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Robert Walker Jeffery

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Robert Walker Jeffery is an actor and writer based in New York City. Robert will next be seen in the upcoming feature film Your Dying Eyes, directed by Onur Tukel (Catfight, Room 104). He recently landed a supporting role in the Netflix original series Bonding. Robert wrote and stars in the independent half-hour TV pilot Inpatient which premiered in competition at 2019 Seriesfest. Among his several theatre credits in NYC, he played leading roles in The Flea's Waiting for Giovanni and in Love Cures at The Players Theatre. He graduated from Yale College and received his MFA from Columbia University in May 2018.
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Socks Whitmore

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Socks Whitmore (they/them/theirs) is an agender/gender non-conforming singer, voice and stage actor, lyricist-composer, and writer. In their early days as a vocalist, they performed with the NAfME national honors choir and the Honors Performance Series in renowned spaces such as the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. They went on to create and debut the lead role of their first full-length original musical, "We Are Here," which was co-written with Evan Johnson and selected for the New Voices Project hosted by New Musicals Inc. in North Hollywood. They have originated roles in multiple contemporary musicals such as Michael Shapiro's "The Bully Problem" and the immersive production "Finding Wonder," and served as a dramaturge/gender consultant for several others. They are best known for voicing Narwhal in the "Narwhal & Jelly" audiobook series by Penguin Random House. They hold a BFA Performer-Composer degree from CalArts with minors in Digital Arts and Creative Writing.
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Stella Stevens

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Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress, model, film producer, director, and writer. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in popular films such as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960. Stevens died from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles at the age of 84. [Biography, excerpted, from Wikipedia]
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Kongkiat Khomsiri

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Kongkiat Khomsiri, nicknamed Khom, is a Thai director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communications at Bangkok University and started his career as a crew member on Mysterious Object at Noon, the first feature film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He then went to work for Five Star Production, working with director Thanit Jitnukul on the films Bang Rajan and Kunpan: Legend of the Warlord. He made his directorial debut in 2005 with Art of the Devil 2, credited as part of the seven-member "Ronin Team" of directors. His solo directorial debut was Muay Thai Chaiya in 2007.
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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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Warda Al-Jazairia

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Warda Ftouki, better known as Warda (Arabic: وردة), or Warda Al-Jazairia (Arabic: وردة الجزائرية, "Warda the Algerian"), was an Algerian singer. Born on July 22, 1939 in Paris to an Algerian father and a Lebanese mother, she died on May 17, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Warda was born in Paris to an Algerian father, Mohammed Ftouki, originally from Souk Ahras, and a Lebanese mother. She began singing during the 1950s in her father's establishment, Tam-Tam, in the Latin Quarter in Paris. At 11, she sang in host Ahmed Hachlaf's show broadcast on Paris Inter. She recorded her first album with Pathé-Marconi. In 1956, weapons intended for the FLN were discovered by the police in his father's cabaret. The establishment is closed and the family deported to Lebanon. In 1959 she met the composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab, who taught her classical singing and adapted Bi-Omri Kullo Habbitak for her. Gamal Abdel Nasser asked him to perform Al Watan Al Akbar, written for a pan-Arab opera. Director Helmi Rafla signed her to a contract, and she pursued a musical and film career in Egypt. After Algeria's independence, she went there for the first time and married an officer. Warda paused her career for around ten years to raise their daughter Widad and their son Riyad. In 1972, at the request of President Houari Boumédiène, she took part in the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the country's independence by performing in Algiers with an Egyptian orchestra. After her divorce, she resumed her career and returned to Egypt, where she married the composer Baligh Hamdi. She works with the great Arab composers, Hilmi Bakr, Riadh Sombati, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Mohammed Al-Mougui and Sayed Mekawi. In 1979, Warda performed on the Olympia stage. In 1990, Warda divorced her second husband, and made a comeback by performing songs by composer Salah Charnoubi, Haramt Ahibek, Betwenes Bik and Ya Khsara. Health problems kept him away from the stage. In 1996, she underwent heart surgery, then a liver transplant in the early 2000s. Her last studio album was recorded in 2001. She performed at the Baalbek festival in Lebanon in 2005, then in 2008. The same year, in Algeria, she gave concerts at the 4th international festival of Djemila, and at the Casif theater in Sidi-Fredj. In 2009, Warda participated in the inauguration evening of the 2nd Pan-African Festival of Algiers. She also performed in Morocco, during the 8th edition of the Mawazine festival, where she sang in front of 30,000 people. One of his last concerts took place in Lebanon in September 2011. Known for her sentimental songs and patriotic songs, her repertoire includes more than 300 songs. After having sold tens of millions of albums, she is considered a “diva” of Arabic song. In November 2004, Warda received the El-Athir medal of the Algerian Order of National Merit. In 2009, she was made Commander of the Moroccan Order of Ouissam Alawite. In 2012, the singer was appointed to the rank of knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2021, the singer is part of the list of 318 Heroes of Diversity named by the French government. Warda died on May 17, 2012 in Cairo, where she lived, following a cardiac arrest that occurred during her sleep. Her body was repatriated to Algiers and the singer was buried on May 19 in the “martyrs’ square” of the El-Alia cemetery.
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Frank Sinatra

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Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers". His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (for his performance in From Here to Eternity). He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". With sales of his music dwindling and after appearing in several poorly received films, Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971. Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally, until a short time before his death in 1998. Sinatra also forged a successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate. He also starred in such musicals as High Society, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls and On the Town. Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Sinatra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Miranda Wilson

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Miranda Wilson was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Her given name was Cheryl Ann, which she changed to Miranda, in her late twenties. Today she uses Miranda Cheryl-Ann Wilson on Facebook, and MirandaCAWilson on Instagram and Twitter, given the rise in popularity of the name Miranda in the USA, since the early 1990's. In 2014 Miranda returned to her career, after an extended absence raising her children. Several award winning short films, feature films, and a recurring role on the new Showtime series Halo (2022) have relaunched her career, and Miranda is now back on the screen and stage, full time.
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Roland Joffé

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Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is an English film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roland Joffé, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Vasiliy Konstantinov

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Film equipment designer, director, operator. In the 1920s, the operator of the Moscow newsreel studio. In the early 1930s, he moved to film studios at the studio. There he is working on the creation of the first domestic film camera. Since 1932, working in the Moscow workshops of «Soyuzkinohronika», together with his brother Nikolay, they created the first sound filming apparatus, the «Khronikon», which was widely used in newsreels. In 1937, at the Moscow Experimental Film Equipment Plant, he invented the «Konvas» film camera with a tripod for it, and in 1940, «Konvas-zvuk» for simultaneous image shooting and sound recording on one film. Brother - Nikolay Dmitrievich Konstantinov (1900-1960), operator, designer of filming equipment.
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