Manoush

Manoush


in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Manoush is an actress and singer.

Manoush was born 1972 or 1973 as Manoush Barandaj or Manoush Barandyai in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer as the third child of a mother of French Manouche Sinti and Ashkali origin and a German-American father. She was raised in Haarlem, North Holland, Cologne, (Germany) and Biel, Switzerland. At the age of 18, Manoush began modelling, but her career stopped short at age 20 after a car accident left scars on her stomach and legs. She immigrated to the United States in the summer of 2006 and returned to Europe approx. in 2015.

Manoush pursued film in 1997. In 2000, she was offered the role of the "nymphomaniac" in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, which opened many doors in the film and TV industry for Manoush, as well as establishing her as a "bad girl". Manoush often gets credit as an action and horror actress or as a professional in roles which can be intense and difficult to play. In 2004 she played fighter Carda in Angel of Death 2, closely followed by Timo Rose's The Legend of Moonlight Mountain (2005), Marian Dora's Cannibal (2006), Timo Rose's Barricade (2007), and Andrey Iskanov's Philosophy of a Knife (2008). Manoush won Best Supporting Actress in 2011 at the PollyGrind Film Festival in Las Vegas for her role as Olga in The Super.

She started out as a cyberpunk singer. Besides her acting and writing career, she worked as a singer in the band Cyanide Savior alongside her husband, Chris Vazquez. In 2016 and 2017 she recorded two tracks with 1980s UK band Bronski Beat and US producer Man Parrish.

Source: Article "Manoush" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Die Boten des Todes
Title: Die Boten des Todes
Character: Witch
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Hans, a kind-hearted but not particularly bright young man. He is bored on his father's farm. He would love to see something of the world and find a woman to marry. So he sets off and wants to visit his grandmother at the same time. However, the route takes him right through the fairytale land of the Brothers Grimm, where he meets various characters from their stories: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Mother Hulda, the Brave Little Tailor, Puss in Boots, Master Pfriem and, finally, Father Death. The latter is a little under the weather and the unsuspecting Hans helps him back on his feet.
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Zombies from Sector 9
Title: Zombies from Sector 9
Character: Valerie
Released: December 31, 2020
Type: Movie
The story is about Bookwalker, once a useless bum, now turned zombie killer and raider hunter. The story is set in CrittersVille where there is a nuclear meltdown and the dead are coming back to life and you have raiders. roaming the lands.
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Gelosia
Title: Gelosia
Released: March 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Thomas is a sex-obsessed alcoholic. On the way back from a family celebration an accident happens in which his wife HEIDI burns the side of her face. Thomas dumps his wife out due to the lack of attractiveness and he experiences erotic role-play fantasies with other women while being permanently drunk. How long can Thomas keep everything under control?
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Amor killt
Title: Amor killt
Character: Venus
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A short directed by Christian Kreil.
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When Black Birds Fly
Title: When Black Birds Fly
Character: Kitty
Released: January 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Heaven is a beautiful, clean suburban paradise as long as they follow one simple rule: DO NOT communicate with "The Evil One" that dwells on the other side of a giant wall that circles the town. One day after chasing one he discovers a talking kitten with a broken leg a small child crawls through a hole in the wall and meets the Evil One, who attempts to teach him the forbidden knowledge that was previously hidden from them all.
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Blood on the Reel
Title: Blood on the Reel
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary which focuses on Indie Horror Filmmakers from around the world and the perils we're put through to bring your our films.
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Caedes
Title: Caedes
Character: Alsuna
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Directed by Slavko Spionjak.
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The Curse of Doctor Wolffenstein
Title: The Curse of Doctor Wolffenstein
Character: Miss Royce Reed
Released: February 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Dr. Victor Wolffenstein, a genius and at the same time devilish doctor, has set himself a huge goal, he wants to become immortal. In the Year 1930 he brews a serum, which is supposed to help him achieve his goal. But it has an unwanted side effect, he becomes immortal but becomes infected with necrosis and the only thing left for him to do is to replace his body parts. Dr. Wolffenstein recklessly starts to harvest limbs from the other villagers, but in the end they overpower him and bury him alive. More than 80 years later, five teenagers are on their way to the biggest Rave party of the year. On their way they get stranded in a small village, due to a car accident and have to wait for repair. The teenagers decide to visit a local discotheque and then the terror begins, Dr. Wolffenstein is back.
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Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge
Title: Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge
Character: The Officer
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Coming back from her bachelor party in Las Vegas, Christine and her friends are driving through the hot desert of Nevada. But they are not alone - serial killer Max Seed is back and he brought the whole family.
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Survive
Title: Survive
Character: Rose von Klinger
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Horror - Manoush, Paul Burt, Demitra Catleugh
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Project Genesis: Crossclub 2
Title: Project Genesis: Crossclub 2
Character: Dr. Stein
Released: April 4, 2011
Type: Movie
In a "death zone", a self-proclaimed "leader" with his 5-man army and zombie mutants created by him wants to take over the rule. For this he must first pursue three women dressed in lingerie through a German mixed forest ...
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Necronos: Tower of Doom
Title: Necronos: Tower of Doom
Character: Witch
Released: December 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Necronos, one of the mightiest minions of the devil himself has come to earth to create an invincible army of the undead under leadership of barbaric demons, called Berzerkers. To achieve his goal Necronos needs numerous often very macabre and difficult to come by ingredients. So Satan sends him two assistants to achieve his goal - Goran, a Blood Demon and footman loyal to Necronos as well as The Mighty Witch to locate the chosen one - a virgin witch.
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Little Big Boy
Title: Little Big Boy
Character: Althea Lee
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Jimmy Duncan is a film director working on his fourth film but things are not exactly going as planned.
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The Super
Title: The Super
Character: Olga
Released: November 14, 2010
Type: Movie
George Rossi, who immigrated to the US and served in the Vietnam war, is now a Superintendent of a Queens apartment building. He finds himself quickly slipping into a depraved world which is fueled by the tenants of the building.
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Avantgarde
Title: Avantgarde
Character: Donna Sciavelli
Released: August 16, 2010
Type: Movie
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Ingression
Title: Ingression
Character: Lucy
Released: April 25, 2010
Type: Movie
After his wife Lucy walks out on him, Alexander tries to seek solace in alcohol and drugs, but the pain just won't go away. He is given the address of a mysterious man who claims to have the answer; a strange, powerful narcotic that will take away his anguish. Alexander can't take any more so he visits the dealer and is given the drug. For a while he feels fine, life is good again, until he realizes that shadowy figures are pursuing him. He tries to escape but there is no hiding from the Ingression.
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Underworld Cats
Title: Underworld Cats
Character: Dr. Lakatos
Released: April 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Beate Thruse develops special female, human-like robots with Catwoman costumes for lonely, desperate men without sex lives. But unfortunately the Cats are all defective and have to be withdrawn. Unfortunately too late, because in the small town of Stadtlohn, the tame Cats have mutated into killer cats.
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15 Till Midnight
Title: 15 Till Midnight
Character: Tiresia / Club Owner
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Parallel worlds collide as a secret society policing this phenomena track a man whose wife has seemingly disappeared.
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Zombie Reanimation
Title: Zombie Reanimation
Character: Inge
Released: November 30, 2009
Type: Movie
It all started with the first Zombie infection in the year 1945. Two fanatic doctors accidentally discover the virus that causes the dead to walk again. However, they quickly realize the undead can not be controlled. Their appetite for human flesh is too strong to allow conscience. Many years later the two scientists start a new experiment, leaving behind a trail of blood...
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Unrated: The Movie
Title: Unrated: The Movie
Character: The Book Keeper
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Frank is a filmmaker who brings a group of actresses to a cabin in the woods to make a film. While there they stumble upon a book, a book that belongs to the Book Keeper. The book is in no way an ordinary book, as it brings demons to earth, and now Frank and his actresses are the only ones to stop them. Source: horrornews.net
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La Petite mort
Title: La Petite mort
Character: Maman Fabienne
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Three friends, Simon, Nina and Dodo, travel to Mallorca but their flight is delayed in Frankfurt. Accidentally the get mugged and wind up at a restaurant called "Maison de la Petite Mort", a notorious venue where members of the Elite Class secretly meet in the basement for bloody games of perversion.
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Game Over
Title: Game Over
Character: Amanda
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Actress Tina moves to Germany after falling in love. After two American friends fly over to visit, the three are all kidnapped by an sadistic maniac. He plays brutal and primitive games with them, and every attempt they make to escape leads them deeper into hell!
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The Turnpike Killer
Title: The Turnpike Killer
Character: Branca Niculescu
Released: April 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Hulking and vicious homicidal maniac Jon Beest hears voices that compel him to brutally butcher women. He dumps their bodies on the side of the road on the New Jersey Turnpike. It's up to troubled NYPD Homicide Detective Lloyd to catch Beest and put an end to his campaign of terror.
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Timo Rose's Beast
Title: Timo Rose's Beast
Character: Lucy DeLenpher
Released: March 31, 2009
Type: Movie
Several people, cursed to turn into monstrous feral beasts, find themselves pursued through Germany by unknown, violent forces.
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Philosophy of a Knife
Title: Philosophy of a Knife
Character: The Female Nurse #1 (voice)
Released: July 8, 2008
Type: Movie
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov.
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Craig
Title: Craig
Character: Manoush
Released: February 5, 2008
Type: Movie
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to deal with, he's not a bad guy, he's just in over his head as it is with his own problems. Craig has suffered some severe trauma and takes Lithium on a daily basis, but when he loses his pills, things slowly, but safely, starts taking a turn for the worse and the voices inside his head is getting louder and louder.
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Fearmakers
Title: Fearmakers
Character: Thalia
Released: January 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Two old friends team up with a woman to solve her sister's murder - and stop a vengeful, murderous ghost.
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Barricade
Title: Barricade
Character: The Mother
Released: February 9, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of friends are terrorized by a cannibalistic family while camping in The Black Forest of Germany.
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Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
Title: Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
Character: Carda
Released: January 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A young girl is wrongfully arrested and sent to an isolated prison located on a small island. She claims her innocence, but is still subjected to all the torture and humiliation that all prisoners face at the hands of Mrs Steele, the sadistic warden. Help is on the way in the form of a group of mercenaries hired by the girl's father. They will do anything to get the job done, even if it means turning the island into a war zone.
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Cannibal
Title: Cannibal
Character: Meiwe's Mother (voice)
Released: December 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Cannibal is based on the true-crime story of Armin Meiwes, the "Rotenburg Cannibal" who posted an online ad searching for someone to volunteer to be mutilated and eaten. Unlikely as it may seem, someone actually replied. The film shows a fictional portrayal of the meeting between the cannibal and his victim/participant, their homosexual relationship, and the eventual mutilation and murder of said victim.
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The Legend of Moonlight Mountain
Title: The Legend of Moonlight Mountain
Character: Kara
Released: November 17, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of people awake on a desolate mountain. Wandering through the forest, they try to decipher how they arrived there. Soon, they realize that there is more to this story than they know. As the sun goes down, the dead begin to rise and the group's worst nightmares come true.
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Cross Club 2: Project Genesis – The Teaser
Title: Cross Club 2: Project Genesis – The Teaser
Character: Dr. Stein
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Amélie
Title: Amélie
Character: Nymphomaniac (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?