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Pan Lingling

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Pan Ling Ling is a veteran actress who joined the former SBC in 1988 after graduating from its 8th Drama Artiste Training Course. In 1991, Ling Ling played the female lead in the 130-episode series “Women of Substance”, MediaCorp TV's first ever location filming in China. In 1992, Ling Ling made headlines when she became the first MediaCorp (TCS) artiste to star in a regional movie. She played a psychoanalyst opposite international superstar Jackie Chan in “Crime Story”. However, it was in 2008 when Ling Ling probably re-established herself when she was cast in “The Little Nyonya”, a storyline with a Peranakan setting that spans over 70 years starting in the 1930s. This serial recorded the highest rating in local TV history to date since 1994. After 2 decades, Ling Ling’s hard work and perseverance finally paid off when she won her first acting award at Star Awards ‘11 for her performance as a kept woman in the blockbuster “Breakout”. She was also Highly Commended at the Asia Television Awards 2011 for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for this same role. In 2013, Ling Ling was diagnosed with breast cancer and stopped work for 10 months to undergo surgery and treatment. The ever optimistic and strong-willed actress returned to television and acting a year later when her cancer was in remission to star in her first English language role in the police drama “Mata Mata 2”. Subsequently, she is also cast as the main lead for Channel 8 long form drama 118 & 1182 whereby a total of 465 episodes are telecast between Oct 2014 and Sep 2017. In 2018, Ling Ling was once again cast as the lead for the 150-episode long form drama “Reach for the Skies”. Her popularity soared after involving 3 long form dramas from 2015-2018. And in 2018 & 2019, she won the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste in “Star Awards” consecutively again
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Ichiko Aoba

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the Japan of the female musician, singer, songwriter . Born in Kyoto (birth is Urayasu, Chiba ). She belongs to SPEEDSTAR RECORDS . 2014 Started the tour “Ichiko Aoba Awabuku Tour. ○ o ◯ 2014” that toured 47 prefectures nationwide from the performances at Fukui and Mikuni Ginza on March 23. On April 26th, Taiwan, and 27th in Hong Kong . Aimer 's mini album " Someone, the sea " released on September 3 . EP title song of "recording" someone, the sea. Provide the lyrics to ". In October, he formed a new unit, NUUAMM , with GEZAN 's Mahito The People . 2015 In November, he held his first Asian tour in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
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Gonzalo Heredia

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Gonzalo Heredia was born on March 12, 1982 in Munro, Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor, known for Valientes (2009), Lobo (2012) and Felicitas (2009). Between 1996 and 1997 he studied at the "Complejo Cultural Comunicanto" in Vicente López: Vocal Technique, technique and dramatic art movement with Alberto D'Ana and Carmen D'Ana. In 1997 and 1998 his theater teachers were Moscardini Mauro , Javier Correa Rubens Margulis and the "theater group La shack". In 2000 he made ​​his first ad for "Mortgage Credit". A year later he worked as a driver for the cable program "Road to ..." the designer Lilian Coone. In 2000 he participated again in an advertisement, this time for Coca Cola . His big break came in 2001 when he auditioned for the soap opera "Falling in love" on Telefe; there Gonzalo played the character of Maxi and gained popularity in the entertainment world. Together they made ​​Matias Fiszson the short film "The flavor of the meeting." A month after the end of the novel, Heredia entered the house of "Reality Reality" the first reality show with actors from Argentina where he also gained notoriety. In early 2002, the same producer of reality, Enrique Estevanez summons for the sitcom "Husbands home" where Gonzalo portrayed Chango. Simultaneously in early 2002, Diego Shaalo summons to co-star movie "Retirement Day".
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Santhosh Narayanan

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Santhosh Narayanan is an Indian film composer and musician in the Tamil film industry. Santhosh Narayanan made his debut as a film composer in the 2012 Tamil film Attakathi. His works in latter films including Pizza, Soodhu Kavvum, Cuckoo and Jigarthanda were critically acclaimed. He made his debut as an independent music director in the 2012 Tamil film Attakathi directed by Pa. Ranjith. Santhosh composed a song in the gaana genre for the film, "Aadi Pona Aavani", and gave a then-unknown Gana Bala, who had been singing gaana songs at funerals till then, the chance to sing it. Along with "Aadi Pona Aavani", a second gaana song, "Nadukadalula Kappala", Bala's own composition, was recorded for the film. Both songs went on to become popular, making Gana Bala a star, and were said to have brought back gaana to Tamil cinema. Santhosh Narayanan did his schooling in RSK Higher Secondary School, Tiruchirappalli and college in J. J. College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirapalli. After completing his education, he briefly worked as an assistant to composer A. R. Rahman. He worked as a recording engineer, before beginning to produce independent music and compose background score for films. He scored the music including two songs for the acclaimed short film Advaitham, and produced the score for the Telugu thriller film Nenu Meeku Telusa along with another Rahman protege, Sakti.
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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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Joyce King

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Joyce King (full name Kathryn Joyce King) worked as script supervisor, but also occasionally as stunt double and small part actress, on small and large Hollywood productions from 1957 to the late 1990s. Her first job was as script supervisor for Burt Topper on his debut low-budget film "Hell Squad", which was released in 1958, and her last was as script supervisor for a 1997 episode of the TV series "JAG". There's a long interview with her in Brian Albright's 2008 book "Wild Beyond Belief!: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s" (searchable on Google Books).
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Gaspar Noé

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Gaspar Noé (born December 27, 1963) is an Argentinian-born French filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière National College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Three of his films feature the character of a nameless butcher played by Philippe Nahon: Carne, I Stand Alone and (in a cameo) Irréversible. Carne was the recipient of the Critic's Award at the 5th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994. The films of Stanley Kubrick are one source of inspiration for Noé, and he occasionally makes references to them in his own works. Noé also cites the 1983 Austrian serial killer film Angst, by Gerald Kargl, as a major influence. He is married to filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović. His work has been linked to the New French Extremity. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gaspar Noé, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Michele Ziegler

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Before her work on Director Bradley Cooper’s DGA Award-nominated feature film, A Star Is Born, Ziegler got her start as in the industry a PA on Bruce Beresford’s Her Alibi and Barry Levinson’s Avalon. Some of her other credits include Joseph Sargent's DGA Award-winning movie for television Something the Lord Made and Barry Levinson’s DGA Award-nominated movie for television The Wizard of Lies; feature films such as Scott Cooper’s Hostiles and David O. Russell’s Joy, American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook; and episodes of the series Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, The Sopranos and Homicide: Life on the Street. Ziegler joined the DGA in 1991. https://www.dga.org
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Phyllis Quek

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Phyllis Quek is a Malaysia-born model-turned-actress and singer in Singapore. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1995 to 2001 but continues to film on an ad-hoc basis and managed under Hype Records. She left Mediacorp after her contract expired and chose not to renew it. Phyllis Quek's entry to Singapore showbiz was through Star Search 1995, in which she garnered a third placing. Despite this, a stunning performance in her debut drama serial, Beyond Dawn (女子监狱), left an indelible impression in the hearts of viewers. She was subsequently awarded the Best Newcomer Award at MediaCorp's Star Awards ceremony in 1996. Phyllis struck gold when MediaCorp Raintree Pictures offered her a lead role opposite Hong Kong megastar Aaron Kwok and Daniel Wu in a Hong Kong-Singapore joint collaboration movie, 2000 A.D.. Through this action flick, she won attention in the Asian media and is noted to have a high potential in local book Singapore Cinema by Raphaël Millet. She subsequently followed this up with a supporting role as a policewoman in another Raintree Pictures film, The Tree (孩子树). Her recording of the theme song of her earlier drama, The Other Parent (妈妈先生) and Mind Games (危险人物) marked the start of a nascent career in singing. She then released her debut album, Phyllis, under Hype Records which contained primarily dance tunes and singles from the soundtrack of The Tree and Beyond The Axis Of Truth (法医X档案). To promote her album, Phyllis guest starred in a Channel 5's crime drama series Heartlanders 2 where she played a stalked actress. That particular episode featured her song, '不知不觉', thrice and was a radio hit along with her other singles, 'Freedom'. However, the album did not mark the start of a longstanding music career for Phyllis and it was to remain her first and only album. As soon as her contract expired in 2001, she made a critical decision to switch to another management company, Hype Records Artiste Networks after she enjoyed working with them whilst producing her debut album. In keeping with Hype Records' plans for regionalisation, Phyllis made another conscious decision to star in productions from primarily the East Asian region (including Taiwan and China). She made her debut in Taiwan headlining the wacky lead role in a fluffy idol drama titled My Fair Lady (丑女大翻身), in which she donned fatsuits and prosthetics in order to play a fat and undesired girl.
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Madolyn Smith Osborne

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Madolyn Smith Osborne (born January 1, 1957, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actress. Madolyn Smith Osborne may be best-known for her roles in the TV miniseries If Tomorrow Comes and the feature film Funny Farm, which co-starred Chevy Chase. In 1984, she appeared in 2010, with Roy Scheider. She portrayed Jehan Al Sadat, wife of Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in the TV miniseries Sadat. She also starred in Urban Cowboy with John Travolta, The Super with Joe Pesci, and appeared in All of Me with Steve Martin. She guest starred in an episode of the sitcom Cheers titled "What's Up Doc?" (episode 164, season 7, first aired on Thursday March 30, 1989) where she plays beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Sheila Rydell, whom Sam "Mayday" Malone (Ted Danson) actually fakes having impotence for, so he can be treated by her in hopes of sparking a romantic relationship. Before her marriage to former NHL hockey player Mark Osborne she was known and credited as Madolyn Smith. Description above from the Wikipedia article Madolyn Smith Osborne, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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