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Tammareddy Bharadwaja

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Tammreddy Bharadwaja is an Indian film producer and director. He is one of the successful Telugu film producers. He is the son of veteran producer Tammareddy Krishna Murthy. Tammareddy did his schooling in Wesley High School, Secunderabad. He later did his B.E. in the College of Engineering, Osmania University. He pursued a career as a Civil Engineer in Andhra Pradesh's irrigation department and also had a brief stint at Hyderabad municipal corporation. He then stepped into film industry in 1979 as a producer and director.
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Jiani Wu

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Wu Jiani is a actress from Shanghai. Her Dramas include: Boy & Girl (CCTV, 2003), 101st Proposal (BTV, 2004), Princess Sheng Ping (PPTV, 2005), The Legend of Lu Xiao Feng (CCTV-6, 2007), Shao Nian Yang Jia Jiang (TTV, 2006), The Legend and The Hero (2007), Swan Dive for Love (BTV-1, 2015), Royal Sister Returns (CCTV, 2017), Waiting For You In The Future (iQiyi, 2019) or Love a Lifetime (iQiyi, 2020). In February 2006, Wu Jiani and Taiwanese actor Ma Jingtao were in love for a long time while filming the TV series "Feng Ming Qishan". They fell in love in April of the same year and got engaged in Shanghai on June 26. On February 14, 2007, on Valentine's Day and also Ma Jingtao’s birthday, Wu Jiani and Ma Jingtao registered their marriage in Shanghai. Wu Jiani is Ma Jingtao’s second wife, younger than Ma Jingtao, at this time she is pregnant. At noon on June 6, Wu Jiani gave birth to a son. On February 2, 2009, Wu Jiani gave birth to her second son. In November 2015, Ma Jingtao and Wu Jiani had a make-up wedding on the show "I'm Not a Star". The couple kissed sweetly, hugged and wept. Two handsome sons also became little flower girls, and a happy family. On March 30, 2017, Ma Jingtao posted a long article on Weibo entitled "Ten Years of Foolish Public Dream", in which he announced the end of her 10-year marriage and divorced Wu Jiani.
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Charlize Theron

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Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is a South African-American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an Oscar in an acting category. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Old Guard (2020) and F9 (2021). She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018), and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the last. Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019). Theron became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. She has been honoured with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlize Theron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vanessa Stacey

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vanessa Stacey (born 7 August 1979) is a New Zealand film, television and stage actress as well as a musician, director, producer playwright and comedian. Well known as Alice in the New Zealand cult science fiction series The Tribe and as Brenda Blue in the British children's television show Jay Jay the Jet Plane, she also had roles in the first and third parts of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King), Outrageous Fortune, Out of the Blue, Woodville, and How to Murder Wife.
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David Cheung

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David Cheung is a Hong Kong Chinese Action Actor, Martial Artist and Stunt Performer based in London United Kingdom. His passion for performance led him to study at the prestigious Identity School Of Acting known for producing stars such as John Boyega. David Cheung is currently appearing in Johnny Depp's Mortdecai, Joey Ansah's Street Fighter Resurrection, the award winning film Arene, with Taylor Lautner in the BBC TV series Cuckoo , the German/Chinese co-production Out Of Control with Cecilia Cheung, and the BBC TV series Snatch based on the Guy Richie film.
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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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Barbara Edwards

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Gorgeous, shapely and sensuous brunette knockout Barbara Edwards was born on June 26, 1960 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Edwards was a member of the Sigmi Chi Sorority at the University of Southern California. Barbara was the Playmate of the Month in the September, 1983 issue of "Playboy". She was named Playmate of the Year in 1984. Edwards went on to appear in a bunch of "Playboy" videos and special edition publications. Moreover, Barbara Edwards embarked on a brief acting career in the 80s: She not only made a guest appearance on the Matt Houston (1982) episode, Matt Houston: The Bikini Murders (1984), but also had sizable roles in the low-budget B movies, Malibu Express (1985), Terminal Entry (1987) and Another Chance (1989).
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Carlos Reygadas

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Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker. Influenced by existentialist art and philosophy, Reygadas' movies feature spiritual journeys into the inner worlds of his main characters, through which themes of love, suffering, death, and life's meaning are explored. Reygadas has been described as "the one-man third wave of Mexican cinema"; his works are generally considered art films, and are known for their expressionistic cinematography, long takes, and emotionally charged stories. Reygadas first became fascinated with cinema in 1987, upon watching the works of the acclaimed Soviet/Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who had died the previous year. In 1997, he entered a film competition in Belgium with his first short film, Maxhumain.
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Vittorio Taviani

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Paolo Taviani (born 8 November 1931) and Vittorio Taviani (20 September 1929 – 15 April 2018), collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on film productions. At the Cannes Film Festival, the Taviani brothers won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre Padrone in 1977 and the Grand Prix du Jury for La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982). In 2012 they won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with Caesar Must Die. Vittorio Taviani died on 15 April 2018 at the age of 88. Both born in San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy, the Taviani brothers began their careers as journalists. In 1960 they came to the world of cinema, directing with Joris Ivens the documentary L'Italia non è un paese povero (Italy is not a poor country). They went on to direct two films with Valentino Orsini, Un uomo da bruciare (A Man to Burn) (1962) and I fuorilegge del matrimonio (Outlaws of Marriage) (1963). Their first autonomous film was I sovversivi (The Subversives, 1967), with which they anticipated the events of 1968. With actor Gian Maria Volonté they gained attention with Sotto il segno dello scorpione (Under the Sign of Scorpio, (1969) where one can see the echoes of Brecht, Pasolini, and Godard. In 1971, they co-signed the media campaign against Milan's police commissioner Luigi Calabresi, published in the magazine L'espresso. The revolutionary theme is present both in San Michele aveva un gallo (1971), an adaptation of Tolstoy's novel The Divine and the Human, a film greatly appreciated by critics, and in the film Allonsanfan (1974), in which Marcello Mastroianni has a role as an ex-revolutionary who has served a long term in prison and now views his idealistic youth in a much more realistic light, and nevertheless gets entangled in a new attempt in which he no longer believes. Their next film Padre Padrone (1977) (Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), taken from a novel by Gavino Ledda, speaks of the struggle of a Sardinian shepherd against the cruel rules of his patriarchal society. In Il prato (1979) there are nonrealistic echoes, while La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982) narrates, in a fairy-tale tone, a marginal event in the days before the end of World War II, in Tuscany, as seen through the eyes of some village people. The film was awarded the Special Jury Award in Cannes. Kaos (1984)—another literary adaptation—is a poignantly beautiful and poetical film in episodes, taken from Luigi Pirandello's Short Stories for a year. In Il sole anche di notte (1990) the Taviani brothers transposed in 18th century Naples the story from Tolstoy's Father Sergius. From then onwards, the Tavianis' inspiration proved faltering. Successes like Le affinità elettive, (1996, from Goethe) and an attempt to woo the international audiences like Good morning Babilonia, (1987), on the pioneers of cinema history, alternate with lesser films like Fiorile (1993) and Tu ridi (1996), inspired by the characters and short stories of Pirandello. ... Source: Article "Paolo and Vittorio Taviani" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Daniël Boissevain

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Daniël Boissevain (born 29 june 1969, Amsterdam) is a Dutch theater, television and film actor and singer. He is best known from leading roles in Dutch televisionseries All Stars, Meiden van de Wit, and Gooische Vrouwen. He is the father of actor Robin Boissevain. Description above is a translated excerpt of Wikipedia (nl) article Daniël Boissevain. (Wikipedia (nl) the free online encyclopedia). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia (nl) article Daniël Boissevain Wikipedia (nl).
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