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Nina (2015 Film)
''Nina'' is a 2016 American biographical film written and directed by Cynthia Mort. The film focuses on American musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone, portrayed by Zoe Saldana. The film also stars David Oyelowo, Ella Thomas, and Mike Epps. The film was released on April 22, 2016, in a limited release and through video on demand by RLJ Entertainment. The film was met with heavy criticism and Simone's family refused to endorse it. Saldana later said she regretted accepting the lead role. Plot In 1988 Nina Simone is financially unsound, mentally unstable and an alcoholic. Her 1960s heyday is far behind her. After threatening a lawyer with a gun, she is forcibly committed to a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital for twenty-four hours. While in the hospital, Nina hires orderly Clifton Henderson (David Oyelowo) as an assistant. He accompanies her back to Bouc-Bel-Air, France. Nina drinks heavily and refuses to take her medication. She proves to be difficult and confrontational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Mort
Cynthia Mort (born June 18, 1956) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. Mort has worked primarily in television since beginning her career in 1994, writing for the sitcom '' Roseanne''. Her notable works include the HBO series '' Tell Me You Love Me'' as a creator and executive producer, the revenge film '' The Brave One'' (2007) as a screenwriter, and the biopic '' Nina'' (2016) as a director. Biography Mort was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Career Television Mort began her career as a screenwriter in 1994. She wrote multiple episodes for the sitcom '' Roseanne,'' and was later a producer on the show. She continued in television as a writer and producer for the program ''Will and Grace.'' In 2007, Mort created and produced the drama '' Tell Me You Love Me'', which aired on HBO, and starred an ensemble cast including Jane Alexander and Adam Scott''.'' The plot of the program closely examines various struggles that may arise in a committed mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One-night Stand
A one-night stand or one-night sex is a single sexual encounter in which there is an expectation that there shall be no further relations between the sexual participants. It draws its name from the common practice of a one-night stand, a single night performance by an entertainer at a venue. The practice can be described as "sexual activity without emotional commitment or future involvement".Jeffrey S. Turner, ''American Families in Crisis: A Reference Handbook'' (2009), p. 47. Views The one-night stand is the most common form of infidelity and is often used in research, polls and surveys to define the level of promiscuity in a society at any given time. It has been suggested that such an act can be as threatening to a relationship as a long-term affair: Some women have suggested that women who feel sexually insecure or unfulfilled should seek out one-night stands for personal growth and fulfillment. One writes, " one-night stand is the erotic manifestation of carpe diem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Vartan
Michael S. Vartan (born November 27, 1968) is a French-American actor, known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama '' Alias'', his role on the TNT medical drama '' Hawthorne'', and his role on the '' E!'' drama '' The Arrangement'' as Terence Anderson. His film roles include ''The Pallbearer'', ''Never Been Kissed'', ''The Next Best Thing'', '' One Hour Photo'', ''Monster-in-Law'', '' Rogue'', '' Colombiana'', and ''Small Town Crime''. Early life Michael Vartan was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is the son of Edmond "Eddie" Vartan, a musician, and Doris (née Pucher), a painter and artist. His paternal aunt is singer Sylvie Vartan and his stepfather is writer Ian La Frenais. Michael's paternal grandfather was of Armenian and Bulgarian descent, while Michael's paternal grandmother was of Hungarian Jewish background. Michael's mother is a Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States. Vartan has said about his French backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Natta
Camille Joann Natta (born 19 November 1977) is a French actress. Education She graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford St Peter's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford and is located in New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, United Kingdom. It occupies the site of two of the university's medieval halls, dating back to at least the 14th ... with an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Filmography References External links Camille Natta official site* Living people Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford 1977 births French film actresses {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siena Goines
Siena Goines (born March 28, 1969) is an American film and television actress. She has guest-starred on the soap opera ''Passions'', the police drama ''The Division'' and the medical drama ''Private Practice''. History Goines was born in Washington, D.C. From 1998 to 2000, Goines played the role of Callie Rogers on the CBS daytime soap opera, ''The Young and the Restless'' where she earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama. From 2000 to 2004, Goines played the recurring role of Mia on another CBS drama, '' Judging Amy''. The actress has made a name for herself appearing on TV series including ''Charmed'', '' Chicago Hope'', and ''The Magnificent Seven''. In 2004 Goines appeared in Ellen DeGeneres' ''My Short Film'' for American Express in 2004. In 2007, she had a recurring role on the CBS drama ''Jericho'' as Sarah Mason. She appeared in ''The Sweetest Thing'' (2002), '' Rancid'' (2004), ''The 40-Year-Old Virgin ''The 40-Year-Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Muellerleile
Marianne Muellerleile (born November 26, 1948) is an American actress. Early life Muellerleile was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Margaret (married and maiden names, née Keaney) and Cecil E. Muellerleile, an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator and oil company executive. Career Muellerleile played the role of Sophie, a waitress, in the movie ''Return to Me'' which was directed by and also starred Bonnie Hunt and then later appeared as a series regular on Bonnie's comedy series, ''Life with Bonnie'' as "Gloria", the housekeeper, for two seasons until the show ended. She also appeared in WB Television Network, The WB television series ''Charmed'' episode "Primrose Empath (Charmed Episode), Primrose Empath". She also has a recurring role on the soap opera ''Passions'', playing the disturbed character of Norma Bates (Passions), Norma Bates. She also played the nanny on ''Melrose Place'' and a no-nonsense mother hosting a Halloween par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play ''A Raisin in the Sun'', highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 US Supreme Court case ''Hansberry v. Lee''. After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper ''Freedom'', where she worked with other intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. Much of her w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Joyce
Ella Joyce (born Cherron Hoye; June 12, 1954) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Eleanor Emerson on the Fox comedy-drama sitcom '' Roc'', which originally ran from 1991 until 1994. Early years The daughter of an autoworker and a hairdresser, Joyce was born Cherron Hoye in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from the Performing Arts Curriculum at Cass Technical High School, and went on to attend the Dramatic Arts program at Eastern Michigan University. When financial problems caused her to leave, she returned to Detroit, where she graduated from a business school and then worked as an executive secretary at General Motors. She supplemented the income from that job by reading scripts for director Lloyd Richards, who encouraged her to act on-screen. After she moved to Harlem, New York City, she worked as a word processor while she improved her acting skills. After she earned her first film credit in 1979, she changed her name t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith David
Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor. He is known for his signature deep voice and commanding screen presence in over 300 roles across film, stage, television, and interactive media. He has starred in such films as '' The Thing'' (1982), ''Platoon'' (1986), ''They Live'' (1988), ''Dead Presidents'' (1995), ''Armageddon'' (1998), ''There's Something About Mary'' (1998), ''Requiem for a Dream'' (2000), '' Pitch Black'' (2000), '' Barbershop'' (2002), ''Crash'' (2004), ''The Chronicles of Riddick'' (2004), ''Cloud Atlas'' (2012), ''The Nice Guys'' (2016), and '' Nope'' (2022). He starred as Elroy Patashnik in the sixth season of the NBC series ''Community'' (2015) and starred as Bishop James Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama '' Greenleaf'' (2016–2020). His Emmy-winning voice-over career includes work as the narrator of Ken Burns films such as '' The War'' (2007) and '' Muhammad Ali'' (2021). In film, characters that he has voiced include Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.The 50 Best Stand-up Comics of All Time . Rollingstone.com, retrieved February 15, 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Guttman
Ronald Guttman (born 12 August 1952) is a Belgian actor, theatrical producer and film producer. Career Guttman was born in Uccle. He started appearing in French language productions in Europe in 1975, appearing in his first English-language film, '' Hanna K.'', in 1983. Guttman continues to work in both Europe and North America, predominantly in television, including ''Lost'', '' Lipstick Jungle'', ''Heroes'', ''The West Wing'', ''Mad Men'' and ''Hunters''. He had a recurring role as Alexander Cambias, Sr. on the daytime soap opera ''All My Children'' (20 episodes over 18 years) and spots on three series in the ''Law & Order'' franchise: ''Law & Order'', ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. In 2021, he had a recurring role as French gangster Jean Jehan in the Epix drama series ''Godfather of Harlem''. Guttman's performances also include numerous Off-Broadway productions, including '' The Fifth Column'', a play by Ernest Hemingway; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Mambo
Kevin Mambo (born June 29, 1972) is a Zimbabwean-Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his role on the CBS Daytime serial ''Guiding Light'' in the role of Marcus Williams, which won him two Daytime Emmys and for his role as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the Broadway production of the musical ''Fela!'' Early life Kevin Mambo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. An avid musician, he was in the church choir as a child and started playing piano at age 8, saxophone at age 10, and the guitar at age 19. He attended Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon and then Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, British Columbia. He studied Political Science and African History at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where he also took classes at the McGill Jazz Conservatory. Kevin then transferred to the University of Southern California where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Career In 2015, Mambo appeared in the Billie Holiday Theatre product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
