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Ben Stiller

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Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of the comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Stiller was a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as the Frat Pack. His films have grossed more than $2.6 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $79 million per film. Throughout his career, he has received various awards and honors, including an Emmy Award, multiple MTV Movie Awards, a Britannia Award and a Teen Choice Award. While beginning his acting career, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries and was offered a variety sketch comedy series titled The Ben Stiller Show, which he produced and hosted for its 13-episode run. The series ran on MTV from 1990 to 1992, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Program. He then appeared on shows such as Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Arrested Development. Having previously acted in television, he began acting in films. He made his directorial debut with Reality Bites and continued directing films and often starring in them, such as with The Cable Guy (1996), Zoolander (2001), Tropic Thunder (2008), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). During this time he also starred in a string of successful studio comedies including There’s Something About Mary (1998), Along Came Polly (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), and Tower Heist (2011). Stiller is also widely known for multiple franchise films such as the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), the Madagascar franchise (2005–2012), and the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006–2014). He is known for his performances in independent films such as David O. Russell’s Flirting with Disaster (1996), Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Noah Baumbach’s’ Greenberg (2010), While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017). In 2018 he directed the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora earning himself a Directors Guild of America Award and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. In 2022 he served as a director and executive producer on the Apple TV+ series Severance earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.
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Barbara Rush

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Barbara Rush (January 4, 1927 - March 31, 2024) was an American Golden Globe Award-winning movie and television actress. In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film, It Came From Outer Space. Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the soap opera All My Children, as well as starring in films including Bigger Than Life, The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Robin and the 7 Hoods and Hombre.
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Thisura Jayathilaka

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Dolewaththe Appuhamillage Thisura Naveen Jayathilaka (born December 4, 1997; Kegalle, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker. Born into a Sinhala Buddhist family, Thisura is the only child of Nimali Herath, a Samurdhi manager, and the late Chandrananda Jayathilaka, a lieutenant colonel in the Sri Lankan army who was killed in action 19 days after Thisura's birth. Thisura received his basic education at Kegalu Vidyalaya, Kegalle, from 2003 to 2016. Initially, he pursued studies in bio-science with the intention of becoming a doctor. However, due to struggles with chemistry and physics subjects, he switched to arts. He successfully completed his schooling and then enrolled at the National School of Business Management (NSBM Green University) to study interior design for higher education. During this period, he began to suffer from depression, leading him to drop out after the first semester in 2017. In the same year, he joined the Catwalk Model Academy with aspirations of becoming a model. Soon he quit modeling too. In 2018, Thisura starred in a short film titled "Shoes," directed by Kavindu Millagala, one of his classmates from advanced levels. This marked his first involvement in any film project. The following year, Thisura began studying at the Sri Lanka Film School (now known as Colombo Film School) under the guidance of his psychiatrist. Since then, he has written and directed two short films to date: "The Message" (2021), in which he also starred, and "Black Rose" (2022). His films are characterized by their surreal stories, dream-like visual imagery, featuring nameless characters, and exploring deep psychological themes such as death, faith, relationships, identity, trauma, mental illness. existentialism and morality.
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Miracle Davis

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Miracle Nicole Davis (born October 21, 1991) is an American actress and writer. At the beginning of her career, she performed in various community theaters since the age of ten. During her high school years, she appeared in live and recorded productions Tales of the Crypt (2009) and Mosaic Templars Cultural Center (2009), and murder mystery dinners during her time in high school. She took on more challenging roles in Southern Girls (2010) as Naomi Hurdle, Barbara Pitts and various roles in The Laramie Project (2012), and A Hotel on Marvin Gardens (2012) as Erna Tinker during her studies at college.
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Melinda McGraw

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Melinda McGraw (born October 25, 1968) is an American actress. She has starred in movies such as The Dark Knight (2008), Wrongfully Accused (1998), and Skateland (2010), and is also known for her television performances on NCIS, Mad Men, Men of a Certain Age, The X-Files, The West Wing and The Commish. McGraw has starred in The Pursuit of Happiness (1995), Soul Man (1997–1998), Living in Captivity (1998), Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central) (2002), and Center of the Universe (2004). Notable guest appearances include Quantum Leap, Night Court, Seinfeld, Cybill, The Larry Sanders Show, Mad About You, The District, The Practice, and Inconceivable. She has been featured in four episodes of Desperate Housewives as Annabel Foster.
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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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Ashton Leigh

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Ashton Courtney Leigh, a New Orleans native, is an actress and model. She is also experienced in the areas of dance, broadcasting, stunts, and voiceover. She was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age via pageants, commercials, theatre and modeling. She holds a degree in international studies/business with a minor in French from the University of New Orleans. She has appeared in TV series including Ambitions, NCIS: New Orleans, Queen Sugar, Killing It, Queen of the South, Looking for Alaska , On Becoming a God in Central Florida , The Act, Preacher, Cobra Kai, Tremé, and the reboots of MacGyver and Dynasty. She has had acting roles in true crime series Murder Chose Me, Homicide Hunter and Dead Silent. Also, she has appeared in several films and TV movies.
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Alexander Skarsgård

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Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård (born August 25, 1976) is a Swedish actor. Born in Stockholm, he began acting at age seven but quit at 13. After serving in the Swedish military, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in the US film comedy Zoolander. In 2008, he played Marine Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill. Skarsgård's breakthrough came when he portrayed vampire Eric Northman in the television series True Blood (2008–2014). After appearing in films such as Melancholia (2011), Battleship (2012) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Skarsgård starred in the drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019) as an abusive husband, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. From 2019 to 2022, he appeared in the films Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Passing (2021), and The Northman (2022) as well as playing Randall Flagg in the miniseries The Stand (2020–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Skarsgård, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jovan Adepo

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Jovan Adepo (born September 6, 1988) is a British-born American actor. He is known for his role as Cory Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences (2016), and also had starring roles in the 2018 film Overlord and as Lionel Jefferson in CBS' All in the Family/The Jeffersons special. Adepo was featured in the series When They See Us, the second season of Prime Video’s Jack Ryan, and the Facebook series Sorry for Your Loss. He plays Michael Murphy in the HBO series The Leftovers and in 2019 appeared in Watchmen as Hooded Justice. For the latter, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also starred as Larry Underwood in the Paramount+ miniseries of Stephen King's The Stand.
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Kenan İmirzalıoğlu

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Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (born 18 June 1974) is a Turkish actor and former model. İmirzalıoğlu appeared in the action films Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali (The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali) and Kabadayı (For Love and Honor). He returned to television in 2009 with the series Ezel and also starred in the action film Ejder Kapanı (Dragon Trap) directed by Uğur Yücel. Kenan İmirzalioğlu's lineage came from Uzun Hasan's state who was a sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty, also known as the White Sheep Turkomans. He studied at Yıldız Technical University for the Math department. In 1997, he joined the Best Model of Turkey and came in first. In the same year, he joined the Best Model of the World and won. Then he drew attention of Osman Sınav who is producer and screenwriter and he took his first role for Osman Sınav's TV series called Deli Yürek as leading actor.
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