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Eric Winter
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Eric Barrett Winter (born July 17, 1976) is an American actor and former fashion model. He has appeared in the television roles of Rex Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, FBI Special Agent Craig O'Laughlin on the CBS drama series The Mentalist (2010–2012), Dash Gardiner on the Lifetime fantasy-drama series Witches of East End (2013–2014), and Sergeant Tim Bradford on the ABC drama The Rookie. His film appearances include Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) and The Ugly Truth (2009).
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Kirk Alyn
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Kirk Alyn (1910–1999) was an American actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman in live-action in Superman serial and Atom Man vs. Superman as well as Blackhawk in the Blackhawk serial, and Sam Lane in Superman: The Movie.
Alyn started as a chorus boy for Broadway plays, appearing in notable musicals such as Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing, and Hellzapoppin' during the 1930s.
He also worked as a singer and dancer in vaudeville before relocating to Hollywood during the early 1940s to act for feature movies, but he was successful only in gaining bit parts for low-budget movies before obtaining the role of Superman in 1948. During World War II he served in the United States Navy.
Alyn also featured in movie serials, including Federal Agents Vs. Underworld Inc., Radar Patrol Vs. Spy King and Blackhawk. Alyn played Superman for the first live-action Superman movie serial, released in 1948. The serial consisted of 15 episodes which recounted Superman’s arrival on Earth, getting a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet newspaper, and meeting Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.
After playing Superman, he again suffered casting problems. Apart from featuring in some similar comic book-type serials, he had few roles in television series and movies, some even uncredited, until he retired.
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Shekhar Kapur
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Shekhar Kapur (born 6 December 1945) is an Indian film director and producer. He is a critically acclaimed director, rose to popularity with the movie, Bandit Queen. His historical biopics of Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth and its sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age) garnered several Academy Award nominations, including two Best Actress nods for Cate Blanchett.
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Mickey Mason
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Grew up in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Mickey Mason first began acting at the age of 14 while at high school, playing various roles in school pantomimes. He spent a lot of time in hospital from a young age. It was there that he learned to use different accents whilst performing puppet shows for the other children in the ward.
His first television appearance was in an episode of 'Blue Peter' at 10 years of age. He joined different theatre groups, involving himself in and around various stage productions. He was a boxer for years, and fought in the County Antrim and Ulster championships. Mickey joined the National Youth Theatre in London, and in 2008, he was cast in his first television role by producer and director Lawrence Gough, as killer Daniel Young in an episode of Stirling productions television series 'In Cold Blood'(2006).
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David C. Bunners
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DAVID C. BUNNERS was one of the three producers of the 2009 Oscar®-winning short film "Spielzeugland" (aka "Toyland"). His brother Johann Bunners had the idea for "Spielzeugland" and wrote the script together with the director. David also starred in the short film. - He was born on Feb.11th 1966, the eldest of four siblings, two sisters and his brother. From 1986-89 David studied acting at the University of Film and Television Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His first part in a film was the lead in "Grown up as from today" (DEFA 1985, director: Gunther Scholz). He left the GDR in autumn 1989 to live in Western Germany where he got acting engagements from 1990 to 1996 at several theaters in Kassel, Bonn, Heidelberg and the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (1993-1996). Since 1996 David is a well-known actor for the screen and for television. So far, David has participated in more than 80 national and international productions. In 2009 he set up "David vs. Goliath Films".
- IMDb Mini Biography by: D. Goldbaum
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Eileen Heckart
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Eileen Heckart was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Born Anna Eileen Herbert, her career spanned nearly 60 years. She first became known for her role as schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney in the original 1953 cast of William Inge's play Picnic on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the overprotective mother of a blind adult son in Butterflies Are Free, a role she originated on Broadway before playing it in the film.
She often played mothers, including Rocky Graziano's mother in Somebody Up There Likes Me; the mother of a murdered child in The Bad Seed; the elderly mother of an estranged son in the PBS production of the one-act play Save Me a Place at Forest Law; the overbearing mother of the detective portrayed by George Segal in No Way to Treat a Lady; the mother of reporter Jack Stein on the 1990s television sitcom Love & War; the mother of two separate characters on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live in the 1980s and 1990s; and the meddling mother of a jilted wife (played by Diane Keaton) in The First Wives Club, her last film role. She also had a recurring role on the 1970s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Mary's Aunt Flo Meredith, a famous woman reporter, which she repeated on the subsequent spin-off series, Lou Grant.
In addition to her Academy Award, she also won two Emmy Awards for Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn and Love & War, and a Golden Globe Award for The Bad Seed. She also received a special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2000, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She made her final acting appearance in 2000 at age 80 in an off-Broadway production, The Waverly Gallery, in which she played the leading role of an elderly grandmother with Alzheimer's disease.
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Robin McLeavy
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Robin McLeavy (born 19 June 1981) is an Australian actress. McLeavy is from Sydney, Australia. She graduated from NIDA in 2004. McLeavy starred as Lola Stone in the critically acclaimed Australian horror film, The Loved Ones. The film was screened at Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and won the Audience Choice Award. In 2009, McLeavy played the role of Stella Kowalski opposite Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton in the Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The production was directed by Liv Ullmann and toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. She received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer. She appeared in four encore seasons of Holding the Man, an award-winning play by Tommy Murphy.
She played Isabella in Benedict Andrews's production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at the Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, 5 – 25 July 2010. She appeared as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Benedict Andrews for the Belvoir Theatre Company in 2007, and for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
Between 2011 and 2016 McLeavy played frontier tribal abductee survivor Eva Oates on the Western series Hell on Wheels. This character, including physical likeness, was inspired by the real story of Olive Oatman.
She portrayed Nancy Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in 2012. In 2015, McLeavy took on the role the voice of Nutsy, a Koala in Blinky Bill the Movie alongside Ryan Kwanten, Rufus Sewell, David Wenham, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto, and Barry Humphries on the Australian computer-animated adventure film based the book by Dorothy Wall; and she played Barbara Henning in Backtrack.
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Lisanne Falk
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Lisanne Falk (born December 3, 1964) is an American actress and film producer.
Falk is a former child model who worked at the Ford Modeling Agency with a young Brooke Shields. She portrays the seemingly upset young woman in a men's restroom on the cover of the Foreigner's 1979 album Head Games. Her modeling work was featured in the book Lisanne: A Young Model.
She played the role of Heather McNamara in the black comedy film Heathers (1988) alongside Winona Ryder.
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Ray Anderson
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ray Anderson is founder and chairman of Interface Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics. He is "known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance on industrial ecology and sustainability."Since 1995, he has reduced Interface's waste by a third, and plans to make the company sustainable by 2020.
He defines sustainability as "taking nothing from the earth that is not rapidly and naturally renewable, and doing no harm to the biosphere."
For instance, under his leadership, Interface seeks to reduce and then eliminate "petroleum from its manufacturing processes." He is pioneering recycling efforts with nylon and polyester which "is recyclable, leading to more closed loop technologies for the future." However, Anderson wasn't always a friend of the environment. He had his epiphany in 1994 when he read The Ecology of Commerce, by Paul Hawken, who argues that [the] industrial system is destroying the planet and only industry leaders are powerful enough to stop it.
Anderson is featured in the documentaries The Corporation and The 11th Hour as well as an interview in The Day After Peace, in an episode of David Suzuki's CBC Television series "The Nature of Things" ("Biomimicry." Parts 1 and 2) and in the episode of Ethical Markets TV Series "Redefining Success." He is also a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. Ray Anderson is the author of Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model. Inspired by Daniel Quinn's novel Ishmael, Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce, and many others, Ray Anderson has successfully composed a piece that covers his personal journey towards sustainability in his work. His 2009 book is "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose: Doing Business by Respecting the Earth" ISBN 9780312543495.
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Edward Tudor-Pole
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Edward Tudor-Pole is an English musician, television presenter and actor. Originally gaining fame in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the punk rock band Tenpole Tudor, Tudor-Pole began an acting career following the group's split in 1982. Outside of his music career Tudor-Pole is probably best known in the UK as the presenter of the game show The Crystal Maze from 1993 to 1995 and in the US for his roles as Enaros in the 1997 fantasy film Kull the Conqueror and Mr. Borgin in The Harry Potter film series.
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