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Kenichi Hagiwara

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Kenichi Hagiwara (born 26 July 1950 in Omiya, Saitama, Japan), also known as Sho-Ken, was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters and The Spiders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenichi Hagiwara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Fernando Poe Jr.

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Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor. During the latter part of his career, Poe was defeated by incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the 2004 Philippine Presidential elections, a result roundly believed to have been fraudulent. His long career as an action film star earned him the moniker "King of Philippine Movies" (often shortened to Da King). Poe was posthumously declared a National Artist of the Philippines for Film on 23 May 2006 by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The award was confirmed by President Benigno Aquino III on 20 July 2012, and was presented to his family on 16 August. Ronald Allan K. Poe was the son of Filipino actor Allan Fernando R. Poe (Fernando Poe, Sr.) and Elizabeth Kelley, an American. He was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. His parents were not yet legally married when he was born on August 20, 1939, although his parents were later married in 1940. His opponents tried to derail his bid for the presidency when they sought to disqualify him as an illegitimate son of a non-Filipino mother. He was the second among six siblings and it was his brother Andy who was really named Fernando Poe, Jr. which FPJ later adopted, to bank on the popularity of his father who was a top actor in his time. Conrad Poe, a Filipino actor is FPJ's half-brother, the illegitimate son of the late Fernando Poe Sr. and actress Patricia Mijares. Pou is the original spelling of the family's surname from his grandfather, playwright Lorenzo Pou, a Catalan migrant from Majorca, Spain, who ventured into mining and business in the Philippines.
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Jeremy Davies

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Jeremy Boring (born October 28, 1969), known professionally as Jeremy Davies, is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing Ray Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Corporal Timothy Upham in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Snow in Solaris (2002), Bill Henson in Dogville (2003), Charles Manson in Helter Skelter (2004), Sergeant Gene DeBruin in Rescue Dawn (2006) and Daniel Faraday on the series Lost (2008–2010). Davies won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 for his portrayal of Dickie Bennett in the series Justified (2011–2015). He also received the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game for his role as Baldur in God of War (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeremy Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Alison Steadman

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Alison Steadman (born 26 August 1946) is an English actor. She won the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh (her husband 1973-2001) film Life is Sweet, and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Mari in the original production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. In a 2007 Channel 4 poll, the "50 Greatest Actors" voted for by other actors, she was ranked No. 42. Steadman made her professional stage debut in 1968 and went on to establish her career in Mike Leigh's 1970s TV plays Nuts in May (1976) and Abigail's Party (1977). She received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective, and in 2001 for the ITV drama series Fat Friends (2000–05). Other television roles include Pride and Prejudice (1995), Gavin & Stacey (2007–10, 2019) and Orphan Black (2015–16). Her other film appearances include A Private Function (1984), Clockwise (1986), Shirley Valentine (1989), Topsy Turvy (1999), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
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Zahf Paroo

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Zahf Paroo (born Zahfeer Hajee) is a Canadian actor, host, voice-over actor, and sketch-comedy artist. Zahf has had the opportunity to work in sci-fi (Altered Carbon, Defying Gravity, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Gallactica, Fringe, Andromeda, Continuum) as well as comedy (Scaredy Cats, Malibu Rescue, Scary Movie, The Big Year, Psych, A Guy Thing, Say it Isn't So, Scooby-Doo 2, Package Deal), dramatic content (Edgemont, Degrassi -The Next Generation, Firewall, Motive), fantasy (The Magicians, Seventh Son) and feel-good seasonal projects (A Timeless Christmas, A Godwinks Christmas: Second Chance First Love).
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Domee Shi

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Domee Shi (born September 8, 1989) is a Canadian animator, film director, and screenwriter. She has directed the short film Bao (2018), the feature film Turning Red (2022), and Elio (2025), becoming the first woman to direct a short film and then the first woman with sole director's credit on a feature film for Pixar. Shi began working for Pixar in 2011 as a storyboard artist. She contributed to multiple films, including Inside Out (2015), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and Toy Story 4 (2019). She was also an additional story artist for Incredibles 2 (2018). For Bao, Shi won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards and also earned nominations for the 43rd Annie Awards, the International Online Cinema Awards, and the Tribeca Film Festival. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Turning Red. Description above from the Wikipedia article Domee Shi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tony Rock

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Tony Rock (born on June 30, 1973) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is the younger brother of comedian Chris Rock. In the early 2000s, Rock hosted the game show Can You Tell? as well as The Funny Spot. He was also a correspondent for BattleBots for the show's fifth season. Rock has made many guest appearances, such as on The Howard Stern Show, The D'Angelo Show and Everybody Hates Chris. He co-starred on the sitcom All of Us and had his own TV series, a sketch comedy show called The Tony Rock Project.
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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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Charlie Simonds

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Charlie Simonds was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1962 and saw active service in the Middle East. Having served for eight years in the regiment, he retired with the rank of captain before working for many years as a flying instructor. Then Charlie, a lifelong naturist, became an internationally acclaimed photographer and film producer of the naturist lifestyle. His writing and photographs have been published in numerous different naturist magazines around the world. Among the 214 covers of those featuring Charlie's photographs, 146 have appeared on the cover of H&E naturist alone in the past 33 years. Charlie and his company, Parafotos, have also produced 64 films about naturism and naturist resorts in the UK, USA, France, Greece, Spain, the Canaries, the Balearics, Turkey, Portugal, Croatia and the Caribbean.
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Karim Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

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Karim Mahmoud Abdel Aziz is a young artist known for his handsome face that looks very similar to his father’s at the beginning of his career. He didn’t know that he would one day be an actor in the world of cinema, despite the fact that his father is one of the most famous actors in the history of Egyptian cinema, Mahmoud Abdelaziz. Karim got his start by way of a video camera - one of his hobbies was to film and make movies with his friends. His talent led him to boldly interrupt his father’s meetings with directors Essam El Shama and Mohamed Abdelaziz to show them what he’d created with his camera. Essam was impressed with his talent, and after a few days, director Mohamed Abdelaziz chose him to act in the film “Shagaret El Ahlam (Tree of Dreams). Karim insisted on starting his career in cinema without assistance from anyone, even his father who objected to his son’s way of doing things. But Karim’s performance in the TV series “Ragil Min Zaman El Alouma” (Man from the Age of Globalization) made Karim’s father acknowledge his son as an actor. Karim participated in a number of films and TV series, including “El Nazzer” (The Observer) in 2000, the series “Mahmoud El Masry” (Mahmoud the Egyptian) in 2004, and “Ahzan Mariam” (Mary’s Sorrows) in 2006.
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