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Ellen Wilson (character)
'' For All Mankind'' is an American science fiction drama television series created and written by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi and produced for Apple TV+. The series dramatizes an alternate history depicting "what would have happened if the global space race had never ended" after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States. It premiered on November 1, 2019. In April 2024, the series was renewed for a fifth season, and it was announced that a spinoff series titled '' Star City'' is in development, focusing on the Soviet space program. In an alternate timeline in 1969, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to land on the Moon. This outcome devastates morale at NASA, but also catalyzes an American effort to catch up. With the Soviet Union emphasizing diversity by including a woman in subsequent landings, the United States is forced to match pace, training women and minorities who were largely excluded from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For All Mankind (TV Series)
''For All Mankind'' is an American science fiction drama television series created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi and produced for Apple TV+. The series dramatizes an alternate history depicting "what would have happened if the global space race had never ended" after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States. The title is inspired by the lunar plaque left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 11, which reads, in part, "We Came in Peace for All Mankind". The series stars an ensemble cast including Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Wrenn Schmidt, Sonya Walger, and Krys Marshall. Cynthy Wu, Casey W. Johnson, and Coral Peña joined the main cast for the second season. Edi Gathegi joined in the third. Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Svetlana Efremova, and Daniel Stern joined in the fourth. The series features historical figures, played by actors or appearing through archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrenn Schmidt
Melinda Wrenn Schmidt (born February 18, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as NASA engineer, flight director, and later director of NASA Margo Madison in the Apple TV+ original science-fiction space drama series '' For All Mankind'' (2019–present). Her other television roles include Julia Sagorsky in the period drama series ''Boardwalk Empire'' (2012–2013), KGB handler Kate in the spy drama series ''The Americans'' (2014), Dr Iris Campbell on the thriller series ''Person of Interest'' (2014–2016), and Megan Holter in the horror series '' Outcast'' (2016–2018). Her film roles include the horror film ''Preservation'' (2014), the biographical drama '' I Saw the Light'' (2015), the war film '' 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'' (2016), the romantic comedy, '' The Good Catholic'' (2017), and the science-fiction horror film '' Nope'' (2022). Early life and education Schmidt was born in Lexington, South Carolina. Her father is a bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Collins (astronaut)
Michael Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an Italian-born American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 Command module Columbia, command module ''Columbia'' around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the Moon's surface, surface. He was also a test pilot and Major general (United States), major general in the United States Air Force Reserve, U.S. Air Force Reserve. Born in Rome, Italy, where his father was serving as the U.S. military attaché, Collins graduated in the Class of 1952 from the United States Military Academy. He followed his father, brother, uncle, and cousin into the military. He joined the United States Air Force, and flew North American F-86 Sabre, F-86 Sabre fighters at Chambley-Bussières Air Base, France. He was accepted into the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, U.S. Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960, also graduating from the Aerospa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin ( ; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three extravehicular activity, spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle, Lunar Module ''Eagle'' pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He was the List of people who have walked on the Moon, second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. Following the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and pilot Michael Collins (astronaut), Michael Collins in 2021, he is the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Aldrin graduated third in the class of 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was commissioned into the United States Air Force and served as a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. He flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG-15 aircraft. After earning a Doctor of Science degree in astronautics f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the Apollo 11#Lunar surface operations, first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a Naval aviator (United States), naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong was born and raised near Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical engineering, with the U.S. Navy paying his tuition under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a Naval aviator (United States), naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier . After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Armstrong Flight Research Center, High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to 24, 1969, by the United States and launched by NASA. It marked the first time that humans Moon landing, landed on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module Eagle, Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing. Armstrong and Aldrin collected of lunar material to bring back to Earth as pilot Michael Collins (astronaut), Michael Collins flew the Command Module Columbia, Command Module ''Columbia'' in lunar orbit, and were on the Moon's surface for 21 hours, 36 minutes, before lifting off to rejoin ''Columbia''. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Stern (actor)
Daniel Jacob Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American actor, artist, director, comedian, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Marv Murchins in ''Home Alone'' (1990) and '' Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'' (1992), Phil Berquist in '' City Slickers'' (1991) and '' City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold'' (1994), the voice of adult Kevin Arnold on the television series '' The Wonder Years'', and the voice of Dilbert on the animated series of the same name. Other notable films of his include '' Breaking Away'' (1979), '' Stardust Memories'' (1980), ''Diner'' (1982), '' Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' (1986), '' The Milagro Beanfield War'' (1988), '' Coupe de Ville'' (1990), and '' Very Bad Things'' (1998). He made his feature-film directorial debut with '' Rookie of the Year'' (1993). Early life Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to Cynthia and Leonard Stern. His father was a social worker while his mother managed a day care center. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Efremova
Svetlana Efremova (born 1970; also known as Svetlana Efremova–Reed) is a Soviet-born American stage, film, and television actress as well as an educator. She starred in the American film '' White Oleander'' (2002). Efremova teaches acting at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), where she serves as the head of acting program. Biography Efremova was born in 1970, in Novosibirsk, Russia, Soviet Union. She graduated from Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (former name Saint Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy). She was a member of the St. Petersburg State Theatre for eleven years. Efremova moved to the United States for school, and received a master’s degree in 1997 in acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. Efremova is married to Patrick Reed, and has children. She has appeared on Broadway in a touring production of ''Uncle Vanya'', as Helena; and the touring production of ''Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'', as Cassandra. Efremova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyner Rushing
Tyner Rushing an American actress, is known for her role portraying Emma Smith in FX on Hulu's '' Under the Banner of Heaven''. Other notable roles include Liz Riley in '' The Terminal List'' and Virginia Creel in ''Stranger Things''. Rushing joined the main cast of '' For All Mankind'' in its fourth season as the character Samantha Massey, a blue-collar space worker and aspiring astronaut. In 2025, she joined the cast of the upcoming HBO supernatural horror television series ''It – Welcome to Derry'' and Hulu’s ''Untitled Murdaugh Murders series''. Early life and education Rushing grew up in rural Alabama on a farm and plant nursery. She got her start in the performing arts world as a singer and dancer in various musicals and operas. Personal life Rushing identifies as queer. She lives in Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Kebbell
Tobias Alistair Patrick Kebbell''Births, Marriages & Deaths: Toby is married to Arielle Wyatt. They got married in 2020 and they have one child together. Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com (born 9 July 1982) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in films such as ''Dead Man's Shoes (2004 film), Dead Man's Shoes'' (2004), ''Control (2007 film), Control'' (2007), ''RocknRolla'' (2008), ''Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'' (2010), ''War Horse (film), War Horse'' (2011), ''Wrath of the Titans'' (2012), ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014), ''Fantastic Four (2015 film), Fantastic Four'' (2015), ''Warcraft (film), Warcraft'' (2016), ''A Monster Calls (film), A Monster Calls'' (2016), ''Ben-Hur (2016 film), Ben-Hur'' (2016), and ''Gold (2016 film), Gold'' (2016). He is also known for his work in the ''Black Mirror'' episode "The Entire History of You" (2011) and starred in the second film of the MonsterVe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edi Gathegi
Edi Mūe Gathegi (; born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan-American actor. He appeared as a recurring character, Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love"), in the television series ''House'', as Cheese in the 2007 film ''Gone Baby Gone'', Laurent in the films ''Twilight'' and its sequel '' The Twilight Saga: New Moon'', and as Darwin in '' X-Men: First Class''. Gathegi also featured in the AMC series '' Into the Badlands'' as Baron Jacobee. He has also been a recurring character in the NBC television series '' The Blacklist'' as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi reprised the role in the 2016–2017 season crime thriller, '' The Blacklist: Redemption''. He has also played a leading role in ''Startup,'' a television drama series on Crackle. Since 2022, Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series ''For All Mankind''. He is set to play the role of Mister Terrific in James Gunn's film ''Supe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Peña
Coral Peña (born ) is a Dominican actor. She is known for playing the role of NASA flight director Aleida Rosales on the Apple TV+ series '' For All Mankind''. Early life and education Peña was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and raised by a single mother in Harlem in New York City in the United States. She graduated from St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's School in 2007. Peña took acting classes while attending the Peddie School in New Jersey, and decided to pursue a career in that field. After graduating from Peddie in 2011, Peña studied drama at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and RADA. Career Peña's first television role was a guest appearance on ''Blue Bloods''. Her later roles included a series regular part on '' 24: Legacy'', and a recurring role on '' The Enemy Within''. She has also narrated the American version of ''Antiques Roadshow'' since 2020. Peña made her debut movie appearance in the 2017 film '' The Post'', directed by Steven Spielberg. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
