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Nikki Galrani

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Nikki Galrani is an Indian film actress and model who works predominantly in Malayalam and Tamil films. In January 2013, Galrani signed her first film project. She was chosen to play the lead role in Ajith, the Kannada remake of the Tamil film Paiyaa, after an audition. Within three days, she had signed her next project, her first Tamil film, Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka and few weeks later, her first Malayalam film as well: 1983. In spite of being the last film she signed in 2013, 1983 released first in early 2014 and became her debut film and was a first major box office hit. The delay of Yagavarayinum Naa Kaaka meant that that the horror comedy Darling that she began shooting for much later became her maiden Tamil release, which was a commercial success.
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Claudia Ferri

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Claudia Ferri was born into a multicultural family in Montreal. Her father of Italian Origins and her mother's ancestry is Irish, Scottish, French and Native American. When all the members of her family got together for festivities, Italian, French, English or Arab was spoken among cousins or aunts and uncles. It's no surprise that she is multilingual (English, Italian, French and Spanish) on screen too. The eastern coast of U.S.A. is a familiar scene to her, as many of her childhood summers would see the family traveling down to New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, where they would visit cousins and relatives. Later, her parents built a home and took up residence in Naples, Florida. Claudia was in fact visiting her parents in Naples when a phone call from her agent informed her that she was considered to play opposite Aidan Quinn & Donald Sutherland in "The assignment", which proved to be her first big break in film.
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An xin

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Zhou Anxin (born 25 December 2006) is a Chinese actor and singer, and a member of the boy group ALPHA DRIVE ONE. Born in Shanghai, he is of Han ethnicity. Zhou made his film debut in Boxing Storm (2014), playing the young Gao Yuan. He gained early recognition in 2015 after covering The Vast Sky on Beijing Television’s Music Masterclass, later performing the song with Terry Lin on CCTV’s Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. That year, he also appeared on I Want to Perform on the Spring Festival Gala and sang the finale at Beijing TV’s New Year’s Eve Gala. In 2016, Zhou performed Unforgettable Tonight and Bringing Happiness Home on CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala and Lantern Festival Gala, and appeared in the film Second Child. He took part in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala countdown in 2017 and released the single When the Hills Bloom with Flowers through the Youth Era Music Project. The following year, he starred in the film Love Ahead and later performed Bringing Happiness Home on CCTV’s China Arts. In 2024, Zhou competed in the Korean survival show MAKEMATE1, where he placed 14th overall. In 2025, he participated in Boys II Planet, finishing second overall and debuting as a member of ALPHA DRIVE ONE.
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Leopold Stokowski

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Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor of Jewish-Polish and Irish descent. One of the leading and influential conductors of the early and mid-20th Century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and for appearing in the film Fantasia. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed.
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Song Joong-ki

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Song Joong-ki (Hangul: 송중기; born September 19, 1985) is a South Korean actor. He rose to fame in the historical drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and the variety show Running Man as one of the original cast members when it premiered in 2010. Song played his first TV leading role in the melodrama The Innocent Man (2012). He has also starred in feature films, notably as the title character in the box office hit A Werewolf Boy (2012). After completing his mandatory military service, Song took on the lead role in the pan-Asia hit drama Descendants of the Sun (2016), which drew a peak audience share of 38.8% in South Korea and established him as a top Hallyu star. He placed 7th in Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list in 2013, and ranked 2nd in 2017.
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Richard Dix

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Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943. He was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota. There he was educated, and at the desires of his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays. At 6' 0" and 180 pounds, Dix excelled in sports, especially football and baseball. These skills would serve him well in the vigorous film roles he would go on to play. After a year at the University of Minnesota he took a position at a bank, spending his evenings training for the stage. His professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York. The death of his father left him with a mother and sister to support. He went to Los Angeles, became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company and his success there got him a contract with Paramount Pictures. His rugged good looks and dark features made him a popular player in westerns. His athletic ability led to his starring role in Paramount's Warming Up (1928), a baseball story and also the studio's first feature with synchronized score and sound effects. His deep voice and commanding presence were perfectly suited for the talkies, and he was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1929, scoring an early triumph in the all-talking mystery drama, Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929). In 1931 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his masterful performance in Cimarron (1931), winner of the Best Picture Oscar that year. Throughout the 1930s Dix would be a big box-office draw at RKO, appearing in mystery thrillers, potboilers, westerns and programmers. He appeared in the "Whistler" series of mystery films at Columbia in the mid-40s. He retired from films in 1947. He first married Winifred Coe on October 20, 1931, had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen, then divorced in 1933. He then married Virginia Webster on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue. Richard Dix the actor, died at age 56 on September 20, 1949.
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Irina Chelidze

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Irina is an Actor/Writer/Stand Up Comic based in New York City, of which she is a native. She regularly hosts a show at The Stand and at Union Hall, two of Manhattan and Brooklyn's best comedy clubs. In 2023 she was invited to Austin, TX to perform at the Comedy Mothership and she is also a regular at the New York Comedy Club. Her most recent roles include Irina Ivanovna on episode 105 of CBS 'Elsbeth', Girl in The Crowd on 'A Complete Unknown', and Bass Player on 'On A String'. She has also been in 1800 Tequila's most recent holiday campaign. You can catch her performing all over the city.
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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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Abdel-Latif Fat' hy

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He founded his own troupe that performed in various Syrian governorates (mobile theatre), then traveled with his troupe to many Arab countries and presented one-act plays with artistic segments of (sketches) and (monologues). He began preparing theatrical works in the Levantine dialect, and was the first to introduce the Levantine dialect to the Syrian theatre. In the sixties of the twentieth century, he founded a theatrical troupe that presented dozens of works in three acts. He was famous for saying, “Oh, coverer” before appearing on the threshold of the stage. He directed a number of plays and participated in starring in many of them. He had a play every year at the Al-Hamra Theater, where he performed from the theater. Universal: The Play of Scrooge, The Taming of the Fierce, and King Lear. He was famous for his role in the play Saber Effendi, and he participated in the Damascus festivals, where he was known for presenting the play Sheikh Al-Kitab and The Talisman, and his song (He Will Make Me Crazy). He is one of the pioneers of the Syrian theatre, and presented works for television. He became famous in the famous series “Saḥ al-Nom”, which met with great success, and in which he was known for the character (Badri Abu Kalbsha) and for his famous phrase (My nose does not make mistakes). Critics and artists recognized his leadership in the Syrian art process.
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Victor Rasuk

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​Victor Rasuk (born January 15, 1984) is an American actor. Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre, with whom he starred in Raising Victor Vargas. Rasuk attended performing arts school as a teenager, and began acting at 14. He garnered his first movie role at 16 in Five Feet High and Rising. The film—less than 30 minutes long—was a hit at the Independent Spirit Film Festival. Two years later, the same director, Peter Sollett, suggested expanding the short film into a feature-length movie: Raising Victor Vargas, which went on to win Rasuk an Independent Spirit Award for his work. In his next film, Rock Steady, Rasuk played a character named Roc. Two years later, he took a leading role in Haven with Orlando Bloom. In 2005, Lords of Dogtown was released, with Victor playing Tony Alva, one of the leading roles. The part included surfing and performing skateboarding tricks. Although the more complicated maneuvers were performed by stunt men (including the scenes of surfing at Pacific Ocean Park pier and skating in empty swimming pools), Rasuk is a method actor and worked on remaining in character both on and off screen. Believing he had mastered skating a huge ramp in only his second week of training, Rasuk fractured one of his orbital bones. Rasuk says the accident likely earned him more respect from serious skaters within the cast and crew. Victor can now be seen on the HBO television series How To Make It In America (2010), co-starring alongside Bryan Greenberg and rapper Kid Cudi. Marjorie Ballentine is his acting coach. Description above from the Wikipedia article Victor Rasuk , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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