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Regina Famatigan
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Regina is a NYC-based actress best known for playing Kira in the action/comedy feature Skye Hoshi: Anime Girl, starring as Winnie in the indie fantasy/drama The Ghost Light, and originating the role of Brigid/Murigel in the Off-Broadway Dungeons and Dragons musical, Here There be Dragons. A recent graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, CA, she majored in political theory with minors in theatre performance and film studies.
She can often be found watching socio-political commentary video essays on Youtube, sitting out by the NYC seaport on an 1885 cargo ship, or sending 10 minute minimum voice memos to her dear friends.
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Frayser Boy
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Cedric Coleman, professionally known by his stage name Frayser Boy, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He was formerly signed to Hypnotize Minds, the record label run by Three 6 Mafia founders DJ Paul and Juicy J, and had released three studio albums under the label: Gone on That Bay (2003), Me Being Me (2005), and Da Key (2008). At the 78th Academy Awards, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" along with Three 6 Mafia members Juicy J, Crunchy Black, and DJ Paul.
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Susan Hanfield
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Susan Hanfield is a classically trained actor and audiobook narrator. She comes from a strong theatre background and loves to bring deep characterizations to all of her work.
In film news - Je Suis - a powerfully relevant film in which Susan plays Charlie, a busy CEO of an ad agency, will be screening at the Cinequest Film & VR Festival on March 9, 10 & 11th! If you are in the San Jose area, come check us out! In other news, 96 Souls - a feature in which Susan plays the university shelter processor, acquired distribution and began its nationwide theatrical release across the US in May 2017. 96 Souls is now available for streaming and as a download on iTunes and AmazonPrime.
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Entesar Alsharah
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Entesar Ali ElSharrah, a Kuwaiti actress, was born on November 5, 1962, in the Shaab area. She joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Kuwait. In 1961, she participated in the play "Saqr Quraish", which is her first theatrical appearance after graduation. She entered the world of art through singing groups at the end of the seventies, and was helped by the relationship she had with the late artist Maryam Al-Ghadban. In 1981, she participated in the famous play "By Bye London", starring the star Abdul Hussein Abdel Reda, who gave her this golden opportunity, and the late artist Ghanem ElSaleh, and it was the actual start of her acting career thanks to the popularity and success of this play. The following year, she appeared for the first time on the small screen through the series "He came out and did not return", and in 1983 she participated in the comedic plays "You Allow You Laugh" and "Cinderella", then in the series "Fences", followed by the play "Robot" in 1985. She formed a duet with the artist. Daoud Hussein and together they presented the most prominent comedies, such as: "With Angham", "Khud wa Velka", "Cocktail", "Nest of Marriage", "Satellite Channels" and others. During her career, she did a single directorial job, and participated in more than 100 artistic works in television and theater, and was able to win the title of First Lady of the Gulf Comedy for more than three decades. In her artistic balance, she has 55 plays, more than 81 series, and 14 comedy programs. Intisar Al-Sharrah married Mazen Salem Al-Tamimi, and she has three children: Dalal, Salem, and Ali. In 2002, she wore the hijab and completed her artistic career. She died on Saturday morning, July 31, 2021, after a long suffering with illness, in the British capital, London, At the age of 59 years.
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Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente
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Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, former military leader, and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict. Widely known by his previous nom de guerre as Subcomandante Marcos, he has recently used several other pseudonyms; he referred to himself as Delegate Zero during the 2006 Mexican presidential campaign. In May 2014, he adopted the name of his dead comrade "Teacher Galeano", naming himself Subcomandante Galeano instead.
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Shanna Besson
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Shanna Leila Besson (born 3 January 1993) is a French actress and photographer. She is the only child of French film directors Maïwenn and Luc Besson.
Shanna Besson was born 3 January 1993 when her mother was 16 years old and her father, Luc Besson, was 33; her parents had married the previous year. The family lived in Los Angeles during her early years. Her father was working as a director in Hollywood.
In 1995, during the filming of The Fifth Element, her father left her mother for young actress Milla Jovovich, who was appearing in it. As a result, her mother Maïwenn returned to Paris, taking Shanna with her. Jovovich and Luc Besson married, but divorced two years later.
Shanna's maternal aunt is French actress Isild Le Besco. She has a younger half-brother Diego Le Fur, child of her mother's relationship with Jean-Yves Le Fur.
Through her father, Shanna has four siblings, including an older half-sister, Juliette, from his first marriage to actress Anne Parillaud. Her three younger half-siblings are children of his fourth and last marriage, to producer Virginie Silla. She is of French, Algerian and Vietnamese descent through her mother.
When she was 10 years old, Besson made her acting debut in her mother's directorial debut, a short film I'm an Actress. In the semi-autobiographical work, she played a girl forced to be a child star by her mother. The film was based on Maïwenn's own experiences of being pressured into acting by her mother.
Besson later began a career behind the scenes in film. She directed a behind the scenes "making-of" featurette on her father's film The Lady (2011).
She later began work as a still photographer, working for each of her parents: Taken 2 was produced by her father and Mon roi was directed by her mother.
Source: Article "Shanna Besson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Xing Yun
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Xing Yun, born in Dalian of Liaoning Province, is a Chinese model and singer-actor. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy.
In 2009, she successfully won the "Miss International Tourism Top 5 Talents", "World Tourism Image Ambassador Third Runner-up", "Best Photogenic Award", and "Miss World Top Ten" and other beauty pageant awards. She then made her singing debut as the captain of the girl group Juniperus. In 2013, she won the "Shengzhuang Asian Fashion Singer Award" for her EP "Strong Girl".
Xing officially transformed into an actress in 2015 with her debut appearance in the "Husband's Secret Stash" and "Beautiful Woman".
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Alberto Gieco
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Alberto Gieco (1952) is an audiovisual filmmaker and theater artist born in Santa Clara de Buena Vista, Santa Fe province.
In 1980s São Paulo, he directed the cult film *Punks*, which portrays the punk subculture on the city's outskirts.
He has worked as a continuity supervisor and assistant director on more than 30 feature films.
Between 2008 and 2013, he was a member of the artist collective Circo de Poesía in Los Angeles. Additionally, he has taught film and literature at Los Angeles institutions such as the University of California, Occidental College, and Cortines Visual and Performing Arts.
In 2025, he premiered *El infierno de los vivos*, his first feature film as a director.
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Mohamad Ali Fardin
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Mohammad Ali Fardin (Persian: محمدعلی فردین, 4 February 1931 – 6 April 2000) was an Prominent Iranian actor, film director and freestyle wrestler.
Fardin was born and raised in a poor area in southern Tehran. He was the eldest of three children.[1] After graduating from high school, Fardin joined the Air Force and became a freestyle wrestler in his twenties; he won a silver medal at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships and placed fourth in 1957.
He was a popular lead actor in Iranian cinema, and was known by the title, King of Hearts, after his lead role in an Iranian film of the same title (Soltane Ghalbha).
He rose to fame in the 1960s. For the average Iranian, he was a heroic figure who served as an alternative to non Iranian movie stars. He was stereotypically cast as the poor tough guy with the heart of gold who got the girl at the end. His films include, Behesht Door Nist, Ghazal, and Ganje Qarun. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he starred in only two more films, Bar Faraz -e- Asemanha and Barzakhiha.
He also acted in the Indo Iranian Bollywood film Subah O Sham (1972) starring alongside Waheeda Rehman, Sanjeev Kapoor, Simin Ghaffari and Azar. The film was directed by Tapi Chanakya. His voice in the film was dubbed by Satyen Kappu.
Fardin died as a result of cardiac arrest on 6 April 2000 at the age of 69. The news of his death was largely ignored by state radio and television, which was run according to the dictates of the Islamic establishment, who had disapproved of his acting career and had banned his films post the 1979 revolution. He was buried in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in Tehran. More than 20,000 mourners attended his funeral in Tehran.
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Édith Piaf
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Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely known international stars.
Piaf's music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "L'Accordéoniste" (1940), and "Padam, padam..." (1951).
Since her death in 1963, several biographies and films have studied her life, including 2007's La Vie en rose. Piaf has become one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.
Despite numerous biographies, much of Piaf's life is unknown. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72, but her birth certificate says that she was born on 19 December 1915 at the Hôpital Tenon, a hospital located in the 20th arrondissement.
She was named Édith after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed 2 months before Édith's birth for helping French soldiers escape from German captivity. Piaf – slang for "sparrow" – was a nickname she received 20 years later.
Louis Alphonse Gassion (1881–1944), Édith's father, was a street performer of acrobatics from Normandy with a past in the theatre. He was the son of Victor Alphonse Gassion (1850–1928) and Léontine Louise Descamps (1860–1937), known as Maman Tine, a "madam" who ran a brothel in Bernay in Normandy.
Her mother, Annetta Giovanna Maillard, better known professionally as Line Marsa (1895–1945), was a singer and circus performer born in Italy of French descent on her father's side and of Italian and Kabyle on her mother's. Her parents were Auguste Eugène Maillard (1866–1912) and Emma (Aïcha) Saïd Ben Mohammed (1876–1930), daughter of Said ben Mohammed (1827–1890), an acrobat born in Mogador and Marguerite Bracco (1830–1898), born in Murazzano in Italy.
Annetta and Louis-Alphonse divorced on 4 June 1929.
Piaf's mother abandoned her at birth, and she lived for a short time with her maternal grandmother, Emma (Aïcha). When her father enlisted with the French Army in 1916 to fight in World War I, he took her to his mother, who ran a brothel in Bernay, Normandy. There, prostitutes helped look after Piaf. The bordello had two floors and seven rooms, and the prostitutes were not very numerous – "about ten poor girls", as she later described. In fact, five or six were permanent while a dozen others would join the brothel during market days and other busy days. The sub-mistress of the brothel was called "Madam Gaby" and Piaf considered her almost like family, since she became godmother of Denise Gassion, Piaf's half-sister born in 1931. Edith believed her weakness for men came from mixing with prostitutes in her grandmother's brothel. ...
Source: Article "Édith Piaf" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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