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Lana Rhoades

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Lana Rhoades is a stunning Czechoslovakian beauty who hails from the great state of Wisconsin. Lana grew up around a lot of farm land, and she admits she grew up as a tomboy. In high school, she excelled academically and graduated early at the age of 17. Lana also loved sports in school and was active in gymnastics and cheerleading. She eventually moved close to Chicago and worked at a UK-inspired pub called, The Tilted Kilt. Despite only being with a few guys, she had always had aspirations of getting into the XXX world. After she turned 18, she took to the internet and began to talking to an agent. She sent in an application, but then her mom found out and forbid her from pursuing the matter any further. She waited another year or so before contacting an agency again, and made the trip to film her first scene after her and her boyfriend broke up.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Tarık Akan

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Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan. He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.
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Zhang Zhehan

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Zhang Zhe Han is a Chinese actor and singer working with Beijing Ranyi Music Culture Media. He graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy and made his acting debut in the 2010 romance series, Why Love You. His first major role was in the 2015 Chinese historical series, Legend of Ban Shu. He starred in notable Chinese dramas Legend of Yunxi, The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion, and Everyone Wants to Meet You. His role as “Zhou Zi Shu” in famous Wuxia drama Word of Honor gained him significant amount of international recognition. In 2020, he received the Weibo Award for Rising Artist of the Year. In 2021, he received the Weibo Movie Night Awards for the Category Most Watched/Followed Actor of the Year. His first directorial documentary, "August," premiered on YouTube on April 14, 2024. The film tells the story of his self-healing journey after experiencing a cyber media storm.
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Chantalle Ng

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Known to many as the daughter of veteran actress - Lin Meijiao, Chantalle Ng is a budding actress known for her natural talent in acting. Chantalle was also in the running for Best Actress at Star Awards 2022 for her performance in My Star Bride. A Singapore Management University graduate, Chantalle signed with Mediacorp full-time in 2019. Prior to graduation, Chantalle was also involved in multiple Channel 8 blockbuster productions, playing supporting roles in “96°C Café” and “World At Your Feet”. In 2019, Chantalle did her first long-form production - "Old is Gold" acting as a nurse. She was also involved in her first-ever English production - Derek, acting alongside lead- Desmond Tan. Her excellent performance has also propelled her to her first leading role – Coco, in the Chinese drama “The Distance Between”, which was filmed entirely in Western Australia. More recently, starring as the female lead in the 9pm Channel 8 blockbuster, her portrayal of Vietnamese bride - Mai Phuong Tao in My Star Bride, has received much critical acclaim from the press and audience. Her performance in the series has also earned her numerous international award nominations - including the New York TV and Film Festival, and also Seoul Webfest Awards.
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James Gandolfini

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James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor and producer. He was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, the Italian-American crime boss in HBO's television series The Sopranos, for which he won three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano is widely regarded as among the greatest performances in television history. Gandolfini's notable film roles include mob henchman Virgil in True Romance (1993), Lt. Bobby Dougherty in Crimson Tide (1995), Colonel Winter in The Last Castle (2001) and Mayor of New York in The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009). Other roles are enforcer and stuntman Bear in Get Shorty (1995) and impulsive "Wild Thing" Carol in Where the Wild Things Are (2009). For his performance as Albert in Enough Said (2013), Gandolfini posthumously received much critical praise and several awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2007, Gandolfini produced Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, a documentary in which he interviewed injured Iraq War veterans and in 2010, Wartorn: 1861–2010 examining the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on soldiers and families throughout several wars in U.S. history from 1861 to 2010. In addition to Alive Day Memories, he also produced television film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), which gained him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series nomination. In 2013, Gandolfini died of a heart attack in Rome at the age of 51. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Gandolfini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Benjamin Joseph Varney

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Benjamin Joseph Varney is a Thai-British actor, model and singer. He graduated from Chiang Mai International School and International College Bachelor's degrees from Rangsit University Business Administration Branch International course. Varney started entering the entertainment industry at the age of 18 by participating in the 'True Academy Fantasia: Season 7' contest. The contest ID was V3 (eliminated in Week 10, Thai country music) and after that a scout was invited to launch Mountain Dew's ad as Benjamin's first ad. Apart from acting in dramas, he also appeared in multiple music videos (for example, 25 hours' "Yoot Kong Mai Wai" and "Woon Wai") and advertisements.
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Diane Keaton

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Diane Hall Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American actress. Known for her idiosyncratic personality and fashion style, she has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over six decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award. Keaton began her career on stage appearing in the original 1968 Broadway production of the musical Hair. The next year, she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her performance in Woody Allen's comic play Play it Again, Sam. She then made her screen debut in a small role in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). She rose to prominence with her first major film role as Kay Adams-Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), a role she reprised in its sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). The films that most shaped her career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with the film adaptation of Play It Again, Sam (1972). Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. To avoid being typecast as her Annie Hall persona, Keaton appeared in several dramatic films, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and Allen's Interiors (1978), and received three more Academy Award nominations for playing feminist activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a woman with leukemia in Marvin's Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something's Gotta Give (2003). Keaton's other popular films include Manhattan (1979), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Morning Glory (2010), Finding Dory (2016) and Book Club (2018).
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Nick Serra

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Nicholas Marcos 'Nick' Serra was born on March 27, 1978 in East Meadow, New York. He is a MMA fighter and the younger brother of former UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Serra. He is also the second American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt under world renowned Renzo Gracie, he is Chief Instructor along with his brother Matt Serra in this family-run academy. As a member of the Renzo Gracie Competition Team, he has earned many awards and titles such as Grappler's Quest Absolute Division Champion and IFF No Holds Barred Heavyweight Champion. He has fought in various mixed martial arts events, including UFC.
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Gale Page

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gale Page (born Sally Perkins Rutter July 29, 1910 – January 8, 1983) was an American singer and actress. Page was the daughter of R.L. and Isabel (Gale) Rutter of Spokane. Her aunt and uncle were Elizabeth Gale Page (1866-1929) and Miles Poindexter, a U.S. senator from Washington and later U.S. Ambassador to Peru. She was also the great-granddaughter of Joseph Gale, the first governor of Oregon. Page was a radio actress and singer before being signed to a Hollywood film contract by Warner Brothers in 1938. She sang on a Spokane station before getting a job on KYW radio in Chicago, Illinois, subsequently moving to NBC, where her network activities included singing on Fibber McGee and Molly. Page was cast as blues singer Gertrude Lamont in the 1935 soap opera Masquerade. Beginning on May 27, 1936, she played Gloria Marsh on the soap opera Today's Children. In the summer of 1939, she co-starred with Jim Ameche on Hollywood Playhouse. She made her film debut in Crime School (1938) with Humphrey Bogart and also appeared in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) before winning the role of the fourth daughter in Four Daughters (1938). She co-starred in this with the Lane Sisters and was the only film "daughter" not played by one of the Lanes. She appeared in three other films with the Lane sisters: Daughters Courageous (1939) and the two "Four Daughters" sequels: Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941). Page appeared in only 16 films during her career, including Heart of the North (1938), You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939), Naughty but Nice (1939), They Drive by Night (1940), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), The Time of Your Life (1948), and Anna Lucasta (1949). Page was a semi-regular performer on the television series Robert Montgomery Presents from 1954 until 1957. Page died in Santa Monica, California, aged 72, from lung cancer.
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