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Roger Christian

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Roger Christian (born 25 February 1944) is an English set decorator, production designer and feature film director. He won an Academy Award for his work on the original Star Wars and was Oscar-nominated for his work on Alien. Christian directed the second unit on both Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as well as feature films including The Sender and Nostradamus. He also directed the 2000 film Battlefield Earth which is regarded as one of the worst films ever made.
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Marjorie Main

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie Main (born Mary Tomlinson, February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American actress, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player and for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main worked in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit and in Chautauqua presentations, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. Main began playing upper class dowagers, but ultimately was typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles, for which her distinctive voice was well suited. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the 1937 film version, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs. Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a "great lady" as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school. Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films. By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio: Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Main's performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and "The Sacramento Story" on NBC's television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.
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Bhumi Pednekar

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Bhumi Pednekar is an Indian film actress. After working as an assistant casting director at Yash Raj Films for six years, Pednekar made her acting debut with the starring role of an overweight bride in the company's 2015 romantic comedy Dum Laga Ke Haisha. Her performance was acclaimed and she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Pednekar rose to prominence in 2017 by playing headstrong women in two commercially successful comedy-dramas, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. The latter earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.
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Don Chastain

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Don Chastain was an American actor, singer, and screenwriter. He worked in television in Los Angeles and New York and toured the United States and Canada. Chastain's Broadway credits include Parade (1998), 42nd Street (1980), It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1965), and No Strings (1961). On television, Chastain appeared as Gerald Wiley in the episode "Trial by Rope" of the TV series Colt .45 in 1960. The guest cast also included Pamela Duncan as Dora Lacey, and Lurene Tuttle as Lottie Strong. Other series in which Chastain appeared as a guest star include The Real McCoys, Rhoda, Maude, The Rockford Files, All My Children, Hawaii Five-O, The West Wing, Gunsmoke, Scrubs, and The Big Valley. Chastain also played Jim Thompson in the TV comedy The Debbie Reynolds Show (1969–1970) and Scott Thomas in the TV comedy Hello, Larry (1979–1981). One of Chastain’s final roles on TV was as a “suspect” On the television reality competition show “Murder in Small Town X” in 2001 as character Hayden DeBeck. He was featured for 6 episodes before being “killed” by the show’s fictional killer. On film, he appeared in the role of Lizard in the 1970 film of C.C. and Company and also penned the screenplay for The Mafu Cage (1978). Chastain also wrote several episodes of As the World Turns between 1992 and 1995.
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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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Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm

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Fatma Mesanet Jeyan Mahfi Ayral Tözüm (6 August 1928 – 29 October 2023) was a Turkish actress and voice actress. Jeyan was born on 6 August 1928 in Istanbul. She started her artistic career with the encouragement of her father, Necdet Mahfi Ayral, when she was only three years old, by being cast by Muhsin Ertuğrul in the play Peer Gynt, a work of Henrik Ibsen. At Istanbul City Theatres; she acted in many plays such as Happy Days, Dressing the Nude, Roots, Half and Kezban and retired from there. She started dubbing at the age of 10 with the voice of the TV show Happy Days. She has voiced many actresses such as Belgin Doruk, Türkan Şoray, Filiz Akın, Hülya Koçyiğit, Fatma Girik, Müjde Ar, Hale Soygazi, Emel Sayın, Gülşen Bubikoğlu, Ahu Tuğba and Hülya Avşar. She decided to leave the cinema with her husband in 1954 and devoted herself to theater plays and dubbing for many years. She also worked as a radio commercial speaker for 3 years. In addition to theater, she acted in movies and television series. In 2005 she was awarded Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award at the 8th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival.
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Ilya Rusak

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Ilya Rusak (born Iliasu Fonge Rusacov) is a Moldovan musician and actor. He was born in Chisinua, Moldova in 1991, and in 1998 he moved to the United States with his mother. At the time, LA Weekly published the article 40 Bucks and a Dream about their case. During his time in Los Angeles, he learned all aspects of street life, including problems with the police. In the music business, he is known professionally as Boulevard or BLVD. During his career, Boulevard managed to record many tracks in the trap genre, as well as star in ST's "Rap'n'Roll" video. He is currently working on a new album "Powder".
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Sabrina Gennarino

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Sabrina Gennarino was born in Rochester, New York. She moved to New York City to continue modeling and attend college. She discovered her passion for acting when a friend asked her to be in a play, where she played two different roles after only two nights of rehearsal. She began to study with the incomparable Eric Loeb, who is still her coach today. He helped her find her voice and confidence. She booked her first full feature and then several independent shorts. Including her unbelievable role in H.R. Pukenshette, where she portrays the ex-girlfriend from hell. She has gone on to star in "Bum Runner" with Joe Reitman, "Virgin Larry" by The Leupp Brothers, and the full feature "Fortunes" starring Mike McGlone and James Urbaniak. She had yet another breaking in performance with her role in the indie feature, "The Fall Before Paradise," directed by Steven Gillilan. She starred in Jake Kennedy's "Days of Darkness". She will soon be seen in Brett Simmons, "The Monkey's Paw" and Daniel Stamm's, "Angry Little God". She made her writing and producing debut on "The Hypocritic Oath" and followed that up with "AFTER". She also starred in both films. Sabrina has also flexed her muscle with some of the heaviest hitters on the small screen. Starring opposite Joe Pantoliano as Nina on "The Soprano's", "The Guiding Light", "Strong Medicine" and "Criminal Minds". Sabrina spends most of her free time working with dog rescues and other charities. She resides in Los Angeles and New Orleans with her producing partner and husband, Pieter Gaspersz and their daughter. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Julie Taymor

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Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rodrigo Santacruz

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Rodrigo Santacruz was born on September 18, 1979 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor, writer and voiceover artist, known for Fragmentos del destino (2007), Código postal (2006) and La madrastra (2005). Born in Mexico City and raised in Silicon Valley, Rodrigo began acting in Kindergarten when he played the Grinch in "The Grinch who Stole Christmas." Soon thereafter, his first professional credit was on "Plaza Sésamo", the Latin American version of "Sesame Street", which was seen throughout the Americas. After his family moved back to Mexico City in 1988, he studied at C.A.D.A.C. in Coyoacan, Mexico City and participated in numerous school plays as well as attending acting camp Stagedoor Manor in Loch Sheldrake, New York, during the 1995 and 1996 sessions. After high school, Rodrigo studied acting at Acting International in Paris, France before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts - West in Hollywood, California in 2001. Shortly after, he attended the British Americana Drama Academy in Oxford, England, UK. After returning to Mexico City in 2003, he completed his formal training at CEA (Centro de Educación Artística) and quickly got to work. Rodrigo has worked in many different fields, including television, film, and theater since as well as being a successful voiceover artist since 2010. He is completely bilingual in English and Spanish, and speaks French and Italian as well. He is busy with work, single, and living in Mexico City.
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