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Nilton Resende

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Nilton Resende is from Maceió, Alagoas. He is Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of Alagoas / Campus Zumbi dos Palmares. In the theater, integrates the Cia. Ganymedes of theater. He published the books O Orvalho e os Dias (poetry), Diabolô (short stories), A Construção de Lygia Fagundes Telles: edição crítica de Antes do Baile Verde, Fantasma (novel). He has short stories translated and published in French and English magazines. In the cinema, he has worked as an actor, screenwriter, casting coach and casting director. “A Barca” (2020) is his first film as a screenwriter and a director.
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Brad Williams

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Brad Williams (born January 13, 1984) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, who was born with achondroplasia. He got his start by attending a Carlos Mencia live comedy show. While he was in the crowd, Mencia made jokes about dwarves. The people sitting close to Williams were scared to laugh. Mencia noticed this, then noticed Williams and he asked him to join him on stage. Williams cracked a few jokes and impressed Mencia. Mencia then asked Williams to try stand-up and be his opening act on the road. He has been Mencia's opening act ever since, opening up shows on both the Mind of Mencia tour and the popular Punisher Tour. He appeared on Mind of Mencia, playing several roles, including playing a dwarf whore ("whorf"), the leader of an all dwarf basketball team, joining Mencia at a Renaissance faire, and giving a speech about his hatred of podiums. For St. Patrick's Day 2008, he dressed as a leprechaun, made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. For Halloween 2008, he dressed up as Child's Play character Chucky for a skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In 2022, he was hired as the lead comic of the Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show Mad Apple.
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Bobi Wine

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Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (born 12 February 1982), known by his stage name Bobi Wine, is a Ugandan politician, singer, and actor. He is a former Member of Parliament for Kyadondo County East constituency in Wakiso District, in Uganda's Central Region. He also leads the National Unity Platform political party. In June 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2021 Ugandan presidential election. He participated in the 2021 election where he won the incumbent Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. On December 14, 2021, he was placed under house arrest by the Government of Uganda. He has continued to protest his arrest. He was eventually allowed to go abroad where he told the world through the documentary what happened in Ugandan election 2021 and was arrested immediately on his return to Uganda on 5 October 2023. *The above was taken from Wikipedia, on October 10, 2023*
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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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Craig Keener

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Professor of New Testament – Author ‘Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts’ Keener is the F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is especially known for his award-winning, popular-level IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (1993) and many other commentaries that place the New Testament in its early Jewish and Greco-Roman settings. Keener has authored 25 books, more than a million of which are in circulation. He has published more than 70 academic articles and over 170 popular ones.
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Özcan Alper

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Özcan Alper (b. 1975 Hopa, Artvin) is a Turkish director and screenwriter. He was born in Hopa district of Artvin. He graduated from Trabzon High School. In 1992, he started at Istanbul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. In 1996, he entered Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History of Science and graduated in 2003. Since 1996, he has participated in cinema workshops in places such as Mesopotamia Cultural Center, Nazim Culture House (now Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center). Since 2000, he worked as an assistant in various motion pictures, including Yesim Ustaoglu's films. The short "Momi" is the first film shot in "Hemsin". "Tokai City'de Melankoli ve Rapsodi/Melancholy and Rhapsody in Tokai City" is a documentary shot in Japan. "Bir Bilimadamiyla Zaman Enleminde Yolculuk / A Journey through the Time Latitude with a Scientist" is his other documentary. Alper won awards in many festivals with his first feature-length film, "Sonbahar/Autumn", which was released on December 19, 2008. While the successful director will meet with the audience with the "Asiklar bayrami" he made for Netflix in 2022, he will compete with the film "Karanlik Gece" at the Antalya Film Festival. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin
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Prajwal Devaraj

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Prajwal Devaraj is an Indian film actor who mainly works in Kannada film industry. He made his debut with the Kannada film Sixer (2007) for which he won the Best Debut actor award at the Suvarna Film Awards. This was followed by the gangster drama Geleya (2007) which was a box-office success. His other notable films include Meravanige (2008), Gulama (2009), Murali Meets Meera (2011), Super Shastri (2013) and Galaate (2013) and thus has established himself as one of the leading contemporary actors in Kannada cinema.
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Christina Lucia Peralta-Ramos

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Child Model New York City. Actress / Model Hollywood California. Beauty Pageant Titles / Swimsuit Competition Titles  Orange County California. Published Poet / Author.Spokes Woman The Millicent Rogers Museum Taos New Mexico. Christina is the grand-daughter of fashion Icon Millicent Rogers. Born in New York City,her father is Standard Oil Heir Paul Peralta-Ramos. Christina's mother Inga Rizell a Swedish model has been recognized on Americas 'Best Dressed List'. Educated in America and Europe, Christina has traveled the wold as a fashion model.She is a graduate of 'The American Academy Of Dramatic Arts' in New York City. On the advice of family friend ,Vogue Editor, Diana Vreeland Christina moved to Los Angeles and enjoyed a career as an Ingenue in films, television,stage,cabarets and music videos. Christina left Hollywood in the early nineties to per-sue a career in fitness and swimsuit modeling. Winning Beauty Pageants and Swimsuit Competitions, Christina has appeared in swimsuit magazines,calendars,posters,catalogs and television specials.  Christina is presently modeling for fashion magazines and web pages. She is Spokes Woman for The Millicent Rogers Museum. She is producing,writing and is the voice of The Millicent Rogers Biography.
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Jan Bryant

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Jan Bryant is one of the only women in the world to be considered a Sword Master - an expert choreographer, performer and instructor of the art of sword fighting for major motion pictures. She is also an actress, appearing frequently as elegant noblewomen and sword fighting sirens. With her lean, muscular physique Jan not only stunt doubles for female stars but also often plays men in intense combat scenes. Nowadays, Jan coordinates entire action sequences, continues to Sword Master films and is much in demand for her work teaching and choreographing; but she is more and more in front of the camera acting and performing her own sword fights and action scenes - enjoying the best of both worlds.
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George A. Romero

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George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical zombie films, including the seminal "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "Dawn of the Dead" (1978). Throughout his career he primarily worked in the horror genre and directed several notable films outside of the zombie subgenre, including vampire film "Martin" (1977) and EC Comics homage "Creepshow" (1982).
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