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Ayesha Madon
Ayesha Madon (born 10 February 1998) is an Australian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Amerie Wadia in the Netflix comedy drama series ''Heartbreak High'' (2022present), for which she received nominations for an AACTA Award and a Logie Award. Early life Madon was born and raised in Sydney. Her parents are emigrants from India who purchased a catering company after they arrived in Australia. Madon was raised in a Zoroastrian household but identifies as agnostic. She attended the McDonald College and the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating from the latter in 2018 with a degree in musical theatre. Career Madon made her acting debut in 2021. She had her breakthrough playing Amerie Wadia in the Netflix comedy drama series ''Heartbreak High'' (2022present), a reboot of the 1990s series of the same name. The series received critical acclaim and won an International Emmy Award, while Madon's performance earned nominations for the AACTA Audience Choice Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Award For Most Popular New Talent
The Silver Logie for Most Popular New Talent, also known as the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent, is an award presented at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award recognises the popularity of a new talent in an Australian program. The program may or may not be the nominee's first television appearance, however it should be their first major television role. It was first awarded at the 22nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1980 and originally called Most Popular New Talent. This award category was eliminated in 1999 and replaced by the Most Popular New Male Talent and Most Popular New Female Talent categories. After a 15-year absence, the ''Most Popular New Talent'' category was reintroduced in 2014 to replace the gender specific categories. It was briefly renamed Best New Talent (2016-2017). From 2018, the award category name was reverted to Most Popular New Talent. The winner and nominees of Most Popular New Talent are chosen by the public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Births
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 2023
The 63rd Annual ''TV Week'' Logie Awards ceremony was held on 30 July 2023 at The Star, Sydney, and broadcast on the Seven Network. The ceremony was hosted by Sam Pang, making it the first time in eleven years that the event returned to having a solo host. Winners and nominees Nominees were announced on 19 June 2023. Gold Logie Acting/Presenting Most Popular Programs Most Outstanding Programs Changes The Seven Network took over from the Nine Network as host broadcaster. Seven had last broadcast the Logie Awards in 1995. Performers *Amy Shark *Peking Duk with G Flip, May-a and Ayesha Madon * Kate Miller-Heidke References {{DEFAULTSORT:Logie Awards 2023 2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ... 2023 television awards 2023 in Australian television 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards
The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards. The Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the ''Most Popular Personality on Australian Television'' for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. Awards are presented in 20 categories, representing both industry and public voted prizes The event has been strongly associated with the Nine Network, who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton, particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ceremony on 17 occasions, with a constant run from 1966 until 1980 and as co-host on three ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the cinema of Australia, film and television in Australia, television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Cinema of Australia, Australian film and Television in Australia, television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the United States and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA Awards for the United Kingdom. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Majoos
James Majoos is an Australian actor known for their role in the 2022 TV series ''Heartbreak High''. On stage, they have appeared in Sydney Theatre Company's ''Grand Horizons'' and Belvoir's '' Fangirls''. Awards For their performance in ''Heartbreak High'', they were nominated for the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama.'' '' Personal life Majoos is of South African descent and uses ''he/him'' pronouns. Majoos is also non-binary. Filmography Theatrical Credits {, class="wikitable" , + !Year(s) !Title !Role !Theatre !Director !Notes , - , 2019 , ''FANGIRLS'' , Saltypringl & others u/s Harry , First Australian Tour , Yve Blake , Part of the 2019 Brisbane Festival season , - , 2020 , ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie'' , Jamie , Australian Tour , Matt Ryan {{ref , Matt Ryan , Cancelled due to the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic , - , 2021 , ''FANGIRLS'' , Saltypringl & others , Second Australian Tour , Yve Blake , , - , 2021 , ''Grand H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fangirls (musical)
''Fangirls'' is an Australian stage musical with book, music, and lyrics by Yve Blake. It concerns 14-year-old Edna, a diehard fan of the biggest boy band in the world, True Connection (a parody reference to One Direction), and its lead singer Harry. It was inspired by interviews with hundreds of teenage fangirls. The original production premiered on 7 September 2019 at Queensland Theatre, before transferring to Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney on 12 October 2019. In 2021, ''Fangirls'' returned for a national tour of Australia. ''Fangirls'' received critical acclaim. The musical won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production of a Musical, Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret, and the 2020 AWGIE Award for Music Theatre. The world premiere cast recording was released in 2021 via Ghostlight Records. At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, the album was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album. A London production co-produced by the Lyric Hammersmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moth Effect
''The Moth Effect'' is an Australian sketch comedy television series on Amazon Prime Video from 30 July 2021. The series is Amazon's first scripted Australian Amazon Original series. The six part series features sketches, music videos and interstitials. ''The Moth Effect'' was created and written by Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow, with a team of writers which includes Sarah Bishop, Bridie Connell, Mark Humphries, Nazeem Hussain, Natesha Somasundaram, David Woodhead and Meg O’Connell and Ramsay David Nuthall. is directed by Craig Anderson and Gracie Otto. produced by Lauren Elliott and Jordana Johnson and executive produced by Sophia Zachariou. Cast The series features Bryan Brown, Vincent D'Onofrio, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Miranda Otto, Ben Lawson, Peter O'Brien, Kate Box, Zoe Terakes, Miranda Tapsell, Jake Ryan, Mark Humphries, Nazeem Hussain, Zoe Coombs Marr, Jonny Brugh, Lucinda Price, Dave Woodhead, Louis Hanson, Steen Raskopoulos, Tim Franklin, Sam Cotton, Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autostraddle
Autostraddle is a queer and trans-owned online magazine and social network for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women ( cis and trans), as well as non-binary people and trans people of all genders. The website is a "politically progressive queer feminist media source" that features content covering LGBTQ and feminist news, politics, opinion, culture, arts and entertainment as well as lifestyle content such as DIY crafting, sex, relationships, fashion, food and technology. Autostraddle was founded in 2009 by Riese Bernard, the current CEO and CFO, and former Design Director Alexandra Vega. In June 2020, Kamala Puligandla succeeded Bernard as editor-in-chief. In June 2021, Carmen Phillips was named the new editor-in-chief. In August 2023, Autostraddle was acquired by For Them, with Kylo Freeman as CEO. The site received 400,000 unique visitors and 2 million views per month in 2012. In 2016 these numbers had risen to one million unique visitors and 3.5 million views per month. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and Developmental psychology, developmentally inappropriate. ADHD symptoms arise from executive dysfunction. Impairments resulting from deficits in self-regulation such as time management, Cognitive inhibition, inhibition, task initiation, and sustained attention can include poor professional performance, relationship difficulties, and numerous health risks, collectively predisposing to a diminished Quality of life (healthcare), quality of life and a reduction in life expectancy. As a consequence, the disorder costs society hundreds of billions of US dollars each year, worldwide. It is associated with other mental disorders as well as non-psychiatric disorders, which can cause additional impairment. While ADHD involves a lack of su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
