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Ross McCall
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Ross McCall (b. 13 January 1976, Port Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor notable for his role as Cpl. Joseph Liebgott in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. His first notable screen role was at the age of 13 when he appeared as Freddie Mercury in the 1989 promotional video for the Queen song "The Miracle", the role for which he was picked out of a large number of applicants. In 1993, McCall was featured in BBC children's TV series The Return of the Borrowers. In 2005 Ross co-starred in the independent drama film Green Street. He played Kenny Battaglia in the television series, Crash, on the Starz network. He reprised his role as Dave in the 2009 straight-to-video sequel Green Street 2: Stand Your Ground. In 2008, he co-starred in an After Dark Horrorfest film, Autopsy. McCall was raised Roman Catholic. He was engaged to actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, with whom he Guest starred in an episode of Ghost Whisperer. On 5 January 2009, People Magazine reported that Hewitt called off their engagement in late 2008. He is a supporter of Celtic F.C., and trained at Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead. On 23 February 2010, he appeared as a guest star on White Collar on the episode "Bottlenecked". Ross was portrayed as Matthew Keller. He reprised the role in episode 14 of White Collar season 2. On 6 March 2010, in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Sheridan Smith revealed that she and McCall had begun dating after a 10 year friendship. On 1 June 2010, he appeared as a guest star on Luther. He starts production on the feature film 'The Guest Room', shooting at the Sunset Gower studios in LA in July 2010.
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Marwan Tarek
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Director / Writer
Born in 1997. Marwan graduated from Victoria college, Alexandria in 2016 and studies fine arts at Alexandria university.
He enrolled in his first short movie at the age of 10 in one of Bibliotheca Alexandrina's competitions, where he got
introduced to people with common interests. Then he became one of the youngest filmmaking team in the country.
He glowed up by executing Victoria college class'16 graduation video as an unpaid advertisement for Vodafone co. and it
went viral all-over Egypt. Then he was technically adopted by the well known director Ahmed Al-Naggar and he worked
professionally as an assistant director for 3 years
His movie "Young people" won the 1st place in Ministry of Youth's film competition and got promoted with a scholarship to
study mobile filmmaking in Tunisia. Trés Court International film festival selected his last film he directed about his school
"The dark side of Victoria" to get screened in the opening ceremony.
Selected as a jury with University doctors for the short film competition for school
students at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2018
He directed the 1st documentary with the well known rapper Shahyn "The return of the fiercest type of hawks" after 4 years
of absence.
"Mama" is one of his most touching pieces, as he framed out his mother's struggles and sacrifitions. "Nevia" and "Qenawy"
popped out from daily life's observing and situations para-analysis The short film "Qenawy" Awards : Best short
documentary at Fistup FIlm Festival in California
Best Cinematography award and nominated for the Best Directing at the GreyJo Festival in America
Honorable Mention and Reached a finals and Student World Impact Film Festival
Reached a finals at the SON OF A PITCH Festival in Italy
,He published a short film for the Internet only, “I Grew Up,” and it spread widely in Egypt and the Arab world
He has various experiences in the field of music videos, where he directed “Muftares” by Shubra Al-General, Mahraganat
singer, in cooperation with the music artist Solly, and then “Nazlet Samman” with music by “Al-Waili” and the rapper Karim
Osama, which spread widely throughout Egypt, and after that he directed two music videos with Karim. Osama variants:
“Al-Abyad” and “Loji”, win in the third edition of filmydesign festival “ audience award” for my film “Umm Al Dunya” .
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Hulk Hogan
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Terry Gene Bollea (August 11, 1953 – July 24, 2025), known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler, actor, television personality, and musician best known for his time working for WWE. Hogan enjoyed mainstream popularity in the 1980s and 90s as the all-American character Hulk Hogan in WWE, and as Hollywood Hogan, the villainous leader of the New World Order, in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Hogan was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005. He was signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2010 until 2013, where he was the on-screen General Manager. He is a 12-time world champion being a six-time WWE Champion, six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and a former WWE World Tag Team Champion with Edge. His six combined reigns make him the second longest-reigning WWE Champion of all time (after Bruno Sammartino) and the longest-reigning of the 1980s, having held the title for 1,474 days from 1984-1988. His six combined reigns in WCW make him the longest-reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion of all time as well, with a 469-day reign from 1994-1995. Hogan won the Royal Rumble in 1990 and 1991, making him the first man to win two consecutive Royal Rumbles.
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Anne Benoît
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Anne Benoît is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 60 film and television productions since 1981.
Benoît was trained at the Conservatoire de Versailles, under the direction of Marcelle Tassencourt. She later attended the Tania Balachova theatre school, and enrolled in workshops conducted by Antoine Vitez, Sophie Loucachevsky and Aurélien Recoing. She made her film debut in the 1981 film Schools Falling Apart (Le Bahut va craquer) directed by Michel Nerval.
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George Peppard
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George Peppard (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as struggling writer Paul Varjak in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and for playing commando leader Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in the 1980s television series The A-Team.
Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the hit 1980s action show The A-Team.
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Susie Porter
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Susie Porter is a Logie Award winning Australian television and film actress. In 2000, she starred in the film Bootmen and in the crime drama film The Monkey's Mask, which she plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect. In 2001 she appeared in the Australian movie Mullet and had a small role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In 2005, Porter had a supporting role in the Australian film Little Fish. In 2006, she had a role in the film The Caterpillar Wish which won her Best Supporting Actress in the AFI Awards.
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Charles Chiodo
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The Chiodo Brothers (Stephen, Charles & Edward Chiodo, all born in Bronx, New York) are a group of sibling special effects artists, best known for their film Killer Klowns from Outer Space and creating puppets and effects for films such as Critters, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Team America: World Police. They created the elaborate dioramas featured in the 2010 film Dinner for Schmucks. The post-hardcore band Chiodos (originally called The Chiodos Bros) is named after them as a tribute.
Their studio made the Willice and Crimbles claymation segment on The Simpsons, a parody of Wallace and Gromit in the same style of animation. Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park voiced himself in the episode, as the creator of the fictional short.
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Dimitri Logothetis
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Since his early days as director of acclaimed feature films, television and documentaries, award winning filmmaker, Dimitri Logothetis has excelled in all genres ranging from dramas to action and thrillers. In addition to his artistic endeavors, Dimitri Logothetis has run three companies, including Kings Road Entertainment, which produced such films as Slapshot with Paul Newman, Kickboxer with Van Damme, All of Me with Steve Martin and Lilly Tomlin, The Best of Times with Robin Williams and Kurt Russell, and The Big Easy with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Dimitri has been a showrunner/Executive Producer for Warner Brothers, and managed over one thousand employees around the world, implementing over one hundred fifty million dollars of production financing in the last fifteen years.
Dimitri recently wrote, directed, and produced Kickboxer Retaliation, a sequel to Kickboxer Vengeance, which he wrote and produced last year. Before that, he produced and wrote an award-winning documentary on infamous 50′s Chicago mobster Sam Giancana. Last year, Dimitri set up and will Executive produce, along with Todd Garner, a remake of “All of Me” with Universal. Previously, Dimitri sold a six-hour mini-series to Warner Brothers and Turner called Momo, which he wrote, on Sam Giancana, former head of the Chicago Outfit.
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Iannis Xenakis
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Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Greek: Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances.
Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–54) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes, that were a summa of his interests and skills.
Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (French edition 1963, English translation 1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the priory of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, on which the two collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed by himself.
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was born in Brăila, Romania—the site of a large Greek community, as the eldest son of Greek parents; Klearchos Xenakis, a businessman from Euboea who was managing director of an English export-import agency and one of the richest men in the city, and Fotini Pavlou from Lemnos, a pianist who also spoke German and French. His two younger brothers were Jason, who became a philosophy professor in the United States and Greece, and Kosmas, an architect, urban planner and artist.
His parents were both interested in music, and it was Pavlou who encouraged the young child to learn more about it: the young Giannis was given a flute by his mother, and the family visited the Bayreuth Festival several times, due to his father's interest in opera. Her early death in 1927, when Xenakis was five years old, was a traumatic experience that, in his own words, "deeply scarred" the future composer. She had previously been infected from measles and died after giving birth to a stillborn daughter.
He was subsequently educated by a series of English, French, and German governesses, and then, in 1932, sent to Greece to study at the Anargyrio-Korgialenio boarding school on the Aegean island of Spetses. He sang in the school's boys' choir, where the repertoire included works by Palestrina, and Mozart's Requiem, which Xenakis memorized in its entirety. ...
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Carla Gonzalez
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Carla Gonzalez is an American professional wrestler. As of March 2022, she is signed to WWE where she performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Roxanne Perez. She is the current NXT Women's Champion in her record-tying second reign and a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Cora Jade. Before signing with WWE, Gonzalez wrestled under the ring name Rok-C in Ring of Honor (ROH), where she was the inaugural ROH Women's World Champion. She also worked for several independent promotions such as Reality of Wrestling.
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