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Rainer M. Ehrhardt

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Rainer Maria Ehrhardt began his career as Radio DJ for Radio Luxembourg and "Hessischer Rundfunk", Frankfurt. It didn´t take much time and you could hear him in a lot of commercials. With the foundation of his "MultiMedia-Studios" he had all possibilities to do his own audio-recordings. Later he started video production business as well. More than 600 Point-of-sale-videos were made by him and his company. As a former musician and production assistent of Frank Farian (Boney M., Milli Vanilli etc.) he also produced the music for these corporate videos. Not only in commercials, but also in many German TV-stations. He was the German voice for the BBC-series "Wonderful World" and spoke the News at the 3SAT-show "Kulturzeit" for fourteen years! His voice can cover many moods and helps many productions to become really successful. Since 2003 Ehrhardt runs an own voice over agency ("WorldWIdeVoices") with more than 4500 professional voice artists from all over the world. And that´s not all: Rainer leads the theater "Volksbühne Bad Homburg" or he acts and directs in their plays. He was also the co-founder and leader of the German Voice over society "Verband Deutscher Sprecher", VDS, for many years.
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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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Jake Weber

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Jake T. Weber (born 12 March 1963) is an English actor. He's best known for his role as Joe DuBois on the drama series Medium. He's also known for his roles as Owen Casserly in Those Who Wish Me Dead, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance in Midway, Barry Walker on Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, Agent Hope in White House Down, John Campbell on AMC's Hell on Wheels, Brett O'Keefe on Showtime's Homeland, Michael in Dawn of the Dead, Jake Berman on HBO's The Mind of the Married Man, Gordon Ramsey in The Cell, Lt. Hirsh in U-571, Drew in Meet Joe Black, Mr. Wright in Amistad, Dr. Matt Crowe on CBS's American Gothic, Richie Wainwright on NBC's sitcom Something Wilder (starring Gene Wilder), and Curtis Morgan in The Pelican Brief. He's had recurring roles on Peacock's series Departure, Star Trek: Discovery, FOX's The Following, FOX's The $Street, and the PBS series Liberty!. He has had guest roles on NCIS: Hawai'i, The Blacklist, Elementary, House, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: SVU. Some info from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Mitski

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Mitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990), known mononymously as Mitski, is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. Mitski Miyawaki was born Mitsuki Laycock on September 27, 1990 in Japan to an American father and a Japanese mother. While growing up she moved frequently due to her father's job at the United States Department of State, living in many countries, including Turkey, China, Malaysia, Japan, the Czech Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, before eventually settling in the United States. After enrolling at Hunter College to study film, Mitski decided to pursue music instead and transferred to Purchase College's Conservatory of Music, where she studied studio compositions. During her time at Purchase College, she recorded and self-released her piano-based first and second albums, Lush (2012) and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), as student projects. Mitski reflects her cross-cultural identity as "half Japanese, half American but not fully either", a feeling that is often reflected in her music, which occasionally discusses issues of belonging. In a 2016 interview with The New York Times, Mitski expressed the tension of being a private person and her discomfort with the attention that comes with being in the public eye, therefore preferring to keep her personal life private. The above information is sourced from Mitski's Wikipedia page.
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Ivan Mistrík

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Ivan Mistrík (* October 15, 1935, Bratislava - † June 8, 1982, Bratislava) was a Slovak actor. Brother of actor Ján Mistrík. First wife Helena, rod. Kollátová (1932 - 1977), second Mária, b. Klesniaková, singer. He had two sons from his first marriage. Curriculum vitae From 1949 to 1951 he studied acting at the State Conservatory. In 1951 cultural promotional officer in Slovnaft, 1951 - 1952 member of the Village Theater in Bratislava, 1952 - 1953 drama of the Jozef Gregor Tajovský Theater in Zvolen, 1953 - 1966 drama of the New Stage, 1966 - 1982 drama of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. From 1946 he performed in the Radio Acting Company, where he created dozens of boy characters. In the theater, he played mainly sensitive heroes, confronted with a harsh world. His acting was evenly applied in the film, where since 1951 he has created a number of roles in Slovak and Czech films. He has appeared in television since 1959 and has created about 100 characters in The Ballad of Vojta Marina (1964), The Dead Don't Sing (1965), The Bloody Star of Canaris (1966), Seven Witnesses (1967), The Ballad of Seven Hanged Men (1968), Portrait of Dorian Graya (1969), Bastion (1969), Parisian Mohicans (1971), Vivat Beňovský (1975), Shipwreck of Danubia (1976), Escape from the Golden Land (1977), Table for Fourteen (1978) and others. In 1977 he was awarded the title of Merited Artist.
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Hervé Barmasse

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Mountaineer, Global Team The North Face® athlete, writer, mountain filmmaker. Hervé was born in Aosta on December 21, 1977 into a family marked by a long tradition and a passion for the mountains. Alpine guide to the Matterhorn for four generations, his name is linked to important climbs. High difficulty and exhibition routes built around the world, such as the new solo open route on the Matterhorn, the first ascent of the smooth granite slate of Cerro Piergiorgio and the new route on Cerro San Lorenzo in Patagonia, the first ascent of Beka Brakay Chhok in Pakistan and others. On his native mountain, the Gran Becca, Hervé left his mark incisively to become the mountaineer who, between new routes, first winter routes and first solos, accomplished the most feats. He recently achieved an exemplary ascent in the Himalayas by climbing the South Face of Shisha Pangma 8027m in alpine style in just 13 hours. For his activity as a mountaineer, he has obtained important recognitions including the Paolo Consiglio academic prize received four times. In 2010, during his first directorial experience, he released Linea Continua. A film that tells the story of the opening of a new route on the Matterhorn, created with his father Marco. In 2012, it was the turn of Not so far, a documentary film which tells the story of Discovering the Alps, screened in 2011 with the opening of three new routes – on Mont Blanc, Mont Rose and the Matterhorn – and which shows how even in the Alps there is still room for adventure and that the value of the experience does not depend on the mountain to be climbed but on the look of the mountaineer. The mountain inside, published by Laterza, is his first literary effort (May 2015). A book in which Hervé tells himself, his story, the passion, the effort, the emotion of climbing.
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Roland Young

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roland Young (11 November 1887 – 5 June 1953) was an English actor. Young made his first stage appearance in London's West End in Find the Woman in 1908, and in 1912 he made his Broadway debut in Hindle Wakes. He appeared in two comedies written for him by Clare Kummer, Good Gracious Annabelle! (1916) and A Successful Calamity (1917) before he served with the United States Army during World War I. He returned to New York when the war ended, and married Kummer's daughter, Frances. For the next few years he alternated between New York and London. He made his film debut in the 1922 silent film Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Watson opposite John Barrymore as Holmes. He signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and made his talkie debut in The Unholy Night (1929), directed by Lionel Barrymore. He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in Her Private Life, with Billie Dove and Fox Film Corporation, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's husband in Don't Bet on a Woman. He was again paired with MacDonald in the film version of Good Gracious Annabelle!, titled Annabelle's Affairs. He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille's The Squaw Man, and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman (both 1931). He appeared with Evelyn Brent in Columbia's The Pagan Lady (1932) and Pola Negri in RKO's A Woman Commands (1932). His final film under his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous (1932), opposite Robert Montgomery. In 1933 he had a starring role in the risqué comedy for Fox Film called Pleasure Cruise along side Genevieve Tobin. Young began to work as a freelance performer and found himself in constant demand. He appeared with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You (1932) and with Kay Francis in Street of Women (1932). Alexander Korda invited him to return to Britain to make his British film debut in Wedding Rehearsal (1932). He returned to Hollywood and appeared in a diverse group of films that included comedies, murder mysteries, and dramas, and also worked on Broadway. Among his films of this period were Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), David Copperfield (1935) (playing Uriah Heep), and the H.G. Wells fantasy The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936). In 1937, he achieved one of the most important successes of his career in Topper, as a bank president haunted by the ghosts of his clients, played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. It was one of the most successful films of the year, and Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Topper's wife was played by Billie Burke, who wrote in her memoir that Young "was dry and always fun to work with". They also appeared together in The Young in Heart (1938), and both of the Topper sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (1938) and Topper Returns (1941). He continued working steadily through the 1940s, playing small roles opposite some of Hollywood's leading actresses, such as Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard and Greta Garbo in her final film, Two-Faced Woman (1941). In the 1950s, Young appeared on several episodic television series, including Lux Video Theatre, Studio One, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre.
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Şebnem Dönmez

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Şebnem Dönmez (born May 17, 1974 in Salzgitter, West Germany) is a Turkish movie, television series actress and host of television shows. Originally a model, she debuted in 1992 at the television scene taking part in a motorsports show of TRT, at that time Turkey's only channel. Şebnem Dönmez kept on appearing in and hosting several TV shows since then. She acted in a stream of Turkish films and television series. The first international movie she acted in was The Net 2.0, a Hollywood production shot in Istanbul. She performed on stage with one of the leading roles in Oyunun Oyunu (Noises Off) by Michael Frayn.
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Álex Perea

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Álex Perea was born on September 27, 1989 in Mexico City. He began his career making commercials. In 2000 he played Quique García Dávila in the telenovela "Todo por amor" by Argos Comunicación for TV Azteca. In 2003, he got the opportunity to star in the movie "Zurdo", alongside Eugenio Derbez, under the direction of Carlos Salcés, where he plays a child who is passionate about playing marbles. For which he obtained the prize of the silver Goddesses as a masculine revelation. In that same year, they gave him opportunities to work in children's soap operas such as De few, few fleas and Amy, the girl with the blue backpack, as well as participating in the series "Hospital el país" and "S.O.S.: Sexo y otros secretos" . In 2004 he filmed the short film "Smee", together with Martha Mariana Castro and her sister Danny Perea. In 2008, he resumed acting on the big screen, participating in the movie "Arráncame la vida." For 2009 Alex participates in the great Mexican series "Mujeres asesinas" in its second season in the chapter "Las Garrido Codiciosas" as "el Negro".
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Vincent Kok

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Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu  (Chinese:谷德昭 , born 15 August 1965) is a Hong Kong actor, scriptwriter and film director. Kok is best known for his frequent collaborations with Stephen Chow, acting and co-writing with him the films Forbidden City Cop, From Beijing with Love and The God of Cookery in addition to producing and co-writing Chow's 2007 film CJ7. He also made a cameo appearance in Chow's Shaolin Soccer as a hapless soccer player. Kok also wrote, directed and starred alongside Jackie Chan in Gorgeous, a rare romantic comedy by the martial arts actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vincent Kok, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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