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Scanlen
Scanlen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eliza Scanlen (born 1999), Australian actress * Thomas Charles Scanlen (1834–1912), South African politician See also * Scanlon {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Scanlen
Eliza Jane Scanlen (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' (2016), before receiving critical acclaim by playing a troubled teenager in the HBO miniseries '' Sharp Objects'' (2018). In 2022, she starred in the Showtime series '' The First Lady'' as young Eleanor Roosevelt. She made her film debut in 2019, with starring roles in the drama '' Babyteeth'' and Greta Gerwig’s period drama ''Little Women''. Early life Scanlen was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and has a fraternal twin sister named Annabel. She learned the piano when she was about 7 years old, but stopped playing when she was thirteen years old. In preparation for her role as Beth March in the 2019 film adaptation of ''Little Women'', she started practising the piano again. Career While in high school, Scanlen was cast in the recurring role of Tabitha Ford on television soap opera ''Home and Away''. Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles Scanlen
Sir Thomas Charles Scanlen (9 July 1834 – 15 December 1912) was a politician and administrator of the Cape Colony. He was briefly Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, from 1881 to 1884, during an especially turbulent period in the Cape's history, dominated by conflicts such as the Basuto Gun War. He was also the Cape's first locally-born Prime Minister. Early life Scanlen was born 9 July 1834 on Longford Farm in the district of Albany in the Cape Colony. His family were of Irish ancestry, and had arrived in the eastern Cape among the 1820 Settlers. In 1845 his family moved from Grahamstown to Cradock, Cape Colony. Here he married Emma Thackwray on 1855, and the couple had several children. Early political career Scanlen's father Charles was elected as parliamentary representative for Cradock in 1856. Thomas succeeded his father as representative of Cradock in 1870, and was to serve in the Cape Parliament for a total of 26 years. At the time he first entered parliament, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
