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Elina Luukanen
Elina may refer to: *Elina (Epirus) an ancient Greek fortified town in the region of Epirus *'' Elina: As If I Wasn't There'', a 2002 Swedish film *Elina, protagonist of the '' Barbie: Fairytopia'' series of animated films * ''Elina'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae Elina is also a feminine given name in several European languages. Elina as a given name may refer to: * Elīna Babkina (born 1989), Latvian basketball player *Elina Born (born 1994), Estonian singer *Elina Bystritskaya (1928 – 2019), Russian actress *Elina Danielian (born 1976), Armenian chess player *Elina Duni (born 1981), Swiss-Albanian singer * Elina Eggers (born 1987), Swedish diver *Elina Fuhrman (born 1969), Russian-American journalist *Elīna Garanča (born 1976), Latvian opera singer *Elina Guseva (born 1964), Azerbaijani-Russian handball player *Elina Haavio-Mannila (born 1933), Finnish social scientist and professor *Elina Hirvonen (born 1975), Finnish writer * Elina Karokh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina (Epirus)
Elina ( el, Ελίνα) was an ancient Greek, Hellenistic fortified town in the region of Epirus. The site is known locally as Dymokastro, west of the village of Perdika. Hammond discussed the site and identified it with ancient Elina. It overlooked the site of the Battle of Syvota between Corcyra (modern Corfu) and Corinth at the start of the Peloponnesian War and was the largest naval battle between Greek city states until that time and was one of the immediate catalysts for the war. The city flourished from the Late Classical to the Roman times and was named after the Thesprotean tribe of Elinoi that lived in the region. It is estimated that, during the period of its peak, the population of the city reached 6000. The walls are reinforced by rectangular towers and date to the 4th century BC. The west wall was added in the Hellenistic period in order to incorporate the little port into the fortified area. Throughout the settlement are visible foundations of buildings, some of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Knihtilä
Mari Elina Knihtilä (born 6 June 1971) is a Finnish actress. Career Knihtilä has worked for several Finnish theatres, such as the Finnish National Theatre and Q-teatteri, while also having appeared in films and on television. She has received two Jussi Awards; one for a supporting role in a 2008 Heikki Kujanpää film ''Putoavia enkeleitä'' and another for a leading role in a 2011 Zaida Bergroth film ''Hyvä poika''. Some of her television work include the comic roles in ''Läpiveto'', ''Vedetään hatusta'' and the first season of ''Putous''. Personal life Knihtilä is cohabiting with an actor Tommi Korpela. Together they have a son. Selected filmography *''Hyvän tekijät'' (1997) *'' Hengittämättä & nauramatta'' (2002) *''Lapsia ja aikuisia'' (2004) *'' V2 – jäätynyt enkeli'' (2006) *'' Matti'' (2006) *''Lieksa!'' (2007) *''Putoavia enkeleitä'' (2008) *''8 päivää ensi-iltaan'' (2008) *''Skavabölen pojat'' (2009) *''Haarautuvan rakkauden talo'' (2009) *''Var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Siirala
Elina Siirala (born 27 October 1983) is a Finnish soprano. She is the founder and frontwoman for the English melodic metal band Angel Nation (formerly EnkElination) and the current female vocalist for the German symphonic metal/viking metal band Leaves' Eyes. Elina is the second cousin of Tuomas Holopainen, founder and keyboardist of Nightwish. Career After completing a bachelor's degree in classical singing in Helsinki, Elina moved to London in 2008 to study contemporary vocals. In 2011, she formed the melodic metal band EnkElination, the band name being a play on words featuring "enkeli", the Finnish word for "angel", and also her name "Elina" in the middle. In 2016 the band announced they would translate their name to "Angel Nation". The new band name of Angel Nation was shortly followed on 12 April 2016 by the announcement of a new drummer Lucas Robert Williamson joining existing members Shadow on guitar and Julia on bass. The band played several live shows both headl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Salo
Aino Elina Salo (born 9 March 1936 in Sipoo, Finland) is a Finnish film, theatre and television actress who has also done work in radio as a voice actor in children’s programming. In her career that began in 1956, Salo has appeared in over 50 films and television shows and is known for her appearances in several Aki Kaurismäki’s films. She was also the voice of Little My in the Finnish dub of ''Moomin''. Salo has received three Jussi Awards for her work. In 2010, she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (''Commandeur''). Salo lives mainly in France. Partial filmography * ''Skandaali tyttökoulussa'' (1960) * '' Inspector Palmu's Mistake'' (1960) * '' Gas, Inspector Palmu!'' (1961) * ''The Diary of a Worker'' (1967) * ''Harry Munter'' (1970) * ''Gangsterfilmen'' (1974) * ''Poet and Muse'' (1978) * '' Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti'' (1979) * ''Hamlet Goes Business'' (1987) * ''The Match Factory Girl'' (1990) * ''Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana'' (1994) * '' Drif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elīna Ringa
Elīna Ringa is the first official female pole-vaulter in Latvia and also the first Latvian female national record holder in this event. She won the Latvian National Championship competition outdoors and indoors more than ten times. Elina Ringa was born in Riga, the capital of Latvia, on 29 September, in 1980.Latvian sports book series: "Vieglatlētikas gadagrāmata" 1997-2009Latvian newspaper "Sports" 1996-2001 The first official record in Latvian athletics for female pole-vault was set by Elina at the Riga Championship in 1996, she vaulted at 2.60 m. The national record was broken by Elina more than 15 times. Her last national record outdoor was 3.72 m, set in 2000 in Valmiera and indoor - 3,75 m, set in 2001 in Riga. She ended her sporting career after sustaining injuries several times. Result progression Elina set a new national record for pole-vault with a jump of 3.10 m in Riga, Latvia in 1996; her personal best at the time. In 1997, at Hyvinkää in Finland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Purde
Elina Purde (until 2014, Elina Pähklimägi; born 7 February 1983) is an Estonian stage, television and film actress whose career began in the mid-2000s. Early life and education Elina Purde was born Elina Pähklimägi in the town of Rakvere in Lääne-Viru County and grew up in the nearby village of Ussimäe. She attended the Rakvere Secondary Gymnasium and studied for a year at Tallinn's Estonian Sports Gymnasium before returning to graduate from Rakvere Secondary Gymnasium. Following her 2008 graduation from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn she became a freelance actress. Career Elina Purde, then still known by her maiden name Pähklimägi, began her career on various small stage venues throughout Estonia. She garnered her first small television roles on the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) series' ''Ohtlik lend'' and ''Õnne 13'' and the Kanal 2 crime series ''Kelgukoerad'' in 2006 and 2007 while stile studying at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Pohjanpää
Armi Elina Annikki Pohjanpää (8 April 1933, in Helsinki – 13 January 1996) was a Finnish actress. Her theatrical career lasted for 40 years, and in addition, she appeared in several Finnish films by directors such as Ilmari Unho, Aarne Tarkas and Matti Kassila. In theatre Pohjanpää's career started in a Kotka City Theatre in 1952 where she also met her future husband Pentti Siimes. The two got married in 1956, and their marriage lasted until Pohjanpää's death. After a year in Kotka, Pohjanpää started to work for Helsinki City Theatre where she stayed employed for the rest of her life. Films Elina Pohjanpää was 17 years old when she made her first film appearance in a film ''Amor hoi!'' (1950). Her first leading role came a year later with ''Kuisma ja Helinä'' (1951). All in all, Pohjanpää appeared in 29 films. Often she and Pentti Siimes were seen together in films such as ''Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin'' (1956) and ''Rakas varkaani'' (1957). Their real-life weddin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Partõka
Elina Partõka (born 2 August 1983) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partyka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union. Partoka made her first Estonian team, as a 17-year-old swimming teen at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90). At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partõka competed only in the 200 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54. Partõka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared a FINA B-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Nechayeva
Elina Nechayeva ( et, Elina Netšajeva; born 10 November 1991) is an Estonian soprano. She represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song " La forza". Career In 2009, she made her public debut in the third season of ''Eesti otsib superstaari'', where she participated, but was eliminated in the preliminary girls' round. She graduated from Tallinn French School in 2011. She participated in the ETV competition ''Klassikatähed 2014'' and was one of the three finalists. In 2016, she graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master's degree in classical singing. Nechayeva was one of the hosts for the semi-finals of '' Eesti Laul 2017'', along with Marko Reikop. On 3 March 2018, Nechayeva won ''Eesti Laul 2018'' with the Italian-language song " La forza", and she represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 and came in 8th in the Grand Final. She also made an appearance in the 2020 American musical comedy fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Nasaudrodro
Elina Vavailagi Nasaudrodro (born December 22, 1985, in Suva) is a Fijian judoka who competed in the women's lightweight category. She won a bronze medal in the 57-kg division at the 2004 Oceania Judo Championships in Noumea, New Caledonia, and represented her nation Fiji at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at the age of eighteen. Early life and education Originally from Dakuni village on Beqa island, Nasaudrodro attended Lomary School, and later moved to Pacific Harbour. She trained with Sensei Yukiko Honda, as well as the national women's head coach, Takahiko Hasegawa of the Fiji Judo Association. According to Hasegawa, Nasaudrodro was "randomly picked" out of a group of candidates to train as a judoka. Career She qualified for the two-member Fijian judo squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, after placing third in the women's lightweight class (57 kg) at the 2004 Oceania Judo Championships in New Caledonia, and accumulating the highest number of points. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Mottram
Elina Emily Mottram, (1903–1996) was an England-born architect trained in Brisbane. She was Queensland’s first and longest practicing female architect, practicing and establishing her own business in Brisbane from 1924 to 1975. Mottram died at the age of 93 in 1996. Early life and education Elina Mottram was born in 1903 in Sheffield, England as the only child of Arthur Mottram, a building contractor and stonemason. She arrived in Brisbane in 1906 with her parents and started school at Nundah State School. After finishing her studies at the state school, Mottram then undertook studies in Architecture at the Brisbane Central Technical College while simultaneously employed by architect Francis Richard Hall of Brisbane during the city’s 1920s construction boom. She graduated with a diploma in Architecture in 1925. Elina Mottram opened her own practice in an office in the T&G Building on the corner of Queen Street and Albert Street in Brisbane in April 1924. The Architect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elina Madison
Elina Madison is an American actress, writer and producer. Early life Elina was born on September 27, 1976 in Sioux City, Iowa and showed a passion for acting at a very young age and knew early on that she was going to be an actress. At the age of 17, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career. Elina graduated the two-year theater training program at the Joanne Baron/DW Brown Acting Studio in Santa Monica, California. She also studied at The Stella Adler Academy and The Groundlings Comedy and later with Susan Strasberg. With her unique looks born from her Mexican/Spanish/Norwegian/Czech heritage, she was signed by the prestigious Elite Model Agency and began a career as an international fashion model. Elina walked the runways for Calvin Klein, Krizia in fashion shows in Paris, Japan as well as New York and Los Angeles. Career Elina made her film debut in the Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do (1996) in the role of Carlita the Go-Go Dancer. Noted director Zalman King ( 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
