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Ben McKenzie
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Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan (born September 12, 1978) is an American actor and commentator. He is best known for his starring television roles as Ryan Atwood on the teen drama The O.C. (2003–2007), Ben Sherman on the crime drama Southland (2009–2013), and James Gordon on the crime drama Gotham (2014–2019).
After graduating in Economics and International Relations at the University of Virginia, he moved to New York in order to devote his attention to acting. There he received first in off-Broadway productions different roles, before moving to Los Angeles and was hired there for a starring role in the television series The OC, with the fourth season came to an end on 22 February 2007. For his portrayal of Ryan Atwood in the series he won several awards between 2003 and 2007.
He made his film debut in the Academy Award-nominated film Junebug (2005), before appearing in films including 88 Minutes (2007), Goodbye World (2013), Some Kind of Beautiful (2014), and Line of Duty (2019).
He has been married to actress Morena Baccarin since 2017; they have 2 children. His uncle is actor and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan; his second cousin is actress Sarah Drew.
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Anas Khalaf
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Anas Khalaf is a Syrian filmmaker who currently lives in Jordan, having left Damascus with his family as a result of the Syrian conflict. He holds an MBA from the Normandy Business School, and with his wife Rana Kazkaz, he co-founded the production company Synéastes Films in 2010. He is the screenwriter and director of three short films, including 'Mare Nostrum' (2016), which has been selected for more than 30 festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival, and has won nine international prizes. He also works as an actor, having played roles in 'Dégradé' (2015), 'With Premeditation' (2014) and the television series 'The Bureau' (2015-).
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Kolton Stewart
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Actor, musician, dancer and songwriter Kolton Stewart was born in Toronto, Canada and has had a keen interest in performing from an early age. As a TV actor, he is well known for his role on the hit Netflix/YTV television series "Some Assembly Required" playing the role of Jarvis, and as Carter Vaughn in the hit Crave series "Heated Rivalry." He won "Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actor" at the 36th Annual Young Artist Awards (YAA) in Los Angeles, joining the likes of Brad Pitt, Zac Efron, and Leonardo DiCaprio as a recipient of the prestigious award.
When he was 13 years old he began making YouTube Videos and it caught the eye of Ellen DeGeneres. Kolton was asked by Ellen DeGeneres to perform on her show with his friend Myles in 2012 after she saw his first ever YouTube video, singing a cover of "I Won't Give Up" by Jason Mraz which went viral, garnering hundreds of thousands of views in its first week.
Kolton has gone on to have an illustrious film/TV career with credits including Disenchanted (the sequel to Enchanted), Sneakerella, My Life With The Walter Boys, Locke and Key, The Expanse and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Kolton is also a theatre actor with credits including Disney's The Lion King as Young Simba on the Broadway National Tour, and playing the lead role of Roger in RENT at the world renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2023.
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Aleksei Chernov
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Aleksey Petrovich Chernov (1908–1979) was a Soviet stage and film actor, and a member of the CPSU since 1951. After serving as an auxiliary staff member at the Tomsk City Theatre, he enlisted at the Moscow Theater School, from which he graduated in 1934. In 1934-1935 he performed at the Moscow Theater of the Revolution, from 1935 to 1967 at the Voronezh Drama Theater, and from 1967 onward - again in Moscow - at the Mayakovsky Theater.
He made his screen debut in 1965 in the role of Maxim Maksimych in an adaptation of Lermontov's novel 'A Hero of Our Time' - a role he would reprise two years later. In 1967, he became a regular actor at Gorky Film Studio.
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Margaret O'Brien
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Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film and stage actress. Although her film career as a leading character was brief, she was one of the most popular child actors in cinema history. In her later career, she appeared on stage and in supporting film roles.
She was born Angela Maxine O'Brien; (she later changed her name to Margaret following the success of the film Journey for Margaret, in which she played the title role). Her father Lawrence O'Brien, a circus performer, died before she was born.[1]; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry.
She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in Journey for Margaret (1942), O'Brien won wide praise for her convincing acting style. By 1943, she was considered a big enough star to have a cameo appearance in the all-star military show finale of Thousands Cheer.
She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre (1944). Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland. O'Brien had by this time added singing and dancing to her achievements and was rewarded with an Academy Juvenile Award the following year as the "outstanding child actress of 1944." Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and the first sound version of The Secret Garden (1949), but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles.
A 1946 Looney Tunes short, Book Revue, placed a caricature of O'Brien in the role of Little Red Riding Hood.
Margaret later shed her child star image in 1958 by appearing on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption "The Girl's Grown", and was a mystery guest on the TV panel show What's My Line?. O'Brien's acting roles as an adult have been few and far between, mostly in small independent films. However, she does do occasional interviews, mostly for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. She played the role of Betsy Stauffer, a small town nurse, in "The Incident of the Town in Terror" on television's Rawhide. Another rare television outing was as a guest star on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. in the early 1970s, reuniting Margaret with her Journey For Margaret and The Canterville Ghost co-star Robert Young.
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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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Martin Bashir
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Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British former journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's Panorama programme, for which he gained an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales under false pretences in 1995. Although the interview was much heralded at the time, it was later determined that he used forgery and deception to secure it.
Bashir worked for the BBC from 1986 to 1999 on programmes including Panorama before joining ITV. He presented the 2003 ITV documentary about Michael Jackson. From 2004 to 2016, he worked in New York—first as an anchor for ABC's Nightline, then as a political commentator for MSNBC, hosting his own programme, Martin Bashir, and a correspondent for NBC's Dateline NBC. He resigned from MSNBC in December 2013 after making "ill-judged" comments about former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In 2016, he returned to the BBC as a religious affairs correspondent.
In 2020, the BBC's director general Tim Davie apologised to the princess's brother, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, for Bashir's use of faked bank statements to secure his 1995 Panorama interview with her. Former Justice of the Supreme Court Lord Dyson conducted an independent inquiry and concluded that Bashir had commissioned fake statements to deceive Earl Spencer to gain access to Diana, and in so doing had "acted inappropriately and in serious breach of the 1993 edition of the Producers' Guidelines on straight dealing." Bashir resigned from the BBC in May 2021, citing health reasons.
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Raja Goutham
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Raja Goutham Kanneganti was born in Andhra Pradesh. He is son of Bharamanandam and Lakshmi Kanneganti. His father is an Indian movie actor and comedian who worked in many Telugu movies. Siblings he has a younger brother named "sid Kanneganti". Goutham is B.B.A graduate from St. Mary's College Hyderabad. He made his debut in Tollywood with a movie "Pallakilo Pellikoothuru".Though it was a high profile launch involving big names like K Raghavendra and MM Keeravani, Pallakilo Pelli Koothuru didn't give positive result at the box office but earned hearts of the audience and was a musical hit. Later on he acted in a film Vaareva in 2011 which was failed at the box office. Later Goutham was seen in director Chaitanya Dantuluri's film "Basanti". It featured actress Alisha Baig as female lead. In this film Goutham was seen in the lead role as Arjun. The great music director Mani Sharma has composed music for the movie which was released in 2014.
Now Raja Goutham is doing doing a project with Director Phanindra Narsetti who directed a short-film Madhuram is fairly well known to online movie buffs. His next project 'Manu' is a one of its kind crowdfunded indie project in Tollywood. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, and Chandni Chowdary will be playing the lead character in this film. The film has already generated a great amount of curiosity among avid film buffs with its first teaser.
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Thom Tuck
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Thom Tuck is an actor, writer and comedian, most recently seen in DOM The Play at Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh Fringe (Bill Kenwright // Turbine Creatives), Shutters: A Lesbian Rock Opera for which he received an Offie Nomination for Best Supporting Performance In A Musical, and playing Hamish in the national tour of ‘The Play What I Wrote’ which was televised over Christmas 2022 on BBC4.
Television work includes The Crown (Netflix), Fresh Meat (Channel 4), Babylon (Channel 4), We Are Mongrels (BBC Three), Drifters (Channel 4) and Horrible Histories (CBBC). His work on the latter’s Shakespeare special helped the team win a BAFTA. Theatre includes Death of A Salesman (Royal & Derngate), Three Sisters (Southwark), Coalition (Spontaneity Shop), A Slight Ache (Pleasance), Courtroom Play (Treehouse), Gutted!: A Revenger’s Musical (Assembly Theatre) and an ongoing project performing Scaramouche Jones every ten years as he approaches the age of the titular character.
As a comedian, he was nominated Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show Thom Tuck Goes Straight-to-DVD, which subsequently transferred to the Soho Theatre, was adapted for BBC Radio and has now been released on DVD. His other solo shows are Thom Tuck Flips Out, The Square Root of Minus One & An August Institution. He is also the co-creator of The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society, Britain’s premier experimental comedy night.
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Steve Witting
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Steve Witting is an American actor and director who first found fame while starring in the popular 1980s comedy series Valerie. He has since gone on to star in several other TV series and films, including Batman Returns, Hoffa and Shutter Island. He made his directorial debut in 1991 when he directed an episode of Step by Step. Witting also played the main role in a full motion video game for the Sega Mega CD called Wirehead.He played a role in The Wolf of Wallstreet. Witting began acting by joining Richmond Hill High School drama club in Queens where he was encouraged by Alfred Christie, a teacher who ran Hampton Playhouse in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. In 1977 a seventeen-year-old Witting moved to New Hampshire to work at the Hampton Playhouse as an apprentice. During this time Witting met his future wife, Renee Rogers, who was also a Hampton Playhouse apprentice. Many summers throughout his career Witting returned to the Hampton Playhouse as either an actor or director until the Playhouse was demolished in 2001.
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