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Michael Jeter
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Robert Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American character actor of film, stage, and television. His television roles included Herman Stiles on the sitcom Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994 and Mr. Noodle's brother, Mister Noodle on the Elmo's World segments of Sesame Street from 2000 until 2003. Jeter's film roles include Zelig, Tango & Cash, The Fisher King, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Waterworld, Air Bud, Patch Adams, The Green Mile, Jurassic Park III, Welcome to Collinwood, Open Range, and The Polar Express.
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Terence Oswald Wilson (Astro)
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Terence Oswald Wilson known by his stage name Astro, was a British-Jamaican musician. He was the trumpeter and vocalist for the reggae band UB40.
Wilson started out as a roadie; he announced the band and occasionally joined in as a talk-singing toaster. This worked so well that he was soon given a permanent spot as second vocalist alongside Ali Campbell; songs he wrote included the second half of Madame Medusa (an indictment of Prime Minister Thatcher), the rap in Red Red Wine, and the #1 hit Rat In My Kitchen. In 2013, Wilson left UB40, which had been struggling for years due to financial mismanagement and, in his view, had become "a rudderless ship." He did contribute to Getting Over the Storm with reworked country songs; a genre he couldn't identify with, despite its enormous popularity within the Afro-Caribbean community, which prompted the recording of this album. Together with Campbell, who had previously departed, and keyboardist Michael Virtue, Wilson formed his own band UB40 in 2014; performances are advertised with their names. Since late 2018, the core group has consisted of Wilson and Campbell.
Terrence Oswald Wilson (Astro) passed away after a short illness. The exact cause of Wilson's illness has not been disclosed. He was 64. His final recordings can be heard on the album Unprecedented.
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Francesco Renga
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Pierfrancesco Renga (born 12 June 1968 in Udine, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2005 with the song Angelo. In 2001 he won the Mia Martini critics award at Sanremo Festival. He also took part in the Sanremo Music Festival in 2009 with Uomo senza età and in 2012 with La tua bellezza.
In 2010 he dedicated to his ex-longtime girlfriend Ambra Angiolini (2004 - 2015), the song "Stai con me" written by Emilio Munda.
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Eleftheria Thanouli
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Eleftheria Thanouli is a Professor in Cinema Theory. Her research interests include the representation of history in film, narratology, digital cinema, film and politics, and world cinema. She is the author of four monographs: Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (London: Wallflower Press, 2009), Wag the Dog: a Study on Film and Reality in the Digital Age (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018) and A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling (Bloomsbury, 2023). She has also contributed chapters to major publications including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013) and The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics (2016).
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Max Bennett
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Max Bennett is an English actor. On television, he is best known for playing Monk Adderley in Poldark on the BBC, and Robert Southwell in Will for TNT. On film, he is best known for playing David in the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and Brown in Guy Ritchie's crime caper The Gentlemen. He has worked extensively in London theatre, with leading roles in the West End, as well as for the Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court, Young Vic, Shakespeare's Globe and the National Theatre.
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Audrianna Lico
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Audrianna Lico is a bi-coastal actress. Audrianna has been acting since the age of four, and since then she has worked on over twenty commercials, four TV series and three feature films. Audrianna is slated to start filming a series regular lead role in summer months of 2023.
Audrianna's most popular roles include her supporting roles in the comedy film Summer Camp and the supernatural thriller titled The Visitator. She stars opposite of comedian Kevin James in The Visitator. Audrianna is cast as Maria Ramos and she was excited to work alongside her biological mother, father and brother on this film. This thriller was released late 2023.
Her other roles include a recurring role as McKenzie Calvo in Amazon's series Panic starring Olivia Welch, Ray Nicholson and Jessica Sula. She was cast as the younger sister to Leslie Ann Leal who was cast as Summer Calvo.
Audrianna is also known for her intense supporting role in the feature film Free, Dead or Alive released in 2022.
Audrianna is the oldest child of four and comes from a family of entertainers. She is home-schooled.
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Binky Griptite
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Franklin Stribling, professionally known as Binky Griptite, is an American guitarist, record producer, and radio DJ. He is best known as a founding member and guitarist of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Soul Providers, and Antibalas, among other Daptone Records-related projects. From 2017 to 2021, he hosted the weekly radio program The Boogie Down on WFUV.
Following a break in his music career he connected with musician Gabe Roth, who would co-found Daptone Records, and was recruited to play in Roth's Desco Records house band, Soul Providers. Some of the first records he played on were those of Lee Fields. He adopted the stage name Binky Griptite in 1999.
In late 1998, he joined the first incarnation of the Brooklyn afrobeat ensemble Antibalas with then-roommate Martín Perna as a bassist, touring and recording with them in their early years. Following the dissolution of Desco and the Soul Providers in 1999–2000, he formed The Dap-Kings with other former members as a band for Sharon Jones. They recorded their debut album Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings in 2001. In total, the group released eight studio albums, concluding with 2017's Soul of a Woman. Their 2014 album Give the People What They Want was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. Following a twenty-year tenure, Griptite departed from The Dap-Kings in September 2018.
In addition to playing with the Dap-Kings, Binky has played on records for artists such as Janet Jackson and Amy Winehouse, with whom he toured extensively in 2007. As a producer, he has worked with artists such as The Impressions. He also leads the R&B band The Mellomatics and The Binky Griptite Orchestra.
In July 2017, Griptite began hosting The Boogie Down on WFUV. The all-vinyl radio show airs weekly on Saturday nights and highlights vintage soul and R&B tracks.
In July 2021, WFUV announced that Griptite and the station have amicably agreed to end the program, saying that Griptite hopes to revive the program at some future point, on a station or stations to be determined.
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Michael Brando
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Michael Brando was born in 1988, the son of actor Christian Brando (1958-2008) and one of the grandchildren of legendary two-time Academy Award winning film icon Marlon Brando (1924-2004). His paternal grandmother is Welsh-Indian actress Anna Kashfi (1934-2015). Michael Brando has followed in his grandparents' footsteps by becoming an actor himself. He was introduced to acting from childhood, leading up to his stage debut at the age of 13, playing the title role of Romeo in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (2003-04) in New York, and (2005) in Los Angeles. This was the beginning of a stage career spanning a decade, starring in such iconic roles as Hamlet in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (2008) in Los Angeles, and (2010) in New York, making Brando the youngest actor to ever play the role of Hamlet.
His past roles also include playing Tom Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie"(2008), in New York, Val Xavier in Tennessee Williams' "The Fugitive Kind" (2009) in Los Angeles, Edmond in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" (2008) in Los Angeles, Richard in Eugene O'Neill's "Ah! Wilderness" (2006) in Los Angeles, among others.
He was invited to play the lead role in a 2010 production of Athol Fugard's play 'Blood Knot', as part of Mandela Day celebrations in Cape Town.
Brando also starred as Jim Stark in a stage adaptation of "A Rebel Without A Cause" (2010), and as Kal Trask in a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden", Both in Los Angeles.
As of 2015, Michael Brando is making his transition from stage to film. He is involved in three film productions: Hamlet: The Fall of a Sparrow (2016) , The Red and the Black (2017), The Spider, and Altitude.
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Roger Blake
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Roger Donald Blake (born 21 December 1957) is a Welsh actor, impressionist and entertainer. He is best known for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Spitting Image and The Big Impression and Noël Coward in television commercials, and narrated Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, as well as the Topsy and Tim animated series from 1984 to 1989.
Blake had a steady career, he made appearances in British television sitcoms such as Blackadder II, Only Fools and Horses and Dear John. In 1990, he joined the cast of Spitting Image, where he became well known as the voice of Prince Philip, he also voiced other characters including George H. W. Bush, Robert Maxwell, John Prescott and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It was on Spitting Image that he met Alistair McGowan, when the show was axed in May 1996, McGowan invited him to join him on his new television show The Big Impression, where again he voiced Prince Philip but also he became famous as the voice of Jim Royle in The Royle Family sketches. Blake was also known for his impression of Noël Coward, he played the playwright in television commercials for coffee and he appeared as Coward himself in the Series Four finale of Red Dwarf (Meltdown).
He made a brief appearance in the film Patriot Games, as a Constable. He voiced a policeman, as well as a balloon seller, in the movie Flushed Away in November 2006.
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Iris Bahr
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Iris Bahr is an American-born Israeli actress, comedian, director, and writer. She has appeared on television programs such as Friends (as Glenda in The One with Ross's Tan), Curb Your Enthusiasm as Rachel Heinemann (The Ski Lift Episode), and The King of Queens. Bahr also played a lead role in the 2006 film Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and played the part of a documentary film crew sound technician in the 2010 horror film The Last Exorcism.
Bahr received the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Performance for her one-woman show Dai (Enough), which also earned 2 Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Solo show and Best Sound Design. She also received a UK Stage Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance. Also in 2007, her memoir entitled Dork Whore was published, and has since been translated into German, Italian and Portuguese. Bahr was invited to perform Dai at the United Nations for over 100 ambassadors and delegates.
Dai was published as a book, DAI (enough) by Northwestern University Press in November, 2009.
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