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Nicole Theriault

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Nicole Theriault, also known as Nikki, is a Thai singer and actress who became popular with her hit albums Ka-Po-Lo Club and Funny Lady. Born in California, Nicole Theriault is the daughter of an American father, Robert Theriault, and Porntip a Thai mother. Her father is a radio announcer, her mother a businesswoman. She began her schooling in Bangkok at Twinkle Star Kindergarten and attended grades one through three at Ruamrudee International School. She continued her education for the next three years at the Preparatory School in the United States. Her family then returned to Bangkok, where she completed her secondary education. She attended Assumption University for two years but finished her B.A. degree in Arts at Framingham College. She also earned a bachelor's degree in Business at Columbia College in Chicago. She is related to Theriault's family in Edmundston, New Brunswick. Nicole began singing in Star Search competitions in 1996 and released her first album two years later. She also acts in Thai dramas and movies. Nicole married Jirasuk Panphum on 24 January 2004. They had one son before they divorced on 15 February 2008.
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Owen Kline

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Owen Kline is an American director, screenwriter and actor based in New York City. His short Jazzy for Joe starred the late broadcasting legend Joe Franklin in a rare comic performance paired alongside an orphaned toddler. His prior short, Fowl Play, a Queens-based comedy about low-rent aspiring cockfighters and their chicken, was presented on Le Cinéma Club in 2017 as part of the Safdie brothers’ carte blanche. Kline’s acting credits include Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, the Safdies’ John’s Gone and the Michael M. Bilandic comedies Hellaware and Jobe’z World. Kline wrote and directed Funny Pages, his feature debut.
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Ruth Bratt

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Ruth Bratt is an English actress and comedian. Bratt has made appearances on several TV shows including FAQ U (2005) and Man Down (2017) on Channel 4, and Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive on BBC Three (2006). She was intended to have a larger role in the latter but most of the scenes where she had dialogue were cut. In 2007 she appeared in Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor as Dutch "climatologist" Yolanda van der Landavan. She played a number of different roles in several episodes of BBC Three's Mongrels and in 2013 appeared in Ricky Gervais' show Derek. She went on to play Roche, girlfriend of DJ Beats (aka Kev) in BBC3's People Just Do Nothing. She co-wrote and co-starred with Lucy Trodd in the BBC radio comedy series Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' in 2014. Bratt has appeared in the BAFTA award winning BBC2 series People Just Do Nothing. In 2022, she was at the Edinburgh Festival in "Starship Improvise" with the Mischief Theatre. She has also appeared in TV advertisements for products such as Kellogg's Nutrigrain bars.
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Lorne Cardinal

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Winner of Best Performance, Animation at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards as Corner Gas Animated (2018)'s Sergeant Davis Quinton. Lorne is well-known for his portrayal of this beloved character in the Corner Gas comedy franchise - now in 60 countries worldwide - including the animated series and 6 seasons of the original International Emmy-nominated live-action comedy series Corner Gas (2004) and feature Corner Gas: The Movie (2014). Lorne has the rare honor of having a theatre space named after him in the rebuilt Roxy Theatre in Edmonton Alberta. The Lorne Cardinal Theatre is scheduled to open November 2021. A classically trained actor, Lorne has also performed in, and directed, a diverse range of theatre productions such as King Lear, on Canada's premiere A-house stage at the National Arts Centre, and Black Elk Speaks at the Denver Center. His work includes executive producing and directing, and he's received numerous nominations and distinguished awards for his body of work and is the recipient of an honorary PhD from Thompson Rivers University. Additionally, he's a sought after voice actor for clients like Penguin Randomhouse, Canada's Museum of Civilization and projects such as The Great Northern Candy Drop (2017), Open Season: Scared Silly (2015) and Peabody award-winner Molly of Denali (2019).
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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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Eric Braeden

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Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.
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Lucy Gutteridge

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Lucy Karima Gutteridge (born 28 November 1956) is an English actress. Gutteridge was born in London, the eldest daughter of Bernard Hugh Gutteridge by his marriage to Nabila Farah Karima Halim, the daughter of Prince Muhammad Said Bey Halim of Egypt and his British second wife, Nabila Malika (née Morwena Bird). Gutteridge is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, a Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire (likely of Albanian ethnicity) who became the father of modern Egypt. As such, she is a distant cousin of Egypt's last king, Farouk. Gutteridge was nominated for a Golden Globe in the "Actress In A Leading Role - Mini-Series Or Television Movie" for the 1982 television miniseries, Little Gloria... Happy at Last. In the series, she portrayed Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, the mother of the artist and writer Gloria Vanderbilt. She also has appeared in such films as Top Secret! and Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again. Now retired, Gutteridge is divorced from the actor Andrew Hawkins and lives in Westbourne. She has one child, Alice Isabella Valentine Hawkins, born in 1979. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucy Gutteridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Timothy Carhart

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Timothy Carhart (born 24 December 1953) is an American actor. Carhart was born in Washington, DC. and travelled to Izmir and Ankara in Turkey and Verdun in France before returning to the US and studying theater, where he has been acting since at least the late 1970s. Before changing his name, Tim was Tim Grunig, and he went to junior high and high school in Evanston, Illinois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Timothy Carhart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ami Canaan Mann

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Director Ami Canaan Mann is an award-winning TV and film writer/director and fiction writer. Her most recent film, ‘Audrey’s Children’, set in 1969 Philadelphia and starring Natalie Dormer as the revolutionary pediatric oncologist Audrey Evans, will be released in 2024. Her feature film ‘Texas Killing Fields’ (Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Grace Moretz) was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, her feature ‘Jackie and Ryan’ (Ben Barnes, Katherine Heigl) was nominated for the Orizzonti at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, and her debut feature ‘Morning’ won several festival awards including Best Directorial Debut/Rhode Island International Film Festival, Grand Jury Award/River Run International Film Festival and Gold Award for Best Feature First Feature/WorldFest Houston Film Festival. Ami has directed television such as ‘House of Cards’, ‘Shots Fired’ and ‘Sneaky Pete’. Her episode of ‘Friday Night Lights’, ‘I Can’t’, received a Television Academy Honors Award for ‘Television with a Conscience’. Her pilot episode block of the 2022 Netflix series ‘In From the Cold’ reached Netflix’s Top 10 in the US and internationally. Ami attended the USC School of Cinema/Television’s Production Program, is a July ’22 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has written and directed professionally for over twenty years. She divides her time between Los Angeles and an island in the Pacific Northwest.
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Sean Bean

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Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe, which originally ran from 1993 to 1997. Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), GoldenEye (1995), Ronin (1998), Don't Say a Word (2001), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015). His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, Broken, Game of Thrones, and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII and Legends. As a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and the feature films Wolfwalkers and Mummies among others. Bean has also been the main voice over for O2 and their adverts for over 20 years having originally taken the job in 2002. In 2022, Bean won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor in Time, a BBC One drama.
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