A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Meisha Brooks is no ordinary rising face - a Harvard grad, fluent in Japanese, and a former D1 track star, Meisha is a multifaceted actress. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard, with a specialty in humanoid robotics and prosthetics from MIT. She completed the prestigious Professional Acting Practice program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 2024. Additionally, she has studied with renowned acting coaches Anthony Abeson, Lesly Kahn, Bob Krakower, and Sharon Chatten and trained at Upright Citizens Brigade. With a passion for action combat and Jeet Kune Do, Meisha loves bringing different characters to life. Meisha's voice shines as a leading character in the award-winning audio drama podcast 'The Crime at Camp Ashwood', and a supporting role in the feature film 'Out of Order', alongside Brooke Shields, Luis Guzman, Tao Okamoto, Sandra Bernhard, and Brandon Routh.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.