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Judd Apatow
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Judd Apatow (/ˈæpətaʊ/; born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian known for his work in comedy films. Apatow is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he wrote, produced, and directed his films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020), and The Bubble (2022).
Through his company, Apatow produced and developed the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Undeclared (2001–2002), Funny or Die Presents (2010–2011), Girls (2012–2017), Love (2016–2018), and Crashing (2017–2019). He also produced the films The Cable Guy (1996), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall(2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Begin Again (2013), and The Big Sick (2017).
Throughout his career, Apatow has received nominations for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards(three wins), five Writers Guild of America Awards (one win), two Producers Guild of America Awards, one Golden Globe Award, and one Grammy Award.
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Cozi Zuehlsdorff
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Cozi Zuehlsdorff (born c. 1998) is an American actress, pianist, and singer. She started her acting career by acting in plays, then she began to try out for movies. Her most recent play is You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She is also known for her appearance in the movie Dolphin Tale(2011) and the sequel, Dolphin Tale 2 (2014). She also starred in Mighty Med as Jordan and in Liv and Maddie as Ocean. On Thanksgiving Day, she released her debut EP 'Originals.' The title fits because she wrote all seven songs on the CD. It has an Indie pop feel with an organic sound, but some indie alternative and indie country.
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Jasper Bainton
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Jasper Bainton is an English actor and stunt coordinator. He has worked in numerous low-budget, short films - all of which were directed by his friend, Ronan Bird. Bainton's first role (like many others) was in Ronan Bird's 'ABHORRENT: The Swamp' in 2023. He has since starred in its sequel and played Kirk in the Backwoods Slasher film, 'That Night'. He also cameos as a soldier in a hazmat suit and as 'Alley-way Dude' in the third instalment of 'That Night' franchise.
As well as this, Jasper Bainton works as the film's stunt coordinator for various scenes - one of which being Axel's fight with the Killer. Ronan Bird sighted Bainton for this role when they were filming ultimately unused footage for 'ABHORRENT II'. It happened when, Bainton did a falling stunt and had to repeat the shot 5 times. Despite the footage being scrapped in the end, Bird describes it as being, "way too commited for this kind of thing".
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Samo Rafael
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Samo Rafael, also known as Samodra Angkasa Putro (born March 1, 1995), is an Indonesian actor, model, and musician. He grew up and lives in Jakarta. He began his career as a model, then became a musician, and later transitioned into acting.
Samo Rafael has a younger sister who is also widely known, Mutiara Hazle. He has Indonesian heritage from his father, Untung Suwarto, and Scottish heritage from his mother, Frances Hazle. Samo Rafael is known to be a Protestant Christian, and he previously studied at Pelita Harapan University.
He is the lead vocalist of the jazz fusion band Macadamia Nutcrackers. In 2013, he joined the band Gemalara and released three singles: “Di Wajahmu Kulihat Bulan”, “Gemuruh”, and “Sepi”.
Samo Rafael has also released several solo songs, including “Life's A Pirouette”, which reflects on life being like a pirouette, “Milky”, and his most recent single “Circles”, which tells the story of the endlessly spinning life in Jakarta.
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Ronan Bird
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Ronan Westray Bird (born April 30th, 2009) is an aspiring, English film writer and director. Whilst he remains unknown to the public he has directed several short films, varying in genres from Horror to Western. His directing debut was an Evil Dead - inspired Horror film called 'ABHORRENT: The Swamp' (2023), starring friends and his brother, Cailan Bird.
He has sighted his main inspirations to film-making being John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Eli Roth and David Lynch amongst others. He also stated that his favourite film of all time is Jim Henson's 'Labyrinth' (1986).
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Patrick Kenney
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is an American retired professional wrestler and baseball player, better known by his ring name, Simon Diamond. He most recently worked for professional wrestling promotion Impact Wrestling as a producer. Diamond is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1998 to 2001 On July 9, 2003, Kenney and Swinger appeared on a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) pay-per-view, beginning a feud with America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm).Championships on August 27, 2003, and held the titles until November 19, when the titles were held up following a controversial ending to a match with the 3 Live Kru.
In September 2005, Kenney spent two weeks in India, where he and fellow TNA employees Sonjay Dutt and Shark Boy visited several cities, promoting the debut of Impact! on ESPN Star Sports.On September 28 in Bhopal, a riot broke out when 1,000 fans were excluded from an event after attendance exceeded expectations.[1] None of the three TNA wrestlers were injured.
Kenney returned to America in October 2005, and on December 8 started an angle with Chicago White Sox catcher A. J. Pierzynski At Turning Point the Diamonds in the Rough (Diamond, Young and Skipper) were defeated in a six-man tag team match by Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt and Dale Torborg, who had Pierzynski in their corner. Pierzynszki returned to TNA in March 2006 and was once again confronted by Diamond, who ended up getting hit with a chair by the White Sox catcher.Shortly thereafter Kenney became a road agent for TNA
On November 3, 2008, Kenney was released from his contract with TNA, with them citing budgetary cuts as the reason.
On September 18, 2009, TNA Wrestling announced that Kenney had been rehired as a road agent to replace the fired Jim Cornette and B.G. James.
Kenney returned to television on the July 15, 2010, edition of Impact!, aligning himself with fellow ECW alumni Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Stevie Richards, Rhino, Brother Devon, Al Snow and Mick Foley in their invasion of TNA. The following week, TNA president Dixie Carter agreed to give the ECW alumni their own reunion pay–per–view event, Hardcore Justice: The Last Stand, as a celebration of hardcore wrestling and a final farewell to the company. At the event Kenney returned to his Simon Diamond persona and teamed with Johnny Swinger and Kid Kash in a six-man tag team match, where they were defeated by Little Guido, Tony Luke and Tracy Smothers of The Full Blooded Italians.
At May 8, 2012, Kenny substituted Taz as Color Commentator at TNA Xplosion, joining Jeremy Borash.
On June 19, 2017, Kenney left Impact Wrestling alongside Shane Helms and Al Snow.
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Diamond appeared as a playable character in the 2000 video game ECW Hardcore Revolution.
Personal life
Kenney began dating Dawn Marie in October 1998. Before dating, the two had been good friends for almost two years. They had planned to be married by the end of 2000 or into 2001. They did not wed, but stayed engaged for several years afterwards.After seven years together, their relationship began to come to an end.Kenney and Candice Kenney have a child born in 2010.
In 2001, Kenney filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against a former priest at Salesianum School
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Aaron Ali-Snippe
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Aaron Ali-Snippe is an actor widely known for his collaboration with Bird Stone Productions and casting as Logan in the 'ABHORRENT' Franchise. He also stars as the Final Boy in the Backwoods Slasher film, 'That Night' in collaboration with Director, Ronan Bird. Aaron Ali-Snippe is also good friends with the director, sharing many Grindhouse screenings together - including 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' and 'The Naked Cage'.
He takes much inspiration from Zack Galligan - star of 'Gremlins' - and 'Psycho's Anthony Perkins; borrowing their charm and class. This however, shouldn't distract from his love for Bad Taste Cinema. It's clear that his role in 'ABHORRENT II' was directly inspired by the likes of 'Cannibal Holocaust'. Ronan Bird credits Aaron as his "muse", once saying in an interview, "there's always a role for him in one of my films... he's a pleasure to work with".
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Quavo
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Quavious Keyate Marshall, better known by his stage name Quavo, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known as the frontman of the now-defunct hip-hop group Migos. Formed with his late nephew Takeoff (1994-2022) and their mutual best friend Offset in 2008, the group released four commercially successful studio albums before disbanding in 2023.
He appeared, as himself, in the TV series black-ish (2014) and Narcos: Mexico (2018). He also starred in The Waterboyz (2024) as Lil Zoo.
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Cara Buono
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Born in The Bronx, New York, Buono was raised in a blue-collar family and decided at an early age to make acting her life's ambition. At 11, she showed her connection to her family's work ethic by answering a casting call ad for Harvey Fierstein's "Spookhouse" and landing the role, without any assistance from her family or other adults. Buono began landing roles on television and the New York stage while in her teens and early twenties, and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination as a young victim of sexual abuse in Abby, My Love (1991) (CBS, 1991), which aired as part of the CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984). She soon graduated to minor roles in Stephen Gyllenhaal's Waterland (1992), with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke; as an illegal immigrant in The Cowboy Way (1994), with Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland; and in Noah Baumbach's much-loved indie comedy, Kicking and Screaming (1995), which reunited her with her "Abby, My Love" co-star, Josh Hamilton. While cultivating her acting career, Buono also graduated from Columbia University with a double major in English and political science in 1995, which she earned in just three years.
After graduation, Buono concentrated largely on character roles in independent films and on television. She was the wife and confidante of prison guard Robert Sean Leonard, who served as an earpiece for monstrous 1930s criminal Carl Panzram (James Woods) in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), before playing an accident-prone opera singer in love with a young man (Gibson Frazier) with Jazz-Era affectations in the offbeat Man of the Century (1999). She soon added behind-the-camera credits to her expanding resume, including writer/director on the short, Baggage (1997), with Liev Schreiber and Minnie Driver, and served as co-producer and star of the comedy, Two Ninas (1999), about a pair of similarly monikered women (Buono and Amanda Peet) who fell for a very unlucky man. She continues to write and co-wrote "When the Cat's Away" (1999), with Brad Anderson, and wrote an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, "This Side of Paradise".
Buono's screen credits grew more obscure at the launch of the new millennium - art house and film festival circles saw the lesbian drama, Chutney Popcorn (1999), Attention Shoppers (2000), Happy Accidents (2000) with Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. She soon turned to television for wider exposure, and earned it through supporting roles on high profile series like Third Watch (1999) and The Sopranos (1999). In 2007, she joined the cast of the cult favorite, The Dead Zone (2002) (USA, 2002-2007) as Sheriff Anna Turner, who investigated the death of her predecessor (Chris Bruno).
During this period, Buono maintained her screen career in features as varied as Ang Lee's Hulk (2003), playing David Banner's mother, who was killed by his genetically-induced rage, and Beer League (2006), and Artie Lange's hapless lay-about love interest. In 2010, she appeared as the divorced mother of Kodi Smit-McPhee in Let Me In (2010), the critically-praised American remake of the Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One In (2008). That same year, she landed her most widely seen role-to-date on Mad Men (2007), playing Dr. Faye Miller. For her efforts, Buono received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.
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Fred Zinnemann
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Alfred "Fred" Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997), born in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, was an American film director. He won four Academy Awards for directing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. He made 25 feature films during his 50-year career.
Zinnemann was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with civilians to give his films more realism. Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and thereby creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events. According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of "psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining."
Some of his most notable films were The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun's Story (1959), A Man For All Seasons (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), and Julia (1977). His films have received 65 Oscar nominations, winning 24.
Zinnemann directed and introduced a number of stars in their U.S. film debuts, including Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Pier Angeli, Julie Harris, Brandon deWilde, Montgomery Clift, Shirley Jones and Meryl Streep. He directed 19 actors to Oscar nominations, including Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.
Fred Zinnemann died in London, England in 1997. He was 89 years old.
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