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Gareth Edwards

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Gareth James Edwards (born 13 July 1975) is an English filmmaker. He gained recognition for Monsters (2010), an independent film in which he served as writer, director, cinematographer, and visual effects artist. He subsequently directed Godzilla (2014), a reboot of Toho's Godzilla franchise and the first film in Legendary's MonsterVerse, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), the first installment of the Star Wars anthology series and an immediate prequel to Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). He returned to making original films with the science fiction thriller The Creator (2023).
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Josh Groban

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Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and he was charted in 2007 as the number-one best selling artist in the United States, with over 22.3 million records. As of 2012, he had sold over 25 million records worldwide. David Foster called Josh to stand in for an ailing Andrea Bocelli to rehearse a duet, "The Prayer", with Celine Dion at the rehearsal for the 1998 Grammy Awards. Rosie O'Donnell immediately invited him to appear on her talk show. Foster asked him to sing at California Governor Gray Davis' 1999 inauguration. He was cast on Ally McBeal by the show's creator, David E. Kelley, performing "You're Still You" for the 2001 season four finale. After his appearance in two professional productions of the musical Chess, he made his Broadway debut in 2016 as Pierre Bezukhov in Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, to critical acclaim and nomination for a 2017 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical. His performance at the 72nd Tony Awards earned him two Primetime Emmy nominations, one for Outstanding Live Variety Special and one for Original Music and Lyrics for the song "This One's for You". Groban co-starred as Tony Caruso Jr. in the Netflix original series,The Good Cop. He was also the host of Rising Star, he also appeared in the films, Coffee Town, Muppets Most Wanted, The Hollars, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. He also appeared on TV as Danny Chase in The Crazy Ones, as well as Walter Bernard Jr. in The Office.
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Marc Batard

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Marc Batard is a French mountaineer, lecturer, painter, born November 22, 1951 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot. He is best known for having made the first ascent of Everest alone and without oxygen in less than 24 hours. At 18, he discovered the high mountains. He begins mountaineering in the Pyrenees, in Luchon. Despite his small size (1.67 m for 55 kg), he has an exceptional physique that ranks him above the average of other great mountaineers. With only two years of mountaineering behind him, he ranks 22nd out of the 45 places available, for the 200 candidates, in the aspiring guide competition. His technical skill and his very strong endurance allow him this performance. At 23, Batard is the youngest mountaineer to climb an 8,000 meter without oxygen: Gasherbrum II (8,035 meters). He became a guide and began a series of exploits, notably in the Himalayas. He achieved firsts in terms of speed of ascent, such as on April 27, 1988 when he climbed the southwestern pillar of Makalu (8,481 meters) alone and in 18 hours, Cho Oyu (8,200 meters ) in 19 hours. On September 26, 1988, he climbed Everest alone without oxygen in 22 hours and 29 minutes from the base camp on the South face. He appears as such in the Guinness Book as the first mountaineer to climb Everest in less than 24 hours. During this ascent, he lost eight kilograms, and weighed only 46 kilograms on the descent for a fitness weight of 54 kilograms at the start, he considers to have been at the extreme limit of his body. He is nicknamed the Everest sprinter. During the same year 1988, and in 9 months, he climbed four peaks over 8,000 meters without oxygen and achieved the Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters) in winter. At 43, he retired from the mountain of “committed” challenges. He definitively stopped mountaineering to devote himself to his children and grandchildren. Then he resumed the first passion of his childhood: painting. Currently, he writes and works as a speaker addressing the themes of prevention and safety, team spirit and self-transcendence. He has given public and school lectures since 1975. In 1989, in Washington, he gave his first lecture abroad, followed by other lectures in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Canada and Portugal. Since 1990, he has been involved in the business world on topics such as prevention and safety, having a vision in advance, the courage or exemplary nature of the leader, etc. With his trumpeter friend Maurice André, in 1995 he created the association "Passing through the mountain", the association allows young people and adults who are in a difficult situation, social exclusion, school failure, illness or disability, to find, through the mountains, a motivation to overcome their conditions.
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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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Maritza Olivares

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Maritza Olivares is a Mexican actress. She appeared in some telenovelas and movies, for example in horror El Retorno de Walpurgis. Olivares’ best known role is the role of Cayetana in Entre el amor y el odio. She also had appearance in television show Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real. Olivares studied in London and has worked in Mexico, United States and France. Olivares was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Actress for her work in her first movie Los Meses y los Días, for which she also won the Heraldo Award. Olivares lost the Ariel to Lucha Villa, her co-star in the film National Mechanics. She has a daughter Valentina Sumavsky, also an actress. Source: Article "Maritza Olivares" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Banipal Shoomoon

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Banipal Shoomoon is an actor who was born in 1978 in Tehran, Iran. He started his career with the animated movie "The Last Fiction" directed and written by Ashkan Rahgozar. He then starred in the first season of Hassan Fathi's "Shahrzad" Home Theater Series. His most notable activities are the film "Don't Be Embarrassed" by Reza Maghsoudi, "The Old Road" by Manije Hekmat, "The Lost Strait" by Bahram Tavakoli, "Los Angeles - Tehran" by Tina Pakravan, two short films "Umbra" Directed by Saeed Jafarian and" Unlimited Internet "by Bardia Yadegari.
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Tabrett Bethell

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(from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)  Tabrett Bethell (born May 1981) is an Australian film, television and theater actress, best known for portraying the character Cara in the television series Legend of the Seeker. Prior to her acting career, she worked as a fashion model from the age of 16, and as a cheerleader for the National Rugby League (NRL) Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. Acting career After Bethell's early years as a model and cheerleader, she decided to actively pursue acting and trained at Screenwise completing the 12 Month Intensive program in December 2007. During this training she continued to model; most notably a Neill Grigg race day fascinator resembling the Harbour Bridge for a February 2007 cover of The Daily Telegraph. Early acting work included starring as Amy in Campbell Graham's film Anyone You Want, and the role of Chris in Strangers Lovers Killers. From 2009 to 2010, Bethell filmed Legend of the Seeker, a television show based on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. She portrays a Mord-Sith named Cara Mason who appeared at the end of the first season before becoming a regular in season 2. Bethell garnered a large fan following because of her portrayal of Cara Mason in "Legend of the Seeker."After Legend of the Seeker, Bethell played Beth in James Rabbitts's 2010 Australian thriller The Clinic which was shot in Deniliquin, NSW, Australia. In August 2010 Bethell won Best Actress at the Manhattan Film Festival for her role in Anyone You Want. In March 2011 Bethell was cast in a Warner Bros TV pilot "Poe" as the character of Sarah Elmira Royster, Edgar Allan Poe's muse and former lover. In May 2011, it was announced that ABC would not pick up the series. Personal information Bethell is named after a street in Sydney, Tabrett Street, something that resulted when her parents disagreed on what to name her while still at the hospital (her mother wanted "Siobhan," and her father wanted "Murray"). Her father went for a drive, saw the name of the street, and returned to the hospital to suggest it to her mother, who said, "Yes, that's it!". Her favorite music artist is Young Eman, mentioning that she is in love with his ambition. Tabrett is very close friends with her Legend of the Seeker cast-mate, Bridget Regan and Actor/Producer Debbie Tsamoudakis.
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Sara Al Bhrany

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Don't be fooled. Although her surname is Bahrani, Sara isn't from Bahrain. She is an Iraqi actress who quickly rose to prominence with her role in the Ramadan TV series Khan Al Thahab. With her degrees in business administration and accounting, as well as her work writing and editing articles, it's hard to imagine she would become one of Iraq's most famous actresses overnight, yet that's what happened. To viewers' dismay, she takes on the character of a greedy and scheming wife of a gold jeweler, ready to ruin the day of her family rivals. Her evil acting was so superb that she was on the receiving end of frustrated watchers on social media, who vented their anger at the show's antagonist. Personally,Sara Al Bhrany struggled through several episodes, such as the loss of her mother at a young age, but she has channeled her love of life in projects she's passionate about. She's a mother to two children, and believe it or not, she's still studying, only recently earning her Master's degree.
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Ivan I. Tverdovsky

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Ivan Ivanovich Tverdovsky (Russian: Иван Иванович Твердовский; born 29 December 1988, Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, cinematographer and actor. He is also a son of documentary filmmaker Ivan Tverdovsky (1961). He graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography "VGIK" (2011, experimental directing workshop of A. Uchitel). Participant and prize-winner of national and international film festivals. Twice participated in the competition programme of Kinotavr. Shorts: in 2010 with the film “As If Waiting for a Bus”, for which he gained the jury diploma; and in 2013 with the film “Space Dogs”. His first feature film, “Correction Class” (2014) brought Tverdovsky the NIKA 2014 award in the category Discovery of the Year; the film won numerous awards at Russian and international shows, including a prize for Best Debut and the Prize of Film Distributors at Kinotavr-2014, the first prize in the East-West Competition and a special mention of the FEDEORA jury at Karlovy Vary IFF, and prizes at IFFs in Thessaloniki, Seattle, Tallinn, Kiev, etc. His second film, “Zoology” (2016), has been awarded a prize for direction in Karlovy Vary, the Grand Prix of festivals in Cottbus and Austin, Texas, a prize for Best Actress and the award of the Guild of Film Critics and Scholars at Kinotavr-2016. His third feature film, "Jumpman" (2018), screened in competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018. In 2020, Ivan I. Tverdovsky's new film "Conference" (2020) became a participant of the Venice Film Festival.
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Payam Dehkordi

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Payam Dehkordi (پیام نادری دهکردی) Born on the 10 May 1977 in Shahrekord, works not only in film and television but also in theatre. Starting his acting career in Isfahan in 1994, Dehcordi is an established actor who stared in Kamal Tabrizi's film 'Yek Tekkeh Naan (A piece of bread), Hasan Fathi's 'Madare sefr darajeh and the play 'The Death of a Salesman under the direction of Nadar Borhani Marand. He further expanded his acting career by successfully directing a number of works.
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