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Jessica Jones (TV Series)
''Marvel's Jessica Jones'' is an American television series created by Melissa Rosenberg for the streaming service Netflix, based on the Marvel Comics character Jessica Jones. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), acknowledging the continuity of the franchise's films, and was the second Marvel Netflix series leading to the crossover miniseries '' The Defenders''. The series was produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios and Tall Girls Productions, with Rosenberg serving as showrunner. Scott Reynolds was co-showrunner for the third season. Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones, an ex-superhero turned private investigator who opens her own detective agency, Alias Investigations. Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, and Carrie-Anne Moss also star, with Mike Colter, Wil Traval, Erin Moriarty, and David Tennant joining them for the first season, J.R. Ramirez, Terry Chen, Leah Gibson, and Janet McTeer joining the cast for second season, and Benjamin Walk ...
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Detective Fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. History Ancient Some scholars, such as R. H. Pfeiffer, have suggested that certain ancient and religious texts bear similarities to what would later be called detective fiction. In the Old Testament story of Susanna and the Elders (the Protestant Bible locates this story within the apocrypha), the account told by two witnesses broke down when Daniel cross-examines th ...
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Terry Chen
Terry Chen (born February 3, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actor. Early life Chen was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to Taiwanese and Chinese parents originating from Taiwan (father) and mainland China (mother). After primary and secondary education in Edmonton and Vancouver, British Columbia, he briefly studied at the University of Calgary before later moving to Vancouver to pursue acting. Career Chen's breakout role was as real-life ''Rolling Stone'' editor Ben Fong-Torres in the 2000 Cameron Crowe film ''Almost Famous''. He has appeared in several television shows, including Steven Spielberg's TV miniseries '' Taken'', and was a series regular on ''Combat Hospital''. Chen has appeared in feature films ''I, Robot'', ''The Chronicles of Riddick'', ''Snakes on a Plane'' and had a leading role in the horror/thriller ''They Wait''. Chen played a recurring role in the Canadian science fiction series ''Continuum'', which premiered on Showcase on May 27, 2012. Chen portrayed ...
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Raelle Tucker
Raelle Tucker is an American playwright, television writer, producer, and showrunner, best known for her work on HBO's ''True Blood'', Netflix's '' Jessica Jones'', and for the Facebook Watch series '' Sacred Lies'', which she created based on Stephanie Oakes's novel ''The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly''. Early life Tucker was raised by her fashion and costume designer mother, Joy Borne, in Ibiza, Spain. Her mother was briefly involved in the Rajneesh movement featured in the Netflix docu-series ''Wild Wild Country''. Her father was playwrightNeil Tucker who died from AIDS in 1995. Growing up on a rural island without a TV, Tucker founded a theater company and began writing and directing plays to entertain herself and her community. Career After moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, Tucker spent several years supporting herself as a waitress and exotic dancer while she wrote and produced plays likWill Strip For Foodand Eve Of Paradise, before attending the American Film Insti ...
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Jeph Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III () is an American film and television writer, producer and comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series '' Smallville'' and ''Lost'', writer for the films ''Commando'' and ''Teen Wolf'', and a writer and co-executive producer on the NBC TV show ''Heroes'' from its premiere in 2006 to November 2008.Cynthia Littleton. "'Heroes' duo get the ax"
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In 2010, Loeb became Executive Vice President of . A four-time

Dan Buckley
Dan Buckley is an American publishing executive, who is known for his work as Publisher, and then as President of Marvel Entertainment since January 2017. Early life Dan Buckley was raised in upstate New York and later a New York city resident. He graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from St. Lawrence University. Buckley continued his studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which granted him an MBA in Marketing and International Relations in 1991. As a part of his studies at Rensselaer, he took a stint through MBA Exchange Program with the International University of Japan which allowed him to study in Japan. Career In 1990, Buckley joined Marvel Enterprise, where he served in different positions from new product development to international publishing. His last position was as vice president of marketing services in 1997. In 1997, Buckley left for a position at Omnicom's Radiate Group, Inc. His last position at Radiate was as vice president of oper ...
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Joe Quesada
Joseph Quesada (; born January 12, 1962'' Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1650; February 2009; page 107) is an American comic book artist, writer, editor, and television producer. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as ''Ninjak'' and ''Solar, Man of the Atom''. He later worked on numerous books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, such as '' Batman: Sword of Azrael'' and ''X-Factor'', before forming his own company, Event Comics, where he published his creator-owned character, Ash. In 1998 he became an editor of Marvel Comics' Marvel Knights line, before becoming editor-in-chief of the company in 2000. He was named Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment in 2010 and left his editor-in-chief role in January 2011, being replaced by Axel Alonso. His position was re-titled as executive vice president and creative director in October 2019 before leaving in 2022. Early life Quesada was born in New York City to Cuban-born parents, and grew up i ...
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Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which would later become Marvel Comics. He was the primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries. In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writers/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created iconic characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. These and other characters' introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approach in superhero comics, and in the 1970s Lee challenged the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority, ...
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Alan Fine (executive)
Alan Fine is an American chief executive. Early life and education Fine attended the University of Rhode Island to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree. Career Fine later became the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Coleco Toys. At Caldor, The May Department Stores Company division, he was vice president and the Seasonal Merchandise Division Manager. Fine later joined the management at Kay-Bee Toys as Senior Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, then was promoted to president and Chief Operating Officer. In 1996, Fine became employed by Marvel Entertainment Group. Fine became the Toy Biz divisional Chief Executive Officer in 1998 under the newly merged Marvel Enterprises. Marvel Publishing Chief Executive Officer was added to his portfolio in 2004. For Marvel Characters, Inc., the licensing unit of Marvel, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. In April 2009, Fine was promoted to Executive Vice President, Office of the Chief Executive, joining D ...
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Liz Friedman
Liz Friedman is an American television producer and television writer known especially for her work on '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', ''Young Hercules'', ''House'' and ''Jessica Jones''. In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for co-writing the pilot episode of Netflix original series ''Orange Is the New Black''. Career She wrote and produced episodes of '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', early in her writing career. Friedman was co-creator, writer, and executive producer of ''Young Hercules''. Soon after, she along with fellow ''House'' writers, Lawrence Kaplow, Leonard Dick, and Thomas L. Moran wrote episodes for ''Hack''. She wrote for ''The O.C.'' and ''Numbers'' before joining the writing staff of ''House'' in Season 2. Friedman graduated from the Winsor School in Boston, followed by Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology. Her thesis was entitled "A Feminist and Class-based Analysis of Slasher Films". She also co-wrote the pilot epi ...
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Sean Callery
Sean Callery (born 1964) is an American musician and composer, best known for composing the music for the action/drama '' 24'' and the Marvel adaptation '' Jessica Jones''. Other projects include the 2004 James Bond video game, '' James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing'' and the television series '' La Femme Nikita'' and ''Homeland''. Most recently he composes the music for the series ''Designated Survivor'' and ''Bull''. Biography Callery was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Bristol, Rhode Island. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, earning a degree in piano performance in 1987. In 1987, Callery moved to Los Angeles to work for New England Digital, the creators of the Synclavier synthesizer. In 1990, he and John Farrar scored the NBC television film, ''A Mom for Christmas''. Working as a sound design on the series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' also earned him an Emmy nomination. In 1996, Callery was hired to compose the underscore for the USA N ...
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Jeremy Bobb
Jeremy Bobb (born May 13, 1981) is an American actor who has appeared on stage, television and in feature films. He had a recurring role in CBS's 2013 drama ''Hostages'' as White House Chief of Staff Quintin Creasy and co-starred as Herman Barrow in the Cinemax TV series ''The Knick''. In 2014, he played Stevie in the crime-drama film '' The Drop''. In 2019, Bobb appeared in the Netflix series ''Russian Doll''. He attended Otterbein University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases. Background The Bachelor ... degree in 2003. Filmography Film Television References External links * American male film actors American male television actors American male voice actors Otterbein University alumni Living people 1981 births People from Dublin, Ohio ...
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Sarita Choudhury
Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991). Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and television shows such as in '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'' (1996), ''A Perfect Murder'' (1998), '' 3 A.M.'' (2001), and the John Cassavetes remake '' Gloria'' (1999). In 2002, she starred in '' Just a Kiss''. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's ''She Hate Me'' (2004) and acted as Anna Ran in ''Lady in the Water'', a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan. She also played Egeria in '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2'' (2015) and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film ''A Hologram for the King''. In 2021, Choudhury joined the cast of HBO Max's ''Sex and the City'' revival television series '' And Just Like That...''. Early life Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, and is of half Indian and half English descent. ...
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