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Köksal Engür

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Köksal Engür, Türk tiyatro, sinema ve dizi oyuncusu, seslendirme sanatçısı. Köksal Engür, eğitimini tamamlamadan önce sanat yaşamına başlayan oyunculardandır. 1956 yılında TRT Ankara Radyosu, Çocuk Saati programında kısa radyo tiyatrolarıyla başlayan deneyimleri, Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih coğrafya Fakültesi Tiyatro Bölümü'nden 1969 yılında mezun olana kadar sürdü. TRT'de programlara katılmanın yanında, seslendirme çalışmalarının da temelini atan sanatçı, Ankara Halkevi, Sahne 9, Ankara Deneme Sahnesi, Çağdaş Sahne, Hodri Meydan Tiyatrosu, Dormen Tiyatrosu, Ali Poyrazoğlu Tiyatrosu, Küçük Sahne gibi özel tiyatrolarda ve Bakırköy Belediye Tiyatrosu ile Devlet Opera ve Balesi yapımlarında çeşitli roller aldı. Radyo deneyimlerini seslendirmedeki ustalığını geliştirmekte kullanan Engür, tiyatroyla sınırlı kalmayıp, sinema ve dizi filmlerde de oynadı. Sanatçı, Süngerbob Kareşort çizgidizisinde Squitward'ü seslendirmektedir. Korkuyorum Anne filmiyle ünlenerek ödül alan oyuncu, Susam Sokağı'ndaki Büdü karakterini ve çizgi filminde Red Kit'i de seslendirmişti.
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Manfred Mann

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Manfred Sepse Lubowitz (born 21 October 1940), known professionally as Manfred Mann, is a South African-born musician, residing in the UK since 1961. He is best known as a founding member of the eponymous bands Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann Chapter Three and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Lubowitz was raised in a Lithuanian Jewish family in Johannesburg, the son of David Lubowitz and Alma Cohen. He studied music at the University of the Witwatersrand, and worked as a jazz pianist at a number of clubs in Johannesburg. Strongly opposed to the apartheid system in his native South Africa, Lubowitz moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 and began to write for Jazz News under the pseudonym Manfred Manne (after jazz drummer Shelly Manne), which was soon shortened to Manfred Mann. In 1962, he met drummer and keyboard player Mike Hugg at Clacton Butlins Holiday Camp; together they formed a large blues-jazz band called the Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers. This eventually evolved into a five-piece group named after him, and they signed a record deal with EMI in 1963, under the His Master's Voice label. Prominent in the Swinging London scene of the 1960s, the group regularly appeared in the UK Singles Chart. Three of their most successful singles, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Pretty Flamingo", and "Mighty Quinn", topped the UK charts. The band's 1964 hit "5-4-3-2-1" was the theme tune for the ITV pop music show Ready Steady Go!. They were also the first southern-England-based group to top the US Billboard Hot 100 during the British Invasion. The band split up in 1969. With Manfred Mann recently broken up, Mann and Mike Hugg created Manfred Mann Chapter Three. The group's debut performance, which was at Newcastle's Mayfair ballroom on 24 October 1969, consisted of Mann and Hugg on keyboards and organ, as well as: Bernie Living (alto sax), Steve York (bass guitar), Craig Collinge (drums). They were also backed by a five-piece brass group consisting of: Clive Stevens (tenor sax), Carl Griffiths (tenor sax), Dave Coxhill (baritone sax), Gerald Drewett (trombone), Sonny Corbett (trumpet). They recorded two albums: Manfred Mann Chapter Three, in 1969, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two, in 1970. The group were never commercially successful, and split up in late 1970. In 1971, Mann formed Manfred Mann's Earth Band. They had a chart topping hit in 1976 with a cover of the 1973 Bruce Springsteen song "Blinded by the Light"; their cover went to number one in Canada and the U.S. Although the group never had the same success of "Blinded by the Light", as of 2025 the band is still active, and Mann still tours with the group along with founding member Mick Rogers. Manfred Mann appeared as a jazz pianist in the 1969 Jesús Franco film Venus in Furs, and performed the score for that film. He also released solo projects under the names Manfred Mann's Plain Music and Manfred Mann '06. Manfred Mann played a Minimoog solo on the Uriah Heep song "July Morning". He also played keyboards on Trevor Rabin's album Wolf. ... Source: Article "Manfred Mann (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Chris Pedersen

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Chris Pedersen (born May 22, 1963) is an American musician, actor, and NASCAR racer. Pedersen was born in San Francisco and grew up in Southern California. Pedersen was never formally trained as an actor. He was approached by director Penelope Spheeris at a park in Burbank where the band T.S.O.L. was playing. According to Pedersen, who was unemployed at the time, "I was thinking 'yeah, right' and didn't pay any attention to her until she said it paid $100 a day, which at the time was a lot of money. So I showed up for the audition on time and tried really hard not to screw it up. That was the start of my acting career." He played a punk rocker in Suburbia, and also appeared in Platoon, Night of the Comet and Point Break among others. (wikipedia)
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Nadège Beausson-Diagne

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Nadège Beausson-Diagne (born 18 June 1972 in Paris) is a French actress, singer and columnist. She is mainly known for having played the police chief Sara Douala in the television series Plus belle la vie. She also appeared in successful films such as Podium by Yann Moix and Nothing to Declare [Rien à déclarer] by Dany Boon. Beausson-Diagne made her first film appearance in 2004, playing one of Benoit Poelvooirde’s four “Bernadettes” in Podium. She continued acting, appearing in various feature films such as Agathe Cléry directed by Valérie Lemercier, with whom she would later work in Marie-Francine, and in Nothing to Declare by Dany Boon, who had previously directed her in Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. From 2010 to 2014, she played the role of Commissioner Sara Douala in the soap opera Plus belle la vie. When her departure from the show was announced, a petition was circulated by her fans demanding that she be kept on. In 2014, the Bausson-Diagne decided to join the Pep's series where she played the role of Catherine Paillard, the director of Victor Hugo College. The same year, she became a columnist in the program Touche pas à mon poste! before leaving the program in 2016. She then joined Bruno de Stabenrath with whom she co-presented Faut pas pousser on the channel Numéro 23. In 2017, she appeared in the video for the single "On est là" by the rapper Féfé, playing the role of a concert manager. However, she continued her acting career, playing in Ôtez-moi d'un doute, a comedy that won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, and Brillantissime, Michèle Laroque's first film. Source: Article "Nadège Beausson-Diagne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Bobby Campo

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Robert Joseph Camposecco (born March 9, 1983), better known as Bobby Campo is an American actor. He was most successful for playing the role of Nick O'Bannon in the 2009 horror film The Final Destination. Campo was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida. His mother, Donna Camposecco, is a make-up artist who has worked for celebrities, and his paternal grandfather, Bob Campo, was a radio personality in Wheeling. He has a younger sister named Julia Marie who is married to Stephen Christian of the band Anberlin.               ​
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Alex Rebar

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Alexander John Rebar (July 9, 1940 – November 19, 2021) was an American producer, writer and actor. He was most known for starring in the cult film The Incredible Melting Man. He was born in Dallas, Pennsylvania on a farm where he rode horses. He attended Valley Forge Military Academy and Wilkes College before enlisting in the Navy as a Photographers Mate. After serving in the Korean War he moved to Paris where he co-founded and acted with the Studio Theater of Paris and managed a jazz club. In Rome, Rebar worked for Production Cinitalia Edizone doing voice dubbing for Marcello Mastroianni, Klaus Kinski and the Italian version of Mighty Mouse. He went on to write Beyond the Door and made his star turn as the Incredible Melting Man. Through the 1980s Rebar went on to numerous television appearances in The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, Murder, She Wrote, CHiPs and Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes while simultaneously writing and producing infamous cult films such Demented, Santa Claus slasher film To All a Goodnight, horror/rock documentary Terror on Tour, and Thanksgiving slasher film Home Sweet Home. In the early 2000s he briefly came out of retirement to begin producing videos for the internet including a series called "Sex, Pain and Murder" for iFilm.
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Natalie MacMahon

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Natalie is a versatile screenwriter and film director who has received recognition and accolades at various international film festivals. Her recent short films, "Living In A Bubble," "Becoming Human," and "Skeleton Tiger," are currently being showcased and honoured on the festival circuit. In the summer of 2023, her debut feature film, "The Meaning Of A Ritual," had its highly anticipated premiere. Presently, Natalie is actively working on her second feature film, "The Human Experience," and also developing a series concept for a streaming platform.
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Rosha Washington

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Rosha Washington is an actor from New Orleans, LA. He is known for playing the Texas legend DJ Screw in a visual tribute entitled All Screwed Up, which is currently being developed by Sony Pictures into a feature film. His other recent projects include Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022), starring Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson; Renfield (2023), starring Nicholas Cage, Awkwafina, and Nicholas Hoult; and Ann Rice's new AMC adaptation of Interview With a Vampire, which will be his TV debut. He also performs regularly in theatrical productions.
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Stefania Rocca

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Stefania Rocca was born on April 24, 1971 in Turin. She is best known for her roles in the films Nirvana (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Dracula (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's The Card Player. Among her most recent appearances, she was in Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy film Commediasexi where she played the main character, Pia Roncaldi. She starred as Hannah in the 1997 film Solomon. Rocca was born on 24 April 1971 in Turin, the daughter of a Fiat chief of security and a stylist. Beginning in her adolescence Rocca studied piano, singing, and dancing at the Teatro Stabile di Torino. In the late 1980s she moved to Milan where she started working as a model; in Milan, she enrolled in a series of acting courses. In 1993, thanks to a scholarship, she joined the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She also studied at the Actors Studio in New York City. Rocca is married to her long-time partner Carlo Capasa, whom she wed in a highly secretive ceremony in 2013. The couple has been together since 2005, and has two sons. Rocca made her acting debut with a secondary role in Giulio Base's Policemen but her breakout role was the blue-haired Naima in the Gabriele Salvatores' cyberpunk film Nirvana (1997). After enrolling a course at the Actors Studio in New York, in 1998, Rocca had her first main role in the controversial erotic thriller Viol@, and for her performance she was nominated to the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. One year later, Rocca appeared in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley as Jude Law's lover, then she appeared in other international productions, including Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, Mike Figgis' experimental Hotel and Tom Tykwer's Heaven. In 2003, Rocca had her main commercial success in Italy, with Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy Casomai, which also gave her a nomination for Best Actress at the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello Awards. In 2005, she played a blind lesbian in the Academy Award-nominated drama The Beast in the Heart, and for her performance, she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. Since the mid-2000s, Rocca has mainly appeared on television. She is also active on stage.
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