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Millie (company)
Millie is a feminine given name, or diminutive form of various other given names, such as Emily, Millicent, Mildred, Camille, Camilla, Camila, Emilia, Maximillian, or sometimes Amelia. People with the given name Notable people with the given name include: * Millie Bailey (1918–2022), American World War II veteran, civil servant, and volunteer * Amelia Best (1900–1979), one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly * Millie Bobby Brown (born 2004), English actress * Millie Bright (born 1993), English footballer in the FA Women's Super League * Millie Corretjer (born 1974), Puerto Rican singer and actress * Millie Criswell (born 1948), American writer of romance novels * Millie Davis (born 2006), Canadian actress * Mildred Millie Deegan (1919–2002), American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Millie DeLeon (c. 1873–1922), stage name of American burlesque dancer Millie Lawrence * Millie Earl, British politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily (given Name)
Emily is a feminine given name derived from the Nomen_(Roman_name), Roman family name "Aemilia_gens, Aemilius", and is the feminine form of the name Emil_(given_name), Emil. Popularity Emily has been a popular name in the Anglosphere, English-speaking world, ranking among the most popular names in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. For more than a decade, from 1996 to 2007, it was the most common name given to girls in the United States. It has declined in usage in some countries but has remained a well-used name all over the world. In 2022, it was the 31st most popular name given to girls in Canada. The popularity of the name in the 1990s and early years of the 21st century has given the name an everyman, everywoman image for women in their twenties. As a result, the name has recently been used for a number of characters in film and television productions such as ''Emily the Criminal'' and ''Emily in Paris''. Name variants Alternat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Goldsholl
Millie Goldsholl (May 22, 1920 - May 23, 2012) is most well known for running the film division of the Chicago graphic design firm, Morton Goldsholl Associates (Goldsholl Design & Film Associates). She also made her own films and animations, including the award-winning ''Up is Down'' from 1969. Millie Goldsholl grew up in Freeport, New York on the south shores of Long Island. As a child she developed a love for pastoral life and art, creating elaborate chalk drawings of her family and grandparents' farm animals outside her family's home. Millie moved from the sidewalk to the easel when she entered high school. Here, encouraging art teachers inspired Millie to make a career out of her passion for art. Millie moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was sixteen with her sister and widowed mother. They moved in with Millie's brother, who had recently acquired a factory job and needed help around the house. After failing to enroll in art classes that required too many prerequisites, Mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Perkins
Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1936) is an American retired model and film and television actress known for her debut film role as Anne Frank in ''The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film), The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959), and for her supporting actress roles in two 1966 Westerns, ''The Shooting'' and ''Ride in the Whirlwind'', both directed by Monte Hellman. Early life and career Born on May 12, 1936, in Passaic, New Jersey, Perkins grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Fair Lawn and attended Fair Lawn High School. Her father was a merchant marine captain of Hungarians, Hungarian and Mongols, Mongolian descent. Perkins was working as a receptionist at a New York City advertising agency when she caught the eye of a visiting photographer with a resultant career as a Model (person), model; by 1958, Perkins was an international cover girl. Soon thereafter, Perkins was vigorously pursued, and then selected, to portray Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank in the 1959 film adapt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Peacock
Millie Gertrude Peacock, Lady Peacock (née Holden; 3 August 1870 – 7 February 1948), was the first woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria. She was the wife of Sir Alexander Peacock, a three-time Premier of Victoria. Upon his death in 1933, Lady Peacock won the by-election to replace him in parliament. She served only a single term, retiring at the 1935 state election. Early life Millie Gertrude Holden was the second of two daughters born in East Framlingham, Victoria, to Marianne (née Arnold) and John Bryson Holden. Her parents were born in Ireland. Her father, originally from County Antrim, had arrived in Victoria in 1855, and became a successful land agent and auctioneer in Port Fairy. Her mother died when she was a few months old, and her father remarried Millie's maternal aunt Jane Ellen Arnold. Millie was given eight half-brothers and half-sisters from this union, and Jane was referred to as her mother throughout her life. Holden attended Methodist Ladies' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie O'Connell
Emilia Rose O'Connell (born 18 January 1997) is an English musical theatre actress and singer. She is best known for portraying Anne Boleyn in the original UK tour and West End production of the musical ''SIX''. She is part of pop girl group SVN. She has received Laurence Olivier and WhatsOnStage Award nominations. Early life O'Connell is from Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England. She is of Maltese, Irish, and Italian descent. From the age of three, O'Connell took classes at the Gillian Cartwright School of Dance. She attended Christ the King College. After completing her GCSEs at 16, she won a scholarship to train at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom, graduating in 2015, aged 18. Career O'Connell made her professional stage debut in the international revival of the show '' 42nd Street'' in 2016, in Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, forming part of the ensemble whilst understudying Peggy Sawyer. In 2017, she moved back to the UK, performing in the same show in Theatre Royal, Drury Lane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie And Christine McKoy
Millie and Christine McKoy (also spelled ''McCoy''; July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were African-American pygopagus conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The United African Twins" "The Carolina Twins", "The Two-Headed Nightingale" and "The Eighth Wonder of the World". The twins traveled throughout the world performing song and dance for entertainment, overcoming years of slavery, forced medical observations, and forced participation in fairs and freak shows. Life Millie and Christine (the "Carolina Twins") were born in Whiteville, North Carolina, on July 11, 1851, to Jacob and Monemia McKoy who were enslaved by the blacksmith Jabez McKay. The McKay farm was near the town of Whiteville. Prior to the sisters' birth, their mother had given birth to seven other children, five boys and two girls, all of ordinary size and form. The twins were conjoined at the lower spine and stood at an approximately 90-degree angle to each other. The twins were first sold at 10 months of age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Knight
Millicent Genevieve Knight (born 15 January 1999) is a British skier and student who competes at international level for ParalympicsGB in alpine skiing in the slalom, giant slalom Super-G, super combined and Downhill events with a sighted guide, Brett Wild. When Knight was one year old, she contracted an illness, diagnosed at age three, which resulted in the loss of most of her vision by the age of six. She joined the Great Britain Paralympic skiing team in 2012, and progressed to compete at international-level events. Knight was the British flagbearer at Sochi in 2014 – her debut Paralympics - where, at the age of 15, she was the youngest person ever to compete for ParalympicsGB at the Winter Games. In the same year Knight also became an Honorary Doctor of the University of Kent. Early life and education Knight was born on 15 January 1999 in Canterbury, Kent. She was six when she lost much of her vision; in her left eye she has 5–10% peripheral vision, and in her right ey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Kirkham
Millie Kirkham (born Mildred Eakes; June 24, 1923 – December 14, 2014) was an American singer who was featured on many classic hit recordings from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. Early life Kirkham was born Mildred Eakes in Hermitage, Tennessee. She performed in high school bands in the early 1940s before graduating to session work. Millie was known as the "Nashville soprano" on numerous hit records and became affectionately known as the fifth member of the Jordanaires. She worked with Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, and George Jones. Millie first became noticed in 1957 on Ferlin Husky's #1 country and #4 cross-over hit recording of "Gone", in which Millie sang the angelic background harmony. Elvis asked the Jordanaires, "Who is that lady that sang on 'Gone'?", to which the Jordanaires replied, "That's Millie, Millie Kirkham." They called her and she accepted. It was Elvis Presley's 1957 recording of " Blue Christmas" that catapulted Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Jeffrey
Mildred McWilliams "Millie" Jeffrey (December 29, 1910 – March 24, 2004) was an American political and social activist during the labor reforms, women's rights, and civil rights movement. Biography Mildred Jeffrey's mother, Bertha McWilliams, who raised Millie alongside six other children, became Iowa's first female registered pharmacist in 1908 and owned a drugstore in Alton and later in Minneapolis. Jeffrey attended the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1932. It was here that she began to involve herself in the socialist and progressive movements. As students, she and an African-American classmate worked to integrate restaurants in Minneapolis. In 1934, she earned her master's degree in social economy and social research from Bryn Mawr College. In 1936, she married another union organizer, Homer Newman Jeffrey. During their marriage, they worked to unionize textile factories in the South and East. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Jackson
Mildred Virginia Jackson (born July 15, 1944) is an American R&B and soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies sold. Jackson's songs often include long spoken sections, sometimes humorous, sometimes sexually explicit. According to the cataloguing site WhoSampled.com, her songs have appeared in 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes. Since she always enjoyed writing poems, in the early '70s Jackson began crafting such proto-rap R&B singles as the outspoken "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)". Early life Born in Thomson, Georgia, Jackson is the daughter of a sharecropper, Jubilee Jackson. Her mother died when she was a child and subsequently, she and her father moved to the New York City area and settled in Newark, New Jersey. By the time Jackson was in her mid-teens, she had moved into New York City to live with an aunt who resided in Brooklyn. She found an occasio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Innes
Millie Innes (born 5 October 2000) is a Scottish actress, known for her roles as Maisy in ''Dani's House'' and Millie McDonald in ''Millie Inbetween''. Early and personal life Innes was born in 2000 to parents Julia and Campbell; she has a younger brother named Murray. Innes attended Rosshall Academy for her secondary education and was trained at the Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts. She is currently studying at the University of Glasgow. Career Innes' first role was in the four-part BBC One, BBC drama ''Single Father (TV series), Single Father'', as Evie. Between 2011 and 2013, she appeared in ''Case Histories (TV series), Case Histories'' as Marlee Brodie, daughter of the protagonist. In 2011, Innes was chosen from 20,000 applicants for the role of Maisy in ''Dani's House'', and she played Fiona in a 2013 episode of ''Dani's Castle''. From 2014 to 2018, Innes portrayed the role of Millie McDonald in CBBC sitcom ''Millie Inbetween''. In 2015, she appeared on ''Hacker Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Hylton
Sarah Frances Louise Rudge (8 February 1870 – 1 September 1920), known professionally as Millie Hylton, was an English actress, dancer and principal boy in pantomime. Early life Sarah Frances Louise Rudge was born on 8 February 1870 on 22 Hope Street, Birmingham, to Annie Elizabeth (née Hemming) and Henry Rudge. Her father worked as brass founder and a chandelier maker, while her mother had a brief acting career in the Birmingham area. She was one of five sisters (collectively known as the Rudge Sisters): Letitia Elizabeth aka Letty Lind, Elizabeth aka Adelaide Astor, Lydia aka Lydia Flopp (1877–1963) and Fanny aka Fanny Dango.Cruickshank, Graeme. "The Rudge Family: The Lives and Work of Letty Lind and her sisters", National Operatic and Dramatic Association newsletter, January 2005 Hylton was reputedly only four years old when she first went on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Career Hylton started her career as a male impersonator in the music hall before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
