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David Rudman
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David Rudman (born June 1st 1964) is a puppeteer, voice actor and producer, best known as a performer of many Sesame Street Muppet characters. He originated the role of Baby Bear, and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work replacing Frank Oz in the role of Cookie Monster. However, Oz still comes in to record new material with Cookie Monster occasionally.
Rudman also took over as Richard Hunt's half of "The Two Headed Monster" after his death.
His first production was Rankin/Bass productions such as Rudolph's Shiny New Year.
He is currently the executive producer of Jack's Big Music Show on cable TV's Nick Jr. channel, and performs the voice of Jack, the lead character. He is also the executive producer, co-creator, and director of Bunnytown on cable TV's Playhouse Disney.
Rudman was the speaker at the 2005 graduation ceremony for the Illinois Institute of Art—Chicago.
He attended Highland Park High School and graduated in 1981. He has been a speaker at the school's biennial Focus on the Arts program since 2003. He attended college at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. He continues to reside in Highland Park with his wife and three children.
He will also take over two roles once held by Richard Hunt: Scooter and Janice.
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Susan Wokoma
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Susan "Susie" Indiaba Wokoma (born 31 December 1987 in Southwark, London, England) is an award-winning British actress of Nigerian descent. She is best known for her roles as "Raquel" in the E4/Netflix show Crazyhead and "Cynthia" in Chewing Gum. Wokoma was a child participant in CBBC's Serious Jungle in 2002. She was also a member of The National Youth Theatre, making her professional acting debut in the BAFTA-winning That Summer Day before going on to train at RADA aged 19.
Her television appearances have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge's show Crashing, Bluestone 42, Uncle, Misfits, as well as the film adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun and The Inbetweeners 2. Her theatre work includes productions at the Royal Court, Bush Theatre, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Almeida Theatre, Crucible Theatre, and The Royal National Theatre. Wokoma also joined the New York transfers of Phyllida Lloyd's all female Donmar Warehouse productions of Henry IV and Julius Caesar at St. Ann's Warehouse.
In 2016 she won Best Supporting Actor at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for her performance in the radio adaptation of Marie NDiaye's Three Strong Women.
Later the same year it was announced that she would star in the E4/ Netflix original television series Crazyhead alongside Cara Theobold. She went on to win the RTS Best On-Screen Performance award for Crazyhead in 2017. Wokoma is also a writer.
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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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Rob Pizem
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Rob Pizem, or “Piz,” is a local legend of Grand Junction, Colorado. With a career that spans nearly three decades, his climbing achievements are endless and his fire still burns hot. Pizem has been on the cover of magazines like Rock and Ice, Climbing and Alpinist, and has been published in National Geographic. Being a professional climber who’s developed hundreds of new routes and maintains a world-class athleticism seems like more than enough to keep someone busy. Somehow Pizem is also a devoted husband, father, coach, trainer and full-time high school teacher.
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Vijay Singh
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Vijay Singh is a historian, writer and filmmaker based in Paris.
Vijay Singh is a historian, writer, filmmaker and screenplay writer from India living in Paris. He was born to Kanwar Hari Singh, a surgeon, and Kanwarani Raksha Hari Singh.
Singh was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and a Masters of Arts degree in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
Inspired by French surrealism and André Breton, Vijay Singh moved to Paris in the early 1980s and enrolled for a PhD at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
While still a student in New-Delhi, Vijay Singh wrote and directed a play Waiting for Beckett by Godot, followed by A Promenade on the Eyelashes of 1917.
In the early eighties, Vijay Singh wrote a 20-page article which was published by Le Monde diplomatique. This was the start of his career as a journalist in France. He has written extensively for the French press, primarily Libération, Le Monde and Le Monde diplomatique on issues revolving around politics, culture, art and cinema, and also contributed articles to magazines and other international newspapers such as The Guardian and The Times of India.
In 1985, Singh co-presented a long programme with Frédéric Mittérand on the Opening of the Année de l'Inde (India Year) on TF1, one of the main French TV channels.
While still a journalist, Vijay Singh wrote his first novel, Jaya Ganga, In Search of the River Goddess. The book was first published in France (Jaya Ganga, le Gange et son double, Ramsay, Paris 1985; Ginkgo, Paris 2005) before being published by Penguin Books India and UK, Rupa Publishers and Rajkamal Prakashan.
He subsequently wrote Whirlpool of Shadows (French: Tourbillon d’ombres), La Nuit Poignardée (The Wounded Night), and The River Goddess (French: La Déesse qui devint fleuve), a book for young readers.
His latest book,Gange, fleuve et déesse, in collaboration with Jacques Raymond (photography), was published by éditions de la Flandonnière, France in 2014.
Whirlpool of Shadows was listed by the Booker Prize winner Barry Unsworth in his column “Best Books of the UK” in The Sunday Times, 1992.
Vijay has written and directed two feature films - the much acclaimed cult film Jaya Ganga (French: Jaya, fille du Gange) was released in France, the UK and India and shown at several major film festivals worldwide, often in the competition category. The music was composed by Vanraj Bhatia. His second feature film One Dollar Curry, a light-hearted comedy on immigration, was shot in Paris and released internationally. The film received wide press and media coverage. The music was composed by Zakir Hussain.
Vijay Singh has also written and directed the acclaimed films India by Song and Farewell My Indian Soldier (Adieu, mon soldat indien - first presented as Mademoiselle France pleure).
His documentary Chami and Ana the Elephant (Man and Elephant/ L'homme et l'éléphant) was first shown on the French television channel Canal+ before being broadcast on some 100 televisions worldwide.
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Nikos Moutsinas
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Nikos Moutsinas (Greek: Νίκος Μουτσινάς, born 6 September 1977) is a Greek television host and actor.
He studied acting at Vasilis Diamantopoulos' IASMOS school in Thessaloniki. He has also attended dance classes at the school of Diana Theodoridou and has graduated from the State I.E.K. of Thessaloniki and the Theatrical Workshop "Thespis". When he went to Athens, he became better known to the public through his participation in the show Kous Kous to mesimeri on Alpha TV in 2005-2007 and in 2006 he presented together with Natalia Germanou the game show Soundmix Show. In 2008 he participated in the morning show Omorfos Kosmos to proi with Grigoris Arnaoutoglou and Sissi Christidou. The following year, in 2009, he co-presented with Katerina Zarifi on ANT1's Proinos Kafes, a collaboration that failed after the channel terminated their collaboration mid-season. The following year he returned to Alpha TV where he collaborated with Eleni Menegaki in the 2009-2010 season on her show Kafes me tin Eleni. In the period 2009-2014 he was the main presenter together with Maria Iliaki in the TV show Deste tous!. From 2014 to 2016 he was on ANT1 as he starred in the TV show Trixes, while he co-starred with Maria Bekatorou in Proino SouKou and in 2016 he returned again to Alpha TV through the show Xanadeste tous! which was cut on 24 February 2017. In the 2017-2018 season he starred in ANT1's comedy series Kati Xorismena Palikaria, while in February 2018 he co-starred on the same channel with Zeta Makripoulia in the evening show Sunday Live which lasted four episodes. At the end of the same year, he returned to television through the newly established channel Open TV, presenting the midday show Gia tin Parea (his biggest success on television after Deste tous!) which premiered on 25 October 2018 (almost a day after the replacement of Epsilon TV in Open Beyond which started its first shows). From 23 September 2019, he presents a remake of the show on Skai TV under the name Kalo Mesimeraki, but with the same team.[2] In March 2022, Moutsinas was announced as a judge for the Greek version of the music game show, The Masked Singer, which will begin airing on Skai TV on 31 March 2022. Apart from being a presenter, he is also an actor with many successful theatrical performances to his credit such as Sesouar gia Dolofonous, Oi Apelpismeni, Psekasa tin Eliza, Ta Vaftisia, KTEL, Ververitsa, Oi apo Pano etc. Finally, he has made cameo appearances in the Mega Channel series Maria, i Aschimi, To Kokkino Domatio, Singles 3 and Latremenoi Mou Geitones.
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Paraic Breathnach
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Páraic Breathnach (born 1956) is an Irish actor, performer, writer and storyteller. A fluent Irish speaker, Páraic grew up in Carna, County Galway. As a student in University of Galway, he was deeply involved with An Cumann Drámaíochta and Dramsoc, where he teamed up with Ollie Jennings in a series of cultural initiatives in and out of college.
Breathnach worked with An Taibhdhearc and Druid Theatres and became the first manager of Galway Arts Centre, before co-founding Mácnas with Ollie Jennings. He has appeared in several major Irish films throughout the years, including Michael Collins and Breakfast on Pluto. A frequent contributor to TG4, he also played the character of Jacksie Walsh on RTÉ's Killinaskully.
He has also been the managing director of the Galway Arts Center. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary degree from NUI Galway "for his immense contribution to cultural life in Galway and Ireland".
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Andrej Hryc
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Andrej Hryc, also known as Andy Hryc (* November 30, 1949, Bratislava) is a Slovak actor and businessman. He was a member of VPN and a founding member of HZDS.
In 1971 he graduated in acting from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. [1] He began his acting career at the State Theater in Košice (1971 - 1978). From 1978 to 1981 he was a freelancer and since 1981 a member of the Bratislava New Stage ensemble.
After the Gentle Revolution, he first entered politics and then founded the independent radio station Twist, of which he was the director until the end of 2004 (licensed in 1991, started broadcasting in February 1993 and broadcasting until April 2006). Since 2005 he has been the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and. with. Radio Twist. He was Honorary Consul of the Republic of Seychelles. For a short time he worked as the director of the New Stage. He has acted in a number of films, television and radio productions. In the Czech television series Black Barons (2004), directed by Juraj Herz, he played the main role of the legendary Major Terazky.
Andrej Hryc is also a signatory of Anticharta.
He was born in 1949 in Bratislava, where he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts. As a theater actor, he worked at the State Theater in Košice, on the New Stage in Bratislava (where he was also the general director for a time) or as a freelance guest actor in other theaters. He also devoted himself to politics, founding Radio Twist, in which he also worked as its director.
During his acting career, he has acted in more than 50 films (Furious Max and Ghosts, Friend in the Rain I., II., On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Rivers of Babylon), in many television programs and productions, series (Elizabeth's Court, Frankenstein's Aunt , Black Barons), regularly performed on Slovak radio, is a prominent figure in Slovak dubbing. He co-produced the Czech-Slovak production of the musical Hamlet in Prague and Bratislava. He currently performs as a musical actor at the Nová scéna theater in Bratislava and at the Prague Music Theater in Karlín.
As the director of Radio Twist, he was the organizer of many public activities for the benefit of children's homes, charities, e.g. Red Cross, Cancer League, Smile as a Gift Foundation, Twist vs. AIDS Foundation. As Honorary Consul of the Republic of Seychelles in the Slovak Republic, he is the head of its embassy in Bratislava.
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Isabelle Carré
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Isabelle Carré (born 28 May 1971 in Paris) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1989. She won a César Award for Best Actress for her role in Se souvenir des belles choses (2001), and has been nominated a further six times, for Beau fixe (1992), Le Hussard sur le toit (1995), La Femme défendue (1997), Les Sentiments (2003), Entre ses mains (2005) and Anna M. (2007).
Since 26 August 2006, she has been married to film producer Bruno Pésery, with whom she has a son, Antoine, born on 11 October 2008. Her brother, Benoît Carré, is a member of the band Lilicub.
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Victoria Song
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Victoria Song, born Song Qian on February 2, 1987, in Qingdao, Shandong, China, is a Chinese artist known for her work as a singer, dancer, actress, model, host, and author. She gained international fame as the leader of the South Korean girl group f(x), managed by SM Entertainment. Victoria's career spans music, television, and film, with roles in Chinese dramas like "When Love Walked In," "Beautiful Secret," and "Find Yourself," as well as films such as "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "Wished".
Victoria's journey began with her training in Chinese ethnic dance at the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy. She was scouted by SM Entertainment in 2007 during a dance competition in Beijing and debuted with f(x) in 2009. Her solo career took off in 2020 with her eponymous studio album.
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