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Mike Hernandez
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Mike Hernandez is a man who's had several careers throughout his life, and now he's a full-time actor.
In April of 2013, an acting opportunity literally fell into Mike's lap. A local talent agent who saw him reading Tarot cards at a psychic fair thought he was photogenic, had a good look and great energy, and an interesting presence. She also thought he might have the makings of a good actor, so she invited him to join her agency. Having no prior aspirations of becoming an actor, Mike thought the opportunity was too good to pass up. So, as he had done so many times before in his life, Mike took a chance and got into acting. His career soon took off and he appeared in TV shows such as "Escaping the Prophet", "Evil in Law" and "Best in Chow: Taco Wars Seattle", and in the films "Blue Sky Coffee" and "String Theory", both of which were shot in Seattle. He has also been in industrial videos for the likes of Boeing, Microsoft, the VA Hospital, Navos and Kaiser Permanente and done commercial work for various clients.
It occurred to Mike that if he was really going to pursue his acting career seriously, he'd have to move to Hollywood - or at least somewhere in Los Angeles area. He did just that in September of 2015, initially moving to Woodland Hills. Mike started out in somewhat of a good position in that he had built up credentials in Seattle and already had both theatrical and commercial representation with LA's FireStarter Entertainment.
Since landing in Hollywood, he's booked two recurring parts in HBO's "Veep" and ABC's "American Crime", roles in the independent films "Almost Home" and "The Honor List", and commercials and print ads for various national companies. His Hollywood career was off and running.
Mike was born in 1955 in El Paso, Texas. He spent his late teens and early twenties working at Farah Manufacturing Company and at various Pizza Hut restaurants, and as a professional musician performing in all of the city's top music venues. In 1977, he made a fateful decision to join the Navy to become a Navy Musician. The Navy sent him to Seattle, WA, where he began his stint in the Pacific Northwest as a Navy Musician assigned to Navy Band Seattle. He then spent the next 39 years there as a professional musician; a database developer and consultant; an author and technical writer; a program/community/marketing manager at Microsoft; a technical speaker and trainer known throughout the United States, Europe and South America; a professional Tarot reader; and an actor.
Mike now lives with his wife in Glendale, CA, where he pursues his acting career full-time and continues to study acting and improv. He still does Tarot readings and plays his guitar (he's been a guitarist for over 45 years), and is just having a blast being an actor.
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Musa Uzunlar
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He is originally from Kemerhisar, Nigde. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory Theatre Department in 1985 and started working in State Theatres.
He worked as an actor and director in Bursa, Ankara and Istanbul State Theatres. In addition to his managerial duties at the State Theatres, he also worked as a manager at the State Theatres Sports Club and the State Opera and Ballet Employees Foundation TOBAV. He directed plays at the State Theatres in Bursa, Adana, Diyarbakir, Trabzon, Ankara and Istanbul. He also directed plays in state theaters in Bursa, Adana, Diyarbakir, Trabzon, Ankara and Istanbul. He also worked as a director in Izmit City Theatre, Bakirkoy Municipality Theatres, Eskisehir Theatre Anadolu, Yeditepe Players, Abdullah Sahin/Nokta Theatre, Theatre Ti, Ankara Finance Theatre, Theatre Adam and Macedonia Skopje Peoples Theatre and Bulgaria Ruscuk State Theatre. He also worked as an actor in many plays in private and paid theaters. He wrote two plays, Hüzün Mahallesi Otobüsü and Turtle's Lullaby. The first of these was published and staged at the State Theatres. He worked as an instructor at Uludag University Faculty of Education, Eskisehir Anadolu University State Conservatory Theatre Department, Mimar Sinan University Performing and Visual Arts Department and State Conservatory Theatre Department. He is currently working as an instructor at Halic University and Yeditepe University. He also works in cinema, television and dubbing. He is the President of TOBAV Istanbul Branch. He has starred in many series and films. He became widely known with the character of Iskender Büyük in Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu and the film Kurtlar Vadisi Gladio. He also starred in the series "Subat", which was broadcast on TRT 1 between 2012-2013. Later, he played the character of Bahri Umman in the series Poyraz Karayel, which was broadcast on Kanal D between 2015-2017.
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Louis de Funès
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Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (French: [lwi d(ə) fynɛs]; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. According to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, he is France's favourite actor, having played over 150 roles in film and over 100 on stage. His acting style is remembered for its high-energy performance and his wide range of facial expressions and tics. A considerable part of his best-known acting was directed by Jean Girault.
The larger-than-life, conservative petit bourgeois characters he played, who typically kissed up to authority while persecuting their subordinates, particularly resonated with the changing Western societies of the 1960s and drove him to success. Yet in private life, De Funès was a notoriously shy and reserved man, and a devout Catholic.
One of the most famous French actors of all time, Louis de Funès remains to this day the most bankable actor in French cinema history. He enjoys widespread international recognition: in addition to his immense fame in the French-speaking world, he remains a household name throughout most of continental Europe including the former Eastern Bloc, the former Soviet Union, as well as Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Despite this international popularity, Louis de Funès remains an obscure figure in the English-speaking world. He was exposed to a wider audience only once in the United States, in 1973, with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, which is best remembered for its Rabbi Jacob dance scene and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
De Funès has two museums dedicated to his life and acting: one in the Château de Clermont, near Nantes, where he resided, as well as another in the town of Saint-Raphaël, Southern France.
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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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Donny Damara
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Damara Prasadhana (born October 12, 1966), better known as Donny Damara, is an Indonesian actor, model, and politician of Sundanese descent. Unlike his contemporaries such as Adjie Massaid and Tio Pakusadewo, Donny chose to appear in fewer feature films in order to balance his time between college and social life.
Donny was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Indonesian Film Festival in 1991 for the film Perwira dan Ksatria, which was released a year earlier. He received another nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the same festival for his role in Perwira dan Ksatria.
A graduate of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Indonesia, Donny turned to television soap operas after the decline of the Indonesian film industry. At the 6th Asian Film Awards, he won the Best Actor award for his role in the film Lovely Man (2012).
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Brendan Steere
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Born in Connecticut, raised in Montana, then Pennsylvania before finally emigrating for New York City, Brendan Steere is a director, writer, editor, and producer. He has subsequently lived in Paris, Berlin, and now resides in Los Angeles.
He made his feature debut with the horror/thriller Animosity in 2014, and followed it up with the the horror/comedy The VelociPastor, based on the viral 2011 short film of the same name.
In addition to these features, Steere has worked numerous times as a screenwriter and editor on projects of any length.
He speaks three languages and has a sick rock band.
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Dmitriy Naumov
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Dmitry Alexandrovich Naumov - Soviet and Russian director, animator, producer. In 1974-1980 he studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute. In 1980-84 he worked as an architect at the GIPRONIIAVIAPROM Design Institute. In 1984-1985 - designer at the Central Design Bureau of children's toys. In 1986-1988 he was an animator at the Multtelefilm studio of the Ekran TO, in 1988-1990 he was a director of the Pilot studio, in 1990-1992 he was a director of the Multtelefilm studio of the Ekran TO. In 1992, with his brother V. A. Naumov, he created the TPM computer games and animation studio, which he headed as artistic director. One of the founders of ORFAK in Tarusa (now Suzdal). The author of the idea and one of the organizers of the All-Russian Festival of Visual Arts in Orlyonok (since 1997). In 1996-2000 - President of the Russian Animated Film Association. Member of the Nika Academy of Cinematographic Arts. Prize winner of the Organizing Committee. V. Mayasova XIX ORFAC in Suzdal (2014). Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation (since 1990). He starred in the documentary series Return of the Legend (film Animation on the Knees, 2013). Director of the documentary film about L. V. Nosyrev "A fairy tale flew from the North" (2013).
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Harry Carey, Jr.
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Henry George "Harry" Carey Jr. (May 16, 1921 - December 27, 2012) was an American actor. He appeared in more than ninety films including several John Ford westerns as well as numerous television series. The son of actors Harry Carey Sr. and Olive Carey, he attempted a singing career before beginning his acting career in the John Ford Stock Company. Director John Ford became a close friend and collaborator. Carey appeared in such notable Ford films as 3 Godfathers (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Searchers (1956), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), some also featuring appearances by his parents. He became a respected character actor like his father. Carey made four films with director Howard Hawks: Red River (1948), Monkey Business (1952), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959 - scenes cut). He also frequently co-starred with actors John Wayne and Ben Johnson, acting together in nine films each. Between 1955 -1957, Carey appeared as ranch counselor Bill Burnett in the serial Spin and Marty, seen on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. In the 1960s, Carey appeared on such western series as Have Gun - Will Travel and The Legend of Jesse James.
Later film roles include George Arthur in The Long Riders (1980), Mr. Anderson in Gremlins (1984), aging biker Red in Mask (1985), Joshua Brackett in The Whales of August (1987), saloon old-timer Zeke in Back to the Future Part III (1990), and Marshal Fred White in Tombstone (1993).
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Arno
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Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (21 May 1949 – 23 April 2022), better known by his stage name Arno, was a Belgian singer. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. After the band split in 1986 he enjoyed a solo career.
Arno sang in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his native Ostend-Flemish dialect. For TC Matic, a band which achieved moderate artistic success throughout Europe, he wrote or co-wrote all the band's material, much of it together with guitarist and producer Jean-Marie Aerts. After going solo he released more than a dozen albums during a successful career. In 2002 he received the title "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" (Knight in the Arts and Literature) of the French government. A 2004 biography by Gilles Deleux was translated in Dutch as Een lach en een traan ("A Smile and a Tear").
In the Belgian film Camping Cosmos he played the homosexual lifeguard Harry who does not pay attention to Lolo Ferrari who is incarnating a caricature of Pamela Anderson.
At the beginning of 2020, Arno postponed his upcoming tour after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Until the end of his life he was performing and recording music. Opex was his last record, recorded while he was very ill. He died from the disease on 23 April 2022, in Brussels, at the age of 72.
Source: Article "Arno (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sami Inkinen
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To raise awareness about the dangers of sugar and its connection to diabetes, Sami started Fat Chance Row. During the summer of 2014, Sami and his wife rowed from California to Hawaii—2,750 miles, completely unsupported. He is also a triathlon age group world champion and 8 hour 24 minute Ironman with seven Hawaii Ironman finishes.
A physicist by training, Sami started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
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