Maria Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida, DamSE, known professionally as Maria de Medeiros, is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film-productions.
Medeiros at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
Maria de Medeiros singing in the celebration of National Day of Catalonia 2012
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an established author.
Portrait of Anaïs Nin in the 1970s by Elsa Dorfman
Anaïs Nin as a teenager, c. 1920
Nin at a book reading with George Leite in Berkeley, California, 1946