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Aziz Degga
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Abdelaziz Degga, born on November 10, 1945 in Algiers, is an Algerian actor, comedian and writer. He is the brother of Nasreddine Degga, also an artist, comedian and impersonator.
This son of Climat-de-France, in Algiers, began his career as an artist in the theater. In 1967, he joined the dramatic arts section of the Algiers Conservatory. He then played in dialect and in French alongside Azzedine Medjoubi, Madjid Bey, Abdelah Bouzida, Norredine Lameche, Samir Bencherifa and Rabah Allam in the play L’Exception Et La Règle by Bertold Brecht. Until 1972, he continued to perform classical plays with a dramatic tone. After Les Perses by Aeschylus (1967), he played in the play in dialectal Arabic by Echaab (The People). In 1969 he was in Kateb Yacine's La Poudre D'Intelligence. Then in 1972 in the theater troupe of the same Kateb who will tour France for several months to play "Mohamed Prend Ta Valise". He will play in Djamel Allam's La Voûte, and will then do a one-man show.
Degga has played in about ten films and seven TV films. "I have always played roles that exude cheerfulness, I don't like to put myself in the shoes of characters who whine, I play humorous, relaxed, not serious roles, but which do not belong to the worldly type", as in Omar Gatlato by Merzak Allouache, he played the role of Moh Smina. An exception that proves the rule, Degga admits that he liked Al Intihar (Suicide) by Mustapha Badie where he plays the tragic role of a simpleton. Badie gives what is needed to the actors, he is the one who discovered the great characters such as Biyouna, Ouardia, etc. He has unearthed talents that could never have played in the cinema. On a human level, he is very attentive in his relationships with people. Concerning Merzak Allouache, Degga places him in another category. "I think his genius was to write a script that gives the actors the freedom to evolve, to spontaneously create dialogues that we hear every day in the street."
Among the films in which he played leading roles: Omar Gatlato (1976), Cri de Pierre (1987), Le Clandestin (1988), Sombrero (2006), Morituri (2007), Il Était une fois dans l'oued (2005)..
"I was born with Hitler's capitulation, on November 10, 1945!" he said. With his Kouffa, Aziz Degga often strolled around Algiers, which inspired him. Since his retirement from cinema at the age of 65, Abdelaziz Degga has devoted himself to writing stories and short stories for children, illustrated by the visual artist Abderrahamne Ouattou. Fond of stories and anecdotes, he collected thousands of stories throughout his life, which he recorded in cards that he keeps at home. His trick is to record brief exchanges of words that he had with famous people. The real facts thus collected are sprinkled with imaginary notes before being offered for reading in the form of short stories.
Aziz Degga died on April 12, 2019, at the age of 74, following an illness. The tribute documentary "Aziz Degga, conteur", by director Hamid Benamra is currently in preparation.
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Piret Krumm
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Piret Krumm (born January 20, 1989) is an Estonian actress, singer, and comedian whose career began in the early 2010s. She has performed as a stage, television, film and voice actress, as well as a jury panelist for the Eesti Laul competition. She is a singer for the Tallinn-based band Diskofon.
Piret Krumm was born in Tallinn to actors and singers Tõnu Kilgas and Katrin Karisma. She took her surname from her step-father, opera singer Hendrik Krumm, while still a child. She has three half-sisters from her father's previous relationships and marriages, including jazz singer Hedvig Hanson, and two half-siblings from her mother's marriage to Krumm. Her paternal grandparents were Vanemuine theatre actors Ellen Kaarma and Lembit Mägedi.
Krumm attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn before enrolling in at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's Performing Arts Department to study acting under course supervisor Elmo Nüganen, graduating in 2012. Among her graduating classmates were: Henrik Kalmet, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Priit Pius, Märt Pius, Pääru Oja, Liis Lass, Maiken Schmidt, and Kaspar Velberg.
Following graduation from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2012, Krumm began an engagement as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. Krumm remained with the theatre until 2017, when she opted to leave to become a freelance actress.
Following several roles in student films in 2013, Krumm made her feature film debut as Lilith in the 2017 Sulev Keedus directed drama Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari and the same year appeared as Jõgeva "Rabbit" in the Priit Pääsuke drama feature Keti lõpp. In 2019, she appeared as Rita in the third installment of the René Vilbre directed Klassikokkutulek comedy films, Klassikokkutulek 3: Ristiisad.
in 2020, she appeared as a social worker in the Lauri Randla directed and Peeter Urbla produced period Exitfilm comedy film Hüvasti, NSVL. In 2021, she appeared in a starring role as Karin in the Priit Pääsuke directed comedy youth film Öölapsed.
Krumm has also worked as a voice actress; In 2015, she provided Estonian language dubbing for the American computer animated film Inside Out. In 2017, she dubbed the voice of the character Valerie for the American computer-animated film Despicable Me 3. In 2020, she voiced the character of Kristel Adrienne in the animated children's film Sipsik.
In 2017, Krumm was a jury panelist for the Eesti Laul finals broadcast on Eesti Televisioon (ETV); the competition to decide who will represent Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2019, she was the competition's co-host with singer Karl-Erik Taukar.
Since 2013, Krumm has also frequently performed as one-half of a comedy duo with fellow actress Katariina Tamm. The two women have appeared onstage at comedy festivals and on television in skits and in monologues.
In addition to acting, Krumm sings for the retro, disco-influenced pop band Diskofon and operates a café in Tallinn.
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Grigori Kozintsev
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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1971 he was the president of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Lai Yumeng
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Lai Yu Meng is a Chinese actress. She studied dance at the Capital Normal University in Beijing, majoring in dance. She went on to make her entertainment business debut in the soccer-themed drama “Go! Goal! Fighting” in 2014. She followed up the following year with a performance in the fantasy period drama “The Legend of Flying Daggers.” In 2017, she appeared as a regular cast member on the variety show “Divas Hit the Road.” More recently, she has starred in a live-action drama adaptation of web-based series “The King’s Avatar” (2019), as well as the romantic drama “As Long as You Love Me” (2019).
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Aida Kurmangaliyeva
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Aida Kurmangaliyeva is a Kazakh actress and model known for her work in cinema and social media. She has been involved in dance since childhood and performed at various events. From the eighth grade, she started working in theater, earning fees for her performances. At the age of 14, she also worked as a waitress in a café. In 2020, Aida joined the Kazakh creative TikTok collective **BIP House**, performing under the pseudonym **@monalemi**. Her TikTok account has around **5 million followers**. In 2025, Aida represented Kazakhstan at the **75th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)** alongside **Aizhuldyz Adaibekova** and later attended an **Armani Beauty event**, the official partner of the festival. She continues to actively develop her career in film and modeling, representing Kazakhstan on the international stage.
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Alyssa Sutherland
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Alyssa Sutherland is an Australian actress and fashion model. Discovered in 1997 at the Queensland State Finals for the Girlfriend Model Competition, when her exceptional looks could not be overlooked whilst standing in the crowd. Alyssa won the Queensland title and went on to win the National Finals in December of that year. Shortly after winning the competition, Alyssa was booked by Australian Vogue and was then taken to New York for her formal introduction to the international fashion world. In 2001, Alyssa starred in an Australian documentary, "The Walk", detailing a model life. After joining Endeavor talent agency, she worked on "The Devil Wears Prada". Alyssa Sutherland now primarily acts. She made the complete switch to the silver screen in 2006.
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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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Ricky Townsend
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Ricky Townsend is a filmmaker from Ōtautahi with a BFA Hons in Film from Ilam School of Fine Arts. Paired with a background in theatre, Ricky works in many areas of production such as directing, writing and editing. As an autistic filmmaker, he uses filmmaking to understand the world and express his feelings to others. Exploring stories through the eyes and thinking of neurodivergent voices is an important part of Ricky’s process as an artist and storyteller.
Ricky’s recent independent feature film The Bostrom Scenario has been screening in genre festivals around the world including the 49th Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, Gen Con Film Festival and Galacticat. His film also won Best Sci-Fi Thriller at the Miami Sci-Fi Film Festival. Ricky's short film Wilbert Wire, was commissioned by Day One Shorts in Aotearoa; funded by NZ on Air, Whakaata Māori, Te Māngai Pāho and RNZ.
Ricky's other short films have screened at Sydney Indie Film Festival and Top of the South Film Festival in Aotearoa.
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Alissa Filoramo
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Filoramo was responsible for the production of the short film Young Liars, which was shown at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival & CthuluCon in 2018. In the same film she took on one of the leading roles. From 2019 she took acting classes at various acting studios. That same year she was cast in the short film VEM Exotic Rentals. In 2020 she had a major film role and an additional supporting role in the feature film Battle Star Wars. She had newer casts in the feature film The Transcenders and in two episodes of the television series The Family Business and many more.
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Carlo Leva
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Carlo Leva (27 February 1930 – 4 April 2020) was an Italian production designer. After beginning his career as second assistant art director in Genoa on the set of The Walls of Malapaga, Leva studied Architecture in Rome, specializing in production design, costume design and set decoration for movies and advertising.
In 1962, Leva was hired as assistant art director on Robert Aldrich's Sodom and Gomorrah, where he met second unit director Sergio Leone, who later hired him as assistant art director on A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and as set decorator on Once Upon a Time in the West.[1] He befriended also director Enzo Muzii, with whom he worked on movies such as Something Like Love, and later worked with many other directors, such as Federico Fellini, Dario Argento (for The Cat o' Nine Tails) and Carol Reed.
In 2017, Leva took part in the documentary film Sad Hill Unearthed, narrating the reconstruction of the cemetery scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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