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Erika Alexander

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Erika Rose Alexander (born November 19, 1969) is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist best known for her roles as Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1990–1992), and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living Single (1993–1998). She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her film credits include The Long Walk Home (1990), 30 Years to Life (2001), Déjà Vu (2006), Get Out (2017), American Refugee (2021), Earth Mama (2023) and American Fiction (2023), for which she received Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance nomination.
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Fulton J. Sheen

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Fulton John Sheen (born Peter John Sheen, May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919, Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy in 1923. He went on to teach theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of America as well as acting as a parish priest before being appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1951. He held this position until 1966 when he was made the Bishop of Rochester. He resigned in 1969 as his 75th birthday approached, and was made archbishop of the titular see of Newport, Wales. For 20 years as "Father Sheen", later monsignor, he hosted the night-time radio program The Catholic Hour on NBC (1930–1950) before moving to television and presenting Life Is Worth Living (1952–1957). Sheen's final presenting role was on the syndicated The Fulton Sheen Program (1961–1968) with a format very similar to that of the earlier Life is Worth Living show. For this work, Sheen twice won an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. Starting in 2009, his shows were being re-broadcast on the EWTN and the Trinity Broadcasting Network's Church Channel cable networks. Due to his contribution to televised preaching, Sheen is often referred to as one of the first televangelists.
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Shambhu Bhattacharya

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Shambhu Bhattacharya (1935 – 26 January 2018) was a Bengali actor and stage artist. Bhattacharya started his acting career in theatre in Kolkata. He worked in several stage productions of Utpal Dutt, Jahor Roy, and Rabi Ghosh. He was a bodybuilder from Baghbazar Bayam Samity. Bhattacharya became popular mainly for his antagonistic role in Bengali films. His performances in Sagina Mahato, Agnishwar, Sanyasi Raja, Amanush, Marjina Abdulla and Charmurti were remembered by film critics. He died in a private nursing home on 26 January 2018 in Kolkata.
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Ali Safina

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Ali Safina was born in Multan, Pakistan then he moved to Oman with his parents where he completed his schooling In Pakistan School Muscat; for higher education he started off in The Caledonian College of Engineering in Oman and went on to Scotland where he got a degree in mechanical engineering. He returned home to his family hoping to continue his studies by pursuing a master's degree. It was then Ali realized that he was at a crossroads. He promptly diverted his career to show business. He married Pakistani model Hira Tareen in 2016 with whom he was engaged since 2013. The couple welcome their first child in 2017.
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Aki Kaurismäki

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Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (Finnish: [ˈɑki ˈkɑu̯rismæki]; born April 4,1957; Orimattila) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and actor. He is best known for the award-winning Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017) and Fallen Leaves (2023), as well as for the mockumentary Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director. He is the younger brother of director and screenwriter Mika Kaurismäki. After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main role in Mika's film The Liar (1981). Together they founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions and later the Midnight Sun Film Festival. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment (1983), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel set in modern Helsinki. He gained worldwide attention with Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989). Kaurismäki's film Ariel (1988) was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI. Kaurismäki's most acclaimed film has been The Man Without a Past, which won the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003. However, Kaurismäki refused to attend the Oscar ceremony, asserting that he did not feel like partying in a country that was in a state of war. Kaurismäki's next film, Lights in the Dusk, was also chosen to be Finland's nominee for best foreign-language film, but Kaurismäki again boycotted the awards and refused the nomination, as a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy. In 2002 Kaurismäki also boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival in a show of solidarity with the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who was not given a US visa in time for the festival. Kaurismäki's 2017 film The Other Side of Hope won the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At the same festival he also announced that it would be his last film, although the retirement was short-lived as he began filming Fallen Leaves in 2022, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Paresh Mokashi

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Paresh Mokashi is an Indian filmmaker, producer, actor and Theatre director-producer; working predominantly in Marathi cinema and Marathi theatre. He made his directorial debut for cinema with the 2009 Marathi feature film, 'Harishchandrachi Factory'. The film was selected as India's official entry to 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paresh Mokashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tarjei Sandvik Moe

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Tarjei Sandvik Moe (born May 24 1999) is a Norwegian actor, known from the teen drama series Skam, which is broadcast on NRK. Moe had the lead role of Isak Valtersen in the third season of the show. His character appears throughout all four seasons of the series. In 2017, for his role as Isak Valtersen, Moe was nominated for best actor in the annual award for the Norwegian TV industry, Gullruten. His character Isak was also nominated for the Audience Award, along with co-star Henrik Holm's character Even Bech Næsheim. They won this award, as well as an award for 'Best TV-moment' for the 'O Helga Natt' scene from season 3. Moe attends Hartvig Nissen School, which is the school in which the TV show Skam is set.
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Yvette Rachelle

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Stunningly beautiful blue eyed beauty of Swedish descent raised in Europe to California.Started as a Top Model from Magazine covers to billboards with Google saying Yvette gets up to 60 million new fans a year. Director Ron Howard gave her first break in Hollywood casting her to play Farrah Fawcett in Academy Award winning film Frost/Nixon ?From there Adam Sandler casting her in his Comedy film to her playing in a Sci Fi film premiering at Cannes Film Festival. To recently, Co-Starting with the late Ed Asner in Universal Pictures film “Santa Stole Our Dog”. as a Producer as well. Yvette is equally talented in arts from theatre, singing to fine painting.She grew up riding horses and scuba diving. And her great love of animals and the planet has her being Spokesperson to help save wildlife and nature for Defenders of Wildlife.
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Fattah Amin

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Born on 14 September 1990, this tall and dashing young man started his career in the entertainment industry as an extra in the tv drama series, Memberku Hawa. After that, he received several other offers and after his role in Playboy Itu Suamiku, the rest, they said, is history. Among the drama he starred: Cinta Jannah, Hello Mr Perfect, Gerak Khas 2016, Suri Hati Mr Pilot, dan Hero Seorang Cinderella. Since the start of his career, Fattah Amin has gone to win many awards such as Hero Remaja 2011/2012, Anugerah Melodi ke-3, Anugerah Telenovela, Anugerah MeleTOP ERA, and Anugerah Bintang Popular Berita Harian. Even though he was often put into controversies, Fattah Amin works hard towards becoming one of the most successful Malaysian artistes.
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