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Candice Bergen

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Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018-2019). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979), and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982). Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the cover of Vogue before she made her screen debut in the film The Group (1966). She starred in The Sand Pebbles (1966), Soldier Blue (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and The Wind and the Lion (1975). She made her Broadway debut in the 1984 play Hurlyburly and starred in the revivals of The Best Man (2012) and Love Letters (2014). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared in three episodes of the HBO series Sex and the City. Her other film roles include Miss Congeniality (2000), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), The Women (2008), Bride Wars (2009), Book Club (2018) and Let Them All Talk (2020).
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Christopher Mormando

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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, a proud husband and father of two beautiful daughters, Christopher decided in his early 40's to fulfill his passion and desires to become an actor in the entertainment industry. Starting off in a small role on a National Lampoons full feature, Chris jumped to the cast and crew on an Original Netflix series called Lilyhammer, starring Steven Van Zandt. From there Chris landed many roles on HIT shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" to "The Blacklist Redemption" and "FBI Most Wanted" on CBS. After many other shows and films, Christopher, who has studied under the famous stunt coordinator, John Cenatiempo, better known in the industry as Johnny C., hit a big one with a role: he is credited with 16 of the 23 episodes on the hit TV series on ABC, Season 1 called "FOR LIFE" starring Nicholas Pinnock, produced by Curtis "50" Cent Jackson and written by Hank Steinberg. Chris is in pre-production for a TV pilot which he has written and is starring in. The show is inspired by the true story of his own life, and based on a character called "Chrisboy", who comes home from prison after 14 years to no money, no wife, or children and tries to survive in a life that his surroundings have changed dramatically. Chris is also in the middle of shooting the second Season of the Hit Amazon Series Gravesend by William Demeo, where he plays Gaetano, one of the main characters.
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Lucille Bremer

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Lucille Bremer (February 21, 1917 - April 16, 1996) was an American film actress and dancer. Bremer was born in Amsterdam, New York and began her career as a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, aged 16. Bremer, along with fellow stars Vera-Ellen and June Allyson, appeared as a Pony Girl in the Broadway musical Panama Hattie in 1940. She made her screen debut in Meet Me in St. Louis, and followed this with Yolanda and the Thief, and a featured dance performance in Ziegfeld Follies. Her last major film was Till the Clouds Roll By. After a few minor films, she played her last starring role in Behind Locked Doors. Reportedly disappointed with her Hollywood career, she elected not to renew her contract and left the film industry.
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Maegan Houang

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Maegan Houang is a writer/director based in Los Angeles. She has written on TV shows such as Shogun (FX, Counterpart (Starz), ) and The Sympathizer (HBO). In 2018, she received a VSCO Voices Creator Grant to direct a short film In Full Bloom starring Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club). The film premiered on Short of the Week and played at festivals including Fantastic Fest, Atlanta Film Festival, New Orleans, Hollyshorts and Nitehawk. Her short film Astonishing Little Feet played at MoMA, the Hammer Museum, Palm Springs Short Fest and received a Vimeo Staff Pick. She has also directed music videos for artists such as Mitski, Vagabon, Charly Bliss, Hana Vu, Chastity Belt and Skylar Spence.
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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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Pentagón Jr.

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Pentagón Jr. (born February 26, 1985) is a Mexican masked professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Penta and is a one-time WWE Intercontinental Champion. He is the older brother of Rey Fénix, known together as The Lucha Bros. Penta's career started in Mexico in 2007. He has seen great success across several promotions such as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, Lucha Underground, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Impact Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Major League Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH).
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Lian Lunson

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Lian Lunson is an Australian actress who became an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She has also written a novel. She was born in Ned Kelly Country in Australia. She moved to Los Angeles in 1987 after working as an actress in Australia. Her production company is based in LA and is called Horse Pictures. She made a documentary in 1997 about Willie Nelson for the TV channel PBS. She also made a documentary about the poet and singer / songwriter Leonard Cohen, called. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. In 2006, she was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award for her work on this film. She has a feature film in pre-production based on her own novel. The film is called The Boom Boom Room. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lian Lunson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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David Lodge

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In an industry without a loss of excellent talent, David is honored in 2018-19 to be working on a vast array of acting projects. Whether it is realistic characters in2019-20 Game of Thrones (NDA), Yarrow the Lead Freelancer in Anthem, Magnus the Russian Baby in Boss Baby! on Netflix, or main characters (Cid, Voyd, Wedge Kincaid, Vyv Dorden, Bahmut) in Final Fantasy -David is, as usual, mostly the chameleon actor --unrecognizable from one character to the next. (Ugh! How is that supposed to help your career?! Ha!) It's not unusual to hear David voice multiple characters in the same game or animated projects... and in 2019's Battle Wake Arcade Game-David is all four lead Pirate and Ghost voices. Animated movies include Son of Big Foot 2 where David voices a couple of key lead characters.(NDA!) And if you catch Goldie and Bear on Disney Jr.-well you'd be hard pressed... to recognize David having a blast voicing several regulars. In the last year and half--David is heard in thirty-two video games and a score of cartoons most NDA at this point in time. Needless to say however-many are high profile outlets and producers such as: Disney, Cartoon Network, Dreamworks, WB, Activision, Nick, EA, Bioware, and more. ( Yes, Jiraiya the Toad Sage is busy!) When it comes to Narration voice work-you'll hear his dramatic and noteworthy work in movie and game trailers. In Anthem, you'll hear him narrator the Fall of Freemark in powerful and emotional tones backed by fantastic visuals. (Play on You Tube- Fall of Freemark , Anthem.) In Creed the VR Experience, David is honored to voice Sly Stallone as Rocky Balboa. The voice match is near perfect; so much so David also voices Rocky / Sly in the Game Trailer Commercial. Needless to say... no one knew it was David and not Mr. Stallone. So... David does voice matching and dubbing too! Speaking of special abilities... David also does a wide range of authentic animals. (Dogs, Parrots, cows, pigs, etc.) In 2019 he is affording such to a big project. (NDA) David remains an accomplished Commercial VO guy having voiced a half dozen political ads in 2018, supplying the AVO in national Toyota spots, the Guru for McDonald's radio spots, and a Yeti in an Animated Jack in the Box spot.
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Tim Roth

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Timothy Simon Roth (born May 14, 1961) is an English actor and director. He was among the prominent British actors known as the "Brit Pack". For his performance in Rob Roy (1995), Roth won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award.  After garnering attention in television productions Made in Britain (1982) and Meantime (1983), Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his theatrical film debut The Hit (1984). He gained further recognition for his roles in films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (both 1990). Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Other film credits include The Legend of 1900 (1998), Planet of the Apes (2001), Funny Games (2007), Selma (2014), Luce (2019), and Bergman Island (2021). Roth made his directorial debut with~ The War Zone (1999). He played Cal Lightman in the Fox series Lie to Me (2009–2011), Jim Worth / Jack Devlin in the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star (2017–2020), and Emil Blonsky / Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the films The Incredible Hulk (2008), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
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Marin Yanev

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Marin Yanev graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaria in class of Metodi Andonov in 1967. He has worked in Varna Drama Theater, Plovdiv Drama Theatre, New Theatre "Tears and Laughter". Among the theatrical roles are: Earmuffs in "Comedy of Errors" by Shakespeare, Mac Murphy in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by D. Wasserman. Since 1985 he is in the troupe of the National Theatre "Ivan Vazov", where the main roles are: Henry in "Fireplace" by Margarit Minkov, Lord in "Church of Wolves" by Petar Atanasov, Bubnov in "The Bottom" by Maxim Gorky, Physician in "Macbeth" by Shakespeare, Professor Santana in "Ghosts in Naples" by Edward de Filippo, Preskovich in "Santa Claus is crap" from Zhozian Balasko, Messenger from Corinth in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles, Artist in "Makbed" by Eugene Ionesco, Spiridon in "Day Off" by Kamen Donev, La Farr in "King Lear" by Shakespeare, Olivares in "Doomed souls" by Dimitar Dimov, Anuchkin in "Marriage" by Nikolay Gogol, Teacher in " The Peach Thief". Marin Yanev is the winner of the Prize "Asker 1998" for Best Supporting Actor for the Lord in the "Church of Wolves" and the Best Actor Award of Union of Bulgarian Artists for Mac Murphy in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest." He participated in Bulgarian classic films such as "The Goat Horn", "Tree Without Roots," "Where do you live?" His last performance is in the film "Buffer Zone".
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