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Ida Engvoll

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Ida Engvoll (born 6 October 1985 in Söderhamn) is a Swedish actress. Trained at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, she began her career in the late 2000s. She gained recognition in cinema with the Oscar-nominated film A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove, 2015). On television, she played the title role in the first season of the crime series Rebecka Martinsson (2017), then achieved international prominence as Sofie Rydman in the Netflix series Love & Anarchy (Kärlek & anarki, 2020-2022). She also appears in Lars von Trier's series The Kingdom: Exodus (2022) and in the drama film A Part of You (En del av dig, 2024).
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Sam Mercer

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Sam Mercer (January 15, 1955 – February 12, 2024) was an American film producer of many films directed by M. Night Shyamalan such as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs, as well as other films like Van Helsing and Things We Lost in the Fire. His career started during the early 1980s as a location manager and later advanced to a producer and executive producer. He also produced Shyamalan's films The Happening and The Last Airbender. He died from an early onset of Alzheimer's disease on February 12, 2024, at the age of 69. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mercer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kim Joo-hyuk

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Kim Joo-hyuk (3 October 1972 – 30 October 2017) was a South Korean actor. He was known for his leading roles in the films My Wife Got Married (2008), The Servant (2010), and Yourself and Yours (2016), his supporting roles in Confidential Assignment (2017) and Believer (2018), as well as the television series Lovers in Prague (2005), God of War (2012), Hur Jun, The Original Story (2013) and Argon (2017). He was also an original regular cast member on the third season of the KBS2's reality-variety show 2 Days & 1 Night.
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Nikos Kavoukidis

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Nikos Kavoukidis (Greek: Νίκος Καβουκίδης) was born in Piraeus and from a very young age he was taught the secrets of the 7th art by his father, who was a loyal friend, partner and supporter of Philopoimenas Finos - since thanks to his own financing Finos Film's first film "Voice of the Heart" was shot . This is how Nikos Kavoukidis has been in and out of Finos Film since he was a small child. At the age of 15, already passionate about the camera, he started working systematically at Finos Film as an assistant cameraman and editor, trained by Finos and Dino Katsouridis. Later Finos, confident of his abilities and talent, sent him to Italy to continue his training in photography. But, as he claims, the great school for him was Finos Film. From 1962 to 1968, Nikos Kavoukidis undertook the editing and later the director of photography in 20 fine films of Finos Film, collaborating with the best directors. From then on, he collaborated with the directors of modern Greek cinema, charting a path that has completely established him. Overall in his career he has worked exceptionally well with the greatest Greek directors, such as: Alekos Sakellarios, Dinos Dimopoulos, Yannis Dalianidis, Nikos Koundouros, Michalis Kakogiannis, Pantelis Voulgaris, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Dimis Dadiras, Vangelis Serdaris, Christos Siopachas, Nikos Tzimas, George Katakouzis mind , Antonis Kokkinos, Robiros Manthoulis, Tasos Psarras and many others. Alongside his films, from 1957 onwards, he recorded with his lens every political event in Greece, culminating in the events of the Polytechnic, from which he directed the documentary film "Evidence" (1974), which was distinguished in many foreign festival. He has also directed the documentaries "Climbing the Kalavrita" and "Olympia - Land of Gods and Humans". Among the last great filmmakers, Nikos Kavoukidis, son of the pioneering filmmaker Giorgos Kavoukidis, has today to present a historical course of more than half a century in Greek cinema. In his journey as a director of photography in film, television and theater he has been awarded ten times, most recently at the Olympia Festival, in which he was the honored person for his overall contribution to cinema, but also for the help he offers to young filmmakers . His wife is the actress Sofia Roubou and their daughter is Maria Kavoukidis, also an actress.
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Marguerite Churchill

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930). She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats. Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawk's The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Wayne's first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Dracula's Daughter (1936). She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.
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K. G. George

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Kulakkattil Geevarghese George (Malayalam: കെ.ജി ജോർജ്ജ്; 24 May 1946 - 24 September 2023) was an Indian film maker and screenwriter who worked in Malayalam Cinema. He was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Bharathan and P. Padmarajan, in the 1980s, which created groundbreaking films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed. Known for his unconventional works, George is considered to be one of the directors who revolutionized Malayalam cinema in the 1970s and 80s, who is also regarded as one of the greatest film makers of Malayalam Cinema of all time along with Adoor Gopalakrishnan and G Aravindan.
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Trevor Ross

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Trevor Ross is the half-brother of famous New Zealand Actor Caleb Ross (The Tribe) and filmmaker Tessa McEwing (Body). He grew up travelling around New Zealand on a horse towed wagon with his family. His previous jobs include working as a rigger and first mate on ships, working on Hollywood cruises and safety manager. Trevor is also a writer, having had one short story published in New Zealand (under a different name) and a Thiseas on Safety Management, which is still used to teach safety in corporations today.
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Lambros Tsangas

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Lambros Tsagas (Analipsi, Viotia, March 7, 1946) is a Greek actor and director. He was born on March 7, 1946 in Analipsi, Viotia and attended the Livadia High School. He is a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre. He has collaborated with the Alexis Minotis – Katina Paxinou troupes, with the Theatre Company of Crete, with the DI.PE.THE. Roumeli, with Minoas Volanakis, with the DI.PE.THE. Chania, etc. In 1978 he was a key executive and co-founder with his brother Christos Tsagas of the artistic company Palkoseniko, which operated as the Semi-Citizen Theatre of Central Greece. In 1985 they acquired a home, the Knossos Theater, and since then, with his brother Christos, they have staged 30 productions, taking part in them as actors and as directors with their collaborators Yiannis Tsarouchis, Vassilis Fotopoulos, Nikos Koundouros, Ioanna Papantoniou, Kyriakos Sfetsa, Vassilis Dimitriou, Kostas Georgousopoulos, Christodoulos Chalaris. After the death of his brother, Christos Tsagas, he continued his activity and to date has staged more than 80 productions and has collaborated with more than 800 collaborators. In 1991, he founded the Dionysos Cultural Association, which aimed exclusively at promoting theatrical education, addressing mainly young people with works of Greek culture, classical and contemporary. He first performed in 1963 at the age of 17 in the play "Bury the Dead" by Irving Shaw at the Poria Theater.
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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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Uttsada Panichkul

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Over a decade of entertainment experience, Utt's a familiar name in Southeast Asia. Thai/Chinese American-born Utt grew up in California where he attended California State University Northridge before transferring his studies to Thailand at Assumption University, where he studied Communication Arts with a major in Advertising. Utt's popularity is credited to his range to both host and act. His hosting lists include music, travel, entertainment, the supernatural, and more. Utt is at his best handling Live Events and Telecast Shows, having hosted a Live Talent Show, a Live Band Series, and Grandeur Events such as the Asia TV Awards three times, the Mandarin Music Honors, Countdown Shows, and the Miss Earth Beauty Pageant. He's an established Actor, acting in over a dozen dramas in Thailand in which several have been critically received. His acting experience has crossed over to Singapore taking the lead role in an Award-winning screenplay that was adapted for television called Chase, it was well-received and bought over to countries such as Japan a spinoff to the series was soon put into production with Utt leading the cast once again. Utt's first film, an independent romantic comedy film called Tied In Knots was shot and produced in LA. He's the face of countless endorsements in Asia, Utt displays the right balance a blend that gives him the opportunity to cross different markets.
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