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Nathan Darrow
Nathan Darrow (born ) is an American actor known for his role as Secret Service agent Edward Meechum in ''House of Cards'', John Custer in ''Preacher'', Andrew Madoff in ''The Wizard of Lies'', and as Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze in '' Gotham''. Early life Darrow is a native of the Kansas City area. After attending Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, he earned his bachelor's degree from University of Evansville and attended graduate school at New York University. Career In 2003, Darrow returned to Kansas City, and performed in productions of Shakespeare's plays, including ''Romeo and Juliet'' and ''Henry V''. In 2006, he played young William Randolf Hearst in Don Maxwell's ''Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories'', which also starred Campbell Scott and Vivian Schilling. A role in a touring production of ''Richard III'' with Kevin Spacey led to casting in the role of Meechum, the Underwoods' stoic bodyguard in ''House of Cards''. Darrow's role was expanded in Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Evansville
The University of Evansville (UE) is a private university in Evansville, Indiana. It was founded in 1854 as Moores Hill College. The university operates a satellite center, Harlaxton College, in Grantham, England. UE offers more than 80 different majors and areas of study, each housed within three colleges and one school within the university: the Schroeder School of Business, the College of Education and Health Sciences, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, and the William L. Ridgway College of Arts and Sciences. The school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Total enrollment (including full and part-time, undergraduate, adult, graduate, and UE students at Harlaxton) is 2,443 students, although full-time undergraduate and Doctor of Physical Therapy enrollment is 1,976 students. The student body represents 55 countries and 44 states with international students comprising 16% of the undergraduate student population. The university also hosts more than 155 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Schilling
Vivian Schilling (born February 15, 1968) is an American novelist, screenwriter, actress, and independent filmmaker. Biography Born and raised in Kansas, Schilling studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and also under Stella Adler before embarking upon careers in literature and film. Most recently, Schilling completed work for Paris-based Eurocine Films as the writer, producer, and director of the English dub of '' Toys in the Attic,'' based on the stop-motion animated feature by Czech director Jiří Barta. Schilling has written two novels: ''Quietus'' and ''Sacred Prey''. The novels take place in a supernatural setting and center on themes of immortality, existentialism, and religious conflict. Schilling has acted in a variety of leading roles in independent films since 1986, including ''Savage Land'' and the Polish film ''Niemcy'', a World War II drama based on the stage play by Leon Kruczkowski. In ''Niemcy'', Schilling portrays heroine Ruth Sonnenbruch, a German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Births
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ** The United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quantico (TV Series)
''Quantico'' is an American thriller drama television series which aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from September 27, 2015, to August 3, 2018, with 57 episodes broadcast over three seasons. Produced by ABC Studios, the series was created by Joshua Safran, who also served as the showrunner. Mark Gordon, Robert Sertner, Nicholas Pepper and Safran are its executive producers. Michael Seitzman replaced Safran as the new showrunner and an executive producer in its third season, with Safran remaining as an executive producer. Priyanka Chopra stars as Alex Parrish, who joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation after graduating from the FBI Academy and becomes a prime suspect in a terrorist attack on Grand Central Terminal. ''Quantico'' initially had two timelines: the present, when Parrish flees from captivity to prove her innocence, and the past, with her and her fellow recruits training at the academy, during which details of their individual lives are learned. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Madoff
Andrew Madoff ( ; April 8, 1966 – September 3, 2014) was an American financier, best known for his role in exposing the financial crimes of his father, Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme has been widely described as the most successful in history. Biography Andrew earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He and his brother, Mark, worked for their father's firm but in a division removed from their father's deceptive practices. As the financial crisis of 2008 made markets plunge, their father was unable to maintain the deception; they later described how he confessed to them and their mother, on December 10, 2008. Their father asked them to give him 24 hours before going to the police so he could get his affairs in order, but the brothers chose not to; their father was arrested the next day, and the brothers never spoke with him again. Andrew Madoff married Deborah Anne West in January 1992. According to Jerry Oppenheimer's ''Madoff wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blacklist (TV Series)
''The Blacklist'' is an American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. The show follows Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former U.S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal who voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture for decades. He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world that he has compiled over the years and that he is willing to inform on their operations in exchange for immunity from prosecution on condition he works exclusively with rookie FBI criminal profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone), to whom he seemingly has no connection. Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold, Amir Arison, Hisham Tawfiq, and Harry Lennix also star in the series. Executive producers for the series include Jon Bokenkamp (for the first eight seasons), John Eisendrath, and John Davis for Sony Pictures Television, Universal Television, and Davis Entertainment; Joe Carnahan serves as director. Each seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMC (TV Channel)
AMC is an American multinational basic cable television channel that is the flagship property of AMC Networks. The channel's programming primarily consists of theatrically released films, along with a limited amount of original programming. The channel's name originally stood for "American Movie Classics", but since 2002 the full name has been de-emphasized as a result of a major shift in its programming. As of July 2015, AMC was received by approximately 94,832,000 households in the United States that subscribe to a pay television service (81.5% of U.S. households with at least one television set). In March 2015, Dish Network's Sling TV announced it would soon begin making AMC channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, Sundance TV, and We TV. History 1984–2002: Focus on classic films American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1, 1984, as a premium channel by Rainbow Programming Services (a subsidiary of Cablevis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rectify
''Rectify'' is an American television drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series from SundanceTV. It stars Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron, Adelaide Clemens, Clayne Crawford, and Luke Kirby, and premiered on April 22, 2013, with a first season run of six episodes. A second season of ten episodes, premiered on June 19, 2014. A third season of six episodes premiered on July 9, 2015. A fourth and final season of eight episodes premiered on October 26, 2016. All four seasons of the show have been critically acclaimed. Synopsis Daniel Holden was imprisoned as a teenager for the rape and murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Hanna. After nineteen years on death row, analysis of DNA evidence from his trial contradicts the prosecution's case, and an appeals court vacates the judgment of his original trial. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billions (TV Series)
''Billions'' is an American drama television series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin. The series premiered on Showtime on January 17, 2016, and has produced six complete seasons to date. The series is often set in large financial centers, most notably New York and Connecticut. The series tells the story of hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), as he accumulates wealth and power in the world of high finance. Axelrod's aggressive tactics to secure high returns frequently cross over into the illegal—acts that United States Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) attempts to prosecute. A large ensemble secondary cast supports the series' story arcs. Some plotlines mirror real-life prosecutions of financial crime by federal authorities. The series was inspired by the investigations undertaken by Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan from 2009 to 2017, on whom Rhoades is based. Bharar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVLine
''TVLine'' is a website devoted to information, news, and spoilers of television programs. History In late 2010, ''Entertainment Weekly''s Michael Ausiello announced that he would be leaving ''EW'' after nearly two years in their employ to establish a TV-centered website with PMC, the media company founded by Jay Penske. He later announced that fellow ''EW'' writer Michael Slezak, E! Online's Megan Masters, and ''TV Guide''s Matt Mitovich would be joining him in the venture. The site debuted January 5, 2011, and more than tripled initial expectations for internet traffic in its first six days. In early 2011 a report by TV by the Numbers analyzed the pageview ratings for four television websites: ''TVLine'', its sister site ''Deadline'', ''TheWrap'', and TV by the Numbers itself. With a high of just over 1 million daily pageviews, ''TVLine'' beat all three competitors. A similar report in summer 2012 compared ''TVLine'' again to three other websites: ''Deadline'', ''The Holly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Mann (director)
Emily Betsy Mann (born April 12, 1952) is an American director, playwright and screenwriter. She served as the artistic director and resident playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center from 1990 to 2020. Career As the McCarter Theatre Center's Artistic Director and Resident Playwright from 1990 to 2020, Mann oversaw more than 160 productions, including more than 40 world premieres. During her tenure, the theater won the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and Mann herself was twice nominated for Tony Awards as a playwright and director. She was inducted into The American Theater Hall of Fame. Her other personal awards include the Peabody Award, the Hull-Warriner Award from the Dramatists Guild, awards from the NAACP, eight Obie awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2011 Person of the Year Award from the National Theater Conference, as well as the Margo Jones Award, given to a "citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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