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ZaKeyia Lacey

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ZaKeyia Lacey is a Theatre Actress from Wilmington, Delaware. She began her dance career at the age of 3, doing competition dance from the age of 7 to 14, and finally going to Cab Calloway School of the Arts as a dance major for high school. Between that time, she found a love for activism and leadership, becoming the Head Captain of her Cheerleading Squad, Class President, President of her Black Student Union, and even starting her own organization, BVoice, a platform to inspire African American artists to empower their voices. ZaKeyia developed her love of theatre in high school, where she was the Dance Captain of several productions, leading her to currently pursue her BFA in Musical Theatre at Florida State University. Some of her favorite credits include: Dance Captain of Sideshow, featured ensemble member & Sad Little Egg of Something Rotten and Sandy Cheeks in Spongebob.
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Alex Komang

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Alex Komang, born as Saifin Nuha (September 17, 1961, in Jepara, Central Java – February 13, 2015), was a legendary Indonesian actor who was highly respected. He began his acting career by joining Teater Populer, led by renowned director Teguh Karya. His film debut was Secangkir Kopi Pahit (1985), marking the beginning of his illustrious career in Indonesian cinema. Alex was known for his ability to portray strong and profound characters in various films, including Doea Tanda Mata (1985), Ibunda (1986), and Pacar Ketinggalan Kereta (1989). On February 13, 2015, Alex Komang passed away in Semarang, Central Java, due to liver cancer. His passing left a deep sorrow in the Indonesian film industry.
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Christina Alexandra

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Christina grew up Upstate NY. After graduating High School, she moved to New York City, where she studied Broadcast Journalism in college and started acting. One of her first projects was an independent film "Torn from Innocence." She went on to booking a Japanese documentary show, "The Great Masters" which aired nationally in Japan. Since Christina speaks fluent Russian, in 2009, she booked a role in "No love in the city" which was in movie theaters nationally in Russia. She has also worked on commercials and hosted a show while in college. Christina minored in TV production in college, which allowed her to direct and produce two of her own films. While living in NYC, she had studied acting at TVI Studios. Recently, (2012) She worked on an MTV pilot where she plays a home-wrecker, and on "Scorned: Love Kills" which airs on Discovery ID. After a short stay in Los Angeles in 2010-2011, she moved back to New York City. Graduated with her Bachelor of Science in 3 years, with a GPA of 3.9 (magna cum laude)
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Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals Oklahoma! and The Pajama Game. Following minor appearances as an understudy in various other productions, MacLaine made her film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955), winning the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She rose to prominence with starring roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Two for the Seesaw (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), and Sweet Charity (1969). A six time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Her other prominent films include The Turning Point (1977), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Evening Star (1996), Bewitched (2005), In Her Shoes (2005), Valentine's Day (2010), and The Little Mermaid (2018). MacLaine has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1995, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2013 for her contribution to American culture, through performing arts. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Apart from acting, MacLaine has written numerous books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a best-selling memoir, Out on a Limb (1983).
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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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Mohanlal

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Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair known mononymously as Mohanlal is an Indian actor, producer and singer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema. He made his acting debut in the unreleased movie Thiranottam (1978), which was followed by a role as the lead antagonist in his first release Manjil Virinja Pookkal in 1980, his onscreen debut. Antagonistic parts in several movies followed before Mohanlal established himself as a lead actor playing a wide variety of character types in comedy and action films amongst others. He was labelled a superstar of Malayalam cinema in 1986 after the success of Rajavinte Makan, in which he played an underworld don. Mohanlal became a film producer with the 1990 musical hit His Highness Abdullah and has also acted in a number of Tamil and Bollywood films. Of these, his notable roles were in Iruvar, directed by Mani Ratnam, and Company, directed by Ram Gopal Varma. As well as being an actor and producer, Mohanlal also owns businesses involved in film distribution, restaurants and packaged spices. Mohanlal is regarded as one of the finest actors in Indian cinema and is a cultural icon in the Indian state of Kerala, where he was elected its most popular individual in a 2006 online poll conducted by CNN-IBN on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kerala's formation. In 2001, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, for his contributions to Indian cinema. He has won four Indian National Film Awards — two Best Actor Awards, one Special Jury Award for acting, and one Award for Best Film as producer along with six Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actor. In 2009, he became the first actor to be given the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India and in 2010 received an honorary doctorate from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala.
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Christiane Eda-Pierre

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Christiane Eda-Pierre (24 March 1932 – 6 September 2020) was a French coloratura soprano of Martinican origin, who sang in a wide variety of roles, from baroque to contemporary works. Eda-Pierre was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, in a family of intellectuals. She is the daughter of journalist William Eda-Pierre and music teacher Alice Nardal, and the niece of Paulette Nardal. From a young age, she learnt piano from her mother. In September 1950, she left for Paris, studying at the École Normale de Musique de Paris for two years. After the lessons from Charles Panzéra, she switched from piano to singing. In 1954, she attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where she learnt singing from Louis Noguéra and diction from Gabrielle Fontan. She graduated with honours in 1957. The same year, she made her professional debut in Nice, as Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles. She made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1958, as Lakmé, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1959, as Papagena in The Magic Flute, and at the Palais Garnier in 1960, as Lucia di Lammermoor. She sang there the standard lyric coloratura roles of the French and Italian repertoire. She also won great acclaim in Mozart roles, especially as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, as well as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna and Elvira in Don Giovanni, The Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte Eda-Pierre was much appreciated in French baroque opera, particularly in the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau, including Les Indes Galantes, Zoroastre, Les Boréades (taking part in the first modern performance in September 1964), and Dardanus. She was also very active on French Radio where she sang in little performed works, such as Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe, Bellini's Il pirata, Bizet's La jolie fille de Perth, as well as Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict and Benvenuto Cellini. She created many contemporary works, such as Capdeville's Les amants captifs (1973), Chaynes's Pour un monde noir (1979), and Erszebet (1983). In 1983 she also created the role of the Angel in Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise, at the Opéra de Paris. Eda-Pierre also appeared to great acclaim internationally, including Lisbon, London, Wexford, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Salzburg, Moscow, Chicago, and New York. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1980 as Konstanze, and went on to sing other roles the next two years: Gilda in Rigoletto (with Luciano Pavarotti) and Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann (with Plácido Domingo). She became a teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1977, while continuing her career in opera and in concert. The possessor of a beautiful, rich and agile voice, which enabled her to succeed in a wide variety of roles, Eda-Pierre can be heard on several recordings, her three most famous being on the Philips label, as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Teresa in Benvenuto Cellini, both under Sir Colin Davis, and an album of arias from the French opéra-comiques of Grétry and Philidor, under Sir Neville Marriner. For the Bizet centenary in 1975 she participated in BBC studio recordings of La Jolie Fille de Perth and Le Docteur Miracle. ... Source: Article "Christiane Eda-Pierre" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sanaa Shafea

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An Egyptian actor, theater director and academic professor. He was born in Assiut in Upper Egypt, then to Cairo with his father, who was a scholar of Al-Azhar. He discovered his passion toward art and joined the amateur companies on Emad Eddin Street until he enrolled in the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts. He worked as a teacher and became the dean of the Institute, and worked on television, cinema and theater, where he directed the play Don Quixote in 1975. Some of his most important roles are in the film So That the Smoke Won't Dissipate, and the TV movie The Bourgeoisie Fawzia. He participated in several series, such as The Accused Is My Father, and Bab Al Khalq.
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Noah Staggs

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Noah Staggs, a native Californian, was born on July 20 in San Bernardino. He grew up in Simi Valley, California, where he graduated from Simi Valley High School in. Noah Staggs served in the Army where he graduated second highest cadet out of basic training at Fort Benning GA. He was stationed in West Germany. After serving 3 years Noah left the service and moved back to Simi Valley. He met his wife Ciara in 1999 and were married in 2002. Noah started acting in San Francisco in 2010 where he took his first acting class, he landed his first role in a feature film called "Fruitvale Station", the Oscar Grant story. After a year in the bay area Noah and Ciara moved to Los Angeles in 2012 so he could pursue his acting career.
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Kim Ostrenko

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kim Ostrenko is an American actress with roles in 16 movies and TV shows, most recently playing Alice Connellan in Dolphin Tale (2011). She has also played a number of theater roles. Kim Ostrenko was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she lived with her family on a small sailboat on the Miami River until the age of five. Ostrenko graduated from Florida International University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater and has worked in theater, commercials, film and TV ever since. She has been honored with two Carbonell Awards for Best Supporting Actress and three for Best Ensemble for her theater work. Among her more famous credits in TV and film are: Burn Notice, HBO's From the Earth to the Moon,Boynton Beach Club, Sex Drive and Bachelor Party 2. Ostrenko has worked with Ashley Judd and Kris Kristofferson (Dolphin Tale), Seth Green (Sex Drive).
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