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Nicole (given Name)
Nicole is a feminine given name and a surname. The given name Nicole is a French feminine derivative of the masculine given name Nicolas, which is of Greek origin and has been formed as a compound of the words for "victory" and "people" (hence it may be interpreted as "victory of the people"). There are many variants. The spelling "Nicole" was anciently used as a man's name, e.g., Nicole Oresme. People with the given name or variants Music * Nicole (German singer) (born 1964), known for "Ein bißchen Frieden" * Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977), pop and rock singer * Nicole Cabell (born 1977), American classical and opera singer * Nicole Dollanganger (born 1991), Canadian singer-songwriter * Nicole Jung (born 1991), Korean American singer, member of the band Kara * Nicole C. Mullen (born 1967), American singer, songwriter, actress, and choreographer * Nicole Scherzinger (born 1978), American singer-songwriter, dancer, lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls * Nicole Theriault ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger (; born Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Valiente, June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and television personality. She is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Scherzinger began acting at the age of 14 and studied musical theatre at Wright State University. Aspiring to pursue a career in music, Scherzinger dropped out of college and toured with the American rock band Days of the New before finding modest success with Eden's Crush, a girl group created through The WB's ''Popstars''. After taking on some minor acting roles, Scherzinger became the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. The prominence of her role in the group was a point of contention within it, and eventually contributed to its dissolution in 2009. Scherzinger has carved out a successful career outside the group. She shelved her first attempt with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Eggert
Nicole Elizabeth Eggert (born January 13, 1972) is an American actress. Her notable roles include Jamie Powell on the situation comedy ''Charles in Charge'' and Summer Quinn on the television series ''Baywatch''. She guest-starred in ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' and ''Boy Meets World''. She made several Christmas movies that premiered on Lifetime. Eggert was a 2010 contestant on the VH1 reality show ''Celebrity Fit Club'' and came in second in 2013 on ABC's celebrity diving show ''Splash''. Early life Eggert was born in Glendale, California. Her mother, Gina Duncan, was a British-born talent agent, and her father, Rolf Eggert, was a German-born canning-company executive. Eggert's quest for stardom started when her mother entered her in beauty contests. At age five, Eggert was Miss Universe in the petite division. An agent saw her and offered her parents a role for her in a Johnson's baby shampoo commercial. Career In 1980, at age eight, Eggert landed a role in the mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole DeHuff
Nicole Renee DeHuff (January 6, 1975 – February 16, 2005) was an American actress. She is noted for role in the comedy movie '' Meet the Parents''. Early life DeHuff was born in Antlers, Oklahoma, and raised in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City. She began her acting career by earning a bachelor's degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. She also met and later married executive producer and director Ari Palitz, whom she met at Carnegie Mellon. Career DeHuff landed her first big role in the hit movie comedy '' Meet the Parents'', in which she played Teri Polo's character's sister, Deborah Byrnes. After ''Meet the Parents'', DeHuff had a regular role in the 2002 TV series '' The Court'' and appeared in '' CSI: Miami'', ''Without a Trace'', '' Dragnet'', ''The Practice'', and ''Monk''. Death In the days preceding her death, DeHuff checked into two hospitals for respiratory illnesses, and was misdiagnosed both times as having bronchitis. She was sent home and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole De Boer
Nicole de Boer is a Canadian actress. She is best known for starring in the cult film ''Cube'' as Joan Leaven, playing Ezri Dax on the final season of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1998–1999), and as Sarah Bannerman on the series '' The Dead Zone'' (2002–2007). Since 2016 to 2021, she had a recurring role as Becca Dorsay, ex-wife of one of the series leads on the Canadian-produced crime drama '' Private Eyes''. Career De Boer's television debut was an uncredited role in '' Freddy the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner'', which starred Red Skelton and Vincent Price. Her first major television work was in the CBC series ''9B'', followed by a recurring role on the Canadian sketch comedy show ''The Kids in the Hall'' as Laura, girlfriend of Bobby Terrance (Bruce McCulloch). She subsequently appeared (as a different character) in their 1996 film ''Brain Candy''. She starred in the short-lived 1997 SyFy Channel series ''Deepwater Black'' (also known as ''Mission Genesis'') as Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Blonsky
Nicole Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and internet personality. She is known for playing Tracy Turnblad in the film ''Hairspray'' (2007), for which she won two Critics' Choice Awards and received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Blonsky has starred as Willamena Rader in the ABC Family series ''Huge'' (2010), for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination, had a recurring role as Margot on the series ''Smash'' (2013), and had roles in the films ''Geography Club'' (2013) as Therese and ''The Last Movie Star'' (2017) as Faith. She is a licensed cosmetologist. Early life Blonsky was born and raised in Great Neck, New York. She and her brother Joey are the children of Karen, a school aide, and Carl Blonsky, a municipal worker for the village water pollution control district. Her father is Jewish, and her mother is Roman Catholic. Blonsky attended Great Neck North Middle School and attended Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Gale Anderson
Nicole Gale Anderson (born August 29, 1990) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Heather Chandler on The CW series ''Beauty & the Beast''. She is also known for her roles as Macy Misa in the Disney Channel series ''Jonas'' and as Kelly Parker and Miranda Collins respectively on the ABC Family shows ''Make It or Break It'' and '' Ravenswood''. Early life Anderson was born in Rochester, Indiana. Her father is an American who served as a Commander in the United States Navy, and her mother is of Filipino ethnicity. As a child, she won national gymnastics competitions, but retired due to injuries. Anderson was awarded a scholarship to Georgia's Barbizon Modeling and Acting School at age 13. She then began to study acting and attending auditions. She landed several print ads and television commercials, including Mary-Kate & Ashley Online Clothing, Every Girl, Stand Up, and Bratz Pretty 'n' Punk & Treasures. Career She auditioned for the role of Stella in the tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Markotic
Nicole Markotić is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Windsor, Ontario. She teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor. Markotic specializes in the subjects of Canadian literature, poetry, children's literature, disability in film and disability in literature. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. She was the co-editor, along with Ashok Mathur Ashok Mathur is a South Asian (Indo-Canadian) cultural organizer, writer and visual artist. Prior to this he was the head of Creative Studies and a professor in the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan cam ..., of Calgary-based DisOrientation Chapbooks. She was the poetry editor of Red Deer College Press from 1998 to 2004. She co-edited ''The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film'' a critical book about disability in film, which was published by Ohio State Press in 2010. She also edited ''Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works'', which was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), ''The History of Love'' (2005), ''Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''Esquire'', and ''Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40'', and has been collected in ''Best American Short Stories 2003'', '' Best American Short Stories 2008'' and ''Best American Short Stories 2019''. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for ''Great House''. A collection of her short stories, '' To Be a Man'', was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022. Early life Krauss, who grew up on Long Island, New York, was born in Manhattan, New York City, to a British Jewish mother and an American Jewish father, an engineer and orthopedic surgeon who grew up partly in Israel. Krauss's maternal grandparents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung (born May 5, 1981) is an American writer and editor. She is the former managing editor of ''The Toast'', the editor-in-chief of ''Catapult'' magazine, and the author of the memoir ''All You Can Ever Know''. Early life and education Chung was born in Seattle in 1981 to Korean parents who put her up for adoption after she spent months on life support. She was raised in Oregon by adoptive white Catholic parents. In her mid-20s Chung took a nonfiction class and started writing essays. She attended Johns Hopkins University, graduating with an undergraduate degree from the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences in 2003 and an MA in 2014. , Chung lives in Washington D.C., with her husband Dan and two daughters. Career Chung worked as the managing editor for ''The Toast'' from 2014 until the site closed in 2016, after which she became the editor-in-chief of ''Catapult'' magazine. She continued writing essays on topics involving gender, race, and media, such as the impact of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Brossard
Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a leading French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. She lives in Outremont, a suburb of Montreal, Canada. Early life Brossard was born in Montreal, Quebec. She attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal. Career Brossard wrote her first collection in 1965, ''Aube à la saison''. The collection ''L'Echo bouge beau'' marked a break in the evolution of her poetry that included an open and active participation in many literary and cultural events, including poetry recitals. In 1975, she participated in a meeting of writers on women, after which she began to take an activist role in the feminist movement, and to write poetry with a more personal and subjective tone. Her writing includes sensual, aesthetic and feminist political content. Brossard co-founded a feminist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niki (singer)
Nicole Zefanya (born 24 January 1999), known professionally as Niki, (stylized in all uppercase), is an Indonesian singer, songwriter and record producer. She is currently based in the United States and signed with the record label 88rising. Early life Zefanya was born on 24 January 1999 and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. At nine years old, Zefanya taught herself how to play the guitar. At 13, she began writing original music. Although her music is partially influenced by her mother, who exposed Zefanya to soul, gospel, and 1990s' R&B like Destiny's Child and Aaliyah when she was young, Zefanya's earliest original music skewed towards the folk and indie genres. She attended Sekolah Pelita Harapan Lippo Village (Sekolah Pelita Harapan) and obtained a high school degree before pursuing an undergraduate degree in music at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee on a scholarship. Career At 15, she was the opening act for Taylor Swift's The Red Tour in Jakarta after winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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