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Gaia Weiss
Gaia Weiss (born 30 August 1991) is a French model and actress. Her filmography includes ''Mary Queen of Scots'' (2013), ''Vikings'' (2014–2015), ''Meander'' (2020), '' La Révolution'' (2020), and '' Shepherd'' (2021). Early life Weiss was born in Paris to parents Catherine and Alain Weiss. She has a brother named Auriel Weiss. Her Jewish paternal grandfather is the French-Alsatian chromotherapy co-developer and French Resistance member, Jean-Michel Weiss; her maternal side is Polish. She spent her childhood between France, England, and Poland. She speaks French, English, Polish, and Hebrew. At age three, Weiss began taking ballet lessons. She was inspired to act by the West End productions her great uncle took her to see when she was living in London as a child, and started classes when she was seven. After finishing her baccalaureate, she attended the Cours Florent and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Career Weiss made her feature film debut in 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumières Awards 2014
The Lumières (literally in English: ''The Lights'') was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement beginning in the second half of the 17th century, originating in western Europe and spreading throughout the rest of Europe. It included philosophers such as Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, John Locke, Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. This movement is influenced by the scientific revolution in southern Europe arising directly from the Italian renaissance with people like Galileo Galilei. Over time it came to mean the , in English the Age of Enlightenment. Members of the movement saw themselves as a progressive élite, and battled against religious and political persecution, fighting against what they saw as the irrationality, arbitrariness, obscurantism and superstition of the previous centuries. They redefined the study of knowledge to fit the ethics and aesthetics of their time. Their works had great influ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
