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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe; 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor, model and musician. He is known for his roles in the films ''Michael Collins (film), Michael Collins'' (1996), ''Velvet Goldmine'' (1998), ''Titus (film), Titus'' (1999), ''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002), ''Alexander (2004 film), Alexander'' (2004), ''Match Point'' (2005), ''Mission: Impossible III'' (2006) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries ''Elvis (miniseries), Elvis'' (2005), for which he won a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award and earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, as King Henry VIII in the historical drama ''The Tudors'' (2007–10), which earned him two Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award nominations, and in the NBC drama series ''Dracula (2013 TV series), Dracula'' (2013–14) as the title character. He also starred as List of Vikings characters#Bishop Heahmund, Bishop Heahmund, a character inspired by the Heahmund, Catholic S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heahmund
__NOTOC__ Heahmund was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne. Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222 He died at the Battle of Meretun in 871. As his death is assigned to 22 March in the English calendar of saints the battle and his death can be dated 22 March 871. He was buried at Keynsham in Somerset. Heahmund is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via ... and Roman Catholic Church. Citations References * External links * Bishops of Sherborne (ancient) 871 deaths 9th-century English bishops Year of birth unknown 9th-century Christian saints {{England-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss AG, often styled as BOSS, is a luxury fashion house headquartered in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company sells clothing, accessories, footwear, and fragrances. Hugo Boss is one of the largest German clothing companies, with global sales of in 2019. Its stock is a component of the MDAX. The company was founded in 1924 by Hugo Boss and originally produced general-purpose clothing. With the onset of the Great Depression and the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, Boss began to produce uniforms for the Nazi Party. Boss would eventually supply the wartime German government with military uniforms, resulting in a large boost in sales. After World War II and the founder's death in 1948, Hugo Boss started to turn its focus from uniforms to men's suits. The company went public in 1988 and introduced a fragrance line that same year, adding men's and women's wear diffusion lines in 1997, a full women's collection in 2000, and children's clothing in 2006–2007. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper of record for Ireland. Though formed as a Protestant nationalist paper, within two decades and under new owners it had become the voice of British unionism in Ireland. It is no longer a pro unionist paper; it presents itself politically as "liberal and progressive", as well as being centre-right on economic issues. The editorship of the newspaper from 1859 until 1986 was controlled by the Anglo-Irish Protestant minority, only gaining its first nominal Irish Catholic editor 127 years into its existence. The paper's most prominent columnists include writer and arts commentator Fintan O'Toole and satirist Miriam Lord. The late Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald was once a columnist. Senior international figures, including Tony Blair and Bill Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damascus Cover
''Damascus Cover'' is a 2017 political thriller film, directed by Daniel Zelik Berk, from a screenplay by Berk and Samantha Newton. It is based upon the 1977 novel of the same name by Howard Kaplan. It stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, Jürgen Prochnow, Igal Naor, Navid Negahban and John Hurt. This proved to be Hurt's final film appearance before his death. The film was dedicated to his memory. The film had its world premiere at the Boston Film Festival on September 23, 2017. It was released on July 20, 2018, by Vertical Entertainment. Plot Ari Ben-Sion, an Israeli spy posing as a German businessman named Hans Hoffmann in Berlin in 1989, must get an Mossad, Israeli spy out of Syria but realizes that he is part of a much bigger plan. Cast * Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Ari Ben-Sion / Hans Hoffmann * Olivia Thirlby as Kim Johnson * John Hurt as Miki * Jürgen Prochnow as Franz Ludin * Navid Negahban as Suleiman Sarraj * Wolf Kahler as Colonel Ludwig Streicher * Igal Naor as G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 12th Man (film)
''The 12th Man'' ( no, Den 12. mann) is a 2017 Norwegian historical drama film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Thomas Gullestad as Jan Baalsrud, who escapes from occupying Nazi Germans in Rebbenesøya, via Lyngen, Lyngen Fjord and Manndalen, to neutral Sweden in the spring of 1943. The film, based on historical events, was adapted from the book ''Jan Baalsrud and Those Who Saved Him'' (2001) by Tore Haug and Astrid Karlsen Scott. Like the book, ''The 12th Man'' emphasizes the efforts of those who helped Baalsrud escape, which is in line with Baalsrud's own statements about the local population's courage. The plot also details the pursuit of Baalsrud from the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) leadership's perspective, depicting the escape as a Cat and mouse, cat-and-mouse game between Kurt Stage and Baalsrud. Plot ''The 12th Man'' tells the dramatic story of Jan Baalsrud's escape from the Nazis during the Second World War. In Shetland, 12 Norwegian resistance movement, Norwegian resistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich (; born 10 November 1955) is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his science fiction and disaster films and has been called a "master of disaster" within the industry. His films, most of which are English-language Cinema of the United States, Hollywood productions, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's List of highest-grossing directors, 15th-highest-grossing director of all time. He began his work in the film industry by directing the film ''The Noah's Ark Principle'' (1984) as part of his university thesis and also co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his sister. He is also known for directing films such as ''Universal Soldier (1992 film), Universal Soldier'' (1992), ''Stargate (film), Stargate'' (1994), ''Independence Day (1996 film), Independence Day'' (1996) and its sequel ''Independence Day: Resurgence'' (2016), ''Godzilla (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stonewall (2015 Film)
''Stonewall'' is a 2015 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Jon Robin Baitz, and starring Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Ron Perlman, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones, Matt Craven, Atticus Mitchell, and Mark Camacho. Released on September 25, 2015, by Roadside Attractions, the film is set in and around the 1969 Stonewall riots, a violent clash with police that sparked the gay liberation movement in New York City. The film received generally negative reviews. Plot Shortly before fleeing the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moving to New York City, Danny Winters, a gay teenage boy from Indiana, is discovered by friends while making love with his boyfriend. His father is upset, and while his mother is ambivalent as she feels for her son, she does not stand up to her husband either. His father then refuses to sign the scholarship application for Columbia University where Danny is supposed to attend, but Danny depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Bones (Mortal Instruments)
''City of Bones'' is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's ''New York Times'' bestselling series ''The Mortal Instruments''. The novel, first published in 2007, is set in modern-day New York City and has been released in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese. It is the first book in the first trilogy of ''The Mortal Instruments'' which includes the books ''City of Ashes'' and '' City of Glass''. Plot Clary goes to the Pandemonium club with her best friend, Simon Lewis, where she sees a blue-haired boy and a girl sneak into a storeroom, pursued by two other boys, one armed with what appears to be a knife. She sends Simon for help and follows the group into the storeroom, where she witnesses the boy being killed, before vanishing. Simon enters the storeroom with a bouncer and questions why Clary is there alone; Clary realizes no one else can see the others. The next day, Jocelyn (Clary’s mother) announces that they are moving fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Clare
Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments (series), ''The Mortal Instruments''.'' Personal life Clare was born Judith Rumelt to American parents in Tehran, Iran. She is the daughter of Richard Rumelt, a business school professor and author. Her maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg. Clare is Jewish and has described her family as "not religious". As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England, and France. She returned to Los Angeles for high school, and from then on split her time between California and New York City, where she worked at various entertainment magazines and tabloids, including ''The Hollywood Reporter''. While living in Los Angeles, Clare began writing fan fiction using the name Cassandra Claire. ''The Draco Trilogy'', based on ''Harry Potter'', and ''The Very S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Bones
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City of Bones may refer to: * ''City of Bones'' (Connelly novel), a novel by American crime author Michael Connelly * ''City of Bones'' (Clare novel), a 2007 young adult novel by Cassandra Clare ** '' The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'', the film adaptation of Clare's novel * ''City of Bones'', a 1995 novel by Martha Wells Martha Wells (born September 1, 1964) is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has published a number of fantasy novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on fantasy and science fiction subjects. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine Morgenstern
This is a list of the main characters from ''The Mortal Instruments'' series by Cassandra Clare, including the novels '' City of Bones'', ''City of Ashes'', '' City of Glass'', ''City of Fallen Angels'', '' City of Lost Souls'', and ''City of Heavenly Fire''. The series is part of a bigger media franchise, ''The Shadowhunter Chronicles''. The series was adapted into a film, '' The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'', and a television series, ''Shadowhunters''. Television series cast The following is a list of ''Shadowhunters'' television series regulars who have appeared in one or more of the series' three seasons. The characters are listed in the order they were first credited in the series. ;Key : = Main cast (actor receives "Starring" credit that season) : = Recurring cast (actor appears in two or more episodes that season) : = Guest cast (actor appears in only one episode that season) Main characters Clary Fairchild Clarissa Adele "Clary" Fairchild is a fictiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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