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Kevin Townley

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Kevin Townley is a writer, filmmaker, actor, singer, and meditation teacher. He began formally studying Buddhism in 2010 and currently practices with the Sokuko-Ji Zen community under the guidance of Kyoun Sokuzan. He has taught Buddhism and meditation for over a decade. His film and television work include appearances in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Men in Black III, The Detour, and Law & Order. With his band, Bambï, Townley adapted Rossner’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar into the rock opera called GOODBAR, performed at The Public Theater. He has written extensively for the Waterwell theater company and Rookiemagazine. He has also led hundreds of art tours in museums across the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
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Thankam Mohan

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She was born in Mananthavady, Wayanad district, to Kuttikrishnan Nair and Yashoda. Thankam Mohan's primary education was at G H S Mananthavady and Gov College Mananthavady. She has a Master's degree in Theatre Arts from Thrissur School of Drama. Thankam Mohan started her acting career through theatre. In 2008, Thankam entered the film industry with the film Chandranilekakoru Vazhi directed by Biju Varkey. She then acted in more than ten films including Kamukuri, Jan.A.Man and Paltu Janvar. Apart from films and theatre, Thankam Mohan has also acted in several short films. Her performance in the web series Kochamerika, a short, brought her to prominence. After that, Thankam Mohan's roles in Karik Flick's Sebastian's Friday and Parakkum Pankajam were noticed. Thankam Mohan's husband: Mohan Krishnan (playwright, director, actor. Has done small roles in movies and short films) Eldest son Jishnu Mohan is a film actor. Second son Vishnu Mohan.
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Atthaporn Teemakorn

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Noom Atthaporn Teemakorn is an actor, musician, singer and director from Pak Phayun, Phatthalung province. He's the son of actor Poonsawat Teemakorn. He has a degree in business management from Saint John's University in Bangkok. Noom first entered the industry when he appeared on the talk show "Jan Kraphrip" (จันทร์กะพริบ; later Jan Phan Dao) with his father. He then took his first acting role in the 1994 lakorn "Run Nueng Tuek Ha Na Doem" (รุ่นหนึ่งตึกห้าหน้าเดิน). In 1999, he won the Golden Doll Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film Kamphaeng. In 2004, he was nominated for Best Actor by the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand for his role in "The Letter" (เดอะ เลตเตอร์ จดหมายรัก). Noom is married to actor Fai Arinrada Pitimarat. They have two children, Anda and Adam.
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Naglaa Fathy

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Fatma El-Zahraa Hussein Fathi was born on 21 December 1951. is an Egyptian actress. She started her acting career in 1967 and has played a role in over 80 films. She established a production company and produced films, including Supermarket (1990). The award-winning actress also wrote the screenplay for Tomorrow I Will Exact My Revenge(1980). Fathi started her acting career in Egyptian cinema at the age of 15 when she was approached by producer Adly El-Mowalid, while she was at the beach in Alexandria with her friends. She dropped out of school in 1967 to get involved in acting. Her career began in earnest and she starred in the 1968 Egyptian film Afrah, produced in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the film, Ali Badrakhan had reservations about Fathi, but fellow producer Ramses Naguib saw her as a potential romance icon. Throughout the 1970s, she acted in roughly 15 films a year, predominantly romantic dramas. In the Egyptian film industry, she was only second to actress Faten Hamama in the number of romance films acted in, though not as popular since she was mostly given secondary roles to male characters. During the 1980s, Fathi largely departed from this role and began acting in more complicated roles in movies dealing with a social and political dimensions. She received an award for best actress for her starring role in El Garage (1995), where she played a deserted and impoverished single mother who lives inside a garage with her five children, all of whom she gradually gives up to other families as her health deteriorates. The film was based on a true story and Fathi described it as the "most difficult and painful" role she has had to play. According to writer Nagla El-Baz, the movie was a success in raising awareness about the issue of overpopulation.
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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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Egon Brecher

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Egon Brecher (18 February 1880 – 12 August 1946) was an Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief director of Vienna's Stadts Theatre, before entering the motion picture industry. The son of a professor, Brecher began studying philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, deciding to become an actor. He appeared on several provincial stages in Germany and Austria until 1910, and then played in Vienna on various occasions, directed by Josef Jarno until 1921. In 1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for something like one or two years) to play modern Yiddish theatre in German language with Siegfried Schmitz and members of the student club ‘Theodor Herzl’ like Hugo Zuckermann and Oskar Rosenfeld. In 1919 he was co-founder of the Freie Jüdische Volksbühne in Vienna, a Yiddish theatre, which existed for three years. Then, in 1921, he moved to New York to act on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s to appear in foreign-language versions of American films. In the mid-1930s he appeared in classic horror films The Black Cat, Werewolf of London, The Black Room, Mark of the Vampire and The Devil-Doll, and worked steadily in the espionage films of the 1930s/40s, his Slavic accent landing him roles both noble and villainous. One of his largest screen roles was in 1946's So Dark the Night. He died later in 1946, aged 66, of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.
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Nusraat Faria Mazhar

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Faria started her career as a debater participating in a BTV debate show. She is a national debate champions in 2010 and 2011. She started her career in show business as a model in several television commercials. Throughout her career, she has worked in various television commercials and radio programs. In 2014, she hosted a reality show, Fair and Handsome: The Ultimate Man. In 2015, she signed with Jaaz Multimedia to appear in two films, titled Aashiqui and Hero 420. The former, being her debut film, released in late 2015 while the latter released in early 2016. The former also earned Mazhar a Meril Prothom Alo Award for Best Newcomer in film or television. Both films were Indo-Bangladeshi joint ventures, being co-produced by Eskay Movies. In 2016, Mazhar also starred in another Indo-Bangladeshi co-production, Badsha - The Don, directed by Baba Yadav. The film also starred popular Indian actor Jeet, and is considered a turning point in Mazhar's career, earning Mazhar a Tele Cine Award for Best Actress from Bangladesh. After starring Indo-Bangladeshi films for the past two years, Mazhar then starred in two Bangladeshi films in 2017, Premi o Premi and Dhat Teri Ki. Mazhar also recorded dialogue for Detective, Bangladesh's first animated film. All three of these films were produced by Jaaz Multimedia and also starred Arifin Shuvo. 2017 also saw Mazhar return with the team behind Badsha - The Don for the film Boss 2: Back to Rule, again directed by Baba Yadav, produced by Jaaz Multimedia and starring Jeet. The film is a sequel to the 2013 film Boss: Born to Rule and also stars Subhasree Ganguly. The film is also an Indo-Bangladeshi joint venture, being co-produced by Walzen Media Works and Jeet's production company, Jeetz Filmworks. Initially rejecting the film, Mazhar later agreed to starring in the film when she read the script, describing her character as layered and an opportunity to show off her acting prowess, also calling the character a trendsetter. Mazhar also came under criticism for her costume in the music video for the song "Rj Rock" from Boss 2, a song which was also criticized for its lyrics. The actor tried her hand at singing for a music video, 'Pataka'. Written by Rakib Rahul, the song was composed by Pritom Hasan. The music video was highly criticised by the audience, getting larger number of dislikes than likes in YouTube.
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Mamitha Baiju

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Mamitha Baiju (born June 22, 2001) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Malayalam and Tamil films. She made her acting debut in the comedy-drama *Sarvopari Palakkaran* (2017) and played supporting roles in the psychological thriller *Varathan* (2018) and the cybercrime drama *Operation Java* (2021). She received the Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for the sports drama *Kho Kho* (2021), on which she also worked as an assistant director, followed by roles in *Super Sharanya* (2022) and *Pranaya Vilasam* (2023). In 2024, Baiju played Reenu in the romantic comedy *Premalu* and made her Tamil cinema debut in *Rebel*. Her subsequent credits include *Dude* (2025), *Jana Nayagan* (2026), *Kara* (2026), *Vishwanath & Sons* (2026), and *Bethlehem Kudumba Unit* (2026).
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Walter Tabayoyong

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Walter was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois where he studied at the American Conservatory of Music, the Chicago Academy for the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was in a string quartet with his siblings and toured the US and played at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila with Cecile Licad. He danced with the Joel Hall Dancers for several seasons touring internationally and was a guest artist with numerous regional companies. He has been in productions of West Side Story, Miss Saigon, Guys and Dolls and many others in both Chicago and Los Angeles. He was one of the founding members in Chicago of the Asian sketch comedy group Stir Friday Night. He is also a professional photographer and has photographed clients such as Toni Braxton, Billy Wirth, Michael Learned, Marianne Williamson, Alanis Morissette, Joe Manganiello, Owen Wilson, John Rubinstein, Bill Duke, Emo Philips, Elijah Wood, Steven Adler and Billy Ray Cyrus. He has shot for clients such as Maxim, Coca-Cola, Jockey Underwear, the Sundance Film Festival, FVM Global Magazine, Style Fashion Week LA, and Uni-Ball Pens. He is a recording artist and has a cd of his music entitled Breathe. His illustrations have appeared in Playboy Magazine, Face Magazine, FVMglobal.com, and numerous other ad campaigns. He has cast, worked on and appeared in music videos for Toni Braxton, Chris Brown, Logic, Joyner Lucas, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, E-40, I Prevail, Ty Dolla Sign and many others. Film and TV acting credits include MacGyver, Marry Me, Secret in Their Eyes, Jon Benjamin Has a Van and American Warfighter. Produced three films in 2021: Krispr, Crisis and Killer Whales. Currently working on several projects with Mark Labella, Joshua Lim, Petrie Willink, and many others. He is the CEO of Altamero Management in Los Angeles.
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Salah Shex Mohammedi

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Salah Sheikh Mohammadi was born in 1947 in Mahabad, Iran. He completed his education in the same city. He became interested in art at an early age Together with a group of other artists from Mahabad, they started collaborating with the Mahabad Center for Voice and Color; He was active in the fields of cinema, television, theater, and dubbing. He was a school teacher and after retirement, he moved to South Kurdistan where he continued his work. In the south, he met and worked with Ibrahim Saeedi and later with other directors such as Shaukat Amin Korki.
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