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Little Fires Everywhere (miniseries)
''Little Fires Everywhere'' is an American drama streaming television series, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Celeste Ng. It premiered on Hulu on March 18, 2020 and consists of eight episodes. The series stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, both of whom were also executive producers, alongside Liz Tigelaar, Lauren Neustadter, and Pilar Savone. Set in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio during the late 1990s, it features Witherspoon and Washington as mothers from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Premise ''Little Fires Everywhere'' follows "the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster." Cast and characters Main *Reese Witherspoon as Elena Richardson, a journalist, landlady, and mother of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (film And Television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aerial systems, cable television, and/or satellite television systems. History Up until the 1990s, it was not thought possible that a television programme could be squeezed into the limited telecommunication bandwidth of a copper telephone cable to provide a streaming service of acceptable quality, as the required bandwidth of a digital television signal was around 200 Mbit/s, which was 2,000 times greater than the bandwidth of a speech signal over a copper telephone wire. Streaming services were only made possible as a result of two major technological developments: MPEG ( motion-compensated DCT) video compression and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) data transmission. The first worldwide live-streaming event was a radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byron Mann
Byron Mann is a Hong Kong-American actor of film and television. His best-known roles include Ryu in '' Street Fighter'', Silver Lion in '' The Man with the Iron Fists'', Wing Chau in ''The Big Short'', Admiral Augusto Nguyen on ''The Expanse'', Chang on '' Hell on Wheels'', Yao Fei on ''Arrow'', and Uncle Six in the Netflix series ''Wu Assassins''. Early life and education Mann was born in Hong Kong, and was raised bilingual in English and Cantonese. Mann attended the Diocesan Boys' School, an all-boys secondary school in Hong Kong, where he was active in community theatre as both an actor and a writer. After graduating, Mann moved to California. Mann received a degree in philosophy from UCLA in Los Angeles, California. After college, Byron attended USC Law School, but took a sabbatical after the first year. Back in Hong Kong, he received an acting role in the NBC Movie TV movie ''Last Flight Out''. He returned to Los Angeles, graduated from USC Law, passed the California ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Basis
Austin Lee Basis (born September 14, 1976) is an American actor. Early life and education Basis was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Mark Twain Intermediate School 239 and Midwood High School. While majoring in theatre at Binghamton University, he performed in the title roles of " Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" and "I Hate Hamlet", in addition to several original productions. After graduation, he joined the Actors Studio MFA program, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. He is Jewish. Career As a struggling actor in New York, Basis worked as a bartender, a bouncer, a busboy, a cater-waiter, and a substitute teacher while performing in independent and student films, and Off-Off Broadway plays. He also co-created and performed in an improv & sketch comedy show called "Mmm...Comedy" that ran for seven months. Television Basis's most prominent television role has been on the recent incarnation of ''Beauty & the Beast'', where he played J.T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarita Choudhury
Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (born 18 August 1966) is a British actress, known for her role as Mina in the Mira Nair-directed feature film '' Mississippi Masala'' (1991). Choudhury has played roles in American and international films and television shows such as in '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'' (1996), ''A Perfect Murder'' (1998), '' 3 A.M.'' (2001), and the John Cassavetes remake '' Gloria'' (1999). In 2002, she starred in '' Just a Kiss''. She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's '' She Hate Me'' (2004) and acted as Anna Ran in '' Lady in the Water'', a 2006 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan. She also played Egeria in '' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2'' (2015) and co-starred with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film ''A Hologram for the King''. In 2021, Choudhury joined the cast of HBO Max's ''Sex and the City'' revival television series '' And Just Like That...''. Early life Choudhury was born in Blackheath, London, England, and is of half Indian and half English desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Williams (actor)
Jesse Wesley Williams is an American actor, director, producer and activist. He played Jackson Avery on the ABC medical drama '' Grey's Anatomy'' (2009–22) and has appeared in the films '' The Cabin in the Woods'' (2012), ''The Butler'' (2013) and '' Band Aid'' (2017). He has provided voice acting and motion capture for Markus in '' Detroit: Become Human'' (2018). He has also served as an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning short, ''Two Distant Strangers'' (2020) and the Tony Award-winning revival of '' Take Me Out'' (2022), the latter of which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Early life Williams was born in Chicago to Johanna Chase, a professional potter, and Reginald Williams. Jesse Williams has said his mother is a Swedish American and his father is an African American from Georgia. His two younger brothers specialize and work in the field of visual arts. Williams graduated from Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Nicholls-King
Melanie Nicholls-King is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known for playing Cheryl in the drama series ''The Wire'', and for her portrayal of Officer Noelle Williams in the drama series ''Rookie Blue''. Personal life Nicholls-King is from Toronto. She is married and has a son. Filmography Film Television External linksOfficial Site*Melanie Nicholls-Kingon TwitterMelanie Nicholls-Kingon FacebookMelanie Nicholls-Kingon Instagram Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can ... References Black Canadian actresses Canadian people of Barbadian descent Canadian film actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian television actresses Actresses from Toronto 20th-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian voice actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obba Babatundé
Obba Babatundé (born Donald Cohen; December 1, 1951) is an American actor. A native of Queens, New York City, he has appeared in more than seventeen stage productions, thirty theatrical films, sixty made-for-television films, and two prime-time series. Early life and education Babatundé was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. As a child, he attended public schools. He was attracted early to theater and from a young age would sing, dance and act for his family. He attended Jamaica High School where he was a well-rounded student who, in addition to appearing in the Sing '68 school musical program, was a student aide and a member of both the track and cross country teams. After graduating from Jamaica High School in 1969, he started teaching at a private school for students of color. He also pursued acting jobs in New York, gaining some roles Off-Off-Broadway. Learning that his ancestry included people from Nigeria, he adopted a name made of Yoruba words: ''Obba'', for "k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Ray Newman
Jaime Ray Newman (born April 2, 1978) is an American actress, producer and singer. She is known for starring as Kristina Cassadine in the soap opera ''General Hospital'', Mindy O'Dell in the drama series ''Veronica Mars'', Kat Gardener in the fantasy series '' Eastwick'', Lt. Laura Cadman in the science-fiction series ''Stargate Atlantis'', Tess Fontana in the science-fiction series '' Eureka'', Kat Petrova in the drama-thriller series '' Red Widow'', Sam Gordon in the comedy-drama series '' Mind Games'', Allison Roth in the crime drama series '' Wicked City'', and Sarah Lieberman in the Marvel series '' The Punisher''. Along with her husband Guy Nattiv, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2019 for producing the drama ''Skin'' (2018). Early life Newman was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Jewish parents, Marsha Jo and Raphael Newman. She has one sister, Beth Nicole, a global public relations director at J Brand. Newman started performing at age e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Stults
Geoffrey Manton Stults (born December 15, 1977) is an American actor. His first regular roles on television included '' 7th Heaven'', '' October Road'', and '' Happy Town''. He went on to star as Major Walter Sherman on '' The Finder'', Sgt. Pete Hill on ''Enlisted'', and Marco Strzalkowski on '' Guilty Party''. He also played the recurring role of Mitch on seasons 1-3 of the hit Netflix series '' Grace and Frankie''. His film roles include ''Wedding Crashers'', ''The Break-Up'', ''She's Out of My League'', '' Only the Brave'', and '' 12 Strong''. He will next be seen as Jake opposite Jennifer Garner in ''The Last Thing He Told Me''. Early life Stults was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. His brother is actor George Stults. He graduated from Manitou Springs High School. He moved to Los Angeles, and began to perform in the college theater productions while attending Whittier College, in Whittier, California where he also played football. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Lu
Huang Lu () (born July 10, 1983) is a Chinese actress. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy Beijing Film Academy (BFA; ) is a coeducational state-run higher education institution in Beijing, China. The film school is the largest institution specializing in the tertiary education for film and television production in Asia. The academy ..., Huang debuted in director Li Yang's '' Blind Mountain'', where she played a young college student sold into sexual slavery in a mountain village in northern China. She has since acted in Cai Shangjun's '' The Red Awn'' in a supporting role. Filmography Film Television Producer References External links * Huang Luat the Chinese Movie Database * Chinese film actresses Beijing Film Academy alumni 1983 births 21st-century Chinese actresses Living people Actresses from Chengdu {{China-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
