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Douglas Henshall

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Douglas Henshall was born in Glasgow, Scotland in November 1965. His mother was a nurse and his father a salesman. He is the youngest of three children and has two older sisters. He grew up in Barrhead and attended Barrhead High School. Whilst at school a friend asked him to join The Scottish Youth Theatre based in Glasgow. After leaving school, he moved to London to train at Mountview Theatre School. He returned to Glasgow after training where he joined the 7:84 theater company. Eventually, he went back to live in London where he received critical acclaim for his theater work, notably "Life of Stuff" at the Donmar Warehouse (1993) and "American Buffalo" at the Young Vic (1997). One of his first successful film roles was as Edgar in  Angels and Insects (1995) before going on to star in Orphans (1998), The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998), Lawless Heart (2001) and It's All About Love (2003) . He has also starred in many television series and is known for his roles in  Psychos(1999), Kid in the Corner (1999), Loving You (2003) and Frances Tuesday (2004). Douglas has also performed in plays for BBC radio, including the role of Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet (1999), David in "The Long Farewell" (2002), Jack Parlabane in "Bampot Central" (2004) and Richard in "Richard III" (2004). In the summer of 2002, Douglas returned to the London stage where he performed the role of Michael Bakunin in  Tom Stoppard's new trilogy of plays, 'The Coast of Utopia', at The National Theatre. During 2004 he continued stage work starring as John Proctor in 'Arthur Miller' 's 'The Crucible' at The Crucible in Sheffield and Thomas Huxley in 'Darwin in Malibu' by Crispin Whittell, at the Hampstead Theatre. In 2005 Douglas made his West End debut at The Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue playing Biff Loman in the critically acclaimed production of Arthur Miller' 's play 'Death of a Salesman', alongside  Brian Dennehy.
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Céleste Brunnquell

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Céleste Brunnquell made her film debut in 2019 in Sarah Suco’s Les Éblouis (The Dazzled), for which she was nominated for a César for Best New Actress and won the Best Actress prize at the Sarlat Festival. She then starred alongside Dominique Blanc, Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier and Jacques Weber in L’Origine du mal (The Origin of Evil) by Sébastien Marnier. On television, she played the character of Camille in the series En thérapie by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, broadcast on Arte. In 2022, she played in Fifi by Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan, presented in Competition at Premiers Plans. Last December, she starred in Erwan Le Duc’s La Fille de son père (No Lovve Lost) with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.
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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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Sydney Lucas

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Tony-nominated actress and winner of a 2015 Theatre World Award, Sydney Lucas is an entertainer in every sense of the word, having already conquered theater, film and television at just 12 years old! In 2013, Sydney made her off-Broadway debut in Fun Home which premiered at The Public Theater. There she showcased her singing and acting talents portraying Small Alison, a tough but caring, spunky and opinionated little girl who was stifled by her father's ideas of femininity while searching for her identity. For her work in the musical (that was then extended four times), Sydney won an Obie Award (youngest in history), and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Drama League Award. TV credits include: Law & Order: SVU, Royal Pains, FX pilot How & Why, Late Show with David Letterman, Sesame Street and a Saturday Night Live digital short entitled The Stand Off (opposite Jeremy Renner). Sydney's film credits include: She's Funny That Way, festival favorite film short Fool's Day, which was directed by Cody Blue Snider, as well as the young version of Kristen Wiig's character in both Girl Most Likely and The Skeleton Twins. Shortly after her stage run, she completed filming the indie Dude directed by Olivia Milch.
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Sean Alan Stone

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Sean Alan Stone is an American actor, writer, photographer, poet, and filmmaker. He is best known for his appearance as Louis in the AMC's The Son. Stone was born in Groesbeck, Texas, the son of Ellen Stone and Paul Rahaman. His mother was American, while his father was Canadian. They met in Texas. His paternal grandfather was Indian from Georgetown, Guyana. His paternal grandmother was Irish from Dublin, Ireland. Upon graduating, Stone lived in Colorado, and for a time in South Dakota and Nebraska, before returning to Texas. Along the way, he took various jobs such as welding, pipe-fitting, mechanic, horse wrangling, and other outdoor recreational work. He eventually moved to Dallas to pursue an acting career. Upon the premiere of The Son, he moved from Austin, TX to Los Angles, CA.
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Duane Andersen

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Duane's short film 30 MEETINGS/30 DAYS premiered at the Woods Hole Film Festival in 2022 and spent a year on the festival circuit in the US, UK, and India, winning the Ophelia Audience Award at the prestigious Cleveland International Film Festival. In May of 2023 it had its public digital premiere on Omeleto. Duane's feature directing debut, SUPERPOWERLESS, premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal in July 2016. He also co-directed the documentary feature "11/8/16" which was called "the most ambitious election day documentary in history," by IndieWire. It premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in November 2017. Previously he produced and edited Dave Boyle's & Lynn Chen's SURROGATE VALENTINE TRILOGY (SURROGATE VALENTINE, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS, and I WILL MAKE YOU MINE) which premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival in 2011, 2012, and 2020, and was called "Cinema's most casual trilogy" by IndieWire. Duane also produced and edited Dave Boyle's WHITE ON RICE and BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO. He also helped produce and was the production manager on Boyle's Spirit Award nominated MAN FROM RENO. He helped produce the award-winning documentary AN HONEST LIAR about magician James "The Amazing" Randi, directed by Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein which premiered at Tribeca. Other films that he's helped produce include CONGRATULATIONS (Juan Carderelli and Eric Levy); A PICTURE OF YOU (J.P. Chan); YES, WE'RE OPEN (Richard Wong); MUST COME DOWN (Kenny Riches); LAST KIND WORDS (Kevin Barker); and CRAZY BEATS STRONG EVERY TIME (Moon Molson) which premiered at Sundance. Duane directed the short film THE LEMONADE TRADE which played at family film festivals worldwide.
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Eden Estrella

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Eden Estrella is an American actress born on March 30, 2004 and lives in the Los Angeles area with her parents and two siblings. Her breakout role in Furious 7 (2015) as the sassy, young daughter of Agent Luke Hobbs, played by Dwayne Johnson shows that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree as she confronts the charismatic, but imposing figure of Dominic Torretto, played by Vin Diesel. She reprises the role as Samantha Hobbs in The Fate of the Furious (2017). From her mother's side, Eden's Filipina heritage is mixed with Spanish and Portuguese. From her father's side, Eden has Irish, German, British, French and Scottish ancestry, with Eden's European lineage tracing back to the Salisbury's and notably, the O'Baoigheallains; as epitomized in O'Dugals 14th century poem of the "blue-eyed, bold kings of Dartry!' Eden began her acting career in 2013. She is represented by agent, Robin Nassif of Media Artists Group and manager, Tina Treadwell of Treadwell Entertainment Group and attorney Steve Younger of 'Myman Greenspan Fineman Fox Rosenberg Light [us]'. Eden is a GATE honors student taking up ballet, jazz, acting and singing lessons. In her spare time, Eden loves to draw anime, read and write and has self-published short stories and poetry on Wattpad.
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Tom Holland

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Thomas "Tom" Stanley Holland is an English actor and dancer. He is best known for playing Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has appeared as the character in six films: Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He is also known for playing the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, as well as for starring in the 2012 film The Impossible.
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Erica Leerhsen

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Erica Lei Leerhsen  (born February 14, 1976) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead roles in the horror films Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Wrong Turn 2, and for which she is often referred to as a modern day scream queen. She is also known for her acting on television series, such as her lead role in The Guardian and several guest appearances, including The Sopranos, Alias, and others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erica Leerhsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Gary McLarty

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Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 – October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them The Wild Bunch, Little Big Man, The Longest Yard, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Heat, and Collateral. He was in the helicopter, as a stunt coordinator, when actor Vic Morrow and two children died in an accident on a "Twilight Zone" movie set. In the subsequent trial, McLarty testified that, prior to the accident, he had warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous. In 1991 McLarty shot and killed his roommate. McLarty was cleared of all charges when the Deputy District Attorney determined that it was a clear case of justifiable homicide. On the Friday before as part of a bizarre series of events another man had been fatally shot by Sheriff's deputies at McLarty's Lake View Terrace ranch. McLarty's house also caught on fire and burned down during the same incident. McLarty semi-retired from stunt work in 2004. The following year, he testified at the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, testifying that Blake offered him $10,000 to murder Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley; McLarty declined. Bakley was fatally shot in Blake's car outside a restaurant in May 2001. Blake was thought by most to be the actual murderer, but was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial. McLarty died on October 11, 2014 when a pickup truck driven by fellow stuntman Bob Orrison making a U-turn was broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Both stuntmen were killed instantly. The two persons in the Jeep Cherokee were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
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