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Marlon Wayans
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Marlon Lamont Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work with his brother Shawn Wayans on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–1999) and the comedy films Don't Be a Menace (1996), Scary Movie (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), White Chicks (2004), Little Man (2006), and Dance Flick (2009).
Wayans' other film credits include Above the Rim (1994), The 6th Man (1997), Norbit (2007), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), The Heat (2013), A Haunted House (2013) and its sequel A Haunted House 2 (2014), Naked (2017), Fifty Shades of Black (2016), Sextuplets (2019), and On the Rocks (2020). He also had several dramatic roles, including the psychological drama film Requiem for a Dream (2000).
Wayans partnered with Randy Adams to create What the Funny, an online destination for urban comedy. He created the comedy competition television show Funniest Wins, which aired on TBS in 2014. In 2014, Wayans and his brothers travelled the U.S. with "The Wayans Brothers Tour". In 2017, he co-wrote and starred in the NBC sitcom Marlon, which ran for two seasons.
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Ramin Karimloo
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Ramin Karimloo is an Iranian-Canadian actor and singer, recognized chiefly for his work in London's West End. He has played leading male roles in both of the West End's longest running musicals: The Phantom and Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, and Jean Valjean, Enjolras, and Marius in Les Misérables. He also originated the role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, which continues the story of The Phantom of the Opera. He made his Broadway debut as Valjean in the 2014 revival production of Les Misérables, for which he received a Tony Award nomination.
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Nicolette Scorsese
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Nicolette Scorsese is an American actress.
Scorsese first began her career as a model. Her first television role was in the action series The A-Team in 1985. Her feature film debut came the following year in the B-movie horror thriller Velvet Dreams - When Dreams Turn Deadly. Her best-known role was in the 1989 Christmas classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as lingerie saleswoman Mary.
In the 1990s, she appeared in a number of episodic roles, including New York Cops - NYPD Blue and Emergency Room. She also had a small role in Jennifer Chambers Lynch's thriller Boxing Helena alongside Julian Sands, Bill Paxton and Art Garfunkel.
She is not related to Martin Scorsese.
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Rutina Wesley
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Rutina Wesley (born February 1, 1979) is an American film, stage, and television actress best known for her role as Tara Thornton on the HBO series True Blood and Nova Bordelon on OWN’s Queen Sugar. Wesley was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her father, Ivery Wheeler, is a professional tap dancer, and her mother, Cassandra Wesley, was a showgirl. She attended high school at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts. She studied dance at Simba Studios and the West Las Vegas Arts Center. While at the Las Vegas Academy, Wesley missed some auditions for college training programs. She finally decided to attend the University of Evansville in Indiana. After Wesley earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance in 2001, her grandmother suggested that she do a nursing course to have a practical fallback job, but Wesley insisted on pursuing her artistic education. She enrolled at the Juilliard School in 2001 and graduated in May 2005 (Group 34). Her studies included a summer spent at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
In December 2006, Wesley was featured in David Hare's Broadway play The Vertical Hour. In 2007, Wesley also appeared in The Public Theater production of In Darfur by playwright Winter Miller, co-starring Heather Raffo and Aaron Lohr, among others.
Wesley had a minor role in the 2005 film Hitch, which was edited out in the final cut. In 2007, she made her on-screen debut as the main character in the film How She Move, from British director Ian Iqbal Rashid. The character Raya Green, who enters a step-dancing competition to secure funds for her education, was inspired by Tony Manero, portrayed by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. Prior to the shooting of the film, Wesley underwent a five-week dance rehearsal period. Portraying a woman of Jamaican descent, she also took dialect coaching for the role.
Wesley auditioned for the role Tara Thornton in the HBO series True Blood in 2007 and secured the part after creator Alan Ball chose her because "[she] was the first person who showed [Tara's] vulnerable side"
In January 2015, it was announced that Wesley had been cast in a recurring role on the NBC drama series Hannibal. She portrayed Reba McClane, "a blind woman who enters into a relationship with Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage), and helps soothe his murderous urges—at least at first." Wesley appeared as Liza Warner in the fourth season of Arrow.
In 2016, Wesley was cast as the lead character Nova Bordelon in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Queen Sugar, produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey.
In 2023, Wesley portrayed Maria in the HBO series The Last of Us.
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Jess Weixler
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Jessica "Jess" Weixler (born June 8, 1981) is an American actress, best known to date as the lead in the comedy-horror film Teeth and the comedy The Big Bad Swim. She graduated in 1999 from Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also attended the Walden Theatre Conservatory Program and was in The River City Players acting group and in the Chamber Singers choral group and was voted "most talented", and then attended Juilliard.
She was nominated for a Breakthrough Award at the Gotham Awards in 2007 and won the Special Jury Prize in Dramatic category For a juicy and jaw-dropping performance at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 both for her role in Teeth. She also appeared in the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In January 2009, she was named by New York Magazine as the "New Indie Queen" of the year and one of the fourteen "New Yorkers you need to know." She currently lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, New York.
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Anthony Grasso
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Anthony Robert Grasso is a seasoned actor/director and master teacher who has dedicated over thirty years to working and teaching in an industry that holds his heart. An artist from an early start, Grasso is a true chameleon with a vast range and is always seeking diverse and challenging material to add to his extensive list of moving and gritty roles. An indie award winning film actor (Sundance, Hoboken International Film Festival, Genre Film Festival in Japan, Atlanta Great Southern Short Festival, and LIIFE ), he has also enjoyed a vibrant career in television, appearing in notable recurring roles on Marvel's Jessica Jones and Gotham as well as a co-starring on Blue Bloods,Person Of Interest, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, and Sex & The City, to name a few. Mr. Grasso has appeared in both National and Regional commercials, most notable Director M. Night Shamalayan's AMEX Campaign.
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Ahmed Khalil
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Ahmad Muhammad Ibraheem Khaleel joined “Al-habeeb” Institute after finishing his studies at the High Institute of Cinema in 1965.
Played stage roles like ”Khaadem sayyedayn i.e. A servant for two masters”, “Yasseen we Baheyya i.e. Yasseen and Baheyya” and “Hobb taht al-heraassa i.e. An under guard love”.
In 1970’s, Khaleel travelled to a Gulf country and did not show as an actor then returned heavily to TV in “Yamout al-zammar i.e. Piper dies”, “Hadeeth al-sabaah wal-massaa i.e. Morning and night talk”, “Zaman Alaa al-Deen i.e. The time of Alaa al-Deen”, “Bawwaabet al-Halawaany i.e. Halawaany’s gate” and “Al-forsaan i.e. The knights”.
Participated in Haany Lasheen’s film “Al-aragoz i.e. The puppeteer” along with superstar Omar Sharif and among his important roles in cinema; Shaady Abdul Salaam’s “Al-momiaa i.e. The mummy”, Aatef al-Tayyeb’s “Katibat al-e’daam i.e. Execution troop” & “Dedd al-hokouma i.e. Anti-government” and Muhammad Faadel’s “Naaser 56” and “Kawkab al-shark i.e. Orient Star”.
Ahmad Khaleel played different successful roles in TV yet he did not make the same success in cinema.
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Makoto Shinkai
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Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto; born February 9, 1973), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto), is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist. A founder of CoMix Wave Films, he is known for his anime feature films enriched with visually-appealing animation and romantic stories depicting teenagers and high school students.
Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) She and Her Cat in 1999. Shinkai then released the science fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002 as his first feature with CoMix Wave, followed by his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days in 2004.
Shinkai's films have consistently received highly positive reviews from both critics and audiences, and he is considered to be one of Japan's most commercially successful filmmakers. His three most recent films Your Name in 2016, Weathering with You in 2019, and Suzume in 2022, collectively known as "Disaster trilogy", are all among the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time, both in Japan and worldwide at the time of their release.
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Gihan El Shamashergy
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Gihan El Shamashergy is an Egyptian actress, born on May 29. At the beginning of her artistic career, she was interested in handicrafts and specialized in jewelry design and launched her own brand after studying English literature at the university. She also held workshops for making jewelry for the women of the Nubian island of Hessa in Aswan. She also studied contemporary dance, where she presented performances on the American University of Cairo stage. She began her dramatic career in the series Forgetfulness Game, after which she presented the character of Nancy in the fifth season of the series Girls' Tales.
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Angelines Fernández
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Angelines Fernández was born in Madrid, Spain in 1922. During the Spanish Civil War she was supportive the Republicans, and afterwards the Spanish Maquis. As a result of her support of the Spanish Maquis, she fled Spain in 1947 and after a brief time in Cuba she settled in Mexico. She began acting in films in the mid-1950s and television by the end of the decade. She gained her greatest fame playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" on the Mexican sitcom "El Chavo del Ocho." Fernández died from lung cancer in 1994.
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