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Norma Aleandro
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Norma Aleandro (born 2 May 1936) is an international award-winning Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentinean actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in Argentina.
Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 film The Official Story, a role that earned her the Cannes Award for best actress. She has performed in other successful films like The Truce (1974), Cousins (1989), Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998), Son of the Bride (2001) and Cama Adentro (2005). For her performance as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 film Gaby: A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Eugene Byrd
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Eugene Byrd (born August 28, 1975) is an American actor. He has been in movies including Dead Man, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and has the leading role in Confess, for which he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the 2006 Method Fest Independent Film Festival.
He starred as Dr. Sidney Trumaine in the television show Crossing Jordan. Before that he was a guest star in the seventh and eighth seasons of The Cosby Show for four episodes titled "Theo and the Kids" part 1 and 2, "Theo's Future," and "Cliff and Theo Come Clean." He also landed a role on Beverly Hills, 90210 as Rondinson Ashe III during the second season. He was also on the Touched by an Angel spin off Promised Land.
Eugene also appeared in the TV series Ghostwriter as "Walter" in 1993 and portrayed the comical but defiant Oliver Cross on the British Children's television series, Chris Cross, which won an award for "Best Children's Series" in 1994. The show aired on the Showtime Cable Network from 1994 to 1995. Byrd had a minor role in season one of Heroes, as Nathan Petrelli's campaign manager, and as Dr. Clark Edison in several episodes of Bones. He has also made an appearance on the show Two and a Half Men, as one of Charlie's gambling and drinking buddies.
On January 6, 2011, The Glendale News Press reported that Eugene was arrested in California by the Glendale Police Department for domestic violence assault on January 1, 2011.
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Raymond Thiry
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Raymond Thiry is a Dutch actor. He started out in theatre in 1987 with his own theatre group Alex d'Electrique, a well know group and very successful at different festivals and in theatre all over the Netherlands and Germany.
After being in several prime time TV series, he stars in 2006 in the art house film 'Langer Licht' by David Lammers and receives a prestigious Golden Calf Nomination at the Dutch Filmfestival. In 2009 he wins this same award for his brilliant work in 'Oorlogswinter' (Winter in Wartime) by director Martin Koolhoven, which was a huge box office success.
After his award his agenda fills up fast with all sorts of characters in Feature Film as well as TV. He impressed in the Dutch Crime series Penoza and feature films Sonny Boy and Lotus (release autumn 2011).
At the end of 2011 Raymond will hit the theaters again, together with star actress Sylvia Hoeks in the play Poskantoor, based on the book Post Office by Charles Bukowski. In 2012 Raymond plays the main character in the feature films 'Black Out' and 'Toegetakeld door de liefde'.
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Jelka van Houten
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Jelka van Houten is a Dutch actress of film, stage, and television, though she is perhaps best known for being the sister of fellow actress Carice van Houten. She is currently nominated for a Gouden Notekraker; the judge's who nominated her have said that "her surprising début holds a lot in store for the future". Van Houten also received praise for her stage debut as Olga in the musical Turk's Fruit, for which she won a Johnny Kraaijkamp Musical Award. Her upcoming projects include the film Zomerhitte and the play Seksual Perversity, at the Theatre de Voorveghter.
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Kevin Rafferty
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Kevin Rafferty is an American Visual Effects Supervisor. He holds a Bachelor of Art degree from Sandford University and Master's degree in Architecture from UCLA. In 1982, he began his career in Visual Effects at Digital Productions, where he worked on the film The Last Starfighter. Starting in 1990, Rafferty worked as a Senior Animator at Pacific Data Images, where he contributed to nine major films including Cliffhanger and Batman Returns. He then joined Industrial Light + Magic where he worked on films such as Star Wars: Episode One, The Perfect Storm, Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Dragonheart. In early 2001, Rafferty was enlisted by Dreamworks Animation to design, implement and oversee the computer graphics used to create the feature film Shark Tale.
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Phyllis Coates
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Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927) was an American actress best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole-Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman.
Coates signed a movie contract with Warner Bros. extending from 1948 to 1956. She co-starred with George O'Hanlon as the title character's wife in the studio's Joe McDoakes short-subject comedies. She acted in film serials including Jungle Drums of Africa (1953), Gunfighters of the Northwest (1953), and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). Her film career also included roles in Girls in Prison (1956), I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Blood Arrow (1958), Cattle Empire (1958), The Incredible Petrified World (1959), The Baby Maker (1970) and Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989).
Coates was one of Hollywood's most consistently employed actresses of the 1950s and '60s. She freelanced steadily, appearing in numerous low-budget features, many of them Westerns, as well as serials and a steady stream of TV appearances, both as a regular in several series and as a guest cast member in others. All this was in addition to the "McDoakes" shorts, in which she continued to appear until Warner Bros. discontinued the series in 1956.
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Mohamed Reda
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Mohamed Reda (محمد رضا) was an Egyptian actor born in Assiut in 1921. He received a diploma in applied engineering in 1938, and worked in the beginnings of his life in petroleum engineering.
Mohamed Reda joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts and graduated in 1953. Mohamed Reda was famous in the cinema for his comedy character, headed by the character (Reda Bond) and the character of the teacher presented through (Alley Almdq).
Among his most famous films: (30 days in prison, a girl named Mahmoud, Ghawi Mashaal, forbidden on the night of Dakhla).
His last work was through my series (Diary and Nice, Resident of Qasadi).
He died in 1995 at the age of 74.
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Carla Gravina
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Carla Gravina (born 5 August 1941) is an Italian actress and politician. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1993.
Born in Gemona, Gravina made her film debut at fifteen years old, in Alberto Lattuada's Guendalina. Very active in films and on television series, both in comedic and dramatic roles, from the late 1970s she gradually focused her activities on stage and in political activism, being a PCI deputy between 1980 and 1983.
During her career Gravina won a number of international awards, including the Best Actress Award for her performance in Alessandro Blasetti's Love and Chatter at the 1958 Locarno International Film Festival, the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ettore Scola's La terrazza at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and the award for Best Actress for Margarethe von Trotta's The Long Silence at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival.
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Marie Rosůlková
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Marie Rosulkova (December 17, 1901 Pilsen - May 15, 1993 Prague) was a Czech actress. She has been playing in the theater since 19 to 91 years. As a bank clerk, she was privately trained by Marie Laudová-Hořicová.
Since 1921 the theater has been professionally played in Pilsen, České Budějovice and in the Zemské divadlo (1931-1933) in Brno. From the beginning, she played rather roles of ladies and experienced women than young naiveks (Frank Wedekind: Lulu, Ceske Budejovice, 1924, roles and rolls in the head of the station, The Snack Shop and many others).
She appeared in the ensemble Vlasta Buriana shortly, and in 1934-1949 she worked at the Vinohrady Theater, from 1950 to 1982 she stood on the boards of the Prague Municipal Theaters. She received a character role here, enriched by her tendency to a kind parody (Spanish Queen Maria Luisa, Frank Tetauer: Don Manuel and Marie Luisa).
In 1960 he created the character of the Italian matron Filumena Marturano in the same comedy of Eduard De Filip. In her early years, her life role in the character of the eccentric, but above all, gentle and wise Toula Maude, the main character of the successful comedy of Harold and Maude (1976).
She had the first film roles at the end of the 1930s, but the greatest popularity brought her in the 70's comedic role of grandmothers and eccentric older women. In such roles she has also taken on television. Her most famous role is her grandmother, the detective author in the series "Such a Normal Family".
On February 25, 1948, he signed the call for Pro-Communist intelligence ahead, a step backwards supporting the Communist coup. In 1966, she was named a deserving artist.
She is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in a special department designed for nuns (the east side at the entrance).
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Wim Wenders
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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award.
Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023).
Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018).
Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director.
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