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Loretta Yu
Loretta Yu (born December 22, 1982) is a Canadian actress of Chinese descent. Early life On December 22, 1982, Yu was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up in Nova Scotia, working in the family restaurant. Education Yu received a BA degree in theatre from Acadia University. Career Yu took part in some Halifax productions, including Jason Eisener's fake trailer for ''Hobo with a Shotgun'' which was screened with the film ''Grindhouse'' and Jay Dahl's film ''There are Monsters''. Yu moved to Toronto and appeared in various television series including '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'', '' The Listener'', ''Hemlock Grove'' and '' Blood and Water''. She also appeared in the 2008 made-for-television movie '' The Circuit'' and the 2008 Canadian comedy ''Nonsense Revolution''. In 2017-2018, Yu played Ana in the Canadian web-serie''Begin/Again'' From 2017 to 2019, Yu played Cai in ''Dino Dana''. She appears in an episode of the 2021 drama series ''Cam Boy ''Cam Boy'' is a Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemlock Grove (TV Series)
''Hemlock Grove'' is an American horror streaming television series produced by Eli Roth and developed by Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman. It is a production of Gaumont International Television. The series is based on McGreevy's 2012 novel of the same name. The series premiered on Netflix on April 19, 2013, with all 13 episodes made immediately available for online viewing. The show examines the strange happenings in Hemlock Grove, a fictional town in Pennsylvania. Roman Godfrey, heir to the town's wealthy Godfrey family, befriends the town's newcomer, Peter Rumancek. Recent brutal murders in the town have stirred up rumors, and the two work together to shed light on the case while also hiding their own dark secrets. On June 19, 2013, Netflix renewed ''Hemlock Grove'' for a second season of 10 episodes, to air in 2014. On July 18, 2013, Netflix earned the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online-only streaming television at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Actresses Of Chinese Descent
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Montreal
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1982 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam Boy
''Cam Boy'' is a Canadian television drama series, which premiered in 2021 on OutTV.Dino-Ray Ramos"OUTtv Media Group Teams With Producer Entertainment Group Launch First LGBTQ+ Apple TV Channel" ''Deadline Hollywood'', March 29, 2021. Created by Thom Fitzgerald, the series stars Callum Dunphy as Aston, a young gay man in Nova Scotia who turns to performing for internet cam sex sites to make money during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The cast also includes Samuel Davison, David Light, Julien Galipeau, Craig Chester, Scott Bleu, Tony Nappo, Zack Currie, Tyler Riordon, Joey Beni, Sharleen Kalayil, Jordan Poole, Loretta Yu, Joshua Mood, Eugene Sampang, Teo Ferguson and Brenda Fricker Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Awar .... The series was greenlit by OutTV in 2020,Laure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Dana
''Dino Dana'' is a Canadian television series that was created and is directed by J. J. Johnson. The series was developed as a followup to '' Dino Dan: Trek's Adventures'' and premiered on Amazon Prime on May 27, 2017. In September 2020, ''Dino Dana: The Movie'' was released on Prime Video after being announced in 2018. It was originally going to be a theatrical release on March 21, 2020, but was delayed and later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The final episodes were released in April 2020, with the franchise closing off with the feature-length film. Plot A sequel series to Dino Dan, Dino Dana focuses on nine-year-old Dana Jain who sets out to complete "Dino experiments" that teach her more about dinosaurs, pterosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles, synapsids, prehistoric insects and prehistoric mammals. She often also increases her understanding of life and grows in her personal life as a result of the lessons learned while solving the experiments. Other ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonsense Revolution
''Nonsense Revolution'' is a 2008 Canadian Comedy drama written and directed by Ann Verrall, starring Alex House, Anastasia Phillips, Robert Clark and Deborah Allen. Synopsis ''Nonsense Revolution'' is about a group of friends who were partying one night. In a terrible accident, Kaz (Alex House), one of the group dies in a "hit and run" accident. About a year later, Kaz returns with angel wings (but is not saintly at all). He "haunts" one of the friends called Tess (Anastasia Phillips) and appears only to her but remains invisible to all the others. He tells Tess to arrange the gathering of the group together on the anniversary of his death. An awkward atmosphere develops as Kaz "plays" around with the group sexually arousing them by touching them with his feathers and making them engage in various heterosexual and homosexual acts with each other. Cast *Alex House as Kaz *Anastasia Phillips as Tess *Robert Clark as Tom *Deborah Allen as Curtis' ancestor *Loretta Yu as Nora *Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Circuit (2008 Film)
''The Circuit'' is a 2008 American television film starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Billy Campbell, Paul Rae, Drew Fuller and Maurice Dean Wint Maurice Dean Wint is a British-born Canadian actor who has starred in several films and television shows. Life and career Wint was born in Leicestershire, England, and moved to Canada in 1967 with his family. He began to act in Toronto on stag ..., originally airing on June 8, 2008, on the ABC Family channel. Plot Beautiful Kylie Shines,a rising stock-car racer competes against her estranged father and her new love. The final race is between Kylie and Al and Kid Walker, Walker crashes. Kylie wins. Cast References External links * 2008 television films 2008 films ABC Family original films Canadian auto racing films 2000s English-language films Canadian television films English-language Canadian films Films directed by Peter Werner 2000s Canadian films Films scored by Danny Lux Films about father–daughter rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood And Water (Canadian TV Series)
''Blood and Water'' () is a Canadian television crime drama series, which premiered on OMNI Television in November 2015. John Doyle"Trilingual series Blood and Water is a brilliantly messy drama" ''The Globe and Mail'', November 6, 2015. The first television drama series produced for a Chinese Canadian audience, the show mixes dialogue in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Set in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show centres on police detective Josephine Bradley (Steph Song). After Charlie Xie (Osric Chau), the son of billionaire real estate developer Li-Rong Xie, is found murdered, Josephine is brought into investigate despite having just been diagnosed with cancer."Blood and Water, Chinese-Canadian crime drama, breaks TV barriers" |
The Listener (TV Series)
''The Listener'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian fantasy television, fantasy Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Michael Amo. The series stars Craig Olejnik as Toby Logan, a paramedic with telepathic powers who finds himself consulting with law enforcement to make a change in the world by helping others while listening to the thoughts of victims and criminals, and seeing images that they saw. The series was broadcast in Canada on CTV Television Network, CTV and was produced by Shaftesbury Films, in conjunction with CTV and Fox Networks Group, Fox International Channels. The series premiered on CTV on March 3, 2009. CTV renewed the series for four more seasons, each consisting of 13 episodes, premiering February 8, 2011, May 30, 2012, May 29, 2013, and May 26, 2014. In August 2014, CTV announced that they had cancelled the show. The series finale aired on August 18, 2014. Plot Season One (2009) Toby is a 28-year-old first year paramedic who neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
