Amanda Strawn

Amanda Strawn

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The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Title: The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Character: Gloria
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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A Diva's Christmas Carol
Title: A Diva's Christmas Carol
Character: Mrs. McGrath
Released: December 13, 2000
Type: Movie
In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas spirits who would change her miserly ways for the better.
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Wilder
Title: Wilder
Character: Grimes' Secretary
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
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Who Gets the House?
Title: Who Gets the House?
Character: Denise Rhodes
Released: June 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Don and Rebecca Reece are facing the toughest decision of their lives whether or not to end their marriage of nearly 20 years. The Reeces agree to a trial separation. The kids get the house; Mom and Dad will shuttle back and forth.
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Welcome to Africville
Title: Welcome to Africville
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Welcome to Africville gives voice to what may have been marginalized members of an Afro-Canadian community in 1969. It's intention is to be a catalyst to thought and reflection about the lives and struggles of people from that community whose stories still go untold. It is the fictional account of a family. We listen to the stories of three generations of women and their friend Julius on the day their community is to be destroyed by the municipal government of Halifax. This story is a portrait of four individuals coping with universal uncertainties and insecurities.
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Everything to Gain
Title: Everything to Gain
Character: Judge Renaldi
Released: October 13, 1996
Type: Movie
After losing her husband and two daughters in a robbery, Mallory must face up to her bereavement and ensuing depression.
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Liberace: Behind the Music
Title: Liberace: Behind the Music
Character: Gladys
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.