100 Notable alumni of
Emerson College
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Emerson College is 335th in the world, 141st in North America, and 134th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Emerson College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Brandon Lee
- Occupations
- television actorThai boxerfilm actoractormartial artist
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Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. Establishing himself as a rising action star in the early 1990s, he landed his breakthrough role as Eric Draven in the supernatural superhero film The Crow (1994). However, Lee's career and life were cut short by his accidental death during the film's production.
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Jennifer Coolidge
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractorvoice actorcharacter actor
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Jennifer Coolidge is an American actress. A character actress with performances across screen and television, primarily in the comedy genre, Coolidge is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2023, Coolidge was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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- cinematographerdirectorfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producer
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Paul Thomas Anderson, also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. His accolades include nominations for eleven Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and eight BAFTA Awards (winning one for Best Original Screenplay). He has also won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and both the Silver and Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Henry Winkler
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- television producerchildren's writervoice actortelevision actorfilm director
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Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, comedian, author, producer, and director. Widely known as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the American television series Happy Days, Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen. His many accolades include three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Critics Choice Awards.
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Bill Burr
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- In 1993 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- stand-up comedian
- Biography
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William Frederick Burr is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster. He has released multiple stand-up comedy specials, including You People Are All the Same (2012), I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2014), Walk Your Way Out (2017) and Paper Tiger (2019). He received a Grammy Award nomination for Paper Tiger, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the dark comedy series Immoral Compass (2021–present). In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him at No. 17 on their list of the "50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time".
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Jay Leno
- Occupations
- television presentervoice actortelevision producerjournalistcomedian
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James Douglas Muir Leno is an American television host, writer and comedian. After doing stand-up comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's The Tonight Show from 1992 until 2009 when Conan O'Brien took over as host. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ET, also on NBC. When O'Brien turned down NBC's offer to have Leno host a half hour monologue show before The Tonight Show to boost ratings amid reported viewership diminishing, it led to the 2010 Tonight Show conflict which resulted in Leno returning to hosting the show on March 1, 2010. He hosted his last episode of his second tenure on February 6, 2014. That year, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. From 2014 to 2022, he hosted Jay Leno's Garage, and from 2021 to 2023, hosted the revival of You Bet Your Life.
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David Cross
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- television presenterscreenwriterfilm producercomedianfilm director
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David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and director. Cross is best known for his stand-up performances, the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show (1995–1998), and his role as Tobias Fünke in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013–2019).
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Gina Gershon
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- voice actoractorstage actortelevision actorscreenwriter
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Gina L. Gershon is an American actress and singer. She has starred in such films as Cocktail (1988), Red Heat (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), P.S. I Love You (2007), Five Minarets in New York (2010), Killer Joe (2011) and House of Versace (2013). She has also had supporting roles in FX's Rescue Me and HBO's How to Make It in America. She also portrayed Jughead's mom Gladys Jones on The CW teen drama series Riverdale and Lauren Bloom's mom Jeanie Bloom on the NBC medical series New Amsterdam.
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Iliza Shlesinger
- Occupations
- executive produceractortelevision presentertelevision actorscreenwriter
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Iliza Vie Shlesinger is an American stand-up comedian, actress and television host. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing and went on to host the syndicated dating show Excused from 2011 to 2013. As well, she has hosted the TBS game show Separation Anxiety.
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Denis Leary
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- composerscreenwriterfilm producercomedianactor
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Denis Colin Leary is an American actor and comedian. Born in Massachusetts, Leary first came to prominence as a stand-up comedian, especially through appearances on MTV (including the comedic song "Asshole") and through the stand-up specials No Cure for Cancer (1993) and Lock 'n Load (1997). Leary began taking roles in film and television starting in the 1990s, including substantial roles in the films Judgment Night (1993), Gunmen (1994), Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) and Wag the Dog (1997).
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Maria Menounos
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- film actorbeauty pageant contestanttelevision actoractortelevision presenter
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Maria Menounos is an American television presenter. She has hosted Extra and E! News; she was a TV correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. She also co-created and is currently CEO of online podcast series network AfterBuzz TV. She is currently signed to WWE where she has served as an ambassador since 2013, having even competed in some tag team events as a pro since 2009. She hosted the podcast Conversations with Maria Menounos She also co-hosted Miss Universe 2023 pageant on 18 November 2023.
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Joely Fisher
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actoractorsingerstage actor
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Joely Fisher is an American actress and singer, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens, and half-sister of actress Carrie Fisher. Her breakthrough came in 1994, starring as Paige Clark in the ABC sitcom Ellen, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. Fisher later starred in the 1999 comedy film Inspector Gadget and had leading roles in the Lifetime comedy-drama Wild Card (2003–2005), and Fox sitcom 'Til Death (2006–2010).
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Abbi Jacobson
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorvoice actor
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Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and illustrator. She co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014–2019) with Ilana Glazer, based on the web series of the same name. Her other roles include voicing Katie Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), Nya in The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and Princess Bean in the series Disenchantment (2018–2023), in addition to appearing in the live-action films Person to Person (2017) and 6 Balloons (2018). She is a writer and co-creator of the Amazon Prime series A League of Their Own (2022), in which she also stars as Carson Shaw, a baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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Natasha Gregson Wagner
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Natasha Gregson Wagner is an American actress. She is the daughter of film producer Richard Gregson and actress Natalie Wood. She has appeared in films including Lost Highway, Two Girls and a Guy, First Love, Last Rites (all 1997), Urban Legend, Another Day in Paradise (both 1998) and High Fidelity (2000).
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Norman Lear
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- film directorfilm producerbusinesspersonscreenwritertelevision producer
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Norman Milton Lear was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear created and produced numerous popular 1970s sitcoms, including All in the Family (1971–1979), Maude (1972–1978), Sanford and Son (1972–1977), One Day at a Time (1975–1984), The Jeffersons (1975–1985), and Good Times (1974–1979). His shows introduced political and social themes to the sitcom format.
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Elden Henson
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Elden Henson is an American actor. He is best known for playing Fulton Reed in The Mighty Ducks trilogy (1992–1996), Foggy Nelson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) streaming television series Daredevil (2015–2018), The Defenders (2017), Jessica Jones and Luke Cage (both 2018), and Pollux in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015).
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Andrea Martin
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorscreenwriterfilm actorvoice actor
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Andrea Louise Martin is an American-Canadian actress, singer, and comedian, best known for her work in the television series SCTV and Great News. She has appeared in films such as Black Christmas (1974), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), and Little Italy (2018). She has also lent her voice to the animated films Anastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998), and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). Since 2021, she co-stars in the supernatural drama series Evil.
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Steven Wright
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- writertelevision actorfilm directorscreenwritercomedian
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Steven Alexander Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.
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Michael Nouri
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Michael Nouri is an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for his television roles, including Dr. Neil Roberts on The O.C., Phil Grey on Damages, Caleb Cortlandt on All My Children, Eli David in NCIS, and Bob Schwartz on Yellowstone. He is also known for his starring roles in the films Flashdance (1983) and The Hidden (1987), and has appeared in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including the original production of Victor/Victoria. He is a Saturn Award and Daytime Emmy Award nominee.
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Wishnutama
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- journalistcreative directorinternational forum participantchief executive officer
- Biography
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Wishnutama Kusubandio is a former Indonesian journalist. He was co-founder and CEO of NET. Mediatama Television, from founding on 18 May 2013 until his resignation on 22 October 2019. He served as Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy under Joko Widodo between 23 October 2019 and 22 December 2020.
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Joanna Going
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Joanna Catherine Going is an American actress known for the television series Kingdom, House of Cards, Mad Men and the movie Wyatt Earp.
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Bobbi Brown
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- make-up artistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Bobbi Brown is an American professional make-up artist, author, and the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. She created ten natural-shade lipsticks which according to Entrepreneur "revolutionized the beauty industry". She has written nine books about beauty and wellness.
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May Calamawy
- Occupations
- performing artistactor
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May el-Calamawy is an Egyptian-Palestinian actress who has worked and resided in the United States since 2015. She is known for her roles in the American television series Ramy as Dena Hassan, and Moon Knight as Layla El-Faouly.
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Mario Cantone
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- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Mario Cantone is an American comedian, writer, actor, and singer best known for his numerous stage shows. He also played Anthony Marentino in Sex and the City and Terri in Men In Trees (2006-2008). His style is fast-paced and energetic, with much of his humor coming from his impersonations of characters ranging from family members to celebrities to stereotypes.
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Dan Finnerty
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- actorsinger
- Biography
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Dan Finnerty is an American actor and singer.
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Hartley Sawyer
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- film actorfilm producerwriterscreenwriteractor
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Hartley Sawyer is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kyle Abbott on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2013 to 2014 and Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man on The CW series The Flash from 2017 to 2020.
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Benjamin Bronfman
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- musicianentrepreneur
- Biography
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Benjamin Zachary Bronfman is an American ecopreneur and a Grammy award nominated musician. Bronfman is a founding partner and board member of Global Thermostat, a direct air capture company that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Dan Levy
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- writertelevision actorscreenwriteractorshowrunner
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Daniel Levy is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles. He began performing stand-up in the 2000s and has released three comedy albums, including his most recent special Dan Levy: Lion in 2016. He has written for a number of television comedies including Whitney (2011–2013) and was a producer of The Awesomes (2013–2015), Mulaney (2014–15), and The Goldbergs (2014–15). In 2020, he created the NBC series Indebted.
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Paul Dini
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- writercomics artistscreenwritertelevision producerblogger
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Paul McClaran Dini is an American screenwriter and comic creator. He has been a producer and writer for several Warner Bros. Animation/DC Comics animated series, most notably Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), and the subsequent DC Animated Universe. Dini and Bruce Timm co-created the characters Harley Quinn and Terry McGinnis.
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Justin Willman
- Occupations
- magicianactor
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Justin Willman is an American magician, comedian, producer, and television personality. He is the creator and star of Magic for Humans on Netflix. The third season of Magic for Humans was released on May 15, 2020. He has made regular appearances on The Tonight Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Conan. His debut comedy/magic special Sleight of Mouth premiered on Comedy Central in 2015. He hosts the shows Cupcake Wars, Halloween Wars, King of Cones on the Food Network, Disney's Win, Lose or Draw on Disney Channel, along with Baking Impossible on Netflix. Willman resides in Los Angeles with his wife Jillian Sipkins and son Jackson Willman and daughter Rosie Willman.
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Pearl Aday
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- Studied creative writing
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Pearl Aday is an American singer. She is the adopted daughter of vocalist Michael Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, and was a member of his touring band Neverland Express for nine years starting in the mid-1990s. She has appeared on numerous albums and in various tours and television performances with her father, both as backing singer and in duets. She has also been a backing singer for Mötley Crüe. She is currently the lead singer of her own band "Pearl" and has released her debut album on Megaforce/RED/Sony Music on January 19, 2010. Aday also co-organized the hard rock group Motor Sister with her husband Scott Ian, singing backing vocals.
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Seth Grahame-Smith
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- screenwritermanufacturerfilm producerexecutive producertelevision producer
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Seth Grahame-Smith is an American writer and film producer, best known as the author of The New York Times best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film.
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Lori Alan
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- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Lori Alan is an American actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. She also voiced Diane Simmons on Family Guy, the Invisible Woman on Fantastic Four, and The Boss in the Metal Gear video game series.
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Richard Dysart
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Richard Allen Dysart was an American actor. He is best known for his role as senior partner Leland McKenzie in the television series L.A. Law (1986–1994), for which he won a 1992 Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series after four consecutive nominations. In film, he held supporting roles in The Hospital (1971), Being There (1979), The Thing (1982), Mask (1985), Pale Rider (1985) and Wall Street (1987).
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George Watsky
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- recording artistpoetwriterrapper
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George Virden Watsky, known mononymously as Watsky, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, poet, author, and illustrator.
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Adam Green
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- musicianpencillercomics writerfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Adam Green is an American singer-songwriter, artist and filmmaker.
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Sophiko Shevardnadze
- Occupations
- manufacturerfilm producerradio personalitytelevision presentercorrespondent
- Biography
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Sophie Paatovna Shevardnadze (Russian: София (Софико) Паатовна Шеварднадзе; Georgian: სოფო შევარდნაძე, born 23 September 1978) is a Georgian/Russian journalist, presenter, author and producer. She is the creator and executive producer of the show Simply Complicated on the platform Yandex.Efir, Russia's equivalent of Google. She is the host of SophieCo Visionaries, and between 2006 and 2015 she was a presenter on the radio station Echo of Moscow.
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Spencer Tunick
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Spencer Tunick is an American photographer best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994, he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.
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Jessie Ward
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- television producerprofessional wrestler
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Jessie Lynn Whitney is an American television producer and retired professional wrestler.
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Glenn Branca
- Occupations
- composerguitaristluthier
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Glenn Branca was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier. Known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series, he was a driving force behind the genres of no wave, totalism and noise rock. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
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Nicola Yoon
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- writer
- Biography
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Nicola Yoon /ˈnɪkələ/ is a Jamaican-American author. She is best known for writing the 2015 young adult novel Everything, Everything, a New York Times best seller and the basis of a 2017 film of the same name. In 2016, she released The Sun Is Also a Star, a novel that was adapted to a film of the same name.
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Michael Angelakos
- Occupations
- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristrecord producerauthor
- Biography
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Michael John Angelakos is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman of the indietronica band Passion Pit.
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Bill Dana
- Occupations
- television actorscreenwritermusicianactor
- Biography
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William Szathmary, known as Bill Dana, was an American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He often appeared on television shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show, frequently in the guise of a heavily accented Bolivian character named José Jiménez. Dana often portrayed the Jiménez character as an astronaut.
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Emily Skeggs
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- actorsingerstage actor
- Biography
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Emily D. Skeggs is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2015 for playing the role of Medium Alison in Fun Home.
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Adele Lim
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- screenwritertelevision producerfilm or television directorfilm producer
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Adele Lim is a Malaysian screenwriter, producer, and director. She is best known for writing Crazy Rich Asians, the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993, and Raya and the Last Dragon, an animated fantasy adventure inspired by Southeast Asian culture. She also directed and produced the 2023 comedy Joy Ride.
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Joe Mande
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- actorstand-up comedianscreenwriter
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Joseph Mande is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor.
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Eugene Roche
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- actorstage actortelevision actor
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Eugene Harrison Roche was an American actor and the original "Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials.
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Veronica Belmont
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- journalistengineerpodcasteraudio engineer
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Veronica Ann Belmont is an American online media personality. She was formerly the co-host of the Revision3 show Tekzilla alongside Patrick Norton. Belmont was the co-host of the former TWiT.tv gaming show Game On! along with Brian Brushwood, and the former host of the monthly PlayStation 3-based video on demand program Qore. Additionally, she was the host for the Mahalo Daily podcast and a producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc. where she produced, engineered, and co-hosted the podcast Buzz Out Loud.
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Mary Kay Adams
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Mary Kay Adams is an American actress known for her roles in television.
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Mike Joy
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Michael Kinsey Joy is an American TV sports announcer, businessman, and former politician who currently serves as the lap-by-lap voice of Fox Sports' coverage of NASCAR. His color analysts are Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick. Counting 2023, Joy has been part of the live broadcast of 44 Daytona 500s (7 for the Motor Racing Network, 17 for CBS and 20 for FOX). He also serves as expert analyst for A&E Networks History Channel and FYI live TV coverage of collector car auctions.
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Anthony Atamanuik
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- comedianactorwriter
- Biography
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Anthony Atamanuik is an American writer, actor, and comedian. He impersonated former U.S. President Donald Trump during the campaign and his presidency, first on the Trump vs. Bernie debate tour, and then on The President Show.
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Rosebud Baker
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Rosebud Baker is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Based in New York City, she is known for her dark humor based on personal, often satirical stories. In 2010, She worked as an actress in independent films, non-union television projects, and off-Broadway. She later began appearing in a recurring role on the Hulu series Life & Beth. Baker started her career in stand-up in 2013 by performing at open mics throughout New York City. In 2021, her debut comedy special, Whiskey Fists, premiered on Comedy Central. She became a writer for the HBO Max television series That Damn Michael Che in 2020 and a writer for Saturday Night Live in 2022.
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Penny Peyser
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Penelope Allison "Penny" Peyser is an American actress, writer, and filmmaker.
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Eric Hutchinson
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
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Eric Hutchinson is an American singer-songwriter best known for his songs "Rock & Roll", "OK, It's Alright with Me", "Not There Yet", "Watching You Watch Him", and "Tell the World". Hutchinson was named an AOL "About to Pop" artist, Yahoo! Who's Next Artist, MSN "One to Watch" Artist and a "VH1 You Oughta Know" Artist. Hutchinson also wrote and performed the theme song for ESPN's Fantasy Focus podcast.
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Alex Tse
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Alex Tse is an American screenwriter who wrote the 2004 gangster film Sucker Free City, co-wrote the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, and wrote the 2018 film Superfly. He is also a writer and executive producer for the 2019 series Wu-Tang: An American Saga.
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Olen Steinhauer
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Olen Steinhauer is an American writer of spy fiction novels, including The Tourist, part of the Milo Weaver series, and the Yalta Boulevard Sequence. Steinhauer also created the TV series Berlin Station, focused on a fictional Central Intelligence Agency branch operating in Berlin, which began airing in 2016.
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Jamie Loftus
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- Studied in 2014
- Occupations
- performance artistwriterscreenwritercomedianactor
- Biography
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Jamie Bethany Loftus is an American writer, stand up alternative comedian, animator, podcast co-host, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is known for her solo work, such as her one-woman shows I Lost My Virginity on August 15, 2010 and Boss, Whom is Girl. She has also written comedic articles, and written and starred in video content, for media sites such as Adult Swim, Comedy Central, Paste, and Super Deluxe. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Robot Chicken in 2020.
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Vin Di Bona
- Occupations
- television producer
- Biography
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Vincent John "Vin" Di Bona is an American television producer of the television shows MacGyver, Entertainment Tonight, America's Funniest Home Videos and Dancing with the Stars. He runs an eponymous production company called Vin Di Bona Productions. In 2010, Di Bona launched a second business, FishBowl Worldwide Media, an independent production company developing properties for film, television, digital platforms and brands.
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Donzaleigh Abernathy
- Occupations
- television actorwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Donzaleigh Abernathy is an American actress, author and civil rights activist.
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Paul Kreppel
- Occupations
- television actortheatrical directoractortelevision director
- Biography
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Paul Kreppel is an American actor and director. On television, he was best known as pianist Sonny Mann on the show It's a Living. In his work as theater director-producer-creator, he received the 2007 Tony Award for Jay Johnson: The Two and Only.
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Morgan Page
- Occupations
- composerdisc jockeymusicianrecord producer
- Biography
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Morgan Wolf Page is an American DJ and music producer. His tracks include "The Longest Road", "Fight for You" and "In the Air". Page has received two Grammy Award nominations; a personal nomination for best remix with Nadia Ali and in 2009 his song was nominated for best remix; "The Longest Road" (deadmau5 Remix). Page is signed to Armada Music worldwide.
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Justin Chou
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chou Shou-hsun is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2012. He is known in English as Justin Chou.
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Jason Scott
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- film directorpodcastermedia historianarchivist
- Biography
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Jason Scott Sadofsky, more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms Sketch, SketchCow, The Slipped Disk, and textfiles. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".
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Sam Doumit
- Occupations
- film actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Samia "Sam" Doumit is an American actress.
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Chris Hurst
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenteractivistpolitician
- Biography
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Christopher Laird Hurst is an American journalist, former news anchor and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the state's 12th district.
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Todd Strauss-Schulson
- Occupations
- cinematographerfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm editor
- Biography
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Todd Strauss-Schulson is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and cinematographer, best known for directing the comedy film A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011), the horror comedy film The Final Girls (2015), and the romantic comedy film Isn't It Romantic (2019). He has also directed episodes of the television series The Inbetweeners (2012) and Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (2013).
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Philip Ettinger
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- Studied film directing
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Philip Ettinger is an American actor who first gained attention for his supporting role as the troubled environmental activist, Michael, in Paul Schrader's First Reformed. Other significant roles have been as Garrett Drimmer in the CBS All Access series One Dollar (2018), as the young-adult version of Mark Ruffalo's twin characters, Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, in HBO's I Know This Much is True in 2020, and in the lead role of Cole Freeman, in Braden King’s cinematic adaptation of the Carter Sickels novel The Evening Hour (2020).
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Lisi Harrison
- Occupations
- children's writerwriter
- Biography
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Elyse E. "Lisi" Harrison is a Canadian novelist of young adult fiction, known for the three series The Clique, Alphas and Monster High.
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Rob Laakso
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerrecord producer
- Biography
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Rob Laakso was an American musician, record producer and engineer, best known as the recording partner of indie rock musician Kurt Vile and as a multi-instrumentalist in his backing band the Violators. Laakso also played in the shoegaze band Swirlies, among others. Born in Massachusetts in 1979, Laakso graduated from Emerson College.
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Doug Herzog
- Biography
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Doug Herzog is an American television executive. He was formerly the president of Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, he oversaw MTV, VH1, Logo TV, Comedy Central, Palladia, TV Land and Spike. Herzog has been credited with evolving the MTV brand by steering the network away from music related programming.
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Danny Ledonne
- Occupations
- film producerfilm director
- Biography
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Danny A. Ledonne is an American film director and former video game developer. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a professor in Film and Media Arts at American University, served on the board of the Southern Colorado Film Commission, and became the director for the 2015 edition of the festival. He is known for the documentary Playing Columbine, about the controversy surrounding his 2005 video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG!.
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Jack Gantos
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerwriter
- Biography
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Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from 1976 to 2014. Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from 1998 to 2014.
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Alicyn Packard
- Occupations
- voice actor
- Biography
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Alicyn Packard is an American voice actress, writer, singer and retired stand-up comedian nominated for a 2014 Voice Arts Award. As of 2004–2005, she provided the voice of Bulb from Disney Channel's Magnet-Tude. She also voices the characters Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Naughty, and Little Miss Whoops on the Cartoon Network animated series The Mr. Men Show. She also stars as Cadet Robyn on the Sprout network show Space Racers and as Alma on the Sprout network show The Extraordinary Adventures of Poppy Cat and wrote an episode of the show's second season. She plays Toodles on The Tom and Jerry Show, and Connor and Caitlin on Olivia. She also played Jibanyan on Yo-kai Watch.
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Doris Haddock
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical activist
- Biography
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Doris "Granny D" Haddock was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and culminating on February 29, 2000, she walked over 3,200 miles (5,100 km) across the continental United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg in the U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire.
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Morton Dean
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Morton Dean Dubitsky, better known as Morton Dean, is an American television and radio anchor, news correspondent and author.
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Gerry Duggan
- Occupations
- comics writerwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Gerry Duggan is an American comics writer, director and photographer living in Los Angeles.
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Elaine Noble
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elaine Noble is an American politician and LGBT activist who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms starting in January 1975. She was the first openly lesbian or gay candidate elected to a state legislature. She served two terms as representative for the Fenway-Kenmore and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston.
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Suzan Johnson Cook
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianpastortelevision producer
- Biography
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Suzan Denise Johnson Cook is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013. She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the Mariners Temple Baptist Church in NYC part of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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Alice Moore Hubbard
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Alice Moore Hubbard was a noted American feminist, writer, and, with her husband, Elbert Hubbard was a leading figure in the Roycroft movement – a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England with which it was contemporary. Moore Hubbard served as the general manager for the collective, along with managing the Roycraft Inn. She was also the principal of Roycroft School for Boys.
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Louise Closser Hale
- Occupations
- noveliststage actorwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Louise Closser Hale was an American actress, playwright and novelist.
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Kizzy
- Occupations
- singer-songwritertelevision actoractorsingertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Kizzy Yuanda Constance Getrouw is a Dutch actress, singer and television host who performs mononymously as Kizzy. She became a household name in the Netherlands Antilles with hit songs and TV shows. In the United States, she presented TV shows on both The Gossip Swapp on XY TV and CN8. Her best known poems are Supervrouwen and Cel Voor Cel. Kizzy currently presents kids TV shows.
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Jaclyn Friedman
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- feministwriteractivist
- Biography
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Jaclyn Friedman is an American feminist writer and activist known as the co-editor (with Jessica Valenti) of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World, the writer of Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All and What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex and Safety, a campus speaker on issues of feminism, sexual freedom and anti-rape activism, and the founder and former executive director of Women, Action & The Media.
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Bill Schulz
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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William Dawes Schulz is an American journalist, writer, and television personality. Schulz is the host of Mornin'!!! with Bill Schulz and Joanne Nosuchinsky on Compound Media, and is best known for being on the Fox News late-night show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfield. Schulz is also a freelance writer and a former senior editor of Stuff Magazine.
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Charles Wesley Emerson
- Years
- 1837-1908 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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Charles Wesley Emerson was the founder, namesake and first president of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Emerson was also a minister with the Unitarian Church and the author of a number of books dealing with oratory.
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Laura van den Berg
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Laura van den Berg is an American fiction writer. She is the author of five works of fiction. Her first two collections of short stories were each shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, in 2010 and 2014. In 2021, she was awarded the Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Kathleen Rooney
- Occupations
- essayistnovelist
- Biography
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Kathleen Rooney is an American writer, publisher, editor, and educator.
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Don Lee
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Don Lee is an American novelist, fiction writer, literary journal editor, and creative writing professor.
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Gabe Dunn
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 36)
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- In 2009 studied multimedia journalism
- Occupations
- film directorpodcasterYouTubernovelisttelevision producer
- Biography
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Gabriel Shane Dunn is an American writer, podcaster, actor, and filmmaker. Since 2014, Dunn has hosted the YouTube comedy show and podcast Just Between Us with fellow former BuzzFeed writer Allison Raskin. Dunn also hosts the podcast Bad with Money, which launched in 2016 and which primarily focuses on personal finances, while also discussing subjects including poverty and economic oppression. Their debut young adult novel I Hate Everyone but You, co-authored with Raskin, was published in 2017 and made The New York Times Best Seller list. Dunn has also published two finance-related books, as well as a graphic novel. They were formerly a writer, director, and performer for BuzzFeed Video before leaving to focus on Just Between Us.
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Peter O'Brian
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Peter O'Brian is a Canadian film producer and broadcast executive. Films produced by O'Brian's company, Independent Pictures, have won nineteen Genie Awards. His production credits include Blood and Guts, The Grey Fox, Outrageous!, John and the Missus, Milk and Honey and My American Cousin.
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Jill Davis
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jill A. Davis is an American author and television writer. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America. She was nominated for five Emmy awards for her six years of work as a writer for David Letterman. Her first novel, Girls' Poker Night (published by Random House in 2002), was a New York Times bestseller. It was published in five languages, and twelve countries. Her second novel, Ask Again Later, was published by Ecco in February 2007.
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John Sencio
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- television producertelevision actor
- Biography
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John Sencio is an American television producer and host. He is also a two-time cancer survivor. He currently resides in Los Angeles according to his official website.
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Marion Fairfax
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm directorfilm producerplaywrightwriter
- Biography
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Marion Fairfax was an American screenwriter, playwright, actress, and producer.
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Matthew Salesses
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Matthew Salesses is a Korean American fiction writer and essayist and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA/PhD program at Oklahoma State University.
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Erik Mona
- Occupations
- role-playing game designereditor-in-chiefgame designer
- Biography
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Erik Mona is an American game designer who lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Drew Stone
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- film directormusician
- Biography
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Drew Stone is an American film director, producer, film editor, author and musician. His works include music videos, commercials, documentary films and television.
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Apolline Traoré
- Enrolled in Emerson College
- 1994-1998 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- filmmakerfilm directortelevision director
- Biography
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Apolline Traoré is a Burkinabé filmmaker and producer.
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Ben Collins
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ben Collins is an American reporter from Massachusetts. He began working for the news division of the National Broadcasting Company in 2018.
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Maurene Goo
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Maurene Goo is a Korean-American author of young adult fiction and comics. Her books have been translated into twelve languages and two of her novels, I Believe in a Thing Called Love and Somewhere Only We Know, have been optioned to be made into feature films by Netflix.
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Ken Fallin
- Occupations
- artistcaricaturist
- Biography
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Ken Fallin is an American illustrator and caricaturist. His first big break was in 1983 doing the posters and advertising for the popular satirical revue Forbidden Broadway. In 1987, he was commissioned by the Boston Herald to do a celebrity caricature every week in the Sunday theatre section.
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Elspeth B. Cypher
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Elspeth B. Cypher is a former justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts who served from 2017 to 2024. She is also a former justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, where she served from 2000 to 2017.
