Profiles of Eleven (Brown Classics in Judaica Series)

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Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Actress The Constant Gardener. Her parents both came to England around Actress Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn and started her acting career young; she began appearing in commercials at the age of 3. She continued to act and dance through her school years, making regular television appearances from the age of She landed a recurring role in the kids' TV show The Adventures Actress Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system.

She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early on in her youth and kept the world hooked Actress The Age of Innocence. A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been married to Percy Gibson since February 17, She was married to Oscar Lerman and Wallace Austin. She died on September 19, in Los Angeles, California, Actress Breaking the Waves. She progressed to appearing in play readings and workshops before winning a regular role in Brookside She went on to forge an She lived there until she was five years old, and her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a college in Melbourne.

When she was a teen she returned to Actress A Beautiful Mind. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across She is the daughter of Cynthia Istas , an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller.

Her father's family is Russian Jewish and Romanian She began taking dance lessons when she was eight. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was senior class president and head cheerleader. One of our most exciting and versatile actresses, Selma Blair first gained attention for her performance in Cruel Intentions , a youthful retelling of the classic novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Sara Paxton was born in Woodland Hills, California. At a young age she began acting in television commercials. She was cast in her first film at the age of 8 as a child at school and at the party in Liar Liar Her first major television series role was on the WB's Greetings from Tucson When Messing was three, she moved Offbeat, unconventionally pretty, and utterly mesmerizing, Ellen Barkin was born in in the Bronx, New York, to Evelyn Rozin , a hospital administrator, and Sol Barkin, a chemical salesman.

Her parents were both from Russian Jewish families. She died on September 11, in Los Angeles. Actress To Have and Have Not. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a Her father was African-American and her mother Actress Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Capshaw worked as a teacher with an MA in Learning Disabilities. Her desire to be an actress led her to New York where she landed a role on Soundtrack The First Wives Club.

Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, She is the daughter of Ruth Schindel , a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a Actress The Other Guys. Admitting to her own lively nature as a child, Sloane took up acting as an outlet for her energy. She developed a real love for the art and signed with an agent at the tender age of 8. Sloane was a television series regular on Mr.

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Rhodes and had a recurring role on The Wonder Years Appearing in many shows as a child, she attended the New York Two-time Emmy Award winner Sarah Silverman is one of the most versatile talents in entertainment, with credits including that of actress, creator, writer, executive producer, comedian, and author. Her mother, Nedra S. Stern , worked as a travel agent, and her father, Lee N.

Kudrow, is a physician. Her parents are both from Jewish families from Belarus, Russia, and Alicia Silverstone was born on October 4, in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children. She is the daughter of Didi Radford , a former flight attendant, and Monty Silverstone , a real estate investor. Her English-born father is from a Jewish family, while her Scottish-born She has a sister, Patti Hawn , and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth.

She was raised in the Jewish religion. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent. Eating in a local restaurant, With her father as the producer of many popular television shows in the s, Tori had a taste for fame. She appeared on many of her father's shows, which gained her more praise for acting in comedies.

Tori has a younger brother Actress Children of a Lesser God. She has two older brothers.

Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop her from acting in a Actress The Poseidon Adventure. Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, some sources list in East St. Lesley Ann Warren started gearing towards a life in show business right off the bat as a child ballerina; little did she know that Hollywood stardom would arrive on her doorstep in the form of a "Cinderella" story.

The New York-born actress born in is the daughter of a night club singer, Actress The House Bunny.

Jennifer's acting credits include main characters in the movies The Hillside Strangler and Dark Ride She had also a role in the MTV series Undressed Guest star roles include Clubhouse , Raising Dad , Boston Public and other uncredited series. Actress High School Musical 3: Ashley Michelle Tisdale born July 2, is an American actress, singer, and producer. During her childhood, she appeared in more than TV advertisements and had roles in theatre and television shows.

Her father is of Lithuanian, Irish, and Polish descent, and her mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Toronto. Actress Some Like It Hot. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and professional struggles within the film industry. Actress The Matrix Reloaded.

They divorced after only a few months of marriage. Her father is of African-American descent and her mother is of Afro-Caribbean ancestry from Barbados and Firebrand Roseanne Barr has long been one of America's funniest and most controversial comedians. Her family was Jewish, and had moved to the U. She is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates , who was a Broadway producer and television pioneer.

Phoebe is of Russian Jewish, and one quarter Chinese, descent. Actress As Good as It Gets. Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television. International Man of Mystery.

Born in Los Angeles, California, blonde bombshell Cindy Margolis is a talk show host, model and actress. Before You Tube, Facebook, Instagram and all the other social media applications, Cindy Margolis stood alone as the greatest self promoter on the Internet. Crowned the Most Downloaded Woman on Actress The Thirteenth Floor.

She has a brother, Evan. Her father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and her mother, who is from Israel, is of Moroccan Sephardi Mayim Bialik grew up in San Diego and got her first acting job Pumpkinhead when she was just 12 years old. A number of TV roles followed until in she was cast in Blossom , the role which made her famous. By , while Blossom was still airing, she had already won a deferred Actress The Phantom of the Opera.

It would seem that , the year of her 18th birthday, will be remembered as pivotal for Emmy Rossum due to her appearance in two very different films, The Day After Tomorrow and The Phantom of the Opera Emmy's performance in the latter film gained her a Golden Globe nomination. Stricken with polio at 18 months of age, she recovered after receiving the Sister Kenny treatment. She died on September 4, Odeya Rush was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, along with her six brothers.

She was managing editor of the poetry journal, "Antaeus" and Ecco Press from to Ross was an actress for brief 4 years only, making an impressive film debut as the heroine "Francine" in George Romero 's outstanding Dawn of Actress Sex and the City. Her parents divorced, and her mother later remarried to Paul Forste and had four more children, bringing the total to eight.

She lived in the US until she was five. Her father's family is Sephardi Jewish, while her mother is of mostly Ashkenazi Jewish, along with Spanish and Sephardi Actress Death Wish 3. Deborah Raffin was one of two female co-stars in the hugely popular TV mini-series Noble House adapted from the bestseller of the same name by James Clavell.

Her character is clever, She was the daughter of daunting stage parents who groomed her and younger sister Anne for stardom at an early age. Actress Orange Is the New Black. She is the daughter of Marjorie Coll and Michael Prepon. Her father died in , when she was 13 years old. Laura is the youngest of five children--she has a brother named Brad and three sisters: Actress Shakespeare in Love. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the Actress The Big Bang Theory. MFA candidate at Bard College. Film and video artist working at the intersection of art and activism.

Member of 16 Beaver Group. Creator and director, This American Life. The season airs on TNT Summer Musicology Professor at the University of Virginia. UV a webpage and Blog. Running a boutique web design and technology consulting firm Feel free to contact if you need website work as well as leading entrepreneurial projects - always working to launch the next big thing.

MFA candidate at Bard.

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Catherine Gund, the founder of Aubin Pictures, is an Emmy-nominated producer, director, writer, and activist. Harper, Rachel MCM. Harrison also writes arts criticism and is a theater director and performer http: Academy Award nomination for best director, Former producer of the Soviet version of Sesame Street. Recently she has received accolades for her film My Perestroika , featured at Sundance. Hessman is also the curator and "extraordinary host" of AmFest Moscow. One of the original organizers of the visionary Chaise as an undergraduate.

Now part of Mixtape Club , a digital animation group. Screenplay for "Tahiti Rose" was nominated for the German screenwriting award. Shot and edited a web-based series for Arte this year http: Debbie Irwin got her start in voiceovers nearly a decade ago when she found a new outlet for an old passion: She took her stage skills and transformed them into studio skills.

Her work encompasses commercials, eLearning, corporate videos, internet audio, audiobooks, audio tours, medical narrations, product demos and telephone messaging, sometimes in Spanish and Italian. She has traveled the world from her recording booth in NYC, voicing projects for clients like: Film executive and producer, Dreamworks SKG.

One of a handful of women to head a Hollywood film studio since the s. Artist, filmmaker and videographer in Ontario, Canada. Member, New York Institute for the Humanities. Author, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork Zone Books, Founder of Imprint Projects, a marketing and communications agency that works in partnership with non-profits, businesses and communities. Writer and a Triple Canopy editor at large. Also working with Genentech, a San Francsico-based Biotech, providing leadership development programs to Vice-Presidents and Directors.

Living in San Francisco, CA since In , she made the switch to food journalism. Lives with her husband and two sons in Brooklyn, NY. Much of his work in bioethics focuses on the role of narrative.

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Award-winning broadcast journalist, international brand builder and adaptor of formats. Clinical social worker, working in a group of psychanalysts from the SF Center for Psychoanalysis, creating a new out-patient treatment center for youth and families. The group is post-Kleinian but with an eye towards Lacan. Mission is to provide affordable, sliding scale psychoanalytic services to the community. Writer and director of the critically acclaimed film The Wackness , starring Ben Kingsley. Profiled in American Cinematographer and International Cinematographer.

Most recently photographed Wendy and Lucy dir. Artist and editor x-tra magazine, Los Angeles. La maladie de la mort Accepted into the Venice Biennale Has worked across all media: Artist and director of Clockshop. Has taught film editing courses at the Edit Center in Manhattan. Documentarian and founder of Ironbound Films.

Produced and directed many critically acclaimed and award-winning documentaries for PBS, including Crucible of Empire and the America Rebuilds trilogy. Writer and media artist, author of Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything. Scholar and teacher of comparative global postcolonial literatures and cultures, with emphases on Afro-planetary networks, post-Soviet comparison, and Langston Hughes. Commentator on All Things Considered. Several plays produced Off-Broadway. She has published several articles on psychoanalysis and science.

Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based news translations service Mideastwire. In charge of digital strategy at Random House Mondadori in Spain ebooks and apps, new product development, new business models. Hybrid fine artist and independent creative professional recognized for his high-end, multi-media works. Group exhibition Altermodern: Filmmaker of the feature documentary Gerrymandering. Co-editor of the on-line film publication Reverse Shot.

Former independent film distribution exec. Produced web content for Emmy award-winning literacy series The Electric Company [link: Artist based in New York. Her work includes paintings on thin, irregularly shaped pieces of aluminium and small painted paper pieces. Media artist based in New York City. Chris Ruggiero is a film composer and music producer. His original compositions currently appear in over television series including The Voice, Pawn Stars, and American Pickers. He records and produces bands and artists from his studio Gold Coast Recorders , lectures on film, sound, and semiotics at the University of Bridgeport, and runs the popular audio-history website Preservation Sound.

Taryn Simon is an American Artist.

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She uses photography, text, and graphic design to investigate the impossibility of absolute understanding. Kennedy Airport over a five-day period Contraband ; She received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography in and was represented in the 54th Venice Biennale Her team is responsible for scheduling the digital release, across various platforms, of film and TV content owned by NBCU and its subsidiaries. Monica's role will be to support her team members in the tracking of Universal and competitive titles, creation of national promotions and sales initiatives, and management of metadata for clients and retailers.

A writer and producer for film and television, I've worked in Los Angeles as an assistant and then development executive for the last 13 years. Print this Page Share this Page. Modern Culture and Media. Calendar There are no upcoming events. CEO of Oliver Scholars. The Oliver Scholars Program identifies and engages extraordinary New York City students of African and Latino descent and prepares them for success at leading independent high schools and prestigious colleges. Amer, Robin Art-Semiotics. Before moving to radio Ms.

Bebinger edited documentary and independent films. I am currently a Ph. Clarke, Chandler Art-Semiotics. Cohen, Rebecca Richman Art-Semiotics. She recently created a mobile cinema project entitled Memories of the Future , working with a group of spoken word artists in Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, to tell the story of their overcoming issues such as environmental discrimination and over-incarceration which seem to be built into the landscape of their surroundings.

Activist and digital media specialist. Prior work with Greenpeace and as an independent consultant. Film producer primarily in south America. Co-founder of Apparatus Productions. Evans, Rodney MCM. Thesis film "Signal," won Alfred P. Frazier, Dan Literature and Society.

Emmy award winning Art Director, Photographer and Director. Gordon, Bonnie Literature and Society. Goss, Jacqueline Literature and Society. Groff, Matt Art-Semiotics. Gschwandtner, Sabrina Art-Semiotics. Director, editor, and producer who has been working in film and television since He had been directing and editing the television series "Treme. After ten years in NYC following graduation, Eric Hoffsten is now a Freeport, Maine-based award-winning graphic designer and art director, specializing in print.

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Photographer currently Living in San Fransisco where she has a professional design business that supports her own ongoing photographic practice. Her specialty is sports and pirates. Levine, Jonathan Art-Semiotics. Miller, Jon Edward Art-Semiotics. Faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. Author of War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits Fordham,

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