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James Franco
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James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for appearing in films such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He frequently collaborates with fellow actor Seth Rogen, including in Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Franco's first prominent acting role was on television. He starred as Daniel Desario on the short-lived ensemble comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), which developed a cult following. He portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco also had a recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He starred in the David Simon-created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–2019).
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Friedrich Hollaender
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Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author.
He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.
In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I.
Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931.
In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich.
He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws.
In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.
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Andrew Dawson
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Andrew Dawson has appeared Off-Broadway in GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey (Sheen Center), Twelfth Night, High Noon, Strangers in the World (Axis Theatre), and Acts of Love (Kirk Theatre). Other New York stage include Gorey (HERE), The Blue Flower (HERE, Theatre at St. Clements), The Inn at Lake Devine (Theatre 54), Noir (Players Theatre), Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart (HERE), Box Office Poison (Barrow Street), Dammerung (Lion Theatre), An Octopus Love Story (Center Stage), Like Poetry (La Mama). National tours include My Heart in a Suitcase, The Silent Boy. Regional credits include The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Fuddy Meers, An American Daughter, Watch on the Rhine, An Enemy of the People, Uncle Vanya, Arcadia, An Ideal Husband, The Normal Heart, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me…Television/Film include “The Onion Network” (multiple), The Ten, A Very Tight Place, Resemblance, The Interpreter and the upcoming Viral Demon.
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Mike Scott
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Born and raised in Washington D.C, Mike started playing guitar in local clubs by the tender age of 13. After graduating from the famed Duke Ellington School of Performing Arts, he immediately began a fruitful career on tours with artists such as Juicy and Peaches & Herb. Mike emerged as an internationally renowned player and has been a session guitarist for Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis as well as Timbaland, where he cosigned on albums from Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, New Edition, Mary J Blige, Lionel Richie, Kerie Hilson, Beyonce, Michael Jackson and countless others. Mike Scott became the guitarist for Minneapolis music legend Prince and worked alongside him for 9 years. He’s toured with Justin Timberlake on both Future Sex Love Sounds and The 20/20 Experience Tour. He’s performed shows with Rihanna, Leona Lewis, Maroon 5, Jermaine Jackson and Alicia Keys just to name a few, and has had numerous appearances on the small screen like in the Diddy /MTV/Mark Burnett Production, Starmaker.
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Prit Kamani
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Prit Kamani is an Actor, Singer, Dancer, TV Host and YouTuber who hails from Rajkot, Gujarat. He was born on 28th Feb 1996 in Rajkot and was raised in this city. He did his schooling from Rustomji Cambridge International School, Mumbai. Later he headed to Mitibai College, Juhu to complete his graduation. While he was in college, he remained at the forefront in things like the cultural activities apart from a number of other things that developed his interest in the creative field. Once he completed his college, he tried his luck in acting and got his debut soon with the TV show called Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani in 2017.
Prit Kamani He was the host of the show that made him popular over the small screen. He did his debut in Bollywood with the film Hum Chaar produced by Rajshri Productions and directed by Abhishek Dixit. He was seen in Simran Sharma, Anshuman Malhotra and others released in 2019 in Feb. Besides, he manages his own YouTube channel called Jumbo Jatts with Shankar. He made a couple of videos including the one on Shah Rukh Khan that made the star tweet on it making them popular on the social media platforms. Some of his videos include Maafi for Justine Beiber’s song Sorry, Senti Mental for Shahrukh on his birthday.
He also was seen in a couple of commercial ads, thanks to his looks for brands like Closeup, Tata Sky, Close Up, Vodaphone, Center Fresh, and Tata Sky daily recharge. He also participates in different events for fundraising and other things. Talking about his personal life, he is single and ready to mingle despite being the most eligible bachelor in Town as he is focussing on his career. He is a fitness freak and likes to gym apart from singing and dancing. He is a big fan of SRK and Kajol.
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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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Antonio Cairoli
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Tony Cairoli (born September 23, 1985 in Patti, Italy) is an Italian four-time Grand Prix motocross world champion.
Cairoli began his motocross Grand Prix career in 2002 riding a Yamaha. He was the 2005 FIM world champion in the MX2-GP class. In 2007 he again won the MX2-GP world championship as well as the English supercross championship. Cairoli claimed the 2009 MX1-GP FIM Motocross World Championship, and after moving to Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, successfully defended his title in 2010.
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Brad Greenquist
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Brad Greenquist (born October 8, 1959) is an American actor.
Greenquist appeared in Pet Sematary, the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name, and in films such as The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. From the 1990s he was seen as a guest star in various American television series, such as Charmed and ER.
Greenquist was director Steven Soderbergh's preferred choice for the role of Graham Dalton in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, after Kyle MacLachlan and Aidan Quinn turned down the role. However, the producers wanted a more well-known actor, so Soderbergh cast James Spader instead.
Greenquist is also known for his four appearances on various iterations of Star Trek. On Star Trek: Voyager, Greenquist appeared in the Season 3 episode "Warlord." He played the thief Krit in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" He also appeared in two separate Star Trek: Enterprise episodes. In the second season episode "Dawn," he played Khata'n Zshaar, and then in the fourth season, he played an unnamed Rigelian kidnapper. Because of these appearances, as well as others in science fiction, fantasy, and horror themed movies and television shows, Greenquist frequently appears on the convention circuit.
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Tannaz Tabatabaei
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Tannaz Tabatabaei (طناز طباطبایی) is an actress who was born on the 10 May 1983 in Tehran, Iran. She is known for the work in films such as 'Salve' (Marham) (2010) and 'Hard Makeup' (Arayeshe Ghaliz) (2014). She also played the lead role, as Shirin, in the multi-award winning film 'Hush! Girls Don't Scream' (Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanand) and won the Best Actress award at the Women's Independent Film Festival for her performance in that film. Tannaz is also known for Mizak, The Orange Suit and Crazy Castle. On stage, Tannaz Tabatabaei also played in Tintin and the Secret of Moundas Castle.
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Antonio Aakeel
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British actor Antonio Aakeel is best known for Tomb Raider (2018), City of Tiny Lights (2016), and Three Girls (2017).
Antonio was born in Wolverhampton, England, to an Indian mother and English father. He moved around the West Midlands as a child; settling in Birmingham where he studied Acting. He honed his craft in local theatre, before moving to London and being scouted by a talent agent.
Antonio won his screen debut in the BAFTA award-winning drama series Skins (2007) out of 500 candidates who had applied to a nationwide 'Skins needs you' campaign searching for fresh acting talent. He appeared in series 3.
He was cast in City of Tiny Lights (2016) directed by BAFTA winner Pete Travis alongside Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper and appeared as Immy in the BBC One mini-series Three Girls (2017). He leads the upcoming comedy feature Eaten by Lions (2017) opposite Johnny Vegas and next stars in Film London's dark Shakespearean feature adaptation The Hungry (2017), directed by Bornila Chatterjee.
Antonio won the role of Nitin Ahuja in Warner Bros' Tomb Raider (2018) franchise reboot, starring opposite Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander, directed by Roar Uthaug.
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