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Jason Tobias

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Jason Tobias is an actor known for the award winning Star Wars: Generations (2016). Having written, produced, and starred in the production, it won at Star Wars Celebration (2016), in London, U.K. Tobias has been building recognition with performances in indie films such as; 'Terrordactyl' (2016), 'Most Likely to Die' (2015), 'The Unraveling' (2015), 'Imbroglio' (2016), and 'ICARUS' (2016). Jason's list of television credits has been expanding, as he has been seen on; 'Justified' (2014), 'Franklin & Bash' (2014), 'The Fosters' (2015), 'Rush Hour' (2015), 'Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn' (2016), 'Notorious' (2016), and the daytime drama 'Days of Our Lives' (2015-2016). Tobias was born into a creatively oriented family. His Dad is a singer/entertainer and his Mom is an artist. Born in Texas, Jason grew up in the Bay Area, and Ohio, where he excelled at all things creative and sports related. In fact, athletics was always a strong suit for Tobias, as he was scouted and played on several traveling teams. At one point, he even tried out for the Kansas City Royals and the Cincinnati Reds, but ultimately ended up following his other burning passion, theatre, art, film, and television. Jason holds a B.F.A in Theatre Studies and Art & Technology from Youngstown State University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
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Richard Griffiths

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Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. For his performance in the stage play The History Boys, Griffiths won a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He played Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001-2010) and Great Uncle Matthew Brown "Gum" in the BBC film Ballet Shoes (2007). He also portrayed Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994–1997). Earlier in his career, he had supporting roles in such critically acclaimed films as Chariots of Fire (1981), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Gandhi (1982), and The Naked Gun 2+1⁄2: The Smell of Fear (1991). In his later career he appeared in Sleepy Hollow (1999), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and in Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011).
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Ulf Pilblad

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Ulf (Jean Loup) Pilblad was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a film producer, actor and script writer. In his childhood, he began early in theatre schools in Stockholm where he studied 8 years with different teachers. He also worked as an assistant to the operetta-singer and dancer, Hasse Funck, who had started an activity called Minifunckarna in 1965, where he educated children in acting! In Bangkok since 1996, he has started his own company, a Destination Management Company, PCE Travel Consultants, and worked as Production and Location Manager for several Scandinavian TV productions. He has also participated in several acting workshops with Maurizio Mistretta, Fulvio Ianneo and John Marengo and participated in several performances with ALL SOUL Production Company in Thailand and Italy! One of the plays - True Story - is based on his personal experiences during the Tsunami 2004 which was played for the first time in the Art and Culture Festival "Dramophone" in Bologna (Italy) in June / July 2012. Ulf has participated in the film The Impossible (2012) directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. In February 2013 he has participated in Bababoboa project Festival "Paura-fear-klua" at the TADU Art and Exhibition Center in Bangkok! In 2013 Ulf produced the film "Fufu - 99 Minutes of Life" in Thailand. He also played one of the main characters in the film: Roland. In 2014 he produced the film "Fatima's Secret" in Thailand. He also played one of the main characters in the film: Gogo. Ulf is also owner, together Maurizio Mistretta and Patchanee Poonthong, and producer of the All Soul Production Co., Ltd. (Thailand), All Soul Production (France). He is also owner and President of the travel agencies AFS Chic Paris (France) and PCE Travel Consultants (Thailand).
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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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John Noble

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John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Denethor in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Dr. Walter Bishop on the science fiction series Fringe, Henry Parrish on the action-horror series Sleepy Hollow, and Morland Holmes on the police procedural Elementary. Noble has also done voice work as Leland Monroe in the video game L.A. Noire, Unicron in the animated series Transformers: Prime, and Scarecrow in the DC Comics video game Batman: Arkham Knight. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Noble, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nancy Steiner

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Nancy Steiner is an American costume designer. Her credits include Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, The Lovely Bones, The Good Girl and The Virgin Suicides. Her career started in the late 1980s styling bands for music videos and assisting on films and commercials. Some of the bands Nancy worked with include Stone Temple Pilots, Filter, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, David Bowie, Air, Fat Boy Slim, Bjork, and R.E.M.. . As time went on Nancy entered the world of film by designing Todd Haynes celebrated film "SAFE", then working with directors such as Sofia Coppola, Michel Gondry, Wim Wenders, Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Peter Jackson, and Miguel Arteta to name a few. Nancy also works in the commercial world with directors including Mark Romanek, Stacy Wall, Sebastian Strasser, Speck/Gordon and Dougal Wilson.
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Abigail Esquibel

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Abigail Esquibel became known for her acting in High School and after achieving her MBA. Her feature films include Sex Pot and The Sex Trip. She has also appeared on the original Life Time Movie My Crazy Ex. She has appeared in the short films Souffle as Anna, and I'm Afraid of Americans as the hitchhiker. Early Life Actress Abigail Esquibel was born on May 17, 1989, in San Diego, California. Esquibel studied business finance in college, then took up acting full time in Los Angeles, Ca after she graduated with her MBA. Career Highlights After a range of small parts in television, commercials, and feature films she became known for her role as Anna in the short film Souffle (2015), then began to achieve other lead and supporting roles like in the short film The Take Over (2015). Esquibel also was the assistant producer and sound supervisor in the short film Souffle (2015). In the film, Esquibel plays Anna, a devious and cheating wealthy wife who is attempting to poison her husband.
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Nagah El-Mogui

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Egyptian Actor Nagah El Mogy, whose real name is Abdel Al Maaty Mohamed El Mogy, was born in 1945 in the governorate of Dakalia. He received his bachelor’s degree in social work and started his acting career working with Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah (The Three Lights Theatre Troupe) when he appeared in the play “Funduq El Ishgal El Shaaqa” (The Hotel of Hard Labor). He also appeared in several other plays with Three Lights Theatre including: “El Motzawjon” (Married People), “Mawlid Sidi El Marab” and “Ya Ana Ya Enta” (Me and You). In addition to his theatre work, Nagah El Mogy has played dozens of well-known roles in cinema, starring in films such as: “Tata wa Rica wa Kazem Bey,” “El Bahr Biyidhek Ley” (Why Does the Sea Laugh?), “Eyam El Ghadab (Days of Rage), and “El Harif” (The Street Player). He died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 53.
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Scott Ian

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Scott Ian (born Scott Ian Rosenfeld, December 31, 1963) is an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the thrash metal band Anthrax. Ian is the guitarist and a founding member of the crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death for which he is also the lyricist. He has hosted The Rock Show on VH1 and has appeared on VH1's I Love the... series, Heavy: The Story of Metal, and SuperGroup. Ian is also the rhythm guitarist for the metal band the Damned Things, and played with experimental band Mr. Bungle for seven reunion shows in 2020.
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Shams El-Barudy

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Egyptian actress of Syrian origins, born in 1945, she studied at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts for only two and a half years, then began her artistic career in the early sixties, and at that time she was still using her real name (Shams al-Muluk), but soon she changed her nickname To be (Shams Al-Baroudi) after her family name. After that, she had many roles in the cinema, which made her an icon of temptation in the history of Egyptian cinema, and among the films in which she participated: (The Malatilian Bath, Pleasure and Agony, El Amusement Street) Shams Al-Baroudi has also been a mainstay in the films directed by her husband, actor Hassan Youssef, including (Cowardly and Love, Fat Cats, Two On the Road). Shams Al-Baroudi decided in the mid-eighties to retire and wear the hijab after the trip that she made with her father to perform the Umrah rituals, and she disavowed all the works that she participated in.
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