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Akan Satayev
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Akan Kargambaevich Satayev (Kazakh: Ақан Қарғамбайұлы Сатаев; born December 23, 1971; Karaganda) is a Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Honored Worker of Kazakhstan and laureate of State Award of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Akan was born to a family of actors, both his parents were recognized as People's Artistes of the Kazakh SSR and performed leading roles at Karaganda Drama Theater where he spent a lot of time. That theater became his first drama school, and in 1994 Akan graduated from Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Dept of Cinema and Television. While at the university, he played student Azat, the main character in Allazhar, a movie by Kaldybay Abenov about tragic events in Alma-Ata in December 1986. After graduation, Akan took part in various feature films and went into directing and producing advertising clips. Sataifilm, the company he founded in 2003, presented Racketeer, a crime drama and his debut movie, in 2007. In 2016 Akan founded Astana Film Fund to support young Kazakhstani directors and low-budget indie productions. In the same year he shot 2 feature-length movies - “Districts”, a teenage crime drama set in the USSR and The Road to Mother, a period drama about Collectivization in the Soviet Union, Eastern Front (World War II) and post-war years in Kazakhstan. Mr. Satayev led Kazakhfilm, the largest movie studio in Kazakhstan between 2020 and 2022.
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Will Smith
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Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. Known for variety of roles, Smith has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and four Grammy Awards.
Smith began his acting career starring as a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996). He first gained recognition as part of a hip hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released five studio albums and the US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 singles "Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare on My Street", "Summertime", "Ring My Bell", and "Boom! Shake the Room" from 1984 to 1994. He released the solo albums Big Willie Style (1997), Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002), and Lost and Found (2005), which contained the US number-one singles "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" and "Wild Wild West". He has received four Grammy Awards for his rap performances.
Smith achieved wider fame as a leading man in films such as the action film Bad Boys (1995), its sequels Bad Boys II (2003) and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and the sci-fi comedies Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black 3 (2012). After starring in the thrillers Independence Day (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), he received Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his portrayal as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001), and as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). He then starred in a range of commercially successful films, including I, Robot (2004), Shark Tale (2004), Hitch (2005), I Am Legend (2007), Hancock (2008), Seven Pounds (2008), Suicide Squad (2016) and Aladdin (2019).
For his portrayal of Richard Williams in the biographical sports drama King Richard (2021), Smith won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. At the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony, shortly before winning, Smith faced public backlash for slapping and shouting at Oscar presenter Chris Rock after Rock made an unscripted joke referencing Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith subsequently resigned from the Academy and was banned from attending all Academy functions, including the Oscars, for ten years.
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Rozina
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Ayesha Qureshi, better known by her screen name Rozina, is a Pakistani actress. Born Ivy Cynthia to a Pakistani Christian family, she started her film career in 1963 as a supporting actress and gradually progressed to more leading roles. She was labelled as "glamorous actress" by critics and viewers alike. She worked in 61 Urdu and 32 Punjabi films, until her retirement in 1985. She converted to Islam and changed her name upon marriage to Muslim sound specialist Riffat Qureshi. Her nephew is the famous producer Faysal Quraishi. Now, she spends the her life avoiding discussions about her film career and devotes herself to family and religion.
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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.
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Matt Hensley
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Matthew Davis Hensley (born August 18, 1978) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played part of the 2004 season in Major League Baseball for the Anaheim Angels.
In 2004, Hensley appeared in 30 games for the Angels, in which he went 0-2 with a 4.88 ERA and 30 strikeouts. In 2008, he played for the independent Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League. On July 20, 2009, Hensley's contract was purchased by the Toronto Blue Jays organization, but he was released on August 19 after appearing in just eight games for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
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Watson Amelia
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Amelia heard strange rumors online surrounding hololive: talking foxes, magical squirrels, superhuman dogs, and more. Soon after beginning her investigation on hololive, and just out of interest, she decided to become an idol herself!
She loves to pass her time training her reflexes with FPS games, and challenging herself with puzzle games.
"It's elementary, right?"
Amelia H. Watson, officially listed as Watson Amelia (ワトソン・アメリア), is a detective Virtual YouTuber who debuted as a member of Hololive English -Myth-. Amelia is usually referred to by her fans and gen-mates by the pet-name, Ame (アメ).
When busy with investigating, Amelia likes drinking iced tea and has an affinity for fensi noodles. In her free time, she loves riding roller coasters and sleeping, although the former is difficult due to her disliking going outside and the latter cannot be done if she is clothed. She also dislikes onions, a fact that caused many viewers to joke that she hates Minato Aqua. She hiccups frequently during streams which leads her viewers to comment "HIC". She hypothesizes that these are up-side-down burps that she's converting into cuter hiccups, perhaps as a result of swallowing air during meals. Amelia enjoys FPS games the most such as Apex Legends and Valorant alongside open world games such as Fallout and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Amelia is unofficially considered the leader of Hololive English -Myth- by her genmates due to her technical knowledge of streaming equipment, VR, and her creative ideas for solo and collaborative projects.
Amelia is a highly active, expressive and kind individual who's often willing to help others, especially her own gen mates. She was said to have helped troubleshoot some of the technical problems her gen mates were having before and during debut which led to the birth to the meme Amelia Tech Tips which is a parody of the popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips. Amelia is also highly supportive towards hololive members and frequently comments in any ongoing streams whenever she gets the time to do so. Despite all of these positive traits, Amelia also has another side to her that comically emerges especially when playing in competitive player-versus-player (PvP) games such as Apex Legends that is often dubbed Gremlin mode by her viewers. She often becomes greedy, highly defensive of her own mistakes whilst being highly critical of her teammates actions, and even "salty". Such kinds of behavior has led fans to also calling her a "True Gamer" in the sense that gamers are often considered to be toxic online. Though it is important to note that this doesn't detract from her positive traits but rather makes her streams quite unpredictable and very interesting to watch.
Amelia can also be quite mischievous and playfully naughty by pulling pranks on her fellow gen mates or making statements and jokes that have inconspicuously lewd undertones. One such popular joke would be her "Ground Pound" which she first mentioned during a Super Mario Odyssey playthrough with a slightly lower pitched and "gremlin-like" voice. She also named a door in Minecraft "Gura's backdoor" with an added lenny emoticon " ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) " that is often used mischievously online.
Birthdates are the debut dates, since Idols are forever as young as they want :)
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Ayunda Risu
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"Hewwrroo everyone ~!!"; "Purupuru ganbari Risu ~!"
A squirrel girl from a magical forest.
She was lost in the human world, but due to certain circumstances, she ends up living in the home of a kind older sister.
To return the favor, she decides to become a Vtuber.
Risu acts, most of the time, just like a squirrel she is. She loves to do subtle pranks on people, shy with new people, and loves to tease her viewers. Her laugh is also one of her unique characteristics.
Ayunda Risu is a VTuber from Hololive Indonesia 1st Generation. She is cheerful and likes to play pranks on her friends. She came from a magical forest and met a "Big Sister" that takes care of her while she is in human world, and being VTuber is her way to payback her “Big Sister”.
Risu has a notably wide vocal-range, even for a singer. At the request of fans she's been able to portray a considerable range of identities through voice affectation, even convincing impersonations of other hololive members. Risu's fans frequently refer to these identities emulated through voice as "Risu DLC's", given that they are usually donation requests. Her current most used voices are: "Risu" (default), "Wisu" (childish), and "Ayunda" (deep voice). As shown in her collaboration with Yumeria Nirmala, she also able to perform an ikemen (handsome gentlemen) voice called "Wisnu". According to Risu herself, her natural voice is slightly higher than the "Ayunda" voice, but still significantly lower than her default pitch. She is able to speak 3 languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Japanese. She is learning Japanese with help from her friends and those around her.
Risu and her fellow members of Indonesia 1st Generation, Moona Hoshinova and Airani Iofifteen, lived together in a dormitory, though they each had individual rooms. As such, the three have a very close relationship, even sometimes being likened to a family by both themselves and their fans. Frequently, Iofi refers to herself as the father of the group. They collaborate as a trio on the 15th of every month, titled "Area 15". This arrangement allowed them to join in on each other's streams spontaneously, and streams that began as solo streams have at time become impromptu collaborations.
As superchats are not available in Indonesia, Risu has a streamlabs set up alongside superchats for those who want to donate. According to Risu's introduction stream, she claims that she is cheerful, clumsy, as well as a crybaby. She is shown to be determined, although she is bad with ghosts and horror games, she will still play them if her viewers request them, although she will scream and probably cry.
While kind, she is very strict on the conduct of the live chat--frequently muting or bonking viewers. On more than one occasion she has taken time out of the stream to lecture misbehaving viewers. She is very concerned with making sure all Risuners are treated equally and does not give preferential treatment in bonking.
Birthdates are the debut dates, since Idols are forever as young as they want :)
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Julião Sarmento
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Julião Sarmento was born in 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal, and lives and works in Estoril, Portugal. He studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He is an interdisciplinary artist and throughout his career, Sarmento has worked in a wide range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, video, performance, sound and installation. He also developed several significant site-specific projects. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world over the past five decades.
Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the 46th Venice Biennale (1997). He was included in Documenta 7 (1982) and Documenta 8 (1987), the Venice Biennale (1980 and 2001), and the São Paulo Biennale in 2002. His work is represented in many public and private collections in North and South America, Europe and Japan.
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Zirui Xu
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Xu Zirui, who goes by the English alias "Jerry", born October 14, 1994 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is a Chinese mainland film and television actor and graduate from the Beijing Film Academy. In his early years, Xu was highly interested in the arts; singing, performing, and even playing piano. In 2008, his interests won him an award at the Chongqing Talent Art Competition. He first entered the entertainment industry by participating in the TV series "True Mother and Son", but had been in contact with the TV media industry since 2010. He participated in the recording of TV programs and performances of dramas as a guest in the early days, and became a regular guest on four TV stations. He continued to participate in the shooting of multiple advertisements and eventually had his break-through in 2015 as part of a Tomahawk F1 advertisement as well as work in the 2016 TV Series "Burnt Land". He used his advertisements as a launching point and in late 2016, participated as a trainee for Tianyu Media and won the top 20 in the Hunan competition area. As a result, he was invited to record and perform in the Sichuan Satellite TV drama "Secret Files", and later also became included in series such as "Thunderstorm", "Poppy Beauty", "River City Story: Mask", and "White-Haired Girl". Interested in his talent, Xu was invited regularly by Sichuan TV station as a guest to record "City of Beautiful Dreams", "Dialect Master", "Extraordinary Topics", "Marriage Academy", and "Number One Scholar's Unique Skills".
He later went on to film many more series and films, winning Best Actor in the Internet Film and Television Industry Nova Program for his work in "Story of Jiangcheng" in 2018 as well as Best Actor Award at the China Film and Television Entertainment Year-end Ceremony.
He is now employed as an actor for Beijing Ciwen Film and Television Production Co., Ltd.
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Myra Lewis Williams
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Myra Gale Lewis Williams (née Brown; born July 11, 1944) is an American author, best known for her controversial marriage at the age of 13 to then 22-year-old rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis, who was her first cousin once removed and still legally married to his second wife. They had a son, Steve Allen Lewis (named after the talk show host), and a daughter, Phoebe Allen Lewis. Their son Steve died from drowning in a swimming pool at the age of 3. She divorced Jerry Lee by the time she was 26 in 1970.
She hired writer Murray Silver to co-write a book that was meant to be her autobiography, but after a publisher's editing it became Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis, and was originally released in October 1982 by William Morrow and Company. It was adapted into the 1989 film Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid as Lewis and Winona Ryder as Brown.
She was paid $100,000 for her story, but was resentful that she was not consulted for the script or casting of the film despite being promised. The producers did not want Brown or Lewis involved with the film, but she visited the Memphis set anyway. Although she found the actors to be talented and friendly, she was not satisfied with the book or the film. She had wanted to tell the story of a woman surviving difficult circumstances and inspire women to understand their own strengths, so in 2016 she published her memoir, The Spark That Survived, which details her tumultuous marriage to Lewis and her life after their divorce.
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