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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.
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Diego Galán
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Diego Galán Fernández (Tangier, Morocco, October 13, 1946), film critic and film director, director of the San Sebastian International Film Festival between 1986 and 1989 and between 1995 and 2000. After working as an administrative and accounting officer in several companies and as an actor in some theatrical companies, his love for film led him to direct the JAASA Cinema Club, in Madrid, between 1966 and 1968, after which he served as a member of the board director of the National Federation of Film Clubs. His activity extends, during those same years, to the professional field, where he works as an assistant director in some TVE programs made by Pedro Olea and Josefina Molina, in the Tele Club series and Los pintores del Prado, and in feature films for cinema. During the seventies, he also entered the field of performing with four short films that he wrote and directed solo.
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Sabine Paturel
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Sabine Paturel (born 19 September 1965) is a French singer and actress.
Paturel was born in Toulon, and has three sisters.
In 1986, her first single "Les Bêtises" (French, "stupid things") stayed for 30 weeks in the French singles chart (Top 50) from March to October 1986, peaking at #2 for several weeks and achieving Gold status. In 1987, she released her second single, "P'tit Bouchon", which reached #13.
At the same time, she took lessons in comedy with Jean-Laurent Cochet, which allowed her to start an acting career in theater. She triumphed in La Menteuse at the Théâtre Marigny and was nominated at the Molière Award. She played in various musicals, notably La Mégère apprivoisée and La Reine Margot.
As an actress, she appeared in television series such as Cordier, juge et flic and L'Instit and in films such as Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage (1983) and En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger (also in 1983).
Paturel has now created her own drama courses and supplies coaching and vocational training.
She is not related to the French actor Dominique Paturel.
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Cece Valentina
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Cece Valentina, a talented young actress, was born in Los Angeles in 2014. With her October birthday, Cece proudly identifies as a Libra, embodying the balance and charm that shines through her performances. She shares her home with her loving parents, her older sister Summer Sophia, and their two adorable dogs, Bentley and HoneyBear.
Cece's unique upbringing has gifted her with the joy of calling two places home. Frequent trips to England to visit family have fostered a deep connection to her British heritage. During one memorable trip, she had the incredible opportunity to witness her first West-End theater show, "SIX! The Musical." Cece's passion for the show is so infectious that she knows every song by heart and can often be found belting out the tunes in the car. Her dedication and love for the theater even led her to wait outside in the cold after the performance, eagerly collecting autographs from the cast members at the Stage Door.
At the young age of five, Cece discovered her love for acting, and it has been a whirlwind adventure ever since. Her natural talent and undeniable charisma quickly caught the attention of industry professionals, leading her to sign with Symington Talent Management. In a remarkable turn of events, Cece's very first professional audition landed her a supporting role opposite renowned actor Mark Wahlberg in the film "Arthur The King." This incredible opportunity took her to the Dominican Republic, where she and her family worked and visited some beautiful sights. While filming, Cece cherished the moments spent bonding with the dog that portrayed Arthur, creating lifelong memories.
Cece's talent extends beyond live-action performances, as she has also made her mark in the world of voiceover. Her journey began with her first voice job for a Tide Commercial, which served as a stepping stone into the realm of TV and film. She quickly found success and lent her voice to exciting projects. Fans can eagerly anticipate 2024, as Cece's voice will grace the highly anticipated "Kung Fu Panda 4," where she brings the lovable character named "Den Bunny" to life. Additionally, she is anxiously awaiting the release of two other projects: an upcoming series on Netflix and an animated series on Nickelodeon.
When she's not busy acting or working on voiceover projects, Cece's passion for singing takes center stage. Her dedication to honing her vocal skills has earned her roles in amateur productions such as "Camp Rock," "High School Musical," and "Press Start." Recently, she achieved a significant milestone by securing the lead role of Annie another amateur production of the beloved musical "Annie."
Cece's versatility extends to dance as well, where she excels in hip-hop and contemporary styles. Alongside her artistic pursuits, she finds joy in gymnastics, spending quality time with friends during fun sleepovers, and creating lasting memories with her family.
As Cece Valentina continues to shine in the world of acting and voiceover, her journey serves as an inspiration to young aspiring performers everywhere. With her undeniable talent and magnetic personality, Cece is poised to become a true star in the entertainment world.
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Michael Zegen
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Michael Jonathan Zegen (born February 20, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Rescue Me (2004–2011), Boardwalk Empire (2011–2014), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023).
Zegen was born to a teacher mother and a lawyer father, and lived in Glen Rock, New Jersey, before moving to nearby Ridgewood when he was five. He has two brothers. He is Jewish. His mother was born in Austria in a displaced persons' camp, and his maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors from Ukraine and Poland. He attended Ridgewood High School, where he was active in the school's theater program. Zegen is a 2001 graduate of Skidmore College.
His role on Rescue Me began as a recurring character in seasons 1–3, playing the nephew of series lead Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary). In seasons 5–6, he was promoted to the main cast when his character began probationary firefighter school to become a firefighter.
In 2010, Zegen was cast as gangster Bugsy Siegel for the second, third, and fifth season of the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire. In 2011, Zegen, along with James Ransone, was cast in supporting roles in the HBO comedy series How To Make It In America. In mid-2011, Zegen was cast in a recurring guest role in the second season of the AMC series The Walking Dead. In 2014 he created the role of Liam off-Broadway in the dark comedy Bad Jews. Zegan made his Broadway debut in A View from the Bridge in 2015. In 2017, Zegen played Joel Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. For the role he has won two Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series awards from the Screen Actors Guild. He returned to Broadway in 2021 to star in Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress.
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Maged El Kedwany
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Maged El Kedwany is an Egyptian film and television actor. In 1967, he was born in Shubra in Cairo, but lived in Kuwait up until age 18. He began his professional career while studying design at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He began acting in a number of amateur plays, which led to him being cast in various TV shows like "Qanfad" (Hedgehog) and "Nahnu al Nazre el-Shook." He's worked on dozens of films, among them are some of the most well-known films of the 1990s, like "Afareet el-Asphalt" (Asphalt Ghosts) in 1996 and "Saidi fe Gaea al-Amrikeya" (Saidi at the American University in Cairo) in 1998. His other films include "Harameya Ki-Gi-To" (Ki-Gi-To Thieves), "Harameya fe Thailand" (Thieves in Thailand), "Al-Ragel al-Abyad al-Motawast" (Average White Guy), and "Khaly min Kolesterol" (Cholesterol-Free). In 2012, he appeared in two high-profile movies, "Hafla Montasif al-Leil" (Midnight Party) and "Saaa we Nos" (Hour and a Half). studied in the (design) division of the faculty of fine arts. Thereafter he enrolled in the Institute of Theatrical Arts and graduated in 1995. Amongst the theatrical productions that he has performed in are “Pallo” and “Diwan Al Baqar”. Maged has also made several television appearances, which include roles in “Nahnu la Nazra Al Shawk”, “Al Farar Men Al Hob”, “Al Shara’a Al Jadeed”, “Zayzenia” and “Arabesque”.
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Marco Beltrami
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Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, A Quiet Place), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science-fiction (I, Robot, Snowpiercer), Western (3:10 to Yuma, Jonah Hex, The Homesman), and superhero (Hellboy, The Wolverine, Logan).
A long-time collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami scored seven of the director's films including the original four Craven-directed films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011). He has also worked with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Ole Bornedal, Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon-ho, Dan Gilroy, and John Krasinski. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Hurt Locker (2008), and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place (2018). He won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer (2011) and an Emmy Award for Free Solo (2018).
Beltrami was born on Long Island, New York, of Italian and Greek descent. He attended Ward Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under composer Jerry Goldsmith.
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match for director Joe Coppolletta, and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker Scream. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror/thriller and action genre, with the Scream sequels and hit films such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Angel Eyes (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson, Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), I, Robot (2004) and Red Eye (2005) featuring prominently in his resume. Apart from horror/thriller and action, he also scores certain independent films such as The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the film David and Lisa in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing.
He has composed the recent entries in the Die Hard saga, Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard, taking over from Michael Kamen from whom Beltrami used some of the original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's death in 2003. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma. Despite having met a mixed critical response, he was also nominated, alongside Buck Sanders, for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score to The Hurt Locker. In 2011, he was met with critical praise and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for his score to the drama film Soul Surfer. Beltrami composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film November Man. He co-composed the score for the 2015 Fantastic Four film with Philip Glass. ...
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Brad Carr
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Brad Carr has worked on over 279 film, video, television and theater productions in multiple departments. Son to a retired Air Force Colonel, free time was spent watching second-run movies like "Tank" and "Dune". Acquired his first exposure to a film set, when visiting original "Robocop" filming in Dallas. Step-son to former Mayor of Ottawa, Canada. During his freshman year at Lake Forest High School Brad uncovered a hidden desire and talent for fictional writing. At the same time he became extremely active in the high school's vast theater program working in stagecraft and acting. Sophomore year he began telecommunications and drama classes. Once again Brad discovered another hidden talent of producing and directing short videos and began sweeping the in-class "Telecom" awards. He pursued theater and video throughout the rest of high school and after graduating in 1998 he took a summer film program at Columbia College in Chicago.
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Conor Gomez
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Conor Gomez is an Actor looking to expand his career in professional film, television and theatre productions.
Conor was born on February 13th at Lakeshore General Hospital in Pointe-Claire Quebec, Canada. But before he turned 9-years-old he moved to Mississauga, Ontario - Meadowvale to be precise.
Towards the end of high school Conor started to get involved with a friends theatre company, Over the Edge Theatre Productions- he first performed on stage as 'Billy Bibbit' in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. In the few years that followed Conor continued to Act in plays. He played the part of Andrew in 'Beyond Therapy' and played 'Mark' in two productions of 'Popular', Over the Edge Theatre Productions original play. In between the plays, school and other life practices of being a teenager, Conor started acting in some short films and he even played a small part in the Independent Feature Film 'Sons of Shadow', directed by Tyler Williams.
In Early January 2007 Conor packed his two bags and boarded a plane in Mississauga, Ontario destined for Los Angeles, California- a bit cliche. Conor enrolled himself in the 2 year Meisner Technique acting program at the Joanne Baron/DW Brown Acting Studio in Santa Monica. Conor's time in LA was mainly focused on his various classes, but he still found the time to act in short films and even a couple Sci Fi channel feature films. He also began collaborating with Dustin Harnish, a talented actor and his good friend- the two began writing/directing their own Sketch Comedy for YouTube.
Upon graduating from the Baron/Brown Studio's in late 2008 Conor had to return back to Canada, except he decided to stay on the west coast and landed in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since being in Vancouver Conor has tried to act in anything he can get his hands on. He made his first film within weeks of arriving in town, he was cast by Graham/Nelson Talbot in their winter western 'The Big Draw'. While making the Big Draw he also met David McDonald. Conor has since continued to work with the three talented, award winning film makers on a variety of projects ranging from commercials and film to sketch comedy. In 2010 Conor played 'Jan Warwick' in the Metro Theatres Production of Agatha Christie's 'The Unexpected Guest'.
Conor is always eager to find new projects and talented people to not only work with, but to learn from. Recently he became involved with the award winning sketch comedy youtube channel MegaSteackMan (with over 9,000,000 views) and has acted in several of their productions.
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Joshua Bryant
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Joshua Bryant is an American actor, director, author, and speaker who is the founder of the Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival in Taos, New Mexico.
Bryant was born in Norfolk, Virginia. After attending the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and serving for three years in the Signal Corps, he began a career in the theater that eventually led to his starring, guest-starring in several television shows.
Bryant's movie credits have included acting roles in films and television movies, such as The Curious Female (1970), Black Noon (1971), Enter the Devil (1972), A Scream in the Streets (1973), The Morning After (1974), Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974), Framed (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), Maneaters Are Loose! (1978), Salem's Lot (1979), First Monday in October (1981), Gone Are the Dayes (1984), The Education of Allison Tate (1986), and Project Eliminator (1991) He was also active in television, including guest roles on Columbo, Little House on the Prairie, M*A*S*H (three episodes), The Rockford Files (four episodes) and Barnaby Jones (four episodes). For four years, Bryant hosted the syndicated series, Game Warden Wildlife Journal.
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