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Rooney Mara

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Patricia Rooney Mara (born April 17, 1985) is an American film and television actress. Mara made her acting debut in 2005 and has gone on to star in films including A Nightmare on Elm Street, the remake of the 1984 horror film, and The Social Network. Mara also portrayed Lisbeth Salander, the title character in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a Sony Pictures film based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium book series. Mara is also known for her charity work. She oversees the charity Faces of Kibera, which benefits orphans from the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rooney Mara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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James McArdle

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James McArdle is a Scottish actor from Glasgow. Having worked as a child actor in films, he trained at RADA, graduating in 2010. In his graduation year he appeared in Macbeth at The Globe and starred in the summer smash hit Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He then played in plays such as A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, Chariots of Fire by Mike Bartlett and Platonov for which he won the Ian Charleson Award. On screens, he is known for movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), '71 (2014) and Salting the Battlefield (2014).
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Verona Blue

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Verona Blue is originally from Toronto but arrived in Los Angeles by way of Bristol and London, where she received classical, conservatory training in voice, movement and text at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She excels at weapons and combat, holds a BADC advanced certificate under Fight Master Jonathan Howell, and is extremely easy to find at an airport. Realising her niche was strong, but limited, Verona began creating her own opportunities with a group creative friends and colleagues. Her first film (and reel!) "Elizabeth" won Best Editing and was nominated for Best Actress at the Indie Horror Film Festival in Chicago in 2013. With a professional background in web development and extensive experience working on film industry related websites, she has a lot going on. Verona lives in east Los Angeles with her husband and their 5 dogs.
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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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Brigitte Roüan

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Brigitte Roüan (born 28 September 1946) is a French director, screenwriter and actress. Rouan was born into a French naval family in Toulon in 1946. She was orphaned at age six and spent her childhood in Algeria and Senegal. At age 12, she left for convent school in Paris. Her acting career began at age 21, on the stage. Her performance lead the way to small film roles for directors including Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, and Bertrand Tavernier. Rouan became a director in her own right when she helmed a short film titled Grosse. It won a César Award in 1986. She would become a feature film director with Overseas (1990), which won the Critics' Week award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. She co-starred in the film with Marianne Basler and Nicole Garcia to portray sisters in colonial North Africa during the 1950s. The now actor-director would continue in roles, including one in Olivier, Olivier (1991) for Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Rouan's 1997 film Post Coitum, Animal Triste garnered attention for its depiction of an affair between a middle-aged woman (played by Rouan herself) and a younger man. The film was a success in its native country and received strong notices in America, where it screened at the New York Film Festival before playing to arthouse crowds. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In 1998, she was a member of the jury at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Brigitte Roüan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jack Roth

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Born in 1984, Jack Ernest Roth is the son of celebrated actor Tim Roth and award-winning writer and producer Lori Baker. Jack is best known for his roles as Big Issue Frank in Sky One's The Cafe (2011) Max in Sky Living's second series of 'Bedlam'(2012), Dolge Orlick in the BBC's 'Great Expectations'(2011) and as Charlie Wilson in The Great Train Robbery (2013). More recently, Roth has appeared on film in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Snowman, Us and Them and Brimstone, and on TV in Detectorists, The Interceptor and Silent Witness.
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Cathy Schulman

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Cathy Schulman (born 1965) is an American film producer. A graduate of Yale University, Schulman's screen credits include Isn't She Great, Sidewalks of New York, Employee of the Month, Crash, The Illusionist, Darfur Now and Dark Places. She was the executive producer of the Lifetime TV series Angela's Eyes, which went on to be distributed worldwide. The film Crash earned Schulman a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Film. She won the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film for the movie.
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Hazel Honeysuckle

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HAZEL HONEYSUCKLE is a burlesque dancer and singer who has graced stages all over NYC, the United States, and Europe. Originally from NYC, she is currently based in Las Vegas performing two shows nightly Wednesdays through Sundays in Spiegelworld’s long-running hit show “Absinthe” at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Hazel is a major subject of the feature-length documentary “Getting Naked”, now available on Amazon Prime, iTunes and Starz. Hazel spent Spring of 2017 in Los Angeles performing as “Misty West 88th Street” in Spiegelworld’s “Absinthe LA”. In 2017 she also headlined burlesque festivals in Oklahoma City and Cleveland, and she was awarded a Golden Pastie for “Most Lovable Performer” at the NY Burlesque Festival. She was named in the worldwide Top 50 Burlesque Performers of 2015 and 2016 by 21st Century Burlesque.
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Mohamed Imam

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An Egyptian actor and the son of the artist Adel Imam and the brother of the director Rami Imam, born on September 16, 1984, he participated with the artist Adel Imam in one of his films, the movie (Hanafi Al-Abha) 1990, and his first television work was the series (Kanaria and Partners) in 2003 with the artist Farouk Al-Fishawy, Then he participated in several films such as: (The Yacoubian Building) 2006, then graduated from the American University in Cairo, then (Hassan and Morcos) 2008, followed by his first absolute cinematic starring in the movie (Romantic Beh) 2009, but the year 2012 was the most fortunate for the artist (Mohamed Imam) for his participation (Al-Saqa) in the championship of the television series (Red Lines), which was widely accepted by the masses. In the same year, his father participated in the championship of the series (Najy Atallah Band), and participated in the championship of many works such as (The Thief of Baghdad) And (the tiger).
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John Bruno

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John Bruno is an American visual effects artist and filmmaker known for his prolific collaborations with director James Cameron on films like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, and The Abyss, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He has also contributed to other blockbuster films including Ghostbusters, Batman Returns, Cliffhanger, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Kingsman: The Secret Service. He also directed the 1999 science fiction horror film Virus, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland. He currently holds five Oscar nominations and two BAFTA Award nominations. (Wikipedia)
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