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Adeyto
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Adeyto (アデイト in Japanese, also known as Adeyto Rex Angeli and Laura Windrath, December 3, 1976) is a French singer-songwriter, actress, photographer, university professor and fashion designer based in Japan.
Born in Strasbourg to a German father and a French mother, she entered the acting industry at the age of 8. In 1998 she moved to Japan where she continued her acting career, appearing in Japanese TV series, movies and variety shows. She played Marilyn Monroe in the 2003 movie Get Up.
She has also worked as a photographer and cinematographer behind the camera, being chosen in 2012 by producer Ridley Scott to be co-director and cinematographer for the film Japan in a Day.
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Danielle Brisebois
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Danielle Anne Brisebois (born June 28, 1969) is an American producer, singer-songwriter and former actress. She is most recognized for her role as Stephanie Mills on the sitcoms All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award), as well as playing Molly in the original Broadway production of the musicalAnnie. In the 1990s she recorded two solo albums, Arrive All Over You andPortable Life, and was a member of the New Radicals and contributed to writing the songs for the album Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. She has written or co-written a number of songs, including Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten", and "Pocketful of Sunshine". In January 2015, Brisebois and writing partner Gregg Alexander were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song Lost Stars from the film Begin Again.
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Chuck Schumer
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Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New York, a seat he has held since 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, Schumer has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and has served as Senate Majority Leader since 2021. The dean of New York's congressional delegation, Schumer is in his fifth Senate term and was the Senate's minority leader from 2017 to 2021. Schumer is the longest-serving senator from New York, having surpassed Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jacob K. Javits in 2023.
A native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Schumer was a three-term member of the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1980. He served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999, first representing New York's 16th congressional district before being redistricted to the 10th congressional district in 1983 and 9th congressional district 10 years later. In 1998, Schumer was elected to the Senate, defeating three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato. He was reelected in 2004 with 71% of the vote, in 2010 with 66% of the vote, in 2016 with 70% of the vote, and in 2022 with 56% of the vote.
Schumer chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2009, overseeing 14 Democratic gains in the Senate in the 2006 and 2008 elections. He was the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin. He served as Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate from 2007 to 2017 and chaired the Senate Democratic Policy Committee from 2011 to 2017 Schumer won his fourth term in the Senate in 2016 and was then unanimously elected Democratic leader to succeed Harry Reid, who was retiring.
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Caroline Silhol
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Caroline Silhol (born 10 August 1949) is a French actress and writer. She is a three-time Molière Award-nominee for her theatre performances.
Silhol was born in Paris and began her acting career in early 1970s appearing in film and television playing supporting roles though the next two decades working witn directors including François Truffaut, Nelly Kaplan and Alain Corneau. On stage, Silhol performed in productions of Le Paysan parvenu, Tartuffe, Les Parents terribles, Sodom and Gomorrah, Chantecler, The Infernal Machine and others. She received three Molière Award for Best Actress nominations: in 1994, 2002 and 2005.
Silhol received international recognition after appearances in films Tous les Matins du Monde (1991), Vent d'est (1993), Prediction (1993) and Rembrandt (1999). She wrote and starred in the 2000 drama film Half of Heaven and played Marlene Dietrich in the 2007 musical film La Vie en Rose. Silhol played the female lead in the 2019 romantic comedy film Remember Me opposite Bruce Dern.
Silhol married French film producer Jean-Louis Livi, nephew of actor Yves Montand.
Source: Article "Caroline Silhol" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Shammi Kapoor
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Shammi Kapoor (Shamsher Raj Kapoor; 21 October 1931– 14 August 2011) was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s.
Shammi Kapoor is hailed as one of the most entertaining lead actors that Hindi cinema has ever produced. He was one of the leading stars of Hindi cinema during the late 1950s, the 1960s and early '70s. He made his Bollywood debut in 1953 with the film Jeevan Jyoti, and went on to deliver hits like Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Dil Deke Dekho, Junglee, Dil Tera Diwana, Professor, China Town, Rajkumar, Kashmir Ki Kali, Janwar, Teesri Manzil, An Evening in Paris, Bramhachari, Andaz and Vidhaata. He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1968 for his performance in Brahmachari and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Vidhaata in 1982.
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Nasr Hamid Abû Zayd
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Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (نصر حامد أبو زيد,) born July 10, 1943 and died July 5, 2010, was an Egyptian Muslim thinker, author, academic and one of the leading liberal theologians of Islam. He is famous for his project of humanist Quranic hermeneutics. Zayd argued that the Quran should be read in the context of the language and culture of the seventh-century Arabs, and could be interpreted in several ways. He also criticized the use of religion to exercise political power. Abu Zayd is considered one of the “big names” of the post-1967 Arab intellectual tradition.
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was born in Tanta, Egypt on July 10, 1943. Abu Zayd followed a traditional religious school system and was a Qāriʾ capable of reciting the Quran. one with the proper rules of recitation, and a Hafiz who memorized the Quran completely from a young age. At the age of 12, Abu Zayd was imprisoned for allegedly sympathizing with the Muslim Brotherhood. He was also influenced by the writings of Muslim Brotherhood revolutionary Islamist Sayyid Qutb, who was executed by the Egyptian state in 1966, but distanced himself from the ideas of the Brotherhood and Qutb as he aged. He began studying at Cairo University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in Arabic studies (1972), then his master's (1977) and doctorate (1981) in Islamic studies, with work on the interpretation of the Koran.
In 1982, he joined the faculty of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Cairo University as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor there in 1987. From 1985 to 1989, he worked as a visiting lecturer at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan. In 1992, the process of considering his promotion to full professor at Cairo University was a "legal nightmare for him and his wife." Although he was eventually promoted, he was sued by conservative Muslims and an appeals court declared him an apostate and divorced him from his wife. This was followed by calls for his death and exile to Europe where he was given the position of visiting professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Leiden University.
In Europe, he held the Ibn Rushd Chair of Humanism and Islam at the University of Humanism in Utrecht, Netherlands, while also supervising master's and doctoral students at Leiden University . He also participated in a research project on Jewish and Islamic hermeneutics as cultural criticism within the working group on Islam and modernity of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). In 2005 he received the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought in Berlin. His wife returned to Egypt several times to discuss master's and doctoral theses at the French department of Cairo University. Dr. Abu Zayd also returned to Egypt several times after 1995, but mainly to visit family.
During a visit to Indonesia, he was infected with an unknown virus and was hospitalized in Cairo. He died in a hospital in Cairo on July 5, 2010, aged 66. He was buried in his hometown the same day.
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Mohamed Sobhi
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Mohamed Sobhy is an Egyptian actor, writer and director who was born in Cairo in 1948. At a young age he was known for his talent of imitating famous artists; “Youssef Wahby, “Abu-Lam’a” and “Ahmad al-Haddaad”, a talent that paved his way to join the famous radio entertainment program “Saa’a le-albak i.e. An hour for your heart”. His unique artistic talent first appeared during his final exam at the High Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1967 when he played Hamlet, graduated with honors and was appointed demonstrator. He later wrote, starred and directed in his own theatrical version of Hamlet. Thus, his name was added to the British Encyclopedia, the most famous international encyclopedia. He started his career playing minor roles in stage plays with famous stars like Salaah Mansour, Fou’aad al-Mohandess, Hassan Youssef, Muhammad ‘Awad, Muhammad Negm and others. Although he played small roles, yet his appearance attracted audience and gained the admiration of those whom he worked with for his undeniable talent. His first, small but significant, role in “Hello Shalaby (1970)” was one of his most known achievements at the time. His lead roles started with ” Entaha al-dars ya ghabi i.e. Lesson is over, stupid”. Then, followed his roles in “’Aly Beih Mazhar. i.e. Mr. Aly Mazhar”, “Hamlet”, “Al-jokar i.e. The Joker”, “Al-hamagy i.e. The barbarian”, “Weg-het nazar i.e. A point of view”, “Mama America”, “Le’bet al-sett i.e. A woman’s plaything”, “Carmen”, and other Naguib El Reehany plays that he produced in the late 90's and early 2000's. Among Sobhy’s popular TV series are: “Aly Beih Mazhar. i.e. Mr. Aly Mazhar”, “Kimo”, “Rehlet al-million i.e. The journey to be a millionaire”, “Sonbol baa’d el Million i.e. Sonbol..A millionaire”, “Yawmeyyat Wanees i.e. Wanees days” (seven seasons) and “Faares bela gawaad i.e. A knight without a horse”. On the silver screen, Sobhy was widely noticed in “Abnaa al-samt i.e. Sons of silence, and his critically acclaimed role as an activist student in the political drama “Al-Karnak.”
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Icíar Bollaín
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Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born June 12, 1967; Madrid) is a Spanish actress, director and writer.
Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films.
Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love. Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio. Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.
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Ence Bagus
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Ence Bagus Hartono, A.Md., S.Sn. (born December 25, 1980), is an Indonesian actor, comedian, director, and producer. He began his career in the entertainment industry as an extra in several soap operas and television commercials.
In 2004, during his college break, Ence accepted an offer to appear as an extra in his first feature film, Brownies. He became more widely known after joining the comedy show Extravaganza as a regular cast member in 2007.
Throughout his career, Ence has played various roles in films, such as a street noodle vendor, police officer, security guard, driver, journalist, house servant, anti-corruption officer, and clown in the film Guru Ngaji, which earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Citra Awards.
In 2018, Ence starred in eleven films, including Yo Wis Ben, Guru Ngaji, Partikelir, Reuni Z, Love Reborn, Insya Allah Sah 2, 22 Menit, Gila Lu Ndro!, and DOA (Doyok-Otoy-Ali Oncom).
Despite his frequent appearances in various films, Ence acknowledges that getting a leading role is not easy, especially with the presence of younger and more attractive actors. He once stated, "I will only be the lead actor in a film if I make the film myself."
In addition to his career in Indonesia, Ence also appeared in a Dutch film titled The East (De Oost), where he played a pimp who introduced the protagonist to a prostitute named Gita.
With his dedication to acting, Ence Bagus continues to be one of the most sought-after supporting actors in Indonesia.
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Ryan J. Duncan
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Ryan J. Duncan is a Los Angeles-based actor, singer, dancer, and producer, best known for The Shell (2019), Summer of Six (2016) and The Writing on the Wall (2014). Born and raised in Ridgefield, CT, Ryan first caught the acting bug at the age of five when he played The Gingerbread Man in a kindergarten production of the same name. He attended Northwestern University where he graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Theatre and History and a certificate in Musical Theatre. Ryan fell in love with the Chicago theatre scene while attending Northwestern and decided to move down to Chicago post-graduation. He spent several years there before moving to LA.
Ryan has had the opportunity to work with a number of great theater companies, including Theatre West, The Group Rep., Music Theater Works, Theatre at the Center, Williams Street Repertory Theatre, NightBlue Theatre, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Texas Family Musicals, Towle Theatre, and The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. He has appeared in commercial spots for Monster and Nutriblend Animal Food and can be seen in several short films and web-series. Ryan is passionate about all aspects of the performing arts, including film, musical theatre, drama, new works, improv, comedy, and commercial content.
Ryan is represented by the Robertson/Taylor Agency (RTA) and is a proud member of the Grok Acting Studio.
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