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Kevin Sorbo
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Kevin Sorbo is an American actor, producer, and director. He was born on September 24, 1958, in Mound, Minnesota. Sorbo gained international recognition for his portrayal of the titular character in the television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995-1999). The show, a fantasy adventure series based on Greek mythology, propelled Sorbo to stardom and earned him a dedicated fan base.
Following the success of "Hercules," Sorbo continued to work in the entertainment industry, taking on various roles in both film and television. Some of his notable appearances include the lead role in the science fiction series "Andromeda" (2000-2005) and guest roles in shows like "The O.C." and "Two and a Half Men."
In addition to his acting work, Sorbo has also ventured into producing and directing. He has produced and starred in several films, including "Let There Be Light" (2017) and "Miracle in East Texas" (2019).
Sorbo has remained active in the entertainment industry and continues to work on a variety of projects. He is known for his charismatic presence on screen and his dedication to his craft.
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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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Dragoljub Ljubičić 'Mićko'
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Dragoljub Mićko Ljubičić is a Serbian actor, humorist, and comedian best known for his involvement with Indexovo radio pozorište.
He studied at the University of Belgrade and was simultaneously involved with music and theatre. From 1982 until 1985 he played in two bands: Petar i zli vuci and Kapetan Belkanto. In 1984 he joined Indexovo radio pozorište (Index's Radio Theatre) a popular Serbian radio programme that eventually grew into a theatrical group. In 1993 he appeared in director Želimir Žilnik's semi-documentary film Tito po drugi put medju Srbima. He played the role of Josip Broz Tito, who returns from the dead to Serbia that's ruled by Slobodan Milošević, and talks with random people on the streets of Belgrade about their current grievances. From 1985 and onwards he founded and became the director of "Tim talenata" marketing agency. He has since been involved with several productions and radio shows as well as written the book "Nacionalni park Srbija" (National Park Serbia).
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Henry Jaglom
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Henry Jaglom is a London-born American film director and playwright.
Jaglom was born to a Jewish family in London, England, the son of Marie (née Stadthagen) and Simon M. Jaglom, who worked in the import-export business. His father was from a wealthy family from Russia and his mother was from Germany. They left for England because of the Nazi regime. Through his mother, he is a descendant of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s. Under contract to Columbia Pictures, Jaglom featured in such TV series as Gidget and The Flying Nun and acted in a number of films which included Boris Sagal's The Thousand Plane Raid (1969), Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said (1971), Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie (1971), Orson Welles' never-completed The Other Side of the Wind and more.
Jaglom's transition from acting in films to creating them was largely influenced by his experience watching the Italian film 8½ (1963). “The film changed my identity. I realized that what I wanted to do was make films. Not only that, but I realized what I wanted to make films about: my own life, to some extent.”
Jaglom began his filmmaking career working with Nicholson on the editing of Hopper's Easy Rider (1969), and made his writing/directing debut with A Safe Place (1971), starring Tuesday Weld, Nicholson and Welles. His next film, Tracks (1976), starred Hopper and was one of the earliest movies to explore the psychological cost on America of the Vietnam War. His third film, the first to be a commercial success, was Sitting Ducks (1980), a comic romp.
Jaglom co-starred in four of his most personal films—Always, But Not Forever (1985), Someone to Love (1987) starring Orson Welles in his farewell film performance, New Year's Day (1989), which introduced David Duchovny, and Venice/Venice (1992) opposite French star Nelly Alard.
In 1983, Jaglom taped lunch conversations with Orson Welles at Los Angeles's Ma Maison. Edited transcripts of these sessions appear in Peter Biskind's book My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles (2013).
As a playwright, has written four plays that have been successfully performed on Los Angeles stages: The Waiting Room (1974), A Safe Place (2003), Always—But Not Forever (2007) and Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2009/2010). Jaglom is the subject of the Henry Alex Rubin's and Jeremy Workman's documentary Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997).
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Bradley Liew
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Bradley Liew is a Malaysian born-Philippines based filmmaker who works as a Director, Producer and Cinematographer in both countries. In 2012, he was accepted into the Asian Film Academy of the Busan IFF where he won the Lumos Award for Outstanding Performance from celebrated Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. He is also an alumnus of the NAFF Fanastic Film School, Berlinale Talents, Tokyo Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Eave Ties that Bind and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab.
In 2016, he completed his first feature film, a Malaysia-Philippine coproduction entitled Singing In Graveyards, which was the recipient of the Visions Sud Est Production Support Fund, the Southeast Asian Film Lab Most Promising Project Award and the Talents Tokyo Next Masters Support Program International Promotion Fund under Producer Bianca Balbuena. Singing In Graveyards made its world premiere in-competition at the 2016 Venice International Film Critics' Week. It went on to festivals such as Thessaloniki, Mostra Sao Paulo, Busan, Hawaii, Minsk, Singapore and won best film in both Kolkata and Malaysia.
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Carmen Kass
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Carmen Kass (born September 14, 1978) is an Estonian model and former political candidate.
She has worked as the face of brands such as Chanel, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and, for ten consecutive years, Michael Kors. The American edition of Vogue declared her and Gisele Bündchen the two supermodels of the era on its January 2000 cover.
Outside of modeling, Kass ran for the European Parliament in 2004 and was the president of the Estonian Chess Federation from 2004 to 2011.
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Richard Wright
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His powerful, eloquent work examined the injustices African-Americans face in a white society. He won immediate fame for his first novel, "Native Son" (1940). It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur whose inarticulate rage over his lot ultimately erupts into violence. "Native Son" was adapted into a play directed by Orson Welles in 1941, filmed in 1951 with Wright himself playing Bigger, and again in 1986. Wright's other books include "Black Boy" (1945), an autobiography; the novels "The Outsider" (1953) and "The Long Dream" (1958); the story collections "Uncle Tom's Children" (1938) and "Eight Men" (1961); and the philosophical volumes "Black Power" (1954) and "White Man, Listen!" (1957). Richard Nathaniel Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi. Largely self-educated, he began to write after moving to Chicago around 1927. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1932 to 1944; he later wrote of his disillusionment with that system in "The God That Failed" (1949), a collection of essays by former party members. Wright lived in Paris from 1946 until his death. A second book of memoirs, "American Hunger," was published posthumously in 1977.
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Ethan Jones
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Ethan Jones grew up in Sierra Madre, California. He began musical theater in elementary school, where he was also active in chess tournaments and Odyssey of the Mind competitions. Ethan loves sports. He plays flag football and takes dance classes. His first professional acting job came in 2016 in the feature film Let There Be Light. He is the voice of Zac on Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine. Ethan was able to work in front of a live audience again, in October of 2018, when he was cast as Teddy in Greg Berlanti and Jessica Queller's live play reading of Terms of Endearment. He joined a star-studded cast at the Geffen Playhouse to benefit Stand Up To Cancer. Ethan lives in Los Angeles with his mother, Joanne.
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Aditi Chengappa
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Aditi was born in Bangalore. Her father, Raj Chengappa, a Kannadiga, is the Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune Group of Newspapers, while her mother, Usha Chengappa, a Tamilian, is the Delhi Centre Head at Bharat Thakur's Artistic Yoga. Her great grand aunt Rukmini Devi Arundale was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam. Aditi studied at Vasant Valley School and then at Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi. She has been trained in both Hindustani classical and western vocals. She is also an accomplished pianist, representing both school and college. She has stated "Music was my only passion till I became interested in acting. Music remains my first love". She is a big fan of yoga and a gaming freak.[ When she was in college, she hosted a health show, "Bodylicious" on NDTV Good Times, with her mother Usha Chengapp
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Shirley Ellis
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Shirley Ellis is a South African producer, director, actress, teacher, trainer, mentor, coach and workshop facilitator best known in television for her starring role as Malherbe in the SABC2 thriller series Arsenaal, in 2002.
She currently runs interactive workshops to equip people with key life skills to understand and cope with stress.
Ellis graduated with a BA Degree and Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama: bilingual, from the University of Cape Town in 1984.
Originally from Bellville, Western Cape she now resides in Simon's Town.
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