A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Esther Chae
埃丝特·K·埃
Esther Chae studied at Korea University, the University of Michigan, and the Yale School of Drama. She has a Master's degree in Theater Studies and another in Acting. Chae is also an inaugural TED Fellow and has presented her talks at numerous conferences. Chae has also taught and lectured at NYU's Tisch Performance Studies, Yale School of Drama, USC, University of Baltimore, Maryland and Cal State San Marcos. She currently teaches Advanced Acting for TV and Film at Emerson College in Los Angeles, and is also a Visiting Professor at Yonsei University, in Korea. Through her career, she has appeared in TV shows like 24, Lost, and NCIS. She has also appeared in films like Sisters and Collateral. Aside from her work as an actress, Chae is also a consultant on Korean entertainment.
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.