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Maja Wampuszyc
Maja Wampuszyc is an American actress of stage and screen living in New York City. She was born and raised in metropolitan Detroit. Wampuszyc made her Broadway debut as Ida Haller in 2009 in Irena's Vow at the Walter Kerr Theater. Her Off-Broadway credits include Geraldine Connelly in Paul Green's ''The House of Connelly'' at the ReGroup Theatre, the first person to play that role since Stella Adler in 1931; Ida Haller in Irena's Vow; Marina Petrova in James Armstrong's ''Foggy Bottom'' at The Abingdon Theater Company; and appearances at The Pearl Theatre Company. She also played a radio host in Zhu Yi's ''I am the Moon'' (partially based on the story of the Japanese pornographic star Ai Iijima), as part of the 2013 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival. Other New York City theater credits include: a Father in The Obie Award-winning play ''An Oak Tree'' by and with Tim Crouch at the Barrow Street Theatre (other fathers included F. Murray Abraham, Joan Allen, an ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ...
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Henry Jaglom
Henry David Jaglom (born January 26, 1938) is an English-born American actor, film director and playwright. Life and career Jaglom was born to a Jewish family in London, England, the son of Marie (née Stadthagen) and Simon M. Jaglom, who worked in the import-export business. His father was from a wealthy family from Russia and his mother was from Germany. They left for England because of the Nazi regime. Through his mother, he is a descendant of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s. Under contract to Columbia Pictures, Jaglom featured in such TV series as ''Gidget'' and ''The Flying Nun'' and acted in a number of films which included Richard Rush's ''Psych-Out'' (1968), Boris Sagal's ''The Thousand Plane Raid'' (1969), Jack Nicholson's ''Drive, He Said'' (1971), Dennis Hopper's ''The Last Movie'' (1 ...
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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924June 13, 1987) was an American actress. With a career which spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four nominations for the Tony Award. A native of Kirksville, Missouri, Page studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg in New York City before being cast in her first credited part in the Western film ''Hondo'' (1953), which earned her her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. During the McCarthyism era, she was blacklisted in Hollywood based on her association with Hagen and did not work in film for eight years. Page continued to appear on television and on stage and earned her first Tony Award nomination for her performance in ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' (1959–60), a role she reprised in the 1962 film adaptatio ...
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FringeNYC
The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the East Village, and Greenwich Village. Most of the venues were centered on the FringeHUB. Yearly attendance topped 75,000 people. Festival Unlike most Fringe festivals, FringeNYC uses a jury-based selection process. Around 200 shows, out of a much larger pool of applicants, are selected for inclusion each year. However, from 2018 the Festival reduced the number of shows. The festival was founded in 1997 by Aaron Beall, John Clancy, Jonathan Harris (also known as Ezra Buzzington), and (current Artistic Director) Elena K. Holy, and is produced by The Present Company. Notable shows that premiered at FringeNYC include ''Urinetown'', ''Dog Sees God'', the musical ada ...
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Richard Vetere
Richard Vetere (born January 15, 1952 in New York City) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer, poet and actor. Career Born in 1952, Vetere grew up in Maspeth, Queens, a setting that appears in a number of his plays. He graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in Comparative Literature and has written and published various books on poetry of which include ''Memories of Human Hands'' and ''A Dream of Angels''. Vetere's plays have been produced Off Broadway, regionally and internationally, such as ''The Engagement'', ''Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin'', ''Gangster Apparel'', ''Caravaggio'', ''Machiavelli'', and ''One Shot, One Kill'' and all have been published by Dramatic Publishing. In 1983 his play ''Rockaway Boulevard'' was reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in ''The New York Times'' and she wrote,"Vetere demonstrates the ability to mix the poetic with the colloquial." In 1983 Vetere's screenplay ''Vigilante'' was made into a feature f ...
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List Of The Knick Episodes
''The Knick'' is an American television drama series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series '' Chancer'' from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film '' Close .... It looks at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery (played by Owen) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital ("the Knick") in New York during the early part of the twentieth century. The series premiered on Cinemax on August 8, 2014. In March 2017, Cinemax announced the series was officially cancelled. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2014) Season 2 (2015) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Knick Episodes, List Of The Lists of American drama television series episodes ...
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The Knick
''The Knick'' is an American medical period drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery (Clive Owen) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital (the Knick) in New York during the early twentieth century. Amiel and Begler wrote the majority of the episodes and are executive producers. Owen, Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, and Michael Sugar (Anonymous Content) were executive producers. Steven Katz was the supervising producer and also writer, Michael Polaire was the producer and David Kirchner the associate producer. The show premiered on Cinemax on August 8, 2014. On July 10, 2014, Cinemax renewed ''The Knick'' for a ten-episode second season, which premiered on October 16, 2015. In March 2017, Cinemax announced the series was canceled. In September 2020, Soderbergh confirmed that a new season of ''The Knick'' is in development led by Barry Jenkins ...
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Cinemax
Cinemax is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Developed as a companion "maxi-pay" service complementing the offerings shown on parent network Home Box Office (HBO) and initially focusing on recent and classic films upon its launch on August 1, 1980, programming featured on Cinemax currently consists primarily of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures, and original action series, as well as documentaries and special behind-the-scenes featurettes. Cinemax—which, in conjunction with HBO, was among the first two American pay television services to offer complementary multiplexed channels in August 1991—operates eight 24-hour, linear multiplex channels; a traditional subscription video on demand platform (Cinemax On Demand); and formerly a TV Everywhere streaming platform for Cinemax's linear television subscribers (Cinemax Go). On digital platforms, the Ci ...
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Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (; born January 14, 1963) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, Soderbergh is an acclaimed and prolific filmmaker. Soderbergh's directorial-breakthrough indie drama ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' (1989) lifted him into the public spotlight as a notable presence in the film industry. At 26, Soderbergh became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film garnered worldwide commercial success, as well as numerous accolades. His breakthrough led to success in Hollywood, where he directed the crime comedy ''Out of Sight'' (1998), the biopic ''Erin Brockovich'' (2000) and the crime drama ''Traffic'' (2000). For ''Traffic'', he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He found further popular and critical success with the ''Ocean's'' trilogy and film franchise (2001–18); '' Che'' (2008); ''The Informant!'' (2009); '' Contagion'' ...
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Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, film producer, singer, and environmentalist who is widely known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters in both European and Hollywood productions. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award, a Lumières Award, and two César Awards. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010, and was promoted to Officer in 2016. She has served as a spokeswoman for Greenpeace since 2001. Cotillard was the face of the Lady Dior handbag for nine years. Since 2020, she is the face of Chanel's fragrance Chanel No. 5. Cotillard had her first English-language role in the TV series '' Highlander'' (1993), and made her film debut in '' The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed'' (1994). Her breakthrough came in the successful French film ''Taxi'' (1998), which earned her a César Award nomination for ...
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