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Jennifer Reeder

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Jennifer Reeder is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. She attracted notice early in her career for her performance and video work as "White Trash Girl" (1995) a fictional identity through which the artist explored lower-income white culture in the United States. She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues. Reeder received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and is represented by the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
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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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Sarah French

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Sarah French is an actress originally from Minnesota but now makes her home in Los Angeles, California. She has brought her talents to several feature films (Blind, Pretty Boy, The Special, Death Count), TV shows (The Last Tycoon, Girl in the Picture, The Curse of Robert the Doll) and music videos (AC/DC, Killswitch Engage, Witherfall). She found a love of horror films at an early age after discovering 'Child's Play' at a local video store. To this day it remains her number one genre of film. She is an avid hiker and cross trains regularly which allows her to do her own stunts in projects. Her mantra is: "If I'm not working on a project, I'm working on myself." Sarah believes in being positive and professional in both work and life and always looks forward to new opportunities and challenges.
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Tara Cardinal

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Tara Cardinal is the daughter of a psychic and a musician. Tara grew up on a small farm in Indiana. Cardinal moved out on her own at age 16 and worked three jobs in order to initially support herself. She was discovered in a shopping mall and acted in her first movie in 2006. Tara frequently appears in horror and fantasy films and likes to perform her own stunts. Moreover, Cardinal has not only acted on stage, but also has modeled for various comic book characters, performed at Renaissance Festivals, and even done live shows as a professional wrestler. A dedicated humanitarian and staunch advocate for children's rights, Tara co-founded the non-profit peer counseling organization C.L.U.B. (Children Living Under Blindness) at age 12 and has toured middle schools in both America and Canada educating children on their rights and resources since the age of 15. Cardinal has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. In addition, Cardinal writes poetry as well as writes for the websites the IndependentCritic.com and NerdRemix.com. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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James Martin Kelly

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James Martin Kelly is an American character actor, born on September 6th, in Brooklyn New York to James Francis and Joan Marie Kelly. Jim married Mary-Ellen on Oct 8, 1978. In 1988 Jim and Mary-Ellen moved to Florida to raise their four children. At Mary-Ellen's urging, Jim auditioned for a play, changing his life. Plays led to a few commercial and TV gigs but he knew this was a craft that should be taken seriously. While studying the Eric Morris technique in Tampa Florida, his teacher, Kathy Laughlin urged him to move to Los Angeles, saying "There's no market here for the kind of work you do". For decades since, Jim has been opposite some of the biggest artists in motion pictures and on television, working together to tell the writer's story. Best known for his powerful turn as 'Rob Farrior' in 'Jack Reacher' with Tom Cruise, James continues to deliver consistent, solid, moving performances.
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Peter Mensah

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Peter Osei Mensah (born on 27 August 1959, ht. 6'3"), is a Ghanaian-English actor, best known for his roles in Tears of the Sun, 300, Sleepy Hollow, and on the Starz original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance. Mensah comes from an academic family. He was born in Ghana, to parents of the Ashanti People but he moved to Hertfordshire, England with his father, an engineer, and his mother, a writer and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah moved to Canada 11 years ago. He emigrated from Britain to see the world and it was a toss-up whether his destination would be Canada or Australia. The paperwork for Canada came through first. Mensah's film credits include Avatar, 300, Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and The Incredible Hulk. He also stars in the short film The Seed, produced and directed by Linkin Park's DJ Joe Hahn. He has made television appearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven, and La Femme Nikita. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E Network series A Nero Wolfe Mystery.
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Josephine Baker

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Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald, naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. During her early career she was renowned as a dancer, and was among the most celebrated performers to headline the revues of the Folies Bergère in Paris. Her performance in the revue Un vent de folie in 1927 caused a sensation in Paris. Her costume, consisting of only a girdle of artificial bananas, became her most iconic image and a symbol of the Jazz Age and the 1920s.
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Tim Hunter

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tim Hunter (June 15, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television and film director. Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series including Breaking Bad, Carnivàle, Chicago Hope, Crossing Jordan, Deadwood, Falcon Crest, Homicide: Life on the Street, House M.D., Law & Order, Lie to Me, Mad Men, and Twin Peaks. During the early-to-mid 1980s, Hunter directed feature films, including 1986's River's Edge, which won that year's award for best picture at the Independent Spirit Awards.
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Gündüz Abbasov

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Gunduz Shamsaddin oglu Abbasov - Soviet and Azerbaijani actor, librarian and editor. In 1947 he entered the Azerbaijan State Art College named after Azimzade, from which he graduated in 1952. From 1957 to 1959 he served as senior editor of the Azerbaijan State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, from 1964 to 1966 he served as editor of the Azerbaijan Publishing House Azerneshr. From 1968 to 1970 he was in charge of the art department of the editorial office of the Literature and Art newspaper, from 1970 to 1971 he was in charge of the library of the music school, at the same time from 1970 to 1972 he was the administrator of the cinema "Gelebe". In 1973 he returned to the Azerbaijan State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting and worked until 1975.
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Chiara Aurelia

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Chiara Aurelia de Braconier d'Alphen was born in Taos, New Mexico to a Belgian father and an American mother and grew up in Albuquerque. She pioneered her pursuit of acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater after moving to Los Angeles when she was four years old. She traveled between the mountains of the Southwest, and the Sunshine State during her childhood with her clear focus in acting, dancing and singing. Chiara was ecstatic to move to Los Angeles full time in 2014 to pursue her acting career and has enjoyed every minute. Chiara's resume since includes her most recent portrayal of "Rose Lord" in her series regular role on TELL ME YOUR SECRETS, along side Amy Brenneman and Lily Rabe. She is excited for the release of this show on TNT upcoming in 2019. She played "Misty" in the Independent Feature Film released in 2018 in the Spotlight portion at the Tribeca Film Festival. Alex Pettyfer directs and stars in BACK ROADS whose cast also includes Juliette Lewis, Jennifer Morrison and Nicola Peltz. In 2017 Chiara portrayed a young Carla Gugino as "Jessie" in GERALD'S GAME, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel for Netflix, directed by Mike Flanagan (HUSH, OUIJA). She also appeared as a recurring guest star on NBC's THE BRAVE wrapping up the last two episodes of their show. Chiara's other credits include, RECOVERY ROAD on ABC where she played Young Haley Lu Richardson, Nickelodeon's NICKY, RICKY, DICKY AND DAWN, and ABC's show, AGENT CARTER, for Marvel Studios. She also appeared in PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, as well as the feature film BIG SKY, alongside Kyra Sedgwick and Bella Thorne. With gratitude Chiara was nominated and awarded Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Supporting Role in 2019 for her role in BACK ROADS and in 2017 & 2018 for her role in GERALD'S GAME by The Young Entertainer's Awards as well as The BAM Awards. She was nominated in 2016 for the Young Artist's Award for Best Young Actress for her role in SECRET SUMMER. And in 2015, Chiara won Best Young Artist at Cinerockom International Film Festival for her role in the film OPAL. Along with acting, Chiara believes that kindness is created through compassion towards others and she supports numerous local and international non-profit organizations, and donates her income to various charities. She has volunteered and supported finding happy homes for animals through No Kill Los Angeles & Best Friends Animal Society. She also volunteers to feed the homeless through The Angel Food Project in Los Angeles, and is a member of the Young Leaders Council at Oceana.
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