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Emma Dumont
Emma Dumont is an American actress, model, and dancer. She is known for her roles as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series ''Bunheads'', as Emma Karn in the NBC series ''Aquarius'', and as Lorna Dane/Polaris in the FOX series '' The Gifted''. Early life and education Dumont was born in Seattle, Washington. She attended Washington Middle School and later James A. Garfield High School before homeschooling in order to pursue modeling and acting. She also attended Orange County High School of the Arts in the Music and Theater Conservatory in Santa Ana, California. She began her ballet training at age 3 and has studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Cornish College of the Arts and Spectrum Dance Theatre School (The Academy - pre-professional program) with summers at American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia. She began performing in community theater at age 6 with performances at Seattle Public Theatre and Seattle Musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Comic Con
The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to Western comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, cosplay, toys, movies, and television. It was first held in 2006. History The New York Comic Con is a for-profit event produced and managed by ReedPop, a division of Reed Exhibitions and Reed Elsevier, and is not affiliated with the long running non-profit San Diego Comic-Con, nor the Big Apple Convention, later known as the Big Apple Comic-Con, owned by Wizard Entertainment. ReedPop is involved with other events, including Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) and PAX Dev/PAX East/PAX Prime. ReedPop and New York Comic Con were founded by Greg Topalian, former senior vice president of Reed Exhibitions. The first con was held in 2006 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Due to Reed Exhibitions' lack of experience with comic conventions (they primarily dealt with professional trade shows prior to 2006), attendance was far more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena, California
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district. Its population was 138,699 at the 2020 census, making it the 44th largest city in California and the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena was incorporated on June 19, 1886, becoming one of the first cities to be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, following the city of Los Angeles (April 4, 1850). Pasadena is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade. It is also home to many scientific, educational, and cultural institutions, including Caltech, Pasadena City College, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Fuller Theological Seminary, ArtCenter College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Ambassador Auditorium, the Norton Simon Museum, and the USC Pacif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Bishop
Carole "Kelly" Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series ''Gilmore Girls'' and as Marjorie Houseman, the mother of Jennifer Grey's Frances "Baby" Houseman in the film ''Dirty Dancing.'' Bishop originated the role of Sheila in ''A Chorus Line,'' for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. She also starred as Fanny Flowers in the ABC Family short-lived comedy-drama series ''Bunheads.'' Early life Bishop was born on February 28, 1944, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Jane Lenore ( née Wahtola) and Lawrence Boden Bishop. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she trained to be a ballet dancer, attending the San Jose Ballet School. At 18, she headed to New York City and landed her first job dancing in a year-round ballet company at Radio City Music Hall. Bishop continued to dance in Las Vegas, summer stock and on television until she was cast in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutton Foster
Sutton Lenore Foster (born March 18, 1975) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical twice, in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in ''Anything Goes'', a role which she reprised in 2021 for a production in London and for which she received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her other Broadway credits include '' Little Women'', ''The Drowsy Chaperone'', ''Young Frankenstein'', ''Shrek the Musical'', ''Violet'', and ''The Music Man''. On television, Foster played the lead role in the short-lived ABC Family comedy-drama ''Bunheads'' from 2012 to 2013. From 2015 to 2021, she starred in the TV Land comedy-drama '' Younger''. Early life and education Foster was born on March 18, 1975 in Statesboro, Georgia, and raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Smits
Jimmy L. Smits (born July 9, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s-1990s legal drama ''L.A. Law'', NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s-2000s police drama '' NYPD Blue'', Matt Santos on the political drama ''The West Wing'', and for appearing in ''Switch'' (1991), ''My Family'' (1995), ''The Jane Austen Book Club'' (2007), and ''In the Heights'' (2021). He also appeared as Bail Organa in the '' Star Wars'' franchise and as ADA Miguel Prado in '' Dexter''. From 2012 to 2014, he joined the main cast of '' Sons of Anarchy'' as Nero Padilla. Smits also portrayed Elijah Strait in the NBC drama series '' Bluff City Law''. Early life Smits was born in Brooklyn, New York. Smits's father, Cornelis Leendert Smits (1929–2015), was from Paramaribo, Suriname, and was of Dutch descent. Smits's mother, Emilina (née Pola; 1930–2015), was Puerto Rican, born in Peñuelas. He and his two sisters, Yvonne and Diana, grew up in a wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Emmerich
Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born February 27, 1965) is an American actor and director who is best known for his roles in films such as '' Beautiful Girls'' (1996), ''The Truman Show'' (1998), ''Frequency'' (2000), ''Miracle'' (2004), '' Little Children'' (2006) and '' Super 8'' (2011). From 2013 to 2018 he starred as FBI agent Stan Beeman on the FX series ''The Americans,'' for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2019. Early life Emmerich was born on February 27, 1965, in New York City, New York. His mother, Constance, is a concert pianist; and his father, André Emmerich (1924–2007), was a gallery owner and art dealer. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, André had emigrated from Nazi Germany with his family, who relocated first to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and then to New York in 1940. His aunt had been a classmate of Anne Frank. Noah's family is Jewish, from Germany and France on his father's side and from Hungary and Romania on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (; born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film ''Traffic'', based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as ''Syriana'' which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the thriller '' Abandon'' and the family film '' Dolittle'', and directed the drama ''Gold''. Childhood and education Gaghan was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag. Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville. He was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades. He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for ''Variety'' and the '' Philadelphia Daily News''. Gaghan wrote in a 2001 article in ''Newsweek'', "I also wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Models
Ford Models, originally the Ford Modeling Agency, is an American international modeling agency based in New York City. It was established in 1946 by Eileen Ford and her husband Gerard W. Ford. Company Ford Models was started in 1946 by Eileen and Gerard W. "Jerry" Ford. Ford was the first company to advance their models' money-owed by jobs that had been completed but not yet paid. The Ford family had the tradition of allowing teenage models who originated far from New York City to stay in their home. The company was the pre-eminent New York agency until John Casablancas of Elite Model Management opened up in the city, leading to the "model wars" of the 1980s. Ford, like many of the original agencies of the 1970s, now has to compete with a broad field of contenders, such as Women, IMG and DNA. The agency has represented a diverse list of models and celebrities. In 1980, the company established the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, which attracted more than 60,000 hopefuls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V (American Magazine)
''V'' is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film, music and art. A men's fashion quarterly entitled '' VMAN'' started as an offshoot in 2003. History ''V'' was launched in September 1999 as the "younger sibling" publication to the limited-edition quarterly ''Visionaire''. ''V'' releases six issues a year, one for each current seasonal collection; Spring, Spring/Summer, Summer, Fall Preview, Fall, and Winter. The magazine has a readership of 315,000 as of 2010. ''V'' is edited by Stephen Gan and features new global fashion displayed through shoots and editorials focusing more specifically on art, film, music and fashion. ''V'' has been noted for its inventive and progressive styling, as well as its reportage of cultural figures and global youth culture. Past contributors have included Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. Interview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Lemon Lima
''Dear Lemon Lima'' is a 2009 family comedy feature film written and directed by Suzi Yoonessi. Based on her short film of the same name and developed with the support of Film Independent and its Filmmaker Labs, this film is about a 13-year-old half-Yup’ik girl navigating her way through first heartbreak and the perils of prep school in Fairbanks, Alaska. In learning the meanings of love, friendship, and community, Vanessa Lemor finds her voice by embracing her heritage and reclaiming the spirit of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics (WEIO) at a private school where her narcissistic sweetheart's family is legendary. Plot Vanessa Lemor, a lonely 13-year old Yup’ik girl with a vivid imagination, is dumped by her true love, über intellectual Philip Georgey, 14. Vanessa spends the summer in Fairbanks, Alaska, working at an ice cream shack and obsessing over the heartbreaking tragedy. After numerous unsuccessful attempts at erasing fond memories, she resolves to win Philip back a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Duplass
Mark David Duplass (born December 7, 1976) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician. With his brother Jay Duplass, he started the film production company Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996. Duplass has written and directed films, including ''The Puffy Chair'' (2005), ''Baghead'' (2008), ''Cyrus'' (2010), ''Jeff, Who Lives at Home'' (2011), and ''The Do-Deca-Pentathlon'' (2012). Duplass played the role of Pete Eckhart in the FX television series ''The League'' (2009–2015). He was also one of the stars of ''Safety Not Guaranteed'' (2012). Duplass co-wrote the horror film '' Creep'' (2014) and its 2017 sequel, and starred in both films. He co-wrote and co-produced the television anthology series ''Room 104'' (2017–2020). Duplass has also appeared in ''Humpday'' (2009), '' Greenberg'' (2010), ''The Mindy Project'' (2012–2014), '' Tammy'' (2014), '' The One I Love'' (2014), '' The Lazarus Effect'' (2015), '' Togetherness'' (2015–2016), ''Blue Jay'' (2016), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Critics' Choice Awards. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, Leo became a regular on the television shows '' All My Children,'' for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and ''The Young Riders''. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 as detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1997). Leo received critical acclaim for her performance as Ray Eddy in the 2008 film ''Frozen River'', earning her several nominations and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, Leo won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the film ''The Fighter'', including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2013, she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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