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Greer (given Name)
Greer is a unisex given name. Notable people called Greer include: Women * Greer Garson, CBE (1904–1996), British-American actress very popular during the Second World War * Greer Gilman, American author of fantasy stories * Greer Goodman, co-writer of 2000 romantic comedy film ''The Tao of Steve'' * Greer Grammer (born 1992), American actress and former beauty queen * Greer Honeywill (born 1945), Australian conceptual artist * Greer Lankton (1958–1996), American artist known for creating lifelike, sewn dolls modelled on friends and celebrities * Greer Robson (born 1971), New Zealand television actress known for a role in the TV drama ''Shortland Street'' * Greer Shephard, American television producer and director * Greer Stevens (born 1957), retired professional tennis player from South Africa Men * Greer Barnes (comedian) (born 1964), American comedian and actor * Greer Grimsley (born 1956), American bass-baritone with an international opera career for the last three decad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Garson
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was an English-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront; listed by the ''Motion Picture Herald'' as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946. The fourth most-nominated woman for the Best Actress Oscar, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, including a record-tying (with Bette Davis) five consecutive nominations (1941–1945) in the actress category, winning for her performance in the title role of the 1942 film ''Mrs. Miniver''. Early life Greer Garson was born on 29 September 1904Troyan, p. 8. in Manor Park, East Ham (then in Essex, now part of Greater London), the only child of Nancy Sophia "Nina" (née Greer; 1880–1958) and George Garson (1865–1906), a commercial clerk in a London importing business. Her father was born in London to Scottish pare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Gilman
Greer Ilene Gilman is an American author of fantasy stories. Biography She was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship. Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Her characteristic themes are drawn from a mixture of North English and Scottish ballads and seasonal rituals, which she uses to create a complex mythology centered on the seasons and constellations of her fictional world of Cloud. Her novel '' Moonwise'', in which two women travel in a world they have created, won the Crawford Award for 1991. Her collection of three stories, '' Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales'' won the Tiptree Award in 2009, and has been shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Award in 2010. Both are published by Small Beer Press. The novella "A Crowd of Bone" published in ''Trampoline: an anthology'' won the 2004 World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Goodman
''The Tao of Steve'' is a 2000 romantic comedy film written by Duncan North, Greer Goodman, and Jenniphr Goodman, directed by Jenniphr Goodman, and starring Donal Logue and Greer Goodman. The film was produced by Ted Hope and James Schamus' Good Machine production company and released through Sony Pictures Classics. Logue won the 2000 Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for outstanding performance in a dramatic film and the film itself was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. It was filmed in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the story is set. Although the script never mentions St. John's College, the film includes many visual and verbal references to the seminar-based Great Books program taught there. Plot Dex is an unlikely Lothario - an overweight, thirty-something part-time kindergarten teacher - who has developed an effective method for seducing women. "The Tao of Steve", Dex's own personal pseudophilosophy on seduction, combines a Taoist outlook with the qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Grammer
Kandace Greer Grammer (born February 15, 1992) is an American actress and former beauty queen. She is best known for her role as Lissa Miller in the MTV series ''Awkward (TV series), Awkward'' and for her role in the 2021 Netflix-released film ''Deadly Illusions''. Early life Grammer was born on February 15, 1992, in Los Angeles, California to actor Kelsey Grammer and make-up artist Barrie Buckner. Her parents were never married. Through her father, she has three half-sisters: Spencer Grammer, Spencer (born 1983), Mason (born 2001), and Faith (born 2012) and three half-brothers: Jude (born 2004), Gabriel (born 2014), and James (born 2016). She was raised primarily by her mother in Malibu, California. She was named after actress Greer Garson. Grammer became passionate for theater at a young age, participating in various plays from the age of 5 before competing in pageants as a teenager. She attended Idyllwild Arts Academy for two years, receiving training under their theater progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Honeywill
Greer Honeywill (born 1945 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian conceptual artist. Her work covers sculptural conventions, autobiography and critical thinking. Life and education Born the daughter of Donald Desmond Spooner (1910–1989), a classical pianist who studied for a short time at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide before becoming a self-taught realist painter. From 1956 Spooner exhibited regularly at the Walter Wotzke Gallery, Hahndorf, South Australia, and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. He won the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Prize in 1955 and became a Fellow of the RSASA in 1958. Honeywill studied art at the South Australian School of Art and Western Teachers College (now University of South Australia) graduating as an art teacher in 1964. She continued her studies in drama at Adelaide Teachers College in 1967 (now University of South Australia). In 2003 she graduated from Monash University, PhD in Fine Art and was awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Lankton
Greer Lankton (April 21, 1958 – November 18, 1996), was an American artist known for creating lifelike sewn dolls that were often modeled on friends or celebrities and posed in elaborate theatrical settings. She was a key figure in the East Village art scene of the 1980s in New York. Early life Greer Lankton was born in Flint, Michigan, to a Presbyterian minister and his wife. It was during her rough childhood as a "feminine boy" that she began creating dolls. "It was when I was about ten years old ... I used to make dolls out of hollyhocks and all types of flowers. Pipe cleaner dolls and things like that. I started taking it seriously by the time I went to college when I was 17." Lankton was often teased by peers, and on more than one occasion experienced physical harassment. Lankton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and later Pratt Institute in New York. She changed her name and had gender affirmation surgery at the age of 21, while she was a student at Pratt. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Robson
Greer Robson (born 16 October 1971) is a New Zealand television actress well known for her role in the television drama ''Shortland Street''. Biography Greer first came to prominence in the 1981 New Zealand film ''Smash Palace'' starring as Georgie alongside Bruno Lawrence, and starred in the 1987 film '' Starlight Hotel'' as Kate, but is most well known for her role as Nurse Joanna Jordan in ''Shortland Street ''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992. It is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously ...''. Since leaving the soap, Greer has guested as a celebrity on several other shows, including ''Celebrity Treasure Island'', which she won. It was reported that Robson's win was pre-arranged and that the contestants did not pay attention to the rules. Robson later won the third season of New Zealand version of '' Dancing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Shephard
Greer Shephard is an American television producer and director. She was an executive producer on the FX series ''Nip/Tuck''. She is also an executive producer on the TNT series, ''The Closer''. Along with Michael M. Robin, Shephard created the Shephard/Robin production company which produces the Ryan Murphy-created ''Nip/Tuck'' and ''Popular''. Shephard is an executive producer of TNT's ''The Closer'' spinoff series ''Major Crimes''. In 1991, she joined ABC to serve as vice president of drama programming. She ultimately left in 1997. In 1998, she and director Michael M. Robin launched The Shephard/Robin Company with a commitment deal at Buena Vista TV Productions. In 2001, both Shephard along with Robin, after three years who had served at Disney, joined Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television Studios (operating under the name Warner Bros. Television; formerly known as Warner Bros. Television Division) is an American television production and distribution studio of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Stevens
Greer Stevens (born 15 February 1957) is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. Career Stevens in 1980 reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 7 and the Wimbledon quarterfinals in both singles and doubles]. With Bob Hewitt, she won the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon in 1977 and 1979 and at the US Open in 1979. She also played for the Boston Lobsters of World TeamTennis. She retired in December 1980 after competing in the New South Wales Open The Sydney International (formerly known as the Championship of New South Wales and New South Wales Open, with various title sponsors), formerly sponsored as the Apia International Sydney from 2012 to 2017, is a professional tennis tournament i ..., having had her career best year. Grand Slam finals Mixed doubles: 3 (3 titles) WTA Tour finals Singles: 6 (4–2) Doubles: 17 (5–12) Grand Slam singles tournament timeline Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Barnes (comedian)
Greer Barnes (born 1964) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for clever wordplay, observational humor, sketch comedy, mimicry, and energetic physical comedy. He has performed in comedy festivals, in commercials, on television and in films. He regularly appears at The Comedy Cellar in New York City’s West Village.I Can’t Follow Greer Barnes By Joe Glasgow, Splitsider website, March 30, 2017Stand Up NY: Greer Barnes /ref> Biography Barnes was born in the and grew up on[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Grimsley
Greer Grimsley (born May 30, 1956) is an American bass-baritone who has had an active international opera career for the last three decades. He has sung leading roles with all of America's leading opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Seattle Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, and the Houston Grand Opera. He has also performed on the stages of many important European opera houses. Since 1987 he has been married to mezzo-soprano Luretta Bybee. From January 1983 to December 1985, he was married to the former Virginia Hancock. The couple married and divorced in Houston, Texas. Life and career Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Grimsley is a graduate of Brother Martin High School. He studied voice at Loyola University New Orleans and at the Juilliard School in New York City. He made his professional opera debut in 1980 at the Houston Grand Opera as one of the Armed Men in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greer Skousen
Aytch Greer Skousen (September 24, 1916 – March 20, 1988) was a Mexican basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, he was part of the Mexican basketball team which won the bronze medal. He played five matches. In 1950-1951 he taught and coached public school for the Toyah School District in Toyah, Texas. Skousen died in San Antonio, Texas ("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_t .... References External linksProfile * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
