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Warner Oland

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund, October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: the Honolulu Police detective, Lieutenant Charlie Chan; Dr. Fu Manchu; and Henry Chang in Shanghai Express. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 13. He pursued a film career that would include time on Broadway and dozens of film appearances, including 16 Charlie Chan films. After several years in theater, including appearances on Broadway as Warner Oland, in 1912 he made his silent film debut in Pilgrim's Progress, a film based on the John Bunyan novel. As a result of his training as a Shakespearean actor and his easy adoption of a sinister look, he was much in demand as a villain and in ethnic roles. Over the next 15 years, he appeared in more than 30 films, including a major role in The Jazz Singer (1927), one of the first talkies produced. Oland's normal appearance fit the Hollywood expectation of caricatured Asianness of the time, despite his having no definitively proven Asian cultural background. Oland portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first onscreen portrayal of the Fu Manchu character in film. Oland continued to appear onscreen as an Asian, probably more often than any other white actor in the history of cinema. In Old San Francisco, Oland played an Asian unsuccessfully impersonating a white man. Oland was the first actor to play a werewolf in a major Hollywood film, biting the protagonist, played by Henry Hull, in Werewolf of London (1935). Once again, Oland's character was Asian. A box office success, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu made Oland a star, and during the next two years he portrayed the evil Dr. Fu Manchu in three more films (although the second one was purely a cameo appearance). Firmly locked into such roles, he was cast as Charlie Chan in the international detective mystery film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) and then in director Josef von Sternberg's 1932 classic film Shanghai Express opposite Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong. The enormous worldwide box office success of his Charlie Chan film led to more, with Oland starring in 16 Chan films in total. The series, Jill Lepore later wrote, "kept Fox afloat" during the 1930s, while earning Oland $40,000 per movie. Oland took his role seriously, studying the Chinese language and calligraphy.
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Fred Willard

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Frederick Charles Willard (September 18, 1933 - May 15, 2020) was an American actor, comedian and voice over actor known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration as well as television series D.C. Follies. He is an alumnus of The Second City comedy troupe. He received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's father-in-law, Hank MacDougall.
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Robert Loraine

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Bilcliffe Loraine MC DSO (14 January 1876 – 23 December 1935) was a successful London and Broadway British stage actor, actor-manager and soldier who later enjoyed a side career as a pioneer aviator. Born in New Brighton, Liscard, Cheshire, England, his father was Henry Loraine and Robert made his first stage appearance in the English provinces in 1889. He served in the Boer War (1899–1902). He introduced the George Bernard Shaw play Man and Superman to Broadway in 1905. Loraine was a versatile actor and was successful both in serious plays and in popular works of light entertainment. He was particularly associated with the works of George Bernard Shaw, taking over the role of John Tanner from Harley Granville Barker in the fourth run of Man and Superman at the Royal Court Theatre. He also won critical acclaim for performances in plays by William Shakespeare and August Strindberg. Loraine served as a volunteer in the Boer War between 1899 and 1901. During the First World War he flew with the Royal Flying Corps. He was twice seriously wounded, and commanded 40 Squadron. During his service he did not entirely abandon the theatre, running a drama society in his squadron, which performed the premiere performance of Shaw's play O'Flaherty V.C. at Treizeenes in Belgium. On 11 December 1918 he relinquished his commission in the Royal Air Force due to ill-health brought on by his wounds, and was granted the honorary rank of major. On 7 November 1897 he married Julie Opp. After their divorce he married Winifred Lydia, daughter of Sir Robert Strangman in 1901. They had three daughters.
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Gino Antonio

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Gino Antonio, born Jack Catan Badon, is a former Filipino actor famous for a string of hits in the 1980s. He was acclaimed for his exemplary work, notably for a nomination for Best Actor for the Gawad Urian for his role in Takaw Tukso (1986). Another one of his notable films is Private Show (1985), which is now considered a classic Pinoy neorealism film. After several years of doing films, Gino Antonio decided to leave the entertainment industry. The former actor is now living in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
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Amber Rothberg

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Amber took an interest in professional acting at age 11. Her first time on set was in "Little Women" where she portrayed Young Meg in a flashback scene. Since then she has worked in independent films, commercials and voice-over projects.. Amber has been cast as the lead in her first feature, "It's Alright Now"; a coming-of-age film based on true events. She has recently booked a few other exciting projects filming later this year. She is ready to show the world her intense emotional range in television and film as opportunities continue. Amber has been training with some top NY and LA acting coaches such as Emmy award winning, casting director, Amber Horn, actor, Kevin Chamberlin, Katie Pohlman and Disney director, Wendy Faraone. She is an honors student in high school where her focus is on psychology and the arts, as well as learning American Sign Language as an independent study. In addition to acting, Amber enjoys writing, singing, playing ukulele, ice skating, roller skating, swimming, modeling and cooking. Pizza is her favorite! She is an advocate for environmental and animal welfare causes.
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Vivian Wu

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Vivian Wu (born February 5, 1966 in Shanghai), is a Chinese actress, known for her roles in The Last Emperor (1987), Heaven & Earth (1993), The Joy Luck Club (1993), and The Pillow Book (1996) and as the historical figure of Soong May-ling, commonly referred to as Madam Chiang Kai-shek, in two major Chinese motion pictures The Soong Sisters (1997) and The Founding of a Republic (2009) Description above from the Wikipedia article Vivian Wu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​
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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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Stephen Root

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Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. He has starred as Jimmy James on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, as Milton Waddams in the film Office Space (1999), and voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on the animated series King of the Hill (1997–2010). Root has appeared in numerous Coen brothers films including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Ladykillers (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Other notable film roles include in Dave (1993), DodgeBall (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Cedar Rapids (2011), Selma (2014), Trumbo (2015), Get Out (2017), and On the Basis of Sex (2018). His television roles have included Capt. K'Vada in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-part episode "Unification" (1991), Hawthorne Abendsen in seasons 2–4 of the series The Man in the High Castle. He has supporting roles in a variety of HBO series, including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Perry Mason, and Succession. He notably starred as Monroe Fuches / The Raven on the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019.
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Li Landy

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Li Landy, born in Beijing on September 2, 1999, is a film and television actress in mainland China. In 2009, 10-year-old Li Landy set foot in the film and television circle by making his first film, Who Loved You Lost? In 2013, he starred in Osmanthus fragrans in the action film Fuchun Mountain Residence Map. In 2015, he co-starred with Zhu Zimiao in the urban love drama "Bright Ming Tian". In 2016, Yao Yao, a kind girl in the urban love idol drama "Far from the Dead Love", won the most potential children's actress award in June with the children's inspirational film "Young Chess King". In 2017, she was known by her audience in the "heart less Master II", playing the simple sentiments of peach. In the same year, she won the Iqiyi scream night's New Drama Award by virtue of her youth campus drama "Hello, old time".
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Ashley Dingwell

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Ashley Dingwell has roots in Labrador, but now calls Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia home. She is an actor, writer, and dancer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memorial University. Her selected recent acting credits include Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dartmouth Players), Hedda Gabler in Hedda Gabler (Theatre at Grenfell), May Garnett in Bedlam (Theatre at Grenfell), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC), Son of a Critch (CBC), SurrealEstate (SYFY), Sugar Highs (OUTtv), Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV), Hudson & Rex (Citytv), Diggstown (CBC Television), Astrid and Lilly Save the World (SYFY), as well as working at the Rising Tide Theatre Festival in 2022.
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