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Mustafa Uğurlu
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Mustafa Uğurlu (born 25 November 1955) is a Turkish stage, film and television actor.
Mustafa Uğurlu's father was a health officer and his mother was a housewife from Çorum. His father was appointed to Bursa when he was 2–3 years old and they moved there from Konya. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Bursa. He had four siblings, one of which, Ahmet Uğurlu, is also an actor. Uğurlu made his television debut in 1993 with a role in the series Rıza Beyler. His breakthrough came in 1998, with his role in the movie Ağır Roman, for which he won a Golden Orange Award for Best Supporting Actor. He continued his career in cinema and television, and appeared on stage and directed a number of plays for state theatres.
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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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Kenichi Matsuyama
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Kenichi Matsuyama (松山 ケンイチ, Matsuyama Ken'ichi, born March 5, 1985) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the Death Note animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010.
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Susie Youssef
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Susan Kathryn Youssef (born 1984) is a writer and actor who works in television, on radio and stage in Australia and the United Kingdom. Youssef performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Homebake.
Youssef is best known for her appearances in the television series The Project, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia, How Not to Behave, No Activity and Rosehaven. She has twice used her family name in the title of her stand-up comedy shows.
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Sam Herrgård
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Sam Larsson Herrgård was born in Stockholm, Sweden on July 19th 2013.He is an actor of American, Swedish and Finnish ancestry. Sam had an early interest in acting, began going to castings on his own initiative and started performing professionally at the age of 6, performing in commercials, several short dramatic films, theater, opera and television series. Sam also does his own stunts under the professional supervision of stunt coordinators, voice acting and voice over.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Sam has the lead role in several episodes of the Swedish childrens television show Bolibompa: Draken följer med 2021 - ongoing. - Sam started the prestigious fundraising event Barncancergalan (Children's cancer gala) in Sweden, singing a solo in English before being joined by the other performers for a song and dance number. It was broadcasted live on the Swedish channel TV3 and on Viaplay October 2th, 2023. - Sam has performed at the Royal Swedish Opera and The Royal Dramatic Theatre 2021 - 2022. - Sam did his own choreography for a solo dance in the Swedish adaptation of Lionel Bart's classic musical, based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist produced by Poff in October 2023. SKILLS
Athletics: Bowling, Cycling, Equestrian, Gymnastics, Martial Arts, Soccer, Swimming, Yoga, Cartwheels
Instruments: Piano
Dance: Ballet, Club/Freestyle, Disco, Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern
Performer: Singing, Stunts, Voiceover
Education & Training:
BASE23 - musical line 2023 - Current
Kulturskolan - individual singing 2022 - Current
Stockholm's Gosskör 2022 - Present
Culture School - jazz dance 2022
Norrtull Sports Club - football 2021 - Current
Calle Flygare Theater School 2020 - 2021
Roxanne's dance studio - show dance 2020
Boulevardteatern - theater summer camp 2020
YMCA & Lidingö gymnastics club - gymnastics 2018 - 2021
Music School Norrmalmskyrkan - choir 2017 - 2020
Trivia: Although Sam at the age of 9 still was afraid of deep waters and was supposed to be replaced in an upcoming Swedish drama by a double for a deep dive scene fully clothed, but he perfomed the stunt himself after undergoing special training with Swedish Navy's Attack Divers, an elite unit of combat swimmers.
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Al Jolson
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Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer".He was born in the Russian Empire (the part of which is now in Lithuania) and emigrated to America at the age of five with his Jewish parents.
His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach". Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby Judy Garland, rock and country entertainer Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel". Broadway critic Gilbert Seldes compared him to "the Great God Pan," claiming that Jolson represented "the concentration of our national health and gaiety."
In the 1930s, he was America's most famous and highest paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Although he's best remembered today as the star in the first (full length) talking movie, The Jazz Singer in 1927, he later starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with the 1946 Oscar-winning biographical film, The Jolson Story. Larry Parks played Jolson with the songs dubbed in with Jolson’s real voice. A sequel, Jolson Sings Again, was released in 1949, and was nominated for three Oscars. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jolson became the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II, and again in 1950 became the first star to perform for G.I.s in Korea, doing 42 shows in 16 days. He died just weeks after returning to the U.S., partly due to the physical exertion of performing. Defense Secretary George Marshall afterward awarded the Medal of Merit to Jolson's family.
He enjoyed performing in blackface makeup – a theatrical convention since the mid-19th century. With his unique and dynamic style of singing black music, like jazz and blues, he was later credited with single-handedly introducing African-American music to white audiences. As early as 1911 he became known for fighting against anti-black discrimination on Broadway. Jolson's well-known theatrics and his promotion of equality on Broadway helped pave the way for many black performers, playwrights, and songwriters, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Ethel Waters.
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Bernie Worrell
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George Bernard Worrell, Jr. was an American musician and record producer. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Worrell was a child musical prodigy. He later studied at the Juilliard School and received a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1967. After meeting George Clinton, frontman of the Parliaments, Worrell relocated with them and their backing band, the Funkadelics, to Detroit, Michigan; both groups became collectively known as Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell co-wrote and played piano and synthesizers on many of their recordings, as well as writing horn and rhythm arrangements. In the 1980s, Worrell performed and recorded with Talking Heads, appearing on the live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, the studio album Speaking in Tongues, and in the band's concert film, Stop Making Sense. In 2016, the New England Conservatory of Music awarded Worrell an honorary Doctor of Music degree. Worrell died at his home in Everson, Washington, on June 24, 2016, at the age of 72, from a combination of prostate cancer, liver cancer and lung cancer.
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Ric Carrott
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Ric Carrott was an American actor, active during the 1970s.
Youthful-looking and handsome, Carrott's only regular television series role was as Captain Chris Gentry, on the Saturday morning children's series Space Academy, but he made guest appearances on numerous popular shows of the decade. These included Nanny and the Professor, The Partridge Family, Love American Style, Dirty Sally, The Bob Newhart Show, The Odd Couple, The Blue Knight, The Streets of San Francisco, Lucas Tanner, S.W.A.T., Cannon, and later The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones, Fantasy Island and Three's Company.
Carrott originated the role of Chuck Cunningham, in the pilot for Happy Days (which aired as a segment of Love, American Style, "Love and the Happy Days"), later played by Gavan O'Herlihy in the series.
His film work includes roles in The Swinging Cheerleaders (also known as Locker Room Girls), Earthquake, Slashed Dreams, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Marathon Man, and the television movies A Summer Without Boys, Hurricane, SST: Death Flight, and When Hell was in Session.
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Sofía Garza
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Sofía Garza was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. At the age of 15 she started performing in school musical theater plays, and participated both as a singer and a composer on several music festivals. During her time in high school, Sofia traveled to France and Portugal, singing and dancing Mexican folklore music. She also participated in the first season of the show Latin American Idol (2006), which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While studying for her B.A. in Communication and Advertising at Tec de Monterrey (ITESM), Sofia worked in several professional musical theater plays for the most prestigious local production company: Teló 77. Her most important roles at this stage were on the major shows "Rent" and "Footloose", starring as Mimi and Ariel, respectively. After graduating college, Sofia had her first appearance on a television series in 2010, working on 6 episodes of the show Morir en Martes (2010). A year later, she was offered the part of the lead antagonist in "Cursi", a comedy play written and directed by local playwright Luis Guerrero. In 2012, Sofia lent her voice and lyrics for a song composed by José Antonio 'Potro' Farías for the soundtrack of the Mexican film Me Late Chocolate (2013). That same year Sofia had the opportunity to open concerts for the famous Mexican pop band "Reik." Her real breakthrough in the national musical theater scene was in 2012, when Sofia moved to Mexico City after being chosen to alternate in the leading role of the original musical play "Si nos dejan", written and directed by prestigious Mexican playwright José Manuel López Velarde and produced by OCESA. After a two-year run in Mexico and a couple of tours in Colombia in 2013 and 2014, the show closed in August 2014 with more than 600 performances. Also in 2013, Sofia had a small role in the television series "Arrepentidos" produced by Fox Latin America and distributed by Nat Geo in Bogota, Colombia. In 2014 Sofia formalized her acting studies in the Mexican performance school CasAzul Argos. Studying and improving her acting and singing have become a regular activity for Sofia. Continuing with her television experience, Sofia participated in the show Soy tu doble (2012), both as a performer and a participant of this reality television series produced and transmitted by TV Azteca in Mexico, and Azteca America in the United States. By 2015, Sofia landed a role in the major television series Sense8 (2015), written and directed by Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, and co-directed by James McTeigue. The show is produced by Georgeville Television and is distributed worldwide by Netflix. By 2016, Sofia started head-lining the music show "Myst" in Mexico City, directed by Academy Award Nominee Felipe Fernández del Paso. She also appeared in the television show "Paquita la del Barrio" for Sony Pictures Television Latinamerica in early 2017.
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Kim Jin-pyo
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Kim Jin-pyo is a South Korean rapper, TV host and professional race car driver. He began his career in 1995 in the rock group Panic and went on to release music both as a solo artist and as a member of the rock group Nova Sonic. In 2003, he won the Mnet Music Video Festival award for Best Hip Hop Performance. He is currently the host of Top Gear Korea and of Show Me The Money.
Kim is married to actress Yoon Joo-ryeon, and they have a daughter. He appeared with their daughter in the reality show Dad! Where Are We Going?.
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