Manoush
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Marcia Nicole Barandshay (born 19 May 1971 in Biel/Bienne
, Switzerland
) is an Dutch
-German actress, singer, songwriter, anti death penalty advocate and Screenwriter.
, Switzerland
and raised in Haarlem
, Noord-Holland. She immigrated to the United States a couple of years ago.
´s Amélie
, Manoush often gets credited as an action and horror actress or a specialist for roles difficult to play. Manoush stars also in the American Indie film 15 Til Midnight.
Biel/Bienne
Biel/Bienne is a city in the district of the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.It is located on the language boundary and is throughout bilingual. Biel is the German name for the town, Bienne its French counterpart. The town is often referred to in both...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) is an Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
-German actress, singer, songwriter, anti death penalty advocate and Screenwriter.
Early life
Manoush was born as the third child of a German-American father in Biel/BienneBiel/Bienne
Biel/Bienne is a city in the district of the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.It is located on the language boundary and is throughout bilingual. Biel is the German name for the town, Bienne its French counterpart. The town is often referred to in both...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and raised in Haarlem
Haarlem
Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...
, Noord-Holland. She immigrated to the United States a couple of years ago.
Movie career
Although she appeared in several TV productions as well as films such as Jean-Pierre JeunetJean-Pierre Jeunet
-Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...
´s Amélie
Amélie
Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...
, Manoush often gets credited as an action and horror actress or a specialist for roles difficult to play. Manoush stars also in the American Indie film 15 Til Midnight.
Music career
Besides her acting and writing career, worked she as singer of the band "Cyanide Survior" alongside her Husband Chris Vazquez.Filmography
- 1998 M-Inspiration
- 1998 Engagement
- 1999 Time To Kill
- 1999 Einer geht Noch
- 2000 AmélieAmélieAmélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...
- 2001 Wolf im Schafspelz
- 2002 Champion
- 2002 Crossclub - Project Genesis
- 2003 Hinter Schloss und Riegel
- 2004 Angel of Death
- 2004 Criminal Court: Tempel of Lust
- 2004 Moonlight Mountain
- 2005 CannibalCannibal (film)- Plot :In a small rural town, a man roams the streets, his apparent search for a suitable partner runs without success.On the internet, he continues to search, he's looking for meat, and he finds a willing victim. The man meets the young man in the open field and entertains him on his farm...
- 2005 Freunde für immer
- 2006 Traumjob
- 2006 BarricadeBarricade (2007 film)Barricade - Welcome to Hell is a 2007 horror/splatter feature film from German director Timo Rose, it stars American actors Raine Brown and Joseph Zaso and Germany's André Reissig, Thomas Kercmar, Manoush, and Andreas Pape. It was written by Timo Rose and Ted Geoghegan.-Plot:The film follows three...
- 2007 Zombie Reanimation
- 2008 Philosophy of a Knife
- 2008 Popular
- 2008 The Turnpike Killer
- 2008 Uncut!
- 2008 Necronos - Tower of Doom
- 2009 Little Big Boy - The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Duncan
- 2009 La petite mort
- 2009 Game Over
- 2009 Unrated
- 2009 Cats
- 2009 Zombie Reanimation
- 2010 15 Till Midnight
- 2010 Avantgarde
- 2010 Non Compos Mentis
- 2010 Little Big Boy
- 2010 Ingression