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David Lemberg

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David Lemberg has been cast in film and TV roles for his authoritative, menacing screen presence and imposing physique, that contrasting protagonists love to play against. David's notable 'baddies' include Dmitri (The Seasoning House) which opened Frightfest at the Empire, Leicester Square in 2012 - Kaleidoscope distribution, Linus Hemlock (Blood & Bone China) a feature film in the process of distribution, (the international web TV series is acclaimed for over 400,000 episodic views), Serbian gangster (The Crew), and Tupolski in Martin McDonagh's RNCM stage production of the Pillowman. A student of David Johnson who is arguably Britain's most successful independent acting tutor considers David a versatile passionate and dedicated professional. David Lemberg is a master of Eastern European, Irish and American accents as well as native regional English accents and is known for his thoroughly researched and well executed emotional character work. David Lemberg was born in Manchester, England, the son of a former Soviet Soldier who escaped the tyrannies of Stalinism during World War II. David achieved a BA Honours degree in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art well known for its output of acclaimed actors and directors and his career path eventually changed from painting to drama. After returning home as a penniless artist from Kiev to England he had an opportunistic meeting with Robert Carlyle in a Manchester bar; David managed to convince the barman that he and Robert needed a few after hour drinks to further their discussions. The bar man refused at first but didn't seem to argue after some careful persuasion, whatever it was his acting career definitely sparked off that evening and he's never looked backed since. - IMDb Mini Biography
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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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Lara Shah

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Lara Shah is an actor and producer in Los Angeles. She started her acting career in Austin, TX and has since been in over 100 films, television shows, music videos, and commercials since her venture into the creative side of the entertainment industry. Lara has won Best Actress awards for her lead roles in "Trippin' to the Altar" and "Kendall County Hunters." Lara has a passion for storytelling and entertainment: she was a television anchor in high school, a radio host at Boston University, and an intern at MTV Networks in NYC. She also worked for five years in Domestic TV Distribution Sales at Warner Bros. in NYC. In 2011, she traveled to Wilmington, NC to play a Detective on "One Tree Hill." The experience convinced her to finally pursue her passion. Lara studies with Lesly Kahn & Company in Los Angeles.
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ElTokhy Tawfiq

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Egyptian stylist, designer, battlefield actor, and actor. He studied mechanics, and he and his sister artist (Samiha Tawfiq) worked since his childhood in the circus with their father, then he was attracted by artistic battles and action scenes. The movie (Between Your Hands), for example_. He graduated in the profession of hazards until he was assigned the tasks of carrying out battles, and then he was able to form his own band that succeeded in designing with the films (Salah Abu Seif) and (Hossam El Din Mostafa) and other directors. He started in the fifties with distinctive films such as: “Ibn Hamido” with Ismail Yassin, “Raseef Nemra 5” with Farid Shawky, “The Little Witch” with Suad Hosni, “Half an Hour of Passport” with Shadia, but he achieved greater popularity in the seventies, where films prevailed. The commercial business that relied on excitement and comedy, so he presented nearly half of his works at that time and we mention them: “Men Without Features” with Nadia Lotfi, “Girls and Mercedes” with Youssef Fakhruddin, “Viva Zalata” with Fouad Al Mohandes. Al-Toukhi presented nearly 108 cinematic works, and he designed battles for many films, including (The Ghoul) by Farid Shawqi, (Searching for Troubles) by Adel Imam, (Sunstroke) by Nour al-Sharif, and (Tabouneh Hamza), which was the last of the films he made. Out. Al-Toukhi kept working on movies and battle design until a few weeks before his death. He passed away in 1984 after he gave Egyptian cinema a lot in the field of battles.
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Shôta Yasuda

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Yasuda entered Johnny & Associates in 1997 together with fellow members Ryo Nishikido and Tadayoshi Ōkura. Also at the audition was Ryūhei Maruyama. As a result, these members have been close friends for a long time during their Kansai Jr days even before Kanjani8 was formed. Yasuda's application had been sent in by his older sister. In it, she had written that Yasuda's specialty was that he could "do anything" (nandemo dekiru). In 1999, Yasuda was chosen to be a guitarist for V.WEST. The Kansai Jr band was popular among Jr fans and had its own show Shuukan V.WEST (Weekly V.WEST) on Kansai TV. On the show, the members usually take part in challenges where they have to pick up a new skill and exhibit it at the end of the show. During this time, true to his sister's claim, Yasuda excelled and first earned his nickname "Nandemo dekiru-ko" (The kid that can do anything). After V.WEST's first live at Zepp Osaka in 2001, Yasuda and fellow remaining members, Hiroki Uchi (vocalist) and Ryūhei Maruyama (bassist) were absorbed to form a new Kansai Jr unit Kanjani8 in 2002. The new unit took over An 8th member, Tadayoshi Ōkura, was added and assigned to the drums as V.WEST's drummer had left Johnny's.
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Soumitra Chatterjee

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935) was an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet. He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee is also the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India's highest award for cinema. Not only that, in 2017 exactly thirty years after auteur Satyajit Ray was honoured with France's highest civilian award, the coveted Legion of Honor, thespian Soumitra Chatterjee, arguably, the most prominent face of Ray's films, is set to receive the prestigious award. Starting with his debut film, Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of Apu Trilogy, he went on to work in several notable films with Ray, including Abhijan (The Expedition, 1962), Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964), Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969); Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973); Sonar Kella (The Fortress, 1974) as Feluda and Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God, 1978) as Feluda, Ghare Baire (The Home and The World, 1984) and Ganashatru (Enemy of the People, 1989). Meanwhile, he also worked with other noted directors of Bengali cinema, with Mrinal Sen in Akash Kusum (Up in the Clouds, 1965), Tapan Sinha in Kshudhita Pashan (Hungry Stones, 1960), Jhinder Bandi (1961), Asit Sen in Swaralipi (1961), Ajoy Kar in Saat Pake Bandha (1963), Parineeta (1969), and Tarun Mazumdar in Sansar Simante (1975) and Ganadevata (1978). He acted more than 210 films in his career till 2016. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2004. In 2012, he received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema given by the government of India for lifetime achievement. He has won two National Film Awards as an actor, and as an actor in Bengali theatre, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. In 2013, IBN LIVE named him as one of "The men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema". In 2014, he received the introductory Filmfare Awards East for Best Male Actor (Critics) for his role in Rupkatha Noy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Soumitra Chatterjee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Andy Merrill

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andy Merrill (born November 27, 1966 in Newark, Ohio) is a television writer, producer, and voice actor best known for his comedy voice portrayal of the character Brak on Space Ghost: Coast To Coast and Cartoon Planet and other related productions from Cartoon Network utilizing characters from the Space Ghost series. He is a graduate of Asbury University where he majored in media communications. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andy Merrill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Frank Reyes

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Frank Reyes born June 4, 1969, he is one of the best known bachata artists, famous throughout Latin America. He was born in the town of Tenares in the Dominican Republic. Reyes discovered his musical talent when he was a young boy. He and his brothers started their own musical group and had great singing talent. When he was only 12 years old, he decided to travel to Santo Domingo where he worked hard and had many jobs, always dreaming of having his own business. Because he had a beautiful voice he became very successful over the years. As he got older he recorded his first album Tu serás mi reina and became the self-appointed "prince of bachata" (El príncipe de la bachata).
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Aimee Carrero

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Aimee Carrero (born July 15, 1988 in Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic) was raised in Miami, Florida. She attended the Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School and graduated in 2006. Aimee first began her professional acting career in 2007. Holding a strong base for television appearances, Aimee's credits include work on Hannah Montana (2006), Lincoln Heights (2006), and The Mentalist (2008). She made her first major film credit in the form of the animated comedy Ο Άλβιν και η παρέα του 2 (2009). Aimee Carrero is best recognized for her major film role in the television movie Level Up (2011). The film premiered on November 23, 2011 and subsequently spawned a series by the same name Level Up (2012) the following year. Aimee reprised her film role of spirited teenager Angie Prietto and rejoined her original cast mates on further adventures inside and outside the series' online video game of 'Maldark: Conqueror of All Worlds'. These adventures serve as the premise on which the series continues and airs on the Cartoon Network, the same channel on which the film debuted. Her second film venture was made in 2012 with the television film Blue Lagoon: The Awakening(2012), starring Indiana Evans, Brenton Thwaites and Denise Richards. Since 2009, she is a resident of Los Angeles, California.
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Jessica McNamee

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McNamee secured a role in the Australian soap opera Home and Away playing the role of Lisa Duffy and later went on to star as Sammy Rafter in the television series Packed to the Rafters. In 2009, McNamee was a contestant on the ninth series of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with dancer Stefano Olivieri and they were eliminated before the final. The role of Sammy left McNamee keen to lose the "good girl" image the role created. In the series production breaks she decided to take on different roles. McNamee starred in the horror film The Loved Ones; which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009.
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