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Martin Scurll

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Martin Scurll is an English professional wrestler, currently signed to Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former one-time ROH World Television Champion. He also works for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion. He has wrestled for the likes of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (now known as Impact Wrestling), Progress Wrestling, Insane Championship Wrestling, Global Force Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Westside Xtreme Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, and many more. Alongside Zack Sabre Jr. he is a member of the tag team the Leaders of the New School.
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Desi Lydic

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Lani Desmonet "Desi" Lydic (born June 30, 1981, height 5' 7½" (1,71 m)) is an American actress who currently stars as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTVcomedy-drama series Awkward.. She got her start in the 2001 parody filmNot Another Teen Movie. She has also starred in the Spikemini-seriesInvasion Iowa alongside William Shatner, and the parody series The Real Wedding Crashers. She starred as Shea Seger in the 2011 film We Bought a Zoo alongside Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, and in the 2013 film The Babymakers with Olivia Munn.
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Noah Baumbach

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Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969) is an American filmmaker. He received Academy Award nominations for writing his films The Squid and the Whale (2005) and Marriage Story (2019), both of which he also directed, while the former garnered him one of the few screenwriters to ever sweep "The Big Four" critics awards: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Society of Film Critics. He has written and directed a number of other films, including Margot at the Wedding (2007), While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). He is also known for his collaborations with his partner Greta Gerwig in Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2013), Mistress America (2015), and White Noise (2022), as well as with Wes Anderson, co-writing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Noah Baumbach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sean Connery

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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Gabriella Kapsaski

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Gabriella Kapsaski is a writer and theatre & film director/producer. Kapsaski has a long background in theatre. She was the founder and Producer of the "Ancient Theatre Alive Festival" (2000-2002) as well as producer for the Antitheatro, Athens (1998 - 2002) and Act Provocateur International (2005-2006) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She also produced and co-wrote two Radio series, "Europe between the Wars" (1981-1982) [ET1] with Kostas Mazanis and "Under the Light of the Full Moon" (1981-1983) [ERT2], National Radio Greece. She produced the films "Spidarlings" (2016, released by "Troma" in 2018), "My Head Hurts" (2000) and "Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" (2019). She is the Co-Founder and C.E.O. of Après Vague Productions and was a producer for 37 episodes of the US TV show London Calling. Kapsaski directed "Artemis of the Wildland" (2018) and is in pre-production for "Kawaii" (2019).
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Vina Morales

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Vina Morales (born Sharon Garcia Magdayao on October 17, 1975 in Bogo, Cebu City, Philippines) is a Filipina singer, actress and model. At age nine, Morales started singing with her church choir at the St. Vincent Ferrer Parish in Bogo. This lead her to a music career. Father Fritz T. Malinao, a priest and a songwriter in his church community discovered Morales' talent and asked her to sing one of his compositions as an entry in the Cebu Pop Music Festival. The song, "Paglaum", which means "hope" in Cebuano language, won the Grand Prize and earned the Best Interpreter Award for young talents in the Philippines. Representatives from Viva Films saw her performance and offered her a singing and acting contract. She and her family moved to Manila where she auditioned for a film career in the Philippine film industry. She changed her birth name from Sharon Garcia Magdayao to Vina Morales. Morales' first film debut was "Nakagapos na Puso" where she co-starred with Sharon Cuneta. In her late teen years, Morales appeared in "Ang Utol Kong Hoodlum" and in "Anghel Na Walang Langit". She also appeared in "The Sarah Balabagan Story". Morales recorded albums and performed in live concerts in the Philippines, including 2004's Mamahalin Ka Niya. She co-wrote the lyrics of a song titled Paano Kaya Magtatagpo?, along with Filipino model, actor and musician, Piolo Pascual. The music was composed by Arnel de Pano. Later, Morales and Pascual recorded the song as a duet. Other songs on the album include "Yakapin Mo Ako", Pangako and Saan Darating ang Umaga. In 2003, she held a multi-city US tour titled Vina Revealed and Vina's Hot.
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Olya Zueva

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Director, actress. Born in Vladivostok. From 2006-2016 lived and worked in New York. Received actor’s training at the famous school of Susan Batson, studied at the film faculty at The New School. In parallel to her studies appeared in episodic roles (e.g., in the series “Orange is the New Black”), played the lead role in Anna Melikian’s short “Such a Mood. Bach’s Adagio and a Small Fragment from the Life of the Girl Lena”, scripted and directed short films. In 2016 moved to Moscow. In 2018 played the leading female role in the film “The Coach”.
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Peter Arne

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Born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, to a Swiss-French mother and an American father, Peter Arne was an actor and an antique dealer who was murdered in 1983. In the late 1940s, Arne and his partner Jack Corke befriended acclaimed novelist Mary Renault and her partner, Julie Mullard, on the SS Cairo, a steamer bound from Britain to South Africa and convinced them to go into business building homes for immigrants to the country. Renault financed using her £25,000 MGM award, employing labourers and craftsmen to begin construction of several houses, but Arne and Corke squandered the money, racking up debts before stealing Renault's car and returning to the UK to avoid charges of embezzlement. On 1st August 1983, Arne attended a costume fitting for a role in Doctor Who. On his return home, neighbours reported sounds of an argument to the police who subsequently found Arne's body inside his Knightsbridge flat. He had been bludgeoned to death with a stool and log from his fireplace. The prime suspect in Arne's murder was Giuseppe Perusi, a schoolteacher from Italy who had been living rough in a local park, and for whom Arne had been providing food. Four days later, a body matching Perusi's description was found in the River Thames at Wandsworth, having drowned in an apparent suicide. At the subsequent inquest in October 1983, Police concluded that Perusi had beaten the actor to death then killed himself.
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Hana Ševčíková

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Hana Ševčíková (* February 20, 1970 Prague) is a Czech film and theater actress and a dabérka. Beginnings = She was born in Prague, and she got to the film and theater in a teenage youth. Television and film career = First appeared in front of the camera in 1988 in the film Uf - they are here. Subsequently, it was cast mainly into television films and serials. The most famous of them are Arabela returning or Rumburak King of the Fairy Tales, The End of Poets in Bohemia or Crimelake Angel. She is also dedicated to dubbing and the Czech audience can be her voice known from series like I'm Earl. Theater career Between 1992 and 2016 she was a member of the National Theater Drama. [1] We could see her, for example, in the games Our Furiants, The Lords of Two Masters or The Comedy of Mistakes. (Wikipedia)
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Joey King

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Joey Lynn King (born July 30, 1999) is an American actress. She first gained recognition for portraying Ramona Quimby in the comedy film Ramona and Beezus (2010) and has since gained wider recognition for her lead role in The Kissing Booth (2018) and its two sequels. King received critical acclaim for her starring role in the crime drama series The Act (2019), for which she was nominated for both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2022 she played the titular role of The Princess in Disney's The Princess (movie). King has also appeared in the films Battle: Los Angeles (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Conjuring (2013), White House Down (2013), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Bullet Train (2022) and The Princess (2022), as well as the first season of the FX black comedy crime drama series Fargo.
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