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Elvira Weil
Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic (Gothic) origin. Elvira may refer to: People Nobility * Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and wife of Ordoño II of León * Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (965–1017) * Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (c. 1100–1135), wife of Roger II, King of Sicily * Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse (before 1082?-1151) * Elvira of Toro (1038/9–1101), daughter of King Ferdinand I of León * Elvira Menéndez (died 1022), Queen of León (1008–1022), wife of Alfonso V of León * Elvira Ramírez (c. 935–after 986), princess and regent of León Arts and entertainment * Elvira Amazar (1890s-1971), Serbian-born Russian-American soprano singer and actress * Elvira Barney (1904-1936), English actress and socialite * Elvira Betrone (1881–1961), Italian actress * Elvira Casazza (1887–1965), Italian mezzo-soprano * Elvira Cristi (born 1976), Chilean actress and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Godeanu
Elvira Godeanu (1904–1991) was a Romanian stage actress.Modorcea p.292 She also appeared in four films. Selected filmography * '' Povara'' (1928) * ''A Lost Letter A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...'' (1953) References Bibliography * Grid Modorcea. ''Istoria gândirii estetice românești de film''. Editura Emin, 1997. External links * 1904 births 1991 deaths Actresses from Bucharest Romanian film actresses Romanian silent film actresses Romanian stage actresses {{Romania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Ríos
María Elvira Gallegos Ríos (16 November 1913 – 13 January 1987) was a Mexican singer and actress. One of the most notable performers of Agustín Lara's songs, Ríos was the first Mexican singer who achieved international success through radio, records, nightclub engagements, tours, and films. She was well known in Mexico, United States, Brazil, Argentina, and France, among other countries. Some of her greatest hits are "Noche de ronda", " Flores negras", "Perfidia", "Desesperadamente", and "Ausencia". Birth and family Ríos was born on 16 November 1913 in La Lagunilla, a neighborhood of central Mexico City. She was the firstborn child of José María Gallegos Villalobos and María Guadalupe Ríos Rodríguez. She had a younger brother, José Gallegos Ríos (d. 1993), and a younger sister, Soledad Gallegos Ríos (d. 1981). Career According to one source, Ríos was discovered by Agustín Lara when the songwriter heard her singing in a nightclub in Mexico City. After hearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Rahić
Elvira Rahić (born 1 September 1973) is a Bosnian pop-folk singer. Rahić began her professional music career in 1991 and has since released ten studio albums. She lives in Sarajevo and Vienna. Career Rahić will release her eleventh studio album by May 2015. Personal life Rahić is married to Šaban Forić and together they have a son named Dino. She and her husband are practicing Muslims. The couple lived in Sarajevo before moving to Berlin in 2007 when Forić became employed at the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Berlin. Forić was relocated to the Bosnian embassy in Vienna in November 2011. Discography *''Zvao si me Elice'' (1991) *''Želim te'' (1992) *''Želim to sreću'' (1994) *''Sada znam'' (1995) *''Šta ako se zaljubim'' (1997) *''Izbriši sve uspomene'' (1999) *''Ljubav gospodine'' (2001) *''Hotel "Čekanje"'' (2005) *''Miraz Miraz is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis's fantasy series ''The Chronicles of Narnia''. He is the main antagonist in the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Quintana
Elvira Catalina Quintana Molina (7 November 1935 – 8 August 1968) was a Spanish-Mexican actress and singer. Early life and career Born in Montijo, Spain, Quintana and her family migrated to Mexico when she was 5 years old. She began her career working in theatre and later participated in films as an extra. Her first important role was as Carmen Ochoa in "Una solución inesperada", a segment of the drama film ''Canasta de cuentos mexicanos'' (1956). She then enrolled in the National Association of Actors' theatre and film institute (Instituto Teatral y Cinematográfico). She was given her first starring role in ''El buen ladrón'' (1957) before her breakthrough in ''Bolero inmortal'' (1958), in which she debuted as a singer; the film's soundtrack album, for which she recorded songs, was a commercial success throughout Hispanic America. She starred opposite Pedro Armendáriz, her favorite actor, in ''Dos hijos desobedientes'' (1960). Greatly admired by audiences for her beauty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Popescu
Elvira Popescu (; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films. Life and career Popescu was born in Bucharest, and studied drama at the Music and Drama Conservatory in her native city, under the guidance of and Aristizza Romanescu. In 1911 was making the first Romanian films to deal with fiction. He employed Popesco as well as other leading actors like Nottara and Romanescu. The first two films were called "Fatal Love" and "Spin a Yarn". No copies are known of these films. Popesco made her debut at the National Theatre Bucharest at age 16.Mari Români In 1912, she played herself in the movie ''Independența României'', directed by . In 1919 she became artistic director of the Excelsior Theatre.Ciobanu In 1921, Popescu started Teatrul Mic, which she managed in parallel with the Excelsior. In 1923, she starred in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Pagã
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino (6 September 1920 – 8 May 2003), better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette and actress, singer, writer and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse. Biography Early life Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino was born on 6 September 1920 in Itararé, São Paulo, Brazil. She moved as a child with her family to Rio de Janeiro and attended the convent school Immaculate Conception. As a student, she organized events with her sister Rosina Pagã, and members of Bando da Lua, to establish connections with the artistic co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Notari
Elvira Notari (born Elvira Coda; 10 February 1875 – 17 December 1946) was an Italian film director, one of the country's earliest and most prolific female filmmaker. She is credited as the first woman who made over sixty feature films and about a hundred shorts and documentaries, quite often writing the subjects and screenplays, inspired by Naples. The Elvira Notari Prize is named after her. She was of modest social origins. She married Nicola Notari. Together they founded Dora Film, and she became the first Italian woman to create a family film production company. She directed the films, while he worked as a cameraman. Their son, Eduardo or 'Gennariello,' based on a character he played, worked as an actor in many of the films. Eduardo nicknamed his mother, “The General,” based on her strong will and determination displayed in her film company. In an example, tears on screen for her films had to be real, brought up from a ‘painful or emotionally sensitive detail of a playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Nikolaisen
Elvira Nikolaisen (born 16 July 1980 in Moi) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter signed for Sony BMG. She released her debut single ''Love I Can't Defend'' in December 2005, it reached the number 3 spot on the Norwegian singles list. She followed up the hit with her first album, '' Quiet Exit'', and a second single, ''Egypt Song'', in March 2006. The album peaked at No. 2 in the Norwegian chart. Career Nikolaisen is from a musical family, her father is a church organist and her brother Emil is the vocalist and guitarist for Serena Maneesh, and her sister Hilma is the bassist for the same band. Her brother Ivar is lead singer of the Norwegian punk band Silver. In 1998, Nikolaisen with her brother Emil fronted the independent band Royal. The band released one album titled ''My Dear'' on Soulscape Records and distributed through Tooth and Nail Records. While she's from a very religious family, Nikolaisen rejected her Christian beliefs at the age of eighteen. Some of her lyrics refl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Navarro
Elvira Navarro Ponferrada (born 25 March 1978) is a Spanish writer. Career Elvira Navarro holds a licentiate in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2004 she won the City Council of Madrid's Young Creators Competition, and enjoyed a creative scholarship at the Residencia de Estudiantes. She has published two complementary books: ''La ciudad en invierno'' (The City in Winter) and ''La ciudad feliz'' (The Happy City), as well as the novels ''La trabajadora'' (The Working Woman) and ''Los últimos días de Adelaida García Morales'' (The Last Days of Adelaida García Morales). Her work has earned the , the for Best New Author, and the Fnac New Talent Distinction. Navarro is also the author of the blog ''Periferia'', an ongoing work on the neighborhoods of Madrid that explores bordering and undefined spaces. In 2010 she was included in the magazine ''Granta''s list of the 22 best Spanish-language novelists under 35. In 2013 she was selected as one of the Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Natali
Elvira Natali (born 25 December 1996), is an Indonesian author, and actress. She is best known for her 2013 novel ''Janji Hati'' ("''Heart Promises''") and the film ''Janji Hati'', in which she appeared as the leading actress. Early life Natali was born to Frickvan and Christina Kurniati in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 25 December 1996. She has a brother Billy Marvel stayed in Melbourne. Both her father and mother are businessmen in Bandar Lampung, the capital of Lampung Province in Sumatra. Although born in Jakarta, she was raised in Bandar Lampung. Career Natali started to write '' Janji Hati'' when she was still in high school. At first, the novel was rejected by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, the biggest publishing house in Indonesia. After revised it, she sent the manuscript back to Gramedia. And this time, they decided to publish it. ''Janji Hati'' was released in June 2013. Strong sales in the first three months after its released caught the attention of Rudi Soedjarwo, a prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Madigan
Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen (December 4, 1867 July 19, 1889), better known by her stage name Elvira Madigan, was a circus performer who performed as a slack rope dancer, artistic rider, juggler and dancer. She is best known today for her romantic relationship with the Swedish nobleman and cavalry officer Sixten Sparre. Their joint death caused great sensation and the event was described in song by, among others, the author in a song beginning "Sad things happen", which gained great popularity. Early life Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen was born on December 4, 1867 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein in the then Kingdom of Prussia. It is often stated that Elvira Madigan was Danish, but uncertainty prevails over which should be considered her home country as well as her citizenship. Her mother, Eleonora Cecilie Christine Marie Olsen, was a circus artist born in Finland and was of Norwegian ancestry. She was later known as Laura Madigan (1849–1918) but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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