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Eleanor Worthington Cox

Eleanor Worthington Cox, born 2001 in Merseyside, is a British actress known as Matilda in the West End musical, youngest Olivier Award winner at age 10, and Janet Hodgson in The Enfield Haunting.

Election (1999 film)

Election (1999) is Alexander Payne's satirical comedy, adapted with Jim Taylor from Tom Perrotta's 1998 novel, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in a Nebraska high-school election feud; Oscar-nominated screenplay, Criterion spine #904.

Election (2024 film)

Election (எலக்சன்) is a 2024 Tamil political thriller by director Thamizh, his second film after Seththumaan, starring Vijay Kumar as Nadarasan, an engineer who contests a panchayat election to honor his father; released 17 May 2024, streamed on Prime Video.

Election (黑社会) (2005 film)

Election (黑社会) is Johnnie To's 2005 Hong Kong triad film about the Wo Shing Society chairman election between Lok (Simon Yam) and Big D (Tony Leung Ka-fai); Cannes competitor, Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film, gun-free, with 2006 sequel Election 2.

Election 2 (黑社会以和为贵)

Election 2 (黑社會以和為貴, Triad Election) is Johnnie To's 2006 Hong Kong triad sequel to Election, in which Lok seeks a forbidden second term and Jimmy is forced into the chairmanship by mainland authorities; Cannes 2006, HK Film Critics Society Best Film.

Electra (2024 film)

Electra (2024 film) by Hala Matar, also called Electra, is an American-Italian mystery thriller starring Maria Bakalova, Abigail Cowen, Jack Farthing, and Daryl Wein, released May 2, 2025 by Level 33 Entertainment.

Electra (Sophocles play)

Sophocles' Electra (Ἠλέκτρα), a Greek tragedy of c. 420-410 BC set at Mycenae, in which Electra endures Clytemnestra and Aegisthus until Orestes returns, kills them, and ends the curse on the house of Atreus.

Electric Bloom

Electric Bloom is an American musical comedy series from Disney Branded Television. It follows three pop stars as they recount their journey from high school to fame.

Electric City

Electric City is a 2012 animated post-apocalyptic sci-fi web series created by and starring Tom Hanks, produced by Playtone and Reliance Entertainment for Yahoo Screen, Yahoo's first original scripted series.

Electric Dreams (2017 TV series)

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017) is a ten-episode Channel 4/Amazon sci-fi anthology adapted from Dick short stories, executive produced by Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston, and Isa Dick Hackett; cancelled after one season.

Electric Dreams (film)

Electric Dreams is a 1984 Virgin Pictures romantic sci-fi comedy directed by Steve Barron, starring Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, and Bud Cort as the voice of sentient computer Edgar, a love-triangle film later compared to Her.

Electro (Marvel Comics)

Electro (Maxwell "Max" Dillon) is a Marvel Comics supervillain and Spider-Man enemy, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #9 (1964) as a lightning-struck lineman with electrical powers and a founding Sinister Six member.

Elegant Angel

Elegant Angel (Elegant Angel Productions) is an American gonzo adult film studio founded in 1990 in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, by Patrick Collins; once an Evil Angel subsidiary, operated by Exquisite Multimedia since 2015, known for the Buttwoman showcase series.

Elegg

Elegg (일레그) is a fictional SSR support character in Goddess of Victory: Nikke, released February 22, 2024; leader of the Electric Shock squad, voiced in Korean by Kim Hyeon-ji (김현지), not a performer.

Elektra (2005 film)

Elektra is a 2005 American superhero film directed by Rob Bowman, starring Jennifer Garner as the Marvel Comics assassin Elektra Natchios in a spin-off of Daredevil (2003).

Elektra (character)

Elektra Natchios is a Marvel Comics assassin created by Frank Miller, debuting in Daredevil #168 (1981). Former college love of Matt Murdock, Hand-trained sai fighter killed by Bullseye in #181 and resurrected, later starring in solo series and operating as Daredevil.

Elemental (2023 film)

Elemental (2023) is a Disney-Pixar animated romantic comedy-drama directed by Peter Sohn, set in Element City where fire, water, land and air residents live together; Ember (Leah Lewis) and Wade (Mamoudou Athie) lead a $496 million-grossing, Oscar-nominated immigration allegory.

Elementary (TV series)

Elementary (CBS, 2012-2019) is an American crime drama reimagining Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) as a recovering-addict NYPD consultant with Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu); seven seasons, 154 episodes, finale "Their Last Bow."

Elements of Harmony

Elements of Harmony: six magical artifacts in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity, Laughter, Kindness, Magic), worn by the Mane 6, kept at the Tree of Harmony, used against Nightmare Moon and Discord.

Elena (Эле́на) (2011 film)

Elena (Эле́на) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2011 Russian drama, his third feature, in which former nurse Elena (Nadezhda Markina) murders her wealthy husband Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov) to secure her son's inheritance; it won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize.

Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya Gutiérrez, Spanish actress born in Palencia in 1975, star of Lucía y el sexo and La piel que habito, 2012 Goya winner, villain of Wonder Woman, and lead of Jaula, Las largas sombras, and Netflix's Innato.

Elena Fisher

Elena Fisher is a fictional journalist and deuteragonist of Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, played by Emily Rose; Nathan Drake's on-off partner, wife between Uncharted 2 and 3, and mother of Cassie in Uncharted 4's epilogue.

Elena Kampouris

Elena Kampouris (born 1997) is a Greek-American actress who plays Paris Miller in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and 3, starred as Minnow Bly in Sacred Lies and Chloe Sampson in Jupiter's Legacy, made her Broadway debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and leads Muccino's bilingual Here Now / Fino alla fine (2024).

Elena of Avalor

Elena of Avalor, also known as Disney's Elena of Avalor, is an American animated Disney Junior series that premiered in 2016, starring Elena Castillo Flores, Disney's first Latina princess.

Elena Satine

Elena Satine (ელენა სატინი-სხირტლაძე), Georgian-American actress and singer born 1987 in Tbilisi, known for Judi Silver in Magic City, Louise Ellis in Revenge, Lorelei in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Julia in Netflix's Cowboy Bebop; married to Tyson Ritter since 2013.

Eleonora Duse

Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian stage actress called "the incomparable Duse"; rival of Sarah Bernhardt, pioneer of naturalistic acting, celebrated interpreter of Ibsen and D'Annunzio; toured internationally, influenced Stanislavski, died on tour in Pittsburgh.

Elephant (1989 film)

Elephant (1989) is Alan Clarke's BBC Northern Ireland short film showing eighteen motiveless sectarian shootings in Belfast, without dialogue or explanation; title from Bernard MacLaverty's 'elephant in the living room' remark; produced by Danny Boyle; inspired Gus Van Sant's 2003 film of the same name.

Elephant (2003 film)

Elephant (2003) is Gus Van Sant's 81-minute drama about an ordinary American high school day ending in a Columbine-like shooting; it won the 2003 Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Director, grossed about $10 million, and scored 70 on Metacritic.

Elephants in the Fog

Elephants in the Fog (Tiniharu, तिनीहरू) is a 2026 Nepali drama-thriller, Abinash Bikram Shah's debut feature, about a Kinnar transgender matriarch in a village stalked by wild elephants; it won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2026 and is Nepal's Oscar submission.

Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) is Louis Malle's 1958 debut feature, a French noir starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet with an improvised one-night Miles Davis score; Prix Louis-Delluc 1957.