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Awkwafina

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Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, rapper, and comedian who rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). Her second album, In Fina We Trust, was released in 2018. She played supporting roles in the comedy films Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). Awkwafina played a leading role in the comedy-drama film The Farewell (2019), for which she received critical acclaim and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe in any lead actress film category, and additionally won the Satellite Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress. Awkwafina is co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020–present), in which she stars as a fictionalized version of herself. She then appeared in Swan Song (2021), voiced Courtney in The Angry Birds Movie 2, Sisu in Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Ms. Tarantula in The Bad Guys (2022), and portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
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Sulev Luik

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Sulev Luik (April 16, 1954, in Kilingi-Nõmme – June 29, 1997, in Tallinn) was an Estonian actor. In 1976 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. 1976-1988 he worked at Noorsooteater and since 1988 at Estonian Drama Theatre. Besides theatrical roles he played also in over 30 films. Luik was murdered in Kadriorg Park near his home on 29 June 1997, aged 43. Police arrested three homeless individuals, two men and a woman, in connection with the murder between 17 and 18 August of that year. According to the criminal investigators, the motive for the murder was a quarrel while all four individuals, including Luik, were drinking alcohol in the park. The three individuals charged with Luik's murder were later sentenced to between eight and twelve years in prison. Luik was buried at Tallinn's Forest Cemetery.
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Daniel Vives

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Alejandra Bogue Gómez, (Mexico City, 1965) is a Mexican trans woman who is anactress, Comedian, TV Host, and producer. Her career in the stardom began in the early 1980s, as a dancer in various nightclubs in Mexico City and Acapulco. In the early 90's makes her debut in the Teatro Universitario with the stage play Baal of Bertolt Brecht, directed by Jose Luis Cruz. In 1993 she won the award as female revelation by the Mexican Association of Theatre Critics (AMCT). Bogue continued in the stage plays for the rest of the decade of the 90's, making her first star role between 1999 and 2000, but by misfortune her project did not succeed expected. She starred with Mexican stars like Patricia Reyes Spindola, Adriana Roel and Darío T. Pie among others. She then returned to the nightclub at the hands of the transvestite singers Las Hermanas Vampiro, as her chorist. Bogue met the Mexican TV host, actor and journalist Horacio Villalobos in 2001 through the transgender singer and actor Daniel Vives "Ego". In 2001 she began to collaborate with Villalobos in his television program Valvula de Escape on the music channelTelehit.
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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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Gulliver McGrath

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Gulliver William McGrath (born August 15, 1998) is an Australian child actor. McGrath played Charlie in the Australian crime series Rush. He also starred as the title character in the Melbourne Theatre Company production Poor Boy alongside Guy Pearce and Abi Tucker. Recently, McGrath portrayed David Collins in the 2012 feature film Dark Shadows, which earned him a 2013 Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Young Actor in a Feature Film. He portrayed Tad Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). Gulliver will be playing the teenage version of Jerry Hickfang in "The Voices". The Voices is currently filming. He was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. He then moved to Birmingham, U.K, and was raised there. His mother, Heidi Chapman, is a neuroscientist, and his father, Craig, is an anaesthetist. He is the older brother of actors Zen and Winta McGrath.
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Walt Simonson

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Walter 'Walt' Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist, won numerous awards. His first professional comic book work was producing war stories for DC Comics and other publishers. He also did a number of illustrations for the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. edition of The Hobbit. Walt Simonson is best known for his work on Marvel Comics titles in the 1980s and 1990s such as The Mighty Thor and X-Factor. He wrote and illustrated Thor for nine years, famously transformed Thor into a frog for three issues, also introducing the popular supporting character Beta Ray Bill (1983-1987). He has also worked on other Marvel titles such as Fantastic Four, on DC Comics books including Detective Comics, Manhunter, Metal Men and Orion (2000-2002), and on licensed properties such as Star Wars, Alien, Battlestar Galactica and Robocop vs. Terminator. In addition to his work for both Marvel and DC, Simonson has also generated a considerable body of creator-owned work, like Ragnarök and Star-Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis. He is married to comics writer Louise Simonson, with whom he collaborated on X-Factor from 1988 to 1989. The couple made a cameo appearance in the Thor feature film (2011).
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Mary Rachel Dudley

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Mary Rachel Quinn was born the eighth of eight children to Olive Trudeau and John Michael Quinn on the Mystic River in Chelsea, Massachusetts. She always had a captive and supportive audience in her brothers and sisters as the acting seed was planted. Mary Rachel's most proud accomplishments, her three children, Devin, Madison & Quinn. Beyond that, she found her first supporting roles in Baitshop, as Bill Engvall's wife and in Dear John as Amanda Seyfried's mother. Her recent work includes the Netflix series Outer Banks, Rob Reiner's LBJ with Woody Harrelson, Trial by Fire with Laura Dern and AMC's Fear the Walking Dead.
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Michael Wong

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Michael Fitzgerald Wong aka Wong Man-Tak (born in Troy, New York, 16 April 1965) is a Chinese-American and a Hong Kong based actor, director, singer and producer. He is fluent in English, but not so in Chinese, which is reflected in many of the characters he has portrayed. His most notable film is the 1998 film Beast Cops which won a Hong Kong Film Award with Wong in the lead role. As of 2004, he has appeared in over fifty films in twenty-one years, often in very minor roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Wong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Thomas Marcum

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Thomas Marcum was born in Bell County, Kentucky. His father was a coal miner and his mother a homemaker. Thomas is also the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. He has over 25 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites, and is certified in Dreamweaver. He is a nature and wildlife enthusiast with many years of experience hunting, fishing and hiking. He's also a trained wild land firefighter, and a published photographer, Author, Film maker and poet. He also appears at numerous events and on various radio and podcast.
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Ingkarat Damrongsakkul

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Ingkarat Damrongsakkul, nicknamed Ryu, is a Thai actor. He is currently studying at Saint Gabriel's School. He began his acting career as a child star at the age of 9. At age 12, he caught his big break in acting when he starred in the movie "How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)" (2015) for which he won Best Supporting Actor in the prestigious Suphannahong National Film Awards/Thailand National Film Association Awards (2015). This big break was followed by main roles in the series "Dead Time Stories" (2015), "GGEZ" (2018), and "Quarantine Stories" (2020).
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