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Shoshana Wilder

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Shoshana Wilder is a multilingual, classically trained actor, voiceover artist, and singer. Based in Los Angeles, Wilder is best known for her portrayals of Princess Lisette II in the youth series How to Become a Legend, Laya in Yiddish Theater production the Dybbuk (NYC), Diana Barry in Canadian Tour of Anne of Green Gables, Deena in CTV series Transplant, and as CBC’s in-house announcer (2015-19). Genuinely versatile, Shoshana Wilder works in English, French, Italian, and Yiddish and masters several dialects and accents. The Canadian character actress was raised in Montreal by a hardworking yet very present single mother, whose dedication, resourcefulness, and constant support for her three artistic children inspires Shoshana never to give up and reach for her dreams. As a child, she spends her time creating faux-radio commercials with her friends, and as a teen, regular parties are replaced by improv and comedy nights. Though her interest in the stage is omnipresent, her family’s financial situation is precarious, and cannot afford drama lessons. She, therefore, joins the children’s choir nearby, where she discovers her voice and deepens her love for music and harmony. But, unfortunately, she will have to wait until high school to join the Drama club. Shoshana sings and has a natural talent for the stage, but her shyness takes over, and she puts her passion aside for a few years. Finally, at age 19, encouraged by her French teacher, who sees Wilder’s potential, she auditions for the great acting schools of Quebec, and her acceptance to the Musical Theater program Lionel-Groulx will change everything. That’s where Wilder finally learns to polish, canalize and exploit her voice, dancing, and acting skills. After a few years in the Musical Theater program, she decided to focus on her acting training by joining the Drama specialization. Shoshana graduated in 2013 and has been working professionally ever since, diversifying between stage, TV, film, and voiceover work, sharing her time between LA, NYC, Toronto, and Montreal, her beloved hometown. Very handy and just as resourceful as her mother, Shoshana is also a passionate fixer-upper. Her passion for the environment drives her to counter obsolescence by giving antiques, fixtures, clothes, and furniture a second life. Shoshana also writes and directs and is currently working on her first feature film. For more, contact inquiries (at) EPECmedia (dot) com.
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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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Craig Revel Horwood

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Craig Revel Horwood (born 4 January 1965) is an Australian-British ballroom and Latin American dancer, choreographer, conductor, author, theatre director and television personality in the United Kingdom. He is a patron of the Royal Osteoporosis Society. He is best known as a judge on popular BBC dancing show Strictly Come Dancing He did a performance on Strictly Come Dancing in his drag in response to the homophobic messages that the show received after having a same-sex duo dance on the show the previous week.
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Rebecca O'Mara

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Dublin born, Rebecca grew up by the sea in Sandycove. Daughter of Stephen and Veronica Jane O'Mara, sister of Jason and Stephen James. She attended Holy Child School, Killiney and later did a degree in Drama and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin. On graduating, she moved to London and worked in film production for some years. In 2004, she began her acting training at LAMDA. Since graduation, she has worked mainly in theatre, including: the Royal National Theatre, the West End, Theatre Royal Bath, English Touring Theatre, Bush Theatre and the Gate Theatre, Dublin. She is making her debut on the Irish National Abbey Theatre stage in June 2014, playing Alice in Brian Friel's Aristocrats. - IMDb Mini Biography
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James Patrick Nelson

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A dynamic and versatile character actor with a distinctive voice and a powerful emotional facility, James Patrick Nelson has written and starred in numerous award-winning films, which have been widely praised on the festival circuits, and screened theatrically on both coasts. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he trained at the Boston University School of Theatre, and began his New York theatre career in Off-Broadway productions of Chekhov and Shakespeare, working opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Ethan Hawke, Joely Richardson, Bebe Neuwirth, Christina Ricci, Taylor Mac, Austin Pendleton, and many others. He was nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actor for the world premiere of "Old Familiar Faces" in the New York City Fringe. He and his cast mates won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble for "Sense and Sensibility" at the Folger Theatre. He later reprised his role in Bedlam's production at the American Repertory Theatre. He most recently starred in the world premiere of "Immortal Longings," the final play by Terrence McNally. As an actor-screenwriter, James most recent work has focused solely on LGBTQ+ protagonists and communities. His original series "For Years to Come" goes into production in 2021, and he is developing several queer-centric feature screenplays.
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Emmanuel Jal

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In the war-torn region of Southern Sudan, Emmanuel Jal was born into the life of a child solider on an unknown date in the early 1980s. Through unbelievable struggles, Emmanuel managed to survive and emerge as a recording artist, achieving worldwide acclaim for his unique style of hip hop with its message of peace and reconciliation born out of his personal experiences. Emmanuel has released four studio albums: Gua, Ceasefire, Warchild and See Me Mama. Emmanuel's live appearances have included Live 8 , Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Concert and the One Concert for his Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has performed with acts such as Faithless, Razorlight, Supergrass and Fat Boy Slim in Europe and has toured the United States as part of the National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, in which he performed in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Jal also performed with Moby and Five for Fighting in the 2007 live concert film, with Alicia Keys at her Black Ball in New York and more recently with Joss Stone at the Melbourne Festival closing Concert, 2011 and Peter Gabriel at the 20th anniversary celebrations for WITNESS, 2012. Emmanuel is in demand as a speaker and has addressed the UN, US Congress, the Carter Centre and the highest tiers of several governments. He has been involved with the British Council, Clinton Global Initiative, Adolescent Girls Initiative (World Bank in association with the Nike Foundation), Child Soldiers Initiative and the launch of Ericsson's Refugees Reunited Software. He was one of the faces of Amnesty International's 2010 World Refugee Day Campaign and appeared at Alicia Keys' Keep a Child Alive Black Ball 2010 in London. In 2008 a full-length documentary on his life was released. The film, Warchild, won 12 prestigious film festival awards worldwide. In the same year, his autobiography, also called Warchild, was published by Little Brown. Emmanuel Jal appears as the adult lead in the major motion picture Africa United, a Pathé, UK Film Council and BBC Films presentation in association with Warner Bros, released in October 2010. In 2013 Emmanuel was cast as one of lead characters in 'The Good Lie' alongside Reese Witherspoon. The film follows the journey of three 'Lost Boys' from South Sudan to the US, due for worldwide release through Warner Bros in February 2014. Emmanuel's music has been used in films, documentary and TV including: Blood Diamond, Girl Rising, ER and National Geographic. IMDb Mini Biography By: Emmanuel Jal
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Stephen A. Elkins

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A Texas based actor, Stephen has appeared in Television, Film and Theater. He spent a little time in Los Angeles back in the late 90's working primarily as a Makeup Artist- but what he really wanted to do was act. It was during this period he was cast in the supporting role of George in his first feature film ‘Thugs’ (1998). Long story short, life happens and he moved back to Texas where he somewhat unintentionally disappeared into the corporate world for about 19 years. Three jobs and three layoffs later he decided that what he really wanted to do was act. Since 2018, he has appeared in commercials, short films- some of which have screened at various festivals- and made his dramatic television debut on an episode of the Reelz Channel's crime docu-drama ‘Murder Made Me Famous’ where he portrayed journalist Jimmy Breslin in their episode spotlighting the infamous 'Son of Sam' killer. Stephen currently lives in Texas with his wife, two dogs and a cat.
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Louise Brealey

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Louise Brealey (born 27 March 1979) is an English actress, writer and journalist. She played Molly Hooper in Sherlock (2010–), Cass in Back (2017), Scottish professor Jude McDermid in Clique (2017), Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches (2018) and Donna Harman in Death in Paradise (2020). She made her TV debut as Nurse Roxanne Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty (2002–2004) before playing Judy Smallweed in Bleak House (2005). Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's television drama, Sherlock. She has also made her name as an accomplished stage actress. Her stage debut was at London's Royal Court in 2001 as 14-year-old Sophie in Max Stafford-Clark's production of Judy Upton's Sliding With Suzanne. She portrayed child prodigy Thomasina in the Bristol Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 2005. In 2011, she was the short-frocked daughter of Julian Barratt and Doon Mackichan at the Young Vic in Richard Jones's Government Inspector. She next played three lead roles – Cassandra, Andromache and Helen of Troy – in Caroline Bird's sold-out production of The Trojan Women at London's Gate Theatre. In February 2014, she starred as Julie in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. She won Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her role as Marianne in Constellations, directed by Michael Longhurst and played the lead alongside Anne Marie Duff in Marianne Elliott's Husbands and Sons at the National Theatre. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Louise Brealey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Guy Savoy

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Guy Patrice Savoy (born 24 July 1953) is a French chef who is the head chef and owner of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris and its sister restaurant in Las Vegas, both of which have gained multiple Michelin stars. He owns three other restaurants in Paris. Guy Savoy was born on 24 July 1953 in Nevers. In 1955, his parents moved to Bourgoin-Jallieu, a town in Isère, where his father was a gardener and his mother owned a taproom that she would transform into a restaurant. After a three-year apprenticeship with the Troisgros brothers and multiple experiences at prestigious restaurants, he opened his own restaurant in New York before opening in rue Duret, Paris, in 1980, which received two Michelin stars in 1985. He earned his third Michelin star in 2002. In 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, La Liste named his restaurant at 11 quai de Conti the Best Restaurant in the World. He is married to Danielle Savoy and has two children: Caroline (born 21 January 1978) and Franck (born 4 June 1979). Gordon Ramsay was trained under Guy Savoy, and has described him as his culinary mentor. He recorded the voice of sous-chef Horst for the French version of the Pixar animated film Ratatouille, released in August 2007. He is on the board of directors of the French Mission for Food Culture & Heritage (Mission Française du Patrimoine et des Cultures Alimentaires), which successfully applied for inscription of the "gastronomic meal of the French" on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In 2017 and 2018, he was a member of the Prix Versailles World Judges Panel. Just days before the release of the 2023 Michelin Guide for France, news broke that Savoy’s eponymous flagship restaurant in Paris was being demoted from three Michelin stars to two. Source: Article "Guy Savoy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Becky Brunning

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Becky Brunning is a comedian, actor and writer best known for her role as Lindsay Lucas in award winning crime drama Broadchurch. She’s also featured in Channel 4 comedy Damned alongside Jo Brand. Her debut hour of stand up, Beaming toured the Australian Fringe circuit and sold out most of its 2017 Edinburgh run. Her quirky off-beat style secured her place as a finalist at the Funny Women Awards (2013) and she won Audio Go's national competition, Stand up and Get Heard (2014). Her brilliant Edinburgh Fringe show "Bloom" (2019) was so successful she was regularly forced to turn people away.
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