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Chen Wo-Fu

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Originating from Kaiping, Guangdong, Chen grew up in Hong Kong, where he trained in Tai Chi. As a middle-weight boxer, he was once famous for challenging a heavyweight in a Southeast Asia teenage martial arts contest in 1971. He joined Shaw Brothers the following year as an actor and debuted in "All Men Are Brothers", co-directed by Chang Cheh and Wu Ma. It was followed by "Friends", "Two Faces of Love", "The Bloody Escape" and "The Shadow Boxer", which was to be marked as Chen's final act as tragically, he commited suicide by gas poisoning in 1974, before the film was released. Chen was only 24 when he died.
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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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Peter Stormare

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A Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Abruzzi in Prison Break and as Gaear Grimsrud, one of the two kidnappers in Fargo. Peter Stormare began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions of many Shakespeare plays, including "Hamlet". In 1993 he moved to New York, where he appeared in English productions. He continues to work in both the United States and his his homeland of Sweden. He resides in Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife.
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Jakob Skrzypa

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Jakob is a Canadian comedy writer, director, and producer. As co-creator of the Toronto sketch comedy duo Fun Uncle, Jakob wrote, directed, and edited dozens of sketches; which have been featured on Funny or Die, and broadcast on CBC. Jakob's short films have played in various festivals, including Fantasia, and have gone on to win best film, as well as best writing awards. His debut feature film screenplay Vampire Zombies... from Space! is slated for a festival release later this year. In addition to writing, directing and producing comedy, Jakob is a producer of reality television; largely for the Paramount / MTV staple The Challenge. Jakob has also served various crew positions on series including Survivor, Big Brother Canada, and Nathan for You.
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Franck de la Personne

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Franck Lapersonne (a.k.a. Franck de la Personne) (born 29 October 1963) is a French comedian, actor theatre director, and political candidate. Franck de la Personne is the son of Jacques Lapersonne and Jacqueline Charlotte Poinson. He also has brothers and sisters. He graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris. As of February 2017, he openly supports Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election. He is also running in the 2017 French legislative election to represent the Somme for the National Front. He is now a vice president of the party "Les Patriotes" founded by Florian Philippot, the former right-hand man of Marine Le Pen. Source: Article "Franck de Lapersonne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Monalisa Basarab

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Monalisa Basarab is a Romanian film and stage actress. She was born in Tulcea, on 23 April 1972. Since 2002 and up to now she is actress at the 'Constantin Tanase' Variety Theatre, the most representative genre theatre in Romania. She started her film career in 1999 with the German movie 'Nostradamus - Prophet of Doom' in series 'Sphinx - Secrets of the History' ('Nostradamus - Prophet des Untergangs' aus der serie 'Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte' in German), directed by Klein Günther, where she plays the role of Nostradamus’ wife. Along the years she also appeared international productions, especially in French movies but also in Romanian ones.
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Danielle Harris

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Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American actress. She is known as a "scream queen" for her roles in multiple horror films, including four entries in the Halloween franchise: two films as Jamie Lloyd (Halloween 4 and 5; 1988–89), and the Halloween remake and its sequel as Annie Brackett (2007–09). Other such roles include Tosh in Urban Legend (1998), Belle in Stake Land (2010), and Marybeth Dunston in the Hatchet series (2010–17). In 2012, she was inducted into the Fangoria Hall of Fame. Harris began her career as a child actress, with various appearances on television and prominent roles in films such as Marked for Death (1990), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Free Willy (1993) and Daylight (1996). She is also known for her voice work, which includes playing Debbie Thornberry for the full run of the Nickelodeon series The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004) and in the related films The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and Rugrats Go Wild (2003). In 2013, Harris made her feature directorial debut with the horror film Among Friends, after previously directing Madison (a segment in the unfinished anthology film Prank) in 2008 and a Stake Land companion short film in 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Joe Gaminara

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Joe Gaminara is an English actor, who started his career in films in 2014. He began with a short paper CNN Reporter Tom Ruggles in feature film Crystal Skulls. Then he won the role of Bryan in Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment directed by Valeri Milev and the sixth installment in the Wrong Turn film series. The film was released on DVD on October 21, 2014. Later that year, Joe, won the starring role in the short film Pearl, Eloe received the role of Dr. Oliver Knightley. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Fritz Alberti

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Fritz Alberti was a German actor. He studied construction at the Technical University of Berlin, worked in the construction industry and was a government construction manager from 1904 to 1907. In 1906 he decided to become an actor and appeared in Kassel and at the National Theater in Mannheim. In 1922 he came to Berlin. Soon after, Alberti also received film roles and became a frequently used supporting actor. In 1928 alone he appeared in ten different films. He also continued to be on stage, for example at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm. He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 (membership number 1,667,025), became chief treasurer of the NSBO ​​film specialist group and head of film records. In this role, he arranged smaller roles, occasionally reprimanded artists who did not conform sufficiently, and checked requests for financial support from the Goebbels Foundation " Künstlerdank ". After the end of the war, Alberti did not return to the stage, but instead worked as a voice actor and acting teacher.
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Carrie Ng

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Carrie Ng (born 1963) is a Hong Kong actress well known for both Category-III cult and mainstream films. She won Best Actress at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival awards for her performance in Remains of a Woman and Best Supporting Actress at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Awards for The Kid. Other notable film credits include Edward Yang's Mahjong (1996) and cult classics Naked Killer (1992) and Sex and Zen (1991). Ng made her directorial debut with the revenge-thriller Angel Whispers (2015), which she co-directed, produced and scripted with film executive Shirley Yung.
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