors Several actors featured on From These Roots found fame in later shows. These include: Henderson Forsythe (Jim Benson), who went on to fame as Dr. David Stewart on As the World Turns; Charlotte Rae (Hilda Furman), who played Edna Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life; Billie Lou Watt (Maggie Barker Weaver) who played Ellie Harper on Search for Tomorrow and the voice of Ma Bagge (Eustace's mother) on the series Courage the Cowardly Dog; Audra Lindley (Laura Tompkins), best known as Helen Roper from Three's Company and its spin-off The Ropers; Millette Alexander (Gloria Saxon), who appeared on As the World Turns, Guiding Light and The Edge of Night; Robert Mandan (David Allen) who later played Chester Tate on Soap, Colonel Fielding on the television adaptation of the movie Private Benjamin, and Sam Reynolds on Search for Tomorrow; Barbara Berjer (Lynn Franklin) who continued serial work, most notably on As the World Turns and Guiding Light; Richard Thomas (Richard), known as John-Boy Walton #1 from The Waltons; Joseph Mascolo (Jack Lander), known for his roles as Stefano DiMera on Days of Our Lives and Massimo Marone on The Bold and the Beautiful; John Karlen, later known as Willie Loomis #2 on Dark Shadows and Harvey Lacey of Cagney & Lacey; and John Colenback (Jimmy Hull) who played Dr. Dan Stewart on As the World Turns. The show was directed by Joseph Behar, and Don Wallace and Paul Lammers, who were producers as well, along with Eugene Barr. It was known for a story that dealt with the show-within-a-show performance of Madame Bovary,
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Elizabeth Ponisi Wallis (December 15, 1818, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England – February 19, 1899, Washington, D. C.), née Hansom or Hanson, known throughout her career as Madame Ponisi, was an English-American actress. At an early age, she made her stage debut at Barnard Castle, Durham, England, as Amy in Father and Son. She made her London debut on December 26, 1848. In September 1850 she sailed for America under a three-month contract with E. A. Marshall, manager of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the Old Broadway Theatre in New York. She made her American debut October 7, 1850, at the former theater, as Marianne in The Wife, by James Sheridan Knowles. She played seven different roles in her first week, and then went to New York. Her debut there, at the Broadway Theatre, occurred on November 11, 1850, as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, with William Davidge. She was immediately invited to join the company to play leading roles. She stayed at the theater until its closing, April 2, 1859, on which occasion she played Cleopatra in Shakespeare's tragedy. She supported Edwin Forrest on a number of his starring tours. In 1864 Madame Ponisi made a short starring tour herself with Lady Macbeth as the feature of her repertory. She did not enjoy the roving life, however, and soon returned to New York, where she played special engagements until 1871, when she joined Lester Wallack's company, staying until it was disbanded in 1888. She subsequently acted with Joseph Jefferson and Richard Mansfield. In her youth she married James Ponisi, a professional actor, whom she divorced in 1856 or 1858. She married Samuel Wallis, the master mechanic of the Broadway Theatre, in 1859, who died in 1884. Her last appearance on any stage was April 6, 1893, when she emerged from retirement for a benefit to her friend and contemporary, Louisa Eldridge. Her roles included Tabitha Stork in Rosedale, Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, the Marquise in Caste, Suzanne in L'Abbé Constantin, Helen Macgregor in Rob Roy, Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, Mrs. Cregan in The Colleen Bawn, Sarah Matheson in Patrie, Lady Franklin in Money, Widow O'Kelly in The Shaughraun, Lady Shendryn in Ours, Mrs. Macclesfield in The Gov'nor, the Marquise del Rio Zares in Diplomacy, Countess Pompion in Old Heads and Young Hearts, the Duchess in The Duke's Motto, Francesca da Rimini in George Henry Boker's tragedy of that name, Mrs. Vandam in Oofty-Gooft, Black Eyed Susan in the play of that name, the Duchess of York in Richard III, Desdemona and Emilia in Othello, Volumnia in Coriolanus, Cordelia in King Lear, and Juliet to Charlotte Cushman's Romeo, among others. She played several male characters, including Sir Edward Ardent in The Morning Call, and Romeo. References Sources External links 1818 births 1899 deaths 19th-century English actresses English stage actresses 19th-century American actresses American stage actresses People from Huddersfield
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Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her leading roles in musical theater, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." She performed on Broadway in Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, and Hello, Dolly! She is also known for her film roles in Anything Goes (1936), Call Me Madam (1953), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Among many accolades, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Call Me Madam, a Grammy Award for Gypsy, and a Drama Desk Award for Hello, Dolly! Merman introduced many Broadway standards, including "I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy, "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Some People" and "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy, and the Cole Porter songs "It's De-Lovely" (from Red, Hot and Blue), "Friendship" (from Du Barry Was a Lady), and "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top", and "Anything Goes" (from Anything Goes). The Irving Berlin song "There's No Business Like Show Business", written for Annie Get Your Gun, became Merman's signature song. Early life Ethel Merman was born on January 16, 1908, in her maternal grandmother's house in Astoria, Queens, but she later insisted that the year of her birth was 1912. She was an only child. Her father, Edward Zimmermann, was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes () Zimmermann, was a schoolteacher. Edward Zimmermann had been raised in the Dutch Reformed Church and his wife was Presbyterian. Shortly after they married, they joined the Episcopal congregation at Church of the Redeemer, where their daughter was baptized. Merman's parents were strict about church attendance and she spent every Sunday attending morning services, Sunday school, afternoon prayer meetings, and evening study groups for children. Merman's parents insisted she have an education with training in secretarial skills, in case her entertainment career failed. Merman attended P.S. 4 and William Cullen Bryant High School (which later named its auditorium in her honor), where she pursued a commercial course that offered secretarial training. She was active in numerous extracurricular activities, including the school magazine, the speakers' club, and student council, and she frequented the local music store to peruse the weekly arrivals of new sheet music. On Friday nights, the Zimmermann family took the subway into Manhattan to see the vaudeville show at the Palace Theatre, where Merman saw Blossom Seeley, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, and Nora Bayes. At home, she tried to emulate their singing styles, but found her own distinctive voice difficult to disguise. After graduating from Bryant High School in 1924, Merman was hired as a stenographer by the Boyce-Ite Company. One day during her lunch break, she met Vic Kliesrath, who offered her a job at the Bragg-Kliesrath Corporation for a US$5 increase above the weekly
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Edna Milton Holland (September 20, 1895 – May 4, 1982) was an American actress. Her stage, screen and television career lasted from the beginning of the 20th century to 1965. Biography Holland was the daughter of comedian Edmund Milton Holland and actress Emity Seward. Her uncle, Joseph Holland, was an actor. As a child, she played in stage productions by David Belasco. Beginning in 1915, Holland appeared in silent films, including Always in the Way, The Feud Girl, Mary Moreland and The Masked Rider. She met her husband on the set of the Masked Rider, a fellow actor named Robert Taber (real name Stuart Fordham Tabor) who was originally from Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York. They married on May 15, 1919. She was often seen as "The Other Woman" to actresses such as Mary Miles Minter. After an absence of nearly 20 years and numerous stage roles, Holland resumed making films in the late 1930s. Middle-aged, she often portrayed "professional women such as teachers, nurses or secretaries" in supporting roles or minor parts. She played her last role on television in The Andy Griffith Show in 1966. Holland died from a ruptured aneurysm in 1982, aged 86. Selected filmography Always in the Way (1915) - Mrs. Helen Stillwell One Day (1916) The Feud Girl (1916) Mary Moreland (1917) - Cicely Torrance The Masked Rider (1919) - Juanita - Pancho's Daughter Lightning Bryce (1919, Serial) - Daisy Bliss - Ep. 1, 2 & 3 (uncredited) The Harvest Moon (1920) - Madame Mercier Sheltered Daughters (1921) - Sonia Bachelor Mother (1939) - Orphanage Matron Kid Nightingale (1939) - Madame Svenson - Gym Instructress (uncredited) Judge Hardy and Son (1939) - Nurse Trowbridge Forty Little Mothers (1940) - Miss Higgins (uncredited) My Favorite Wife (1940) - Johnny Weissmuller Inquirer (uncredited) Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) - Miss Lawton (uncredited) Sunny (1941) - Venus (uncredited) Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) - Miss Schlom, Janie's Boss (uncredited) Ringside Maisie (1941) - Third Nurse (uncredited) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) - Nurse (uncredited) Look Who's Laughing (1941) - Mrs. Hargrave (uncredited) Born to Sing (1942) - Welfare Worker (uncredited) Fingers at the Window (1942) - Clinic Nurse (uncredited) Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) - Nurse Trayhan on Sixth Floor (uncredited) Laugh Your Blues Away (1942) - Mrs. Watson Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) - Nurse Morgan (uncredited) Allergic to Love (1944) - Miss Peabody The Mark of the Whistler (1944) - Childrens Aid Society Woman (uncredited) Between Two Women (1945) - Nurse Morgan Kiss and Tell (1945) - Mrs. Mary Franklin Sunbonnet Sue (1945) - Julia Swing Parade of 1946 (1946) - Landlady (uncredited) Dark Alibi (1946) - Mrs. Foss Cluny Brown (1946) - Onlooker Outside Bookstore (uncredited) Centennial Summer (1946) - Nurse (uncredited) Living in a Big Way (1947) - Committee Woman (uncredited) Curley (1947) - Miss Payne The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947) - Miss Payne, in 'Curly' Song of Love (1947) - Mrs. Fohling (uncredited) Intrigue (1947) - Miss Carr (uncredited)
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