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Switched At Birth (season 5)
'' Switched at Birth'' was renewed for a fifth season by Freeform in October 2015. In March 2016, it was confirmed that this ten-episode season would be its last. The fifth season premiered on January 31, 2017. The one-hour scripted drama revolves around two young women who discover they were switched at birth and grew up in very different environments. While balancing school, jobs, and their unconventional family, the girls, along with their friends and family, experience Deaf culture, relationships, class differences, racism, audism, and other social issues. Cast Main *Lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish *Katie Leclerc as Daphne Vasquez-Kennish *Vanessa Marano as Bay Kennish-Vasquez *Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez * D. W. Moffett as John Kennish *Lea Thompson as Kathryn Kennish Recurring *Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe *Bianca Bethune as Sharee Gifford *Marlee Matlin as Melody Bledsoe * Ryan Lane as Travis Barnes *Rachel Shenton Rachel Joy Shenton (born 21 December ...
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Lucas Grabeel
Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( ; born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in the ''High School Musical'' film series (2006–2008). His other film appearances include '' Halloweentown High'' (2004), '' Return to Halloweentown'' (2006), ''Alice Upside Down'' (2007), and '' The Adventures of Food Boy'' (2008). He appeared as a young Lex Luthor and Conner Kent in the television series ''Smallville'' (2006–2011). In 2011, Grabeel released his debut extended play, ''Sunshine''. He went on to play Toby Kennish in the ABC Freeform drama series '' Switched at Birth'' (2011–2017). He also provided the voice of Deputy Peck in the Disney Junior television series ''Sheriff Callie's Wild West'' (2014–2017) and the title character in the Netflix series ''Pinky Malinky'' (2019). Early life Grabeel was born in Springfield, Missouri on November 23, 1984, the son of Jean () and Stephen Grabeel. Before transferring to and gr ...
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Rachel Shenton
Rachel Joy Shenton (born 21 December 1987) is an English actress, screenwriter, and activist. She is known for her roles as Mitzeee Minniver in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' (2010–2013), Lily Summers in the ABC Family drama '' Switched at Birth'' (2014–2017), Joanne Scott in the BBC2 comedy ''White Gold'' (2019), and Helen Alderson in the Channel 5 series '' All Creatures Great and Small'' (2020–present). In 2018, she won an Academy Award for her short film ''The Silent Child''. Early life Shenton attended two high schools, one in Cheadle. After high school Shenton went on to study performing arts at Stoke-on-Trent College (Burslem Campus). In between studying and acting roles, she volunteered at her local charity, Deaflinks. Career Early career Shenton's acting career began with small recurring parts in various television series such as '' Holby City'' and '' Waterloo Road''. She also filmed various television commercials for the '' Ministry of Defence'', ...
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Carlos González (cinematographer)
Carlos González, VSC, is a Venezuelan cinematographer and director based in Los Angeles, California. As a cinematographer, some of his film credits include '' Raw Justice'' (1994), ''Original Gangstas'' (1996), ''Joseph's Gift'' (1998), '' The Breaks'' (1999), '' Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies'' (1999) and ''The Omega Code'' (1999). In television, González served as a cinematographer on the series '' The New Normal,'' Switched At Birth and From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, among others. In 2000, he became a cinematographer on the Nickelodeon series ''The Brothers García'', he made his directorial debut on that series in 2002. His other directing credits include ''Unfabulous,'' ''Big Time Rush, 100 Things To Do Before High School, Switched At Birth, Stuck In The Middle, and the three-hour miniseries Lost In The West''. As a film director, he directed the documentaries ''Children of the Clouds'' (2007) and ''Robbed of Truth'' (2011). González was born in Maturín, Venez ...
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Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
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was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age ...
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Tiger In A Tropical Storm
''Tiger in a Tropical Storm'' or ''Surprised!'' is an 1891 oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Rousseau. It was the first of the jungle paintings for which the artist is chiefly known. It shows a tiger, illuminated by a flash of lightning, preparing to pounce on its prey in the midst of a raging gale. Unable to have a painting accepted by the jury of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, or the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Rousseau exhibited ''Tiger in a Tropical Storm'' in 1891 under the title ''Surpris!'', at the Salon des Indépendants, which was unjuried and open to all artists. The painting received mixed reviews. Rousseau had been a late developer: his first known work, ''Landscape with a Windmill'', was not produced until he was 35, and his work is marked by a naïveté of composition that belies its technical complexity. Most critics mocked Rousseau's work as childish, but Félix Vallotton, a young Swiss painter who was later to be an important figure in the develo ...
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PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life. Symptoms may include disturbing thoughts, feelings, or dreams related to the events, mental or physical distress to trauma-related cues, attempts to avoid trauma-related cues, alterations in the way a person thinks and feels, and an increase in the fight-or-flight response. These symptoms last for more than a month after the event. Young children are less likely to show distress but instead may express their memories through play. A person with PTSD is at a higher risk of suicide and intentional self-harm. Most people who experience traumatic events do not develop PTSD. People who experience interpersonal violence such as rape, other sexual assaults, being kidnapped, stalking, physical abuse by an intimate partner, and i ...
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Stephen Tolkin
Stephen Tolkin is an American television writer, director and composer. He worked on a number of American television series including '' Brothers & Sisters'', ''Perception'', ''Legend of the Seeker'' and '' Switched at Birth''. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television) for ''A Day Late and a Dollar Short''. Early life and education Tolkin is the son of Mel Tolkin, the award-winning head writer of ''Your Show of Shows'' and Edith Tolkin, who was Paramount Pictures' senior vice president of legal affairs, and brother of Michael Tolkin. He attended Yale College, where he was awarded the 1975 Peter J. Wallace Prize for Fiction for his short story ''Notes for a Biography of Lelia Reiszman'', and the Yale School of Architecture. Career Tolkin has written films and miniseries including ''Intensity'', based on the Dean Koontz novel of the same name (he would also write the two-part miniseries for Koontz's '' Mr. Murder''), ...
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Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly Abstract art, abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment. Biography Early life Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Cuban father of Spanish descent. Some sources would have his father as of aristocratic Spanish descent, whereas others consider him of non-aristocratic Spanish descent, from the region of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. His birth year of 1879 coincided with the Spanish-Cuban Little War (Cuba), Little War; and though Picabia was born in Paris, his father was involved in Cuba ...
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Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia. The paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region. His work was influential on the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and he is well known for his relationship with Vincent and Theo van Gogh. Gauguin's art became popular after his death, partially from the efforts of dealer Ambroise Vollard, who organized exhibitions of his work late in his career and assisted in organizing two important posthumous exhibitions in Paris. Gauguin was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer. His expression of the inherent meaning of the ...
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Blackface
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-Black people to portray a caricature of a Black person. In the United States, the practice became common during the 19th century and contributed to the spread of racial stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the " dandified coon". By the middle of the century, blackface minstrel shows had become a distinctive American artform, translating formal works such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right. In the United States, blackface declined in popularity beginning in the 1940s and into the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s,Clark, Alexis.How the History of Blackface Is Rooted in Racism. ''History''. A&E Television Networks, LLC. 2019. and was generally considered highly offensive, disrespectful, and racist by the turn of the 21st century, though the practice ...
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Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September 27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record executive. His career began in 1995, at the age of 12, when he was signed by rapper Birdman (rapper), Birdman, joining Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label. From then on, Wayne was the flagship artist of Cash Money Records before ending his association with the company in June 2018. Regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation by ''XXL (magazine), XXL'', he has often been cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. In 1995, Wayne was put in a duo with label-mate B.G. (rapper), B.G. (at the time known as Lil Doogie) and they recorded an album, True Story (The B.G.'z album), ''True Story'', released that year, although Wayne (at the time known as Baby D) only appeared on three tracks. Wayne and B.G. soon joined the southern hip hop group Hot Boys, with Cash Money label-mates Juvenile (ra ...
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Lizzy Weiss
Lizzy Weiss is an American screenwriter, television producer and television writer. Weiss was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Duke University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Women’s Studies. Weiss continued her education at New York University and got a M.A. in Communication in 1993. After she finished her education she had a number of writing jobs until in 1999 Weiss wrote for the MTV original film ''Holding Patterns''. This was the first time that she was paid for her writing. Although the film did not air, she was hired again by MTV to write for the TV series ''Undressed''. While writing for MTV she was given an article called ''Surf Girls of Maui'' from ''Outside'' magazine. She wrote a script for a film that was similar to the article. After John Stockwell was hired to direct the film ''Blue Crush'', Weiss was chosen to write for the film. In an interview with Jan Lisa Huttner, Weiss expresses her love for how the scrip ...
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