Gina Wilhelm Actress – Mo’Nique Considered Good Actress by Critics
So far, she has won 17 awards and a number of nominations for her portrayal of the abusive mother of an obese illiterate girl in the movie.
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Gina Wilhelm Actress – Mo’Nique Considered Good Actress by Critics
So far, she has won 17 awards and a number of nominations for her portrayal of the abusive mother of an obese illiterate girl in the movie.
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Golden Globe Names Good Actress Candidates
Among them are the perennials, such as Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, and Sandra Bullock, as well as newcomers Gabourey Sidibe and Carey Mulligan in the movie drama category.
In fact, Meryl Streep is nominated twice in musical/comedy, both for “It’s Complicated” and “Julie & Julia.”
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Learning About Ingrid Bergman
Today would have been Ingrid Bergman’s birthday. Bergman’s family tried to discourage her from acting, but she pursued it on her own, memorizing poetry in her bedroom.
She was in some high school plays and was an extra in a movie. On graduation, she used her inheritance to go to the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm.
She left the school a year later when she got a small role in a Swedish movie. She starred in “Intermezzo” in 1936, which sealed her position as a star in Sweden and launched her Hollywood career.
In Hollywood, she starred in the remake of “Intermezzo” with Leslie Howard. She also appeared in movies with Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Bing Crosby, and was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
She considered her role in “Casablanca” not to be of great importance, though I think she’s alone in that assessment.
On the other hand, she actually didn’t know the end of the movie until it was filmed (the studio had considered a very different ending).
She won a number of awards, including Best Actress Oscars for “Gaslight” in 1944 and “Anastasia” in 1956.
She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Murder on the Orient Express” in 1974, making her the first actress to win that award after getting two leading actress statuettes.
Bergman acted until her death, appearing as Prime Minister Golda Meir in the miniseries “A Woman Called Golda” in 1982. That performance earned her an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Jane Merrow in Idaho
Jane Merrow has been acting for decades, having been on film and television. She finally returns to the stage.
Appearing as Emilia in Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, she’s one of the only actors to come to the festival from movies and TV.
Merrow, who comes from a theatrical family, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1968, she received a Golden Globe nomination for her work in “The Lion in Winter,” which starred Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn.
Several famous actors had their feature film premieres in that movie, including Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, and Anthony Hopkins.
She tells of her audition for the movie for Peter O’Toole, who hand picked the cast. During the audition, she read a scene from “Country Dance,” in which she was appearing at the time, with O’Toole.
She said the show had been getting great reviews and she thought things were going well in the audition, but they were outdoors, and she had long hair that was blowing in her face.
Suddenly O’Toole said, “I don’t believe a thing you’re saying.” Merrow says she froze.
“I thought, ‘Oh, my God, I’m obviously never going to get this part.’ They called me back the next day and I was suitably humbled by the great O’Toole.”
At the end of “Comedy of Errors,” Emilia, played by Merrow, has a touching reunion with her husband Egeon. Each has believed the other dead for decades.
Often this scene is lost amongst the screwball zaniness of the rest of the play, but in this production, it has the weight of a woman returning to her home on stage at long last.
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Kate Winslet Gets Her Oscar
After much speculation and handicapping (I think I’ve posted at least 10 times about various aspects of the awards season alone), the Oscars were handed out last night, and Kate Winslet finally won hers.
The 33-year-old actress had been nominated on five previous occasions, so was giddy to have finally won.
She won for her performance in “The Reader,” in which she played a woman on trial for Holocaust crimes.
Some had said that she would get an Oscar because it was time or because she had to age several years in the film and because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences loves to reward movies about the Holocaust.
On the other hand, she was up against Meryl Streep, fresh off her record-setting 15th nomination and always tough competition.
Additionally, as reported here, there was some concern that her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes ceremony might have gotten her in trouble with Oscar voters.
In that speech, she forgot fellow nominee Angelina Jolie’s name. She also acted like it actually mattered to her, a British actress, that she had gotten an award.
Some have said that the British are supposed to act like they’re above receiving honors and that American voters wouldn’t want to reward her for her excitement..
Apparently, though, the voters liked her just fine. She continued to be giddy with last night’s win.