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Caitriona Balfe
Catriona (pronounced "ka-TREE-nah" is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress and former model * Caitríona O'Leary, Irish singer * Caitríona O'Reilly, Irish poet and critic * Caitríona Ruane, Irish politician * Caitríona Ryan, Irish camogie player Caitriona * Caitriona Beggs, Irish cricketer * Caitriona Jennings, Irish athlete * Caitriona Reed, American Buddhist teacher Catriona * Catriona Carey, Irish field hockey and camogie player * Catriona Cuddihy, Irish athlete * Catriona Fallon, American rower * Catriona Forrest, Scottish field hockey player * Catriona Grant, Scottish politician * Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2018 * Catriona Le May Doan, Canadian speedskater * Catriona MacColl, English actress * Catriona MacDonal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitríona Balfe
Caitríona Mary Balfe (; born 4 October 1979) is an Irish actress, producer, and former fashion model. She is best known for her starring role as Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama series '' Outlander'' (2014–present), for which she received a British Academy Scotland Award, an Irish Film and Television Award, two People's Choice Awards and three Saturn Awards. She also earned nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama. At age eighteen, while studying drama at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Balfe was offered work as a fashion model in Paris. For ten years, she was featured both in advertising campaigns and on runways for brands such as Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Bottega Veneta and Oscar de la Renta before refocusing on acting. She had leading roles in the web series '' The Beauty Inside'' (2012) and '' H+: The Digital Series'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Forrest
Catriona Forrest (born 27 February 1984, in Glasgow) is a female field hockey defender from Scotland. She plays club hockey for Glasgow Western Ladies, and made her debut for the Women's National Team in 2005. Her older brother James represented Scotland at cricket up to U19 level. She is a physiotherapist for the British National Health Service. See also * Catriona Catriona (pronounced "ka-TREE-nah" is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Cait ... References sportscotland 1984 births Living people Scottish female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players from Glasgow Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland {{Scotland-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Rowntree
Catriona Rowntree (born 19 July 1971) is an Australian television presenter. Rowntree is currently a presenter on the Nine Network's '' Getaway'' program. Career Rowntree studied journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, after working as a researcher with Business Review Weekly, 2GB and Prime Television. In 1991, she moved to FM radio as a newsreader and music and lifestyle program host, first in community radio and then with the ABC youth station Triple J, for which she presented until 1996. In 1992, Rowntree was hired as a researcher for the Nine Network children's series ''Wonder World!'', graduating to the position of reporter the following year, and host in 1994. In that same year, whilst still working at Triple J, she also became the host of a Nine Network children's show called ''What's Up Doc?''. Rowntree went on to become the show's writer/producer. In 1996, Rowntree became a reporter on '' Getaway'', a popular Nine Network travel series. While retaining this pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Power
Catríona Power is a camogie player and Occupational Therapist who won Junior All-Ireland championship medals with Dublin in 2005 and 2006. She also captained Naomh Mearnóg from Portmarnock to their first Dublin senior championship title in 2009, the first senior title in any code for the club. She was Club Player of the Year in 2007. References External links Official Camogie WebsiteDublin Camogie websiteNaomh Mearnóg GAA website* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20091228032101/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/gaa_fixtures_camogie_oduffycup.html Fixtures and resultsfor the 2009 O'Duffy Cup The O'Duffy Cup ( ga, Corn Uí Dúbhthaigh) is the prize presented to the winners of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. The cup is named after Seán O'Duffy, a member and administrator of the Kilmacud Crokes Kilmacud Crokes ( ... All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour* Video highlights of 2009 championshiPart Oneanpart twoVideo of Dublin’s 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Oliver
Catriona Sens (née Oliver) (born 2 April 1980 in Sale, Victoria) is an Australian former representative rower. She was a national champion, an underage 2002 world champion, a dual Olympian and won a silver medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships. She rowed in the Australian women's eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics and in the double scull at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Club, state and national rowing career Sens-Oliver's club rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club. At the 2000 Australian Rowing Championships she rowed in MUBC colours in the U23 division in a single and a double scull. In 2002 she raced in the open division in the double and quad scull placing 2nd in both and the following year still in MUBC colours she raced the single and the double scull and again placed second in both. At the 2003 Henley Royal Regatta Sens-Oliver representing the Australian Institute of Sport won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup for single sculls beating out her A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Morrison
Catriona ("Cat") Morrison MBE (born 11 January 1977, in Glasgow) is a British triathlete and duathlete of Scottish origin. Career In 2005, she won the silver medal at the ITU Duathlon World Championships. In 2006, she followed this up with gold and took another silver medal at the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships. In 2007, she took the bronze medal at the Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Lorient. She won the World Powerman Duathlon Long Distance Championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2010 in Edinburgh she took gold for a second time at the Duathlon World Championships in a time of 2:02:48. Catriona's triathlon career wins include numerous Ironman 70.3 events including St Croix (4 times), UK, Galveston and Ironman titles including Ironman Texas and Ironman Lanzarote where she famously battled back from a 45min mechanical to win the event. Catriona retired from professional triathlon and duathlon in January 2015. Since then she has completed the prestigious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Morison
Catriona Morison (born 1986 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish mezzo-soprano. Early life and education The daughter of a musician mother (Fiona) and a teacher of German (Alan), Morison grew up in Barnton, Edinburgh. Both she and her sister played violin and sang in choirs such as the Waverley Singers as youths. Morison also played the viola in her youth. She formally studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland CS, and spent a year in Berlin on the Erasmus programme. In Berlin, at the Universität der Künste, her teachers included Julie Kaufmann. Career Morison began her professional singing career in Germany, initially with an opera studio in Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri .... She subsequently joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Millar
Catriona Millar (born 1956) is a Scottish figurative painter born in Milngavie, Glasgow. She studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, where her tutors included Joyce Cairns RSA and Keith Grant. Since the success of her 2005 degree show she has exhibited across the UK including the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Her works are in both private and public collections. In October 2006 she came to the attention of Charles Saatchi with her first solo exhibition at the Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. In April 2007 '' The Herald'' ranked her in the top five most collectable artists in Scotland. In 2012 she moved from Scotland to England, and currently resides in East Sussex. References External linksArtist's website {{DEFAULTSORT:Millar, Catriona 1956 births Living people 20th-century Scottish painters 20th-century Scottish women artists 21st-century Scottish painters 21st-century Scottish women artists Alumni of Gray's School of Art Artists from Glasgow Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Matthew
Catriona Isobel Matthew (née Lambert; born 25 August 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the US-based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career Catriona Lambert was born in Edinburgh, and grew up in North Berwick. She learned to play golf on the Children's Course and North Berwick West Links in the town. She had a successful junior and amateur career, becoming Scottish Girls champion in 1986 and Scottish Under-21 Stroke Play champion in 1988 and 1989. She captured the Scottish Amateur title in 1991, 1993 and 1994, and the British Amateur title in 1993. She is also a two-time winner of the St Rule Trophy played at St Andrews. She was a member of the 1990, 1992 and 1994 Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup teams. She graduated from the University of Stirling in 1992 having studied accountancy, this being one of a few British universities offering golf scholarships. Professional career Matthew qualified for the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacInnes
Catriona MacInnes is a Scottish film-maker. A graduate of MFA (Advanced Film Practice), Screen Academy Scotland, her graduation film ("I'm In Away From Here") was nominated for the Golden Lion Award in Corto Cortissimo at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008. Since then it has won a "Golden Opportunity Award" at Nashville Film Festival The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), held annually in Nashville, Tennessee, is the oldest running film festival in the South and one of the oldest in the United States. In 2016, Nashville Film Festival received more than 6,700 submissions from ... and Special Mention for Performance at Arcipelago Film Festival as well as appearing at many other festivals and being nominated in the fiction category of the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards during 2009. In 2011 her second short A Cuillin Rising (developed and commissioned by digicult and funded by Creative Scotland and the UK Film Council) premiered at the BFI London Film festival, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacDonald
Catriona Macdonald is a musician and teacher from Shetland and is considered to be one of the world's leading traditional fiddle players. Background Macdonald started studying fiddle with Dr Tom Anderson MBE in 1981 at age 11 (she considers herself to be a late starter), was a founding member of Shetland's Young Heritage and won the Shetland Young Fiddler of the Year competition in 1983. In 1992 Macdonald won the BBC Radio Two Young Tradition Award and went on to study voice for four years at the Royal College of Music in London. She lives in Scotland and focuses both on an her international music playing and an academic career . Macdonald is an active teacher with a passion for sharing her knowledge of traditional fiddle techniques and vernacular. Professionally she is Head of Music Performance and Degree Program Director for British Folk at Newcastle University as well a Doctoral candidate. Catriona has worked as a tutor and course assessor for the Scottish Music Degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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