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Kathryn Bernardo

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Kathryn Chandria Manuel Bernardo (born March 26, 1996) is a Filipino actress and singer. Bernardo is best known for her roles in the following hit television series Mara Clara (2010–2011), Princess and I (2012-2013), Pangako Sa 'Yo (2015–2016), and La Luna Sangre (2017–2018). She is also known for roles in the films She's Dating the Gangster (2014), Crazy Beautiful You (2015), Barcelona: A Love Untold (2016), The Hows of Us (2018), and Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019), the latter two of which are two of the highest grossing Filipino films of all time.
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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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Mohamed Shaheen

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Mohamed Shahin is an Egyptian actor. He was born on February 13, 1980, and graduated from the faculty of commerce in Cairo University, where he started acting on stage. He then joined Khaled Galal's creative acting workshop. Shahin's film debut was in the comedy “Harem Karim” (Karim's Harem) and “Halim” in the years 2005 and 2006. His breakthrough role was in the sitcom “Tamer we Shawqeya”, in which he appeared in the complete run of four seasons and was met with praise from audience. He then formed a duo with Ahmed Mekky and co-starred with him in the series “El Kebir Awy” (The Very Grand) and the film “La Taragoa' wa La Esteslam” (No Reatreat and No Surrender) and “Sima Ali Baba” “Cinema Ali Baba”. In 2013 and 2014 he appeared in several television series that were highly successful, including “Niran Sadiqa” (Friendly Fires) and “El Sabaa Wasaya” (The Seven Commandments).
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Patrick Gilmore

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Patrick Gilmore (born June 1, 1976) is a Canadian actor best known for playing the role of Dale Volker in the science fiction series Stargate Universe. He has also been seen in other science fiction shows such as Battlestar Galactica and Eureka, as well as playing Trennan in Riese. He is one of the first actors to appear in all three Stargate TV series, along with Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Ona Grauer, and Gary Jones. Dale Volker began as a simple side character, but Patrick's excellent portrayal of Volker impressed show-runners and Volker has subsequently been given more screen time and more back story. A similar situation occurred with the character of Dr. Carson Beckett, played by Paul McGillion. Patrick also portrays entrepreneur Tom Drexler in the new AMC television series The Killing Patrick is the son of professional hockey player Tom Gilmore, and brother of Scott Gilmore, Executive Director and one of the founders of Peace Dividend Trust. Patrick is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a degree in English Literature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Gilmore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marjorie Eaton

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Initially trained as an architect, Marjorie Eaton went on to become a renowned artist and character actress whose career spanded from 1946-1981. Eaton was born on February 5, 1901 in San Francisco, California, USA as Marjorie Lee Eaton. As an actress, she was known for Mary Poppins (1964), That Forsyte Woman (1949) and Zombies of Mora Tau (1957). Prior to entering the film industry, Eaton was member of the Taos artist colony where she painted the majority of her notable works. Her contributions to the Art world include "Taos Ceremony". circa 1928 and "Taos Man seated". She died on April 21, 1986 in Hollywood, California.
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Alan Sues

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Sues (born March 7, 1926) is a U.S. comic actor best known for his performances as part of the ensemble on the 1968-1973 television program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Sues' on-screen persona was campy, outrageous and contained verbal slapstick; typical of his humor was a skit that found him following a pair of whiskey-drinking cowboys to a Wild West bar and requesting a frozen daiquiri. Sues' recurring characters on the program included Big Al the Sportscaster and Uncle Al the Kiddie's Pal. He also parodied castmate JoAnne Worley when she left the show, appearing in drag. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Sues, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Richie Moriarty

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Richie Moriarty is an actor, voice actor and improvisor. He stars as Pete in the CBS sitcom Ghosts (2020). He has a recurring role on Amazon's The Tick, truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, and a guest-starring role on The Last O.G. on TBS, and What We Do In The Shadows on FX. He can also be seen on the Netflix hits Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, House of Cards, and Orange Is The New Black, as well as Search Party on TBS, Alternatino on Comedy Central, The Mysteries of Laura on NBC, and Power on Starz. In 2018, he starred with John Malkovich in a teaser on CBS before kickoff of the AFC Championship game, which won multiple Emmys and Clio awards that year. In 2019, CBS Sports had him back to star with John Malkovich and Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl LIII Opening. He has also appeared in the Warner Bros films How To Be Single and Going In Style alongside Michael Caine. He co-hosted a show on Comedy Central called Cinema Social Club with Jo Firestone and Seaton Smith.  
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Christoph Beyertt

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Christoph Beyertt (19 Juli 1922 in Potsdam) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler. Beyertt absolvierte Anfang der 1940er Jahre ein Schauspielausbildung an der Potsdamer Filmakademie unter Wolfgang Liebeneiner und an der Bochumer Theaterschule unter Saladin Schmitt. Neben Engagements an Bühnen des Landestheaters Potsdam und der Volksbühne Brandenburg, spielte er auch in Senftenberg und am Deutschen Theater Berlin. Abseits seiner künstlerischen Arbeit als Darsteller war Beyertt vor allem für den Funk tätig, arbeitete am Mitteldeutschen und am Berliner Rundfunk, sowie kurzzeitig als Dozent für Schauspiel an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam. Sein Filmdebüt gab er 1954 als junger Arbeiter in Slátan Dudows Stärker als die Nacht, wurde in der Folgezeit in weiteren Film- und Fernsehproduktionen der DEFA und des Deutschen Fernsehfunks (DFF) besetzt. Er spielte in etwa 70 Produktionen, so etwa als Jaly in der deutsch-französischen Koproduktion Les Misérables (Die Elenden) bis er 1979 nach Westberlin zog und verstärkt für Runkfunk und Synchron arbeitete.
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Arpita Chatterjee

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Arpita Chatterjee (née Pal; born October 1979) is an Indian film actress, who mostly appears in the Odia and Bengali film industry in India. She is married to actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. She made her film debut in 1999 with the film Tumi Ele Tai, directed by Prabhat Roy. Some of the other films in which she has starred include Deva, Devdas, Inquilaab, Prem Shakti, Pratarok, Dada Thakur, Pratibad, Utsab and Anupama. Post-marriage, she took a break from her film career to focus on family life. In 2009, she returned to acting in Ekti Tarar Khonje, directed by Abhik Mukhopadhyay. She has acted in films of renowned directors like Shakti Samanta and Rituporno Ghosh and has also appeared in commercials for ITC and Saffola. In 2014, she signed for her first Bollywood film Shab, directed by Onir.
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Mark Proksch

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Mark Edward Proksch (born July 19, 1978) is an American comedian and actor. He is perhaps best known for a series of pranks he played on television news stations under the pseudonym "Kenny Strasser" or, as he would sometimes refer to himself, "K-Strass." Proksch would contact local news stations claiming to be a yo-yo expert. When he was booked on a show he would befuddle the interviewers with his long, rambling monologues and his inability to perform any real yo-yo tricks. Proksch's exploits gained him a wide audience and made him an overnight YouTube star.
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