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Ashina Kwok

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Hong Kong actress Ashina Kwok Yik-Sum is known among netizens for her excellent figure. She knows it too, she’s published three photo albums in 2014 when she was 19-years-old. The 25-year-old became exceedingly popular in 2015 when she acted in “Lazy Hazy Crazy (同班同学)”. She took a break from showbiz after the filming of the raunchy show. Apparently, the break was not of her own violation. There were rumours that the wife of a wealthy businessman used her connections to ruin any of Kwok’s future acting opportunities. This included acting in Stephen Chow’s 2016 film, “The Mermaid”.
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Nathan Crowley

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Nathan Crowley was born in London, United Kingdom. He attended Brighton School of Art in England. He has received Academy Award nominations for The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar, also Bafta Nominations for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, "Interstellar, and Dunkirk his seventh collaboration with director Christopher Nolan. He also received an Emmy nomination for his work on the HBO series Westworld. Crowley has been the Designer on four of the Costume institutes exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that accompany the costume ball in New York every May. Super Heroes, American Women, Impossible Conversations, and China through the looking glass. He recently collaborated with Sofia Coppola on La Traviata at the Teatro del l'Opera di Roma.
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Lee Smith

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Lee Smith was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004) and The Dark Knight (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993). He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for RoboCop 2 (1990). He began his notable collaboration with director Peter Weir on the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, on which he was an associate editor working with Weir's longtime editor William M. Anderson. He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He was the sole editor for Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for an "Eddie Award" from the American Cinema Editors. More recently, Smith has edited seven films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2010, he received another nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award for his editing work on Inception; Inception was listed as the 35th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In 2018, he received an Academy Award for his work on Nolan's Dunkirk.
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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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Angela Featherstone

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Angela Eileen Featherstone (born 3 April 1965) is a Canadian actress. She is best-known for playing Linda, Adam Sandler's ex-girlfriend, in The Wedding Singer. Angela Featherstone came to Manitoba from Nova Scotia with her family in 1974 and lived in Winnipeg River and Thompson before moving to Winnipeg. She attended Grant Park High School in the 1980s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angela Featherstone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Merah Benoit

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Merah Benoit was born in South Louisiana July 2, 2012, into a family of entertainers. Her great grandfather spent time as a traveling circus performer, and her uncle is a Grammy nominated blues artists, as well as her dad, an accomplished singer-songwriter. It was only a matter of time before she would take to the craft herself. At age 5, Merah began her professional career by gaining notoriety within the New Orleans theatre community by landing signature roles in such classics as "Peter Pan" and "The Sound of Music". Her love of performing continued to the big screen and television where she has had the opportunity to work with Award-Winning actors such as Melissa Leo, Renee Zellweger, and Will Smith. Merah enjoys balancing her busy schedule with taking care of her pet bunny and rescue dog as well as practicing with her classic rock band "The Snores".
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Charles Roven

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Charles "Chuck" Roven (born August 2, 1949) is an American film producer and the president and co-founder of Atlas Entertainment. He is known for producing the superhero films The Dark Knight Trilogy, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and more. His film American Hustle was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2014, as well as in 9 other categories. In January 2018, Roven received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award for his body of work from the Producers Guild of America. and he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama for his producing in Oppenheimer, along with Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan. He also received the Academy Award for Best Picture for Oppenheimer alongside Nolan and Thomas.
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Wally Pfister

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Walter C. Pfister (born July 8, 1961) is an American director and former cinematographer, who is best known for his work with filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Some of his collaborations with Nolan include Memento (2000), The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), and Inception (2010). For his work on Inception, Pfister won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and received a BAFTA Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wally Pfister, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Richard King

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Richard King was born in Tampa, Florida and attended the University of South Florida graduating with a BFA in painting and film. Since 1985 he has worked in film sound design. Richard has been fortunate to work with such directors as Nicolas Roeg, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, William Friedkin, Peter Weir, Steven Spielberg,Christopher Nolan, Patty Jenkins and Jeymes Samuel. He is the recipient of four Academy Awards, three Bafta Awards, and four MPSE awards for Best Sound Editing as well as the MPSE Career Achievement Award. Richard lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
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Miranda Campa

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Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress. Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1938. Mainly active on stage, she was part, among others, of the theatrical companies of Vittorio Gassman, Andreina Pagnani and Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She made her film debut at mature age, in 1949, usually cast in character roles, often playing religious figures. Campa was also very active as a voice actress and as a dubber. Source: Article "Miranda Campa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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