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Advantageous
''Advantageous'' is a 2015 American science fiction drama film starring Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Ehle, and Samantha Kim. The film was released exclusively on Netflix on June 23, 2015. Plot Set in the near future, Gwen sells cosmetic procedures for the Center for Advanced Health and Living. Despite her relatively affluent position, she has difficulty sustaining a lifestyle that will ensure her daughter, Jules, a solid education and future. When she is abruptly fired from her job, Gwen's optimism quickly dissolves as she realizes that the only offer she has for employment is an egg donor position, due to women rapidly becoming infertile. The firing comes at a critical juncture in Gwen's life as she needs money to secure Jules's position at an elite school. Feeling desperate, Gwen reaches out to her old employer, Fisher, to volunteer as one of the first subjects for a procedure that will transfer her consciousness into a new body, allowing her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Phang
Jennifer Phang is an American filmmaker (writer, director, producer), most known for her feature films ''Advantageous'' (2015) and ''Half-Life'' (2008). ''Advantageous'' premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, winning a Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision, and was based on her award-winning short film of the same name. ''Half-Life'' premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and won "Best Film" awards at a number of film festivals including the Gen Art Film Festival, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (now known as CAAMFest) as well an "Emerging Director Award" at the Asian American International Film Festival. Early life Phang (pronounced "Pong") grew up in the Bay Area and is currently based in San Francisco. She was born in Berkeley, California and is of mixed Chinese Malaysian and Vietnamese heritage. She graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies, and also graduated from the American Film Institute with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freya Adams
Freya Adams is an American actress, best known for her appearance in the film ''Advantageous''. Early life Adams was raised in Wheaton, Illinois. Career Adams's first starring role was in the movie ''Making Revolution''. After this, she had a cameo role in the Bollywood movie ''Kal Ho Naa Ho''. She's consistently starred in supporting roles in television series, most notably for ''The Blacklist'' and ''New Amsterdam'', short films and independent movies. Her most notable performance is in the independent drama movie ''Advantageous ''Advantageous'' is a 2015 American science fiction drama film starring Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Ehle, and Samantha Kim. The film was released exclusively on Netflix on June 23, 2015. Plot Set in the near ...''. Filmography References External links * Actresses from Illinois American film actresses American television actresses People from Wheaton, Illinois Living people 21st-century Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troi Zee
Troi Zee is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Maya in the 2013 drama film '' 1982'' and Amanda in the 2015 drama film ''Advantageous''. Zee garnered recognition for playing Anna in the Nickelodeon animated musical children's television series, ''Team Umizoomi'' in 2010. Biography Zee began her acting career at The Children's Theatre Company in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un .... She began her career as a singer by launching her original music titled, "Brooklyn Girl". Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zee, Troi Living people American actresses Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Kim
Jacqueline Joan Kim is an American writer, actress, filmmaker and composer. She was nominated for a FIND Independent Spirit award for Best Supporting Actress in the film '' Charlotte Sometimes''. Early life Kim was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Korean parents,Bret Ryan Rudnick.An interview with Jacqueline Kim. ''Whoosh!'', issue 17, February 1998. Retrieved 2007-01-16. as the youngest of three girls.Ada Tseng. Journeying with Red Doors: An interview with Jacqueline Kim UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/ .". 2006-09-21. Retrieved 2022-10-23. She was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and started in theatre at age 14, "at a little theatre down the street called 'Willow Way'." She graduated from Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School. She then earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Urbaniak
James Christian Urbaniak (born September 17, 1963) is an American character actor. He is best known for his roles as Simon Grim in three Hal Hartley films: '' Henry Fool'' (1997), '' Fay Grim'' (2006) and '' Ned Rifle'' (2014), Robert Crumb in '' American Splendor'' (2003), Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture on the animated series ''The Venture Bros.'' (2003–2018), Grant Grunderschmidt on ''Review'' (2014–2017), and Arthur Tack on '' Difficult People'' (2015–2017). Personal life Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey and lives in Los Angeles, California. He is of Polish descent. Career Urbaniak's first media appearance occurred in 1983, when at the age of 20, he went onstage from the audience of ''Late Night with David Letterman'', to try his hand at a monologue joke that Letterman had flubbed. One of his first noteworthy roles was in the avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman's ''The Universe'', for which Urbaniak won an Obie. He has also been acclaimed for his a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Anne Ehle (; born December 29, 1969) is an American actress, the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. She gained fame for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries '' Pride and Prejudice'', for which she received the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. She is also known for her performances on Broadway, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for '' The Real Thing'' in 2000, and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for ''The Coast of Utopia'' in 2007. Ehle also is known for her performances in films including ''The King's Speech'' (2010), '' Contagion'' (2011), ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''A Little Chaos'' (2014), ''Little Men'' (2016), and '' She Said'' (2022). She has also appeared in various television programs, including NBC's ''The Blacklist'' (2014-2015), the Hulu limited series ''The Looming Tower'' (2016), the Showtime miniseries ''The Comey Rule'' (2020), and the CBS legal drama ''The Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Sakata
Jeanne Sakata (born April 8, 1954) is an American film, television and stage actress and playwright. Career Her appearances include supporting roles in episodes of '' Knots Landing'', ''LA Law'', ''Port Charles'', '' Providence'', ''Family Law'', '' ER'', '' Desperate Housewives'' and others. Her first appearance on the big screen was in 1992 in the erotic thriller '' Poison Ivy''. In 2005, she appeared in a minor role as a field reporter in the action film '' XXX: State of the Union''. Sakata has performed in many stage productions, working often with East West Players (EWP) in Los Angeles. In 2002 she won the Ovation Award for Lead Actress in a Play, for her performance in Chay Yew's ''Red,'' at EWP. In 2007, her first play, ''Dawn's Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi was an American sociologist, best known for his principled resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II, and the court case which bears his name, '' Hirabayashi v. United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Ikeda
Jennifer Ikeda is an actress, author, and audiobook narrator best known for playing Lily in the 2015 drama film ''Advantageous'' and Ann in the 2017 action comedy film '' Killing Hasselhoff''. She also starred in the American procedural drama series ''Elementary'' in the role of Laura Lyons, and Juliet Chang in the crime drama series '' Blindspot''. She also portrayed herself in the 2011 movie ''Portraits in Dramatic Time''. Biography Ikeda is a drama graduate The Juilliard School. She has won Audie Award The Audie Awards (, rhymes with "gaudy"; abbreviated from ''audiobook''), or simply the Audies, are awards for achievement in spoken word, particularly audiobook narration and audiodrama performance, published in the United States of America. They ...s twice, and has narrated dozens of audiobooks, the most popular of which are ''The Cure for Dreaming'', ''A Discovery of Witches'', ''Shadow of Night'', ''A Court of Mist and Fury,'' and ''The Book of Life''. Audiobook Narrator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Weekly
''Entertainment Weekly'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''EW'') is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture. The magazine debuted on February 16, 1990, in New York City. Different from celebrity-focused publications such as '' Us Weekly'', '' People'' (a sister magazine to ''EW''), and ''In Touch Weekly'', ''EW'' primarily concentrates on entertainment media news and critical reviews; unlike ''Variety'' and '' The Hollywood Reporter'', which were primarily established as trade magazines aimed at industry insiders, ''EW'' targets a more general audience. History Formed as a sister magazine to ''People'', the first issue of ''Entertainment Weekly'' was published on February 16, 1990. Created by Jeff Jarvis and founded by Michael Klingensmith, who served as publisher until October 1996, the magazine's original television advertising solicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dissolve
''The Dissolve'' was a film review, news, and commentary website which was operated by Pitchfork and based in Chicago, Illinois. The site was focused on reviews, commentary, interviews, and news about contemporary and classic films.{{cite web, url=http://pitchfork.com/news/50949-introducing-the-dissolve-a-new-film-site/, work=Pitchfork, access-date=April 14, 2014, date=May 30, 2013, title=Introducing The Dissolve, A New Film Site Its editor was Scott Tobias, the former editor in chief of '' The A.V. Club''. Editorial director Keith Phipps announced ''The Dissolve'''s closure on July 8, 2015.{{cite web , url=http://thedissolve.com/news/6187-the-end/ , publisher=The Dissolve , title=The End , access-date=21 June 2017 , date=8 July 2015 , last=Phipps , first=Keith , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708130121/http://thedissolve.com/news/6187-the-end/ , archive-date=8 July 2015 History After Phipps parted from ''The A.V. Club'', he felt he wanted to focus his care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slant Magazine
''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival. History ''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and ''New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former '' Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012. In the media ''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film '' Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the ''Chicago Sun-Times''; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ageism
Ageism, also spelled agism, is discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe discrimination against seniors, and patterned on sexism and racism. Butler defined "ageism" as a combination of three connected elements. Originally it was identified chiefly towards older people, old age, and the aging process; discriminatory practices against older people; and institutional practices and policies that perpetuate stereotypes about elderly people. The term "ageism" has also been used to describe the oppression of younger people by older people, for example in a 1976 pamphlet published by Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor, MI. In the UK, Councillor Richard Thomas at a meeting of Bracknell Forest Council (March 1983), pointed out that age discrimination works against younger as well as older people. It has much later (February 2021) been used in regards to prejudice and discrimination against especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
