- Rico Casanova
Jorge Maldonado (born April 12, 1968 in New York) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler, better known as Rico Casanova, or simply Casanova. - Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and even aggression to conquer women, sometimes leaving behind children or debt. His autobiography, "Histoire de ma vie" ("Story of My Life"), … - Manuel Casanova
Manuel F. Casanova, MD, is the Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry and a professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville. - Len Casanova
Leonard Joseph "Len" Casanova (June 12, 1905 - September 30, 2002) was an American college football coach first at Santa Clara, then the University of Pittsburgh and finally for nearly 20 years, from 1946 to 1966, at the University of Oregon. Born in Ferndale, California he attended and played for Santa Clara and finished his career as the Athletic Director, and then AD-emertius at Oregon. He is a 1977 inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame. - Raul Casanova
Raul Casanova (Born: August 23, 1972 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) is a switch-hitting, righthanded throwing catcher who is currently a catcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is 6'0" tall and he weighs 230 pounds (one source puts him as low as 192). He attended Ponce High School in Puerto Rico. He was drafted 220th overall, in the eighth round of the 1990 draft by the New York Mets. His professional career started off that year, and it was not impressive-in 5 at-bats, … - Myriam Casanova
Myriam Casanova is a professional female tennis player from Switzerland. She has been ranked as high as #45 on the WTA Tour and has won one WTA singles titles in her career. - Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova i Comes was lawyer and "Conseller en Cap" of the Consell de Cent of Barcelona. He is considered one of the greatest Catalan patriots. He was the Colonel of La Coronela, a self-defense armed force of the city of Barcelona at the beginnings of the 18th century. He played a crucial role during all the Siege of Barcelona, especially on September 11 of 1714, … - Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova was head of the Salvadoran national guard and later defense minister. He was sued in the federal civil court of Miami, Florida in the United States in two precedent-setting cases. The cases are referred to by the surname of his co-defendant, José Guillermo García: * "Ford v. Garcia", a lawsuit by the families of four Catholic churchwomen who were murdered by a Salvadoran military death squad on December 2, 1980. - Corina Casanova
Corina Casanova (born 1956) is a Swiss lawyer and Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland. Born 1956 in Ilanz, Casanova has worked as a lawyer in the practice of the present President of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, Giusep Nay, as well as a Red Cross delegate in South Africa, Angola, Nicaragua and El Salvador. She also has been a federal parliamentary official and advisor to Federal Councillors Flavio Cotti and Joseph Deiss. - Francesco Casanova
Francesco Casanova (1732-) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mainly in Venice. Born in London, and trained with Francesco Simonini as a battle-painter. Philip James de Loutherbourg (1734-1812) was one of his pupils. - Daniel Casanova
Daniel Marcos Casanova (b. December 10, 1979 in North Hollywood, California) is an American independent filmmaker. Casanova is best known for his failed "boat adventure" in Bangladesh, in which he and three other young men (Anders Foldvik, Halfdan Anderson and Mario Gonzalez) rebuilt a traditional Bangladeshi sailboat and attempted to sail it from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh to the Arufura Peninsula in Australia. - Paul Casanova
Paulino Casanova, is a former professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues from 1965-1974. He would play for the Washington Senators and Atlanta Braves. - Enrique Cardinal Reig Y Casanova
"His Most Reverend Eminence" Enrique Cardinal Reig y Casanova (20 January 1858 - 20 August 1927) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain. Enrique Reig y Casanova was born in Valencia, Spain and was educated at the diocesan Seminary of Valencia. - Tommy Casanova
Tommy Casanova (born Thomas H. Casanova, III, July 29, 1950, in New Orleans) is an opthalmologist in Crowley, Louisiana, who is a former American football player and politician. He played football for the LSU Tigers and the Cincinnati Bengals. He was also a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1996-2000. - Heath Ledger
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including The Patriot, Monster's Ball and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of The Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was found dead in a New York City apartment on January 22, 2008. - David Tennant
David Tennant is the stage name of David John McDonald (born 18 April 1971), a Scottish actor from Bathgate, West Lothian, best known as the tenth actor to portray the Doctor in the television series "Doctor Who". Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV roles in "Casanova" and "Doctor Who", as well as his film role as Barty Crouch Jr in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". - Charlie Cox
Charlie Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor. Cox appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series "A for Andromeda", on the UK digital television station BBC Four. He also performs in several movies, such as "The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)" and "Casanova (film)", and as of July 2006 has finished shooting for "Stardust". - Natalie Dormer
Natalie Dormer (born 1983 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She is also a member of the London Fencing Academy. She starred as Victoria in "Casanova". On the basis of her performance, Natalie landed a three movie deal with Disney Touchstone and had her role in Casanova expanded. Natalie is currently portraying Anne Boleyn in Showtime's original series "The Tudors". - Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat (born August 23, 1961 in Paris, France) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. He most recently scored the music for the movie "Firewall", a primarily digital, synthesized soundtrack. Other scores include "The Luzhin Defence", "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "Syriana", "Birth", "Casanova" and "The Painted Veil", for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. - Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory (born on 17 August 1968) is an English actress known primarily for her stage and television work. She studied acting at the Drama Centre, part of the University of the Arts London. In 2002 she was nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress (playing Elena in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at the Donmar Warehouse). She was nominated for a 2006 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her most recent stage work, … - Jeffrey Hatcher
Jeffrey Hatcher is a playwright. He is the writer of the stage play "Compleat Female Stage Beauty", commissioned and produced by City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh PA, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just "Stage Beauty" (2004). He also co-wrote the stage adaptation of "Tuesdays with Morrie" with author Mitch Albom, and "Three Viewings", a comedy consisting of three monologues - each of which takes place in a funeral home. - Stephen Greif
Stephen Greif (born August 26, 1944) is an English actor. Grief is familiar to viewers as Travis in the television series "Blake's 7" and Harry Fenning in the sitcom "Citizen Smith". Other TV appearances include: "The Persuaders!", "The Protectors", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Special Branch", "Thriller", "The New Avengers", "Target", "Return of the Saint", "The Sandbaggers", "Minder", … - Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970 in London, England, United Kingdom), sometimes credited as Rupert Penry Jones, is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in BBC television dramas such as "Spooks", "Casanova" and "Cambridge Spies". His father is Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne and his brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor. - Laura Fraser
Laura Fraser (born 24 July, 1976) is a Scottish actress. - Anita Skorgan
Anita Skorgan (born November 13, 1958) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She was once married to Jahn Teigen, another successful Norwegian singer-songwriter. Together they have a daughter. She represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest a total of five times, twice as a solo artist, once with Jahn Teigen, once as his backing singer in 1983, and also as Finn Kalvik's backing singer in his vastly underrated performance in 1981. - Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, ONZ, AC, DBE, (born March 6, 1944) is an internationally famous New Zealand opera singer. In 1981, she was seen and heard around the world by an estimated 600 million people when she sang Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. Te Kanawa was born in Gisborne, on New Zealand's North Island. - John Wells
John Wells was an English actor, writer and satirist, educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. The son of a clergyman, he was born in Ashford, Kent and died in Sussex. Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on "That Was The Week That Was", the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, … - Julie Gardner
Julie Gardner is a Welsh television producer who is currently both Controller of Drama Commissioning at BBC Television and Head of Drama for BBC Wales. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of "Doctor Who". Gardner was born in Neath in June 1969, and grew up in Glynneath. She attended Neath Tertiary College and read English at the University of London. She initially worked as a teacher at GCSE and A-Level level, … - Murray Gold
Murray Gold (born 1969, Portsmouth, England) is a British composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. - Nina Sosanya
Nina Sosanya is a British actress. She was born in London and her father is Nigerian. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, gaining A-Levels in Performing Arts. She has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films, for example in "People Like Us", "Teachers", "Love Actually", "Casanova", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Meadowlands", and the "Doctor Who" episode "Fear Her". - Ben Moor
Benedict Moor is a writer and actor based in London. He was born on 8th February 1969 in Wimbledon and grew up in Whitstable. He studied History at University College, Oxford and while there he performed in The Oxford Revue with Richard Herring, Al Murray and others, graduating in 1990. Moving to London, Moor wrote sketches for "Week Ending" and "Spitting Image" and developed his own work. - Tom Burke
Tom Burke (born 30 June, 1981 in Kent, England) is an actor. He attended the Young Arden Theatre in Faversham before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Burke has had several television roles, most notably playing the older version of Giacomo Casanova's son Jack in the 2005 TV adaption of "Casanova". He played Lee in the one-off BBC drama "Bella and the Boys" and also appeared in thriller "State of Play". - John Glenister
John Glenister is a British television director. His credits include "Rumpole of the Bailey", "Play For Today" and Dennis Potter's 1971 biopic of "Casanova", "A Touch of Frost", "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates" and "A Bit of A Do". He is the father of actors Philip Glenister and Robert Glenister. - Zienia Merton
Zienia Merton is a British actress born in Borneo, born 11 December 1945. Her mother was Burmese, and her father half English, half French; and she was raised in Singapore, Portugal, Borneo and England. Her most famous role in probably that of Sandra Benes in "Space: 1999", the science fiction series produced by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, with Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Barry Morse. It ran from 1975 to 1977. - Liu Ye
Liu Ye (born March 23, 1978 in Jilin, China) is one of China's most promising and talented young actors. Beginning his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a young postman in his first movie, "Postmen in the Mountains", at China's Golden Rooster Awards in 1999. - Reggie Nalder
Reggie Nalder (September 4, 1907 - November 19, 1991) was a prolific film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features-partially the result of disfiguring burns-together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips." Born Alfred Reginald Natzick in Vienna, Austria, … - Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates
Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates is a musician notable for playing the Hammond organ with Neil Hannon's band, The Divine Comedy. Bates was the band's organ player on all of The Divine Comedy's records from "Casanova" to "Regeneration". Hannon is an aficionado of the Hammond and was eager to employ a Hammond player with the band. Hannon and Bates were both disappointed by the amount of Hammond on the final cut of the album due to the advice of professional producer, … - William Hobbs
William Hobbs (born 1939 in Hampstead, London) is a choreographer of staged fights. He has arranged some of the most notable scenes of cinematic fencing from the 1960s to the 2000s, … - Ranieri De' Calzabigi
Ranieri de' Calzabigi was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas. Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s in Paris, where he became a close friend of Casanova. Here he explored his interest in opera, producing an edition of the works of Metastasio, the most famous librettist of opera seria. However, Calzabigi was also impressed by French tragédie en musique, … - Tiziano Casanova
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