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Tania Rodrigues
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Tania Rodrigues is a London based actor and voice artist with a diverse cultural perspective. With roots in India, Portugal and Britain, she grew up in Hong Kong, and has since lived in both the UK and USA. She trained at The Drama Studio in London, having completed a BA Hons degree in English and Drama. She has always had a passion for reading, and has narrated many award-winning audiobooks including Booker Prize Winners 'The Inheritance of Loss' by Kiran Desai and 2011 Waterstone Prize Winner 'Artichoke Hearts' by Sita Bramachari.
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Mark Jwayad
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Jwayad grew up in North Portland in Oregon. He attended Benson Polytechnic High School where he majored in Radio Broadcasting and helped start the Theatermaniacs, a student generated theater group. He studied for a year at Clackamas Community College where he was introduced to Comedy Improv, before attending the University of San Francisco to major in Performing Arts and Social Justice. While at the University of San Francisco, Jwayad founded the USF Comedy Improv group as well as appearing in several stage plays. Transitioning to film, he continued his studies at Chapman University's Graduate Conservatory of Motion Pictures and received an MFA in Film Production: Directing emphasis. Along with William Prescott, he co-founded Trainwreck Motion Pictures and now lives in Los Angeles.
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Jacqui Holland
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Jacqui Holland was born in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. After many a wretched snowy winter, she headed to Hollywood to put her acting and writing skills to work. Once arriving, Jacqui landed roles in several sitcoms, including How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives and Suburgatory. She also appeared in numerous films, including Hollywood Sex Wars and My Best Friend's Girl opposite Kate Hudson. In 2012, Jacqui added feature film Producer and Writer to her resume with Silent But Deadly. She won Best Actress at The International Hoboken Film Festival for her role in the film. She also starred and produced the stylish horror/dark comedy Two Faced.
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Polly Adams
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Pauline "Polly" Adams is an English actress. She is best known for her work on the stage both in England and in the United States, and for her portrayal of Mrs. Brown in the 1990s television series Just William. She made her Broadway debut in a 1975 revival of London Assurance as Grace Harkaway, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
She has appeared in several productions in London theatres, appearing at such theatres as the Old Vic, the Oxford Stage Company, the Hampstead Theatre, the Royal National Theatre, the Greenwich Theatre, the Haymarket Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Globe Theatre, the Queen's Theatre, the Piccadilly Theatre, the Savoy Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Her theatre credits include Ida in The Chiltern Hundreds, Time and the Conways, A Month in the Country, Pygmalion, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A Small Family Business, Tons of Money, Plunder, The Philanderer, Engaged, Troilus and Cressida and Don Juan Comes Back From The War, The Government Inspector, Benefactors, The Real Thing, Present Laughter, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hay Fever, The Merchant of Venice, Private Lives, The Complaisant Lover, and Relatively Speaking.
She worked on television in the UK, appearing in shows including The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Element of Doubt, Just William, A Dark-Adapted Eye, The Cinder Path, Blisters , Inspector Alleyn, Bonjour la Classe, The Camomile Lawn, Sob Sisters, Executive Stress, The Murder at the Vicarage, Faint-Hearted Feminist, Winter Sunshine, Goodbye Darling , Tribute to the Lady, Upstairs, Downstairs, The First Churchills, The Spoils of Poynton, Pride and Prejudice, and Compact and Sea Song.
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Matt Williams
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Matt Williams is a television writer, creator and producer. He is the producer of the TV shows Roseanne and Home Improvement and movies such as What Women Want, and has written for The Cosby Show and A Different World as well as writing the screenplay for Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Additionally he has written the play "Between Daylight and Boonville", and directed and co-produced the feature film Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman.
Williams is originally from Evansville, Indiana. The TV show Roseanne uses pictures of places in Evansville.
He wrote and directed Walker Payne in 2006, starring Jason Patric, Drea De Matteo, and Sam Shepard.
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Yui Aragaki
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Yui Aragaki is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host. She is most well-known for her role in the 2007 movie "Koizora" (also known as "Sky of Love") which was a box office hit.
Yui Aragaki was born in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on June 11, 1988, and has two older sisters. After seeing an audition notice for the junior fashion magazine Nicola (ニコラ Nikora), she applied for it and won the Grand Prix award for the audition. In 2001, at the age of 13, she began her Nicola modelling career and was very well received as a Nicola model, having set a record for appearing on cover for 15 times. A fellow Nicola model Ayako Enomoto gave her the popular nickname "Gakki."
At the age of 15, Aragaki moved to Tokyo and enrolled in Horikoshi High School, a private high school popular for being attended by many Japanese celebrities. In 2004, she decided to put her Nicola career on hold and expand her career path into gravure and acting, and she also appeared in variety shows and commercials, with her Pocky commercials being the most popular. A year later, she officially graduated from Nicola. Even so, she still appears in the magazine occasionally.
In 2005, Aragaki took up a role in the TBS drama, Dragon Sakura, starring alongside Japanese idols like Tomohisa Yamashita and Masami Nagasawa. This marked a breakthrough in her acting career. Since then, she has been cast in many other dramas, like My Boss, My Hero and Gal Circle. She also starred in the 2007 tragic love story movie hit Koizora, for which she won her first award, the Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer. Currently, she has 5 newcomer awards.
Aragaki won the Film prize at the 45th Golden Arrow Awards in 2008. Her tremendous number of movie shoots as well as the preparation for her debut album resulted in her suffering from work-related stress in 2007.
Outside acting she also released her first album, Sora, and the single "Heavenly Days", a song from Koizora. "Memories", the theme song for Tokyo Serendipity, was included in her debut album. She also performed at Budokan.
She was also the co-hosts for popular radio program Girls Locks in 2010-2012.
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Hedy Lamarr
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Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born actress and technology inventor. She was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age.
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. She became a film star with her performance in Algiers (1938). Her MGM films include Lady of the Tropics (1939), Boom Town (1940), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), and White Cargo (1942). Her greatest success was as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible-inspired Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film, The Female Animal (1958). She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. This system later became the basis for what is now known as Bluetooth.
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Makenna Tuttle
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Makenna Tuttle is an independent film producer and production coordinator originally from Cleveland, Ohio, now based in Los Angeles, California. She specializes in narrative films, bringing directors' visions to life with passion and precision.
Her work has been featured at renowned festivals such as Toronto International, Berlin International, Buffalo International, and many others.
Makenna is dedicated to expanding her client base and collaborating with directors to turn their stories into impactful films.
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Fred Hampton
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From Wikipedia. Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was assassinated as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Hampton's death was chronicled in the 1971 documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton, as well as an episode of the critically acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fred Hampton, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Geraldo Vietri
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Geraldo Vietri (São Paulo, August 27, 1927 – São Paulo, August 1, 1996) was a Brazilian filmmaker and playwright.
A controversial television personality, a pioneer, with a difficult temperament and politically conservative, Geraldo Vietri began his career on TV Tupi in 1958, when one of his screenplays, Este Mundo é dos Loucos, was approved and produced by the São Paulo broadcaster. After that, Geraldo would be hired to work at TV de Comédia, as author and director.
Still in the 1950s, Vietri began producing non-daily soap operas. In Alma Cigana (1964), Vietri acted as director. Two years later, he wrote A Inimiga (1966), an adaptation of an Argentine original. As an author of soap operas, he accumulated the largest number of titles.
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