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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
English. Box office. $310,273 [ 1] Hidden is a 2015 American psychological thriller film [ 2] written and directed by the Duffer Brothers in their feature film debut. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, and Emily Alyn Lind. This was producer Richard D. Zanuck 's last film; he died before filming began.
The Podgórska sisters, Stefania Podgórska [Wikidata] (June 2, 1925 – September 29, 2018) and Helena Podgórska [ Q109648858] (born 1935), came from a Catholic farming family living near Przemyśl in south-eastern Poland. [ 1] During the Holocaust, sixteen-year-old Stefania and her seven-year-old sister harboured thirteen Jewish men, women ...
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [ 1][ 2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
Glen Powell has recalled watching a rough cut of 2016’s Hidden Figures for the first time, admitting he was terrified his performance “ruined” the movie.. Powell, 35, portrayed real-life ...
AFI's 10 Top 10. v. t. e. Part of the American Film Institute 's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [ 1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS. The program was hosted by Pierce Brosnan and had ...
Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American ...
August 6, 2024 at 5:30 PM. Parents of rare identical quads share their first photoshoot. Mercedes and Jonathan Sandhu, the Texas couple who welcomed identical quadruplets on May 1, have an ...