A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Finland
Ruut Ahonen, a 25-year-old actor from Finland, is based in Helsinki. She is fluent in English and speaks Finnish as her native language. In October 2022, she completed her Bachelor's degree in Screen Acting from Catalyst Institute For Creative Arts and Technology Berlin. Recently, she starred in the short film "Goodbye, Tomorrow," directed by Przemek Wegrzyn. Ruut also wrote and directed her own solo short film called "The Tale of Vasalisa," where she portrayed all three characters. Her outstanding performance in this film earned her the Best Lead Performance award at the Catalyst Film Awards 2022. Additionally, she appeared as a supporting actor in the music video "Time in Berlin - Third Eye Blind," which was selected for the official Tribeca 2022 selection. Prior to her studies at Catalyst, Ruut received training in theatre from the age of 12, including improv and performances in classical plays such as Anton Chekov's "The Seagull" and Minna Canth's "The Workman's Wife." She also has a background in acrobatics, trapeze, silks, show dance, jazz, and hip-hop, having trained in Circus Helsinki and other disciplines.
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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.