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Social Distance (TV Series)
''Social Distance'' is an American streaming television anthology series created by Hilary Weisman Graham that premiered on October 15, 2020, on Netflix. The series was "conceived, cast and executed entirely remotely during quarantine". The eight-part series, set during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, focuses on how families, friends, and couples were forced to cope with the effects of quarantine as well as the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. Each episode tells a different story and shows "the power of the human spirit in the face of uncertainty and isolation," and how technology was used to stay connected during quarantine. Episodes Season 1 (2020) Reception For the series, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 55% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 6.75/10. Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology Series
An anthology series is a radio, television, video game or film series that spans different genres and presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a different cast in each episode, but several series in the past, such as ''Four Star Playhouse'', employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a different drama each week. Some anthology series, such as '' Studio One'', began on radio and then expanded to television. Etymology The word comes from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (''anthología'', “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (''anthologéō'', "I gather flowers"), from ἄνθος (''ánthos'', "flower") + λέγω (''légō'', "I gather, pick up, collect"), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (''stéphanos'', "garland")) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajay Naidu
Ajay Kalahastri Naidu (born February 12, 1972) is an American actor best known for playing Samir in ''Office Space''. Naidu was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film ''SubUrbia''. Early life and education Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois. His parents came from India to the United States in 1964.Cindy YoonInterview with Ajay Naidu".'' Asiasource''.April 29, 2003. Retrieved August 5, 2006. He attended Evanston Township High School. He trained with the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Career Naidu's first professional acting job, which he won from an open call, was a leading role opposite Michael Keaton in the 1986 film '' Touch and Go''. This was followed by an ''ABC Afterschool Special'' episode, "No Greater Gift" (1985), where he played Nick Santana, a 12-year-old boy with a terminal illness. Naidu then appeared in the ''MacGyver'' TV series' first-season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Jordan Alvarez
Brian Jordan Alvarez (born July 10, 1987) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his recurring roles as Estéfan in ''Will and Grace'' (2018–2020) and Wesley in ''Jane the Virgin'' (2015–2016), as well as for his own self-produced films and series, most notably his 2016 Gotham Award-nominated web series '' The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo''.'''' A prolific creator of comedic web videos, he has developed a dedicated internet following and frequently collaborates with actress Stephanie Koenig. Early life Alvarez was born in Manhattan, New York City to Paul and Angela Jordan Alvarez, an electrical engineer and Spanish instructor, respectively. He has a sister, Catalina. He spent his childhood in Winchester, Tennessee, where he began acting and making movies. In middle school, he was teased and bullied for his sexuality. He went on to attend Saint Andrew's Sewanee School and then the high school program at the University of North Carolina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Scanlon
Claire Elizabeth Scanlon (born 1971) is an American editor and director. She has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one, for editing work on The Office (American TV series), ''The Office'' and The Apprentice (American TV series), ''The Apprentice''. She won an American Cinema Editors Award in 2014 (for ''The Office'') and was nominated in 2016 (for The Wrecking Crew (2008 film), ''The Wrecking Crew''). She has directed for numerous television shows, including ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', ''The Good Place'', Fresh Off the Boat, ''Fresh off the Boat'', GLOW (TV series), ''Glow'', and ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''. She made her directorial debut with the Netflix film ''Set It Up''. Scanlon directed the ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' interactive special for Netflix. She also directed the comedy-mystery series ''Mapleworth Murders'' for Quibi. References External links * 1971 births Living people American women film directors People from Chicago American t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Marsha Stephanie Blake (born May 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Linda McCray in the Netflix miniseries ''When They See Us'', for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Life and career Blake was born in Jamaica and emigrated to the United States in the late 1980s with her family. She attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1996. She received an MFA from the graduate acting program at UCSD. Blake has played many roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Come and Gone'', ''The Crucible'', '' An Octoroon'', and '' Hurt Village''. On television, she guest-starred in ''Law & Order'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', ''Third Watch'', ''Elementary'', and ''The Good Wife''. In 2015, Blake joined the cast of the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Orange Is the New Black'' playing Berdie Rogers. Along with the cast, she received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Brooks
Danielle Brittany Brooks (born September 17, 1989) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson on the comedy-drama series ''Orange Is the New Black'' (2013–2019) and Leota Adebayo on the superhero series ''Peacemaker (TV series), Peacemaker'' (2022–present). She received a Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of Sofia in the 2015 Broadway theatre, Broadway production of ''The Color Purple (musical), The Color Purple'', and won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the film's accompanying album. In 2021, Brooks received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Outstanding Television Movie as an executive producer on ''Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia''. Early life and education Brooks was born in Augusta, Georgia, and grew up in South Carolina, in a Christians, Christian family; her father was a deacon, and her mother, a Minister (Christianity), minister. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merritt Tierce
Merritt Tierce is an American short-story author, story editor, essayist, activist, and novelist. Tierce was born in Texas and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving her MFA in Fiction in 2011. She previously taught at the University of Iowa. She was a founding board member of the Texas Equal Access Fund and previously worked as Executive Director of the TEA. She currently resides in Los Angeles and is a writer for Orange is the New Black. Awards and honors * 2019 Whiting Foundation Award * 2015 PEN Literary Awards Finalist * 2015 Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction * 2013 National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honoree * 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award Residencies * 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship *2017 Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence * Can Cab Residency Bibliography Novels ''Love Me Back'' Doubleday Books. 2014. . Short stories "Casa Linda."''D Magazine.'' 2017. * "Calvin D. Colson." PEN America #19: Hauntings. 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Abraham
Phil Abraham is an American cinematographer and television director. He worked on all six seasons of ''The Sopranos'', initially as a camera operator, then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director. He won the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on the pilot of ''Mad Men'' and has been nominated for four other Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series for his work on ''The Sopranos''. Besides working as a cinematographer for ''Mad Men'', he has also worked as a director for fifteen episodes. He picked up two more nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for ''Mad Men'' episodes "The Jet Set" and " The Other Woman". He attended high school at York Preparatory School and graduated from Wesleyan University, along with ''Mad Men'' creator Matthew Weiner Matthew Hoffman Weiner () (born June 29, 1965) is an American television w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Sandoval
Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American actor of film and television. Biography Sandoval was born in Washington, D.C. He began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a mime school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He later joined the troupe full-time and continued his study of mime. He began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films ''Do the Right Thing'', '' Jungle Fever'', and '' Jurassic Park''. After appearing in ''Clear and Present Danger'' in 1994, he began to take on larger roles, and appeared in ''Get Shorty'', '' Up Close & Personal'', and ''Blow''. Having appeared briefly in '' Repo Man'' and ''Sid and Nancy'', Sandoval has also played the major roles of Treviranus (in ''Death and the Compass''), Bennie Reyes (in ''Three Businessmen'') and Arizona Gray (in the microfeature ''Repo Chick'') for director Alex Cox. In addition to film, Sandoval has acted in numerous television shows, often in recurring role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Díaz (actor)
Guillermo Díaz (born March 22, 1975) is an American actor. He is known for films ''Half Baked'' (1998), '' 200 Cigarettes'' (1999) and '' Stonewall'' (1995). He is best known for his role as Diego "Huck" Muñoz in the drama series ''Scandal''. Díaz has made guest appearances on ''Chappelle's Show'', ''Law & Order'', '' Weeds'', '' ER'', ''Broad City'', and ''Girls''. Early life and career Díaz was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents, and grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan. In 1994, he landed his first speaking role as Spike in Boaz Yakin's ''Fresh''. From there he began working on ''Party Girl'' as Leo, Parker Posey's roommate. His next role was a drag queen (La Miranda) in Nigel Finch's '' Stonewall''. In 1996, Díaz worked in Jim McKay's '' Girls Town'' as Dylan, after which he appeared in ''I'm Not Rappaport''. Díaz played Paco de la Vega al Camino Cordoba Jose Cuervo Sanchez Rodriguez Jr., a high school gang member in ''High School High''. He later appeared in ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Daphne Rubin-Vega ( Vega; born November 18, 1969) is a Panamanian-American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical ''Rent'' and Lucy in the Off-Broadway play ''Jack Goes Boating''. Rubin-Vega also appeared as ''Bombshell'' publicist Agnes in the second season of the TV series '' Smash'' (2012) and as Luisa Lopez in the TV series ''Katy Keene'' (2020). In 2021, Rubin-Vega starred as salon owner Daniela in the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's ''In the Heights''. Early life Rubin-Vega was born in Panama City, Panama, the daughter of Daphine Corina, a nurse, and José Mercedes Vega, a carpenter.Daphne Rubin-Vega biography filmreference.com. Accessed October 11, 2022. Her stepfather Leonard Rubin was a writer. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Nuñez
Oscar Nunez (born November 18, 1958), sometimes credited as Oscar Nuñez, is a Cuban-American actor. He is best known for his role as the Dunder Mifflin accountant Oscar Martinez on NBC's ''The Office''. He was a member of The Groundlings and later became a regular cast member on ''The Office''. He also created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series '' Halfway Home'' in 2007, and in 2014 co-starred in the short-lived USA Network comedy series '' Benched''. Since 2018, he has appeared in a series of State Farm commercials. Early life and education Nunez was born in Colón, Cuba. Nunez's mother, a dentist, and father, a lawyer, attended school at the University of Havana while Fidel Castro was a student there. The family moved first to Caracas, Venezuela in 1960 and then to the United States. His family moved to Boston when he was two years old and then to Union City, New Jersey, when he was four. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1964. He is bilingual, speaking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
