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Mariana Morgan

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Mariana Morgan is a Caucasian American actress known for Dear God (1996), Exit to Eden (1994) and Busted (1997). Her name is sometimes spelled with two ens, Marianna Morgan. Mariana Morgan has several misspellings. Internet searches have led to many erroneous spellings of celebrities names. It is often difficult to figure out how to spell a celebrities name due to the sound of the name being different than the spelling of the name. Especially when so many celebrities have different pseudonyms, it often makes spelling their names so difficult.
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Greg Wood

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Greg Wood is a British actor. He was previously known as Greg Milburn. Greg's first acting role was in Hollyoaks, playing one of the bully's in the ground breaking portrayal of Luke Morgan's rape. Greg would then go on to play what is possibly his best known role in the now defunct soap Brookside playing a drug dealer called Terry Gibson, he later reprised the role for the spin-off DVD Unfinished Business and was one of four nominated for Soap Villan of the Year. Since leaving Brookside Greg Wood has appeared in The Courtroom, Casualty 1907 and has appeared twice in Emmerdale. Greg is the brother of Matt Milburn who played Joe Spencer in Hollyoaks His most recent role has been playing a debt collector, Rick Neelan, in Coronation Street. Greg will be going up for the 'Best Villain' award for Coronation Street in the British Soap Awards this year. On April 14, 2010 Coronation Street was cleared by Ofcom for broadcasting a scene where Greg's characher Rick Neelan pushed a burning newspaper through someone's letterbox. 31 people complained about the scene, claiming that the show had incited and encouraged crime. However Ofcom ruled that it was "not likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or lead to disorder". Description above from the Wikipedia article Greg Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rose Marie

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Rose Marie Mazetta, known professionally as Rose Marie, was an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie. A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career included film, records, theater, night clubs and television. Her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rose_Marie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Frank Collison

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Frank Collison (born February 14, 1950) is an American actor. Trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, he earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University and helped establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Before Collison began his professional career in acting, he worked as a forest fire fighter, diaper service dispatcher and substitute teacher. Appearing in over 150 productions, Collison has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from "Puck" in Midsummer's Nights Dream to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Jacob Marley" in Christmas Carol. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Collison began his film and television career when he moved to Los Angeles in 1984. He is perhaps best known as "Horace Bing," the hapless telegraph operator on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and "Wash Hogwallop" in "O Brother Where Art Thou?
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Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ

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Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (born 27 October 1983) is a Turkish actor, model, and former basketball player. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Turkey and has won many awards, including three Golden Butterfly Awards and a Yeşilçam Cinema Award. Tatlıtuğ won the pageants Best Model of Turkey and Best Model of the World in 2002. Tatlıtuğ has established himself as a leading actor of Turkey with roles in several of the highly successful television series, that includes Menekşe ile Halil (2007–2008), Aşk-ı Memnu (2008–2010), Kuzey Güney (2011–2013) and Cesur ve Güzel (2016–2017), all of which garnered him critical acclaim and international recognition, portraying researcher Arman in the Netflix original series Into the Night (2020–2021) and Into the Deep (2022).
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Edgard Varèse

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Edgard Varèse or Edgar Varèse (both spellings were used by the composer himself at different times in his life) was a French naturalized American composer, born December 22, 1883 in Paris and died November 6, 1965 in New York. Initially trained at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatory, Varèse found with more independent artists, such as Debussy and Busoni, the necessary encouragement for his personal expression. Indeed, well before 1914, Varèse considered abandoning classical composition methods, the tempered system and traditional musical instruments to use “the sound material itself”. This ideal led him to destroy his first scores as far as Americas — where he already used the frequency and intensity modulated sounds of a siren — and to encourage research in the field of acoustics, from the dynamophone to the productions of Léon Theremin and Maurice Martenot. Varèse abandons the orchestra from Arcana, for more reduced and individualized instrumental ensembles. However, the absence of technical means, a recording studio or a laboratory silenced him for the duration of the Second World War and until the mid-1950s, when studio recording techniques were developed. essays by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. Varèse was then able to produce a work such as the Poème électronique, for the Universal Exhibition in Brussels in 1958. Maintaining close relations with important representatives of the scientific community of his time, Varèse's interest in science is reflected in the titles he gives to his works, evoking mathematics (Intégrales), metallurgy (Densité 21 ,5), crystallography (Hyperprism), botany (Octandre), chemistry (Ionization) and even alchemy (Arcana). At first, Varèse's work seemed very abstract. However, his music has a great power of incantation, as soon as the human voice intervenes (Offerings, Ecuatorial, Nocturnal). The scandal of the creation of Déserts, on December 2, 1954 in Paris, revealed him for a new generation of classical (including Iannis Xenakis and Bruno Maderna) and popular (like Frank Zappa) composers who recognized in him much more than a "precursor", a model to follow and one of the great innovators of the 20th century along with Stravinsky, Bartók, Henry Cowell and Anton Webern.
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Uli Hanisch

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Uli Hanisch was born in Nuremberg in 1967. Studying graphic arts in Düsseldorf, he began collaborating in 1989 with Christoph Schlingensief on experimental films such as THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE. He designed the movies of Germany's exceptional comedian Helge Schneider. Working in several European art departments for films by Enki Bilal or Peter Greenaway, he also designed German feature films with directors like Leander Haußmann, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and Sönke Wortmann. Since 1996, he collaborated many times with Tom Tykwer. He was awarded in 2007 the Bavarian Film Award, the German Film Award and the Prix d'Exellence of the European Film Academy for best production design of Tykwer's THE PERFUME - The Story of a Murderer, produced by Bernd Eichinger. He worked on Tom Tykwer's THE INTERNATIONAL, produced by Chuck Roven for Columbia Pictures, and other international productions in Europe, like in Budapest 2008 for the medieval horror movie SEASON OF THE WITCH, again produced by Chuck Roven, directed by Dominic Sena. In 2011, Hanisch designed three parts of this epic story on CLOUD ATLAS. For this, he received the German Film Award for Best Design. He was nominated for the Art Director's Guild of Los Angeles Production Design Award. He also collaborated on the Berlin part of the Netflix series SENSE 8, directed by the Wachowskies and Tom Tykwer. In 2012, he went to Belgrade and Budapest again for the American arthouse project IN SECRET, starring Jessica Lange and Elisabeth Olsen, directed by Charlie Stratton and produced by Bill Horberg. In 2016, he started to work for the German TV period series BABYLON BERLIN, produced for SKY and ARD, directed by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries. He designed the new permanent backlot street for STUDIO BABELSBERG, the NEUE BERLINER STRASSE. Since 2001, Hanisch has lectured at various film schools in Germany and Europe. He has been a Professor of production design at the INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL (IFS) in Cologne since 2018. Uli Hanisch lives in Berlin. Information above via their homepage.
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Kathryn McCormick

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Kathryn Renée McCormick (born July 7, 1990) is an American contemporary dancer and actress, noted for placing third in the sixth season of the American televised dance competition So You Think You Can Dance, in which she had the highest placement for a woman on the season. She has returned in seasons 7-10 as one of the show's "all-stars". She has played a leading role in the fourth Step Up movie, Step Up Revolution (2012) and the upcoming, Dance-Off (2014), alongside Shane Harper. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kathryn McCormick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mansha Pasha

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Mansha Pasha (born October 19, 1987) is a Pakistani actress and television presenter. She is known for her supporting roles in several critically and commercially successful television series, including Shehr-e-Zaat (2012), Madiha Maliha (2012), Zindagi Gulzar Hai (2013), Virasat (2013) and Mera Naam Yusuf Hai (2015). Her performance in the romantic series Mohabat Subh Ka Sitara Hai (2013) proved to be a breakthrough for her, and earned her the Hum Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also the director of Six-part series with Elaj Trust which tackles a topic of Post-partum depression.
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Shaun Parkes

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Shaun Parkes (born 9 February 1973) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Koop in Human Traffic and Izzy Buttons in The Mummy Returns. At 16, Parkes enrolled at Seltec College to study drama. Two years later, he was accepted into RADA. Having acted in both theatre and television support roles, Parkes made his breakthrough in the 1999 film Human Traffic. His work since then includes films such as Clubbed, The Mummy Returns, Things to Do Before You're 30 and the acclaimed Notes on a Scandal. Television work includes Lock, Stock..., Servants and Russell T Davies' Casanova and Doctor Who. Parkes continued to forge a career as a theatre actor. He has starred alongside David Threlfall and Neil Stuke in Joe Penhall's award-winning play Blue/Orange in the West End and in Kwame Kwei-Armah's Elmina's Kitchen and at Shakespeare's Globe as Aaron in Titus Andronicus. Parkes also starred as the lead in BBC Two's detective series Moses Jones, with a supporting cast that included Matt Smith. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shaun Parkes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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