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Pamela Koffler

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Pamela Koffler is an American film and television producer and founding partner of Killer Films, an independent New York-based production company she co-leads with Christine Vachon. Koffler has produced a large body of critically acclaimed and award-winning films and television series, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mildred Pierce, The Velvet Underground, Past Lives, and May December, which premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix. Koffler has been nominated for various entertainment awards, including Primetime Emmy Award and PGA Award nominations for Mrs. Harris in 2006 and Mildred Pierce in 2011, a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2002 and win for I'm Losing You in 2000, and an IDA Award win for This American Life in 2008.
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Annette Kellerman

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Australian-born swimming champion and actress, she played a significant role in the popularization of swimming as a sport, especially for women. Also known as "The Million Dollar Mermaid". Born Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman in Sydney, Australia, on July 6, 1886; died in Southport, Queensland, Australia, on the 6th November 1975; married James R. Sullivan (her manager), in 1912. She suffered from a form of Poliomyelitis that had left her partially crippled as a child. She had to wear an iron brace up to her hips. Her father pushed her to swim as a therapeutic means of overcoming this condition. Her legs were normal by the time she was 13 as a result. She began swimming competions while still a teenager and won the New South Wales swimming championships in 1902. She went to England in 1904 with her father and she won a 26-mile race on the Thames. With her brother as manager, came to U.S. and made first public appearance (1907); made first film, a kind of documentary, as early as 1909, and her last just before the end of the silent era; a champion swimmer, recognized health authority, and exponent of physical culture, was the first woman swimmer to achieve acclaim; is said to have devised the idea of formation swimming as an art, is credited with having introduced the single-piece swimsuit (even arrested for indecent exposure for wearing it) and did much to facilitate the entry of women into the aquatic sports by gradually making acceptable the kind of minimal swimwear necessary to allow freedom of movement and speed in the water; retired to her native Australia (1935). Awards: Holder of the world record for the two-, five- and ten-minute swimming championships. She was also the first woman to appear fully nude in a movie; "A Daughter of the Gods" (1916).
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Stuka Jr.

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Stuka Jr. is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, who works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Stuka Jr. is not, despite what the name indicates, the son of Luchador Stuka but his much younger brother. Stuka Jr. regularly teams with Fuego, with whom he held the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship for a record four and a half years. Stuka Jr.'s real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.
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Chalet Lizette Brannan

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Chalet Lizette Brannan is a teen actress that beat Leukemia at age 10. Chalet is an Official Ambassador for Along Comes Hope which is a worldwide charity for children suffering cancer and other major illnesses. She started her career by making a PSA for Walt Disney World entitled "Saving A Manatee" at Animal Kingdom. From there she has progressed and has filmed all genres. She was stricken with cancer at the age of 10 but has survived and has beat this life threatening illness. Ms. Brannan regularly visits children in Hospitals and has been on major talk shows to help children deal and fight cancer. She kept pursuing her dream in acting and singing and has amassed many nominations and awards in her short career thus far. Recently winning "Best Young Actress" from the Young Artist Academy and the coveted Humanitarian Award, she is a shining example of what an actress and a child can do to overcome obstacles in their life. Her hope is that through her work, others can see that you can find that light at the end of the tunnel and come out on the other side triumphantly.
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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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Sara Matthews

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Sara A Matthews is known for producing, writing and acting in Jacob's Honor to focus on Veterans, PTSD and Suicide Prevention. She got her start in action movies, and was born in Corpus Christy, TX. She worked in theater and film receiving a BFA in Cinema from SMU in Dallas before moving to Los Angeles to pursue her interests in Film and Health. In 2004, she received a MS in Nutritional Science becoming a RDN/Dietitian working as a speaker for media and other corporations: ESPN, Disney, MTV, AOL, ABC, GE, etc.
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Iza Calzado

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Maria Izadora Ussher "Iza" Calzado-Wintle (born August 12, 1982) is a Filipina actress, television host, dancer, and model best known for her role as Amihan in the fantasy drama television series Encantadia. She was a former homegrown artist of GMA Network for ten years. In 2012, Calzado signed an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN and signed a non-exclusive contract with Star Cinema. By 2014, she also became one of the celebrity ambassadors of Booky, a top local food app, and blog where her husband, Ben Wintle, is the CEO. In March 2017, Calzado won the "Yakushi Pearl Award" (Best Performer) at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2017 for her performance in the film Bliss.
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Marija Karan

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Marija Karan (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Каран; born 29 April 1982) is a Serbian actress. She had her film debut in Kad porastem biću Kengur and appeared after this in Jesen stiže, dunjo moja. She was born in Belgrade. In 2007, Karan appeared alongside Nikola Kojo and Bogdan Diklić in the Serbian thriller Četvrti čovek (The fourth Man) by Dejan Zečević and alongside Branko Tomović in the British Drama Taximan by Henrik Norrthon. Marija Karan was also introduced in a FOX TV Series called Odd Mom Out. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yasmin Abdulaziz

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Yasmin Mohamed Abd Al Aziz was born in Cairo (where her father worked as a hotelier). She enrolled in (the Modern Academy) in Maadi and began her television career at the age of five with appearances in commercials. Yasmin was (recruited into the industry through a friend of her mother’s who managed an advertising production firm). Thereafter, Yasmin was (nominated for roles in cinematic and television productions). Thus, she performed on the television series “Imraa min Zaman Al Houb”. That production achieved a great measure of success and brought Yasmin’s talents to the attention of the public. Whilst a student at the Modern Academy in Maadi, Yasmin also (partook) in the trivia show “Al Aiyal Itganinit”. (Most of her roles have had her assume the character of a mischievous girl).
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Roberto Lombardi

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Roberto Lombardi was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) and began his career at an early age, appearing on the Gene London Show at age 7, then began music lessons (drums) and showed a natural ability for music. He quickly moved on to other instruments (bass) in order to learn to not only play, but write his own songs, later taking voice lessons to handle lead vocals. At age 16, an interest in acting resurfaced. He studied acting in high school and college, then found theater roles both in school and regionally, eventually landing extra / featured roles in several major motion pictures. At this point music became the focus. He wrote, recorded and toured nationally with several bands, most notably April Fool, "The End", "The Facts", The Rage and Road Trip learning to play both keyboards and guitar in the process. In 2004, Lombardi again became focused on acting, signed with several agencies and began modeling while taking additional acting classes. Since then he has appeared in many films, television shows and commercials in a variety of roles in films such as The Happening, Bazookas: The Movie, Masks, Stand Off, Perfect: Android Rising and The Cemetery, as well as the popular fan films Krueger: Another Tale from Elm Street, The Nightmare Ends on Halloween II (as the iconic Freddy Krueger), Escape from New Jersey and Mr. J . He also starred in the ensemble tv series Brotherhood of Silver, The Underground Kings and Phantom Faye. Lombardi has worked behind the camera as well as in front with Actor, Producer and Assistant Director credits for Abduction and Paranormal Captivity. He is attached with Actor and Producer credit for the upcoming Extinction and directed the short film Masks: Facade. He has also been credited for Casting, Location Scout and Script Supervisor as well as doing Special FX Makeup and contributing music to Film Soundtracks. His production company 'RTL Productions' focuses on the development, publicity and production of new film projects such as Just Like Me which he produced as well as acted in. The company also releases Lombardi's past and future music projects and licenses music for film soundtracks. Roberto Lombardi also wrote the screenplay for the supernatural crime drama Voosha Day. Lombardi is also a producer for Blinky Productions, Inc., but mainly concentrates on acting. With John Orrichio Films, he worked as a Publicist, Assistant Director and Producer for many projects including the comedy spoof series Ghost Blunders which he also starred in and the ghost hunting reality series Ghost Chicks. When not on set he splits his time between the Philadelphia area, Los Angeles and New York City.
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