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Oliver Platt

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Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).
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Samina Ahmad

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Samina Ahmad is a Pakistani television actress, stage performer, television producer and television director. She had started her career with serious plays on Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), however she is known for comedy plays like Akkar Bakkar, Taal Matol, Alif Noon and Such Gup. She also acted in the famous comedy drama Family Front. She has recently acted in another TV comedy named Side Order. Her switch to the comic roles proved to be highly rewarding for her, and she quickly became a top media person in Pakistan
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Kari Wahlgren

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Kari K. Wahlgren (born July 13, 1977) is an American voice actress who has provided English language voices for dozens of anime titles and video games. She had a live-action role as Tinker Bell in the 2003 Damion Dietz film Neverland. She provided the voice of the supporting character Mindy in the 2008 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Bolt, Haruhara Haruko in Gainax's OVA FLCL, and the computer program Jean in the 2009 television pilot Virtuality. She was interviewed in the 2008 documentary Adventures in Voice Acting. She is currently starring in Disney XD show Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil as Denise Buttowski and the Disney Channel show Fish Hooks as Bea's friend Shellsea.
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Michael Jason Allen

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Michael Jason Allen landed his first professional acting gig as a day player in the Columbia Pictures movie "What Planet Are You From" starring John Goodman, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, and Ben Kingsley (1999). Going on to star in national television commercials for Cox Comm., Yosh Fragrances, HGTV and the California Board of Tourism among others, he's continued in films, television commercials and various television shows on FOX and the W Network. In 2008, he began writing, directing, producing, and starring in his own feature films. His feature films "References" (2008), "The Coldest Kiss" (2014), "Stealing Sunrise" (2015), "An Idle Mind Is the Devil's Playground" (2016), "Stealing Sunrise 2: Malibu Trail" (2017), "Hello, Are You There?" (2018), & "EMULATOR" (2019) have received positive reviews from renowned indie and major film critics as well as prominent media outlets including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Arizona Republic, and featured news stories on FOX & CBS tv affiliates. Since his debut film, he has subsequently gone on to write, direct, produce and star in 8 award winning or nominated independent feature films while performing the cinematography in 5 of them. He is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and instrumentalist for his electro-rock band "Official Version" and has performed live around the U.S. sharing the bill with popular music artists of the '80s & '90s. He also has a 1980's era alter ego named Adrian Star in which he has released several pop albums with many music videos.
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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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Stephanie J. Block

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Stephanie Janette Block (born September 19, 1972) is an American actress and singer, known for her work in Broadway musicals. A three-time Tony Award nominee, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 2013, for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Falsettos in 2017, and finally winning as Best Actress in a Musical for The Cher Show in 2019. She is also a six-time Drama Desk Award nominee (and one-time winner) and has appeared on numerous cast recordings. In 2009, she released a solo album, This Place I Know. Block began her professional musical career in regional theater and by playing Belle in the Disneyland production of Beauty and the Beast in 1992. She made her Broadway debut in the 2003 original production of The Boy from Oz, playing Liza Minnelli. Having read the part of Elphaba in the first reading of Wicked in 2000, she was the first actress to play the role in the US touring production from 2005–06, winning the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress in a Non-Resident production. She later reprised the role on Broadway from 2007–08. She received Drama Desk nominations for the Off-Broadway productions of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2011) and Little Miss Sunshine (2013), and for the Broadway productions of 9 to 5 (2009), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012), Falsettos (2016) and The Cher Show (2019).
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James Fargo

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James Fargo (born August 14, 1938) is an American film director. He directed numerous films from 1976 to 1998. After serving as assistant director on many movies starring Clint Eastwood, he was then given the chance to direct the third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer, in 1976. Later he also directed Eastwood in 1978's Every Which Way But Loose. It would be the final film in working with Eastwood. Fargo has also directed films such as Caravans, A Game for Vultures, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, as well as two Chuck Norris films. Fargo has also directed television shows, such as The A-Team, Hunter, Scarecrow and Mrs. King,and Beverly Hills 90210. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Fargo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sergei Parshin

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Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10.31.1988). People's Artist of Russia (8.01.1999). At school, he took an active part in the activities of the drama circle. In 1973 he graduated from the acting department of LGITMiK (workshop of Vasily Merkuryev and Irina Meyerhold). Actor of the Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin (Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg). He made his film debut in 1973 in the movie Smart Things. In the role of a soldier, Ivan Varezhkin was the host of the popular children's program "Tale after Tale" of Leningrad television. Actively engaged in dubbing. Since 2008, he has been Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia.
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Dono

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Drs. H. Wahyu Sardono, better known as Dono Warkop (born in Delanggu, Klaten, Central Java, 30 September 1951 - died in Jakarta, 30 December 2001 at the age of 50 years), was an Indonesian actor and comedian with a height of 167 cm. He starred in several comedy film titles in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. He died of lung cancer. While studying at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Dono worked in the editorial section of the newspaper, among others at the Tribune and Salemba, mainly as a caricature. Both print media ceased publication in 1974. Then Dono joined the warung Warung Kopi Prambors group that was established a year earlier. Dono with Casinos, Indro, and Nanu fills the coffee shop Prambors with a coffee shop-style atmosphere on Prambors private radio. While still a student, Dono is a member of the University of Indonesia Nature Lovers Student Group (Mapala UI) with Casino and Nanu. Therefore, Warkop DKI films show their activities as nature lovers.
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Anna Madeley

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Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film. Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher. In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy. In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders. In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill. She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist. In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010. In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.
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