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Karam Metawea

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An Egyptian theater director and actor. He joined the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts during his studies at the Faculty of Law. He studied at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome for five years. He presented numerous plays, some of which he directed and others starred in, including Hamlet, Rosewood and Scheherazade. He's known for the films El-Mansy (1993), Sayed Darwish (1966), and the TV series A Different Woman (1984), and Arabesque (1994). In addition to being a professor at the Institute of Dramatic Arts, he also was the director of the Pocket Theatre and director of the National Theater and Lyrical Theatre. He traveled to the United states for treatment from liver cancer, with his ex-wife and life companion, Soheir El Morshedi by his side, after which he returned to Egypt where he died on 9 December 1996.
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Judah Lewis

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Judah Lewis is an American actor. He is known for his main roles in the films The Babysitter, its sequel The Babysitter: Killer Queen, and Demolition. Lewis is the son of Hara and Mark Lewis, who are acting teachers. In 2014, Lewis played in the Lifetime television film Deliverance Creek. In May 2015, Lewis was among the six actors who screen tested for the lead role (which went to Tom Holland) in the 2017 reboot film Spider-Man: Homecoming. In 2015, Lewis played a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Demolition. He also played in the action thriller remake Point Break, appearing briefly as the young version of the lead character Johnny Utah. In 2015, Lewis filmed the role of a boy hunted by his babysitter in the comedy horror film The Babysitter. The finished film was acquired by Netflix in December 2016 and was released on October 13, 2017. In 2018, Lewis co-starred in the Canadian horror mystery film Summer of 84. Lewis played a supporting role in the Netflix family film The Christmas Chronicles.In 2019, he co-starred in the thriller film I See You. In 2020, he reprised his main role in the comedy horror sequel film The Babysitter: Killer Queen on Netflix. He also reprised his role as Teddy in the sequel film The Christmas Chronicles 2. IMDb mini bio by: yusufpiskin
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Rich Webber

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Rich Webber is a Multi Bafta Award winning freelance animation creative and Director. Working in animation for over 25 years. He is the Creator/Director of Aardman Animations DC Nation shorts for Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network and Creator/Director of Purple and Brown for Nickelodeon, director of Shaun the Sheep episodes Series 1 & 2 for Aardman Animations as well as commercials and various other animation projects including Creature Comforts for David Attenborough's 90th birthday. He is also a voice actor voicing such characters as Shirley in Shaun the Sheep as well as Ubo, in Farmageddon, Purple in Purple and Brown and Grub up in Nick Parks Early Man animated feature.
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Marie-Julie Baup

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Marie-Julie Baup (born on 13 September 1979, Paris) is a French actress, writer, and comedian. Her work includes roles in Micmacs onscreen and A Midsummer Night's Dream onstage, and she has received several nominations for various Molière Awards and won the award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013. She is married to Lorànt Deutsch, whom she met while they were in a production of Amadeus in 2005. After growing up in Yvelines, Baup found her career of choice when cast in a school play, The Bald Soprano, at age 11. In 2005, she performed her first major role in a 2005 adaptation of Amadeus alongside Jean Piat and Lorànt Deutsch at the Théâtre de Paris; she and Deutsch were separately nominated for the Molière Award for Best Newcomer for their performances. From 2006 to 2008, she played a role in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau. In 2009, she took the role of "Calculator" in Micmacs. In 2013, she won the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in a 2013 run of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. In 2014, she was nominated for another Molière award for her performance in the play Divina, once again for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Baup and husband Deutsch worked together once again for a 2015 revival of Irma La Douce, which was nominated for the Molière award for best musical. Source: Article "Marie-Julie Baup" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Veronica Gamba

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Veronica Gamba was born on October 28, 1963 to an Italian mother and a Spanish father in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After her father died, Gamba and her mother moved to New Rochelle, New York before eventually settling in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She became a fashion model on the international circuit following high school graduation. Veronica was the Playmate of the Month in the November, 1983 issue of "Playboy." Gamba went on to pose for a handful of "Playboy" special edition publications. Moreover, Veronica not only made a guest appearance on an episode of the TV show "Matt Houston," but also popped up in the movies "A Night in Heaven" and "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3." Veronica Gamba has been married twice and has two children; her son Christopher was born in 1980 and her daughter Melissa was born in 1987.
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Edgar Wright

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Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He began making independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers in 1995. Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two seasons and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. In 2004, Wright directed the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, starring Pegg and Frost, the first film in Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. The film was co-written with Pegg — as were the next two entries in the trilogy, the buddy cop film Hot Fuzz (2007) and the science fiction comedy The World's End (2013). In 2010, Wright co-wrote and directed the action comedy film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, an adaptation of the graphic novel series. Along with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat, he adapted The Adventures of Tintin (2011) for Steven Spielberg. Wright and Cornish co-wrote the screenplay for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man in 2015, which Wright intended to direct but abandoned, citing creative differences. He has also directed the action film Baby Driver (2017), and recently the documentary The Sparks Brothers (2021), as well as the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (2021).
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Darren Robinson

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Darren Robinson (June 10, 1967 – December 10, 1995), also known as Buffy, The Human Beat Box, and DJ Doctor Nice (among other aliases), was a member of the 1980s rap group The Fat Boys. He, along with Doug E. Fresh and others, were pioneers of beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion used in many rap groups throughout the '80s and '90s. Buffy and the group were featured in the 1985 movie Krush Groove, appearing under the name Disco Three at the start before acquiring the name The Fat Boys near the end. They went on to win the talent contest after being ridiculed on previous occasions. The movie, based on the early days of record label Def Jam also featured Blair Underwood as Russell Simmons (named Russell Walker in the movie), and record producer Rick Rubin along with Run DMC, Sheila E., Beastie Boys and Kurtis Blow, and a young LL Cool J. As the Fat Boys' fame declined Robinson found himself embroiled in scandal in 1990 when he was accused of filming a roadie having sex with a 14-year-old girl in August 1990 at a suburban Philadelphia party. Robinson was fined $10,000. Although perfect for the group's image, Darren's weight eventually contributed to his death. He also had recently been diagnosed with lymphedema, or fluid buildup. He died of a heart attack, weighing 450 lb (204 kg) at the time. He had been battling the flu, according to his older brother, Curt, who was also his manager and was also involved in the August 1990 event. "He was doing one of his songs, and at the end of the session he got off the couch and was climbing on a studio chair when he fell and lost his wind," Curt Robinson said. "I tried to give him mouth to mouth, but he just couldn't make it." Paramedics called to Robinson's Rosedale, New York home at 3 a.m. were also unable to revive the rapper. Curt Robinson said Darren Robinson had been trying to lose weight and was working on a Fat Boys reunion album.
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Ellen DeGeneres

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Ellen DeGeneres is an American stand-up comic, television host, and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season. DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.
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Deney Terrio

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Denis George Mahan (born June 15, 1950), better known as Deney Terrio, is an American choreographer, former film actor and one-time host of the television musical variety series Dance Fever from 1979 to 1985. In 1991, he sued Merv Griffin, the show's producer, for sexual harassment; the US$11.3 million case was later dismissed. Terrio achieved fame as the dance coach and choreographer for John Travolta in the movie Saturday Night Fever. During his heyday with Dance Fever, he appeared in a number of films, including The Idolmaker, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, A Night in Heaven and Knights of the City and guest starred on popular television series of the time including The Love Boat. Throughout the 1990s, he toured nightclubs, performing with Motion and judging dance contests. Terrio was referred to in the popular Steve Martin movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels where Martin posed as a crippled veteran. Martin claimed that he lost use of his legs after he found his girlfriend having sex with Terrio. In recent years, he has appeared on several VH1 specials and co-hosted the 2004 PBS special Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion which featured many popular disco artists from the 1970s and actress Karen Lynn Gorney. During the show, Terrio and Gorney danced to Tavares’ live performance of “More Than a Woman”, as Gorney had with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Currently Deney is hosting his own disco radio show on the Sirius satellite radio network and is a choreographer and competitor at regional Dancing with the Stars competitions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deney Terrio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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