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Mike Miley
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Mike Miley hails from Lafayette, LA. He earned his BA in English Writing from Loyola University New Orleans and his MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute. Miley teaches at the high school and college level, focusing primarily on American literature and film studies. His research into literature and film ranges from popular culture, postmodern American fiction, American independent film, French cinema, rock music in film, and the work of David Lynch and David Foster Wallace. He is the recipient of a Harry Ransom Center Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholars grant, and has had his work listed in Best American Essays.
In addition to academic scholarship, he has written about literature and cinema for mainstream websites and given lectures and talks at film festivals.
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Faizon Love
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Faizon Andre Love (born Langston Faizon Santisima; June 14, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles in the comedy films The Meteor Man, Don't Be a Menace, Friday, B*A*P*S, Elf, The Replacements, Made, Mr Bones, and Couples Retreat, as well as the voice of Sean "Sweet" Johnson in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and his role as Wendell Wilcox on The Parent 'Hood.
He got his start as a stand-up comedian and made his acting debut Off-Broadway at the age of nineteen. His motion picture debut, Bebe's Kids had him providing the voice of late comedian Robin Harris. He then had a role in The Meteor Man starring Robert Townsend. Townsend then cast Love in a co-starring role on his sitcom The Parent 'Hood. He followed up this role with a breakout performance as the drug dealer Big Worm in the 1995 film Friday.
Follow-up films have included Elf, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Money Talks, Wonderland, The Fighting Temptations, and Idlewild. Love gained wider appeal when he co-starred in the 2009 film, Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort. His most recent role is that of Kurtis Kool in 2011’s Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. Many gamers may also know him for his role as Sean "Sweet" Johnson, simply known as Sweet, in the Rockstar North game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Ronee Blakley
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Ronee Blakley (born August 24, 1945) is an American entertainer. Though an accomplished singer, songwriter, composer, producer and director, she is perhaps best known as an actress. Her most famous role was as the fictional country superstar Barbara Jean in Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville, for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also had a notable role in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
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César Mateo
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César Mateo is an actor, known for Veneno (2020), La víctima número 8 (2018) and Todo por el juego (2018).
Cesár’s big opportunity came when he was chosen to perform the role of Hugo in the series B&B: de boca en boca for Globomedia, an experience which saw him perform alongside actors such as Belen Rueda, Gonzalo de Castro and Carlos Iglesias. He hasn’t abandoned his training and he continues to receive classes in the Estudio with Raquel Pérez, as well as dance and body expression with Chevi Muraday. In 2015 he met his current maestra: Lorena Bayonas. His training in the Centro del Actor allows him to develop further as an actor while he continues with his studies in languages.
That same year she performs in Alice in Wonderland in the Teatro del Arte, directed by Juan Codina where she plays the role of the Cheshire cat. In 2017 she joins the cast of the Telecinco series, El accidente, starring Quim Gutiérrez and Inma Cuesta.
A year later she stars in La victima número 8, for Telemadrid and ETB as well as participating in Fernando Colombo’s film, Antes de la quema.
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Nicole Scherzinger
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Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Valiente was born on June 29 in Honolulu, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. While attending a performing arts high school, she won the Coca-Cola Classic Talent Contest and performed in many plays at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. She furthered her studies majoring in theater arts at Wright State University before entering the premiere season of the WB's television show, "Popstars" (2000/I), where she earned the role of lead vocalist in the female pop group, Eden's Crush.
Outside of her work with The Pussycat Dolls, Nicole performed with Japanese superstar Yoshiki Hayashi, at the Tokyo International Forum of Japan and had guest appearances on "My Wife and Kids" (2001) and "Wanda at Large" (2003). Nicole has a single out on Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates (2004) soundtrack: a cover of UB40's "Breakfast in Bed". Her two most recent film roles are the voice of Sina in Moana (2016) and Penny Rivera in Dirty Dancing (2017).
During her career, Scherzinger has received nominations for a Grammy, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a Tony Award. She won the 2024 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Norma Desmond in the 2023 West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2025 when the show transferred to Broadway in 2024.
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Brian McKnight
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Brian Kainoa Makoa McKnight Sr. (born Brian Kelly McKnight; June 5, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, radio personality, and multi-instrumentalist. An R&B performer, he is recognized for his strong head voice, high belting range, and Melissa. His work has earned him 16 Grammy Award nominations, third only to Zubin Mehta and Snoop Dogg for the record of most nominations for the award without a win.
His first hit song, "Love Is" (with Vanessa Williams) was recorded for the Beverly Hills, 90210 soundtrack in 1993, and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, his single "One Last Cry" peaked at number 13 on the chart and spawned from his eponymous debut studio album (1992), which was released by Mercury Records the year prior and received platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His 1997 single, "You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time)" (featuring Mase) peaked within the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and led his third album, Anytime (1997)—his final release with Mercury before he signed with Motown. His 1999 single, "Back at One" peaked at number two on the chart and remains his highest-charting song; it preceded the album of the same name (1999), which was the first of four of his albums—Superhero (2001), U Turn (2003), and Gemini (2005)—to consecutively debut within the top ten of the Billboard 200. His ninth album, Ten (2006) marked his final major label release.
He was married from 1990-2003 to singer-songwriter, Julie McKnight, and they have two sons together. He also has a daughter he fathered from a previous relationship.
In 2014, he began dating Dr. Leilani Malia Mendoza, a pediatric neurophysiologist, and they announced their engagement in May 2017 and on December 29, 2017, they were married. Mendoza has two children from a previous relationship. McKnight and Mendoza had a son who died in infancy. In December 2022, they had another son, Brian Kainoa Makoa Jr. McKnight legally changed his name to Brian Kainoa Makoa McKnight Sr. to match his new son's name.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Jonathan Schmock
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Jonathan Schmock (born February 26, 1956) is an American actor, television director, producer, writer and editorial cartoonist.
He has worked on numerous film and television projects including Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where he played the maitre d' in a fancy restaurant. Television roles include Big Time Rush, Blossom, Double Trouble, Arrested Development, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Golden Girls and The Big Bang Theory. Additional film credits include Some Kind of Wonderful, City of Industry, and Surf Ninjas. He has also worked as a developer for Sabrina the Teenage Witch and as a writer on Real Time with Bill Maher, Dharma & Greg, Blossom and Brotherly Love, which he co-created with Jim Vallely.
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Ivana Miličević
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Ivana Miličević is a Bosnian Croat-American actress and model. She is best known for her starring roles in the Cinemax action drama series Banshee and The CW science fiction drama series The 100.
She had roles in films including Vanilla Sky (2001), Down with Love (2003), Love Actually (2003), Just like Heaven (2005), Casino Royale (2006), Running Scared (2006), What's Your Number? (2011), and Catfight (2016).
She guest starred in numerous television series, including Seinfeld (1997), Felicity 1998–1999), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002), Friends (2003), Charmed (2003), One on One (2004), American Dad! (2006–2008), Ugly Betty (2007), Chuck (2008), Power, and Gotham (2016–2017).
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Rahul Banerjee
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Arunoday Banerjee, known as "Rahul", (16 October 1983–29 March 2026), was an Indian Bengali actor. He worked in films and TV. Banerjee made his stage appearance at the age of three with his father (Biswanath Banerjee)’s theater troupe Bijoygarh Atmaprakash play entitled Raj Darshan. He acted in almost 450 stage shows, with his father’s troupe and with Theatron. He was married to co-actress Priyanka Sarkar. His first film, Chirodini Tumi Je Amar, directed by Raj Chakraborty, was a box-office success. He subsequently appeared in films including Love Circus, Shono Mon Boli Tomay and Poti Poromesshor. His television debut was in the series Tumi Asbe Bole. He received a number of awards such as Anandalok Award for the Best Actor for his role in Chirodini Tumi Je Amar.
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