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Jonathan Fishman
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Jonathan David Fishman is a dual citizen of both the United Kingdom where he was born in Croydon, England and a naturalized U.S. citizen having come to the United States in 1968, with his parents Claire (Ritoff), a librarian and media specialist and Leon Fishman, a Korean War vet and lab technician, and his brother Simon when they moved to Stamford, Connecticut. Jonathan started his professional acting career in Hartford, Connecticut during his last year at the University of Connecticut where he graduated with a BFA in Acting. From that point on he has collaborated on hundreds of projects for both stage and screen.
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Burçin Terzioğlu
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Burçin Terzioğlu (born 9 March 1980) is a Turkish actress. Terzioğlu began acting at the age of five as a child actress, appearing in 45 films and 16 television series until the age of ten. She later studied acting at the Müjdat Gezen Arts Center. She played in numerous hit series and films since childhood. Her first popular adult role is in hit revenge series "Kadın İsterse". She won Golden Butterfly Best Actress Award for Poyraz Karayel.
Her other credits include Hakan: Muhafız (2018-2020), Hükümsüz (2021), Liar (2021), and Portrait of a Beauty (2019).
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Yarli Allison
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Yarli Allison (she/they) is a Canadian-born, Hong Kongese art-worker based in the UK with an interdisciplinary approach that traverses sculpture, installation, CGI (VR/AR/3D modeling/game), moving-images, drawings, poetry, tattooing, and performances.
Graduated with an MFA first-class honour in Sculpture from The Slade School of Fine Art , University College London (UK), Yarli was granted the entry award of the year’s Yitzhak Danziger scholarship.
Yarli’s recent works (2022-2025) were exhibited at Tai Kwun Contemporary, (HK), LINZ FMR (Austria), FACT (Liverpool), Barbican Centre (London), Institute of Contemporary Arts: ICA (London), V&A Museum (London).
Recent project grants were supported by Arts Council England, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and Canadian Council for the Arts.
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Eliška Křenková
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Eliška Křenková (* 31 January 1990 Prague) is a Czech actress.
She was born in Prague. In 2014 she graduated from DAMU as a master's degree in acting, at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theater. She first appeared in front of the camera in 2005 in Street Street. After that, she played smaller roles in several films such as Raftiacs, School in Millennium, and Vojtěch Kotka's short-comedic comedy Ctrl Emotion. She also made characters in the film The Men in Hope and the Czech Television Series Tell Me.
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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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Pauline Clément
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Pauline Clément (born in 1986 in Évry) is a French actress and comedian.
Trained at the Cours Florent, the 8th arrondissement conservatory of Paris, the Studio-théâtre d'Asnières, and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD), she joined the Comédie-Française in 2015 and became its 546th full member (sociétaire). On stage, she performs in both classical and contemporary plays, earning a nomination for the Molière Award for Best Female Newcomer in 2020 for A Flea in Her Ear (La Puce à l'oreille). She is also a member of the comedy collective Yes vous aime.
In film and television, she has appeared in feature films such as C'est la vie! (Le Sens de la fête, 2017), The Special Needs (Hors normes, 2019), Jumeaux mais pas trop (2022), and Heureux Gagnants (2024), as well as in television series and short formats including Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent), Calls, and the satirical short series Broute. In 2026, she co-wrote and starred in the comedy film De la Comédie-Française.
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Sergei Kuryokhin
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Soviet and Russian avant-garde musician, composer, screenwriter and actor. In his youth, Kuryokhin was a keyboard player in several Leningrad rock bands and played in the jazz ensemble of Anatoly Vapirov, and in 1981 he released his first record abroad. In the 1980s, he took part in the recording of several Aquarium albums. In 1984, Kuryokhin for the first time gathered the Pop Mechanics group, which was a non-permanent concert line-up, in which musicians, singers and artists of different schools and styles could participate in the show, and Kuryokhin himself was the only permanent participant and ideological leader of which. Theatrical concert performances of "Pop Mechanics" included elements of performance, they could include insert numbers, performances by circus artists, fashion shows. Kuryokhin is also the author of music for two dozen films. Throughout his life, Kuryokhin was known as a skilled author of practical jokes and hoaxes. Kuryokhin's performance in the TV program "The Fifth Wheel", which gave rise to the media virus "Lenin is a mushroom", was the most famous. In 1995, Kuryokhin joined the National Bolshevik Party.
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Lim Nam-kyu
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Lim Nam Kyu is a South Korean luger and current luge coach. He graduated from Tongjin High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Physical Education from Yongin University. He began playing soccer at a young age but the sudden death of his father brought financial problems for the family so he decided to complete his mandatory military service around age 20-21. In college, he tried out for luge and became the top-ranked athlete in the country. He participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang but finished in 30th place and briefly retired. He became a coach but, in 2021, the South Korean Luge Federation convinced him to return as an athlete. He suffered a serious injury while training for the World Cup but was able to qualify for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. He finished in 33rd place and officially announced his retirement after the event ended.
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Briana White
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Briana White is a professional actress and content creator. She has succeeded in all worlds of performing, with film & TV credits such as Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Apatow Productions, Andy Samberg), Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (CBS), and as the lead in hit indie feature, Occupants, which earned her 12 Best Actress Wins. She is the voice of lead character Aerith Gainsborough in the hit video game series Final Fantasy VII Remake, which sold over 7 million copies. Her reprisal of the role in 2024's Final Fantasy VII Rebirth earned her a Best Supporting Performance win from the Golden Joystick Awards and a nomination for Best Performance from The Game Awards. She has made digital content since her appearance in viral hit, Princess Rap Battle: Snow vs Elsa, with over 200+ million views. She founded her own video game YouTube & Twitch channel, Strange Rebel Gaming, and has built a loyal and wildly engaged viewer base of over 470k+ with over 21+ million views across YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She is also an experienced live host, with appearances in ArcadeCloud from Omnia Media, Machinima's Game Night, Game the Game from Geek & Sundry, and Oculus Rift on Facebook. Her acting background is rooted in her entire life of community theater from her hometown of Orange County, California, and her education from NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where she graduated with a B.F.A. in Theater in only 3 years.
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Zac Hanson
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Zachary Walker Hanson was born on October 22, 1985 in Arlington, Virginia and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the youngest of the three brothers in Hanson, and was six when the band started in 1992. He plays drums, percussion, piano, guitar and also sings backup and lead vocals in the band. Zac, at age 12 years and 126 days, is the fourth youngest Grammy nominee of all time. He holds the title of youngest songwriter nominated for a Grammy Award (same year).
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