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Kim Coates

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kim Coates (born February 21, 1958) is a Canadian actor who has worked in both Canadian and American movies and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Theatre. He starred as Tig Trager, sergeant-at-arms of the Sons of Anarchy, in the FX Network's drama series Sons of Anarchy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Coates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Zeki Alasya

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(d. 16 Nisan 1943, İstanbul), Ankaralı Türk tiyatro ve sinema sanatçısı. Kıbrıslı Mehmet Kamil Paşa'nın yeğenidir. Robert Koleji'den mezun oldu. Sanat hayatına da 1959'da MTTB tiyatrosunda amatör olarak başladı. Arena, Genar ve Ulvi Uraz tiyatrolarında çalıştıktan sonra Haldun Taner, Metin Akpınar ve Ahmet Gülhan ile birlikte Devekuşu Kabare Tiyatrosu'nun kurucuları arasında yer aldı. Film çevirmeye 1973'ten sonra başladı. Metin Akpınar ile birlikte Türk sinemasında yeni bir ikili oluşturdular. Birçok filmde yer aldı. 1998 yılında Kültür Bakanlığı'nca verilen Devlet Sanatçısı unvanını almıştır.
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Benicio del Toro

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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. He is known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects, Javier Rodríguez in Traffic (his Oscar-winning role), Jack 'Jackie Boy' Rafferty in Sin City, Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franky Four Fingers in Snatch, and Che Guevara in Che. He is the third Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
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Kaitlyn Robrock

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Kaitlyn Robrock (born December 30, 1983) is an American voice actress, best known for playing Tommy on the television series Mr. Pickles and Momma Named Me Sheriff on Adult Swim. She also voices Candy in the shows and various other characters. Other notable roles include Mrs. Budnick on Golan the Insatiable, Felicia Sundew on Disney’s Amphibia, and Retsuko's mother in the English dub of Aggretsuko. She's done extensive voice work for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Television Animation, Warner Bros. Animation and Marvel Entertainment. She's also assumed the role of Minnie Mouse since 2020.
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Melany Bennett

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Melany Bennett since a very young age started working in the entertainment industry. Her father is Swedish and mother is Mexican. At fourteen, she signed with Ford models and shortly after became a leading face for the Levis Go Forth campaign and Curve ID. Most of her adolescent years were spent in Mexico City and through out Europe and Asia. Upon her return to the U.S., She was one of thirty-five theater students to be admitted to CalArts in 2013. Her most recent lead role in “A Good Dream” was nominated for “best lead actress” at the International Madrid Film Festival and won “best lead actress” at the International Independent Film Awards. She has also been seen as the lead role in Lenny Kravitz “Pleasure and the Pain” music video. Aside from working in film, Melany is passionate about classical piano and has done a series of intimate concerts in Los Angeles and New York.
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Lesley Manville

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Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).
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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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John Marley

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John Marley (October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984) was an American actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the defiant movie mogul who awakens to find the severed head of his prized horse in his bed—in The Godfather (1972). He starred in John Cassavetes' breakthrough feature Faces (1968) and appeared in The Glitter Dome (1984). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Marley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marguerite De La Motte

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Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing. De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova. In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on the stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks-directed romantic comedy film Arizona. In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother. De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford. Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr., as well as Lon Chaney Jr. After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in a southern California war plant during World War II. Later she came to San Francisco, California, where she worked in the Red Cross office. On February 8, 1960, De La Motte was awarded a star in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California.
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Zuleikha Robinson

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Zuleikha Robinson (born 29 June 1977) is an English actress, raised in Thailand and Malaysia by a Burmese-Indian mother and an English father. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, and best known for playing Ilana in the ABC show Lost. In 2006, she played a Bengali character called Moushumi Mazumdar in Mira Nair's acclaimed film The Namesake, based on the book of the same name. Robinson had a supporting role in the HBO series Rome, and played Eva Marquez, a NYPD detective, in the television drama on Fox, New Amsterdam. Robinson joined the cast of Lost in 2009 during its fifth season, as recurring character Ilana, and was promoted to series regular for the sixth season. She is sister to British field botanist, Dr. Alastair Robinson.
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