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Neil Edmond
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Neil Edmond (born December 1970) is a British actor and comedy writer.
Neil was a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside James Rawlings and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC Radio 4 between 2002 and 2005. He wrote and performed radio sitcom Knocker for BBC 7's and contributed to two series of Bigipedia. In 2012 he appeared as beleaguered emergency architect Mike Whitaker in Twenty Twelve.
Edmond has also been known to perform solo character work, with his Space School headmaster and Market Researcher being particular live favourites. He was a regular stooge for the late Ken Campbell (1941-2008), is an ex-member of sketch group The Benders, is a frequent volunteer at Scene & Heard, played 'Ian' in interactive web comedy Where are the Joneses? and provides improvised 'interpretative dance' accompaniment for readings of horror novels and the poetry of Danielle Steel at Robin Ince's Book Club.
Home Time, co-written with Emma Fryer, was nominated for Best Sitcom at both the 2010 South Bank Show Awards and The Rose D'Or.
In 2019 he played the recurring character of Ian in the Martin Clunes sitcom Warren on BBC1.
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Michael Ray Williams
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Michael Ray Williams was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on February 4, 1986, and has been working in independent film since debuting his improvisational skills in "Move Cary" (2006). He has played a host of roles of varying sizes since then, specializing in indie horror. His favorite film role to date is Jack in "Between Hell and a Hard Place" (2014).
Michael is also a veteran of the stage, having appeared with local community theaters and traveling acting companies alike. Some of his favorite stage roles have included the title role of Sweeney Todd, Frederic in "Pirates of Penzance", and John Proctor in "The Crucible". When he is not acting, he leads acting workshops and classes, directs, and designs lighting for local productions. He and his wife, Meg, currently live in Haw River, North Carolina with their dog and four cats.
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Billy Mitchell
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Billy L. Mitchell, born on July 16, 1965, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, gained fame for achieving high scores in classics from the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Despite evidence of several high scores being cheated, he confidently claims the title of the "greatest arcade-video-game player of all time." Additionally, he is the proprietor of the "Rickey's World Famous Restaurant" chain located in Hollywood, Florida, and markets a line of hot sauces under the brand "Rickey's World Famous Sauces."
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Ed Wu
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Ed Wu. Orange Mohawk Cinematographer. Classically-trained Violinist. Ultimate Frisbee Athlete. Cat lover. Ed was recognized as one of the Rising Stars of Cinematography in the February 2017 issue of American Cinematographer. In 2016, he was also selected to be a part of Variety's Below-the-Line Impact Report - Up Next Category. An honorary Hoosier from Long Island, NY, Ed transplanted to Los Angeles in search of uncovering and learning the magic behind visual storytelling. To refine his craft, Ed was accepted to study at the prestigious American Film Institute, receiving an MFA in cinematography. Through his experiences as a cinematographer and wanderer of the world, he's seen the power of an image and constantly continues to search for the perfect frame to tell the story.
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Bruce Greene
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Bruce Paul Greene IV (born August 12, 1981) is an American actor (for live action), voice actor (for animated cartoons), on-camera host (for shows and podcasts), content creator, content producer, reviewer, gaming journalist as well as an Internet and YouTube personality, who is best known for his work on the Funhaus and The Know division of Rooster Teeth in addition to formerly co-hosting and working on Machinima Inc's Inside Gaming division with Adam Kovic, where he would co-host and participated in video gameplays, podcasts, fan Q&As, live action skits, animated cartoons, in addition to reviewing and previewing video games, video game technology products, eSports news, movies and TV shows of varying genres in a retrospective and comedic manner.
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Hong Chau
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Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress. She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter.
Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and majored in film studies at Boston University College of Communication before pursuing an acting career. She appeared in the TV series Treme (2010–2013) and the film Inherent Vice (2014). She went on to have supporting roles in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019) and the Prime Video series Homecoming (2018–2020). Chau has also played leading roles in the 2019 films Driveways and American Woman and further supporting roles in the 2022 film The Menu and the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent.
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Inga Swenson
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Inga Swenson (December 29, 1932 - July 23, 2023) was an American actress.
Inga Swenson was a graduate of Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska, Class of 1950. Swenson was a member of Alpha Phi sorority at Northwestern University where she studied in their famed Drama Department. Swenson is best known to American audiences for her portrayal of Gretchen Kraus, the autocratic and acerbic German cook (later Head Housekeeper and Budget Director) on the TV sitcom "Benson." She got the part by appearing in a multi-episode stint as Ingrid Svenson, birth mother of Corinne Tate (Diana Canova), on the tv sitcom "Soap." Both series were created by Susan Harris and produced by Witt-Thomas-Harris Productions (who later created "The Golden Girls" and "Empty Nest.") She also appeared as northern matriarch Maude Hazard in the acclaimed mini-series "North and South" in 1985 and again in 1986.
Earlier in her career, Swenson had a notable turn on the TV western series "Bonanza" in two episodes: "Inger, My Love" (1962) and "Journey Remembered" (1963). Swenson took a brief leave of absence from her starring role in "110 in the Shade" on Broadway to appear in "Journey Remembered." The appearances were significant in that she played Lorne Greene's character's second wife, the mother of Hoss Cartwright, played by Dan Blocker. She was actually four years younger than Blocker. After "Bonanza" ended its 14-year run, Swenson guest starred in an episode of Lorne Greene's short-lived crime drama "Griff."
Also early in her career, Swenson had supporting roles in the films "Advise and Consent" (1962) and "The Miracle Worker" (1962) in which she played Helen Keller's mother.
She was a trained lyric soprano and starred on Broadway in "New Faces" (circa 1956) and "The First Gentleman" (1959), and received Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in "110 in the Shade" (1964) and "Baker Street" (1965).
Swenson was married to actor-singer Lowell Harris, with whom she had two sons, James (deceased) and Mark.
Though her Swedish-sounding name and trademark accent on "Benson" suggest otherwise, she was born and raised in the U.S., and normally spoke with an American accent.
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Petter Amundsen
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Petter Amundsen is a Norwegian organist in Holmenkollen Chapel, Oslo, Norway. Since 2002 he has decrypted a number of steganographic ciphers believed to be hidden in several first editions of William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon’s books. In 2003, Amundsen excavated two sites at the legendary Treasure Island —Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. His findings didn't go unnoticed, and attracted media attention and amazed many in the local community, among them landowner Dan Blankenship. Many years of research has resulted in a number of publications, TV series and a full feature documentary film. In January 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine published a feature story on Oak Island, “The Curse of Oak Island,” and included parts of Amundsen's theory on Shakespeare and Oak Island. In the late winter of 2006, Amundsen teamed up with the celebrated author Erlend Loe to co-write “Organisten” (“The Organist”), an in-depth version of the discovery, published in eight countries. In December 2009, a four episodes TV-series, “Shakespeares skjulte koder” (“Shakespeare: The Hidden Codes”), was broadcasted on Norwegian National Television NRK1. In March 2012, Amundsen published his second book, “Oak Island & The Treasure Map in Shakespeare,” an updated and compact version of the discoveries. In April 2012, a full feature documentary, “Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth,” was released in Norwegian cinemas.
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Petra Scharbach
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Petra Scharbach, best known as Petra, is a German actress, model, singer and painter. She was sometimes credited as Petra Rockstar.
Born in Frankfurt, at 6 moved to Parma with her mother. In Italy, after having participated and won several beauty contests and worked as a model in local fashion shows, debuted in the mid-eighties as singer and softcore actress. In the same period she appeared on the cover of Playmen and of the French edition of Penthouse.
Then she worked for several years with the Riccardo Schicchi's agency Diva Futura and was the main actress in several softcore movies. After some years she left Rome and returned to Parma to host a sport program in TV Parma. During these years she was a protagonist of gossip columns for her relations with American actor Tony Curtis.
In the early 2000s she began a career as a body art painter.
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Daniyar Alshinov
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Daniyar Alshinov (born 23 November 1987; Akmolinsk) is a Kazakh actor and producer.
He was born in Akmola region. Since childhood, he was a very developed and versatile child. At school, he showed promise of an outstanding mathematician, up to high school he was a member of the school's national team in mathematics. In the 10th grade, there was a creative explosion, the future actor began to write poetry nonstop, scratching out notebooks, school diaries. He regularly attended the meetings of poets of Astana, once even went to the Bard festival outside the city. At the same time, Daniyar tried himself in the school KVN. In the 11th grade, he was already one of the main players of the school team.
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