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Fred Schepisi
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Fred Schepisi AO (born 26 December 1939) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His credits include: Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, and Six Degrees of Separation.
Schepisi was born Frederic Alan Schepisi in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of fruit dealer Frederic Thomas Schepisi and Loretto Ellen (née Hare). He began his career in advertising and directed both commercials and documentaries before helming his first feature film, The Devil's Playground, in 1976.
Schepisi won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay for both The Devil's Playground and Evil Angels (released in the US as A Cry in the Dark).
In 1991, his film The Russia House was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2005 Schepisi directed and co-produced the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, for which he was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special and the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director of a TV Film.
In April 2008 it was announced Film Finance Corporation Australia was providing funding for Schepisi's film The Last Man, about the final days of the Vietnam War. It is scheduled to begin filming in Queensland, with Guy Pearce and David Wenham in leading roles, towards the end of the year.
Schepisi has also directed a number of music videos, including for the 2008 song "Breathe" by Kaz James featuring Stu Stone.
Asked about the "gypsy-like existence" of a filmmaker, Schepisi has said: "It’s the hardest thing. I think we’re today’s circus people. It’s very hard on your family. [His wife] Mary travels with me and when everyone was younger and it was possible, I liked them to travel with me and be with me. Fortunately, Mary’s an artist; she paints, and often finds inspiration from our locations."
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Thornton Cash
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John "Thornton" Cash (born November 26, 2005) is a student filmmaker and actor. His recent short film We Should Talk (2023), won Best High School Film at the Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival. He co-created his student-led production organization Unstable Pictures with his usual collaborators Ethan Isaac and Jordyn Kinard. He has written, directed, produced, and edited his own films Innocent and We Should Talk, as well as his most recent film Bounds (2024), which he co-wrote and directed with his filmmaking partner Ethan Isaac.
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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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Ewa Partum
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Ewa Partum (born 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland) is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist. Part of the first generation of Polish conceptual artists, Ewa Partum paved the way for feminist performance and body art, testifying to the political activism of the former Eastern Europe. Affirming that “any act of thought is an act of art”, she focuses on the political economy of signs and the materialisation of language in her actions and installations in public space, as well as in her mail art or visual or “active” poetry.
In 1983, after finally obtaining her visa, she left Poland and moved to Berlin. In the early 1970s, after studies in Łódź and Warsaw, she founded the Adres gallery in her own apartment. The gallery remained active for five years and was dedicated to conceptual art, mail art, and theory. In the same period, she created her first installations and actions connected to poetry, in public space, or a natural environment: in The Legality of Space (1971), and Poem by Ewa (1971), the letters her poems form are cut out and thrown into the sea or the street.
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Oscar Isaac
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Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. After making his acting debut in the late 1990s, he studied acting at the Juilliard School and played small roles for a majority of the 2000s. For portraying José Ramos-Horta in the Australian film Balibo (2006), Isaac won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Following supporting roles in major films such as Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010) and Drive (2011), Isaac had his breakthrough with the starring role of a singer in the Coen brothers' black comedy Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), earning a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), the thriller Ex Machina (2015), and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He became a global star with his starring role as Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). He has since starred in the science fiction films Annihilation (2018) and Dune (2021), and the crime drama The Card Counter (2021).
On television, Isaac has starred in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015) and Scenes from a Marriage (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for portraying Nick Wasicsko in the former. In 2022, he began starring as the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Moon Knight in the Disney+ series Moon Knight (2022).
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Christian Lindberg
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Christian Lindberg’s achievements for the trombone can only be compared
with those of Paganini for the violin or Liszt for the piano. Having
premièred over 300 works for the trombone (including more than 30
composed by Christian himself), recorded over 70 solo CD’s, and having
an international solo competition created in his name in Valencia,
Spain, Christian Lindberg is today nothing less than a living legend. At an early stage of his career he joined Yo Yo Ma and Gidon Kremer as
the BBC Music Magazine’s soloist of the year. In 2000, together with
Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, he was voted by an international poll
the greatest brass players of the 20th century. He was the first Swedish
instrumentalist ever to be invited to perform as soloist with the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In
2007 he was artist in residence at the Musikverein in Vienna – the
‘stronghold’ of traditional classical music. Christian Lindberg has
worked with practically every major orchestra and conductor in the world
today. For a trombonist to achieve all this before turning 50 is, to
say the least, remarkable. Gradually Christian Lindberg has also embarked on two new successful
careers as conductor and composer. ( Read more about this on Christian
Lindberg’s conductor and composer biographies on this website ) Today
Christian Lindberg almost exclusively appears as a soloist in programmes
where he conducts himself. His future schedule contains only a few
exclusive soloistic collaborations such as with the Concertgebouw
Orchestra in Amsterdam. He now combines his position as chief conductor of the Arctic Symphony
Orchestra with guest conducting the foremost international orchestras
and working on composition commissions from international orchestras,
ensembles and instrumentalists in combination with his activities as an
instrumentalist. Parallel with all these activities, Christian Lindberg makes sure he
can devote some valuable leisure time with his family at their country
residence on a peninsula of the beautiful Stockholm Archipelago.
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Jay Manuel
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Jay Manuel (born August 14, 1972) is a Canadian TV host, Creative Director, make-up artist, and author. He is most recognizable as the Creative Director on the popular reality television show America's Next Top Model for the first eighteen seasons. Manuel also was featured as the host of Canada's Next Top Model.
Manuel is the Founder and CEO of the beauty line, Jay Manuel Beauty. In 2017, the brand opened its first retail location at Roosevelt Field Mall. Later that year, he was one of the judges for Miss Universe 2017. In 2020, he released his first book, The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown.
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Denise Tantucci
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Before entering the entertainment world, Denise began studying theater with maestro Mauro Pierfederici in her hometown. At 15 she moved to Rome to study acting at the Yvonne D'Abbraccio Academy. She began her career in the role of Giusy in the fifth season of Play It Again (Play It Again), the teacher and part of Daphne in the ninth season of Don Matteo (Don Mateo). In August 2013 she was chosen to play the character of Giada Spanoi, an Albanian girl in search of parents who emigrated a long time ago, in Un Medico in Famiglia 9 (A Family Doctor 9) - (ninth season). In the series she falls in love with the son of the new doctor in the family, Tommaso "Tommy" Martini.
At the same time she dedicated herself to singing and writing. In 2012 she released her first song: Dressed in Blood, in October 2013 she published her first book of poetry: Fantasticherie e congetture (Dreams and conjectures), published by Aletti Editore.
In 2014 she wrote and produced her first show, Un Doppio Legame (A Double Link), which was staged in September. In the same year she joined the cast of the second season of Braccialetti Rossi and in the third of Fuoriclasse (Champion). In September she plays the movie Ma tu di che segno 6? (But you, what sign are you), Directed by Neri Parenti, released in theaters on December 11, 2014.
In 2015 she continues her film experience, she joined the cast of the international film Ben-Hur, a remake of the famous Ben-Hur by William Wyler. She will reprise the role of Nina, also in the third season of Braccialetti Rossi.
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Devan Chandler Long
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Devan Chandler Long (Born August 31, 1983) is an American actor. He stars as Thorfinn in the CBS series Ghosts (2020).
His talents earned him a full-ride scholarship to play football at the University of Oregon, where he would go on to garner school records in the stat books and become known for his humorous interviews and locker room antics. He soon found his wwy into acting.
He has played roles in both the Marvel and DC universe. He portrayed Tat in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode A Wanted (Inhu)man and Kincaid in the Runaways episodes Fifteen, Metamorphosis and Tsunami. He also portrayed Flex Mentallo in Doom Patrol.
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Filthy Frank
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Dr. Filthy Francis or Francis of the Filth, simply known as Filthy Frank, was the titular protagonist of the TVFilthyFrank YouTube channel and was known for offensive, shocking, alternative, and filthy humor. Filming himself, his friends, and the bizarre entities living in his house, Frank became the star of his own show: The Filthy Frank Show. An internet comedian, vlogger, Chef, musician, satirist, and absolute madman, Filthy Frank was the edgiest man on the internet. He was described as the literal embodiment of "everything a person should not be". Along with being the former protagonist of the videos, he was also the protagonist of the book named after him; Francis of the Filth.
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