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Ishia Bennison
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Ishia Bennison is a British actress, best known for her television appearances, although she is also a veteran stage actress. Bennison is originally from Hull in Yorkshire.
One of her earliest roles was playing a nurse in the 1980 Charlton Heston film, The Awakening. She also had roles in the television drama The Chinese Detective (1981) and she played Ruth Lieberman in the BBC drama Kessler (1981). Other notable television credits include Bergerac (1981) and playing Ursula in a BBC Television Shakespeare adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing (1984).
In 1985 Bennison became a household name whilst playing Guizin Osman, the long-suffering wife of the womanising Turkish Cypriot, Mehmet (Haluk Bilginer), in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She remained in the role until 1989. Bennison has "mixed memories" about her role in EastEnders, commenting in 2003: "it was the start of the soap and the fame was very instant for everybody. You're in everybody's front room and everyone feels they own a bit of you. I'll never forget having to sign people's sickbags on the hovercraft to France. My daughter wouldn't walk down the street with me at the time. She would stay 10 paces behind. I still get recognised from EastEnders. I can't believe it."
Other television credits include The Storyteller (1988); The Bill (1988); playing Denise Skidmore in the popular ITV drama At Home with the Braithwaites (2000); Mrs. Mawdsley in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street (2000); Holby City (2000); playing Cath Foxton in Burnside, the spin-off to The Bill (2000, 2001); Casualty (2006) and Hollyoaks: In the City.
In 2004 she starred in the Doctor Who audio series Dalek Empire III and in January 2007 she joined the cast of the successful ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, playing Jackie Stiles — mother of vet receptionist Jo Stiles. She also played the character of 'Doris' in two episodes of the CBBC series, Little Howard's Big Question. She played Joyce, a civilian employee at the police station, in the 2014 crime drama Happy Valley.
Bennison has had numerous roles on stage, including Mistress Overdone in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production Measure For Measure, which played at the Theatre Royal in 2003. She also appeared at the Playhouse as the Queen in The Tragedy of Cymbeline (2003). Bennison's previous Shakespearean roles have been with the company Northern Broadsides, which "specialises in performing classical plays in north country accents"Seen at Chesterfield's Pomegranate Theatre when she toured with Bill Simpson (Dr. Finlay in TV's Dr. Finlay's Casebook) in 'Educating Rita' - he was the known name (to me) and she stole the show.
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Ana Girardot
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Ana Girardot (born 1 August 1988) is a French actress and director. She is known for Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014); her role of Lucy in the television series Les Revenants (The Returned); and Someone, Somewhere (2019). Ana Girardot was born on August 1, 1988 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014), The Returned (2012) and Someone, Somewhere (2019).
Ana Girardot was born on August 1, 1988, in Paris. Ana Girardot is the daughter of French actor Hippolyte Girardot and actress Isabel Otero, and the granddaughter of painters Antonio Otero and Clotilde Vautier. She chose to become an actress despite her father's disapproval, and later went to New York City for two years to study theatre. After performing secondary roles in television and cinema, Girardot scored a leading role in the film Lights Out, which was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Source: Article "Ana Girardot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Cristin Milioti
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Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is known for playing The Mother, Tracy McConnell, in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2013 to 2014, and Sofia Falcone in the HBO crime drama series The Penguin (2024). The latter earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She appeared in theatre productions such as That Face (2010) and the musical Once (2011–2013), for which she won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Tony Award.
Milioti also featured in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, the 2020 film Palm Springs, the second season of the FX anthology crime series Fargo (2015), the HBO Max comedy series Made for Love (2021–2022), Peacock comedy mystery series The Resort (2022) and two related episodes of Netflix's hit series Black Mirror (2017, 2025).
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Jiang Luxia
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Jiang Luxia is the Nationalwide Wushu Champion in Shaolin quan in China. She is also a China State "Wuying Level" Sportsman; a State Martial Arts Repertoires A-level Referee; the Chief Trainer in the "Practical Ladies Self-Defense" program on CCTV.com and the Vice Chaiperson of the Beijing Sports University Wushu Association. She is also excellent in Martial Arts Repertoire, Practical Self-Defense, Qiqong, Taijiquan and Crossbow techniques. From February 2007 onwards, Jiang has uploaded videos of herself on the Internet under ID of "Mao Er Bao Bei". So far, the "Mao Er Bao Bei" series has recorded a click rate of over 25 million and was being searched for over 4 million times. "Mao Er Bao Bei" has ranked Top N°4 by the Google search engine in 2007. This record has way surpassed many of the other "web stars" from before. Commonly known as "Mao Er Bao Bei", Jiang is most loved by the Internet fans for her healthy and positive image. Due to the popularity of the "Mao Er Bao Bei" video series, each of her new videos is often featured on the home pages of many video portals and websites in order to attract the web viewers !
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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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M. Amin
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Muhammad Amin bin Haji Ihsan or better known as M. Amin(1 September 1924 – 8 January 2003) is a Malaysian actor, director and writer. He was known for his socio -political observations on the Malays which inspired him into his films. His career began in 1950's when he migrated to Singapore to apply for a position as a sailor. However, things took a change as he was called to acted under the direction of an Indian at Malay Film Productions. Since he was good at reading, he has served at Malay Film company as a teacher to teach the Malay actors to write and read.
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Bart Baker
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Bartholomew Baker (born May 5, 1986), known online as Bart Baker, is an American entertainer, web-based comedian, video producer, singer, rapper and former parody artist. He is best known for making parody videos of notable songs, which he posts on his YouTube channel. He was described as one of the most prolific makers of music parodies by Billboard. Besides being active on YouTube, where he has more than 10 million subscribers, Baker is known for his short videos on Vine and also Live.ly, where he is top-earning broadcaster. His videos are described as 'high-quality parodies that keep to the originals very well'. In 2018, Baker was signed to World Star Hip Hop and released a song called "Popper" under the stage name of Lil Kloroxxx and has started a life as a rapper.
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Richard Chevolleau
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Richard Chevolleau is a Jamaican-Canadian actor, best known for playing Augur on Earth: Final Conflict from 1997 to 2002. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1966. He moved to Toronto, Canada, with his family when he was 10 years old. He began acting in high school and continued to study acting after graduating. He studied the Meisner Technique with Paul Bardier and later trained at the Maggie Bassett Studio. Chevolleau's first professional acting role was in the television series Erben des Fluchs in 1989. He has since appeared in numerous television shows and films, including Street Time, This Is Wonderland, 'Da Kink in My Hair, Lost Girl, She's the Mayor, Saving Hope, Hannibal, Blood and Water, Killjoys, Hudson & Rex and Murdoch Mysteries. He is also a successful stage actor, having appeared in productions of August Wilson's Fences, King Lear, and The Crucible. In 2004, Chevolleau won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role Dramatic Series for his role in the television series The Eleventh Hour.
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Masato Hara
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While still in secondary school, Hara Masato (1950) won several prizes with his 16mm film A Sad Yet Funny Ballad. In 1970, he wrote the script for Oshima Nagasi's film The Man Who Left His Will on Film. In 1973, he completed The First Emperor, a film on which he worked for three years. The film was selected by the magazine Kinema Jumpo as one of the most important films in Japanese film history. From the 1980s on, Hara focused increasingly on television documentaries. In his work, he makes use of various media, mainly animation and laser disk images and he often combines the screening of his films with live performances.
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Heck Allen
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Henry Wilson "Heck" Allen (September 12, 1912 – October 26, 1991) was an American author and screenwriter. He used several different pseudonyms for his works. His 50+ novels of the American West were published under the pen names Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen's screenplays and scripts for animated shorts were credited to Heck Allen and Henry Allen.
In 1937 Allen began working as a contract screenwriter for MGM animation division. While his early work was for Harman and Ising's Barney Bear series, his longest collaboration was with director Tex Avery. Allen was credited as story artist on many classic Avery shorts, included Swing Shift Cinderella, King-Size Canary, and The First Bad Man, among many others. Allen downplayed his contributions to the shorts, claiming that Avery merely used him as a sounding board for his own ideas.
Allen's career as a novelist began in 1952, with the publication of his first Western No Survivors. Allen, afraid that the studio would disapprove of his moonlighting, used a pen name to avoid trouble. He would go on to publish over 50 novels, eight of which were adapted for the screen. Most of these were published under one or the other of the pseudonyms Will Henry and Clay Fisher.
Allen was a five-time winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement.
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