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Alexandra Stewart
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Alexandra Stewart (born June 10, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress. Besides her cinema career, she regularly appeared on television in shows such as Les Jeux de 20 heures and L'Académie des neuf. She has also appeared in the 1981 cartoon Space Stars and had cameos in Highlander: The Series, The Saint and the pilot episode of The X-Files. She was part of the jury of the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival. She has a daughter, Justine, with the French director Louis Malle.
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Will Strongheart
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Raised in Kansas, USA and Regina, Saskatchewan; Will found a duality and plenty of influences for his love of storytelling. Particularly - music. Prior to entering the acting realm, Will was a member of the first nation hip hop group Reddnation. For over a decade the group toured North America where Will first developed an interest in acting. After some thought, he auditioned for what would be his first role - Crazyhorse for Robert Redford's The American West in 2015. Will soon followed the success of the show by appearing in: Jamestown, Frontiersmen and The Alienist along with his role as Virgil Kelly in Indian Horse. Studying Ojibwe language in college proved beneficial when Will was able to help develop translations for the Ojibwe language in the Indian Horse film.
Today, Will lives in New York where he works for the nonprofit CANA Foundation. Their main objectives are to rewild horses and help sustain traditions, teachings and ecological gains for both habitat and humanity. He is an enrolled member of the Keeseekoose First Nation of Saskatchewan.
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Jessy Mendiola
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Jessy Mendiola Tawile (born December 3, 1992), popularly known as Jessy Mendiola, is a Filipino actress. She played the role of Maria Mercedes in the remake of the 1995 Mexican telenovela Maria Mercedes.
Mendiola was born in Dubai where her father used to work. She is the second of three siblings, of a Filipino mother and a half Lebanese, half British father. She was three years old when her mother moved and brought her and her elder sister, Pamela, to the Philippines. Her mother left her father due to his infidelity. Her younger sister, Megan, was born in Mexico where her parents reconciled but eventually separated again because of unknown reasons. She remains in contact with her father, who now works overseas as a marine anthropologist. She studied in Far Eastern University.
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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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Valerie Gogan
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Valerie Gogan was born in Scotland and left her native Glasgow in the 1980s to train at LAMDA , since leaving she has become one of a small number of Scottish actresses familiar to film and television audiences in th UK. Gogan made her big screen debut in Stephen Frears's film 'Dangerous Liasions' alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malcovitch, Glen Close, and Peter Capaldi. Later moving on to star in ‘One more Kiss’ opposite Gerrard Butler. Her distinctive looks and voice are also well-known on TV, Her break through lead role coming in ‘Heart of The High Country’, also starring in the BBC series 'Hamish MacBeth' in which she played opposite Robert Carlyle. She is also known for principle roles in ‘Waking the Dead’, ‘The Bill’, Doctors, Peak Practice, David Copperfield, Waiting for Elvis and Arrividerci Millwall, to name but a few. As well as her extensive TV and film career, Gogan has always been drawn to classical roles in the theatre and her work with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal national Theatre and in Londons West End. Her plays include: A Dolls House, Dangerous Liason, The Rehearsal,Worlds Apart and Secret Rapture. Gogan has worked with many of the UK's leading film, TV and theatre directors, including Katie Mitchell,Stephen Frears, Ian Mcdiarmid, Anna Makmin, Howard Davies, James MacDonald, Simon Usher, Nick Hamm, Tinge Krishnan and Charles McDougall.
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Julia Kelly
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Julia Kelly was named as "The Next Rising Star" in a 2014 New York Times Article! She is a diverse Actress, Social Media Celebrity, Fashion Icon, and Brand maker with close to 4 Million Fan-base. Her daily life is Documented for her dedicated fans to inspire and motivate them everyday!
Julia was also nominated as one of the Top 50 comedians in Digital Media. She has new projects completed, such as the new summer hit on Netflix, "The Last Summer" , the lead in a TV series "In the Vault" The lead in and ABC project "Get Christie Love" with Writer/ Producer Courtney Kemp, and has built and impressive resume from CBS, MTV, Netflix, ABC and other mainstream and digital media.
She has trained extensively the past 10 years with many Acting classes and coaches in the Los Angeles area. Her ethnicity of Spanish, African American, Japanese, American Indian, French & Irish give her an ethnic ambiguity to play many different cultural characters.
Having a large family and several nieces and nephew, and a sizable Female/Male fan-base, Julia realizes she has a lot of responsibility to be a role model for this younger generation in her life. Hard work, training and patience will help her to achieve her goal to have a long working career, playing many diverse characters in Television and Film.
Julia continues to plan ahead and looks forward with "Gratitude" for what is to come.
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Lilyan Chauvin
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French character actress Lilyan Chauvin may be one of those actors or actresses whose face you know without knowing their names. Chauvin was a long time veteran of the European stage, and was adept at playing strict, but sometimes loving characters. To horror fans, she might be best known as the sinister Mother Superior in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), but her career started back in the 1950s when she was plucked from the stage to appear in small minor roles in motion pictures. One notable film was with John Wayne in North to Alaska (1960). For about thirty years, Chauvin was one of the busiest character actresses in Hollywood, appearing in over forty films as well as on television. Her many film credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Predator 2 (1990), No Place to Hide (1992), Universal Soldier (1992) as Jean-Claude Van Damme's mother, and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002) with Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Kim Sung-kyung
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Kim Sung-kyung (born February 15, 1972) is a South Korean television personality and actress. Kim joined the broadcasting network SBS in 1993 as a news presenter, notably as the weekend anchor for the SBS Eight O'Clock News. She left SBS in 2002 to go freelance, and also became a planning director for the "edutainment" company SangSang and I in 2007.Kim made her acting debut in 2014 (her older sister is actress Kim Sung-ryung), and has appeared in Korean dramas such as City of the Sun (2015). (Wikipedia)
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Tom Hanks
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is widely regarded as an American cultural icon.
Hanks made his breakthrough with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984) and Big (1988). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks collaborated with film director Steven Spielberg on five films: Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, which launched him as a director, producer, and screenwriter.
Hanks' other notable films include the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), and Cloud Atlas (2012); and the biographical dramas Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Sully (2016), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). He has also appeared as the title character in the Robert Langdon film series, and has voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story film series.
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Karl de Groof
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Carl de Groof, eigentlich Karl Krof war ein österreichischer Komponist, Filmkomponist und Orchesterleiter.
De Groof begann seine Laufbahn kurz nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. In den kommenden Jahren wirkte er als Orchestermusiker, Texter von Komponisten wie Hans Lang, Kapellmeister (ab 1946, in der Wiener Hofburg) und Dirigent der Wiener Sängerknaben. 1953 gründete er das Symphonische Jazzorchester der RAVAG, das spätere Tanzorchester des Österreichischen Rundfunks. Im selben Jahr absolvierte er mit seinem eigenen Orchester auch einen Auftritt in der Kästner-Verfilmung Pünktchen und Anton.
Daraufhin holte man de Groof für die musikalische Untermalung und das Arrangement von Helmut Käutners legendärem Partisanen- und Antikriegsfilm Die letzte Brücke. De Groof blieb dem Medium Film / Fernsehen bis Ende der 1960er Jahre treu und komponierte die Musik zu einer Reihe von österreichischen und deutschen Unterhaltungsfilmen bekannter Regisseure wie Georg Tressler, Rolf Thiele und Rudolf Jugert. Seine Karriere endete 1969 mit der Titelmelodie zu der Fernsehserie Der alte Richter mit Paul Hörbiger. Einem breiten Publikum in Österreich war de Groof auch als langjähriger musikalischer Begleiter von Heinz Conrads bekannt, in dessen Sonntagmorgensendung Was gibt es Neues? er auch am Klavier spielte. Mit seinem eigenen Orchester nahm Carl de Groof außerdem eine Reihe von Schallplatten mit Wiener Liedern und Heurigenmusik auf, ebenso zahlreiche Schlager mit der damals sehr bekannten ägyptischen Sängerin Samira Soliman.
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