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Abdullah Mahmoud

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An Egyptian actor, born in 1959 in Cairo, worked in the field of acting as a child when he was participating in school plays. He joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, and began his artistic career through the series (Al-Bostaji), which qualified him to participate in a large number of television series, including: Asfour Al-Nar, Gates of the City, Innocents. As for the cinema, the late director Youssef Chahine presented him through his important movie (Alexandria, why?) and then participated in many important films, including: Bus Driver, The Ring and the Bracelet, Tal' Al Nakhl, The Egyptian Citizen. At the end of his life, Abdullah Mahmoud turned to the field of production, where he produced the movie (One Cappuccino), which is his first absolute starring, but he died in 2005 before the movie was shown in theaters due to complications from cancer.
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Ruka Ishikawa

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Ruka Ishikawa is a Japanese actress. Before acting, she was a model while attending Sophia University. She took an interest in acting after taking an acting workshop in college then subsequently joining production company Cheese Film as an actress where she trained for 6 months. Her debut was a stage play "SUGAR WORKS". However, her first appearance on video was in 2019 for "Colorless" as part of an "unfinished movie trailer awards" contest where director Takashi Koyama discovered her on Instagram. The trailer won 1st place which lead to the trailer being turned into a full movie thus also being her movie debut. She won best new actress award from the Japanese Movie Critics Award for her lead role in "Colorless". In 2020, she transferred to Sony Music Artists. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)
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Sarimah Ibrahim

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Sarimah Ibrahim is a Malaysian-Irish television host, actress, singer and radio announcer. She is of Irish-Malay-Banjar descent and was born in Dublin, Ireland; being the oldest and only girl of four siblings. She received her early education in Malaysia, Ireland, Abu Dhabi and at the Emirates International School, Dubai. She completed O Levels and A Levels. Her highest academic qualification is the BA (Psychology). Sarimah is able to converse in Malay and English. Sarimah is a first dan black belt holder in Karate. She was the host for the first season of The Biggest Loser Asia on Hallmark Channel Asia, and the Kuala Lumpur correspondent for CNNtogo. She was also a former announcer for radio station Mix FM as a host for its flagship breakfast programme the Mix Breakfast Show alongside Rod for almost two years. Sarimah resides in both Malaysia and Ireland.
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K.T. Stevens

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Stevens, born Gloria Wood, was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of film producer and director Sam Wood. She made her first film appearance when she was just two years old in her father's second silent film, Peck's Bad Boy. As an adult, she changed her name to K. T. Stevens to distance herself from her father's fame. She initially called herself Katherine Stevens, which people often shorted to "Katie," leading to the final version with the initials "K.T." Stevens appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including Kitty Foyle, (directed by her father) with Ginger Rogers, The Great Man's Lady with Barbara Stanwyck, Address Unknown, Port of New York with Yul Brynner, Harriet Craig with Joan Crawford and Vice Squad with Edward G. Robinson. She also appeared as Phyllis in the 1969 hit movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Her last film role before her death from lung cancer was in the 1994 Whoopi Goldberg film Corrina, Corrina.
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Gary Hurst

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Gary Hurst was an actor and dancer who worked with Kate in both videos and live appearances. He started dancing in 1975, and won a scholarship to Holland where he studied in Rotterdam, then went on to tour with a troupe called Moving Being before continuing his studies in Sweden and France. Brought into the 1979 Tour Of Life by choreographer Anthony Van Laast, Hurst became a close friend and intimate of Kate and her regular dance partner alongside Stewart Avon-Arnold, with whom he later founded the Dance Theatre Of London. Hurst contributed backing vocals on the songs Babooshka and All We Ever Look For and can be seen on the videos Live at the Hammersmith Odeon and the Kate Christmas Special. Together with Kate and Douglas McNicol, he also did TV appearances promoting the 1982 single The Dreaming, both in the UK and abroad. He died in 1990 of complications related to AIDS in Westminster, London, England. He is mentioned by his nickname Bubba in the song Moments Of Pleasure.
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Ryan Adriandhy

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Ryan Adriandhy Halim (born June 15, 1990) is an Indonesian animator, stand-up comedian, and actor. Ryan is best known after winning the first season of Stand Up Comedy Indonesia on Kompas TV in 2011. He then starred in the web series Malam Minggu Miko and the television series Kokoro no tomo pop. As an animator, Ryan who took his master's degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology made a short final project entitled Prognosis which won the Citra Award for Best Animated Short Film. He was also involved in the film Nussa directed by Bony Wirasmono and is currently directing his first feature-length animated film Jumbo.
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Tharun Bhascker

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Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam (born 5 November, 1988) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, and television host who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He earned a degree in filmmaking from the New York Film Academy. His early directorial work included the short films *Anukokunda*, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and *Sainma*. He made his full-length directorial debut with the romantic comedy *Pelli Choopulu* (2016). The film won two National Film Awards, including Best Screenplay (Dialogues) for Bhascker and Best Feature Film in Telugu, as well as the SIIMA Award for Best Debut Director. He later directed *Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi* (2018), directed the "Ramula" segment in the anthology film *Pitta Kathalu* (2021), and wrote and directed the crime comedy *Keedaa Cola* (2023). As an actor, Bhascker appeared in the biopic *Mahanati* (2018) as Singeetham Srinivasa Rao and played the lead role in the comedy *Meeku Maathrame Cheptha* (2019). He also appeared in *Falaknuma Das* (2019), *Middle Class Melodies* (2020), *Sita Ramam* (2022), *Keedaa Cola* (2023), and the web series *Dhootha* (2023).
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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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Sammy Davis Jr.

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Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis was a childhood vaudevillian who became known for his performances on Broadway and in Las Vegas, as a recording artist, television and film star, and as a member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack". At the age of four Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and "uncle" as the Will Mastin Trio, toured nationally, and after military service, returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's after the 1951 Academy Awards, with the trio, became a recording artist, and made his first film performances as an adult later that decade. In 1954, he lost his left eye in an automobile accident. Later the same year, he converted to Judaism. In 1960, he appeared in the first Rat Pack movie, Ocean's 11. After a starring role on Broadway in 1956's Mr Wonderful, Davis returned to the stage in 1964's Golden Boy, and in 1966 had his own TV variety show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Davis's career slowed in the late sixties, but he had a hit record with "The Candy Man", in 1972, and became a star in Las Vegas. As an African American, Davis was the victim of racism throughout his life, and was a large financial supporter of civil rights causes. Davis had a complex relationship with the African American community, and attracted criticism after physically embracing Richard Nixon in 1970. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap — I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew." This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography, and in countless articles. After reuniting with Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before dying of throat cancer in 1990. He died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for his television performances. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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John Maybury

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John Maybury (born 25 March 1958) is an English filmmaker and artist. He first came to prominence as the director of the music video for the Pet Shop Boys 1984 single "West End Girls". In 2005 he was named as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain. During the 1980s, Maybury produced a number of short films and music videos including for Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U", which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos and received various awards, and "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, a defining 1980s video. In 1998, Maybury produced his first full-length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, a biopic on the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, he directed The Jacket with Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. In 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the HBO/BBC Rome series.
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