Celeste Ann Wallander (born 1961) is an American international relations authority with a focus on Russia. Wallander is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia on the National Security Council. According to the Department of Defense, Wallander is an expert on Russian and Eurasian foreign and security policy and served from May 2009 - July 2012 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy*. Wallander was an adviser to Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign.
Celeste may refer to:
Celeste Johnson (Chicago, 1959) is an American model who became successful as a TV presenter and singer in Italy. Johnson had participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow US athletics team.
Celeste (born May 3, 1972) is an American former pornographic actress who appeared in approximately 175 films from 1992–2003. According to pornographic director, John Stagliano, she initially worked a scene for him before undergoing rhinoplasty and breast augmentation surgery and becoming a Vivid Girl from 1992–1995.
Celeste was married to a fellow actor, Woody Long 1993-1995. She later married and had a child in 1996 with pornographic director, Paul Norman.
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Wallander is a film series based on the Kurt Wallander novels written by Henning Mankell and was adapted into a miniseries or TV film by Sveriges Television (SVT) between 1994 and 2006. These Swedish-language films starred Rolf Lassgård as Wallander. They were:
Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. It is the first time the Wallander novels have been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006. In 2007, Branagh met with Mankell to discuss playing the role. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind, in January 2008. Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series.
The first three-episode series, produced by Yellow Bird, Left Bank Pictures and TKBC for BBC Scotland, was broadcast on BBC One from November to December 2008. The second series was filmed from July to October 2009 and was broadcast in January 2010. The third series was filmed in the summer of 2011 in Ystad, Scania and Riga, Latvia, and aired in July 2012. The fourth and final series was shot from October 2014 to January 2015 and premiered on German TV, dubbed into German, in December 2015. The final series will air in the original English in 2016. Critics have written positively of the series, which has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Best Actor for Branagh) and six British Academy Television Awards, including Best Drama Series.