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Hope Davis
Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. Her performances on stage and screen have earned various awards. She made her film debut in Joel Schumacher's '' Flatliners'' in 1990. She then starred in the critically acclaimed films '' The Daytrippers'' (1996), '' About Schmidt'' (2002), '' Infamous'' (2006), and '' Asteroid City'' (2023). She received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture nomination for her role in '' American Splendor'' (2003). She received an Independent Spirit Award with the cast of '' Synecdoche, New York'' (2008). In 2016, she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe portraying Tony Stark's mother Maria Stark in '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016). In 1992, she made her Broadway theatre debut in ''Two Shakespearean Actors''. In 1997 she starred as Sasha in '' Ivanov'' opposite Kevin Kline and Marian Seldes. She earned acclaim for her role in Yasmina Reza's '' God of Carnage'' in 2009 acting alongside Jeff Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of Englewood Township.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'', Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 77. Accessed February 14, 2012. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 29,308, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 2,161 (+8.0%) from the 2010 census count of 27,147, which in turn reflected an increase of 944 (+3.6%) from the 26,203 counted in the 2000 census. History Etymology Englewood Township, the city's predecessor, is believed to have been named in 1859 for the Engle family. The community had been called the " English Neighborhood", as the first primarily English-speaking settlement on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River after New Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway (theatre)
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous with the district, it is closely identified with Times Square. Only three theaters are located on Broadway itself: the Broadway Theatre, Palace Theatre, and Winter Garden Theatre. The rest are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Degrees (TV Series)
''Six Degrees'' (or ''6˚'', stylized as ') is an American drama television series about six residents of New York City and their respective relationships and connections with one another, based on the idea of six degrees of separation. It premiered on September 21, 2006, after ''Grey's Anatomy'' on ABC. The show was created by Raven Metzner and Stuart Zicherman. J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Thom Sherman serve as executive producers through their Bad Robot banner. The pilot episode was directed by Rodrigo García. It was filmed on location in Manhattan and at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens, New York. The show's theme song, "Here Comes Now", was written and performed by Jakob Dylan. The series was shown in Canada on Global on Wednesday evenings prior to the American airings. It made its United Kingdom debut on ITV on May 28, 2008, where all thirteen episodes were aired. On November 8, 2006, ''Six Degrees'' was pulled off the schedule by ABC due to a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline (2000 TV Series)
''Deadline'' is an American drama television series created by Dick Wolf, that aired on NBC from October 2, 2000, to October 30, 2000. It stars Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, star columnist for the fictional ''New York Ledger'', a daily tabloid newspaper seen in many episodes of ''Law & Order'' and modeled after the real-life ''New York Post''. Cast and characters *Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton *Bebe Neuwirth as Nikki Masucci *Tom Conti as Si Beekman *Lili Taylor as Hildy Baker *Hope Davis as Brooke Benton * Damon Gupton as Charles Foster * Christina Chang as Beth Khambu Production Series creator Dick Wolf hired Robert Palm as head writer and executive producer. Palm had worked for years as a newspaper reporter on ''The Hartford Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Herald Examiner'' before moving into screenwriting with jobs on ''Miami Vice''. He and Wolf had worked together previously on the tenth season of ''Law & Order''. They didn't want to do another "cop show" and agreed on one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Wolf
Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946) is an American billionaire and television producer, best known for his ''Law & Order'' franchise. Since 1990, the franchise has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs. He is also co-creator and executive producer of the ''Chicago'' franchise, which since 2012, has included four Chicago-based dramas and the co-creator and executive producer of the ''FBI'' franchise, which since 2018, has also become a franchise after spinning off two additional series. Wolf has also written four books. The first, the non-fiction volume ''Law & Order: Crime Scenes'', is a companion to the ''Law & Order'' television series. ''The Intercept,'' ''The Execution,'' and ''The Ultimatum'' are works of fiction in a thriller series featuring an NYPD detective named Jeremy Fisk. Wolf has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award, being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame and receiving a star on the Hollywood W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Award For Best Actress In A Play
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality leading roles in a Broadway theatre, Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year." The award was originally called the Tony Award for Actress—Play. It was first presented to Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes at the 1st Tony Awards for their portrayals of Mary Grey / Joan of Arc and Addie Bemis in ''Joan of Lorraine'' and ''Happy Birthday (play), Happy Birthday'', respectively. Before 10th Tony Awards, 1956, nominees' names were not made public; the change was made by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gandolfini
James John Gandolfini (; September 18, 1961June 19, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, the Italian-American American Mafia, Mafia crime boss in HBO's television series ''The Sopranos'' (1999–2007). For this role, he won three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His role as Tony Soprano has been described as one of the greatest and most influential performances in television history. Gandolfini was featured in numerous films including ''True Romance'' (1993), ''Crimson Tide (film), Crimson Tide'' (1995), ''Get Shorty (film), Get Shorty'' (1995), ''A Civil Action (film), A Civil Action'' (1998), ''The Last Castle'' (2001), ''Romance & Cigarettes'' (2005), ''All the King's Men (2006 film), All the King's Men'' (2006), ''In the Loop'' (2009), ''Where the Wild Things Are (film), Where the Wild Things Are'' (2009), ''The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009 film), The Taking of Pelham 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. Harden's breakthrough came in 1990 with the Coen brothers' film '' Miller's Crossing''. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Pollock'' (2000) and '' Mystic River'' (2003), winning for her portrayal of artist Lee Krasner in the former. Her other notable film credits include '' The First Wives Club'' (1996), '' Flubber'' (1997), '' Space Cowboys'' (2000), '' Mona Lisa Smile'' (2003), and the '' Fifty Shades'' film series (2015–2018). Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Tony Kushner's epic play '' Angels in America: Millennium Approaches''/'' Angels in America: Perestroika'' for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in 2009 in Yasmina Reza's comedic play '' God of Carnage'', with her perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards. He made his film debut in Miloš Forman's drama ''Ragtime'' (1981) followed by James L. Brooks's ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983), and Mike Nichols's ''Heartburn'' (1986). He then received three Golden Globe Award nominations for Woody Allen's '' The Purple Rose of Cairo'' (1985), Jonathan Demme's '' Something Wild'' (1986), and Noah Baumbach's ''The Squid and the Whale'' (2005). He starred in a variety of genre films such as ''Gettysburg (1993 film), Gettysburg'' (1993), ''Speed (1994 film), Speed'' (1994), ''Dumb and Dumber'' (1994), ''101 Dalmatians (1996 film), 101 Dalmatians'' (1996), and ''Pleasantville (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Of Carnage
''God of Carnage'' (originally in French ''Le Dieu du carnage'') is a play by Yasmina Reza that was first published in 2008. It is about two sets of parents; the son of one couple has hurt the son of the other couple at a public park. The parents meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish and the meeting devolves into chaos. Originally written in French, the play was translated into English by translator Christopher Hampton, and has enjoyed acclaim in productions in both London and New York. Plot Before the play begins, two 11-year-old children, Ferdinand Reille and Bruno Vallon (Benjamin and Henry in the Broadway production), get involved in an argument because Bruno refuses to let Ferdinand join his 'gang'. Ferdinand knocks out two of Bruno's teeth with a stick. That night, the parents of both children meet to discuss the matter. Ferdinand's father, Alain (Alan in the Broadway production), is a lawy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays ''Art (play), 'Art''' and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 black comedy film ''Carnage (2011 film), Carnage'', directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award-winning 2006 play ''God of Carnage''. Life and career Reza's father was a Russian-born Iranian Jews, Persian Jew engineer, businessman, and pianist and her mother was a Jewish Hungarian violinist from Budapest. During the Nazi occupation, her father was deported from Nice to Drancy internment camp. At the beginning of her career, Reza acted in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Pierre de Marivaux. In 1987, she wrote ''Conversations after a Burial'', which won the Molière Award, the French equivalent of the Tony Award, for Best Author. The North American production premiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
