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Robyn Bernard
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Born on May 26, 1959, in Gladewater, Texas, Bernard made her debut with a small role in Diva. She portrayed bit roles in Simon & Simon, Whiz Kids, and The Facts of Life. From 1984 to 1990, Bernard portrayed Terry Brock on General Hospital. Bernard's last credit was in Voices from the High School (2002). She also acted in Betty Blue. Bernard was a dropout of Baylor University. Her credits also include Tour of Duty, Maigret, Roselyne and the Lions (1989) and Kings for a Day (1997). She portrayed herself in The New Hollywood Squares, Hour Magazine, and Win, Lose or Draw.
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Lee Tae-vin
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Lee Sae Woong, known professionally as Lee Tae Vin, is an actor, singer, dancer and former member of MYTEEN (마이틴).
He graduated from Boun Middle School and took a test for the gifted and talented which revealed his IQ of 142. As a reward, he was sent to New Zealand to continue his studies but decided to quit to pursue a career as an actor, much to his family's disapproval.
After returning to South Korea, he became an advertisement model and later joined The Music Works (뮤직웍스), taking the unexpected path of becoming an idol.
He made his debut in 2017 as MYTEEN's rapper and sub-vocalist with their first EP, "MyTeen Go!". However, he never felt like he belonged in an idol group, as he still wanted to become an actor. So, in mid-2018, he left the group to focus on his acting career.
He made his acting debut in 2018 with a minor role in "Rich Man" (리치맨) and has appeared in several dramas ever since. He is currently represented by IOK Company (아이오케이컴퍼니).
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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.
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Kari Väänänen
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Kari Kyösti Väänänen (born 17 September 1953 in Ivalo) is a Finnish actor and director. Domestically he is a member of the Ryhmäteatteri group of actors. He was introduced to international audiences by Aki Kaurismäki; and belongs to the list of his "trusted" stable of actors.
His most challenging role has been the eponymous mafia hitman of Rosso, for which he learned all his lines phonetically, without previously speaking a word of Italian. Kari Väänänen was featured in Star Wreck, a Finnish sci-fi parody where he played the Russian president. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.
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Taylor Russell
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Taylor Russell McKenzie (born July 18, 1994) is a Canadian actress. Her accolades include a Gotham Award, a Marcello Mastroianni Award from the Venice film festival and nominations for two Black Reel Awards, an Independent Spirit Award and a Saturn Award.
In television, Russell has starred as Judy Robinson in the Netflix science fiction series Lost in Space (2018–2021). Her film roles include playing Emily in the critically acclaimed drama Waves (2019), the romantic drama Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), the horror franchise Escape Room (2019–2021), and the romantic horror Bones and All (2022), for which she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award.
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Anton Yelchin
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Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was an American film and television actor, known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot series, and for several other prominent roles.
Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Yelchin relocated to the United States as an infant. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis (both 2001). His role as Jacob Clarke in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken was significant in furthering his career as a child actor. He later appeared on the television series Huff and appeared in the films Terminator Salvation (2009), Charlie Bartlett (2007), Fright Night (2011), Like Crazy (2011), The Smurfs (2011), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). He appears in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and and Star Trek Beyond (2016).
Yelchin frequently worked on independent and lower-profile films, headlining the romantic drama Like Crazy (2011), the 2011 remake of Fright Night, the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas (2013), the romance 5 to 7 (2014), the horror comedy Burying the Ex (2014), the neo-noir The Driftless Area (2015), and the horror thriller Green Room (2015). As a voice actor, he voiced Clumsy Smurf in the live-action Smurfs films (2011–2013) and lead role James "Jim" Lake Jr. on the Netflix animated series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016–2018). He maintained an active career until his accidental death in 2016 when he was fatally injured by his SUV.
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Matthew Roy
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Winner of Best Male Lead Actor at the Dallas SFA Film Festival; known for his roles Vindication, Run starring Stephen Baldwin, RunHideFightand the series The Front
Matthew has worked with Sara Mornell at Mornell Studios, Anthony Meindl's coach Jonathan Kehoe (AMAW), Theresa Bell at Tbell's studio, and Michelle Condrey at REACT studio.
Matthew has worked in over 20 different film projects such as Hoovey, Shattered and Jean Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier II. Matthew just completed the feature film Sense of Urgency, Daddy's Little Girl, Wonderkind, and Ten. He also worked in multiple commercials and national print ads for Wal-Mart, Zaxbys, American Airlines, RealPage, Jaguar/LandRover, Goldbond and Verizon.
In addition, he worked on the film Warning Shot starring Bruce Dern, James Earl Jones, David Spade, and Frank Whaley. As well as To Serve and Protect with James Franco, Craig T.
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Glen Baggerly
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Glen was born in London, England to a British mother and American father. Raised in Portland, OR, Glen attended the University of Oregon on a baseball scholarship, and played baseball professionally for three years after his graduation. He began modeling in his twenties, before training as a USAF Military Special Forces Pararescue (PJ). Glen started acting in his thirties, and has continued to do so ever since, in a variety of television, film, commercial, infomercial, and voice roles. He is still recognized as the original 'Bowflex guy' who helped launch the Bowflex trainer worldwide in an infomercial in 1998.
Glen recently moved to Los Angeles, to further his acting career.
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Allu Arjun
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Allu Arjun is an Indian film actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. After playing as a child artist in Vijetha and as a dancer in Daddy, Arjun made his adult debut in Gangotri. Allu Arjun is the nephew of the famous Telugu actor Chiranjeevi. He is also the grandson of the Telugu comedy actor Allu Ramalingaiah. His cousin Ram Charan Teja is also a young and upcoming Tollywood actor. He has two siblings - an older brother named Allu Venkatesh, and a younger brother named Allu Sirish. He now lives in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, with his family. He is a good dancer in Tollywood like his uncle.
Allu Arjun's second film Arya, released in 2004, and Arjun claims it to be his first major hit. Arjun's third film Bunny was released in 2005 and his fourth film Happy, was released in 2006. The film managed to make a decent profit in the Indian movie scene in the U.S.
In 2007, his fifth film, Desamuduru, directed by Puri Jagannadh, proved to be a box office hit and the first hit of the year in Tollywood. This movie grossed Rs.19 Crore and a share of Rs.15.50 Crore in the first week of its release. This opening remains his highest grossing opening so far in his career. In the same year, he also made a guest appearance in his uncle Chiranjeevi's film, Shankardada Zindabad.
His sixth film Parugu was released on May 1st, 2008. Produced by successful producer Dil Raju, it was directed by Bhaskar. Sheela played the female lead in the movie and Prakash Raj played another major role. This film opened to a mixed talk but later went on to run 100 days successfully. It brought good recognition to Allu Arjun as an actor too. He entertained his audience with his dances and acting skills.
He is also a well known star in Kerala. All of Allu Arjun's movies, except Gangotri, were dubbed into Malayalam. Desamudrudu was renamed to Hero and Parugu was renamed to Krishna when dubbed. This helped him gain some popularity in the state of Kerala.
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Robert La Tourneaux
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The openly gay La Tourneaux initially blamed his being typecast as a gay hustler for his inability to receive worthwhile roles. After the film version of The Boys in the Band was released La Tourneaux's career declined and in 1978 he was performing his one-man cabaret act in a male-porno house in Times Square. "He blamed his failure on being typecast as a hustler," says David Ragan, author of "Who's Who in Hollywood.
In 1983, La Tourneaux was arrested for assault. He was sent to Rikers Island, where he contracted AIDS. He died in 1986.
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