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Motsi Tekateka
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Actor Motsi Tekateka was born 29 December, 1987 in Bonn, Germany. Son to diplomat parents at the time, Motsi spent his first 6 years in Germany before his family relocated to Johannesburg in 1994. The youngest of 3, Tekateka frequently performed in talent shows during his early school years and that's when he discovered his deep passion for performance, particularly acting, singing and dancing. By high school, he was performing lead roles in plays such as The Crucible and Talking to Terrorists. Tekateka was also vocally trained at a young age and performed in choirs from the age of 8 until graduating from high school. After a brief career in Audio Post Production, Tekateka decided to return to acting, this time as a professional. Drawing from his early training, he moved to Los Angeles to study Meisner and Chekhov techniques in acting. After his return to South Africa in 2015, Tekateka has landed significant roles in several films and TV series. Most notably, Max Khumalo in Jongo (2016), and the role of Tespha's Father in The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019).
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Spencer Charters
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Spencer Charters (March 25, 1875 – January 25, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1920 and 1943, mostly in small supporting roles. Spencer Charters first stage work soon after leaving school was a walk on part, but it wasn't long before he was being given fair-sized roles. He played on Broadway between 1910 and 1929 and was a busy character actor in films during the 1930s and early 1940s. He often portrayed somewhat befuddeled judges, doctors, clerks, managers, and jailers.
He died by suicide from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Kristy Wright
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Kristy Wright (born 14 July 1978; name also erroneously given as Kirsty Wright) is an Australian actress. Wright was born in Sydney, Australia, the oldest child in her family, with three stepbrothers and two half-sisters. Hoping to win a contest for acting lessons, she sent in her photograph and ended up with a full year's paid tuition. Her first part was a guest role in Police Rescue. From 1995 until 1999 she played the part of Chloe Richards in the Australian soap opera Home and Away and briefly returned to this role in December 2005, when her character died from an embolism resulting from a car accident. Following Home and Away she starred in Chuck Finn, Above the Law and Something in the Air. She went on to feature inCrash Palace as well as a political satire called Corridors of Power. Following this success she was picked up to feature in an American TV show, Beastmaster as a ninja warrior. She also appeared in a short film, Sweet Dreams. She worked on an episode of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's – The Lost World, and has also featured in the Australian drama,The Alice. She had a minor role as the hand maiden Moteé in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. She moved to Los Angeles in 2005 or 2006 and quit acting in 2011 and worked in event management. On August 8, 2013, she gave birth to Jai Jacoby, during her 27th week of pregnacy. Jai weighed in at only 2 lbs 4 oz and 14 1/2 inches long. Her partner is Michaelis Jacoby.
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Kev Adams
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Kev Adams or Kev' Adams (born Kevin Smadja; 1 July 1991) is a French comedian, actor, humorist, screenwriter and film producer.
Adams was born in 1991 in the 16th district of Paris. His father is a real estate agent of Algerian Jewish descent and his mother, of Tunisian Jewish descent, works in finance. He has two younger brothers, Noam and Lirone. He began taking theater classes at the age of seven. In 2009, Adams completed his French Baccalaureate in literature, and enrolled in law at the University of Paris X-Nanterre while simultaneously pursuing his acting career. He claimed that it was, "extremely difficult, nearly impossible, to balance both."
In 2009, Adams was spotted by Elisa Soussan, Anne Roumanoff's producer, who invited him to perform at her Carte Blanche show at the Olympia (Paris). This stage performance was broadcast on Paris Première. Following this event, Adams was offered to be the opening act of a Gad Elmaleh show at the Palais des Sports. His first one-man show, The Young Man Show, first ran in Paris in 2009 at the Théâtre Le Temple and then continued at the Palais des Glaces before touring France. The tour ended in Switzerland on July 22, 2012, during the Paléo Festival de Nyon. He then performed a show called Test… Voilà, Voilà! at the Bataclan from November 27 to December 31, 2013.
As of May 2014, Adams has more than 3 million fans on Facebook and more than 1 million followers on Twitter and in 2017 more 4 million followers on instagram.
From September 2010 to February 2011, Adams was a contestant on the TV program On n'demande qu'à en rire ("We just want to laugh at it", literally "We ask only to laugh at it") hosted by Laurent Ruquier. He left the show voluntarily to dedicate himself to the Soda television series, in which he plays a major role. Soda depicts the daily life of three boys and includes guest stars such as La Fouine and Amel Bent. Since the summer of 2011, the series has been broadcast on M6, and on W9 in 2012. Season three close the series in 2015.
The same year he has his biggest box office successes with Serial Teachers, as the almost-school dropout and his adventures with the worst teachers of France, and The New Adventures of Aladdin, as one of the thieves caught by the children in the midst of a robbery on Christmas Eve.
In 2018, he created the animated series Kev's World ("Le Monde selon Kev"). He also voiced himself in the original French version.
Source: Article "Kev Adams" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Chase A. Coustley
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Chase A. Coustley has been professionally acting with Grace Acting Studios since 2021 and joined the "Master Class" in 2024. He started Galaxy Studios with Ash Hase in "All Kinds of Crazy" (2019).
Chase has created multiple Galaxy Studios projects since then, such as "The Stray", "The Space Lamp Chronicles" and "Guy and Guys".
Chase has been appointed Co-CEO of Galaxy Studios, created 'Solar Films', and head of Marketing.
He made his professional acting debut in 2024 with Greg Gould's "Who Gave You Permission?" music video about sexual assault, in which he played a younger version of the main character.
He is 15 years old.
Currently represented by New Dimension Management.
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Alejandro Furth
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From Latinos to Russians to Spaniards to Americans; from crooks to heroes; from prime time to kids time; in English and Spanish; on tv, film and theatre, Alejandro Furth has shown versatility to critical success.
As the world finds its rhythm in this "new normal", Mr. Furth continuous his work on a new Apple Plus TV - Mark Boal project. Currently, Alejandro can be seen portraying Roman Salgado, a journalist known for his reporting on corruption and drug trafficking, in the international hit series Narcos: Mexico, on Netflix. Alejandro has two SAG Award nominations along with the cast of BARRY (HBO), for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series."
Alejandro was born and raised in Venezuela. He studied at the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, in NYC. While in the Big Apple, he became a member of the award-winning The Lab Theatre (formerly Circle Rep Lab) and the LAByrinth Theater Company.
Taking advantage of this up and coming "international" market, Alejandro quickly opened doors in prime-time Spanish television, as well as in Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia.
Despite his TV and film work Alejandro hasn't forgotten his roots. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he founded La Comuna, the Latino-production unit of the award winning MET Theatre in Hollywood, where he directed and produced new works. After La Comuna, Mr. Furth became a member of the award winning company The Elephant Theatre. Here, he did the West Coast premiere of Tony award nominee playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Little Flower of East Orange". In 2019, Furth starred in the English version of José Sanchis Sinisterra's Spanish classic, AY, CARMELA! at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood. The production had the direction of Venezuelan award-wining director Alberto Arvelo, the sets of world-renowned architect Frank Gehry and the music of LA's Phil conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
Alejandro Furth, is a board member of "Venezolanos en Hollywood", a non-profit organization that promotes Venezuelan artists in the USA.
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Aninha Pinheiro
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Actress, teacher, co-founder of the Cia Única de Teatro, began her studies at the University Center of Culture and Art - CUCA in 2011 and took courses and workshops there until 2019, entering the professional scene in 2017 and her most recent works are: Akoko Lati Wa ni - Tempo de Ser (2024), Lucas da Feira - O Sujeito Antes do Mito (2021), O Velho Lobo do Mar (2021).
She has participated in projects such as FENATIFS, Domingo Tem Teatro, Bahia Interior Theater Festival, Mostra de Cenas by SESC Feira and Feira Tem Teatro. Her participation in the audiovisual scene is vast, as well as in advertising and political campaigns, she presents the web series "Der Rolê na Feira" and as an actress she has been part of music videos, feature, short and medium-length films such as "Três". Besides video performances, "Aguiassendo" was her last production, where she worked as an actress, screenwriter, and producer. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Literature with English from UEFS and is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Theater at UFBA. She dabbles in other arts, such as poetry and dance. She has always been a dancer; dance permeated and continues to permeate her body as a representation of her identity. Along the way, she has discovered various forms, including pole dancing, of which she became an instructor in 2023, joining the Pole75 Art Studio team. This experience also paved the way for her knowledge of aerial techniques such as Circus Fabric, for which she also teaches. She has performed in dance shows in the city, including O Rei Leão (2017), Harry Potter (2018), O Grande Show (2019), as well as in the sisal region with the DanSalto Company.
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Hideo Sekigawa
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Hideo Sekigawa (関 川 秀雄, Sekigawa Hideo, 1 December 1908 – 16 December 1977) was a Japanese film director known mainly for films with a left-wing agenda made in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His most noted works are the anti-war films Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) and Hiroshima (1953).
Hideo Sekigawa joined the documentary branch of P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) in the 1930s where he worked on militarist propaganda films despite his Communist leanings. After the Second World War, Sekigawa debuted as co-director of the pro-unionist Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) which was intended to illustrate the purpose of the workers' union at the Toho film studios. Having difficulties finding work due to his political leanings, he directed the anti-war film Listen to the Voices of the Sea for Mitsuo Makino's Toyoko Eiga company (later Toei Company). For the Japan Teachers Union, which had been unhappy with Kaneto Shindo's Children of Hiroshima for not being political enough, he directed Hiroshima (1953) in a semi-documentary style, parts of which were later used (uncredited) by Alain Resnais for his drama Hiroshima mon amour. In later years, Sekigawa's output included both audience-orientated genre works and documentaries. His last film was the 1969 Chōkōsō no Akebono.
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E. E. Clive
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Edward Erskholme Clive was a Welsh stage actor and director who had a prolific acting career in Britain and America. He also played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood movies between 1933 and his death. E. E. Clive was born on 28 August 1879 in Blaenavon in Monmouthshire. Clive studied for a medical career, and had completed four years of medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital before switching his focus to acting at age 22. Touring the provinces for a decade, Clive became an expert at virtually every sort of regional dialect in the British Isles. He moved to the US in 1912, where after working in the Orpheum vaudeville circuit he set up his own stock company in Boston. By the 1920s, his company was operating in Hollywood; among his repertory players were such up-and-comers as Rosalind Russell. He also worked at the Broadway in several plays. E. E. Clive made his film debut as a village police constable in 1933's The Invisible Man with Claude Rains, then spent the next seven years showing up in wry supporting and bit parts, where he often portrayed comical versions of English stereotypes. He often played butlers, reporters, aristocrats, shopkeepers and cabbies during his short film career. Though his roles were often small, Clive was a well-known and prolific character actor of his time. Among his best-known roles was the incompetent Burgomaster in James Whale's horror classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He was a semi-regular as Tenny the Butler in Paramount Pictures' Bulldog Drummond B series, starring John Howard; he also played butlers in other movies like Bachelor Mother with David Niven and Ginger Rogers. In 1939, Clive appeared in The Little Princess as the lawyer Mr. Barrows, and the first two entries of the classic Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone. One of Clive's last roles was Sir William Lucas in the 1940 literature adaption Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. E. E. Clive died on 6 June 1940, of a heart ailment, in his Hollywood home. He was survived by his wife Eleanor and their child. Clive was a member of the Euclid lodge of Freemasons in Boston.
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Skip Battaglia
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Battaglia's animations range from pencil, and pastel on paper, as well as paint on film. He has won various awards from film festivals around the world, such as in New York City, Canada, Taiwan, New Zealand, and London. His film Parataxis is taught as part of courses on American Expressionism. He is known for his 1980 short film 'Parataxis' and his 1997 music video for the song "Taki Dom". He is best known for his experimental and abstract animation, 'Crossing the Stream'.
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