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Thomas Newman

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Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre, and the war film 1917. Newman has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, tying him with fellow composer Alex North for the most nominations without a win. He has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award. Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. His achievements have contributed to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
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Jamie Bell

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Andrew James Matfin Bell (born March 14, 1986) is an English actor. He rose to prominence for his debut role in Billy Elliot (2000), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, becoming one of the youngest winners of the award. He is also known for his leading roles as Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and as Ben Grimm/Thing in Fantastic Four (2015). Other notable performances include in the films King Kong (2005), Jumper (2008), Snowpiercer (2013), Rocketman (2019), and All of Us Strangers (2023). He earned a second BAFTA Award nomination for his leading performance in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). In television, Bell starred as Abraham Woodhull in the AMC historical drama series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Bell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Riley Keough

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Danielle Riley Keough (/ˈkiːoʊ/ KEE-oh; born May 29, 1989) is an American actress and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She made her feature film debut in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying Marie Currie. Keough subsequently starred in the independent thriller The Good Doctor (2011) before being cast in a minor role in Steven Soderbergh's comedy film Magic Mike (2012). She appeared in her first big-budget release in the action feature Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). In 2016, Keough had her breakthrough role as an escort in the first season of the anthology series The Girlfriend Experience, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as a wayward young woman in the drama American Honey (2016) earned her further acclaim, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female. Keough went on to star in the horror film It Comes at Night (2017) and in Soderbergh's heist film Logan Lucky (2017); she then appeared in the horror films The House That Jack Built (2018) and The Lodge (2019). Following a leading role in the comedy-drama Zola (2020), Keough starred in the Amazon Prime Video thriller series The Terminal List (2022) and the drama miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). The latter earned her nominations for another Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award. Keough is a co-founder of the production company Felix Culpa. She has co-directed the drama War Pony (2022), which won the Caméra d'Or. She became the sole owner of Elvis Presley's estate, Graceland, following her mother, Lisa Marie Presley's death in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Riley Keough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ryan Hansen

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Ryan Hansen (born July 5, 1981) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, producer, and host, best known for having portrayed Dick Casablancas on Veronica Mars and Nolan in Friday the 13th. He also played Kyle on the Starz show Party Down. Hansen was born in Fountain Valley, California and raised in El Cajon, California, but has since moved with his wife Amy to L.A. Hansen began acting with guest starring roles on series such as Grounded for Life, That's So Raven, and Las Vegas. In 2004, Hansen auditioned for the role of Duncan Kane on Veronica Mars but lost out to Teddy Dunn. However, Rob Thomas told him to try out for the role of Dick Casablancas. He is set to play Ted Warner a new addition to the cast in the 4th Season of the popular television show House Of Cards. Ryan is involved in the campaign Invisible Children and has appeared in the online series The LXD, of which 50% of the profits is going to the Invisible Children Campaign. In 2008, Hansen appeared in Superhero Movie, released on March 28. Also in 2008, Hansen appeared in the CCT original musical Alice as Trevor McKnight/ White Night. The show opened on July 31 and ran through August 10, in San Diego. Hansen will appear as a series regular on the upcoming sitcom Friends with Benefits, which will air on NBC as a midseason replacement during the 2010-11 television season. Hansen and his wife were former roommates of Kristen Bell at her house in the Hollywood Hills
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Holly Sedillos

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Holly Sedillos splits her time between the studio and the stage. On stage, she has performed everything from Jasmine in Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular! at Disney's California Adventure Park, to her upcoming Los Angeles Philharmonic soloist debut (Jan 2019), singing a piece called Grand Pianola Music by composer John Adams. Since 2009, Holly has sung with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA's professional, union choir, and resident choir of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Holly was Ariel's sister Aquata in the Hollywood Bowl production of The Little Mermaid, and will be one of Gaston's ridiculous entourage girls in the Bowl's production of Beauty and the Beast in May 2018. Holly is becoming a go-to soprano for strange and exceedingly difficult new classical music. She studied at the Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Acting School for 3 years, and for a year at Warner Loughlin, and brings this training into every classical work she performs. In summer of 2017, Holly spent a month in Avignon, France at the International Theater Festival, portraying Anaïs Nin in Anaïs: A Dance Opera. In spring and fall of the same year, she toured the west coast with Hans Zimmer's live show. Holly grew up in Santa Monica, playing the French Horn and soccer at Samohi. She graduated from Dartmouth College, with a B.A. in Music.
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Susan Howe

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Susan Howe (born June 10, 1937) is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre (fiction, essay, prose and poetry). Many of Howe's books are layered with historical, mythical, and other references, often presented in an unorthodox format. Her work contains lyrical echoes of sound, and yet is not pinned down by a consistent metrical pattern or a conventional poetic rhyme scheme.
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Bernard Le Coq

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Bernard Le Coq (born 25 September 1950) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred and fifty films since 1967. His first big role Bernard Le Coq has played as Annie Girardot's son and Claude Jade's brother in the family drama Hearth Fires by Serge Korber in 1972. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2002 for his performance as Prof. Christian Licht in Beautiful Memories. Source: Article "Bernard Le Coq" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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McAuley Tucker

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McAuley Tucker is a Canadian-born Christian celebrity interviewer, musician, writer, producer, and actor known for his outgoing and cheerful personality. He rose to success as the host of The McAuley Tucker Show (2020), which established him as a versatile interviewer. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Tucker spent much of his early years in a smaller Ontario city. From a young age, he immersed himself in creative pursuits, crafting videos, comics, and music productions that he eagerly shared with his inner circle. Despite his imaginative endeavors, Tucker faced bullying, leading him to distance himself from others, finding solace in his faith, family, school, and creativity. On November 15, 2018, Tucker made his internet debut with a since-deleted trailer on his YouTube channel, unveiling a film project close to his heart. Over the next three years, he explored diverse content styles, from voice trolling to meme creation, using various social media platforms to showcase his evolving work. In May 2020, he took a significant leap by launching The McAuley Tucker Show (2020). Initially centered on interviewing notable internet personalities, including several from the MrBeast crew, the show underwent a huge shift all throughout Tucker's high school years. Evolving into an educational platform, it now showcases guests from both the entertainment and business sectors. Demonstrating a willingness to step out of his comfort zone since the age of 15, Tucker has engaged in collaborations with prominent figures from Marvel, Pixar, and Dreamworks, as well as industry veterans like Ted Eccles, David Zucker, and Bob Bergen. Notably, he conducted the final interview with Ron Galella, the renowned paparazzi, before his passing. Today, Tucker continues to helm the show as a passionate hobby. Balancing this commitment, he actively pursues personal and professional growth within the business world. Beyond the interview chair, Tucker showcases his musical talents online under the alias First World Citizen, producing, rapping, and singing since 2019. His musical journey sparked when his first song was played on a small radio station once in the UK. As of 2023, Tucker has expanded his creative horizons, trying his hand at writing.
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Carl Sagan

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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Sagan licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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