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Don Yanan
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Don Yanan is an actor who appeared in the 2011 film The Muppets a reporter. Yanan has appeared in several of Haim Saban's productions, including a recurring role on Masked Rider (as principal Mr. Chalmers) and episodes of Power Rangers Turbo and V.R. Troopers. Although much of his work has been in independent, low-budget, or direct-to-video fare, higher profile assignments include a guest spot on Cold Case and, most notably, impersonating William Randolph Hearst in the IMAX film Hearst Castle: Building the Dream, screened regularly as part of the Hearst Castle tour in San Simeon, California.
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Tippi Hedren
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Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American actress and former fashion model with a career spanning six decades. She is primarily known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds and Marnie, and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre (320,000 m2) wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983. Hedren is the mother of Academy Award nominee Melanie Griffith, and they share credits on several productions, notably Pacific Heights (1990).
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Malcolm Barrett
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Malcolm Barrett (born 1980) is an American actor known for playing the role of scientist and time traveler Rufus Carlin in Timeless on NBC.
He was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. He has appeared as a series regular on Fox's The Sketch Show and Luis.
Barrett played the character "Dr. Lem Hewitt" on the ABC television show, Better Off Ted and was a supporting character in the Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker.
Barrett has had recurring appearances on the New York-based Law & Order franchise. He was featured as a squatter and drug dealer in an episode of The Sopranos and also guest starred in the pilot episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the series finale of The Office as one of Dunder/Mifflin's new employees, and in an episode of Monk as a lottery fanatic. He also had a small role in the movie Larry Crowne, as one of Tom Hanks' character's classmates. He has also appeared in several television commercials, including national spots for Hummer and AT&T. The AT&T spot, which features Barrett shooting baskets in a sports bar, received frequent airplay during the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Barrett began playing the role of Rufus Carlin in the Fall of 2016 in the NBC series, Timeless.
Barrett is a spoken word artist and hip hop performer who has recorded under the aliases "Tourette's," "Verbal," and "The Velvet Rope." He appeared on the 2002 EP Timber, by electronic recording artist M Pinto. He is currently working on his debut album entitled The Backpacker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Mehmet Aslan
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Mehmet Aslan (1 May 1931, İzmir - 1 September 1987, Heybeliada ) is a Turkish actor , screenwriter and film director.
Having completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Izmir, Aslan studied for a while in the electrical department of Yıldız Technical University, then left the university and started working as an electrical technician. In 1949, he became acquainted with cinema by working as an assistant and actor in the film Captain Tahsin, directed by Orhon Murat Arıburnu and in which he played the leading role.
Continuing his career as an actor and assistant director, Aslan wrote his first script, "Ateş Gibi Kadın" (Woman Like Fire), in 1965. He began directing the film Bir Gönül Oyunu (A Heart Game) in the same year. He is known as the director of the Tarkan series of films. On the posters of films directed or written by Mehmet Aslan, his surname is sometimes written as Arslan.
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Jacklyn Uweh
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Jacklyn Uweh was born in the asparagus-wielding capital of the world, Stockton, California. She caught the acting bug in her first major role as a circus mime. It was as magical as it sounds.
During her time at UC Irvine, she became two degrees hotter with a B.A. in Film & Media Studies and Drama. She helped to found The Soulstice League, producing on-stage sketch comedy and videos for campuswide events.
After graduating, Jackie moved 53 miles to Los Angeles. Jackie proceeded to dive face first into the world of improv and sketch comedy, training at Second City Hollywood, UCB and The Groundlings. She's appeared in the premium sketch shows Live Rude Girls, 177Fox, Trump in Space and the inaugural Bob Curry Diversity Fellowship Showcase. Most recently, she completed a tour with Second City Theatricals and mounted her one-woman sketch show, I Dreamed A Dream. You can find her performing regularly with her improv teams Eightball and Strangers. Feel free to reach out to her, she promises not to talk in the third person!
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Tuncay Beyazıt
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Tuncay Beyazıt (born 1 January 1964, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor.
Stepped into the theater with Kare As at the Haldun Dormen theater. Previously, he took the stage in theater plays with People's Houses and amateur groups. He worked at Türk Telekom Theater for 15 years.
He took part in the theater plays Yaşar Ne Lives Ne Lives, Deli Dumrul, İl Postino, My Friend Has Become a Woman, Should Everyone Cheat?, They Must Be Crazy, Speech, I Close My Eyes, I Do My Duty, Dusty Boots.
Some of the movies he starred in include Bully, Heartache, Butterfly, Anatolian Eagles, Sacrifice, Black Cat (GMO), while some of the TV series he starred in are Ruhsar, Ramadan is Beautiful, Lost Wanted, Back Streets, Istanbul is My Witness, Stepfather, Brother Share. There are series such as Burning Cocoon, Shoemaker and Neighbors. From Wikipedia (tr), the free encyclopedia
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Kangabam Tomba
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Kangabam Tomba (born 10 June 1946) is an Indian actor from Imphal, Manipur. He started his career in theatre. His first appearance in movies is in Matamgi Manipur, the first Manipuri full-length feature film where he played a college guy. His is popularly known as Lamja Tomba for his title role in the 1974 movie Lamja Parshuram. Tomba bagged the Best Actor Award at the 1st Manipur State Film Festival 1984 for the film. He was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 11th Manipur State Film Awards 2018.
He appeared as a college guy in Matamgi Manipur, the first Manipuri feature film in 1972. His first movie as a leading actor is Lamja Parshuram released in 1974, where he played the title role. The movie became a hit and since then, he is popularly known as Lamja Tomba. His 1979 movie Olangthagee Wangmadasoo ran for 32 weeks, the longest Manipuri movie to run in theatres till date and broke the local box office records of Sholay. In Paokhum Ama, he played a government employee from Imphal who is posted to a hill district of Manipur. He was the leading male protagonist in 1990 Aribam Syam Sharma's movie Ishanou, which was critically acclaimed worldwide and participated in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival 1991 (Restored film was again selected for the classics section at Cannes 2023).
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Zhang Fengyi
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Zhang Fengyi (张丰毅), born on September 1, 1956, in Changsha, Hunan, is a celebrated Chinese actor best known for his role in Farewell My Concubine, portraying a stage performer caught between political turmoil and personal longing. He also gained acclaim for playing Jing Ke in The Emperor and the Assassin and the warlord Cao Cao in Red Cliff.
Originally from Tanghe, Henan, Zhang moved to Dongchuan, Yunnan with his veteran father at just one month old. He left high school in 1971 and began performing with a local opera troupe, later joining a singing and dancing team. In 1978, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy’s acting department. His film debut came in 1980 with Treasure Hunting in the Desert. A year later, he earned critical praise for his role in Rickshaw Boy, which cemented his status as a rising star in Chinese cinema.
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Anthony Franciosa
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Anthony Franciosa (born Anthony George Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor.
Franciosa began his career on stage and made a breakthrough after portraying a brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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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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