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Ricky Ko
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Ricky Ko Tsz-Bun is a film director from Hong Kong. He graduated in Australia in 1996 and returned Hong Kong. In 1997 he joined TVB as an assistant director and participated in the production of many large-scale dramas.
In 2004, Ko resigned from TVB and moved forward to film industry. Before transitioning to film director, Ko was a First Assistant Director in many films. In 2021, he directed his debut "Time" which received many awards and nominations. The film was being invited to many film festivals such as IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam), FEFF (Far East Film Festival), LEAFF (London Asian Film Festival), NYAFF (New York Asian Film Festival), VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival), HKIFF (Hong Kong International Film Festival), AFFB (Asian Film Festival Barcelona), ZFF (Zurich Film Festival).
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Bilal Saeed
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Bilal Saeed is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, music producer and music composer. Since the beginning of his career in 2011, he has received various awards nominations in Pakistan, India and United Kingdom. He is the only Pakistani to get nominated for PTC Punjabi Music Awards and Brit Asia Awards.
Bilal Saeed was born in Sialkot, Pakistan in a Punjabi Muslim family on 12 December 1988. On 25 April 2009, he got married to Gia Bilal. Now they have a son named "Ahad Bilal". He began his career as a music composer and writer. As his career, he quickly gained popularity through his debut single "12 Saal" in 2011. In 2012 he released his new single "Mahi Mahi" and debut album "Twelve" which received two nominees at PTC Punjabi Music Award for Best Non Residents Punjabi Album and Best Non Resident Punjabi Vocalist. The album also featured Dr Zeus, Amrinder Gill and Fateh. A single "Khair Mangdi" from the album was nominated as Song of the Year at 13th Lux Style Awards. In 2013, for the first time he recorded songs for a film, i.e. "Tauba Tauba" and "Rattan Chitian" from Daddy Cool Munde Fool 2013 Punjabi film. In 2014, he released a single "Lethal Combination" with Roach Killa under Beyond Records in 2014. The single topped BBC Asian Charts. Later in December 2014, he composed a tribute song "Maan" on Peshawar Attack (Black Day Pakistan, 16 Dec 2014), to condemn the victims of APS School, Peshawar. He also released a single "Kaash (A Wish)" in 2015 which topped the iTunes Chart. He made his Bollywood debut in 2015 by composing soundtrack of the film Ishqedarriyaan with Jeet Ganguly and Jaidev Kumar. He released another single in 2016 "Paranday", followed by 'Blah Blah Blah' featuring Punjabi Rapper Young Desi in August 2016. In 2016, the remake of his song "Khair Mangdi" featured in Karan Johar's Bollywood movie Baar Baar Dekho. In September 2016, he made his Lollywood debut by composing a song "Chulbul" for Pakistani Film Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay. One more single of Bilal Saeed released in January 2017 "No Makeup", which featured Bohemia. Later in 2017 he released another single "Twinkle Twinkle" along with Young Desi in August. In early November he released another single "Suroor" with Neha Kakkar on November 3 to be exact.
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Joe Cross
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Joe Cross is an Australian entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and wellness advocate. He is most known for his documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead in which he tells the story of his 60-day juice fast. He is the founder and CEO of Reboot with Joe, a health and lifestyle brand. Following the release of his documentary, Cross has published four books about juicing. In February 2014, Cross released his latest book titled The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet: Lose Weight, Get Healthy and Feel Amazing that became a best-seller.
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Désirée Nosbusch
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Désirée Nosbusch (born January 14, 1965) is a television presenter and actress. She was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, and has one Luxembourgish parent and one Italian parent. In the 1980s she lived in Manhattan in New York City, and from the 1990s to 2008 she lived in Los Angeles, California. Nosbusch speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, Italian and English. She has acted in both French-language and German-language films and television productions since her mid teens for example she was a member of the youth drama group of the Lycée Hubert Clément of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), and in at least one Italian language film. She presented the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 in Luxembourg & hosted a kid's version of Ruck Zuck called "Kinder Ruck Zuck". Nosbusch is also a singer. In 1984 she recorded a duet with Austrian singer Falco entitled "Kann es Liebe sein?".
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Norman Wisdom
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Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. These films initially made more money than the James Bond film series, and secured Wisdom a celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were permitted by Enver Hoxha – Wisdom was the only Western actor to enjoy this privilege. Charlie Chaplin famously referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".
Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway and as a television actor, winning critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently in 1981. It was broadcast on 5 June that year. He toured Australia and South Africa. After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a hospice was named in his honour. In 1995 he was given the Freedom of the City of London and of Tirana. The same year he received an OBE. Wisdom was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle of Man. Some of his later appearances included roles in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street, and he retired from acting at the age of 90 after his health declined.
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Fidel Castro
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
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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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Steven Haworth
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Steven Haworth better known by his ring name Nigel McGuinness, is an English professional wrestler, commentator, and magician. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he serves as a color commentator on Collision. He is known for work with Ring of Honor, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Noah and WWE. He held the ROH Pure Championship for a record 350 days and is a former ROH World Champion, holding the title for 545 days.
From October 2009 to June 2011, Haworth wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Desmond Wolfe. This would be his last run as an in-ring performer. He returned to ROH in August 2011, working as a colour commentator, and officially retired from in-ring competition on 17 December 2011. He left ROH in December 2016 and signed with WWE soon thereafter. Haworth was released from WWE in 2022 and signed with AEW in 2023 as a commentator. He returned to the ring as a wrestler in 2024 at All In.
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Karunakaran
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Karunakaran is a Tamilfilm actor, who has appeared in character roles. He made his breakthrough in Soodhu Kavvum (2013) portraying the role of Arumai Pragasam, before playing roles in Jigarthanda and Yaamirukka Bayamey.
He initially made a career as chemical engineer, graduating from SASTRA University, and then as an IT professional at Accenture, before director Nalan Kumarasamy (his friend) approached him to feature in a short film he was making for the reality television show, Naalaya Iyakkunar. Karunakaran had featured in such short film ventures at school and Nalan had cast him in Nenjuku Neethi, which went on to win the first place award that season. Sundar C gave him brief roles in two of his ventures, while he made his first breakthrough portraying Vijay Sethupathi's friend in Karthik Subbaraj's Pizza (2012), after which he left work and concentrated on a career in films.
Nalan subsequently cast him in his feature film debut Soodhu Kavvum, for which Karunakaran won rave reviews. His appearance in the "Kasu Panam Thuttu" song also was well received and prompted several further offers for the actor. His performance in Yaamirukka Bayamey was appreciated by critics.
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Janae Palmer
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Janae Palmer was born and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to Janet Palmer, a school teacher, and James Palmer, CEO and founder of a family owned contracting business. Her heritage is of Italian decent. Palmer was home schooled by her mother from early childhood education to twelfth grade. During her last two years of high-school, she was enrolled as a part-time student at her local college. Being home schooled enabled Palmer to begin her acting education at the age of thirteen at an organization called HST. She studied acting techniques, dance, and voice with HST and performed two main stage shows per year from the age of thirteen to eighteen.
Palmer continued her education at Messiah College where she received two Bachelor of Arts degrees (Theatre & Dance). During her junior year of college, Palmer studied abroad at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. She studied acting, scene study, movement, and voice under the instruction of Patrick Sutton and several guest teachers. During Palmer's senior year of college, she produced, directed, choreographed, danced, and acted in her senior showcase titled "If It Were You". During Palmer's junior year of college, she discovered her love for acting on screen. She auditioned and was cast in six short films from the Film and Media Arts department at Messiah College. After building connections and gaining experience, Palmer decided she wanted to make her life long career as a film actress.
Shortly after graduation, Palmer was cast in her first role on an episode of Gone (2017) for the Investigation Discovery Channel. After recognition and favor, Palmer soon began getting cast as lead roles for the Investigation Discovery Channel, the Reelz Channel, and the Travel Channel. After building a favorable background and reputation, Palmer started acting in local and nation-wide commercials as well. Her success in the TV industry soon brought on bigger roles on feature films. She landed a lead role in The Fallen (2019), filmed in D.C by The Make-A-Wish Foundation for a wish kid. Not long after, Palmer was cast in The Special (2020), a feature horror film directed by B. Harrison Smith
Palmer's most recent work was for Lionsgate's film Where the Scary Things Are (2022) directed by B. Harrison Smith. She is also proud of being hired as the Stand In and Photodouble for Natalie Portman on Lady in the Lake (2024) directed by Alma Har'el.
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