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Braden Lynch
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After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Jazz and Studio Music from the University of Miami, Braden moved to Los Angeles and began his formal acting training. He has played a spectrum of characters from a creepy rapist on CRIMINAL MINDS to a motion-captured Spartan soldier in HALO 4’s weekly episodes to a put-upon Russian Techie on NCIS: LA, has been directed by Werner Herzog and Peter Farrelly, and has lent his countless character voices and accents to such video games as BIOSCHOCK II and THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
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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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Lee Pomeroy
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Bassist Lee Pomeroy is what one might call a man of musical extremes. On the one hand, he has made a name for himself playing with one of the greats of progressive rock, Rick Wakeman, in the English Rock Ensemble. On the other, he is the regular touring bass player with the hugely successful boy band Take That. Hardly surprising, then, that a player of such obvious versatility is fast becoming one of the UK's most sought-after session men.
Lee is an award winning composer & producer as well as being an in demand professional bass player. Alongside writing partner, Martin Price, Lee has composed many pieces of music for Boosey & Hawkes, EMI Production Music, Universal Production Music, Boost Music, Music House, Reliable Source Music and Audio Network.
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Isaiah Asher Hanley
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Isaiah Asher Hanley is an American actor best known for his roles as Bradley Burton in the film Tyson's Run, Andrew Derenzy in the TV Series American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda and Xavier in the film Here Today. He grew up in Longview Washington where he first began acting in commercials. He then moved to Georgia with his family where he landed his first major role in the film Here Today. He has since taken to behind the scenes of the production world and is a video editor for a production studio.
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Mildred Reading
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British female professional wrestler. She is best known for her continued work on the British independent circuit in promotions including Fight Club: PRO, PROGRESS Wrestling and Defiant Wrestling. McKenzie has also wrestled internationally in promotions including Japan's Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling and American promotions including CHIKARA and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). McKenzie is a former one-time Pro Wrestling Revolver Tag Team Champion, former one-time Defiant Women's Champion, former one-time Fight Forever Wrestling Women's World Champion and a former one-time Kamikaze Pro Tag Team Champion. McKenzie is also the current Sendai Girls Junior Champion in her first reign.
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Professional wrestling career
Early years
Millie debuted as early as 16 April 2016 at the age of 15. Her earliest known match was in Full Force Wrestling. Under the ring name Millie Marks, she wrestled Alexis Rose to a No Contest finish. From that point forward, Millie spent her early years in matches for numerous promotions including Ironfist Wrestling, Monmouthshire Championship Wrestling, PROGRESS Wrestling, Leicester Championship Wrestling, British Empire Wrestling, Wrestle Midlands, International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom an
Ironfist Wrestling (2016-2017)
Under the ring name Millie Marks, she debuted on 4 June at Gang Wars 2016. There she defeated Lana Austin. Three months later on 24 September during the 5th Anniversary Show, Marks won her first championship in a three-way match defeating Bea Priestley and Lana Austin to become the new Ironfist Women's Champion. On 12 November at Ironfist Rudos & Tecnicos, Marks defeated Evelyn to retain the title. Her second title defense was held the following month on 10 December at A Very Merry Christmas Show. There she defeated Nixon Newell. During the course of 2017, Marks defended the IronFist Women's Championship against challengers Sierra Loxton, [[Dani Luna] and Evelyn. Her last title defense was held on 19 August 2017 during a show in Herefordshire, England, where she lost the Women's Title to Melanie Price.
Fight Club: PRO (2017-present)
Debuting under the ring name Millie McKenzie, debuted on 23 June 2017 at FCP Stranger Than Fixxion, in a singles match lost against Kay Lee Ray. She finished the year with an appearance on 1 December at Infinity. There she competed in the 2017 Infinity Trophy Tournament, where McKenzie was eliminated in the first round by Omari.
McKenzie returned the following year on 7 January 2019 at Project Tokyo. During the event, McKenzie teamed with DASH Chisako in a tag match lost to team Beauty Bear (Chihiro Hashimoto & Mika Iwata). The next month on 1 February at Wrestle House, McKenzie won a singles match defeating Yuu.
World Wrestling Entertainment (2018)
NXT UK (2018)
McKenzie made her televised WWE debut on 14 November episode of NXT UK. During that episode, McKenzie competed in a tournament for the United Kingdom Women's Championship. She was eliminated during the first round by Jinny. McKenzie returned to television the following week on the 28 November episode of NXT UK, where she teamed with Xia Brookside in defeating Charlie Morgan & Killer Kelly in a tag match.
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Holly Lewis
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Holly Lewis is a Canadian actor. Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Holly is best known for her television and film work, though she does have stage experience as well, working primarily in the Toronto area. She is married to stage director Daryl Cloran.
Initially providing minor roles in television shows such as Puppets Who Kill, Holly's acting career was more strongly introduced into television and film when she joined the regular cast of Ken Finkleman's award-winning satiricial television program, The Newsroom. Holly joined the cast in the second season, which aired in 2004, as George's assistant, Claire. Also in 2004, Holly played a recurring character on Train 48.
On the film front, Holly Lewis played a prominent role as Lisa MacDougall in the 2005 film These Girls, in which Lisa and her two girlfriends blackmail Keith (played by David Boreanaz) into having sex with them.
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Jody Thompson
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A 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist, and 2017 PAGE Award winner, Jody Thompson is an optioned screenwriter and actress most widely known for her recurring characters on The 4400, Blade: The Series, Terminal City, Flash Gordon and Cold Squad, as well as for television appearances on Fringe, the Stargate franchises, Smallville and ...A 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist, and 2017 PAGE Award winner, Jody Thompson is an optioned screenwriter and actress most widely known for her recurring characters on The 4400, Blade: The Series, Terminal City, Flash Gordon and Cold Squad, as well as for television appearances on Fringe, the Stargate franchises, Smallville and ...
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Scott Schiaffo
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Scott Schiaffo was born in Passaic, New Jersey. Independent film fans know him best as the "Chewlies Gum Guy" from Kevin Smith's 1994 independent cult classic "Clerks".
Schiaffo is an actor/musician who plays guitar, keyboards, bass, and harmonica. Schiaffo has appeared in several feature films as well as many shorts since his big screen debut in the seminal cult comedy "Clerks".
He's appeared alongside Michael DeLorenzo in "The Garden State", Selma Blair in "The Broccoli Theory" and Ethan Suplee in "Vulgar" He was featured in the View Askew produced - Lions Gate distributed motion picture "Vulgar". "Vulgar" has gone on to become a cult classic and one of Lions Gate's most controversial releases to date.
Schiaffo played the lead, Mike Tobin in Tom Zanca's crime thriller "Linger" which enjoyed a winning response at many film festivals.
Scott played the lead "Mo Fletcher" in the independent comedy feature "Idiots Are Us" which won Best Comedy Feature at the 2006 New York Film and Video Festival.
He can be seen in the B & W short "I Got Stuff" and the live Jule Carey DVD "Love It Live"
Schiaffo and many of his Clerks cast mates were featured in AMC's Comic Book Men Season 3 EP 11 "Pinheads".
Schiaffo released a book of collected poetry and short stories called "Vicious Dogs Attack Me in Sleepless Nights of Summer" and in 2020 the Audible version read by the author was released worldwide.
Schiaffo released an audio CD called "The Shoestring Serenade" which is a collection of instrumental film music culled from over 2 decades of original film music he composed & produced. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Angels of Animals rescue in Clifton, New Jersey.
In 2021 Schiaffo was tapped to reprise his role as the Chewlies Gum Rep in Kevin Smith's much anticipated sequel film Clerks III. See less
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Andrew Lawrence
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Andrew James Lawrence (born January 12, 1988) is an American actor, singer and filmmaker. He is the youngest brother of actors Joey Lawrence and Matthew Lawrence. He is known for his roles as Andy Roman on Brotherly Love (starring with his real life brothers Joey and Matthew) and Ted Beene on the sitcom Oliver Beene, as well as voicing T.J. Detweiler on the cartoon Recess, and Vinnie Nasta on the cartoon The Kids from Room 402. Outside of his acting and music career, Lawrence made his directorial debut with the 2020 film The Office Mix-Up.
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Jill Stein
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Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician and activist who was the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 elections. She was the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.
During her time as a practicing physician, she advocated for the improvement of air quality standards for coal plants. Stein ran her first political campaign running as the Green-Rainbow candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, losing to Republican Mitt Romney. She ran for the same position again in 2010, this time losing to the then-incumbent Massachusetts governor, Democrat Deval Patrick.
Stein first ran for president of the United States in 2012 selecting Cheri Honkala as her running mate. They lost to the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Barack Obama and incumbent Vice President Joe Biden. She ran for the second time for president in 2016 with running mate Ajamu Baraka, against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump, the latter of whom won the election. In 2017, Stein was investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for possible collusion with the Russian government.
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