Divya Venkatasubramaniam- Kanika is stage name

• Kanika at the Internet Movie Database
• Kanika’s profile at Nilacharal

Divya Venkatasubramaniam is an Indian film actress, occasional dubbing artist, playback singer, and TV anchor. Making her debut in the 2002 Tamil film Five Star, she went on to work in other South Indian film industries, including Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, as well. She is perhaps best known for her performances as Eashwari in her debut film Five Star, Gayathri in Varalaru – History of Godfather and Thenmozhi in Autograph. She made waves in the Malayalam film industry with back to back successful films Bhagyadevatha and Pazhassi Raja. she appeared in her biggest project till then, Varalaru, directed again by K. S. Ravikumar, in which she shared screen space with Ajith Kumar and Asin. She won plaudits for her role as a mentally disorded girl. After a two-years gap, her most recent Kannada film Rajakumari opposite Ravichandran got released, in which she again got to play the female lead role. After her marriage, when she was supposed to have bid adieu to the film industry, Kaniha returned to the Malayalam cinema in 2009, with the films Bhagyadevatha, directed by veteran Sathyan Anthikkad and starring Jayaram and Narain as well, and Pazhassi Raja, directed by reputed director Hariharan and starring Mammootty, Sarath Kumar and Padmapriya among others. While the former one, in which she played the role of a homely Christian girl, was highly successful at the box office, the latter one, a biopic magnum opus historical film, in which she played the role of a queen opposite Mammootty. Pazhassi Raja is being considered the highest-grosser in the Malayalam film industry. Her performance in Bhagyadevatha led to her winning several awards.  Her rising adulation in the Malayalam industry saw her eventually sign laudable roles in the film My Big Father and Christian Brothers before she took a maternity break.

Nathalia Ramos

Nathalia Ramos at the Internet Movie DatabaseNathalia Ramos (born July 3, 1992) is a Spanish actress and singer. She is known for playing Yasmin in film Bratz: The Movie and Nina Martin on House of Anubis. In 2007, Ramos appeared in the theatrical Bratz motion picture, playing the leading role of Yasmin, a girl who is portrayed as being of Mexican and Jewish heritage. She made a brief appearance in the music video for Prima J’s single “Rockstar” which was a tie-in with the Bratz film and was featured on the film’s official soundtrack and provided her voice for the Bratz 4 Real video game. She was featured in an episode of the Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP, portraying a young, unpredictable teenage supermodel. She had completed a role in 31 North 62 East, a psychological thriller film directed byBritish director Tristan Loraine. Ramos starred in the “Nickelodeon” television series House of Anubis as the main character, Nina Martin, who travels to England in order to attend a mysterious boarding school. She confirmed via Twitter that she would not return to House of Anubis for a third season due to school related issues.  

Matthew Michael "Matt" Papa

Matthew Michael “Matt” Papa (born July 3, 1983 in Gainesville, Georgia) is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, andworship leader. In 2009, his album Your Kingdom Come charted #46 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums and #33 on the Top Heatseekers chart

• You Are Good (2006)
• “Worship vol. 1” (2007)

• Your Kingdom Come (2008)
• “Scripture Songs & Hymns 1” (2009)
• “Your Kingdom Come” Centricity Music release (2009), This charted on Billboard’s Christian Albums chart at No. 46, and charted on the Heatseekers Album chart at No. 33, which both occurred the week of September 12, 2009.

• “Scripture Songs & Hymns 2” (2010, Digital release)
• “This Changes Everything” (Renown Records) (2011)

Kai Owen

 

• Kai Owen at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website

Kai Owen (4 September 1975, Llanrwst, Conwy, North Wales) is a Welsh actor of stage and screen, known to Welsh audiences for his numerous roles on Welsh-language television and to worldwide audiences for his portrayal of Rhys Williams in Torchwood. He became first known as Kev, a gay roofer in Tipyn O Stad, shown on Welsh-language channel S4C. He was a regular in several series (52 episodes) of this popular gritty Welsh television programme; he also appeared in S4C’s Treflan as character Bob Lewis.In 2009 he guested as Harri in the second series of Y Pris and as violent loan shark Craig Turner in Pobol Y Cwm (one episode, broadcast 11 September 2009). Owen’s first appearance on English-language UK television came in 2001, when he appeared as Buster Edwards in in the episode Dog Dago Afternoon of series Fun at the Funeral Parlour. In 2003 he guested in an episode of BBC One television series Casualty(episode 392, Stuck In The Middle With You, 19 April 2003, as Danny). In 2005 he played the character of Dave ‘Shiner’ Owen in all six episodes of the series Rocket Man, a BBC One television series about a man trying to launch his dead wife’s ashes into space. 2006 saw Owen cast as recurring character Rhys Williams in Torchwood, a spin-off from the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role for which he has become most renowned. He was elevated to star billing for the third series, broadcast on BBC One in Summer 2009, reflecting his growing role in the series. A fourth series of Torchwood , Torchwood: Miracle Day was commissioned in June 2010  with confirmed involvement of Owen. Owen starred in an episode of Celebrity Ready Steady Cook with Torchwood co-star Tom Price (Andy) (recorded 26 August 2009, broadcast 8 January 2010). In 2011 Owen appeared in the first episode of the third series of Being Human as the character Bob, leader of a dogging pack. He is due to appear an episode of the long running BBC school drama Waterloo Road filmed in 2011. Owen regularly works on stage and in radio. Notable productions include:

• as Ronnie in Life of Ryan… and Ronnie by Meic Povey, 2005.
• A Chorus Of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, 2006
• as Harry Secombe in Ying Tong: a Walk with the Goons by Roy Smiles, BBC Radio 4, 4 April 2007
• Adam & Steve by John Cusworth and Paul Telfer, 2008
• Reprising the role of Rhys Williams for The Dead Line, a Torchwood radio play

Meze-found in all the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and comes from the Turkish

Meze or mezze ( /ˈmɛzɛ/) is a selection of small dishes served in the Mediterranean and Middle East as dinner or lunch, with or without drinks. In Levantine cuisines and in the Caucasus region, meze is served at the beginning of all large-scale meals. The word is found in all the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and comes from the Turkish meze ‘taste, flavour, snack, relish’, borrowed from Persian مزه (maze ‘taste, snack’ <mazīdan ‘to taste’).  The English word was probably borrowed from the Greek version mezés (μεζές). When not accompanied by alcohol, meze is known in the Arab world asmuqabbilat. Turkish meze often consist of beyaz peynir (literally “white cheese”), kavun (sliced ripe melon), acılı ezme (hot pepper paste often with walnuts), haydari (thick strained yoghurt like the Levantine labne), patlıcan salatası (cold aubergine salad), kalamar (calamari or squid), enginar(artichokes), cacık (yoghurt with cucumber and garlic), pilaki (various foods cooked in a special sauce), dolma or sarma (rice-stuffed vine leaves or other stuffed vegetables, such as bell peppers), and köfte (meatballs). In Greece and Cyprus, mezé, mezés, or mezédhes (plural) are small dishes, hot or cold, spicy or savory. Seafood dishes such as grilledoctopus may be included, along with various salads, sliced hard-boiled eggs, garlic-bread, kalamata olives, fava beans, fried vegetables,melitzanosalata (eggplant salad), taramosalata, fried or grilled cheeses called saganaki, and various fresh Greek sheep, goat or cow cheeses(feta, kasseri, kefalotyri, graviera, anthotyros, manouri, metsovone and mizithra). Other offerings are fried sausages, usually pork and often flavored with orange peel, bekrí-mezé (the “drunkard’s mezé“, a diced pork stew), and meatballs like keftédes and soutzoukákia smyrnéika.

Yancy Victoria Butler

Yancy Butler at the Internet Movie DatabaseYancy Victoria Butler (born July 2, 1970) is an American television and movie actress known for her roles as Natasha Binder in the 1993 John Woo film Hard Target and as Detective Sara Pezzini on the TNT supernatural drama Witchblade. Butler’s first major role was in the television series Mann & Machine in 1992, in which she played an android police officer partnered with a human detective. The series was set in Los Angeles in the near future. The series was co-created by Dick Wolf, of Law & Order fame. A year later, she starred in her second series, South Beach also for Dick Wolf, in which she played a con artist and thief who made a deal with the federal government: in exchange for their wiping of her criminal record, she performs certain tasks for them. While Butler’s first appearance was a small role as a small girl in a 1979 slasher film Savage Weekend, her next film appearance was the starring role in John Woo’s 1993 film, Hard Target, featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme. She then starred in the 1994 film Drop Zone, featuring Wesley Snipes. In 1995, she starred as Corinne the dancer in the film Let It Be Me. Butler was cast as a series regular in the television series Brooklyn South playing Anne-Marie Kersey, a Brooklyn policewoman, which ran for a full season in 1997–1998. Butler starred in the made-for-television film Witchblade (2000) and the subsequent television series, based on an adaptation from the comic book (also titled Witchblade), which ran for two seasons on the Turner Network Television network (TNT) for a total of 23 episodes. The series has a “cult television” following, and was ranked seventh in the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002 (Multichannel News, February 24, 2003). The show’s cancellation was announced after the second season in September 2002. In 2005, Yancy starred in the film Bloodlines, alongside Lou Diamond Phillips. In 2006, Butler starred in the American movie Striking Range. and in 2007, she appeared in thirteen episodes of the television soap opera As The World Turns, as character “Ava Jenkins.” Yancy has been confirmed to appear in Tales of the Ancient Empire,  the follow-up to The Sword and the Sorcerer.[7] Butler appeared in a small role in another comic book adaptation, the film version of Kick-Ass, based on the Marvel/Icon Comics series by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.

Moon So-ri

• Moon So-ri at Saram Entertainment (Korean)
• Moon So-ri at Sim Entertainment (Korean)
• Moon So-ri at HanCinema

Moon So-ri appeared in plays and short films such as Black Cut and To the Spring Mountain before finding fame as a leading actress. Her first film role was in Lee Chang-dong’s acclaimed Peppermint Candy, however her acting skills were not really showcased until she appeared in her second film Oasis, also by Lee Chang-dong. Her powerful portrayal of a woman with cerebral palsy earned her strong praise as well as the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor or Actress at the 2002 Venice Film Festival (Moon is only the second Korean to win a prize there, after Kang Soo-yeon in 1985 for The Surrogate Woman).  She was also named Best Actress at the 2003 Seattle International Film Festival. The following year she again found fame in Im Sang-soo’s third film A Good Lawyer’s Wife. A 180-degree turn from her previous screen image, this film featured her as a free thinking woman in a decaying marriage who starts an affair with the teenage boy next door. This film was also invited to the Venice Film Festival, and she later won the Best Actress award from the Stockholm International Film Festival. Similar to the case with Oasis, Best Actress honors at many domestic awards ceremonies followed. In 2004, Moon starred opposite Song Kang-ho in The President’s Barber, a film that illustrates 20 years of modern Korean history through the eyes of president Park Chung-hee’s personal barber. She took a more central role in her next feature Sa-kwa (2005), about a woman who embarks on a new relationship after being dumped by her long-time boyfriend.  Also from 2005, Bravo, My Life! saw her return to the historical era of the late 70s/early 80s in a family drama set against the political upheaval of those times. In 2006, she played a sexually promiscuous professor in Bewitching Attraction, as well as a disapproving sister in the critically acclaimed Family Ties (for which she shared Best Actress honors with three castmates at the 2006 Thessaloniki Film Festival, where their film also swept Best Picture and Best Screenplay). Moon starred in her first ever TV series in 2007, the big-budget fusion historical drama Legend. She followed that with sports movie Forever the Moment (a sleeper hit in 2008), another TV drama (about a family of siblings)  and the human rights-themed Fly, Penguin in 2009. She then joined the ensemble cast of Hong Sang-soo’s Ha Ha Ha, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. After graduating with a degree in Education from Sungkyunkwan University, Moon became part of the theater group Hangang (“Han River”) from 1995 to 1997, and debuted in the play Classroom Idea (she also collaborated in its creation). She has always expressed a desire to return to her stage roots, and did so in 2006 in Sulpun Yonguk (“Sad Play”)  and again in the 2010 Korean production of The Pitmen Painters. She joined Konkuk University’s Faculty of Arts in 2011 as a professor of film studies. In 2012 she reunites with Sol Kyung-gu in Lee Myung-se’s spy comedy Mister K.

Erik Ohlsson

• NYROCK – August 2000 interview
• MacDesktop interview – mirror of interview with MacDesktop.com

Erik Ohlsson (born July 2, 1975 in Örebro, Sweden) is the lead and rhythm guitarist of Swedish punk rock band Millencolin. He currently resides in Örebro, Sweden. He designs most all of the band’s artwork, including their t-shirts, logos, cover artwork, and their official homepage. Ohlsson edited and designed Millencolin’s 1998 video Millencolin and the Hi-8 Adventures. He also works as a freelance graphic designer at Eckhouse Design. He still skateboards from time to time, but like the other two members of Millencolin who skate (Nikola Sarcevic and Mathias Färm), the time available to do so has been taken up by various side projects. He has a dog named Colin. In the early albums of the band, he played most of the lead guitars. However, in the band’s more recent albums, he plays most of rhythm guitar parts, and usually the main solos. He can be seen doing so in their latest live concerts or watching in YouTube their last presentations.

Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya

Diana Gurtskaya Biography Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya ( born July 2, 1978 in Sukhumi, Georgia) is a blind Georgian singer residing in Moscow, Russia. Following a failed attempt in Belarus the previous year Diana, on March 1, 2008, won the Georgian national final with 39.4% of the vote, therefore she represented Georgia at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia. She won a place in the final at the second semi-final on May 22 and finished 11th. Gurtskaya has a number of awards to her credit. Most notably, a 2007 Russian Honorable Artist award given to her by president Vladimir Putin, a Medal of Honor given to her by Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, and the Award of Saint Barbara in Ukraine amongst others. She has recorded duets with various well-known foreign singers including Ray Charles, Toto Cutugno, and Demis Roussos. In 2009, Gurtskaya received significant media attention after failing to obtain a visa from the British embassy due to her blindness. However, after a much publicised campaign, a visa was granted and the rules were changed.

Ashley Michelle Tisdale

• Official website
• Ashley Tisdale at the Internet Movie Database

Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series. The High School Musical series became a successful franchise which included two television films, a feature movie, a spin-off and numerous soundtrack albums. The popularity earned by Tisdale in High School Musical led her to sign a solo record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 2006. Her debut album Headstrong, was released in February 2007, and debuted at number five in the U.S. chart and sold 64,000 copies in the first week. It was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. A second studio album, Guilty Pleasure, was released in 2009. Tisdale owns a production company and has worked as an executive producer in movies which included the ABC Family television film Picture This. Tisdale has a prominent voice role as Candace Flynn in Disney Channel’s Phineas & Ferb, a cartoon which became television’s most-watched animated series among kids and tweens and had been met with acclaim by critics. In 2009, she was cast in her first major broadcast role in The CW’s television series Hellcats as Savannah Monroe, an intense and very religious cheerleader.