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Peter Baynham
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Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter and performer. He is best known for appearing in a series of comedic Pot Noodle television adverts in the 1990s. His work largely represents collaborations with comedy figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Sarah Smith. Born in Cardiff, Baynham served in the Merchant Navy after leaving school and later pursued a career in comedy — first in stand-up, and then as a writer and performer for various news and sketch comedies in radio and television while enjoying personal fame starring in Pot Noodle adverts. He then became a writer in feature film.
In television, with Iannucci he is writer for I'm Alan Partridge, developing the character Alan Partridge as performed by Coogan, and as writer and host of the Armistice review shows. With Morris, he is writer for The Day Today, Brass Eye, and Jam. Baynham himself created the animated series I Am Not an Animal. In feature film, with Baron Cohen he is writer for Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Brüno (2009), Grimsby (2016), and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020). With Smith, he is writer for Arthur Christmas (2011) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). With Iannucci and Coogan, he is writer for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013). Other features as writer include Arthur (2011) and Hotel Transylvania (2012).
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Brigid Marshall
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Brigid is a Chicago-born, now LA-based actor, writer, and comedian. She hates cargo shorts and has appeared in videos for BuzzFeed and Funny or Die.
You can catch her every other Tuesday night performing with the iO West Harold team Dinner Jacket, as well as performing solo sketch at venues all around Los Angeles, including Rafa’s Lounge, the Club House, Second City Hollywood and the iO West Loft, among others.
She has written, directed and performed two one-woman shows, “Heart/s: A Solo Show from Brigid Marshall” and “All That Glitters.” Her theater credits include iO Chicago, Upstairs Gallery, the Playground Theatre, the Annoyance and the Second City. You can catch her having a glorified conversation about things that don’t have to be the worst, yet somehow are the worst, in the back of a Chinese restaurant in Los Feliz — oh, and on Twitter (@BrigidMarshall), the great equalizer. She calls this “stand up.”
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Richard King
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Richard King is an American film sound designer and editor who has worked on over 70 films. A native of Tampa, Florida, he graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in painting and film. He has won Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing for the films Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Dark Knight(2008), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) and the Academy Award for Best Sound for Dune: Part Two (2024). He was also nominated for War of the Worlds (2005), Interstellar (2014), Oppenheimer (2023), and Maestro (2023). He has won BAFTA awards for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017), and Dune: Part Two (2024). He has won eight MPSE awards for Best Sound Editing & Design and the MPSE Career Achievement Award (2016).
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Julia Jentsch
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Julia Jentsch (born February 20, 1978) , is a Silver Bear, two-time European Film Award, and Lola winning German actress. She is best known as the title character in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, Jule in The Edukators and, Liza in I Served the King of England.
Jentsch was born to a family of lawyers in Berlin and began her acting education there at Hochschule Ernst Busch, a university for drama. Her first prominent screen role was in the 2004 cult film The Edukators, starring opposite Daniel Brühl. Jentsch garnered further attention playing the title role in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In an interview, Jentsch said that the role was "an honor".[1] For her role as Sophie Scholl she won the best actress at the European Film Awards, best actress at the German Film Awards (Lolas), along with the Silver Bear for best actress at theBerlin Film Festival.
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Leigh Whannell
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Leigh Whannell (/ˈli ˈwɑːnɛl/; born 17 January 1977) is an Australian filmmaker and actor. He has written multiple films that were directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Whannell made his directorial debut with Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) and has since directed three more films, Upgrade (2018), The Invisible Man (2020) and Wolf Man (2025).
Whannell and Wan are the creators of the Saw franchise. Whannell wrote the first installment, co-wrote the second and third installments, was the producer or executive producer for all the films, and appeared as the Adam Stanheight character in three of the installments. He was also the writer of the Saw video game (2009) and co-writer of the film Cooties (2014).
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Zachary Levi
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Zachary Levi Pugh (/ˈzækəri ˈliːvaɪ/; born September 29, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He received critical acclaim for starring as Chuck Bartowski in the series Chuck, and as the title character in Shazam! and its 2022 sequel, as a part of the DC Extended Universe.
He voiced Eugene Fitzherbert in the 2010 animated film Tangled, where he performed "I See the Light" with Mandy Moore; the song won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. He reprised the voice role in the 2012 short film Tangled Ever After and in 2017, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, a Disney Channel television series based on the film. He has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok as Fandral. Levi starred as Georg Nowack in the 2016 Broadway revival of She Loves Me opposite Laura Benanti, for which he received a Tony Award nomination.
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Red Madrell
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Red Madrell is a British actress who is best known for her role as Alisa in the 2006 British film Kidulthood, as well as Adulthood which was released June 2008. She also can be seen in a national advertising campaign for Coca-Cola.
She features in Young Nate's music video "I Wonder" and made an appearance in the video for Chipmunk's single "Oopsy Daisy", which was released for digital download on 4 October 2009.
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Abdelkrim Baba Aissa
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Abdelkrim Baba-Aissa, born February 20, 1949 in Béjaïa (Algeria), nicknamed "Krimo Baba Aissa", is an Algerian actor, screenwriter and director. Self-taught, he made his debut in the theater, then on Algerian television as a assistant, then at ONCIC as director in the 70s.
His career in a few dates: In 1976: He played in the film “Omar Gatlato” by Merzak Allouache. In 1978: He was assistant to A. Meddour in the production of the documentary series “Colonialisme Sans Empire”. 1979: Production of the sequel (on Algeria, black Africa, Angola, Iran and Chile). The part on Algeria was banned from broadcast and then destroyed. 1981: Production of the first fiction with the medium-length film “Le Labyrinthe”. 1981 - 1986: Production of the documentary series “El Anka”, “Musiques Du Sahara”, “Nous Pouvants Le Faire”, etc. 1989: Production of "Sous La Cendre", feature-length fiction film, on the daily life of political prisoners, in a detention camp in southern Algeria, from 1939 to 1943. 1992 - 1993: Production of the documentary "Palestine, Une Passion", in 8 episodes, on the Zionist narrative, the occupation of Palestine, and the Palestinian resistance (PLO). 2004: Production of the film "Le Paiement En Kind" on the fight of women through different periods of Algeria (Ottoman, French colonization, war of independence, ceasefire of March 1962, "Black Decade"). 1970: Committed plays “The Land To Those Who Work It” and “The Situation of Women in Algeria”. 1976: Production of the first short film “La Calligraphie Arabe” and 2 documentaries on the Algerian school.
In a series of interviews filmed in 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, speaks in an interview with journalist Thoria Smati. They discuss the chronology of his career, the interview is posted on the director's YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PoqRnfR8ZA
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Jacques Ouaniche
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Jacques Ouaniche est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français. Il a créé et produit lui-même la série Maison close pour la chaîne Canal+. Il en a également écrit tous les épisodes et en a réalisé deux. Jacques Ouaniche est également producteur de films notamment avec L'Esquive, drame ayant obtenu quatre César d'Abdellatif Kechiche. En 2013, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Victor Young Perez, biopic du boxeur juif tunisien dans les années 30 qui a été déporté à Auschwitz, et est mort pendant la marche de la mort en 1945, avec dans le rôle titre Brahim Asloum, ancien champion du monde de boxe.
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Robert Stevenson
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Robert Stevenson (31 March 1905, Buxton, Derbyshire – 30 April 1986) was an English film writer and director. He was educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society.
He moved to California in the 1940s and ended up directing 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, Stevenson is best remembered for directing the Julie Andrews musical Mary Poppins, for which Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Stevenson received a nomination for Best Director Oscar.
Stevenson divorced his first wife Cecilie and married actress Anna Lee in 1934. They lived on London's Bankside for five years, moving to Hollywood in 1939, where he remained for many years. They had two daughters, Venetia and Caroline, before divorcing in March 1944.
He married Frances Holyoke Howard on October 8, 1944; they later divorced. They had one son, Hugh Howard Stevenson. Robert Stevenson's widow, Ursula Henderson, appeared as herself in the documentary Locked in the Tower: The Men behind Jane Eyre in 2007.
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