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Jim Howick
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James Howick (born 14 May 1979) is an English actor and writer. He is best known for his roles in television series such as Horrible Histories (2009-2013), Yonderland (2013-2016), Sex Education (2019-), Peep Show (2007–2012) and Ghosts (2019-). He also starred in films such as Hellboy (2004) and Bill (2015).
Along with the five other members of the Horrible Histories starring cast, Howick is also the co-creator, -writer and -star of Yonderland, an eight-part family fantasy comedy series that premiered on SkyOne on 10 November 2013. He co-starred with the same troupe in Bill, a BBC-produced comedy film based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare.
Other prominent television roles include Gerard in Peep Show (2007–2012), Gerry in Danny Boyle's Babylon (2014) and Anthony in the revival of Reggie Perrin (2009–2010). In addition, he has been a regular guest star in various sketch comedies, including The Armstrong and Miller Show (2007–2010), and The Kevin Bishop Show (2008–2009). In 2017, he played Aaron Mayford in the ITV thriller Broadchurch. In 2019, Howick starred in the Netflix original series Sex Education as Mr Hendricks. Howick is the co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the BBC One sitcom Ghosts which was first broadcasted in 2019. In film, Howick played Cpl. Matlin in the Guillermo del Toro adaptation of Hellboy.
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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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Marie-José Nat
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Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc and Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Violins at the Ball.
Benhalassa was born in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, to a Kabyle Berber father, Abdelkader Benhalassa, and a Corsican mother, Vincentine (Biancarelli).
In 1960, she married the actor Roger Dumas and divorced him in 1962. She then married French director Michel Drach with whom she had three sons, David, Julien and Aurélien. They divorced in 1981. She had a relationship of several years with the actor Victor Lanoux. On 30 September 2005 she married the painter, writer and songwriter Serge Rezvani in her third marriage.
She died in Paris of cancer at age 79.
After secondary studies at the Ajaccio high school, Benhalassa entered the cours Simon in Paris.
Benhalassa began her career as a cover-girl and haute-couture model. In 1955, she won a competition from the magazine Femmes d'aujourd'hui which allowed her to become Jean-Claude Pascal's partner in a photo comics entitled L'amour est un songe.
Denys de La Patellière offered her her first major role in 1959 in Rue des prairies alongside Jean Gabin, in which she played his daughter. The following year, she performed in a comedy sketch by René Clair alongside Claude Rich and Yves Robert, and obtained a major role in La Vérité by Henri-Georges Clouzot, playing Brigitte Bardot's rival opposite Sami Frey.
In 1965, she married filmmaker Michel Drach; they had three children and divorced in 1981. She starred in several of her husband's films: Amelie or The Time to Love (1961), Elise, or Real Life (1970) and Les violons du bal (1974), inspired by his childhood experiences during World War II. She was also known for Train of Life (1998), Litan (1982) and The Dacians (1966) with Jean Sorel, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Victor Lanoux and Bernadette Lafont as acting partners.
In 2001, Nat was a member of the jury at the 36th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2001, and at the 24th Cabourg Film Festival in 2010.
She was the very first person to appear on the front cover of Télé 7 Jours in its current name on March 26, 1960.
Nat was awarded Best Actress at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Violins at the Ball, and the film was nominated for the Golden Palm award.
She was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 31 December 2004, chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite on 18 November 2002 and promoted to the rank of officer on 14 November 2011, commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres as a member of the conseil de l'ordre of which she was a member from 1 March 2001 until April 2012.
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Bilal Lashari
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Bilal Lashari is a Pakistani film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and occasional actor. He made his directorial debut film in Waar (2013), which holds the record of being the seventh highest-grossing Pakistani film. His next project is a remake of the 1979 film Maula Jatt. The film is titled The Legend of Maula Jatt, The Legend of Maula Jatt whose trailer was released on December 21, 2018. Lashari won awards in four categories at the ARY Film Awards 2014 for his directorial debut.
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Tech N9ne
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Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971),[2] better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (pronounced "tech nine"), is an American rapper. In 1999, he and business partner Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. He has sold over two million albums and has had his music featured in film, television, and video games.[3] In 2009, he won the Left Field Woodie award at the mtvU Woodie Awards.[4]
His stage name originated from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, a name given to him by rapper Black Walt due to his fast-rhyming chopper style.[5] Yates later applied a deeper meaning to the name, stating that it stands for the complete technique of rhyme, with "tech" meaning technique and "nine" representing the number of completion.[5][6] Despite minimal mainstream success himself, he has featured many mainstream artists on his albums including E-40, Ice Cube, Three 6 Mafia, B.o.B., Twista, Busta Rhymes, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, The Game, Wiz Khalifa, CeeLo Green, T.I., 2 Chainz, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Eminem, Logic, and Boyz II Men.
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Peter Cushing
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Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, his most famous roles outside of "Hammer Horror" include his many appearances as Sherlock Holmes, as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977) and as the mysterious Doctor Who in Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966, two cinema films based on the television series Doctor Who.
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Betty Van Allen
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Betty Van Allen (March 17, 1927 – June 22, 2009) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s. In the latter part of her career her voice acquired a contralto-like darkening, which can be heard on her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was known for her collaborations with American composers, such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, and Virgil Thomson among others.
Allen was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world. She was greatly admired by Bernstein and the conductor notably chose her to be the featured soloist for his final performances as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1973. After her singing career ended, she became a lauded voice teacher and arts administrator.
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Robert Cawsey
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Robert is a multi award winning writer, actor and comedian that trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris. He has worked extensively in theatre, TV and film. His comedy double act 'Guilt & Shame' with Gabriel Bisset-Smith performed 4 live shows at Edinburgh Fringe to sell out audiences and critical acclaim. All shows transferred to Soho Theatre in London as well as playing festivals all over the UK. His debut solo comedy / theatre show 'The Fantasist' was produced by Soho Theatre and directed by Vicky Jones. Following this, his podcast 'Guilt & Shame' with Gabriel and Vicky has a large and growing international audience. He has recently been in writers rooms for HBO and NBC and his web series 'Right Now' has been selected for film festivals all over the world, being nominated for 'Outstanding Achievement in Writing' (NYC Webfest 2020) and winning multiple awards including 'Best International Spotlight' at Melbourne WebFest 2020, Best Actor at UKOWF (UK Offline Web Fest) 2021 and Best Actor at Santa Monica Web Fest 2021.
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Chris Denison
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Chris Denison is a stunt performer and coordinator.
Denison grew up in the mountains in Colorado, engaging in outdoor and physical activities from a young age, including motocross, snowboarding, and off-road racing. He competed professionally in freestyle motocross as a teenager, achieving a top-15 ranking in the International Freestyle Motocross Association circuit before transitioning to other forms of racing and later into the film stunt business.
Around 2009, Denison began gaining formal entry into stunt work through mentorship with industry professionals like Gary Hymes. He obtained his Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card in 2010, marking a milestone in his professional stunt career.
Denison has worked in a variety of stunt roles—performer, stunt double, driver, coordinator—and in different environments, including underwater work. He also has training in disciplines outside traditional stunt performing, such as freediving, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Krav Maga, and other combat and safety skills. In Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), he served as a stunt double for Sam Worthington. In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), he was credited as a stunt coordinator.
At the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards, the stunt ensemble for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) was nominated for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and Denison was among those so nominated. He also shared in the same recognition for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In addition, he was part of the stunt ensemble nominated for the same category at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Logan (2017).
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Mika Kobayashi
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is a piano playing, talking singer and songwriter.
At the age of 22, he challenged female vocal audition with original songs and won the Grand Prix from over 1,000 applicants. Later in 2005, she made her CD debut with the mini album “Ketsuo no Kakechichi” (the main arrangement is Hirohiko Fukuda , the album producer, who also participates in backing as a keyboard).
Since 2010, he has participated in many drama and anime soundtracks as a vocalist. Anime: such as " Mobile Suit Gundam UC ", " Blue Exorcist ", " Sengoku BASARA Vol.2", " Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri " " Attack on Titan ," " Arudonoa zero ", Drama: Kenji Sakaguchi starring continuous " Iryu -Team Medical Dragon- 3 "( Fuji television ), Ryuta Sato starring" straight man "( Fuji television ), Tao Tsuchiya starring-asadora" rare "( NHK ), movie Hayato Ichihara starring" box! "and the like. (The main composition of each soundtrack is Hiroyuki Sawano ). Others, " Final Fantasy XI ", " Xenoblade Cross ", " Kanso 3 "I participate in a lot of game music.
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