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2 unusual facts about Portia


Emily Bissell

For example, instead on having Ophelia as his wife, Hamlet would have been much better served by the more forceful Lady Macbeth, while Macbeth himself would have been better served by Portia.

Julia Arthur

At the age of 12, in 1881, she became the leading woman, playing Ophelia, Juliet, Portia, Lady Macbeth, Lady Anne in Richard III, and other important roles, and remained with the Bandmann company until 1884.


Alana Stewart

In 2012, she guest starred in an episode of the Caruso"?title=DeVanity">DeVanity as Claudia Muller the mother of Lara Muller DeVanity and Dr. Portia Muller Roth.

Bodegas Faustino

other than Faustino itself, the company includes Campillo and Marques de Vitoria also in Rioja; Valcarlos in Navarra; Condesa de Leganza in La Mancha; Bodegas Portia in Ribera del Duero; and Bodegas Victorianas, which offers varietal table wine from across Spain.

Booker Pittman

Booker Pittman or Pitman (3 March 1909, Fairmount Heights, Maryland, USA - 19 October 1969, São Paulo, Brasil) was the son of Portia Pittman and a grandson of Booker T. Washington.

Cynthia Cleese

The daughter of British actor John Cleese and American actress Connie Booth, she is best known for A Fish Called Wanda, where she played daughter Portia to Cleese's character Archie Leach.

Fairmount Heights, Maryland

Prominent architect William Sidney Pittman built his home on Eastern Avenue; his wife, Portia, was the daughter of Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute.

Jan Waters

Waters continued to make periodic stage and television appearance in the late 1970s, most notably portraying Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Portia in Twelfth Night in tours of the UK and the Far East with the Palace Theatre Company, Watford, Hertfordshire.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

He introduced choruses between the acts, two of these being written by Pope, and an incongruous love scene between Brutus and Portia.

Latarsha Rose

Latarsha Rose is an American film and television actress, best known for her role as Portia in the 2012 film The Hunger Games.

Louise Bennett-Coverley

In 1986, she appeared as Portia in the comedy film Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff and Peter O'Toole.

Moshi Monsters

The Moshi Monster TV show features music from: Sonic Boom, Beatie Wolfe, The Blackout (band), Portia Conn, Mop Top Tweeny Bop, Merry Twistmas.

Portia Faces Life

In 1952, an Australian version of Portia Faces Life began transmission from the radio station 3UZ in Melbourne.

Portia Geach Memorial Award

The Award was established in 1961 as a testamentary trust by Florence Kate Geach, sister of Australian painter Portia Geach, with an initial endowment of 12,000 Australian pounds.

Portia Sabin

Portia Sabin is president of the independent label Kill Rock Stars and former board member of A2IM.

Portia White

Portia May White was born in 1911 in Truro, Nova Scotia, the third of thirteen children born to Izie Dora and William Andrew White.

Shylock

Hyam Maccoby argues that the play is based on medieval morality plays in which the Virgin Mary (here represented by Portia) argues for the forgiveness of human souls, as against the implacable accusations of the Devil (Shylock).

The play received its American premiere on November 16, 1977 at New York's Plymouth Theatre with Joseph Leon as Shylock, Marian Seldes as Shylock's sister Rivka and Roberta Maxwell as Portia.

Truly Blessed

Phyllis Yvonne, Marva King, Mark Philosit, Michelle Kornegay, Annette Hardeman, Jacqueline Gregory, Paula Holloway, Charlene Holloway, Minnie Curry, Terry Price, Darryl Phinnessee, Dorian Holley, Jim Gilstrap, Julia Tiltman Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Wendy Fraser, Rosalind Keel, Fred White, Phyllis St James, Portia Griffin, Joey Diggs, Solomon Henderson Jr., Keith Jones, Sheila Lakin, Bridgent Potts, Ron Monroe, John Kee, Andrea Deese, Clarissa Rhodes, Jeanette Taylor - backing vocals


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