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Pink Villa
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
The Devil's Plan star Lee Si Won welcomes her first baby after 4 years of marriage
The Devil's plan star Lee Si Won has become a mother for the first time, welcoming a baby girl four years after her marriage. Her agency, KX Entertainment, confirmed the happy news, sharing that both mother and child are healthy and doing well. On May 20, KX Entertainment revealed, 'Lee Si Won gave birth to a daughter at the end of last month.' As per Hankook Ilbo, Lee Si Won expressed her joy over the public's warm response. 'I didn't even know the article had come out, but suddenly people started calling to congratulate me,' she said with a laugh. The couple named their daughter Si Woo, a meaningful choice that combines one syllable from each of their names. Lee Si Won mentioned, 'At first, she looked like me, but she's starting to resemble my husband more and more each day. It's amazing how her face keeps changing.' Lee Si Won reflected on the experience of giving birth with gratitude. 'I just hoped for a healthy delivery, and I'm so grateful everything went smoothly,' she shared. 'She's growing up healthy, and that makes me so happy.' The actress also mentioned how quickly her daughter is developing. 'I've heard that babies these days are developing a little faster. Our daughter is already really responsive and growing well,' she said, noting her baby's strong eye contact and alertness. Although she recently gave birth, Lee Si Won is already thinking about her return to the screen. 'It's been about a month since I gave birth, and I'm starting to feel like myself again,' she said. 'I'm planning to resume activities soon, including commercials and films.' A graduate of Seoul National University, Lee Si Won debuted in 2012 with the drama The Great King's Dream and has since appeared in numerous acclaimed series, including Misaeng, Memories of the Alhambra, Maestra and Netflix's The Devil's Plan. In 2021, she married a fellow Seoul National University alumnus, a doctor. Congratulations, new mama!
Belfast Telegraph
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
‘When we go to film festivals, we are so proud to say we're from Northern Ireland'
A mother-and-son film-making duo have swapped Hollywood in Los Angeles for Holywood in Co Down, where they, via their production company, are now keen to make their mark telling Northern Irish stories too Elisa Bonora, an award-winning film editor and producer, and her son Giordano moved to Northern Ireland from the States four years ago and set up Red Wolf Films. They continue to work with filmmakers in the US on major feature-length documentaries, such as Deep Rising, narrated by Jason Momoa, which premiered at Sundance 2023, and Maestra, produced by David Letterman, which won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2023.
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The Independent
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sara Bareilles teases first original music she's written since Covid: ‘Heavy' but ‘cathartic'
Grammy-winner Sara Bareilles is working on new original music for the first time post-pandemic. 'I did this grand experiment where I was like, let me just see if we make some demos what this ends up being,' Bareilles told The Independent at Monday night's Maestra AMPLIFY concert in New York City. 'And it was a very exciting sort of spark-filled week. So I have more of a record than I thought I did, which is always really exciting.' While she didn't share further details about a possible timeline, Bareilles said there's 'a really good chance' an album is coming soon. Bareilles, a two-time Grammy winner with over a dozen studio and live albums, has been keeping busy collaborating with two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl on a musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's 2013 novel, The Interestings. The story centers around the relationships six teenagers forge at an arts camp the summer Richard Nixon resigns, following them through to their middle ages. At Monday's event — a concert in support of the Maestra organization's mission to uplift and support women and non-binary musicians in the theater industry — Bareilles previewed a song from the forthcoming musical called 'Enough.' The singer-songwriter is no stranger to Broadway, having written the music and lyrics for the stage adaptation of the hit movie Waitress, which garnered her a 2016 Tony nomination. The 'Love Song' singer also took a star turn onstage, playing lead character Jenna for multiple engagements throughout the show's multi-year run. She was last seen on Broadway in the 2022 revival of Into the Woods, for which she received another Tony nomination — her first in a performance category — and was on all three seasons of the sitcom Girls5eva. For now, she finds herself back on the creative side of the theatrical process. Speaking about The Interestings, Bareilles said it's 'a really human story. It's about messy people and the way they love each other and the way they hurt each other. And I don't know anybody who can't relate to that.' She continued: 'Art, I really believe is medicine and I think it's really essential to keep pursuing these artistic endeavors right now because the world feels so bleak. 'So I think making things that you love is an act of resistance.' But her new original music is taking a different tone. Born out of the pandemic and the state of the world — and of losing two close friends in the last four years — Bareilles said her new tunes are grief-heavy, but not entirely melancholy. 'My hope is that what feels heavy about it will feel comforting and will feel cathartic — And then there is joy in there too. There's always joy.'
