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RJ Balaji

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RJ Balaji, is an Indian radio jockey based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is best known as the host of the BIG FM 92.7 show Take it Easy and its now defunct segment Cross Talk, where he made prank calls to unsuspecting victims. Although mainly a radio jockey, Balaji is also active in other fields; he is known for his association with the television shows Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Dheva and Why This Kolaveri, and for his performance in the films Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (2013), Vadacurry (2014) Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015) and Pugazh (2016). He has also been a presenter at many inter-school cultural events in Chennai, and has contributed to many social causes, such as providing relief support to the victims of the 2015 South Indian floods. Balaji was married at the age of 21 years, and has a son named Mahanth who, as of 2015, is three years old
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Melissa Rakiro

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Melissa Rakiro is an American actress and model. Originally from the Philadelphia area, she received her Bachelor's in Theater from Temple University. She has appeared on TV, Film, Off Broadway, and in dozens of commercial and print ads. Most recently, Melissa appeared in two supporting roles in the Oscar nominated Netflix film Rustin directed by George C. Wolfe and the Paramount+ feature film Snack Shack. The former of which she was nominated for an NAACP award for best ensemble cast. Currently, you can catch her on Amazon Prime playing ADA Romona Paltz in the second season of American Rust alongside Jeff Daniels.
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Visra Vichit-Vadakan

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Visra Vichit-Vadakan is a filmmaker based in California and Bangkok. She was born in the United States (San Francisco) but moved to Bangkok with her parents at age 9. She graduated in biology and education from the University of Stanford, and completed her film education at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her granddaughter is Luang Wichitwathakan, a Thai politician, historian, novelist and playwright. Vichit-Vadakan married a fellow Stanford University grad in 2010, Christopher Cox, who serves as chief of staff to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on product development and is responsible for its "family of apps": Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. She makes social-issue films that combine both documentary and fiction, since hopes to use her background in education and film to bring positive social change. She has made several short films that were previously screened in Rotterdam and her first feature film, 'Karaoke Girl', was based on the life of a young sex worker in Bangkok. It premiered in competition at the 'International Film Festival Rotterdam' and traveled to various festivals around the world. Visra also co-founded the 'Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab', a script lab aimed to support Southeast Asian filmmakers by developing and advancing their scripts.
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Roopa Ganguly

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Roopa Ganguly (born 25 November 1966) is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician. She is best known for her rendition of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series Mahabharat (1988). Often promoted as the Bengali Film Industry's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi, she is known for her versatility and accent adaptation. She worked with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh. She is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer. She received several awards including a National Award and two BFJA Awards. In October, 2015, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, by the President of India. She served as the President of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal. She served as the General Secretary and the Vice President for the West Bengal Motion Picture Artistes' Forum, a body representing cine artistes.
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Romnick Sarmenta

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Romeo "Romnick" Nicolas Sarmenta Tejedor (born April 28, 1972) is a Filipino actor, film producer and professor. Noted for his performances in a range of genres across film and television, he began his career as a child actor debuting in the series Gulong ng Palad. With a career spanning nearly five decades, his accolades included the Best Actor won from the Asian Television Award, a Gawad Urian and Summer Metro Manila Film Festival, in addition to numerous nominations from the FAMAS Awards and Young Critics Circle.
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Sam Rockwell

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Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for playing distressed police officer Jason Dixon in Martin McDonagh's crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The following year, he was nominated in the same category for portraying in Adam McKay's political satire Vice (2018). In 2019, he portrayed Bob Fosse in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon, earning a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, and in 2022, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo. Rockwell's other films include The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Matchstick Men (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Moon (2009), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Iron Man 2 (2010), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Jojo Rabbit (2019), and See How They Run (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Rockwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mohamed Emam

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An Egyptian actor and the son of the artist Adel Imam and the brother of the director Rami Imam, born on September 16, 1984, he participated with the artist Adel Imam in one of his films, the movie (Hanafi Al-Abha) 1990, and his first television work was the series (Kanaria and Partners) in 2003 with the artist Farouk Al-Fishawy, Then he participated in several films such as: (The Yacoubian Building) 2006, then graduated from the American University in Cairo, then (Hassan and Morcos) 2008, followed by his first absolute cinematic starring in the movie (Romantic Beh) 2009, but the year 2012 was the most fortunate for the artist (Mohamed Imam) for his participation (Al-Saqa) in the championship of the television series (Red Lines), which was widely accepted by the masses. In the same year, his father participated in the championship of the series (Najy Atallah Band), and participated in the championship of many works such as (The Thief of Baghdad) And (the tiger).
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Janardhanan

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Janardhanan is a Malayalam film actor. In 1969, he acted in Veettu Mrugam directed by P. Venu. He is known for his style of handling humor and his iconic voice. He started his career playing brusque villains in the 1970s but later went on to establish himself as a highly sought-after comedian. The turning point of his career was his role in the 1988 film Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, which brought out his comic skills. However, he was typecast as a comedian only after the 1993 film Meleparambil Aanveedu. Apart from stereotyped Hindu/Muslim/Christian characters, he has the distinction of portraying a Sikh and a Jewish character.
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Adirley Queirós

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Adirley Queirós (Morro Agudo de Goiás, July 18, 1970) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Queirós was a professional footballer from the age of 16 to 25. He then studied film at the Universidade de Brasília, from which he graduated in 2005. He became involved in the cultural life of Brazil and directed his first film Rap o canto da Ceilândia (2005), which won thirteen Brazilian awards. With his documentary A cidade é uma só? (2010), Queirós participated in international film festivals such as World Cinema Amsterdam, Brazilian Hollywood Festival and BAFICI in Argentina. White Out, Black In (2014) is his fifth film and fourth documentary, which participated in Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema, Cartagena Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, Torino Film Festival and IFFR+.
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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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