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Kiernan Shipka - Biography
Kiernan Shipka

Kiernan Brennan Shipka (born November 10, 1999) is an American actress best known for her roles as Sally Draper in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007-2015) and Sabrina Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020) and the sixth season of the CW series Riverdale (2021-2022), B.D. Hyman in the FX series Feud: Bette and Joan (2017), and Jinora in The Legend of Korra (2012-2014).


Shipka has also starred in several films, including Carriers (2009), Flowers in the Attic (2014), The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015), and The Silence (2019).


Kiernan Brennan Shipka was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Young Shipka, a real estate developer, and Erin Ann Brennan. Shipka began taking ballroom dancing lessons at the age of five, and was still attending classes as of March 2012. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was six years old to help with her acting career.


Shipka made her television debut at five months old in the hospital drama ER. She also started designing commercial print models as a child. After taking on several small television roles, her first major role was as Sally Draper, daughter of main character Don Draper, in the 2007-2015 TV series Mad Men. She won the role after two trials. She was a recurring guest star in the first three seasons of the show, then became a series regular in the fourth season.


As part of Mad Men, she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Dramatic Series in 2008 and 2009. Shipka received praise for her performance in Mad Men. In 2010, American-Statesman critic of Austin Del Roe named her as his dream nominee for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, writing, "This 10-year-old actress was so poignant as turbulent Sally Draper was last season that It seems odd that it's just been promoted to a regular series.If Shipka's upcoming Mad Men work - who struggles with her parents' fractured marriage and ushering in a prehistoric era in the turbulent 1960s - remains as amazing as it was in Season 3, this is a ballot I hope it comes true. That next year."


In 2014, Shipka was named one of the "25 Most Influential Teens of 2014" by Time magazine. That same year, IndieWire included her in their list of "20 Actors to Watch Under 20". Shipka starred in the 2014 Lifetime film Flowers in the Attic, and co-starred (with Emma Roberts) in Oz Perkins' 2015 horror film The Blackcoat's Daughter.


2016–present: More work and streaming projects

In 2017, B.D. photographed. Hyman, daughter of Bette Davis, in the FX television series Feud: Bette and Joan. In January 2018, it was announced that Shipka would star as Sabrina Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina based on the sitcom of the same name. The first part was released by Netflix on October 26, 2018, and an episode in December. The show continued for three more parts, and concluded on December 31, 2020 with a total of 36 episodes. Shipka reprized the role in the Season 6 episode of Riverdale, "Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Witch's Hour(s)", which aired December 7, 2021.


Shipka co-starred in a 2019 Christmas romantic comedy directed by Luke Snellin, Let It Snow, based on the novel of the same name. Shooting began in February 2019.


Shipka next played a deaf teenager opposite Stanley Tucci in John R. Leonetti's horror film Silence, based on the 2015 horror novel of the same name by writer Tim LeBonne. Netflix released The Silence on April 10, 2019. Shipka learned American Sign Language for the role. Leonetti praised her performance, saying, "She acts alongside Stanley Tucci, and believe me, she's more than just stuck with her performance. It was great to watch."


 

Alexandra Daddario - Biography
Alexandra Daddario

Alexandra Anna Daddario (born March 16, 1986) is an American actress. She had her breakthrough portraying Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson film series (2010–2013). She has since starred as Paige in Hall Pass (2011), Heather Miller in Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), Blake Gaines in San Andreas (2015), Summer Quinn in Baywatch (2017), and Alexis Butler in We Summon the Darkness (2019). She has also guest starred in television series such as White Collar, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, True Detective, New Girl, and American Horror Story: Hotel. In 2021, she starred in the first season of the HBO series The White Lotus, for which she received widespread critical acclaim and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2022.


Alexandra Anna Daddario was born in New York City on March 16, 1986, the eldest child of Christina, a lawyer, and Richard Daddario, a prosecutor and former head of the New York City Police Department counterterrorism unit. She is of Italian, Irish, English, and Slovak descent. She has a younger brother, Matthew Daddario, and a younger sister, Catharine Daddario, who are both actors as well. Her paternal grandfather was Emilio Q. Daddario, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Connecticut from 1959 to 1971. Daddario was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She attended Brearley School and the Professional Children's School. Daddario said she decided to be an actress at the age of 11. "I always loved storytelling," she stated in 2019. "It was just something I genuinely wanted to do – and I could've done anything, really. I did have every opportunity on the planet." She attended Marymount Manhattan College before dropping out to pursue acting full-time. She has studied the Meisner acting technique for years.

Claire Keegan - Biography
Claire Keegan

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Born in County Wicklow in 1968, she is the youngest in a large Roman Catholic family.

Caegan traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was 17 and studied English and political science at Loyola University.

She returned to Ireland in 1992, after which she lived for a year in Cardiff, Wales, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing and taught undergraduates at the University of Wales.

She subsequently received an MA in Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin and Keegan's first collection of stories, Antarctica (1999), won numerous awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the William Trevor Prize, and was one of the Los Angeles Times' best books of 20012.

She's second collection of award-winning short stories, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in 2007. Keegan's "Long and Short Story" by Keegan won Foster the 2009 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award as award judge Richard Ford, who chose Foster to be The winner, she wrote of Keegan's "exciting" instinct for the right words and her "patient concern with the enormous consequences and end of life." List of the Year's Best"; later published by Faber and Faber in a longer form. Foster is now included as a transcript of Ireland's leaving certificate. Foster was adapted for film in 2021 and released as the acclaimed An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) in May 2022. Late 2021 Keegan published another novel, Small Things Like This, described as a "strong book in time", set in Ireland in the mid-1980s.


Keegan won the inaugural William Trevor Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Olive Cook Prize and the 2009 Davy Burns Prize for Irish Writing.

Other awards include the Hugh Leonard Scholarship, Macaulay Fellowship, Martin Healy Award, Kilkenny Award and Tom Gallon Award.

She also received the 2002 Wingate Scholar Award and twice received the Francis MacManus Award. She was a visiting professor at Villanova University in 2008.

Keegan was the Artist-in-Residence of the Ireland Trust in the Department of Celtic Studies at St Michael's College at the University of Toronto in March 2009. [12] In 2019, she was appointed a Writing Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

Pembroke College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin have selected Keegan as their 2021 Visiting Fellow Brianna Staunton.

The French translation of "Small Things Like This" (Ce genre de petites choses) has been nominated for two prestigious awards: the Francophone Literary Prize for Ambassadors and the Grand Prix de L'Heroine Madame Figaro. In March 2021, Claire and her French translator Jacqueline Auden won the Francophone Literary Ambassadors Award. Claire has been a member of Aosdána since 2008.

Emma Watson - Biograhy
Emma Watson

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Emma Charlotte Doerry Watson (born April 15, 1990); English Actress and Model who was born in Paris, France. She is best known for portraying the role of Hermione in School District only. She has taken home big prizes from the Harry Potter series, and grossed nearly £10 million. In 2009, Watson made her first publicity run for Burberry for fall and winter. In October 2013, she was named the sexiest star in the world according to a poll conducted by Empire magazine.

Emma Watson announced in 2007 that she would star in two animated films, Ballet Shoes, based on a novel published in 1936, and The Despereaux Story. Ballet Shoes was released in 2007 and was watched by 5.2 million viewers. The Story of Despereaux, based on a novel by Kate DiCamillo, was released in 2008 and grossed $70 million.

Watson became a Hollywood actress with a defense pay of $20 million in 2009.

Watson's career began in 1999, when she began acting in the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by Joan Rowling Murray, the film of the same name. The roles of Harry Potter and his two friends, Hermione Granger, and co-stars of Ron Weasley in the film were very important to the directors. Watson was introduced to casting agencies thanks to her mentor at Oxford Theatre. Her teacher was very impressed with her self-confidence. Director David Heyman, after performing 8 voice tests, said the film's main cast are Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, with Watson as Hermione Granger, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley. Rowling has announced her support for Watson since her first photography experience.


By 2001, the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, appeared. This movie broke the record for viewing in the day and first week of its release. The film achieved the highest viewership and highest income in 2001. Critics praised the film's three protagonists, and everyone praised Watson's performance and showed her appreciation. The Daily Telegraph said Watson's performance was outstanding. Watson won Best Young Actress for her performance in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and she also won 5 other awards.


In 2002, Watson again appeared in front of the camera in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Reactions to the film were mixed, but critics' opinions about the performance were positive. German newspaper Die Welt awarded Watson the Silver Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.


In 2004, the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released. The role of Watsuwan impressed many, and they said that the role she played was attractive and fascinating. Critics continued to praise Watson's talent and impressive performance. Although Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had the lowest percentage of revenue as of January 2008, it was one of Watson's most successful films, receiving two Otto Awards and Best Children's Performance annually at the ceremony organized by Total Films magazine.

In 2005, the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released. The Watson series and the Harry Potter series have come a long way, estimated by several kilometers by showing this movie. Critics praised Watson and her co-stars, and their growing maturity. The New York Times declared that the performance in this film was very impressive. As for Watson, the nature of the film eased the tension between the three main characters in the film, and that also as they matured more and more. “I loved all the discussions, and I thought they were realistic,” Watson said. She and her co-stars won the Otto Bronze Championship (3rd place), bringing the total Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire awards to three. A year later, Watson appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue, and was younger in 2006, starring in a special Harry Potter series. Potter called the Queen's Handbag, to celebrate the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of England.


In 2007, the fifth film in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was released. It broke the world record in the first week of its introduction, bringing in $332. Watson won Best Performance at the England International Film Awards on September 28, 2007. Watson continued to gain more fame with her acting. On July 9, 2007, Watson and Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint put their hands and feet in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.


In July 2007, Watson said she had made a profit of over £10 million. She had to accept this money to get a job for the rest of her life. On March 10, 2009, Watson was ranked sixth in Forbes magazine's ranking of the wealthiest youth. In 2009, her fortune amounted to 19 million pounds, and in February 2010 she was the highest paid in Hollywood.


Despite the success of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, there has been concern about the future of the Harry Potter series. The film's three main protagonists were reluctant to continue their roles in the last two parts of the series. Daniel Radcliffe agreed on March 2, 2007 that it would be his last film. Watson hesitated a lot. The important decision was that they would be associated with their film roles for the next four years. Watson agreed to commit and join the last two films, doubling her fee for the film by 2 million pounds. In the end, I decided that the positives outweighed the negatives. The main works of the sixth film began at the end of 2007, and the final parts will be shown between May 17 and December 18, 2008.