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Dustin Fasching
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Dustin Fasching has performed theatrically and commercially in Los Angeles for the past eleven years. His film credits include Mouthgarden, The Breakdance Kid, and most recently, a leading role in the musical thriller, The Dead Inside. Dustin was a founding member of the comedy troupe, "One Hit Wonder", and performed on their weekly radio show, One Hit Wonder's Radio Timeslot, for the Comedy World Radio Network. He has brought his antics to the the stage in such programs as Larkeldi's Whiskey Carousel, The Muse Project and The Velvet Hammer as a dancing member of the faux-German interpretive dance troupe "Pupenschanz" and the "Other Half of the Handsome Family Dancers". Currently, Dustin can be found online performing in the Funnyordie.com web series, ONESIE, which he produced. You can also find Dustin singing every week with the L.A. Hootenanny in and around Los Angeles.
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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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Carrie Gibson
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Carrie Gibson was born in Washington, DC. She has spent over twenty years creating and touring plays throughout the United States and Canada on diversity and discrimination to educational institutions, major corporations, colleges and government agencies including NASA, the FBI, and the Pentagon. She is the founding Artistic Director of two national touring theater companies. She is a professional actor, singer and voice over artist, and writes screenplays. She also sings in The Sound of Musical, an a cappella group she founded devoted to musical theater songs.
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Richard Linklater
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Richard Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American self-taught film director, producer and screenwriter. Linklater was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour period, Linklater's work explored what he dubbed "the youth rebellion continuum," focusing in fine detail on generational rites and mores with rare compassion and understanding while definitively capturing the 20-something culture of his era through a series of nuanced, illuminating ensemble pieces which introduced any number of talented young actors into the Hollywood firmament.
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Amisa Miyazaki
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Amisa Miyazaki (宮崎 あみさ, Miyazaki Amisa, မီယာဇာကီ အမိဿ Miyazagi Amitha) is a Burmese-Japanese gravure idol, fashion model and actress. She portrays Sononi in Avataro Sentai Donbrothers.
She is currently a member of the idol group Mystear since 2020.
While working at a costume café, she was invited by a friend who worked at the same place to make her debut as a member of LoveLink, a female idol group.
LoveLink was disbanded on February 17, 2020, then she made her debut as a member of Mystear, an idol group from the same agency, on February 24, 2020.
On April 2020, she became affiliated with the modeling agency Coprte inc. and was selected as a finalist at that year's edition of Young Jump Seikore.
On January 25, 2022, it was announced that she would go on hiatus as a J-pop idol after a Mystear concert at Ebisu LIQUIDROOM on February 27 "in order to concentrate on her own entertainment activities".
Her role as Sononi in Avataro Sentai Donbrothers marks her debut as an actress.
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Jimmy Edwards
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James Keith O'Neill "Jimmy" Edwards, DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O!
Edwards was born in Barnes, London, (then Surrey), the son of a professor of mathematics. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, at King's College School in Wimbledon and at St John's College, Cambridge.
He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.
In December 1958, Jimmy Edwards played the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Kenneth Williams, Tommy Steele, Yana and Betty Marsden Bobby Howell was the Musical Director. In April 1966, he played at the last night of Melbourne's Tivoli Theatre.
Edwards frequently worked with Eric Sykes, acting in short films that Sykes wrote: The Plank (1967), which also starred Tommy Cooper; alongside Arthur Lowe and Ronnie Barker in the remake of The Plank in 1979; and in Rhubarb (1969), which again featured Sykes. The films were not silent but had no dialogue other than grunts. He also appeared in the The Bed Sitting Room (1969) as Nigel, a man who lives in a left luggage compartment after being mistaken for a suitcase.
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Xu Jinglei
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Xu Jinglei (born April 16, 1974) is an actress, director and editor most famous in her native mainland China. Xu graduated from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy in 1997. Along with Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses. She has also spanned an acting career with directing since 2003.
Although not well known outside of China, Xu is popular domestically: in mid-2006, her Chinese language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.
She is the editor of monthly Chinese e-zine Kaila at Kaila.com.cn, which was started on 16 April 2007.
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Trace Lysette
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Trace Lysette is an American actress, producer, recording artist, and trans advocate best known for her recurring role as Shea on Amazon's critically acclaimed series Transparent, and Tracey in the feature film Hustlers. She also featured in the Netflix documentary Disclosure as herself.
She has also guest starred in other productions such as Midnight Texas, Pose, Drunk History and Tarell Alvin McRainy’s David Makes Man A product of the New York City house and ball culture scene, she has and continues to be a voice for trans and other marginalized folks in Hollywood and beyond.
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Tony Orlando
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Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an Americanshow business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. Discovered by producer Don Kirshner, Orlando had songs on the charts in 1961 when he was 16, "Halfway to Paradise" and "Bless You". Orlando then became a producer himself, and at an early age was promoted to a vice-president position at CBS Records, where he was in charge of the April-Blackwood Music division. He sang under the name "Dawn" in the 1970s, and when the songs became hits, he went on tour and the group became "Tony Orlando and Dawn". They had several songs which were major hits including "Candida", "Knock Three Times", and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". The group hosted a variety program, "The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show" on CBS from 1974–76, and then broke up in 1978. Orlando then continued as a solo singer, performing in Las Vegas and Branson, Missouri.[1] Orlando has hosted the New York City portions of the MDA Labor Day Telethon on WWOR-TV since the 1980s but quit in 2011 in response to Jerry Lewis' firing from the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Natalya Surkova
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A professional Director, a student of G. M. Kozlova (SPATHI). She made her debut on the stage of the children's theater "Smile" at the age of 13. With 17 years-worked actress in theater-Studio "Neo", where, however, not was truly demand.
In 1988, Natalia left the theater and soon got into the theater Studio at the Palace of Culture. Gorky under the leadership of Tatiana Zakharova, from which grew the theater "cosmopolitan", recently renamed the "Theater workshop 21".
Today she works in the theater workshop "Fair" as an actress and Director. Starred in films and TV series.
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