Patti Lupone is an American actress and singer. Born April 21, 1949 in Northport, New York. Daughter of Angela Louise, a library administrator at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, her father, a school administrator and English teacher at Walt Whitman High School located in Huntington, Long Island. Her grandmother, Adelina Patti, was a 19th century opera singer. Her brother, Robert LuPone, is an actor, dancer, and director who originated the role of Zach the director in A Chorus Line. LuPone is of Italian descent, and from a Catholic family. Patti was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division from 1968 to 1972 with a bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She’s best known for her work in stage musicals. She began her career with The Acting Company, formed by John Houseman, in 1972, which lasted until 1976. She made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters, as Irina, in 1973. She appeared in many productions including; The Cradle Will Rock, The School for Scandal, Women Beware Women, The Beggar’s Opera, and many more. After she left The Acting Company, David Merrick, a producer, hired her as a replacement to play in Genevieve as the title role in The …show more content…
In a 2007 interview, she stated " 'Evita' was the worst experience of my life," she said. "I was screaming my way through a part that could only have been written by a man who hates women. And I had no support from the producers, who wanted a star performance on stage but treated me as an unknown backstage. It was like Beirut, and I fought like a banshee." After her tour ended with The Acting Company, she remained in London to create the role of Fantine in Cameron Mackintosh’s original production of Les Miserables. She also worked with Cameron again in the revival of Oliver! In 1984. In 1985 she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a
To start with, Rosie Perez or Rosa Marie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. She is a actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist. Her parents are Lydia Perez, a singer and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine seaman. Her aunt had been raising and catering her until her mother, Lydia Perez took her away and put her in Foster Care when she was 3. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if Rosie was to detest her parents after all they put her through. Rosie stayed there until she moved in with another aunt when she was 12. Later on she joined a high school in Rightwood, Grover Cleveland High School. Now most of the confusion and sadness had culminate.
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I thought that Diane Guerrero who is an American actress speech about her family’s deportation was interesting. She recently appeared on an immigration themed of Chelsea handler’s talk show. Guerrero is the citizen daughter of immigrant parents. Guerrero mentioned how her family was taken away from her when she was just 14 years old. “Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if i had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, i found myself basically on my own”, Guerrero added. Luckily, Guerrero had good friends to help her. She told handler how her family try to become legal but there were no sign or help. Her parents lost their money to scammers who they believed to be a lawyer. When her family’s
She was born in Bronx, New York in 1964. She was born poor and raised on welfare for a couple of years. Around the age of 10 she moved to Englewood, New Jersey. When she was in college she travel a lot. She visited England, France, Spain, and Russia.
In 1929, Eleanor made her Broadway debut in Follow Thru. After being in a Broadway show, her stardom kept rising until she made it to Hollywood. In 1935 she appeared in her first movie, George White's 'Scandals of 1935'.From then on, she just got more and more successful. One of her more memorable performances was in ‘Broadway Melody in 1940’ dancing alongside Fred Astaire to “Begin the Beguine’.
If you check your pockets, how many of you have pennies in them? Not many people I assume, that is because most people don't carry around pennies anymore. Denver Nicks from Time.com says
Isabella Baumfree, otherwise known as Sojourner Truth, was born to James and Elizabeth Baumfree as a slave around 1797 in Ulster County, New York. She was a slave of a Dutch family, the Hardenberghs, but once her owner died, she was sold at an auction for the first time to a Englishman, John Neely. Since she could only speak Dutch while Neely spoke English, it was difficult for them to communicate and as a result, Neely would constantly beat her brutally. She had suffered as a slave such as being spit on, threatened, and beaten aggressively to the point that she had scars on her body, blood trickling down from her body, and many wounds.
Julie Andrews is an Oscar-winning actress and singer famous for her role as in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews was born Juliet Elizabeth Wellsona Tober first 1935 in Walton-on-Thomas England. Coming from a musical family; her mother was a pianist and her stepfather was a singer, so she was bound to be a popular star on stage and screen for multiple years. Andrew's career had success in the late 1940s, soon later moving to America, she had a huge role in the musical The Boyfriend during the mid-50s. In 1956, Andrews started in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle which granted her a Tony award nomination for best actress in a musical. Soon after she had yet another huge role in the musical Camelot in 1960, which earned her the
Her parents who at that time could not understand the choices she made are very happy for their daughter and what she has accomplish. When she left her home at the middle of a fight and never went back. She said,” I had to make my own way” and then lived in a Manhattan dance studio where she was training. Then she got an apartment with some friends in Manhattan Hell’s Kitchen. Since the time she move out of her home she started her showbiz career as a dancer in stage musicals and most notably in her tour to Golden musicals of Broadway and in a Japanese tour. Then she audition to be a fly girl in Fox’s hit comedy “In living Colors,” she beat out 2,000 other contenders in a nation wide competition. Then she cracked into Hollywood and she wanted to make a transition to acting, but she followed Color producer Keenan Ivory Wayans advice to stay with the show for a while before making any attempt to move on.
Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She was born to an upper
As a little girl, I remember learning about Ruby Bridges. I remember being mesmerized; truly astonished by the amount of courage and strength that she showed when she persevered during times of racial discrimination, all at the age of six. During, that time America was in an era of flash points; the racial revolution of the 1960’s was televised. The image of Ruby walking up the front steps of William Frantz Elementary School sparked an interest in a famous painter Norman Rockwell, who created a blueprint that later evolved into the everlasting interpretation of that historical event for generations to come.
Uta Hagen born on June 12th 1919, was a German-born American actress and a drama teacher who passed away on January 14th 2004 at age 84. Uta Hagen found herself in the theatrical element when she first joined a production Wisconsin High School finding her interest in theatre. Hagen started to develop deeper interest in theatre and started studying acting at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After leaving New York spending just one semester at her University, she got her first professional role of Hamlet. From that point in her life, she started to get more and more involved in different play and started to make goals in where she wanted to work which made her a great achiever and a actress. Uta Hagen was on the hollywood blacklist where she found opportunities to get involved in acting in several different theatres. Hagen showed involvement in broadway, television, movies and continuously rise as an actress. Hagen has achieved the Tony Award several times and was nominated to the American The...
At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939."
Commencement speeches, which are presented in American graduation ceremonies, aim to inspire and motivate. Successfully, Nora Ephron 's commencement speech addressed to the Wellesley Class of 1996; inspired her audience to "be the heroine of [their '] li[ves], not the victim". Through anecdotes, Ephron explored the differences between her education and the graduates at Wellesley College, to remind the women graduating that whilst society was different in many ways, in particular for women, "there was still a glass ceiling".
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