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Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Hannah Weisz (born March 7, 1970) is an English actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, a Critics' Choice Award and a BAFTA Award.
Weisz began acting in British stage and television in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play Design for Living and she went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly, Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006) and The Lovely Bones (2009).
For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and garnered critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Denial (2016), and The Favourite (2018). For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination. In 2021, Weisz starred as Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow.
Weisz was engaged to filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, with whom she has a son, from 2005 to 2010. She married actor Daniel Craig in 2011, with whom she has a daughter, and became a naturalised US citizen the same year.
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Bruce Yarnell
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Bruce Patane Altomari Yarnell (December 28, 1935 – November 30, 1973) was an American film, television, and theatre actor and singer. He stood at an impressive 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) tall, adding to his commanding stage presence.
Yarnell began his career as a singer, studying opera and performing at the Earl Carroll Theatre in Los Angeles. He quickly transitioned to acting, making his Broadway debut in the original production of Camelot as Sir Lionel.
Yarnell also appeared in a number of films, including Irma la Douce (1963) and The Next Best Thing (2000).
Sadly, Yarnell's life was tragically cut short at the age of 37 when he died in a car accident. Despite his brief career, he left behind a lasting legacy in the entertainment industry. His powerful voice, commanding presence, and talent for both singing and acting made him a memorable performer who is still fondly remembered by fans today.
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Vince Corazza
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Vincent Corazza (born December 6, 1972) is a Canadian-born actor known for playing the role of Alden Jones in the television series Braceface.
Corazza began acting at the age of 10. He appeared in both leading and supporting roles in over 100 films, television shows, movies of the week(MOW) and commercials combined. His credits include the 2003 feature film, Owning Mahowny in which he played the best friend of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, as well as the television movie The Cheetah Girls for the Disney Channel. Other credits include guest appearances on The Famous Jett Jackson, 24, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, JAG and Without a Trace, and a December 2006 appearance on the daytime drama General Hospital.
Along with his film and television career, Corazza's vocal career has spanned two decades. He has lent his voice talents to over 1000 radio and television commercials. Notable vocal/animation credits include, Alden on Braceface, Tuxedo Mask and Alan of Sailor Moon notoriety, Sam Sparks of Rescue Heroes and Shickadance of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective fame. He was also the voice of U.B.C.S. mercenary, Carlos Oliveira, in the PlayStation video game, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and the voice of Zexion in Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.
Corazza played the lead animated character of "Slim" in an IMAX feature entitled "Adventures in Animation 3D".
Corazza also had a role in the horror movie Bless the Child.
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P. David Miller
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The owner, Acting Coach/Teacher and Creative Director of Inside The Fourth Wall in Los Angeles, and resident acting teacher at Santa Clarita School of Performing Arts, the actor known as P. David Miller, was born and raised in the very mean streets (The Mission District) of beautiful and culturally diversified San Francisco. He started acting when he was 15 at The Everyman Theatre, a Shakespearean repertory company in San Francisco, California. He joined the United States Marine Corps in 1981 and saw the world in all its glory, its wonders, the occasional horror, and all its splendor. His last MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) was Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician with a Senior rating. He discharged from the United States Marine Corps in 1998.
Since July 2003, he has been in over 150 productions as an Actor that has encompassed theatre, feature films, independent films, short films, television, commercials, web series, print, and voice over. Through his experience in the United States Marine Corps and training in martial arts, he is also very capable as a utility stunt performer, fight choreographer, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and technical adviser for weapons and military tactics/protocol. With all his experiences he was tapped to direct his first film, 'Taught In Cold Blood' in 2010 by Continuum Pictures.
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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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Treechada Petcharat
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Treechada Petcharat (Thai: ตรีชฎา เพชรรัตน์; RTGS: Trichada Phetcharat), born Saknarin Marnyaporn (Thai: ศักดิ์นรินทร์ มาลยาภรณ์; RTGS: Saknarin Manyaphon; October 5, 1986), better known by the names Poyd (Thai: ปอย; RTGS: Poi), Nong Poy, or Treechada Malayaporn, is a Thai actress and model. Petcharat underwent sex reassignment surgery at age 17.
Peranakan family born, as a child, Treechada knew she was a girl, but in front of her parents, she had to pretend and live as a male. She felt disgusted by her "male" genitals, so at the age of 19, she underwent gender reassignment surgery and since then, she has said that she feels as if she has been reborn.
At age 19, Treechada won the Miss Tiffany's 2004 and Miss International Queen 2004.
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Morgan Conway
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Morgan Conway (March 16, 1903 in Newark, New Jersey – November 16, 1981 in Livingston, New Jersey) was an American actor, best known for his portrayals of Dick Tracy.
Born Sydney Conway, he was educated at Columbia University in New York City. He arrived in Hollywood just in time to get on the ground floor of the industry's burgeoning labor movement. Conway was one of the founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. His first film appearance was in the 1934 film Looking for Trouble.
For many years he freelanced, working for various studios in bits or supporting roles. His most familiar appearance from this period is probably in Charlie Chan in Reno (1939).
By the mid-1940s he was a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, and he was chosen to portray Chester Gould's comic-strip detective Dick Tracy in a pair of feature films: Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball. RKO's earliest publicity photos posed Conway in profile, hoping to emulate Gould's square-jawed caricatures. Although this screen Tracy didn't resemble the print Tracy physically, Conway's dramatic interpretation was faithful; he gave the role an understated, businesslike quality totally in keeping with a police procedural. Morgan Conway is considered by many (including Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins) to be the best screen Dick Tracy.
Morgan/Sydney Conway left the motion picture industry and returned to New Jersey, where he died of lung cancer at the age of 78.
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Thai Fong
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Thai Fong is an Asian-Australian actor. Born in a refugee camp, his family fled to Melbourne, Australia when he was just two-years old. At seventeen his parents moved to the east coast of the United States, to North Carolina, to pursue the American dream. But Thai's American dream lied elsewhere. At nineteen he packed his bags and hit the road, making the three-thousand mile journey alone to LA to pursue acting. Thai has had the fortunate opportunity to work with producers such as Todd Phillips, Joel Silver and John Sayles and opposite talent such as; Ludacris, Terry Crews, Joan Cusack and Tia Mowry - to name a few.
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Marianne Koch
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Marianne Koch (born August 19, 1931 in Munich) is a retired German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in spaghetti westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.
Between 1950 and 1971, Koch appeared in more than 65 films. In the haunting 1954 espionage thriller Night People she starred alongside Gregory Peck. Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars showcased her alongside Clint Eastwood as a civilian tormented by ruthless local gangsters, torn between her husband and child and the villains. In Germany she was probably best-loved for her many years of participation in the highly popular TV game show Was bin ich which ran from the 1950s until 1988 and achieved ratings of up to 75% at its peak.
In 1971, she resumed the medical studies she had broken off in the early 1950s to become an actress. She got her MD in 1974 and practiced medicine until 1997 as a specialist in Munich. In 1976, she was one of the initial hosts of Germany's pioneering talk show 3 nach 9 [Three After Nine], for which she was awarded one of the most prestigious awards of the German television industry, the Grimme Preis. She also hosted other television shows and had a medical advice program on radio.
In 1953, she married the physician Gerhard Freund, with whom she has two sons. The marriage ended in 1973 after Freund began an affair with Miss World 1956, Petra Schürmann, whom he later wed.
Marianne Koch is in a relationship with the publicist Peter Hamm since the mid 1980s.
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Zora Kerova
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Zora Ulla Keslerová (born 11 August 1950) is a Czech actress, dancer, singer and model. Often credited under the names Zora Kerova, Zora Kerowa or Zora Keer, she became known for starring in numerous Italian horror films during the 1980s.
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, she began her career as a dancer and singer, later becoming a photo model. Kerova made her screen debut in the Italian film, La febbre americana (1978). A year later, she appeared in the Czech drama, Křehké vztahy, and another Italian film, Terror Express. She followed by starring in cult horror films such as Antropophagus (1980), Cannibal Ferox (1981) and Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper (1982). She later appeared in another two Fulci's films, Touch of Death (1988) and Sodoma's Ghost (1988).
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