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Irina Abraham

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Talented, up and coming American actress Irina Abraham has garnered critical acclaim for her roles in stage theatre before working in film (According to Her, Dir. Estelle ARtus) and TV series (The Black List, The Americans). Her diverse acting career has spanned film, theatre and dance. Born in Belarus, Irina began studying dance and dramatic arts at the age of 7, at 13 she joined a dance company that toured Europe, and at 15 she was part of a Youth Theater Company. Once in New York, Irina graduated from the HB Studio full time program in dramatic arts. There she studied with Aleksey Burago and Snezhana Chernova in the tradition of Stanislavsky. After acting in number of short films and web-series, Irina was offered the lead female role in According to Her. The same year she was to play again the lead role in another feature film: The Girl On The Ledge (Dir. Paul Rothman). Irina also worked with the Russian Arts Theater & Studio, Nylon Fusion Theater Company, Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, and the Bedlam Ensemble.
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Ivan King

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Ivan King was born in Italy, on December 23th, 1989. He attended an art school to become a comic-book artist, but, during the studies, he decided to dedicate himself to cinema. When he was 15, he began filming short movies, as a director, editor and actor. In 2010 he created the king UNIT, a filmmakers team. His first important short film was "Like God" (2012), winner of the Best Short Film Award at The Reign of Horror Short Movie Awards 2013, followed by "The House of the Rising Sun" (2014), winner of the Silver Award at California Film Awards 2014. After several years, king UNIT is working on a new short film named "The Jäger Within" which is set hit various movie festivals during 2019. During these years, he also started working as a model, mainly collaborating with the make-up artist Francesco Sanseverino, the photographer Davide Cancila and he lately joined the ImaCrew agency. Ivan King is a musician too. In April 2014 he created a music project named Vita Museum which released its first record "Frozen Limbo Zero" in October 2015. In September 2014, Ivan King joined The Silverblack as bass player and video director. The Silverblack is an industrial metal band created by NeroArgento and Claudio Ravinale. He's a solo artist too: he released some singles between 2012 and 2017 and he also wrote and directed the videoclips of his songs "Bloodshot" (2012), "Divine" (2014) and "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (2017); this one is a cover of the main theme song of the worldwide famous videogame Resident Evil 7. The music video almost reached 500.000 views on YouTube. At the moment, he's working on a new solo industrial EP and he's planning to release three new music videos, all connencted by the same storyline. In late 2017 and 2018, Ivan King was one of the main artist performing at the One More Light Italia, the Chester Bennington Italian memorial concert. The 2018 show featured former members of Orgy and Dead By Sunrise, Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh with their band Julien-K. Ivan had the honor to perform one of his favourite songs ever with them,"Morning After" by Dead By Sunrise . Besides his careers in music and cinema, his most known effort is mask making. He started to craft a series of handmade resin masks that has quickly become notorious online. Today Ivan King is living in Italy and he's playing with his music projects, creating movies, modeling and working on other artistic projects.
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Page Kennedy

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Page Kennedy (born November 23, 1976) is an American television and film actor who is currently starring in the sports comedy series Blue Mountain State on Spike. Kennedy attended Western Michigan University where his talent was discovered. He soon transferred to the University of Delaware to major in theatre and acting. Kennedy soon moved to Los Angeles and began to guest star on several shows including Six Feet Under, Blind Justice, Barbershop, Love, Inc., NYPD Blue, The Shield, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation In 2005, Kennedy won a recurring role on the popular ABC primetime soap, Desperate Housewives where he played Caleb Applewhite, a fugitive who was being held captive in his mother's (Alfre Woodard) basement. However shortly after in November 2005, Kennedy was fired from Desperate Housewives; Kennedy himself claimed that Touchstone Television, the producers of the show, wanted to take a new direction with the character and bought out his contract. He was replaced by NaShawn Kearse. The producers indicated it was due to sexual misconduct, given his screen time at the time his contract was cancelled amounted to no more than a few seconds. Kennedy joined the cast of Showtime's hit series Weeds during its second and third season. He played the drug-dealer and self-described "thug", "U-Turn". Kennedy played a gay inmate and gang leader in My Name is Earl and a married inmate and ex-con in Raising the Bar. Kennedy also had an uncredited role in season six of the medical drama House, playing the son of a brutal African dictator. Kennedy resides in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Page Kennedy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Los Angeles Philharmonic

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The Los Angeles Philharmonic, commonly referred to as the LA Phil, is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September. Gustavo Dudamel is the current Music Director, Esa-Pekka Salonen is Conductor Laureate, Zubin Mehta is Conductor Emeritus, and Susanna Mälkki is Principal Guest Conductor. John Adams is the orchestra's current Composer-in-Residence.
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Willow Smith

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Willow Camille Reign Smith (born October 31, 2000) is an American child actress and singer who is the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and the younger sister of Jaden Smith. She made her acting debut in 2007 in the film I Am Legend and later appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl alongside Abigail Breslin. She received a Young Artist Award for her performance. Apart from her acting she launched a music career in the fall of 2010 with the release of her single "Whip My Hair" and signing to Jay-Z's record label Roc Nation. The single peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willow Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Eva Herman

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Eva Herman is a German author and former television presenter. She worked as a news presenter on the nationwide Tagesschau news programme from 1989 to 2006 and also presented various other television programmes for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk until 2007. In 2003, an opinion poll by TNS Emnid declared Herman to be "Germany's favourite presenter". Starting in 2006, Herman authored multiple books that were critical of feminism and advocated for traditional female gender roles. Her books were met with widespread criticism and media scrutiny. In 2007, Herman was dismissed from her position as a news anchor at German national broadcaster ARD, after positively reviewing the family policies and gender roles of Nazi Germany.
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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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Stuart Bennett

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Stuart Alexander Bennett is an English professional wrestling commentator, actor, and former professional wrestler and former bare-knuckle boxer who holds both British and American citizenship. He is currently signed to WWE, where he is a color commentator on the NXT brand under the ring name Wade Barrett. Under the Wade Barrett name, Bennett won the first season of NXT in 2010 and made his main roster debut on Raw later that year. He rose to prominence as the leader of The Nexus, a villainous faction composed of the remaining NXT first-season rookies. He headlined five PPV events for WWE in 2010—SummerSlam, Night of Champions, Bragging Rights, Survivor Series, and TLC—three of which saw him unsuccessfully challenge for the WWE Championship. He later formed The Corre, a short-lived group with former Nexus members Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel, along with Ezekiel Jackson in 2011. After they disbanded, he would go on to become a five-time Intercontinental Champion. In 2013, Barrett's ring name was changed to Bad News Barrett and he adopted the character of a man who took pleasure in breaking bad news to other people. In 2015, he won the 20th King of the Ring tournament, at which point his ring name was changed to King Barrett. He notably portrayed a villain for his entire WWE career, regardless of the other changes to his character. He has not wrestled since leaving WWE in May 2016, though he has appeared in non-wrestling roles on the international independent circuit, such as a commentator for World of Sport Wrestling and a general manager for Defiant Wrestling under his real name. He made his acting debut in the thriller film Dead Man Down (2013) and has since starred in films such as Eliminators (2016), I Am Vengeance (2018), and I Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020). He returned to WWE as a commentator in August 2020.
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Xia Henderson

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is a female British professional wrestler best known by her ring name Xia Brookside. She is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) performing on its NXT developmental brand. Before signing with with the WWE, Brookside spent four years on the British independent circuit in promotions including International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom, Southside Wrestling Entertainment, Kamikaze Pro and many others. Xia is a second-generation professional wrestler following her father Robbie Brookside who works as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center. Professional wrestling career Early career (2015-2018) First debuting as a valet in 2014, Brookside later entered the wrestling ring during May 2015, debuting in First Class Wrestling. From there, Brookside went on to spend four years on the independent circuit, wrestling in promotions including International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom, Pro Wrestling Ulster, German Wrestling Federation, Tidal Championship Wrestling, Shropshire Wrestling Alliance and many others throughout the United Kingdom and internationally in other countries. Brookside spent two years in Japan's World Wonder Ring Stardom during 2017-2018. She also wrestled for Kamikaze Pro for three years from 2016-2018. During her early career, Brookside won the PWU Women's Championship and IPW:UK Women's Championship. Although she is signed to WWE's NXT UK brand, Brookside still makes appearances in British promotions. After her matches during the NXT UK Tapings in October 2018, Brookside competed in Southside Wrestling Entertainment's 2018 SWE Queen Of The Ring Tournament on 9 November, during which she was eliminated in the First Round by Portuguese wrestler Shanna. On 10 November, she and tag partner Sean Kustom as team Jawdroppers successfully retained the SWE Tag Team Championship in a title match against Mike Bailey & Veda Scott. On 11 November during the SWE The Joseph Conners Experience Show, Team Jawdroppers retained the SWE Tag Team titles, defeating Shane Taylor & Shanna. World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE Mae Young Classic (2018) Brookside debuted as a participant of the second annual Mae Young Classic, where she was eliminated in the first round by Io Shirai. During the 9 August 2018 Mae Young Classic Tapings, Brookside teamed with Jessie Elaban and MJ Jenkins in a tag match defeating Allysin Kay, Reina Gonzalez & Vanessa Kraven. NXT (2018-present) During the 25 August NXT UK tapings, Brookside's first match was during the WWE United Kingdom Women's Championship Tournament where she was eliminated in the opening round by the eventual tournament winner Rhea Ripley. During the following night's NXT UK tapings, Brookside teamed with Millie McKenzie in a tag match defeating Charlie Morgan & Killer Kelly. Two months later, Brookside returned for the 14 October NXT UK tapings during which she lost a singles match to Jinny.
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Zeki Demirkubuz

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Zeki Demirkubuz (born 1 October 1964 in Isparta, Turkey) is a contemporary Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor. Demirkubuz, refers to Dostoevsky in his cinematographic mentality. His scenarios grow on the ethical dilemmas of the human condition. He usually uses basic concepts, such as love, passion, self-sacrifice, and the absurdity of life and death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zeki Demirkubuz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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