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Jaime Lyn Beatty

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Jaime Lyn Beatty is an American actress born and raised in New York City. At 12 years old, she became the first child member to be accepted at the famed Thirteenth Street Repertory Company. She is a proud graduate of the Drama Department at the world renowned LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts (a.k.a the 'FAME' school) and has studied improv at Second City Chicago and with LA's The Groundlings founder Gary Austin. In 2006, she was honored at the 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards with a scholarship award for Excellence in Acting and Production presented by actor Richard Griffths. Jaime Lyn has her BFA in Acting from The University of Michigan.
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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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Florent Corchia

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French producer, cinematographer, and sound designer based in France. Lumiere Virtual Productions founder Florent Corchia works across documentaries, commercial films, and immersive storytelling, with a focus on character-driven narratives and visually cinematic nonfiction. His work includes the award-winning boxing documentary BMCLD and the ongoing documentary series Ringside Dreams. Having grown up between France and Singapore, he brings an international perspective to projects exploring identity, resilience,and human connection.
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Hanatan

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Hanatan, or alternatively known as YURiCa and KOHANA is a utaite who is known for her beautiful voice with amazing vocal range and vibrato. She often covers duets with Pokota, and cover songs for Kikuo. Hanatan is known for her ability, versatility, and portrayal of emotions. From candy pop to hard rock, ballads to dance remixes, Hanatan does not shy away from any type of song and varies her voice accordingly. For example, in her version of "Jishou Mushoku", she sings in a very high and careful voice, yet in her cover of "Ao", she sings in a rock style with a plethora of strength. Her most viewed cover is "Romeo and Cinderella", with over 11 million combined views (YouTube + NicoNico), as of the 8th of October 2019. Hanatan has released several collaboration albums with various producers through her time, some of them are released under the alias YURiCa (ユリカ), while also releasing other singles for games, Touhou arrangements, and other VOCALOID composers. She has also collaborated with Wotamin, Prico, ChouCho and Korosuke to provide vocals for DANCEROID covers. She also sang several openings of visual novels.
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Emma Hayes

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Emma Carol Hayes OBE (born 18 October 1976) is an English professional football manager who is the head coach of the United States women's national team. She was previously manager of Chelsea Women from 2012 to 2024, winning seven Women's Super League titles, including five consecutively from 2020 to 2024. In 2024, she led the United States to a gold medal at the Paris Olympics. She was awarded the inaugural Women's Johan Cruyff Trophy that year as the best coach in the women's game.
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Kristian Van der Heyden

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Kristian Van der Heyden began Harald House Belgium in 2016 after honing his skills in Los Angeles as a writer, producer, and actor for eight years. He produced "A Punk Daydream" (2019), a documentary that delves into the street punk culture of Indonesia, which premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival in 2019. Kristian produced "Slave Island," a co-production with Belgium, Estonia, Taiwan, and Italy, about present-day slavery on a remote island of Indonesia, which premiered at Movies That Matter 2025. His projects typically explore significant social challenges within various communities, across cultures. Fiore Mio, a documentary about life in the Aosta Mountains by Paolo Cognetti is released by Lumiere in Benelux and released in Italy in over 300 theaters. Appreciative of the learning experiences each project brings, Kristian’s dedication to impactful storytelling was acknowledged in 2022 when he was named an Emerging Producer at the Ji-Hlava Film Festival.
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Baek A-yeon

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Baek A Yeon is a South Korean singer-songwriter. She graduated from Dongkwang High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Vocal from Howon University. She first appeared on TV in 2011 as a contestant in "K-Pop Star", where she ended up in 3rd place. After the show, she was approached by several companies but decided to sign with JYP Entertainment as Park Jin Young was one of the judges and had already seen her singing. She made her debut in October 2012 with the mini-album "I'm Baek". She later released the single "Daddy Long Legs" for the SBS drama "Cheongdamdong Alice". The single proved to be more popular than the drama, so other productions contacted her, and she began recording more OSTs. In May 2015, she released her first self-composed song, "Shouldn't Have" (featuring DAY6's Young K). The song went on to become a sleeper hit, reaching number one on several Korean music real-time charts a month after its release among fierce competition. In September 2019, her contract with JYP ended, and she decided not to renew it. A few months later, she joined Eden Entertainment (이든엔터테인먼트), a company established by JYP's former vice president of entertainment. She married her non-celebrity boyfriend in August 2023, and the couple welcomed their first child in September 2024.
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Jean Gaven

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Jean Gaven (16 January 1922 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996. Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014. Source: Article "Jean Gaven" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Hideaki Anno

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Hideaki Anno (born May 22, 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional sequences incorporating psychoanalysis and emotional deconstruction of these characters. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 27 April 2002. Anime directed by Anno that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hideaki Anno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Faith Evans

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Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to be contracted with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment recording company during 1994, for which she released three platinum-certified studio albums between the years 1995 and 2001. During 2003, she ended her relationship with the company to contract with Capitol Records. Other than her recording career, Evans is known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, whom she married on August 4, 1994, a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot. The turbulent marriage resulted in Evans' involvement in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop feud, dominating the rap music news at the time, and ended with Wallace's murder in a yet-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California during March 1997. A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and the band 112, named "I'll Be Missing You", became Evans' best-selling song to date and won her a Grammy Award during 1998. Also an avocational actress and writer, Evans made her screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up by Robert Adetuyi. Her autobiography Keep the Faith: A Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing during 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best Biography/Memoir category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Faith Evans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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