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Michele Weaver
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Michele Weaver works in all four categories of theater, commercial, film and television. She first got noticed starring in the two short films Diana Leigh (1960s musical) and Daughters of Eve ( Civil War Drama, AFI). She has played Dorothy Dandridge in The Nicolas Brothers Tribute and Marylin "A New Musical' at the 1400 seat Alex Theater as well. Most recently she is starring in two new films: Illicit ,next to David Ramsey and Vivica A. Fox as well as 2 Lava 2 Lantuala, where she plays Steve Guttenberg's step daughter, Raya, in the sequel of the SyFy Channel Franchise Lavalantula. Other credits include Switched at Birth on Abc Family, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life on Fox, Short-Com Comedy Hour with Charlie Murphy, and Sistercode starring Amber Rose, Drew Sidora and Eva Marcille.
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William S. Sessions
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William Steele Sessions (May 27, 1930 – June 12, 2020) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and the fourth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sessions served as FBI director from 1987 to 1993, when he was dismissed by President Bill Clinton. After leaving the public sector, Sessions represented Semion Mogilevich, international leader of the Russian mafia. He is the father of Texas Congressman Pete Sessions.
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Emmett Loverde
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Mr. Loverde has written and directed three feature films and numerous shorts including "Girls' Night In" (out now on Amazon Prime and Tubi), "She's Out of His Mind" (coming to Tubi and Xumo), and "Good Business Sense" (out now on Shorts.TV and coming to Tubi and Xumo). He is an Executive Producer of "Agent Game" starring Mel Gibson. He studied Theater at UCLA and has thirteen published plays with 250+ productions to date (Playscripts, Inc. and Heuer Publishing). His book of short stories "Gifts for Good Friends" is available through Amazon and his children's book "Clawdette the Cat" is published by Adamo Press.
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Marc Coleman
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Marc Coleman is a multi award winning comedy writer/director from Dagenham. His debut feature film ‘MANFISH’ was a film festival hit in 2022 and went on to win ‘Best Feature' at the prestigious Sci-Fi London Film Festival. The film premiered on Sky Store, Shudder and Amazon Prime (UK and USA) in March of 2023 and was nominated for “Best Independent Feature’ at the 2023 National Film Awards. His second feature film ‘MEMBERS CLUB' is due for release in 2024.
Marc has been writing and directing comedy for over twelve years after entering the industry as a comedy actor in the mid noughties. In 2016, he won an Empire Award for ‘LEGEND’, a film that he made for £20. In 2017, he made a short comedy horror film called ‘THE FLYTIPPER’ which went on to be a finalist in the ‘Best Comedy’ category at the BAFTA qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival in 2018. The short was later distributed by the legendary New York based schlock horror company Troma.
In 2020, Marc made a proof of concept short film called ‘THE HOBBYHORSER’ about the Swedish adolescent competitive sport of Hobbyhorsing starring Liam Noble (Big Mad Andy - Peep Show). The film premiered at London Lift Off Film Festival in 2021.
Marc has a strong sense of visual comedic style and makes grounded in reality offbeat comedies about working class characters. He utilises his years as a prop maker to incorporate weird props and set pieces into his films, which in turn leads them to having a unique edge.
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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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Alison Stolpa
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Alison Stolpa moved to LA after graduating with an MA in Music Business Studies from the University of Westminster (London), redirecting her superhuman ability to effortlessly memorize song lyrics and album credits toward learning her lines.
As a teen, indie darling Parker Posey stole her heart in Party Girl - and Alison has followed a similar career path ever since, with the majority of her roles falling into two buckets: the hapless, sarcastic rock 'n' roll gal and the powerful yet unpredictable smartest person in the room. In a recent credit, I'll Be Around (2020), she portrayed an over-the-top synth player desperate to get onto the bill for the hottest post-punk music festival in the world (or in her world). The flick garnered the Best Indie Film Award at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival.
A recovering record store clerk and cheesemonger, she is developing a short film about the horrors of online wellness programs, a web series about the challenges of starting a cult for business (AND pleasure!), and a feature film about lust, boredom, and obsession in the LA music scene.
She wants you to know that she skipped a grade in high school French class, possesses a truly dazzling collection of vintage fake fur coats, and hasn't killed a houseplant for at least six months now.
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Athmane Ariouet
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Athmane Ariouet (Arabic: عثمان عريوات) born September 24, 1948 in M'doukal, Algeria is an Algerian actor from a Chaoui family. He played in several Algerian historical, social, comedic and dramatic films. Awarded several times during a career spanning more than five decades, he is considered one of the greatest Algerian actors such as Hassan El Hassani, Rouiched, Hadj Abderrahmane among others.
It was at the age of 15, in 1963, that he began his experience in theater and cinema, discovering Molière. This native of M’doukel, the land of Mustapha Kouici and Ahmed Aroua, he knew/knows that art is a serious matter. He did not let himself be intoxicated by his first successes, he decided to follow training at the Algiers Conservatory from 1969 to 1972. He learned the secrets of diction, the different processes of commedia dell'arte made essentially of improvisation, bodily expression, but especially Stanislavski's techniques. Thus, he will meet the big names of theater, Keltoum, Rouiched, Mustapha Kazdarli, Hassan el Hassani, Taha el Amiri, Hadj Omar, Allal el Mouhib or Mustapha Kateb. He never imagined rubbing shoulders with these giants of dramatic art and cinema.
Ariouet chooses his directors, his productions and the subjects covered, it is not easy, theater and cinema are, for him, serious affairs: “I prefer to stay without acting than to get involved in roles and work of 'a low level as we see, unfortunately, today. I am for quality works and leveling down revolts me.” He is also comfortable with certain actors like Salah Aougrout, Lakhdar Boukhers, Hamid Achouri, Antar Hellal or Allaoua Djermani, but, of course, he really liked working with the veterans who allowed him to learn the profession more. We cannot fail to learn alongside Hadj Omar, Allel el Mouhib or Hadj Abderrahmane.
Athmane Ariouet, whose eclecticism is the fundamental mark of his theatrical and cinematographic experience, moves with disconcerting ease from the tragic style to the comedy of situations or morals. In 2004, he retired from the theater after his film "Chronique des Années Pub" in which he encountered financial difficulties as well as a ban on theatrical release. However, in 2017, during the forum of the daily El Moudjahid, the former Minister of Culture Azzedine Mihoubi announced that “the film was in the editing phase” and finally released in 2018.
In July 2020, Ariouet received the “Achir” rank national merit medal under the direction of President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune. In January 2021, after 20 years of absence from the screen, Athmane Ariouet reconnected with the public by launching his Instagram account. In April 2023, Brahim Irban said in a podcast that the actor refused the sum of 3,000,000 Algerian Dinars for a photo shoot with a costume for a billboard requested by an advertising agency, although he lives normally, as a man of the people, preferring a simple life, commenting that his "Art is priceless".
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Makoto Takahashi
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Influenced by drummers such as Mel Taylor of The Ventures and Ringo Starr of The Beatles, he started playing drums. He participated in many bands as an amateur, and performed at the 1974 rock festival "One Step Festival" at Grape Jam, where he was the leader.
In 1978, after moving to Tokyo, he joined Hiro Nagasawa & HERO led by Hiro Nagasawa, but withdrew when the recording of his major debut album "Hero's GIFT" was completed. The sound source was released as it is, but the jacket photo shows his successor Masashi Ito (currently: 1960).
In 1981, after an acquaintance's live performance at Shinjuku LOFT (this was his first live performance as a violent), he learned that he was looking for drums, and after a studio session with the members, he decided to join. At this time, Takahashi is Takehiko Kigure (ex. Rebecca RED WARRIORS)Band "STRAIGHT"[1], Yamaha's music contest " EastWest"Saitama qualifiers, but the schedule for the finals and BOØWY's Karuizawa training camp were covered, and STRAIGHT was withdrawn[2].
In 1987, around the same time as BOØWY announced its disbandment, he joined De-LAX, which was formed around former ALLERGY vocalist Soya. After the disbandment of De-LAX, he released his solo album "Happy Life" in 1994 and formed GEENA with De-LAX guitarist Hideki Sakakibara. After that, he was active mainly in De-LAX, which was reunited, but left in February 2013. In 2006, he participated as a drummer in THE AURIS (SUPER) BAND, a special band formed on the occasion of the release of TOYOTA's new car "AURIS". In 2007, he published his autobiography "Snare". He is currently active as a political activist on X (formerly Twitter).
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Leah Ayres
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Leah Ayres (born May 28, 1957) is an American actress who played Valerie Bryson on the daytime serial, The Edge of Night, in the early 1980s. Ayres is well known for her role in Bloodsport, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. Ayres is also known for portraying Marcia Brady (in lieu of Maureen McCormick) in The Bradys, the 1990 dramatic revival of The Brady Bunch.
Ayres was born Leah Simpson in Baltimore, Maryland. She is known as Leah Kalish and was the Program Director for Yoga Ed. in Los Angeles. She is also the co-creator of the Yoga Kit for Kids and Games for Life, a book of games and visualizations for children. She also wrote and stars in Living Arts/Gaiam’s Yoga Fitness for Kids videos. She is now the creator of Yoga Playgrounds and developing children's television programs.
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Barbara Britton
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Barbara Britton (born Barbara Maurine Brantingham; September 26, 1919 – January 17, 1980) was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Western film roles opposite Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Gene Autry and for her two-year tenure as inquisitive amateur sleuth Pam North on the television and radio series Mr. and Mrs. North.
In 1941, while appearing in a Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, a photo of Britton was used on the front page of a local newspaper. A talent scout took notice, and she was soon signed to a Paramount Pictures contract. (Another source says that a talent scout spotted her as the lead in the production of The Old Maid at her college, and "three weeks later she was signed by Paramount Pictures as a stock player.")
That same year, she appeared in her first two films: the William Boyd Western Secrets of the Wasteland and Louisiana Purchase starring Bob Hope. Her first major film appearance was in a small role in the John Wayne film Reap the Wild Wind (1942).
During the 1940s Britton starred in three films for which she is most recognized today, two of which co-starred Randolph Scott. The first was the 1945 film Captain Kidd with Scott, followed by The Virginian in 1946 opposite Joel McCrea. The third was the 1947 Randolph Scott film Gunfighters. She teamed with Scott again in the 1948 Western Albuquerque, and that same year she starred opposite Gene Autry in Loaded Pistols. In total, she starred or appeared in 26 films during that decade.
Britton starred in the 1950s television show Mr. and Mrs. North, a Thin Man-like mystery show, with Richard Denning and Francis De Sales. She was probably best known for being the spokesperson for Revlon products in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in advertisements and commercials that included live spots on The $64,000 Question. She also portrayed Laura Petrie in Carl Reiner's Head of the Family, the 1959 pilot for the later Dick Van Dyke Show.
One of Britton's last roles was on the daytime television soap opera One Life to Live in 1979.
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