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Myles Clohessy

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Myles Clohessy is a Director, Writer and Actor. The son of Actor Robert Clohessy, known for numerous starring Broadway stage performances and as a long standing TV star regular. Myles grew up excelling in sports and ended up playing Division 1 college soccer at Central Connecticut State University before transferring to pursue his acting degree full time at the renowned Conservatory of Acting at SUNY Purchase and then at the Drama Centre in London. He has since been seen steadily on prime time network TV and major indie films and is currently directing multiple big budget feature films that he wrote and directed via his Production Company Barefoot Kid Productions. So far his films have secured distribution with distributors such as Showtime, Paramount +, Shout Factory, Saban Films, Tubi, and Amazon.
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Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair

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Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair was an Indian poet, playwright, script writer, lyricist, orator, film director and actor, He was born on 16 October 1916 in the village of Thikkurissy, Nagercoil, then part of Travancore. He is best known as an actor in Malayalam cinema. He is the recipient of Padmashri from the Government of India, which is one of the highest civilian honours in India. In a career that spanned about 47 years, he acted in over 700 films. He is considered to be the first movie super star in Malayalam cinema. He launched his career as a playwright. His plays Mareechika and Kalakaran were hugely successful. He entered the Malayalam film industry in 1950.He debuted in the industry with the film adaptation of his breakthrough play Sthree. Thikkurussy coined screen-names of many actors in Malayalam cinema. Actors who were renamed by Thikkurissy include Prem Nazir, Madhu,Bahadoor,Jose Prakash etc. He died on 11 March 1997 aged 80 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, due to renal failure.
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Nick Cannon

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Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon (born October 8, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, rapper, record producer, radio and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenage sketch comedian on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, and America's Got Talent. He acted in the films Drumline, Love Don't Cost a Thing, and Roll Bounce. As a rapper, he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the hit single "Gigolo", a collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2006, Cannon recorded singles "Dime Piece" and "My Wife" for a planned album Stages, which was never released. Cannon married singer Mariah Carey on April 30, 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Cannon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Steve Carlson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carlson was born in Virginia, Minnesota. He appeared in the movie Slap Shot as one of the Hanson Brothers.  Carlson played in the World Hockey Association with the New England Whalers, Edmonton Oilers and Minnesota Fighting Saints and in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings, scoring nine goals for the Kings.  While playing for the Edmonton Oilers in the WHA, he was the roommate of Wayne Gretzky during his rookie season.  Carlson is the only player to ever be on a team with Gordie Howe and on a team with Wayne Gretzky. Since retiring from hockey, Carlson runs a power skating school in Northern California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Carlson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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He Junhao

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He Junhao, formerly He Xiang, graduated from the Beijing Sports University Affiliated Competitive Sports School and won the Xinjiang Wushu Championship three consecutive times. In 2002, he served as a martial artist in the martial arts drama "Seven Swords Under Tianshan". In 2008, he participated in the selection TV event "The Descendants of the Dragon" and entered the top 16. He was later accepted as an apprentice by Jackie Chan and became one of the "New Seven Little Fortunes"
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Ajay Raj

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Ajay Raj is an Indian film actor, who has appeared in Tamil language films. While working as a dance choreographer, Ajay made his acting debut with Agathiyan's Selvam (2005), before appearing in Chennai 600028 (2007) and has since appeared regularly in films associated with director Venkat Prabhu and his team. While working as a dance choreographer, Ajay made his acting debut with Agathiyan's Selvam (2005) portraying a friend of the lead character played by Nandha. His friendship with Venkat Prabhu meant that he was cast in Chennai 600028 (2007) portraying an ambulance driver, who plays gully cricket for the Sharks team. He has since appeared regularly in films associated with director Venkat Prabhu and his team such as Saroja (2008) and Thozha (2008). Ajay Raj also portrayed a supporting role in Thiagarajan Kumararaja's neo-noir gangster film Aaranya Kaandam (2010), portraying a henchman of the gangster played by Jackie Shroff. In 2016, actor Nithin Sathya announced that Ajay Raj would play the lead role in his first film as a producer.
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Katrina Kemp

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Katrina Kemp has been involved in theater, dance and choir since she was a young child. She has deep vaudevillian roots stemming from her paternal side of the family in the Bahamas and in 2009, followed that path five miles from her home where she made her acting/stunt-woman professional debut suiting up as Chucky the Killer Doll for several attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood. From there, she got a taste of the industry by doing creature suit characters for low budget horror films, and commercials. Her first big break was starring in the circus, "Cirque Berzerk," then on to several music videos (Rihanna), and guest star roles on television (Marvel's Spider-Man, RuPaul's Drag Race, Man Seeking Woman, Faking It, The Eric Andre Show) During that time, Katrina graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in TV Production from Cal State University Northridge in 2013 before twerking her way across South America with Miley Cyrus on the "Bangerz" International Tour in 2014. After working several television shows and years of atmosphere roles with concert event giants Coachella and Insomniac Events, Katrina got an even bigger break and became most notably known for her role as "Fleck" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to Phantom of the Opera, "Love Never Dies," a First National Tour that premiered in 2017. She is the only Little Person Acrobat-Singer to complete 410 shows of a Broadway production in 41 major cities across North America in just 18 months. Most recently, she was signed on for a 5 episode arc on the Netflix series, "GLOW," as a feisty wrestler on the circuit named, "Candy," with Katrina doing her own wrestling stunts. Unfortunately, the show has been canceled after the filming of episode one. Katrina is known as a voice and an advocate for Dwarfism and Disability inclusion in the media industry. She became the first actor with Dwarfism voicing the first Little Person animated character on a several-episode arc in the Marvel Universe, as Anna Maria Marconi, on Disney XD's "Marvel's Spider-Man," and has been hired for several talking engagements, in person and through social media platforms. centered around being an actor with a disability. When Katrina is not on the road touring, or taking time to physically recover from a stunt job she uses her TV Production degree to work as a Reality TV show Transcriptionist and on-set Live Logger around the world. She spends seasons working for editors and story producers with companies like 495 Productions, Fox Entertainment, Disney, Bravo Networks, and (full circle) World of Wonder's, RuPaul's Drag Race. With a combined four years of writing/typing expertise and ten years of live performance experience, she is fluid in both sides of the industry. Katrina had joined the AGVA union in 2009 as a variety artist, became a SAG-AFTRA member in 2014 as an Actor and Stunt Woman, jumped on the stage to become a member of Actor's Equity Union in 2017 and then solidified becoming a Logger/Transcriptionist within the Motion Picture Editor's Guild in 2018. Whether she is dancing, singing, scaring, twerking, typing, or traveling, Katrina brings her outlook on life to the world and shares the Dwarfism Awareness movement to any project medium she's working on.
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Danish Sait

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Danish Sait is an Indian Radio Host, Emcee, TV Presenter, Actor and Writer. He has successfully been in the business for the past six years and won Gold at The World Championship of Performing Arts, for acting and stand up comedy. He is known for playing Nograj in Humble Politician Nograj. Danish is a Kannadiga who was born and raised in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Sait completed his schooling in Frank Anthony Public School in Bengaluru and later went to a boarding school in Karnataka. Sait graduated from Bharathiar University with a Bachelor of Science in Visual communication before beginning his radio career in 2009. He has two sisters named Kubra and Beta. His grandfather, Azeez Sait, was a Congressman from Mysuru. Yasmin Sait who is also Sait's mother, manages Sait's upcoming projects.
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Jordan Bolger

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Jordan Bolger is an English actor. He has performed in television, notably in Peaky Blinders, The 100, The Book of Boba Fett, and This Town. In film, he is known for side roles in Tom & Jerry and The Woman King. Bolger was born in Radford, Coventry, England, to a Jamaican father and English mother, and has a brother Daniell. He was brought up by his single mother Liz, who is a gym instructor. He did taekwondo and kickboxing as a youth. He trained as a dancer at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Originally intending to be a professional dancer, Bolger injured himself at a dancing audition and decided to audition as an actor instead. His first acting role was as Isaiah Jesus in the British period crime drama television series Peaky Blinders. He made 13 appearances in the show from 2014 to 2017, before exiting the show due to clashing schedules. In 2018, he appeared on the post-apocalyptic science fiction drama The 100, cast as Miles Ezekial Shaw. In 2021, he made his Hollywood debut in a side role in the comedy film Tom & Jerry. In 2022, he was cast as the recurring character Skad in the Star Wars spinoff television series The Book of Boba Fett. He appeared in a supporting role, Malik, in the 2022 film The Woman King.
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