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Jaie Laplante
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Jaie Laplante is a Canadian-American screenwriter, actor and curator. Born in Alberta, Canada, Laplante's notable credits include co-screenwriter of Sugar, for which he received a nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category of the 2005 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 25th Genie Awards, along with co-writers John Palmer and Todd Klinck. As an actor, he appeared in Frisk, directed by Todd Verow. Laplante served as executive director and chief curator of Miami International Film Festival from 2010 to 2022. In 2022, Laplante was named artistic director for DOC NYC.
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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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Kat Mansoor
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With over 20 years of industry experience, award-winning PRODUCER Kat Mansoor has worked with the likes of BBC Film, Film 4, Netflix and distributors around the world to consistently deliver a slate of highly acclaimed films. Kat’s work has been shown at festivals such as Cannes, Telluride, SXSW and IDFA. Her film credits include double Grierson-winning HERE’S JOHNNY, THE MAN WHOSE MIND EXPLODED, LOST AND SOUND, WHAT WE BELIEVE and IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING. Kat’s most recent releases include BAFTA nominated COW by Academy Award-winning Director Andrea Arnold and BAFTA-nominated REBELLION. Kat’s current productions include MOLLY VS THE MACHINES (Luminate, Screen Scotland, Doc Society), RE-EVALUATION (Film4), BJORK: CORNUCOPIA, FIRESTARTERS (Cinereach), FATHER FATHER (Bertha) and NO PLACE LIKE HOME (Screen Ireland/BFI).
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Angela Giarratana
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Angela Giovana Giarratana (born October 1, 1993) is an actress, singer, and performer based in Los Angeles who began appearing in Smosh videos in August 2022, when she was confirmed to be a member of the Smosh Family.
Angela is a graduate of UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television and has also studied comedy theatres such as The Upright Citizen Brigade, The Groundlings, and Second City. Giarratana has also appeared in several short films such as the 2018 film Roadside Steve as Mary, Like It as Lacy, Chloe Mary Lydia as Sam, D*ck P*ck as Maggie Rosenblatt, and Pool Party as Florence.
She made her TV acting debut in the role as Hipster #2 in the American sitcom 2 Broke Girls in the episode "And The Pearl Necklace". She has since appeared in many TV series including Nickelodeon's Danger Force as Josie, Call Your Mother as Sarah, and also appeared as herself in the ABC Discovers: Los Angeles Talent Showcase.
Recently, she has become well known for her work with StarKid Productions. She first appeared with Team StarKid in the musical Black Friday, playing the stoner Toy Zone worker Lex Foster. She reprised her role of Lex in Nightmare Time season 1 and season 2 as well as originating several new roles for the series. Giarratana also played the role of Grace Chasity in the musical, Nerdy Prudes Must Die, a role she originated in Nightmare Time season 2 episode 2 in the story Abstinence Camp. Nerdy Prudes Must Die premiered live at the El Portal Theatre in Hollywood, running February 16-25, 2023. A release of the production on YouTube occurred on October 13, 2023. Several members of Team StarKid appeared as guests in the video Try Not To Laugh Challenge 117 w/ Team StarKid!.
She is also a co-host of the Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists podcast along with Smosh writer Patrick McDonald and Saturday Night Live cast member Jeremy Culhane.
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Tatiana Pauhofová
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Tatiana Pauhofová is a Slovak film and theatre actress. After graduating from high school in 2001 she studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She also works in dubbing and advertising. She is currently acting in the Slovak National Theatre, where she has a permanent engagement. She first appeared on television at the age of ten in the series Škriatok.
In 2006 she won the Slovak Theatre Award of the Season - DOSKY for the best female performance. She received the award for her performance in Manon Lescaut. In 2007, she was included in the list of Shooting Stars 2007 by the European Film Promotion (EFP), a European film promotion and export organization.
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Jacob Sedesse
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Jacob Sedesse (born June 20, 2002) is an award-winning multimedia content producer, on-air personality, and futurist.
Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Sedesse graduated from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications. His academic focus included Digital Film and Television Production, alongside a minor in Digital Arts & Sciences and a specialized certificate in Artificial Intelligence Applications.
He spent much of his time in college working at NPR and PBS affiliate WUFT News. His coverage of such stories as NASA’s Artemis I mission played in NPR’s national broadcasts. In February 2026, Sedesse released 'WUFT at CES 2026: Megabytes and Vegas Nights," an hour-long primetime made-for-TV special he hosted and produced. The documentary features demonstrations of emerging technologies, as well as meta-commentary on tech journalism through unique storytelling methods including an interview with iJustine.
Sedesse earned statewide recognition as Florida’s top collegiate radio broadcaster. The Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists honored him with the awards for Best Radio News Anchor and Best Radio Newscast honoring his leadership on Morning Edition and The Point, respectively — the latter of which he also executive produced. He’s known by colleagues for his passion for bending the rules of storytelling, pushing technology to its limits and finding ways to including technology in his stories when he can.
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Adolfo Arrieta
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Adolfo González Arrieta is a spanish filmmaker, considered as the pioneer of independent film both in Spain and France, due to the artisan quality and the unique spirit of freedom of his films. He usually uses variations of his name in the credits of his films, such as Udolfo Arrieta, Alfo Arrieta or Adolpho Arrieta. His cinematic language is very poetic, apart from narrative conventions, which has made it to be compared with the cinema of Jean Cocteau. Having started as a painter, Arrieta began his filmmaking with the short films El crimen de la pirindola (1965) and Imitación del ángel (1966) both shot in Madrid, a milestone for independent cinema in Spain. He moved to Paris in 1967 with Javier Grandes, an usual actor in most of his films, where he would live through the events of May 1968. In 1969 he met Jean Marais, leading actor in La Belle et la Bête (1945), Orphée (1949) and Le Testament d'Orphée (1959) by Jean Cocteau, of whom he had been a former lover. With Marais Arrieta would shot his first feature film, Le Jouet criminel (1969), that was compared to Cocteau's cinema for his poetic nature. With Le Château de Pointilly (1972), he would receive critical praise from Marguerite Duras. He won the Great Prize at the Toulon Film Festival with Les Intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1974), acclaimed by the critics and considered as the first underground parisian film. He would follow with Tam Tam (1976), the record of an uninterrupted party between New York, Paris and Spain; and Flammes (1978), a story about a sexual childhood fantasy turning into a real passion in the adulthood. In the following years he would make Grenouilles (1983), Kiki, la gata (episode of the TV series Delirios de amor, 1989), Merlín (1990) and Narciso (2004). His next film, Vacanza permanente (2006), was awarded at the Lucca International Film Festival, and meant for Arrieta a creative rebirth. It was premiered in Madrid at La Casa Encendida de Madrid on May 27 2007, during the polipoetry festival Yuxtaposiciones, and presented by the writer Leopoldo Alas. In March 2008 the venue La Enana Marrón in Madrid held a partial retrospective of Arrieta's filmography, screening his most outstanding works.
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Terry Dubrow
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Dr. Terry J. Dubrow (born September 14, 1958) is an American plastic surgeon, TV personality and TV host. He is known for co-hosting Botched and its spin-off series Botched by Nature with Paul Nassif, as well as for his work on The Swan. He also appears on The Real Housewives of Orange County with his wife, Heather. He hosts a true crime series License to Kill.
In 2015, he appeared on Good Work, a plastic surgery-themed talk show, together with co-hosts RuPaul and Sandra Vergara. He also performed the plastic surgery procedures on Bridalplasty, a reality series which premiered in 2011 and featured a group of women who competed in order to win a wedding and transformative plastic surgery procedure.
His brother, Kevin Dubrow, was the lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Quiet Riot.
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Chuck Picerni Jr.
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Chuck Picerni's unique array of talents as a Director, 2nd Unit Director, and Stunt Coordinator/Action Expert has enable him to create, capture, and deliver the kind of action films audiences have been parking theaters to see for years! A driving force behind some of Hollywood's Top Blockbusters, his work has helped bring in over 3 billion in box office receipts. Chuck has been one of the industry's most exciting "Go To" creative forces. Chuck has been in the industry for over 36 years and there are no signs of him or his reputation that precedes him slowing down. Chuck's action career began as an elite stunt performer on the original series "Starsky and Hutch." Through his creative talent and vision, Chuck emerged as one of the most successful and sought after Director's and Stunt Coordinator of the industry
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Michael Hirsh
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Michael Hirsh is a Canadian producer born in Brussels, Belgium to Polish parents. His parents met at a dance in Brussels after the Holocaust. His family relocated to Canada when he was three year old. He attended York University in Toronto, Ontario. In 1971, Hirsh co-founded the animation studio Nelvana. In 2000, Nelvana was purchased by Corus Entertainment. Hirsh held the position CEO of Nelvana until 2002. In 2003, he led a group which purchased the animation company Cinar Corporation, rebranding it Cookie Jar Entertainment. In 2012, DHX Media acquired Cookie Jar and appointed Hirsh as Executive Chairman and a board member. He stayed at the company until late 2015. In 2016, Hirsh launched a new animation-focused entertainment company, Wow! Unlimited Media.
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