From Scratch (TV Series)
''From Scratch'' is an American romance drama miniseries created by Attica Locke and Tembi Locke for Netflix. Inspired by Tembi Locke's memoir of the same name, it stars Zoe Saldaña and Eugenio Mastrandrea. Its eight episodes premiered on October 21, 2022. Attica Locke was series showrunner. Cast and characters Main * Zoe Saldaña as Amy * Eugenio Mastrandrea as Lino * Danielle Deadwyler as Zora * Judith Scott as Maxine * Kellita Smith as Lynn * Lucia Sardo as Filomena * Paride Benassai as Giacomo * Roberta Rigano as Biagia * Keith David as Hershel Recurring * Lorenzo Pozzan as Filippo * Peter Mendoza as Andreas * Jonathan D. King as Silvio * Terrell Carter as Ken * Saad Siddiqui as Dr. Atluri * Rodney Gardiner as Preston * Jonathan Del Arco as David Guest * Giacomo Gianniotti as Giancarlo Caldesi * Medalion Rahimi as Laila Mahdi * Elizabeth Anweis as Chloe Lim * Kassandra Clementi as Caroline * Ferdinando Gattuccio as Italian notary * Claudia Gerini as art teacher Episod ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Romance Film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage is featured. These films make the search for romantic love the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hello Sunshine (company)
Hello Sunshine is an American media company founded by actress Reese Witherspoon and Strand Equity Founder and Managing Partner Seth Rodsky in 2016. Pacific Standard, the production company Witherspoon co-founded with Bruna Papandrea in 2012, is now a subsidiary of Hello Sunshine. On July 10, 2018, its co-owner AT&T through its communications division announced the launch of a Hello Sunshine-branded cable and satellite television channel, Hello Sunshine Channel, which will be focused on women similarly to the Oprah Winfrey Network. History In 2000, Witherspoon founded production company Type A Films, which she merged with Bruna Papandrea's Make Movies banner to create a new production company entitled Pacific Standard in 2012. Together, they produced the Oscar-nominated films '' Gone Girl'' and ''Wild'', and the HBO drama series '' Big Little Lies''. In 2016, Witherspoon and Papandrea split up, with Witherspoon gaining full control over the company. In November 2016, Withersp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as part ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marguerite MacIntyre
Marguerite MacIntyre is an American actress, writer and producer. She is known for her role as Elizabeth Forbes in ''The Vampire Diaries'' (2009-2017) and as Miss Rhode Island in the 1994 ''Seinfeld'' episode The Chaperone. Biography She has also appeared in Broadway or Off-Broadway An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ... productions of ''Jane Eyre'', ''City of Angels'', ''No Way to Treat a Lady'', ''Annie Warbucks'', ''Weird Romance'', and ''Mata Hari''. She starred on ''The Vampire Diaries'' as Sheriff Forbes until season six and ''Kyle X.Y'' as Nicole Trager. For ''The Vampire Diaries'' spin-off show '' The Originals'', she is credited as a staff writer, story editor and for the final season as writer and supervising producer. Filmography Television Films R ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dennie Gordon
Dennie Gordon is an American film and television director. Her directorial television credits include ''Party of Five'', '' Sports Night'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''The Practice'', ''Grounded for Life'', '' The Loop'', '' White Collar'', '' Burn Notice'', ''Hell on Wheels'', ''Waco'', and other series. She has also directed the feature films ''Joe Dirt'', '' New York Minute'' and '' What a Girl Wants''. In 2000, Gordon won the DGA Award for DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety for episode of the HBO series, '' Tracey Takes On...'' starring Tracey Ullman. She is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and the Yale School of Drama. Filmography Films * ''Joe Dirt ''Joe Dirt'' is a 2001 American adventure comedy film, directed by Dennie Gordon (in her feature film directorial debut), starring David Spade, Dennis Miller, Christopher Walken, Adam Beach, Brian Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Jaime Pressly, Eri ...'' (2001) * '' What a Girl Wants'' (2003) * ' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nzingha Stewart
Nzingha Stewart is an American filmmaker. She began her career directing music videos, later moving to the television and movie industry in 2010 with the drama ''For Colored Girls'' as an executive producer. She has directed two movies for Lifetime, ''With This Ring'' and ''Love by the 10th Date''. In 2019, Netflix released Stewart's first feature film, ''Tall Girl''. Early life Stewart attended New York University's Gallatin School, and graduated with a degree in philosophy. Career Music videos Stewart began her career directing music videos, working with Macy Gray, Common, Eve, Keyshia Cole, Sunshine Anderson, Joss Stone, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Bilal, and 50 Cent. ''Clutch'' writer explains of Stewart's music video work: "With incredible artistic direction and originality, Nzingha provides imagery, mood, and storyline effortlessly." Film and television She has directed episodes of ''Maid'', ''Pretty Little Liars'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''How To Get Away With Murder'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kassandra Clementi
Kassandra Carolyn Clementi (born 10 October 1990) is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Maddy Osborne on the Seven Network soap opera '' Home and Away'', a role she played for over three years before leaving in May 2016. Early life Clementi was born in Adelaide, South Australia and dreamed of becoming a vet when she was a child. She took acting classes as a teenager and decided to pursue that career direction after high school, moving away from Adelaide to study it further. As a child, Clementi would spend time on family holidays in the coastal town of Middleton in South Australia. Career In 2009, Clementi appeared in a minor role in Australian/UK feature film '' The Boys Are Back'', with Clive Owen. Clementi successfully began to receive roles in television series'. The first roles she received was that of 'Cara' in ''Offspring'' and 'Chelsea' in the television film '' Underbelly Files: Infiltration''. Following her part in the film, she relocated to Atlan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Medalion Rahimi
Medalion Rahimi (born July 15, 1992) is an American actress of Iranian descent. She is known for playing Princess Isabella on the 2017 ABC Shonda Rhimes Shonda Lynn Rhimes (born January 13, 1970) is an American television screenwriter, producer, and author. She is best known as the showrunner—creator, head writer, and executive producer—of the television medical drama '' Grey's Anatomy'', ... show '' Still Star-Crossed'', and Elody in the 2017 feature film '' Before I Fall''. In 2014 and 2018 she had guest appearances on the CBS crime dramas '' NCIS'' and its spinoff '' NCIS: New Orleans''. In 2019, she played the recurring role of Special Agent Fatima Namazi in the franchise's other spinoff, '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. In February 2020, it was announced that she would be a regular on the show. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rahimi, Medalion 1992 births Living people Actresses from Los Angeles American television actresses American pe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giacomo Gianniotti
Giacomo Keaton Gianniotti (born 19 June 1989) is an Italian-Canadian film and television actor. He studied theater at Humber College and made his acting debut in the Italian television series ''Medicina Generale'' in 2010. He went on to play recurring roles in the television series ''Reign'' (2013) and ''Murdoch Mysteries'' (2013–2014). From 2015 to 2021, Gianniotti played Dr. Andrew DeLuca in the medical drama series ''Grey's Anatomy''. Early life Giacomo Gianniotti was born 19 June 1989, in Rome, Italy. He emigrated with his family at a young age and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He divides his time between Toronto and Rome, working in Canadian and Italian stage, films and television. He attended high school at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts in Toronto, then graduated from Humber College's Theatre Program. He has also completed an actor's residency at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. Career His first experience in film was a small role in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jonathan Del Arco
Jonathan Del Arco (born March 7, 1966) is an Uruguayan American actor and gay rights and political activist. He is best known for his role as Hugh the Borg in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and '' Star Trek: Picard'', and for his series regular role as medical examiner Dr. Morales in ''The Closer'' and '' Major Crimes''. He was awarded the 2013 Visibility Award by the Human Rights Campaign. Career As a teenager, Del Arco became interested in acting and the theater. He often traveled by commuter train from his home in Port Chester, New York to Manhattan, where he attended plays. He eventually enrolled in acting classes there, and after graduating from high school, he moved to New York City permanently. Shortly after, Del Arco won a role in the touring company of ''Torch Song Trilogy''. In 1990, with a role on the ''Miami Vice'' television show and a role in the independent film ''Lost Angeles'' under his belt, Del Arco moved to Los Angeles, California. Guest starring roles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Futon Critic
''The Futon Critic'' is a website that provides articles and information regarding prime time programming on broadcast and cable networks in the United States. The site publishes reviews of prime time programming and interviews of people in the television industry, as well as republishing Nielsen ratings data reports and press releases provided by television networks. ''The Futon Critic'' was founded by Brian Ford Sullivan in 1997. History Brian Ford Sullivan, CEO of Futon Media, registered ''The Futon Critic'' on January 14, 1997. From its founding, the site has published reviews on prime time programming, as well as interviews its staff conducted with members of the television industry. The site also contains sections of articles dedicated to republishing press releases, network schedules and Nielsen ratings data, which have been cited by articles on websites such as ''The Huffington Post'' and TV by the Numbers. Its publications of Nielsen ratings data have also been used a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Writers Guild Of America West
The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild. It has around 20,000 members. History The Screen Writers Guild (SWG) was formed in 1921 by a group of ten screenwriters in Hollywood angered over wage reductions announced by the major film studios. The group affiliated with the Authors Guild in 1933 and began representing TV writers in 1948. In 1954, the SWG was one of five groups who merged to represent professional writers on both coasts and became the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAe) and West (WGAw). Howard J. Green and John Howard Lawson were the first two presidents during the SWG era. Daniel Taradash was president of the WGAw from 1977 to 1979. In 1952, the Guild authorized movie studios to delete onscreen credits for any writers who had not been cleared by Congress, as part of the industry' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |