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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
Tony Nissen, who was hired in 2016 as the engineering director at OceanGate, an underwater exploration company, testified that the relationship between him and its CEO, Stockton Rush, "soured" as ...
A tomtenisse made of salt dough.A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004. Little girl tomte gnome, Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012. Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish:, Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish:) is a mythological creature from Nordic folklore today typically associated with the winter solstice and the ...
2. Relatives. Jake Gyllenhaal (brother-in-law) John Peter Sarsgaard (/ ˈsɑːrzɡɑːrd /; born March 7, 1971) is an American actor. He studied at the Actors Studio, before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television. He made his film debut with Dead Man Walking (1995).
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
Nissen is a surname. As a Danish surname it is a patronymic meaning "son of Nis" (Danish short form of Nicholas ). Notable people with the surname include: Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761–1826), Danish diplomat and writer, and author of one of the first biographies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Inge Nissen Danish former basketball player and coach.
The Nissen-Emery Award is presented to the most outstanding senior male collegiate gymnast in the United States. The award reflects admirable scholarship and moral characteristics as well as sporting success.