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Isabelle Nanty
Isabelle Nanty (born 21 January 1962) is a French actress, film and theatre director and screenwriter. Career She was a teacher for several years at the Cours Florent, and then received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in ''Tatie Danielle'' (1990), and two nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Amélie'' (2001) and ''Not on the Lips'' (2003). She's also known for her roles in ''La Belle Histoire'' (1992) directed by Claude Lelouch, ''Les Visiteurs'' (1993), '' Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' (2002), her leading role in ''Les Tuche'' (2011), '' Serial Teachers'' (2013) and the sequel ''Serial Teachers 2'' (2015). Personal life In 2004, she adopted Tallulah, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, born in 2002 in China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verdun
Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital of the department is Bar-le-Duc, which is slightly smaller than Verdun. It is well known for giving its name to a major battle of the First World War. Geography Verdun is situated on both banks of the river Meuse, in the northern part of the Meuse department. It is connected by rail to Jarny. The A4 autoroute Paris–Metz–Strasbourg passes south of the town. History Verdun (''Verodunum'', a latinisation of a place name meaning "strong fort" in Gaulish) was founded by the Gauls. It has been the seat of the bishop of Verdun since the 4th century, with interruptions.A History of Food, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, Blackwell Publishing 1992, p.567 In 486, following the decisive Frankish victory at the Battle of Soissons, the city (amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Companeez
Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville.Françoise Audé ''Ciné-modèles cinéma d'elles.: Situations de femmes dans le cinéma'' 1981 Page 77 " ichel Deville.. Il ne se lance alors pas seul dans l'aventure : avec lui, une scénariste-dialoguiste brillante, Nina Companeez. Elle est la fille de Jacques Companeez qui fut le scénariste de Jacques Becker. Elle est, en outre, monteuse." She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77. Selected filmography Writer * '' Tonight or Never'' (1961) * '' Adorable Liar'' (1962) * ''Because, Because of a Woman'' (1963) * ''Girl's Apartment'' (1963) * ''Lucky Jo'' (1964) * ''Martin Soldat'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-François Martin-Laval
Pierre-François Martin-Laval (nicknamed "PEF") is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. PEF is well known in France for his acting performances in musical comedy but also in serious plays. He studied at the famous French school of acting Cours Florent. During his drama studies he met the friends with whom he formed the comedy team 'Les Robins des Bois' (The Robin Hoods) in 1996. Initially called The Royal Imperial Green Rabbit Company, they renamed themselves after their first significant success, a play entitled ''Robins des bois''. Les Robins des Bois first appeared on television in ''La Grosse Emission'', a regular TV show on the channel Comédie! in which they presented short and utterly crazy plays. They quickly became popular and made appearances in French movies. Filmography * ''L'un dans l'autre'' (2016) Bruno Chiche, with Stephane De Groodt, Louise Bourgoinl, Aure Atika * ''Mon poussin'' (2016) Frederique Forestier, with Isabelle Nanty, Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Weber
Jacques Weber is a French actor, director, and writer. Life and career Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for ''Tartuffe''. In 1972, he was Haroun in ''Faustine et le Bel Été'' and played the role of Hugo in '' État de siège'' by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in '' Le Malin Plaisir'' (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in '' Une femme fatale'' (1976). The young actor with much ''sex-appeal'' (he appeared in ''Le Malin Plaisir'' completely naked) was in '' Bel Ami'' (1983) after the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant in the adaptation by Pierre Cardinal. On television, he was, among others, '' Le Comte de Monte-Cristo'' by Denys de La Patellière and Judge '' Antoine Rives'' in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartuffe
''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; french: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. History Molière performed his first version of ''Tartuffe'' in 1664. Almost immediately following its performance that same year at Versailles' grand fêtes (The Party of the Delights of the Enchanted Island/''Les fêtes des plaisirs de l'ile enchantée''), King Louis XIV suppressed it, probably due to the influence of the archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, who was the King's confessor and had been his tutor. While the king had little personal interest in suppressing the play, he did so because, as stated in the official account of the fête: although it was found to be extremely diverting, the king recognized so much conformity between those that a true devotion leads on the path to heave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics."Stories ... which are among the supreme achievements in prose narrative.Vodka miniatures, belching and angry cats George Steiner's review of ''The Undiscovered Chekhov'', in ''The Observer'', 13 May 2001. Retrieved 16 February 2007. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of ''The Seagull'' in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seagull
''The Seagull'' ( rus, Ча́йка, r=Cháyka, links=no) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ''The Seagull'' is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. Like Chekhov's other full-length plays, ''The Seagull'' relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theatre, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. Characters tend to speak in subtext rather than directly. The character Trigorin is considered one of Chekhov's greatest male roles. The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, playing Nina, was so intimidated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cohen (actor)
Michael D. Cohen (born ) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Schwoz Schwartz in '' Henry Danger'' and its spinoffs, ''The Adventures of Kid Danger'' and ''Danger Force''. Life and career Born in Winnipeg, Cohen started transitioning from female to male in his 20s, making the information publicly known only in 2019. He and his family moved to Richmond, British Columbia, when he was 10. As a fan of Carol Burnett and the other actors on ''The Carol Burnett Show'', he was inspired to be an actor and writer, and won a Young Playwright's Contest at age 12. Years after graduating from college, Cohen moved to Toronto, where he studied acting and landed his first voice over job, without an agent, on the animated TV series ''Pippi Longstocking''. He began his career when he appeared in ''Moville Mysteries,'' shortly after which he appeared in '' Queer as Folk'', ''Doc'', ''RoboRoach'', and ''Henry's World,'' as well as many commercials. In 2005, he won the national Moc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Benmussa
Simone Benmussa (5 June 1932 – 4 June 2001) was an Algerian born writer and theatre director in France. One of her best known plays was ''The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs'' Biography She was born into a Jewish family in Tunis and attended the private Catholic school Notre-Dame de Sion there. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and also attended Sciences Po. She went on to work at various theatres with Jean-Louis Barrault. From 1957 to 1989, she was editor-in-chief for '. When French president Charles De Gaulle removed Barrault from the directorship of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe because of his support for the student revolt of 1968, Benmussa was put in charge of theatrical works at publisher Éditions Gallimard. Although she wrote her own play narratives, Benmussa was perhaps best known for her play ''The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs'', which was based on a short story by George Moore. Her play was translated into English and performed in London and New York City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Singular Life Of Albert Nobbs
''The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs'' (French: ''La Vie singulière d'Albert Nobbs'') is a play by French author Simone Benmussa. Based on a novella by George Moore, the drama tells the story of a 19th-century woman who disguises herself as a man to avoid poverty. The role of Albert Nobbs was originated by French actress Juliet Berto. The drama premiered in November 1977 at the Théâtre d'Orsay in Paris. Synopsis Having spent much of his life disguised as a man, Dublin hotel butler Albert Nobbs is shocked when he meets a female painter, Hubert Page, who is also living as a man. Upon seeing Hubert's happy domestic situation, Albert resolves to set up a similar arrangement for himself. Cast History Performance history The play's English-language version premiered on 27 June 1978 at London's New End Theatre with Susannah York in the lead. Translated by Barbara Wright, it was subsequently staged in Rome with Maddalena Cripa and in Ireland with Jane Brennan. In 1982, ''Albert No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comedic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of aristocrats including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dom Juan
''Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre'' ("Don Juan or The Feast of the Stone tatue) is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio. The aristocrat Dom Juan is a rake who seduces, marries, and abandons Elvira, discarded as just another romantic conquest. Later, he invites to dinner the statue of a man whom he recently had murdered; the statue accepts and reciprocates Dom Juan's invitation. In the course of their second evening, the stone statue of the murdered man charms, deceives, and leads Dom Juan to Hell. Molière's comedy derives from the Spanish play '' The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest'' (1630), by Tirso de Molina, but each playwright presents a different interpretation of the libertine protagonist. Molière's Dom Juan is a French man who admits to being an atheist and a free-thinker; whereas, de Molina's Don Juan is a Spanish man who admits to being Catholic, and believes that repentance for and forgiveness of sin are po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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