Inspirational People
by Verduras96 | created - 12 Jan 2016 | updated - 22 Sep 2017 | PublicNon-filmmakers I look up to and seek influences from.
1. Jessica Williams
Actress | Shrinking
Jessica Renee Williams, born July 31, 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her work as a senior correspondent on The Daily Show, where she was the youngest correspondent ever at the age of twenty-two, and as co-host of the podcast 2 Dope...
A great friend of mine once introduced me to watch The Daily Show and when I saw Jessica Williams I fell in love with her right away. She's amazing.
2. Mário Augusto
Writer | Amor Maldito
Mário Augusto Pereira is one of Portugal's most well known and beloved entertainment journalists. He began his career in 1985 in a newspaper called "O Comércio do Porto", published in the north of the country. Always in love with the movies, he began his entertainment career in several other ...
I enjoy watching Janela Indiscreta and it's nice to actually get to learn some things from his interviews.
3. Maya Rudolph
Actress | Bridesmaids
Maya Rudolph was born on July 27, 1972 in Gainesville, Florida, to Richard Rudolph, a music producer, and soul singer Minnie Riperton. Her mother was African-American and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Lithuania, Russia, Germany, and Hungary). In 1973, Maya, her parents, and her...
Have you ever had an obsession for someone you barely know? I simply love seeing Maya Rudolph in films. She's very beautiful and talented.
4. Golshifteh Farahani
Actress | Paterson
Golshifteh started her acting career in theater at the age of 6 and has always kept a strong link with theater, but it was at the age of 14 that she acted in her first film The Pear Tree (1998), for which she won the prize for the Best Actress from the international section of the Fajr film ...
5. Michelle Obama
Producer | Leave the World Behind
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to former President Barack Obama.
Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois,...
6. Phoebe Robinson
Writer | Everything's Trash
Phoebe Robinson was born on September 28, 1984 in Bedford Heights, Ohio, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Everything's Trash (2022), What Men Want (2019) and I Love Dick (2016).
7. Michaela Coel
Actress | Chewing Gum
Michaela was born on October 1st 1987 as Michaela Boakye-Collinson to Ghanaian parents and brought up in Tower Hamlets by her mother, a devout member of the Pentecostal church who instilled her religion into Michaela and her sister - something that she would later draw on for her play 'Chewing Gum ...
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