Maria Howell
Also Known As: Wanda Maria Howell, Wanda Howell, Wanda Marie, Wanda M. Howell
Biography: Wanda Maria Howell is an American actress and also a singer. Maria was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and graduated from Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Howell worked as a jazz singer and made her film debut in The Color Purple. She lived in Okinawa, Japan, from 1995-2001. She made guest appearances on the television series Drop Dead Diva, Army Wives, The Game, Necessary Roughness, and The Vampire Diaries, and as well as co-starred in films that include Daddy's Little Girls, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, and What to Expect When You're Expecting. In 2013, Howell played Seeder in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Also in 2012, she was cast in the recurring NBC television series Revolution as Grace Beaumont, and in 2013 she plays Ida Hayes in the m comedy-drama Devious Maids.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Gender: Female
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Daddy's Little Girls
Overview: Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy League-educated attorney. Monty and Julia couldn't be less alike, but a flame is ignited... touching off a firestorm of love and conflict.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Sons 2 the Grave
Overview: After midnight on a bridge not linking neighborhoods but dividing them, eighteen year old basketball phenom Marcus Jennings was taken out. Friends remain silent, giving power to a killer, binding them for life. Celebrity attracts the good the bad and the ugly, not always clearly defined, but in the end, it was what they all had in common that ended Marcus's life ... fear. Fear of staying, fear of leaving and the fear of appearing weak. It's the choices we make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-05
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Overview: Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Linda
Overview: Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far too much time together instead of with their respective spouses, Paul and Stella.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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The Good Lie
Overview: A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Addicted
Overview: A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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To Her, With Love
Overview: Kayla heads back to her hometown of Stansville, North Carolina, after her substitute teaching job at an elite, private high school comes to an early end. On her first day back, her loving yet inquisitive mother sets up a job interview at her high school alma mater. Kayla, who ultimately wants to get into a competitive teaching program in London, is hesitant to apply.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-11
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
Overview: On summer break from college, Indy stage-manages a new Broadway musical revue composed by George Gershwin. Indy also trades quips with the razor wits of the famed Algonquin Round Table - when not soothing temperamental stars, worrying over suspicious backstage malfunctions, and romancing three women simultaneously.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-02
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Christmas in the Friendly Skies
Overview: A chance encounter on a turbulent flight leads to an unexpected romance between two strangers who find comfort in each other's company amidst the chaos of air travel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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Summer Camp
Overview: Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, and now, fifty years later, seize the opportunity to get back together for a reunion at the camp — full of food fights, river rafting and emotional revelations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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Hidden Figures
Overview: The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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Christmas Wedding Baby
Overview: Three sisters struggle to find happiness through the holiday season as the youngest sister and bride to be is traumatized when she discovers that her first love has been hired as her wedding photographer.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-08
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American Made
Overview: The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-18
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
Overview: Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
Overview: Going to college and working in a seedy speakeasy bring Indy into contact with jazz great Sidney Bechet, who teaches him how to play the blues. Unfortunately, he also crosses paths with up-and-coming thug Al Capone and it's only with the assistance of his dorm roommate, future Untouchable Eliot Ness, that Indy is able to solve a vicious murder and prevent himself from ending up in a pair of cement overshoes.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-26
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Homeless Ashes
Overview: A young runaway ends up homeless with no choice but to try to survive life on the streets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-23
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The Color Purple
Overview: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-18
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A Christmas Love Story
Overview: A youth choir director needs to write a big song for the Christmas Eve show but finds herself distracted when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which will come as news to his widowed father.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-07
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The Blind Side
Overview: The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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Allegiant
Overview: Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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