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Kathleen Ryan
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Kathleen Ryan was born in Dublin, Ireland of Tipperary parentage and was a spirited and heart warming Irish actress who appeared in British and Hollywood movies between 1947 and 1957. She was a great beauty in her time.
Kathleen Ryan was one of the eight children of Séamus Ryan, a member of Seanad Éireann and his wife Agnes Ryan née Harding who came from Kilfeacle and Solohead respectively in County Tipperary and who were Republican activists during the Irish War of Independence. They opened a shop in Parnell Street, Dublin in the 1920s which was the first of 36 outlets which were known as "The Monument Creameries". The family lived at Burton Hall, near Leopardstown Racecourse in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock. Her brother was John Ryan , a well known artist and man of letters in bohemian Dublin of the 1940s and 50's, who was a friend and benefactor of a number of struggling writers in the post-war era, such as Patrick Kavanagh. He started and edited a short-lived literary magazine entitled "Envoy". Among her other siblings were Fr. Vincent (Séamus) (1930-2005), a Benedictine priest at Glenstal Abbey, Sister Íde of the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, Dublin, Oonagh (who married the Irish artist Patrick Swift), Cora who married the politician, Seán Dunne, T.D. When Kathleen was an undergraduate at University College Dublin, she was introduced to the future, Dr.Dermod Devane of Limerick. They were married in the society wedding of 1944 and had three children, but the marriage was annulled in 1958. As one of Ireland's great beauties of her time, she was the subject of one of Louis le Brocquy's most striking portraits, "Girl in White", which he painted in 1941 and entered in the RHA exhibition of that year. The portrait (oil on canvas) is in the Ulster Museum collection. She died in Dublin, from a lung ailment aged 63 and was buried with her parents beneath an imposing statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, near the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
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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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Broadus Mattison
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Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, the oldest son of military veterans. He continued the tradition by serving his country as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy on board various warships including USS Nimitz (CVN-68). His commitment to service didn't end there. After mustering out of the service, he returned home and joined the Baltimore City Police Department as a patrolman, working in the same neighbor he grew up in. He calls upon on his life experiences and training to inform his choices as an Actor and Artist, whether as a Naval Officer, a teacher,or as one of Baltimore's Finest (BPD). A chance encounter in Seattle led him to an audition for the role of Aaron in a production of Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus'.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Broadus
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Sayed Badreya
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Egyptian-born film-maker and actor Sayed Badreya realized a childhood dream by winning roles in major Hollywood films such as The Insider, Three Kings, and Independence Day. Growing up in poverty in Port Said, Sayed Badreya's dreams of movie stardom looked as bleak as the prospect of peace in the Middle East. From the Six Day War in '67 through the Yom Kippur War in '73, his only escape from the world he knew was the movie theater, where films transported him to a magical land. But it was here that he determined he was destined to be a part of that magic. After attending New York University film school, and then moving to Hollywood, Sayed first worked in the film industry as an assistant to actor/director Anthony Perkins, and then with director James Cameron on True Lies. His mission - to make movies that told the Arabic- American story, since it had yet to be told - led to the creation of his own production company, Zoom In Focus. Under this banner, he directed and produced the documentary, Saving Egyptian Film Classics as well as The Interrogation, which won Best Creative Short Film at New York International Film Festival. He also produced and starred in Hesham Issawi's short, T for Terrorist, which was awarded Best Short Film at the Boston International Film Festival and the San Francisco World Film Festival. In 2007, he played his first leading role in the English language motion picture American East, a film that he also co-wrote. 2008 was Sayed Badreya's breakout year. He captivated audiences as Abu Bakaar, the villainous arms dealer who kidnaps Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the summer's blockbuster Iron Man. Also that year, Sayed played the comedic Palestinian cab driver opposite Adam Sandler in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. This summer, Sayed can be seen in Paramount Pictures' feature film El traspatio aka Backyard, directed by Oscar-nominated Carlos Carrera in which he plays a serial killer opposite Ana de la Reguera. Sayed can also be seen this summer in Movie 43, where he plays opposite Halle Berry. Additional forthcoming films include The Three Stooges, his fifth film with the Farrelly brothers; The Dictator, playing Sascha Baron Cohen's father as the original Dictator, and Just Like a Woman, with Oscar nominated director Rachid Bouchareb. Also, Sayed is going to a new frontier in the new video game Uncharted 3, playing Ramses the Great Pirate Captain. Most recently he completed his second leading role in the New York independent feature, Cargo, about human traffickers, directed by Yan Vizinberg. And he just finished co-starring opposite Oscar-nominated actress Melissa Leo in film The Space Between, directed by Travis Fine. Sayed has also worked as an actor, Arabic dialect coach, and Islamic technical advisor on Path to 9/11, a $40 million mini-series about the events leading up to 9/11 produced by ABC/Touchstone. Sayed's efforts to bring attention to Arab-Americans in the motion picture industry have received much coverage over the years on radio, television, and in major publications around the world, such as The New York Times, GQ, NPR, ABC's "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, BBC's "Panorama," CNN, "Fox Report with Shepard Smith", The Hollywood Reporter and Egypt Today.
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Toby Redpath
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Toby has worked extensively in theatre and film. Having trained at the Arts University Bournemouth, he then went on to working in touring theatre, performing in venues across the UK and Europe. He has taken on a variety of prominent roles in shows that include Jane Eyre, Bleak House and Peter Pan. Toby has also worked on a number of films, such as 'Lost Island', 'Scrap of Paper', and 'M'. Toby enjoys taking on various challenging and demanding roles and has an interest in dark comedies. He is also skilled in comedy, devising. storytelling, improvisation and knows basic stage combat.
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Tibor Bödőcs
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Bödőcs Tibor 1982-ben született Zalaegerszegen. Egy zalai kis faluban, Búcsúszentlászlón töltötte ingergazdag gyermekkorát. „Szen’lászlót” műsoraiban számtalan kameraállásból bemutatta már. 2004-ben csatlakozott a Dumaszínházhoz és még abban az évben állandó kerettagja lett a Rádiókabarénak. Az országos ismertséget a 2005-ös Esti Showder szereplés hozta meg számára. A hazai stand up szcéna egyik frontembere, a Showder Klub oszlopos tagja. Közel öt év után kilépett a Dumaszínház társulatából, és közel egy évig tévés szereplést sem vállalt. Elmondása szerint szüksége volt az önállósodásra ahhoz, hogy továbbra is a minőségi humort tudja képviselni. A szétválás ellenére nem romlott meg a viszony a Dumaszínházzal, vendégművészként gyakran fellép náluk. Visszatért a Showder Klubba
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Joie Lee
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Joie Susannah Lee (born June 22, 1962) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director and actress. She has appeared in many of the films directed by her brother, Spike Lee, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She also wrote and produced the film Crooklyn.
Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Jacqueline (née Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician, bassist, actor and composer.
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Robert Webber
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Over his 40-year career as one of Hollywood's veteran character actors, Robert Webber always marked his spot by playing all types of roles and was not stereotyped into playing just one kind of character. Sometimes he even got to play a leading role (see Hysteria (1965)). Webber first started out in small stage shows and a few Broadway plays and served a stint in the army before he landed the role of Juror 12 in 12 Angry Men (1957). He was also known for numerous war films, playing Lee Marvin's general in The Dirty Dozen (1967) or as real-life Admiral Frank J. Fletcher in Midway (1976). Webber's other best known movies include The Great White Hope (1970), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), 10 (1979) (as composer Dudley Moore's lyricist partner), Private Benjamin (1980), Wild Geese II (1985) and co-starring with Richard Dreyfuss and Barbra Streisand as prosecutor Francis McMillian in Nuts (1987). In 1989 he died of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in Malibu, California, shortly after completing the 1988 TV production Something Is Out There (1988) (TV). He bore a resemblance to character actor Kevin McCarthy.
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Dionne Stax
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Dionne is a Dutch journalist, presenter and former newsreader.
She attended the Elzendaal College and studied communication sciences, her bachelor's degree at Tilburg University and her master's degree at the University of Amsterdam. Stax started in 2007 at NOS Headlines, the predecessor of NOS op 3, as an intern. There she provided weekly overviews of NOS Headlines for the digital theme channel NOS Journaal 24. After completing a second internship at the domestic editorial team, Stax graduated in 2009 from the University of Amsterdam.
In February 2012, Stax became one of the presenters of the news bulletin NOS op 3 on television. In addition to presenting, Stax worked as a domestic editor at NOS Nieuws.[1] In June 2013, she became one of the regular faces of the morning and day broadcasts of the NOS Journaal. She moved on because Annechien Steenhuizen became the presenter of the eight o'clock news. Since May 2015, Dionne Stax also presented the evening bulletins. On December 5, 2015, she presented her first eight o'clock news.
Stax was also on duty at the time of the attacks in Paris at the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo and later during the hostage crisis. She presented additional newscasts. From 2015 Stax presented the election results as the successor of Herman van der Zandt.[2][3] On April 27, 2016, King's Day, in Zwolle, Stax was the first journalist to interview the princesses Amalia, Alexia and Ariane, after asking the princesses' parents questions in the same interview.[4] She last presented the NOS Journaal on 23 August 2019.
In October 2019 she switched from NOS to AVROTROS to present the Radio 1 program Stax&Toine from January 2020 together with Toine van Peperstraten. She stopped doing so in March 2021. In 2019 and 2020 Stax co-presented the Gouden Televizier-Ring Gala. After Caroline Tensen switched to RTL 4, Stax presented the program DNA Unknown from January 2020 to October 2021.
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Vishal Handa
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Vishal Handa is a British-Indian director, actor, choreographer and writer. He is an established filmmaker and theatre director in Mumbai. He shares his time between theatre and film and has directed theatre productions which have toured the country as well as over 20 music videos and several ads. In front of the camera, Vishal has acted in both independent and commercial cinema including Kohrra (Clean Slate Filmz - Netflix) and Dream Girl 2 (Balaji Telefilms - theatrical release) in 2023. He has collaborated with the NCPA and National Theatre UK for the primary landmark year of National Theatre Connections in India. A trained method actor, Vishal teaches at The Jeff Goldberg Studio (since 2016), a prestigious method acting school in the heart of the Hindi Film Industry.
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