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Faison Family
Faison may refer to: People * Donald Faison (born 1974), American actor * Dorothy Faison (born 1955), American artist * Frankie Faison Frankie Russel Faison (born June 10, 1949) is an American actor known for his role as Deputy Commissioner, and, later, Commissioner, Ervin Burrell in the HBO series ''The Wire'', as Barney Matthews in the ''Hannibal Lecter'' franchise, and as Su ... (born 1949), American film actor * Helen Faison (1924–2015), American educator * Jeremy Faison (born 1976), American politician * Samson L. Faison (18601940), American general Other uses * Cesar Faison, a fictional villain on the American daytime drama ''General Hospital'' * Faison, North Carolina, an American town {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Faison
Donald Adeosun Faison (; born June 22, 1974) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his leading role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC/ NBC comedy-drama '' Scrubs'' (2001–2010), and a supporting role as Murray in both the film '' Clueless'' (1995) and the subsequent television series of the same name. He also starred as Phil Chase in the TV Land sitcom '' The Exes'' (2011–2015). Faison has also co-starred in the films '' Waiting to Exhale'' (1995), ''Remember the Titans'' (2000), '' Uptown Girls'' (2003), '' Something New'' (2006), '' Next Day Air'' (2009), ''Skyline'' (2010), and '' Kick-Ass 2'' (2013). Early life and education Donald Adeosun Faison was born on June 22, 1974, in Harlem, New York City, to talent agent Shirley and building manager Donald Faison. His parents were active with the National Black Theatre in Harlem. They divorced in 1992. He is the older brother of singer/musician Olamide Faison. Faison attended the Professional Children's School in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Faison
Dorothy A. Faison also Dorothy Ries Faison (born 1955) is an American artist who was born in Schenectady, New York. She lived in Central and South America from age six to age twelve, because her stepfather worked for the United States Agency for International Development.Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, ''The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists I'', Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 1993, p. 4 Her family returned to the United States in 1968, and settled in Hawaii. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1977 and earned a master of fine arts degree from the Otis College of Art and Design, Otis Art Institute in 1979. In 1990, Dorothy Faison was the recipient of the first Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts and has a solo exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Academy of Arts. As of 2017 she lives and works in Dordogne, France, with her filmmaker husband, Simon Holland. Most of Faison's art is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Faison
Frankie Russel Faison (born June 10, 1949) is an American actor known for his role as Deputy Commissioner, and, later, Commissioner, Ervin Burrell in the HBO series ''The Wire'', as Barney Matthews in the ''Hannibal Lecter'' franchise, and as Sugar Bates in the Cinemax series ''Banshee''. Early life and education Faison was born in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Carmena (née Gantt) and Edgar Faison. He studied drama at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, where he joined Theta Chi fraternity. He went on to obtain a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1974. Frankie has been married to Samantha Jupiter Faison since 2017. Career Faison started his acting career in 1974 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of ''King Lear'', with James Earl Jones in the title role. Faison later appeared opposite Jones in the Broadway premiere of '' Fences'', for which he received a nomination for a Tony Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Faison
Helen Faison (July 13, 1924–June 17, 2015) was an American educator with a long career with the Pittsburgh Public Schools, rising from teacher to the superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools. She was the first African American and the first woman to become superintendent of district schools. Life and work Born Helen Smith, she lived in Homewood, Pennsylvania, close to Pittsburgh, but when she was seven, her mother who was dying of tuberculosis, moved Helen and her siblings to rural Lowesville, Virginia, to stay with a grandmother. Because the small school district there would not allow Black children to attend beyond grade seven, Faison was forced to change schools, and she completed eighth and ninth grades in a nearby town. In time, the family returned to Pittsburgh to live with their father and stepmother. However, when Faison was a senior in high school, her father died at 42 of kidney disease and hypertension. Faison went on to earn her bachelor's degree in education (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Faison
Jeremy Faison is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the Eleventh District and is the Chairman of the House Republican Caucus. He represents all of Cocke County and part of Hamblen and Jefferson counties. Biography Jeremy Faison was born on September 14, 1976, in Monroe, Georgia. He was homeschooled elementary through high school grade levels and was issued a high school diploma from Victory Christian Academy (Jacksonville, Florida) in 1995, prior to his attending Clearwater College. Faison and his wife also homeschool all of their own children. Faison is married with five children. They reside in Cosby, Tennessee. He is a worship leader at Crossroads Community Church. He plays several musical instruments. Faison and his wife own a pest and wildlife control business in Newport, Tennessee. He is a past president of the Cocke County Republican Party and member of the Cocke County Chamber of Commerce. In 2010, he defeated Eddie Yokley to become T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson L
SAMSON (Software for Adaptive Modeling and Simulation Of Nanosystems) is a computer software platform for molecular design being developed bOneAngstromand previously by the NANO-D group at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). SAMSON has a modular architecture that makes it suitable for different domains of nanoscience, including material science, life science, and drug design. SAMSON Elements SAMSON Elements are modules for SAMSON, developed with the SAMSON software development kit (SDK). SAMSON Elements help users perform tasks in SAMSON, including building new models, performing calculations, running interactive or offline simulations, and visualizing and interpreting results. SAMSON Elements may contain different class types, including for example: * ''Apps'' – generic classes with a graphical user interface that extend the functions of SAMSON * ''Editors'' – classes that receive user interaction events to provide editing function ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Faison
''General Hospital'' is the longest-running American television serial drama, airing on ABC. Created by Frank and Doris Hursley, it originally was set it in a general hospital (hence the title), in an unnamed fictional city. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York. The series premiered on April 1, 1963. This is a list of notable characters who significantly impacted storylines and began their run from 1990 to 1999. Brook Lynn Ashton Brook Lynn Ashton (also Quartermaine) is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera ''General Hospital''. On the series, she is the daughter of Ned Quartermaine and Lois Cerullo, and was named after her mother's hometown of Brooklyn. Casting Originally played by actress child actors Katlyn & Sarah Avery in 1997, Brooke Radding from 1999 to 2001, the character was later recast with actress Adrianne León in 2004, who was nominated for two awards for the role in 2005: the ''Soap Opera Digest'' "Outstanding Female Newcomer Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
