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Sav Rodgers

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Originally from Kansas, Sav Rodgers is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose work often centers on telling highly specific, surprising stories about queer people. He is the director/producer of Chasing Chasing Amy, an upcoming feature documentary about the complex legacy of Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy among LGBTQ+ people and the profound, lasting impression on his own life. Sav delivered a TED Talk on the subject titled, "The rom-com that saved my life." His screenplay I Love You, Margot Robbie, co-written with Taylor Gates, was selected for The GLAAD List in 2022. In 2017, Sav graduated from the University of Kansas. He is an alumnus of the Outfest Screenwriting Lab, the Producers Guild of America's PGA Create program, the TED Residency, and the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium. His short films have screened at festivals like Slamdance, the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. Sav is the Founder and Executive Director of the Transgender Film Center, a nonprofit aiming to help trans creators bring finished films to audiences around the world.
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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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Severn Darden

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Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appearances for playing the human leader Kolp in the fourth and fifth Planet of the Apes films. His live comedy improv skit under the character of "Walther von der Vogelweide" was influential with two generations of comic performers. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was a "campus legend" according to poet Paul Carroll. Darden’s offbeat and intellectual sense of humor was a major element in the style of The Second City at that time, and is evident throughout his work. Carroll described him as a combination of surrealistic New Orleans and tough, caustic "Chicago Style" comedy. An example of his offbeat humor is the way he squeezed the phrase "Know thyself" into the seven-character limitation of a New Mexico license plate: NOYOSEF. Darden was a core comedian in Paul Sills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from Compass Players, including Darden.
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Mirai Moriyama

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Mirai Moriyama (森山 未來, Moriyama Mirai, born August 20, 1984) is a Japanese actor and dancer. Moriyama started training in dance when he was 5 years old. He trained in jazz dance, tap dance, ballet and hip-hop, and he appeared in several stage roles. He officially made his stage debut with 1999 Boys Time. In 2008, he played the lead character in a Japanese version of the musical RENT. In the 2004 film Socrates in Love, he played a high school age hero trying to deal with his terminally-ill girlfriend. He also portrayed the character Kakuta on the film 20th Century Boys. He starred in Kueki Ressha. He also appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's television drama Penance and Junji Sakamoto's film A Chorus of Angels.
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Kenneth Londoner

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Kenneth Londoner, also credited as Ken Londoner, is an American actor. He began acting at the Youth Theatre Dadov where shared his love for the acting stage. There Londoner developed his talent which after a few years we are able to see on the television screens. After three years in Dadov, he enrolled in the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in New York in the class of Professor Ron Maston. In the same class, among others, were Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Italia Ricci and Caity Lotz. The audience may remember Londoner for his role as Andrew Richards in the horror movie "Thinner". This role had considerable influence on the development of his career. "Theodore Rex", the movie title from 1995 may have been very popular with the public, but it was broadcast in prime time TV, in which you could also see young Kenneth. The movie starred Whoopie Goldberg and was directed and screenplayed by Jonathan R. Betuel. This movie was very popular with the younger audience. A some time later, Kenneth Londoner starred in several other TV series projects. In 2004 Kenneth’s starred in a new TV series called "Secret Lives". Londoner starred as Tim Seth, a first season regular. This role has delighted all audiences. With his acting talent he showed that in the future audience can expect great plays from him. He waited patiently for his five minutes of glory, and judging by the audience reactions, patience paid off. Although in private life he was not very much into playing football, said that after having weeks spent in training the skills were obvious on the field. He had hard practicing to get to a certain level, although has no talent for this sport. Kenneth Londoner is very serious in business, both as a director and as an actor. In each character he enters meticulously, but agrees to compromise and agree on roles and duties. Besides acting Ken Londoner is engaged in playing guitar and piano. At one time he had a band. He completed elementary music school, but the love of acting was crucial and brought him in front of the camera. He likes to play in musicals, and his first performance it was the musical Chicago.
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Erika Toda

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Erika Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model by the age of 13. She moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school and started acting career in earnest. Her film debut was in 2006 and attracted attention by playing the role of Amane Misa in the movie "Death Note" live action. After that, Toda appeared in the live-action adaptation of the manga series “LIAR GAME” as Kanzaki Nao and TBS drama "Ryusei no Kizuna" which granted her 3 awards for the Best Supporting Actress in 2nd Tokyo Drama Awards, 59th Television Drama Academy Awards, and 12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix. Toda is also known for her lead roles in the “Code Blue” series as Hiyama Mihoko, and as Touma Saya in “Keizoku 2: SPEC” series. Most recently, she played the role of heroine in 2019 NHK asadora "Scarlet". Toda usually speaks with Kansai dialect, and is represented by the agency, FLaMme. On December 10, 2020, Toda announced her marriage to fellow actor Tori Matsuzaka.
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Lea Massari

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Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (30 June 1933 — 23 June 2025) was an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari became a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14-year-old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971). She worked in both Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi, and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie. She was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.
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Charles Fournier

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Charles began performing when he was 3 years old in Michigan, competing in the dance competition circuits until he finished high school. He went on to study Acting, Musical Theater and Dance at the University level, graduating with a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. While attending the University Charles enrolled in an independent study program where he lived and studied Contemporary/Ballet & Choreography in Seoul, S. Korea at The Korean National University of Art. Charles has been featured on Dancing with the Stars, World of Dance, Tosh.0, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels and most recently ABCs - Little Mermaid Live!, other credits include working with: The Cheetah Girls, The Jonas Brothers, Luis Fonsi, Eminem, David Schwimmer, Helene Fischer, Shaggy, Andrea Bocceli, Josh Groban, Toni Braxton, John Stamos, Iris Bouche, William Forsythe, Frank Wildhorn, Queen Latifah and for Variety International. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA where he continues to work in the Entertainment Industry. He also teaches all over America, Canada, Central America & S. Korea and looks forward to continuing his passion in performance, arts education & choreography.
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Iraj Tahmasb

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Iraj Tahmasb (ایرج طهماسب) was born in 1959 in Tehran. He is an Iranian actor, screenwriter, and director of several TV series and films. He is best known for co-creating the popular puppet character Kolah Ghermezi. His active professional career began in 1979 with stage performances and directing in theatre. Inspired by the revolutionary atmosphere of the period, Iraj Tahmasb staged a number of politically controversial plays including An Eye for an Eye, The Bear That Wanted to Remain a Bear, Olduz and the Crows, A Pair of Shoes for Zahara and A Delicate Story.
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Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

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Fateme Motamedaria (فاطمه معتمد آریا) was born on 29 October 1961 in Tehran. She is a multi-award-winning Iranian actress. Fateme Motamedaria received her degree in Arts from Tehran University. She got involved in theatre during her teen years and then has emerged as one of the most celebrated actresses of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. She has had nine nominations for best actress at the Fajr International Film Festival, with four of them successfully winning her the Crystal Simorgh. More recently, Fateme Motamedaria played in Tales (Ghesseha), Avalanche (Bahman), and Yahya Didn't Keep Quiet (Yahya Sokoot Nakard).
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