Harumi Inoue

Justice For All

original_name: 正義は勝つ

original_language: ja

Oh! Expecting a baby!

original_name: 妊娠ですよ

Leave It to the Nurses

overview: The drama follows Asakura who is training to be a nurse and believes that nursing is the only profession for her, even after repeated failures.

character: Yuko Fukuyama

original_name: ナースのお仕事

Only You: Aisarete

overview: A romantic drama about a mentally handicapped man in love with a supermodel.

original_name: オンリー・ユー〜愛されて〜

Stewardess's Sweetheart

overview: This romantic tale involves a co-pilot who aspires to become the pilot of a new Boeing 747-400, and the stewardess he loves. Suddenly, the wife he had believed dead reappears.

original_name: スチュワーデスの恋人

Yuzurenai Yoru

original_name: Yuzurenai Yoru

Saigo no Kazoku

original_name: Saigo no Kazoku

Leave it to me, darling

overview: After four years in the countryside, his company transfers Kagetora and his family back to Tokyo. In their seven years they have gotten used to the peaceful atmosphere and amiable nature of those in the country. However, they soon discover that the hustle and bustle of Tokyo will take some readjustment. With a militaristic landlady, a middle-aged manager with a wife half his age, a charming foot masseuse, and a younger brother enjoying the youth culture of Tokyo, there are plenty of interesting characters to keep them on their toes. --TBS

character: Aya Yagishita

original_name: まかせてダーリン

White Love Story

overview: A tale of one-sided love. Kurumi works in a travel agency; she falls in love with Kousuke after an accidental meeting on a train. Kousuke is a skiing ace; he is still in love with Noriko, a classmate from college. Noriko is trapped by her hopeless love for a married man. Kurumi follows Kousuke and his friends on a skiing trip to snowy Hokkaido. What can unravel this tangled web of one-sided love? -- Fuji Creative (Source: DramaWiki)

character: Shibata Misao

original_name: 最高の片想い

Omizu no Hanamichi

overview: The drama tells the story of a hostess turning 30 years old.

original_name: お水の花道

Kimi to Deatte kara

overview: The drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how he and the woman who loves him so earnestly struggle with the aftermath of the accident and regain the love in their twisted hearts.

original_name: 君と出逢ってから

Sometimes Love is a Lie

overview: A female surgeon desperately wants to have children but is unable to. Her pediatrician husband, meanwhile, threatens divorce in frustration. Complicating matters is the fact that his own step-brother has feelings for his wife. An operation of deceit and jealousy results in an unlikely happy ending

character: Sonoda Ikumi

original_name: 愛、ときどき嘘

ストーカー 逃げきれぬ愛

character: Tomoko Yoshikawa

original_name: ストーカー 逃げきれぬ愛

月の輝く夜だから

original_name: 月の輝く夜だから

お願いダーリン！

original_name: お願いダーリン！

Special Investigation Nine

overview: The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.

character: Ryoka Sannohe

original_name: 特捜9

Italiano

Harumi Inoue

biography: Harumi Inoue è un'attrice giapponese.

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_3166_1: CN

title: Freeze Me

overview: When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her attackers.

character: Chihiro Yamazaki

original_title: フリーズ・ミー

title: Confessions of a Dog

overview: Takeda is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he’s promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile, renegade investigator Kusama must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police.

character: Chiyoko Takeda

original_title: ポチの告白

title: A Night In Nude: Salvation

overview: A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. With no chance of their dream coming true with just their everyday earnings, they had another face - blinding the elderly with their beauty, putting on insurance coverage and seeking to get rich quick by murdering. However, their scheme begins to collapse from one little mistake.

character: Momo Tanaka

original_title: ヌードの夜／愛は惜しみなく奪う

title: Bounty Dog WANTED!

original_title: 賞・金・犬　ＷＡＮＴＥＤ！

title: Zato Schoolgirl Nami

overview: Film about a schoolgirl and what not.

original_title: 座頭女子高生ナミ

title: The Metropolitan Police Branch 82

overview: New film adaptation of the manga "Police Branch 82".

character: Mika Hino

original_title: 82分署

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai San Ya

overview: The hotel room where he stayed on a business trip, where no one was supposed to be but him.......13 scary stories including "Another One".

character: Mother

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第3シリーズ

title: Moonlight Whispers

overview: Satsuki and Takuya are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.

character: Shizuka Kitahara

original_title: 月光の囁き

title: Graveyard of Honor

overview: A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

character: Yôko Imamura

original_title: 新・仁義の墓場

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2

overview: An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋2

title: Detective Story

overview: A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.

original_title: 探偵物語

title: Gonin Saga

overview: Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato, Daisuke and Asami.

character: Yasue Hisamatsu

original_title: GONIN サーガ

title: Lost & Found at Tokyo Station

overview: A woman is murdered on a train and the station employees help to solve the mystery.

original_title: 東京駅お忘れ物預り所

title: Hear the Sound of Life

character: 安藤桐江

original_title: 風のダドゥ

title: Kuroi Gashu: Kusa

overview: Ichiro Numata (Hiroaki Murakami) is the chief editor of a publishing company. He suddenly falls unconscious and is hospitalized, but various cases takes place at the hospital.  Hospital Director Kenichiro Asashima and Chief Nurse Junko  Amemiya goes missing. There are rumors that they were in a close relationship. Head of Drug Management, Yasuharu Horimura is found dead. Rumors were that he stalked Junko Amemiya. The investigation into his dead is carried out as a suicide case, but Detective Eiji Kirishima (Takanori Jinnai) suspects foul play.  Ichiro Numata follows with his sharp eyes what transpires at the hospital and he also holds a secret.

original_title: 黒い画集-草-

title: Action Captain Legend: Blood Pact

overview: The fate of three men who have lived as brothers since childhood

original_title: 行動隊長伝　血盟

title: The Files of Young Kindaichi: Murder on the Magic Express

overview: When the head of the touring magician's group "Magical Fantasy" is murdered on a train while on his way to Hokkaido, young Kindaichi, who also just happens to be on board, is fast on the case to find the culprit. But just as quickly as the case unfolds, the body disappears only to be rediscovered again, along with other new bodies.

character: Mermaid Yumi

original_title: 金田一少年の事件簿 魔術列車殺人事件

title: 修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

original_title: 修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie

overview: 8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Akio Yoshida), Wisps of Smoke (Kosuke Suzuki), Gloves (Hirohisa Sasaki), The Weight (Kosuke Suzuki), Full-Length Mirror (Ryuta Miyake), Line of Sight (Keisuke Toyoshima), The Promise (Keita Amemiya) and Hisao (Shun'ichi Hirano).

title: Eagle of the Decotora 4: Love and Tears of the Oga Peninsula

overview: Fourth film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.

original_title: デコトラの鷲 其の四 愛と涙の男鹿半島

title: 修羅のみち10 九州全面戦争

original_title: 修羅のみち10 九州全面戦争

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hanayome-san-hen

overview: The directors include TBS drama stalwart Akio Yoshida, Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Kôsuke Suzuki of "Eko Eko Azarak," and Noboru Iguchi, whose new work "Love Larva" is a hot topic. These young talents of horror films have gathered to bring this project to life. The cast features Maki Sakai, Harumi Inoue, and Arthur Kuroda, among others.

title: Freeze Me

title: Confessions of a Dog

title: A Night In Nude: Salvation

original_title: ヌードの夜／愛は惜しみなく奪う

title: Bounty Dog WANTED!

original_title: 賞・金・犬　ＷＡＮＴＥＤ！

title: Zato Schoolgirl Nami

title: The Metropolitan Police Branch 82

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai San Ya

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第3シリーズ

title: Moonlight Whispers

title: Graveyard of Honor

title: Detective Story

title: Gonin Saga

title: Lost & Found at Tokyo Station

title: Hear the Sound of Life

title: Kuroi Gashu: Kusa

title: Action Captain Legend: Blood Pact

original_title: 金田一少年の事件簿 魔術列車殺人事件

title: 修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

original_title: 修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

original_title: デコトラの鷲 其の四 愛と涙の男鹿半島

title: 修羅のみち10 九州全面戦争

original_title: 修羅のみち10 九州全面戦争

Only You: Aisarete

original_name: オンリー・ユー〜愛されて〜

ストーカー 逃げきれぬ愛

original_name: ストーカー 逃げきれぬ愛


Elliott Lester

biography: Elliott Lester is a director known for Blitz (2011), Aftermath (2017) and Nightingale (2014).

Containment

job: Director

overview: An epidemic breaks out in Atlanta leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. This is the story of loved ones torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the quarantine reveals both the devolution of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.

department: Directing

original_name: Containment

original_language: en

Will

overview: The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows. It's a contemporary version of Shakespeare's life, played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance.

original_name: Will

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Love Is the Drug

overview: Jonah Brand isn't necessarily the type of guy who would interest ultra-hot Sara Weller. But when she and her friends find out he works at a pharmacy, they charm him into their circle and gain his trust with manipulative fawning. Jonah knows he's playing with danger, but it's tough to resist the game.

original_title: Love Is the Drug

title: Blitz

overview: A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

original_title: Blitz

title: Nightingale

overview: A dangerously unstable man addresses the unseen followers of his video log about his obsession with an old army buddy.

original_title: Nightingale

title: Sleepwalker

overview: A young woman seeks help from a sleep clinic for her insomnia, but soon deals with her entire life being turned upside down.

original_title: Sleepwalker

job: Executive Producer

title: Captive

overview: Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols.  After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance.  In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.

department: Production

original_title: Captive

title: Chop Shop - Die Autodiebe

overview: Friends Porter and Caine are two car thieves who find their close friendship tested. After his release from prison, Porter tries to go straight, but ultimately he decides to turn to what he does best - stealing cars.

original_title: Chop Shop - Die Autodiebe

title: Aftermath

overview: A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret.

original_title: Aftermath

title: The Thicket

overview: An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.

original_title: The Thicket

job: Producer

title: The Bygone

overview: When a young rancher crosses paths with a Lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a search that uncovers a harrowing past and hints at a dire future.

original_title: The Bygone

title: Jessica Simpson: With You

overview: America's best-loved "housewife of the year" Jessica Simpson has made her most personal album to-date with "In This Skin", which showcases the superstar's songwriting for the very first time.

original_title: Jessica Simpson: With You

place_of_birth: Londra

title: Love Is the Drug

media_type: movie

title: Blitz

title: Nightingale

title: Sleepwalker

title: Captive

title: Chop Shop - Die Autodiebe

title: Aftermath

title: The Thicket

title: The Bygone

title: Jessica Simpson: With You


Gavin Wiesen

title: The Art of Getting By

overview: George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

original_title: The Art of Getting By

job: Writer

title: The Art of Getting By

department: Writing

title: All Nighter

overview: When a globe-trotting, workaholic father trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she’s disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend, still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.

original_title: All Nighter

title: All Nighter

title: Spin the Bottle

overview: When a group of friends play spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways. Now, the survivors must stick together to uncover the house's dark secrets and end the bloodshed.

original_title: Spin the Bottle

title: Spin the Bottle

title: Kill the Day

original_title: Kill the Day

title: Kill the Day

place_of_birth: New York, New York, U.S

title: The Art of Getting By

title: The Art of Getting By

title: All Nighter

title: All Nighter

title: Spin the Bottle

title: Spin the Bottle

title: Kill the Day

title: Kill the Day

known_for_department: Directing


Tanny Tien Ni

biography: Tanny Tien Ni (Chinese: 恬妮 ) is a Taiwanese actrees. Born in Shanghai in 1948 and raised in Taiwan. She studied Beijing Opera and in 1967 formally entered the entertainment word after being named 'Sweater Princess' in a local beauty pageant. After appearing in Taiwanese television series, she made her film debut in "Sword of Endurance". In 1972 signed a contract with Shaw Brothers. Li Han-Hsiang appreciated her special brand of sex appeal and cast her in "Illicit Desire" (1973). Its box office success led to her starring in a number of Li-directed erotic films. Trivia: Married to actor classic wu xia actor Yueh Hua in 1975. Her younger sister Tien Niu was also a major Shaw Brothers star of the 1970s.

Tears of Love

original_name: 風塵淚

original_language: cn

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

普通话

恬妮

biography:
恬妮 （Tien Lie），原名朱隐英，1950年出生，身高163cm，籍贯上海。 台湾及香港知名女演员。 曾当选台湾'毛衣公主'冠军，1972年到香港加盟邵氏电影公司。 代表作有《金瓶双艳》及《徐老虎与白寡妇》。

于1975年与邵氏同事岳华结婚，婚后基本上退出演艺团。 现居加拿大温哥华，是慈济人（慈济基金会志工）之一。

其妹恬妞亦为著名艺人。

iso_639_1: zh

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: TW

普通话

恬妮

biography:
恬妮 （Tien Lie），原名朱隱英，1950 年出生，身高 163cm，籍貫上海。

台灣及香港知名女演員。

曾當選台灣'毛衣公主'冠軍，1972 年到香港加盟邵氏電影公司。

代表作有《金瓶雙艷》及《徐老虎與白寡婦》。

於 1975 年與邵氏同事嶽華結婚，婚後基本上退出演藝團。

現居加拿大温哥華，是慈濟人（慈濟基金會志工）之一。

其妹恬妞亦為著名藝人。

iso_3166_1: HK

Français

Tanny Tien-Ni

biography: Tanny Tien-Ni (chinois : 恬妮) est une actrice taïwanaise. Née à Shanghai en 1948, elle a grandi à Taïwan. Elle a étudié l'opéra de Pékin et a fait ses débuts dans le monde du spectacle en 1967 après avoir été élue « Sweater Princess » lors d'un concours de beauté local. Après avoir joué dans des séries télévisées taïwanaises, elle a fait ses débuts au cinéma dans « Sword of Endurance ». En 1972, elle a signé un contrat avec Shaw Brothers. Li Han-Hsiang a apprécié son charme sexuel particulier et l'a choisie pour jouer dans « Illicit Desire » (1973). Le succès au box-office de ce film l'a amenée à jouer dans plusieurs films érotiques réalisés par Li. Anecdote : elle a épousé l'acteur classique de wu xia Yueh Hua en 1975. Sa sœur cadette, Tien Niu, était également une grande star de Shaw Brothers dans les années 1970.

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

also_known_as:
恬妮
Tien Lie
Tanny Tien
Tien Nee
Tanny Chu
Tanny
Tin Lian
Tany Tim
Lei Tien
Ni Tien
염니
تانی تین-نی

title: Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

overview: When fellow operatives and friends disappear during a mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones comes to help. She discovers the disappearance involves The Dragon Lady, a feared lipstick lesbian who runs a casino and the local drug trade.

character: Mi Ling Fong

original_title: Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

title: The Magic Blade

overview: Two rival swordsmen in imperial China, poncho-clad Fu Hung-Hsueh and Yen nan-Fei vie with a power-hungry villain for the deadly Peacock Dart and fend off waves of expert killers during their journey.

character: Mingyue Hsin 'Moonlight Heart'

original_title: 天涯明月刀

original_language: zh

title: The Young Dragons

overview: Powerful mobster Leung, protected by the dangerous Huan Fai, sells 200 Japanese weapons and ammo to a Chinese gang. He uses smuggler Luy Fu to bring the weapons but small-time thief Kim and his gang heist the shipment and dump the cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Kim befriends Fan Ming, an undercover police office from Shanghai investigating Leung's crimes.

character: Yip Fung

original_title: 鐵漢柔情

title: Human Lanterns

overview: A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.

character: Lee Chin

original_title: 人皮燈籠

title: The Battle Wizard

overview: A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Python, a sinuous snake-charmer, and a silk-masked beauty (who must kill or wed the first man to see her face) before they can bring peace to their battle-addled family.

character: Mu Wan-Ching / Hsiang Yao-cha

original_title: 天龍八部

title: Black Magic

overview: A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.

character: Luo Yin

original_title: 降頭

title: Black Magic 2

overview: A doctor suspects black magic on his hospital after experiencing some bizarre incidents and sends for two doctors (who are a couple) from Hong Kong. The wife is very skeptical and places volunteer for a spell. It became obvious that here is an evil wizard who stay young by including drinking human breast milk. A Shaw Brothers production.

character: Li Cui Ling

original_title: 勾魂降頭

title: Seductive Ghost

overview: A ghost teaches a poor shopkeeper medicine, leading to tragedy.

original_title: 勾魂艷鬼

title: Hex

overview: Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.

character: Chan Sau Ying / Chan Sau Fong

original_title: 邪

title: Crocodile

overview: A giant crocodile is killing and frightening people living nearby rivers. Two men, whose wives and daughter have been killed by the crocodile, decide to chase and eliminate it.

character: Angela

original_title: จระเข้

original_language: th

title: First Date

overview: Four high school students, Yang Jialuo, You Fusheng, Gu Caizi, Guo Hao, and Liu Guobao narrate and reflect on growing up in 1950s Taiwan.

character: Yang Mu

original_title: 第一次約會

title: Capture of Seven Tigers

overview: An investigative team that wants to foil the evil plans of a group of criminals.

character: Shih Pi-Hsia

original_title: 一鳳三龍擒七虎

title: The Tiger and the Widow

overview: The movie is about an illegal salt smuggling ring run by Tanny and her male partner, who spend most of the movie arguing which one of them is going to sacrifice him/herself and surrender to the police.

character: Widow Pei Chou Ju

original_title: The Tiger and the Widow

title: The Hunchback

overview: The parents of a young girl, Chou Shao Hwa were slaughtered by the Three Rogues of Black Hills; she escapes thanks to the help of the Blind Swordsman Zatoichi. He teaches her and her boyfriend fighting arts, and together they seek revenge on the Three Rouges.

character: Hsiao Hua

original_title: Han tuo

title: From Home with Love

original_title: 警告逃妻

title: Corpse Mania

overview: A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.

character: Madame Lan

original_title: 屍妖

title: The Fist of Justice

original_title: 半斤七両

title: A Queen's Ransom

overview: A Hong Kong mobster's sister is working with authorities on their investigation into her own brother's plot to assassinate the Queen.

character: Jenny

original_title: 鱷潭群英會

title: Naughty! Naughty!

overview: Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind- hearted hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world. One day, Wu plays a trick on the hotel owner. The scheme backfires and Wu has to flee to Hong Kong. Wu saves desperate painter Hsin. He convinces Hsin that his painting will sell if he is dead. After Hsin pretend to be dead, his paintings really can be sold well, but backfires finally. Then, Wu and Hsin team up and engage themselves full time in con games, gambling and sex inclusive. Finally, Wu is being chased by the ring enforcers but is saved. Finding himself in love with Hsiao Yen, Wu decides to turn a new leaf and live properly ever after.

character: Pauline Hsin

original_title: 綽頭狀元

title: Runaway Blues

overview: Before he was crowned one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Andy Lau starred in the 1989 gangster film Runaway Blues. He plays Lam, a Taiwan gangster who flees to Hong Kong after killing a rival gangster. Hiding at his uncle gang boss Lip's place, he gets embroiled in more gang conflicts and is forced to be an informant for the police. Lam runs away to Guangzhou and Macau with Lip's mistress, causing an enraged Lip to be hot on his trail.

original_title: 飚城

title: Little Dragon Maiden

overview: Seeking to improve his combat skills, a young man falls in love with a woman with mystical powers but his past stands in the way of their union.

character: Li Mochou

original_title: 楊過與小龍女

title: The Association

overview: Plain-clothes detective Wang is the best in his trade. One day he stumbles across a young girl's body who apparently is died of abortion. Wang investigates the guilty abortionist who leads Wang to a secret organization called "The Welfare Association". Actually it is an international prostitution racket. Wang sneaks into the association. When he is about to arrest the association's organizer, a girl, Lei, whose sister's death cause by the secret society, saves Wang in certain death. Wang arrests the organizer but has set her free from headquarter. Wang and Lei get together in getting the commander dismissed.

character: Lei

original_title: Yan ku shen tan

title: Wedding Nights

overview: An adult comedy produced by the Shaw Brothers.

original_title: 洞房艷事

title: The Mask Heroine

overview: A Taiwanese Martial Arts film

character: Chin Jung

original_title: 幪面女俠

title: Supremo

overview: With this film we tell the story of police tipster Polka Dots Liu, badge 369 but often jokingly called the Supremo. He entertains most of the times. Once, he brandishes a gun at a casino to stress a point. He wins the point and some credit, too. And he tries to chat up the barber's wife under the man's very razor. The barber gladly runs him out of town. The he pumps into a robbery and captures the robber by mistake. That's what he does when he gets his badge...

original_title: 至尊寶

title: The Brave Young Generation

overview: A Taiwanese-produced and shot WW2 drama that was distributed in Hong Kong by Shaw Brothers. However it was not made by Shaw Brothers studios or staff.

original_title: 六福茶樓

title: The Criminals

overview: An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Part 2: 'Valley of the Hanged'-A man murders his wife and her lover. Part 3: 'The Stuntmen' - A gang boss is murdered by his wife's lover

character: Tanny

original_title: 香港奇案

title: Lady Lee

overview: Taiwanese historical drama.

original_title: 李三娘

title: Lady Snow

overview: After being abandoned in the mountains the lovey snow maiden seeks her revenge.

original_title: 雪娘

title: The Golden Lotus

overview: Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, wooing Pan Chin Lien, the beautiful wife of one of the townspeople.

title: How to Choose a Royal Bride

overview: Emperor Kangxi's mother tries to marry him with the daughter of an official, but she's too strong-willed to agree to an arranged marriage even if it is with the Emperor, so she dresses as a man and heads off to Jiang Nan to see the spring blossoms. As luck would have it, Kangxi also decides to head to Jiang Nan in disguise in search of adventure, and the two cross paths and quickly become firm friends.

title: Let's Have a Baby

overview: A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.

title: My Mind, Your Body

title: The Siamese Twins

overview: The spirit of a deceased conjoined twin haunts her unknowing sister.

title: Moods of Love

overview: Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second, the daughter of a woman who died in a brothel discovers that her mother died an unnatural death and seeks revenge.

title: The Rat Catcher

overview: This light-hearted action comedy hybrid-where crooks and cops work together to make a better Hong Kong - was hailed for its British humor and Italian style as well as its unique Chinese flavor. In fact, the Hong Kong Movie New named it "one of the most hilarious comedies among the Mandarin productions in recent years." Enjoy the fast-moving and funny tale of a pretty pickpocket tangling with jewel heists, wallet snatchings, and a drug trafficking ring.

title: The Call Girls

overview: A story of female sex workers across all social strata.

title: The Trail

overview: A gang of opium smugglers, disguised as Taoist Priests transporting hopping corpses, are hired to transport a real dead body to it's final resting place.

title: A Haunted House

title: Bitter Taste of Blood

overview: A gangster turns over a new leaf working as a gardner in a remote island off of Hong Kong. There he falls in love, but is haunted by a past that would not allow him to forget.

title: Edge of Darkness

overview: A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a connection between his supervisor and the crime syndicate he's investigating.

title: Woman of the Night

overview: A captivating examination of human obsession and love, Woman of the Night offers three stories in one film. In the first tale, a perverse young student with a voyeuristic habit spies on two of his female roommates. The second story follows an office manager who develops an infatuation with his secretary. The last part is a complex family drama about a debilitated father who forces his family to leave him, only to have a bittersweet reunion when his daughter’s life is threatened.

title: Affection Against Satan

overview: Centers around gambling problems and both good and evil spirits.

title: My Darling Slave

title: The Brutal Boxer

overview: A pair of highly skilled fighters and brothers looking for their missing uncle find unexpected help in their search from a crooked restaurant owner.

title: No End of Surprises

overview: No End of Surprises is a Hong Kong Comedy Drama starring Jackie Chan.

title: Love in the Storm

title: Sword Of Endurance

overview: Rare sword fighting martial arts film from Taiwan.

title: The Master Sword

overview: A deranged swordsman travels the land taking on all comers and defeats them all with ease. News of these vile fights travels fast, and before long two other students of the sword are dispatched to rein him in.

title: Crimes Are To Be Paid

overview: A young innocent woman is raped by a gang of five men. Years later the young woman has matured into a sophisticated lady and singer. The five guys have gone their separate ways, however one by one, she finds them and sets about her revenge.

title: Why Me?

overview: The tragic story of Fat Cat, a mentally retarded man who endures the mistreatment of the local villagers, and Koko, the idealistic social worker who tries to give him a better life. Koko's battle against ignorance and apathy on Fat Cat's behalf takes its toll on them both.

title: Once Upon a Mirage

overview: Story of five children growing up and learning about life in Hong Kong.

title: The Empress Dowager

overview: This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic.

title: Moon and Stars

overview: Mei Yen is a beautician who often makes her clients up. One day she accepts an invitation to attend a make-up party and helps her clients to make themselves up. Unexpectedly, she meets her boyfriend Chi Hua. Chi Hua is a private car driver who regularly takes his clients to their destinations upon payment of a fee. Without letting Mei Yen know that he will join the party, he appears in the party and has fun with his newly acquainted girlfriend Helen. As a result, he and Mei Yen quarrel and break up...

title: Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio

overview: Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles. Rare interviews with Sir Run Run Shaw, stars Ivy Ling Po, Shaw Yin Yin, Tanny Tie Ni and Cheng Pei Pei are also featured.

title: Divorce Hong Kong Style

overview: Typical Hong Kong drama film: Affairs, betrayal, and divorce.

title: The Golden Triangle

overview: A Thai army undercover drug agent infiltrates an opium ring in the Golden triangle, but falls in love with the woman ring leader.

original_title: สามเหลี่ยมทองคำ

title: The Happiest Moment

overview: Michael Hui plays four characters in this three-chapter, Hong Kong erotic comedy anthology set in Northern China during WWII.

title: The Wild Ones

overview: Social worker Sandy emigrated to Canada with her father when she was young. With the encouragement of her father, she decided to come back to Hong Kong to develop her career. Her father also has a mission to find his missing wife.

title: Scandal

overview: Director Li Han-hsiang teams up with Michael Hui in this tongue in cheek tale of extramarital affairs and corruption. Michael Hui and Wang Sheng are two loafers who prove they are good for something after all.

title: Forbidden Tales of Two Cities

overview: Li Han-hsiang, one of the most experienced and respected filmmakers in Hong Kong, wrote and directed this charming and fascinating comedy of amorous complications and modern morals in the very middle of his forty year career. The two cities are Macau, where a love quartet is the source for sexy merriment, and Hong Kong, where a gambler tells a charming woman why there are four shackles hanging from his apartment ceiling!

title: All in the Family

overview: A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.

title: Crocodile Fangs

overview: A giant crocodile is terrorizing Thai villagers. A group of adventurers set out by boat to track it down and kill it. The Korean cut is lost, however, every other export release/recut survives.

title: Who is to Blame?

overview: A very good student, Stone helped his mother at the salt field. After the death of his mother, Stone learned that his father, Ta Hua, president of the Ta Hua Enterprises walked out on his pregnant mother and married Ming Fang.

title: Devoted to You

overview: Jane, born in a lower-class family and neglected by her parents, becomes a rebellious girl. She enters a famous high school by personal relationship of her aunt. May, born in a rich family and spoiled by her parents, is very capricious. Isolated by her classmates, Jane keeps silent and swallow everything. Not until one day, when she rescued May, who has constantly saved Jane from being embarrassed in class, Jane shows her power and is greatly respected by May.

title: 我心碎了

title: Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

title: The Magic Blade

title: The Young Dragons

title: Human Lanterns

title: The Battle Wizard

title: Black Magic

title: Black Magic 2

title: Seductive Ghost

title: Hex

title: Crocodile

title: First Date

title: Capture of Seven Tigers

title: The Tiger and the Widow

title: The Hunchback

title: From Home with Love

title: Corpse Mania

title: The Fist of Justice

title: A Queen's Ransom

title: Naughty! Naughty!

title: Runaway Blues

title: Little Dragon Maiden

title: The Association

title: Wedding Nights

title: The Mask Heroine

title: Supremo

title: The Brave Young Generation

title: The Criminals

title: Lady Lee

title: Lady Snow

title: The Golden Lotus

title: How to Choose a Royal Bride

title: Let's Have a Baby

title: My Mind, Your Body

title: The Siamese Twins

title: Moods of Love

title: The Rat Catcher

title: The Call Girls

title: The Trail

title: A Haunted House

title: Bitter Taste of Blood

title: Edge of Darkness

title: Woman of the Night

title: Affection Against Satan

title: My Darling Slave

title: The Brutal Boxer

title: No End of Surprises

title: Love in the Storm

title: Sword Of Endurance

title: The Master Sword

title: Crimes Are To Be Paid

title: Why Me?

title: Once Upon a Mirage

title: The Empress Dowager

title: Moon and Stars

title: Divorce Hong Kong Style

title: The Golden Triangle

original_title: สามเหลี่ยมทองคำ

title: The Happiest Moment

title: The Wild Ones

title: Scandal

title: Forbidden Tales of Two Cities

title: All in the Family

title: Crocodile Fangs

title: Who is to Blame?

title: Devoted to You

title: 我心碎了


Phylicia Rashād

biography:
Phylicia Rashad (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress. She was most recently dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University before her three-year contract ended in May 2024. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she has received two Tony Awards as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominations in 1985 and 1986. She also played Ruth Lucas on Cosby (1996–2000), and Brenda Glover in Little Bill (1999–2004). She was also Emmy-nominated for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun (2008) and This Is Us (2019–2021).

On stage, Rashad became the first Black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for a revival of A Raisin in the Sun (2004). She won her second Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew (2022). Her other Broadway credits include Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008).

She has appeared in various films such as For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), Creed III (2023), and The Beekeeper (2024). She lent her voice to the Disney-Pixar animated film Soul (2020).

In the 21st century, she has directed revivals of three plays by August Wilson, in major theaters in Seattle, Princeton, New Jersey; and Los Angeles. She also directed Purpose (play) in its 2024-2025 run at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway.

In the House

overview: A once-famous football player must rent part of his house to support himself. A single mother and her two kids are the latest tenants. He also owns a sports clinic that he barely manages to run with help from his friends

original_name: In the House

A Different World

overview: A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.

character: Clair Huxtable

original_name: A Different World

Everybody Hates Chris

overview: Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

original_name: Everybody Hates Chris

Psych

overview:
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.

Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

character: Winnifred Guster

original_name: Psych

Touched by an Angel

overview: Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

character: Elizabeth Jessup

original_name: Touched by an Angel

The Cosby Show

overview: The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

original_name: The Cosby Show

Tamron Hall

overview: Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and entertaining conversations.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Tamron Hall

Blossom

overview: Blossom Russo is a highly intelligent and spunky teenager. The youngest of three, she lives with her divorced musician father, Nick, eldest brother and recovering substance abuser Anthony, and decidedly not-so-bright middle brother Joey. Along for the ride is Blossom's ditzy best friend, Six, who sometimes shows flashes of great perception.

original_name: Blossom

Grey's Anatomy

overview: Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

character: Nell Timms

original_name: Grey's Anatomy

Little Bill

overview:
Little Bill is a television show for children that is presently on Nick Jr. The stories are based on Bill Cosby's Little Bill book series, set in Philadelphia and feature Bill Jr. learning a lesson or moral. It was developed through research and in consultation with a panel of educational consultants.

The show also aired on CBS as part of Nick Jr. on CBS, from September 16, 2000 - September 7, 2002, then as part of Nick on CBS from August 2, 2003 - September 10, 2005. The show returned with the return of Nick Jr. on CBS on September 17, 2005, and seen through September 9, 2006 when the block was replaced with The KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS. The series went back into production in fall 2006 and a new season of 6 episodes aired on Noggin throughout April and July 2007, ending in the later month. Reruns are played on Nick Jr., on BET, as of January 7, 2008, and on Centric, as of May 1, 2010.

Sonia Manzano, best known for playing Maria Rodriguez on Sesame Street, was a frequent writer for the show.

character: Brenda Glover (voice)

original_name: Little Bill

Cosby

overview: Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.

character: Ruth Lucas

original_name: Cosby

Bull

overview: Bull is a short-lived American drama series created by Michael S. Chernuchin, who had worked on Law & Order and Brooklyn South in 2000. It was TNT's first original series, and was cancelled in the middle of Season 1. The show's name is in reference to the bull market, but the airing of the series coincided with the dot-com bubble crash that turned what had until then been a bull economy in the United States into a bear market.

original_name: Bull

Do No Harm

overview: Jason Cole, a brilliant neurosurgeon has to battle with his own alter-ego, Ian Price, in order to live a normal life in this modern take on Jekyll and Hyde.

character: Dr. Vanessa Young

original_name: Do No Harm

Intimate Portrait

overview:
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject.

Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.

character: Self

original_name: Intimate Portrait

Jean-Claude Van Johnson

overview: Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.

character: Jane

original_name: Jean-Claude Van Johnson

Inside the Black Box

overview: A new spin on celebrity interview shows, INSIDE THE BLACK BOX spotlights the world’s greatest artists of color, from actors to producers to directors, writers and musicians, and reflects on how one’s complexion affected their journey to success. Led by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Morton and casting director/celebrity acting coach Tracey Moore and filled with an audience of young artists clamoring to learn as much as they can from our hosts and A-List guests. Each episode is filled with life lessons, history, exciting performance exercises, and honest discussions about the role race plays in the entertainment industry.

original_name: Inside the Black Box

Reading Rainbow

overview: Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: Reading Rainbow

name: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

overview: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

character: Lady Fulton (voice)

original_name: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

overview: The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

original_name: The Rosie O'Donnell Show

The Good Fight

overview: Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

character: Renetta Clark

original_name: The Good Fight

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

overview: Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow which transforms the four turtles into human-like creatures. Hamato (now Master Splinter) changes into a giant rat from the green glow and teaches the turtles the skills of the ninja as they team up with news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.

character: Jane Goodfellow (voice)

original_name: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Diarra from Detroit

overview: A divorcing, overworked teacher finds herself drawn into a cold case after a dating app matches her with a man she suspects is the adult version of a boy abducted in the 90s.

character: Vonda

original_name: Diarra from Detroit

Sofia the First

overview: Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, this is the story of Princess Sofia, an adventurous little girl who is learning how to adjust to royal life after her mom marries the king and she becomes a princess overnight.

character: Mountain Witch (voice)

original_name: Sofia the First

This Is Us

overview: Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

character: Carol Clarke

original_name: This Is Us

Little America

overview: Observe the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, and surprising stories of immigrants in America.

character: Margaret Jean the Queen

original_name: Little America

David Makes Man

overview: A 14-year-old prodigy's mother relies on him to find a way out of poverty, but he is haunted by the death of his friend; he must choose between the streets that raised him or the higher education that may offer him a way out.

character: Dr. Woods-Trap

original_name: David Makes Man

Station 19

overview: A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock. These brave men and women are like family, literally and figuratively, and together they put their own lives in jeopardy as first responders to save the lives of others.

character: Pilar

original_name: Station 19

Curses!

overview: The Vanderhouvens are a typical family...except a curse recently turned Alex—their loving husband and father—to stone. In order to save him, his wife and kids set out on spine-tingling adventures to return ancient artifacts stolen by an ancestor.

character: Georgia (voice)

original_name: Curses!

Sherri

overview: Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily dose of pop culture, comedy, conversations, and daytime talk staples, including celebrity and human interest interviews.

original_name: Sherri

The Gilded Age

overview: It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.

character: Elizabeth Kirkland

original_name: The Gilded Age

The Emmy Awards

overview: An annual awards  ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

original_name: The Emmy Awards

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

overview: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S. chain store business Macy's. The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, with both parades four years younger than the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.

original_name: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Empire

overview: A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.

character: Diana DuBois

original_name: Empire

Tony Awards

overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

character: Self - Presenter

original_name: Tony Awards

twitter_id: PhyliciaRashad

Deutsch

Phylicia Rashād

biography:
Phylicia Rashād (geb. Ayers-Allen; * 19. Juni 1948 in Houston, Texas) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Zuletzt war sie Dekanin des College of Fine Arts an der Howard University, bevor ihr Dreijahresvertrag im Mai 2024 auslief. Bekannt für ihre Rollen auf der Bühne und im Film, wurde sie mit zwei Tony Awards ausgezeichnet und war für sechs Primetime Emmy Awards sowie einen Screen Actors Guild Award nominiert.

Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre Rolle als Clair Huxtable in der NBC-Sitcom „Die Bill Cosby Show“ (1984–1992), für die sie 1985 und 1986 zwei Primetime-Emmy-Nominierungen als Beste Hauptdarstellerin in einer Comedyserie erhielt. Sie spielte außerdem Ruth Lucas in „Cosby“ (1996–2000) und Brenda Glover in „Little Bill“ (1999–2004). Sie wurde außerdem für ihre Rollen in „A Raisin in the Sun“ (2008) und „This Is Us“ (2019–2021) für einen Emmy nominiert.

Auf der Bühne schrieb Rashad Geschichte, als sie als erste schwarze Schauspielerin den Tony Award als Beste Hauptdarstellerin in einem Theaterstück für eine Wiederaufnahme von „A Raisin in the Sun“ (2004) gewann. Ihren zweiten Tony Award als Beste Nebendarstellerin in einem Theaterstück erhielt sie für Dominique Morisseaus „Skeleton Crew“ (2022). Zu ihren weiteren Broadway-Engagements zählen „Into the Woods“ (1988), „Jelly's Last Jam“ (1993), „Gem of the Ocean“ (2004) und „Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach“ (2008).

Sie wirkte in verschiedenen Filmen mit, darunter „For Colored Girls“ (2010), „Good Deeds“ (2012), „Creed“ (2015), „Creed II“ (2018), „Creed III“ (2023) und „Der Bienenhüter“ (2024). Sie lieh ihre Stimme dem Disney-Pixar-Animationsfilm „Soul“ (2020).

Im 21. Jahrhundert inszenierte sie Wiederaufführungen von drei Stücken von August Wilson an großen Theatern in Seattle, Princeton (New Jersey) und Los Angeles. Außerdem führte sie Regie bei der Aufführung von „Purpose“ im Helen Hayes Theater am Broadway in der Spielzeit 2024/25.

Français

biography:
Phylicia Ayers-Allen, dite Phylicia Rashād, est une chanteuse, actrice et productrice afro-américaine, née le 19 juin 1948 à Houston, dans le Texas.

Elle a pris le nom de Rashād après son mariage avec Ahmad Rashād en 1985 et l'a conservé comme nom de scène après leur divorce.

title: A Raisin in the Sun

overview: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

title: Our Son

overview: When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their 8-year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.

title: tick, tick... BOOM!

overview: On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

title: JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala

overview: Documentary about the star-studded pre-inaugural gala that took place on January 19, 1961 to celebrate John F. Kennedy's election.

title: Just Wright

overview: Physical therapist Leslie Wright lands the dream job of working with basketball superstar Scott McKnight, helping him recover from a career-threatening injury. All goes well and soon Leslie finds herself falling in love with him. Just as their friendship deepens, however, Scott focuses his attention back on his tenuous relationship with his ex-fiancé Morgan, Leslie's gorgeous godsister, who would love to be the basketball player's trophy wife.

title: Good Deeds

overview: For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.

title: For Colored Girls

overview: A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

title: The Babysitter's Seduction

overview: The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "seduced" by the father.

title: The Broad Coalition

overview: A man becomes pregnant in a zany comedy.

title: Frankie & Alice

overview: A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

title: Polly

overview: An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.

title: Being Mary Tyler Moore

overview: With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary's sixty-year career in show business.

title: Change of Plans

overview: Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.

title: Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

overview: A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

original_title: Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

title: Steel Magnolias

overview: In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.

title: Free of Eden

overview: Story about Will Cleamons, a former teacher-turned-businessman who agrees to tutor 18-year-old high school dropout, Nicole Turner. Much to his surprise, their relationship not only helps Nicole build a future, but helps Cleamons put his personal life back together.

title: Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

overview: Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.

title: Heaven Down Here

overview: Inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, “Heaven Down Here” tells the story of four disparate people who find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm hits the town.

title: The Old Settler

overview: The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds.  An earnest but unworldly young man named Husband travels up from the South to board with the sisters while he searches for his beloved Lou Bessie, who left their small town a few years back to find a new life.  Husband would like to bring Lou Bessie back home, but she's enamored with the excitement of the city, and her plans are more complicated. In time, Elizabeth and Husband begin a courtship that may or may not overcome their considerable age difference, while Quilly reacts disapprovingly.

title: The Beekeeper

overview: One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.

title: David's Mother

overview: Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.

title: Polly: Comin' Home!

overview: Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.

title: Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

overview: "Twenty Pearls" tells a powerful story of sisterhood. In 1908, nine Black women enrolled at Howard University made one decision that would change the course of history. These college students created Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

original_title: Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

title: NBC 75th Anniversary Special

overview: A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.

title: Jailbirds

overview: Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed together.

title: We're Fighting Back

overview: Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.

title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

overview: The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.

title: Coretta Scott

overview: (2013) This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.

title: Emily & Tim

overview: The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.

title: Creed

overview: The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

title: The Possession of Michael D.

overview: When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a demon.

title: August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

overview: Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chronicling a century of African-American life. Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

original_title: August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

title: Mickey's 60th Birthday

overview: This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey pays a visit to the patrons of "Cheers", meets up with the Keatons from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.

title: Tour de Pharmacy

overview: A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

title: False Witness

overview: An assistant district attorney's (Phylicia Rashad) co-worker lover (Philip Michael Thomas) plans to prove her wrong about a case.

title: Creed II

overview: Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.

title: Charlie's Place

overview: The story of an African American nightclub in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that was a significant stop on the Chitlin’ Circuit in the segregated South. The owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, welcomed blacks and whites to his club. From the 1930s to the 1960s, many of the greatest black musicians played there, including Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Ruth Brown and Little Richard.

title: The Visit

overview: A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.

title: Soul

overview: Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

title: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

overview: An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.

title: A Fall from Grace

overview: When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.

title: Creed III

overview: After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.

title: Black Box

overview: After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

title: Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

overview: In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.

title: Between the World and Me

overview: Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.

title: Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

overview: A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.

title: Hallelujah

overview: Christmas at the Messiah Church in Washington D.C. A young preacher and, later in the day, a mysterious pregnant girl arrive at the church doors looking to begin new lives. The preacher, the Reverend Oliver Crawford, is not the judgmental church committee's first choice to be the Messiah's new pastor; an unwed father of a teenage son, he is given only two days to prove his worth to his new parishioners. Meanwhile, Katherine, a sixteen-year-old girl who is about to give birth, has come to the area to escape an abusive home and to search for a grandfather she doesn't know. With the help of local homeless advocate "Big" Willie Thorton, Crawford attempts to revive the spirit of the church and provide solace to the displaced girl.

title: Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist

overview: An intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Branford Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad and more take us behind the scenes to explore Boseman's extraordinary commitment to his craft.

title: Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous

overview: Anna Campbell, now 65, sparked controversy when she bared it all on stage years ago. When a theatre festival asks to re-stage the work with a younger actress in her role, dramatic and comic fireworks ensue.

original_title: Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous

title: The Cosby Show: A Look Back

overview: A retrospective of the phenomenally popular 1984-1992 situation comedy, "The Cosby Show," complete with memorable clips, bloopers and comments from series stars, producers and Bill Cosby himself.

title: The Earth Day Special

overview: The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.

title: Ruth & Boaz

overview: A talented singer leaves the Atlanta music scene and starts over in small-town Tennessee, where she finds love and new purpose but can't escape the past.

title: Show of Titles

overview: An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.

character: "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer

title: Gods Behaving Badly

overview: Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.

title: Dinosaur - Preshow

overview: A paleontologist recruits you for a secret mission to bring a 3.5-ton Iguanodon back to the present. There’s just one problem—the giant meteor that wiped out life on Earth is on the way! Board a rugged Time Rover vehicle and set off on a thrilling adventure through a primeval forest filled with life-like dinosaurs

title: Bob Hope's Four-Star Christmas Fiesta from San Antonio

overview: Bob Hope is in San Antonio, TX with Clint Black, Phylicia Rashad, Rita Rudner, wife Dolores and Texas governor Ann Richards for his annual Christmas show.

original_title: Bob Hope's Four-Star Christmas Fiesta from San Antonio

title: VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens

overview: We knew the return of Hip-Hop Honors after a six-year hiatus would be huge, but with a surprise from Diddy and some major beef getting squashed, this year was bigger than ever.

title: God and the Inner City

overview: In 2001 President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Beyond issues of separation of church and state, do these initiatives really work better than secular, government-run programs? This program follows the efforts of the leaders of two initiatives with differing approaches: the non-proselytizing style of the Reverend Gene Rivers of Baker House in Dorchester near Boston and Pastor Mike Zello, director of Teen Challenge, a drug rehabilitation program premised on Christianity. Also profiled is the Amachi Program for children of incarcerated parents in Philadelphia.

title: The Debbie Allen Special

overview: Debbie Allen stars in her own primetime variety special.

title: Dreams Worth While: The Journey of "A Raisin in the Sun"

overview: Cast and crew discuss making "A Raisin in the Sun" for television.

original_title: Dreams Worth While: The Journey of "A Raisin in the Sun"

title: Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair

overview: When a family celebration brings relatives and friends together for a weekend, old secrets, unexpected relationships, and long-standing grudges quickly turn the gathering upside down. As tensions rise and drama unfolds, Madea steps in to set everyone straight before the family's biggest secret tears them apart.

title: A Raisin in the Sun

title: Our Son

title: tick, tick... BOOM!

title: JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala

title: Just Wright

title: Good Deeds

title: For Colored Girls

title: The Babysitter's Seduction

title: The Broad Coalition

title: Frankie & Alice

title: Polly

title: Being Mary Tyler Moore

title: Change of Plans

title: Steel Magnolias

title: Free of Eden

title: Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

title: Heaven Down Here

title: The Old Settler

title: The Beekeeper

title: David's Mother

title: Polly: Comin' Home!

title: NBC 75th Anniversary Special

title: Jailbirds

title: We're Fighting Back

title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

title: Coretta Scott

title: Emily & Tim

title: Creed

title: The Possession of Michael D.

title: Mickey's 60th Birthday

title: Tour de Pharmacy

title: False Witness

title: Creed II

title: Charlie's Place

title: The Visit

title: Soul

title: Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

title: A Fall from Grace

title: Creed III

title: Black Box

title: Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

title: Between the World and Me

title: Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

title: Hallelujah

title: Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist

title: The Cosby Show: A Look Back

title: The Earth Day Special

title: Ruth & Boaz

title: Show of Titles

title: Gods Behaving Badly

title: Dinosaur - Preshow

title: VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens

title: God and the Inner City

title: The Debbie Allen Special

title: Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair