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John Emmet Tracy
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In over thirty years as an actor, John has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and voiceovers. He has performed on stages throughout the world, including Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, where he was selected as a company member of the Globe's International Actors' Fellowship, and in Japan, where he toured as the title role in Hamlet. He has appeared in over one hundred productions and is the recipient of the 2013 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role for his work in Pi Theatre's production of Mark O'Rowe's Terminus. John is also the creator of The 24 Hour Shakespeare Project, for which he performed continuously for twenty-four straight hours in all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays to raise money for British Columbia Children's Hospital.
His film work includes appearances in Fifty Shades Freed, If I Stay, American Mary, Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story and Steven Spielberg's The BFG. He has performed lead, recurring and supporting roles in many television shows, including Altered Carbon, iZombie, The Man in the High Castle, Supernatural, Smallville, When Calls the Heart, The Killing, Continuum, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and Sanctuary.
John received his education and training at Rose Bruford College, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre, as well as at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York.
He has directed over thirty theatre productions and has been teaching for twenty years in colleges, conservatories and studios in Canada and the United States.
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Anant Nag
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Anant Nag is an actor and politician from Karnataka, India. He is considered to be one of the all time greatest actors in the Kannada film industry with a vast number of commercially successful movies. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with no-failures, by critics. In addition to Kannada movies, he has acted in Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi movies. He has also acted in Malgudi Days, directed by his younger brother Shankar Nag based on the stories by R.K.Narayan. His work was much appreciated by critics at that time. He is fluent in Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Hindi and with a good understanding ofTamil, Telugu and Malayalam. The versatile natural acting coupled with the style of speaking (accent of southern kannada with a tint of coastal touch) made him one of the most successful actors in Kannada cinema.
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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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Daniel Kaluuya
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Daniel Kaluuya (/kəˈluːjə/; born 24 February 1989) is a British actor and filmmaker. His work encompasses both screen and stage, and his accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021, he was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Kaluuya began his acting career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He played Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins (2007–2009); he also co-wrote some of the episodes. Kaluuya drew praise for his leading performance in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. He went on to gain attention for his television roles in Psychoville (2009–2011), The Fades (2011), and the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" (2011). He also had supporting roles in the films Johnny English Reborn (2011), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), and Sicario (2015).
In 2017, Kaluuya had his breakthrough starring in Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. This was followed by roles in Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther (2018), Steve McQueen's crime drama Widows (2018), Peele's horror film Nope (2022), and Sony Pictures Animation's animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). For his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the biopic Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he won the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since co-directed the drama The Kitchen (2023).
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Julia Mancuso
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Julia Marie Mancuso (born March 9, 1984) is a retired American World Cup alpine ski racer, Olympic gold medalist and podcast host. She won the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was the silver medalist in both downhill and combined in 2010, and the bronze medalist in the combined in 2014. She has also won five medals (two silver and three bronze) at the World Championships and seven races in regular World Cup competition. Her four Olympic medals are the most ever for a female American alpine skier.
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Kevin Tanski
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Kevin Tanski was born in Buffalo, NY to George and Beverly Tanski. The middle child, set between his older brother Brian and younger sister Jessica, Kevin attended Lancaster High School located just outside of Buffalo, NY. After graduating, Kevin was recruited to the University At Buffalo to play football for the Buffalo Bulls. After playing for a short time, Kevin decided to focus on his studies graduating with a degree in Psychology. Kevin Tanski got his first taste of the entertainment industry in 2005 when he attended Buffalo Pro Wrestling Gym graduating from there as "Tank" Tanski. Tank Tanski was paired with his wrestling trainer Mark "Killer Kumpf" to form the "Buffalo Bad Boys," wrestling in independent promotions. Kevin left wrestling for other career pursuits. Kevin taking a shot once again in the entertainment industry, was fortunate enough to be cast, due to his martial arts training, and certification in Law Enforcement, as a background/stunt actor police officer for the movie "Dark Knight Rises." It was that experience that opened the door for Kevin in the film industry. Kevin auditioned and received his first lead role in the feature film titled "Beyond the Call of Duty" in spring of 2012 where he portrayed a Combat Specialist as part of an elite military strike team. This movie, although created on a micro budget, earned worldwide distribution and can be seen in over 30 countries. Shortly after that, Kevin was cast in a supporting role as a mean Bounty Hunter in a Western feature film titled "Ride the wanted trail." Kevin began studying advanced acting techniques under Frank Rossi of Frank Rossi Studios in Buffalo, NY in 2012. Kevin has always expressed his love for being on set stating there is no other place he would rather be and enjoys traveling around the country to film. Kevin earned eligibility for the Screen Actor's Guild by booking a principal role as a Police Officer for the award winning feature film Topside shot in 2019 and released in 2021. Kevin Joined SAG in the summer of 2021 and booked a principal role in a television pilot in 2022, of which details can not yet be disclosed at time of this update.
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Winston Rekert
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Winston Houghton Rekert (June 10, 1949 – September 14, 2012) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for starring in the television series Adderly and Neon Rider.
In 1985, he played the role of Detective Langevin in the American film Agnes of God. In the same year, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 6th Genie Awards for his performance in the film Walls.
From 1986 to 1988, he starred as the lead character in the Canadian television series Adderly, a comedy drama that was a spoof of the spy genre. In 1987, he won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Role for his work on the series.
Following Adderly's cancellation, Rekert's childhood friend, Danny Virtue, pitched him an idea for a television series that eventually became Neon Rider. The series ran from 1990 to 1995 and starred Rekert as Michael Terry, a therapist who ran a ranch for troubled adolescents. He also worked on the series as a writer, director and producer. Through the show, he became involved with a variety of youth groups and was named the national spokesman for Youth at Risk.
In 2003, he won his second Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series for his appearance on the television series Blue Murder.
In April 2012, he was awarded with the Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award—an annual award that "recognizes professional performers displaying humanity, artistic integrity and encouragement of new talent."
He died on September 14, 2012, at the age of 63 after a three-year battle with cancer.
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Hikaru Akao
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Hikaru Akao (赤尾 ひかる, Akao Hikaru, born June 16, 1995) is a Japanese voice actress born in Saitama Prefecture. She is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She is a member of the voice-actor group teaЯLove, formed by Marine Entertainment in June 2018.
During junior high school and high school, she was in the broadcasting club. In college, she was in the orchestra club while studied vocal music and violin. After graduating from the Japan Narration Actors Institute, she joined I'm Enterprise in 2015. Her first performance after becoming an affiliated member of I'm Enterprise was Seria Morino in the TV series Gekidol, which aired in 2021.
On March 5, 2022, she won the Best New Actress Award at the 16th Seiyuu Awards.
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Andrew Levitas
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Levitas' feature film directorial debut Lullaby, from his own screenplay, stars Amy Adams, Richard Jenkins, Terrence Howard, Jennifer Hudson, and Garrett Hedlund. The film, an exploration of patients' rights, was described by Pete Hammond (Deadline) as a "strong human drama" with "Jenkins a true actor's actor, delivering a very Oscar-worthy supporting turn."
Levitas' latest directing project Minamata follows photojournalist W. Eugene Smith who takes on a secret commission by Life magazine and travels to the Japanese coastal town of Minamata to expose corporate negligence and government cover-ups by documenting one of the world's most horrifying environmental disasters.
Levitas has also produced The White Crow (Ralph Fiennes, Adele Exarchopoulos), My Zoe (Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, Gemma Arterton), Georgetown (Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening), Farming (Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw), The Gateway (Bruce Dern, Olivia Munn, Frank Grillo), and The Quarry (Michael Shannon) among others.
Levitas maintains studios in New York and London. He is Global Patron of The Wilderness Foundation.
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Heinz Kobernik
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Heinz is a German-Salvadoran film director based in L.A ☆ A globetrotting storyteller, his eclectic approach to filmmaking is deeply influenced by his multicultural upbringing and diverse cultural experiences. Born in Berlin to a German father and a Salvadoran mother, Heinz's life has been shaped by time spent across Europe, the U.S., and Latin America.
Drawing inspiration from punk music, classic cinema, and the creative communities around him, Heinz crafts films that celebrate the intersection of cultures and the richness of diversity. His stories often spotlight unique characters and the connections that transcend boundaries.
Before pursuing film, Heinz found his first creative outlet playing in post-punk bands. With a video camera in hand, he began documenting the vibrant subcultures of the Central American punk scene, sparking his passion for storytelling through visuals.
Known for his ability to create fluid, dynamic camera movements, Heinz brings youthful energy and a polished aesthetic to his work.
Heinz is trilingual, proficient in English, Spanish, and German.
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