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Melissa Etheridge is a Actor and Sound American born on 29 may 1961 at Leavenworth (USA)

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge
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Birth name Melissa Lou Etheridge
Nationality USA
Birth 29 may 1961 (62 years) at Leavenworth (USA)

Melissa Lou Etheridge (née le 29 mai 1961) est une auteure-compositrice-interprète, guitariste et activiste américaine. Son premier album éponyme, Melissa Etheridge, est sorti en 1988 et est devenu un succès underground. L'album a culminé à la 22e place du Billboard 200 et son premier single, "Bring Me Some Water", lui a valu sa première nomination au Grammy Award de la meilleure performance vocale rock féminine. Aussi extraites de son premier album, les chansons Similar Features, I Want You et incontestablement Like the Way I Do, figurent parmi les plus appréciées par ses fans. En 1993, Melissa a remporté son premier Grammy Award pour son single "Ain't It Heavy" de son troisième album, Never Enough. Plus tard cette année-là, elle publie ce qui deviendra son album révolutionnaire, Yes I Am. Ses chansons "I'm the Only One" et "Come to My Window" ont tous deux figuré dans le top 30 aux États-Unis et ce dernier lui a apporté son deuxième Grammy Award. Yes I Am a grimpé au numéro 15 du Billboard 200 et a passé 138 semaines sur les charts, obtenant une certification RIAA de 6 × Platine, sa plus grande à ce jour.

En octobre 2004, un cancer du sein avait été diagnostiqué chez Melissa, qui a subi une chirurgie et une chimiothérapie. Aux Grammy Awards 2005, elle a fait un retour sur scène et, bien que chauve à cause de ses séances de chimiothérapie, elle a tenu à rendre hommage à Janis Joplin avec la chanson "Piece of My Heart" et la performance de Melissa a été largement saluée. Plus tard cette année-là, elle publia son premier album de compilation, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled qui fut un succès, atteignant le numéro 14 sur le Billboard 200 et passant à l'or presque immédiatement. Son dernier album studio s'intitule The Medicine Show.

Elle est connue pour son mélange de "paroles confessionnelles, de folk-rock basé sur la pop et de chants rauques et fumants". Elle est également une activiste gaie et lesbienne depuis sa sortie en public en janvier 1993 lorsqu'elle a fait son "coming out". Elle a reçu quinze nominations aux Grammy Awards au cours de sa carrière, dont deux en 1993. En 2007, elle a remporté un Oscar de la meilleure chanson originale pour "I Need to Wake Up" du film An Inconvenient Truth. En septembre 2011, Melissa a reçu une étoile sur le Walk of Fame à Hollywood.

Biography

En janvier 1993, elle devient célèbre en tant que militante du mouvement de libération gay lorsqu'elle fait son coming out public lors du bal d'inauguration de la première présidence de Bill Clinton.

Elle a été la compagne de Julie Cypher pendant près de 10 ans, laquelle eut deux enfants par insémination (le père biologique étant David Crosby).
Puis elle se marie avec l'actrice Tammy Lynn Michaels qui accouche de jumeaux durant leur relation. Le 13 avril 2010, le couple annonce sa séparation par voie de communiqué.

Melissa Etheridge a dû interrompre sa carrière à cause d'un cancer du sein qui l'a beaucoup fatiguée. Elle est apparue chauve à la cérémonie des Grammy Awards en 2005, pour chanter une chanson de Janis Joplin, Piece of My Heart. Elle revient toutefois plus forte que jamais en 2007 avec un nouvel album, The Awakening et repart en tournée, pour preuve l'album The Awakening Live qui est produit la même année. Puis en 2008, elle réalise un album de Noël New thoughts for Christmas ainsi qu'un EP Christmas In America de 4 chansons, extrait de cet album. Elle a sorti depuis 4 autres albums dont son tout dernier publié en 2016, Memphis Rock And Soul.

Elle est mariée à Linda Wallem.

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Filmography of Melissa Etheridge (8 films)

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Actress

1 a Minute
1 a Minute (2010)
, 1h30
Directed by Namrata Singh Gujral
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, Films about cancer
Actors Olivia Newton-John, Jaclyn Smith, Namrata Singh Gujral, Kelly McGillis, Barbara Mori, Melissa Etheridge
Rating69% 3.4788853.4788853.4788853.4788853.478885
The film is a hybrid between narrative structure and documentary style set to interweave throughout the film's plot. Based on the director's own experiences, the film follow the life of one woman and her struggle with breast cancer. The personal experiences of other celebrities who have themselves dealt with breast cancer, are interspersed throughout the film, as told by the celebrities themselves.
Last Party 2000, 2h17
Directed by Donovan Leitch
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Rosie O'Donnell
Rating64% 3.2434253.2434253.2434253.2434253.243425
This documentary follows Philip Seymour Hoffman as a concerned citizen on an uncensored journey of the state of American democracy. The film examines how the American political process addresses, and often fails to address, the country's most pressing issues. The film answers the question, is there a difference between Republicans and Democrats?
Jackie's Back!, 2h
Directed by Robert Townsend
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Actors Jenifer Lewis, Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Tangie Ambrose, Loretta Devine, David Hyde Pierce
Rating70% 3.5408853.5408853.5408853.5408853.540885
Presented as a mockumentary, Jackie's Back chronicles the life and career of Jackie Washington (Jenifer Lewis), a 1960s/1970s R&B diva. After several years of toiling in obscurity, Washington decides to organize her own comeback concert with filmmaker Edward Whatsett St. John (Tim Curry) filming the event. The film also features numerous cameo appearances by celebrities.
Teresa's Tattoo, 1h28
Directed by Julie Cypher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Adler, Nancy McKeon, Melissa Etheridge, Kiefer Sutherland
Roles the hooker
Rating45% 2.2703652.2703652.2703652.2703652.270365
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who wanted her to live a little, dragged her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and is wearing leather! It's the old switcheroo in this action comedy that follows the exploits of desperate extortionists. Gloria is a fluffhead with a Chinese dragon tattooed upon her chest. She wears lovely holograph earrings that just happen to contain classified detail of the U.S. space program. She is taken hostage by the bumbling extortionists and their leader Carl, former head of a freezer treat company. Unfortunately for them, Gloria accidentally drowns in their pool when she tangles with a beach ball. Now the crooks must find a lookalike for Gloria. They find her in Teresa, a college girl with a talent for mathematics. She is captured and tattooed. She soon escapes leading the crooks on a merry chase. Joining in the hunt for Teresa is an FBI agent and her new boyfriend.

Sound

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, 1h35
Directed by Jim Abrahams
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins, Graham Beckel, Thomas Wilson Brown, Frances Fisher
Rating58% 2.903372.903372.903372.903372.90337
The film's main character is a 15-year-old girl named Dinky Bossetti (Ryder). Dinky was adopted as a baby. She appears to have little acceptance in her social circle, although it is not obvious which came first - her antisocial attitude or her being rejected by her peers. Her adoptive mother is disappointed that the daughter she chose has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing. Her classmates ostracize, taunt, and throw things at her regularly. Dinky finds solace in her "Ark", a small cabin-boat beached on a lake shore. In and around the boat, Dinky has collected a menagerie of abandoned animals.
Weeds
Weeds (1987)
, 1h55
Directed by John D. Hancock
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Actors Nick Nolte, Ernie Hudson, William Forsythe, Mark Rolston, Lane Smith, Joe Mantegna
Rating59% 2.9967352.9967352.9967352.9967352.996735
Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) is incarcerated in San Quentin for armed robbery, serving "life without possibility" (with no chance of parole). After two failed suicide attempts, Lee begins to read books from the prison library. He attends a performance of Waiting for Godot given for the prisoners and is deeply moved. He begins to write plays about imprisonment and then stages them, too.