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A successful career as a film and TV actress in Los Angeles was followed by a move to New York where Nellie immersed herself in directing and producing plays. In 1998 she discovered a play called "The Man Who Was Peter Pan" written by fellow 42nd Street WorkShop member, Allan Knee. She saw it clearly as a film, and after optioning the play, found then unknown writer, David Magee, and commissioned him to write the screenplay. With the help of many people (Tracey Becker, Michelle Sy, Joan Scott, Marti Blumenthal) Nellie got it set up at Miramax Films, where Harvey Weinstein saw its potential. Thus, the film "Finding Neverland" was shot in London in 2002, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. It premiered in LA in late October, 2004 and was nominated for 7 Oscars and 11 BAFTA awards, among others. Since then, Nellie has produced "Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day", and after returning to Los Angeles in 2013 has 5 more features in development, among them "Road to Oz" (by Josh Golden) at New Line, in association with fellow producer, Beau Flynn.- Nellie Burt was born on 4 January 1900 in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Ben Casey (1961), Bound and Gagged (1919) and The Outer Limits (1963). She was married to William Henry McMullen and Paul Edward Martin . She died on 3 November 1986 in East Rockaway, New York, USA.
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Nellie Sciutto began her acting career as a petite model in New York City (Elite Model Management) and Asia and got her first acting jobs on soap operas such as Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children. After completing her degree at Yale University, she began her acting studies at The Actors' Studio and Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City before relocating to Los Angeles.
Nellie started with stand-up comedy, then a one-person show entitled "Denying Park Avenue" which she sold to HBO. She went on to appear and star in sitcoms like Murphy Brown, Suddenly Susan, Damon, Just Shoot Me, Ink, dramas like JAG, Eyes, and Law and Order, and in feature films: The Aviator (with Leonardo DiCaprio), The Departed (with Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen), Shutter Island, (with Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Jackie Earle Haley) and Haunted Echos (with Sean Young) Mindcage (with John Malkovich and Martin Lawrence), among others. She co-directed (with James Biberi) and starred in the feature Fixing Rhonda.
Throughout her career, she has been a writer and wrote her first book, "50 Moments: Faking It, Making it and Taking It in Hollywood as a Working Actor," which chronicles her 30-year career. You can listen to Nellie on her podcasts "The Bubble Lounge Podcast" about living in Highland Park in Dallas, and the podcast that accompanies her book where she interviews celebrities about their personal Hollywood experiences.- Actress
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Nellie McKay was born on 13 April 1982 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for P.S. I Love You (2007), Rumor Has It... (2005) and Monster-in-Law (2005).- Nellie Daniels, now Nellie Norris, is an actress and an educator. She appeared in "Escanaba in da Moonlight" in 2001. Norris is the daughter of Jeff Daniels, actor and comedian. She got a part in Escanaba in da Moonlight through her father's fame. After her film, she took up education as an occupation. As of 2023, she works at South Lyon East High School as a government/history teacher and finds much joy in what she does, and has stated inside the classroom that she does not plan to act in another movie, she plans to teach until retirement. In 2021, Nellie Daniels was married and has changed her name to Nellie Norris, following the last name of her spouse.
- Nellie Benner was born on 19 November 1986 in Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She is an actress, known for Koen Kampioen (2012), Meat (2010) and Crepuscule (2009).
- Broadway animal trainer William Berloni discovered Nellie at the Humane Society of New York in 2008 at 10 months of age. He worked with Nellie and she became a regular character in the national road and regional touring shows of "Legally Blonde: The Musical." Those shows took her all over the country including Los Angeles and Chicago and she appeared in more than 700 consecutive shows which no other actor had previously. A demonstration tape was made of Nellie and she was selected to play the canine role in "Paterson." During production, cancer was discovered and the production schedule accommodated her health issues. Nellie died at age eight after her shooting had already wrapped. She would be nominated for best dog actor at Cannes in 2016 for her performance and became the first Palm Dog winner to receive the award posthumously. Producer Carter Logan accepted the prize,a golden collar, and urged folks who were inspired by Nellie's story to adopt a dog as opposed to purchasing one from a store or breeder.
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Nellie Lonergan is known for Manchester by the Sea (2016) and My Friends (2023).- Producer
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- Nellie Biles has been married to Ron Biles since 1977. They have two children.
- Nellie Thalbach was born in 1995 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for Munich: The Edge of War (2021), Prey (2021) and Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016).
- Nellie Jackson is known for What a Life! (1918).
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Nellie Veitenheimer is known for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021), Untold: This is My Story (2021) and Girl at Mirror (2014).- Nellie Campbell is known for Jessica Jones (2015), Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter (2015) and Blue Bloods (2010).
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Nellie Stevens Reed was born in 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Somacell, Da Vinci's Demons (2013) and FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics. She has been married to Corey Reed since 10 May 2008.- Actress
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Nellie Bly Baker was born on 7 September 1893 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Goldfish (1924), That Model from Paris (1926) and Breakfast at Sunrise (1927). She was married to J.H. O'Brien. She died on 12 October 1984 in Lone Pine, California, USA.- Nellie Monk was born on 27 December 1921 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. She was married to Thelonious Monk. She died on 25 June 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Nellie Vala is known for She Time (2023).
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Nellie Beavers is known for The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry & Binding (2015) and 54 Below Premieres (2020).- Talent Agent
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Destiny chose Nellie "Tiger" Travis to sing the blues. The pathway from the Mississippi Delta through Memphis to Chicago and onto the rest of the world was paved by some of the most influential artists in music history. Trailblazers like Muddy Waters, Dorothy Moore, BB King and Howling Wolf took the Magnolia State's signature blues sound from the dusty flatland's of the cotton fields and laid the foundation for all American music to build upon. Be it R&B, soul, pop, rock n roll, EDM or hip-hop, the cornerstone of modern music was birthed in these humble and destitute beginnings but went on to shape the sound of music across the globe. Continuing in this ongoing tradition of influence and innovation is soul-stirring songbird Nellie "Tiger" Travis. Following in the footsteps of so many legends who came before her, this fierce and fiery songstress took a more scenic route from her Mound Bayou, Miss. breeding ground to sunny California to Chicago and all the way around the world. With an unfiltered, down-home sound that encompasses classic R&B, contemporary blues and Southern soul, Nellie's wide-ranging music crosses age, gender and racial boundaries. And she has been crossing those boundaries at home and abroad for more than 25 years.
Whether a smoke-filled hole-in-the-wall club in the backwoods of Mississippi, an overseas performance in the most exotic corners of Europe or playing a set on national television alongside the Roots crew on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Nellie Tiger Travis knows exactly what the people want and how to give it to them. With party-rocking anthems like "If I Back It Up," "You Gone Make Me Cheat," "Slap Yo Weave Off" and all-time favorite "Mr. Sexy Man," her music is more than just lyrics harmonized over instrumentals. It represents the definition of life itself for millions of loyal listeners.
"My music means the world to my fans and to me. They love the lyrics in my songs," Travis divulges. "Both men and women often tell me how my music has impacted their lives. That is because I know what people like, and I know what gets the crowd rocking." Born into poverty in the early 1960s, Nellie was one of 14 children being raised by her strict grandmother, who was an evangelist. Surrounded by music at a very young age, several members of her family were gospel singers and musicians. But even though she was brought up in the birthplace of the blues, she was not exposed to the secular sounds of Robert Johnson and Charley Patton. Instead, young Nellie's first taste of music came in the form of gospel when she began singing in church at age five. "A lot of people have asked me why so many of my songs are sad, and I tell them that much of my life has been sad," she explains. "We grew up very poor. I had to pick and chop cotton to get school clothes every summer. Added to that, I didn't get to know my father until after I graduated high school. So, I guess some of that sadness early in my life comes through in some of my music now." In her teens, Nellie participated in beauty pageants and was homecoming queen when she graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in 1979. Although she initially considered a career in acting, her love of music won out, and she moved to Los Angeles in 1987 in hopes of launching a singing career. " When I left, I told my grandmother I was going to California to become a star even if I had to sleep on Quincy Jones's doorstep," she recalls. "It never became true because it was nowhere close to being as easy as I thought. I didn't even come close to Quincy Jones." There in sunny California, Nellie sang with Top 40 groups but grew disheartened with music industry politics. So in 1992, she left Los Angeles for Chicago to care for her sick mother. She only had planned to stay in Chicago temporarily, but some friends convinced her to check out the well-known Windy City blues venue Kingston Mines for gigs. "When I first went, I was there incognito. I wanted to see what songs they were singing," she remembers. "I knew that I could sing, but I just wasn't familiar with the blues at all." After checking out the scene, she returned home and learned the lyrics to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" and Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago." She returned to the club the following Thursday night dressed to kill in a white patent leather jump suit with matching hat and boots. She got on stage and sent the crowd into a frenzy with her powerful vocals and irresistible stage charisma. "The whole management team came out and sat on the floor to watch me," she thinks back. "The management hired me to sing that next Tuesday, and I didn't know any blues songs. She laughs, "I learned four songs real quick. Those four songs earned me fame there, and I played there for the next six years nonstop. "They loved me" She also found love from a mentor in Chicago blues queen Koko Taylor, who took Nellie under her wing after they both witnessed Nellie's mother die right before their eyes. "I was performing at Koko's banquet hall on New Year's Eve night in 1997," Nellie describes. "Thirty minutes before the countdown into the new year, my mother was standing in front of the stage to record my performance, and she collapsed and died from an aneurysm." Taylor stepped in as Nellie's surrogate mother figure, and they remained close friends until Taylor's passing in 2009. Two days after Taylor's passing, Nellie went to the studio to finish her album I'm in Love with a Man I Can't Stand. By the time she left, she had written and recorded "Queen of the Blues" in Taylor's honor. "I loved KoKo Taylor," Nellie admits. "She showed me so much, and she will always be my queen!" Over the many moons performing, Nellie became a regular attraction on the Chicago blues circuit, sharing stages with some of the most notable artists on the scene, including Buddy Guy, Bobby Rush, Otis Clay, and Little Milton. Her citywide fame earned her the title of "Entertainer of the Year" in a reader's poll by the Chicago weekly newspaper called New City. It was also in Chicago that she earned the nickname "Tiger." Her cousin came up with the name which aptly describes her intense, feline vocal style as well as her feisty, independent personality. "The Chicago blues scene has been good to me," Travis confesses. "Since 1990 to 2019, I have traveled all over the world singing the blues. I've been all over Europe and played in Japan three times. Most recently, I've played in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Greece. She continues, "I never knew they had heard of me over there, but after one call came for a show, the calls kept coming one after another." After a decade of trotting the globe on tour, Nellie decided to release her own original music in 2000 with debut album I Got It Like That through her Tiger Belle label; the same year, she recorded collaborative album Heart and Soul with Japanese guitarist Shun Kikuta. As she continued to record, Southern soul became a larger part of Travis' catalog. In 2005, she released Wanna Be with You, infusing Chicago blues with contemporary soul. Her 2008 album I'm Woman featured radio hit "Slap Yo' Weave Off," introducing her to a loyal following in the South and the rest of the nation, performing the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Then in 2013, Travis hit pay dirt with Southern soul hit with "Mr. Sexy Man," which inspired a line dance popular in Southern soul venues. To date, the music video for "Mr. Sexy Man" has reached well over 12 million hits on YouTube. "People tend to want to classify me as R&B or jazz or blues or whatever," she explains. "In Chicago, they classified me as a blues singer. Then she was classified as an R&B singer. My thing is blues and R&B. I always did different genres of music, and I never had a classification in my mind. They love every genre of music that I do, and I guess they take a pick of what I am to them." And she means many things to many different people. In her music, she caters to women while simultaneously making every man feel like the object of admiration. "A song sometimes gives people life. Women tell me all the time how empowering my music is. They tell how my music helps them get through things, and they make that fact known to me," she reveals. "And every man who approaches me asks me about 'Mr. Sexy Man. They all have the same question, 'baby, did you write that song about me?' I'm like 'of course I did. You know I did.'" In 2018, she received nine awards, including a Key to the City of her Mound Bayou hometown, a Resolution from the city of Jackson, Miss., Chicago Music Award for "Blues Entertainer of the Year" and the Koko Taylor "Queen of the Blues Awards" from the Just Blues Awards. The following year, she won the "International Artist of the Year" from Zydeco Blues and Trailriders Awards in Houston. A mainstay at home and in foreign lands, Travis has established herself as a star in the blues, Southern soul and R&B communities. Headlining at festivals, clubs and concerts around the world, Nellie "Tiger" Travis is beyond titles or genres. She is in a class all her own. In November 2009, Nellie was crowned the New Queen Of The Blues for Chicago by Bluesman and WVON radio personality Purvis Spann, who previously had bestowed that honor on Ms. KoKo Taylor. KoKo was a mentor and friend to Nellie, and when she passed in early 2009 Nellie used her songwriting skills to write and record a tribute to her friend entitled "KoKo" (Queen Of The Blues). This soulful tune was also performed and used to eulogize Koko as part of her last rites and is on Nellie's I'm Goin' Out Tonight album. She fronts one of the tightest Chicago Blues bands found anywhere in the world, comprised of the best musicians from Chicago's Blues scene, and her shows in the city are packed, rollicking parties. Nellie Travis has headlined at the Chicago Blues Festival and at festivals and clubs around the world. From Japan, Greece, Italy, Germany, Brazil, all the way back to her home in Mississippi, Nellie knocks out audiences with her powerful vocals and irresistible stage charisma. She's a permanent headlining personality at Chicago's most successful blues clubs, The Kingston Mines, Buddy Guy's Legends and Blue Chicago where she continues to pack them in. She has shared the stage with such legendary greats as Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Gladys Knight, and Ronnie Baker Brooks just to name a few. Her influences are powerful performers like Big Mama Thornton, KoKo Taylor (of course) and Etta James. The nickname Tiger was born after Nellie came to Chicago. Her cousin came up with "Tiger," which aptly describes her intense, feline vocal style as well as her feisty, independent personality.- Nellie Anderson was born on 22 June 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Little Women (1918), The Scarlet Runner (1916) and Castles in the Air (1919). She died on 12 July 1960 in San Bernadino, California, USA.
- Nellie Blanche Lane was born in West Virginia to parents Charles Lane and L. Jenny Showalter and had two brothers and one sister. She attended high school in Murray City, Utah, always being a big girl she was frequently the target of school bullies, not letting the taunts get to her she came to embrace her large size after joining the John Robinson Circus in 1918 as a sideshow attraction under the stage name: "Jolly Nellie" boasting a great size of 642 pounds. In 1923 Nellie made her way to Los Angeles where she naturally landed the role of the sideshow fat lady in the film Circus Days (1923) starring child star Jackie Coogan a silent film about a young boy who runs away from home to join the circus. Long considered a lost film until 2010 where a print was discovered in Russia and presented to the Library of Congress.
In 1926 Nellie again landed the role of the sideshow fat lady in another silent film Spangles (1926) starring Marian Nixon a story loosely based on real life equestrienne May Wirth. That same year on tour in Hawaii she met Carl Leon Terrell a motorcyclist also on tour doing a motordrome act. Terrell had broken his leg after one of his acts went wrong and Nellie would take care of him during his recovery. It was during this time that they fell in love and they married shortly after his recovery. Her husband eventually became a circus owner and the couple toured the world with Nellie continuing as her sideshow act and Carl continuing his motordrome act. In 1933 Nellie's 15-year-old sister, Alice went with them. Nellie and Carl divorced at an unknown date.
Nellie did make 1 more appearance on film as an uncredited extra in the 1947 talkie Nightmare Alley (1947). A film about a con-man named Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall. Starring Tyrone Power in the title role. She can be seen in the background performing her fat lady circus act two minutes into the film. This is her last known appearance on film. Nellie died of cancer on September 5, 1955 at Los Angeles County General Hospital. She was cremated on September 12, 1955 at the Los Angeles County Crematory. On November 11, 1955, her ashes were mailed to Rose Hills Memorial Park, a prominent cemetery in Whittier, California. There they were inurned in the Santa Rosa Corridor of the El Portal de la Paz Mausoleum. Arrangements for this inurnment were made by Nellie's brother, Carl. - Nellie Fisher was born on 10 December 1920 in Berkeley, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Up in Central Park (1948), Thru the Crystal Ball (1949) and America Song (1948). She died on 19 October 1994 in Edmonds, Washington, USA.
- Nellie Connally was born on 24 February 1919 in Austin, Texas, USA. She was married to John Connally. She died on 31 August 2006 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- Nellie Bly was born on 5 May 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, USA. Nellie was a writer, known for The Nellie Bly Story (2020). Nellie died on 27 January 1922 in New York, New York, USA.
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Nellie Manley was born on 3 July 1894 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She is known for Vertigo (1958), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). She died on 27 December 1976 in South Pasadena, California, USA.- Casting Department
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Nellie's insightful analysis and thorough coverage of TV deals, pilot season, markets and executives makes her one of the most respected journalists covering the television business today. Before joining Deadline in 2010, Nellie worked for 10 years at The Hollywood Reporter where she covered TV for the trade's online and print editions. Before that, she worked as a journalist covering television and radio for Investor's Business Daily. Nellie's interest in the television industry extends back to her homeland of Bulgaria, where she first became a journalist and then a producer, writer and director for Bulgarian National Television.- Camera and Electrical Department
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- Nellie Svensson is known for Silver and Gold (2022).
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Nellie Reed is known for The Match-Stick Flame (2020), Y: The Last Man (2021) and Stolen Breath: The Truth Revealed (2017).- Nellie Rose Spangler is known for Evil for Dinner (2022), Generation Me (2012) and 6th Street Sinderella (2015).
- Nellie Rushualang is known for Lucky (2005).
- Nellie Armstrong is known for The Weekend Detectives (2015).
- Nellie Saadat is known for Fashion Film: Good for You (2015).
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Nellie is known for Laawaris (1981).- Nellie Pickerill is known for Pip and Posy Let's Learn (2023) and Pip and Posy (2021).
- Nellie Grant is known for Builders of Castles (1917), Chris and His Wonderful Lamp (1917) and The Innocence of Ruth (1916).
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Nellie Ann Prestine-Lowery is known for Jurassic World (2015), Pixels (2015) and The Last Witch Hunter (2015).- Nellie Rosiers was born on 26 June 1949 in Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium. She is an actress, known for De collega's (1978), Thuis (1995) and Dood van een non (1975).
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Nellie Gonzalez is known for An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story (2013), The Real Stories of the Texas Rangers (2013) and H3 All Access (2012).- Nellie Gray was born on 25 June 1924 in Big Spring, Texas, USA. She died on 13 August 2012 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.