Gwyneth Chéreau (großer)
Gwyneth (sometimes Gweneth or Gwynyth) is a Welsh feminine given name which derives from the kingdom of Gwynedd. It gained popularity, first in Wales and then across the English speaking world, in the 19th century. This may have been the result of author Ann Harriet Hughes, who adopted ''Gwyneth Vaughan'' as her pen name. Notable people: * Gwyneth Boodoo, American psychologist and expert on educational measurement * Gwyneth Cravens, American novelist and journalist *Gwyneth Dunwoody (1930–2008), Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom * Gwyneth Glyn (born 1979), Welsh language poet and musician *Gwyneth Herbert (born 1981), British singer-songwriter and composer * Gwyneth Ho (born 1990), Hong Kong social activist and former journalist * Gwyneth Hughes, British screenwriter and documentary director * Mabel Gweneth Humphreys, mathematician * Gwyneth Johnstone (1915–2010), English landscape painter *Gwyneth Jones (novelist) (born 1952), British science fiction and fantasy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyn
Gwyn or Gwynn may refer to: People * Gwyn (name), includes a list of people with the given name or surname Gwyn, including variants such as Gwynn and Gwynne Fictional or mythological characters * Gwyn ap Nudd, in Welsh mythology * Gwynn (Sluggy Freelance), Gwynn (''Sluggy Freelance''), a character in the webcomic * Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, a character in the video game ''Dark Souls (video game), Dark Souls'' * Gwyn, nickname of Gwyndala, a character in the animated television series ''Star Trek: Prodigy'' Places in the United States * Gwynn, Virginia * Gwynn's Island, Virginia See also * Gwynn Park High School, Maryland * St Richard Gwyn Roman Catholic High School (other) * Nell Gwyn (other) * Ty Gwyn (other) * Gwin (other) * Gwinn (other) * Gwynne (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Jones (soprano)
Dame Gwyneth Jones (born 7 November 1936) is a Welsh dramatic soprano, widely regarded as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of the second half of the 20th century. The possessor of a large-scaled, powerful dramatic soprano voice, joined to a vivid stage presence and finely developed acting ability, Jones enjoyed an extensive international career that took her to all the world's major opera houses. Her talent was cultivated through a long relationship with the Bayreuther Festspiele, through which she developed a more human, vulnerable, and womanly image for Richard Wagner's main female characters. She is best known for her rendition of Brünnhilde in the 1976 Jahrhundertring at Bayreuth, staged to commemorate the theater's centenary anniversary. Early life and career Jones was born in Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire, Wales. Before becoming a professional singer, she worked as a secretary at the Pontypool foundry. She studied music at the Royal College of Music, Londo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwynyth Walsh
Gwynyth Walsh (born 1956) is a Canadian actress best known for her role of the ''Star Trek'' character B'Etor, one of the Duras sisters. She also played constable Nimira in the '' Star Trek: Voyager'' episode " Random Thoughts", and provided the voice for the character Grey Mother, in the video game The Long Dark. Walsh earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta and started her career appearing on stage across Canada and in the United States in many classics. For Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...'s ''Much Ado About Nothing'' she won a Dramalogue Award - Best Actress for her portrayal of Beatrice. Her first appearance on screen was in a 1983 TV movie ''Pajama Tops''. Filmography Film Television References External links * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwenethe Walshe
→ Gwenethe Walshe (5 February 1908 – 22 January 2006)Peggy Spencer; Janet Clark; Vernon Kemp death announcement, retrieved 12 August 2007 was a leading British Latin and ballroom dancer. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, she lived most of her life in England and moved to Australia after her retirement. She arrived in England in 1936, and by 1938 she had founded a dance school bearing her name in London's West End, which (as of 2006) is still operating as the Central London Dance. During World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ... she worked by day as a WVS nurse and by night continued to run classes, even during air raids. Gwenethe simply turned up the music and the dancing continued!Janet Clar Profile of Miss Gwenethe Walshe retrieved 12 August 2007 Taught ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Walker
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age and went on to receive BA, MM and DMA degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music, where she studied under Arnold Franchetti. She married composer David Burton on September 12, 1969; they divorced in 1974. She taught music for fourteen years at Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Conservatory and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and then moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and went to work as a full-time composer. In 1988, she helped found the Consortium of Vermont Composers and later became the director of the organization. The Chord The original Gwyneth Walker Chord is heard in the opening bars of Gwyneth Walker's Earth-Shaking Choral piece 'Tell the Earth to Shake' for SATB Chorus and Chamber Orc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Strong
Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), in ''Only Fools and Horses'' (1989-2003), and for playing Geraldine Clough in seven episodes of ''EastEnders'' in 2016. She has also appeared in '' Shadows'' (1975), '' Angels'' (1976), ''Crown Court'' and ''Z-Cars'' (both 1977), '' Play for Today'' (1980-1984) and '' Silent Witness'' (1996). Career Strong's first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatre's production ''Live Like Pigs'', when she was 13. In 1973, whilst a pupil at Holland Park School, she appeared in the horror film '' Nothing but the Night'' as Mary Valley, and had a role as Princess Dagmar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra, in the series '' Edward the Seventh''. She was a regular in the children's TV series '' The Flockton Flyer'' between 1977 and 1979 as Jan Carter. Another of her early television ap ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Stallard
Gwyneth Mary Stallard is a British mathematician whose research concerns complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions. She is a professor of pure mathematics at the Open University. Education and career Stallard read mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, finishing in 1985, and earned her Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1991. Her dissertation, ''Some problems in the iteration of meromorphic functions'', was supervised by Irvine Noel Baker. She has spoken about the difficulty of finding postdoctoral research positions at a time when there were few such positions in England and the ties of her husband's job prevented her from moving abroad; she maintained her mathematical career at this stage by taking a temporary lectureship teaching engineering students at the University of Southampton. When she became a professor of mathematics at the Open University, she became the first woman to be a professor in the department. Activism and recognition Stallard won th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Scally
Gwyneth Scally (born in Washington, DC) is a visual contemporary artist in New York, United States. Artwork Scally's work is figurative and psychological, much of it deals with elevating biology over religion and with issues of nature and ecology. It includes large scale paintings, installation, and fiberglass sculpture. Scally worked as an artist in Arizona for the last decade. Her work has been shown internationally, and she has received numerous grants and awards. She received the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Buffalo Exchange Visual Arts Award in 2003. In 2004 she completed a residency at the Red Gate Gallery of Beijing, China. In 2005 she showed "Jelly" at the Tucson Museum of Art and received a grant from The George Sugarman Foundation. In 2007 she held an exhibition, "Jelly", at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Arizona, inspired by studies of jellyfish Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies or simply jellies, are the #Life cycle, medusa-phase of certa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Rees
Gwyneth Rees (born 10 May 1968) is a British author of children's books. Her novel ''The Mum Hunt'' won the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers in 2019, and another, ''My Mum's from Planet Pluto'', was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in the same year. Her other popular books for younger children include the ''Fairy Dust'' series, the first of which was an Ottakar's Book of the Month choice, and the ''Mermaid Magic'' trilogy. Biography Gwyneth Rees was born in Leicester in 1968. She is half Welsh and half English, and grew up in Scotland after her family moved to Glasgow when she was six. She studied medicine at Glasgow University, has worked in London as a consultant child psychiatrist, but now writes full-time. She wrote her first book when she was ten, inspired by Enid Blyton, but the first to be published was ''Something Secret'' in 2001. Books Gwyneth Rees writes both books of everyday life and fantasies for younger children, both kinds written with h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Powell
Gwyneth Leith (5 July 1946 – 8 September 2022), better known by her stage name Gwyneth Powell, was an English actress. She was best known for her portrayal of headmistress Bridget McClusky in the BBC television series ''Grange Hill'' for eleven series between 1981 and 1991. Background Powell was born on 5 July 1946 in Levenshulme, Manchester, and attended Cheadle County Grammar School for Girls, during which time she appeared to some acclaim as Fat Urs in the National Youth Theatre's production of Ben Jonson's ''Bartholemew Fair''. She originally trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths, University of London, but instead chose to act in repertory theatre. Career Powell's first major television role was in the 1971 LWT dystopian drama series, '' The Guardians''. She was a regular, if minor, player in many television dramas until being cast in ''Grange Hill'', in which she played the "firm but fair" headmistress Bridget ("The Midget") McClusky for eleven years. Of her role, she sai ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Philips
Gwyneth Philips (born August 17, 2000) is an American ice hockey goaltender and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She was drafted 14th overall by PWHL Ottawa in the 2024 PWHL draft. She played college ice hockey at Northeastern was named the WHCA National Goalie of the Year in 2023. Early life Philips attended Shady Side Academy where she played ice hockey and lacrosse. She won the Women's Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA) Championship in 2016, 2017 and 2019. She was named First-Team All-WIHLMA in 2015, 2016 and 2019. Playing career College Philips began her collegiate hockey career for Northeastern during the 2019–20 season. During her freshman year she appeared in seven games, and posted a 5–0–0 record with three shutouts. She recorded three shutouts in her first three career games. She served as the backup goaltender for Aerin Frankel her first three years at Northeastern. During that time she appeared in 16 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow ( ; born September 27, 1972) is an American actress and businesswoman. The daughter of filmmaker Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, she established herself as a leading lady appearing in mainly mid-budget and period films during the 1990s and early 2000s, before transitioning to blockbusters and franchises. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Paltrow gained notice for her early work in films such as '' Seven'' (1995), '' Emma'' (1996), '' Sliding Doors'' (1998), and '' A Perfect Murder'' (1998). She garnered wider acclaim for her role as Viola de Lesseps in the historical romance '' Shakespeare in Love'' (1998) which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. This was followed by roles in '' The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999), ''The Royal Tenenbaums'' (2001), and ''Shallow Hal'' (2001). She made her West End debut in the David Auburn play ''Proof'' (2003) earning a Laurence Olivier Award f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |