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Lisa Jacobs (actress)
Lisa Jacobs is a British actress who is best known for playing Jewish diarist Anne Frank in the 1988 television film, '' The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank''. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in this movie. The film also starred Mary Steenburgen as Miep Gies. Jacobs has appeared in a number of other films, television films, and television series. She provided her voice in the UK versions of the video games ''Laura's Happy Adventures'' and ''Alex Builds His Farm''. She also acts in stage. She met actor Steven Mackintosh while they were appearing on stage together, and they married in 1989. They live in North London North London is the northern part of London, England, north of the River Thames and the City of London. It extends from Clerkenwell and Finsbury, on the edge of the City of London financial district, to Greater London's boundary with Hertfordshi ... with their two daughters, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Jakub
Lisa Jakub () (born December 27, 1978) is a Canadian writer, yoga teacher, and former actress. She is best known for her roles as Lydia Hillard in the comedy-drama film '' Mrs. Doubtfire'' (1993) and as Alicia Casse in ''Independence Day'' (1996). Childhood and education Jakub was born on December 27, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario. She is of Slovak (father) and Welsh and Scottish (mother) descent. She attended multiple schools in her early life, including Hillfield Strathallan College. Jakub graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in sociology in 2010. Acting Jakub's first role was as Katis' Granddaughter in the 1985 film '' Eleni''. She appeared in comedy-drama film '' Mrs. Doubtfire'' (1993) alongside Mara Wilson, Sally Field, Matthew Lawrence, and Robin Williams. When Jakub received the part of Lydia in '' Mrs. Doubtfire'', her high school expelled her for accruing too many absences. Robin Williams wrote a letter to Jakub's high school, pleading with them to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hiding Of Anne Frank
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura's Happy Adventures
''Laura's Happy Adventures'' is a 1998 adventure game developed by Ubi Soft Montreal and published by Ubi Soft, released as part of the Playmobil Interactive series of products. The setting is based on Playmobil's Victorian dollhouse line. The game's storyline revolves around a good-natured young girl named Laura as she solves the mystery of a magic diamond by helping the people around her. A Game Boy Color-exclusive version, simply re-titled ''Laura'', was produced and released in 2000. Plot Many years before, while climbing the foot of a cliff, Henry, Laura's grandfather, had met a small fairy named Lumina. A gust of wind had made the small creature lose control of her wings and had fallen into the sea. Henry had dived into the water to rescue the fairy and in exchange, Lumina had rewarded him with a beautiful bracelet. One day, as she is admiring her grandfather's stone collection, Laura picks up a volcanic rock, but accidentally drops it and it shatters on the floor. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – February or March 1945)Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Frank's last months". AnneFrank.org, 31 March 2015 was a German-born Jewish girl who gained worldwide fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944. Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four and a half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Nazi Germany, Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the Reichskommissariat Niederlande, German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role on a television limited series or television movie for the primetime network season. The award was first presented at the 27th Primetime Emmy Awards on May 19, 1975, to Juliet Mills, for her role as Samantha Cody in '' QB VII''. The award ceremony garnered criticism during the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards, when Ellen Burstyn received a nomination for her work in '' Mrs. Harris'' (2005), despite having only 14 seconds of screen time and 38 words of dialogue. This resulted in a rule change, requiring nominees submitting for the category to have more than 5% screen-time on their respective projects. Since its inception, the award has been given to 38 actresses. Regina King, Jane Alexander, Judy Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Nell Steenburgen (; born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the Western comedy film '' Goin' South'' (1978). Steenburgen went on to earn critical acclaim for her role in '' Time After Time'' (1979) and Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama film ''Melvin and Howard'' (1980), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Steenburgen received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Miloš Forman's drama film ''Ragtime'' (1981). Her other films include ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'' (1982), '' Cross Creek'' (1983), '' Back to the Future Part III'' (1990), ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape'' (1993), ''Philadelphia'' (1993), ''Nixon'' (1995), '' The Brave One'' (2007), '' Last Vegas'' (2013), '' A Walk in the Woods'' (2015), '' Book Club'' (2018), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miep Gies
Hermine "Miep" Gies (; ; 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family ( Otto, Margot, Edith) and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Although she was only supposed to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. In 1933, Gies began working for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had moved with his family from Germany to the Netherlands in the hope of sparing his family from Nazi persecution. She became a close, trusted friend of the Frank family and was a great support to them during the twenty-five mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Mackintosh
Steven Mackintosh (born 30 April 1967) is an English actor and narrator. He is perhaps best known for his role as List of Underworld characters#Andreas Tanis, Andreas Tanis in the action horror films ''Underworld: Evolution'' (2006) and ''Underworld: Rise of the Lycans'' (2009). Mackintosh received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, British Academy Television Award nomination for his leading role in the BBC One television film ''Care'' (2000). His other notable roles were in the films ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998) and ''The Land Girls'' (1998), as well as the first series of ''Luther (TV series), Luther'' (2010). Early life Mackintosh was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Dorothy Parris and Malcolm Mackintosh. He attended Icknield Primary School in Sawston,, living on 34 Queensway. He attended Sawston Village College until the age of 14, and Dramawise Theatre School, gaining 5 O-levels.. He made his stage debut, aged 14, in ''The Number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England, north of the River Thames and the City of London. It extends from Clerkenwell and Finsbury, on the edge of the City of London financial district, to Greater London's boundary with Hertfordshire. The term is occasionally used in reference to all of London north of the River Thames. The term differentiates the area from South London, East London and West London. Some parts of North London are also part of Central London. Development The first northern suburb developed in the Soke of Cripplegate in the early part of the twelfth century, but London's growth beyond its Roman northern gates was slower than in other directions, partly because of the marshy ground north of the wall and also because the roads through those gates were less well-connected than elsewhere. The parishes that would become north London were almost entirely rural until the Victorian period. Many of these parishes were grouped into an area called the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Mackintosh
Martha Mackintosh (born 1992) is an English actress best known for playing Katie Jackson in the Sky1 TV comedy drama series ''Stella''. She is the daughter of actors Steven Mackintosh Steven Mackintosh (born 30 April 1967) is an English actor and narrator. He is perhaps best known for his role as List of Underworld characters#Andreas Tanis, Andreas Tanis in the action horror films ''Underworld: Evolution'' (2006) and ''Unde ... and Lisa Jacobs. Filmography Film Television Video games Audiobooks References External links * Living people Place of birth missing (living people) English film actresses English television actresses English video game actresses 1992 births {{England-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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British Television Actresses
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