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Charlie Hiscock
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Charlie J. Hiscock can be seen as "Will" on the Emmy award winning Apple+ series "Ted Lasso," which was made history with its 20 Emmy nominations for a comedy series. Hiscock is also known for his work on the BAFTA winning and Emmy nominated series "Secret Life of Boys." He began his career at the young age of 9 and made his professional debut on the British TV series "Combat Kids." He then followed that up with the BBC TV movie adaptation of "The Borrowers" opposite Christopher Eccleston, Sharon Horgan and Stephen Fry. Hiscock then took a break to focus on school and then got back into the business in 2018 with "Secret Life of Boys."
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Harry Lachman
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Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.
He was born in La Salle, Illinois on June 29, 1886. Lachman was educated at the University of Michigan before becoming a magazine and book illustrator, contributing 4 colour illustrations to the 1907 work John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay. In 1911, he emigrated to Paris where he earned a substantial reputation as a post impressionist painter and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.
Lachman's interest in motion pictures stemmed from his position as a set designer in Nice, leading to work on Mare Nostrum in 1925. He worked as a director in France and England before settling in Hollywood in 1933. His credits include Down Our Street, Baby Take a Bow, Dante's Inferno, Our Relations, and Dr. Renault's Secret.
In 1938 he married Jue Quon Tai. Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.
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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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Lee Tae-vin
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Lee Sae Woong, known professionally as Lee Tae Vin, is an actor, singer, dancer and former member of MYTEEN (마이틴).
He graduated from Boun Middle School and took a test for the gifted and talented which revealed his IQ of 142. As a reward, he was sent to New Zealand to continue his studies but decided to quit to pursue a career as an actor, much to his family's disapproval.
After returning to South Korea, he became an advertisement model and later joined The Music Works (뮤직웍스), taking the unexpected path of becoming an idol.
He made his debut in 2017 as MYTEEN's rapper and sub-vocalist with their first EP, "MyTeen Go!". However, he never felt like he belonged in an idol group, as he still wanted to become an actor. So, in mid-2018, he left the group to focus on his acting career.
He made his acting debut in 2018 with a minor role in "Rich Man" (리치맨) and has appeared in several dramas ever since. He is currently represented by IOK Company (아이오케이컴퍼니).
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Joana Ferreira
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Joana Ferreira was born in Lisbon in 1973. She is managing director and producer at C.R.I.M. She studied Anthropology at Lisbon's Universidade Nova. She has been working in film production of prestigious Portuguese fiction feature films since 1998. She developed and financed cinema projects as a production manager. Among the directors with whom she has worked are Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, João Canijo, João Botelho, Raoul Ruiz, Teresa Villaverde, Paulo Rocha, Catarina Ruivo, Miguel Gomes and Marco Martins. Since 2006 she has been working as a full-time producer and managing director at C.R.I.M. with a special focus on fiction features.
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Robert Romanus
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Robert Romanus (born July 17, 1956), also billed as Bob Romanus, is an American actor and musician who has starred in film and television. He is best remembered for his role in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High as the ticket scalper Mike Damone, and as Natalie Green's boyfriend Snake on The Facts of Life. He also starred in the 1985 film Bad Medicine.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Romanus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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John Scully
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'Iceman' John Scully (born July 28, 1967) is a former American boxer. Formerly a world-ranked professional light heavyweight, he is now a boxing trainer who has trained two light heavyweight champions in Chad Dawson and Artur Beterbiev and is an analyst for the ESPN Classic television network. John is also known for his work with disadvantaged former fighters and charity for them as well as organizing events targeting former amateur standout fighters and reconnecting them with the boxing community.
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Simeon Costello
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Simeon Costello is a Devon-based producer. His filmmaking debut came in 2016 when he was commissioned by Exeter Phoenix to create 'Bus Stories', a short documentary which he wrote, directed, produced - and starred in.
Since the, Simeon has produced many award-winning short films, including sporty comedy-drama 'Shuttlecock' and silent gothic triumph 'Rhapsody in Blood'. Both have received critical praise, with two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins describing the latter as 'masterful'.
Having worked on five films with writer/director Tommy Gillard, the duo formed production company Spinning Path to focus on producing distinctive director-led short films.
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Geoffrey Cantor
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Geoffrey graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in theater. During his junior year, he attended the National Theater Institute (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Conn), and continued his training at what is now the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, England.
As an actor, he has been seen on Screens large and small. Film credits include the Coen Brothers' Hail, Ceasar!, MIB3, Bird People, Beach Pillows, Syrup, Bart and Arnie's Guide to Friendship, Thanks for Sharing, The Longest Week, SAVVA, Man on a Ledge, Fair Game, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, When in Rome, The Notorious Betty Page, One Last Thing, Suburban Girl, and Heavy Petting. On TV he has been seen on Blacklist, Believe, The Americans, The Following, House of Cards, Deception, Zero Hour, Person of Interest, Pan Am, Damages, Smash, The Big C, Sopranos, Bored to Death, all of the Law & Order's, Mercy, Brotherhood, Life on Mars, Ed, Third Watch, The Bedford Diaries, The $treet, Queens' Supreme, All My Children, Guiding Light, and Spike TV's The Kill Point. He has also been involved with a number of Web-series, including The ONION, Candice Bushnell's The Broadroom, Karl Manhair-Postal Inspector, Good Medicine, and The Stay-at-Home Dad.
His Stage work Includes Side Man (Broadway), Warren Leight's Sec 310, Row D, Seats 5&6, Dinner With Friends, Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus, Saturday Sunday Monday, Denial (Long Wharf), Talley's Folly, Romeo and Juliet (Acting Company), and Lone Star (London and Edinburgh). Geoffrey has been featured in over 200 television and radio commercials, including two award-winning campaigns: Let It Out (Kleenex--the Good Listener), and Fair Enough (part of the Truth campaign).
Geoffrey began directing in college, and in London, he developed the play-reading series Readings at One at the Duke of York's Theater in the West End. There he directed the London premier reading of Allan Knee's The Man Who was Peter Pan, upon which the film Finding Neverland was based. Other directing credits include Stripped (an original piece) in New York, For Our Daughters (Illuminart) in Staten Island, James Mclure's 1959 Pink Thunderbird (Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon) in Brooklyn, Prey (NYfringe 2010), My Secret Public Seder (an Original Piece, written for and with members of the Bergen County JCCY), Winterglass (an original piece), and Cowboys II, by Sam Shepard.
As a coach and teacher, he has worked all over the country with actors whose credits include all the major TV shows in New York, as well as film and theater. His students have also been accepted to some of the best theater programs in the country, including Ithaca, Fordham, Emerson, Michigan, Mason Gross, and UCSD. He has also developed flexible acting curriculum and programs for actors of all ages, skill levels, and experience.
In his spare time, Geoffrey founded the The Chaucerbury Group, a Media company in New York whose clients include The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, The Children Heritage Foundation, and Columbia University.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Geoffrey Cantor
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Rene Moreno
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Rene was born in Dallas on May 25, 1959 to Finees Moreno and Myriam Garza Moreno. He attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and studied theater, dance and music at Southern Methodist University. He was gifted as an actor, director and musician. In the 1980s he moved to New York, working in regional theater, and on and off-Broadway.
He was a member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) and an Artistic Associate with Shakespeare Dallas, as well as an Affiliated Artist with the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre.
Rene staged plays at all of DFW's major professional theaters and at most of its smaller ones, directing for WaterTower Theatre, Stage West, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Theatre Three, Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Dallas, WingSpan, and many others.
He won many Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum awards. He was frequently honored with Best Director awards and taught classes and taught workshops at many colleges, universities and high schools.
In 1991, while performing in Federico García Lorca's Yerma at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., he fell five floors out of a hotel window and was paralyzed from the waist down. He returned to Dallas for rehabilitation, and received his MFA in directing from Southern Methodist University in 2001.
Moreno had surgery on March 20, 2017, and moved to rehab over the weekend, suffering from heart trouble, followed by kidney and liver failure. He died from heart failure at the Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 57.
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