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Yasmin Bannerman
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Yasmin Bannerman (born 1970) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in Gloucestershire and attended the Rose Bruford College in London until 1993. She has had roles in television series such as Hollyoaks, Cold Feet, Merseybeat and Doctor Who, and in the films Maybe Baby and Killing Me Softly.
Her first television role came in 1995 when she appeared in an episode of Crown Prosecutor. Shortly afterwards she was cast as Maddie Parker in Channel 4's soap opera Hollyoaks. She describes her role in the soap as "demanding", though the character appeared less frequently as time went on. Further appearances include a brief role in Red Dwarf and a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by Robert Bathurst).
In the same year she appeared in Ben Elton's Maybe Baby as Melinda. Further appearances include roles in Queen of Swords, In Deep, Holby City, Life on Mars, and an eight-episode stint in Merseybeat. In 2005 she played Jabe (an alien that resembles a tree) in the second episode of BBC Wales' revival of Doctor Who. Her audition was "shrouded in secrecy" and the part required a lengthy make-up process; the prosthetics took three hours to apply and 90 minutes to remove. Further involvement in the Doctor Who franchise includes guest roles in the audio dramas The Bride of Peladon and The Fourth Wall, and a part in the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie".
In 2015, she played Roz Forrester, a companion of the Seventh Doctor, in three novel adaptations of the Virgin New and Missing Adventures, Damaged Goods, Original Sin and Cold Fusion. These stories were adapted by Big Finish Productions. She later reprised the role in a series of four stories released in November 2018, entitled "The Seventh Doctor: The New Adventures".
In 2017, Bannerman is playing Dayna Mellanby, a character in the Blake's 7 audio adventure series by Big Finish Productions. Bannerman is the third actress to play Dayna following Josette Simon in the television series and Angela Bruce in the BBC Radio series.
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Xavier Smalls
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Xavier Smalls is an American actor and performer born on November 7, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. He gained recognition for his role as Angel in the Netflix series Beauty in Black, produced by Tyler Perry, which premiered in October 2024.
Smalls pursued his education at Sacramento State University, where he studied musical theater and audition techniques. He further honed his craft at the William Esper Studio in New York City, focusing on scene study, acting technique, and on-camera work.
In 2025, Smalls starred in Madea’s Destination Wedding, another Tyler Perry production, released on Netflix. He also featured in the short film Shelf Life.
Beyond acting, Smalls is engaged to makeup artist Vanessa Martinez, with whom he shares a daughter.
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Alexandre Trauner
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Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer.
After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Admiral Horthy. In Paris, he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, at the studios in Épinay-sur-Seine working on such films as À nous la liberté (1932) and La Kermesse héroïque (1935). In 1937, he became a chief set designer.
Trauner worked with director Marcel Carné for some years on such films as Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes, 1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945). Trauner worked in hiding on Children of Paradise, which was filmed at the Victorine Studios in Nice during 1943 and 1944 during the Nazi's Occupation of France.
He worked with Billy Wilder on eight films between 1958 and 1978, including the sets for The Apartment (1960), on which he made use of false perspective, a characteristic of his work. For his work on this film, he won an Academy Award. He also worked on John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni (1979), and Luc Besson's Subway (1985).
In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.
Source: Article "Alexandre Trauner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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John Boskovich
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John S. Boskovich (December 8, 1956 – September 24, 2006) was an artist, writer, filmmaker, and teacher. Boskovich was raised in the San Fernando Valley, an only child. John attended Notre Dame High School. Boskovich graduated from USC, and then earned an MFA at California Institute of the Arts, where he was a student of John Baldessari, a conceptual artist who became a mentor. While attending CalArts, Boskovich simultaneously earned a law degree at Loyola Law School, although he never practiced law. In the late 1980s Boskovich co-wrote and directed Without You I'm Nothing, a one-woman off-Broadway show starring actress and comedienne Sandra Bernhard. He also directed the subsequent 1990 film version. He later went on to direct North, a 2001 film which featured artist and writer Gary Indiana reading from Louis-Ferdinand Céline's novel of the same name. As an artist, Boskovich was indebted to the Dadaists, and used found objects, photography, handwritten and typeset texts, as well as audio sources to create witty, sharp-edged, social commentary. From 1988 to 1999, Boskovich exhibited at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery, now in Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA. A 1994 show entitled "Rude Awakening" was inspired by his friendship and work with the band Rude Awakening, which included one of his friends, bassist Robert Calkin (a.k.a. Robert Ryder). The band's logo was included in many of his works. He also did the photography for their Headbutter E.P. using a technique he originated that incorporated video, television and polaroid cameras. In the mid-1990s, Boskovich taught at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He curated several shows of his students' works at Rosamund Felsen. Boskovich died at his home on September 24, 2006, aged 49, from undisclosed causes
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Andrea Libman
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Andrea Libman (July 19, 1984, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian actress and voice actress. She is known for her work as the voice of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, as well as for her roles in Dragon Tales, Madeline, X-Men: Evolution, and ReBoot. In addition to her voice work, she has appeared in live-action productions such as Highlander, Susie Q, and The X-Files. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
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Terence Yin Chi-Wai
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Terence Yin Chi-Wai (Chinese: 尹子維) was born on May 19, 1975 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and producer, known for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), Robin-B-Hood (2006) and Cold War (2012). He is the son of actress Jenny Hu and actor/director/producer Kang Wei. Together with Daniel Wu, Andrew Lin and Conroy Chi-Chung Chan, created the Hong Kong boy band Alive. The band was created as a vehicle to make the film The Heavenly Kings (2006), a mockumentary about the Hong Kong entertainment industry based on their experience.
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Liao Ching-sung
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Liao Ching-Sung (Chinese: 廖慶松) was born in 1950. He began his career as an editing technician at the Central Motion Picture Corp, and has been responsible for the editing of many of the "Taiwan New Wave" works. In particular, he began work with Hou Hsiao-Hsien on military documentaries at the Central Motion Picture Corp, and with the exception of "A Time to Live and A Time to Die" he has been responsible for the editing of all of Hou's works. Other major works include "The Terrorist " (1987, directed by Edward Yang) and "Dust of Angels" (1992, directed by Hsu Hsiao-Ming). He was awarded Special Contribution Award at the 55th Golden Horse Awards.
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Louis Daquin
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Louis Daquin is a French director and screenwriter, born May 30, 19081 in Calais and died October 2, 1980 in Paris, in a family of small traders. Law graduate and graduate of HEC, after having been a journalist, advertising editor at the Renault factories, and having tried his hand at theatrical writing, Louis Daquin, Louis Léon Auguste Daquin of his full name, became assistant director in 1932, he worked notably with Fedor Ozep, Pierre Chenal, Julien Duvivier, Abel Gance and especially Jean Grémillon.
He produced his first film in 1938 with the French version of Gerhard Lamprecht's film Le Joueur. He made several feature films during the Occupation, while he was engaged in the Resistance with the French Communist Party, on whose behalf he shot a short film after the Liberation. He also wrote in 1941 a detective novel, The Enigma of Pelham, under the pseudonym of Lewis MacDakin. He held several positions during his career: secretary general of the Committee for the Liberation of Cinema in 1944, co-founder of the General Cooperative of French Cinema, secretary general of the CGT Film Production Technicians Syndicate from 1945 to 1962, and president of the Société des Réalisateurs de Films (SRF) from 1977 to 1978. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) commissioned a documentary from him on the great miners' strike of 1948, in full strike, with commentary by Roger Vailland. Louis Daquin also offers his first major film role to Michel Piccoli, in "Le Point Du Jour", a chronicle again devoted to the life of miners in the North. Despite some noticed films, he encountered difficulties from the 1950s to finance his projects. His political commitments are indeed worth to him to be progressively marginalized. An adaptation of "Bel-Ami" was thus cut to pieces by censorship in the second half of the 1950s. He left to shoot in Romania "Les Chardons Du Baragan" in 1957, based on the novel by Panaït Istrati, East Berlin, an adaptation of "La Rabouilleuse", by Balzac. In 1962, he was content to be production manager on "Paris Brûle-T-Il?" by Rene Clement. He made his last film in 1963, "La Foire Aux Dunces". He began another career, in 1970, as director of studies at the Institut des Hautes Études Cographiques, until his retirement in 1977.
Louis Daquin was married to actress Clara Gansard with whom he had two children, Jean-Michel and Marc Daquin. He was the natural father of the militant Trotskyist Michel Recanati. He disappeared on October 2, 1980 in Paris. The municipal cinema of Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis) will bear his name. The municipal theater of La Ricamarie (Loire) is called Salle Louis-Daquin. In Oissel (Seine-Maritime), a street bears the name of Louis-Daquin.
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Matilda Gross
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Matilda Gross, born 2009, is a Swedish child actor.
Gross has played the lead role of Matilda in Matilda the Musical at Malmö Opera. She has also appeared in Sound of Music at Nöjesteatern in 2017 and at Malmö Opera in 2021.
Gross has also played the lead role as Nelly in the films Nelly Rapp – Monster Agent from 2020 and Nelly Rapp – Mirror of Death 2023. In March 2023 it was announced that she will play one of the main roles in Trolltider – the legend of the mountain troll which is the 2023 Christmas calendar on SVT where she plays Saga.
In 2025, Gross will appear in the third film adaptation of the cartoon character Bert. She will play the role of the love interest Molly in this film.
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Dan Chupong
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Deaw Chupong Changprung is a Thai martial arts film actor. He is also known by his Westernized name, Dan Chupong. Starting out as part of the stunt team of martial-arts choreographer Panna Rittikrai, Chupong's first film credit was as "Bodyguard 4" in "Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior". He then went on to leading roles in the 2004 film, "Born to Fight" and 2006 film "Dynamite Warrior". He has also appeared in Nonzee Nimibutr's "Queen of Langkasuka" (2008), "Somtum" (2008), "Ong Bak 2" (uncredited) and portrayed the main antagonist in "Ong Bak 3". To stay prepared for his film roles, Chupong has a regular workout routine that includes running and gymnastics. He took acting lessons to prepare for his role in "Dynamite Warrior".
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