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Florence Hartigan

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Florence Hartigan is an American-born, New Zealand-raised, LA-based actress and musician best known for playing the leading role in Phoenix Forgotten, produced by Ridley Scott (Alien), Wes Ball (Maze Runner) and Mark Canton (The Martian). Hartigan's other film credits include the animated feature, To Your Last Death, starring William Shatner and Morena Baccarin, Entrance (IFC/LA Film Festival), The Witch of Portabello (based on Paulo Cohello's novel), and the romantic comedy Magik and Rose. Hartigan was born in Ithaca New York, and raised in Ireland and New Zealand. At a young age, she started working as an actor, playing a guest star role in "Shortland Street," New Zealand's leading and longest-running TV drama. Hartigan went on to play a main role in Vanessa Alexander's feature film Magik and Rose, as well as several TV shows and pilots and award-winning short films, before taking a break from acting professionally to study film and theater at the University of Otago, Dunedin and the University of California, Berkeley. Post-college, she studied with leading New Zealand Meisner teacher Michael Saccente, before moving to Los Angeles to further her acting career. Hartigan has studied improv comedy and writing at the Upright Citizen's Brigade and The Groundlings, and acted in Comedy Central Studios' web project "Bro Dependent." Hartigan can also be seen in several projects produced by Funny or Die, and has written and acted in several of her own projects which FoD featured on their front page. She has also performed regularly at UCB, Nerdist, iO West, and other venues with her musical improv group, Kaboombox. When not acting or writing, Hartigan is a musician, and plays regularly at venues around Los Angeles, and in NY, as well as occasionally writing music for various TV and film projects.
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Rudy Mancuso

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Rodolfo "Rudy" Mancuso (born February 28, 1992) is an American actor, director, producer, internet personality, comedian, model and musician, known for his comedy videos on YouTube, and previously on the app Vine. He is managed by Shots Studios, which also produces content for his YouTube channel. Mancuso's videos are often musical comedy scenes. Rudy Mancuso is the son of an Italian father and a Brazilian mother, living in the Atlantic Ocean and speaks fluent Portuguese. At the age of five, he started playing the piano. Mancuso partnered with Shots Studios to create videos and launched his YouTube channel in 2016. He was a host on Comedy Central's "Drunk History" and HBO's "Outpost." He also starred in YouTube Red's "Keys of Christmas" alongside Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled. Mancuso performed the opening shows on the Purpose World Tour, Canadian singer Justin Bieber's third world tour, in Latin America and Brazil in 2017. The Dolce & Gabbana brand invited him to model at the Milan men's fashion week show of Spring/Summer 2018 on June 17, 2017. Presented an award at the 2017 MTV Millennial Awards in Mexico. In July 2017, he performed at the Villa Mix Festival Goiânia, for two consecutive days. On October 6, 2017, Rudy Mancuso released his debut single "Black & White", in collaboration with Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Poo Bear. On October 7, 2017, Mancuso performed at the Villa Mix festival in São Paulo. In 2023, he made an appearance in theaters in the DC Studios film "The Flash" as Albert Desmond (or Doctor Alchemy/Mister Element as he is known in the official DC Comics), directed by Andy Muschietti. Subsequently, Mancuso made his directorial film debut in "Música" for Prime Video alongside his girlfriend, Camila Mendes. In this film, he portrays the main character and also serves as the director.
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Peng Gang

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Filmography (1977-1984), Actor (38 films), Martial Arts Director (13 films), Assistant Martial Arts Director (4 films) From the age of 8 Peng Kong studied Peking Opera, and upon completion he entered the movie-industry in Taiwan. When he was in the cast as one of the spearmen in "Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin" he caught Jackie Chan's eye and was subsequently recast in Jackie's next features. As time went on he got renowned for his daring stunts and skillful choreography. Elder brother of Peng Wei-Chang and Peng Li-Chang.
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Katrin Laur

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Katrin Laur (née Poola; born April 29, 1955, in Tartu, Estonia) is an author, film director, and professor who currently lives in Estonia and Germany. In 1973 in Soviet-occupied Tallinn she graduated from a school that gave an excellent command of English (Tallinn Secondary School N°7), she then had different jobs. Laur learned photography at the Tallinn Technical School N°2 and studied philosophy for one year at the Moscow State University. From 1977 to 1982 Laur studied feature film directing at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), in the masterclass of Sergey Gerasimov, and graduated in 1982 with a diploma summa cum laude (diploma film: “Kolm tundi rongi väljumiseni” – “Three Hours before the Train leaves.”). After graduating from the film school she left the Soviet Union with her then-husband, a Colombian fellow student, and their three-year-old daughter. She applied for political asylum in Munich, Germany, which was granted to her two years later. In Munich, she again worked different jobs, studied German at the Ludwig Maximilian University, and made a couple of documentaries for the Bavarian TV: 1987 – “Revolution aus dem Salon” – “Revolution from a Salon” – about Russian female dissidents.
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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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Gabriella Wright

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Gabriella Wright (born 19 June 1982) is an English actress and model, best known for playing Queen Claude of France in the series The Tudors, Viola in the film The Perfect Husband, and Gina in the action thriller The Transporter Refueled. In addition to her acting and modeling careers, she is a humanitarian and activist with vast contributions to many international campaigns on gender-based violence and suicide prevention. Wright was born on 19 June 1982 in Stoke Newington, London to Paul David Wright, a sculptor and painter, and Anne Catherine Wright, a teacher and writer. Her siblings are Paulette and Pascal Wright. She moved to France with her parents at the age of 12, and graduated in English Literature and Social Economics. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Wright's acting coaches include Susan Batson and Jack Garfein. In 2004, Wright played her first lead role in the film One Dollar Curry, directed by Vijay Singh. In 2007, Wright appeared as Queen Claude of France in the historical drama series The Tudors. In 2014, Wright appeared in the 7th season of the HBO's supernatural drama series True Blood, in which she played the role of Sylvie. She played the lead role in the horror film The Perfect Husband along with Bret Roberts and Carl Wharton, and directed by Lucas Pavetto. In 2015 Wright appeared in the action thriller film The Transporter Refueled, directed by Camille Delamarre. In 2016, Wright was cast in the film Security as Ruby, which stars Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley. In 2018, Wright played Rebekha Volt in Action Team, a spy comedy spoof directed by James De Frond. Wright plays Veronika, the personal hitwoman for Antonio Banderas’s character in the upcoming 2021 American action comedy film, Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, directed by Patrick Hughes. Source: Article "Gabriella Wright" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Elisabeth Shue

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Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress, best known for her starring roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), and Piranha 3D (2010). She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She starred as Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2012 to 2015. More recently she had supporting roles in Battle of the Sexes (2017) and Death Wish (2018). She was also a series regular in the first season of the Amazon series The Boys (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisabeth Shue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jessie Ward

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Ward (born in Manasquan, New Jersey), sometimes credited as Jessica Ward, is an American actress who is featured on the MyNetwork TV telenovelas: Desire and Wicked Wicked Games. She has also recently completed filming the female lead role of Marilyn Culver in Rest Stop: Don't Look Back, which is a sequel to Rest Stop from 2006, to be released in October 2008, and will be filming a new movie called Godspeed, as Rebecca, which will begin shooting in July in Alaska, to be released in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Ward (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Molly Ringwald

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Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. She was cast in her first major role as Molly in the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (1979–80) after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie. She and several other members of the original Facts of Life cast were let go when the show was reworked by the network. She subsequently made her motion-picture debut as Miranda in the independent film Tempest (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. Ringwald is known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes. She established herself as a teen icon after appearing in the successful Hughes films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). She later starred in The Pick-up Artist (1987), Fresh Horses (1988), and For Keeps (1988). She starred in many films in the 1990s, most notably Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992), The Stand (1994), and Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994 short film – precursor to Sling Blade). Ringwald was part of the "Brat Pack" and she was ranked number one on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars. Since 2017, Ringwald has portrayed Mary Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale.
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Dorothy Abbott

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Perennial starlet Dorothy Abbott was a sexy, vivacious, wide-smiling model, showgirl and actress who could brighten up a room. Unfortunately, her cinematic offerings wound up being pretty minimal and her last years were marred by depression and, ultimately, a tragic end. She was born Dorothy E. Abbott on December 16, 1920, in Kansas City, Missouri and started her career off as a chorine with Earl Carroll and his Los Angeles-based revues and in Las Vegas showrooms where she was dubbed the rather mystifying title of "The Girl with the Golden Arm". Paramount Studios perked up on the lovely blonde with the Betty Page-like bangs and gave her a starting contract at $150 a week. Groomed in dozens of decorative "good time girl" bits -- dancers, chorus girls, waitresses, stewardesses, party girls, nurses and models -- she was at the same time promoted as a cheesecake pinup, "winning" such dubious titles as "Miss Wilshire Club," "Miss Los Angeles Transit" and "Miss Oil Cans". The dusky-voiced Dorothy was usually briefly seen and not heard in such dramatic and lightweight fare as The Razor's Edge (1946), Road to Rio (1947), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) (in which she has her first speaking role as a maid), Words and Music (1948), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Little Women (1949), Neptune's Daughter (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), His Kind of Woman (1951), Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952), _The Las Vegas Story (1952)_, The Caddy (1953), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Jailhouse Rock (1957), South Pacific (1958), The Apartment (1960), That Touch of Mink (1962), A Gathering of Eagles (1963) and Dear Heart (1964). Her one starring role came early in the exploitative, lowbudget potboiler A Virgin in Hollywood (1953) as a star reporter out to get a seamy Hollywood story, but she was unable to capitalize on it. Working bit parts at the studio during the days, she would often perform on stage in little theatre shows at night. On the sly, when work was meager, she became a real estate agent in the 1950s in order to help supplement her income. TV chores included guest roles in "Leave It to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet". She also had a recurring part for one season as Jack Webb 's girlfriend on the Dragnet (1954) series. Dorothy married LAPD narcotics squad officer-turned homicide detective Adolph Rudy Diaz in 1949. Diaz, who was of Native American (Apache) descent, eventually retired as a cop in order to pursue acting. By this time, the marriage was in trouble and the couple separated. Going by the stage name of Rudy Diaz in 1967, he began to get work and was seen out in public with other women. The divorce was finalized in 1968, but Dorothy took it hard and never seemed to get over it. On December 15, 1968, she committed suicide at her Los Angeles home -- one day before her 48th birthday. She was interred (as Dorothy E. Diaz) at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, Plot: Valley Lawn, Lot 2939.
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