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Tony McNamara

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Tony McNamara is an Australian stage, film and television writer and director. He holds a BA in Film and Television Writing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney, Australia. McNamara was born in Kilmore and was educated at Assumption College, Kilmore. Following careers in catering and finance, McNamara settled on a career as a writer following a visit to Rome. His education consisted of studying writing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and screenwriting at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
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Suli McCullough

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Suli McCullough is an American comic-actor and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of "Crazy Legs" in the spoof movie Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, and for his recurring role as Dwayne "Mouse" Abercrombie on the WB sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show. McCullough has also had several dramatic roles depicting real-life individuals. He portrayed Tina Turner's oldest biological son Craig Turner in the 1993 biopic What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as civil rights icon Terrence Roberts in the 1993 Disney Channel movie The Ernest Green Story. Additionally, he was a writer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has been the head writer for ESPN's "ESPY" Awards. Suli has two children with ex-wife Donyell McCullough. The oldest daughter, Kennedy Rue is an up and coming actress and has been featured in various acting roles and commercials. His son, Nahzi Rue, is a successful child model.
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Eddie Marsan

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Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (born 9 June 1968) is an English actor. He won the London Film Critics Circle Award and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008. He has appeared in films such as Gangster No. 1 (2000), Ultimate Force (2002), V for Vendetta (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Sixty Six (2006), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), War Horse (2011), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), The Best of Men (2012), and The World's End (2013). He also appeared as Terry in Showtime's series Ray Donovan (2013–2020), and as Mr Norrell in the BBC drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015).
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Mackenzie Davis

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Mackenzie Rio Davis (born April 1, 1987) is a Canadian actress, producer, and model. She's known for her TV roles as Cameron Howe on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, and Kristen Raymonde on the miniseries Station Eleven, this latter role earned her a Critics' Choice Super Award for Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series. She's also known for her film roles as Grace Harper in Terminator: Dark Fate, the title character in Tully, Mariette in Blade Runner 2049, Mindy Park in The Martian, Chelsea in That Awkward Moment, and Nicole in What If (original title: The F Word), for this last role she was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Harley Jessup

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Harley Jessup (born 1954) is an American production designer and visual effects art director who has been nominated for two visual effects Academy Awards, and won once. Currently working at Pixar Animation Studios, Jessup has served as production designer for Monsters, Inc. (with Bob Pauley), Ratatouille, Cars 2, Presto, The Good Dinosaur and Pixar's animated feature, Coco. Before coming to Pixar, Jessup was production designer on Walt Disney Pictures' James and the Giant Peach. Jessup was a visual effects art director at Industrial Light & Magic from 1987 to 1994. From 1991 to 1994 he served as ILM art department creative director. Jessup's visual effects art direction credits include, Innerspace (for which he won an Academy Award), Hook (nominated for an Academy Award), The Hunt for Red October (with Steve Beck), Ghostbusters II, Joe Versus the Volcano and Fire in the Sky. In 1985, Jessup won an Emmy Award for best visual effects for The Ewok Adventure, produced by Lucasfilm, Ltd. for ABC Television. Harley Jessup began his career at Korty Films designing animated short films for Sesame Street, including The Adventures of Thelma Thumb. He served as art director on John Korty's animated feature Twice Upon a Time. Jessup has written and illustrated three children's books, What Alice Up to? and Grandma Summer for Viking Children's Books and Welcome to Monstropolis for Disney/Egmont. He studied graphic design at Oregon State University (BFA) and Stanford University (MFA).
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Madeleine Lebeau

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Madeleine LeBeau, was a French actress who played Humphrey Bogart’s jilted mistress Yvonne, in “Casablanca,” In “Casablanca,” LeBeau gets teary-eyed when “La Marseillaise” is played and shouts “Viva la France!” She was among several cast members who were actually refugees from the German occupation. Her life echoed the film: After she made her screen debut in French film “Girls in Distress” in 1939, LeBeau and her husband, actor Marcel Dalio, fled Paris for Portugal. They were said to have received transit visas that allowed them to enter Spain and then Portugal before continuing on towards Chile. They were stranded in Mexico when their visas turned out to be forgeries and were able to enter the United States with temporary Canadian passports. 
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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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Christine Kaufmann

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Christine Maria Kaufmann (born January 11, 1945) is a German actress. In 1961 she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the only German to be so honoured. Born to a German father and a French mother in Lengdorf, Styria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She started her film career at the age of seven in the 1952 adaptation of Im weißen Rößl (White Horse Inn). The film which brought her fame was Rosen-Resli, released in 1954, when she was only nine. She gained international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). The following year she appeared in Escape from East Berlin. In 1963 Kaufmann married Tony Curtis, whom she had met during the filming of Taras Bulba (1962). They had two daughters, Alexandra (born July 19, 1964) and Allegra (born July 11, 1966). They divorced in 1968. Kaufmann resumed her career, which she had interrupted during her marriage. Kaufmann is also a successful businesswoman, promoting her own cosmetics products line that sells well in Germany. She has written several books about beauty and health, as well as two autobiographies. She speaks three languages: German, English, and French. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Kaufmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nils Allen Stewart

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Nils Allen Stewart (Born July 19th, 1961) is an American Actor and stuntman with nearly 300 credits to his name on-screen and for stunt work. When on screen he is often typecast as a thug, henchmen, enforcer or some kind of tough role. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as Orlando, The righthand man of Dorian Tyrell (played Peter Greene), in the 1994 Oscar nominated comedy The Mask which starred Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. Stewart began his acting career with roles in such films as the action film "Cop and A Half" (1993) with Burt Reynolds, the Dan Aykroyd comedy "Coneheads" (1993) and the action flick "The Shadow" (1994) with Alec Baldwin. He also appeared in the Robert Patrick action picture "Double Dragon" (1994) and the action movie "Soul of the Avenger" (1995) with Mark Pellegrino. In the nineties and the early 2000s, Stewart devoted his time to various credits, such as "The Chamber" (1996) starring Chris O'Donnell, "The Quest" (1996) and "Meet Wally Sparks" (1997). He also worked on "Hitman's Run" (2000) starring Eric Roberts. Stewart continued to exercise his talent in the early 2000s, taking on a mix of projects like "Undisputed" (2002), the Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson box office smash "Anger Management" (2003) and "Brick" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2006). His credits also expanded to "Eragon" with Ed Speleers (2006) and "Man of Faith" (2006) starring Damian Chapa. Most recently, Stewart worked on the Thomas Horn adventure for the whole family "Space Warriors" (2013). He is married to Renee Steward and they have 4 children. He is the father of Booboo and Fivel Stewart.
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Taraji P. Henson

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Taraji P. Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, producer and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career as guest star on several television shows before making her breakthrough in the movie Baby Boy (2001). In 2005, she starred in Hustle & Flow and played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received an Academy Award nomination. In 2016, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Henson also released an autobiography titled Around The Way Girl.
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