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Pippa Unwin
Pippa may refer to: * Pippa (given name) * Pippa Bacca (1974-2008), performance artist * Kelly Ripa (born 1970), nicknamed Pippa, American talk show host Fictional characters * Pippa Cross, a character in books by Libba Bray * Pippa Ross, a character in Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' * Pippa Saunders, a character in the show ''Home and Away'' * Pippa, a character in ''Dead Set'' (TV series) * Pippa, the protagonist of ''The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'', a 2009 film * Pippa Fitz-Amobi, the protagonist of the ''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' book series * Pippa, a character in ''The Goldfinch'', ** The 2013 novel by Donna Tartt ** The 2019 film based on the novel Other uses * Pippa (doll) Pippa was a "pocket-sized" fashion doll produced by British toymaker Palitoy between 1972 and 1980. She was a 6.5 inch fashion doll with numerous friends, fashions, an apartment, a car, even her own hair salon. Similar to Topper's Dawn doll ..., a British toy doll * 648 Pipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa (given Name)
Pippa is a female given name and a hypocorism, usually of Philippa. People with the name Pippa include: * Pippa Black (b. 1982), Australian actress * Pippa Duncan, British Royal Navy officer * Pippa Funnell (b. 1968), British equestrienne * Pippa Guard (b. 1952), British actress * Pippa Haywood (b. 1961), English actress * Pippa Mann (b. 1983), British race car driver * Pippa Middleton (b. 1983), English socialite, sister of the Princess of Wales * Pippa Scott (b. 1935), American actress * Pippa Steel (1948–1992), British actress * Pippa Wicks, British businesswoman * Rosalba Pippa, a musical performer The name may have been popularised by Robert Browning's poem ''Pippa Passes''. See also * Philippa Philippa is a feminine given name meaning "lover of horses" or "horses' friend". Common alternative spellings include ''Filippa'' and ''Phillipa''. Less common is ''Filipa'' and even ''Philippe'' (cf. the French spelling of ''Philippa of Guelders'' ... References {{DEFAULTSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Bacca
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (9 December 1974 – 31 March 2008), known as Pippa Bacca, was an Italian performance and feminist artist. On 31 March 2008, Pippa Bacca disappeared in Gebze in Turkey during an international hitchhiking trip to promote world peace under the motto, "marriage between different peoples and nations". Bacca and fellow artist Silvia Moro were symbolically wearing a wedding dress during their trek. On 11 April 2008 the police arrested a man who later confessed to her murder and led the authorities to the discovery of her body. Biography Pippa Bacca was born in Milan. Her father, Guido Pasqualino di Marineo, was originally from Naples. Her mother, Elena Manzoni, was the older sister of artist Piero Manzoni. Bacca worked with different media, including photography, collage and embroidery. Her 2004 piece ''Surgical Mutations'' consisted of a series of leaves collected in a wood and cut-out as to resemble different floral species. In 2006 she had her firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa (; born October 2, 1970) is an American actress and talk show host. Since 2001, she has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show '' Live! with Kelly and Ryan'' in various formats. As an actress, Ripa's best known roles include Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera '' All My Children'' (1990–2002, 2010) and Faith Fairfield on the ABC sitcom ''Hope & Faith'' (2003–2006). Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, own a New York-based production company, Milojo. In 2014, ''The Hollywood Reporter'' named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media. Early life Kelly Maria Ripa was born and raised in Berlin, New Jersey, the daughter of Esther, a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver who attended Rutgers University. She has a sister, Linda, who is a children's book author. She was on a local PHL17 dance show, called Dancing on Air, before it got picked up by USA Network and was renamed Dance Party USA. Kelly did several ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Cross (Gemma Doyle Trilogy)
The characters in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy appear in a group of three fantasy novels by Libba Bray, set in late 19th-century England, and published between 2003 and 2007: ''A Great and Terrible Beauty'', '' Rebel Angels'', and ''The Sweet Far Thing''. The leading characters include Gemma Doyle herself, who is able to enter the magical "Realms"; Ann Bradshaw, Felicity Worthington and Pippa Cross, Gemma's fellow-students at the boarding school Spence Academy; some of the staff at that school, including the evil "Circe"; and members of "The Order", a secret society. Male characters include Kartik and other members of the "Rakshana". There are also characters drawn from upper-class English society. Supernatural beings play an important role in the story—centaurs and forest people, a Gorgon, lost souls called "Winterland creatures" and "Trackers", and the skeletal "Poppy Warriors". Protagonists Gemma Doyle Gemma Doyle (born in Shropshire, June 21, 1879) is the heroine of Libba Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Ross
Philippa "Pippa" Ross (also Fletcher) is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera ''Home and Away''. Actress Vanessa Downing originated the role and made her debut during the pilot episode broadcast on 17 January 1988. Downing quit the role in 1990, and Debra Lawrance was then cast. Pippa departed on 18 March 1998, but Lawrance has reprised the role for numerous returns between 2000 and 2009. Casting Carol Willesee was initially hired for the "pivotal role of foster mother, and earth mother" Pippa Fletcher.Mercado, Andrew, p.252 In his book ''Super Aussie Soaps'', Andrew Mercado opined that casting the then wife of current affairs show host, Mike Willesee, was a publicity dream. Of Willesee's casting, producer John Holmes said "She had just started acting and was pretty raw, but she had a warmth about her." When filming began, the Seven Network became worried because Willesee had not signed a contract. The actress later revealed she had a verbal agreement th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Saunders
Pippa Saunders is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away''. She made her screen debut in the episode broadcast on 4 June 2004. The character was played by twelve young actors, including Chloe Marshall who took over the role in 2007. Pippa made her last regular appearance on 2 April 2008, with the character departing town off screen in the following day's episode, but returned on 15 July 2013 with Piper Morrissey now playing the role. Pippa is Flynn Saunders (Joel McIlroy) and Sally Fletcher's (Kate Ritchie) daughter. Casting Pippa was played by twelve different child actors from her introduction in 2004 to her departure in 2008: Riley Stevens, Anouk Povaly, Noah Fraser, Isabelle Bell-Dickson, Jessica Taylor Lorenxo, Mia Szczenpanik, Leila Szczenpanik, Bojanna Main, Tameka Main, Phoebe Falconer, India Falconer and Chloe Marshall. Pippa returned along with her mother, Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie), on 15 July 2013. Piper Morrissey was cast in the role. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Set (TV Series)
''Dead Set'' is a British Zombie film, zombie Horror fiction, horror miniseries written and created by Charlie Brooker and directed by Yann Demange. The show takes place primarily on the set of a fictional series of the real television show ''Big Brother (British TV series), Big Brother''. The five episodes, aired over five consecutive nights, chronicle a Zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak that strands the housemates and production staff inside the ''Big Brother'' House, which quickly becomes a shelter from the undead. ''Dead Set'' is a production of Zeppotron, part of the Endemol group of production and distribution companies that produces the actual ''Big Brother''. The series first aired on E4 (TV channel), E4 starting on 27 October 2008, just six weeks after the end of ''Big Brother (British series 9), Big Brother 2008'' on the same channel. Cast Cameos by former ''Big Brother'' housemates Episodes Production Writing Charlie Brooker said that the basic idea for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
''The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller. The screenplay is based on her novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast including Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, and Winona Ryder. The film premiered on February 9, 2009, at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was shown at the Sydney Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival before opening in the United Kingdom on July 10. Following a showing at the Toronto International Film Festival, it received a limited release in the United States on November 27, 2009. Plot The film chronicles the life of Pippa Lee (Robin Wright), with flashbacks to her tumultuous past. Pippa Sarkissian (Blake Lively) was the youngest child and only girl in her large Christian family. Her mother Suky (Maria Bello) was a neurotic mother with an obsessive fixation on her daughter's looks. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Good Girl's Guide To Murder
''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' is a young adult mystery debut novel by Holly Jackson. The novel is the first in a series of three novels and one novella: ''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' (2019); ''Good Girl, Bad Blood'' (2020); ''As Good As Dead'' (2021); and ''Kill Joy'' (2022). Except for ''Good Girl, Bad Blood'', all books were published by Electric Monkey. ''Good Girl, Bad Blood'' was published by Delacorte Press. The plot follows an investigation carried out by 17-year old true crime enthusiast Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi, a high school student in the fictional town of Little Kilton, Buckinghamshire (or Fairview, Connecticut in the US version). In the novel, Pip crafts a plan to investigate a five-year-old murder-suicide case involving the murder of popular student Andrea "Andie" Bell and the suicide of her perpetrator Salil "Sal" Singh under the guise of a school project. Her objectives are to exonerate Sal, whom she is convinced was falsely accused of killing Andie Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (novel)
''The Goldfinch'' is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since ''The Little Friend'' in 2002. ''The Goldfinch'' centers on 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting '' The Goldfinch''. Plot introduction The novel is a coming-of-age tale told in the first person. The protagonist, 13-year-old Theodore Decker, survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum where his mother is killed. While staggering through the debris, he takes with him a small Dutch Golden Age painting called '' The Goldfinch''. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (film)
''The Goldfinch'' is a 2019 American drama film directed by John Crowley. It was written by Peter Straughan, who adapted the 2013 novel '' The Goldfinch'' by Donna Tartt. It stars Ansel Elgort as Theodore Decker, whose life changes after his mother dies in a terrorist bombing at a museum and a dying man convinces him to take a famous painting called '' The Goldfinch'' from the museum. Oakes Fegley, Aneurin Barnard, Finn Wolfhard, Sarah Paulson, Luke Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, and Nicole Kidman appear in supporting roles. The novel's film rights were sold to Warner Bros. and RatPac Entertainment in July 2014, with ICM Partners brokering the deal. Two years later, Crowley was hired to direct the film adaptation, and Elgort was selected to portray the lead role. Most of the remaining cast joined from October 2017 to January 2018. Filming began in New York City in January 2018 and moved to Albuquerque in April 2018 for the rest of the production. ''The Goldfinch'' premiered at the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa (doll)
Pippa was a "pocket-sized" fashion doll produced by British toymaker Palitoy between 1972 and 1980. She was a 6.5 inch fashion doll with numerous friends, fashions, an apartment, a car, even her own hair salon. Similar to Topper's Dawn doll, Pippa was marketed as "the pocket money fashion doll that puts fashion in your pocket". The small stature of the doll also meant that production costs were generally lower than market competitors such as Sindy and Barbie Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched on March 9, 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration. .... The Pippa doll had many different fashionable clothing pieces, including miniskirts, minidresses and top and bottom combos. There were also more regal, formal dresses, and outfits relating to different jobs. Employing subtle makeover techniques and fashion variations, Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |