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Oksana Karas

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Oksana Mikhailovna Karas (Russian: Оксана Михайловна Карас; born 19 June 1979, Kharkov) is a Ukrainian filmmaker, television director, screenwriter and editor, who works in Russia. In the past, she was a television host and journalist. Karas is best known for the film "The Good Boy", which won the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" (2017). Despite the fact that she was born in Ukrainian SSR, her childhood was spent in Kazakhstan in the city of Aktau (formerly Shevchenko). In 2004, she graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia "RUDN", faculty of law. In 2009, she graduated from "VGIK" (workshop Of V. ya. Lonsky). Since 1998, she has worked on television as a presenter, correspondent, sports commentator, film reviewer, author and director of documentaries (NTV channels, NTV-Plus Sport, VGTRK Kultura). In 2008, as a director, she released the TV series "Detective Brothers", and also wrote the script and directed the short film "Casting", which received the Grand Prix Of the International Festival "Unprecedented cinema" in Estonia. The first full-length film "The Rehearsals" removed in 2013. She also acted as a script writer for the project. In the same year, as a director, Karas worked on the TV series "Missing Persons" and the film "Princess Muay Thai". In 2015, she wrote the script for the Comedy "Not a Wedding Trip". In 2016, "The Good Boy" was released, on which Karas worked as a director, screenwriter and editor. The film received the Grand Prix of the 27th Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr", won the audience vote, organized by the portal "Kinopoisk" during the "Kinotavr", and also earned the "Golden Rook" for the third place in the audience competition "Vyborg Account" within the 24th Festival of Russian Cinema "Window to Europe". Further, Karas participates in the work on the short film "Just Like Grown Ups" as a screenwriter and director, as well as on the TV series and the film of the same name "Neophyte". In 2018, she released the film "Ailing Angel" again with Semyon Treskunov in the title role. In June 2019, the premiere of her film "High Above" took place, the shooting process of which took place in 2018. In 2020, the feature film "Doctor Liza" (dedicated to the life of Elizabeth Glinka) became a participant at the main competition of "Kinotavr".
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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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Ewa Kolasińska-Szramel

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Polish theater, film and television actress, from 1973 an actress of the National Old Theater Helena Modrzejewska in Krakow , winner of the acting award at the 37th Kalisz Theater Meetings (1987). A graduate of the Krakow PWST ( 1973 ). From 1973, she was an actress of the Old Theater in Krakow . She made her debut on October 27, 1973. She also performed as a guest at the STU Theater in Krakow and abroad at the Two Worlds Festival in Spoleto . In 1987, she won an actor award at the 37th Kalisz Theater Meetings for the role of Gizela Spiessbürger in the performance of Spring of Nations in Silent Corner (1929) by Adolf Nowaczyński directed by Tadeusz Bradecki in the Stary Theater Helena Modrzejewska in Krakow (1987).
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Christian Marquand

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Christian Marquand (15 March 1927 – 22 November 2000) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. Born in Marseille, he was born to a Spanish father and an Arab mother, and his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant. He was often cast as a heartthrob in French films of the 1950s. Marquand's first film appearance was in 1946, as a footman in Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête). After a few more small parts, he was prominently featured in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as one of Lucrezia's lovers, and as an Austrian soldier in Luchino Visconti's Senso (1954). In 1956, he was directed by Roger Vadim in And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme) opposite Brigitte Bardot. That film's success led to starring roles in the movies No Sun in Venice (1957), Temptation (1959), and The Big Show (1960) and leads opposite actresses Maria Schell, Jean Seberg, and Annie Girardot. In 1962, Marquand appeared as French Naval Commando leader Philippe Kieffer in Darryl F. Zanuck's World War II movie The Longest Day, which led to further roles in international productions such as Behold a Pale Horse (1964), Lord Jim (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). He appeared in feature films and television throughout the 1970s, and played a French plantation owner in Francis Ford Coppola's re-edited Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now Redux (1979/2001). His last performance was in a 1987 French TV mini-series. He directed two films, Les Grands Chemins (1963) and the all-star sex farce Candy (1968). Marquand was married to French actress Tina Aumont from 1963 to 1966, marrying her when she was 17 and he was 36. In the 1970s, he lived with French actress Dominique Sanda, 21 years his junior, with whom he had a son, Yann. He was a close friend of Marlon Brando, who named his son Christian after him, as did French director Roger Vadim. Marquand died near Paris of Alzheimer's disease, aged 73. Source: Article "Christian Marquand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jack Vale

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Jack Vale, born on September 2, 1973 in Lodi, California, is the youngest of 5 children and has three brothers and one sister. His love of hidden camera prank shows as a child, ultimately led to him becoming a professional prankster as an adult. In his early 20s, after landing a few small roles in various movies and TV shows, he married his wife, Sherry, and started a family. It wasn't until 12 years later that Jack began uploading hidden camera prank videos on YouTube. The worldwide success of these videos led to his full-time career in entertainment. After various production companies licensed his prank clips for their TV shows, he was contacted by First Television and Dick Clark Productions to produce and star in a new season of "Bloopers" with regular host, Dean Cain. The show lasted 40 episodes. About 2 years later he and his family signed a deal with Relativity Media for their own reality show which aired on HLN for 1 season. Jack lives with his family in Huntington Beach, CA and has multiple TV and film projects in development. While comedy was his focus for the first 12 years of his career, he is now also producing several dramatic films in the family and faith-based genres. He is also one of the most watched comedians on the Internet with over 3 Million fans on his social media platforms.
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Li Lili

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Li Lili (Qian Zhenzhen) , also known as Pei Yanling , is a famous Chinese actor and singer. His father, Qian Zhuangfei, was a famous CCP spy. Due to his busy work, Qian Zhuangfei encouraged Li Lili to study singing and dancing at the Chinese Song and Dance Troupe in 1927. She had Li Jinhui as her godfather and changed her name to Li Lili. Soon she became popular because of her beauty and dancing skills. During the Anti-Japanese War, she successively shot a series of anti-Japanese films for China Film Studio and Hong Kong Dadi Film Company. In 1946, she went to study at Columbia University and other schools in the United States, returning to China the following year. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li worked as an actor at the Beijing Film Studio. In 1955, Li entered the Beijing Film Academy's performance specialization class, and stayed on to teach after graduation.
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Frank Henenlotter

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Frank Henenlotter, is an American screenwriter, director and film historian. He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an "exploitation" filmmaker (rather than horror). "I never felt that I made ‘horror films’, he has said. "I always felt that I made exploitation films. Exploitation films have an attitude more than anything – an attitude that you don’t find with mainstream Hollywood productions. They’re a little ruder, a little raunchier, they deal with material people don’t usually touch on, whether it’s sex or drugs or rock and roll."
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Neile Adams

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Ruby Neilam Salvador Adams (born July 10, 1932), known professionally as Neile Adams, is a Filipino American actress, singer, and dancer who made more than 20 appearances in films and television series between 1952 and 1991. She was married to actor Steve McQueen, and then divorced (1956-1972); they had a son, actor Chadwick 'Chad' McQueen, and a daughter, voice actress Terry McQueen. In 1958, producer George Abbott offered Adams a role in the Broadway production of Damn Yankees. She was unable to accept because the Versailles Club would not release her from her contract as a dancer. Her Broadway credits include performing in Kismet and The Pajama Game. She also performed in Broadway Bound at The Grand opposite Paul Muni. She married then-struggling actor Steve McQueen four months after their meeting in 1956 while filming MGM’s This Could Be the Night (1957) where she was under contract. She opened the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas in 1958 with Dick Shawn and Vivian Blaine. Her other screen credits include Women in Chains (1972), Fuzz (1972), So Long, Blue Boy (1973), Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981), and Buddy Buddy (1981). Her television credits include: The Perry Como Show, two Bob Hope Christmas specials, The Eddie Fisher Show, The Patrice Munsel Show, The Pat Boone Show and The Hollywood Palace. Her dramatic television roles include a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, titled "Man from the South", opposite her then husband and Peter Lorre. Two more Alfred Hitchcock episodes followed: a half-hour show directed by Arthur Hiller in which she starred, "One Grave Too Many", and an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode entitled "Ten Minutes From Now". She also appeared on episodes of television series including Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island, and Vega$.
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Liana Liberato

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Liana Daine Liberato (born August 20, 1995) is an American actress. She played the younger version of the female lead in the 2014 film The Best of Me and starred in the drama films The Last Sin Eater (2007) and Trust (2010), the thriller films Trespass (2011) and Erased (2012), and the horrors Haunt (2013) and The Beach House (2019). In 2017, she was part of the ensemble cast of the drama Novitiate and in 2018 she starred in the comedy Banana Split. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liana Liberato, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Noriko Watanabe

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In 80s Hiroko Yakushimaru, Noriko Watanabe and Tomoyo Harada came to be called " Kadokawa Three Princesses". Born on July 22, 1965 at a hospital in Yahata Nishi Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Two years later Noriko's father, employee of Ministry of Construction, was transfered to Oita Prefecture. In 1981 15-year Noriko, as Kyushu representative. won Jury Prize at 6th Horipro talent scout caravan. Next year she became a representative of Kyushu in the “Kadokawa New Talents ” in audition for main heroine (post Hiroko Yakushimaru-style) in “Ninja Wars” directed by Kosei Saito. 16-year Noriko. Oita high school student, was chosen from 57,480 applicants. In 1983 Noriko starred in next Saito film “Tsumiki kuzushi” as the same daughter role as the TV drama version Tomoko but was supposed to be played. For this role she has won the 7th (1983) Japanese Academy Awards as “Newcomer of the Year“. In May, the first starring movie " Fine, With Occasional Murders" is released. In addition, the theme song of the movie is also in charge and hit. (18-year-old) In 1987, he received the Supporting Actress Award for the Yokohama Film Festival in Obayashi Nobuhiko "His Motorcycle, Her Island". The starring of the movie "Times for Lovers" was decided in 1986, but declined because of the presence of a serious nude scene . At the same time, she became independent of Haruka Kadokawa's office. After that , a huge number of TV dramas and movies such as Nippon Television " Kyo Ichirin ", NHK Taiga drama " Shobu ga Gotoku ", TBS " Very Mother and Daughter ", " Non-chan's Noriben ", and TV Tokyo " Criminal Chasing! "
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