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Tarek Boudali

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Tarek Boudali (born 5 November 1979) is a French actor and humorist of Moroccan origin. Tarek Boudali, of Moroccan origin, graduated with a Higher Technician Certificate (BTS) Sales Force. In 2012, he joined the cast of the M6 series En famille, where he plays the role of Kader, a young father. He then had film success with Babysitting, released in 2014. He is part of La Bande à Fifi, a French comedy troupe bringing together Philippe Lacheau, Élodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali, Reem Kherici and Julien Arruti. In 2018, he joined the Les Enfoirés. Source: Article "Tarek Boudali" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Heather Donahue

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Heather Donahue (born December 22, 1974) is a retired American actress who first came to public attention in 1999 after appearing as the lead character in Haxan Film's low-budget horror hit The Blair Witch Project. Following the success of the film, she went on to star in the science-fiction miniseries Taken. She also appeared in several independent films, in addition to appearing as a guest on several television shows, including The Outer Limits and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Donahue retired from acting in 2008, and in 2020 she formally changed her name to Rei Hance.
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Jill DeVries

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Jill De Vries was born on July 23, 1953 in Kankakee, Illinois. She's of Dutch descent. Jill grew up in Wichert, Illinois. De Vries was a cheerleader for eight years in grade school and took piano lessons for eleven years. Jill studied elementary education at Illinois State University and managed a boutique called the Joint General Store. De Vries was the Playmate of the Month in the October, 1975 issue of "Playboy;" her pictorial featured the first gatefold to be signed by the model. Moreover, she also graced the covers of the February, 1976 issue of "Playboy" and the March, 1976 issue of "Oui." Jill's sole foray into film acting was a small part as a call girl in "Risky Business."
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Stanley Tucci

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Stanley Tucci Jr. (born November 11, 1960) is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles ranging from menacing to sophisticated. Tucci has earned numerous accolades, including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. Tucci made his film debut in John Huston's Prizzi's Honour (1985) and continued to play a variety of supporting roles in films such as Deconstructing Harry (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), and The Terminal (2004). He made his directorial debut with the comedy Big Night (1996), which he also co-wrote and starred in. Following roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009), Tucci was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Lovely Bones (2009). Tucci's other film roles include Burlesque (2010), Easy A (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Margin Call (2011), The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), Spotlight (2015), Supernova (2020), Worth (2021), and Conclave (2024). He has starred in numerous television series such as the legal drama Murder One (1995–1997), the medical drama 3 lbs (2006), Ryan Murphy's limited series Feud: Bette & Joan (2017), and the drama Limetown (2018). He played Stanley Kubrick in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). For his portrayal of Walter Winchell in the HBO film Winchell (1998), he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. Since 2020, Tucci has voiced Bitsy Brandenham in the Apple TV+ animated series Central Park. From 2021 to 2022, he hosted the CNN food and travel documentary series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, for which he won two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2003) and a Grammy Award for narrating the audiobook The One and Only Shrek! (2008).
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Sylvia James

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Sylvia James was an often-used make-up supervisor during the 1963 version of Doctor Who. After a period as a junior artist during the Hartnell era, she had three major periods of continuous work as the lead artist, or roughly what is classed as a make-up designer by the BBC Wales team. By far her longest stint was during the Troughton era, where she served continuously from The Abominable Snowmen to The War Games, spanning all but one serial of seasons 5 and 6. She returned for a brief stretch in the Pertwee era, heading the make-up department for The Curse of Peladon and The Sea Devils. She then did the majority of work for the season 12 production block, doing every episode from The Ark in Space to Terror of the Zygons — except for Revenge of the Cybermen.
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Kadir İnanır

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Kadir İnanır (born 15 April 1949) is a Turkish film actor and director. İnanır was born on 15 April 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in 43 films since 1967 and appeared on television in Bütün Çocuklarım as Ali Yahya Kiroglu in 2004. In the Turkish movie industry (Yeşilçam) he has often portrayed the tough, macho guy, fighting against injustice. Kadir İnanır and Türkan Şoray are one of the most famous partners of Yeşilçam Turkish cinema. During a 2013 visit to Kosovo, İnanır had a meeting with the Kosovan Minister of Culture Memli Krasniqi who was encouraging cultural and cinematographical cooperation between Kosovo and Turkey. İnanır said that he encouraged the idea and would personally work on the implementation of such a cooperation.
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Jean Négroni

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Jean Négroni (4 December 1920 – 28 May 2005) was a French actor and theatre director particularly known for his voice work, such as his role as the narrator in La Jetée (1962). Jean Négroni was educated in theater by Albert Camus, and was an early companion of Jean Vilar at the Théâtre National Populaire and at the Festival d'Avignon. Négroni founded the Maison des arts et de la culture de Créteil at Créteil in 1968, and was its director until 1978. Négroni's career was marked by his portrayal of Robespierre — first on an episode of the television program La caméra explore le temps, and later in the theater under the direction of Robert Hossein. Négroni provided the voice of the narrator in La Jetée (1962) and also narrated Pierre Henry's concrete music album L'Apocalypse de Jean (1968). Source: Article "Jean Négroni" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Edward Everett Horton

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.
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Petra Kleinert

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Nach ihrem Schulabschluss absolvierte Kleinert eine Lehre zur Keramikfacharbeiterin. Von 1987 bis 1990 besuchte sie in Leipzig die Theaterschule „Hans Otto“. Anschließend absolvierte sie ein zweijähriges Praktikum am „Neuen Theater“ in Halle. Von 1991 bis 1993 hatte sie ein Engagement am Brandenburger Theater. Seit 1993 kennt man Kleinert vor allem aus Fernsehkrimis. Sie war unter anderem als Eva Kowalski in einigen Folgen der Serie Sperling sowie im Polizeiruf 110, Ein Fall für zwei und im Tatort, aber auch in der Serie Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht zu sehen. Von 1999 bis 2003 spielte sie in der RTL-Serie Doppelter Einsatz als Ellen Ludwig an der Seite von Despina Pajanou. Seit 2008 ist sie in der Serie Mord mit Aussicht in der eher komischen Rolle der neugierigen Polizistenfrau Heike Schäffer zu sehen. Seit 2013 hat sie die Rolle der Sittenpolizistin Dagmar Schnee in der ZDF-Serie SOKO Leipzig.
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