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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
Manhattan
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View from
Midtown Manhattan, facing south toward
Lower Manhattan
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Peter Minuit, early 1600s.
Manhattan
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The
Castello Plan showing the Dutch colonial city of
New Amsterdam in 1660 – then confined to the southern tip of Manhattan Island.
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J.Q.A. Ward 's statue of
George Washington in front of
Federal Hall (on
Wall Street) where he was inaugurated as the first
U.S. President in 1789.
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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15th Street (Manhattan)
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The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 228 numbered east–west streets, the majority of them created by the Commissioners Plan of 1811. These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the plan is aligned with the Hudson River, rather than with the cardinal direction. Thus, the grids west is approximately 29 degrees north of true west, the grid covers the length of the island from 14th Street north. All numbered streets carry an East or West prefix, which changes from one to the other at Broadway below 8th Street, the numbered streets carry crosstown traffic. In general, but with exceptions, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound. Most wider streets, and a few of the narrow ones, some streets in that area that do continue farther west change direction before reaching the Hudson River. 220th Street is the highest numbered street on Manhattan Island, but Marble Hill is also within the borough of Manhattan, the numbering system continues in the Bronx, up to 263rd Street. The lowest numbered street in Manhattan is East First Street, which runs through Alphabet City near East Houston Street, there is also a First Place in Battery Park City. East 1st Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue A, peretz Square, a small triangular sliver park where Houston Street, First Street and First Avenue meet marks the spot where the grid takes hold. East 2nd Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue C, the East end of East 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Streets is Avenue D, with East 6th Street continuing further Eastward and connecting to FDR Drive. The west end of these streets is the Bowery and Third Avenue, except for 3rd Street and 4th Street, great Jones Street connects East 3rd to West 3rd. For 4th Street, see 4th Street, East 5th Street goes west to Cooper Square, but is interrupted between Avenues B and C by The Earth School, Public School 364, and between First Avenue and Avenue A by the Village View Apartments. West 8th Street is an important local shopping street, 8th Street between Avenue A and Third Avenue is called St Marks Place, but it is counted in the length below. M8 bus route operates eastbound on 8th Street and westbound on 9th Street between Avenue A and Sixth Avenue, 10th Street begins at the FDR Drive and Avenue C. West of Sixth Avenue, it turns southward about 40 degrees to join the Greenwich Village street grid, because West 4th Street turns northward at Sixth Avenue, it intersects 10th, 11th and 12th and 13th Streets in the West Village. The M8 bus operates on 10th Street in both directions between Avenue D and Avenue A, and eastbound between West Street and Sixth Avenue, 10th Street has an eastbound bike lane from West Street to the East River. In 2009, the section of 10th Street between Avenue A and the East River had bicycle markings and sharrows installed, but it still has no dedicated bike lane. West 10th Street was previously named Amos Street for Charles Chistopher Amos, the end of West 10th Street toward the Hudson River was once the home of Newgate Prison, New York Citys first prison and the United States second
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Peretz Square,
Houston Street on left; First Street on right
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Bike parking at 17th Street
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33 East 17th Street (
NRHP)
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Gershwin Hotel on East 27th Street
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Union Square (New York City)
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The park is under the aegis of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Adjacent neighborhoods are the Flatiron District to the north, Chelsea to the west, Greenwich Village to the southwest, East Village to the southeast, many buildings of The New School are near the square, as are several dormitories of New York University. It features a wall sculpture and digital clock expelling bursts of steam. Among the heterogeneous assortment of buildings along the west side is the Decker Building, Union Square is noted for its impressive equestrian statue of U. S. A statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the southwest corner of the park was added in 1986, the 14th Street – Union Square New York City Subway station, served by the 456 <6> L N Q R W trains, is located under Union Square. In 1815, by act of the legislature, this former potters field became a public commons for the city. Ruggles obtained a lease on most of the surrounding lots from 15th to 19th Streets. In 1834 he convinced the Board of Aldermen to enclose and grade the square, then sold most of his leases, a fountain was built in the center of Union Square to receive water from the Croton Aqueduct, completed in 1842. The Everett House on the corner of 17th Street and Fourth Avenue was for one of the citys most fashionable hotels. In the early years of the park a fence surrounded the central oval planted with radiating walks lined with trees. In 1872, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were called in to replant the park, the last of the neighborhoods free-standing private mansions, Peter Goelets at the northeast corner of 19th Street, made way for a commercial building in 1897. The Rialto, New York Citys first commercial district, was located in. It was called the Rialto after the district in Venice. The theater district gradually re-located northward, into less expensive and undeveloped uptown neighborhoods, thus, suppliers of props, costumes, wigs, scenery, and other theatrical necessities grew up around the new theatres. The park has historically been the start or the end point for political demonstrations. In the summer of 1864 the north side of the square was the site of a Sanitary Fair, Union Square has been a frequent gathering point for radicals of all stripes to make speeches or demonstrate. On September 5,1882, in the first Labor Day celebration, on March 28,1908, an anarchist set off a bomb in Union Square which only killed himself and another man. On August 21,1893, Emma Goldman took the stage at Union Square to make her Free Bread speech to a crowd of overworked garment workers
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Union Square
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Union Square in 1908
Union Square (New York City)
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George Washington (
Henry Kirke Brown, 1856) in the middle of
Fourth Avenue at
14th Street, c.1870
Union Square (New York City)
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The
statue in its current location in the middle of the park
5.
Irving Place
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Along its 5. 5-mile, 110-block route, Lexington Avenue runs through Harlem, Carnegie Hill, the Upper East Side, Midtown, and Murray Hill to a point of origin that is centered on Gramercy Park. South of Gramercy Park, the axis continues as Irving Place from 20th Street to East 14th Street, the portion of Lexington Avenue between 14th and 20th Streets is known as Irving Place. Ruggles had purchased land in the area, and was developing it as a community of townhouses around a private park. He was also developing property around the planned Union Square, the legislation approved, and, as the owner of most of the land along the route of the new street, Ruggles was assessed for the majority of its cost. Ruggles named the section, below 20th Street, which opened in 1833. The northern section, which opened three years later, in 1836, was named after the Battle of Lexington in the Revolutionary War. Lexington saw the first arrest in New York for speeding, in 1899, when a bicycle patrolman overtook cabdriver Jacob German, the portion of Lexington Avenue above East 42nd Street was reconstructed at the same time as the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. The widened street and the line both opened on July 17,1918. Parallel to Lexington Avenue lies Park Avenue to its west and Third Avenue to its east, the avenue is largely commercial at ground level, with offices above. There are clusters of hotels in the 30s and 40s, roughly from the intersection with 30th Street through to its intersection with 49th Street. Portions of the avenue were widened in 1955, which required eminent domain takings of the facades of some structures along Lexington, Lexington Avenue has carried one-way traffic since July 17,1960. The July 18,2007 New York City steam explosion sent a geyser of hot steam up from beneath the avenue at 41st Street resulting in one death and more than 40 injuries. In contrast to Lexington Avenue, the stretch of Irving Place. Irving Plaza, on East 15th Street and Irving, hosts concerts for both well-known and indie bands and draws a crowd almost every night. Another component of the avenue are the apartment buildings which line the street from Gramercy Park to 17th Street. Also at 17th, a small bed-and-breakfast, the Inn at Irving Place, offices located on Irving Place include those of The Nation magazine, the New York branch of the Rosicrucian Order and the Seafarers and International House mission. There are also a number of clinics and official city buildings along the street, including Washington Irving High School, the bottom of the street is anchored by the rear of the Zeckendorf Towers condominium apartment complex on the west side, and the Consolidated Edison Building on the east. M101 and M103 run to 125th Street, M102 runs to 116th Street, Lexington Avenue became part of a classic American cinematic moment, in the 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch, the scene in which Marilyn Monroe shot what would become her most famous scene
Irving Place
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View northward from the top floors of the
Chrysler Building
Irving Place
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View of Lexington Avenue south from 50th street, with the
Chrysler Building in the background
Irving Place
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Pete's Tavern
6.
Santa Monica Boulevard
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Santa Monica Boulevard is a major west-east thoroughfare in Los Angeles County. It breaks off Sunset Boulevard at Sunset Junction and ends at Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean, the western terminus of Santa Monica Boulevard is at Ocean Avenue near the Pacific Ocean. From there until the San Diego Freeway, Santa Monica Boulevard is an urban commercial street. It assumes the designation California State Route 2 between Lincoln Boulevard and the Hollywood Freeway, Santa Monica Boulevard, being a major street, is for most of its length at least four lanes wide. Most of the Westside car dealerships are located on Santa Monica Boulevard, after Sepulveda Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard passes by Century City and its shopping center, and intersects with Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. After intersecting with Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica Boulevard continues northeast towards West Hollywood, spanning Beverly Boulevard, at Holloway Drive, in the middle of West Hollywood, Santa Monica, now north of Melrose Avenue turns to run east. In West Hollywood, between Doheny Drive and Fairfax Avenue along Santa Monica Boulevard, bronze plaques are embedded in the sidewalks as part of the West Hollywood Memorial Walk. One of the most famous spots for prostitution and transgender prostitution is Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood area. The original southern end of California State Route 170 was at the intersection with Highland Avenue, Santa Monica Boulevard merges on its eastern end with Sunset Boulevard in the Sunset Junction neighborhood of Silver Lake. After Rexford Drive, Little Santa Monica turns east, becoming Burton Way, Burton Way merges into San Vicente Boulevard at its intersection with La Cienega Boulevard. Metro Local line 4, Metro Rapid line 704 and Santa Monica Transit Line 1 operate on Santa Monica Boulevard, the Metro Red Line serves an underground station on Santa Monica Boulevard at its intersection with Vermont Avenue
Santa Monica Boulevard
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Santa Monica Boulevard at Century City
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West Hollywood, California
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West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip, as of the 2010 census, its population was 34,399. It is considered one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States, the citys irregular boundary is featured in its logo, it was largely formed from the unincorporated Los Angeles County area that had not become part of the surrounding cities. West Hollywood benefits from a dense, compact urban form with small lots, mixed land use. According to Walkscore, a website that ranks cities based on walkability, commercial corridors include the nightlife and dining focused on the Sunset Strip, along Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Avenues of Art & Design along Robertson, Melrose, and Beverly Boulevard. Major intersecting streets typically provide amenities within walking distance of adjacent neighborhoods, West Hollywood has a Subtropical-semi-arid climate with year-round warm weather. The record high temperature of 111 °F was recorded September 26,1963, snow is rare in West Hollywood, with the last accumulation occurring in 1949. Rainfall is sparse, and falls mainly during winter months, around 5,000 of the indigenous inhabitants from the Tongva Indian tribe canoed out to greet Juan Cabrillo. The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their reverence of dance, by 1771, these native people had been severely ravaged by diseases brought in by the Europeans from across wide oceans. The Spanish mission system changed the name to Gabrielinos, in reference to the Mission de San Gabriel. The Gabrielinos are believed to have burned the pitch for fuel, by 1780, what became the Sunset Strip was the major connecting road for El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and all ranches westward to the Pacific Ocean. This land passed through the hands of owners during the next one hundred years. Most of this area was part of the Rancho La Brea, Sherman became the location of the railroads main shops, railroad yards, and car barns. Many working-class employees of the railroad settled in this town and it was during this time that the city began to earn its reputation as a loosely regulated, liquor-friendly place for eccentric people wary of government interference. Despite several annexation attempts, the town elected not to part of the City of Los Angeles. For many years, the area that is now the city of West Hollywood was an area in the midst of Los Angeles. Because gambling was illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but still legal in Los Angeles County and these businesses were immune from the sometimes heavy-handed law-enforcement of the L. A. Some people connected with movie-making were attracted to this area of the County
West Hollywood, California
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Part of the
Sunset Strip in 2001
West Hollywood, California
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La Fontaine Building (apartments) in 1982
West Hollywood, California
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Whiskey a Go-Go on the
Sunset Strip
West Hollywood, California
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Chateau Marmont Hotel in adjacent
Hollywood
8.
Lee Strasberg
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Lee Strasberg was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. He was born in a part of Galicia, Austrian Poland and he co founded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as Americas first true theatrical collective. The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute has its own sets of entrance criteria required for admission into their program. Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden, as a student, Dean wrote that Actors Studio was the greatest school of the theater the best thing that can happen to an actor. Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasbergs actors and they communicate emotions they really feel. They give you a sense of life, directors such as Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors skilled in Strasbergs method. Kazan, in his autobiography, wrote, He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a doctor, a psychoanalyst. Was the force held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together. Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights and he also appeared in. And Justice for All. Strasbergs personal papers, including photos, are archived at the Library of Congress, Lee Strasberg was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów in Austrian Poland, to Jewish parents, Baruch Meyer Strassberg and his wife, Ida, née Diner, and was the youngest of three sons. His father emigrated to New York while his family remained in their village with an uncle. His father, who worked as a presser in the garment industry, sent first for his eldest son, finally, enough money was saved to bring over his wife and his two remaining sons. In 1909, the family was reunited on Manhattans Lower East Side, a relative introduced him to the theater by giving him a small part in a Yiddish-language production being performed by the Progressive Drama Club. He later joined the Chrystie Street Settlement Houses drama club, when he was 23 years old, he enrolled in the Clare Tree Major School of the Theater. He became a naturalized United States citizen on January 16,1939, had his life-shaping revelation when Stanislavski brought his Moscow Art Theatre to the United States in 1923. He had seen good acting before, of course, but never an ensemble like this with actors completely surrendering their egos to the work. E observed, first of all, that all the actors, whether they were playing leads or small parts, worked with the same commitment, no actors idled about posing and preening. More important, every actor seemed to some sort of unspoken, yet palpable
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Strasberg in 1976
Lee Strasberg
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Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio
Lee Strasberg
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Strasberg acting with
Al Pacino in
Godfather II
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Strasberg in 1978
9.
Tisch School of the Arts
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The New York University Tisch School of the Arts is a center of study in the performing and media arts. Founded on August 17,1965, Tisch is a ground for artists, scholars of the arts, filmmakers. The school merges the technical training of a school with the academic resources of a major research university to immerse students in their intended artistic disciplines. It is located at 721 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City, NYU has the most alumni working at Broadway theatre. Tisch School of the Arts was founded in order to provide training in theatre and film. The school created additional departments such as dance, theatre design, in recognition of the generosity of the Tisch family, the school was renamed Tisch School of the Arts. Tisch also offers a selection of classes to NYU students not enrolled in any of its programs through the Open Arts curriculum, the Graduate Acting Program offers a three-year MFA that equips acting students with the skills of a working career in theatre and/or film. The Department of the Dance offers training on the graduate and undergraduate level to students preparing for careers as dancers or choreographers, while taking full advantage of the liberal arts resources of the New York University and the cultural resources of the New York City. The Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program is an MFA program specially designed for the major collaborators in the creation of new theater and opera, composers, lyricists. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program has gained a reputation for its selectivity. Zelda Fichandler became chair of the program in 1984 and stepped down in 2008, in May 2008, Mark Wing-Davey became chair. Graduate Acting alumni have gone on to achieve many acting accolades, faison Edi Gathegi Jordan Gelber,2000 Enver Gjokaj Matthew Gray Gubler Logan Marshall Green Christopher Guest,1971 Danai Gurira Michael C. Many of the faculty have their own independent of the dance department. The program strives to prepare students for the life of a dancer, preparing them by treating their third year students as a company. Students graduate in three years, hence the schedule which is accelerated in order for dancers to graduate earlier than their peers in other college dance programs. Because of brevity of the program, students attend a six-week summer course following their first. During these summer intensives, six different companies come in a week each and teach students their style of movement and this is an excellent way for students to be introduced to companies and have the chance to get noticed and get to know the different companies in an intimate setting. This is unique to the Tisch Dance Program, and is conducive to introducing dancers into the world of auditions
Tisch School of the Arts
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Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
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Undergraduate students perform in a main stage production of
Dancing at Lughnasa.
Tisch School of the Arts
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Post-production center on the 11th floor of the Tisch building at 721 Broadway in New York
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New York University
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New York University is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is considered one of the worlds most influential research universities, University rankings compiled by Times Higher Education, U. S. News & World Report, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU amongst the top 32 universities in the world. NYU is a part of the creativity, energy and vibrancy that is Manhattan, located with its core in Greenwich Village. Among its faculty and alumni are 37 Nobel Laureates, over 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, alumni include heads of state, royalty, eminent mathematicians, inventors, media figures, Olympic medalists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and astronauts. NYU alumni are among the wealthiest in the world, according to The Princeton Review, NYU is consistently considered by students and parents as a Top Dream College. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declared his intention to establish in this immense, a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all. A three-day-long literary and scientific convention held in City Hall in 1830 and these New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class. On April 18,1831, an institution was established, with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the merchants, bankers. Albert Gallatin was elected as the institutions first president, the university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, in 1835, the School of Law, NYUs first professional school, was established. American Chemical Society was founded in 1876 at NYU and it became one of the nations largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917. NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York Citys development further uptown, NYUs move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken. The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was, as a result, most of the universitys operations along with the undergraduate College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering were housed there. NYUs administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the schools of the university remained at Washington Square. In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the undergraduate college of NYU. In 1935, NYU opened the Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead and this extension would later become a fully independent Hofstra University. In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, financial crisis gripped the New York City government and the troubles spread to the citys institutions, including NYU
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Albert Gallatin
New York University
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New York University
New York University
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The University Heights campus, now home to
Bronx Community College
New York University
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The
Silver Center c. 1900
11.
Khalilah Ali
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Khalilah Camacho Ali is the former wife of boxer Muhammad Ali. In 1967, at age 17, she married Ali, after ten years, she divorced him. She had four children with Ali and she studied karate, and by 1977, earned a third degree black belt. Khalilah studied under Jim Kelly and Steve Saunders and she eventually earned her ninth degree black belt. She appeared on the cover of Ebony Magazine seven times and she remarried in the 1980s and divorced twice more. She appeared in the Jane Fonda film The China Syndrome, khalilah Ali at the Internet Movie Database
Khalilah Ali
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Fights
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Karen Allen
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Karen Jane Allen is an American actress. In film, she is known for playing Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones, Allen was born in Carrollton, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia, a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent and her fathers job forced the family to move often. I grew up moving almost every year and so I was always the new kid in school and always in a way was deprived of ever really having any lasting friendships, Allen said in 1987. Although Allen says her father was much involved in the family, she felt that she. After she graduated from DuVal High School, in Lanham, Maryland, at 17, she moved to New York City to study art and design at Fashion Institute of Technology. She later attended the University of Maryland, College Park for a year and a half, in 1974, Allen joined Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. Three years later, she moved back to New York City, Allen made her major film debut in 1978, in National Lampoons Animal House. Her next two appearances were in The Wanderers, in 1979, and A Small Circle of Friends in 1980. Her career-changing role came with the blockbuster hit Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg, in which she played the feisty heroine Marion Ravenwood, Allen won a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance. Allen debuted on Broadway in the 1982 production The Monday After The Miracle, in 1983, she played the lead in the off-Broadway play Extremities, a physically demanding role about a would-be rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. In 1988, Allen returned to the big screen as Bill Murrays long-lost love, Claire, in 1990, she portrayed the doomed crew member Christa McAuliffe in the television movie Challenger, based on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Subsequently, she appeared in Spike Lees Malcolm X, in a supporting role in The Perfect Storm. She made guest appearances on televisions Law & Order and Law & Order and she also starred in the short-lived series The Road Home and portrayed Dr. Clare Burton in the video game Ripper. In 2014 she played the role of Betty Lowe in Unfinished Business the 13th episode of the 4th season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods. Allen starred in the American premiere of Jon Fosses A Summer Day at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City, Allen has a long-standing relationship with the Berkshire Theater Group. It began in 1981, when she appeared in the play Two for the Seesaw at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge and she has also appeared in summer production of the nearby Williamstown Theater Festival. In August 2015, Allen began appearing in Terrence McNallys Frankie, Allen was married to singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop for a short time in the early 1980s
Karen Allen
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Allen at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Karen Allen
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Allen at the 2006
Dallas Comic Con
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Nancy Allen (actress)
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Nancy Anne Allen is an American actress and cancer activist best known for her roles in the films Carrie, RoboCop, and Dressed to Kill, the latter of which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. A pivotal supporting role in Carrie brought her recognition, and after marrying the director Brian De Palma, she appeared in several of his films, including Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. Her subsequent films include Strange Invaders, The Philadelphia Experiment, Poltergeist III, Limit Up, Out of Sight, Nancy Anne Allen was born on Saturday, June 24,1950, in New York City, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a lieutenant in Yonkers, where she was raised. Allen was very shy as a child, so her mother enrolled her in dance classes when she was four and she attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she trained for a dancing career, and then attended Jose Quintanos School for Young Professionals. Allens first major role was very small, playing Nancy, Jack Nicholsons nervous date. This inspired her to move to Los Angeles and try for larger parts, Allen next appeared in the role of Pam Mitchell in Steven Spielbergs production of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, which was director Robert Zemeckiss first feature film. She then played Donna Stratton in another Spielberg film, the high-profile comedy 1941 opposite Tim Matheson, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and she married Brian De Palma on January 12,1979, and for the next few years appeared in his films. She starred as Kristina in Home Movies with Kirk Douglas, as Liz Blake in Dressed to Kill with Michael Caine, in filming the latter, she had to overcome a lifelong fear of being trapped in a submerged car filling with water. In 1983, Allen starred as supermarket tabloid reporter Betty Walker in Strange Invaders, written by Bill Condon and co-starring Paul LeMat and she and De Palma divorced in 1984. That same year, two of Allens films were released, The Buddy System opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon, for her role in the latter, Allen was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress. She also hosted the documentary Terror in the Aisles, which clips from various horror features, including Dressed to Kill. Paul Bartels Not for Publication and Sweet Revenge, an action caper about white slavery with Gina Gershon and Martin Landau, Allen played police officer Anne Lewis in the science fiction/action classic RoboCop opposite Peter Weller in the title role. The film, which was the Hollywood debut of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, Allen was nominated for another Saturn Award for Best Actress. Allen reprised her role as Officer Lewis in RoboCop 2 alongside Weller, to make her character tougher and more involved in the physical action, she studied martial arts and participated in police training. That same year, Allen top-lined Richard Martinis Limit Up, as commodities trader Casey Falls, Allen showcased her comedic abilities. The lighthearted romp also featured Danitra Vance and blues icon Ray Charles, in 1990, Allen also had the distinction of starring in the first ever original film made for the Lifetime television network, the highly rated Memories of Murder. She married comedian Craig Shoemaker on September 6,1992, Allen played Officer Lewis a third time in RoboCop 3 and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Allen promoting Strange Invaders, in 1983
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Vito Antuofermo
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Vito Antuofermo is an Italian American actor and retired professional boxer. He is a former undisputed World Middleweight Champion, Antuofermo was born in Italy, in the town of Palo del Colle, about 15 km inland from the city of Bari. His family moved to the United States when he was 17 years old, Antuofermo learned how to fight in the tough areas of New York City. By his teens, he had made up his mind that he wanted to be a professional boxer, Antuofermo won the 1970147 lb New York Golden Gloves Championship, defeating Thomas Chestnut in the finals. In 1971, Antuofermo was defeated by future Light Heavyweight Champion Eddie Gregory in the finals of the 147 lb Open division, Antuofermo trained at the Police Athletic Leagues Sweeney Center in Brooklyn, New York. One of the things for which Antuofermo was known was his propensity to bleed easily, especially around the eyebrows, in between rounds in his fights, as much attention was given to Vito patching up cuts on his face as it was giving him advice and instructions. In 1979, Antuofermo became World Middleweight Champion by beating defending champion Hugo Corro by a decision in 15 rounds at Monte Carlo. According to an article in The Ring, Howard Cosell, who was working on that fights live broadcast to the USA, was telling viewers that Corro was, in his opinion, way ahead on the judges cards. When someone on the American television crew found out it was Antuofermo who was leading on the cards. On the morning after winning the title, Antuofermo and his crew were driving to a vacation in Italy. The car landed right in front of his, but luckily the accident did not injure any occupants in Antuofermos car and he was so shocked that he kept driving and never found out what happened to the occupants of that car. He came back to his senses about 20 minutes later, Antuofermo defended his title against Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas, Nevada, the fight resulting in a controversial 15-round draw. In his next defense, against Alan Minter, also in Las Vegas and they had a rematch in London. Minter retained the crown by a TKO in eight rounds, Antuofermo kept fighting and winning and, after Hagler won the title from Minter in 1980, Antuofermo was given another chance to regain the World Middleweight Championship. In front of an HBO Boxing audience and a house at Haglers native Bostons Boston Garden. After several attempts at becoming a top middleweight again, Antuofermo retired from boxing in 1985, apart from Corro, other boxers he beat included world champions Eckhard Dagge, Denny Moyer and Emile Griffith. After retirement, Antuofermo began to pursue an acting career, in 1990, he landed a small role in The Godfather Part III as the chief bodyguard of gangster Joey Zasa. He has landed several small speaking roles in movies and television shows since and he has also done many theater plays
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Antuofermo in 2006
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Will Arnett
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William Emerson Will Arnett is a Canadian-American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is known for his role as George Oscar Gob Bluth II in the Fox series Arrested Development and Devon Banks in the NBC series 30 Rock, for which he was nominated for five Emmy Awards. Aliens, The Brothers Solomon, When in Rome, Jonah Hex, The Lego Movie, The Nut Job, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and he currently stars in Netflixs Flaked. Arnett was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Edith Alexandra Alix and Emerson James Jim Arnett and his parents were originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and he has roots on both sides of his family in Manitoba going back many generations. Arnett has two sisters and a younger brother. His father, a graduate of Harvard University and corporate lawyer, served as the president, Arnett briefly attended Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario, but was asked not to return after a semester for being a troublemaker. The Subway Academy II allowed him to take classes at the Tarragon Theatre. He eventually graduated from Leaside High School and attended Concordia University, Montreal for one semester, as a teenager, he was encouraged by his mother to pursue an acting career. He auditioned for commercials in Toronto and enjoyed acting, in 1990, he moved to New York City to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He appeared in plays in New York and his first acting role was in Felicity Huffmans independent film Erie, in February 1996, Arnett made his first television pilot with Kevin Pollak and his wife, Lucy Webb, for CBS, that was not picked up. In 1999, Arnett starred in another pilot for The Mike OMalley Show on NBC as the protagonists friend Jimmy, the show was picked up, but was canceled after only two episodes. Arnett has referred to 2000, the year after that show was cancelled, as the darkest year of life and he admits that he didnt get a lot of work and drank those years away. In summer 2000, a friend helped pull Arnett out of his battle with alcoholism, in 2001, Arnett was cast in the CBS television pilot, Loomis as the slacker brother of a local news reporter, that was not picked up. Arnett became so frustrated, after his fourth failed pilot, that he swore off pilots altogether and he also played Max the Magician in Sesame Street, in a nod to Gob Bluths penchant for using Europes The Final Countdown during his magic shows. According to a 2006 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Arnetts two favorite episodes of the show were Pier Pressure and Afternoon Delight and his exposure on Arrested Development led to a number of larger roles in feature films. Though having worked in drama, his role for Arrested Development is still comedy and he never considered himself a comic and considers himself an actor first. It earned more than US$4 million at the box office and more than US$13 million in rentals, in Blades of Glory, Arnett and his wife, Amy Poehler played brother/sister ice-skating pair with an incestuous relationship. The film was No.1 at the U. S. box office during its first two weeks, and grossed approximately US$118 million domestically during its theatrical run, and US$36 million on home video
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Arnett in 2012
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Arnett at the 2011 Arrested Development reunion
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Blanche Baker
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Blanche Baker is an American actress and filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the television mini-series Holocaust, Baker is known for her role as Ginny Baker in Sixteen Candles, and also starred in the title role of Lolita on Broadway. In 2012, she produced and starred in a film about Ruth Madoff titled Ruth Madoff Occupies Wall Street, born Blanche Garfein in New York City, she is the daughter of actress Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein. Her father is a Czech Jew, who survived the Holocaust, Baker attended Wellesley College from 1974 to 1976, and later studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and the American School in London. Blanche Baker made her television debut playing the character Anna Weiss in the miniseries Holocaust, (Her father Jack Garfein was a Holocaust survivor who had been imprisoned in Auschwitz. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series in 1978 for her performance and she also has appeared on many TV series. In 1980-81, she originated the role in Edward Albees stage adaptation of Vladimir Nabokovs novel Lolita. During out-of-town tryouts and in New York, the play was picketed by feminists, including Women Against Pornography, the troubled production opened on Broadway on March 19,1981, after 31 previews and closed after only 12 performances. Frank Rich of the New York Times gave the play a bad review, Baker was mentioned by Rich in only one line. In the title role, here a minor figure, the 24-year-old Miss Baker does a job of impersonating the downy nymphet. People Magazine called Albees Lolita Broadways Bomb of the Year in an April 16,1981, Baker originated the role of Shelby in the first production of Steel Magnolias Off-Broadway in 1987. Baker made her debut in the The Seduction of Joe Tynan. Other film appearances include Sixteen Candles, Cold Feet and Taking Chance, Blanche Baker at the Internet Movie Database Blanche Baker at AllMovie
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Blanche Baker in a 2007 performance of
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Alec Baldwin
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Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian. A member of the Baldwin family, he is the oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, Baldwin first gained recognition appearing on seasons 6 and 7 of the CBS television drama Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. His performance in the 2003 romantic drama The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Baldwin co-starred in Mission, Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth installment of the Mission, Impossible series, released on July 31,2015. He is also a columnist for The Huffington Post, since 2016, he has been the host of Match Game. He has three brothers, Daniel, William, and Stephen, who also became actors. He also has two sisters, Beth and Jane, Alec and his siblings were raised as Roman Catholics. They are of English, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, Baldwin attended Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa and played football there under Coach Bob Reifsnyder. In New York City, Baldwin worked as a busboy at the disco Studio 54, from 1976 to 1979, he attended George Washington University, afterward transferring to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. There he studied with, among others, Geoffrey Horne and Mira Rostova at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Later, Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986 in a revival of Joe Ortons Loot alongside Zoë Wanamaker, Željko Ivanek, Joseph Maher, and Charles Keating. This production closed after three months, Baldwin also received an Emmy nomination for the 1995 television version of the production, in which both he and Jessica Lange reprised their roles, alongside John Goodman and Diane Lane. In 1998, Baldwin played the role in Macbeth at The Public Theater alongside Angela Bassett. In 2004, Baldwin starred in a revival of Twentieth Century with Anne Heche, on June 9,2005, he appeared in a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at Carnegie Hall. He starred as Luther Billis, alongside Reba McEntire as Nellie, the production was taped and telecast by PBS on April 26,2006. In 2006, Baldwin made theater news in Roundabout Theatre Companys Off-Broadway revival of Joe Ortons Entertaining Mr. Sloane. In 2010, Baldwin starred opposite Sam Underwood in an acclaimed revival of Peter Shaffers Equus, directed by Tony Walton at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Baldwin has returned to Broadway as Harold in Orphans, the show, which opened April 18,2013, was also to have starred Shia LaBeouf as Treat, but LaBoeuf left the production in rehearsals and was replaced by Ben Foster. Baldwins first acting role was as Billy Aldrich in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors from 1980 to 1982, in fall 1983, he starred in the short-lived television series Cutter to Houston. He went on to appear as the brother of Valene Ewing, in 1986, Baldwin starred in Dress Gray, a four-hour made-for-television miniseries, as an honest cadet sergeant who tries to solve the mystery of a murdered gay classmate
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Baldwin in 2012
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Chastity Bono
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Chaz Salvatore Bono is an American advocate, writer, musician and actor. He is the child of American entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher, Family Outing, A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families includes his coming-out account. The memoir The End of Innocence discusses his outing, music career, between 2008 and 2010, Bono underwent female-to-male gender transition. A two-part Entertainment Tonight feature in June 2009 explained that his transition had started a year before, in May 2010, he legally changed his gender and name. A documentary on Bonos experience, Becoming Chaz, was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and later made its debut on OWN. Bono was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Cher and Sonny Bono of the pop duo Sonny & Cher. Bono was named Chastity Sun Bono after the film Chastity, which was produced by Sonny, Bono came out to both parents as a lesbian at age 18. In Family Outing, Bono wrote that, as a child, id look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley. When I was 13, I finally found a name for exactly how I was different, Bono began a short music career in 1988 with the band Ceremony, which released one album, Hang Out Your Poetry, in 1993. The band featured Bono on vocals, acoustic guitar, and percussion, other members were Steve March Tormé, Heidi Shink a. k. a. Chance, Pete McRae, Steve Bauman, Louis Ruiz, all but one of the bands songs were written or co-written by Bono, Shink, and Mark Hudson. They used no synthesizers or digital effects on the album, Shink noted and its reminiscent of the 60s, but more a tip of the hat than emulating it. We took the music we love and rejuvenated it, made it 90s, the songs Couldve Been Love and Ready for Love were released as singles from the album. Sonny and Cher also recorded backing vocals for the track Livin It Up on the album, in April 1995, Bono came out as a lesbian in an interview with The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine. Cher has since become an outspoken LGBT rights activist, Bonos paternal relationship became strained after Sonny became a Republican Congressman from California. The differences in their political views separated them, and the two had not spoken for more than a year at the time of Sonnys fatal skiing accident in January 1998, Bono worked as a writer at large for The Advocate. Bono was a captain for Celebrity Fit Club 3 and was supported by girlfriend Jennifer Elia. In mid-2008, Bono began undergoing a physical and social transition from female to male, GLAAD and the Empowering Spirits Foundation were quick to offer praise and support for the announcement
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Chaz Bono, 2010
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Chaz Bono (then known as Chastity) with Sonny Bono in 1974
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Loo Brealey
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Louise Brealey, also credited as Loo Brealey, is an English actress, writer, and journalist. She is best known for playing student nurse Roxanne Bird in Casualty, in 2015 she won best supporting actress in a feature TV show, Containment, at the Southampton international film festival. Born in Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England, she attended Kimbolton School and she then trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City with clown teacher Philippe Gaulier. Brealey has written on cinema, art and music since her teens, contributing reviews and features for magazines including Premiere UK, Empire, Radio Times, SKY, The Face, Neon, AnOther and she is the editor of Anarchy and Alchemy, The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Until April 2009, Brealey was the deputy editor of Wonderland, other features include the Pet Shop Boys and art collective Gelitin. A freelance Associate Producer, she has written documentary pitches for BBC Arts, in 2013 her first play Pope Joan was performed by the National Youth Theatre. Brealey made her debut as Nurse Roxy Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty. She then played Judy Smallweed in the 2005 BBC adaptation of Bleak House, Terry Wogan took Judy and her snaggle-toothed grandfather Smallweed to heart, regaling Radio 2 listeners with regular renditions of Davis catchphrase Shake me up, Judy. Brealey followed Bleak House with a turn as Anorak, Alistair MacGowans black-bobbed sidekick, in the Sunday night comedy-drama Mayo. The show fared better on its US release in 2007, with The Hollywood Reporter comparing it to Moonlighting and she auditioned for the role of Rose Tyler in Doctor Who. She has since appeared in Law and Order UK and the BBCs new 1950s remake of Father Brown with Mark Williams, Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatisss television drama, Sherlock. Brealey made her debut in 2001 as 14-year-old Sophie in Max Stafford-Clarks production of Judy Uptons Sliding With Suzanne at Londons Royal Court. The Daily Telegraph called her performance a perfect poignant study of adolescence, next she starred in Dennis Kellys award-winning two-hander After The End for Paines Plough, which opened in Russia before a hit Off-Broadway run in July 2006. Brealey has worked twice with Sir Peter Hall, first in 2007 on Simon Grays Little Nell, in which she played the title role opposite Michael Pennington and Tim Pigott-Smith. Based on The Invisible Woman, Claire Tomalins award-winning biography of Charles Dickenss mistress Ellen Ternan, critics described Brealeys performance as excellent, impressive, highly compelling and astounding. The following year, Hall cast her as Sonya in his critically acclaimed production of Uncle Vanya, the Telegraph called hers a name to watch and The Independent compared her to Joan Fontaine in Rebecca. The Spectator said, Brealey is the performer who uncovers the pathetic poetry beneath the indolent superficialities. In 2011 she was the sex-mad, short-frocked daughter of Julian Barratt, the Times called her performances electrifying and The Guardian said she pulled off a remarkable treble
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Brealey in 2009
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Cyrus Broacha
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Cyrus Broacha is a TV anchor, theatre personality, comedian, political satirist, columnist, podcaster and author. He is also a prankster, best known for his show Bakra on MTV, Cyrus was born on August 7,1971 to a Pariers College, Mumbai. He was also a student of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and he started acting at the age of five with a school play The Emperors New Clothes. Every year he performed and wrote for the magazine, winning prizes for English. Cyrus Brocha, when only 12, acted in his first Hindi film Jalwa with Pankaj Parashar, the next year, he did his first professional play Brighton Beach Memoirs under the baton of Pearl Padamsee. The press hailed him as a prodigy, and his career in acting took off. He continued acting in plays, as theatre became his passion. He also came into the limelight during his colleges Malhar festival, when he was in college, FM radio took off in India, and he gained a reputation as a radio jockey. After graduation, Cyrus went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City where he studied acting for theatre, after returning to India, he acted in many commercials, television serials and plays. He also hosted shows and corporate events, while pursuing his passion of theatre with over 20 commercial theater productions and his popularity had MTV seeking him. As anchor with them, his reputation grew as he became MTVs main face and he has, till date, interviewed almost everyone in the Hindi film industry from Amitabh Bachchan to Shah Rukh Khan. His candid-camera show is MTV Bakra, Cyrus has hosted many cricket shows including the popular Chevrolet Cricket Show on Ten Sports, and interviewed nearly every cricketer from every generation. Broacha anchors a news satire and comedy show, The Week That Wasnt on CNN-IBN, co-written and he presents the show Faking News on IBN7, directed by friend Vijayakar. He led Indias Rock the Vote campaign and represented MTV at the UNAIDS conference in Hanover and he moderated the Indian segment of Be Heard - A Global Discussion With Colin Powell in February 2002. He appeared on Sony Entertainment Televisions hit show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Indias version of Dancing with the Stars and he is also a columnist who writes for two leading national papers and two magazines. He hosts a show called Greenathon on NDTV. It traces the lives of two young best friends, Karl and Kunal, giving a humorous, tongue-in-cheek and witty account of how they make it big in Tinseltown. In 2011, he released another book, The Average Indian Male, in 2015, he started a podcast called Cyrus Says
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Rachel Brosnahan
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Rachel Brosnahan is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films The Unborn and Beautiful Creatures and for portraying Rachel Posner in the Netflix series House of Cards, Brosnahan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From the age of four, she was raised in Highland Park and she graduated from Highland Park High School in 2008 and the Tisch School of the Arts in 2012. She is the niece of handbag designer Kate Spade, Rachel Brosnahan at the Internet Movie Database Rachel Brosnahan on Twitter
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Brosnahan in July 2014
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Steve Buscemi
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Steven Vincent Steve Buscemi is an American actor and film director. He is also known for his appearances in films by the Coen brothers, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and he made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory, Lonesome Jim and Interview and he has also directed numerous episodes of TV shows, including Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz,30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie. He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning AOL On comedy talk-show Park Bench, Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy, who worked as a host at Howard Johnsons. Buscemis father was of Italian descent, his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, Buscemis mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. He has three brothers, Jon, Ken, and Michael and he graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Nassau County, New York, a school which he attended with actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, Buscemis 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute, in 1980, Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City, after taking a civil service test in 1976 when he was 18. For four years, Buscemi served on FDNYs Engine Co.55 in Manhattans Little Italy, after 9/11, Buscemi returned to Engine 55 and for several days worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters to sift through the rubble from the World Trade Center. In 2003, he gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters at a union rally, in 2014, he was appointed as an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY. His film debut was the 1985 No Wave Cinema film The Way it Is, other early films include Parting Glances in 1986, Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first segment, playing Bellingham, a student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater. In 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles and he played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferraras King of New York. He also played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing, although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which Buscemi appeared. In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film and his first lead role was in 1992, when he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwells In the Soup. Then he came to attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. He also appeared in Tarantinos next film, Pulp Fiction, in which he acts as a waiter at the 1950s themed restaurant which Mrs. Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega attend
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Buscemi at the 2009
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Buscemi in 1996
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Rosanne Cash
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Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife. Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres, including folk, pop, rock, blues, Country singles charts and reached the Top 30 on the U. S. pop singles charts. In 1990, Cash released Interiors, a spare, introspective album which signaled a break from her pop country past. The following year, in 1991, Cash ended her marriage and moved from Nashville to New York City, where she has continued to write, record, since 1991 she has released five albums, written two books, and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Oxford American, New York Magazine, Cash won a Grammy in 1985 for I Dont Know Why You Dont Want Me, and has received twelve other Grammy nominations. She has had 11 No.1 country hit singles,21 Top 40 country singles, Cash was the 2014 recipient of Smithsonian magazines American Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts category. Cash was honored further on October 11,2015, when she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Cash was portrayed, as a child, by Hailey Anne Nelson in Walk the Line, the 2005 Academy-award-winning film about her fathers life. Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1955, just as father Johnny was recording his first tracks at Sun Records, the family moved to California in 1958, first to Los Angeles, then Ventura, where Cash and her sisters were raised by mother Vivian. After graduating from St. Bonaventure High School, she joined her fathers road show for two and a half years, first as an assistant, then as a background vocalist. She made her recording debut on Johnny Cashs 1974 album The Junkie. In 1976, Johnny Cash recorded the Rosanne Cash composition Love Has Lost Again on his album One Piece At A Time, though she did not appear on this track, it was Rosanne Cashs first professionally recorded work as a composer. That same year, she worked for CBS Records in London before returning to Nashville to study English. She then relocated to Los Angeles to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood and she recorded a demo in January 1978 with Emmylou Harris songwriter/sideman Rodney Crowell, which led to a full album with German label Ariola Records. Her self-titled debut album was recorded in 1978, but Ariola never released it in the United States, mainly recorded and produced in Munich, Germany, with German-based musicians, it also included three tracks recorded in Nashville and produced by Crowell. Though Cash was unhappy with the album, it attracted the attention of Columbia Records and she began playing with Crowells band The Cherry Bombs in California clubs. Crowell and Cash married in 1979, and Cash started work on her first Columbia LP, the album, Right or Wrong, was released in early 1980, and produced three Top 25 singles. The first, No Memories Hangin Around, a duet with country singer Bobby Bare and it was followed by Couldnt Do Nothing Right and Take Me, Take Me in 1980
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Rosanne Cash Vancouver Folk Festival 2011
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Rosanne Cash at the 2006 South by Southwest
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Cash and Leventhal 2013
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Kevin Corrigan
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Kevin Fitzgerald Corrigan is an American actor. He has appeared mostly in independent films and television since the 1990s and his film appearances have included a supporting role in The Departed and co-starring roles in Big Fan and Results. Corrigan was born in The Bronx, New York to an Irish father, after studying at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Corrigan made his film debut in 1989 in Lost Angels starring Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz. He was cast in Goodfellas as the brother of Henry Hill. During the independent film boom of the 1990s, he built a career playing quirky, unconventional characters in such as True Romance, Living in Oblivion, Walking and Talking. Corrigan made his series debut as a cast member of the short-lived Rhea Perlman sitcom Pearl. He also appeared in the video for Get Me by the indie band Dinosaur Jr. in 1993. Corrigan became well known for his role as the slacker Eddie Finnerty on the sitcom Grounded for Life which ran for five seasons, since the success of that film, he began to appear more regularly in high-profile films. He also appeared in Ridley Scotts American Gangster as an informant for Russell Crowes character, Corrigan was also in the movie The Last Winter, in which he played Motor a mechanic. In 2009 he was in the Oscar-winning short film The New Tenants, in 2009, Corrigan guested in the science fiction drama Fringe as the mysterious character Sam Weiss. He played the role of Sal against Patton Oswalt in the critically praised independent film Big Fan, written and he also stars in the 2010 John Landis-produced thriller film Some Guy Who Kills People, which is directed by Jack Perez. In 2015, he co-starred with Guy Pearce in Results, the feature film by writer-director Andrew Bujalski. The film had its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically on May 29,2015. Results has received an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, featured in video for Get Me by Dinosaur Jr
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Corrigan as Anton Pupkin on the set of
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Luciano Cruz-Coke
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Luciano Cruz-Coke Carvallo is a Chilean actor, and was the Minister of Arts and Culture under the 35th President Sebastián Piñera. Cruz-Coke is the son of lawyer and university professor Carlos Cruz-Coke Ossa and he brother is Carlos Cruz-Coke Carvallo, Councilman of Vitacura in Santiago. Cruz-Coke studied in the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Manquehue and he went on to study law in the Universidad Finis Terrae, later changing his major to Architecture and finally became an actor. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and he holds a degree in Documentary Filming from the Academy of Christian Humanism University and a masters degree in Mass Communications from University of Chile. Cruz-Coke has an acting career in film, theater and television. He is also the founder and director of the non-profit organization Teatro Lastarria 90, Lastarria 90 has become a model innovator, attracting both private and public supporters, and which has received recognition en the world of the arts and critique. He was spotted by an executive of Canal 13 in a pub while he was singing and his first television role was in 1995 in the series El Amor Esta de Moda, where he became known as the romeo of telenovela. He would go on to further roles in other series. He won the award Apes in 2004 for his part in a telenovela Destinos Cruzados, Cruz-Coke was the founder of the Comisión Cultura de los Grupos Tantauco. During the 2009-2010 Chilen Presidential elections he openly supported the current President-elect Sebastián Piñera, Cruz-Coke has Spanish, French, Basque, English and Danish ancestry. Cruz-Coke is a practicing Roman Catholic, Cruz-Coke is married to Javiera García-Huidobro Aninat and is the father of four children. A. Heiremanns dir. Alejandro Castillo Gorda de Nelly Labute dir, alejandro Goic Normal de A. Neilson. Claudio Santana Homero/Iliada de Alessandro Barrico dir, hector Noguera Julio Cesar de Shakespeare. F. Albornoz Enigmas E. E, Schmitt dir, willy Semler Asesinos de R. Achondo en Lastarria 90. La señorita Julia de Strindberg en Teatro Municipal, felipe Braun Fragmentos leídos por geólogos de N. Chaurette Dir. La Indagación P. Weiss en Teatro UC- I, R. Lopez, R. Griffero Largo viaje del día hacia la noche E. ONeill Teatro UC Dir. Willy Semler Zoológico de cristal de T. Williams, Teatro El Conventillo Dir. A. Cohen Dios ha muerto de M. A. De la Parra, sostiene Pereira de A. Tabucci ICTUS. Three Sisters de A. Chejov Off-Broadway, N. York Dir
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Kelly Curtis
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Kelly Lee Curtis is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in Trading Places, Magic Sticks. Kelly Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, the eldest child of actors Tony Curtis and her sister is actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish and she has four half-siblings, from her fathers remarriages, Alexandra Curtis, Allegra Curtis, Nicholas Curtis, who died of a drug overdose, and Benjamin Curtis. Curtis first appearance on the screen was as a young girl in the United Artists action/adventure The Vikings starring her parents, as well as Kirk Douglas. Her parents divorced in 1962, after which her mother married Robert Brandt, in 1978, she graduated from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, with a degree in Business. She worked briefly as a stockbroker, Curtis studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Here, writing and performance transcend one-note designation, seated quietly, Curtis delivers a touching monologue that would have been the heart of another and better play, rather than a disarming moment of inspired simplicity. She made her motion picture debut at the age of 27, playing the role as Muffy in the John Landis comedy Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. She played the role as Shirley in the comedy Magic Sticks opposite George Kranz, on September 14,1989, she and playwright/producer Scott Morfee were married. The couple were then working together on his play with music, Shout and Twist, which she was not only appearing in and her guest appearances on TV include roles on The Renegades, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, and Judging Amy. She has worked as an assistant on films as Freaky Friday, Christmas with the Kranks. Kelly Curtis and her live in New York, where they enjoy gardening during off-hours at their home on Long Island. Fealty, Image of Kelly with her sister Jamie Lee in 2008, Time Magazine Janet Leigh and Kelly Curtis at It Runs in the Family film premiere
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Kelly Curtis (left) with her mother and sister in May 1979
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Claire Danes
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Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Danes gained recognition with her role as Angela Chase in the acclaimed 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and she made her film debut the same year in Little Women. From 1998 to 2000, Danes attended Yale University before dropping out to return to acting and she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000, and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 revival of Pygmalion. She is married to actor Hugh Dancy, with whom she has one child, Danes was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of a sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes, and a photographer, Christopher Danes. She has a brother, Asa, who is a lawyer. Danes parents met when they were studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, during Danes childhood her father worked as a general contractor for 20 years, working on residential buildings in a company he ran called Overall Construction in New York. He also worked as a photographer and computer consultant and he is the son of Gibson Andrew Danes, a former dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture from 1958 to 1968. Danes is named after her grandmother, Claire Danes, who died in 1953. The family lived in a loft on Crosby Street. 3 and PS11 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school, Danes attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New York City. She attended The Dalton School for one year of school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica. Danes said they moved two days after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Danes graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, director Oliver Stone wrote a letter of recommendation. After studying for two years as a major, she dropped out to focus on her film career. Danes started studying dance when she was six years old, Danes took dance classes from Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop and acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of ten. She appeared in theater and video productions in New York City, although she continued to dance, Danes said that her focus shifted to acting by the time she was nine years old
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Danes at the 2015
PaleyFest
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Danes in Toronto, for a
MuchOnDemand promotion of
Stardust, 2007
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Danes at the
2012 Time 100
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Rosario Dawson
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Rosario Isabel Dawson is an American actress. She made her debut in the 1995 teen drama Kids. Dawson currently portrays Claire Temple in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in five of the Marvel Television/Netflix series, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dawson was born in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is a writer and singer of Puerto Rican and Cuban ancestry, Isabel was 16 years old when Rosario was born, she never married Rosarios biological father, Patrick C. When Rosario was an old, her mother married Greg Dawson, a construction worker. Dawson stated, Hes always been my dad, Dawson has a half-brother, Clay, who is four years younger. Isabel and Greg divorced in 2001, Dawson lived in Garland, Texas for a year and went to Garland High School. Dawson has cited this part of her history when explaining how she learned that, If you wanted something better, as a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame Street. She went on to star in varied roles, ranging from independent films to big budget blockbusters including Rent, He Got Game, in 1999, Dawson teamed up with Prince for the re-release of his 1980s hit 1999. The new remixed version featured the actress in a voice over. The same year, she appeared in The Chemical Brothers video for the song Out of Control from the album Surrender. She is also featured on the track She Lives In My Lap from the disc of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, in which she speaks the intro. In 2001, she appeared in the movie, Josie and the Pussycats, Dawson starred as Naturelle Rivera, the love interest of a convicted drug dealer played by Edward Norton, in the 2002 Spike Lee film drama, 25th Hour. In the 2004 Oliver Stone film Alexander, she played the bride of Alexander the Great, in the autumn of 2005, Dawson appeared on stage as Julia in the Public Theaters Shakespeare in the Park revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona. It was her first appearance on stage, in the film adaptation of the popular musical Rent in 2005, she played the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was pregnant and unable to play the part. She also appeared in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, portraying Gail, also in that year, she appeared in a graphically violent scene in the Rob Zombie film The Devils Rejects. Though the scene was cut from the film, it is available in the deleted scenes on the DVD release. She starred as Becky in 2006s Clerks II, and mentioned in Back to the Well, the making-of documentary, in May of the same year, Dawson, an avid comic book fan, co-created the comic book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce
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Dawson at the 2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Press Conference
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Dawson in 2009
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Dawson at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival
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Dawson at the 2008 Willow Awards
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Rebecca De Mornay
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Rebecca De Mornay is an American actress and producer. Her breakthrough film came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business. Her other notable roles include Sara in Runaway Train, Thelma in The Trip to Bountiful, Helen McCaffrey in Backdraft. De Mornay was born Rebecca Jane Pearch in Santa Rosa, California in 1959 and her parents were Julie and Wally George, a disc jockey and later television host. Her paternal grandmother was vaudeville performer and child film actress Eugenia Clinchard and her parents divorced when she was two years old. She took her stepfathers surname, De Mornay, when she was five and she attended the independent Summerhill School in Leiston, Suffolk, England. She later trained as an actress in New York at the Lee Strasberg Institute, De Mornays film debut was a small part in Francis Ford Coppolas 1981 film One from the Heart, which starred her real-life partner at the time, Harry Dean Stanton. Her star-making role came two years later in Risky Business, as a girl who seduces a high-school student played by Tom Cruise. In 1985, she played the role in The Sluggers Wife opposite Michael OKeefe. That same year, she appeared with Starships Mickey Thomas in the video for the song Sara. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 15,1986 and she also appeared in Roger Vadims provocative 1988 remake of And God Created Woman, and as the wife of Kurt Russells character in Ron Howards Backdraft. One of De Mornays most commercially successful films was the thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and she starred as a defense lawyer in Sidney Lumets murder drama Guilty as Sin with Don Johnson. Then she appeared in the 1995 drama film Never Talk to Strangers opposite Antonio Banderas, in 2003, she guest-starred as primary antagonist in the first two episodes of season 2 of Boomtown. In 2004, she guest-starred as attorney Hannah Rose for the last few episodes of The Practice, De Mornay also starred in the 2007 drama American Venus. She appeared in Darren Lynn Bousmans Mothers Day, in 2012, De Mornay played the role of Finchs mom in the movie American Reunion where she portrayed an attractive older woman and a love interest of Stifler. In 2015, she appeared in Marvels Jessica Jones as Trish Walkers abusive mother and she married writer Bruce Wagner on December 16,1986, they divorced in 1990. Next De Mornay dated and was engaged to singer Leonard Cohen. De Mornay has two daughters with ex-boyfriend Patrick ONeal, Sophia and Veronica, tykus, Michael J. Rebecca de Mornay
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De Mornay in 2006.
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Laura Dern
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Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress. Dern won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for the 1992 film Afterburn and she is known for her collaborations with filmmaker David Lynch, having appeared in three of his films and the upcoming revival of Twin Peaks. The poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was her great-great-uncle, laura Derns film debut was a cameo in her mothers film White Lightning. She also made a appearance in Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore. Her mother objected to her 13-year-old daughters presence on the set of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, in 1982, she became the youngest-ever winner of Miss Golden Globe. Dern began working with acting coach Sandra Seacat in 1984, Dern would later attribute Seacat with a dramatic transformation in her life and work. Between 1985 and 1990, Dern gained critical acclaim for roles in Mask, Blue Velvet, Derns starring role in Blue Velvet was a breakthrough though her next notable film, Wild at Heart, took almost four years to be released. Derns affiliation with David Lynch has continued with her role in Inland Empire, Dern starred as Dr. Ellie Sattler in Steven Spielbergs 1993 film Jurassic Park. That same year, Clint Eastwood contacted the actress for his film A Perfect World and she also starred as Ruth in the 1996 film Citizen Ruth, the directorial debut of Alexander Payne. Derns mother makes a appearance, playing Derns characters mother. In 1997, Dern was featured in Widespread Panics music video for their song, Aunt Avis, in 1998, Dern co-starred in Jodie Fosters film The Baby Dance. While dating Thornton in 1999, she was cast as his love interest in his film Daddy and Them, Dern also appeared in Joe Johnstons film October Sky. Robert Altman called upon Derns talents to play a Champagne-loving Aunt in his Texas-based comedy Dr. T & the Women in 2000 and she co-starred in Within These Walls and Arthur Millers Focus. She had a role in Jurassic Park III, and was a supporting actress in the film I Am Sam. She starred in the 2002 film Damaged Care and the 2004 film We Dont Live Here Anymore, Dern starred in the 2005 film Happy Endings, and in the same year, she appeared in the film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. In 2006, David Lynch and Dern reunited for Inland Empire and, also in 2006, Dern had a supporting role in Lonely Hearts. Mike White, known for writing School of Rock and The Good Girl, hired Dern for his debut in 2007. In 2008 Dern starred in Recount for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
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Dern at the 2013
Cannes Film Festival
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Dern in 2009 at a ceremony for
Mary Steenburgen to receive a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Dern with then-husband
Ben Harper in December 2009
