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Lauryn Ajufo
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Lauryn Ajufo is an English actress. She was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for her role in the film Boiling Point (2021). She was named a 2022 Screen International Star of Tomorrow and appeared on the Evening Standard list of Londoners to watch.
Ajufo was born in Southwark, London. She is of Nigerian descent. She attended the BRIT School and joined the Youth Theatre at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Ajufo was discovered in 2018 through a monologue slam competition. Philip Barantini cast her as Renee in his 2019 short film Boiling Point and gave her a role in his 2020 debut feature Villain. That same year, she made her television debut with a guest appearance in the soap opera Holby City. Ajufo went on to reprise her Boiling Point role in its 2021 feature length adaptation, this time playing Andrea alongside Stephen Graham. For her performance, Ajufo received critical acclaim and was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performance.
In 2022, Ajufo starred as Misha Morris in the Netflix science fiction series The Last Bus and Neve in the ITVX and ITV2 teen drama Tell Me Everything. She is set to reunite with Barantini, starring opposite Chaneil Kular in Accused. She also has upcoming roles in the series Everything Now and the film Luther: The Fallen Sun, both on Netflix.
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Yu Aoi
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Yu Aoi (蒼井優) is a Japanese actress and model born on August 17, 1985. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Arisugawa in Hana and Alice (2004), also directed by Iwai, Kimiko Tanigawa in the hula dancing film Hula Girls and Hagumi Hanamoto in the 2006 live-action adaptation of the popular Honey and Clover manga series.
She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the prestigious Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best supporting actress in 2007 for Hula Girls and Rookie of the Year for continued performances in the field of Films in Media and Fine Arts by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2009.
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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Mia Carragher
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Mia Carragher is an emerging British actress known for her performances in dance as well as film and television. Born on May 14, 2004, in Liverpool, England, she is the daughter of former professional footballer Jamie Carragher. Mia has quickly carved out a niche for herself in the entertainment industry, displaying a remarkable range and depth in her roles. She stars in a the 2014 film One Night in Istanbul and is to appear in the upcoming television series of The Gathering , captivating audiences with her natural talent. As a rising star, Mia continues to take on diverse projects, earning critical acclaim and a growing fanbase. Outside of acting, she is known for modelling and as a professional dancer, trained at the Rare Studios in Liverpool, England.
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Samantha Droke
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A native Texan, Samantha Droke was born on November 8th, 1987, in De Leon. She is the daughter of Lyndon and Synthia Droke. Samantha possessed a love of performing from a very young age. She started out singing and modeling and then her interests began to move towards acting. She truly believed that she was destined for the silver screen. Samantha began modeling and acting in plays and commercials locally. She was discovered by agent Nicole Connor at the tender age of fifteen. Within two weeks, she landed her first independent feature film, Truce (2005), directed by Matthew Marconi and co-starring alongside Buck Taylor (who played "Newly" in Gunsmoke (1955)) and Oscar-nominated actor George Kennedy from Cool Hand Luke (1967). After wrapping Truce (2005), she truly caught the bug. Her family sold everything they had but their clothes and moved to LA. At age seventeen, Samantha began to hit her stride. She landed a national commercial for Cingular Wireless and recently booked a guest-star role on the Hallmark Channel's Jane Doe: The Wrong Face (2005) (directed by Mark Griffiths) and a starring role in the feature film Don't Be Scared (2006) (directed and produced by Master P and Romeo Miller). Samantha also performs at the LA Connection Comedy Improv Club. Not only beautiful and intelligent, Samantha has the kind of drive and determination rarely seen in actors her age.
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Ulrich Mühe
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Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards.
Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife, Jenny Gröllmann. Gröllmann denied this, and after an acrimonious and highly-publicized court case she succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent Mühe from repeating the allegation in a book.
After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. He then turned to acting, and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays, becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films, television programmes and theatre productions. In Germany he was particularly known for playing the lead role of Dr. Robert Kolmaar in the long-running forensic crime series Der letzte Zeuge (The Last Witness, 1998–2007).
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Jodi Benson
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Jodi Marie Benson (born Jodi Marie Marzorati on October 10, 1961) is an American voice actress and soprano singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voices of Disney's Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequels. In 2002 and 2006, she reprised the role of Ariel in the English versions of the Kingdom Hearts series. Most recently Benson voiced the high-profile animated character Barbie in the 1999 movie Toy Story 2 and the 2010 movie Toy Story 3.
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Sofia Filippidou
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Sofia Filippidou (Thessaloniki October 21, 1948) is a Greek actress, director and writer.
She studied Theater at the Drama School of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and German Philology at the Aristotle University. She did post-graduate studies for one year at the newly founded theater department of Nikiforos Papandreou at the Philosophy School of the University of Thessaloniki. She has been a member of the "Theatrical Art Workshop" (1972 - 1979) and the "Experimental Art Stage" (1980 - 1985). She made her debut in the theater in 1972 when she performed the role of Marianthi in Bost's "Fausta", staged by the Theatrical Workshop of "Technis" directed by Giorgos Emirzas and music by Loukianos Kilaidonis. In 1997, she met again with this play but in a different venue, at the "New Stage" of the "National Theater" directed by Nikos Hatzipapas and in the summer of the same year he performed "Fausta" again at the "Smaroula" Theater, directed by Yiannis Bostatzoglou . In 1985, she went down to Athens and collaborated with major theaters of the capital to put on classical works, reviews and musical performances. She lives in Exarchia.
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Philippe Godeau
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Philippe Godeau is a French film producer, director and screenwriter. Godeau worked in distribution at the Gaumont Film Company before founding the production and distribution film company Pan-Européenne.
Godeau has produced many films including An Independent Life (1992), Bad Company (1999), Lightweight (2004), Les Sœurs fâchées (2004), Largo Winch (2008) and Romantics Anonymous (2010). He collaborated with Jaco Van Dormael in The Eighth Day (1996) and Mr. Nobody (2009). Godeau has worked with Maurice Pialat, Virginie Despentes, and Jean-Pierre Améris.
His directorial debut was the 2009 drama One for the Road, starring François Cluzet, Mélanie Thierry and Michel Vuillermoz. Based on reporter Herve Chabalier's autobiography about his battle with alcoholism, the story takes place in a French Alps retreat where Cluzet confronts his dangerous addiction. The film received five nominations at the César Awards 2010 with Mélanie Thierry winning Most Promising Actress. Godeau's next film, 11.6 (2013), is based on the real-life story of criminal Toni Musulin.
Source: Article "Philippe Godeau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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James McArdle
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James McArdle is a Scottish actor from Glasgow. Having worked as a child actor in films, he trained at RADA, graduating in 2010. In his graduation year he appeared in Macbeth at The Globe and starred in the summer smash hit Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He then played in plays such as A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, Chariots of Fire by Mike Bartlett and Platonov for which he won the Ian Charleson Award. On screens, he is known for movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), '71 (2014) and Salting the Battlefield (2014).
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