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ELEGANT ERIN CARUFEL, KNOWN FOR HER CHAMELEON-LIKE CHARACTER PORTRAYAL, GRADUATED FROM USC'S SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS. SHE ALSO EARNED A DEGREE IN DRAMA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT, IN CANTERBURY, ENGLAND. AFTER UNIVERSITY, CARUFEL CONTINUED STUDYING ACTING AT THE BEVERLY HILLS PLAYHOUSE UNDER THE ESTEEMED MILTON KATSELAS. CARUFEL'S PASSION FOR THE ART PROPELLED HER FORWARD INTO A CAREER AS A PROFESSIONAL ACTRESS. SO COMMITTED TO HER CRAFT, IT WASN'T UNUSUAL TO FIND HER AT THE THEATRE REHEARSING AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. IN PREPARATION FOR HER ROLES, SHE THROWS HERSELF HEAD FIRST INTO RESEARCH, SEEKING OUT THE TYPE OF CHARACTER SHE IS ABOUT TO PORTRAY AND SHADOWING THEM FOR WEEKS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN AUTHENTICITY IN HER PERFORMANCE.
BORN ERIN ROSE CARUFEL IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA TO CATHERINE (A GROCERY STORE CHECKER) AND MICHAEL (A SALESMAN): SHE LIVED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA UNTIL THE AGE OF TWO WHEN HER FATHER GOT A JOB TRANSFER TO BEAVERTON, OREGON WHERE SHE AND HER YOUNGER BROTHER MICHAEL WERE RAISED. ERIN'S CHILDHOOD WAS FILLED WITH DANCING (SHE STARTED TAKING LESSONS WHEN SHE WAS ONLY THREE YEARS OLD), SINGING AND SPORTS. HER PARENTS FOSTERED HER LOVE OF THE ARTS THROUGHOUT HER CHILDHOOD AND INTO ADOLESCENCE. CARUFEL'S LOVE OF BEING ON-STAGE LED HER TO MUSICAL THEATRE, WHICH SHE BECAME INVOLVED WITH IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. CARUFEL ALSO LOVED ATHLETICS GROWING UP: SHE PLAYED SOCCER, SOFTBALL AND SWIMMING ALL AT A COMPETITIVE LEVEL. IN HIGH SCHOOL, CARUFEL DISCOVERED AN AFFINITY FOR MARTIAL ARTS, STUDYING THE KOREAN TECHNIQUE OF TAE KWON DO AND EVENTUALLY EARNING HERSELF A BLACK BELT. SHE WENT ON TO WIN FOUR GOLD MEDALS IN THE U.S. OPEN AND THE GOLD CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS, BOTH FOR SPARRING AND FORMS. IN HER SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, SHE BEGAN PLAYING ICE HOCKEY ON A WOMEN'S TEAM IN PORTLAND. CARUFEL KNEW AT A YOUNG AGE THAT SHE WANTED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL ACTRESS. UPON GRADUATION, SHE MOVED TO LOS ANGELES TO START HER FRESHMAN YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO STUDY THEATRE. WANTING TO CONTINUE WITH HOCKEY, AND SINCE THERE WAS NO FEMALE TEAM, SHE DECIDED TO TRY OUT FOR THE PAC-8 MEN'S TEAM. CARUFEL MADE THE CUT, THUS BECOMING THE FIRST FEMALE TO PLAY ON THE TEAM SINCE IT BEGAN BACK IN 1925.
CARUFEL SPENT HER JUNIOR YEAR STUDYING ABROAD IN ENGLAND. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME WHEN SHE DOVE INTO THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS, SUCH AS SHAKESPEARE AND GREEK AND ROMAN THEATRE, AS WELL AS MODERN DRAMA. WHILST SHE WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT, CARUFEL JOINED THE KICKBOXING CLUB. SHE TRAVELED EUROPE COMPETING AND WENT UNDEFEATED IN ALL HER BOUTS. AFTER HER JUNIOR YEAR WAS COMPLETE, SHE LEFT ENGLAND AND RETURNED TO USC FOR HER SENIOR YEAR, GRADUATING WITH CUM LAUDE HONORS FROM THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE, NOW CALLED THE SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS.
CARUFEL PRACTICES HER CRAFT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA AS WELL AS ON-STAGE. SHE HAS WORKED WITH SUCH TALENTS AS CLINT EASTWOOD, DIANE LANE, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, CHRIS PINE AND HILARY SWANK JUST TO NAME A FEW.
PHILANTHROPY IS ANOTHER ASPECT OF WHAT DRIVES CARUFEL. SHE HAS DONATED HUNDREDS OF HOURS TO FEEDING THE HUNGRY, HELPING THE HOMELESS AND ALIGNING HERSELF WITH NON-PROFITS SUCH AS THE ALS ASSOCIATION AND THE ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION. CARUFEL ALSO WORKS WITH THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED COACHING GYMNASTICS FOR THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS.
IN 2017, CARUFEL MARRIED ACTOR SCOTT CONNORS AND LAUNCHED HER PRODUCTION COMPANY IRISH ROSE ENTERTAINMENT, WHICH CREATES BOTH COMMERCIAL AND ARTHOUSE FILM AND TV. IN 2018, SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEIR DAUGHTER AND NOW HAPPILY JUGGLES MOTHERHOOD AND AN ACTING CAREER.- Shalina Waterman is known for Scrubs (2001).
- Lauren was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is the middle of five children. After earning a theater degree from Northwestern University, she moved to New York City where she performed regionally, off-Broadway and as an understudy on Broadway. She then headed west to Los Angeles and has appeared in numerous commercials, television series and independent films. Lauren is happily married and the mother of two wonderful children.
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Alessandra Torresani was born Alessandra Olivia Toreson in Palo Alto, California. Before becoming an actress, Alessandra studied dancing and singing from the age of two and achieved a Black Belt in Tae-Kwon-Do by the age of nine. Torresani's television debut was at age nine when she hosted the WB Kids' Club for San Francisco's KBWB.
Her television credits include guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory (2007), Batwoman (2019), Lucifer (2016), Two and a Half Men (2003), The Fosters (2013), Workaholics (2011), American Horror Story (2011), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Warehouse 13 (2009), Arrested Development (2003), Malcolm in the Middle (2000), and ER (1994), among others. Torresani was cast as Zoe Graystone in Syfy's critically-acclaimed Caprica (2009), a prequel spin-off of Battlestar Galactica (2004), which debuted in January 2010.
Torresani was featured as a Top 100 Girl of Maxim.- Actress
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Kaitlin Cullum was born on 24 June 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and production designer, known for Galaxy Quest (1999), Grace Under Fire (1993) and A Little Princess (1995).- Actress
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Alice Suki Waterhouse (born 5 January 1992) is an English actress, model and entrepreneur.
She was born in Hammersmith, London and was raised in Chiswick, London, the daughter of Elizabeth, a cancer care nurse, and Norman Waterhouse, a plastic surgeon. She has a brother named Charlie, and two younger sisters Madeleine and Imogen Waterhouse, known as Immy, who is also a model.
Waterhouse began her modeling career after being discovered in a pub in London when she was 16. She became the face of the Burberry Brit Rhythm Fragrance and later Amo by Salvatore Ferragamo. Waterhouse walked the runway for brands such as Balenciaga, Vivienne Westwood, and Burberry, where she opened at closed there SS'15 show, and Balenciaga. Waterhouse has appeared on the cover of British, Korean, Thai, Taiwanese and Turkish Vogue, Tatler, British and Korean Elle as well as Lucky, L'Officiel, American Marie Claire, French Grazia and 1883 Magazine. Waterhouse has also shot editorials for American, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese Vogue Love Magazine, American Elle, Velour, and Stylist Magazine among others. In April 2017, Waterhouse was chosen as the "Mercier Muse" for the makeup brand Laura Mercier.
Waterhouse played Marlene in the sequel The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), based on the book of the same name. In March 2015 it was announced that Waterhouse had been cast in the role of Arlen in Ana Lily Amirpour's romance thriller film The Bad Batch. In June 2016, it was announced that Waterhouse will play Cecily of York in the Starz miniseries adaptation of the novel The White Princess by Philippa Gregory. She played the leading female role "The Girl", in the 2017 drama movie The Girl Who Invented Kissing, released April 29, 2017, written and directed by Tom Sierchio. Waterhouse cast in Sam Levinsons 'Assasination Nation' and in 2018 was cast as 'Ms Norman' in 'Detective Pikachu'. In 2019, she played 'Camille' in the Simon Barett directed 'Seance'. In 2020 she has been cast in Amazon's 'Daisy Jones and the Six' playing Karen Sirko.
Waterhouse has a accessories company 'Pop and Suki'. Pop & Suki is a direct-to-consumer, millennial fashion accessories brand. which has been worn by Lady Gaga, Pippa Middleton and Emma Stone.- Cynthia Ettinger, a native of California, has been a member of "The Actors' Gang" for nearly thirty years and serves as the company's Co-Artistic Director and Master Teacher. Her first film appearance was in "Martians, Go Home". Cynthia has directed numerous plays during the company's thirty-five-year history, including five recent Shakespeare adaptations presented as part of the company's Free Shakespeare in the Park for family-oriented program, using Shakespeare to inspire and entertain over ten thousand children and adults. Her most notable film appearance is in "Silence of the Lambs". Cynthia has been performing in many productions with The Actors' Gang which include "The Seagull", "Mephisto", "Self-Defense", "Red Noses", and "Carnage: A Comedy". She once auditioned for the role of Martha Kent for a pilot of the television series "Smallville", but ultimately lost it to Annette O'Toole.
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Amanda Catherine Crew was born in Langley, British Columbia. Her mother is a legal secretary and her father is a telecommunication worker. Amanda attended Brookswood Secondary School in Langley. She began her acting career when she was cast in the musical Dragon Tales during her fourth grade in elementary school. Three agents contacted her, and she has been acting ever since. She did a Coca-Cola commercial and acted in stage plays like Stalling, Cordstons Courts, and Langley, the Musical. Crew attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.- Actress
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A 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist, and 2017 PAGE Award winner, Jody Thompson is an optioned screenwriter and actress most widely known for her recurring characters on The 4400, Blade: The Series, Terminal City, Flash Gordon and Cold Squad, as well as for television appearances on Fringe, the Stargate franchises, Smallville and Supernatural. She has co-starred with Eric McCormack twice - once, as a 1950's housewife in Alien Trespass, and again in the thriller Barricade.
Jody is also President of Little Wolf Productions, a media company dedicated to the creation of film and video artworks that endeavor to relieve social injustice and advance a message of hope, mercy and reconciliation. Little Wolf Productions is an independent, Canadian-based, multi-platform production company specializing in documentary films that entertain, educate and enrich. Besides having premiered films at top tier international film festivals (Cannes, Toronto, Berlin), projects have garnered 100,000's views on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook, are featured in museums, screened at international conferences and used as teaching tools by the Ministry of Education. littlewolfproductions.ca- Actress
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Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-American actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the Resident Evil (2002) franchise.
Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine). Her Serbian father, Bogdan Jovovich, was a medical doctor in Kyiv. There, he met her mother, Galina Jovovich (née Loginova), a Russian actress. At the age of 5, in 1981, Milla emigrated with her parents from the Soviet Union, moving first to London, UK, then to Sacramento, California, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. There her parents worked as house cleaners for the household of director Brian De Palma. Her parents separated, and eventually divorced, because her father was arrested and spent several years in prison.
Young Milla Jovovich was brought up by her single mother in Los Angeles. In addition to her native Ukrainian, she also speaks Russian and English. However, in spite of her cosmopolitan background, Milla was ostracized by some of her classmates, as a kid who emigrated from the Soviet Union amidst the paranoia of the Cold War. Many emotional scars had affected her behavior, but she eventually emerged as a resilient, multi-talented, albeit rebellious and risk-taking girl. She was coached by her actress mother since her childhood, first at home, then studied music, ballet, and acting in Los Angeles.
She shot to international fame after she was spotted by the photographer Richard Avedon at the age of 11, and was featured in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, and on the cover of the Italian fashion magazine 'Lei' which was her first cover shoot. She made her first professional model contract at the age of 12, and soon made it to the cover of 'The Face', 'Vogue', 'Cosmopolitan' and many other magazines. In 1994, she appeared on the cover of 'High Times' in the UK, at the age of 18. The total number of her magazine covers worldwide was over one hundred by 2004, and keeps counting. In 2004, she made $10.4 million, becoming the highest paid supermodel in the world.
Milla appeared in ad campaigns for Chanel, Versace, Emporio Armani, Donna Karen, DKNY, Celine, P&K, H&H, and continues her role as the worldwide spokesperson and model for L'Oreal. Thanks to their continued success with Milla, Giorgio Armani chose her to be the face of his fragrance, Night. In addition to Armani's fragrance, Milla was the face for Calvin Klein's Obsession and Christian Dior's Poison for over 10 years and has most recently become the new face for Donna Karan's Cashmere Mist fragrance, which debuts in August 2009. Milla continues to shoot with the fashion industry's most sought after photographers, including Peter Lindbergh, Mario Sorrenti, Craig McDean and Inez & Vinoodh.
Milla made her acting debut in the Disney Channel movie The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988) and she made guest appearances on television series including Married... with Children (1987) (in 1989 as a French exchange student), Paradise (1988) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990). In 1988, at age 12, she made her film debut credited as Milla in a supporting role in Two Moon Junction (1988) by writer/director Zalman King. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she played several supporting roles as a teenage actress in film and on television, then starred in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). In 1997, she co-starred opposite Bruce Willis in the sci-fi blockbuster The Fifth Element (1997), then she starred as the title character of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999).
In the early 2000s, Milla had a few years of uncertainty in her acting career due to the uneven quality of her films, as well as some hectic events in her private life. She appeared with Mel Gibson in Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. She went on to co-star with Wes Bentley and Sarah Polley in The Claim (2000) and in Ben Stiller's spoof of the world of models and high-fashion, Zoolander (2001).
Milla achieved box office success in the U.S. and around the world with the action-packed thriller, Resident Evil (2002), based on the wildly popular video game, Resident Evil. It was written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Milla reprised her role as the zombie slaying heroine, Alice, in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), and again in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) A seventh resident Evil movie is in pre-production.
She received glowing reviews opposite Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Illeana Douglas in Dummy (2002) which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. In the spring of 2006, Milla returned to the big screen as action heroine, Violet, in the futuristic film Ultraviolet (2006) directed by Kurt Wimmer.
Focusing on her personal sense of style, her love of fashion led Milla and her friend and business partner, Carmen Hawk, to launch their Jovovich-Hawk clothing line, which achieved instant acclaim in the domestic and international fashion world. The fresh, unique line garnered the attention of red carpet watchers and fashion magazines, including American Vogue, who featured Jovovich-Hawk on their coveted list of "10 Things to Watch Out for in 2005." A student of voice and guitar since she was very young, Milla began writing songs for her first record at the age of 15.
Her first album, "The Divine Comedy", was released by EMI Records in 1994. Informed by her experiences as a child growing up as a Russian emigrant in the Red-bashing Reagan era, the introspective European-folkish debut drew favorable reviews for Milla's songwriting and performing. She continues to write music, and has had songs featured on several film soundtracks. She has been writing music and lyrics to her song-demos, playing her guitar and sampling other sounds from her computer, and allowing free download and remix of her songs from her website.
Charitable work also plays a major part in Milla's life. She has served as Master of Ceremonies and co-chaired with Elizabeth Taylor for the amfAR and Cinema Against AIDS event at the Venice Film Festival, and has been heavily involved with The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, as well as The Wildlands Project.
For many years Milla Jovovich has been maintaining a healthier lifestyle, practicing yoga and meditation, trying to avoid junk food, and cooking for herself. Since she was a little girl, Milla has been writing a private diary, a habit she learned from her mother. She has been keeping a record of many good and bad facts of her life, her travels, her relationships, and all important ideas and events in her career, planning eventually to publish an autobiography. After dissolution of her two previous marriages, Milla Jovovich became engaged to film director Paul W.S. Anderson; their daughter, Ever Anderson, was born on November 3, 2007. They got married on August 22, 2009. Their second daughter, Dashiel Edan, was born on April 1, 2015.- Actress
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Brodie Cornish (they/them) is an Australian actor, writer, and producer based between Sydney and Queensland. They are best known for their roles as Mara in Running Late (2022), Lisa in Falling in Slow Motion: Proof of Concept (2021), and Brianna in Reverie (2021). Brodie has played lead roles in numerous award-winning short films including The Greens, premiering at St Kilda Film Festival, and The Bracelet, winning several 'Best Actor' Awards for her performance as Laura.- Naomi Atherton was born on 22 October 1996 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She is an actress, known for Supernatural (2005), The Neon Spectrum (2017) and Little Ghosts (2016).
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French actress Léa Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris, France, to Valérie Schlumberger, a philanthropist, and Henri Seydoux, a businessman. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is chairman of Pathé, and her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger (her mother also descends from the Schlumberger family). Her parents are both of mixed French and Alsatian German descent, with more distant Venezuelan (Spanish, Basque) roots on her father's side.
Léa began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She first came to attention after she received her first César Award nomination for her performance in The Beautiful Person (2008), and won the Trophée Chopard, an award given to promising actors at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, she has appeared in major Hollywood films including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011). In French cinema, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for a second time for her role in Belle Épine (2010) and was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress for the film Farewell, My Queen (2012).
In 2013, Seydoux came to widespread attention when Seydoux and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos, alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche, were awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for their involvement in the critically acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)). As a special prize for their roles, Along with Jane Campion, Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are the only women to have ever won a Palme d'Or.
That same year, she also received the Lumières Award for Best Actress for the film Grand Central and, in 2014, she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and starred in the films Beauty and the Beast, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Saint Laurent. In 2015 she played Madeleine Swann in the 24th James Bond film Spectre.- Actress
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Tina Rodriguez was born on 24 September 1982 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She is an actress and editor, known for Death Proof (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Faculty (1998).- Actress
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Hélène Cardona is an international actress & writer born in Paris and raised all over Europe. A graduate of the Sorbonne and AADA (New York), she has worked extensively in film & television and is known for Chocolat (2000), The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), World War Z (2013), Jurassic World (2015), and Mumford (1999). She recurs as Monique in Season 2 of Upload (2020), is the Computer Voice in Heroes Reborn (2015) and her many voice characters include the Cerebro in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Happy Feet Two (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014). Hélène has French, Spanish, and US citizenships. Her mother is Greek, and father Spanish.
For Serendipity (2001), she co-wrote with Peter Chelsom and Alan Silvestri the song Lucienne, which she also sang. TV guest roles include Law & Order, Passions, The Bold and the Beautiful, One Life to Live, The New Adventures of Robin Rood, Another World, among many. Producing credits include the award-winning documentary Femme (2013).
Hélène won the 2023 Best Actress Award at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, 2022 Vanguard Award for Cinematic Achievement by an Actress at the Scotland International Festival of Cinema, and Best Supporting Actress at Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris and Lady Filmmakers Festival for her role of Arlette Linstrom in Caralique.
Hélène won the Jean-Luc Godard Award at the Cult Critics Movie Awards. In 2022, Hélène won Best Actress at the Tokyo International and V.I.Z. Film Festivals, and Best Supporting Actress at the Swedish International Film Festival, Accord Cine Fest, Druk International and Indo French International Film Festivals, Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Virgin Spring Fest, and Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards, for her role of Venus in Halo. She also won Golden Actress at the Golden Short Film Festival and was Semi-Finalist at the San Francisco Indie Short Festival.
Hélène also trained with Ellen Burstyn, Sandra Seacat, and Susan Batson at the Actors' Studio. She performed at the Players Club, The Actors' Studio, and with The Naked Angels and Ubu Theater Companies in New York.
A citizen of the United States, France and Spain, she speaks English, French, Spanish, German, Greek and Italian. Born in Paris of a Greek mother and Spanish father and raised all over Europe, she studied English Philology and Literature in Cambridge, England; Spanish at the International Universities of Santander and Baeza, Spain; and German at the Goethe Institute in Bremen, Germany. She attended Hamilton College, New York, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, Paris, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James for her Master's in American Literature. She graduated from the Music Conservatory in Geneva, Switzerland, where she also trained as a pianist and dancer, and performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
She has lived in Paris, France; Geneva, Switzerland; Cambridge and London, England; Llandudno, Wales; Monte-Carlo, Monaco; Bremen, Germany; Madrid, Tarragona and Santander, Spain; Vienna, Austria; New York City and Santa Monica, and has worked in France, the UK, the US, Lithuania, Italy, and Morocco.
She is the author of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), winner of the 2020 Independent Press Award, 2017 International Book Award, 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry, Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book, Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry, and Finalist for the Julie Suk Book Award and the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Poetry; Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), winner of the Best Book Award in Poetry, Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book, Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry, and Finalist for the International Book Award in Poetry and the The Julie Suk Book Award; Beyond Elsewhere (White Pine Press), recipient of a Hemingway Grant, her translation of Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac; Ce que nous portons (Editions du Cygne), her translation of Dorianne Laux; and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press). She co-wrote with John M. FitzGerald the screenplay Primate, based on his novel, and writes children stories.
The Abduction, her translation of Le Rapt by Franco-Syrian poet Maram Al-Masri, was awarded an Albertine and FACE Foundation Grant in 2023.
Birnam Wood, her translation of El Bosque de Birnam by her father José Manuel Cardona, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2018. it won the 2022 Independent Press Award and NYC Big Book Award, 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry, 2019 Readers' Favorite Award Gold Medal in Poetry, Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Collection, Julie Suk Honor. It was a Finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the 2019 International Poetry Book Award and was named Best Translation in the Washington Independent Review of Books and a World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018.
With Yves Lambrecht, she co-translated Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings (Whitman et la Guerre de Sécession) for WhitmanWeb.
She has worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy, the French Chamber of Commerce and works as a translator and language coach for the film and music industry. She is also a teacher, dream analyst, animal lover and animal activist.
Hélène is a yoga practitioner, dancer and equestrian, and speaks six languages.
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Marin Ireland was born in Camarillo, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Hell or High Water (2016), Glass Chin (2014) and Homeland (2011).- Stunts
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Fell in love with the art of acting, sword-fighting, and stunts during her junior year at Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering & Management Institute) in Michigan while studying for her undergrad in Business Management and Marketing. For the last 18 years, she has been continuously training as an actor, stunt actor, and stunt woman in acting, stunts, and sword-fighting [European & Italian styles which includes: saber, rapier, rapier & dagger, cutlass, broadsword, small sword, quarterstaff]. For the last 11 years, she has been training in martial arts (muay thai, boxing, judo, jiu jitsu, grappling, tae kwon do, wu shu) and Asian swordplay (katana, Japanese sai, wu shu sword/staff etc.) Her ultimate goal within the entertainment industry is to empower athletic females in film & TV (set in modern or historic times) by either producing, creating, writing, acting, swordfighting, choreographing, or performing stunts on projects. She also produced, choreographed, starred, and co-wrote an award-winning historical short film entitled 'La Fleur de la Bataille'. Has also co-starred and choreographed stunts and swordfights in 'The Crusader', a project shown at the 2005 Los Angeles 168 Hour Film Festival. She is also a sword-fighting instructor and choreographer.
She has co-created and co-written a female-driven comedy narrative TV pilot & series with Taylor J Martin called What About Walda. She is the female lead in the project. Major production companies and online streaming services looked at it.
She has co-writes and co-created a sci-fi action TV series pilot/comic book/feature film franchise called "Omega 1" with, Mark Edward Lewis. She seen can be seen at major ComicCon conventions across the country promoting the Omega 1 Comic and Motion Comics. She was also at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con in the Omega 1 booth #5535.
She has also collaborated with Mark E. Lewis on a how-to DVD series called 'Super Swordfighting Series'; Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced (the DVD series got distributed domestically and worldwide) and a hilarious web series of which she was the star, co-creator & producer called Mad Maxine. It featured 7 minute-and-a-half episodes, full of physical comedic stunts. They can be found on YouTube.
She has also has a project in the works with her producing partner called "'The Spirit Within"; a historical action/drama feature project. She has also co-written a full length, feature physical/comedy script with one of her writing partners.
Andrei is a working actor, stunt actor, and stunt woman in the entertainment business and is also set to play the Female Lead in several action orientated projects for TV and Film in 2019 & beyond.- Actress
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Christina Rene Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her father, Robert, originally from England, worked for the U.S. Forest Service, while her mother, Jackie Sue (Raymond), was a psychologist. At the age of 13 her father transferred to the Forest Service Washington, D.C. headquarters and the family moved to nearby Fairfax, Virginia. She began acting at school and went into modeling from the ages of 18 to 27. In her early 20s, she also began appearing on television, landing a recurring role in Beggars and Choosers (1999) in 2000 and another on Kevin Hill (2004) before rising to international fame in Mad Men (2007). As well as her more famously conventional awards nominations (Emmys) and wins (SAG Awards) she also won a SyFy Genre Award in for "Best Special Guest/Television" for her role as Saffron in Joss Whedon's short-lived Firefly (2002).- Actress
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Raghad is of Syrian descent and was raised in Edinburgh from the age of two. After studying acting at Telfrod College, Raghad received a place at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she trained in BA Acting. Her first role out of drama school was Mary Queen of Scots in 'Mary, the Last Farewell'. Shortly after moving to London, Raghad was cast in 'How to Hold your Breath' at the Royal Court starring Maxine Peake. Her first television role was in Peter Kosminsky's 'The State' which lead to Raghad being cast in the BBC and Netflix drama 'Collateral' directed by S.J. Clarkson and starring Carey Mulligan. In 2019 Raghad was on the London stage again, this time at the Bridge Theatre in 'Two Ladies' directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner and starring Zoë Wanamaker. Most recently she can be seen in Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker' and Billie Piper's 'I Hate Suzie' on Sky Atlantic. 'Adnan' a short film in which Raghad plays a leading character, has been touring the world in the festival circuit and has 24 laurels thus far. The film has also managed to raise over £25k for the charity Choose Love. During the pandemic Raghad performed a one woman show called 'Revolutions Days' which premiered at The Roxy in Edinburgh and Tramway in Glasgow and filmed the short film 'Fireworks' directed by Paul J. Franklin, starring Charlotte Riley and Denise Gough. Raghad has started script writing and is excited to be creating her own work for the big screen.- Actress
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Amanda Leighton is an American actress from Fresno, California known for voicing Blossom in the reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, Poppy from Trolls: The Beat Goes On and Polly Plantar from Amphibia. She also acted in Lego Dimensions, This Is Us, Criminal Minds and Grey's Anatomy.- Jamie Strange was born on 11 November 1986 in Columbia, Missouri, USA. She is an actress, known for Scavengers (2013), Hot Properties (2005) and CSI: Miami (2002).
- Candace Kroslak was born on 22 July 1978 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Take Me Home Tonight (2011), Planet of the Apes (2001) and American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006). She has been married to Thomas E. van Dell since 23 June 2013.
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Mircea Monroe was born on 11 March 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Tekken (2010), Dumbbells (2014) and The Ultimate Gift (2006).- Actress
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Michaela Jill Murphy (also known as Jessie Flower) is an American voice, film, and stage actress. She is known as the voice of Toph Beifong in the animated Nickelodeon television series "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Michaela's voice has been featured in several animated movies, including Meet the Robinsons, Over the Hedge, The Ant Bully, Finding Nemo, The Emperor's New School, and Brother Bear 2.
Michaela was born on August 18, 1994 in southern Indiana. At the age of four she moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career appearing in advertisements for Barbie and Mitsubishi. Michaela has also made guest appearances in television shows such as General Hospital and Strong Medicine, and subsequently majored in Theater and Film Studies at Yale University.- Kim Alexis was born on 15 July 1960 in Lockport, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Holy Man (1998), The Commish (1991) and Cheers (1982). She has been married to Jeffery Schwartz since 4 November 2017. She was previously married to Ronald Roger Duguay and James Roosevelt Stockton III.
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Rachel Matthews was born on 25 October 1993. She is an actress and producer, known for Happy Death Day (2017), Happy Death Day 2U (2019) and Do Revenge (2022).- Marisa Petroro is an American film and television actress from Elizabeth, New Jersey, who is of Italian and Argentine descent. She is recognized for developing a diverse range of on-screen personalities. It's no wonder this Jersey girl has made a spot for herself in Hollywood.
At the tender age of four, Marisa started participating in East Coast beauty pageants. By eight, this young starlet was taking trips to New York City to study acting at the highly acclaimed HB Studio. After making the pageant circuit as a teenager, Marisa won the title of Miss Italia USA and then retired her pageant days after she went on to place top five in Miss Italia World in 1996.
Marisa then crafted a five-year road-map, packed her bags and convinced a good friend to join her on a 3,000 mile cross-country drive that ended in Los Angeles. Within the first few years, Marisa was landing principal roles in hit films such as MGM's 'Pumpkin' and Columbia Pictures' 'Tomcats'. Also during this breakout period, she built notable television credits on NBC's 'The Pretender', CBS's 'The Young and the Restless', a national commercial directed by David Lynch and starred opposite Rick Schroder in the award-winning country music video, Whiskey Lullaby, sung by Allison Krause and Brad Paisley.
2007-2008 were banner years for this seasoned actor as she starred in Roadside Attraction's feature film, 'Everybody Wants to Be Italian', the story of the struggle of two Italians and their quest to win each other's hearts in Boston's famed North End. She had also returned for her fourth season as one of the most recognized briefcase models (#18) on NBC's top game show 'Deal or No Deal', as well as landed roles on CBS's popular sitcom 'Rules of Engagement', acting alongside David Spade and ABC's award winning comedy drama series 'Desperate Housewives', acting alongside Eva Longoria Parker.
2011-2012 were also banner years with guest star roles on TNT's 'Franklin & Bash', Fox's 'Touch', Lifetime's 'Drop Dead Diva' and a co-star on Disney's 'Kickin' It'.
Over the past decade, Marisa has had a wonderful path working on films opposite Dominic Monaghan in 'The Millionaire Tour,' Richard Tyson in 'Booneville Redemption', French Stewart in 'Hopeless, Romantic' and most recently in 'Ford v. Ferrari' as Mrs. Henry Ford opposite Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas and Jon Bernthal, which won 2 Academy Awards in 2020.
Outside of acting, Marisa holds philanthropy close to her heart. She was the national spokesperson for the Sarcoma Foundation of America (SFA), an organization dedicated to increasing sarcoma related research from 2007-2010. In fact, Marisa, a cancer survivor of Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare childhood cancer, that affects the muscles, has said that taking on this responsibility allowed her to achieve one of her lifetime goals. She continues to volunteer her time to helping individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer and are undergoing chemotherapy.
Marisa is always involved with charity organizations including the Tomorrow's Children Fund, The Young Storytellers Foundation and Project Angel Food.
In 2007, Marisa was asked to be Commencement Speaker at her alma mater, Kean University in New Jersey and was honored as "Woman of the Year" by The Center for Italian and Italian-American Culture in her home state of New Jersey. She also contributed to the book The Vision Board: The Secret to An Extraordinary Life by Joyce Schwarz. - Actress
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Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Perrie Voss is an award winning screenwriter, picture editor, producer and Canadian Screen Awards nominated actor. Most notably, Perrie co-wrote, co-produced, co-starred and co-edited Avocado Toast the series, season 1 and 2 based on her real life story and experiences. It is currently airing on OUTtv, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+ and more across the globe - you can find more information at avocadotoasttheseries.
Perrie is a graduate of the esteemed 3 year conservatory program at George Brown Theatre School in Toronto and spent the first 10 years as a professional actor on stage. Now acting in film and tv and creating her own projects, Perrie focuses on telling stories with diverse and underrepresented narratives, especially female led and LGBTQ2ia+ projects. Perrie is continuing to develop her digital series, Stories from my Gay Grandparents which was the recipient of development funding from the 2021 IPF/CMF Short Series Fund as well as full production funding from IPF. Other credits include picture editing and acting a short film called Alex - which premiered at Hollyshorts in LA August 2022.
Perrie is an avid horseback rider, cyclist, downhill skier and runner. She also is a visual artist. She splits her time between Toronto and Calgary.- Actress
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Chloe Madison is known for Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022), The Boys (2019) and Wingman.- Camille Veronica Kostek (February 19, 1992) was born and raised in Killingworth, Connecticut to Alan Kostek, a contractor, and Christina (née Decosta), a gym manager. She was a former National Football League (NFL) cheerleader for the New England Patriots (2013-14) before coming to prominence for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and gaining international recognition after landing a solo cover with the magazine in 2019.
- Viola Lynn Collins was born in Houston, Texas, to Patricia Lynn (Campbell) and Phillip Dean Collins. She attended the Juilliard School for Drama and had a great deal of Shakespearean training before being cast as "Portia" in "The Merchant of Venice". She also played "Ophelia" in a production of "Hamlet" in New York, and was "Juliet" in Peter Hall's "Romeo and Juliet" at the Ahmanson theatre in Los Angeles.