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Davis was born at 22 Chester Street in the Lowell Highlands to Harlow Morrell Davis (1885–1938), a law student from Augusta , Maine , and Ruth Augusta Favor (1885–1961) from Tingsboro, Massachusetts. She had a younger sister, Barbara Harriet, who was born October 25, 1909, at 55 Ward Street, Somerville , Massachusetts, where their father was then a patent attorney. The name "Bette", which Davis later adopted as a pseudonym, was her childhood nickname, but spelled "Betty"

In 1915, the parents divorced, and the Davis sisters ended up in Lanesboro at the Crestalban closed school with very strict rules. In 1921, the sisters moved with their mother to New York , where Ruth began working as a portrait photographer. During this same period, Davies, inspired by the novel Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac , changed the spelling of her nickname to "Bette".

Davies later attended Cushing Academy and boarding school at Ashburnham, where she met her future husband, Harmon Nelson.

In 1926, Davies saw a production of The Wild Duck , based on a play by Henrik Ibsen , starring actresses Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle . As Davies later claimed, it was Entwhistle that made such an impression on her that she decided to try herself on stage. She auditioned for the Civic Repertory Theatre, owned by Eva Le Gallienne , but she rejected her candidacy, calling Davis's behavior "insincere" and "frivolous." Davis then went to Rochester to audition for the company of George Cukor , who similarly was unimpressed with her candidacy, but still took her for one week as a chorus girl in a play.Broadway .

Davis landed her first full role in 1929 in Virgil Geddes' play The Earth Between for the Provincetown Players. That same year, Blanche Yurka cast Davis in the same play "Wild Duck" she had previously played, and after performances in Philadelphia, Washington, and Boston, Davis made her Broadway debut in Broken Dishes .

In 1930, 22-year-old Davis traveled by train to Hollywood with her mother for a screen test for Universal Studios . Davis was told that they would be waiting for her there, but to her surprise no one met her in the studio - the employee who was supposed to meet her, when he saw Davis, ignored her and left because he did not see an actress in Davis and decided that this was not she. Davis failed her first personal screen test, but she was then used in paired screen tests for other actors. This experience was very shocking for Davis - she was laid on the sofa, after which about 15 guys in turn had to lay down on top of her and kiss passionately. The second full screen test for Davis was for the 1931 film Hearth Divided.. Hastily dressed in a completely inappropriate low-cut suit, Davis was rejected here by director William Wyler, who, in front of the entire film crew, compared her to a girl of easy virtue who expects to get a role in a movie thanks to her body.

Although the head of the studio , Karl Laemmle , was about to announce to Davis that she was not suitable for them, at the very last moment, director Karl Freund , stating that Davis had beautiful eyes, approved her in his film Bad Sister - so in 1931 Davis still made her film debut . True, at some point Davis heard Lemle Jr. tell one of the studio executives that there was absolutely no sex appeal in Davis. Like most other studio films of the time, the film was not a success, and her next role in Seedwas too short to capture the attention of the public. However, the studio did extend Davis's contract for another three months, yet she starred in only one of her films in a small role, after which the studio loaned her to two more films from two other studios.

As a result, after one year and as many as six unsuccessful films, Laemmle decided not to renew the contract with Davis and she was already preparing to return to New York when actor George Arliss chose her as a partner in the film " The Man Who Played God " by Warner Brothers. ". It was Davies' first major role, and the film itself was such a success that Warner Brothers signed her to a five-year contract and then extended it for nearly 18 years. Over the next two years, her repertoire was dominated by the roles of fatal seductresses, traditional for Hollywood of those years.

Davis' breakthrough to a new level of acting came in 1934 when she starred in the film version of Somerset Maugham 's The Burden of Human Passions . A more psychologically difficult role has not yet been given to any Hollywood movie star. While Davies' performance in the film appears to be one of her biggest accomplishments from today's perspective, rivalry between studios resulted in the Oscar -nominated actress being left without a statuette , losing the award to actress Claudette Colbert .

Finally receiving the most prestigious award in the American film industry for her role as an alcoholic in the film Dangerous (1935), Davis, however, considered that Warner Brothers were offering her rather mediocre roles and entered into a period of legal battles with the studio. She demanded more independence in choosing film roles and, in order to confirm the seriousness of her intentions, in violation of the contract, she left Hollywood for some time and went to London , where she accepted an offer to star in two British films.

Although the studio emerged victorious in the dispute and forced Davis to return to Hollywood with no income and debt, she was given the freedom to perform her signature roles. According to the definition of the TSB , these were the roles of "strong, powerful women, striving at any cost, neglecting the opinion of society, the laws of morality, to achieve their goal." Such is the southern belle in Jezebel (1939), the largely controversial picture for which Davis won her second Oscar. This role was, to a certain extent, a consolation for the fact that, due to interstudio agreements, the famous actress was not destined to play in Gone with the Wind .

Until the end of her days, Davis claimed that it was she who came up with the name of the statuette of the Academy Award - "Oscar". In her opinion, this was due to the fact that the ass of the figurine outwardly resembled her ass of her husband, whose middle name was "Oscar".

In the forties, Davis remained one of the most famous and respected film actresses in the world. In 1939, she starred opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in her first color film, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex . Even more successful at the box office was her next film, All This and Heaven to boot (1940). At the Warner Bros. studio She enjoyed such prestige that she was jokingly called the "fourth brother Warner." Also, in January 1941, she was elected president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

As the actress approached the age of forty, it became increasingly difficult for her to withstand the competition of young starlets. Critics began to complain that Davis was captured by years of cutesy poses and gestures. In 1943, her second husband died under mysterious circumstances. Two years later, Davies married the artist William Sherri and soon had a daughter.

In 1950, the actress played in one of the most striking films of classic Hollywood - " All About Eve ". Many of the lines she uttered dispersed into quotes, and the picture itself was nominated for 14 Oscars and brought Davis a prize at the Cannes Film Festival . In the wake of success, Davis divorced Sherry and married her co-star, Gary Merrill , however, this union could not be called happy either.

Virtually all of Davies' subsequent films were unsuccessful. In 1961, she was forced to place a newspaper job advertisement and soon agreed, albeit reluctantly, to work with longtime nemesis Joan Crawford in the thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in which they played two aging movie stars. Davis' nomination for an Academy Award for her role in this film led to an even greater feud with Crawford. She did not develop relationships with the stars of the younger generation either: she accused them of lacking proper training and professionalism. In 1962, Davis published a book of memoirs. Like many of her interviews, the book was rare frankness.

In the 1960s, the actress tried to return to Broadway, but without much success. She was constantly unwell, but she continued to act in films.

In the early 1970s, Davis was invited to New York to participate in the theatrical presentation of the "Great Ladies of American Cinema", where for six evenings Hollywood actresses such as Myrna Loy , Rosalind Russell , Lana Turner , Sylvia Sidney and Joan Crawford spoke about your life and career. The show turned out to be quite successful, after which Davis took part in productions on the same theme in Australia and the UK .

In 1972, the actress played leading roles in the television films The Judge and Jake Wyler and Madame Min, which were supposed to be pilot episodes of the television series of the same name, but in both cases, the television channels abandoned further plans for their release. Shortly thereafter, Davis appeared in the theater production of Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of her film The Corn is Green. After the production in Philadelphia as part of a preview on Broadway was heavily criticized, the actress said that she suffered a back injury and refused to continue to participate in it. Four years later, she landed small roles in the horror film Burnt Offerings with Karen Black and the television drama Aimee Disappears with Faye Dunaway ., however, during filming, Davis constantly had conflicts with the leading actresses, due to the fact that she accused them of unprofessionalism, arrogant behavior, and disrespect for her age .

In 1977, Davis became the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. The event was televised and included commentary from fellow actresses including William Wyler , Jane Fonda , Henry Fonda , Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland , who spoke highly of Davies' professionalism and career. After this event, the actress again turned out to be quite in demand on the screen, and sometimes she even had to choose between several offers. The following year, Davis accepted offers to star in the miniseries The Dark Secret of the Harvest Festival, a film adaptation of Agatha Christie 's novel Death on the Nile .", as well as in the adventure film of the Walt Disney studio" Return from Witch Mountain. In 1979, Davis won an Emmy for her role in the TV movie Strangers: A Mother and Daughter Story opposite Gena Rowlands , and also received two more nominations for her roles in the TV movies White Mom (1980). and "Baby Gloria...Happy at Last" (1982).

In 1981, there was a new round of interest in the Davis persona, after the song " Bette Davis Eyes " by country singer Kim Carnes topped the US charts .

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon , New York , USA . The boy was named after his priest father. Denzel was the middle of three children in a family, his mother Lennis "Lynn" (née Lowe, born in 1924 )was originally from Georgia . She worked in a beauty salon, and in his youth he, being an apprentice there, helped his mother . His father, Denzel Hayes Washington Sr. (1909-1991) , was a native of Buckingham County, Virginia , an ordained minister (Pentecostals ) and an employee of the New York City Water Department who also worked at the local S. Klein department store.

After school, he entered Fordham University in New York , where he first studied medicine, then biology, then became interested in journalism and, finally, became interested in theater, graduating in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Washington then entered the American Conservatory of San Francisco . A year later, he moved to New York, began acting in television films and stopped studying at the conservatory .

In 1977, Washington received a small role in his first film, the sports drama Wilma . On the set of this film, he met his future wife, Pauletta Pearson. In 1981, Washington starred in the comedy Exact Copy , where he played one of the main roles. He gained fame among American viewers thanks to his role in the NBC television series St. Elswear , where he starred for 6 years.

In 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in Cry for Freedom by Richard Attenborough .

In 1990, the actor received his first Oscar for his performance in a supporting role in the Civil War film Glory by Edward Zwick .

In 1993, Washington was again nominated for an Oscar for his role as a religious figure in Spike Lee 's Malcolm X. Film critic Roger Ebert and director Martin Scorsese called the film one of the best films of the 1990s . Washington also starred in Lee's other films, Better Life Blues , His Game with Milla Jovovich , and Not Caught, Not a Thief with Clive Owen and Jodie Foster .

In 1993, he played the role of a homophobic lawyer in Philadelphia , opposite Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas .

In 2000, Washington received the Golden Globe Award and the Best Actor Award at the 50th Berlin Film Festival for his performance as a boxer in the biopic The Hurricane .

In 2001, the film " Training Day " was released, in which the actor played a negative character for the first time in his career and received an Oscar for it.

om Hanks began acting in films in 1980. The debut was the film " He knows you're alone " [4] . But his true "discovery" happened only four years later, when the romantic comedy " Splash " was released on the screens [4] . One of the most beautiful blondes in Hollywood, Daryl Hannah , played the role of a mermaid who accidentally swam into a huge city. At that time, Tom Hanks, still boyishly fragile and curly, played a salesman who fell in love with a strange stranger. In the finale, the lovers sailed into the ocean, away from the soulless cold world.

Hanks began to be filmed often, but four years passed before Tom Hanks again made him talk about himself. This happened in connection with the picture " Big " [5] , in which he played a hero with the body of a man and the mind of a child. The unusual plot allowed the actor to demonstrate the gentle humor and warmth that are inseparable from his creative personality. The role earned him a Golden Globe and his first Oscar nomination . Considerable success fell to the share of the film " Turner and Hooch ", where his partner was a wonderful dog.

Although Tom Hanks appeared in more than ten films in the 1980s, his most successful roles date back to the 1990s. A series of creative victories began with the film " Sleepless in Seattle " (1993) [5] , where the actor played a single father who, under the influence of his young son, finds a new love [7] . Romanticism, sincerity, sensitivity, a tendency to reflection - these are the features that made up the personality of his hero. However, the film "A League of Their Own " showed a completely different side of his talent. Tom Hanks was simply irresistible in the role of a rude, perpetually drunk coach, protesting with all his being against the need to coach a women's baseball team.

The performance of Tom Hanks in the film " Philadelphia " (1993), in which he played a homosexual dying of AIDS , turned out to be unexpected. When his emaciated, exhausted hero wanders around the room, chained to a metal stand, on which a blood vessel is fixed, he looks like a shadow. Critics wrote with delight that Hanks, as it were, repeated the acting feat of Robert De Niro , when, for the sake of the credibility of the created character, he lost 10 kilograms. The role won Hanks an Academy Award.

But the main triumph was waiting for him ahead. The film " Forrest Gump ", in which Tom Hanks played the main role, became a real sensation in 1994 . His hero is a rustic fellow, accustomed to the ridicule of others from childhood. You only need to look at Gump's face with an expression of stupid concentration frozen on it to understand why he is called "local fool". And yet, Forrest Gump managed to endure all the trials that fell to his lot with dignity and calmness. With clear signs of mental retardation since childhood, he became an outstanding ping-pong player and winner of the World Cup held in China ., a Vietnam War hero, millionaire, and also a role model. The picture touches on the subtle feeling of unrequited love. The film won six Oscars .

Having received two Oscars in a row , Hanks turned into a national hero. His next film was " Apollo 13 ", dedicated to the unsuccessful flight to the moon in 1970.

In 1996, Tom Hanks made his film directorial debut, filming in an emphatically documentary manner the story of a youth ensemble that broke up after their first hit. " What You Do " did not become a big revelation, although it deserved a favorable assessment from the critics .

In 2006, The Da Vinci Code was released , one of the most successful films of Hanks' career, grossing over $750 million at the box office . In 2009, the sequel to the film Angels and Demons was released , in 2016 the sequel Inferno [13] was released .

Milena Markovna Kunis born August 14, 1983, is an American actress. In 1991, at the age of seven, she and her Jewish family fled from Soviet Ukraine to the United States. At age 14, Kunis began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series That '70s Show (1998–2006). Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the Fox animated series Family Guy.

Kunis's breakout film role came in 2008,[1][2] playing Rachel in the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She gained further critical acclaim and accolades for her performance in the psychological thriller Black Swan (2010), for which she received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress, and nominations for the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other major films include the action films Max Payne (2008) and The Book of Eli (2010), the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits (2011), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) as the Wicked Witch of the West, and the comedies Ted (2012), Bad Moms (2016) and its sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas (2017).

Pyotr Alekseevich Poroshenko ( Ukrainian Petro Oleksiyovich Poroshenko ; born September 26, 1965 , Bolgrad , Odessa region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, oligarch , businessman, lawyer . People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation since August 29, 2019, owner of the Roshen confectionery corporation .

Chairman of the European Solidarity political party .

President of Ukraine from June 7, 2014 to May 20, 2019. Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from March 23 to December 3, 2012.

Honored Economist of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, as well as the Ukrainian Prize named after Philip Orlyk . PhD in Law .

According to the Forbes rating in 2020, Poroshenko ranked 3rd among the richest people in Ukraine with a capital of $1.4 billion . In March 2021, his fortune was estimated at $1.6 billion

On December 20, 2021, Petro Poroshenko was charged with high treason in the case of the supply of coal from the part of Donbas not controlled by Kiev in 2014-2015 . On January 19, 2022, the Pechersky Court of Kyiv released Poroshenko on a personal obligation to appear in court or for interrogation upon first demand.

His father is Alexei Ivanovich Poroshenko (1936-2020), a native of the village of Safyany ( Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania , now the Izmailsky district of the Odessa region); since 1959 he worked in Bolgrad[ source not specified 2705 days ] . One of the first documents that records the Poroshenko family in the village of Safyany, Izmail district, Bessarabian province, is the revision tale of the Little Russian society of the townspeople of the village of Safyany for 1835 .

Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna Poroshenko (nee Grigorchuk; 1937-2004), originally from the village of Kugurluy-Matroska , Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania (now the Izmail district of the Odessa region), also worked in Bolgrad .

He studied at the Kostobobrovsky secondary school of the Semyonovsky district of the Chernihiv region . In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Technology of the Dnepropetrovsk State University with a degree in mechanical engineering . Candidate of Technical Sciences, University Professor .

Born June 29, 1947 in Moscow in the family of an engineer. Graduated from the directing department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (1970, workshop of Mikhail Romm ).

Since 1973 - director of the Kiev Film Studio. A. P. Dovzhenko .

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He worked at the film studio "Kievnauchfilm".

Since 1997, he has been the organizer of the Open Night film festival.

Since 2000, he has been the dean of the film faculty of the Ivan Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National Theatre, Film and Television University . Member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine .

Author of a number of prose works, articles on modern Ukrainian cinema.

In 2009, he took part in the first stage of a round-the-world trip on the Kupava yacht.

On January 19, 2012, the premiere of the film " The One Who Passed Through the Fire " took place, in May the film was released on DVD, film critics call it the first completely Ukrainian film that was released in wide distribution. This picture was included in the long list of nominees for the prestigious film award " Oscar ".

Brothers: Yuri Ilyenko (director, cameraman, screenwriter and politician), Vadim Ilyenko (cameraman, director, screenwriter).

Daughter: Ivanna Mikhailovna Ilyenko (actress, ballerina).