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Mari Hoshino

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Mari Hoshino (星野 真里 Hoshino Mari, born July 27, 1981 in Kamifukuoka, Saitama) is a Japanese actress and singer. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a degree in Franch Literature. Most well-known for her lead role as Otome Sakamoto in T.B.S. drama, Kinpachi-sensei, Hoshino has starred in several dramas in recent years. Her main role in Platonic Sex was some-what controversial as it was rather contrary to her image as one possessing pure values. She has also published two photographic books as well as about six C.D.s. Of the Japanese dramas shown in Los Angeles, a substantial fraction of them has Mari in the cast.
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Christopher Rodriguez Marquette

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Christopher Marquette (born October 3, 1984), also credited as Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, is an American actor. He began his career with a main role as Adam Brody on the ABC sitcom Aliens in the Family (1996) before his breakout with a main role as Marc Delgado on the Lifetime medical drama series Strong Medicine (2000–2005). Following his breakout on Strong Medicine, Marquette had a main role as Mason McAllister on the Fox soap opera Pasadena (2001) and voiced lead character Alex O'Connell on the WB animated series The Mummy (2001–2003). He gained further mainstream attention with a main role as Adam Rove on the CBS series Joan of Arcadia (2003–2005) and starring roles in the films Freddy vs. Jason (2003), The Girl Next Door (2004), Just Friends (2005), Alpha Dog (2006), and The Invisible (2007). In the late 2000s, Marquette starred in the films Life During Wartime (2009), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), and Fanboys (2009). In the 2010s and 2020s, he starred in the films The Double (2011) and Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015) and had a main role as Octie on the Gala Film web series RZR (2024). In 2025, he was cast in the fourth season of Reacher.
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Hamid Farrokhnejad

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Hamid Farrokhnejad (حمید فرخ نژاد) is an Iranian actor, writer, and director. Born in Abadan in 1969, he began his career in student theatre and working on short films. He graduated from the Theatre Director programme in Tehran University Fine Arts Department. Hamid Farrokhnejad gained popular acclaim with his role in Bride of Fire (2000) winning many awards in the Fajr Film Festival, and notably appearing as Morteza in Fireworks Wednesday (2006). Farrokhnezhad has worked with prominent Iranian directors such as Asghar Farhadi and Bahram Bayzai.
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Vishal Krishna

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Vishal Krishna is an Indian film actor and producer who appears primarily in Tamil cinema. Often starring in his home productions, he became an actor after a stint as an assistant director in films. His first role was in the romantic thriller Chellamae, before going on to secure a run of three consecutive successes with roles as action hero in the 2005 film, Sandakozhi, and with Thimiru in 2006. After appearing in two further successful films, the failure of his hyped home production, Sathyam halted his streak. Following further commercial failures, he enjoyed success again with Avan Ivan (2011), which became a significant film in his career.
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Benicio del Toro

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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (Latin American Spanish: [beˈnisjo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, a Goya Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide. Del Toro made his film debut in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by roles in Basquiat (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Snatch (2000). He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a morally upright police officer in the Steven Soderbergh crime drama Traffic (2000). He was nominated in the same category for his role as an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller 21 Grams (2003). He has since acted in Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Savages (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015), No Sudden Move (2021), and One Battle After Another (2025).  He also took on franchise roles such as Lawrence Talbot in The Wolfman (2010), the Collector in three films from 2013 to 2018 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DJ, the codebreaker, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). On television, he portrayed Richard Matt in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benicio del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Moharam Fouad

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Moharam Fouad (June 24, 1934 - June 27, 2002) was a famous Egyptian singer and movie star. Dubbed "The Sound of the Nile", Fouad was one of the biggest stars of the golden age of Egyptian musical cinema in the 1960s. Fouad’s introduction to the screen came in 1959 with the film Hassan and Nayima, an Egyptian adaptation of Romeo and Juliet starring him and Soad Hosny. He has appeared in 13 movies and left well over 900 songs behind him. 20 of his songs were in praise of Palestine. Fouad had several marriages but had only one son, Tarek. His grandson is Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino. In 2002, Fouad died of heart and kidney complications in Cairo.
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László Csáki

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In 2002 he graduated from the Visual Communication Department of the Hungarian University of Art and Design; János Szirtes was his teacher and mentor. He is an interdisciplinary artist, who is equally comfortable creating an animated film, a live-action short film, a documentary, a music video or a commercial. His photography, marquetry and printmaking works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. From 2005 to 2015, he was a professor of animation and media design at MOME, and from 2006 to 2008 he was the director of the media design program. Since 2013 he has been teaching animation at the Budapest Metropolitan University. His first animated feature film is titled Pelikan Blue.
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Josephine Chaplin

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Josephine (Josie) Hannah Chaplin (March 28, 1949 - July 13, 2023) was an actress and the daughter of actor/comedian/director Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O'Neill. Her siblings include Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin and Michael Chaplin. She was also half-sister to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Norman Chaplin. She was seen in a number of films, including her father's Limelight and A Countess from Hong Kong. She had a son Julien Ronet (born 1980) by Maurice Ronet, with whom she lived until his death. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Josephine (Josie) Hannah Chaplin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Oliver Wnuk

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Oliver Wnuk is a German actor, author, and audio drama narrator, born on January 28, 1976, in Konstanz as Oliver Konrad Wnuk. He completed his acting training at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich and celebrated his cinema debut in 2000 in the thriller "Anatomie" alongside Franka Potente, followed by roles in comedies like "Der Schuh des Manitu" (2001). He gained international fame through the role of the laid-back, scatterbrained Ulf Steinke in the ProSieben series "Stromberg" (2004–2012, including the feature film in 2014), which brought him his breakthrough. His further engagements include the chief detective Murat Alpay in "K3 – Kripo Hamburg" (2003–2007), Detective Chief Inspector Hinnerk Feldmann in "Nord Nord Mord" (since 2010), Thomas Zuhse in "Die Kanzlei" (2012–2019), as well as appearances in series like "Die LottoKönige" (2012–2015), "Der Bergdoktor" (2009), and films like "Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten". In addition, he is successful as an author with books like "Luftholen" (2013), children's books about "Kasi Kauz", and screenplays for TV films, and he narrates audio dramas; he weighs 68 kg at 174 cm tall, speaks fluent English and French, and resides in Munich.
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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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