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Costa Botes

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Costa Botes has been an independent film-maker in New Zealand since the early 1980s. His short film Stalin’s Sickle won the jury prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 1988. Forgotten Silver, a mock-documentary co-written & co-directed with Peter Jackson in 1995 created a national sensation in 1995. It won a special critics prize at the Venice Film Festival, and has become a cult favourite worldwide. Costa’s first feature film, Saving Grace (1997), was selected for competition at Valladolid, Asia-Pacific, and Fantasporto Film Festivals. He documented the making of Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy Lord of the Rings trilogy from 1999 to 2003 with a matching trio of feature length documentaries. These were released in a limited edition DVD box set in 2006, and later included in the definitive blu-ray collection released in 2011. Costa established his own production company, Lone Pine Film & TV Productions in 2005 to make independent documentaries. These have included Struggle No More (2006), a biography of NZ’s greatest unknown band, and Yes That’s Me (2008) about a blues musician with manic depression. He photographed, produced and edited the documentary, Lost In Wonderland in 2009, mentoring its young director, Zoe McIntosh. This premiered at the NZ Film Festival and won awards for photography and best documentary the following year at the Qantas NZ Film & TV Awards. Costa wrote and produced another film for Zoe, a 35mm short called Day Trip (2010). This was selected to screen at numerous international festivals including Tribeca, Clermont Ferrand, and Hawaii. It won the Signis Award at Espression En Corto in Mexico, and best short film at the Montreal First Peoples Film Festival. Costa's next documentary feature, Candyman: The David Klein Story (2010), was about the eccentric American candy genius who invented Jelly Belly jellybeans. It premiered at Slamdance and Hot Docs in 2010, and won the Director’s Choice best documentary award at the Rincon Puerto Rico Film Festival. He followed this with two documentary features: Daytime Tiger (2011), a film about mania; and The Last Dogs of Winter (2012), about a man fighting to preserve rare Inuit sled dogs from extinction. The Last Dogs of Winter had its world premiere as an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. Act of Kindness (2015), a documentary about a young New Zealander’s experiences in post-Genocide Rwanda won the Best Editing award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Costa also wrote and executive produced another short dramatic film for director Zoe McIntosh. The World in Your Window (2017) has screened at many top international festivals and won awards at Clermont-Ferrand, Tokyo, Melbourne, FlickerFest, Vancouver, Prague and Tahiti. His most recent work, Angie (2018) premiered at the NZ International Film Festival. It was described by one critic as a “deep, dark, daring wonder”. Another critic wrote, “Costa Botes has been making films for over 30 years: ANGIE is his best yet. He has always had a deft hand when it comes to emotional material. He has the ability to melt into the beautifully framed background and let the subjects speak, his flawless editing weaving a narrative spell”.
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Braden Wright

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Braden Wright is an actor, writer, producer, media coach and communications strategist (Messaging Coach). He began his industry career writing and producing industrial videos and then as a unit publicist on Moonstruck (1987) . In addition to working as a Senior Publicist on location throughout the US, Canada, as well as in France and Ecuador, he has also worked at the Walt Disney Studios as a senior photo editor, editing well over a million images on more than 90 features. Along with his project team, he received the Maxwell Weinberg Showmanship Award for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) . He is a member of IATSE Local 600 (The International Cinematographers Guild), as well as SAG and AFTRA. As an actor, he has made over 30 appearances on "General Hospital," as well as doing theater in LA and voice over work, including a role in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) . Wright was born in Alberta, Canada and raised in Toronto. He toured for two years as a professional figure skater with "Ice Follies & Holiday on Ice," and with the world premiere tour of "Walt Disney Productions' World On Ice" doing over 900 performances throughout the US and in Mexico. He earned his BSc. magna cum laude from Boston University's College of Communications and also competed in IRA competition with his frosh crew team as well as creating Rhett, the BU mascot character. As part of his degree, he studied in Strasbourg, France and is fluent in French. He and his wife have worked internationally as restaurant consultants. In 2003, he founded his own production company, Nuada Productions, and has developed several projects from his own scripts. He is the playwright of "Braden Wright's 'The Old Pros." In 1989, he married Celtic artist Diana E. Skeates. The couple resides in Los Angeles.
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Peter Iasillo Jr.

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Peter Iasillo Jr., the only son of Port Chester mayor Peter Iasillo Sr., was an actor who appeared in several horror films and various TV shows. He also made appearances on USA Up All Night and portrayed horror host Dead Edgar on Westchester Cable Access Television. In addition to appearing in several community theater plays, Iasillo was the artistic director for the Westchester Group Theatre and also organized the Black American Drama Group, an African-American theater group. With Robin Souter, he had two daughters: Amanda and Rebecca. Iasillo died of cancer on February 21, 2017, at the age of 63.
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Sarah Silverman

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Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, including racism, sexism, homophobia, politics, and religion, sometimes having her comic character endorse them in a satirical or deadpan fashion. She has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on television. Silverman was a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live, and she starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She released an autobiography The Bedwetter in 2010. She also appeared in other television programs, such as Mr. Show and V.I.P. and starred in films, including Who's the Caboose? (1997), School of Rock (2003), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). In 2015, she starred in the drama I Smile Back, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. During the 2016 election, she became increasingly politically active; she initially campaigned for Bernie Sanders but later spoke in support of Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. She hosted the Hulu streaming television late-night talk show I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman from 2017 until late 2018. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sarah Silverman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hồng Đào

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Hồng Đào is a Vietnamese American actress and comedian who has worked both in the United States and Vietnam. Originally from Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam, she attended and trained at the University of Ho Chi Minh's Academy of Dramatic & Theatrical Arts and afterward became widely known for her work in Vietnam as a comedic performer in the 1980s both on stage and on screen. During the mid-1990s, Hồng Đào resettled in San Jose, California, United States. She grew to prominence among Vietnamese-speaking audiences globally through her live-staged comedy work with US-based Vietnamese-language variety shows for Van Son Entertainment, Thuy Nga Productions's Paris by Night, and Asia Entertainment. However, she returned to the entertainment industry in Vietnam in 2010 in her onscreen comeback with Gia Dinh So Do alongside stars Don Nguyen and Nha Phuong. Since then, she has since appeared in many films and web dramas in Vietnam, including Trịnh Đình Lê Minh's Goodbye Mother (Thưa mẹ con đi), in which her performance was critically received. She makes her Hollywood and English-language screen debut in Netflix's series Beef, starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun. Hồng Đào is based in Southern California and is the proud mother of two daughters, Vicky and Sophia.
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Steve Harvey

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Broderick Steven "Steve" Harvey (born January 17, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, entertainer, television & radio personality and best-selling author. He is best known as the star of the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy. Currently, he is the host of the nationally syndicated radio program The Steve Harvey Morning Show, and the current host of the television game show Family Feud. He also hosts the Steve Harvey Project, on an extended cable channel. He is the author of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment, which was published in March 2009, and the book Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find and Keep a Man. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jane McNeill

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Jane McNeill attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied Drama and graduated with a BA in Journalism. After 10 years in regional and Chicago theater, she earned a Masters degree in Education at DePaul University. In 2010, after surviving breast cancer, she returned to acting and has spent much of 2011 working on The Walking Dead as the character of Patricia. Subsequent film and television roles have included Prisoners, Rectify, Mississippi Grind, Magic Mike XXL, and Uncle Frank.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Bradley Whitford

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Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American actor and producer. From 1999 to 2006, Whitford starred as Josh Lyman, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, in NBC's political drama television series The West Wing. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role in 2001. In addition to The West Wing, Whitford played Danny Tripp in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John, in the CBS series The Mentalist, antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison, Arthur Parsons in The Post, Dean Armitage in the horror film Get Out, Roger Peralta in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, President Gray in the dystopian science fiction film The Darkest Minds and Rick Stanton in the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In 2015, he won a second Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Marcy in Transparent and later garnered a fifth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Magnus Hirschfeld in the same series. From 2018 to 2025, Whitford portrayed Commander Joseph Lawrence in Hulu dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale, for which he won his third Primetime Emmy Award in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bradley Whitford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Deng Lun

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Deng Lun (邓伦) is a Chinese actor. He began his acting career in 2013 with the Chinese television series Flowers in Fog (花非花雾非雾), and starred in a number of popular television series including like Promise of Migratory Birds (十五年等待候鸟) and Because of You (因为遇见你). He gained popularity in 2017 with his performance in the critically acclaimed period drama White Deer Plain (白鹿原). He is the recipient of the Video Star Award 2016 in the category of 'Influential Young Actor of the Year' and won the 'Most Promising Actor' award at the ‘14th Esquire Man At His Best Awards’ in 2017. He also received the 'Popular Artist of the Year' award at the 6th iQiyi All-Star Carnival in 2017 and the Rising Actor award at the 9th China TV Drama Awards the same year.
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