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Vijay Deverakonda

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Deverakonda Vijay Sai is an Indian actor and film producer who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He debuted in 2011 in Ravi Babu's romantic comedy Nuvvila, and gained recognition for his supporting role in Yevade Subramanyam (2015). Deverakonda played the lead role in the 2016 romantic comedy Pelli Choopulu. Deverakonda has established himself as a leading actor of Telugu cinema by starring in films such as Arjun Reddy (2017), Mahanati (2018), Geetha Govindam (2018), Taxiwaala (2018) and Dear Comrade (2019) . His performance in Arjun Reddy won him several accolades, including the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu. In 2019, he won the South Indian International Movie Critics Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu for his work in Geetha Govindam. He owns King of the Hill Entertainment, a film production company, which produced its maiden film Meeku Maathrame Cheptha in 2019. Deverakonda was featured by Forbes India in their 30 Under 30 list of 2019. According to Google's annual report, he was the most searched South Indian actor in 2019
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František Hrubín

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Narodil se v Praze, ale své mládí prožil v Lešanech v Posázaví. Studoval na několika gymnáziích v Praze, po maturitě (1932) se neúspěšně pokoušel vystudovat filozofii a pedagogiku na Karlově univerzitě. Od roku 1934 byl zaměstnán v Městské knihovně v Praze a později na ministerstvu informací. V roce 1946 se stal spisovatelem z povolání. Roku 1939 se oženil, později měl dvě děti. Výrazně se podílel na založení dětského časopisu Mateřídouška, v letech 1945–1948 ho redigoval. Na II. sjezdu Svazu československých spisovatelů (1956) spolu s Jaroslavem Seifertem odvážně kritizoval spojení literatury a politiky, zastali se zde nejen perzekuovaných, ale i zavřených spisovatelů. Toto vystoupení vedlo nejprve k zákazu literární činnosti, velice brzy mu bylo povoleno překládat a psát literaturu pro děti, jeho samostatná tvorba procházela různými obdobími zákazů a vydávání.
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Vicki Lawrence

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Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her character Mama (Thelma Harper). Lawrence also originated many other characters on CBS's The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, the variety show's entire series run. In 1973, Lawrence became a one-hit wonder singer in the USA only, landing on the U.S. chart with "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia". It reached number one on both the United States and Canada charts. Lawrence has multiple Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 1976. She is also a multiple Golden Globe nominee, all for The Carol Burnett Show.
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Courtney Paige

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Courtney Paige is an award winning actress, writer and director born on August 5th in Kelowna, BC. Canada. She fell in love with performing at a young age and became a member of the Kelowna Community Theatre Company when she was eleven. Paige made her breakout performance as Annika on E! Entertainment's, The Arrangement and guest starred in the CW Lost Boys pilot for Warner Brothers, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Courtney's five time Leo nominated, feature length directorial debut, The Color Rose, now known as The Sinners, was acquired by Arclight Films and Untitled Entertainment. Courtney wrote, directed and produced Chapel, a crime thriller starring Jeremy Sumpter and Lochlyn Munro. She has two upcoming feature films at the packaging stage.
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Clare McGlinn

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Clare is the third child of a big Irish family raised in Manchester, North West Uk. With a background of singing, dancing and general entertaining, it seemed a natural decision to pursue her love of the performing arts and train to be an actress. As Clare herself jokingly states "Everyone acts & entertains in my family. Just lucky to get paid for it". After graduating from Bretton Hall College of Performing Arts, she started out training adult special needs groups in drama and directing youth groups at Bradford Playhouse Theatre until she eventually made the transition to professional actress. Her major break was as the irascible Pc. Natalie Metcalfe in the award winning drama "The Cops" produced by the legendary Tony Garnett of "Cathy Come Home"; "Kes", "This Life". Since then her career has gone from strength to strength, she has constantly tried to maintain a balance through her roles reflecting her commitment to both screen and stage and is enjoying terrifying herself with many a wordy stage script to test her opening night nerves.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Kurt Oldman

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Kurt Oldman is a Swiss born composer known for his prolific hybrid orchestral, razor sharp electronic, heart pounding industrial, provocative dark distorted and epic emotional scores for film, television and video games. His bold innovative commercial voice can be heard on a variety of shows with universal appeal such as Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy, Paramount's Monster Trucks, HBO's Game of Thrones and CBS's The Good Wife. While Kurt has a successful career scoring for film and television, his versatility and fearless approach has led to many opportunities working with major brands including Samsung, Taylor Made, Everlast, Konami and Beachbody. Kurt Oldman's vast body of work is highly marketable and has been licensed in countless television episodes and documentaries including Storage Wars, The Dog Whisperer, Dateline NBC, The Daily Show and Inside The NFL. He has also published several albums with Universal Music's Killer Tracks. Kurt studied at the Conservatory of Music Switzerland, the Swiss Jazz School Lucerne, the University of California Los Angeles and was a select participant of BMI's esteemed conducting workshop. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two cats.
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Jackson Gann

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Jackson Gann is the young and extremely talented American actor who has already achieved huge landmarks in his acting career. Recently, he is known for his appearance in the television drama with a mysterious story line, The Alienist. Furthermore, at a very young age, he has gained mainstream recognition already in his career from different appearances in movies and television dramas. His exceptional skills in acting have gained himself many adorers and lovers from the cinematic universe audience. Starting his journey from the year 2014 as Kevin in a short movie. He is currently playing in the Netflix series You. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin
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Asia Bibi

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Asia Bibi, born Aasiya Noreen, is a Pakistani Christian woman who was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 by a Pakistani court and was sentenced to death by hanging. In October 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted her based on insufficient evidence, though she was not allowed to leave Pakistan until the verdict was reviewed. She was held under armed guard and was not able to leave the country until 7 May 2019; she arrived in Canada the next day. She is married to Ashiq Masih. They have five children.
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Frank Aletter

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For someone who goes only to movie theaters, Frank Aletter is a total stranger. It is true that the actor appeared in no more than a handful of theatrical films (Gerhart in Mister Roberts (1955), a commanding officer in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Leigh Jensen in Private School (1983)...). But for a TV fan things are just the opposite, for Aletter was cast in NEARLY ALL the TV series, films, sitcoms and specials shot between 1955 and 1991! A sample of titles just give you an idea of Frank Aletter's prolific output on the small screen: Bringing Up Buddy (1960), Perry Mason (1957), The Cara Williams Show (1964), Lassie (1954), Mannix (1967), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Insight (1960), Kojak (1973), Cannon (1971), Hunter (1976), "Super Jaimie"... In his first life, Frank Aletter had been a regular on Broadway appearing in plays and musicals like "Bells Are Ringing", "Time Limit", "Wish You Were Here" and of course "Mister Roberts", which opened to him the doors of filmed fiction.
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