Renée
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Renée is a French feminine given name. It is the feminine form of René
. It may refer to :
René
René is a common given name in French-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is originally only a masculine name . But in non-Francophone countries, the habit of giving the name René to both boys and girls is now common which sometimes surprises French speakers...
. It may refer to :
- Renée AdoréeRenée AdoréeRenée Adorée was a French actress who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s.-Early life:...
(1898–1933), a French actress who had appeared in Hollywood silent movie s during the 1920s - Renée AshersonRenee AshersonRenée Asherson , born Dorothy Renée Ascherson, is an English actress of stage, film and television.Much of Asherson's theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as the Old Vic, the Liverpool Playhouse and the Westminster Theatre...
(born 1920), an English actress - Renée BourqueRenée BourqueRenée Lee Bourque is an actress born and raised in Rhode Island. Her latest acting role was in the movie 27 Dresses where she plays Katherine Hiegl's co-worker at Urban Everest.- Early life :...
(born 1977), an American actress - Renée BordereauRenée BordereauRenée Bordereau , nicknamed The Angevin, was a French woman who disguised herself as a man and fought as a Royalist cavalier in the troops of Charles Melchior Artus de Bonchamps during the Vendéan insurrection against the French Revolution .She is reputed to have killed some twenty of the opposing...
(1770-1824), a French woman who disguised herself as a man - Renée Carl (1875–1954), a French actress of the silent era
- Renée ChenRenée ChenRenee "Jia-Wei" Chen is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. Renee first gained recognition when she won fourth place in the 2001 New Talent Singing Awards. Although she ultimately did not win the competition, record companies noticed that Renee's voice stood out aside from being the only contestant...
, a Taiwanese singer and songwriter - Renée ColliardRenée ColliardRenée Colliard is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she became Olympic champion in Slalom.-References:...
(born 1933), a former Swiss alpine skier - Renée CoxRenée CoxRenée Cox is an Jamaican-American artist, photographer, political activist and curator. Cox currently lives and works out of New York.-Early years:...
(born 1960), an Jamaican-American artist, photographer, political activist and curator - Renée EstevezRenée Estevez-Early years:Estevez was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of artist Janet and actor Martin Sheen. Her father is of Spanish and Irish descent. Her three brothers are also actors: Emilio Estevez, Ramon Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Her husband, Jason Thomas Federico, has been a...
(born 1967), an American actress - Renée DoriaRenée DoriaRenée Doria is a French opera singer, one of the leading lyric coloratura soprano of her era in France.- Biography :...
(born 1921), a French opera singer - Renée FaureRenée FaureRenée Faure was a French actress.She was a jury member during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
(1919-2005), a French actress - Renée Ferrer de ArréllagaRenée Ferrer de ArréllagaRenée Ferrer de Arréllaga, is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. She is Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the twenty-member Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española...
(born 1944), a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist - Renée FlemingRenée FlemingRenée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...
(born 1959), an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder - Renée FoxRenee FoxRenée C. Fox is an American sociologist and writer. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1954. She was a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, 1969–1999 as Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences...
(born 1928), an American sociologist and writer - Renée FrenchRenée FrenchRenée French is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author.Her work includes The Soap Lady , The Ticking , and Micrographica , "Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio - Exploratory...
(born 1963), an American comics writer and illustrator - Renée French (actress)Renée French (actress)Renée French is an American actress known for the segment Renée in Jim Jarmusch's 2003 movie Coffee and Cigarettes.- Filmography :*Coffee and Cigarettes : Renée *Nowhere Fast : Renée- External links :...
, an American actress - Renée FriedmanRenee FriedmanRenee Friedman is an American Egyptologist, who studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where her thesis was on the Predynastic cemetery at Naga ed Der. She earned her PhD in 1994 ....
, an American egyptologist - Renée GeyerRenée GeyerRenée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...
(born 1953), an Australian singer - Renée Gill PrattRenée Gill PrattRenée Gill Pratt is a local politician from New Orleans. She was also Director of the Center for Student Retention and Success in Southern University at New Orleans...
(born 1954), a local politician from New Orleans - Renée GreenRenee GreenRenée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, architecture, photography, prints, video, film, websites, and sound, which normally converge in highly layered and complex installations...
(born 1959), an artist, writer and filmmaker - Renée HoustonRenee HoustonRenée Houston was a Scottish comedy actor and revue artist who appeared in television and film roles.Born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, as Katherina Houston Gibbin, she toured music halls and revue with her sister Billie Houston as the Houston Sisters.In 1926, the sisters made a short musical film,...
(1902-1980), a Scottish comedy actor and revue artist - Renée JerydRenée JerydRenée Jeryd is a Swedish social democratic politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2008.-External links:* at the Riksdag website...
(born 1965), a Swedish social democratic politician - Renée JonesRenée JonesRenée Jones is an American dramatic actress. Jones is best known for playing Lexie Carver on NBC's long running dramatic series Days of our Lives, a role she originated in 1993...
(born 1958), an American actress - Renée ManfrediRenée ManfrediRenée Manfredi is an American novelist.Manfredi was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award.Born in 1962 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she earned a BA at the University of Pittsburgh and a MFA at Indiana University, Bloomington.-Books:...
, an American novelist - Renée Montagne, an American radio journalist
- Renée MorissetRenée MorissetRenée Morisset, OC, CQ was a Canadian pianist. She and her husband, Victor Bouchard, were one of the foremost piano duo in Canadian classical music.-Honours:...
(1928–2009), a Canadian pianist - Renée NicouxRenée NicouxRenée Nicoux, born on March 26, 1951, is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France.She was the suppleant of André Lejeune, and took over from him in the Senate when he died on September 10, 2009....
(born 1951), a French politician and a member of the Senate of France - Renée O'ConnorReneé O'ConnorRenée O'Connor is an American actress, producer and director best known for playing the role of Gabrielle on the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001.-Early career:...
(born 1971), an American actress, producer and director - Renée of FranceRenée of FranceRenée de France was the younger daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany. Her elder sister was Queen Claude of France. She was the Duchess of Ferrara due to her marriage to Ercole II d'Este, grandson of Pope Alexander VI...
(1510–1574), the younger daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany - Renée RichardsRenee RichardsRenée Richards is an American ophthalmologist, author and former professional tennis player. In 1975, Richards underwent sex reassignment surgery. She is known for initially being denied entry into the 1976 US Open by the United States Tennis Association, citing an unprecedented women-born-women...
(born 1934), an American ophthalmologist, author and former professional tennis player - Renée RocaRenee RocaRenée Roca is an American ice dancer and choreographer. She is a three-time U.S. national champion with different partners. Competing with partner Donald Adair, she is the 1986 U.S. national champion. She later teamed up with Russian skater Gorsha Sur, with whom she is the 1993 and 1995 U.S...
(born 1963), an American figure skater and choreographer - Renée ScheltemaRenée ScheltemaRenée Scheltema is a Dutch documentary filmmaker, living in Cape Town, South Africa.She has been making documentaries for 25 years....
(born 1951), a Dutch documentary filmmaker - Renée Schwarzenbach-WilleRenée Schwarzenbach-WilleRenée Schwarzenbach-Wille was a Swiss photographer.- Life :Renée Schwarzenbach was the daughter of Swiss General Ulrich Wille and Clara Countess Bismarck, which meant she was a granddaughter of Count Friedrich Wilhelm Bismarck , the famous German soldier, writer and diplomat...
(1883-1959), a Swiss photographer - Renée SimonsenRenee SimonsenRenée Toft Simonsen is a former model from Denmark, who currently works as a writer. Simonsen was one of the most successful models in the world during the 1980s.- Biography :...
(born 1965), a former model from Denmark who currently works as a writer - Renée SintenisRenée SintenisRenée Sintenis was a female German artist.She was born in Glatz and died in Berlin.In 1928 she won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her "Footballeur"....
(1888–1965), a female German artist - Renée SoutendijkRenée SoutendijkRenette Pauline Soutendijk, known as Renée Soutendijk, is a Dutch actress. She was a favorite star of director Paul Verhoeven's films and is perhaps best known for her work in his 1980 release Spetters. Her good looks and striking blond hair secured her status as a Dutch sex symbol in the 1980s...
(born 1957), a Dutch actress - Renée TaylorRenee TaylorRenée Taylor is an American actress, Academy Award nominated writer and one-time director, best-known for having played Fran Drescher's outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series The Nanny.- Career :...
(born 1933), an American actress - Renée VictorRenee VictorRenée Victor is an actress best known for her role as Lupita on Weeds. She provided voice acting for Bethesda Softworks' 2011 video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim....
, an actress - Renée VivienRenée VivienRenée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn was a British poet who wrote in the French language. She took to heart all the mannerisms of Symbolism, as one of the last poets to claim allegiance to the school...
(1877-1909), a British poet who wrote in the French language - Renée WeibelRenée WeibelRenée Weibel is a Swiss actress.Renée completed successfully her education as a stage dancer between 2000 and 2003, as well as a schooling for acting in Berlin from 2006 to 2009. She debuted at stage in 2003 and played plays like Swan lake and The Phantom of the Opera...
(born 1986), a Swiss actress - Renée ZellwegerRenée ZellwegerRenée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...
(born 1969), an American actress and producer - Renée BjörlingRenée BjörlingRenée Björling was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Lovö, Sweden and died in Täby.-Selected filmography:* Summer Interlude * Summer with Monika * A Lesson in Love * Dreams...
(1898–1975), a Swedish film actress
Fictional characters
- Renée DuMondeRenée DuMondeRenée DuMonde is a fictional character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives. The role was portrayed by Philece Sampler from 1980-1983.-External links:*...
, a fictional character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives - Renée Dwyer, a character in Twilight
- Renée RienneRenée RienneRenée Rienne is a fictional character in the spy-fi television series Alias. Played by Élodie Bouchez, she was introduced as a new character for the fifth season...
, a fictional character in the spy-fi television series Alias - a minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- a character in Claymore
- Renée Divine Buchanan, a character on the America ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
soap opera One Life to LiveOne Life to LiveOne Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
Compound given names
- Renée Jeanne FalconettiRenée Jeanne FalconettiRenée Jeanne Falconetti , sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.Born...
(1892–1946), - Jamie Renée SmithJamie Renee SmithJamie Renée Smith is an American actress.-Biography:Born in New York City, Smith began her acting career at the age of six when, at her first audition, she landed a guest-starring role on an episode of Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
(born 1987), an American actress - Marie-Renée OgetMarie-Renée OgetMarie-Renée Oget is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the Côtes-d'Armor department , and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche....
(born 1945), a member of the National Assembly of France
Other
- Renée, a song by Talk TalkTalk TalkTalk Talk were an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group had a string of international hit singles including "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World"....
on their album It's My LifeIt's My Life (album)-Personnel:*Mark Hollis - vocals*Lee Harris - drums *Paul Webb - bass guitar*Tim Friese-Greene - keyboards*Ian Curnow - keyboards*Phil Ramocon - piano*Robbie McIntosh - guitar*Morris Pert - percussion*Henry Lowther - trumpet*James Marsh - cover art-Charts:... - Renée, a 2011 made-for-TV documentary film on Renée Richards
- Renée and RenatoRenée and RenatoRenée and Renato was a female/male vocal duo, who had a UK Number one hit in December 1982 with "Save Your Love". The follow-up single "Just One More Kiss" peaked at #48...
, a female/male vocal duo - Lyne RenéeLyne RenéeLyne Renée is a Belgian actress, currently living in LA and starring in The Box Collector and The Hessen Affair...
(born 1979), a Belgian actress - Tiffany RenéeTiffany RenéeTiffany Renée is a member of the Petaluma City Council in Petaluma, California. Renée, a Latina from Fair Oaks, California, has been an environmental policy advocate and community organizer...
(born 1971), a member of the Petaluma City Council in Petaluma, California
See also
- ReneeReneeRenee is a feminine given name. This form of the name is in use in Australia, Canada, Latin America, and Europe.-Origin:Renee is the female form of René, with the extra –e making it feminine according to French grammar. The name René is the French form of the late Roman name Renatus and the...
- Walk Away RenéeWalk Away Renee"Walk Away Renée" is a song made popular by the band The Left Banke in 1966 , composed by the group's then 16-year-old keyboard player Michael Brown and Tony Sansone...
, a song made popular by the band The Left Banke in 1966