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Ofelia Medina

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Ofelia Medina (born April 4, 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She made her film debut in Mexico in 1968 with the film La paz and in Hollywood with The Big Fix ten years later. In 1977 she played a hunchback in the telenovela Rina. She portrayed Frida Kahlo in Paul Leduc's film about the artist in 1984. In Canada, Medina was nominated for the Genie Award for her work in Diplomatic Immunity in 1991. Ofelia Madine has also played in various theatres worldwide. Since 2000 Ofelia played Frida Kahlo in the play Cada quien su Frida. In 2007 she came to Denmark, playing in Århus, Copenhagen and Odense at the gallery of Jens Galschiøt.
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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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Pooja Umashankar

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Pooja Gauthami Umashankar, mononymously known as Pooja is an Indian-Sri Lankan actress, who has primarily appeared in Tamil films as well as Sinhala, Malayalam and amateur films. Following a series of successful commercial ventures, Bala's Naan Kadavul saw Pooja's performance as a blind beggar praised by the critics, securing major awards, including the South Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She simultaneously worked in Sinhala cinema and was part of several successful films like Anjalika (2006), Asai Man Piyabanna (2007), Suwanda Denuna Jeewithe (2010) and Kusa Pabha (2012), thus establishing herself as one of the leading actresses of Sinhala cinema.
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Isabelle Fuhrman

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Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American actress. She has one older sister, Madeline, and her parents are Elina and Nick Fuhrman. Her career began when a casting director from Cartoon Network spotted her waiting for her sister and cast her for one of the shows, Cartoon Fridays. Isabelle's first acting gig came in 2006 when she booked a commercial for Rooms to Go furniture, and within a month she was asked to fly to LA to audition for shows. During that time, she scored a bunch of commercial and film roles. Isabelle also appeared in several comedy skits on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), and shortly thereafter her family moved to Los Angeles so she could further pursue her dream. Isabelle's big break came when she played Esther in Orphan (2009), which landed her critical acclaim and was hailed as "one of the most momentous examples of acting from a child performer in years." She has won the role of Clove in The Hunger Games (2012), the big-screen adaptation of literary sensation The Hunger Games. That went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies ever with over $407 million at the domestic box office. Isabelle has been featured in spreads for magazines such as Vanity Fair, Nylon, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, V, H, Bust and Last magazine.
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Lisa Joyce

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Born and raised in Chicago, Lisa Joyce received her BFA in Acting from the Theater School at DePaul University. She received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for her performance in Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter", which premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater Company before transferring off-Broadway and being named a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. Lisa made her West End/Broadway debut in "La Bete", starring Mark Rylance and David Hyde Pierce, and toured nationally, alongside Cherry Jones in the Tony Award-winning production of "Doubt". Some of her favorite off-Broadway credits include: Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's beloved production of "Love, Loss and What I Wore" and Soho Rep.'s "The Ugly One", for which she earned a Drama Desk nomination. Lisa has also appeared in productions at The Public, New York Theater Workshop, The Signature, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick, Transport Group, StageFARM, Williamstown and The Studio Theater in D.C., where she received a Helen Hayes Award for her role in "Blackbird". Lisa is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company.
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Josef Dvořák

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Josef Dvořák (born in Horní Cerekev, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, April 25, 1942) is a Czech actor. He started his career in Kadaň from where Pavel Fiala took him to Kladivadlo in Ústí nad Labem. He was an external actor in theatre Semafor in 1972-1990. In 1990 he established his own theatre company Divadelní společnost Josefa Dvořáka. He is famous for his many movie roles of Vodník. He grew up in Kadan, from 1965 to 1970 he worked in Kladivadle in Ústí nad Labem, from 1972 to 1990 in the Semafor theater, since 1990 he has been the director and protagonist of the Josef Dvořák Theater Company. [1] He first played with Jitka Molavcova and Jiří Suchý, later formed a separate group. Of the hundreds of TV roles, they are among the most famous in the series: Hospitals on the outskirts of the city, Spataces of Chef Svatopluk, There were two scribes, Arabela, Visitors, Cemetery for foreigners, Pubs. In the film he played for example in Jachym, throw him in the machine (1974), Lions Salon (1978), Black Baron (1992). He has been famous for his role as a soldier and, in general, for children. Together with Jitka Molavcova, Pavel Zedníček, Štěpánka Haničinčová and other actors, he produced a series of TV Shows (1977-1990). On TV we can often see her with Jitka Molavcova, who works in the same theater. He also gave his voice to several nightclubs such as Maxipes Fik, Bob and Bobek. As calculated, by the end of 2012, Josef Dvořák was to be heard in 156 episodes of various evening gigs. According to the Mladá fronta Dnes in August 2007 and mainly according to the list of collaborators StB, Uncensored Newspaper, No. 04/2000, was a confidant of State Security, the name Komik, registration number 31 014, from 1979 to 1981. (Wikipedia)
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Warintorn Panhakarn

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Warintorn Panhakarn (Thai: วรินทร ปัญหกาญจน์), a.k.a. Great (Thai: เกรท) /Grate, is a Thai actor and model. He entered the showbiz by auditioning for the famous TV character, Jadej, and he was later selected for TV commercials; Bangkok Airways and KTC (bank & credit card). Great then signed a contract with Channel 3, Thailand and started acting in numerous Thai dramas. He has a lot of fans with over 3.6 million followers on Instagram. He was best known for his role as Khun Chai Taratorn (Prince Taratorn) in the mega series "Gentlemen of Chutathep"; Jutathep Princes in 2013. To name a few, his popular TV series include Convent Girl, Horizontal Sky, Anguished Love, Deceiving Love, and My Secret Bride. (© JKNWorldWide)
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Jack Webb

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John Randolph 'Jack' Webb, also known by the pen name John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet. He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited. Born in Santa Monica, California, Webb grew up in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles as the child of a single mother after his father left home before he was born. During World War II, Webb enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces, but he "washed out" of flight training and was granted a hardship discharge to care for his family. Following his discharge, he moved to San Francisco, where a wartime shortage of announcers led to a temporary appointment to his own half-hour comedy radio show on ABC's KGO Radio in 1946. By 1949 he had abandoned comedy for drama, and starred in numerous radio shows until finding success in film and television in the late 1950s. Webb had a featured role as a crime lab technician in the 1948 film He Walked by Night, a thinly-fictionalized recounting of the 1946 Walker crime spree. This experience gave Webb the idea for Dragnet: a recurring series based on real cases from LAPD police files, featuring authentic depictions of the modern police detective, including methods, mannerisms, and technical language. Following the success of Dragnet, Webb appeared in numerous television shows and specials, including the well-known 1972 series Emergency! During his work on a revival of Dragnet in 1982, Webb suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 62. His funeral was given full police honors, and then LAPD Chief Daryl Gates retired the badge number 714 used by Webb's Joe Friday of Dragnet fame.  
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Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead, of social unrest. Though he is well-known for revolutionizing perceptions of the limits of popular music in 1965 with the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone," a number of his earlier songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered to be his songwriting. Since 1994, Dylan has published three books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a songwriter and musician, Dylan has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, a road called the Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer's honor in his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Dylan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Kevin Tanski

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Kevin Tanski was born in Buffalo, NY to George and Beverly Tanski. The middle child, set between his older brother Brian and younger sister Jessica, Kevin attended Lancaster High School located just outside of Buffalo, NY. After graduating, Kevin was recruited to the University At Buffalo to play football for the Buffalo Bulls. After playing for a short time, Kevin decided to focus on his studies graduating with a degree in Psychology. Kevin Tanski got his first taste of the entertainment industry in 2005 when he attended Buffalo Pro Wrestling Gym graduating from there as "Tank" Tanski. Tank Tanski was paired with his wrestling trainer Mark "Killer Kumpf" to form the "Buffalo Bad Boys," wrestling in independent promotions. Kevin left wrestling for other career pursuits. Kevin taking a shot once again in the entertainment industry, was fortunate enough to be cast, due to his martial arts training, and certification in Law Enforcement, as a background/stunt actor police officer for the movie "Dark Knight Rises." It was that experience that opened the door for Kevin in the film industry. Kevin auditioned and received his first lead role in the feature film titled "Beyond the Call of Duty" in spring of 2012 where he portrayed a Combat Specialist as part of an elite military strike team. This movie, although created on a micro budget, earned worldwide distribution and can be seen in over 30 countries. Shortly after that, Kevin was cast in a supporting role as a mean Bounty Hunter in a Western feature film titled "Ride the wanted trail." Kevin began studying advanced acting techniques under Frank Rossi of Frank Rossi Studios in Buffalo, NY in 2012. Kevin has always expressed his love for being on set stating there is no other place he would rather be and enjoys traveling around the country to film. Kevin earned eligibility for the Screen Actor's Guild by booking a principal role as a Police Officer for the award winning feature film Topside shot in 2019 and released in 2021. Kevin Joined SAG in the summer of 2021 and booked a principal role in a television pilot in 2022, of which details can not yet be disclosed at time of this update.
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