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Maryus Vaysberg

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Maryus Erikovich Vaysberg (Russian: Марюс Эрикович Вайсберг; born 1 April 1971; Moscow) also known as Marius Balčiūnas-Weisberg, is a Russian film director, producer, and screenwriter of Lithuanian and Jewish descent. His father, Erik Vaysberg, had had his own career in the Soviet film industry- he acted as the executive producer of Tarkovsky's film Mirror, on Andrei Konchalovsky's film Siberiade, and Karen Shakhnazarov's film The Assassin of the Tsar. Vaysberg graduated from the VGIK in the mid-1990s and started releasing films. His first film, No Vacancy, starring Christina Ricci was released in 1999. Vaysberg's films are not well-loved by critics in his native Russia. However, many of his films are successful at the Russian box office, such as Naughty Grandma, Love in the Big City, 8 First Dates, and Not Ideal Man.
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Roman Karimov

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Roman Leonidovich Karimov (Russian: Роман Леонидович Каримов, born June 20, 1984; Ufa) is a Russian filmmaker. Born in Ufa on June 20, 1984. In 2003, he went to live in London, produced short films for the BBC and did film trailers and other works for TV3, TV1000 and ZTV. Two years later he returned to Russia. Karimov directed three short films ("Optimist", "Apartment 29" and "Don't worry!"), worked as a promotional director of the film "Platot" and director of the documentary "Profession: humorist", starring Vadim Galygin. "Don't Worry" won the Audience Award at the My Cinema Festival, and "Apartment 29" won the prize for the best feature film at the festival КИНОТЕАТР.doc. In 2010, Karimov's debut feature film, the comedy "Inadequate People", was shot. The film won the Grand Prix of the Window to Europe Film Festival, held in August 2010, and was also very warmly received by Russian moviegoers, receiving many positive reviews. In 2023, Karimov released his 10th feature film "Breath" about doctors during COVID-19 pandemic.
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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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Tyrese Gibson

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Tyrese Darnell Gibson (born December 30, 1978) is an American R&B singer and actor from Los Angeles, California. He signed with RCA Records in 1998 and released his debut single, "Nobody Else", in August of that year. It peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. It preceded his self-titled debut album (1998), which received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spawned his second top 40 single, "Sweet Lady". His second and third albums, 2000 Watts (2001) and I Wanna Go There (2002), received certifications from the RIAA. The latter was led by the single "How You Gonna Act Like That", which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song. His fourth album, Alter Ego (2006), explored hip hop under the pseudonym Black Ty, while his fifth album, Open Invitation (2011), was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Gibson's sixth album, Black Rose (2015), debuted atop the Billboard 200. Gibson has sold over 4 million singles and albums in the United States. Gibson had his first starring role in John Singleton's coming-of-age hood film Baby Boy (2001) and gained widespread recognition as Roman Pearce in the Fast & Furious franchise. Gibson reunited with Singleton for the action film Four Brothers (2005) and plays Robert Epps in the Transformers franchise. He appeared in the comedy film Ride Along 2 (2016) and the superhero film Morbius (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tyrese Gibson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bonnie Dee Wilson

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Gorgeous and sensuous well-built brunette stunner Bonnie Dee Wilson was born in 1947 in San Antonio, Texas. Bonnie gave birth to a daughter in 1967. She both graced the cover and did a nude pictorial as a Pet of the Month in the November, 1975 issue of "Penthouse" magazine. Wilson did a follow-up nude pictorial in the October, 1977 issue of the same popular men's magazine. Bonnie Dee Wilson's only film appearance was an uncredited bit part as an imperial brothel worker in the infamous orgy sequence in the notorious "Caligula."
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Fabrizio Bozzetti

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Fabrizio Bozzetti is a screenwriter and novelist who works between Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Slovenia. Among his most recent feature films, “The Angel in the Wall” (starring Pierre Richard, DOP Peter Zeitlinger, closing film of the Torino Film Festival, in competition at the Golden Rooster Festival in Xiamen, in cinemas from May 2022, now available on Prime Video); “The Man Without Gravity” (in theaters from October 2019 and currently distributed worldwide by Netflix); “Neve” (in theaters from March 2024); “La luna sott’acqua” (“The Moon Beneath the Water”, Italian-Danish co-production, DOP Odd-Geir Sæther, in cinemas from October 2023); “I Will Not Starve” (with Jerzy Stuhr, an Italian-Canadian co-production released in theaters in February 2022); “My second time” (for which he wrote the story and screenplay, in cinemas from March 2019, entered the ranking of the highest Italian box office hits of that period and awarded at the Giffoni Film Festival); “Tell Me Softly” (released in theaters in September 2018, awarded at the Film Invasion Los Angeles festival, now available on Prime Video).
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Derek Phillips

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Film and stage actor Derek Phillips was born in Miami, Florida on April 18, 1976, and attended Baylor University where he received a BFA in acting. Upon graduation Derek moved to New York and began acting professionally in both television and regional theatre performing throughout the country in numerous plays including "The Winter's Tale" (Baltimore Center Stage), "Of Mice and Men" (Dallas Theater Center), "The Glass Menagerie" (Virginia Stage Company), and "King o' The Moon" (Capital Repertory Theatre). After years of regional theatre and recurring roles on "The Guiding Light", "As the World Turns", and "All My Children" Derek finally got his break playing the emotionally charged role of Billy Riggins on the critically acclaimed NBC television show "Friday Night Lights." Derek is also an associate producer, assistant director and resident actor for the award-winning, ensemble based theatre company Second Thought Theatre, where he has performed as an actor in the regional premiere of Eric Bogosian's "Humpty Dumpty", Douglas Post's "Earth and Sky", and the world premiere of Steven Walters "Pluck the Day."
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Farid Shawqy

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Farid Muhammad Shawqi Abdo was born in Sheikha al-Bagghala in Sayyida Zainab district .. He obtained a diploma of the Institute of Applied Engineering and a diploma in the Institute of Acting and worked in small roles with the artist (Anwar Wagdy), then he began writing cinematic stories for his films and achieved stardom and became known as the King of the Tarso, the monster of the screen, the King . He wrote many film stories, and worked on stage in many of Rihani's plays, such as (Al-Daloua, The Story of Every Day), and he worked in Lebanese, Syrian and Turkish films, including (The Devil of the Bosphorus, Othman Al-Jabbar). And among the series he worked with, (Curmudgeon and Me, the only witness, Saber, Uncle Saber). He married artist Hoda Sultan and they separated in 1969, then he married Suheir Turk later on. He founded the Union of Artists in 1986. He won the State Prize for the story (They Made Me a Criminals) in 1955 and the Production Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1956 for the film (The Fatwa). He won the State Prize for Production in 1962, the Medal of Flag in 1964, and was honored by the Cairo Festival in 1994. He deservedly deserved the title of King of Tiers or King of Cinema, as he is the star who always renewed himself and got rid of stereotypes.
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Markus Redmond

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Markus William Redmond (born February 5, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his pivotal role as a hospital orderly "Raymond Alexander," in 71 episodes of the comedy-drama series Doogie Howser, M.D., co-created by legendary television producer, Steven Bochco; and for the famous police station scene it the cult classic Fight Club. Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1971, he moved with his family to Ventura County in Los Angeles and began taking acting lessons.
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Bernard Blier

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Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas. He often worked in Italian films, particularly in the last decade of his life. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, was posted at the time. He is the father of director Bertrand Blier, and appeared in a number of his son's films, most notably Buffet froid (1979). He was awarded an Honorary César (the French Oscar) in 1989, a month before he died. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Blier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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