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Millie
Millie is a feminine given name or diminutive form of various other given names, such as Emily, Millicent, Mildred, Camilla or sometimes Amelia. People with the given name Notable people with the given name include: * Millie Bailey (1918–2022), American World War II veteran, civil servant, and volunteer * Amelia Best (1900–1979), one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly * Millie Bobby Brown (born 2004), English actress * Millie Bright (born 1993), English footballer in the FA Women's Super League * Millie Corretjer (born 1974), Puerto Rican singer and actress * Millie Criswell (born 1948), American writer of romance novels * Millie Davis (born 2006), Canadian actress * Mildred Millie Deegan (1919–2002), American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Millie DeLeon (c. 1873–1922), stage name of American burlesque dancer Millie Lawrence * Millie Gamble (1887–1986), Canadian photographer * Millie Gibson (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is a British actress and producer. She gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present), for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Brown has starred in the monster film '' Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' (2019) and its sequel '' Godzilla vs. Kong'' (2021). She also starred in and produced the Netflix mystery film ''Enola Holmes'' (2020) and its 2022 sequel. In 2018, Brown was featured in the ''Time'' 100 list of the world's most influential people, and was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, the then youngest person selected for this position. Early life Brown was born in Marbella, Málaga, Spain, on 19 February 2004, the third of four children born to British parents Kelly and Robert Brown, an estate agent. She was born with partial hearing loss in her left ear and gradually lost all hearing in that ear over several years. She moved with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Jackson
Mildred Virginia Jackson (born July 15, 1944) is an American Rhythm and blues, R&B and Soul music, soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified Music recording certification, gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA for over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson's songs often include long spoken sections, sometimes humorous, sometimes sexually explicit. She recorded songs in an Rhythm and Blues, R&B, disco, or Dance music, dance-music style and occasionally in a Country music, country style. Occasionally, Jackson has been called the "mother of Rapping, hip-hop," or of rapping itself. This has more to do with the long spoken sections in many of her songs as opposed to actual rapping. According to the cataloguing site WhoSampled.com, her songs have appeared in 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes. "Since she always enjoyed writing poems, in the early '70s Jackson began crafting such proto-rap R&B single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Goldsholl
Millie Goldsholl (May 22, 1920 - May 23, 2012) is most well known for running the film division of the Chicago graphic design firm, Morton Goldsholl Associates (Goldsholl Design & Film Associates). She also made her own films and animations, including the award-winning ''Up is Down'' from 1969. Millie Goldsholl grew up in Freeport, New York on the south shores of Long Island. As a child she developed a love for pastoral life and art, creating elaborate chalk drawings of her family and grandparents' farm animals outside her family's home. Millie moved from the sidewalk to the easel when she entered high school. Here, encouraging art teachers inspired Millie to make a career out of her passion for art. Millie moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was sixteen with her sister and widowed mother. They moved in with Millie's brother, who had recently acquired a factory job and needed help around the house. After failing to enroll in art classes that required too many prerequisites, Milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Innes
Millie Innes (born 5 October 2000) is a Scottish actress, known for her roles as Maisy in ''Dani's House'' and Millie McDonald in ''Millie Inbetween''. Early and personal life Innes was born in 2000 to parents Julia and Campbell; she has a younger brother named Murray. Innes attended Rosshall Academy for her secondary education and was trained at the Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts. She is currently studying at the University of Glasgow. Career Innes' first role was in the four-part BBC drama ''Single Father'', as Evie. Between 2011 and 2013, she appeared in ''Case Histories'' as Marlee Brodie, daughter of the protagonist. In 2011, Innes was chosen from 20,000 applicants for the role of Maisy in ''Dani's House'', and she played Fiona in a 2013 episode of ''Dani's Castle''. From 2014 to 2018, Innes portrayed the role of Millie McDonald in CBBC sitcom ''Millie Inbetween''. In 2015, she appeared on ''Hacker Time'' and presented a ''Newsround ''Newsround'' (stylised a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Bright
Millie Bright (born 21 August 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Chelsea and the England national team. She previously played for Doncaster Belles, Leeds Ladies and represented England on the under-19 and under-23 national teams. Bright was named Vauxhall England Young Player of the Year in 2016. With Chelsea, she won three league titles in 2015, 2017–18, and 2019–20, as well as the 2015 and 2017–18 FA Women's Cup. In 2020, she helped the club win the 2020 Women's FA Community Shield. Bright was named to the PFA Team of the Year for the 2017–18 and 2019–20 seasons. In 2020, she was named to the FIFA FIFPro Women's World11. Early life Born in Chesterfield in the East Midlands region of England, Bright spent her youngest years immersed in equestrianism. She developed pneumonia as a baby and spent some of her early childhood in the hospital with bouts of asthma. As a youth, Bright attended Sheffield Road School and Killa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Gibson
Amelia Eve Gibson (born 19 June 2004) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Indira in the CBBC series '' Jamie Johnson'' (2017–2018) and Kelly Neelan in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (2019–2022). For her portrayal of Kelly, Gibson won the British Soap Award for Best Young Performer in 2022. In November 2022, it was announced Gibson would join the cast of ''Doctor Who'' as new companion Ruby Sunday. Early life Gibson was born on 19 June 2004 in Greater Manchester. She developed a scar on her left eyebrow from falling down a set of stairs as a baby. From the Tameside village of Broadbottom, she attended the Blue Coat School in Oldham. She took drama classes at Oldham Theatre Workshop, where she was spotted by Manchester Media City talent agency Scream Management, who began representing her. Career Gibson made her acting debut as Indira Cave in the CBBC television series '' Jamie Johnson''. Gibson went on to star in the second and third series, appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Knight
Millicent Genevieve "Millie" Knight (born 15 January 1999) is a British skier and student who competes at international level for ParalympicsGB in alpine skiing in the slalom, giant slalom Super-G, Super Combined and Downhill events with a sighted guide, Brett Wild. When Knight was one year old, she contracted an illness, diagnosed at age three, which resulted in the loss of most of her vision by the age of six. She joined the Great Britain Paralympic skiing team in 2012, and progressed to compete at international-level events. Knight was the British flagbearer at Sochi in 2014 – her debut Paralympics - where, at the age of 15, she was the youngest person ever to compete for ParalympicsGB at the Winter Games. In the same year Knight also became an Honorary Doctor of the University of Kent. Early life and education Knight was born on 15 January 1999 in Canterbury, Kent. She was six when she lost much of her vision; in her left eye she has 5–10% peripheral vision, and in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Perkins
Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1938) is an American film and television actress known for her debut film role as Anne Frank in ''The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film), The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959), and for her supporting actress roles in two 1966 Westerns, ''The Shooting'' and ''Ride in the Whirlwind'', both directed by Monte Hellman. Early life and career Born on May 12, 1938, in Passaic, New Jersey, Perkins grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Fair Lawn and attended Fair Lawn High School. Her father was a merchant marine captain of Hungarians, Hungarian and Mongols, Mongolian descent. Perkins was working as a receptionist at a New York City advertising agency when she caught the eye of a visiting photographer with a resultant career as a Model (person), model; by 1958, Perkins was an international cover girl. Soon thereafter, Perkins was vigorously pursued, and then selected, to portray Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank in the 1959 film adaptation of ''The Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie And Christine McKoy
Millie and Christine McKoy (also spelled ''McCoy''; July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African-American pygopagus conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The Carolina Twins", "The Two-Headed Nightingale" and "The Eighth Wonder of the World". The twins traveled throughout the world performing song and dance for entertainment, overcoming years of slavery, forced medical observations, and forced participation in fairs and freak shows. Life Millie and Christine (the "Carolina Twins") were born in Whiteville, North Carolina on July 11, 1851, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy who were enslaved by the blacksmith Jabez McKay. The McKay farm was near the town of Whiteville. Prior to the sisters' birth, their mother had given birth to seven other children, five boys and two girls, all of ordinary size and form. The twins were conjoined at the lower spine and stood at an approximately 90-degree angle to each other. The twins were first sold at 10 months of age to South Carolinian John C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Hughes-Fulford
Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford ( Hughes; December 21, 1945 – February 2, 2021) was an American medical investigator, molecular biologist, and NASA payload specialist who flew aboard the NASA Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' in June 1991. Early life Millie Elizabeth Hughes was born in Mineral Wells, Texas on December 21, 1945. She graduated from Mineral Wells High School in 1962, then entered college at the age of 16 and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and biology from Tarleton State University in 1968. She then began her graduate work studying plasma chemistry at Texas Woman's University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow from 1968 to 1971 and earned her Ph.D. in 1972. From 1971 to 1972, she was also both an American Association of University Women Fellow and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Career After earning her doctorate degree in 1972, Dr. Hughes-Fulford applied to roughly 100 jobs in academia, from which she received four replies. This r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Kirkham
Millie Kirkham (born Mildred Eakes; June 24, 1923 – December 14, 2014) was an American singer who was featured on many classic hit recordings from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. Early life Kirkham was born Mildred Eakes in Hermitage, Tennessee. She performed in high school bands in the early 1940s before graduating to session work. Millie was known as the "Nashville soprano" on numerous hit records and became affectionately known as the fifth member of the Jordanaires. She worked with Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, Eddie Arnold, Elvis Presley, and George Jones ("He Stopped Loving Her Today"). Millie first became noticed in 1957 on Ferlin Husky's #1 country and #4 cross-over hit recording of "Gone", in which Millie sang the angelic background harmony. Elvis asked the Jordanaires, "Who is that lady that sang on 'Gone'?", to which the Jordanaires replied, "That's Millie, Millie Kirkham." They called her and she accepted. It was Elvis Presley's 1957 recording of " Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Puente
Millie Puente (born 1958) is an American Latin jazz singer. She is cousin of Tito Puente and earned a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album nomination with her first album, ''Tito Puente Presents Millie P'' in 1991. In 2002 she was reported to be writing a book and working on a tribute album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ... to Puente. References 1968 births Living people {{US-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
