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Farah White
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Height: 5' 6" Weight: 124 lbs
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Farah White began acting professionally in 1999. She started landing roles in film and commercials almost immediately. She was cast in “Miss Congeniality”, “Serving Sara” and numerous independent films. In addition to acting she has directed and produced several short films for the festival circuit. Farah currently resides in Los Angeles, where she continues to act and work on the completion of her second screenplay.
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William Wright
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William Wright (January 5, 1911 – January 19, 1949) was an American leading man in films who was most popular in the 1940s when he was typically compared to Clark Gable, whose career was temporarily derailed by World War II. Wright even played Gable's part in a 1945 musical comedy remake of It Happened One Night entitled Eve Knew Her Apples. He also played Philo Vance in Philo Vance Returns (1947) and the title role in King of the Gamblers (1948). Wright's other films include Eadie Was a Lady (1945), Rose of the Yukon (1949), Daughter of the Jungle (1949), and Impact (1949). Wright died from cancer in 1949 at the age of 38.
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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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Igor Petrenko
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Igor Petrovich Petrenko (Russian: И́горь Петро́вич Петре́нко) is a Russian actor of cinema and theater. In 2002 President of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave him The State prize of Russia.
Was born on August 23, 1977 in Potsdam (GDR) in the family of the Soviet soldiers. His father Pyotr Vladimirovich Petrenko was a lieutenant colonel, and in addition to military service, he was a candidate of chemical sciences. Igor's mother, Tatyana Anatolievna Petrenko, was a professional translator from English. When Igor was three years old, the family moved to Moscow.
As a child, the main hobbies were gymnastics, judo and sambo, when among the favorite school subjects was English language.
In 2000 he was graduated from The Shchepkin Higher Theatre School in Moscow. Igor become famous actor after he was appearing in the "Zvezda" TV Series. Thanks to his role in the Series he won the "Nika" award in the nomination as the "Discovery of the year" in 2003.
For his acting skills, the actor was awarded the Presidential Award (Officially, the State Prize of the Russian Federation), and in 2004 he was awarded the "Triumph" Award as the best young actor.
In 2012, he performed the role of Sherlock Holmes in new series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Lotfi Attar
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Lotfi Attar, better known as Lotfi Raïna Raï, is an Algerian guitarist, songwriter and singer, born March 14, 1952 in Sidi Bel Abbès.
Lotfi Attar grew up in a family of five brothers and a sister, all music lovers, including his older brother Kamel, musician, first guitarist of Sidi Bel Abbès. When the war of independence broke out in 1954, Lotfi's father was already in the national movement before becoming an FLN activist, imprisoned several times. On the eve of independence, in 1962, his father was assassinated by an OAS terrorist commando and the house was dynamited. The whole family, threatened with death by the OAS, took refuge in Tlemcen.
Barely ten years old, this painful tragedy marked young Lotfi for life. With the cruelty of the war he stopped his schooling with a Certificate of Primary Studies, he began to play the guitar. At the age of twelve, in 1964, he lost his older brother Kamel, who died following an illness. In 1969, he worked for a watchmaker. At the age of 15, he took up the electric guitar, and in 1973 bought his first Fender Mustang 1964 electric guitar with which he learned the blues, inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana.
In 1969, with a few friends, Lotfi Attar created the group Les Aigles Noirs with Frih Tayeb with, among others, Kada Zina and a few years later, they covered an old song: Ya Zina Diri Latay. In 1971, he met producer Rachid Baba Ahmed, and began his professional musical career.
Former members of the Aigles Noirs created the legendary group Raïna Raï in Paris in 1980 with Lotfi Attar, Hachemi Djellouli, Tarik Chikhi and Kaddour Bouchentouf. This group is considered the pioneer of raï music. They enjoyed success from their first album thanks to the song "Ya Zina" which gave them international success. In July 1985, the group broke up just after their last concert in Algiers, Lotfi did not agree with the musical direction the group was taking. At the end of 2001, Lotfi relaunched Raïna Raï with Hachemi until August 2003. And there again, it was the breakup following a lively evening in Béjaïa. In 2015, Lotfi Attar once again relaunched the group Raïna Raï, with certain members from the beginnings of the group, including the drummer and founding member of Raïna Raï, Hachemi Djellouli and the singer, Mohamed Guebbache known as Kada.
In 1985, he created with his wife Hamida, lyricist, the group Amarna, for which he composed the music, the texts were inspired by lyric poetry. Djilali Amarna was the singer of the group. Amarna published four albums: Chouli (1986) Saf (1986), Waïle (1987) and El Ghaba" (1989). Hachemi Djellouli, returned from France, joined Amarna. The group reformed in 2001, to release the album entitled " Bye Bye". He will sign the soundtrack for the film Harraga Blues, directed by Moussa Haddad and released in 2012. He also composes the music for the documentary on the life of Hassi Messaoud, made in the 1990s. He also contributes to the music of film, by Lyès Salem "El Wahrani". In 2008 and 2010, he created music for plays in Sidi Bel Abbès: "Topaze" by Marcel Pagnol, and "Rashomon".
He then published more personal and experimental compositions, notably a new style called Goumb Guits in which the electric guitar reproduces the sound of the guembri.
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Jay Baruchel
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Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He has had a successful career in comedy films, and has appeared in such box office successes as Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, and How to Train Your Dragon film series, as well as the films She's Out of My League, The Trotsky, The Art of the Steal, Robocop (2014), This is the End, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
He has also had roles on TV shows including Undeclared, The Stones, Man Seeking Woman, The Moodys, and a voice role for DreamWorks Dragons.
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Emile Meyer
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Emile Meyer (August 18, 1910 – March 19, 1987) was an American actor (born in New Orleans) usually known for tough, aggressive, authoritative characters in Hollywood films from the 1950s era, mostly in westerns or thrillers. He provided such noteworthy performances as Ryker in Shane (1953), as Father Dupree in Paths of Glory (1957) and the corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success (1957). He appeared in an episode of the 1961 series The Asphalt Jungle.
He also appeared on television, including a guest spot on John Payne's The Restless Gun and as a truculently stubborn juror opposite James Garner in the 1957 Maverick episode "Rope of Cards." His guest appearance on the "Restless Gun" episode "Man and Boy" in 1957 included filming on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. His final film role was in The Legend of Frank Woods (1977).
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Gale Hansen
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Memorable as the beatnik wannabe Charlie "Nuwanda" Dalton in 1989's Dead Poet's Society; Minneapolis born, Seattle raised Gale is a combo of German, Jewish, Russian, American Indian. Currently working as a Creative Exec at a Film Finance Co in Beverly Hills, Gale's [only] wife Eva Quiroz appeared [as "Brunette at the bar"] with him in the 1990 film "Shaking the Tree" as well as another "Brunette" in 1991 flick with Rob Lowe, "Finest Hour".
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Philip Ahn
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Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937).
During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films.
Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies.
Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.
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Catherine Mary Stewart
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Catherine Mary Stewart (born Catherine Mary Nursall on April 22, 1959) is a Canadian actress. Her first notable role was as Kayla Brady on the soap opera Days of our Lives from 1981 to 1983. In 1984 she starred in two feature films, The Last Starfighter as Maggie Gordon and Night of the Comet as Regina Belmont.
In the mid 1980s, Stewart appeared in two highly-rated mini-series; Hollywood Wives (1985) and Sins (1986). She made guest appearances on television shows such as Knight Rider, Hotel, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits and in the television movie Murder by the Book. In 1989, she also appeared in the film Weekend at Bernie's.
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