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Anne Meara
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Anne Meara (September 20, 1929 – May 23, 2015) was an American actress and comedian. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright. During her career, Meara was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, and she won a Writers Guild Award as a co-writer for the television movie The Other Woman.
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Sunny Chen
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Sunny Daydream Chen is a Canadian performer and artist. Born in Nanjing, raised in Langley, BC, the young artist toured Western Canada and America with their school choirs and concert band. At 17, Sunny moved to Vancouver and earned their BA in Psychology and English literature at UBC. From modeling for local designers, experiencing first love with a venue owner's son, and covering live shows for blogs, Sunny became an "it girl" in the local scene before turning 20.
Sunny voiced Jiao in sci-fi adventure game 1000xResist (2024) and won the supporting lead in Karin Lee's period drama Ts'ekoo Cha Ke: The Girl with Big Feet as Ho Shee, a Chinese merchant's wife in 1800s Barkerville. For this complex role, Sunny prepared her dialogue in Toisan and Chinook. The actor is known for Cheer Squad Secrets (2020), A Million Little Things (2018), and Sunflower Girl (2023).
Sunny Daydream writes songs in English and Mandarin, available on Spotify and Apple Music. In 2023, Women in Music Canada awarded Sunny a national Honour as a rising star. The artist enjoys singing to wildlife (especially on hikes), soups of all kinds, and making playlists.
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Sónia Vaz Borges
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Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is the author of the book “Militant Education, Liberation Struggle; Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978,” (Peter Lang, 2019). She is currently a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. As part of her academic work, Vaz Borges is developing a book proposal focused on her concept of the ‘walking archive’ and the process of memory and imaginaries. Her last film MANGROVE SCHOOL (2022), co-directed with Filipa César, was selected at Cinéma du Réel.
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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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Christopher Darden
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Christopher Allen Darden (born April 7, 1956) is an American lawyer, author, actor, and lecturer. He is a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, where he was a co-prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, a role in which he gained a great deal of national attention.
He left the District Attorney's office after the Simpson case and joined the faculty of the Southwestern University School of Law, where he taught and specialized in criminal procedure and trial advocacy. He then left the law school in 1999 and started his own firm, Darden & Associates, Inc., specializing in criminal defense and civil litigation. In December 2007, he was considered for a judgeship by then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He is a former legal commentator for CNBC, CNN, Court TV, and NBC, and a frequent guest and commentator on CNN, Court TV, and Fox News Network. He has made guest appearances on Touched by an Angel, Girlfriends, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Howard Stern Show, Muppets Tonight, Roseanne, the movie Liar Liar, and the TV movie One Hot Summer Night (in which he plays a disgruntled policeman). He is the former principal attorney in the syndicated legal show Power of Attorney.
He is also an author. In addition to In Contempt, which chronicles his experiences with the Simpson trial, he co-authored (with Dick Lochte) a number of crime novels, including The Trials of Nikki Hill (1999), LA Justice (2000), and The Last Defense (2002).
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László feLugossy
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László feLugossy (Kármen Batu) ( Kecskemét , June 25, 1947 – ) is a Hungarian painter, performer, actor, director, writer, screenwriter, and singer who won the Munkácsy Award. A self-taught artist who also works in fine arts, music, literature and filmmaking. After high school, he studied photography and then worked as a studio and printing photographer. He was one of the founders of the Vajda Lajos Studio in Szentendre in 1972. Between 1979 and 1986 , he was the singer and lyricist of the AE Bizottság band, and in 1983 , he founded the Inkaszámtan occasional company. Since 1982 , he has been a member of the Arts Fund and since 1989 , a member of the Hungarian Association of Fine and Applied Artists. Between 1986 and 1992 , he worked with the Új Modern Akrobatika performance band. During his years in Kecskemét , he was greatly influenced by the painting of Menyhért Tóth . He has been exhibiting his works since 1968. His public work titled Cheerful Totem can be seen in Szentendre. In 1997 , he moved to Sárospatak . He is married, his wife is Gertrud Almási.
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Whit Kunschik
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Whit Kunschik was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is of Native American, Czechoslovakian and Swedish descent.
Raised in a small town with her mother, step-father, and two sisters, her love for film began at a young age when she received her first video camera at the age of 11, piquing her curiosity into filmmaking. She excelled in arts and and athletics, and received a scholarship to play college basketball and would later transfer to the University of Central Oklahoma where she studied Broadcasting and minored in History of Film. Upon graduating she relocated to New York where she studied Meisner Technique and worked on various music videos, commercials, and short films. She has since relocated to Los Angeles and studies at the Bojesse Christopher Truth Be told Actors Collective, a studio where a select group of emerging and notable actors come together each week, surrendering to emotional journey into self discovery, while experimenting with the combined components of Stanislavski's Preparation of Building a Character along with Meisner's Repetition Exercise.
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Edith Evanson
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Edith Evanson (née Carlson; April 29, 1896 – November 29, 1980) was an American actress of film, character and television during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
She was born in Tacoma, Washington, where her father was a Protestant church clergyman (a religion to which she adhered throughout her life). Her first job was as a court reporter in Bellingham.
On March 15, 1923, she married Morris Otto Evanson (1893-1975). The couple had no children
Her first film role came in The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) in an uncredited role. In the 1940s she was in supporting roles mostly as a maid, a busybody, landladies, or middle-aged secretaries. Some of her other film roles include parts in Citizen Kane (1941), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Woman of the Year (1942), Reunion in France (1942), The Strange Woman (1947), I Remember Mama (1948), Rope (1948), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Disney's Toby Tyler (1960). During her time in Hollywood, she co-starred opposite some of its greatest legends, including Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Michael Rennie, Glenn Ford, Patricia Neal, James Stewart, Irene Dunne, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and Hedy Lamarr.
With the coming of television in the late 1940s she expanded in her career appearing on such shows as You Are There, The Loretta Young Show, Chevron Hall of Stars, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, The Millionaire, Zane Grey Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Frank Sinatra Show, Bachelor Father, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, and Lassie.
Following her retirement, she lived in Riverside, California, until her death from heart failure on November 29, 1980. Her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
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Iori Nomizu
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Iori Nomizu is a Japanese voice actress, actress, singer, lyricist. affiliated with Production Ace. When she work as an artist, she use Hiragana for her name.
In 2011, as a solo artist “Iori Nomizu ”, was in charge of the opening theme song “ Ma Kase Te Tonight ” for the TV anime “ Is this a zombie? ” 2012, " Upotte !! " was co-starring with Misuzu Togashi , Kaori Sadowara , Ajisato voice actor unit "with the sweet ARMS formed the" [8] .
In April 2015, she appeared in “The Queen of Hanikami Noi Izumi's Shy I'm Sorry”, which became the first regular voice actor program at Anime Theater X (AT-X). The program aired until September 2015.
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Meghna Naidu
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Meghna Naidu is an Indian actress who primarily starred in Hindi films. She has also appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali films.
Meghna Naidu is an Indian actress and dancer. Her first major appearance was in the music video for UMI10's "Kaliyon Ka Chaman" (2000), an official remix of Lata Mangeshkar's 1981 song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" (in turn, the 2002 song "Addictive" by Truth Hurts was inspired by the remix). She was also featured in Saru Maini's video "Dil De Diya Tha (Sutta Mix)" before starting to work in Indian films.
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