A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Veronica LaVery (birth name: Veronika Poloprutska) was born in 1991 in the Czech Republic to a Slovakian mother and a Polish/Irish father. She grew up in a small northern town called Vrchlabí, known as the Gate to the Giant Mountains (Krkonose) of the Czech Republic. While in Vrchlabí, Veronica attended both an art and dance school along with acting classes where she was trained to play musical instruments, sing, craft, act and dance. She was also a singer in a punk-rock band named Driak, where she was the only female, and only 15yo(!!). She has done various stage plays, band and dance performances and wasn't shy about being seen and heard by masses. All those artistic ways of expressing herself in her very young age gave her a solid base for her, during that time unthinkable, a career in the entertainment industry. In February 2008, after 17 years of living in the Czech Republic, Veronica moved to Sacramento, California. Without knowing anybody or anything about living outside the Czech Republic, Veronica had to adjust herself to a brand new lifestyle, culture, and language. In June 2009, Veronica graduated from the Foothill High School, Sacramento and enrolled in college to study Anthropology and Business. It was during this time that she got an opportunity to model. Modeling allowed Veronica to use her prior knowledge of acting and dancing to express herself in a whole new way which she quickly fell in love with. in 2011, Veronica moved to Southern California to pursue her modeling career, however; she's always felt like modeling is really just a start of getting her self back to where she used to be in Czech Republic, and that is- in front of a mass audience and back on stage. For more information, visit Veronica LaVery's official website.
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.