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Martha MacIsaac

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martha MacIsaac (born October 11, 1984; PEI, Canada) is a Canadian television and film actress and former child actress. She is best known for her role of Becca, love interest of lead character Evan in the 2007 teen comedy Superbad. She started her career playing Emily Byrd Starr in the Emily of New Moon television series, based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martha MacIsaac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gina Philips

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Gina Philips (born May 10, 1970) is an American actress. Philips was born Gina Consolo in Miami Beach, Florida. She is known for her recurring roles on David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal as Sandy Hingle and Boston Public as Jenna Miller. Her film credits include Jeepers Creepers, Love & Debate, The Anarchist Cookbook, Dead and Breakfast and The Sick House. In addition, Philips has made guest appearances on Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, ER, CSI, Medium and Monk. She has also starred in Rubi Zack's 2006 Ring Around the Rosie.
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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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Myleene Klass

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Myleene Angela Klass (born 6 April 1978) is a British singer, presenter, musician, model and businesswoman. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released two solo classical crossover albums in 2003 and 2007. More recently, Klass has been a television and radio presenter. She has hosted television series including Popstar to Operastar (2010–2011) and BBQ Champ (2015) on ITV and The One Show (2007) on BBC One. She was briefly a regular panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women in 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article Myleene Klass, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Cynthia Rowley

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Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer based in the Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988. Rowley was kicked out of her junior year art show at SAIC because her use of wings in her design. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Rowley said that Marshall Field's had bought her first collection while she was still a student at SAIC. In 1981, Rowley won an SAIC fellowship award in her senior year and used the money to move from Chicago to New York City. She then launched her career with $3,000 in seed money from one of her grandmother's. Since Rowley launched her first capsule collection in 1988, has grown to include women's wear, handbags, glasses, color cosmetics, fragrance, wetsuits and swimwear, home furnishings, bedding products, and office accessories. The designer also created a line of home accessories called Swell, based on a book series she co-wrote with friend Ilene Rosenzweig, which made its debut at Target in 2003. In 2011 Rowley presented the Mr. Powers collection, a limited menswear range named after her husband Bill Powers. Rowley's fashions are presented bi-annually at New York Fashion Week. Signature Cynthia Rowley stores are in New York City, Chicago, Montauk, Palm Beach, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Newport Beach as well as at the company's web store.
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Ovanes Ohanian

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Ovanes Ohanian (Armenian: Հովհաննես Օհանյան, Persian: اوانس اوهانیانس‎; October 1896 – September 1960) was an Armenian-Iranian filmmaker and scientist with PhD degree. He established the first film school in the history of Iran. His first film, Abi and Rabi (1930) was Iran's first feature-length movie. He founded the first acting school in Iran and the first acting school in India together with the first police school in Iran. He was fluent in seven languages. In 1961, he died of Heart attack in his office in Tehran
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Joseph Ruskin

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Ruskin (born April 14, 1924) is an American character actor. Ruskin is one of only 4 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (1966) (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) and then in one of the spin offs. Along with Majel Barrett, Clint Howard and Jack Donner, he is one of only four actors to appear in both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He also played a Vulcan Master in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Ruskin was also in an episode of The Outer Limits called "Production and Decay of Strange Particles". Ruskin was also in a movie called Smokin' Aces. Joseph Ruskin was the uncredited voice of the Kanamits from the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man". He also may be remembered as the Genie from the 1960 episode of the Twilight Zone, "The Man in the Bottle". He married Patricia Herd in 1959 and was later divorced in 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Ruskin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Nanako Matsushima

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Nanako Matsushima (松嶋 菜々子 Matsushima Nanako, born October 13, 1973 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also a main character in A Story of Love, where she starred next to Hiroyuki Sanada, who also played Ryuji Takayama in Ring. On February 21, 2001, she married Takashi Sorimachi who co-starred with her in Great Teacher Onizuka. They have two daughters together, born on May 31, 2004 and November 30, 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nanako Matsushima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Keri Lynn Pratt

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Keri Lynn Pratt (born September 23, 1978) is an American actress of film and television. She is well known for her role of Missy Belknap on Jack & Bobby or as Dee Vine in Drive Me Crazy, which was her debut role. Pratt was a student at the Hampstead Dance Academy, and after graduation began her career at the Broadway Dance Center. She has guested on such series as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 1 Episode 22: Evaluation Day & Season 6 Episode 19: Spellbound as Anna Leah, ER, House Season 2 Episode 14: Sex Kills as Amy Errington, Bones Season 2 Episode 5:The Truth In The Lye as Chloe, Veronica Mars, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Nip/Tuck, 7th Heaven, That 70's Show, and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. In 2006 she appeared in four episodes of the ABC show Brothers & Sisters, as an intern to Calista Flockhart and Josh Hopkins's characters. Pratt, who was born in Concord, New Hampshire, graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry. She was Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 1994 and competed in the Miss Teen USA 1994 pageant. In July 2008, Pratt was cast as Kristy in the 2009 film I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell. On July 25, 2010, it was revealed in the press room of Comic Con, that Pratt will be playing Cat Grant in the 10th season of Smallville. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keri Lynn Pratt,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Alison Sealy-Smith

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Emotionally compelling actor and director, born in the Barbados in 1959. Alison Sealy-Smith studied psychology at Mount Allison University, and has been active in Canadian theatre for over thirty-five years. In 1981, she joined the Pelican Players, Canada's first multicultural community theatre. She returned to the Barbados in 1982 with her daughter, and acted in plays by Earl Warner. Without a formal acting education, she learned from directors and actors. Following her return to Canada 1985, she performed with the Pelican Players in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in other theatre festivals in England and Holland. During the 1980s, she worked with community theatres such as Ground Zero Productions, Theatre Outreach, Theatre Fountainhead, Theatre in Exile, and the Imani Theatre Ensemble.
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