Canadian actress

Sophie Nélisse

Marie-Sophie Nélisse is a Canadian actress. She made her film debut in the French-language drama Monsieur Lazhar (2011), for which she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Liesel Meminger in the 2013 war drama The Book Thief, young Joan Fischer in the biographical film Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Casey Caraway in the coming-of-age drama Mean Dreams (2016), Aster in The Rest of Us (2019), and Irena Gut in Irena's Vow (2023). Since 2021, she has starred as Shauna Shipman in the Showtime psychological thriller series Yellowjackets.

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2000

March 27

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1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

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april 19 Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
april 3 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
april 30 Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
august 11 An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.

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Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879) George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Georgios Katrougalos 1963– Greek jurist and politician Jakob Sverdrup 1845– Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899) John Sulston 1942– English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018) Karl Mannheim 1893–1947 Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893) Kathleen Scott 1878–1947 English sculptor (born 1878) Kenta Kobashi 1967– Japanese professional wrestler

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Carlos Yulo 2000– Filipino artistic gymnast Femke Bol 2000– Dutch hurdler and sprinter Jackson Yee 2000– Chinese singer, dancer and actor Ja'Marr Chase 2000– American football player Joshua Bassett 2000– American actor and singer Kang Chan-hee 2000– South Korean singer and actor Mackenzie Foy 2000– American actress and model Ōnosato Daiki 2000– Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna Sarah Kinsley 2000– American singer-songwriter

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