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Rita Wilson
Margarita Wilson Hanks is an American actress, singer, and producer. Her film appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Jingle All the Way (1996), The Story of Us (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), It's Complicated (2009), and Larry Crowne (2011), and she appeared in the television series The Good Wife and Girls. Wilson has also…
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entertainment · American actress, singer, and producer (born 1956) · television actor · film actor · actor · film producer · singer · film director · director · also Rita Wilson, Margarita Ibrahimova, Wilson
Born 26 October 1956 · Q234144
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2026· 2 entries
Released album “Sound of a Woman”.
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Now & Forever: Duets”.
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Wilson attended the White House's Greek Independence Day celebration, alongside other prominent Greek-Americans
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2022· 2 entries
Wilson announced her duets album Now & Forever, a collection of 1970s covers with male vocalists
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Wilson collaborated with Sebastián Yatra on the single "Til You're Home" from the soundtrack to A Man Called Otto
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2021· 1 entry
Contributed to the Blues Traveler rendition of "Crazy" on their album "Traveler’s Blues"
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2020· 3 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows Tom Hanks’ reunion with Wilson the volleyball while being treated for the novel coronavirus at a hospital in Australia” False.
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AP News rated the claim “Photo shows the actor Tom Hanks quarantined at a hospital in Australia with a volleyball that looks like Wilson, his make-believe friend in the movie “Cast Away.”” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Staff at Gold Coast Hospital in Australia rolled in a Wilson volleyball to keep Tom Hanks company in quarantine after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus.” False.
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2019· 4 entries
Released ep “Let Me Be”.
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Released album “Halfway to Home”.
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Wilson released her fourth album, Halfway to Home, which included "Throw Me a Party", a song inspired by her survival from breast cancer
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Wilson, her husband, and their children, were granted Greek citizenship by honorary naturalization by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, in recognition of their support of those affected by the 2018 Mati fire
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2018· 3 entries
Released album “Bigger Picture”.
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Wilson performed "Heart Unknown", co-written with Josh Alexander, DioGuardi, and Mozella, for the indie film, Simple Wedding
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Wilson and Hanks were honored with USC Shoah Foundation's Ambassadors For Humanity award in recognition of their "longstanding commitment to humanitarian causes and support of veterans"
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2016· 5 entries
Released ep “Christmas Sessions”.
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Released album “Rita Wilson”.
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When the Greek Postal Service ELTA commemorated her with a stamp along with four others: filmmaker Costa-Gavras, engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, journalist George Stephanopoulos, and billionaire businessman Jo
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WCRF joined forces with Evelyn Lauder's Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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Wilson released her self-titled album
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2015· 3 entries
Wilson signed an open letter from the ONE Campaign
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Starred in Larry David's Fish in the Dark on Broadway, from which she took a month-long hiatus to undergo a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer
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In 2015, Wilson signed an open letter from the ONE Campaign.
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2014· 3 entries
Performed for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and served as co-host of the event
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Released ep “Am / Fm: The B‐Sides”.
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Wilson wrote the song "Bad Things" with Matt Nathanson, for the Scott Eastwood film Dawn Patrol, in which she also starred
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “AM/FM”.
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2008· 1 entry
Wilson produced the film Mamma Mia
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2006· 1 entry
Wilson made her Broadway debut when she performed the role of Roxie Hart in a revival of Chicago
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2000· 1 entry
Directed by Tony Award-winner Dan Sullivan
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Satellite Awards (1999).
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1989· 2 entries
She and her husband have long supported the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, starting in 1989 when Wilson appeared as Celia in a production of As You Like It.
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When Wilson appeared as Celia in a production of As You Like It
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1982· 1 entry
As Nurse Lacey as well as the sitcoms Three's Company and Bosom Buddies starring her future husband Tom Hanks, and as Hester Rose Crane, the deceased mother of Frasier Crane on Frasier
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-10-26.
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