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Hugh O'Brian

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973), as well as films including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). He was highly regarded for creating the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a non-profit youth leadership development program, founded in 1958, for high school scholars.
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J.J. Abrams

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Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote or produced such films as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Abrams has created numerous television series, including Felicity (co-creator, 1998–2002), Alias (creator, 2001–2006), Lost (co-creator, 2004–2010), and Fringe (co-creator, 2008–2013). He won two Emmy Awards for Lost — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series. His directorial film work includes Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). He also directed, produced and co-wrote Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), the seventh episode of the Star Wars saga, the first film of the sequel trilogy, his highest-grossing film, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation. He returned to Star Wars by co-writing, producing and directing the ninth and final installment of the saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Abrams's frequent collaborators include producer Bryan Burk, actors Greg Grunberg, Simon Pegg and Keri Russell, composer Michael Giacchino, writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong, and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey. Description above from the Wikipedia article J.J. Abrams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Michael Shulman

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Shulman (born December 31, 1981) is an American stage, television, film actor and co-owner of New York and Los Angeles-based production company Starry Night Entertainment. Born in New York City, New York, Shulman has been acting since childhood where he began his career in theatre and quickly appeared in more than 10 plays and musicals, including a two year run on Broadway in Les Misérables, the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, and two plays by John Guare. It was during this time that he began his recording career and has since appeared in more than 5 albums. Shulman next turned to television and film and landed several roles, including Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate, M. Night Shyamalan’s Wide Awake, Disney's Can of Worms, Fox's Party of Five (1994), and his critically acclaimed performance as Benny in the HBO special, Someone Had to Be Benny (1996) for which he was nominated for a CableAce Award (the youngest nominee in the Award’s history) and won a Daytime Emmy Award. Shulman recently received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University with a major in the History of Art. In 2006, Shulman teamed with Los Angeles-based Craig Saavedra, who directed him in "Rhapsody In Bloom", to form Starry Night Entertainment. In 2009, Shulman produced and starred in the comedy/drama "Sherman's Way" opposite James LeGros, Enrico Colantoni, Brooke Nevin, Lacey Chabert and Donna Murphy. In 2009, Shulman returned to the stage as Alan in J.T. Roger's play "White People" at the Atlantic Theatre Company. In 2009, Shulman appeared as Assistant District Attorney Maxwell Cavanaugh in NBC's "Law & Order". Shulman is an advocate for the arts and serves on the board of The New Wave, a division of The Film Society of Lincoln Center. He resides in New York and rescued a dog named Stevie from the ASPCA. In 2010, Shulman associate produced the New York premiere of Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre. The comedy, directed by Dexter Bullard, starred Academy Award nominated actor Michael Shannon as Felix Artifex, a B-list Off-Broadway producer who gets in way over his fast-talking head when he takes on a gargantuan epic about the French Revolution which he thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal reclamation. While trying to land a big star for the lead role, he uses all his powers of persuasion, seduction and intimidation to strong-arm the writer into massively rewriting his play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Shulman licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Díana Bermudez

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Díana Bermudez is a British actor of Indigenous American heritage who moved to London as a child from her native Colombia. Although a shy and academic child, Diana found herself drawn to performing arts and in her early teens enrolled into a weekend drama club which fueled her passion for acting. Continuing with drama throughout school, Diana studied Drama at Richmond Upon Thames college before a gap year took her touring Italy with an English theatre company. Diana was then enrolled into the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with alumni such as Lawrence Olivier, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Carrie Fisher, Riz Ahmed, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kit Harrington and Andrew Garfield. Post-graduation, Diana performed in 5*, sold-out, political play Valiant, which debuted at Edinburgh Fringe and detailed the untold and often hidden stories of women in war. Diana then went on to forge a career in TV with debut performances in guest lead roles for popular BBC dramas as well as playing Itchy Ramone in Karen Carpenter: Goodbye to Love (ITV). Most recently, Diana's work has brought her onto the big screen, filming opposite Natalie Portman in Xavier Dolan's upcoming feature The Death and Life of John F. Donovan and Oscar-winning Director, Danny Boyle's upcoming musical romantic-comedy Yesterday. Diana has just wrapped on Sylvester Stallone's Rambo 5: The Last Blood, playing Juanita and Mindy Kaling's Four Weddings and a Funeral remake on Hulu, closing out an exciting body of work due for release in 2019.
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Tan Songyun

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Tan Songyun, born in Luzhou, Sichuan Province on May 31, 1990, is a film and television actress in mainland China. In 2001, he entered Sichuan Provincial Dance School to learn classical dance and folk dance. In 2005, he got involved in acting because he was filming the TV series "Live A Good Life". In 2007, he was admitted to the Acting Department of Beijing Film Academy. In 2012, he received much attention for playing the role of chun GUI in the qing dynasty drama "harem · Zhen Huan biography". In 2016, with the network drama "the best of us" won the most potential actor of the year on iQIYI scream night [4]; In the same year, the romantic film in which she participated, "A Smile makes me Smile", was released. In 2017, she won the best Actress award for online drama in the second Golden Seagull Asian New Media Film Festival and the Best Actress Award for the second Golden Bough Online Film and TELEVISION Festival by virtue of the love idol drama "Summer of the Fox". In the same year, the inspirational youth idol drama "Spray of Water", starring her as the leading role, broke the ratings of 1 for many times after it was broadcast. In the same year, he participated in the inspirational variety of acting competition "The Birth of an Actor". On October 17, 2019, he was included in the 2019 Forbes List of China's 30 elites under the age of 30. In the same year, the suspense pure love giant film "Under The Clothes", starring the leading actor, was released on the Internet. On August 10, 2020, the youth growth healing drama "In the Name of My Family" aired. In September, she won the best Actress of the year in the 4th Internet Film Festival by virtue of "In the Name of Family".
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Samula Anoa'i

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Samuel Fred Anoa'i is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Samu. He is best known for his appearances with WWE, World Championship Wrestling, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s fter leaving ECW Samu worked for a number of independent organizations both as a singles wrestler and alongside Lloyd who worked under names such as Alofa, and "The Tahitian Warrior" winning titles in WWC and ISPW. Samu also became a regular in his father's World Xtreme Wrestling Promotion and has held the WXW World title five times. Samu is still active to this day having won the New World Wrestling Undisputed Brass Knuckles Championship on October 28, 2006 and is a part-time instructor at his father's and uncle's “Wild Samoan Training Facility" On March 31, 2007, Samu and Rosey inducted The Wild Samoans, Afa and Sika into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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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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Nicola Pannelli

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Nato a Como il 26 maggio 1966. Diplomato presso la Scuola di Recitazione del Teatro Stabile di Genova nel 1991.  Tre anni di canto lirico presso il Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini di Genova.  In teatro ha lavorato principalmente con Valerio Binasco, Cristina Pezzoli e Marco Sciaccaluga. Ha lavorato e lavora con il Teatro Stabile di Genova a partire da Anna Laura Messeri e poi con Benno Besson, Massimo Mesciulam, Marco Sciaccaluga, Guido De Monticelli, Vittorio Gassman, Ferdinando Bruni ed Elio De Capitani; per il Centro Teatrale Bresciano con Massimo Castri; per il Teatro Stabile del Veneto con J.Lassalle e con Giuseppe Emiliani; con il Teatro Stabile di Bolzano con Fausto Paravidino. Ha lavorato anche con Giampiero Rappa, Gloriababbi Teatro e Veronica Cruciani. Fa parte della  "Popular Shakespeare Kompany" (PSK), la Compagnia fondata da Valerio Binasco nel 2012. Ha lavorato anche per il cinema (1999 Fandango "Il partigiano Jonnhy" regia Guido Chiesa; 2004 Fox and Gould “Keawe” regia di Valerio Binasco) e la televisione (2000 Love and War in the apennines regia di J.K Harrison). Ha fondato a Genova nel luglio 2001 la Compagnia  Narramondo Teatro, che è stato ed è il luogo di ricerca sulla tragedia contemporanea, sulla memoria e sulla resistenza. Da Novembre 2013 con Narramondo Teatro è  Direttore Artistico dell'Altrove Teatro della Maddalena di Genova.
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Lisa Comshaw

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Lisa Elaine Comshaw was born on February 18, 1964 in Akron, Ohio. Lisa first began working as a video model and appearing in numerous bondage, cat fight, and glamor videos in her mid 20s in the early 1990s. Comshaw not only acted in erotic thrillers in both starring and co-starring roles, but also wrestled under the alias Tori Sinclair. Lisa retired from the adult film industry in 2005 following the birth of her child. Comshaw also later worked as a real estate agent. She passed away in February 2020 of a stroke.
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Colin Welland

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Actor and writer Colin Welland will perhaps be forever remembered for his triumph at the 1982 Academy Awards, when he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his screenplay for the hit film Chariots of Fire, proclaiming "The British are Coming!" As an actor, his first film appearance is perhaps still his best-loved, the sympathetic Mr Farthing in Kes (1969), for which he won a BAFTA. Born in Liverpool, but raised in Leigh, Welland initially started out as an art teacher before moving into acting and becoming a household name playing the role of PC Graham in the long running BBC police serial Z Cars. Aside from Chariots of Fire, he wrote many other plays and films including the BAFTA winning Kisses at Fifty (later remade for Hollywood with Gene Hackman as Twice in a Lifetime), Leeds United! based on the rag trade strike that his own mother-in-law was active in, Yanks, A Dry White Season and War of the Buttons. As a film and TV actor his credits include Kes, Straw Dogs, Blue Remembered Hills, Cowboys and Sweeney! He died at the age of 81 on November 2, 2015, having suffered from Alzheimer's disease for several years.
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