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Severodvinsk
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Severodvinsk is a city in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located in the delta of the Northern Dvina River,35 kilometers west of Arkhangelsk, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 192,353, due to the presence of important military shipyards, Severodvinsk is an access restricted town for foreign citizens. Vikings explored the territories around the North Dvina River - part of Bjarmaland - at the start of the first millennium. British and Norman ships came to these places for mining, fur and fishing before the 13th century, tradition states that Saint Euphemius, an Orthodox missionary in Karelia, founded this monastery. The abbey stood in ruins until 1471, when two sons of Marfa Boretskaya died in a storm, their bodies were recovered on the beach near the monastery twelve days later. At the urging of Boretskaya, the monastery was restored and her sons were buried there, on August 24,1553, a ship of Richard Chancellor reached the salt-mining settlement of Nyonoksa, which is still famous for its traditional wooden architecture. The British sailors visited the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery, where they were surprised to find a community of sailors in soutanes, in late 1613, during the Time of Troubles in Russia, Polish-Lithuanian vagabonds, the Lisowczycy, captured and looted Severodvinsk with the monastery. The Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery flourished after the establishment of the Muscovy Company, in August 1618 the harbour was visited by John Tradescant the elder, who conducted a survey of an island situated opposite the monastery. This island became known to the British as Rose Island, because it was there that Tradescant found a rare plant which he named Rosa moscovita. The surviving buildings of the monastery were constructed at the close of the Muscovite period, the five-domed cathedral of St. Nicholas was built between 1670 and 1674, preceded by the Assumption church, to which it is joined by a gallery. Several decades later, the walls and towers were built of timber, the Soviets transported the best-preserved of these towers to Kolomenskoye, Moscow, Severodvinsk is the second-largest city in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Its main industry remains defense-related — the construction and repair of submarines at the huge Northern Machine-building Enterprise SEVMASH, the Soviet Unions first nuclear submarine Leninsky Komsomol was built here in 1957. At the beginning of the 1980s the worlds largest submarine, a Typhoon class, was built here. The modern city of Severodvinsk developed in the Soviet period, as it began to be built it was called Sudostroy. It received town status in 1938 and until 1957 was named Molotovsk, on September 12,1957 it was renamed Severodvinsk. During World War II a significant portion of the materials delivered by the Arctic Convoys to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk for the Soviet Union were unloaded in Severodvinsk. For example, the Empire Elgar, a British heavy lift ship that arrived in Arkhangelsk with convoy PQ16, a Russian naval-base supports the sea trials of nuclear submarines from the major submarine construction- and repair-facilities located in the area. In Soviet times the 17th-century buildings of the Nikolo-Korelsky monastery, located on the territory of the shipyard, were adapted and used for shipbuilding purposes, in recent years the monastery buildings, specifically the main church, have been restored and re-consecrated
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Novohrad-Volynskyi
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Novohrad-Volynskyi is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Originally known as Zvyahel, the city was renamed in 1795 after annexation of territories of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Russian Empire soon after the third Partition of Poland. It serves as the center of Novohrad-Volynskyi Raion, though administratively it does not belong to the raion and is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance. Population,55, 991 The city had an important Jewish community, at the start of the 20th century,10,000 Jews, 50% of the population, lived in the town. In 1919, the Pogroms in Ukraine reached Novohrad-Volynskyi, and the troops of Symon Petliura murdered 1,000 Jews, by the start of World War II only 6,840 Jews remained. Hundreds of Jews were murdered in mass executions perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen in 1941, many Survivors were imprisoned in harsh conditions in a ghetto and murdered in November 1942, and an important part of the town was destroyed during the war. The town is best known as the birthplace of Lesya Ukrainka, famous nationalist Ukrainian poet, playwright, writer and more. Travel
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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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The Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the United Nations, although it was legally represented by the All-Union state in its affairs with countries outside of the Soviet Union. From the start, the city of Kharkiv served as the republics capital. However, in 1934, the seat of government was moved to the city of Kyiv. Geographically, the Ukrainian SSR was situated in Eastern Europe to the north of the Black Sea, bordered by the Soviet republics of Moldavia, Byelorussia, the Ukrainian SSRs border with Czechoslovakia formed the Soviet Unions western-most border point. According to the Soviet Census of 1989 the republic had a population of 51,706,746 inhabitants, the name Ukraine, derived from the Slavic word kraj, meaning land or border. It was first used to part of the territory of Kievan Rus in the 12th century. The name has been used in a variety of ways since the twelfth century, after the abdication of the tsar and the start of the process of the destruction of the Russian Empire many people in Ukraine wished to establish a Ukrainian Republic. During a period of war from 1917-23 many factions claiming themselves governments of the newly born republic were formed, each with supporters. The two most prominent of them were the government in Kyiv and the government in Kharkiv, the former being the Ukrainian Peoples Republic and the latter the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. This government of the Soviet Ukrainian Republic was founded on 24–25 December 1917, in its publications it names itself either the Republic of Soviets of Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants Deputies or the Ukrainian Peoples Republic of Soviets. The last session of the government took place in the city of Taganrog, in July 1918 the former members of the government formed the Communist Party of Ukraine, the constituent assembly of which took place in Moscow. On 10 March 1919, according to the 3rd Congress of Soviets in Ukraine the name of the state was changed to the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. After the ratification of the 1936 Soviet Constitution, the names of all Soviet republics were changed, transposing the second, during its existence, the Ukrainian SSR was commonly referred to as Ukraine or the Ukraine. On 24 August 1991, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic declared independence, since the adoption of the Constitution of Ukraine in June 1996, the country became known simply as Ukraine, which is the name used to this day. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, several factions sought to create an independent Ukrainian state, the most popular faction was initially the local Socialist Revolutionary Party that composed the local government together with Federalists and Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks boycotted any government initiatives most of the time, instigating several armed riots in order to establish the Soviet power without any intent for consensus, immediately after the October Revolution in Petrograd, Bolsheviks instigated the Kiev Bolshevik Uprising to support the Revolution and secure Kyiv. Due to a lack of support from the local population and anti-revolutionary Central Rada, however. Most moved to Kharkiv and received the support of the eastern Ukrainian cities, later, this move was regarded as a mistake by some of the Peoples Commissars
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Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a union of national republics, but its government. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 and this established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and started the Russian Civil War between the revolutionary Reds and the counter-revolutionary Whites. In 1922, the communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, following Lenins death in 1924, a collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed all opposition to his rule, committed the state ideology to Marxism–Leninism. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victory in World War II and postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. Shortly before World War II, Stalin signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Nazi Germany, in June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theater of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually captured Berlin in 1945, the territory overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. Following Stalins death in 1953, a period of political and economic liberalization, known as de-Stalinization and Khrushchevs Thaw, the country developed rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities. The USSR took a lead in the Space Race with Sputnik 1, the first ever satellite, and Vostok 1. In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, the war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujahideen fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing the economic stagnation, the Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well, in August 1991, a coup détat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a role in facing down the coup. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states
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Order of Honour (Russia)
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Its statute was amended by decree №19 of January 6,1999 and more lately by decree №1099 of January 7,2010 which defined its present status. The Russian Federation Order provides continuity from the Soviet Unions identically named Order, the Soviet Order of Honor was denoted by a gray yellow edged ribbon. The obverse bears a white enamelled central medallion bordered by a laurel wreath. On the otherwise plain reverse, two rivets and the serial number at the bottom. The individuals below are recipients of the Order of Honour. A
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People's Artist of Russia
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It succeeded both the all-Soviet Union Peoples Artist of the USSR award, and more directly the local republics Peoples Artist of the RSFSR award, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Now, the status of the Peoples Artist of the Russian Federation has risen above that of the earlier RSFSR award, there are presently two levels to this award, The lower Honored Artist of Russia also translates as Meritorious Artist. This was equivalent to the earlier «Заслуженный артист РСФСР», which became «Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации», the higher Peoples Artist of Russia is the highest honorary title of the Russian Federation for outstanding achievements in the field of theater, music, circus, vaudeville and film art. Award makes the recipient eligible to receive the higher Peoples, for example, the light entertainment singer Sergei Georgievich Zakharov was awarded Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1988, then Peoples Artist of Russia in 1996. Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation Ministerial Awards of the Russian Federation List of awards of independent services of the Russian Federation
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Meritorious Artist
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The title is awarded by a national government to actors, directors, film makers, writers, dancers, singers, painters, architects, etc. for exceptional achievements in arts. The honorary title was originally modeled after German honorific title for distinguished opera singers, historically, the title was bestowed by princes or kings, when it was styled Hofkammersänger. The term is used to translate two different Russian language titles, заслуженный артист and заслуженный художник. Both titles are awarded for achievements in the corresponding arts. Some other arts gave rise to special titles, Meritorious Architect, Meritorious Writer, the same distinction of Meritorious Artist and above that Peoples Artist exist also in Vietnam. Some other fields gave rise to special titles, such as Meritorious Teacher, list of Peoples Artists of Azerbaijan Peoples Artist Peoples Artist of Russia Merited Artist of Ukraine Merited Artist of Albania Full list of recipients, by republic
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State Prize of the Russian Federation
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The State Prize of the Russian Federation is a state honorary prize established in 1992 as the successor for the USSR State Prize following the breakup of the Soviet Union. The award consists of a cash prize amounting to 5 million Russian rubles, a medal, if a number of coauthors equally contributed to a prize-winning work the prize is divided among no more than three authors. The medal for the State Prize was developed by the artist Yevgeny Ukhnalyov, the design is based on the Coat of arms of Russia. It shows a gold double-headed eagle with a scepter and a Globus cruciger with a red shield showing St. George with the dragon. The eagle is crowned by two small and one large crown and put on a silver wreath consisted of palm and laurel branches joined by a red ribbon, the design was adopted in 2005. Complete listings are available on Russian Wikipedia, For example, Laureates of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for 1992, anatoly Savin Literature and the arts Andrey Logvin Literature and the arts Yelena Panova - for her role in Border. Afanasiev, S. Dodonov, Anatolii Zasov, Valerij Polyachenko, Olga Silchenko, Evgenii Snezhkin, Oleg Khoruzhii - for prediction and discovery of new structures in spiral galaxies. Humanitarian work Jacques Chirac - President of France Science and Technology Vladimir Arnold - Russian mathematician, Alexey Khokhlov - Polymer scientist, Andrey Zaliznyak - Russian linguist. Literature and the arts Alisa Freindlich - actress of the Tovstonogov Theater in Saint Petersburg, Andrey Kovalchuk - Russian sculptor, Yevgeny Kaspersky - anti-virus software inventor. Yuri Oganessian for the opening of the new field of stability of superheavy elements, anatoly Derevyanko for outstanding discoveries and works in the field of ancient history in Eurasia and the formation of anatomically modern humans
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TEFI
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TEFI is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994, TEFI is presented in various sectors, such as television shows, notable people in the television industry, journalists, channels. The winners are awarded with Orpheus statuette created by Ernst Neizvestny, —1997,2001 Zov Djungley —1999 O, shastlivchik —2000 Srazis s Natsiey —08 Total Recall —08 Other Gentleman show —1994 Spokoinoi nochi, malyshi
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Russian language
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Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages, written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century and beyond. It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and it is also the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million native speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers, the language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Russian is also the second most widespread language on the Internet after English, Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language, another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels. Russian is a Slavic language of the Indo-European family and it is a lineal descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus. From the point of view of the language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although vanished during the 15th or 16th century, is considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian. In the 19th century, the language was often called Great Russian to distinguish it from Belarusian, then called White Russian and Ukrainian, however, the East Slavic forms have tended to be used exclusively in the various dialects that are experiencing a rapid decline. In some cases, both the East Slavic and the Church Slavonic forms are in use, with different meanings. For details, see Russian phonology and History of the Russian language and it is also regarded by the United States Intelligence Community as a hard target language, due to both its difficulty to master for English speakers and its critical role in American world policy. The standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language, mikhail Lomonosov first compiled a normalizing grammar book in 1755, in 1783 the Russian Academys first explanatory Russian dictionary appeared. By the mid-20th century, such dialects were forced out with the introduction of the education system that was established by the Soviet government. Despite the formalization of Standard Russian, some nonstandard dialectal features are observed in colloquial speech. Thus, the Russian language is the 6th largest in the world by number of speakers, after English, Mandarin, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a choice for both Russian as a second language and native speakers in Russia as well as many of the former Soviet republics. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics, samuel P. Huntington wrote in the Clash of Civilizations, During the heyday of the Soviet Union, Russian was the lingua franca from Prague to Hanoi
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Russia
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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians
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Intergirl
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Intergirl is a 1989 Soviet drama film. Set in Leningrad in the time of perestroika during the 1980s, the film was the most popular Soviet film in 1989 and made a star of leading actress Elena Yakovleva. It is the adaptation of the eponymous story by Vladimir Kunin. A Swedish client of a prostitute catering to foreigners who is also a nurse from Leningrad with the name of Tanya Zaitseva suddenly makes her a marriage proposal. After another conversation with the police she goes with good news back home to her mother, who thinks that her daughter is just a nurse. Tanya did not hide the fact that she is getting married not for love, but because she wants to have an apartment, in a conversation with her mother she argues that prostitution is characteristic of all trades, all sell themselves. However, the mother can not imagine that Tatiana sells herself in the truest sense of the word, Tanyas former client and now fiance Ed Larsen is a pass for Tanya in the Western world of dreams. However, on her way gets the Soviet bureaucracy, to travel to Sweden Tanya needed help, the heaviest price she gets help from her father, whom she has not seen for 20 years. He requires 3,000 rubles for permission for emigration - a lot of money in those days, Tanya has to re-engage in prostitution to get the money. Sweden very quickly bores the heroine, the only outlet for her become Russian truck drivers working in the Sovtransavto, through whom she sends gifts to his mother in Leningrad. Swedish friends not for a moment forget how Tanya earned in the USSR, Ed really loves his wife, but is always making comments about her habits. Tanya - absolutely a stranger in a strange world and she wants to visit his mother. Meanwhile prostitute girlfriend Tanya says over the phone that the USSR at her case on speculation for illegal currency exchange. Investigators come to Tanyas mother and reveals the secrets of her daughters high earnings, morally broken mother-teacher commits suicide, household gas poisoning in his apartment. Skein, a neighbor of Tanya, smells gas at the site, bursts into the apartment, knocks out the window, pulls her mother to court and unsuccessfully tries to save her and she struggled in vain knocking on the door to the neighbors. At this moment in Sweden Tanya turns as if to hear the knock and she feels that there was something terrible. In a panic, she jumps into the car, goes to the airport, the drama of the final episode reinforces the Russian folk song Tramp, which is the leitmotif of the film. Elena Yakovleva has won the Best Actress award at Nika,1990, Intergirl at the Internet Movie Database Intergirl at AllMovie Screenshots Online version Online version at Movie. ru
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Encore, Once More Encore!
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Encore, Once More Encore. is a 1992 post-war eccentric tragi-comedy set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. The film has won 5 awards, including The Best Film Nika Award,1993, in a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve, meanwhile, accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy. Lt. Poletaev is an irrepressible character, even the grim character of service in the Red Army following World War II isnt enough to dampen his spirits. Instead, he keeps things lively by accompanying the bases chorus on his accordion and he succeeds in both his quests. Not only that, but one of the singers and he have a nice little romantic spark going. Its too bad that shes the live-in lover of his boss, I made a film about love. About a Lieutenant, who fell in love with a Colonels young, the Colonel s got two wives, the first from the pre-war times and the second whom he met in the war and fell head over heels. Pangs of conscience, painful doubts, sidelong glances, only shot in the head can cleave this knot. says director Pyotr Todorovsky. Encore, Once More Encore. at the Internet Movie Database Movie Trailer and Screenshots
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Sovremennik Theatre
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Moscow Sovremennik Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. The Sovremennik Theatre was founded by a group of young Soviet actors during the Khrushchev Thaw, among the founders, all of whom graduated from Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, were Oleg Yefremov, Galina Volchek, Igor Kvasha, Liliya Tolmachyova, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev and Oleg Tabakov. The debut production was Victor Rozovs play Forever Alive, the theatres first artistic director, Oleg Yefremov, left in 1970. Since then the theatre is led by Galina Volchek
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Yermolova Theatre
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The Yermolova Theatre is a theatre company in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. It is under the direction of Vladimir Andreyev. The theatres building was built in the 1830s, and is one of the largest on Tverskaya Street, tickets for productions cost about 50-300 roubles. The theatre company was founded by graduates of the Maly Theatre studio in 1925 and it started out like most theatres did back then, as a school at first, then a travelling company and eventually became a stationary company. It was one of Moscows most popular dramatic theatres from 1940 to 1960
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Moscow
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Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.8 million within the urban area. Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city, Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city entirely on the European continent. Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Earth and it is home to the Ostankino Tower, the tallest free standing structure in Europe, the Federation Tower, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and the Moscow International Business Center. Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District of European Russia, the city is well known for its architecture, particularly its historic buildings such as Saint Basils Cathedral with its brightly colored domes. Moscow is the seat of power of the Government of Russia, being the site of the Moscow Kremlin, the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square are also one of several World Heritage Sites in the city. Both chambers of the Russian parliament also sit in the city and it is recognized as one of the citys landmarks due to the rich architecture of its 200 stations. In old Russian the word also meant a church administrative district. The demonym for a Moscow resident is москвич for male or москвичка for female, the name of the city is thought to be derived from the name of the Moskva River. There have been proposed several theories of the origin of the name of the river and its cognates include Russian, музга, muzga pool, puddle, Lithuanian, mazgoti and Latvian, mazgāt to wash, Sanskrit, majjati to drown, Latin, mergō to dip, immerse. There exist as well similar place names in Poland like Mozgawa, the original Old Russian form of the name is reconstructed as *Москы, *Mosky, hence it was one of a few Slavic ū-stem nouns. From the latter forms came the modern Russian name Москва, Moskva, in a similar manner the Latin name Moscovia has been formed, later it became a colloquial name for Russia used in Western Europe in the 16th–17th centuries. From it as well came English Muscovy, various other theories, having little or no scientific ground, are now largely rejected by contemporary linguists. The surface similarity of the name Russia with Rosh, an obscure biblical tribe or country, the oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic. Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered, on the territory of the Kremlin, Sparrow Hills, Setun River and Kuntsevskiy forest park, etc. The earliest East Slavic tribes recorded as having expanded to the upper Volga in the 9th to 10th centuries are the Vyatichi and Krivichi, the Moskva River was incorporated as part of Rostov-Suzdal into the Kievan Rus in the 11th century. By AD1100, a settlement had appeared on the mouth of the Neglinnaya River. The first known reference to Moscow dates from 1147 as a place of Yuri Dolgoruky. At the time it was a town on the western border of Vladimir-Suzdal Principality
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Flight Crew (film)
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Flight Crew is a Russian disaster film directed by Nikolay Lebedev and produced by Russia-1 Channel which released in April 2016. It stars Vladimir Mashkov, Danila Kozlovsky and Agne Grudyte, inspired by the 1979 Soviet film Air Crew, it was the second catastrophe film shot in the Russian Federation. The film was shot in digital 3D IMAX camera and become the second Russian film shot using this equipment, the premiere took place on April 21,2016. In foreign distribution, the owner of rights to the film was the film company Paramount Pictures, talented young pilot Alexey Gushchin does not accept authority and acts in accordance with a personal code of honor. For failure to comply with an order, he is prevented from flying a military aircraft again and in spite of that. He applies to an airline and displays remarkable flying talent. Alexey becomes the second pilot-trainee on the Tu-204SM under the guidance of a crew commander. Their work relationship is not easy, but due to Alexeys talent, Leonid chooses to keep him at his side, together, the two pilots manage to escape the island on two planes, however, the smaller cargo plane has not enough fuel. Using a risky maneuver, the crew manages to transfer passengers via sky line between the two vessels in air moments before the plane would run out of fuel and crash into the ocean. After the rough, but successful landing in lightning storm the two are terminated from their positions as pilots, and are transferred to Aeroflot as flight interns. Director Nikolai Lebedev wanted to make a film, but did not negotiate with potential producers, until Leonid Vereshchagin. The director started work with the support of Alexander Mitta, who directed the film of the same name in 1979. The movie received support from Russian Government which funded the movie through the National Cinema Foundation, filming started on September 18,2014 and wrapped on 10 February 2015. The filming took place in Moscow, Moscow region and in the Crimean peninsula, in the peninsula they filmed the earthquake-prone island volcano in the Indian Ocean. The crew shot the scenes in two planes, The Tupolev Tu-204SM and decommissioned Tupolev Tu-154 of Kosmos Airlines. The film was shot in digital 3D IMAX and become the second Russian film shot using this equipment after Stalingrad by Fedor Bondarchuk, the film has been dubbed into English for international markets by LipSync Chemistry in London. The film has released in Russia and other post-Soviet states in April,2016. The movie was released in China
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Baba Yaga
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In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga /ˈbɑːbə jəˈɡɑː/ is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking witch. Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter or seek her out. She sometimes plays a role, and also has associations with forest wildlife. According to Vladimir Propps folktale morphology, Baba Yaga commonly appears as either a donor or villain, andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in Slavic European folklore, and observes that she is enigmatic and often exhibits striking ambiguity. Variations of the name Baba Yaga are found in the languages of the Eastern Slavic peoples, the first element, baba, is transparently a babble word, meaning woman, or, specifically, old woman. The same word is used for both grandmother and old woman in general in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian and Serbo-Croatian languages. In modern Russian, the word бабушка babushka derives from it, Baba may also have a pejorative connotation in modern Ukrainian and Russian, both for women as well as for an unmanly, timid, or characterless man. In Polish, the term is considered to be pejorative, meaning vicious or ugly woman, in Czech both of those meanings apply. Similarly to other terms in Slavic languages, baba may be employed outside of kinship. For example, in variety of Slavic languages and dialects, the word baba may be applied to animals, natural phenomena. This function extends to various geographic features, in the Polesia region of Ukraine, the plural баби baby may refer to an autumn funeral feast. These associations have led to a variety of theories on the figure of Baba Yaga, the element may appear as a means of glossing the second element, yaga, with a familiar component. Additionally, baba may have also applied as a means of distinguishing Baba Yaga from a male counterpart. While a variety of etymologies have been proposed for the element of the name, Yaga, it remains far more etymologically problematic. For example, in the 19th century, Alexander Afanasyev proposed the derivation of Proto-Slavic *ǫžь and this etymology has subsequently been explored by other scholars in the 20th century. Related terms to the element of the name, Yaga, appear in various Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian jeza, Slovenian jeza, Old Czech jězě, modern Czech jezinka. The term appears in Old Church Slavonic as jęza or jędza, in other Indo-European languages the element iaga has been linked to Lithuanian engti, ingti and ingas, Old English inca, and Old Norse ekki. The first clear reference to Baba Yaga occurs in 1755, Mikhail V. Lomonosovs Rossiiskaya grammatika, in Lomonosovs grammar, Baba Yaga is mentioned twice among other figures largely from Slavic tradition
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Rachel Ward
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Rachel Claire Ward, AM is an English-born Australian actress, columnist, film director, television director, and screenwriter. Ward was born in Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, the daughter of Claire Leonora and her grandfathers were William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley and the cricketer Giles Baring. She attended Hatherop Castle School, Hatherop, Gloucestershire, then the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and she left school at age 16 to become a fashion and photography model. She briefly dated David Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, during her modelling career, she was featured on the covers of Vogue, Harpers & Queen and Cosmopolitan magazines. After moving to the United States in 1977, she appeared in television such as the Lincoln Mercury Cougar Girl. In 1981 she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year for her role in the film Sharkys Machine starring with Burt Reynolds, the following year she starred in Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid with Steve Martin. Also in 1983, U. S. audiences voted Ward one of the worlds 10 most beautiful women, in 1984, she played Jess in the film-noir remake Against All Odds, with Jeff Bridges. After filming Fortress in 1985, Ward then disappeared from film for years to study acting. She reappeared in 1987 playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown, in 2001, she was again nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her role in On the Beach. Also in 2001, Ward won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Short Fiction Film for The Big House, the film also won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award, as did her 2003 film Marthas New Coat. That film also won the 2003 ATOM Award, in 2003 a portrait of Ward by artist Jan Williamson won the Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize competition. In 2007, Ward returned to television, headlining the new ABC drama Rain Shadow and she played a country veterinarian named Kate McDonald, a free spirit who confronts personal and professional obstacles in a rural, drought-affected town. In 2009, she directed her first feature-length film titled Beautiful Kate, adapted by Ward from a 1982 Newton Thornburg novel, Ward has been married to Bryan Brown since 1983
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Lumi Cavazos
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The film grabbed the attention of US film critics and moviegoers, and facilitated her entry into the American film industry. She subsequently relocated to Los Angeles, born in Monterrey, Cavazos began her acting career at the age of 15, and made her film debut in Busi Cortes’1988 El Secreto de Romalia. Cavazos is sometimes credited as Rosita Lumi Cavazos and she had a featured role in Bottle Rocket, the first film of director Wes Anderson. Was engaged to Italian actor Marco Leonardi from 1991 to 1999, en un bosque de la China El Túnel de la ciencia. Tita Mi primer año Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Tres Destinos TV, cristina Del otro lado del mar Manhattan Merengue Banditi Viva San Isidro. Inez Land of Milk and Honey, rosie El Vuelo del águila TV. Amada Díaz Last Stand at Saber River TV, rocío Entre la tarde y la noche The Keening. Rebeca In the Time of the Butterflies, laura Silvera Entre dos Tan infinito como el desierto TV7 días. Sra. Garza La Ley del silencio TV, clemencia Las Buenrostro VH1 biography Lumi Cavazos at the Internet Movie Database
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Debra Winger
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Debra Lynn Winger is an American actress. She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands. She won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and her other film roles include Urban Cowboy, Legal Eagles, Black Widow, Betrayed, Forget Paris, and Rachel Getting Married. In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in the production of the David Mamet play The Anarchist. Debra Lynn Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into an Orthodox Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a packer, and Ruth. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California, wingers first acting role was as Debbie in the 1976 sexploitation film Slumber Party 57. Her next role was as Diana Princes younger sister Drusilla in three episodes of ABCs TV series, Wonder Woman, the producers had wanted her to appear more often, but she refused, fearing that the role would hurt her fledgling career. This was followed by a guest role in Season 4 of the TV drama Police Woman in 1978. In 1982 she co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more, for Terms of Endearment in 1983 and for Shadowlands in 1993 and her performance in A Dangerous Woman earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Over the years Winger acquired a reputation for being outspoken and sometimes difficult to work with. She has expressed her dislike of An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she refused to do any publicity, and several other of her films, commenting on her past attitudes, Winger said in 2009, Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. Even though I loved what I was doing, I didnt always know I could pull it off, but in my defense, I never fought about the size of my trailer or things like that, it was always about the work. When Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986, Davis said I see a great deal of myself in Debra Winger. Winger was going to play Peggy Sue in Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to back out just before production began when she injured her back in a bicycle accident, the injury affected her ability to work for several months afterward. She was cast in the role in A League of their Own. It was later reported that the main reason Winger chose to leave the film was her refusal to work with singer/actress Madonna. Other starring roles during this period included Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, in 1995 Winger decided to take a hiatus from acting
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress and producer. Leigh began her career as a teenager in the 1970s, guest-starring on several television shows and her film breakthrough came in 1982 for her performance as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Leigh continued performing past her teen years, receiving praise for her roles in the 1990 films Miami Blues. In 1991, she appeared in Ron Howards Backdraft, and in 1992 she acted in the drama-thriller Single White Female. In 1993, Leigh appeared in the ensemble film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman and, in 1994, Leigh was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. She starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner, in 2001, she co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled The Anniversary Party. In 2002, Leigh appeared in the crime-drama Road to Perdition, in 2007, she starred in Margot at the Wedding, which was directed by her then-husband, Noah Baumbach. She had a role on the Showtime television series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray. For her stage work, Leigh was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her Off-Broadway performance as Beverly Moss in Mike Leighs Abigails Party, Leighs Broadway debut occurred in 1998 when she became the replacement for the role of Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Leigh was born in Hollywood, California and her father, Vic Morrow, was an actor, and her mother, Barbara Turner, was a screenwriter. Her parents divorced when she was two, Leighs birth name was Jennifer Leigh Morrow. She changed her surname early in her career, taking the middle name Jason in honor of actor Jason Robards. Leigh has a sister, Carrie Ann Morrow, who was credited as a technical advisor on her 1995 film Georgia. Leigh also has a half-sister, actress Mina Badie, Badie acted alongside Leigh in The Anniversary Party. Director Reza Badiyi became Leighs stepfather when he married Leighs mother, Leigh worked in her first film at the age of nine. It was a role for the film Death of a Stranger. At 14, Leigh attended acting workshops, taught by the esteemed Lee Strasberg, at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake, afterwards, she landed a role in the movie The Young Runaways. She also appeared in an episode of Baretta and an episode of The Waltons, several TV movies followed, including a portrayal of an anorexic teenager in The Best Little Girl in the World, for which Leigh dropped to 86 pounds under medical supervision
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Socialist Party of Albania
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The Socialist Party of Albania, is a social-democratic political party in Albania, it gained power following the 2013 parliamentary election. The party seated 66 MPs in the 2009 Albanian parliament and it achieved power in 1997 after a political crisis and governmental realignment. In the 2001 parliamentary election the party secured 73 seats in the Parliament, which enabled it to form the Government. In the general election of 3 July 2005, the Socialist Party lost its majority and the Democratic Party of Albania formed the new government, having secured, with its allies, a majority of 81 seats. The Socialist Party of Albania is an associate of the Party of European Socialists and its official newspaper is Zëri i Popullit, which had been the organ of its predecessor, the Communist Party of Labour of Albania. The party, formed in November 1941, has known as the Socialist Party since 1991. The Communist Party of Labour of Albania, the ruling party since the end of World War II, was the most rigid Stalinist party in Europe under its founder. However, Hoxhas successor, Ramiz Alia, was forced to introduce limited reforms in the late 1980s, finally, on 11 December 1990, Alia announced that the PPSh had given up its monopoly of power. The PPSh won the Constitutional Assembly elections of March 1991—the first free elections held in the country in almost 80 years, by this time, however, it was no longer a Marxist–Leninist party. At an extraordinary congress in June 1991, in its efforts to survive in the new system, fatos Nano, a man from the intelligentsia, was elected the new chairman. Nano helped to reform the old communist party and made it a member of the Socialist International, on 1 September 2005 Nano resigned as the chairman of the Socialist Party, after losing the elections. He was succeeded by Edi Rama, fatos Nano was the head of Socialist Party of Albania from 1991 to 2005. In 2005, after a defeat in the elections, he resigned from his post. PSs current leader is Edi Rama, former Mayor of Tirana, gramoz Ruçi, who was Interior Minister of the last cabinet of the communist regime and is well known for his loyalty to the party, is the head of the Socialist Group, which has 64 MPs. Ben Blushi is an important party politician that has strongly criticized the way Edi Rama is leading the Socialist Party. Vice-coordinators of the group are Erjon Braçe, Vasilika Hysi, Saimir Tahiri, Eduard Shalsi, arta Dade is the party secretary for international affairs, and she is assisted by Arben Ahmetaj, Taulant Balla, Olta Xhacka, Ditmir Bushati and Qemal Minxhozi. Ahmetaj and Balla usually deal with PS relationships with the left parties in Europe, especially with the Greek Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Blendi Klosi, is seen as a very important politician in PS
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Helena Bonham Carter
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Helena Bonham Carter, CBE is an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove. For her role as Queen Elizabeth in The Kings Speech, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and she also won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role as British author Enid Blyton in the TV film Enid. Bonham Carter began her career playing the title character in Lady Jane. Her other television films include A Pattern of Roses, Live from Baghdad, Toast, Bonham Carter was born in Islington, London. C. Her mother, Elena, is a psychotherapist who is of mostly Jewish background and her paternal grandmother was politician and feminist icon Violet Asquith, daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the first half of World War I. Bonham Carter is the youngest of three children, with two brothers, Edward and Thomas and they were brought up in Golders Green and she was educated at South Hampstead High School, and completed her A-levels at Westminster School. When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a nervous breakdown. Five years after her mothers recovery, her father was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma and he suffered complications during an operation to remove the tumour which led to a stroke that left him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair. With her brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help her mother cope and she later studied her fathers movements and mannerisms for her role in The Theory of Flight. Bonham Carter, who has no formal acting training, entered the field winning a national writing contest and she made her professional acting début at the age of 16 in a television commercial. She also had a part in a minor TV film, A Pattern of Roses and her first lead film role was as Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane, which was given mixed reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, the role went to Emily Watson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance. In 1994, Bonham Carter appeared in a sequence during the second series of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, as Edina Monsoons daughter Saffron. Throughout the series, references were made to Saffrons resemblance to Bonham Carter and her early films led to her being typecast as a corset queen, and English rose, playing pre- and early 20th century characters, particularly in Merchant-Ivory films. She played Olivia in Trevor Nunns film version of Twelfth Night in 1996, Bonham Carter speaks French fluently, and starred in a 1996 French film Portraits chinois. In August 2001, she was featured in Maxim, Bonham Carter was a member of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival jury that unanimously selected The Wind That Shakes the Barley as best film. In May 2006, Bonham Carter launched her own line, The Pantaloonies
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Abigail Breslin
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Abigail Kathleen Breslin is an American actress and singer. She appeared in her first commercial when she was three years old, and in her first film, Signs, at the age of five. In September 2015, she began acting in the horror-comedy Scream Queens on Fox, Breslin was born in New York City, the daughter of Kim and Michael Breslin, a telecommunications expert, computer programmer, and consultant. She has two brothers, Ryan and Spencer, who are also actors. The Breslin siblings live in New York in a very close-knit family and her maternal grandmother, Catherine, died in June 2015. She is named after Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the United States, Breslins career began at the age of three when she appeared in a Toys R Us commercial. Her first acting role was in Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, where she played Bo Hess, Signs garnered mostly positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $408 million worldwide. Breslins performance in the film was praised by critics, david Ansen of Newsweek wrote that she and co-star Rory Culkin gave terrifically natural, nuanced performances. In 2004, she appeared in Raising Helen, in which she and her brother Spencer played siblings, Breslin had a small role in The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement. In the independent film Keane, she played Kira Bedik, a girl who reminds the mentally disturbed protagonist William Keane of his missing. Keane had a theatrical release and grossed only $394,390 worldwide but it received positive reviews. Meghan Keane of The New York Sun wrote that the scenes between Mr. Lewis and the charmingly fragile Kira, winningly played by Ms. Breslin, bring a captivating humanity to the film. Breslins breakthrough role was in the 2006 comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine, where she played Olive Hoover, a beauty pageant contestant and she was cast at the age of six, years before filming was started. Her co-stars, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin, both stated that they were astounded by her seriousness of purpose during shooting, Little Miss Sunshine was a critical and commercial success, grossing $100 million worldwide. Her performance was praised, Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that, If Olive had been played by any other little girl. She received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, although Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar, Breslin co-presented with actor Jaden Smith at the 79th Academy Awards on February 25,2007. Breslin was part of the Disney Year of a Million Dreams celebration, annie Leibovitz photographed her as Fira from Disney Fairies with Dame Julie Andrews as the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio. In 2007, Breslin was ranked #8 in Forbes Magazines list of Young Hollywoods Top-Earning Stars, Breslin next appeared in the 2007 romantic comedy No Reservations, playing the niece of master chef Kate Armstrong
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Shefali Shah
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Shefali Shah is an Indian actress who works in Bollywood films. After making her debut with a minor role in the 1995 drama Rangeela. Her performance in Satya received critical praise and won her the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and she was later nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the family drama Waqt, The Race Against Time. In 2007, she received acclaim and won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Last Lear. She starred in the 2015 dramedy Dil Dhadakne Do, receiving nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She along with the main cast won the Screen Award for Best Ensemble Cast for the film, Shefali Shah was born in July 1972 and is the only child of Sudhakar Shetty and Shobha Shetty. She spent her childhood at the RBI quarters in Santa Cruz, Mumbai where she attended Arya Vidya Mandir, Santacruz. She speaks Tulu, Hindi, English and Gujarati fluently, Shah made her film debut with Rangeela, although she only had a few scenes in the film. She ventured into television with the serial Kabhie Kabhie and she starred in the critically acclaimed film Satya for which she received the Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress and a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. Shah starred in the hit Waqt, The Race Against Time as Amitabh Bachchans wife, the film was directed by her husband Vipul Shah. Her performance was appreciated by the critics, Shefali Shahs break through performance was as Ria Verma in the internationally acclaimed Monsoon Wedding. She graduated to mature roles as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi, My Father and she won a National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rituparno Ghoshs The Last Lear. In 2010 she took to the stage opposite Kiran Karmarkar in the Hindi version of Chandrakant Kulkarni’s play Dhyanimani, Shah was married to television actor Harsh Chhaya. After their divorce, she married director Vipul Amrutlal Shah and she has two sons with Shah. Banegi Apni Baat as Richa Raahein - Lead role Kabhie Kabhie as Radha Pathak Hasratein as Savithri/Saavi Naya Nukkad Sea Hawks Aarohan Tolo TV Kabul Shefali Shah at the Internet Movie Database
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Julie Gayet
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Julie Gayet is a French film actress and film producer. Gayet was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, where her father Brice Gayet is a professor and he was former head of the clinic to the Lariboisière Hospital and lecturer at the Faculty Xavier Bichat at Paris Diderot University. Her mother is an antique dealer and her paternal grandfather, Alain Gayet, was also a surgeon and became a Compagnon de la Libération after World War II. She received a liberal intellectual upbringing. Gayet studied art history and psychology at university, circus skills at the school of the Fratellini family. At the age of 17, she studied at the Actors Studio in London with Jack Waltzer and her musical performances include playing in video-clips for Benjamin Biolay and singing a duet with Marc Lavoine. In 2007, she founded her own company, Rouge International, with Nadia Turincev and produced films such as Fix me by Palestinian Raed Andoni. In 2013, Gayet co-directed with Mathieu Busson the documentary Cinéasts featuring 20 French female film directors, Gayet appeared on the cover of the 17 January 2014 issue of the French Elle magazine. The issue exceptionally hit newsstands on 15 January 2014, two ahead of its usual release day. The headline reads “Julie Gayet, Actress and Committed Woman, a French Passion. ”In 2003, Gayet married author and screenwriter Santiago Amigorena and she then had a controversial relationship with Alexis Mercier, a French singer known as Aldène. Gayet is a centre-left activist, having appeared in a video supporting François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election and she is a member of the Support Committee of the PS candidate for the 2014 Paris mayoral election, Anne Hidalgo. She also supported same-sex marriage in France, in 2013 rumours started circulating that Gayet was in a secret relationship with President Hollande. On 10 January 2014, a story in the tabloid Closer featured seven pages of alleged revelations and photos about the affair, Hollande said he regretted this violation of his private life and was thinking about pursuing a legal response, but did not deny the substance of the story. The 10 January issue was so popular that Closer reprinted the issue, on 16 January 2014, the AFP news agency reported that Gayet would sue Closer for €50,000 in damages and €4,000 in legal costs. On 27 March 2014, French court ordered Closer magazine to pay actress Julie Gayet €15,000 for publishing photos that revealed an affair between her and President Hollande,1997, Prix Romy Schneider for her role in Sélect Hôtel. 1997, Best European Actress for Sélect Hôtel, Brussels International Film Festival,2009, Best Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival for 8 fois debout Duet with Marc Lavoine on the song Avec toi from the album Je descends du singe. Julie Gayet at the Internet Movie Database Julie Gayet Filmography at Allocine
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Fan Bingbing
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Fan Bingbing is a Chinese actress, television producer and pop singer. Fan rose to fame in East Asia in 1998–1999 with the mega-hit TV series My Fair Princess, in 2003, she starred in Cell Phone, which became the highest-grossing Chinese film of the year, and received critical acclaim at the Hundred Flowers Award. Fan has also participated in many films, such as the French film Stretch, the Korean film My Way. Fan topped the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013,2014 and 2015 and she is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world and has also been called a fashion icon due to frequent appearances on the red carpet, movie premieres, and fashion shows. Fan was born in Qingdao but was raised in Yantai and she graduated from Shanghai Xie Jin Film and Television Art College and Shanghai Theatre Academy. She was recommended by Taiwanese actress Leanne Liu to join the cast of My Fair Princess, after that, Fan signed an eight-year contract with Chiung Yaos company, which produced My Fair Princess. In 2000, Fan joined a company owned by Wang Jinghua, at the end of 2000, Wang became the general manager of Huayi Brothers, so Fan followed Wang and signed a six-year contract with Huayi. From 1999 to 2002, Fan acted in a total of 17 TV series, Fan also acted in many films. She also appeared in The Lion Roars, The Twins Effect II, A Chinese Tall Story and she received a Golden Bauhinia Awards nomination for her role in A Battle of Wits. Fan released her first album, Just Begun, in 2005 and she worked with many renowned music producers and composers in order to incorporate a wide variety of genres into the album. In 2006, Forbes China gave its most prized award, the Star of the Year, to Fan for her popularity, high press coverage, regarding her six-year cooperation with Huayi Brothers, Fan said, Huayi gave me a lot of opportunities. It has a good team and the spirit of cooperation. The six years really are a non-stop time, in the company, everyone calls me Astro Boy. I did the most works, and I am the person who able to endure the most hardship, Fan left Huayi Brothers in February 2007 and then started her own studio, Fan Bingbing Studio. She starred in eight films in 2007, winning the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 44th Golden Horse Film Awards for her role in The Matrimony and she also won the Best Actress Award at the 4th Eurasia International Film Festival for her role in the film Lost in Beijing. In 2008, Fan started a school in Huairou, Beijing, and served as its principal. She also became the leader of the team of West Movie Groups arts centre. That year, her studio made its first television production, Rouge Snow, Fan played the starring role in the production, portraying a poor girl who fights for freedom against fate after being sold to a wealthy and influential clan
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Glenn Close
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Glenn Close is an American actress, singer and film producer. With an acting career spanning over 40 years, she has been acclaimed for her versatility and is widely regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She has won three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and has received six Academy Award nominations and she would later receive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, and Albert Nobbs. She starred as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2003 TV film The Lion in Winter, in 2005, she starred in the drama series The Shield. Then from 2007 to 2012, she starred as Patty Hewes in the FX drama series Damages and she has voiced the character of Mona Simpson in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1995. She returned to Broadway in November 2014, in a revival of Edward Albees A Delicate Balance. Her other films include Jagged Edge, Hamlet, Reversal of Fortune,101 Dalmatians, Paradise Road, Air Force One, Cookies Fortune, Heights, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Girl With All The Gifts. Close is a six-time Academy Award nominee, tying the record for being the actress with the most nominations never to have won, as of 2016, Close has more Oscar nominations without a win than any other living actor. In addition, she has been nominated for four Tonys, fourteen Emmys, thirteen Golden Globes and she has also won an Obie award and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and a BAFTA. Close has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and she has two sisters, Tina and Jessie, and two brothers, Alexander and Tambu Misoki, whom Closes parents adopted while living in Africa. Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields, during her childhood, Close lived with her parents in a stone cottage on her maternal grandfathers estate in Greenwich. Although Close came from an affluent background, she stated that her family not to participate in WASP society. She would also avoid mentioning her birthplace whenever asked because she did not want people to think she was a dilettante who didnt have to work. When she was seven years old, her parents joined a cult group, Close described MRA as a group that dictated every aspect of her life, from the clothes that had to be worn to what they were allowed to say. In an interview Close stated that her desire to become an actress allowed her to break away from the cult, stating and they had their reasons for doing what they did, and I understand them. It had terrible effects on their kids, but that’s the way it is and we all try to survive, right. And I think what actually saved me more than anything was my desire to be an actress and she spent time in Switzerland when studying at St. Georges School in Switzerland. Close traveled for years in the mid-to-late 1960s with an MRA singing group called Up With People
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Eugene Domingo
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Eugena Eugene Roxas Domingo is a Filipino film and theater actress, comedian and host. She has performed in lead and supporting roles and in genres of the film industry. Domingos other notable films include Bahay Kubo wherein she was awarded on her first Best Supporting Actress award and her most successful film to date is the Cinemalaya entry, Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank which holds the record for the highest grossing independent film in Filipino entertainment history. The film was an entry for various international film festivals in Vancouver, South Korea, Hawaii, Japan. The film was chosen by the Film Academy of the Philippines to represent the Philippines in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards. Domingo achieved Best Actress awards, at the Cinemalaya and 10th Gawad Tanglaw for Films and she also received the Peoples Choice Award for Best Actress at the 6th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong and Best Actress award at the 3rd Pau International Film Festival in France. Domingo is the actress in the Philippine entertainment history to have participated in six films produced by eight Filipino production companies within a year. Domingo holds the record of being the first lead actress in Philippine cinema to star in the most films — seven — in a year. Since 2008, she has been a contract artist of GMA Network appearing on various shows like Jejemom, drama shows like Ako si Kim Sam Soon, Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang. She also hosted Cool Center and Comedy Bar, apart from her television and mainstream appearance, she also headlined theater show in Bona produced by the Philippine Educational Theater Association in 2012. She was nominated as Best Actress in a Play award for her role at the International Theater Award, Domingo was born at 1,00 AM on July 23,1971 in Malate, Manila to Reynaldo Aguinaldo Domingo and Cecilia Atad Roxas. According to her, she was fond of copying her teachers and she became interested in acting when she witnessed a musical held at the CCP Complex. She studied Theatre Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman, apprenticing as an actress, production and stage management staff under the theatre company. Domingo started her acting career through the movie, Emma Salazar Case produced by Regal Entertainment in 1991. It was then followed by a biographical movie Maricris Sioson in 1993 and she was launched in television as Dolores in a series, Valiente run by ABS-CBN and GMA Network in 1992 to 1997. In 1998, she appeared in a three films produced by VIVA Films, Pagdating Ng Panahon, Ikaw Pa Rin Ang Iibigin and she also appeared on the Book 1 of a GMA Networks series, Kirara, Ano Ang Kulay ng Pag-ibig. in 1999. She had her first hosting role through D-Day with Ms. Dina Bonnevie in 1999, but, there was a time, when, out of sheer frustration, she stopped acting for the TV-film cameras because of bit player roles. Domingo went back to school and after she finished college, decided she would only in stage productions
