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Franka Potente
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Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She was born on July 22, 1974 in Münster North Rhine-Westphalia and raised in nearby Dülmen. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt (released in English as Run Lola Run) (1998). Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and Opernball. After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films, Potente gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Barbara Buckley in Blow (2001) and the female lead with Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity (2002). In 2006, she starred with Eric Bana in the Australian film Romulus, My Father, for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Lead Actress. Also in 2006, she wrote and directed Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt, a silent comedy. She has also appeared in several American television series including, The Shield in 2007, House M.D. in 2009 and Psych in 2010. As of 2011, she played Hilda in a BBC drama The Sinking of the Laconia. When not working on location, Potente lives in Berlin.
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Chaske Spencer
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Chaske (pronounced Chess-Kay) Spencer is a First Nation descendant of Lakota (Sioux) Nation. He stars as the co-lead opposite Emily Blunt in Hugo Blick's limited series The English. Most recently, he stars in the feature film Wild Indian which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and for which Chaske was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the 2022 Independent Spirit Awards. Up next, Chaske stars in Disney+'s new Marvel series Echo (2023).
Chaske is well known for his portrayal of 'Sam Uley' in the Twilght Saga: New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn I and Il. Chaske also starred in the Susanna White directed feature, Woman Walks Ahead, opposite Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell, which made its World Premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. His television credits include: NatGeo's Barkskins, NBC's Blindspot, Netflix's Jessica Jones, the Emmy award-winning Cinemax series Banshee, Netflix's Longmire, and the Amazon series Sneaky Pete with Bryan Cranston.
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Chris Tucker
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Christopher "Chris" Tucker (born August 31, 1971) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy and Smokey in the 1995 film Friday. Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest son of Mary Louise and Norris Tucker. Tucker was raised in Decatur, Georgia. After graduating from Columbia High School, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy and movies. In 1992, Tucker was a frequent performer on Def Comedy Jam. He made his cinematic debut in House Party 3, and gained greater film recognition alongside rapper Ice Cube in the 1995 film Friday. In 1997, he co-starred with Charlie Sheen in Money Talks, and alongside Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element. Tucker did not reprise his role of Smokey in Next Friday (2000) because he had become a born-again Christian after filming Money Talks (1997).He later starred in the 1998 martial arts action comedy Rush Hour and its sequels, Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3, in which he played James Carter, an abrasive wise-cracking detective. Tucker is good friends with fellow Rush Hour star Jackie Chan, and was also close friends with the late singer Michael Jackson, introducing and dancing with him at his 30th Anniversary Special, appearing in Jackson's video "You Rock My World" from his 2001 album Invincible and attending Jackson's memorial service. A friend of Bill Clinton, Tucker has traveled with the former President overseas, though he endorsed Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries. On February 13, 2009, Tucker participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Celebrity Game.
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Safiya Kaygin
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This is pure Female empowerment – strong songs by and for strong women, as the magazine “Hossa” writes.
SAFIYA stands for Female Empowerment in popschlager. The German-Turkish Popschlager singer and songwriter was born in Gaziantep (Turkey), lost her mother at the age of three and grew up in Germany.
After training as an optician, she followed her true passion: music. She writes and composes her songs themselves – and is also involved in the production.
Unlike many other artists in the hard business of the light muse, she has something to say. And it does – of course, directly and musically powerful. Their songs tell of their inner division, the courage to change and the decision to go unwavering their own way.
Born in Gaziantep in Turkey, SAFIYA came to Germany with her family at the age of two. Her life was marked by challenges from the beginning: her mother died when she was only three years old. Having grown up with two older brothers and two older sisters, she had to learn to stand on her own feet early and go through life independently.
After her successfully completed training as an optician, she decided to follow her true passion and make her appointment of music. SAFIYA is more than just a singer – she is an artist who brings emotions to the stage. With her characterful voice, her authentic charisma and its unmistakable Mediterranean temperament, she inspires people of all ages. It embodies strength, self-confidence and freedom – qualities that are also reflected in her music and make it something completely new in the pop scene. You have to experience it live.
Last year she appeared at more than 20 festivals, including the hit night of the stars in Wiesmoor, Schlagertraum in Löhne, Schlagerstern in Willingen and The Schlagernacht of the year. Their performances are characterized by energy, direct closeness to the public and a strong stage presence. She was also able to present herself to a broad fan community in TV shows such as “Schlagerchance” with Florian Silbereisen, “Die Schlager der Monats Tag” or “Kiwi's big party night”.
As a versatile composer and lyricist, SAFIYA creates songs that go deep under your skin. Whether its own pieces such as “Everything Clear”, “For this one moment” or “Wunderland” – their music tells stories that touch and inspire. With “Verdammt (I will)” SAFIYA wrote the German lyrics and gave the song a new, powerful perspective. Their interpretation of the classics “Awesome Life” and “Voices in the Wind” gives these titles a very personal touch that bears her unique artistic signature.
With their single “Wunderland” SAFIYA has created a song that will delight the audience at their live performances. The song was not only celebrated by their fans, but also appreciated in the industry: SAFIYA was awarded “Wunderland” as the newcomer of the month in My Melodie and Schlager Deluxe.
In 2025, she was awarded the prestigious Newcomer Award of the DJ Hit at the industry meeting. Her single “Stay in Memory” rose to the top 30 of the official German airplay charts and scored more than one million views on TikTok – a clear proof of their ever-growing appeal.
With every song, SAFIYA proves that she is one of the most exciting new voices in the German pop hit – not least because she writes, composes and co-produces her songs herself.
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Ernesto Malbrán
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Ernesto Fernando Malbrán Vargas (Santiago, Chile, December 25, 1932 – Norway, October 25, 2014) was a Chilean actor, theater and film director, teacher, playwright, and writer. He earned a degree in Literature from the University of Chile and pursued postgraduate studies in the United States at the Yale School of Drama and the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg.
He taught seminars, courses, and workshops on various topics related to literature and drama. A distinguished film actor, he worked in Germany, Norway, Spain, Colombia, and Chile. He was also one of the founders of La Mancha, an international school of gesture and image, located in El Arrayán, Santiago, Chile.
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Pierre Barouh
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Pierre Barouh (born Élie Pierre Barouh; 19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman as an actor and the lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music score. Barouh was born in Paris and along with his brother, Albert, and sister, was raised in Levallois-Perret. Their parents were Turkish-Jewish stallholders selling fabrics. During the Second World War, their parents hid them from the Nazis; Pierre and his sister in Montournais and Albert in la Limouzinière. During these years Élie, baptised Pierre, lived at La Grèlerie, the home of Hilaire and Marie Rocher, who had two sons. From this time, he drew inspiration for songs like "À bicyclette", "Des ronds dans l'eau" and "Les Filles du dimanche".
After the war, he was briefly a sports journalist for Paris-Presse-Intransigeant and also played for the national volleyball B team in the 1950s. He spent some months in Portugal and discovered Brazilian music. He visited Brazil in 1959 and on his return to Paris got to know the principal Brazilian writers and composers of bossa nova.
With his first earnings he bought the mill, la Morvient, by the river in Le Boupère in the Vendée where he had spent part of his childhood. There he established a recording studio and welcomed other artists, using it to advance the talent of others and creating his own label Saravah in 1965. With the label he wished to mix musicians and styles, to multiply musical encounters. He worked, notably, with Pierre Akendengué, Areski Belkacem, Brigitte Fontaine, Nana Vasconcelos, Gérard Ansaloni, Jacques Higelin, Alfred Panou, Maurane, David McNeil, Elis Regina.
Soon after the label's creation, Barouh realised that he was not a manager and so entrusted management to a teenage friend he had known when he was 15 playing volleyball. However, in 1972, he discovered that this friend had stolen 1,500,000 francs by means which prevented Barouh from being able to get any of it back, as he "had given him everything: signatures, etc".
As an actor, he played the role of the gypsy leader in the film D'ou viens-tu Johnny? and appeared in Lelouch's Une fille et des fusils. As writer/performer he had success with La Plage – immortalised by Marie Laforêt and the guitarist Claude Ciari -, Tes dix-huit ans and Monsieur de Furstenberg. He shot a documentary on the beginnings of bossa nova with his longtime friend Baden Powell de Aquino.
In 1966 he participated in the enormous success of the film A Man and a Woman which won the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Festival de Cannes. He married the actress Anouk Aimée the same year; they divorced three years later.
Barouh died in the Hôpital Cochin in Paris from an infarction on 28 December 2016, at the age of 82. He was buried a week later at Montmartre Cemetery.
Source: Article "Pierre Barouh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Patrick Bauchau
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Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor best known for his roles in the films A View to a Kill, The Rapture and Panic Room, as well as the TV shows The Pretender and House.
Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium on 6 December 1938, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, lawyer, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who served as an officer in the Belgian Underground during World War II. He was raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England.
He attended Oxford University on an academic scholarship and speaks German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, and a little Russian, Portuguese and Dutch.
He is married to the French actress and writer Mijanou Bardot, and lives in Los Angeles.
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Lynndie England
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Lynndie Rana England (born November 8, 1982) is a former United States Army Reserve soldier who was prosecuted for mistreating detainees during the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse that occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the Iraq War. She was one of 11 military personnel from the 372nd Military Police Company who were convicted in 2005 for war crimes. After being sentenced to three years in prison and a dishonorable discharge, England was incarcerated from September 27, 2005, to March 1, 2007, when she was released on parole.
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Jim Davis
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James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head.
Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced Garfield and Friends, a series which also aired on CBS from 1988 to 1994. Davis was the writer and executive producer for a series of CGI direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as an executive producer for the CGI animated TV series The Garfield Show and Garfield Originals.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Davis (cartoonist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Davorka Tovilo
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Tovilo emigrated to Germany at the age of twelve as the daughter of Croatian workers and lived first in Flörsheim am Main near Frankfurt am Main and later in Munich. After graduating from high school, Tovilo studied communication science and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and later also dubbing, moderation, singing and acting at the Deutsche POP Academy in Munich. In 2008 she was a European activist for the animal rights organization PETA and protested against bullfighting in front of the Spanish embassy in Berlin that same year. Tovilo describes American political and cultural history as her areas of expertise. Tovilo speaks Croatian, German, English and Italian.
Tovilo appeared in German and Austrian television entertainment programs such as in the tabloids taff by Pro Sieben (2004-2006, 2008-2011) on the Niels Ruf Show (2008) and Das Sat.1- Magazine (2008) of the VOX - Program on reality TV The Perfect Celebrity Dinner (2009, 2011) and in the 4-star PINK magazine in the section Die Promicamper (2010).
After small guest roles in German films, Davorka Tovilo was in the Hollywood film War Inc. - You order the war: We deliver 2008 in a short shot as John Cusack's partner. Tovilo was given an additional role in the film biography of Uwe Boll, Max Schmeling - Eine deutsche Legende (2010).
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