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Wendi McLendon-Covey
American actress and comedian (born )
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| Born | Wendi McLendon () October 10, (age&#;55) Bellflower, California, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | California State University, Long Beach |
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| Years&#;active | –present |
| Spouse | Greg Covey &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
Wendi McLendon-Covey (néeMcLendon; born October 10, ) is an American actress known primarily for her work in comedic and improvisational roles. From until , she played the role of family matriarch Beverly Goldberg on the ABC comedy series The Goldbergs, for which she was nominated for two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
A native of Long Beach, California, McLendon-Covey worked numerous jobs after graduating from high school before earning a degree from California State University, Long Beach, in After graduating, she became a member of The Groundlings, an improvisational comedy group in Los Angeles, and remained a member until McLendon-Covey began her acting career while still a member of the Groundlings, starring as Deputy Clementine Johnson in the improvisational series Reno ! (–, –present). She also had the lead role in the Lifetime short-lived comedy Lovespring International (), as well as minor roles in Bewitched () and Over Her Dead Body (). McLendon-Covey had a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement (–).
After a breakout performance in the comedy film Bridesmaids, McLendon-Covey has appeared in a number of films, including What to Expect When You're Expecting (), The Single Moms Club (), Blended (), Think Like a Man Too (), Hello, My Name Is Doris (), Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (), What Men Want (), Sylvie's Love (), Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (), and Elemental (). In , after years in comedy
For San Francisco gallerist Wendi Norris, words matter. More so than ‘surrealist’ – the characteristic most often attributed to her program – ‘textual’, ‘poetic’, and ‘narrative-driven’, best describe her artistic project and curatorial vision. Of the artists she represents, which include María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Chitra Ganesh, Enrique Martínez Celaya, and the estates of Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning, Norris says: ‘Whether they’re using text as a visual material, referencing a work of literature, incorporating their own writing practice, or just offering a strong sense of story, there’s always something linguistic.’
For this reason, Norris understands what’s at stake when artists’ lives and artistic practices are reduced to single words like ‘feminist’ or ‘surrealist’, often to the exclusion of all else. The latter presents a particular point of contention for Norris, who’s frequently credited with helping to rewrite the history of the Surrealism movement thanks to her involvement with luminaries like Carrington, Tanning, Remedios Varo, and Alice Rahon.
‘They were shaping their own entirely new flavor of Modern art with their own distinct vocabularies and modes of interdisciplinary making,’ Norris said. ‘You miss out on so much of what they were doing when you look through only one lens.’
Since leaving her career in tech to open her eponymous gallery in , Norris has been doing what she calls ‘practice’ or ‘the work.’ This includes setting auction records, confirming museum exhibitions, securing institutional acquisitions, expanding scholarship, and cultivating industry-wide recognition for Carrington, Tanning, Varo, and Rahon. In more ways than one, the gallery has acted as a catalyst for the large-scale revaluation of pioneering 20th-century women artists that we see today.
Case in point: the gallery’s presentation ‘The Story of the Last Egg’, featuring cosmic paintings and sculptural masks spanning four decades of Carrington’s
Noma Dumezweni
British actress
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| Born | () 28 July (age&#;55) Mbabane, Swaziland |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | s–present |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Laurence Olivier Award |
Noma Dumezweni (born 28 July ) is a South African-British actress. In , she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. In , she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; she reprised the role for the show's original Broadway run and, in , was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Personal life
Born in Mbabane, Swaziland (present-day Eswatini) in to South African parents, Dumezweni lived in Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. She arrived in England as a refugee at the age of seven with her sister and mother. She first lived in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where she was educated, before moving to London at 18 years old.
Career
Theatre
Early work
Dumezweni's work in theatre includes: President of an Empty Room and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other at the National Theatre, London;A Raisin in the Sun for the Young Vic at the Lyric Hammersmith, London (for which she won her first Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role);A Midsummer Night's Dream,The Master and Margarita,Nathan the Wise and The Coffee House at Chichester Festival Theatre, Six Characters in Search of an Author in the Chichester Festival production at the Gielgud Theatre and The Bogus Woman at the Traverse and the Bush.
Royal Shakespeare Company 
Where were you born?
Honolulu Hawaii/Kaneohe
Where do you live now?
Los Angeles
What’s your sign?
I’m a true Aries.
As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I always knew I wanted to work in the beauty industry. I was intrigued by makeup and transformation and learning how to transform myself. It helped me find myself as a young trans woman in Hawaii. I would get inspired as I was hanging outside of clubs in Oahu where drag queens and trans performers were frequenting. I developed a vision for myself through the inspiration, however, I never really knew where that would lead.
How did you get your start in makeup?
As a young transwoman I was always fascinated with the Illusion of makeup and its ability to create a new feeling or persona. I remember saving money I made from doing hair and makeup for proms and going to the MAC store to get my makeup done so I could learn from the working artists.
If you hadn’t gotten into makeup what do you think you’d be doing right now?
Maybe own a nonprofit and own an animal rescue shelter.
How did you know that the makeup artist industry was where you wanted to be?
I realized that I was good at something, and I followed that path. I don’t know where I would be without makeup in my life. I’m just as excited about it every day. I wake up thinking about manifesting the next client and I go to bed dreaming in color. I love when my client sees the makeup I created in alignment to their features and personality.
What was your first memorable work as an artist?
Getting a call back to work with the legendary Pat McGrath. It was for Diesel Black and Gold and it was the first show I did with her. After that I was booked for the European shows in Milan, Paris and became part of the team.
What are the things about your work that makes it the most interesting to you?
The most interesting part of makeup is in my own personal evolution and how I’ve been available to be sensitive enough to always learn and s
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Where were you born?
Honolulu Hawaii/Kaneohe
Where do you live now?
Los Angeles
What’s your sign?
I’m a true Aries.
As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I always knew I wanted to work in the beauty industry. I was intrigued by makeup and transformation and learning how to transform myself. It helped me find myself as a young trans woman in Hawaii. I would get inspired as I was hanging outside of clubs in Oahu where drag queens and trans performers were frequenting. I developed a vision for myself through the inspiration, however, I never really knew where that would lead.
How did you get your start in makeup?
As a young transwoman I was always fascinated with the Illusion of makeup and its ability to create a new feeling or persona. I remember saving money I made from doing hair and makeup for proms and going to the MAC store to get my makeup done so I could learn from the working artists.
If you hadn’t gotten into makeup what do you think you’d be doing right now?
Maybe own a nonprofit and own an animal rescue shelter.
How did you know that the makeup artist industry was where you wanted to be?
I realized that I was good at something, and I followed that path. I don’t know where I would be without makeup in my life. I’m just as excited about it every day. I wake up thinking about manifesting the next client and I go to bed dreaming in color. I love when my client sees the makeup I created in alignment to their features and personality.
What was your first memorable work as an artist?
Getting a call back to work with the legendary Pat McGrath. It was for Diesel Black and Gold and it was the first show I did with her. After that I was booked for the European shows in Milan, Paris and became part of the team.
What are the things about your work that makes it the most interesting to you?
The most interesting part of makeup is in my own personal evolution and how I’ve been available to be sensitive enough to always learn and s