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Richard Jenkins

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Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor. Jenkins began his acting career in theater at the Trinity Repertory Company and later made his film debut in 1974. He has worked steadily in film and television since the 1980s, mostly in supporting roles. His first major role did not come until the early 2000s, when he portrayed the deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series Six Feet Under (2001–2005). He is also known for his roles in the films Burn After Reading (2008), Step Brothers (2008), Let Me In (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Jenkins was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the drama film The Visitor (2007). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for the limited drama series Olive Kitteridge (2014). For his performance in the fantasy drama film The Shape of Water (2017), Jenkins received Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ghita Nørby

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Nørby was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of opera singer Einar Nørby. She studied two years at the Danish Royal Theatre. She has received a number of awards and recognitions including the Ingenio et Arti medal in 2006. At the 27th Guldbagge Awards she was nominated for the award for Best Actress for her role in Freud's Leaving Home. She has been married a number of times. First in 1956 to architect Mogens Garth-Grüner, and then to actor Henrik Wiehe. She met her next husband, Italian pop singer/actor Dario Campeotto, on the set of a film they were shooting in 1962. They were married in 1963, and had a son, actor Giacomo Campeotto, in 1964. They were divorced in 1969. She married a fourth time to actor Jørgen Reenberg in April 1970. She is currently married to pianist/composer, Svend Skipper.
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Mohammad Reza Aslani

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Mohammad Reza Aslani was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1943 and graduated in Art and painting from Teheran’s Faculty of decorative arts. He spent his filmmaking training in the Ministry of Culture. Aslani started his professional carrier in cinema in 1967 with the documentary film “Hasanlu Cup”, and then worked with another project “Child and exploitation (1982)”, a documentary made with the aim of display for management community. It was one of the best documentaries made in Iran in eighties. But shortly after its release it was informally banned and marginalized in 1982. Aslani’s first feature film called “The chess game of the Wind” (1976) was a new and different experience in Iranian cinema, which also was very daring. Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo began her artistic activity with this movie by playing the role of a servant. Aslani made television series like “Samak Ayyar,” “light mist,” “logic of the flight”, script writing for movies such as “line”, “switchman”, “The Silent City,” “bottleneck,” “Requiem”, “the fourth morning,” “Stone Garden”. He wrote three books of poetry, “Bench Nights and Wind Days,” “The difference between the two Maghreb” and “Requiem for prohibited years”. Teaching at academies of Sura and cinema and theater, writing critical essays and comments about cinema is among Aslani’s other activities. His professional activities are enumerated. —onlinefilmhome.dk
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Ashley Medrano

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is an American female professional wrestler better known by her ring names Ashley Vox and Oceanea. Professional wrestling career Early years Vox debuted as early as November 15, 2014 in the Massachusetts promotion New Age Old Tyme Wrestling, where she teamed with her trainer Doug Summers in a tag match defeating Jase & Toxis. She went on to spend her first two years wrestling throughout the New England territory in promotions including New England Championship Wrestling, Pioneer Valley Promotions and ElkMania Promotions. During 2015, with less than full year of professional wrestling, Vox formed a tag team known as Team Sea Stars with her sister Delmi Exo. Returning on January 28, 2018 at CHIKARA Beware The Snowman, Oceanea joined forces with her previous rival Merlok, in a tag match defeating Cajun Crawdad & Hermit Crab. By February 17 at the 2018 CHIKARA National Pro Wrestling Day event, Oceanea and Merlok's alliance became the foundation for a new stable called The Creatures Of The Deep, recruiting new allies in Cajun Crawdad and the Hermit Crab. During the event, they won their debut tag match, defeating the team of Fire Ant, Hype Rockwell & The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield & Mark Angelosetti). At CHIKARA Young Lions Cup XIV - 1st Stage. Oceanea and Merlok represented The Creatures Of The Deep during the qualifying match to enter the 2018 the Tag World Grand Prix. There, they defeated To Infinity And Beyond (Cheech Hernandez & Colin Delaney). During the second stage of the CHIKARA Young Lions Cup XIV series, The Creatures Of The Deep teamed with Cornelius Crummels & Sonny Defarge in defeating Green Ant, Thief Ant & The Rumblebees (Solo Darling & Travis Huckabee) in a tag match. The Creatures of the Deep competed on April 14 at the 2018 CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix, advancing in the first round after eliminating Los Ice Creams (El Hijo del Ice Cream & Ice Cream Jr.). During the semifinal, The Creatures Of the Deep eliminated their former tag partners The Rumblebees. The Creatures Of the Deep were later defeated in the tournament final by The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield & Mark Angelosetti). The Creatures Of The Deep returned on April 21 at CHIKARA Hour Of Power 15, where they defeated Xyberhawx2000 (Razerhawk & Sylverhawk). On May 25 at CHIKARA Aniversario: Heroes Shed No Tears, The Creatures Of The Deep (Hermit Crab, Merlok & Oceanea) defeated Icarus & Xyberhawx2000 (Danjerhawk & Razerhawk) in a three-on-three tag match. During the second night of the 2018 CHIKARA King Of Trios event, The Creatures Of The Deep (Cajun Crawdad, Hermit Crab, Merlok & Oceanea), teamed with BLANK in a ten-person tag match lost to Blanche Babish, Jeremy Leary, Jessica Troy, Lucas Calhoun & Shazza McKenzie. Ring Of Honor (2018) Vox made her Ring of Honor debut during the August 25 ROH Tapings, teaming with Kris Stadtlander & Riley Shepard in a tag match lost to Jenny Rose, Stella Gray & Tenille Dashwood.
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Sayaka Ohara

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Sayaka Ohara (大原 さやか, Ōhara Sayaka) is a Japanese voice actress, affiliated with Haikyō. Her major roles include Layla Hamilton in Kaleido Star, Yūko Ichihara in xxxHolic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Alicia Florence in Aria, Beatrice in Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Milly Ashford in Code Geass, Erza Scarlet in Fairy Tail, Irisviel in the Fate/Zero and Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya series and the initial voice of Gammisers in episode 27-34 of Kamen Rider Ghost. She has also voiced in a variety of video games and live-action overseas dubs, and hosts a number of radio shows, many of which are related to her voice projects. In 2013, she received a Best Supporting Actress award at the 7th Seiyu Awards.
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Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

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Anthony Wong Chau-sang (born Anthony William Perry; 2 September 1961) is a Hong Kong film actor, film director and singer, known for his intense portrayals of often-amoral characters. He has won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times for The Untold Story (1993), Beast Cops (1998) and Still Human (2018), and won Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for The Sunny Side of the Street (2022). He is the first Hong Kong actor to have won Best Actor awards in films, stage theatre and TV. His notable international credits include his roles as Triad gangster Johnny Wong in Hard Boiled (1992), police superintendent Wong Chi-shing in the Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002–2003) and General Yang in the Hollywood film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Wong (Hong Kong actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Arun Bakshi

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Arun Bakshi is an Indian film and television actor and also a singer. He has acted as a character actor in over 100 Hindi films, and as a playback singer has also sung 298 songs. He has also worked in Punjabi and Bhojpuri cinema. He also played the role of Mahant Dashrath Tripathi in Colors's Ishq Ka Rang Safed. He was born and brought up in Ludhiana, Punjab, where he graduated from Arya College, Ludhiana. He worked with the Punjab Agricultural University for a while, before moving to Mumbai, to start his acting career in 1981, first in television and later films. Arun Bakshi is well known for performances in BR Chopra's Mahabharat as Dhristadyumna, Guru, Kuch To Gadbad Hai and Masoom. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrew Lamy

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Andrew Arnold Lamy was born August 21, 1952 in New York City. His formal education consisted entirely of time spent in the New York public school system, culminating in his attendance at The High School of Music & Art (1966-1969), where he was enrolled as an art student. During his teen years he made one short 8mm Film,"Chez Moi", and three short 16mm films: "Out in the Country"(1969); "Big City Blues"(1970); and "Bowery Dawn" (1972). Both "Out in the Country" and "Bowery Dawn" featured in its cast the legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith. "Bowery Dawn" marked the film debut of the actress, Glenne Headly ("Dick Tracy"; "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"). "Out in the Country" was screened at The Museum of Modern Art, and "Big CIty Blues" was screened at The Rochester Film Festival and at The Whitney Museum, and was reviewed in The New York Times. (The three 16mm shorts are archived in the permanent collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center). At the age of sixteen Mr.Lamy worked a season as a prop boy for John Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous. At the age of seventeen he worked as a Production Assistant on Robert Downey's "Pound." At the age of eighteen he wrote the original screenplay for Tony Conrad's & Beverly Grant's experimental feature film, "Coming Attractions."
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Mukunda Goswami

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Mukunda Goswami (Sanskrit: मुकुन्द गोस्वामी; born Michael Grant, April 10, 1942) is a spiritual leader (guru) in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON or the Hare Krishnas). Mukunda Goswami was born as Michael Grant in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from Reed College he became a professional jazz musician and moved to New York to pursue his music career. In 1965 Michael met the Hare Krishna founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The next year he was in the first group of initiated disciples, receiving the Sanskrit name Mukunda Dasa. Mukunda was a pioneer in the early days of the Hare Krishna movement. In 1966 in New York City he helped Bhaktivedanta Swami rent a storefront for the first Hare Krishna temple. In 1967 he founded the first Hare Krishna temple in San Francisco and organized a major music event, the Mantra-Rock Dance. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada sent Mukunda and wife, Janaki, and two other devotee couples to London in 1968, where they established ISKCON in England. The devotees met Beatle George Harrison. As well as assisting them in opening the Radha Krishna Temple there, Harrison produced an album of their devotional music, titled The Radha Krsna Temple. The album was released on Apple Records in 1971. Mukunda (credited as Makunda Das Adhikary) wrote the musical arrangements for the songs. The Temple's 1969 hit single, "Hare Krishna Mantra", climbed the pop charts, including the UK Singles Chart. The devotees toured Europe and also appeared on England's Top of the Pops TV show. The song made the devotees famous and proved to be a significant event in establishing ISKCON in Europe. George Harrison considered Mukunda and the others who first came to England to be his lifelong friends.
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