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Christina Alex

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If you would have told 8 year old California grown Tina Redmond that she would grow up and become everything she loved to do as a child, she would have just laughed and said, she just wants to own her own business. At an early age she started designing doll clothes, mixing makeup colors, styling hair, lip syncing to her favorite songs on camera and creating story lines with her dolls and imaginary friends. Growing up as an only child gave her an enormous amount of room for creativity. After graduating high school she studied at several trade schools which led her to open her own business which was a fashion, beauty and entertainment company. She used her skills to design, cut hair, apply makeup, host events, work as a television production crew member and now an actress that has become Christina Alex. She is aware of what she wants in life in terms of her career direction. Christina is a trained improv actress, that is enjoys networking and learning. This actress has the determination, the discipline and the ability to succeed in whatever her heart desires. Essentially, any director looking to make the audience laugh, cry or frown Christina is the actress to give you a range of many characters.
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Vera Farmiga

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Vera Ann Farmiga (born August 6, 1973) is an American actress and director. Farmiga made her film debut in the 1998 drama thriller Return to Paradise. This was followed by supporting roles in the 2000 romantic film Autumn in New York and the 2001 television series UC: Undercover. She was also cast in the 2001 thriller 15 Minutes. Her other film appearances and roles include the 2003 comedy Dummy, the 2004 drama Down to the Bone, the 2006 crime thriller The Departed, the 2007 horror Joshua, and the 2008 drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Farmiga gained critical acclaim following her work in the 2009 comedy-drama Up in the Air, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Guild Actors Award. She also starred as Kate Coleman in Orphan in 2009. Her latest appearance was in the critically acclaimed 2011 thriller/action movie Source Code, as Capt. Colleen Goodwin.
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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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Electa (Exy) S. Johnson

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[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] Electa S. (Exy) Johnson (b. August 17, 1909 in Rochester N.Y. d. November 9, 2004) was an American author, lecturer, adventure, and sail training pioneer. Throughout her life she complete many sailing feats including sailing around the world seven times while training younger sailors each tour. Electa Exy Johnson was born in Rochester, New York on August 17, 1909. She attended Smiths College and then University of California, Berkley. Exy Johnson’s sailing experience started after her years in college when she boarded a schooner set to sail aroundFrance. Exy Johnson was fluent in French and German, and also had the ability to communicate in other languages. While aboard theschooner touring France she met her soon to be husband Irving Johnson. Whom at the time was a crew member aboard the schooner. In 1933 Exy and Irving got married and began their sailing career together. Exy and Irving Johnson began sailing the world together and teaching young enthusiasts in 1932 to 1958. In this period of time they went on seven tours, all of which circumnavigated the world. Exy and Irving did not sail during to years of World War II. Therefore they went on 3 tours before the war and four after the war. Each different tour would have a new crew of fresh recruits ready to learn. The crew would consist of two dozen ready to learn sailors. While on tour each trip would visit 120 ports of call and amount that each crew member had to pay was 4,860 dollars. Each tour would last about 18 months and then they would proceed to take 18 months off. During these months off they would work on their books that they had been writing, lecture students, or work on films. The books that they wrote are listed below. Also if Exy and Irving had free time during their summer off they would show young girl scouts how to sail by sailing up and down the coast of New England. Exy and Irving used different types of sailing ships for training there crew mates. The first ship they had was a 92 foot wooden schooner that was named the Yankee. The next ship they used for training was the 96 foot steal brigantine which was also named the Yankee. Their final ship was a 50 foot ketch that was also named the Yankee. But the Ketch was primarily used for their own personal use after their years of training. Exy had sailed more miles than an astronaut would travel to the moon. Exy and Irving ended up having two children. They were named Robert and Arthur. As soon as they could walk they boarded the ship and began to sail as a family. In 1958 when Exy and Irving were done teaching young people how to sail they went on their own personal tour until 1975. On this they mainly sailed their 50 foot ketch and toured around exploring the European water ways. Exy retired from sailing in 1975 where her and her husband settled down in Hadley, Massachusetts on a farm that Irving had grown up on. In 1991 Irving passed away but Exy worked to keep the legacy alive. The Los Angeles Maritime Institute has recently honored Irving and Exy by naming their twin brigantines for use in their award winning Topsail Youth program after them. The doyenne of modern sail training, Exy Johnson would personally oversee the christening ceremonies of the vessels she was instrumental in constructing prior to her death in 2004.
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Irving Johnson

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[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] Irving McClure Johnson (b. July 4, 1905 in Hadley, Massachusetts - d. January 2, 1991) was an American author, lecturer, adventurer, and sail training pioneer. Early home movies show a young Johnson training for a life at sea, climbing a telephone pole in his backyard, and wrestling to prepare for the inevitable fights he believed would occur due to his reading the novels of Jack London and Joseph Conrad. Johnson became a professional sailor (joining the Merchant Marine in 1926) working summers as crew and captain of various yachts including the "Charmian" for Newcomb Carlton (President of Western Union.), which led to the opportunity to sail on the Peking. He was an amateur filmmaker and his footage on the barque Peking in 1929 would become the now famous film Around Cape Horn. While serving as mate on board the Wanderbird, Johnson met (Harriet) Electa "Exy" Search whom he married in 1933. The Johnsonscircumnavigated the world seven times on two vessels, both named Yankee, each trip with a new crew and each taking approximately 18 months. The first Yankee, bought in 1933, was a Dutch North Sea pilot schooner. The second Yankee, bought in 1947, was a retired German North Sea pilot schooner which the Johnsons rerigged as a brigantine. They then retired from circumnavigation and, in 1958-9, had the last Yankee built at Westhaven in Zaandam, Holland. She was a steel ketch for sailing the inland waterways of Europe, designed by Irving Johnson and Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens. Many of the Johnsons' voyages have been documented in their own books and many articles and videos produced by the National Geographic Society and others throughout their sailing career. With an amateur crew, they traveled hundreds of thousands of miles to the islands of the South Pacific, ports of call in Southeast Asia, around the Cape of Good Hope and home to Gloucester without incident 18 months later seven times.
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Mat Wright

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A deep love of making people laugh has served as the steady trunk for the character actor from Freeland, a small farm town nestled near the Mason-Dixon line. Through the years, the branches have taken him to drama, passionately. Fortunately, he finds fulfillment in both far too much to pick a side. He attended a relatively large high school and welcomed theatre into his life. College merged his interest in performance with his enjoyment in storytelling and film promised him a treacherous but lively passage into old age, or at least into his thirties. Stealing away to visit home whenever he can, he now resides in Hollywood with one foot in the heart of the city and one in the mountains.
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Barry MacKay

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barry MacKay (8 January 1906 – 12 December 1985) was a British actor. He was most prominently seen in light comedic roles in the British cinema of the 1930s and is perhaps best known as Jessie Matthews' leading man in Evergreen (1934), Gangway (1937) and Sailing Along (1938). Other notable roles include Lieutenant Somerville in Brown on Resolution (1935) and as Fred, Scrooge's nephew, in MGM's film A Christmas Carol (1938), the latter being one of two films he made in the US; the other was the lead role in a B-picture, Smuggled Cargo (1939). After these films and serving in the Canadian navy during WW II, followed by stage work, there was a long gap in his film career until he reappeared as a character actor in the 1950s, making his last film (Timeslip a.k.a. The Atomic Man ) in 1955. Barry also appeared in the 1954 Sheldon Reynolds produced Sherlock Holmes television series. He portrayed Reggie "Sardines" Taunton in episode 17; "The Case of the Laughing Mummy".
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Varut Woratham

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Warut Woratam (Nickname: Oh) was a Thai film and TV actor, host, and model. He is best known for his role as Kobori, an Imperial Japanese soldier and protagonist of 1988 film “Khu Kam,” which earned him a Phra Surasawadi Award (Golden Doll Award) for upcoming male actor. Warut then starred in many more films and television dramas, as well as hosting many TV shows. One of his prominent programs was “Ono Show,” which he hosted with his friend, actor Maethanee “Nino” Buranasiri. Among Warut's awards is the 1992 Golden Television Award for best actor in the drama "Nai Fun". After his career took a downturn, Warut became a heavy smoker and drinker. He had gone to rehab at least once for his drinking problem. On September 9, 2018, Warut reportedly fell unconscious at his Chiang Mai home and was admitted to a local hospital for treatment. After two nights in intensive care, he passed away on September 11, 2018. He leaves behind two children.
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Jeffrey Wright

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Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. He is well known for his Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy winning role as Belize in the Broadway production of Angels in America and its acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation. He has starred as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat; Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die; Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire; Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films; Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last Of Us Part II; and the Watcher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) animated series What If...? Since 2016, he has starred as Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld. He will portray Commissioner James Gordon in the superhero film The Batman (2022) by Matt Reeves.
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Akiva Goldsman

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Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American screenwriter and producer in the motion picture industry. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. Goldsman has been involved specifically with Hollywood films. His filmography includes the films A Beautiful Mind, I am Legend and Cinderella Man, as well as more serious dramas, and numerous rewrites both credited and uncredited. In 2006 Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for a high profile project, adapting Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code for Howard's much-anticipated film version, receiving mixed reviews for his work. Goldsman currently directs and writes many episodes of the JJ Abrams produced science fiction drama Fringe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiva Goldsman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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