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Max Levine

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Max Levine is a writer, director, and editor from Baltimore. He is a contributing video editor for "Everything is Terrible". His short films have been Official Selections in Panic Fest, Bizarroland, Anomaly, Silver Lake Shorts, GenreBlast, Texas Terrors, Ithaca Fantastik, and many others. His 2018 short film "Seafood Diet" won "Best Dark Comedy Short" at the Avalonia Film Festival and is currently streaming on TromaNOW. "Crunchatized," a 2020 short he co-directed with Alex Schulman over quarantine, won "Best Mockumentary" at the 2020 Austin Battle of the Sketches.
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Joung Tae-choon

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Joung Tae-choon is a South Korean singer-songwriter, poet, cultural activist, and social activist who has pursued a "Korean folk." He is called Korea's leading minstrel because he writes his own lyrics that encompass both lyricism and sociality and publishes his work in a natural melody that incorporates Korean traditional music characteristics. Joung Tae-choon's activities, who is not only a musical activity but also an activist who is passionately devoted to various cultural and social movements, led to the Constitutional Court's decision to unconstitutional music pre-deliberation in 1996 by launching the "Music Pre-deliberation Movement" in the early 1990s.
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Anémone

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Anne Bourguignon (9 August 1950 - 30 April 2019) known as Anemone, is a French actress and screenwriter. She won the César for best actress in 1988 for the role of Marcelle in Le Grand Chemin. She is the mother of two children; Jacob and Lilly. She spent her childhood at Château Mauras, a family property in Bommes, in Gironde. After primary and secondary studies at the Sainte-Marie-des-Invalides school (today Paul Claudel-d'Hulst), at the Victor-Duruy high school, at the Gaudéchaux course, at the Jaillard course, at the Sévigné college, within the congregation of the canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame (at the Notre-Dame-des-Oiseaux convent in Megève, at the Saint-Pierre Fourier institute in Brunoy) and at the Institut Notre-Dame in Épernay, it pursued higher education at Paris-III University and then at Paris-X1 University. Anemone began her career at the café-théâtre with the Splendid troupe. She takes her pseudonym from the first film in which she shot, Anemone by Philippe Garrel. It was Coluche who offered her her first big role in the cinema in You will not have Alsace and Lorraine in 1977. In 1979, she created on stage the play written by the Splendid troupe, Le Père Noël est une junk . Her role as Thérèse earned her great success with the public, a success confirmed and amplified by the adaptation of the play to the cinema, directed by Jean-Marie Poiré. In the 1980s, she was a very popular actress who starred in many comedies: "Ma Femme S'Appelle Reviens", "Les Babas-Cool", "Pour Cent Briques, T'As Plus Rien"..., "Le Quart d'Heure Américain", and "Le Mariage Du Siècle", for which she wrote most of the screenplay. Michel Deville (Peril in the home, Aux petits bonheurs), then Jean-Loup Hubert offered her more serious roles from 1985. Successful counter-jobs, since she won the César for best actress for "Le Grand Chemin" in 1988. More discreet in the 1990s, Anemone worked with Tonie Marshall ("Pas Très Catholique", "Enfants De Bastard"), Romain Goupil ("Mom") or Christine Pascal, in "Le Petit Prince A Dit". In 1996, she played in the adaptation of Binet's comic strip, "Les Bidochon". In 2010, she returned to the cinema with the film "Les Amours Secrètes" by Franck Phelizon. She then turned to the theater, playing in "L'Avare" for Roger Planchon, "Mademoiselle Werner" at the Théâtre des Variétés or "Les Noeuds Au Mouchoir" at the Palais des Glaces which she announced would be her last play at the end of 2017. In December 2017, she announced that she would definitely end her career at the end of the year, and also took a very critical and disillusioned look in this same interview at what has become of the world in general, and that of show- bizz in particular. Militant like her brother for a return to a more ethical and ecological society, Anemone chooses to live in the countryside in the small village of Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), near Lezay. Anemone died on April 30, 2019 at the age of 68 in Poitiers (Vienne) from lung cancer. She admitted to being an “inveterate smoker”. Her funeral took place on May 9 in Poitiers, where she was cremated.
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Mike Finn

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Mike Finn is a playwright, screenwriter and actor and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa. He holds MA in Scriptwriting form the National Film School. He is a founder member of Island Theatre Co. for whom he appeared in over twenty productions and wrote seven plays. Mike won the 2000 Stewart Parker Award for Pigtown, which was originally produced by Island Theatre Company, receiving four Irish Times Theatre Award nominations before being produced Off-Broadway and in San Jose. His numerous other plays include The Quiet Moment, The Crunch and Shock & Awe (Island Theatre Co., Ellis Island (Theatre USF, Florida), Stories (LYT), Langered and One (Balor Theatre Co.), The Big Question (Institute of Excitement, Hampstead Theatre, London, The Affair on the Square (Georgian House), We Are What We Witness, The Revenger's Tragedy and Porkville (Bottom Dog) and Life in 2 Syllables (Fishamble). Mike has also penned fifteen pantomime scripts produced by Centrestage, for whom he also wrote the book and lyrics of the musical Soul Garden.
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Dito Darmawan

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Bramandito Darmawan Putra (born December 24, 1999) is an Indonesian actor. Dito started his career as a director since high school, through a short film titled Réve (2016). The first short film that Dito directed won the SMAN 21 Jakarta Cinematography competition. When he entered college, Dito continued his productivity as a director through short films titled Parenthesis (2017), In Uterus (2018), Worth the Loss (2019). Dito studied directing through a film workshop called "'Mondi Blanc"', led by Nosa Normanda. Dito started his career as an actor in 2020, through a short film entitled Friendly Fire (2020) which won awards at world festivals (Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, etc.). Under the auspices of Sakha Talent, Dito began to get roles in famous cinema films and series, such as Ancika: Dia yang Bersamaku 1995 (2024), Ronggeng Kematian (2024), Pay Later (2024), Ular Tangga Darah (2024), YOLO (2023), Happy Go Jenny (2023), etc.
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Taylor Schilling

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An American actress. She is known for portraying Piper Chapman on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013–present), for which she won the 2013 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014. She made her film debut in the drama Dark Matter (2007), alongside Meryl Streep. Schilling also starred as Veronica Flanagan Callahan in the short-lived NBC medical drama Mercy (2009–10). Her other films include Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), the romantic drama The Lucky One (2012) and the political thriller Argo (2012)
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Del Irani

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Del Irani is an Indian-Australian journalist based in the United States. She is the anchor of Deeper Look from New York on NHK World-Japan and a host on the ABC (Australia) lifestyle show Escape From The City. Irani was previously a business and finance anchor on the ABC News morning show News Breakfast in Australia. She began her career as field producer, working on programs for Fox News, CBS and Channel News Asia. Irani was hired as a business journalist intern with Thomson Reuters in 2006, working for the 24-hour English news channel in India, Times Now. In 2008, Irani became host of the nightly international news broadcast, Reuters World Report, where she covered Barack Obama’s 2008 U.S. presidential election win, Pervez Musharraf’s impeachment in Pakistan and the Mumbai terror attacks. The following year, Irani was hired by BBC World News as a Mumbai correspondent and promoted to be anchor of India Business Report. During her time at the BBC, she was known as Delnaaz Irani and provided live coverage of breaking stories, including the trial of the lone surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. In May 2012, Irani returned to Australia and joined ABC News as an anchor and reporter. In 2015, Irani was named to the ABC News Breakfast team as a business and finance anchor and was also a regular co-host with Michael Rowland and Virginia Trioli. From 2013-2016, Irani was one of the creators and the anchor of the award-winning ABC talk show #TalkAboutIt. During the course of the show, Irani interacted with people on the street to discuss issues trending on social media or in the news. She also spoke with experts and leaders on wide-ranging topics from mental health and fertility to islamophobia, radicalization and racism. Irani has interviewed high-profile Bollywood celebrities on the show, including Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan. In 2015, Irani and her co-producers won an Australian National Press Club’s Higher Education Media Award for a #TalkAboutIt episode on international students. She was appointed Fact Check Anchor for RMIT ABC Fact Check in 2017. In that role, she produced and hosted videos that determined the accuracy of claims made by public figures, including a response by Australia Federal MP Bob Katter to a question about same-sex marriage that went viral in December 2017. Del Irani is one of five hosts of the lifestyle reality TV series, Escape From The City, along with Jane Hall, Simon Marnie, Bryce Holdaway and Dean Ipaviz. Produced by FremantleMedia Australia and debuting on ABC primetime in January 2019, it is an Australian adaptation of the BBC's Escape to the Country. Irani was born in Mumbai and immigrated to Australia with her family when she was 8 years old. She grew up on the Lower North Shore of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology double degree from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), completing her final year at the University of California, Berkeley on a study abroad scholarship. In October 2020, World Vision Australia appointed Irani a Goodwill Ambassador "to inform and educate people about World Vision's work and empower them to get involved." Description above is from the Wikipedia article Del Irani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gérard Jugnot

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Gérard Jugnot (born 4 May 1951 in Paris) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, was extremely successful in films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979) and Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982). Jugnot gained international fame for his lead role in Les Choristes in which he played Clément Mathieu. The last movie he directed was Rose et Noir (2008). Jugnot is the father of comedian Arthur Jugnot, born in 1980 to Jugnot and wardrobe designer Cécile Magnan. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gérard Jugnot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Panagiota Vlanti

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Panagiota Vlanti (Athens, 28 March 1969) is a Greek actress. She was born and raised in Athens. At the age of 16, she took part in the films "Girls for... a Pinch" and "Radio-Heels", which led her to decide to study acting. Completing her studies in acting and the Theodosiadis Drama School in 1993, she made her television debut 1 year later, in some episodes of the series "The Unknown" and "Love and Passion", having small roles. In the 1994-1995 season she became more widely known through her participation in the series "I Lygeri" on ET1. The next major television successes were the series "Bios Anthospartos", "Eroica" and "Aerines Siopes", while in the 2000-2002 season she took part in various episodes of the series Kokkinos Kyklos. In 2007 she won the Shooting Stars award at the Berlin festival, which is awarded to young actors. In the 2007-2009 season, she played Silvi in ​​Panos Kokkinopoulos' black comedy, Black Midnight, making her character in the series stand out. In the 2009-2010 season, she starred in the Mega comedy M+M and made guest appearances in series 4 of Christoforos Papakaliatis. She then abstained from television and in 2012 starred in the Cypriot series "Seven Heavens and Clouds, Wanderers" and then had a small role in the Cypriot series "Storm". She then dedicated herself to theater while making small appearances in television series and in 2016 returned with a leading role in the Greek series of Alpha "Asteras Rachoulas". Since then, he has been involved in theater and has not appeared in a leading role on television. In the 2021-2022 season, he starred in Alpha TV's new comedy series "Leave us alone, Mom."
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Maria Katsandri

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Maria Katsandri is a Greek actress. She was born in Chicago and raised in Athens. She studied at the Karolos Koun Drama School, and after graduating she worked for a while in the theater and then settled in Paris to study. She made her first appearance on television in the series The Stone Lions in 1994. The role that made her known to the general public was that of Aliki in the romantic series Karé tis Damas on Mega Channel. There from 1997 to 2000 she starred alongside Joyce Evidi, Chrysa Spilioti and Mary Stavrakeli, playing four childhood friends who share moments of their lives together. This was followed by participation in the series Crimes, 10 Minute Sermon, Seven Deadly Mother-in-Laws, while in the period 2005-2007 she appeared in the drama series Two Days Only. She made her first appearance in the film Athens in 1990.
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