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Leonard L. Thomas

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Leonard Lee Thomas (born August 31, 1961) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Big Brother ADP General Patton in Spike Lee's film School Daze. Since the beginning of his acting career beginning with School Daze, Thomas has appeared in over twenty movies, often in a minor role alongside Samuel L. Jackson, and is frequently credited as his assistant. In particular, his most notable film roles are in Spike Lee movies including School Daze, Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, and Malcolm X. He also starred other movies such as Bad Lieutenant and Black Snake Moan and TV shows like Gemini Division and Law & Order. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonard L. Thomas, licensed under CC BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Heidi Weber

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Heidi Weber, née Huggel (born June 4, 1927 in Münchenstein), is a Swiss interior designer, gallery owner, art collector, museum director, curator, publisher and exclusive representative of Le Corbusier's fine arts. She produced four of her avant-garde pieces of furniture from 1928 in small series and made them world famous. She was the initiator, financier and builder of Le Corbusier's last building in Seefeld in Zurich, which she called Maison Heidi Weber - Center Le Corbusier. From this center she engaged in the global dissemination of Le Corbusier's artistic work for almost half a century with exhibitions and loans, book publications and as an agent. In June 1957, at the age of 30, Heidi Weber opened her “Mezzanin” gallery for furniture and interior design at Neumarkt 28 in Zurich. Here she presented furniture by George Nelson as well as Charles and Ray Eames and worked on interior design commissions. In 1958, the interior designer and gallery owner met Le Corbusier for the first time at Cap Martin. Between 1959 and 1964, she organized a total of 13 exhibitions on the artistic work of Le Corbusier in her “Mezzanin” gallery. The artist-architect then granted him exclusive marketing rights for his works: graphics, paintings, sculptures, tapestries and engravings for a period of 30 years. Heidi Weber was the first to organize international exhibitions of her work and to organize traveling exhibitions of her art. Their stated goal was to make Le Corbusier's multifaceted artistic work known throughout the world. As an editor, she published books considered key works of her work as an artist. In 1960, Heidi Weber entrusted Le Corbusier with the creation of La Maison de l'Homme in Zurich, designed as a cultural center dedicated to meetings and exhibitions on architecture and contemporary art. Inaugurated in 1967 after the death of the architect, the Heidi Weber Museum – Le Corbusier Center in Zurich can be considered a manifesto of the “synthesis of the arts” that Le Corbusier pursued throughout his life: “There is no of sculptors alone, of painters alone, of architects alone. The plastic event is accomplished in a “ONE FORM” in the service of poetry.”
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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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James Seah

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James Seah was one of the Top 10 finalists of “Star Search 2010”. With his charming good looks, the graduate of Nanyang Polytechnic and “baby” of the group consistently earned high marks on the scoreboard during the competition. Unfortunately he came down with chicken pox but took suppressant jabs to pull through the last leg of the competition. Despite falling short from the top three positions, his suave and cool image won him hordes of admirers and a management contract with MediaCorp. He made his acting debut as a young designer in an advertising firm in MediaCorp’s first web drama Let’s Play Love in early 2011 just before he enlisted into the army. After serving two years of army, James returns to the screens in Channel 5's 2013 blockbuster Mata Mata, an English drama series set in post-war Singapore in the 1950s-60s. In 2014, James was cast in his first full-fledged Chinese drama role in The Caregivers, a 20-part serial about health care workers. James was also given the opportunity to do his first movie role and played one of the male leads in 1965, a dramatic thriller that premiered in 2015 to celebrate Singapore’s 50 years of Independence. In the same year, he was also cast in Channel 5’s first long form drama Tanglin. Aired every weeknight, this 199-episode drama series centres on the lives of multiracial and multigenerational families whose lives reflect the joys, trials and tribulations of everyday Singaporeans. Apart from acting, James who is skilled in digital media design also enjoys dabbling in other creative passions including drawing and photography. James is also very passionate in singing and has done numerous of song covers. With a wonderful positive attitude and enthusiasm, James is striving to carve out a name for himself in the local scene.
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Jochen Schropp

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Bereits im Alter von 15 Jahren machte der in Langgöns bei Gießen aufgewachsene Schropp seine ersten Erfahrungen im Rahmen eines Schülerpraktikums bei der Kindernachrichtensendung logo! des ZDF. Nach seinem High-School-Jahr in Visalia, Kalifornien, wo Schropp erste Schauspielerfahrungen sammelte, spielte er am amerikanischen Theater in Gießen. Nach einem Musical-Workshop in Hamburg studierte er an Paul McCartneys Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). Im Jahr 2000 moderiert er für den Sender RTL II die Love Parade. Nebenbei arbeitet er auch als Kleindarsteller, Komparse und in der Werbung. Seine erste größere Rolle erhielt er in der Vorabendserie Sternenfänger, in der er zusammen mit Nora Tschirner, Oliver Pocher und Florentine Lahme spielte. Schropp nimmt an Drehbuchlesungen teil, arbeitet als Sprecher und Moderator, etwa beim Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis in Saarbrücken oder als Moderator der Verleihung des Kurzfilmbären auf der Berlinale. Im März 2005 spielte Schropp eine Rolle in der Komödie Popp dich schlank!, für die er zwölf Kilogramm Körpermasse zulegen musste. Ende 2006 hatte er eine Rolle der ARD-Serie Zwei Engel für Amor. Für seine Darstellung erhielt Schropp 2007 eine Nominierung für den Adolf-Grimme-Preis. Seit 2007 übernahm er Hauptrollen in diversen ZDF-Fernsehfilmen und verkörpert den Rechtsmediziner des Polizeiruf 110 in Halle. Neben der Schauspielerei moderierte er für das Berliner Lifestyle-Web-TV Luxity.TV und widmete sich wieder vermehrt der Moderation. Seit 2010 moderiert Schropp die deutsche Version von X Factor für VOX. Im Jahr 2011 kamen Jeder Stein zählt – Die Lego Familienshow und Wer is(s)t besser? dazu. Außerdem war er für den Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2011 in der Kategorie „Publikumspreis für den besten Entertainer“ nominiert. Schropp lebt in Berlin.
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Chris Hegedus

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Chris Hegedus (born April 23, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films. Hegedus was nominated for an Academy Award for The War Room, a behind-the-scenes film about President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. The film also won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures prize for Best Documentary. In 2001, she was awarded the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Startup.com. The film is a boom-bust story of two young internet entrepreneurs, co-produced with Jehane Noujaim. Hegedus was also the recipient of CINE's Golden Eagle Award, an Emmy Award, and lifetime achievement awards from several organizations including the International Documentary Association. Her films include the 2010 feature release, Kings of Pastry, about the legendary French pastry competition, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2011, Hegedus received the Athena Film Festival Award for Exemplary Directing.
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Patricia Cardoso

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Patricia Cardoso is a director, writer, and producer. Cardoso's feature film Real Women Have Curves was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark of Latino cinema. Cardoso is a graduate of UCLA's film school, an anthropologist, and a Fulbright scholar; her anthropological approach to directing guides her film and television work. Cardoso was the first Hispanic woman director to receive a Sundance Audience Award and a Student Academy Award. In 2017, Cardoso was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Directors Branch. In 2019, her film Real Women Have Curves was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry "as a cinematic treasure and worthy of preservation as part of America’s patrimony". Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Cardoso, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Norma Crane

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Norma Crane (November 10, 1928 — September 28, 1973) was an actress of stage, film and television. Among her best known roles was that of Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She also starred in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and Penelope. Crane was born in New York City but raised in El Paso, Texas. Born as Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman, she was a member of Elia Kazan's Actors Studio and debuted on Broadway in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible. Throughout the 1950s, she appeared on a variety of live television dramas, first gaining recognition in a televised adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Crane guest-starred in a 1959 episode of the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel as Eileen Tuttle ("Episode in Laredo"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Crane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chris Mulkey

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chris Mulkey (born May 3, 1948) is an American actor who most recently appeared in Cloverfield, the NBC TV movie Knight Rider, and as a corporate executive in season 7 of 24. He has also played a coach in four episodes of Friday Night Lights, and appeared in numerous TV shows and movies as far back the mid 1970s, such as Baretta and early '90s cult classic Twin Peaks. Finally, he is well known to fans of the Wing Commander franchise as Col. Jacob "Hawk" Manley. In the science fiction action film The Hidden, he portrayed a man named Jack, who is possessed by the parasitic alien antagonist in the beginning of the movie. Mulkey was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin and is married to actress Karen Landry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Mulkey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marie Alyse Rodriguez

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Marie Alyse Rodriguez is a Freelance Producer and Unit Production Manager based in Los Angeles, California. She has produced award-winning films such as 'Happy Times' directed by Michael Mayer (Best Screenplay Award at Haifa International Film Festival) and TV Pilot 'America' directed by Rani Saar and Jonathan Avigdori (North Fork TV Festival and The IndieFest Film Awards.) Marie's experience expands to all phases of production but her primary focuses are in strategic development, line production, field production, and post supervision. She finds strength in her interpersonal skills that center around communication, teamwork, organization, creativity, and time management. She has studied Film Production at the San Francisco Film School, Movie Magic Budgeting courses at UCLA extension school, Marketing Management at Savannah Technical College, and has an Entertainment Partners entry level accounting certification. Marie is an advisory board member of the non-profit organization Justice for My Sister, a gender-inclusive and pro-immigrant rights organization to promote healing, healthy relationships, and economic independence through the arts. She strives to produce and promote socially conscious material while advocating for womxn and POC inclusion rights in Hollywood.
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