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Open House (The Americans)
"Open House" is the third episode of third season of the American television drama series ''The Americans'', and the 29th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on February 11, 2015 in the United States on FX. Plot Gabriel (Frank Langella) debriefs Philip ( Matthew Rhys) on the members of the CIA's Afghan group, telling him their best asset is Ted Paaswell (David Furr), who is selling his house and has lowered the price twice in the month. Philip and Elizabeth ( Keri Russell) go to Ted Paaswell's open house posing as interested buyers. Philip excuses himself from the tour and bugs Paaswell's radio. Paaswell enters the room and takes the radio with him and Philip and Elizabeth follow him in their car. At the Rezidentura, Arkady Ivanovich (Lev Gorn) tells Oleg (Costa Ronin) that his father has put him up for transfer back to Moscow. He tells Oleg that the decision is his if he wishes to transfer or to disobey his father's orders. Elizabeth notices a car tailing them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americans
''The Americans'' is an American historical drama, period spy fiction, spy drama television series created by Joe Weisberg that aired on the FX (TV channel), FX television network for six seasons from January 30, 2013, to May 30, 2018. Weisberg and Joel Fields also serve as showrunners and are executive producers. Set during the Cold War, the show follows the story of Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans), Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (The Americans), Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple living in Falls Church, Virginia, Falls Church, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., with their children, Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati). It also explores the conflict between Washington's Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI office and the KGB ''Resident spy, Rezidentura'' there, by following the perspectives of agents on both sides, including the Jennings' neighbor Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is an American actress. She portrayed the titular character on the drama series ''Felicity (TV series), Felicity'' (1998–2002), which won her a Golden Globe Award, and Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans), Elizabeth Jennings on the FX (TV channel), FX spy thriller series ''The Americans'' (2013–2018), which earned her nominations for several Primetime Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. Russell appeared in the films ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'' (1992), ''We Were Soldiers'' (2002), ''Mission: Impossible III'' (2006), ''Waitress (film), Waitress'' (2007), ''August Rush'' (2007), ''Extraordinary Measures'' (2010), ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014), ''Free State of Jones (film), Free State of Jones'' (2016), ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'' (2019), ''Antlers (2021 film), Antlers'' (2021), and the upcoming ''Cocaine Bear'' (2023). In 2017, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Keri Lynn Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 American Television Episodes
Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album), 2007 * ''15'' (Phatfish album), 2008 * ''15'' (mixtape), a 2018 mixtape by Bhad Bhabie * ''Fifteen'' (Green River Ordinance album), 2016 * ''Fifteen'' (The Wailin' Jennys album), 2017 * ''Fifteen'', a 2012 album by Colin James Songs * "Fifteen" (song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift *"Fifteen", a song by Harry Belafonte from the album '' Love Is a Gentle Thing'' *"15", a song by Rilo Kiley from the album ''Under the Blacklight'' *"15", a song by Marilyn Manson from the album ''The High End of Low'' *"The 15th", a 1979 song by Wire Other uses *Fifteen, Ohio, a community in the United States * ''15'' (film), a 2003 Singaporean film * ''Fifteen'' (TV series), international release name of ''Hillside'', a Canadian-American teen drama *Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Sepinwall
Alan Sepinwall (born October 19, 1973) is an American television reviewer and writer. He spent 14 years as a columnist with ''The Star-Ledger'' in Newark until leaving the newspaper in 2010 to work for the entertainment news website HitFix. He then wrote for Uproxx, where he worked for two years. Since 2018, he has been the chief TV critic for ''Rolling Stone''. Sepinwall began writing about television with reviews of '' NYPD Blue'' while attending the University of Pennsylvania, which led to his job at ''The Star-Ledger''. In 2007, immediately after ''The Sopranos'' ended, series creator David Chase granted his sole interview to Sepinwall. In 2009, Sepinwall openly urged NBC to renew the action-comedy series ''Chuck'', and NBC Entertainment co-president Ben Silverman sarcastically credited Sepinwall for the show's revival. Slate.com said Sepinwall "changed the nature of television criticism" and called him the "acknowledged king of the form" with regard to weekly episode recaps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of May 2012, it is part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a 1923-founded marketing research firm. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. History The Nielsen TV Ratings have been produced in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. It saw extensive fighting between the Soviet Union and the Afghan mujahideen (alongside smaller groups of anti-Soviet Maoism, Maoists) after the former militarily intervened in, or launched an invasion of, Afghanistan to support the local pro-Soviet government that had been installed during Operation Storm-333. Most combat operations against the mujahideen took place in the Afghan countryside, as the country's urbanized areas were entirely under Soviet control. While the mujahideen were backed by various countries and organizations, the majority of their support came from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Iran; the American pro-mujahideen stance coincided with a sharp increase in bilateral hostilities with the Soviets during the Cold War (1979–1985), Cold War. The conflict led to the deaths of between 562,000 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Wright
Alison Wright (born 12 July 1976) is an English actress. She is best known for her starring role as Martha Hanson on the FX period spy drama series ''The Americans'' (2013–2017), for which she received critical acclaim and earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2017. Wright's other notable roles were as Marjorie in the Amazon Prime Video crime drama series ''Sneaky Pete'' (2015–2019), as Pauline Jameson in the FX docudrama series '' Feud'' (2017), and as Ruth Wardell in the TNT dystopian thriller series ''Snowpiercer'' (2020–present). She also appeared in various films, including ''The Nanny Diaries'' (2007), '' The Accountant'' (2016), and '' Ask for Jane'' (2018). Early life Wright was born on 12 July 1976, in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, where she was raised by her adoptive parents. She began dancing and acting at a young age. Wright studied at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and The Barrow Group in New York City. She worked as a waitr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Beeman
Stan Beeman is a fictional character in the American television drama series ''The Americans'' on FX, and the supporting male character. He was created by series creator Joe Weisberg and is portrayed by Noah Emmerich. Stan is an FBI agent and a neighbor of the lead characters, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), who are undercover Soviet spies. Character history Season one Stan is an FBI counter-intelligence agent and moves to Northern Virginia with his wife, Sandra (Susan Misner) and his son, Matthew (Daniel Flaherty) across the street from Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys). Stan is unaware of the fact that Philip and Elizabeth are undercover KGB agents but becomes suspicious when he learns that a car similar to Philip's is seen near the site of a Soviet defector's abduction but finds nothing when he covertly inspects Philip's trunk. In the second episode, Stan blackmails Nina Sergeevna Krilova (Annet Mahendru), a Soviet emb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Thomas (actor)
Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series ''The Waltons'' for which he won an Emmy Award. He also received another Emmy nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations, for that role. Thomas later starred in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel '' It'', and played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series ''The Americans''. More recently, he appeared in Netflix's '' Ozark'' and is touring with ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' as Atticus Finch. Early life and education Thomas was born on June 13, 1951 in Manhattan, New York, the son of Barbara Fallis and Richard S. Thomas. His parents were dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet. Thomas has a nevus on his left cheek. He has stated that this led to his being turned down for a role in a television commercial in his youth. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Taylor
Holly Taylor is a Canadian and American actress and dancer. She began her career in the Broadway production of ''Billy Elliot'' at the age of eleven as Sharon Percy (Ballet Girl) and continued in the role for almost two years. She played the role of Paige Jennings in the FX television series ''The Americans'' for its entire run, for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. In addition, she portrays Angelina Meyer, one of the airplane survivors, in the NBC/Netflix science fiction series ''Manifest''. Early life Taylor was born in Middleton, Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of Irish mother Margaret and Scottish father Mark. She has an older brother named Philip. After her family moved to New Jersey in early 2000, she was enrolled in a dance class at age three. About a year later, she surprised her parents by announcing that she was going to dance on Broadway when she grew up. Career By the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Ronin
Konstantin "Costa" Ronin (born 3 February 1979) is an Australian actor and cinematographer, best known for appearances in '' Red Dog'', as Gregorovich on the SBS drama ''East West 101'', as Oleg Igorevich Burov in the FX drama ''The Americans'' and as Yevgeny Gromov on ''Homeland''. Early life and education Costa Ronin was born in Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). He spent the first 17 years of his life in Russia. In his youth, he moved to Wellington, New Zealand with his mother and studied international relations and political science at Victoria University, before moving to Perth, Australia for further tertiary education and, later, to Sydney. At the age of 15, Ronin commenced working and learned about American culture at a radio station that taught English through music. Personal life Growing up in Kaliningrad, Ronin was taught to sail by his father and grandfather at the age of 5 and remains passionate about it. Ronin is married to Leah Ronin as of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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