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Sebastián Moya
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Sebastián David Moya Camargo (May 30, 2000) is a Colombian actor, director, screenwriter, editor, and film and television producer. He has emerged as one of the most multifaceted talents of his generation, receiving multiple nominations at the 2016 India Catalina Awards, including Best Miniseries, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing for his ambitious project, Sin Justa Causa (Without Just Cause). His ability to move seamlessly between high-impact acting on national television and technical control in independent film has positioned him as a leading figure among the new "total filmmaker" in Latin America.
He began his career as a child, appearing in television commercials before taking on roles in anthology series such as Revelados (Revealed) and Tu voz estéreo (Your Stereo Voice) in the early 2010s. He transitioned to large-scale productions with a prominent role in Sitiados (Besieged) (2018) and gained critical acclaim for his portrayal of Mateo Sanín in the successful Sin senos sí hay paraíso (Without Breasts There Is Paradise) saga (2017-2018). Later, he solidified his on-screen presence with leading roles in productions such as Aunt Alison (2023), where he played Washington Rodríguez, and Romina Poderosa (2023), portraying Tato. These performances brought him national fame before he made the definitive leap to the streaming market.
Since 2024, he has diversified his career by participating in international and independent projects. His role as Lucas Jaramillo in the third season of Manes (2025) for Amazon Prime Video and his portrayal of David Gómez in the biographical series Darío Gómez: The King of Heartbreak (2024-2025) are particularly noteworthy. In addition to his acting career, he is the founder of the production company MOCCA Films, under which he debuted as a professional director and screenwriter with the miniseries Without Just Cause (2025), a work based on true events that explores memory and forgiveness in Colombia. An artist committed to social storytelling, Moya personally oversees the assembly of his works, integrating a technical and narrative vision that distinguishes him in the current audiovisual landscape.
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Jerry Hadley
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Jerry Hadley (June 16, 1952 – July 18, 2007) was an American operatic tenor. He received three Grammy awards for his vocal performances in the recordings of Jenůfa (2004 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording), Susannah (1995 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording), and Candide (1992 Grammy Award for Best Classical Album). Hadley was a leading American tenor for nearly two decades. He was mentored by soprano Joan Sutherland and her husband, conductor Richard Bonynge. Leonard Bernstein chose Hadley for his 1989 recording of Candide on Deutsche Grammophon. Aside from singing opera and operetta, Hadley also sang on Broadway.
Hadley was born and raised in Manlius, Illinois, of Italian and English parents. He attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he was a member of the Delta Nu chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, a men's music fraternity. Hadley first studied to become a conductor, but after four years turned to singing. He studied voice under Dr. John Davis while at Bradley, ultimately earning his master's degree in voice at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. At Illinois he studied voice with Grace Wilson and James Bailey, and coached with pianists John Wustman and Eric Dalheim. He starred in many School of Music opera productions, including Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Alfred in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, and Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky.
Hadley married pianist Cheryll Drake and moved to Connecticut, where he took a job teaching music. In 1978 he began studying voice with Thomas LoMonaco, who would remain his teacher for the next 12 years.
Hadley's early years as a professional singer were spent in regional opera houses in the U.S. He impressed Beverly Sills, who had heard him in the National Opera Institute auditions in 1978 and offered him a New York City Opera contract.[4] Hadley became a regular member of the roster of the New York City Opera after his debut there as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor in 1979.
In 1982 he made his first appearance at the Vienna State Opera as Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore. He frequently performed at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the San Diego Opera and the Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg festivals.
Hadley was known for his interpretations of lyric tenor opera roles as well as his performances of Broadway musicals, operetta, and popular music. One of his best-selling recordings was the EMI three-CD recording of the complete score of Show Boat, conducted by John McGlinn. Hadley sang the role of Gaylord Ravenal. ...
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Orlando Bloom
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Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03). He reprised his role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14). Considered by some to be the Errol Flynn of his time, he gained further notice appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films, notably as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–07, 2017), Paris in Troy (2004), Balian de Ibelin in the Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers(2011).
Bloom appeared in Hollywood films such as the war film Black Hawk Down (2001), the Australian Western Ned Kelly (2003), the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005), and New York, I Love You(2007). In 2020, he gained acclaim for the Afghanistan War drama film The Outpost (2020). He also starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Carnival Row (2019–2023).
He debuted professionally in In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in 2007. He starred in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 2013. He returned to the theatre in a West End revival of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe in 2018. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.
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Gamil Ratib
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Born Gameel Abu-Bakr Raateb (November 1928 – Cairo) is an Egyptian actor. In 1940s, Gameel first appeared in the film “Al-forsaan al-thalaatha i.e. The three musketeers”, his family refused the idea and his scenes were removed. Raateb traveled to Paris to study Law and Economy, yet he preferred studying Theatre and appeared in Shakespeare’s “Much ado without nothing (1947)”. To provide living expenses, Gameel worked in small jobs besides acting and then became a notable member of the “Comédie Française”. American filmmaker Carol Reed presented Gameel Raateb in “Trapeze (1956)” along with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida. Gameel also showed in many TV series like; “Rehlat al-million i.e. The journey to be a millionaire” and “Sonbol ba’d al-million i.e. Sonbol..a millionaire”. He played the villain his unique way and excelled in authoritarian and aristocrat roles especially with Faaten Hamaama in “Hekaaya waraa koll baab i.e. A story behind every door”.
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Shijaku Katsura
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Katsura Shijaku II (2代目 桂 枝雀, Nidaime Katsura Shijaku, August 13, 1939 – April 19, 1999) was a Japanese rakugo performer of the late 20th century, who often performed in English. He was born Tōru Maeda (前田 達, Maeda Tōru) in Kobe, the son of a brick-maker. In 1960 he entered the tutelage of the rakugo performer Katsura Beichō III (桂米朝), and upon completion of his study, was given the stage name Katsura Koyone X (桂小米). He changed his stage name to Shijaku Katsura (Shijaku Katsura II) in 1974.
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Nigo
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Tomoaki Nagao (born December 23, 1970 in Maebashi, Japan), known simply as Nigö, is a Japanese DJ, producer, rapper, member of the hip hop group Teriyaki Boyz and owner of popular street wear brand A Bathing Ape. He is also the co-owner of the Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Footwear labels along with good friend Pharrell Williams. He founded BAPE in 1993 and it has since become one of the worlds most sought after streetwear labels, and is seen on many celebrities and hip hop artists including Clipse and Kanye West.
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Leonora Carrington
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Mary Leonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
In 1936 Carrington saw the work of the German surrealist Max Ernst at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London and was attracted to the Surrealist artist before she even met him. In 1937 Carrington met Ernst at a party held in London. The artists bonded and returned together to Paris, where Ernst promptly separated from his wife. With the outbreak of World War II Ernst, who was German, was arrested by the French authorities for being a "hostile alien". With the intercession of Paul Éluard, and other friends, including the American journalist Varian Fry, he was discharged a few weeks later. Soon after the Nazis invaded France, Ernst was arrested again, this time by the Gestapo, because his art was considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate". He managed to escape and, leaving Carrington behind, fled to the United States with the help of Peggy Guggenheim, who was a sponsor of the arts.
After Ernst's arrest Carrington was devastated and agreed to go to Spain with a friend, Catherine Yarrow. She stayed with family friends in Madrid until her paralyzing anxiety and delusions led to a psychotic break and she was admitted into an asylum. She was given electroconvulsive therapy and was treated with the drugs Cardiazol (a powerful convulsant), and Luminal (a barbiturate). She was released from the asylum into the care of a keeper, and was told that her parents had decided to send her to a sanatorium in South Africa. En route to South Africa, she stopped in Portugal, where she made her escape. She went to the Mexican Embassy to find Renato Leduc, a poet and Mexican Ambassador. Leduc was a friend of Pablo Picasso (they knew each other from bull fights) and agreed to a marriage of convenience with Carrington so that she would be accorded the immunity given to a diplomat's wife. The pair divorced in 1943. Meanwhile, Ernst had married Peggy Guggenheim in New York in 1941. That marriage ended a few years later. Ernst and Carrington never resumed their relationship. After spending a year in New York, Leduc and Carrington went to Mexico, which she grew to love and where she lived, on and off, for the rest of her life. Events from this period continued to influence her work.
After spending part of the 1960s in New York City, Carrington lived and worked in Mexico once again. While in Mexico she was asked, in 1963, to create a mural which she named El Mundo Magico de los Mayas, and which was influenced by folk stories from the region. The mural is now located in the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City.
In 1973 Carrington designed Mujeres conciencia, a poster for the Women's Liberation movement in Mexico, depicting a 'new Eve'. In the 1970s women artists of previous waves and generations responded to the more liberal climate and movement of the array of feminist waves. Many pushed the issues of women's liberation and consciousness within their work while others spoke out on issues instead of making art.
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Tim Gilbert
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Tim Gilbert is a stuntman who performed for films such as The Benchwarmers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Deja Vu and Rat Race. He has also done work as a stunt coordinator for such television programs as Stunthero and Bloodhounds.
Tim was credited as an actor in such movies as Beverly Hills Cop III, Charlie's Angels, and Today You Die. He also had an uncredited role in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
In 2009, Tim won a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series for his work on Heroes. He was also nominated for Overall Stunt by a Stunt Man for his work in Torque.
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Tyler Jacob Moore
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Tyler Jacob Moore is an American actor. Tyler was born and raised in Catlin, Illinois, to Cynthia Donnell and James Moore. He studied musical theater and acting at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Howard Fine Acting Studio in Los Angeles. Before his days as a professional actor, he served in an Army reconnaissance platoon. Previous to that, some of his various jobs included: Construction on log cabins, youth outreach, and working for Bunge North America (Filling rail cars with grain being sent as foreign aid to various 3rd world countries). He plays Tony Markovich in the Showtime dramedy Shameless.
He is also known for his portrayal of Pastor John Tudor on GCB.
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Matthias Schweighöfer
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Matthias Schweighöfer (German: [maˈtiːasˈʃvaɪkˌhøːfɐ]; born 11 March 1981) is a German actor and filmmaker known for his work in several German and American film productions. He appeared as Lieutenant Franz Herber in the 2008 film Valkyrie. In 2021, Schweighöfer appeared in the Netflix film Army of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder, as Ludwig Dieter. He reprised his role in the prequel film, Army of Thieves, which he also directed. In 2023, he appeared as German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller Oppenheimer, about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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