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Claire Forlani

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Claire Antonia Forlani (born 17 December 1971) is an English actress. She became known in the mid-1990s for her leading role in the film Mallrats, and in the Jean-Michel Basquiat 1996 biopic Basquiat, later in 1998, she achieved wide recognition for starring in the fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black. Other notable films include Boys and Girls (2000), The Medallion (2003) and In the Name of the King (2007). Forlani also has appeared in numerous TV films and series, including her starring role on the historical-fantasy-drama series Camelot, and her recurring roles on the CBS action series CSI: NY, NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claire Forlani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Matt Long

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Matthew Clayton "Matt" Long (born May 18, 1980) is an American actor. He played the teenaged Jack McCallister on Jack & Bobby, the younger Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider, and Tyler Prince in Sydney White. Long was born in Winchester, Kentucky. He has one younger sibling, Zac. He attended Western Kentucky University where he met his wife, Lora Chaffins. He was also a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduation, Long moved to New York City where he worked as an actor throughout various theaters. He now resides in Hollywood, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Long, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Mari Lill

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Mari Lill (born December 21, 1945) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress whose career began onstage in the late 1960s. Mari Lill was born in Tallinn to Felix Lill and Asta Lill (née Multer) just after the end of World War II and the Soviet occupation and annexation of Estonia. Her father Felix was arrested by Soviet authorities and spent several years sentenced to forced labor in the gulag system in Siberia when she was still an infant. He was later able to return to the family when Mari was quite young. Lill is the middle child of three siblings; she has an older sister Kadri, and her younger brother was glass artist Ivo Lill. Lill grew up and attended schools in the district of Nõmme and spent time visiting her grandmother on the island of Saaremaa. After graduating from secondary school, Lill studied acting under the supervision of course instructor Voldemar Panso at the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). Her diploma production was in the role of Helen Keller in a 1967 staging of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker. She graduated in 1968. Among her graduating classmates were actors Helle-Reet Helenurm, Katrin Karisma, Raivo Trass, Enn Klooren, Jaan Tooming, Peeter Jakobi, and Kalju Komissarov.
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Kristjan Lüüs

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Kristjan Lüüs (born March 17, 1991), is an Estonian stage, film and television actor whose career began in the 2010s. Kristjan Lüüs was born and raised in Tartu. He is a 2010 graduate of the Tartu Art Gymnasium secondary school (now, Tartu Variku School). In 2011, he enrolled in the Theatre Arts Department of the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy in Viljandi to study acting, graduating in 2015. His diploma roles were in productions of Jaanika Tammaru's Pööriöö, Ivar Põllu's 1987, Birgit Landberg's Ada ja Evald, and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Since 2013, Lüüs has appeared in several Estonian television roles. In 2014, he appeared in several roles on the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) sketch-comedy series Tujurikkuja and the following year appeared in various character roles on the Kanal 2 comedy series Takso, as Aaron on the TV3 drama series Krista lood, and Ekke in an episode of the ETV drama series Mustad lesed. In 2016, he appeared on the Kanal 2 comedy series Heeringas Veenuse õlal and in 2017 played the role of Sander Pronks in the long-running TV3 comedy-crime series Kättemaksukontor. Lüüs' most prominent television roles were as the character Mauno Mesine in the TV3 military drama series Vabad mehed, a role he played from 2014 until 2017, as Arno Sark on the Kanal 2 crime series Siberi võmm, joining the cast in 2016, and as Bert in the TV3 comedy series Padjaklubi from 2018 until 2019. In 2009, while still attending secondary school, Kristjan Lüüs was cast to play the role of Andres in the Richard Meitern and Martin Liira-directed romantic musical film Tudengimuusikal. In 2016, he appeared in a small role in the René Vilbre-directed comedy Klassikokkutulek and the same year as Andres in the frenetic Triin Ruumet-directed youth-tragicomedy Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse. In 2017, he had a supporting role as a hick in the Jaak Kilmi-directed historical comedy Sangarid and a small role in the Antti-Jussi Annila-directed Finnish historical drama Ikitie. In 2018, played the role of Marko in the Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo-directed Allfilm drama feature film Võta või jäta. The film was the official Estonian submission to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film but was not selected. In 2021, he appeared as Robert in the Priit Pääsuke-directed comedy Öölapsed. Kristjan Lüüs wed actress Maris Nõlvak in July 2016. The marriage ended in divorce in 2020. Lüüs currently reside in Tartu.
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Kadri Rämmeld

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Kadri Rämmeld (until 2016, Kadri Adamson; born August 16, 1976) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress. Kadri Rämmeld was born Kadri Adamson in Tallinn in 1976. She attended both primary and secondary schools in Tallinn, graduating from the Mustamäe German Gymnasium (Tallinna 54. Keskkool). Afterward, she majored in German studies at the Estonian Institute of Humanities (now part of Tallinn University) and graduated in 1999 from the institute's drama and theatre department. Rämmeld made her film debut in the gritty 2007 Dirk Hoyer directed crime-drama Võõras, in which she appeared as the main character TP's (played by Tanel Padar) sister. In 2006, she appeared in the film Tabamata ime; a collection of six short films adapted from the 1912 play of the same name by author Eduard Vilde. In 2016, she played the role of Anne in the René Vilbre directed comedy film Klassikokkutulek (The Class Reunion), which follows three middle-aged men (played by Mait Malmsten, Henry Kõrvits aka Genka, and Ago Anderson), who decide to attend their twenty-fifth high school reunion. In 2019, she again played the role of Anne in the third installment, Klassikokkutulek 3: Ristiisad (The Class Reunion 3: Godfathers). In 2018, she appeared in the role of Aunt Iida in the Moonika Siimets directed period drama Seltsimees laps (The Little Comrade), and in 2019 appeared in the role of Milady in the Mart Sander directed fantasy-horror film Kõhedad muinaslood (Eerie Fairy Tales). Rämmeld has also worked as a voice actress; in 1998, she provided a number of character voices in the animated Peep Pedmanson directed short film Just märried for Nukufilm. Rämmeld is possibly most recognized for her roles in a number of popular Estonian television series, beginning with the role of Liis Uuspere in the ETV drama series Kodu keset linna in 2003, in which she was an original cast member. She would leave the series in 2006, but reprise her role again in 2009, and again in 2012. Between 2006 and 2008, she played the character Laura (aka Brita) in the Kanal 2 crime-drama series Kelgukoerad. Rämmeld's most popular role is arguably that of Marion Pärn in the TV3 comedy-crime series Kättemaksukontor (The Vengeance Bureau), in which she has been a main cast member since the series was first broadcast in 2009. Other television appearances include the TV3 parody series Edekabel in 2004, and the Kanal 2 game show Kis? Mis? Kus? in 2008. Apart from her stage, film, and television career, Rämmeld has performed in a number of radio plays. Kadri Adamson was in a long-term relationship with businessman Toomas Vara. The couple had two children; a daughter, Miira, born 18 February 2006; and a son, Voldemar, born 7 November 2007. In October 2014 the couple announced they had separated. In early summer 2016, Adamson married actor Meelis Rämmeld. In January 2017, the couple announced they were expecting a child. Following her marriage, Adamson began using the surname of her husband, Rämmeld, in both her personal and professional life
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Arvi Mägi

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Arvi Mägi (born February 25, 1949 in Tartu) is an Estonian actor and theatre director. In 1971 he graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical Institute with a degree in stage arts. From 1971 until 1989 and from 1993 until 1994, he was an actor at the Rakvere Theatre; from 1989 until 1993, he was also its artistic leader (Estonian: kunstiline juht). From 1994 until 2015, he worked at Ugala Theatre in Viljandi. Since 2016, he is engaged at the Kuressaare Town Theatre. Besides stage roles he has also acted on films and in television series.
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Ianis Guerrero

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Ianis Guerrero is a French-born Mexican actor. He studies at the Superior Institute of Arts of Havana, and at the National Theater of Chaillot School in Paris. In 2007 he creates the production company Artepepan Films. Finalist of the Mont Blanc Young Talent Award. In 2008 he is selected by European Nisimasa to direct in Turkey a short film. In 2011 he is selected for the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam for his autumn program starting September 2010. Awarded with the Beaumarchais Fund Prize for Scriptwriting in July 2010. He is selected at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Joaquín Díaz
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Golshifteh Farahani

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Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی) was born on 10th July 1983 and is an international Iranian actress. She has dual Iranian and French nationality. Golshifteh Farahani started her acting career in theatre at the age of 6. Since then she has played in more than 40 films, many of which have been screened or awarded at international festivals. Amongst her famous Iranian films are Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon, Dariush Mehrjui's Santoori , Rasool Mollagholipour's M for Mother and Asgha222 r Farhadi's About Elly. Starring in Ridley Scotts Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo Di Caprio and Russel Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani became the first Iranian to act in a major Hollywood production. She has also played in Paterson (2016) with Adam Driver, in the last Pirates of the Caribbean (2017) and in the French movie Santa & Cie (2017).
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Mary Lou Retton

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Mary Lou Retton is an American retired gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals.[2] Her performance made her one of the most popular athletes in the United States.[3] Her gold medal win was historic as Retton was the first American woman to win the all-around gold medal in Olympic gymnastics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Lou Retton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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