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Shimmer And Shine
''Shimmer and Shine'' is an American animated television series created by Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block on August 24, 2015, and ran for four seasons. The show is about two genies, Shimmer and Shine, who grant wishes for their human friend Leah. On March 18, 2018, new episodes moved to the separate Nick Jr. Channel. Plot The first season is set in the human world and focuses on a young girl named Leah who is friends with a pair of twin genie sisters named Shimmer and Shine. Each day, the genies grant Leah three wishes, but they often make mistakes. Each episode features Leah working together with the genies to resolve the problems they unintentionally cause, all while keeping Shimmer and Shine a secret from her next door neighbor and best friend Zac. In the second season, the characters are transported to Zahramay Falls, a magical land where Shimmer and Shine live. Leah reveals her genies' e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. Prevalent elements include fairies, angels, mermaids, witches, monsters, wizards, unicorns, dragons, talking animals, ogres, elves, trolls, white magic, gnomes, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons, dwarves, giants, goblins, anthropomorphic or magical objects, familiars, curses and other enchantments, worlds involving magic, and the Middle Ages. Subgenres Several sub-categories of fantasy films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in fantasy literature, are somewhat fluid. The most common fantasy subgenres depicted in movies are High Fantasy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibbon Monkey
Gibbons () are apes in the family Hylobatidae (). The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four extant genera and 20 species. Gibbons live in subtropical and tropical rainforest from eastern Bangladesh to Northeast India to southern China and Indonesia (including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java). Also called the lesser apes, gibbons differ from great apes (bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans) in being smaller, exhibiting low sexual dimorphism, and not making nests. Like all apes, gibbons are tailless. Unlike most of the great apes, gibbons frequently form long-term pair bonds. Their primary mode of locomotion, brachiation, involves swinging from branch to branch for distances up to , at speeds as fast as . They can also make leaps up to , and walk bipedally with their arms raised for balance. They are the fastest of all tree-dwelling, nonflying mammals. Depending on the species and sex, gibbons' fur coloration varies from dark- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Nathanson
Julie Nathanson (born May 10, 1975) is an American actress who can be heard as Silver Banshee and Jewelee in DC's animated film '' Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay'' and as Jess Black in Ubisoft's ''Far Cry 5''. She has been voicing Belle from ''Beauty and the Beast'', replacing Paige O'Hara & Jodi Benson in various media since the 2011 video game '' Kinect: Disneyland Adventures''. Biography Nathanson graduated from Tufts University before beginning her career in acting. She was first seen in the 1997 TV movie '' Kiss & Tell'' and subsequently appeared on several television series and movies such as ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1996–97), ''Soldier of Fortune, Inc.'' (1998–99), ''The Zeta Project'' (2001–03) and '' Spider-Man: The New Animated Series''. Since 2004, she is also often heard voicing different characters in video games. In 2000, she wrote some episodes of the television series ''Just Deal'' and has also been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in the catego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliana Mumy
Liliana Berry Davis Mumy (; born April 16, 1994) is an American actress. Between 2002 and 2006, she appeared as Jessica Baker in the two ''Cheaper by the Dozen'' movies and as Lucy Miller in the second and third films of ''The Santa Clause'' trilogy. In animation, Mumy performed the voice of Mertle Edmonds in the ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise as well as Twinkle in ''Higglytown Heroes''. For Cartoon Network she has voiced Panini in ''Chowder''. For Nickelodeon, she has voiced Human Kimberly in '' Catscratch'', Roxy in the Nickelodeon revival of '' Winx Club'', and Leni Loud in ''The Loud House''. Personal life Mumy was born in San Marcos, California, the daughter of Eileen Joy Mumy (née Davis), a childbirth educator, and former child star Bill Mumy. She is the younger sister of former child actor Seth Mumy. She graduated from Laurel Hall School in North Hollywood, California and attended Campbell Hall School. She left there and graduated from Notre Dame High School in Sherman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Tatasciore
Fred Tatasciore (; ) is an American voice actor who has provided voices in animated and live-action films, television shows, and video games. He is known for voicing the Hulk and Beast (comics), Beast in various Marvel media and Solomon Grundy (character), Solomon Grundy in various DC media. Other characters he has voiced include Yosemite Sam, Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes), Taz, Soldier: 76, Shao Kahn and Kakuzu. Career He is known for portraying characters with deep and powerful voices, though in recent years has expanded his range. He has voiced the Hulk in multiple Marvel Comics, Marvel projects, including ''Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2'', ''The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' and ''Avengers Assemble (TV series), Avengers Assemble''. His best known video game roles include Damon Baird in the ''Gears of War (series), Gears of War'' series, List of Mass Effect characters#Saren Arterius, Saren Arterius in the ''Mass Effect'' series, Characters of StarCraft#Zeratul, Zeratul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Kaufman
Grace Kaufman (born April 29, 2002) is an American actress, known for her roles including Kate Burns in the CBS sitcom '' Man with a Plan'' (2016–2020), Bronwen in the CBS sitcom ''Bad Teacher'' (2014), Ashley Chandler in the TNT action-drama series '' The Last Ship'' (2014–2018), and Berry in Disney's '' Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets'' (2015–2018). Kaufman's feature film debut came in '' Sister '' (2014). Early life Kaufman was born in Los Angeles, California on April 29, 2002. Her parents are actor David Kaufman and actress Lisa Picotte, and her younger brother Henry is also an actor. Her first acting role was in the 2009 stage production of ''Meet Me in St. Louis'' at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Her paternal grandfather is Jewish, whereas her paternal grandmother is Catholic. Recognition In 2012, Kaufman received the Best Actress award at the HollyShorts Film Festival. In 2014, she won the Discovery Award at the Traverse City Film Festival The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danica McKellar
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She played Winnie Cooper in the television series ''The Wonder Years'' from 1988 to 1993, and since 2010 has voiced Miss Martian in the animated superhero series ''Young Justice''. In 2015, McKellar was cast in the Netflix original series '' Project Mc2''. She appears in several television films for Hallmark Channel. She is the current voice of Judy Jetson from ''The Jetsons'' since 2017 following Janet Waldo's death in 2016. In addition to her acting work, McKellar later wrote six non-fiction books, all dealing with mathematics: ''Math Doesn't Suck'', ''Kiss My Math'', ''Hot X: Algebra Exposed'', ''Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape'', which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics, ''Goodnight, Numbers'', and ''Do Not Open This Math Book''. Early life and education McKellar was born in La Jolla, California. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Higgins
Catherine Davis Higgins is an American voice actress, singer and jazz piano, jazz pianist. Career Music career Higgins earned a degree in music from Auburn University in 1991. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz artist Bob Richardson. She released the first jazz album by her own name ''The Tide is Low'' in 2002. The second jazz album is ''Stealing Freedom''. She is also in a band called Upper Structure. Voice acting career Higgins's major voice roles have been in English-language adaptations of Japanese anime, and she is best known as the voice of Sakura Haruno in ''Naruto'' and Talho Yuuki in Eureka 7. She has also voiced C.C. (Code Geass), CC in ''Code Geass'' and Saber (Fate/stay night), Saber in the original ''Fate/stay night''. Between 2010 and 2013, Higgins voiced Tails (character), Tails in the video game series ''Sonic the Hedgehog (series), Sonic the Hedgehog''. She also voices Kate, Stinky, and Lilly in the ''Alpha and Omega (film), Alpha and Omega'' sequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kellie Pickler
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and television personality. Pickler gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of ''American Idol'' and finished in sixth place. In 2006, she signed to 19 Recordings and BNA Records as a recording artist. Her debut album, '' Small Town Girl'', was released later that year and has sold over 900,000 copies. The album, which was certified gold by the RIAA, produced three singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts: "Red High Heels" at No. 15, " I Wonder" at No. 14, and "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind" at No. 16. Pickler released her self-titled second album in 2008 that produced four singles: "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" at No. 21, " Best Days of Your Life" at No. 9 (which she co-wrote with Taylor Swift), "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" at No. 14, and "Makin' Me Fall in Love Again" at No. 30. In 2012, Pickler was ranked as the 14th best ''American Idol'' alu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead; August 23, 1931) is an American actress, singer, and producer best known for her starring role as Jeannie in the sitcom '' I Dream of Jeannie'' (1965-1970). Other notable roles include Roslyn Pierce opposite Elvis Presley in ''Flaming Star'' (1960), Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors in ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' (1961) and a single widowed mother, Stella Johnson, in the film '' Harper Valley PTA'' (1978). Due to the success of the film, Eden reprised her role as Stella Johnson in a two-season television series, '' Harper Valley PTA''. Early years Eden was born on August 23, 1931, in Tucson, Arizona, to Alice Mary (née Franklin) and Hubert Henry Morehead. She is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin. (For decades, her year of birth was thought to be 1934.) After her parents' divorce, she and her mother moved to San Francisco, where her mother married Harrison Connor Huffman, a telephone lineman, by whom she had a daughter, Eden's half- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jet Jurgensmeyer
Jet Jurgensmeyer (born November 27, 2004) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, playing the role of Spanky in the 2014 film ''The Little Rascals Save the Day'', and Bobby Anderson in the 2016 Disney Channel television film ''Adventures in Babysitting''. Early life and career Jurgensmeyer was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where his parents owned a live music and dinner show restaurant. Jurgensmeyer made his television debut with a guest role on the CBS television series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' in 2010. In 2012 he was cast as Spanky, one of the lead roles, in Alex Zamm's 2014 film ''The Little Rascals Save the Day''. He has appeared in films such as ''American Sniper'' and ''Devil's Knot''. In 2016 he appeared in the Disney Channel film ''Adventures in Babysitting'', playing Bobby the middle son of one of the sets of children being babysat. The same year Jurgensmeyer was cast in Nickelodeon's ''Legends of the Hidden Temple'' television f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cariad Lloyd
Katie Cariad Lloyd (born 21 August 1982) is a British comedian, actress, writer, and podcaster who has been performing since 2007. She is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious, the host and creator of '' Griefcast'', and an improv teacher. Lloyd was nominated in 2011 for Best Newcomer at the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut solo show, ''Lady Cariad's Characters''. She also won the Edtwinge award for most positively tweeted-about show during the Fringe. ''Griefcast'' has won several awards, including best Entertainment Podcast and Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards and an ARIA Award for Best Podcast. Early life Lloyd was born in London. She is of Welsh descent on her father’s side. Her father died of pancreatic cancer when she was 15. She studied English literature at the University of Sussex, where she first met her friend and fellow comedian Sara Pascoe. Lloyd worked with Pascoe as a tour guide on open-top buses in Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
