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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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Tarık Akan

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Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan. He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.
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Natalia Trejos

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Natalia Trejos, is a Colombian actress and producer. Natalia co-stared on the hit Golden Globe winner series "Jane The Virgin" from the CW Network and participated on the movie "Alien Convergence" where she plays the role of a NASA Astrophysicist, available on Amazon Prime Video. Natalia hosts and executive produces her own TV show and podcast Pinkafé as she continues to pursue the big screen and American TV series. Natalia studied acting, music and film production in South Florida. After winning a Beauty pageant, she became the lead singer of "Mágica Juventud" band. Her debut on the big screen was in 2004 on the film "To Kill A Killer". After years of living in Miami, Natalia moved to Los Angeles to continue pushing her acting career. As an entrepreneur Natalia founded her own production company based in LA, producing commercials for major brands, such as McDonalds, Colgate, Ford, Snickers, Heineken, among others. Through her female empowerment brand "Pinkafe", Natalia and her sister Carolina Trejos are honored to help other women to believe in themselves and overcome obstacles. In 2023 she published her book The Power Of Your Dream which is available worldwide.
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Natalie Zea

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​Natalie Zea (born March 17, 1975 height 5' 5" (1,65 m)) is an American actress known for her roles as Gwen Hotchkiss on the NBC daytime soap Passions, socialite Karen Darling on Dirty Sexy Money on ABC and Winona Hawkins on Justified on FX crime drama Justified (2010-2013), and as Claire Matthews in Fox series The Following (2013). Zea was born in Harris County, Texas, and attended Monahans High School, graduating in 1993.She then graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City in 1995. Zea had a few small film roles before joining the cast of NBC daytime soap opera Passions in 2000 as Gwen Hotchkiss, replacing exiting actress Liza Huber. Zea left the show in 2002, and was replaced by Huber. Zea later guest-starred in several primetime shows, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2001. In 2004, she had a recurring role on the FX police drama The Shield playing a love interest of Michael Chiklis' Vic Mackey. In 2005, Zea won her first regular role in primetime, on the short-lived ABC drama series Eyes. Her next major role was on the ABC primetime soap opera Dirty Sexy Money, playing spoiled socialite Karen Darling. The soap aired from 2007 to 2009, and was canceled after two seasons. In 2009, she had a recurring role during the first season of the HBO comedy series Hung. Zea also guest-starred on Two and a Half Men, Without a Trace, Medium, Franklin & Bash, Person of Interest, and Californication. In film, Zea had small role of 2010 comedy The Other Guys. In 2010, Zea began starring as series regular during the first three seasons of the FX drama Justified, changing to a recurring role from Season 4. In 2013 she starred in the major role of Dr. Claire Matthews, the estranged wife of a serial killer, in the Fox thriller drama The Following. The same year, she had a recurring role as Maxine Seagrave, a drug and gambling kingpin, on the CBS summer series Under the Dome. Later that year, Zea was cast in her first lead role of the Amazon comedy pilot The Outlaws. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Zea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Siobhan Fallon Hogan

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Siobhan J. Fallon Hogan (born May 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian from Syracuse, New York. She began her career in television roles from the early 1980s to 1990s, including roles on Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld. In 1994, Fallon made her film debut in 'Only You'. She has since had roles in a number of films including 'Forrest Gump' (1994), 'Men in Black' (1997), 'Dancer in the Dark' (2000), 'Holes' (2003), 'Daddy Day Care' (2003), 'Dogville' (2003), 'Funny Games' (2007), 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' (2011) and 'The House That Jack Built' (2018).
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Natalya Bondarchuk

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (born May 10, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris as "Hari". She is the daughter of the Ukrainian actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. Her brother is the film director and actor Fyodor Bondarchuk, her sister is the actress Elena Bondarchuk. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalya Bondarchuk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​
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Milo Manheim

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Milo Manheim (born March 6, 2001) is an American actor born and raised in Los Angeles. He began his acting career in a local after-school program in Culver City at the age of seven, and he soon went on to perform in 15 musicals with Liza Monjauze Productions. These musicals include: Rent, Footloose, Tommy, A Chorus Line, Gypsy, and Spring Awakening. He is best known for portraying Zed in the Disney Channel original movie series “Zombies" and as Ryan in Spyglass' Thanksgiving (2023). He is also featured in the Sabrina Carpenter’s "Feather" music video.
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Andrew Neil

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. He currently works for the BBC, presenting the live political programmes The Daily Politics and This Week. For the BBC he also anchors Straight Talk with Andrew Neil and makes documentaries. He is also chairman of Spectator Magazines; Chairman of ITP Magazines (Dubai); and Chairman of World Media Rights (London). Neil made his name at The Sunday Times where he was editor for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of The Business and (from 2005) The Spectator, moving to become chairman in July 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew Neil, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mike Ancrile

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Michael B. Ancrile is an Actor and Comedian, who can flow seamlessly between Comedy and the Dramatic. He has appeared in several feature films including, Transformer: Age of Extinction, Real Steel, Whip It, Street Boss, Super Sucker and many more. He has also played Key, Diverse roles in many award winning short films, including Train Station and The Greatest Gift 2.0. Michael has also appeared in several National Television programs, including HBO's Hung, ABC's Detroit 1-8-7, The Discovery Channel: You Spoof Discovery, TNT Network: Moviefest and Fox Sports The Best Damn Sports Show Period. Michael has also appeared in many local and National Commercials, including Diet Coke, Detroit Pistons, Alro and Firekeepers Casino. Michael has Developed Many Original Comedy Characters over the years, which he has used in his Stand up Comedy Act and on Local and National Radio shows, including the Jim Rome Show. He has also appeared as these Characters in local and National commercials and TV shows including Creep Theater, where he met and developed an excellent working and creative relationship with Phillip Assenmacher. The two of them have gone on to many Diverse projects together, including Many Celebrity and Civilian Interviews, including Dawn Wells, Ernest Thomas, John Dugan, John Provost, Erin Gray, Karen McDougal and many many more. Michael is proud and grateful to join the staff at Tressa Graves Productions, and has quickly developed a great creative and working relationship with Tressa and all the staff at TGP, all in the hopes of continuing the fine tradition of excellence and creativity established by Tressa Graves and the staff at TGP. While co-staring in the Tressa Graves Production Film, Sociopath, Michael gives a very scary, menacing performance, in a very pivotal role of one of the stalkers, Oli. Amazingly, Michael also wrote the title song "Sociopath" the melody and lyrics for the film. In addition, Michael sings the song, a duet, with another member of the production. Michael also wrote and performed a second song "The Stalker Song" for the film. The COVID shutdown, did not stop Tressa Graves and Michael Ancrile from collaborating on a new project. A Web Series, Quarantine. A series based on the "Dr. Death" virus shutdown. Michael gives a very powerful, emotional performance, when he stars in the series as Tony Berks. Michael also Co-Wrote the series with Tessa Graves. Michael gives a haunting performance, as he co-stars in the TGP film, The Teddy Bear Girl. Michael's performance in the film, leaves you wondering if his character is a ghost, or is he real, or is it all just in your mind? Michael again, wrote and performed the title song, Teddy Bear Girl, for the film. Michael gives one of his strongest, most emotionally charged performances, as he Stars in, Phantom. A film written specifically for Michael, by Tressa Graves. Michael is the only actor on camera for the entire film, as he takes you on a emotional rollercoaster as he slowly, comes to grips with what he has done. Once again, Michael wrote and performed the title song, Olivia, for the film.
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Tyler Perry

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Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry, Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an African-American actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, author, songwriter., and entrepreneur. Already a successful artist in Southern theater, Perry began to make national celebrity status in 2005 with the release of his first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. He has won critical praise for playing Madea, a mentally strong woman who handles adversity with optimism and happiness; his critically acclaimed portrayal of her in the award-winning "Madea" series has caused him to be one of the most respected black actors in Hollywood. He has produced multiple TV series as well as films, started a multiple year partnership with OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), and opened his own film studio, Tyler Perry Studios, in Georgia. Perry was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people of 2020. In 2022, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
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