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Robert Clohessy

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Robert Clohessy (born June 10, 1958) is an American actor, known for playing Correctional Officer Sean Murphy on the HBO drama Oz. He was also a cast member in the final season of Hill Street Blues. He has had recurring roles in the ABC daytime drama All My Children, Guiding Light, and appeared in the short lived Fox show New Amsterdam. He also played a semi-minor role in the film "Across the Universe", playing the part of Jude's long-lost father. He was also a series regular in short-lived shows such as Laurie Hill who at that time starred a then-unknown Ellen Degeneres. He played the role of "Mike" in the Broadway Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Pal Joey, from November 2008 through February 2009. He is currently seen on HBO's new show Boardwalk Empire.
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Rip Torn

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Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well.
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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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Christopher Priest

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Christopher Priest (born July 14, 1943 in Cheadle, Greater Manchester) was an English novelist and science fiction writer. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island, Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige and The Separation. Priest has been strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed to the position of Vice-President of the international H. G. Wells Society. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Priest(novelist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jeremy Flynn

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Jerry Flynn trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art between 1978 and 1980. His contemporaries included Sir Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Richard McCabe, John Sessions, and Paul McGann. After graduating he worked with Deborah Warner in her Kick Theatre production of ‘Woyczek’, and touring productions of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Trial’; he later worked in regional Rep. theatre [George in Anthony Clarke’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ at Birmingham Rep., Melchior in Tom Stoppard’s ‘On the Razzle’ at Leeds Playhouse, Kelly in Daniel Mornin’s ‘Short of Mutiny’, and in ‘Pericles’ also at the Theatre Royal Stratford East London. Between 1984 and 1988 he worked at the Royal National Theatre. His first play was for Bill Bryden taking the leading role in Clifford Odet’s ‘Golden Boy’, for which he received both critical acclaim (Frank Rich, Milton Shulman, Sheridan Morley, Michael Billington) and a Most Promising Newcomer nomination. He continued at the RNT, first playing Vardaman in Peter Gill’s initial production of ‘As I Lay Dying’, then for Sir Peter Hall (Eros & the Clown in ‘Anthony & Cleopatra’, Arviragus in ‘Cymbeline’ and The Clown in ‘The Winter’s Tale’), and finally for John Burgess playing Charles in ‘Schism in England’. Since the 1990’s he has taken leading roles in touring productions of ‘The Caretaker’ (Mick), ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ (Edward), ‘Stones in his Pockets’ (Charlie Conlon), and ‘Edmund Kean’ (Edmund Kean). He has worked in numerous films (‘Comrades’, ‘Schindler’s List’, ‘Our God’s Brother’, ‘White Raven’, ‘Afraid of the Dark’, ‘Samson and Delilah’, ‘A Polish Death’ and ‘Desert Lunch’), TV and radio projects. In the mid 1990s Jerry Flynn became co-founder and Artistic Director of The Globe Theatre Arts Foundation in Warsaw Poland. With the support of the Prudential Foundation, the EU arts fund and numerous international corporate sponsors, the Globe Theatre Group staged cutting-edge English theatre productions in Poland, brining professional artists in from the UK, Ireland, and the USA. During his time in Poland he also adapted and directed drama for Polish TV (The Signalman, The Rocking Horse Winner, Treasure Island). Jerry Flynn is also a qualified teacher and lecturer in Theatre Arts studies.
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David Wilmot

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David Wilmot is an award-winning Irish stage, screen, and television actor. Wilmot's theatre credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, As You Like It with the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, and Juno and the Paycock in London's West End. He originated the role of Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2001, played it at the Barbican Center in 2002, then joined the 2006 off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company production, which later transferred to Broadway. He was nominated for the 2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor and the Theatre World Award for his performance. Wilmot portrayed Dr. Ed Costello in sixteen episopdes of The Clinic on RTÉ. He was nominated for the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a TV Drama. Wilmot's screen credits include Michael Collins (1996), I Went Down (1997), The Devil's Own (1997), The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998), Intermission (2003), Laws of Attraction (2004), King Arthur (2004), and Six Shooter (2006). He was named Best Supporting Actor in Film and nominated Best New Talent for Intermission at the 2003 Irish Film and Television Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Wilmot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Flood

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Flood est le nom d'artiste du producteur anglais Mark Ellis. Il est né le 16 août 1960 à Londres. Il commence sa carrière à la fin des années 1970 et collabore avec Soft Cell, Cabaret Voltaire ou bien encore New Order avant de contribuer aux albums de Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (albums The First Born is Dead et Kicking Against the Pricks). Ses collaborations les plus emblématiques demeurent celles avec U2 (Achtung Baby en 1991, Zooropa en 1993 — avec Brian Eno et The Edge — puis Pop en 1997), le groupe Nine Inch Nails (albums Pretty Hate Machine, Brokenet The Downward Spiral), PJ Harvey (album To Bring You My Love), Depeche Mode (les impressionnantes sonorités de Violator en 1990, puis de Songs of Faith and Devotion en 1993), trois albums d'Erasure (les deux premiers Wonderland en 1986 et The Circus en 1987, puis leur 9e album Loveboat en 2000), Showtime de Nitzer Ebb en 1990 ainsi que Ebbhead en 1991 (coproduit avec Alan Wilder), ainsi que les Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness en 1995). Il a produit This Is War, le troisième album de Thirty Seconds to Mars. En 2013, il mixte Delta Machine, le 13ealbum de Depeche Mode. Son surnom "Flood" vient du fait qu'il avait la réputation de souvent renverser du thé sur les tables de mixage en studio au début de sa carrière ("flood" en anglais veut dire flux, inondation, flot ... ).
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María Nela Sinisterra

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She was born in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. After finishing her nursing studies at the IFA (Instituto Femenino La Anunciación) in Buenaventura, she moved to Bogotá (capital of the country), where she participated in the reality show Señorita Bogotá (in 2006). In 2008, at the age of 19, she decided to try her luck in Argentina. she participated in the reality show De frente al miedo, produced in Buenos Aires for the Caracol channel. In 2011, her original idea for a sitcom (situation comedy) was turned into the series ¡Todas a mí! in which she participated as an actress and as co-writer of all episodes. She worked in the Spanish-Argentine horror film Penumbra (2011). In 2013 she made her Spanish film debut in the comedy Solo para dos, by Roberto Santiago, alongside Santi Millán. In 2014 he worked in the Colombian version of the film Corazón de León, which starred alongside Colombian actors Marlon Moreno and Manolo Cardona. In Colombia she worked in the dramatic film Tiempo muerto, with a script that won several awards in Argentina. In 2015 he worked in Bogota with Colombian-American actor John Leguizamo in the dramatic film Perros, by Harold Trompetero. He worked in the Colombian horror-thriller film, Pacífico, which was shot in Bahía Solano. He later worked in Buscando el muerto arriba.
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Ruby Yap

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Ruby Yap Di Fei is a Malaysian actress and singer. Yap made a successful transition to drama stage performance in 2015, winning a "Best Actress in Leading Role" for her role in the critically acclaimed The Dawns Here Are Quiet in 13th Malaysia Asli Drama Award (ADA) in 2016. She achieved international recognition when she portrayed Cindy, a lawyer assistant who stand with justice in Hong Kong Indie Film Million Loves In Me, receiving a "Award of Merit for Supporting Actress" in The IndieFest Film Award 2017 at San Diego, California and "Award of Excellence for Supporting Actress" in Depth of Field International Film Festival 2017 at Delaware, USA. Ruby garnering further recognition for "Best Supporting Actress" in Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival (HIMPFF) 2017. In the same year, Yap released her first single '"Who Am I", and produced a musical theater "90's" as warm up promo for her upcoming debut of EP mini-album.
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Calogero Buttà

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Calogero Buttà was born in Capo d'Orlando (ME) on 11/03/1951, he graduated from the scientific high school of Acireale, and without too much enthusiasm enrolled in the faculty of letters of the University of Catania, while for some time now he was interested of theater. He enrolled in Rome at Alessandro Fersen's actor studio, gradually abandoning the faculty of letters. He works in theater with the major Italian directors such as Antonio Calenda, Aldo Trionfo, Luigi Squarzina, Alessandro Fersen, Roberto de Simone etc. at the cinema with Florestano Vancini, Dino Risi, Marco Risi etc. Participate in some TV dramas. Attracted as a child by drawing and painting, he has always been self-taught, perhaps discontinuously but gradually elaborating personal themes intimately linked to his experiences and existential paths.
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