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Babak Hamidian

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Babak Hamidian (بابک حمیدیان) was born in Tehran. He has a degree in Performance Arts from Islamic Azad University. His first acting experience was in a play. After meeting Atila Pesiani, he joined the Play Theater Troupe. He made his film debut with Qadamgah in 2003. In 2004, Babak Hamidian was nominated for an Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Big Drum Under Left Foot. He received an Iran Cinema Celebration Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for 'The Loose Rope'. He has also appeared in films such as 'Big Drum Under Left Foot', 'God is Close, 'With Others', 'Hatred', 'Hush Girls Don't Cry', 'Tales', 'Death of the Fish', 'Hussein Who Said No', A Respectable Family', 'Resident of Middle Floor', 'Che', 'Paat', 'I am Diego Maradona', 'Confessions of my Dangerous Mind', 'Bodyguard' and 'Gap'. On stage, he is also known for Macbeth, Requiem for Libricide, and We Came You Weren't There We Left.
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Adam Cardon

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Adam Cardon starred as astronaut Daryl Henderson in Hulu's sci-fi series Ark (produced by Gabe Sachs, written by Robbie Thompson). On television, he's agented child stars on Arrested Development, confronted Rebecca Romijn as a sleazy paparazzo on Pepper Dennis, and saved Chelsea Brady from the jaws of death on Days of Our Lives. Additional credits include the feature Sons of Liberty, Ringer! (Best Actor, Bali International Film Festival) and festival favorites Small Talk and 12/14/1996. On stage, he spent a season with Southwest Shakespeare Company and made his Los Angeles theater debut in Wink at the Zephyr Theater. Adam stars in the current Pepsi ad campaign and narrated The Power, the sequel to the international bestseller The Secret. Adam currently studies with Eric Morris and can be found sailing, surfing, and working on his family's Utah ranch in his spare time.
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Bert Rotundo

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Bert Rotundo is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Bert has worked as an actor on stage, the big screen, the little screen and as a voice actor. In the 2013 Los Angeles theatre production of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" Rotundo played the title role of Johnny. In 2014 he co-produced the film "It's Gawd!" starring Tommy Chong, Luke Perry, Rebecca Mader and Boo Boo Stewart, in which he also performed a supporting role. Bert is also the voice of Albert in the podcast radio show "The Afterlife Adventures of Tom and Albert." Aside from his acting, producing, writing and directing, Bert is also a fine artist with his work being shown in galleries in both Los Angeles and New York.
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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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Joshua Moody

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Joshua D. Moody was born in Dallas, TX and raised in Oak Cliff. Graduating from David W. Carter High School where he played football and for a short stint in Junior College. Although he didn't play past his freshman season in college he used football as a tool to land a spot on Friday Night Lights T.V. show season 4. Joshua was the last person chosen to be a background football player because casting thought he was there for football stunts due to his physique. Throughout season 4 Joshua was upgraded three times and invited back for season 5 with a supporting role as Moody.
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau

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Jean-Paul Rappeneau (born 8 April 1932) is a French film director and screenwriter. He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le métro in 1960 and Vie privée in 1961. In 1964, he was co-screenwriter for L'Homme de Rio, which starred Jean-Paul Belmondo. The first film that he both wrote and directed was A Matter of Resistance in 1965. Although it was a great critical and popular success, he did not make another film until 1971, when he directed Les Mariés de l'an II, again starring Belmondo and Marlène Jobert. Since 1975, Rappeneau has written only for his own films, including Le Sauvage, starring Yves Montand and Tout feu, tout flamme (1981), again with Montand, who co-starred with Isabelle Adjani. In 1990, Rappeneau directed a deluxe Technicolor film version of Cyrano de Bergerac, his adaptation of the classic French play by Edmond Rostand, starring Gérard Depardieu. Rappeneau's film version is the most elaborate film version of the play ever made, and one of the most expensive French films ever produced. It is the only rendition of the play in the original French to be released widely. At the 1991 César Awards, Rappeneau won the César Award for Best Director and César Award for Best Film. The 2003 comedy Bon voyage, co-written with Patrick Modiano, again starred Depardieu, this time with Isabelle Adjani. The film was nominated 11 times at the 2004 César Awards. Source: Article "Jean-Paul Rappeneau" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Eugen Sandow

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Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller) was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia. Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy. After a spell in the circus, Sandow studied under strongman Ludwig Durlacher in the late 1880s. On Durlacher's recommendation, he began entering strongman competitions, performing in matches against leading figures in the sport such as Charles Sampson, Frank Bienkowski, and Henry McCann. In 1901 he organised what is believed to be the world's first major body building competition. Set in London's Royal Albert Hall, Sandow judged the event alongside author Arthur Conan Doyle and athlete/sculptor Charles Lawes-Wittewronge.
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Vanness Wu

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Van Ness Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴建豪; traditional Chinese: 吳建豪; pinyin: Wú Jiànháo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ngô Kiàn-hô) is a Taiwanese American actor, singer, director, producer based in Asia. He was born on August 7, 1978, in Santa Monica, California and worked as a telemarketer before moving to Taiwan. Van Ness is managed by talent manager Carl Choi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanness Wu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Avtandil Makharadze

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Avtandil Makharadze (Georgian: ავთანდილ მახარაძე) (born 16 July 1943) is a Georgian actor. He was born in Batumi. Active since the 1970s. Avtandil Makharadze started his acting career as a student at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University with performances in the acts of his fellow students. His role in the play "The Merchant of Venice", where he played Shylock caught the eyes of critics and the public. He worked at Shota Rustaveli Theatre until 1991 where he had played over 50 roles. He had great success in the theater of MHAT (Moscow Art Theatre), where in 1983, he played the main role in the play "Collapse" (Jaqo's Dispossessed). The same role was previously played in a television series under the same title on Georgian Television, which was one of the most controversial TV Plays of Soviet Georgia. (Wikipedia)
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Kang So-ra

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Kang So-ra is a South Korean actress. Kang made her acting debut in the 2009 thriller movie 4th Period Mystery, but rose to fame when she starred in the 2011 blockbuster Sunny, a coming-of-age film about a group of high school girls growing up in the 1980s. This was followed by leading roles in television dramas, such as teen musical Dream High 2 (2012), and family drama Ugly Alert (2013). Kang also appeared on the third season of We Got Married, a reality show which pairs up celebrities into fake "married" couples; her partner was Leeteuk from the K-pop group Super Junior. Kang gained increased recognition after starring in two hit series in 2014; medical drama Doctor Stranger (2014) and workplace dramedy Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014); Doctor Stranger was a success in China with 400 million views and Misaeng: Incomplete Life was dubbed a "cultural phenomenon" in South Korea. This was followed by lead roles in romantic comedy Warm and Cozy (2015) together with Yoo Yeon-seok, legal drama My Lawyer, Mr. Jo (2016), and romantic comedy Revolutionary Love (2017) alongside Choi Si-won from the k-pop group Super Junior. In 2019, Kang returned to the big screen in the cycling film Uhm Bok-dong. In 2020, Kang starred in the comedy film Secret Zoo, based on the webtoon of the same name. She plays a veterinarian who pretends to be a lion. The same year, she was cast in the romance melodrama film Rain And Your Story.
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