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Tracy Letts

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Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He is also known for his portrayal of Andrew Lockhart in seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's Homeland, for which he has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards as a member of the ensemble. He currently portrays Nick on the HBO comedy Divorce. Letts wrote the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: Bug and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County, directed by John Wells. His 2009 play Superior Donuts was adapted into a television series of the same name which is currently in its second season on CBS.
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Seohyun

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Seo Ju-hyun (Hangul: 서현, born June 28, 1991), best known by her stage name, Seohyun, is a South Korean singer and actress. Seohyun is a member of the K-pop girl group, Girls' Generation, and its first sub-unit, TaeTiSeo (TTS). She made her solo singing debut with the lead single, Don't Say No and a mini-album of the same name. As an actress, Seohyun is best known for her roles in the musicals, Moon Embracing The Sun, Gone With The Wind and Mamma Mia. She is also known for the dramas Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo and Private Lives. Recently, she starred in Love and Leashes, a Netflix romantic comedy film.
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Jim Belushi

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James Adam Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his title role of James "Jim" Orenthal on the American sitcom According to Jim. He is the younger brother of the late comic actor John Belushi. Belushi was born in Chicago to Adam Anastos Belushi, an Albanian from Qytezë, Korçë, and Agnes Demetri (Samaras) Belushi, who was born in Ohio from Greek-Albanian immigrants from Korçë. He was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: Older brother John, older sister Marian, and younger brother Billy. After graduating from Wheaton Central High School, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage, and graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a degree in Speech and Theatre Arts. This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
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Tom Watt

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Thomas Erickson "Tom" Watt is an English actor, writer and broadcaster, who is best known for playing the role of Lofty Holloway in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from the programme's start in 1985 to 1988. On 19th February, 2019 - the show's thirty-fourth anniversary - Watt returned to the role of Lofty (alongside fellow original cast member Linda Davidson as Mary Smith) to attend the funeral of the Dr Legg character. Away from acting, Watt is a successful sports journalist, pundit and presenter known for the BBC radio show Fighting Talk and his documentary films for BT Sport.
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Naidra Ayadi

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Naidra Ayadi is a French actress. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2012 for her role in the film Polisse. Naidra Ayadi was born to a Tunisian family in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris. She spent several years working mainly in theatre acting and television before her breakthrough film role in 2011's Polisse, directed by Maïwenn. Ayadi won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in the film;[she shared the award with Clotilde Hesme, who won it for her role in Angel & Tony (2011). Source: Article "Naidra Ayadi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Joe Swanberg

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Joe Swanberg (born August 31, 1981) is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is considered a major figure in the mumblecore film movement. His films often focus on relationships, sex, technology, and the filmmaking process, and include V/H/S (2012), Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Win It All (2017), Digging For Fire (2015), and Nights and Weekends (2008), the last of which was co-directed by Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig.
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Johnny Lockwood

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Johnny Lockwood (December 7, 1920 - April 25, 2013) was an English-born Australian actor of theatre, television and film and also a comedy performer. He was best known for his role in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96, playing Hungarian Jew deli proprietor Aldo Godolfus. Lockwood was an orphan by the age of 11 and, the youngest in the family by several years, went to live with his sister, who encouraged his dancing and vocal impressions, skills that would serve him well throughout his entertainment career. He was the father of actress Joanna Lockwood who played her role as Sally McKinnon in Australian TV series, E Street.
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Samantha Cohen

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is an American professional wrestler better known by her ring name Terra Calaway. She has also served as a manager/valet and referee early in her career. Calaway was trained at Vegas Championship Wrestling by Legacy, Tony Leo, and Funny Bone. She appeared as a manager and referee for both VCW and Future Stars of Wrestling, also located in Las Vegas. She managed frequently outside of Las Vegas, in Arizona and Utah before beginning to step into the ring as a competitor. In 2011, Calaway began wrestling in Southern California regularly for Vendetta Pro Wrestling and LuchaPro where she eventually moved to Los Angeles in late 2011. She began branching out further to compete all over the states of California, Nevada, and Arizona. She made her East Coast debut for Women Superstars Uncensored in 2012 in a losing effort against Allysin Kay of the Midwest Militia. In 2013, she returned to the East Coast for three shows; ECWF, BWO, and Wrestling Is Respect. In the opening few minutes of her match for Wrestling Is Respect against Veda Scott, Calaway jumped off of the ring apron to chase Scott when her foot became tangled in the ring apron. This caused her to completely tear apart her ACL, MCL, and meniscus. She was out of action until the end of 2013 when she returned to singles action against TNA Knockout and former WWE Diva, Awesome Kong. In early 2015, Calaway moved from Los Angeles to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In October of 2015, Calaway won her first championship on the East Coast when she became the first Pro Wrestling Magic Women's Champion after defeating Deonna Purrazzo. The following week, she was a quarterfinalist in the 2nd Annual ECWA Women's Super 8 Chickfight Tournament, losing to Brittany Blake in the first round. She now competes all over the northeast and continues to expand on her career.
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is a British actress and singer of Antiguan and St. Lucian heritage. She is known for her role as Vivian Johnson on the US TV series Without a Trace (2002-2009), and has starred in other US TV shows such as Blindspot (2015–2016) and Homecoming (2018). She is also known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film Secrets & Lies, for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category.
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