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Mariano González

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Mariano González-Guerineau (born August 20, 1992) is an Argentine actor and former athlete who rose to international fame as the lead character, Gabo Moreti, in the Disney XD series O11CE. Born in Buenos Aires, he moved to Los Angeles at age 12, where he excelled in soccer at Beverly Hills High School before earning a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania. While playing Division I soccer for the Quakers and earning a dual degree in Political Science and Cinema, he rediscovered his passion for acting through student films and the short Underprivileged. In 2015, he transitioned fully to acting, leading to his breakthrough with Disney and later appearing in the 2023 film Gran Turismo.
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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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Deborah LaFond

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Dr. Deborah Lafond is the Chief Executive Officer of PANDA Education Consultants, PLLC and was formerly the Clinical Director of the PANDA Palliative Care Team at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She retired from her clinical practice with Children’s National in May 2020. She received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Maryland, a Masters in Nursing from the University of Hawaii, and her Bachelor’s in Nursing from the University of Maryland. Dr. Lafond has a background in pediatric oncology advanced practice nursing, most specifically neuro-oncology for 22 years. Dr. Lafond is a Sojourns Scholar in pediatric palliative care and presented on models of primary pediatric palliative care delivery at the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering. She is a national ELNEC trainer and a trainer for EPEC-Pediatric. Her interest of research is in primary pediatric palliative care and integrating these precepts into oncology practice.
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Gilbert Oakley

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Gilbert Oakley is the Hospice RN Coordinator at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. When Gilbert first encountered hospice nurses, he was a bit taken aback by their open and “creative” approach to end-of-life care. However, as both a nurse and a patient, he feels it is necessary to make healthcare as human an experience as possible. He has shared many personal and intimate moments with his terminally ill patients, and helped them meet their end-of-life goals, no matter how specific or individualized those goals may be.
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Henry Dimbleby

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Henry Dimbleby was the lead non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from March 2018 to March 2023. Henry was co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain. He is also co-founder and Director of The Sustainable Restaurant Association and of London Union, which runs some of London’s most successful street food markets. He co-authored The School Food Plan (2013), which set out actions to transform what children eat in schools and how they learn about food. Henry previously worked as a Strategy Consultant at Bain & Company (1995-2002) where he advised businesses on strategy, performance improvement and organisational design.
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Bill Watterson

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Watterson’s work has been called “wildly inventive” (Hollywood Reporter), “dazzlingly original” (Empire), and “fresh and inventive” (Rotten Tomatoes). He is an ex-rocker whose feature film directorial debut, the practical effects-driven fantasy Dave Made A Maze, won the Audience Award at its World Premiere at Slamdance. The film has gone on to win over 20 Audience and Jury Prizes, a Saturn Award, is distributed in over 40 countries, and is Certified Fresh. Known for his tactile world-building and his ability to orchestrate unique tonal mash-ups, he has directed music videos, commercials, children’s content, and lots of cool stuff you can’t watch because NDA’s. He is currently working with Village Roadshow and The Jim Henson Company on an original project and yes, it has monsters and puppets and robots and stuff.
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Jeff Schroeder

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An American television and online talk show host, currently for Daily Blast Live, a daily entertainment and news program produced and distributed by TEGNA, which is seen on-air on local stations across the U.S., and online (Facebook and YouTube) and across social media. Schroeder is also a former two-time contestant on Big Brother, racer on The Amazing Race, and resident on Marriage Boot Camp. Jeff met his wife, Jordan Lloyd, while competing on Big Brother (US) 11. They currently own a YouTube channel with over 25,100 subscribers. They have two sons together. During Big Brother 13, Schroeder made several controversial comments regarding the sexual orientation of the fictional character Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series on July 12, 2011 (which was Day 10 inside the house). Jeff didn't think it was appropriate to have a gay headmaster locked away with children in a magical land. When fellow House Guest Kalia Booker challenged Jeff on making this statement, saying there was nothing wrong with teachers that identify as gay, Jeff rejected her viewpoint and accused her of being politically correct for the audience.
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Jon Davison

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Jon Davison was born on July 21, 1949 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Davison studied at New York University's Film Institute, where one of his instructors was director Martin Scorsese. While attending NYU Jon staged film retrospectives at the Fillmore East in the East Village. Davison began his career running the St. Marks Cinematheque movie theater in New York. Fellow NYU classmate and future film director Jonathan Kaplan suggested to Jon that he move to Los Angeles, California. In 1972 Davison hooked up with Roger Corman's prolific B-flick outfit New World Pictures, where he initially was the director of advertising and publicity. Davison made his debut as associate producer of "Big Bad Mama." He went on to produce the hilarious exploitation feature parody "Hollywood Boulevard," Ron Howard's delightful directorial debut "Grand Theft Auto," and Joe Dante's terrific tongue-in-cheek killer animal treat "Piranha" for New World Pictures. Jon left New World Pictures in 1980. He produced the uproarious comedies "Airplane!" and "Top Secret!" for Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. Davison subsequently produced the excellent and exciting science fiction cult favorites "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers" for director Paul Verhoeven. He went on to produce sequels for those two films. In addition, Jon handled second unit director chores on both "Rock'n'Roll High School" and "The Howling." Moreover, Jon Davison has popped up in small parts in a few movies; he's especially memorable as the tinny metallic voice of the murderous malfunctioning robot ED-209 in "RoboCop."
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Anthony Boyle

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Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is an Irish actor. A graduate of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Boyle began his acting career on London stage and rose to prominence for originating the role of Scorpius Malfoy in the West End and Broadway productions of the British play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016), for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He is also known for starring as Geoffrey Bache Smith in the film Tolkien and Alvin Levin in the mini-series The Plot Against America.
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Kimie Tsukakoshi

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She was born in Sydney, Australia to a Singapore-Chinese mother and Japanese father. She trained in ballet, jazz, and contemporary from a young age, eventually turning to musical theatre and then screen acting. Kimie Tsukakoshi made her main stage debut in The Dead Devils of Cockle Creek at La Boite Theatre Company in early 2018. She has had many other onstage credits. At the Brisbane Festival, she even performed the titular role in the world premiere of Hanako: Desire and Other Secret Weapons which is by Belloo Creative (the team behind the award-winning play Motherland). Hanako was also nominated at the 2017 Matilda Awards for plenty of awards, one of which was Best Female Actor for Kimie Tsukakoshi.
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