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Randa Chahal Sabbag

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Randa Chahal Sabbag (born 11 December 1953) was a Lebanese film director, producer and screenwriter. She was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, to an Iraqi mother and a Lebanese father. Though Chahal received numerous international awards, including the prestigious Silver Lion at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, her body of work remains relatively unknown. Most subjects in Chahal's nine narrative films and documentaries dealt with encounters between the absurdity of war stories and the gentle bitterness of solitary, thoughtful characters. Known for their satirical tone and trenchant dialogue, her films have long been considered provocative. Around 40 minutes of her 1999 film Civilisées (A Civilized People), a black comedy about the Lebanese Civil War, were censored and thus the film was only screened once. Film critics began to recognize Chahal's work in 2003, when her feature The Kite won the Silver Lion award and several other prestigious prizes. That year, she received the National Order of the Cedar decoration in the grade of Officer from the country of Lebanon. Chahal died at age 54 in Paris, France, leaving one announced film unreleased.
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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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Jay Santiago

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J. Santiago Suarez is an actor and voice actor. Jay performed as a skilled and trained dancer with the ensemble, Ita Medina, for the Original Telemundo Network in San Juan. Jay is a series regular in the APPLE TV+ series, Ghostwriter, and co-starred with Don Cheadle in the Showtime comedy, Black Monday. His series work also includes roles in S.W.A.T., Dick Wolf's CBS show FBI: Most Wanted, and a recurring role on Netflix's "Uncoupled" with Neil Patrick Harris and Marcia Gay Harden. He has numerous credits as a voice-over artist as well as in motion capture Gaming including, Grand Theft Auto. Some of Jay's other series and feature credits include, The Purge, Big Lake, Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, Bruiser, Rainbow Ruthie and Bel Canto, and The Mick and the Trick, among others.
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Bruno Langley

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British actor who came to fame playing Todd Grimshaw in Coronation Street, a role he played on and off for sixteen years from 2001 to 2017. He was sacked from the show in October 2017 prior to his pleading guilty to two counts of sexual assault in November of that year. He was sentenced to a twelve month community order and registered as a sex offender. Langley also played Adam Mitchell, a brief companion to Christopher Eccleston's Doctor in the 2005 series and appeared as Damon in the movie The League of Gentlemen Apocalypse.
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Brandon Spink

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Brandon Spink is quickly making a name for himself with buzz-worthy roles in television and film. At the age of seven, he found his passion of performing while starring in local theater productions. At 10 years old Brandon booked the lead role of Young Johnny Knoxville for the pilot of the same name for ABC. Brandon took 2016 by storm with the feature Miracles from Heaven the role of Billy, co-starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah; the incredible true story based on author, Christy Beam's memoir. Next was the role of young Bruce Wayne in Warner Bros. star studded film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zach Snyder. Followed by Open Road Film's Mother's Day, playing Jennifer Aniston and Timothy Olyphant's son, Peter. The romantic comedy is by acclaimed director Garry Marshall. In addition to the big screen in 2016, Brandon recurred as Petey in NBC's one-hour drama Game of Silence. 2017 is gearing up to be another busy year for Brandon who guest starred on ABC's Once Upon A Time as Baelfire. Brandon will next be seen in a recurring role on Epix series Berlin Station.
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Mel Blanc

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Mel Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during the "Golden Age of American animation" (and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions) as the voice of such well-known characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Woody Woodpecker, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, Speedy Gonzales, Elmer Fudd and hundreds of others. Having earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Blanc is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-acting industry. At the time of his death, it was estimated that 20 million people heard his voice every day. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ezzat Al Alaily

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E’zzat Hassan al-A’laly Hassan was born in the “Bab al-Sha’riyah” district of Cairo. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Higher Institute of Theater Studies in 1960. E’zzat is married and has a son named Mahmoud who works as a dentist. He also has a daughter named Ragaa. Ragaa has a degree in law and is married. In his early stages, art was something of a dream for E’zzat as he had four sisters for whom he was responsible seeing as his father had passed away. He thereafter made his way into art and performed in several TV series an example of which is “A’bd Allah al-Nadeem”. Amongst the stage productions in which E’zzat has assumed leading roles are “Dimaa a’la Malabis al-Sahra” (“Blood on the Evening Gown”) and “Ahlan ya Bakwat”. E’zzat has also written several plays amongst which are “Thawrat al-Madina” (“The City’s Revolt”) and “Al-Touffan” (“The Flood”). E’zzat al-A’laly has received numerous awards and has also performed in Algerian and Lebanese cinema. He is considered a unique acting talent who can give lively depictions of any character he is asked to portray, no matter how diverse. His natural talents and build have helped him in his career. E’zzat can be observed in excellent form in “al-Ard” (“The Earth”), “al-Ikhtiyar” (“The Choice”), “al-Muwattin al-Masry” (“The Egyptian Citizen”) and “el-Sekka Matt” (“El-Sekka is Dead”).
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Jessica Forde

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Jessica was born in London, Great Britain. Her father is British, her mother French. She has both British and French nationalities. She works as a stills photographer since 2003 taking advantage of her previous experiences as an actress and her passion for photographic techniques. Her first film as an actress, Eric Rohmer's Four adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, set her sights on the cinema. She has acted in French, Italian and English with over thirty directors, notably Eric Rohmer, Jacques Doillon, Jean-Jacques Beinex, Josiane Balasko, Carlo Mazzacurati, Raul Ruiz, Tsui Hark... And with actors such as Michel Piccoli, Patrick Timsit, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Richard Berry, Daniel Auteuil... Jessica has a passion for storytelling in it's various forms. In the passed years she has been especially focusing on photography, documentary, and cinema techniques. She enjoys working alongside different cinematographers and so, forging her own eye to framing and lighting. She has directed 3 short films and one 52 minutes documentary. - IMDb Mini Biography By: By: J.Forde
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Eugenio Derbez

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Actor, writer, director and producer, Eugenio has a degree in Film Directing from the Mexican Institute of Cinematography and Theater, as well as a degree in Acting from Televisa's Acting School. He has also studied and is trained in the arts of Dance, Music and Singing, and still today he continues prepping himself in L.A. and in New York City. His latest feature film "Instructions Not Included" became the most successful Spanish-language film ever in the US and worldwide, and broke numerous box office records everywhere, earning over $100M. Variety recently recognized him as the "#1 most influential Hispanic male in the world".
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Shashi Kapoor

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shashi Kapoor (born Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), was an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He was also a film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He was a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. He was the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the widower of Jennifer Kendal, and the father of Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, and Sanjana Kapoor. He is remembered for many hit Hindi films like Jab Jab Phool Khile, Kanyadaan, Pyar Ka Mausam, Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati , Haseena Maan Jayegi, Sharmeelee, Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Fakira, Phaansi, Chor Machaye Shor, Mukti, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Heeralal Pannalal, Junoon, Swayamvar and many such films, including ones he starred in with Pran like Chori Mera Kaam, Phaansi, Shankar Dada, Chakkar Pe Chakkar and with Amitabh Bachchan, such as Deewar, Namak Halaal. He also played leading roles in a number of English-speaking Indian films, including the very first Merchant Ivory production The Householder followed by such as Shakespeare-Wallah, Bombay Talkie, Heat and Dust, etc. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shashi Kapoor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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