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James Murray

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James is a Grammy Nominee ( Best Children's Album 2013) an award-winning puppeteer, actor, voice over artist, writer, producer, director, and singer. He has been in the children's entertainment arena for over 30 years often times wearing multiple hats. His numerous talents have been utilized by Disney, Amazon Studios, FOX Kids, MTV, ABC, CNN, Play House Disney, Google, Hallmark, Microsoft, Nickelodeon, MCA Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, and The Jim Henson Company - having worked with the likes of the late Jim Henson, Spike Jones, Barry Sonnenfeld, Tim Burton & Francis Ford Coppola. As a performer, James has voiced and or puppeteered characters in over 30 children's shows, 15 features and numerous theater productions, series & commercials.
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Kim Stanley

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Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in televsion and theatre, but with occasional film performances. She began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase (1952), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic (1953) and Bus Stop (1955). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1959) and A Far Country (1962). During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess (1959). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (1982), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985). She did not act during her later years, preferring the role of teacher, in Los Angeles, California, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she died in 2001, of uterine cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Stanley, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Markina Brown

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Markina DeShawn Brown is an American actress and former TV News meteorologist. As a child, she spent more than 15 years heavily training and competing in acrobatic gymnastics. She worked in several cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta as a TV news meteorologist, but in 2013 decided that her heart was in acting. She has starred in various projects including American Skin (2019) alongside Nate Parker, Omari Hardwick and Beau Knapp., which won Best Film in the Sconfini Section at the Venice International Film Festival in 2019. She's had a recurring guest star roles on seasons 7 and 8 in Tyler Perry's The Haves and The Have Nots (2020). She's had roles in the film Peppermint (2018) starring Jennifer Garner, the hit TV series Mr. Mercedes (2017) and the Ang Lee directed film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). 
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Eric Westman

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Dr. Westman is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University. He is Board Certified in Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine, and founded the Duke Keto Medicine Clinic with Dr. William S. Yancy Jr. in 2006 after 8 years of clinical research regarding low carbohydrate ketogenic diets. He is Past-President and Master Fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association and Fellow of The Obesity Society. He is an editor of the textbook: Obesity: Evaluation & Treatment Essentials, and author of the New York Times Bestseller The New Atkins for a New You, Cholesterol Clarity, and Keto Clarity. He is co-founder of Adapt Your Life, an education and product company based on low carbohydrate concepts.
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Tom Kenny

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Thomas James "Tom" Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian, known for his long-running-role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the television series of the same name, as well as the live-action character Patchy the Pirate, Gary the Snail and the French narrator based on Jacques Cousteau. His other voice acting roles include the Narrator and Mayor in the Powerpuff Girls, Heffer in Rocko's Modern Life, Dog in CatDog, Ice King in Adventure Time and Spryo in the Spyro the Dragon video game series. Aside from voice acting, Kenny also starred in the short-lived Fox sketch show The Edge and was a cast member of the HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show, where he worked with Jill Talley, whom he subsequently married. He also hosted Friday Night Videos on NBC for one year in 1983, and Funday Night at the Movies on TCM 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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Masami Nagasawa

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Nagasawa Masami is a Japanese actress under Toho Entertainment. She has performed in many famous movies and television dramas including Crying out Love in the Center of the World, Nada Sousou, Dragon Zakura and Proposal Daisakusen. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2006. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or as Yamashita Tomohisa calls her "Maa-tan". On her radio show, she introduces herself as "Gasawa", a nickname chosen by fans. She is the daughter of Kazuaki Nagasawa, the former manager of the J. League team Júbilo Iwata.
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Nat DeWolf

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Nat DeWolf is an actor and writer. His New York theatre credits include Take Me Out (The Public Theater) and Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons). His regional credits include The Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The Comedy of Errors (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Take Me Out (The Repertory Theatre of St Louis — Kevin Kline Award, and TheaterWorks), The Violet Hour (Barrington Stage Company), and The Accident and Tartuffe (American Repertory Theatre). He co-wrote and co-starred with Laura Kirk in the film Lisa Picard is Famous, which made its world premiere at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Mr. DeWolf’s other film and television credits include the Merchant/Ivory produced Heights, Trick, We Pedal Uphill, “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Ed.” He is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
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Tracy Letts

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Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He is also known for his portrayal of Andrew Lockhart in seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's Homeland, for which he has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards as a member of the ensemble. He currently portrays Nick on the HBO comedy Divorce. Letts wrote the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: Bug and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County, directed by John Wells. His 2009 play Superior Donuts was adapted into a television series of the same name which is currently in its second season on CBS.
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Abdel Aziz El Moslem

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Kuwaiti actor, writer and director born in Kuwait in 1965. He received a master’s degree in acting and theater directing in 1987. He began his career as a child, where he appeared in a number of series, including Al-Shater Hassan (1974). He then began working in theater, his first work as a writer was the play Cheating Notes followed by Desert Storm, which he also directed. His most notable works include The Price, Musk and Amber, and Siren. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al-Salam Theater Company for Media Production, and is also considered one of the founders of the Youth Theater in the State of Kuwait, and the founder of the Adrenalin theater known as Horror Theater.
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