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Thank you so much for selecting my film ‘At night you become a mother’ and the award for Best Story!! I’m so honored and proud 🙂 Even though I could not be there in person I felt very involved in the festival and it was amazing to receive the personal feedback-video, this is worth so much! Thanks again for the great opportunity!
Turning 20 Today: Dafne Keen. Happy Birthday
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Born
January 4, 2005 · Madrid, Spain
Birth name
Daphne Keen Fernández
In 2016, she auditioned for the part of Lyra in His Dark Materials (2019). Although she had submitted her audition tape, she didn’t get a response for a while. However, while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico in 2017, she was later asked to make one more take. But before she recorded it, she decided to go swimming, and she was stung in the face by a jellyfish. She recorded her second audition tape with a swollen face. Nevertheless, that situation didn’t interfere with her getting the part.
Turning 29 Today: Emma Mackey. Happy Birthday
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Born
January 4, 1996 · Le Mans, France
[In an interview for Irish Times in regards to French and British cliches] I can’t speak for an entire country. I don’t see France as repressed. But I don’t see it as super-liberated either. I do get annoyed at the cliches. No, not all French people want to have sex all the time. Not all French people have hairy armpits. It’s the same with British people. We are not all stiff-upper-lip and coy. That’s not true either. Let’s get past these things.
[In an interview for Irish Times in regards to the education system and sex] It’s astonishing. We can send people to the moon and do all this amazing stuff. Yet we can’t find a contraceptive that doesn’t muck with women’s hormones. We can’t find a contraceptive for men. And we don’t teach sex education in schools.
Turning 45 Today: June Diane Raphael. Happy Birthday
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Born
January 4, 1980 · Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA
Spouse
Paul Scheer(October 10, 2009 – present) (2 children)
QUOTES:
Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth!
I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. ‘Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn’t like that, does Clown?’ Always ‘Clown.’ Never a name.
I love ‘Les Mis’ so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I’ve seen it almost 18 times.
Turning 60 Today: Julia Ormond. Happy Birthday
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Born
January 4, 1965 · Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
Birth name
Julia Karin Ormond
Spouses
Jon Rubin (1999 – 2008) (divorced, 1 child)
Rory Edwards (1988 – 1994) (divorced)
QUOTES:
At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, ‘No, that’s what people want, so that’s what is given.’ But it’s not in your control. It’s just what happens to you, and that’s what’s frightening.
And it’s not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don’t view it as that; it’s just that there’s something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.
[on Sabrina (1995)] It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn’t Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you’d opened your eyes wide enough.
[on mid-1990s stardom] I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you – as if you’ve been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, ‘I’ll put you in something!’
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