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Leni (name)
Leni is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name Male and female: * Leni Alexander (1924–2005), Chilean composer * Leni Apisai (born 1996), New Zealand rugby union player * Leni Björklund (born 1944), Swedish politician * Leni Harper (born 1954), Scottish actress * Leni Junker (1905–1997), German runner * Leni Kokkes-Hanepen (born 1934), Dutch fencer * Leni Klum (born 2005), German-American model * Leni Larsen Kaurin (born 1981), Norwegian footballer * Leni Lohmar (1914–2006), German swimmer * Leni Lynn (1923–2010), American actress * Leni Parker (born 1966), Canadian actress *Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), German director *Leni Robredo (born 1965), 14th Vice President of the Philippines * Leni Schmidt (1906–1985), German athlete * Leni Shida (born 1994), Ugandan sprinter * Leni Sinclair (born 1940), American photographer * Leni Stengel (1901–1982), American actress * Leni Stern (born 1952), German musician * Leni Yahil (1912� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Alexander
Leni Alexander (8 June 1924 – 7 August 2005) was a German-Chilean composer. Biography Helene Alexander Pollak was born in Breslau, in Lower Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland), and her family lived in Hamburg and then emigrated to Chile in 1939 to escape the Nazis. She studied piano under the Montessori system of music and received a diploma in 1942 for teaching and worked with youth and disabled children while developing an interest in composition. Between 1949 and 1953, she studied with Fré Focke, Rene Leibowitz, and Olivier Messiaen. In Europe she became a friend of Bruno Maderna and Pierre Boulez. Between 1963 and 1968, she also studied electronic music and wrote a number of electronic pieces. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969 and lived for several years in Paris and Cologne. Besides ''new music'' classical compositions and musical theater, Alexander was active in composition for television soundtracks and composed for soap opera. In her later years, she composed se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Shida
Shida Leni (born 22 May 1994) is a Ugandan sprinter. Early life Shida was born in Arua in 1994 as the daughter of Abdulatif Tiyua, a retired military officer and former deputy commander the West Nile Bank Front rebel group. Career After Kevin and Sue O'Connor began coaching Shida in August 2013, she represented Uganda at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow reaching the semifinals. This was her first competition outside of Uganda. In February 2018, in Kampala, she ran 52.47 to break the 12-year-old 400m National Record. She has now broken this record on 7 occasions, most recently at the 2019 National Championships (51.47), where she also broke the 12-year-old 200m National Record with a time of 23.43. Shida's most notable international achievement was 400m Silver Medal (51.64) at the 2019 World University Games held in Naples, Italy. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *200 metres – 23.43 (Kampala 2019) (Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echoes (miniseries)
''Echoes'' (stylized as ECHOƎS) is a Mystery fiction, mystery Drama (film and television), drama miniseries that premiered on Netflix on 19 August 2022. Synopsis Identical twins Leni and Gina have repeatedly swapped lives in secret, culminating in a double life where they share homes, husbands and a child. Their precarious existence is thrown into disarray when one of the twins goes missing. Cast Main * Michelle Monaghan as Leni and Gina McCleary, twin sisters ** Madison Abbott as a young Leni ** Victoria Abbott as a young Gina * Matt Bomer as Jack Beck * Karen Robinson as Sheriff Louise Floss * Ali Stroker as Claudia McCleary, the older sister of Leni and Gina who has been paralyzed waist down since one of the twins had deliberately pushed her as a girl and now moves around in a wheelchair * Gable Swanlund as Mathilda "Mattie" Beck, Jack and Leni's nine-year-old daughter and Gina's niece * Rosanny Zayas as Deputy Paula Martinez * Michael O'Neill (actor), Michael O'Neill as Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loud House
''The Loud House'' is an American animated sitcom created by Chris Savino that premiered on Nickelodeon on May 2, 2016. The series revolves around the chaotic everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud, who is the middle child and only son in a large family of 11 children. It is set in a fictional town in southeastern Michigan called Royal Woods, based on Savino's hometown of Royal Oak, Michigan, Royal Oak. The series was pitched to the network in 2013 as a two-minute short film entered in the annual Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program, Animated Shorts Program. It entered production the following year. The series is based on Savino's own childhood growing up in a large family, and its animation is largely influenced by newspaper comic strips. Since its debut, the series has gained high ratings, becoming the top-rated children's animated series on American television within its first month on the air. The series has received considerable media attention and nominations at both the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Loud
''The Loud House'' is an American sitcom multimedia franchise based on creator Chris Savino's own experiences with his large family. The franchise includes the television series ''The Loud House'' (2016–present), its spin-off series '' The Casagrandes'' (2019–2022), the films ''The Loud House Movie'' (2021), '' A Loud House Christmas'' (2021), '' A Really Haunted Loud House'' (2023), '' The Casagrandes Movie'' (2024), and '' No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie'' (2024), and the live-action spin-off '' The Really Loud House'' (2022–2024). This franchise has been set in the town of Royal Woods, Michigan and the city of Great Lakes City. The following is an abridged list of characters, consisting of the titular families and supporting characters from all the productions of the franchise. Cast table The Loud family Lincoln Loud Lincoln Albert Loud (voiced by Sean Ryan Fox in 2014, Grant Palmer in 2016, Collin Dean in 2016-2018, singing voice by Jackson Petty in "Really Loud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Leni
Paul Leni (born Paul Josef Levi, 8 July 1885 – 2 September 1929) was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism (cinema), German Expressionism, making ''Hintertreppe'' (1921) and ''Waxworks (film), Waxworks'' (1924) in Germany, and ''The Cat and the Canary (1927 film), The Cat and the Canary'' (1927), ''The Chinese Parrot (film), The Chinese Parrot'' (1927), ''The Man Who Laughs (1928 film), The Man Who Laughs'' (1928), and ''The Last Warning (1928 film), The Last Warning'' (1928) in the United States. Life and career Paul Josef Levi was born to a Jewish family in Stuttgart. He became an avant-garde painter at the age of 15, he studied at Berlin's Academy of Fine Arts, and subsequently worked as a theatrical set designer, working for a number of theatres in Berlin (but not with Max Reinhardt (theatre director), Max Reinhardt). In 1913, he started working in the German film industry designing film sets and/or costumes for directors such as Joe May, Ernst Lub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nollen Cornelius Leni between 2001 and 2010, representing the East Central Guadalcanal constituency. He also served as Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 2002.
Nollen Cornelius Leni is a Solomon Islands politician. He was a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands The National Parliament of the Solomon Islands is the legislature of the Solomon Islands. Its 50 members are elected for a four-year term in 50 single-seat constituencies. References Member page at Parliament website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamaseu Leni Warren
Tamaseu Leni Warren is the former Controller and Chief Auditor of Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited .... He served until September 2010. References 21st-century Samoan politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Government audit officials Place of birth missing (living people) {{Samoa-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Zumas
Leni Zumas is an American writer from Washington, D.C., who lives in Oregon. She is the author of ''Red Clocks,'' ''The Listeners,'' and the story collection ''Farewell Navigator.'' Her short fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in ''BOMB'', '' The Cut'', ''Granta'', ''Guernica'', ''Portland Monthly'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Sunday Times Style'' (UK), ''Tin House'', and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Portland State University. Career Zumas majored in English at Brown University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before joining the English faculty at Portland State University, she taught writing at Columbia University, Hunter College, Eugene Lang College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Her second novel, ''Red Clocks'' (Little, Brown, 2018), was a national bestseller and winner of the Oregon Book Award in Fiction. It was shortlisted for the Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Yahil
Leni Yahil (; 1912–2007), née Leni Westphal, was a German-born Israeli historian, specializing in the Holocaust and Danish Jewry. Early life Leni was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1912, and was raised in Potsdam, Germany. She was a sixth-generation descent of Moses Mendelssohn's family, as well as a granddaughter of James Simon. Her father, Ernst Westphal, was a judge. Yahil studied history at the universities of Munich and Berlin. Afterwards, she was accepted into the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (College of Judaic Studies) in Berlin, but had her education interrupted by the Nazi rise to power in Germany in 1933. She joined a Jewish youth movement called Werkleute (Workmen) and eventually became one of its leaders. She emigrated to Palestine in 1934, and was eventually able to resume her college education by studying at the Hebrew University, where she majored in general history, with a dual minor in Jewish history and Hebrew literature. She received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Stern
Leni Stern (born 28 April 1952) is a German jazz guitarist and singer. Early life Stern was born Magdalena Thora, in Germany on 28 April 1952. She was interested in music from an early age, beginning piano studies at the age of six and taking on the guitar a few years later. She was an actress in Germany, including appearing on television, then enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in 1977. She lived in Boston until 1980, then moved to New York. Later life and career In 1983, she formed a band of her own with Paul Motian on drums and Bill Frisell on guitar. Vocals became a more important part of her music from the 1997 release of ''Black Guitar''. She is married to guitarist Mike Stern. Discography * ''Clairvoyant'' (Passport Jazz, 1986) * ''The Next Day'' (Passport Jazz, 1987) * ''Secrets'' (Enja Records, Enja, 1989) * ''Closer to the Light'' (Enja, 1990) * ''Ten Songs'' (Lipstick, 1992) * ''Like One'' (Lipstick, 1993) * ''Words'' (Lipstick, 1995) * ''Black Guitar'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leni Stengel
Leni Stengel (12 September 1901 – 1 July 1982) was a German-born actress who appeared on Broadway, on television, and in films, through the 1920s to 1950s. Early life She was born in Berlin, Germany, and was a grandniece of the German composer Friedrich von Flotow. Career Her work in films includes ''Half Shot at Sunrise'' (1930), ''Cracked Nuts (1931 film), Cracked Nuts'' (1931), ''Beau Ideal'' (1931), ''The Animal Kingdom (1932 film), The Animal Kingdom'' (1932), and ''Hollywood Speaks'' (1932). She worked with Buster Keaton in ''Casanova wider Willen'' ("The Reluctant Casanova", 1931), the German version of ''Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931 film), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath'' (1931). In television, she appeared in ''Lux Video Theatre'', "Ti Babette" (1953), "Legacy of Love" (1952); ''Police Story'', "Detective Sergeant, Martin Stephens" (1952); ''Lights Out (1946 TV series), Lights Out'', "Carmelita" (1951), ''The Clock'', "Accident on Canigou" (1951). On Broadway, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
