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Ben Rollins
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Growing up, he moved every 2 years or so (including 5 years in Australia 1967-1972). A year after graduating high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. A back injury ended his career after only 6 years. After a hiatus of nearly 21 years, he answered his nation's call again and enlisted in the National Guard - taking training as a combat medic. He served a tour in Iraq in 2009-2010. He caught the acting "bug" while attending W.R. Farrington High School in Honolulu. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa
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Ciara Renée
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Ciara Renée Harper (born October 19, 1990), better known as Ciara Renée is an American actress, singer, and musician. She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish and the Leading Player in Pippin, as well as portraying Esmeralda of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse. She stars as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in the CW series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Jaja Vankova
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Jana Vaňková, better known by her nickname Jaja, is a Czech dancer and choreographer. She started dancing at age 14 doing freestyle dancing and battling, then later began teaching choreography. Vaňková's dance career began in 2006 with the dance crew Out Of Bounds, where she learned to dance hip hop, and as an individual, learned popping and locking techniques, among other styles. She later became one of the crew's choreographers. Two of the Out Of Bounds choreographies won the national championship of Czech Republic in 2010- one of them being a choreography called "Why so Serious?" which was choreographed by Jaja. Both of these choreographies were among the three best choreographies of the year 2010 in the televised Dance crew of the year competition. The crew together with Jaja also became the semi-finalists of Czech Got Talent 2010. As an individual, she won the Dancer Of The Year award and became the national champion in 2008. She has also choreographed theater shows, performed in commercials, and was a backup dancer for Haddaway. In 2010, Vaňková auditioned to join a dance crew based in Houston, Texas.
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Kiyoki Uchida
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SF, B-movie horror, superhero, kung fu action.... The movies of Kiyoki Uchida, enrolled in the Kawaguchi Art School of Waseda University, are inlaid with the essence of a variety of movie genres. Uchida first became interested in movies in junior high school. Due to his grandfather, who ran a camera store, Uchida had spent much time in a dark room since childhood. Before long, his interest shifted from photographs to movies, and he began to harbor a yearning for science fiction films such as Star Wars and Back to the Future. Once he moved on to high school, Uchida established a movie club, and began immersing himself in the world of making his own movies together with friends. At first, Uchida’s films referenced French New Wave cinema, which focused on low budgets and quick filming, but as his club aimed to make more and more professional films, the flaws in their filming technology and acting began to show through. That’s when Uchida began modeling his films after early SF and B-movie horror films, which were also low budget movies.
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Gary Fisher
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Fisher started competing in road and track races at age 12. He was suspended in 1968 because race organizers cited a rule that his hair was too long. By 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's career continued. He won the TransAlp race in Europe and a Masters XC national title.
Fisher went to work in 1975 on his 1930s Schwinn Excelsior X bicycle. His innovations to the model included drum brakes, motorcycle brake levers and cables, and triple chainrings, all taken from "junkers" Fisher found at bike shops. The next year, Fisher participated in the Repack downhill race, promoted by his roommate Charlie Kelly. This used a tortuous downhill route on Pine Mountain near Fairfax, California, just north of San Francisco, in which riders used their coaster brakes so much that they had to repack the smoking hubs with grease after every run. Fisher holds the record time on the Repack course at 4:22.
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Khatia Buniatishvili
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Born in 1987 in Batumi, Georgia, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her mother at the age of three. She gave her first concert with Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was 6 and appeared internationally at age 10. Khatia studied in Tbilisi with Tengiz Amiredjibi and in Vienna with Oleg Maisenberg. Her older sister, Gvantsa Buniatishvili is also a pianist and they have played together on multiple occasions.
Buniatishvili signed with Sony Classical as an exclusive artist in 2010. Her 2011 debut album included Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, Liebestraum No. 3, and Mephisto Waltz No. 1.
In 2012, Buniatishvili released her second album, Chopin, which featured solo piano works as well as Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor accompanied by the Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi. The Guardian reported "This is playing straight from the heart from one of today's most exciting and technically gifted young pianists."
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Ago-Endrik Kerge
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Ago-Endrik Kerge (also Endrik Kerge; April 8, 1939 Tallinn – April 25, 2021) was an Estonian dancer, ballet master, director and actor.
In 1959 he graduated from Tallinn Choreographic School. In 1976 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory Stage Art Department. 1959-1976 (intermittently) he was a ballet soloist at Estonia Theatre. From 1967 until 1969, he was a ballet soloist at Leningrad Music Hall.
From 16 October 2004 to 2005, Ago-Endrik Kerge was an alternate member of the Riigikogu, representing the Res Publica Party.
Kerge was married to ballerina, actress and singer Ülle Ulla from 1962 until their divorce in 1971. Since 1983 he was married to actress Elle Kull.
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Robert Conder
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Bob (Birth Name: Robert N. Conder) has been working in stage, theater and film since 1967 both behind the scenes and in front of the stage and camera. He began as an actor with roles in such films as; Solo, Choke Canyon, Evil in Clear River, Haloween 4, as a stunt man specializing in fights, falls and cars, Bob has been punched by Tommy Lee Jones, dropped by Jim Carrey, shot from the roof of a building, and rolled in a moving van off an exploding bridge.
Bob soon began working behind the camera as a grip, key grip and other departments, with the idea of learning more about the film process. After several films and commercials, Bob began to learn the scheduling and budgeting side of the business.
In 1982 Bob worked for Aquila Films helping with preproduction packaging. Then 1987 he began working for NAK Entertainment in much the same capacity, and worked as the 1st AD for the pilot "Dojo Kids". Later as and as a second unit director for "A Boy Named Danger" and "Mr. Atlas".
Bob in now focusing on AD work as he continues to build his resume with such films as "Tears of a King" and National Lampoon's "Bag Boy".
With 30 years in the film industry he has worked in almost every capacity and within every size budget, can anticipate the needs for each department thereby reducing costs and stress. Nothing makes Bob happier than the working in the business side of that great creative process.
Biography By: Bob Conder
Birth Name: Robert N. Conder
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Stuart Mackey
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Stuart Mackey is an innovative artist who approaches to perform and improve his craft/knowledge through each endeavor. Recently through developing online performances and presence, reading/ reviewing productions, script/character analysis, he has utilized his time in front and behind the camera to enhance his craft to become a better performer. Observation, inspiration, and determination are his foundation for success. Stuart's philosophy is that introducing fresh perspectives and new techniques to evolve and grow. Formerly in his acting roles, his successes have stemmed from essential skills to authentically react to the circumstance of the scene/text.
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