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Few Brazilian artists leave such a rich, fun and coherent path, in the television, opening space for so many characters, places and mores, like Regina Casé. Winner of the Moliére Award as best theater actress at the age of 23, Regina carries a history of success throughout Brazil, in the theater, cinema and TV, opting to visit every corner of the country with the intention of enriching its culture and people.
In the movies in 2015, Regina stars in the prizewinning movie by Anna Muylaerts, "The Second Mother" ("Que Horas Ela Volta?"). Inspired by the traditional relationship between employees and employers, the movie is a Brazilian production that was exhibited last year in the Carte Blanche session of the Locarno International Film Festival, in Switzerland. This year, it won as Best Fiction Film in Panorama Audience Award, a category of Berlin International Film Festival. The lead actresses Regina and Camila Márdila also conquered the award of Best Actress in the Sundance Film Festival, in the United States, and Regina Casé was equally renowned with the prize for female interpretation in the Valenciennes Film Festival, in France. Acting as Val, a woman from Pernambuco State, she shows in the Brazilian drama the reality of the northeastern home keepers that try to make a living in São Paulo.
Besides the cinema, Regina dedicates part of her time to "Esquenta!", a Sunday TV program displayed by Rede Globo, the biggest TV broadcaster in Brazilian television. The attraction celebrates the differences and looks for similarities between distinct social groups. The space is used to portray the cultures of several Brazilian regions, in addition to enabling the relationship between different social classes and knowing the opinion of these people about various subjects. The confirmation of the program in the broadcaster's grid was an important conquest for the presenter's career.
It's also worth to highlight her performance as presenter of the Globo channel programs "Brasil legal", "Muvuca", "Central da periferia" and Futura channel program "Um pé de que?". As an actress, she was highly recognized by the character Tina Pepper, of the soap opera "Cambalacho", and by her roles in movies like "Chuvas de verão", by Cacá Diegues; "Made in China", by Estevão Ciavatta, and "Eu, tu, eles" (2000), by Andrucha Waddington - in this last one, Regina was Darlene, a northeastern character who touched thousands of spectators in a performance praised by "The New York Times": the American newspaper compared Regina to the Italian actress Anna Magnani. The movie was acclaimed in the show "Um Certo Olhar", in Cannes Film Festival, and conquered the Cristal Globe of best film in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, of the Czech Republic. The same festival awarded Regina as best actress.for "The second mother"- Actress
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Often considered hip-hop's first lady, the woman behind the moniker Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970, in East Orange, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Rita (Bray), a teacher, and Lancelot Owens Sr. She came from a police family-both her father and her older brother were cops-which would later influence her rhyming style and life philosophy. Her brother died in a motorcycle accident in 1992. Owens witnessed both sides of black urban life in the USA while growing up. After a brief stint as a Burger King employee, she soon found herself making waves in the hip-hop music scene.
After working as the human beatbox alongside Ladies Fresh, she was just 18 years old when she broke through in the late 1980s with a style that picked selectively from jazz, reggae, and soul traditions, from beats produced by D.J. Mark the 45 King. Her debut single, "Wrath of My Madness," was released in 1988. A year later, her debut long-player, "All Hail the Queen," enjoyed favored reviews: an old, wise head was evident on the top of her young shoulders. The former Burger King employee maintained her early commitment to answering the misogynist armory of some of her male counterparts and, at the same time, imparted musical good times to all genders. Her name means "delicate and sensitive" in Arabic, but she has often been anything but in her rhymes and the messages she sends out through them. One of the most prominent female hip-hop artists on the scene for over a decade, Queen Latifah has also made tremendous inroads in movies, television, and artist management, with her management company, Flavor Unit, alongside her business partner Shakim Compere. A role model who takes the responsibility to heart, Latifah has carefully constructed a fine career for herself-one that is constantly moving upward.for "Bessie"- Editorial Department
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Julija Steponaityte was born on 1 July 1992 in Lithuania. She is an actress, known for The Summer of Sangaile (2015), Personal Shopper (2016) and Man Dvim Keli (2014).for "Summer of Sangaile"- After graduating from high school, she joined the faculty of Russian philology Pskov Pedagogical Institute, in 2006 she graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. Since 2003 she has appeared in more than 30 films and since 2007 she has been one of the leading actresses at the State Theater of Nations.
He cooperates with the theater "School of Modern Play" and the theater on Malaya Bronnaya theater company Evgeniy Mironov.
The actress became well known after playing supporting roles in In the Fog (2012) directed by Sergey Loznitsa and The Edge (2010) directed by Aleksey Uchitel. Lead roles in the drama film Nevesta (2006), the comedy Santa Lyuchiya (2012), and the war Battle for Sevastopol (2015) brought her popularity among Russian audiences.for "Battle for Sevastopol" - Actress
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Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten years old, her 40-year-old father died of a sudden heart attack. Her mother never remarried, and her grandmother moved in to help her mother.
Cate graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992 and, in a little over a year, had won both critical and popular acclaim. On graduating from NIDA, she joined the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls", then played Felice Bauer, the bride, in Tim Daly's "Kafka Dances", winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her performance. From there, Blanchett moved to the role of Carol in David Mamet's searing polemic "Oleanna", also for the Sydney Theatre Company, and won the Rosemont Best Actress Award, her second award that year. She then co-starred in the ABC Television's prime time drama Heartland (1994), again winning critical acclaim. In 1995, she was nominated for Best Female Performance for her role as Ophelia in the Belvoir Street Theatre Company's production of "Hamlet". Other theatre credits include Helen in the Sydney Theatre Company's "Sweet Phoebe", Miranda in "The Tempest" and Rose in "The Blind Giant is Dancing", both for the Belvoir Street Theatre Company. In other television roles, Blanchett starred as Bianca in ABC's Bordertown (1995), as Janie Morris in G.P. (1989) and in ABC's popular series Police Rescue (1994). She made her feature film debut in Paradise Road (1997).
Cate married writer Andrew Upton in 1997. She had met him a year earlier on a movie set, and they didn't like each other at first. He thought she was aloof, and she thought he was arrogant, but then they connected over a poker game at a party, and she went home with him that night. Three weeks later he proposed marriage and they quickly married before she went off to England to play her breakthrough role in films: the title character in Elizabeth (1998) for which she won numerous awards for her performance, including the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama. Cate was also nominated for an Academy Award for the role but lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow. 2001 was a particularly busy year, with starring roles in Bandits (2001), The Shipping News (2001), Charlotte Gray (2001) and playing Elf Queen Galadriel in the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy. She also gave birth to her first child, son Dashiell, in 2001. In 2004, she gave birth to her second son Roman.
Also, in 2004, she played actress Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's film The Aviator (2004), for which she received an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. Two years later, she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for playing a teacher having an affair with an underage student in Notes on a Scandal (2006). In 2007, she returned to the role that made her a star in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). It earned her an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. She was nominated for another Oscar that same year as Best Supporting Actress for playing Bob Dylan in I'm Not There (2007). In 2008, she gave birth to her third child, son Ignatius. She and her husband became artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company, choosing to spend more time in Australia raising their three sons. She also purchased a multi-million dollar home in Sydney, Australia and named it Bulwarra and made extensive renovations to it. Because of her life in Australia, her film work became sporadic, until Woody Allen cast her in the title role in Blue Jasmine (2013), which won her the Academy Award as Best Actress. She ended her job as artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, while her husband continued there for two more years before he too resigned.
In 2015, she adopted her daughter Edith in her father's homeland of the United States. That same year, she and her husband sold their multi-million dollar home in Australia at a profit and moved to America. Reasons varied from her wanting to work more in America to wanting to familiarize herself with her late father's American heritage. She played the title role of Carol (2015), a 1950s American housewife in a lesbian affair with a younger woman, for which she received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. While most actresses might slow down in their forties, Blanchett did the opposite by stretching her boundaries even further, such as when she played 13 different characters in Manifesto (2015) and then making her Broadway debut in 2017 in "The Present", which is her husband's adaptation of Chekhov's play "Platonov" for which she earned a Tony nomination as Best Actress in a Play. Also in 2017, she was selected for the highest honor in her birth country: the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).for "Carol"