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Keith Ferguson

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Keith Ferguson (born February 26, 1972) is an American voice actor, well known as the voice of Blooregard Q. Kazoo (or "Bloo" for short) on the Cartoon Network animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. He also provides a number of "sound-alike" portrayals in the VO industry including Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Indiana Jones in Robot Chicken and the voice of Lightning McQueen in Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales, filling in for Owen Wilson (while Wilson continues his portrayal of McQueen for the big screen in Cars 2). Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith Ferguson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Piotr Szwedes

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Piotr Szwedes was born on August 5th 1968 in a historical town known as the "Pearl of Warmia" - Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland. After graduating high school and being rejected from a university to study law he studied hospitality at the Technical School in Mrągowo where he was a member of the "Artefakt" theater group at the Youth Cultural Center which prompted him to meet the prospecting actor and director Wojciech Malajkat. In 1992, he graduated from the Acting Department of the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School Leon Schiller in Łódź. In the same year he received the jury's distinction and the Tonsil award at the 10th National Review of Graduate Performances of Theater Schools in Łódź for the role of Mr. Martin in Eugène Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano", directed by Ewa Mirowska. He performed at the Teatr Studyjny in Łódź and in Varsovian theaters such as: Studio (1991–1992), Ochota (1993–1993, 1997–1998, 2000), Na Woli (1995, 1998, 2000), Scena Prezentacje (1995), Nowy, Komedia (2003–2006), Bajka and Kamienica. In the years 2009-2015 he was a full-time actor at the Teatr Syrena, where he played in productions directed by Wojciech Malajkat including Agata Christie's crime fiction "Spider's Web" (2008), the black comedy "Loot" (2009) and in Stephen King's play adaptation "The Shawshank Redemption" (2011). In 2008 he directed an impressionistic performance by Maria Czubaszek "Przepraszam, czy tu straszy?" At the tm theater, he appeared as Satan in the play "Experiment: Adam and Eve" (2010) based on Mark Twain's "The Diaries of Adam and Eve", directed by Tomasz Mędrzak.
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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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Jennette McCurdy

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Jennette Michelle Faye McCurdy (born June 26, 1992) is an American actress, screenwriter, producer, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her role as Sam Puckett on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly and its spin-off series Sam & Cat. She has also appeared in a number of television series, including Victorious, Zoey 101, True Jackson VP, Malcolm in the Middle, and Lincoln Heights and has also produced, written and starred in her own online series titled What's Next for Sarah?. Since May 2015, she has starred in the Netflix / City series Between. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennette McCurdy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dayo Ade

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Dayo Ade (born 1972) is a Nigerian-Canadian actor. (He was born in Nigeria and moved with his family to Toronto, Ontario, Canada at an early age.) He played Bryant Lester "BLT" Thomas in seasons 3–5 of the Degrassi Junior High series. He appeared as nurse Leo Beckett on the CBC Television series Cracked. He voiced the character Hunter Hakka in Starlink: Battle for Atlas. He also had guest appearances in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Borderland", in the Alias episode "The Awful Truth", in the Scrubs episode "My Malpractical Decision", and in the Charmed episode "We're Off to See the Wizard". He appeared in the Lost episodes "What Kate Does" and "Lighthouse". In 2021, he joined the cast of Bob Hearts Abishola as Abishola's Nigerian husband Tayo Adebambo, and starred in the film Cinema of Sleep. At the 2021 Whistler Film Festival, he won the award for Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film for Cinema of Sleep.
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Brian Backer

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Backer (born December 5, 1956) is an American actor who has starred in film and on television. He is best known for his role in the 1982 hit comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High as shy teenager Mark "Rat" Ratner. His other films include the 1985 comedy film Moving Violations (playing the role of Scott Greeber) and the 1987 comedy film Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. Backer's primary television role was on the soap opera Santa Barbara in 1990 as A. Bartlett Congdon. He has made guest appearances on such shows as Charles in Charge and Growing Pains. Backer won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award for Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb, in which he portrayed an Allen-like protagonist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Backer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Simon Anthony

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Simon Anthony Abou-Fadel's French/Lebanese father, Edward, and French/Egyptian mother, Françoise, settled in North Hollywood in 1969 As a kid there Simon poignantly remembers the nights he and his older brother would wait up to watch the family's garage door for the first flickering reflections from the screen of the nearby drive-in movie. From those nights, he marks his fascination with movie screens, with the actors who inhabit them, and with the industry that was then only a few streets away. Simon plays William Douchet in Chuck Russell's Witchboard and Jack Dalton in Jamie Foxx and John Eisendrath's Alert: Missing Persons Unit. He has landed roles on notable network shows such as Veronica Mars, 24, and Law and Order Los Angeles. Notable roles also include Adrian Holmes' lawyer in the English version of 19-2, Ed Greenstein in the reboot of iconic Canadian television show Street Legal, and working opposite Mia Kirshner in The Detectives, David James Elliot in Real Detectives and with Trish Helfner in Ascension. Among others, he can be seen in Quantico, The Art of More, The Bold Type, The Republic of Sarah and Transplant with John Hannah and Hamza Haq. Simon Anthony Abou-Fadel is also the narrator for the new IMAX film entitled Train Time. Simon was a company member at The Actors Gang Theatre in Los Angeles, California, with Artistic Director and film actor Tim Robbins. During his seven years with the Gang, he toured nationally in Embedded, an original play by Robbins, and appeared in a critically acclaimed production of Tartuffe directed by Jon Kellam in which he was reviewed by the Hollywood Reporter that touted his "strong support". Backstage also affectionately praised him and scene partner Lindsley Allen for their scenes, and the Los Angeles Times claimed Allen and he "attained absolute lunacy". While at The Gang, Simon accepted an invitation from the Walt Disney Concert Hall to act in a two-person play with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra providing live background music.
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Robert Morse

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Robert Morse (May 18, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American actor and singer best known as the star of both the 1961 original Broadway production, for which he won a Tony Award, and the 1967 film adaptation of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and as Bertram Cooper in the critically acclaimed AMC dramatic series Mad Men (2007–2015). He won his second Tony Award for playing Truman Capote in the 1989 production of the one-man play Tru. He reprised his role of Capote in an airing of the play for American Playhouse in 1992, winning him a Primetime Emmy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Morse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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J.J. Watt

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JJ Watt is a professional football player, who was selected #11 overall by the Houston Texans in the 2011 NFL Draft. JJ and his younger brothers, TJ and Derek, grew up in Pewaukee, WI, and all three played college football for the University of Wisconsin. JJ began his college football career at Central Michigan University, before transferring to Wisconsin as a walk-on Defensive End. In 2010, his final season at Wisconsin, JJ was awarded the Ronnie Lott Trophy, honoring college football’s defensive best in character and performance; voted Second Team All-American both by Sports Illustrated and the Associated Press (AP); selected to the All Big-Ten First Team; and voted the Wisconsin Team MVP. Throughout his eight-year tenure in the NFL, JJ won the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award three times; he is a five-time NFL Pro Bowl selection; and was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated. He holds the Houston Texan’s franchise records both for sacks and forced fumbles, and in 2014, JJ became the first player in NFL history to record two 20+ sack seasons in a career. Outside of football, JJ is President and Founder of the JJ Watt Foundation, an organization he formed in 2011 to help fund after-school athletic programs for kids in various communities. In 2017, he launched a social media campaign to help people affected by Hurricane Harvey, which ultimately raised more than $41 million, far surpassing JJ’s original goal of $200,000.
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Henry Armetta

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously. Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously.
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