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Anoushka

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Born in Heliopolis in 1960 to an Egyptian father and Armenian mother. She graduated from AUC Business Management and Administration. She worked as a secretary and an advertisement singer in Tarek Nour's company. She began her singing career when she won first place in a worldwide competition in France. Since then, she's been competing in many worldwide competitions in France, Turkey, Latin America, Bulgaria, Czech republic and Finland. She's been honored by the Ministry of Tourism, who sponsors the Music Festival in Egypt. She sang in the World Cup ceremonies in 1997, and the World Cup handball closing ceremony in 2000. She also tried her hand in acting, but mostly is a singer.
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K. Manikandan

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K. Manikandan is an Indian film writer, actor and director who works in the Tamil film industry. Manikandan participated in a popular reality comedy show and finished as the runner-up of the season. Subsequently, he joined an FM channel as a Radio Jockey while also dubbing/voice acting for several films and TV shows. He debuted as a writer with Pizza II: Villa (2013). He made his acting debut with India Pakistan (2015) and played a minor role in the Kadhalum Kadanthu Pogum (2016) directed by Nalan Kumarasamy. Manikandan then played an antagonist in Sri Ganesh's debut directorial venture 8 Thottakkal (2017) alongside M. S. Bhaskar and Lallu. He penned the dialogues for Pushar-Gayathri's third directorial venture Vikram Vedha (2017) and also played a role of a police constable in the film. In 2018, Pa. Ranjith picked Manikandan for a role in Kaala (2018). Manikandan was involved in Viswasam (2019) Thambi (2019), directed by Siva and Jeethu Joseph respectively, as a dialogue writer. He paired with Nivedithaa Sathish in the romantic anthology film Sillu Karupatti (2019), directed by Halitha Shameem. Manikandan directed an independent film ‘Narai Ezhuthum Suyasaritham’ (English Title: Endless) starring Delhi Ganesh and himself in lead roles. The film was selected to participate in Bengaluru International Film Festival (2016) under ‘Indian Cinema Competition’. Endless was one of the four films to be selected for screening at 16th New York Indian Film Festival (2016).
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Andrey Fomin

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Andrey Vladimirovich Fomin (in Cyrillic ː Андрей Владимирович Фомин; in English transcription ː Andrey Fomin), born on February 3, 1964 in Moscow, is a Russian actor and producer, also organizer of events and theme nights1 in Russia, Ukraine and on the Côte d'Azur in France2 and personality of Russian television. Andrei Fomine ends in 1988 the Institute of drama Boris Shchukin (in the class of Alla Kazanskaya) in full period of perestroika. He then studied at the top courses of training of screenwriters and directors in the class of Vladimir Menchov with the realization as a specialty. From 1988 to 1991, he was part of the troupe Vakhtangov Theater. Andrei Fomine is the founder of annual social events. From 1996 to 2011, Andrei Fomine presents the annual parodic prize of the show-business "Серебряная калоша" (The Silver Gala) initiated by radio station Serebriany dojd. He plays in the plays given at the Moscow State Theater; in Figaro. One-day event (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov). In 2011, he appeared as Ancel in Killer Joe by Tracy Letts (directed by Javor Gardev), and in 2014 as Jeanne de Yaroslava Poulinovitch (ru) (directed by Ilia Rotenberg). Since May 2017, he has been playing circus director in Le Cirque by Maxime Didenko, adapted from the eponymous musical film by Grigori Alexandrov (1936). He participates in the Russian version of the show Danse avec les stars in 2011, where he dances with Albina Djanabayeva (former soloist of the VIA Gra group). He directs the program The Great Social Encyclopedia ("Большая светская энциклопедия") on the Russian channel STS. (Wikipedia translation from French)
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Amanda Righetti

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Amanda Righetti (born April 4, 1983) is an American actress and former model. She is best known for her roles as Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist, Madeline Kenner in Colony, Whitney in Friday the 13th (2009), Isabel in Role Models (2008), Jenna Moretti on FOX's series Reunion, Tessa Lewis on FOX's primetime soap North Shore, Hailey Nichol on FOX's series The O.C. She also had a small role as a SHIELD Agent in Captain America: The First Avenger (2009). She began modeling at age 14, then later moved to Los Angeles at age 18 to start her acting career. After securing a role in the pilot for a proposed series by the name of No Place Like Home, she played a recurring character in the teen drama The O.C. In April 2008, she was cast as the female lead in the slasher film Friday the 13th (2009). That same year, she was signed to the CBS series The Mentalist, in the role of Grace Van Pelt. Her 2012 to 2013 pregnancy was not reflected in her character's storyline, during which she was filmed using selective angles and largely limited to desk duty. She married director and writer Jordan Alan on April 29, 2006, and they have a son, born in 2013. She filed for divorce in 2017.
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Luke Walton

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Luke started producing short films in 2006 (The Walk) and founded and developed the short film funding competition The Pitch in 2007. Since then he has been producing the best short film pitches submitted for each year's competition. The current funding if £25,000 with some additional funds available for the runners up. His background includes studying Law (Leeds University) and Theology (Durham University) as well as an actor with The Riding Lights Theatre Company (York). He is married to Tasha (teacher) and has two daughters.
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Jumana Murad

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Jumana Murad is a prominent Syrian actress. She earned her degree from the University of Damascus, then made her TV debut in 1998 when she began acting on television dramas. She worked on eighteen TV shows for the next decade, until she made her film debut in "El Shayateen" (Devils) in 2007. She's acted in over thirty productions, including "El Farah" (The Wedding) in 2009. Murad also owns her own production company, Jumana International. Murad made headlines this year when she announced she was in a romantic relationship with a man (his nationality remained a secret) whom she did not intend to marry.
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Bhama

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Considered one an emerging actress, Rekhitha aka Bhama made her debut in 2007 through Nivedyam directed by Lohithada. Matrimonial programme on television titled Thaali was one of her debuts in media industry. Lohithadas spotted her in the programme and cast her in Nivedyam (2007). She has been considered the most beautiful and talented actress of Malayalam film industry. She is a malayalee, residing at Mannarkadu in Kottayam, Kerala. She completed higher secondary education from St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Mannarkkadu. She has two sisters.
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Joan Gràcia

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Joan Gràcia was born in Barcelona’s Poble Sec in 1957. He worked as a bank clerk, participated in motorcycle races… but one day he discovered show business and decided to leave everything behind and devote himself 100% to the performing arts and to Tricicle. In addition to Tricicle he has produced two wonderful daughters, some zarzuela, shows for Tricicle’s clone company Clownic, and some scripts for very short shorts. He has designed costumes for operas and bikinis for beautiful women, and above all, he has generously gained weight thanks to the fact that he is a lover of gastronomy, especially Argentinian cuisine. He is currently the creative director of Grupo Pachá and artistic director of the Cabaret Lio Ibiza Restaurant. When he grows up he wants to be a movie and theater spectator, but only a spectator, not a critic, not an actor, not a producer, nor a director.
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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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Paul Birch

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Paul Birch (born January 13, 1912, Atmore, Alabama – died May 24, 1969, St. George's, Grenada) was an American actor of stage and film. Birch was born Paul Smith in Atmore, Alabama. He was a veteran of 39 movies, 50 stage dramas and a number of television shows including the Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951). In the late 1950s he starred, along with William Campbell, in the syndicated Canadian series Cannonball (1958), a half-hour drama/adventure show about truckers. He was the original "Marlboro Man" in TV commercials and played both Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee in several historical plays. He started out as the first of the original members of the Pasadena Playhouse and his stage work included The Caine Mutiny. He also had a recurring role as Captain Carpenter, the boss of Lt. Phillip Gerard in The Fugitive starring David Janssen. He starred in some low-budget science-fiction films in the 1950s, including The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955), Day the World Ended (1955), Not of This Earth (1957) and the cult classic Queen of Outer Space (1958). Birch also had small roles in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1967). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Birch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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