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Wilson Cleveland
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Wilson Cleveland (born July 4, 1974) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He is known for creating and starring in the Hulu comedy-drama series Leap Year (2011-2012), the Lifetime anthology series Suite 7 (2010-2011) and The Temp Life (2006-2011). He has also starred in films such as SPiN (2015) and Kept Man (2014) and executive produced the Vox documentary series, Courageous Leaders (2015). He's currently developing a series with New Form Digital based on his 2016 pilot, Intricate Vengeance about an underground revenge for hire organization.
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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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Hassan Ali
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Hassan Ali was born in 1968 in Erbil, Iraq, he is a writer, director, producer, and employee of the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in the cinema department. He first entered the arts as a painter and then, in 1991, continued his career as a theater artist. In 1998, he made his first short film, and in 2008, he became president of the Kurdistan Filmmakers Association. He has screened several commercial films in cinemas and has won several international awards in cinema. He is the owner of the TVC Cinema production company.
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Kirsten Johnson
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Kirsten Johnson (born 12 October 1965, Seattle) is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Brown University in 1987, with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. After two years in West Africa working on local fiction and documentary film projects, she attended the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Her film "Cameraperson" premiered at Sundance 2016 and her short "The Above" premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival. Her work as a cinematographer appears in Oscar-winning "Citizen Four," Academy Award-nominated, "The Invisible War," Tribeca winner, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," "Fahrenheit 9/11", Academy Award-nominated "Asylum," "This Film is Not Yet Rated," and "Derrida."
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Dasha Charusha
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Dasha was born on 25th of August 1980 in Norilsk, Soviet Union. She grew up with the passion for music and theatre which she dedicated most of her early years to. She attended Moscow Conservatory at the age of 18 and studied as a composer. She began composing her own songs at a young age. Charusha, having a passion for acting as well, enrolled to Moscow Art School GITIS where she graduated as a dramatic actress in June 2010. She acted in a handful of Russian movies and TV series while writing cinema scores and working on her own album. The first big success was her co-writing work with Andrey Karasev on the music for the motion picture Silent Souls which was release in October 2010, presented at Venice Film Festival and got very positive reviews. In 2014, Dasha acted as the producer for the 'Cold Front' movie where she played one of the female lead roles and also wrote the score. The movie was shot in Normandy in December the same year. The international breakthrough came with the premier of 'Hardcore' in September 2015 at the Toronto Film Festival. The first action POV movie directed by Ilya Naishuller, where she took a part as an actress and also wrote the score, turned out to be worldwide phenomena.
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Frederick Keeve
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Frederick Keeve has been writing most of his life, either for pleasure, academically or professionally for the entertainment business. His first short story, The Lost Island, was published in a limited edition when he was in sixth grade. He has also been making films since he was 10-years-old, growing up in Santa Monica, with his brother, Douglas Keeve, who is a writer/director living in New York. Keeve's first film was Maxine Waters EPC, starring Edward Alan Young. This was a documentary about an employment preparation center in in South Central Los Angeles seen by hundreds of thousands of viewers on KCET public television. Keeve also produced, wrote, directed and composed the score for the award-winning From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff, which featured many award-winning and nominated actors such as Gregory Peck (in his last screen role), Jack Palance, Patricia Neal, Anthony Quinn, Robert Stack, Leslie Caron, Beatrice Straight, Sharon Gless, Lloyd Bridges and many more, closing the Hollywood Film Festival and garnering rave reviews in Variety.
Keeve has optioned and developed screenplays from best-selling novels by noted writers such as Edgar winner T. Jefferson Parker and Pulitzer-nominated author Bill Granger. He has previously developed a slate of eight independent feature films with budgets ranging from $2.5M to $20M with Sonny Ritscher, Chief Controller for mega-budget films at both Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox (Watchmen, Green Lantern, Unfaithful). Keeve is a sought-after script doctor and enjoys writing screenplay coverage. He was hired to adapt a vampire novel, Vengeance Comes, for the screen.
Keeve is an accomplished musician, music director, accompanist, and composer. He wrote the book, music and lyrics for the original musical Three: Songs from the Heart, produced in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Festival of New American Musicals. The musical featured Broadway caliber talent: Ilene Graff (On Broadway: Promises, Promises, I Love My Wife, Grease), Marcus Choi (Hamilton), and was directed by Lance Roberts (On Broadway: The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Sister Act, Ghost, My Fair Lady). He has also recently organized and implemented two road shows for 100 actors in Salt Lake City with noted Hollywood Talent Agents and Casting Directors.
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John Hurt
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Sir John Vincent Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and gained BAFTA Award nominations for his portrayals of Timothy Evans in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Quentin Crisp in television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – winning his first BAFTA for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), notably included a scene where an alien creature burst out of his chest, named by several publications as one of the most memorable moments in cinema history.
Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980). Other significant roles during the 1980s included Bob Champion in biopic Champions (1984), Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit (1984), Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989). Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field (1990) and played the primary villain, James Graham, in the epic adventure Rob Roy (1995). His later films include the Harry Potter film series (2001–11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key (2005), western The Proposition (2005), political thriller V for Vendetta (2005), action adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), sci-fi action Outlander (2008) and the Cold War espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York (2009), which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination. He portrayed the War Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", in 2013.
Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world". He possessed what was described as the "most distinctive voice in Britain", likened by The Observer to "nicotine sieved through dirty, moonlit gravel". His voice acting career encompassed films such as Watership Down (1978), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982), The Black Cauldron (1985), Dogville (2003) and Planet Dinosaur (2011) as well as BBC TV series Merlin (2008–2012). In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema". He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.
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Anne Winters
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Anne Christine Winters (born June 3, 1994) is an American actress. She has played roles in the FX's series Tyrant as Emma Al-Fayeed, ABC's series Wicked City as Vicki Roth, and Netflix's series 13 Reasons Why as Chlöe Rice. She also starred in the films Sand Castles (2014), Pass the Light (2015), The Bride He Bought Online (2015), Mom and Dad (2017), and Night School (2018).
In 2017, she began starring as cancer patient Mia Phillips in go90's drama series Zac & Mia, for which she won the 2018 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series.
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Satoru Sayama
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Satoru Sayama (佐山 聡, Sayama Satoru) is a Japanese professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, writer, and mixed martial arts (MMA) and wrestling promoter, best known as the original Tiger Mask. He has wrestled under his real name as well as the names Sammy Lee, and masked Super Tiger, Tiger King, Tiger Mask and The Mask of Tiger. He is the only man to hold the WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship simultaneously.
He is also recognized as a pioneer in mixed martial arts, founding Shooto in 1985, one of the first MMA organizations in the world. Sayama also started mixed martial arts training and developed his own Shooto syllabus for learning what could be considered the first put together MMA training of its kind, with a focus on striking from arts like Boxing, Muay Thai and Karate, and grappling from Wrestling, Judo, and Sambo. The curriculum would help produce the first well rounded fighters of MMA several years before the first UFC event. He is also the founder of the martial art Seikendo and professional wrestling promotion Real Japan Pro Wrestling.
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Phway Phway
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Phway Phway is a Burmese film actress and singer. She was born on 9 August 1988 in Mogok, Burma to parents Mg U and his wife Theingi. She had a great interest in becoming a singer as a child. She and her friends formed a band, “Art of Depression”, with her as a vocalist. At university, she began modeling; her first modeling opportunity was for the MAX Calendar in 2007 with the name “Shwe Yee Ko Oo”, which is her birth name. Then she named herself “Phway Phway” as her actress name. Her modeling career led to appearing in music videos and TV commercials, and direct-to-video films. She starred in over 100 video films and appeared on many magazine covers. She was awarded a successful New Face Actor in the 2009 People Magazine Award and the best leading actress in “Lat Pan” movie (which was her very first movie) at the Myanmar Academy Awards in 2012. She achieved her second award in 2015 with the film “I'm Rose, Darling” and her third award in 2018 with the film “Shwe Kyar”. All films were directed by four-time Myanmar Academy Award winner Wyne. She is Myanmar’s highest-paid actress and considered one of the most commercially successful actresses in Burmese cinema. – Wikipedia
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