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Arvo Raimo

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Arvo Raimo (December 13, 1940 - October 14, 2015) was an Estonian actor. Born in Viljandi and a graduate of Viljandi 1st High School, got into theater work straight from school and semi-accidentally. He came to the Ugala theater as a temporary substitute actor at the invitation of Hilja Varem, the head of the school drama circle. Later, Raimo studied at the Ugala study studio created by Karl Ader and Aleksander Sats, which he graduated in 1960, and from the same year he worked as an actor at the Ugala theater in Viljandi. During 55 years of theater, Arvo Raimo managed to perform more than 200 roles.
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Dominic Janes

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Born Dominic Roque Janes Centorbi in Tucson, Arizona, Janes has had recurring roles in ER, as Alex Taggart, the son of Linda Cardellini's character R.N. Samantha Taggart, and in Dexter, as the younger version of the title character. He also appeared in Crossing Jordan. He starred in the Cartoon Network original film Re-Animated and its spin-off series Out of Jimmy's Head. He also portrayed Billy Madsen in the 2007 movie Wild Hogs. He voiced Squidboy in television series Wolverine and the X-Men. Janes has performed improvisation comedy at the L.A. Connection in Sherman Oaks, California. His mother is an attorney and his father is a poet, and he has a brother Ian. His uncle is bassist Joe Preston.
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Paisley Cadorath

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Paisley Cadorath was born Sept 20, 2011 in Winnipeg Manitoba. She is the younger of two children. Her older brother, Kowen Cadorath is also an aspiring actor and has always been a positive influence in his sisters life. Paisley started acting at 7 years old. In 2018 she enrolled in Expressions Film Studio in Winnipeg, Mb. Her uncle Matthew Stefanson has been a big influence in her acting career. He has been her teacher and coach. It was her uncles influence that led to her big break in her first film "Nobody" staring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielson and Gage Monroe. In September, 2019, Paisley received a call from her uncle about a role that she may be good for and thought she should audition. Paisley had never done an audition, let alone had any head shots made. She decided to go for it. A few weeks later she received a call back for a second audition. After Paisleys second audition a few more weeks went by and the phone rang. It was her uncle Matthew. He had heard that they were looking at Paisley for the role. That role was for Sammy Mansell in the action thriller "Nobody".
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Luis Carlos de Alencar

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Luis Carlos de Alencar is from Bahia, Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Postgraduate in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at M_EIA, from Cape Verde Art Institute; Postgraduate in Communications and Image from PUC-Rio; Graduated in Law from Universidade Federal da Bahia. Partner in the production company Couro de Rato, directed Contagem Regressiva (Countdown), which received an award in Rio WF 2016 for Best Documentary and Best Soundtrack, was also nominated for Best Script, was shown in several countries, received an honored mention in Festcine Amazonia and Best Documentary: 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival – Chestertown/ United States; directed the documentary Bombadeira (The pain of the beauty), taken to more than 30 national and foreign festivals and laureated with the award from RedeTrans - 10 years of Bombadeira, for the work contribution to the transexual community. Currently directs the feature film "Não é a primeira vez que lutamos pelo nosso amor", or as translated "It's not the first time we fight for our love", about the LGBT community and the military dictatorship; the short film "Homens Invisíveis" (Invisible Men), about transexual men and the prison system; and the ESPN series "Corpos Periféricos" (Peripheric Bodies). Worked as Assistant Director for 5 documentary series in several channels as Globosat – Canal HD+, TV Brasil, Canal Curta!, Canal Brasil, CineBrasil TV and in more than 50 jobs in several production companies in feature films, medium and short films.
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Alexander Pourteau

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is an American professional wrestler best known for his stint with the World Wrestling Federation as Alex "The Pug" Pourteau between 1996 and 1997. Pourteau, working for the GWF won their Global Wrestling Federation Light Heavyweight Championship on four occasions. His first reign began on July 31, 1992, when he defeated Terry Simms. He would lose the title to Mike Dahl on October 23, 1991; after winning the World Wrestling Council World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Pourteau then went on tour with World Wrestling Counciland whilst on the tour won the World Wrestling Council World Junior Heavyweight Championship by defeating Ricky Santana on September 4, 1991.He lost the title on September 21 of the same year and returned to the GWF. He did not return to World Wrestling Council following the tour. After returning to the Global Wrestling Federation, he again won the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship on January 22, 1993, by defeating Mike Dahl. Pourteau lost the title to Calvin Knapp but won the championship a third time after defeating Steven Dane after Knapp had vacated the title. On February 20, 1994, he lost the title, once again to Knapp, whom he defeated for the championship in August 1994 in Guatemala. Later in the same month, Pourteau lost the championship to Osamu Nishimura, with the GWF closing in September 1994. Pourteau also began teaming with Shawn Summers, in a tag team known as the Beach Bullies, although the team had no championship success. Pourteau had also begun to wrestle for Network of Wrestling in Japan for two years, beginning in 1993 and ending in 1995.Pourteau, whilst wrestling for the company, had no championship success. World Wrestling Federation Pourteau had worked for the World Wrestling Federation on odd occasions from 1994, but began to wrestle full-time for the company in 1996. Pourteau received a push from the WWF, under the name Alex "The Pug" Pourteau, with the gimmick of an amateur wrestler (using the theme song The Steiner Brothers used in the WWF), however his character did not last. Sometimes he teamed up with Aldo Montoya and Bob Holly. After a year with the company, Pourteau left the WWF in 1997. Post WWF career Since leaving the WWF in 1997, Pourteau joined WCW for a brief stint mainly performing on WCW Pro and WorldWide. He then wrestled on the independent wrestling circuit. Pourteau has wrestled for independent companies including Full Impact Pro. In 2001 he returned to World Wrestling Council, winning their Television Championship on July 7.He lost the championship on July 28, 2001, to Chris Grant. Pourteau, at unknown periods of his career, has also won the CWA (Dallas) Tag Team Championship,BDPW (Dallas) Heavyweight Championship TAP (Texas) Heavyweight Championship and the SECW Tag Team Championship (with Frankie Lancaster). At WrestleMania XXV, Pourteau participated as a member of John Cena's "army
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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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Mark Healy

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Mark Healy is an Australian theatre and screen actor. He stepped into the Adelaide theatre scene in 2015 when he starred in Tinder Surprise as part of the Fringe Festival have since played multiple roles on stage in including Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild, Vince in Roulette for Butterfly Theatre, Gabriel in When the Rain Stops Falling for St Jude's Players, Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman for Therry Dramatic Society and Iggy and Richard in James Watson's Empty Vanity at The Bakehouse Theatre for 2017's Adelaide Fringe. He acted in various local short films such as The Final Chapter by Get Back JoJo productions, Antaries by Thorin Cupit, The Sardonic Smile by Silver Eye Productions, and the feature length film Psychosis by Kessel Run Productions.
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Gabriel Macht

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Gabriel Macht is an American actor. He was born in the Bronx, New York, to Suzanne, a museum curator and archivist, and actor Stephen Macht. Gabriel has three siblings, and moved with his parents to California when he was young. Gabriel had his first success on screen when he was 8-years-old. He was nominated for a Best Young Motion Picture Actor Award for his performance in the movie Why Would I Lie? (1980). Briefly withdrawing from the business as a child, he returned as an adult with favorable roles that further developed his talents. After high school, Macht studied theatre at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh. Macht remains active in the theater and is involved with the Mad Dog Theater Company in New York where he performed the play "To Whom It May Concern" for the company at the Belgrade International Theatre Festival in 1997. His other theater credits include "Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile" at Promenade Theater Off Broadway and Theater on the Square in San Francisco; Roger Kumble's "Turnaround" at the Coast Playhouse in Los Angeles; "La Ronde" directed by Joanne Woodward at Williamstown Theater Festival; "What the Butter Saw" directed by Joe Dowling at Arena Stage in Washington DC. On the big screen, Macht was seen in Edward Zwick's highly acclaimed, "Love & Other Drugs" where he starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway who were both nominated for Golden Globes® for their performances. Macht also starred in the comic book inspired film, "The Spirit" as the titular character opposite Samuel Jackson, Scarlett Johannson, and Eva Mendes directed by Frank Miller. He was previously seen in Robert De Niro's critically acclaimed film, "The Good Shepherd" with Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie. Macht's additional screen credits include the comic drama "Middle Men" with Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson, the arctic thriller "Whiteout" with Kate Beckinsale, the romantic comedy "Because I Said So" with Diane Keaton; Joel Schumacher's "Bad Company" opposite Anthony Hopkins; "The Recruit" opposite Al Pacino and Colin Farrell; "Behind Enemy Lines" with Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman and "American Outlaws" where he first starred opposite Colin Farrell. His role in "A Love Song for Bobby Long" garnered Macht critical acclaim for his performance as the tormented writer, Lawson Pines' starring opposite John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson in the 2004 film. On television, Macht had guest starring roles on "Sex and the City," and "Spin City" and was a regular on Steven Spielberg's supernatural drama for NBC "The Others," and starred as William Holden in ABC's "The Audrey Hepburn Story". Macht is best known for his role as Harvey Specter in USA drama Suits (2011). He resides in New York, Los Angeles, and the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent on both sides of his family.
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Michael Steele

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Michael Steele, born Susan Nancy Thomas, is an American bassist, guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known as the bass player for the Bangles. Under the name Micki Steele, she was a founding member of the Runaways but left in 1975, shortly before the band's major label debut. For the next several years, she played with various other musical groups for short periods of time. In 1983, Steele replaced original bassist Annette Zilinskas as a member of the Bangles. Steele made her entrance just in time to play on the band's first full-length album, All Over the Place. She remained with the Bangles throughout the high point of their career, contributing as bassist, vocalist, and songwriter until the band's dissolution in 1989. She rejoined the band for a 2003 reunion album, Doll Revolution, and toured with them until the following year.
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Emmanuelle Seigner

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Emmanuelle Seigner (born 22 June 1966) is a French actress, former fashion model, and singer. She is known for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Ninth Gate (1999) and Frantic (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award for Best Actress for Venus in Fur (2013), and for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Place Vendôme (1998) and La Vie En Rose (2007). She has been married to Polish film director Roman Polanski since 30 August 1989. Seigner was born in Paris to a photographer father and a journalist mother. She is the granddaughter of the actor Louis Seigner, niece of the actress Françoise Seigner and sister of the actress Mathilde Seigner. She was educated at a Catholic convent school and began modelling at the age of fourteen. She married Roman Polanski on 30 August 1989, and they have two children: daughter Morgane and son Elvis. Polanski is 33 years her senior. Her husband directed her in Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992), The Ninth Gate (1999), Venus in Fur (2013), Based On A True Story (2017) and An Officer and a Spy (2019). In 2010, Seigner was featured in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing, which went on to win the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, she played the principal role of Vanda in Polanski's French film adaption of David Ives's two-character play Venus in Fur, based on the Austrian novel of the near-same name, for which she received praise as Vanda, an actress, playing against writer and theatre director Thomas played by Mathieu Amalric. Seigner appears as the main character in the music video "Hands Around My Throat" by Death in Vegas. In 2006, she became the lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle. They released a self-titled album in 2007. Seigner released a solo album called Distant Lover in 2014. She and Polanski live with their two children in Paris. She was an ambassadress of the Polish brand Dr Irena Eris. Source: Article "Emmanuelle Seigner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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