Marietta Meade

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Marietta Meade (born December 8, 1956 ; actually Ora Simcha Mead ) is a Belgian - American actress , voice actress , translator and author .

Marietta Meade in June 2010

actress

Meade took ballet lessons from the age of 6. She made her acting debut (under the name Marietta Schupp ) at the age of 7 alongside Heidi Brühl at the Deutsches Theater in Munich in the musical Annie Get Your Gun . Numerous appearances in TV commercials followed .

At the age of 16, as a student of the US choreographer and dancer Bill Milié, she received a scholarship from the city of Munich as the best young dance talent. She is a trained dancer in the fields of classical ballet, jazz dance, tap dance and flamenco. Her teachers include Larry Fuller (New York), Gordon Coaster (Zurich), Brigitta Trommler (Munich), Yella Colombo (Zurich), Richard Demi (Paris), Zoe Sealy (Minneapolis). She also has completed training in singing and musicals.

In 1972 Meade (as Marietta Schupp) was the film daughter of Peter Alexander and was mainly on vacation in front of the camera; Director: Peter Weck . In the same year she directed Divorce His, Divorce Hers with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton . Other roles followed: Determine my own life , director: Peter Schulze-Rohr ; Two Women , directed by Carl Schenkel ; Hardness 10 , (with Wolfgang Kieling ) Director: Gordon Fleming; 2 fingers of one hand (with Ferdy Mayne ), director: Georg Marischka ; The old man , directed by Vadim Glowna and Zbyněk Brynych ; Mutters Courage , directed by Michael Verhoeven ; Traffic court , director: Bruno Jantos; Marriages in court , director: Ruprecht Essberger : Kommissar Zufall , director: Christian Kühn; Streit um Drei , directed by Hartwig van der Neut, etc. She also worked with well-known directors such as Tom Toelle , Harald Philipp , Waris Hussein , Robert Chetwyn and Volker Vogeler .

Meade was also in the USA with Sir Peter Ustinov in the play Beethoven's Tenth , which he wrote, on stage (role: Countess Giulietta Guiccardi), 1983-1984.

Series roles

Uncle Bräsig, directors: Hermann Leitner , Stanislav Barabáš ; Attention customs! , Director: Hermann Leitner; Sankt Pauli Landungsbrücken, directed by Dieter Wedel .

model

From 1962 to 1984 Meade also worked as a photo model.

Voice actress

Marietta Meade's famous speaking roles owned by Jane Seymour Dr. played Michaela 'Mike' Quinn on the series Dr. Quinn - a passionate doctor . She also spoke several times for Geena Davis (including in the three Stuart Little films) and Tilda Swinton .

"Dr. Michaela Quinn" Jane Seymour meets actress and voice talent Marietta Meade in Sarasota, Florida

Films (selection)

TV series (selection)

Meade was also the German dubbing voice of: Julie Haggerty, Amanda Plummer, Sela Ward, Melissa Gilbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Rebecca de Mornay, Vanessa Williams, Donna Reed, Marisa Berenson, Dyann Cannon, Kate Capshaw, Rae Dawn Chung, Virginia Madsen, Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio, and many others. She also dubbed Siv (Ylva Lööf), the pastor's wife, in the film As in Heaven .

Meade is also the German, English and Italian voice of the BMW CARIN navigation system .

Language courses

Due to its multilingualism, Meade has started a large number of language courses in English, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish; also language courses in German for the Goethe-Institut. Meade has also reviewed several audio books and recorded numerous radio plays.

languages

Meade speaks English , German , French , Spanish , Italian , Dutch and Hebrew .

translator

Under her then real name Ora S. James , Meade produced the following translations for the British journalist Phillip Day and his publisher Credence Publications , whose European main office she headed from 2000 to 2006: Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth (German Title: Stahl, Strahl, Chemo and Co .: From the long end of a horror tale ); Health Wars (German title: The fight for health ); Meade is also responsible as co-producer of the video of the same name. Food For Thought (German title: Cheeky beets and light pears ).

Meade has also produced numerous translations for dubbing books.

Book author

As Ora S. James , Meade is also responsible as co-author of the book Tatwaffe Handy - the (scary) secret legacy , which she and her late husband Dr. David R. James wrote (2004). The translation into English she edited reads A Handy Way to Cook Your Brain - What's the Damage? . The abridged new edition of this title edited by Meade is Cellular Radiation: Is This Our Next Titanic? (2009)

Prose and poetry

In the current prose collection Fish, Sin and Moon , Meade presents a selection of her prose and poetry from the years 1997–2008.

Personal

From 1986 to 1995 Meade was married to the renowned Belgian photo artist and photo journalist Jean-Marie Albert Bottequin . From this marriage they have children Ezra (born 1988), Avital (born 1989) and Ayalah (born 1992). From 2001 to 2009 Meade was married to British nutrition and health advisor Dr. David R. James . Meade has been married to US financial advisor Michael L. Murphy since 2009 . Meade lives in the USA.

Current

Since 2009 Meade has been president of eSmog-Responders, Inc., which deals with information and products on the subject of electrosmog (Esmog).

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Commons : Marietta Meade  - Collection of Images
personal data
SURNAME Meade, Marietta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mead, Ora Simcha (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-American actress, voice actress, translator, author
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1956