Portia de Rossi
Also Known As: پورشیا دی روسی
Biography: Portia de Rossi is an Australian-American actress, model, and philanthropist. She is best known for her roles as Nelle Porter on the American drama series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the American television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019), and Elizabeth North on the American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017). De Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, on January 31, 1973. She began modeling as a child and appeared in several television commercials. In 1994, she made her film debut in the comedy Sirens. She moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and began appearing in guest roles on television shows such as Ally McBeal and Chicago Hope. In 1998, de Rossi was cast as Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal. The role made her a star and she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. De Rossi continued to work steadily after Ally McBeal ended in 2002. She starred in the films Stigmata (1999) and Girl (1998), and she appeared in the television series Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Better Off Ted (2009–2010). In 2014, de Rossi was cast as Elizabeth North on the political thriller series Scandal. The role earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. De Rossi is also a philanthropist. She is a supporter of several organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, the Trevor Project, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. She is also a co-founder of the animal rescue organization Kindred Spirits. De Rossi is married to actress and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. They have been together since 2000 and were married in 2008.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: January 31, 1973
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Gender: Female
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Cursed
Overview: A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Stigmata
Overview: A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.
Genres: Horror Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-02
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
Overview: A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-12
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Sirens
Overview: In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's current work, freethinking Sheela, sensual Pru and virginal Giddy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Adele One Night Only
Overview: A primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special will also feature an exclusive interview with Adele by Oprah Winfrey from her rose garden, in Adele’s first televised wide-ranging conversation.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-14
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The Night We Called It a Day
Overview: Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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I Witness
Overview: After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-13
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The Shift
Overview: From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In his first-ever movie, Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we long to find the purpose that is our unique contribution to the world. The powerful shift from the ego constructs we are taught early in life by parents and society—which promote an emphasis on achievement and accumulation—are shown in contrast to a life of meaning, focused on serving and giving back. Filmed on coastal California’s spectacular Monterey Peninsula, The Shift captures every person’s mid-life longing for a more purposeful, soul-directed life.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Glow
Overview: A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Girl
Overview: Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to local rock singer Tod Sparrow and learn more about the life of one who follows a touring band along with her new friends aspiring rock star wannabee Cybil, outgoing fellow groupie Rebecca, and music critic Kevin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-05
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Women in Film
Overview: Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son and her discovery of his affair. Gina is a masseuse - blithe, solipsistic, scheming to steal the energy of Hollywood players. She frequently refers to her dead sister Wanda, kidnaped by their father. Phyllis, sexually abused by her father when a teen, addresses her son Eric. She's a producer, working on remaking Pasolini's "Teorema." As the project falls apart, so does she. All three hum or sing, "You made me love you."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-24
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The Arrested Development Documentary Project
Overview: Featuring interviews from major cast and crew members, along with 200 fans from across the country, this documentary tells the whole story of this amazing and one of a kind tv show.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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The Invisibles
Overview: Jude and Joy escape to her Parisian flat for a private detox. A dark comedy of word games, sex, fantasy and pop tarts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-26
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Perfect Assassins
Overview: When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Now Add Honey
Overview: When a pop-star cousin comes to stay, a family's once normal life changes drastically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-05
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Dead & Breakfast
Overview: Six friends on a road trip stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. After a night that leaves both the inn's owner and chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. But that's only the beginning as nearly all of the town's quirky residents become possessed by an evil spirit and pin down the friends inside the B&B.
Genres: Horror Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-16
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Scream 2
Overview: Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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Unity
Overview: Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story
Overview: A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-12
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Tab Hunter Confidential
Overview: Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
Overview: In her first special since 2003, Ellen revisits her road to stardom and details the heartfelt -- and hilarious -- lessons she's learned along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-18
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Mockingbird Lane
Overview: Settling into their new home—the rambling Victorian mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Lane— the Munster are quickly onto the mission at hand: to gently ease sweet little Eddie into the reality of his werewolf adolescence. The loving, supportive, run-of-the-mill family includes his mom Lily, the daughter of Dracula, his dad Herman, who brings new meaning to "Frankenstein," and Grandpa! Of course, there's creepy cousin Marilyn, who's really the odd one because she's so completely normal.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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American Intellectuals
Overview: Seven WASP, blonde, privileged teens reside in the exclusive Hamptons, New York. Their group and entire existence consists of PLUs (People Like Us).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-07
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Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval
Overview: In the final special of her historic career, Ellen gets candid about fame, parallel parking and her life since getting "kicked out of show business".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-23
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