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Malini Fonseka

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Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly as Malini Fonseka (Sinhala:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in Kelaniya) is a Sri Lankan film actress and former member of Sri Lanka Parliament, who became known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema". Her cinema career that has spanned seven decades began with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968. She first became widely known when she won the 'Best Actress Award' at the 1969 National State Drama Festival This was followed by Sarasaviya Best Actress Awards for Hingana Kolla in 1980, Aradhana in 1982 and Yasa Isuru in 1983. In 2010, she was named by CNN as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time.
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Edward X. Young

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Edward X. Young studied film & television production, acting, and journalism at Seton Hall University; acting and stage directing at Brookdale College; business administration at Monmouth University; and film production at New York University. He honed his acting skills as a member of the R.I.S.K. Improvisational Theatre Group under the tutelage of Fabir Rodriguez-Ammirato. As a young actor, he performed on-stage in the New York Metropolitan Area in productions of "Amadeus," "Dracula," "Children of a Lesser God," "True West," "The Boys Next Door," and "Modigliani." He also worked in the theater as a director, staging productions of "Waiting for Godot," "Hurlyburly," "Lunchtime," and "Wait Until Dark." While a part of the Downtown New York City art scene in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, he became heavily involved in punk music, befriending members of Johnny Thunders' band The Heartbreakers, Walter Lure's band The Waldos, and Church Pills. He worked as the publicity manager for the band The Suave Elbows, which featured musicians Christopher Clunie and Marty Byk. After leaving the performing arts for a decade and moving to New Hampshire to raise a family and work as a journalist, Ed relaunched his acting career, appearing in the radio play "The Death Guard"(based on the science fiction novel by Philip George Chadwick) which was co-produced and directed by Kate Linaker (aka Kate Phillips), who was the screenwriter of "The Blob" (1958) for broadcast on New Hampshire radio stations. Ed then joined the Greenville Shakespeare Festival, of Greenville, New Hampshire. In 2007, Young relocated back to the New York metro area, where he joined the Celtic Theatre Company in residence at Seton Hall University, his alma mater. His recent film work as an actor is focused on genre horror features. He has also worked on numerous experimental film and video projects as director, writer, editor, animator, and make-up special effects artist. Early collaborative efforts include numerous short film subjects produced in partnership with Daniel Acon.
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Rance Howard

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Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard. Howard appeared in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Chinatown (1974), Splash (1984), Ed Wood (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Nebraska (2013), and Max Rose (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981).
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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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Mehmet Aslan

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Mehmet Aslan (1 May 1931, İzmir - 1 September 1987, Heybeliada ) is a Turkish actor , screenwriter and film director. Having completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Izmir, Aslan studied for a while in the electrical department of Yıldız Technical University, then left the university and started working as an electrical technician. In 1949, he became acquainted with cinema by working as an assistant and actor in the film Captain Tahsin, directed by Orhon Murat Arıburnu and in which he played the leading role. Continuing his career as an actor and assistant director, Aslan wrote his first script, "Ateş Gibi Kadın" (Woman Like Fire), in 1965. He began directing the film Bir Gönül Oyunu (A Heart Game) in the same year. He is known as the director of the Tarkan series of films. On the posters of films directed or written by Mehmet Aslan, his surname is sometimes written as Arslan.
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Claude Bertrand

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Claude Bertrand (24 March 1919 – 14 December 1986) was a French film, television and voice over actor. In a career that has spanned four decades, Bertrand was best known in French film and television as a voice over actor. He was the French dub for Roger Moore, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Bud Spencer and Burt Lancaster. He also shared his voice in animation, he provided the voice of Baloo in the French version of The Jungle Book, O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood. He also voiced Captain Haddock in Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks. He also dubbed Roger Moore into French in the James Bond series between 1973 and 1985. Bertrand died in 1986 after suffering from cancer. Source: Article "Claude Bertrand (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jenny Blake Isabella

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Jenny Blake Isabella (born December 22, 1951), who writes under the names Tony Isabella and Jenny Blake, is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, artist and critic. She is the creator of Marvel Comics superhero Black Goliath, and of DC Comics' first major African-American superhero, Black Lightning. She was a columnist and critic for the Comics Buyer's Guide magazine. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenny Blake Isabella, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Babatunde Łukasz Aiyegbusi

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Babatunde Łukasz Aiyegbusi is a Polish professional wrestler and former American football player. He currently performs on the independent circuit and occasionally for Major League Wrestling (MLW) under the ring name Babathunder. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring names Dabba-Kato, Babatunde, and Commander Azeez. Aiyegbusi previously played for a number of teams in the Polish American Football League and German Football League, and had a stint with the Minnesota Vikings during the 2015 preseason.
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Jon Reiss

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jon Reiss is an award-winning producer and director, named one of "10 Digital Directors to Watch" by Daily Varietyand whose work has placed in film festivals worldwide including Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Seattle, New Directors/New Films, Sao Paulo etc. As a result Reiss has built a dedicated global film audience. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Reiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Desi Ivanova

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Desi Ivanova is a Los Angeles based actress, with a BFA in Theatre and a MFA in Screen Acting. She received the "2008 Minter Ellison-Rising Star Award" for best emerging actress in South Australia. Some of her theatre credits include: Clov in Beckett's "End Game," Anne Page in Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor," Masha in Chekov's "The Seagull," and Malory Kingsley in the musical "City of Angels." She has written, produced and starred in the short film "Lamentables", which was an official selection at the LA Femme Film Festival and the LA International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts.
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