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Verónica Lynn
Verónica Lynn López Martínez (born May 7, 1931) is a Cuban Actor, actress and theatre director with an extensive career in film, theatre, radio and television. She founded the theater group Trotamundos in 1989 with Pedro Álvarez, her husband. Career Lynn's career began in the 1950s mainly in the theatre, acting in a large number of plays in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1971, she made her first appearance in Cuban cinema, in the film ''Una pelea cubana contra los demonios''. In 1985, she played the leading role of Susana in ''Lejanía'' and four years later she appeared in Enrique Pineda Barnet's feature film ''La bella del Alhambra''. Her character of Doña Teresa in the 1985 soap opera ''Sol de batey'' was well received in her country. In the 1990s she made appearances in several feature films, including ''Mujer Transparente'', ''Amores'', ''Historias Clandestinas en La Habana'' and ''Turbulence (2000 film), Turbulence''. She continued to perform on stage, although mainly as a pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinar Del Río
Pinar del Río is the capital city of Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. With a population of 191,081 (2022), it is the List of cities in Cuba, 10th-largest city in Cuba. Inhabitants of the area are called ''Pinareños''. History Pinar del Río was one of the last major cities in Cuba founded by the Spanish, on 10 September 1867. The city and province was founded as ''Nueva Filipinos, Filipinas'' (New Philippines) in response to an influx of Filipino Cubans, Asian laborers coming from the Philippine Islands to work on tobacco plantations. Pinar del Río's history begins with two tribes, the Guanahatabey, a group of nomadic people who lived in caves and procured most of their livelihood from the sea. Less advanced than the other indigenous natives who lived on the island, the Guanahatabey were a peaceful and passive race whose culture came about largely independently of the Taíno. Another culture that inhabited this area was the Ciboney People, a subgroup of the Taino people who inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realizing their artistic vision for it. The director thereby collaborates with a team of creative individuals and other staff to coordinate research and work on all the aspects of the production which includes the Technical and the Performance aspects. The technical aspects include: stagecraft, costume design, theatrical properties (props), lighting design, set design, and sound design for the production. The performance aspects include: acting, dance, orchestra, chants, and stage combat. If the production is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turbulence (2000 Film)
''Turbulence'' () is a 2000 drama film directed by Ruy Guerra. A co-production between Brazil, Cuba, and Portugal, it was shot in Rio de Janeiro and Havana. Plot A nameless man from a wealthy family lives in ruin, with no job and no clear direction in life. His sister believes he has turned his back on everything their family once represented, while his best friend—a member of a radical left-wing political movement—criticizes him for not having abandoned the family estate. The estate, meanwhile, has been taken over by squatters, who are eventually driven out by a gang of violent bikers. Convinced that someone is trying to kill him, he wanders through the city in a paranoid haze, fending off the advances of his sister's drug-addicted friend and searching for the skeleton of his ex-wife—who is far from pleased to see him. Cast * Jorge Perugorría as I * Bianca Byington as Sister * Leonor Arocha as Ex-wife * Tonico Oliveira as Brother-in-law * Aurora Basnuevo as Indigenous w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemingway In Cuba
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for ''The Kansas City Star'' before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''Toronto Star'' and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macondo Awards
The Macondo Awards are given by the Colombian Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences () to honor achievement in Colombian cinema. The awards are given annually since 2010 by the Academy, whose members include Colombian actors, directors, producers, and industry film technicians. History The first edition of the Macondo Awards was held in October 2010 at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitán Theatre. The award's name is based on Macondo, the fictional town in Gabriel García Márquez's novel, ''One Hundred Years of Solitude ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' (, ) is a 1967 in literature, 1967 novel by Colombian people, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the Family saga, multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio ...''. The statuette was created by Roberto Cano and is based on the Macondo tree. Awards * Best Film (''Mejor Película'') * Best Documentary (''Mejor Documental'') * Best Director (''Mejor Director'') * Best Original S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Somewhere
''Esther Somewhere'' (Spanish: ''Esther en alguna parte'') is a 2013 Cuban-Peruvian comedy-drama film directed by Gerardo Chijona and written by Eduardo Eimil. Starring Reynaldo Miravalles and Enrique Molina, the film is based on the homonymous novel by Eliseo Alberto Diego. It premiered on February 21, 2013, in Cuban theaters. Synopsis One year after the death of his wife Maruja, Lino Catalá, a serious and formal old man, is approached by Larry Po, another quirky old man with multiple personalities. Larry confesses to Lino that his late wife, Maruja, led a double life: an ordinary housewife by day, and an imposing bolero singer by night. From this moment on, the two old men join in a meticulous search in Maruja's past, while trying to find the whereabouts of Esther Rodenas, the great love of Larry's life. While they follow the trail of the women they loved, a friendship arises between them that transforms them in a definitive way and that shows them that life does not end in ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
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Cuban Film Actresses
Cuban or Cubans may refer to: Related to Cuba * of or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Culture of Cuba * Cuban cigar * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * * Kuban (other) * List of Cubans * Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Boys, a British music act * Cuban eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver * Cuban Missile Crisis * Cubane Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon compound with the Chemical formula, formula . It consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube (geometry), cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substanc ..., a synthetic hydr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Cuban Actresses
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