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Camille Mitchell

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Camille Mitchell has garnered extraordinary acclaim for her versatility onstage and onscreen. A leading lady at the Stratford and Shaw festivals, The London Times hailed her as "a gift to the theater." In 2011, she appeared as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate" at Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre. For her television role as tough-talking Sheriff Nancy Adams on Warner Brothers' Smallville (2001) over five seasons, she was nominated for the Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series. Other recurring roles on television include Evelyn on "Life Unexpected"(2010); Becca in "The L Word"; the spiritual Ingrid Rayne on Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996) for Showtime and the hyper model's agent Roxanne on Madison (1993) for CTV. Other guest-star roles include Vesta on "Caprica" (2010) with Eric Stoltz;The Chris Isaak Show (2001) (MuchMoreMusic), Mysterious Ways (2000) (PAX/NBC), _"The Outer Limits" (1995)with Julie Harris_ (Showtime), and _"Peacemakers" (2003)with Tom Berenger_ (USA). Films include "Concrete Blondes"(2012) with Jonathan Rhy-Davies and "Frankie and Hazel" with Joan Plowright and Micah Barnes. She won Canada's Jessie Award for her portrayal of Ariel in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" opposite Gordon Pinsent at the Vancouver Playhouse and was also nominated for Best Actress Awards for Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Madame Tourvel in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," and Elizabeth in "The Crucible." Born in Santa Monica to Hollywood star Cameron Mitchell and Viennese actress Joanna Mitchell, Camille was raised in Vancouver, Canada, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.
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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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Keiichi Enomoto

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Keiichi was born on December 11, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, to Masahiro Enomoto, a businessman, and Hideko Enomoto, grand daughter of Ikebana master. Keiichi's early film influence were Castle in the Sky (1986), The Goonies (1985), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). In 2012, Keiichi was cast as Sakamoto, a chief officer in The Railway Man (2013). He acted beside Jeremy Irvine. He then played a ninja in The Wolverine (2013) alongside Hugh Jackman. In 2013, he was cast as Omori Guard in Unbroken (2014), and worked under the direction of Angelina Jolie. In 2017, he was featured as main cast in The 48 Hour Destination (2017), a TV series episode. He then worked on several feature films, including Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) with Isabela Merced, Love and Monsters (2020) with Dylan O'Brien, Loveland (2021) with Hugo Weaving, Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) with Millie Bobby Brown, and Young Rock (2021) with Joseph Lee Anderson.
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Gareth Tidball

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Gareth Tidball is an award-winning actress and screenwriter with a romantic affinity for the macabre. She typically plays young, tough women with a strong sense of justice and an air of quiet mystery. Gareth first made waves in the indie film scene with her performance in the hard-hitting thriller 'My Autopsy' - currently available on Amazon Prime. Since then, she has made appearances in several feature films: wacky horror-comedy 'Obstacle Corpse' (MaddWolf Productions), neo-noir horror 'Casting Kill' (Raya Films), and Tom Ryan's epic horror anthology 'Return to the Theatre of Terror' (Theatre of Terror Productions.) Coming up, Gareth will be leading the cast in 'Foxglove Candy,' a female-driven thriller from the mind of Daniel Emery Taylor (Debtor Entertainment.) Gareth is originally from Oakland, California, and is a proud dual citizen of both the US and UK.
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Scott Dunn

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Scott Dunn is a Korean-American filmmaker from Illinois. Throughout his childhood, he made films with his friends as a hobby. After graduating high school, he began his career acting in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles. He got his first break in a three-episode arc in Disney XD’s “Kickin’ It”. After appearing in several short films and webisodes, Scott switched back to his filmmaking roots. He made his first feature film, “Schlep” which won Best Comedy/Dramedy at the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival and was nominated in five different categories at the FirstGlance Film Festival. “Mandao of the Dead” is Scott’s second feature film that he wrote, directed, edited, produced, and starred in.
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Sidharth Malhotra

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Sidharth Malhotra is an Indian actor and former model who appears in Hindi films. Malhotra began a career as a model at the age of 18. Dissatisfied by the profession, he went on to work as an assistant director to Karan Johar in the 2010 film My Name Is Khan. He made his acting debut with a leading role in Johar's comedy-drama Student of the Year (2012), for which he received a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut nomination. Malhotra played an aspiring businessman in the critically praised comedy-drama Hasee Toh Phasee in 2014, following which he starred as a hardened criminal in the romantic thriller Ek Villain (2014) and an aspiring author in the family drama Kapoor & Sons (2016). The latter two rank among Malhotra's highest-grossing films, with a worldwide gross of over ₹1 billion (US$15 million) each.
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Octavia Spencer

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Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress, author, and producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is one of two black actresses to have received three Academy Award nominations, the first black actress to receive two consecutive Academy Award nominations in back-to-back years, and the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination after previously winning.
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Lauren Alaina

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Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth (born November 8, 1994) is an American singer and songwriter from Rossville, Georgia. She was the runner-up on the tenth season of American Idol. Her debut studio album, Wildflower, was released on October 11, 2011. Her second album, Road Less Traveled, was released January 27, 2017. Alaina later achieved her first No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart with the album's title track. Her second No. 1 came later that year when she simultaneously topped five Billboard charts with her friend and former classmate Kane Brown on their duet "What Ifs". She was on the twenty-eighth season of Dancing with the Stars and placed fourth with her partner Gleb Savchenko. Alaina's third studio album, Sitting Pretty on Top of the World, was released on September 3, 2021. In December 2021, Alaina was invited by Trisha Yearwood to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. She was inducted by Yearwood during the Opry performance on February 12, 2022.
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Zvee Scooler

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Zvee Scooler (December 1, 1899 – March 25, 1985) was a Russian-born American actor and radio commentator. He was born in Kamenets-Podolsky (now Ukraine). He performed in both Yiddish and English, on the stage, television, and film. He is probably best known for his roles in Fiddler on the Roof, playing Mordcha, the innkeeper in the Broadway play and the rabbi in the film version. He appeared as Duddy's grandfather in the 1974 film "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz". Another of his more notable roles was that of Boris' father in Woody Allen's Love and Death. He was known as the Grammeister on WEVD, a Yiddish radio station in New York City. Every Sunday, Scooler presented a ten-minute segment on the radio show, Forward Hour, which was news and commentary in rhyme. He died in New York City on March 25, 1985, at age 85. Source: Article "Zvee Scooler" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kevin Baillie

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Kevin's VFX career started when he when he joined Lucasfilm's JAK Films as a pre-vis artist on Star Wars: Episode I at age 18. In the two decades following, Kevin has blazed a bright path, helming VFX at The Orphanage on features including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Night at the Museum, Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Hellboy; supervising cutting-edge motion capture for features at Image Movers Digital; and co-founding Atomic Fiction in 2010, where the company's outstanding work on The Walk, Allied, and Flight garnered awards and recognition. Kevin's VFX Supervisor credits also include two Star Trek movies, two Transformers features and, most recently, Welcome to Marwen - another title in his long collaboration with Director Robert Zemeckis. He joined Method with the acquisition of Atomic Fiction by Deluxe. Kevin is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and founded cloud rendering technology company, Conductor Technologies.
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