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Gabriel Byrne
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Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award and nominations for a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020. In 2009, The Guardian named him one of the best actors who never received an Academy Award nomination.
Byrne's acting career began at the Focus Theatre in Dublin before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1974. His screen debut came in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. He went on to star in such films as Defence of the Realm (1986), Lionheart (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Little Women (1994), Dead Man (1995), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), Vanity Fair (2004), The 33 (2015), and Hereditary (2018). He co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996) and produced In the Name of the Father (1993).
For his Broadway work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his roles in the Eugene O'Neill plays A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000) and Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). For his television work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Paul Weston in the HBO drama series In Treatment (2008–2010). He also received a Golden Globe Award. His other notable television roles include Vikings (2013), Maniac (2018), and War of the Worlds (2019–2022).
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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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Cali Nelle
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Franck "Cali" Nelle is a stunt performer and fight coordinator.
Nelle was born and raised in Paris, France. He began training in martial arts at 16, focusing on Taekwondo, where he developed the remarkable vertical jump that would become one of his signature strengths. He went on to teach Taekwondo for over a decade.
At 19, Cali expanded his movement repertoire by exploring street dance styles such as body popping, locking, and breakdancing. However, in 2006, a knee injury ended his competitive Taekwondo career.
In 2007, he relocated to London and discovered a passion for parkour. His unique fusion of freerunning and dance quickly caught the attention of directors and choreographers, leading to roles in short films, commercials, and music videos. He competed in the 2008 Barclaycard World Freerun Championships, where his performance stood out for its heavy incorporation of dance. The following year, he served as a judge for the competition.
Later in 2009, Cali and several friends departed from Urban Freeflow to form their team, Storm Freerun, which became known for pushing the boundaries of movement artistry.
Combining martial arts, parkour, freerunning, acrobatics, and performance, Cali naturally transitioned into stunt work.
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Thomas Huck
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Actor, voice actor, screenwriter but above all living, Thomas HUCK is a complete artist with numerous artistic projects.
His career in the eyes of the general public began at the 48h video marathon of the UGC of Strasbourg edition 2022 where he made a remarkable appearance in the role of Jerry in the short film Un Jour Une vie 3 from The Gredingues. In the following edition, he will also play the role of François Beauffroi in the short film Le Don de Soi with La Gare Entertainment
But his notoriety took off from his collaboration with the Intercalaire Productions association where he began by playing the antagonist of the film Zest: The Owner
He will continue to play the antagonists with Doctor Hoffmann from Hydrozoa, The Typewriter on Fire from Between the Lines, The Truth or even the cult classics Toothbrush in Emaillé and Dominique LeMéchant in Point Dead. But he has roles on the bright side of the moral spectrum, playing Simon in Clowneries, Georges in Number 16, or even his biggest role to date, that of Robert Hie in Passionately Robert Hie.
In addition to his machiavellian acting, Thomas wrote numerous successful screenplays such as Cookies and a Glass of Milk, In all Penality, Point Dead, AB Positive and the acclaimed Emaille.
In summary, Thomas Huck's career proves his irrefutable and unique talent: being human
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Wanqiu Huang
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Huang Wanqiu died of illness on March 4, 2023 at the age of 80. Huang Wanqiu was a famous performing artist in China and a national first-class top actor. She was a director of the Chinese Dramatists Association, a member of the Chinese Film Association, a director of the Chinese National Vocal Music Research Association, a director of the Guangxi China International Cultural Exchange Center, to name a few positions she had. Huang Wanqiu started her career in performing arts at the age of thirteen, engaged in the stage art of Gui Opera.
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Abby Ryder Fortson
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Abby Ryder Fortson (born March 14, 2008) is an American actress. She played Ella Novak in Transparent, Harper Weil in The Whispers, Sophie Pierson in Togetherness, Cassie Lang in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Margaret Simon in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).
She is the daughter of actress Christie Lynn Smith and her husband, John Fortson.
On January 6, 2024, Fortson was honored with the Star on the Rise Award at the 2024 Astra Awards of the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
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Enrique Castillo
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Castillo was a founding member of The Latino Theater Company. He co-wrote the company’s plays Stone Wedding and August 29. In addition to the plays, he wrote and directed the film The History of The Latino Theater Company, a documentary chronicling the theater company, and co-produced the company’s annual comedy fundraiser Noche de Risa y Susto. In 1997 Castillo created Four Brown Hats Entertainment (FBHE), a film
and theater production company. With FBHE, he adapted and directed The Last Angry Brown Hat. Following this, he wrote and directed Veteranos: A Legacy of Valor, a theater piece honoring the military contributions by Latinos in America’s defense. Among his completed feature film scripts are Yo Solo, The Cobra, Valley of the Dead, Deerdancer, and The Last Angry Brown Hat.
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Gary Ross
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Gary Ross (born November 3, 1956) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing the fantasy comedy-drama film Pleasantville (1998), the sports drama film Seabiscuit (2003), the dystopian action film The Hunger Games (2012), and the heist comedy film Ocean's 8 (2018). Ross has been nominated for four Academy Awards.
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William Boyd
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William James Boyd (born April 27, 1979), is the former bass guitarist of alternative metal band Evanescence.
Boyd became a full-time member of Evanescence in June 2003, but had co-written two of their unreleased songs, "October" and "So Close," prior to that. He spent stints with local Little Rock punk bands such as The Visitors and Lucky Father Brown and is currently in the bands Two Spines and American Princes. He left Evanescence in June 2006 due to not wanting to do another big tour, and was replaced by Tim McCord.
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Morgan Fisher
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Morgan Fisher is an American experimental filmmaker and artist best known for his structuralist and minimalist films referencing the material processes of celluloid film and the means and methods of producing moving images, including the camera, the director and crew, and the editing process. Fisher's work has been noted for its relationship to the Southern California landscape and its architecture during a time when the region was staking an aesthetic and intellectual claim in the larger art world. Since the 1990s, Fisher has also been producing paintings and installation works. His work has been included in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions, 1985, 2004 and 2014. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.
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