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RuPaul

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RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960), known mononymously as RuPaul, is an American drag queen, television judge, musician, and model. Best known for producing, hosting, and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received several accolades, including eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article RuPaul, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Peter Hewitt

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Peter Hewitt (b. October, 9 1962, Brighton, England, United Kingdom) is an English film director and writer, known for Garfield (2004) (credited as Pete Hewitt), Thunderpants (2002), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and The Candy Show (1989). Upon graduating from England's National Film and Television School in 1990, Hewitt flew to Hollywood with his BAFTA award-winning short film, The Candy Show, in hand. Once there, he called executives from major U.S. studios and asked if he could show them his film. Soon after, he landed an agent and made his feature film directorial debut with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Although not as big a success as the original, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the movie made a profit. He turned to TV next, directing the first two hours of the mini-series Wild Palms. He directed Disney's Tom and Huck in 1995 which was based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hewitt returned to Britain to film The Borrowers, loosely based on a children's novel by Mary Norton of the same name. He remained in England to helm Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999), then tried his hand at TV work again with The Princess of Thieves (2001), filmed in Romania but featuring a mostly British cast, including a young Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's daughter, Gwyn. Hewitt co-wrote the script for his next film, Thunderpants. It was filmed in the U.K.
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Hassan Youssef

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(Hassan Youssef Hassan) is an Egyptian artist, born in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood in Cairo in 1934, graduated from the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts, and he studied at the College of Commerce in 1955, and after that he worked as an artistic supervisor in the school theater of the Benha Educational District, and in the national theater discovered by the artist (Hussein Riad) He presented him as a new face in the movie (I Am Free) starring Lubna Abdel Aziz in 1959 and played the role of her cousin. After that, he presented several works that brightened his star in the world of art, and the sixties was the stage of his artistic glow. The stars of cinema participated in the championship, the most important of them is Souad Hosni .. At this time he married the artist (Lebleba), then he married the artist (Shams Al-Baroudi) in 1972, He participated in acting in a number of films, and then directed a number of other films for her, including the movie (2 on the road) in 1984 with the star (Adel Imam), which is her last work before announcing her permanent retirement from acting .. and one of his most prominent roles is the role of Adel in the movie (Women Al-Layl) in 1973 .. He retired from acting in 1990, and his last movie was (The Two Sisters) .. Then, in 2003, he returned to art, presenting his most important and most successful television work, which is the series (Imam al-Dawa), in which he embodied the biography of the late Imam Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy. After that, he was satisfied with participating in soap operas and television dramas, most of which are religious, but he recently stated that he welcomes any role other than religious works, as long as it is within the framework of clean, purposeful art.  
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Satsuki Yukino

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Satsuki Yukino (ゆきの さつき, Yukino Satsuki, previously 雪乃 五月, 雪野 五月), real name Yuki Inoue (井上 由起, Inoue Yuki), born May 25, 1970, is a popular Japanese voice actress from Ōtsu, Shiga. Yukino is also a singer as part of the Hinata Girls. She was a member of Ken Production until 2016. Yukino's most well-known voice roles include Kagome Higurashi in Inuyasha, Mutsumi Otohime in Love Hina, Yoruichi Shihouin in Bleach, Kaname Chidori in all the Full Metal Panic series, Mion and Shion Sonozaki in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Milly Thompson in Trigun and Kira Yukyou in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Description above from the Wikipedia article Satsuki Yukino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .
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Eric Shea

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Eric Shea (born February 14, 1960), is an American actor. A professional child actor, active from age six through seventeen, he is best known for his roles in the blockbuster feature films Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972), as well as his numerous guest-starring appearances throughout the 1960s and 1970s on such popular television series as Batman, Gunsmoke, The Flying Nun, Nanny and the Professor,The Brady Bunch, and Little House on the Prairie, among others. Shea's brothers Christopher and Stephen both voiced Linus van Pelt for the Peanuts TV animation specials in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively.
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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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Philip Granger

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Philip Granger: is the distinguished recipient of a Gemini Award and two Hollywood Drama-Logue Awards. He has garnered 5 Leo Nominations, A Kevin Spacy Artist of Choice winner, Two Union of B.C. Performer Nominations, Los Angeles Web Fest Best Actor Award Winner and The Union of B.C. Performers Best Emerging Performer Award Winner. You would be hard placed not to find an actor, writer, director or producer in Vancouver that hasn’t worked with Phil Granger on one project or another. With a resume that boast over a hundred acting credits, thirty producing and fifteen directing credits, Phil is one of the most established actors in Canada’s film community. He holds an impressive resume that includes titles like AMC’s thriller, The Killing, Once Upon A Time, Lucifer, Arrow, Rogue, Paramount Pictures Monster Truck, Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, Caprica, V, Comforting Skin, Southern Justice, Walter Hill’s Broken Trail starring Robert Duvall, Steven Spielberg’s Taken, and the critically acclaimed film, The Paper Moon Affair, for which Phil was nominated for a Leo Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film. Philip will be seen in a starring role in the much-anticipated film “Juggernaut” slated for release 2017. On stage, Phil has starred in or produced over fifty plays, including the original production, The Final, which he had developed along with Bruce Mckintosh in their own private theater company, The Naked Stage, in Los Angeles. Phil would later receive the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Direction. Phil had begun his acting training almost forty years ago, training under the legendary Stella Adler at Yale University. For the next ten years, Phil would go on to continue his schooling with such pillars of the art like Robert Lewis, George Shadanoff, and Peggy Fury. Phil Granger has been recognized by the Governor General of Canada, Ramon John Hnatyshyn.
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Chandan Anand

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Chandan Anand is an Indian Actor who started his career with Oye Lucky Lucky Oye in 2008. Post that he pursued his academics completing his Engineering from GGSIP University and PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad. Post that he worked with brands like HSBC, Shopclues, Cisco, Pricewaterhouse Coopers only to return to acting. In the year 2016, Chandan Anand started part time acting with web sketches made by ScoopWhoop. Later he auditioned with The Timeliners and sent a self test for The Aam Aadmi Family and got selected. Further, while pursuing his Management Consultant stint, he starred in Season 2 of The Aam Aadmi Family and STAGS. In October 2018, he left his job to pursue acting full time and did a couple of Commercials of Anytime Fitness, Datsun India etc. Shot for FATHERS season 2 and The Aam Aadmi Season 3.
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Garwin Sanford

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​Garwin Sanford (born March 14, 1955 in Truro, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Narim in Stargate SG-1 and Simon Wallis in Stargate Atlantis. In 1994-95, he played Captain Taylor Shields in the historical Adventure series Hawkeye. Sanford has also made guest appearances on such television series as Airwolf (Season 4), MacGyver, Sliders, The Odyssey, The Outer Limits, Earth: Final Conflict, Dark Angel, The 4400, Eureka and Supernatural. He appeared Another Cinderella Story. In 1998 Sanford appeared in Merlin's Apprentice as Lord Weston. He's also an artist, specializing in pen and ink portraiture, and a sculptor.
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Timothy Geithner

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Timothy Franz Geithner (born August 18, 1961) is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014, he has served as president and managing director of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm headquartered in New York City. As President of the New York Fed and Secretary of the Treasury, Geithner had a key role in government efforts to recover from the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the Great Recession. At the New York Fed, Geithner helped manage crises involving Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the American International Group; as Treasury Secretary, he oversaw allocation of $350 billion under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, enacted during the previous administration in response to the subprime mortgage crisis. Geithner also managed the administration's efforts to restructure regulation of the nation's financial system, attempts to spur recovery of the mortgage market and the automobile industry, demands for protectionism, tax reform, and negotiations with foreign governments on global finance issues.
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