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Cho Seung Youn, also known by the stage names Luizy and WOODZ, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor. Cho debuted as a member of the South Korean-Chinese band UNIQ in 2014. He is part of the project group M.O.L.A. Cho participated in Produce X 101 in 2019, and placed 5th. He will debut with X1.
He was born in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. He attended Hanlim Multi Art School. He had the opportunity to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil and trained to become a professional athlete for two years. He was a squad of "Sport Club Corinthians Paulista Junior Team" and was selected for the Brazil national under-17 football team. He moved back to South Korea to pursue his dream of becoming a singer. He was a YG Entertainment trainee. He used to live in the Philippines and Los Angeles, California, United States.
He was a member of M.O.L.A, a project formed in 2015, together with Ji Min from 15&, Kyo Chang (Nathan), Hyung Gu (Kino) from Pentagon, and Han Sol (Vernon) from SEVENTEEN. He promoted as a solo rapper under the name Luizy in 2016. He made his solo debut on July 29, 2016, with the single "Recipe" with Jay Pak. He then released his next single, "Baby Ride" which features Hyun Sik from BtoB. He then collaborated with Hyun Sik for the single, "Eating Alone". He was also featured in "Dream", a song in Gi Kwang's "ONE" extended play.
In 2018, Yuehua Entertainment relayed that Seung Youn would promote with the name WOODZ during his solo activities. He composed "It's Okay", a song for Chinese reality television show Idol Producer. He co-composed a song for MR-X, a Chinese project group of Idol Producer former trainee.
After training for nine years, he made his appearance as a contestant on boy group survival reality show Produce X 101. (Source: Wikipedia, kprofiles.com, kpopmap.com)
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Saeed Saleh
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One of the most famous comedy stars in the history of Egyptian cinema and theater, he was born in Menoufia Governorate in 1938. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts at Cairo University in 1960. Hassan Youssef discovered him and introduced him to the theater, where he played in one of his first plays (Hello Shalaby). After that, he presented the play that was a huge success (The School of Rioters), which was shown for 6 years. That was followed by the play (No Longer Kids) with the same crew, which many believe exceeded the success of its predecessor. Saeed Saleh practiced singing and composing in some plays, and starred in many films and tv shows. He is considered a companion of the actor Adel Imam, as he participated in most of his works. One of the things that he is most famous for on stage is his deviation from the script often. He passed away on August 1, 2014 after a long illness.
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John Malkovich
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John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Malkovich started his career as a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 1976. He moved to New York City, acting in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West (1980). He made his Broadway debut as Biff in the revival of the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman (1984). He directed the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker(1986) and acted in Lanford Wilson's Burn This(1987).
Malkovich has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993). Other films include The Killing Fields (1984), Empire of the Sun (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Of Mice and Men (1992), Con Air (1997), Rounders (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Ripley's Game (2002), Johnny English (2003), Burn After Reading (2008), and Red (2010). He has also produced films such as Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
For his work on television, he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Death of a Salesman (1985). His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles include Crossbones (2014), Billions (2018–19), The New Pope (2020), and Space Force (2020–2022).
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Angela Lansbury
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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American actress and singer who has appeared in theater, television, and film roles. Her career was spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received international attention. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Anastasia (1997).
She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her 12 year run as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996. Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.
Respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, an Honorary Academy Award, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and eighteen Emmy Awards.
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Ed Wynn
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Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.
Ed Wynn first appeared on television on July 7, 1936 in a brief, ad-libbed spot with Graham McNamee during an NBC experimental television broadcast. In the 1949–50 season, Ed Wynn hosted one of the first network, comedy-variety television shows, on CBS, and won both a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award in 1949. Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, and The Three Stooges all made guest appearances with Wynn. This was the first CBS variety television show to originate from Los Angeles, which was seen live on the west coast, but filmed via kinescope for distribution in the Midwest and East, as the national coaxial cable had yet to be completed. Wynn was also a rotating host of NBC's Four Star Revue from 1950 through 1952.
After the end of Wynn's third television series, The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived situation comedy on NBC's 1958–59 schedule), his son, actor Keenan Wynn, encouraged him to make a career change rather than retire. The comedian reluctantly began a career as a dramatic actor in television and movies. Father and son appeared in three productions, the first of which was the 1956 Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight. Ed was terrified of straight acting and kept goofing his lines in rehearsal. When the producers wanted to fire him, star Jack Palance said he would quit if they fired Ed. (However, unbeknownst to Wynn, supporting player Ned Glass was his secret understudy in case something did happen before air time.) On live broadcast night, Wynn surprised everyone with his pitch-perfect performance, and his quick ad libs to cover his mistakes. A dramatization of what happened during the production was later staged as an April 1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episode, "The Man in the Funny Suit", starring both senior and junior Wynns, with key figures involved in the original production also portraying themselves. Ed and his son also worked together in the Jose Ferrer film The Great Man, with Ed again proving his unexpected skills in drama.
Requiem established Wynn as a serious dramatic actor who could easily hold his own with the best. His role in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) won him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Also in 1959, Wynn appeared on Serling's TV series The Twilight Zone in "One for the Angels". Serling, a longtime admirer, had written that episode especially for him, and Wynn later in 1963 starred in the episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering". For the rest of his life, Wynn skillfully moved between comic and dramatic roles. He appeared in feature films and anthology television, endearing himself to new generations of fans.
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Peggy Roeder
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Peggy Roeder is a actress, best known for The Lake House, Stranger Than Fiction, Road to Perdition, and Groundhog Day. Other film credits include One Small Hitch, Ca$h, Formosa Betrayed, Eagle Eye, Were the World Mine, Family Practice, Stolen Summer, My Life, Dillinger, First Steps, and Chicago Story.
Theatre credits include Aoife Muldoon in Outside Mullingar, Julia in Lend Me a Tenor, Clara Nowak in Miracle on South Division Street, Martha Gillet in The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays), Old Lady/Blair Daniels in Sunday in the Park with George, and Miss Laetitia Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (Peninsula Players Theatre); Dottie in Good People, Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker, Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and Madge in Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Asolo Repertory); Ruthie in Making God Laugh (First Folio Theatre); and Berthe in Pippin (Music Theatre).
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Lana Antonova
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With the looks of Cameron Diaz and the sex appeal of a James Bond girl, Lana Antonova sauntered into the movie business. Also known as Lana Novac, she was born and raised in Kuybyshev, Russia, Soviet Union, which is a town along the mighty Volga River near present-day Saratov. She completed school and soon left home with a traveling urge. She found herself in such far-flung places as China, Austrailia, Italy, France, England, the United States and many others. For the good part of the 1990's and onward, she has enjoyed the traveling life. She gained an incredibly strong work ethic from the influence of her father and others during her youth. She sets a high standard for herself and is always striving to realize the best of her abilities. She acquired diverse training for her acting craft from: The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in London, body movement, Alex Varden in Los Angeles, cold reading, Jered Barclay in Los Angeles. Her training in dance includes: Tatyana Tarasova, private coach, ballet in Russia and University of Brighton, London. Lana has also danced Latin style professionally. In music, her training is from the musical conservatory, Saratov, Russia for Classical Piano. As a singer, Lana is versatile with a vocal range from low 'G' to high 'E'. She received additional speech training in Los Angeles. She is able to do many accents from Russian to British to German to Italian. Her athletic interests include: figure skating and horseback riding, she enjoys many sports activities. The roles Lana has obtained to date, cover a wide range: from Go-Go dancer in Austin Powers (1997) to a naive immigrant mistaken for a drug courier in The Face of the Serpent (2003). Life hasn't always been a bed of roses. When Lana was only 20, her mother passed away and the loss affected her deeply. Lana was also divorced once in 2000. At the writing, she has been quietly involved with actor/author, Christopher Lawford. The two worked on Burt Munro(2005), as well as Slipstream (2007) with Anthony Hopkins. Lana is a person who thrives on excitement, but still likes to keep things under control. Her personality and integrity is outstanding in a vast and challenging field, she's a kind, gentle, soft-spoken, classy and compassionate individual. She is a woman who truly believes in living life to the fullest.
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Giannina Facio
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Giannina Facio (born September 10, 1955) is a Costa Rican actress, who has appeared in a number of films by British film director and producer Ridley Scott. She first worked with Scott in White Squall (1996); since the filming of Gladiator (2000), she has been Scott's partner. The film marked the first of two collaborations with Russell Crowe in which she plays wife to his character (the other being Body of Lies, 2008). Overall, she has acted to date in a total of ten films by Ridley Scott, all of them minor roles/cameo appearances.
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Tracey Edmonds
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Tracey Edmonds has created and produced groundbreaking projects for television, film, music, and digital media. She served as co-host of Extra TV alongside Mario Lopez and Charissa Thompson for 3 years, where she earned an Emmy Award. Edmonds currently serves as CEO and President of Edmonds Entertainment. She recently inked a First-Look Production and Development Deal with STXalternative. Edmonds is also the Founder and Editor of the new lifestyle, health and wellness media brand, AlrightNow.com.
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Javiera Mena
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Javiera Alejandra Mena Carrasco (born June 3, 1983 in Santiago) is a Chilean indie electropop musician. She started her musical career in the Chilean indie music scene in 2001, and achieved wider success after the release of her first studio album in 2006. Her musical style tends to be synthesized electronic sound, although prior to her official debut she made acoustic-oriented songs accompanied solely by guitar.
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