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Emma Appleton

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Emma Jill Appleton was born and raised in the town of Witney, Oxfordshire, England and attended West Witney Primary School and then Wood Green School. Appleton began a modeling career as a teenager, which naturally progressed to acting in 2017 when an opportunity opened for the cast of the BBC Three series Clique where she played the role of Fay Brookstone for 6 episodes. Her next major role was playing Feef Symonds in six episodes of Channel 4’s spy thriller Traitors in 2019. Appleton landed a role as Princess Renfri, alongside Henry Cavill in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Witcher, created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich adapted from The Witcher book series of Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.
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Koji Shiraishi

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Koji Shiraishi (白石 晃士 Shiraishi Kōji) was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating from Kyushu Sangyo University with a degree in film making, he went on to work as an assistant director on such films as Gakuryū Ishii's August in the Water and Shinobu Yaguchi's WATER BOYS. He cites Gakuryū Ishii as his favorite Japanese director, and Ishii's 1980 Crazy Thunder Road as his favorite film. Other directors he admires include John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Abbas Kiarostami, and Sam Raimi, and films he enjoy include the original Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), The Thing (1982), and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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Yui Aragaki

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Yui Aragaki is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host. She is most well-known for her role in the 2007 movie "Koizora" (also known as "Sky of Love") which was a box office hit. Yui Aragaki was born in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on June 11, 1988, and has two older sisters. After seeing an audition notice for the junior fashion magazine Nicola (ニコラ Nikora), she applied for it and won the Grand Prix award for the audition. In 2001, at the age of 13, she began her Nicola modelling career and was very well received as a Nicola model, having set a record for appearing on cover for 15 times. A fellow Nicola model Ayako Enomoto gave her the popular nickname "Gakki." At the age of 15, Aragaki moved to Tokyo and enrolled in Horikoshi High School, a private high school popular for being attended by many Japanese celebrities. In 2004, she decided to put her Nicola career on hold and expand her career path into gravure and acting, and she also appeared in variety shows and commercials, with her Pocky commercials being the most popular. A year later, she officially graduated from Nicola. Even so, she still appears in the magazine occasionally. In 2005, Aragaki took up a role in the TBS drama, Dragon Sakura, starring alongside Japanese idols like Tomohisa Yamashita and Masami Nagasawa. This marked a breakthrough in her acting career. Since then, she has been cast in many other dramas, like My Boss, My Hero and Gal Circle. She also starred in the 2007 tragic love story movie hit Koizora, for which she won her first award, the Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer. Currently, she has 5 newcomer awards. Aragaki won the Film prize at the 45th Golden Arrow Awards in 2008. Her tremendous number of movie shoots as well as the preparation for her debut album resulted in her suffering from work-related stress in 2007. Outside acting she also released her first album, Sora, and the single "Heavenly Days", a song from Koizora. "Memories", the theme song for Tokyo Serendipity, was included in her debut album. She also performed at Budokan. She was also the co-hosts for popular radio program Girls Locks in 2010-2012.
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Giorgos Kapoutzidis

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Giorgos Kapoutzidis is a Greek screenwriter and actor. He is the creator of the critically successful television series Saturday Born (original title "Σαββατογεννημένες") In the Nick of Time (original title "Στο Παρά 5") and Greek National (original title "Εθνική Ελλάδος"), one of the most part successful shows in Greek television history, the finale attracting 3 million viewers). He has won three television awards, for the best screenplay, for the series Savatogennimenes and Sto Para Pente (twice).
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Hiroyuki Sanada

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Hiroyuki Sanada (真田 広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born Hiroyuki Shimosawa (下澤 廣之, Shimosawa Hiroyuki); 12 October 1960) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. Before breaking in to the movie business, he trained at Sonny Chiba’s Japan Action Club hoping to one day become a martial arts action film star. Sanada appeared in many action films in the 70s and early 80s, but as it became clear he was actually a talented and well-rounded actor, he was able to branch out into all different types of roles in every genre. Today he is best known in the west for his involvement in big-budget Hollywood productions such as The Last Samurai and Rush Hour 3.
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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 McEnery

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John McEnery (1943-2019) was a British actor and writer. At age 20 he found his first stage work, spending three seasons with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He joined the British National Theatre Company in 1966. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He starred alongside Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Cassel in Gérard Brach's bittersweet The Boat on the Grass about a girl between two friends and appeared as Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. He was nominated for a BAFTA for the latter performance. He also appeared in the film Nicholas and Alexandra. In 2008, he appeared in a guest role in Sidetracked, the first episode of Wallander. In 1998 he wrote the play Merry Christmas, Mr. Burbage in honour of the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Globe Theatre. McEnery is survived by two daughters, Phoebe and Chloe, by his former wife, actress Stephanie Beacham. One of his brothers is actor Peter McEnery, and another is photographer David McEnery. Description above from the Wikipedia article John McEnery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Oleg Taktarov

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Oleg Nikolaevich Taktarov (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Такта́ров; born August 26, 1967) is a retired Russian mixed martial artist and actor. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships. Taktarov was the UFC 6 tournament champion and holds notable wins over Marco Ruas and David "Tank" Abbott. Taktarov is known for being exceptionally calm during fights and for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic Sambo take-downs. All of Taktarov's losses were by knockout or decision, Taktarov was never submitted in an MMA fight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Taktarov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Elias Zervos

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Ilias Zervos (November 29, 1956, Istanbul – October 31, 2022, Athens) was a Greek television, theater and film actor. He had participated in many plays and television series. He became more widely known from his roles as a lawyer in the series Akros Oikogeneiakon and Konstantinou and Eleni. Since 1990 he has worked with Audio Visual and other dubbing companies both as an actor, lending his voice to animations and narratives, and as a director of dubbed film series. He died of a heart attack on October 31, 2022, aged 66.
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Jeff Daniel Phillips

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He is best known for playing a caveman in a popular series of GEICO commercials. He played the part of Maurice in the short-lived Cavemen sitcom on ABC. Other credits to him are Hide (2003), for which he was the director, producer, and co-author in addition to being a cast member; parts in Sneakers and Rob Zombie's Halloween II as Uncle Seymour, The Lords of Salem and 31; and roles in TV series Flaked, Arrest and Trial, Philly, and Profiler. He appeared in the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as David Angar, the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Angar the Screamer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniel Phillips licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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