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Im Ye-jin

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Im Ye-jin (born Im Ki-hee) is a South Korean actress. As a teenage actress, she reached the peak of her popularity in the 1970s with the "Really Really" film trilogy, which include Never Forget Me, I Am Really Sorry and I Really Really Like You. She is currently active in television. As Im grew older, she remained active on television and the occasional film, in supporting roles as ajummas, aunts or mothers. As if coming full circle, she played one of the adult characters in a 2010 musical theatre adaptation of her early hit I Really Really Like You. Agency: YG entertainment (2014). Married to Choi Chang Wook(1989), TV director and producer at MBC.
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Akiji Kobayashi

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Akiji Kobayashi (小林昭二, Kobayashi Akiji, September 6, 1930 – August 27, 1996), sometimes credited as Shōji Kobayashi, was a Japanese actor. He attended Nihon University College of Art, but withdrew before completing his degree and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1949. He made his film debut with Satsujin Yogisha in 1952. He is best known in the West for portraying the role of Captain Toshio Muramatsu in the 1966-1967 television series, Ultraman. From 1983-84, he appeared in the popular television detective series Seibu Keisatsu. His other notable television role was Tōbei Tachibana ("Oya-san") in several series of the Kamen Rider franchise. He was one of Kon Ichikawa's favorite actors, appearing in 12 Ichikawa films. His final film appearance was Yatsuhaka-mura as Head of a Factory directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1996. He was the official dubbing artist of John Wayne and Richard Crenna. Kobayashi died of lung cancer in Yokohama on August 27, 1996, ten days before his 66th birthday.
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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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Andrew Oliveri

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Oliveri is the founder of Terra Forma Media Group- A collaboration of directors, producers & filmmakers developing narrative films and documentaries. His work as an a actor includes film, television, theater, and voice-over. He wrote and produced the award-winning short 'The 5th' which delves into the underbelly and corruption of small-time professional boxing. The film screened in festivals around the world and is in development as a feature film. A former competitive amateur boxer, he continues to train and volunteers with people of all ages and abilities to help foster healthy choices & self confidence. Before relocating to Los Angeles he founded and ran Oliveri & Company LLC for 10 years where he established 'Our Kids. Our Planet' donating thousands of dollars to environmental & children's wellness programs throughout California. Oliveri is a supporter of Heart of Los Angeles : HeartofLA.org - Which provides under-served Los Angeles youth with exceptional programs in academics, arts and athletics.
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Jeff Bridges

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Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt (1958–60), with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He has won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as an alcoholic singer in the 2009 film Crazy Heart. Bridges also earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000), True Grit (2010), and Hell or High Water (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Bridges, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vladimir Ivaniy

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Vladimir Ivaniy (born July 27, 1983, Moscow) is a Russian actor and voice artist. He graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (RATI-GITIS) in 2005, and in 2022, he completed the third level of training at the School of Voice Acting and Dubbing "VGOLOS." Ivaniy has appeared in both film and television. His film credits include "ZombieTV" (2017), "The Last Knight" (2017), and "Furious" (2017). He has also been credited in the TV series and films "Interns" (2013), "Ekaterina. Flight" (2017), and "Manumission" (2018). Notably, in 2023, he played the role of inmate E-202 in the sci-fi film "1984", which is based on George Orwell's classic novel, and directed by Diana Ringo. Ivaniy's theatrical experience includes performances at the "Orange Sky" Theater, where he portrayed Tikhon in "Storm" and Figaro in "Figaro FOREVER, or Criminal Mother." He also appeared at the "Cultural center Moskvorechye" in the role of Vincent and as an actor in "Orpheus and Eurydice" in 2022.
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Yvonne Arnaud

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Germaine Yvonne Arnaud was a French-born pianist, singer and actress, who was well known for her career in Britain, as well as her native land. After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Arnaud acted in musical comedies. She switched to non-musical comedy and drama around 1920 and was one of the players in the second of the Aldwych farces, A Cuckoo in the Nest, a hit in 1925. She also had dramatic roles and made films in the 1930s and 1940s, and continued to act into the 1950s. She occasionally performed as a pianist later in her career. The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was named in her memory in Guildford, Surrey.
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Julian Lewis Jones

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Julian Lewis Jones is a Welsh actor. He has appeared largely in British television in shows such as "Where the Heart Is" and the Welsh-language drama series "Caerdydd". In 2009, he starred in Clint Eastwood's drama film "Invictus", as the head of Nelson Mandela's bodyguard team. Originally from Anglesey, Julian Lewis Jones currently lives in Nantgaredig, Carmarthenshire. He has appeared on various productions on the Welsh-language channel S4C, including as a presenter of a popular fishing programme "Sgota". In 2010 he appeared in the TV series "The Tudors" as Mr. Roper (the park keeper) in Season 4, Episode 1. Also in 2010 he appeared on British TV series "Spooks" (US title MI-5) as Russian spy Viktor Barenshik in Season 9, Episode 3. In 2012 and 2013, he appeared in the Sky1 drama-comedy series "Stella" as Karl Morris and in an episode of the BBC Two drama-comedy series "Ambassadors". Jones has been cast in an undisclosed role in, Justice League (2017); a film based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name.
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Brion James

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Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known American films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element. James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequently in lower budget horror and action films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack aged 54. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brion James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jessie Matthews

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. After a string of hit stage musicals and films in the mid-1930s, Matthews developed a following in the USA, where she was dubbed "The Dancing Divinity". Her British studio was reluctant to let go of its biggest name, which resulted in offers for her to work in Hollywood being repeatedly rejected. Matthews' first major film role was in Out of the Blue (1931). She was in two films directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932). Matthews enjoyed great success with The Good Companions (1933) directed by Victor Saville, although it was more of an ensemble film and The Man from Toronto (1933). Waltzes from Vienna (1933) was an operetta directed by Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Friday the Thirteenth (1933). She was in the film version of Evergreen (1934) which featured the newly composed song Over My Shoulder which was to go on to become Matthews' personal theme song, later giving its title to her autobiography and to a 21st-century musical stage show of her life. She was in First a Girl (1935) as a cross dresser, then It's Love Again (1936), where she had an American co-star Robert Young. Exhibitors voted her the sixth biggest star in the country that year. Matthews started to appear in films directed by husband Sonnie Hale: Gangway (1937), Head over Heels (1937) and Sailing Along (1938). She did Climbing High (1938) directed by Carol Reed. In 1938 she was the fourth biggest British star. Her warbling voice and round cheeks made her a familiar and much-loved personality to British theatre and film audiences at the beginning of World War II. She was one of many stars in Forever and a Day (1943). Her popularity waned in the 1940s after several years' absence from the screen followed by an unsatisfactory thriller, Candles at Nine (1944). Post-war audiences associated her with a world of hectic pre-war luxury that was now seen as obsolete in austerity-era Britain. In the late 1940s she ran an amateur theatre group at the Theatre Royal in Aldershot. After a few false starts as a straight actress she played Tom Thumb's mother in the 1958 children's film, and during the 1960s found new fame when she took over the leading role of Mary Dale in the BBC's long-running daily radio soap, The Dales, formerly Mrs Dale's Diary. Live theatre and variety shows remained the mainstay of Matthews' work through the 1950s and 1960s, with successful tours of Australia and South Africa interspersed with periods of less glamorous but welcome work in British provincial theatre and pantomimes.
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