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Laurie Collyer
Laurie Collyer (born 1967) is an American film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Summit, New Jersey, she grew up in Mountainside, New Jersey and attended Oberlin College. After working at a series of odd jobs, she went to film school at New York University. She is best known for writing and directing ''Sherrybaby'', for which actress Maggie Gyllenhaal received a Golden Globe nomination. She also directed the film ''Nuyorican Dream'' in 1999. She is in development to direct a film based on the story of Julia Butterfly Hill and the redwood tree Luna (tree), Luna, which is to star Rachel Weisz. She has also written the screenplay of an upcoming adaptation of Sara Zarr's novel ''Story of a Girl (novel), Story of a Girl''. In 2013, she directed ''Sunlight Jr.'', starring Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon. In 2015, she directed ''The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe'', which stars Kelli Garner, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Eva Amurri Martino. In 2018, she di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit, New Jersey
Summit is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The city is located on a ridge in northern- central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. At the 2010 United States census, the city's population was 21,457,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Summit city, Union County, New Jersey , . Accessed February 21, 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelli Garner
Kelli Brianne Garner (born April 11, 1984) is an American actress who has appeared in a variety of independent and mainstream films, television, and theater. A native of Southern California, Garner made her feature film debut at age seventeen in Larry Clark's thriller ''Bully'' (2001), followed by a supporting role as Faith Domergue in Martin Scorsese's '' The Aviator'' (2004). In 2005, she made her New York stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of '' Dog Sees God''. Over the following several years, Garner had lead roles in the independent film '' Thumbsucker'' (2005), the studio comedy '' Man of the House'' (2005), and the comedy-drama '' Lars and the Real Girl'' (2007). She returned to theater in 2008, appearing in an Off-Broadway production of ''The Seagull'' opposite Dianne Wiest. Garner subsequently had a supporting role in the Disney animated film ''G-Force'' (2009), and from 2011 to 2012, had a lead role on the short-lived period drama ''Pan Am'', portraying a fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Mountainside, New Jersey
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Oberlin College Alumni
Oberlin may refer to: ; Places in the United States * Oberlin Township, Decatur County, Kansas ** Oberlin, Kansas, a city in the township * Oberlin, Louisiana, a town * Oberlin, Ohio, a city * Oberlin, Licking County, Ohio, a ghost town * Oberlin, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place * Mount Oberlin, Glacier National Park, Montana ; Schools * Oberlin University, a private university in Machida, Tokyo, Japan * Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ..., a liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio * Oberlin High School (Louisiana), Oberlin, Louisiana, United States * Oberlin High School (Ohio), Oberlin, Ohio, United States * Oberlin High School, Jamaica ; People * Oberlin (surname) * Oberlin Smith (1840–1926), American engineer {{disambig, geo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Film Directors
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Living People
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1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps, USMC and Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ARVN troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. ** American footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whoopi Goldberg
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ''The Fremont News-Messenger''. November 29, 1984. Retrieved January 22, 2021. "I'm an actor. That's what I do. I'm not a stand-up comic ... I do characters. I'm very good. I'll be better. But right now I'm a very good actor." A recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of 17 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, ''Spook Show'', which transferred to Broadway theatre, Broadway under the title ''Whoopi Goldberg'', running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of the show. Her film bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Critics' Choice Awards. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, Leo became a regular on the television shows '' All My Children,'' for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and ''The Young Riders''. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 as detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1997). Leo received critical acclaim for her performance as Ray Eddy in the 2008 film ''Frozen River'', earning her several nominations and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, Leo won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the film ''The Fighter'', including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2013, she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa Thompson
Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College. She appeared in productions of '' The Tempest'' and ''Romeo and Juliet'', the latter of which earned her a NAACP Theatre Award nomination. Her breakthrough came with leading roles in Tina Mabry's independent drama film ''Mississippi Damned'' (2009) and Tyler Perry's ''For Colored Girls'' (2010), an adaptation of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, the 1976 play of the same name. Thompson gained favorable notices for her early film performances in the comedy-drama ''Dear White People'' (2014), and as civil rights activist Diane Nash in Ava DuVernay's historical drama ''Selma (film), Selma'' (2014). She gained mainstream attention for her roles in franchise films, playing List of Rocky characters#Bianca Taylor, Bianca Taylor in the sport dramas ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furlough (film)
''Furlough'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film starring Tessa Thompson, Melissa Leo, Whoopi Goldberg and Anna Paquin. The film was directed by Laurie Collyer, written by Barry Strugatz and produced by Leo; James Schamus served as an executive producer. Plot A young woman works part time at a prison while also caring for her mother. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hellraising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a surprisingly touching road trip. Cast *Tessa Thompson as Nicole Stevens *Melissa Leo as Joan Anderson *Whoopi Goldberg as Mrs. Stevens *Anna Paquin as Lily Benson *Édgar Ramírez as Kevin Rivera *La La Anthony as Brandy *Erik Griffin as Warden Borden *Drena De Niro as Linda Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Amurri Martino
Eva Amurri (born March 15, 1985) is an American lifestyle blogger and actress. Early life Amurri was born on March 15, 1985 in New York City, to Italian director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon (whose mother's ancestry was Italian). Amurri was raised by her mother and long-time partner Tim Robbins. She has two maternal half-brothers, Jack and Miles, as well as two paternal half-siblings from her father's marriage to Heide Lund, Leone and Augusta, and two stepsisters, Tallulah and Ruby, from Lund's previous marriage to a British aristocrat. She attended Friends Seminary (Manhattan) for middle school, and graduated from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, and Brown University. Career Amurri had a role in the 2002 film ''The Banger Sisters'', in which her mother starred, with Amurri playing the daughter of her mother's character. She guest-starred, along with her mother, on an episode of ''Friends'' in Season 7 Episode 15 ("The One with Joey's New Brain" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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