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Yusei Oda

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Yusei Oda (織田 優成, Oda Yusei, September 19, 1969) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. He is affiliated with Aoni Production. Formerly known by his real name Katsuaki Arima (有馬 克明, Arima Katsuaki) until September 2003, he also worked as a writer under the penname of Hiroki Kannabe (神辺 宏樹, Kan'nabe Hiroki). After working at Wit Promotion and as a freelancer, he became an associate member of Aoni Production on August 1, 2005, and a regular member on January 1, 2009.
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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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Ole Fick

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Ole Fick was born in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 1948 Is trained as a graphic designer / artist at the Academy of Free and Commercial art. The danish painter Otto Frello and the graphical designer Jørgen Struck as teachers. During the years designing posters, CD cover art for the Danish rock and folk scene and theater. The poster for "Festival of Fools" is released as Post Denmark stamp in 2003. In a 10 year period satirical cartoonist for the danish tabloid, Ekstra Bladet. Cartoons today satire to the magazin Svikmøllen. Has illustrated a variety of children's and youth books. Ole Fick is for a lot of people also known as rock guitarist and singer in the rockband "Burnin Red Ivanhoe". Composer of music for children and youth films. Also writer of screenplays. Is together with Jacob Morild guilty of radio satire: "The thing on Sundays" and a series Cafe-Liva-Christmas shows. For more than 20 years comedian in the group "Monrad & Rislund, Ougaard & Fick" Actor and dupping artist, for example the danish version of "Postman Pat" and a lot of Disney productions. Ole Fick lives and works in Copenhagen.
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Ed Guiney

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Ed Guiney co-founded film and drama production company, Element Pictures with Andrew Lowe in 2001. Element has offices in Dublin, Belfast and London and works across production, distribution and exhibition. As joint Managing Director, Ed oversees the development and production of Element’s film and television slate. Recent projects include Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and the television series Normal People, also directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Ed has been nominated for three Oscars for Best Picture and has won two BAFTAs.
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Ünal Silver

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Ünal Silver was born on 16 July 1948 in Istanbul. Ünal Silver's birth name was Ünal Gümüs, and he changed his surname to make it easier to pronounce while continuing his acting career in Germany. He starred in many television series, especially Kuzey Güney, Dirilis Ertugrul ve Eskiya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz. Silver, who had been receiving treatment in the hospital for a while due to health problems, passed away on 29 August 2023. Silver was buried in Kurtköy Osmangazi Cemetery on 31 August 2023. IMDb mini bio by yusufpiskin
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Hilary Duff

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Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is the recipient of several accolades, including seven Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, four Teen Choice Awards and two Young Artist Awards. She also began her acting career at a young age, quickly being labeled a teen idol, as the title character of the television series, Lizzie McGuire and in the film based on the series, The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003). Thereafter, she appeared in numerous mainstream films such as Cadet Kelly (2002), Agent Cody Banks (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and A Cinderella Story (2004). She later appeared in independent films playing a wider range of adult-themed roles, such as a promiscuous pop star in War, Inc. (2008), a suicidal, rebellious teenager in According to Greta (2009) and as the title character in the controversial The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019), inspired by the real-life Tate–LaBianca murders. From 2015 to 2021, Duff starred as Kelsey Peters in TV Land’s longest-running original series Younger, for which she received two People's Choice Awards nominations. As of 2022, she currently produces and stars in How I Met Your Father as the lead role, Sophie. Duff first came to prominence in the music industry after releasing her debut studio album, the Christmas-themed Santa Claus Lane (2002), through Buena Vista Records. Her second album, Metamorphosis (2003), was hugely successful, topping the Billboard 200 chart and earning a 3x Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She enjoyed significant commercial success with her subsequent Platinum and Gold-certified albums released through Hollywood Records; Hilary Duff (2004), Most Wanted (2005) and Dignity (2007). Following a hiatus from music, Duff signed with RCA Records for her fifth album, Breathe In. Breathe Out. (2015), which debuted within the top-five in Australia, Canada and the United States. Duff has also been hailed as an inspiration by subsequent Disney teen stars such as Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Bridgit Mendler and Selena Gomez, and has sold an estimated 15 million records worldwide. In addition to music and acting, she has also co-authored a trilogy of novels, beginning with Elixir (2010), which became a New York Times best seller, and followed by the sequels Devoted (2011) and True (2013). Duff's success in the entertainment industry led her to venture into business with fashion lines of her own such as Stuff by Hilary Duff, Femme for DKNY and most recently the "Muse x Hilary Duff" collection, a collaborative effort with GlassesUSA which was credited to have boosted GlassesUSA's sales for its premium brands. She has also invested in a number of businesses ranging from cosmetics to children's products. In 2019, she was appointed as the chief brand officer of Naturalena Brands' "Happy Little Camper" and "Veeda" lines of products; although this partnership ended with a lawsuit in 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hilary Duff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Paul Telfer

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Paul Telfer (born 30 October 1979 in Paisley, Scotland) is a British actor, who has lived and worked in both his native United Kingdom and the United States. Telfer graduated with First Class honours in Film Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1999. He has appeared in episodes of two Sky One series: Is Harry on the Boat? (2002) (as Matt, a handsome airline ground crew member who is tragically untalented on the dancefloor) and Mile High (2003) (as Rory, a male stripper). Telfer has also appeared in a series of ancient history and mythological epics: as Gannicus in the 2004 TV movie Spartacus, Hephaestion in the 2007 movie Young Alexander the Great and the title role in the 2005 TV miniseries Hercules.[1][2] In 2007, Telfer appeared in five episodes of the second series of the BBC drama Hotel Babylon (as Luke, a less-than-trustworthy concierge), and also in the TV series NCIS, in which he played Marine Corporal Damon Werth, a psychotic Marine recently returned from an Iraq tour of duty. The episode, "Corporal Punishment", was broadcast on CBS in the United States. He also appeared in 2 episodes in season 7, "Outlaws and In-laws" and "Jack Knife" as Damon Werth. Telfer has also lived in New Zealand during the past few years, and has co-written theatre work. Away from acting, he posed nude in the women's magazine Cosmopolitan in support of the testicular and prostate cancer charity Everyman. He appeared in the 2011 movie Son of Morning.
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Andrea Eckert

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Andrea Eckert (born 17 September 1958) is an Austrian stage and film actress, singer and documentary filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Eckert first studied literature in Paris, France, then decided on a stage career and trained with Dorothea Neff. Her roles have included the eponymous heroines in Hebbel's Judith, Schiller's Maria Stuart, Jelinek's Clara S., Sophocles's Elektra, Kleist's Penthesilea, and Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Meisterklasse (Master Class). Eckert has frequently appeared on television (for example in guest roles on Kommissar Rex) and in the cinema. She also made documentaries about Lucia Westerguard, Turhan Bey, and Leopold and Josefine Hawelka. She lives in Vienna. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrea Eckert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    
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Juliet Mills

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Juliet Maryon Mills (born 21 November 1941) is an English actress. She is the sister of Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her work in Five Finger Exercise in 1960. She progressed to film work, and then to television, playing the lead role in the sitcom Nanny and the Professor from 1970 until 1971. She received Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in this series, and for her role in the film Avanti! (1972). She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television miniseries QB VII (1974). Mills continued to appear in television and theatre, and from 1999 until 2008, she played a continuing role in the daytime drama series Passions, and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work. She has been married to actor Maxwell Caulfield since 1980.
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Boris Murashkin

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Graduated from the Novosibirsk Conservatory. M.I. Glinka (class of A. Murov). In the early 1980s he came to Novosibirsktelefilm. He collaborated a lot with Novosibirsk theaters, wrote music for the performances of the Youth Theater: “Twenty Years Later” (N. Svetlova), “Tutor” (G. Polonsky), as well as for the performances of the Theater of Miniatures of the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic: “Take a Smile” (director V. Kharitonov) and the children's theater - "Yantarek". During a creative trip to the USA in October 1990, together with colleagues, director Yuri Malashin and cameraman Boris Travkin, during which they just presented their film "Transfiguration" to the American public, Boris Murashkin, unexpectedly for everyone, decides not to return to his homeland . Now he lives and works in the United States of America. Author of "Bio-Energy Music". Member of the Union of Cinematographers.
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