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Kim Ok-vin
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Kim Ok-vin (born December 29, 1986), also known as Kim Ok-bin, is a South Korean actress. Kim made her debut in an online beauty contest in 2004, and began her acting career with a role in 2005 film Voice. Subsequent appearances include the television drama series Over the Rainbow and films such as Dasepo Naughty Girls and The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan. Kim has received several award nominations, and won Best Actress at the 2009 Sitges Film Festival for her role in Thirst.
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Brian Deacon
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Brian Deacon (born 13 February 1949) is a British actor. Born in Oxford, he trained at the Oxford Youth Theatre. He appeared with his brother Eric Deacon in the Peter Greenaway film, A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), as Heumac in The Feathered Serpent (1976, 1978) and as Frank Miles in the TV series Lillie in 1978.
He has been married twice: first time to Rula Lenska (1977–1987), with whom he had a daughter Lara Deacon, and the second time to Natalie Bloch (1998 to present).
Deacon's major claim to fame is that in 1979 he starred in the title role of the film Jesus. This film was made by an evangelical organization, the Jesus Film Project.
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Mehran Modiri
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Mehran Modiri is an actor, producer, and director who was born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran. He started his activity from the radio and drew the audience's attention in Daruish Kardan's "Norouz 72" comedy."Visit" by Mohammadreza Honarmand, was his first work in the cinema as an actor. He has been featured in Saeid Alamzadeh's "Tokyo Non-Stop ", "Tambourine" by Parisa Bakhtavar, and "Wooden Bridge" by Mehdi Karampour. He also released his first cinema movie, "At 5 o'clock" movie. He directed series such as "Pavarchin", "Garden of Mozaffar", "Shabhaye Barare" and "Man of Many Faces".
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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. He 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 October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Nan Sheng
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On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2012, Nan Sheng uploaded a series of retro photos of herself on Douban.com. With a sweet childlike face, dressed as a student from the Republic of China, wearing two cute braids, she was so cute and pure and looked like Xu Ruoxuan, an innocent girl who has become a new generation of otaku goddess. In October 2013, he published a collection of semi-autobiographical prose essays "Not for Encounter, Only for a Distance". In December, he made his debut in the TV series "Cocoon Town"
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Joon Park
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Park Joon-Hyung (aka Joon Park) is a Korean-American singer, actor, and rapper in the Korean pop group G.O.D.. He was born on July 20 1969 and graduated from La Quinta High School in Westminster, California and attended California State University, Long Beach. After attending college in the field of graphic design, he was discovered in Hollywood by a casting agent for a Janet Jackson video which would lead to his first television appearance. After moving to Seoul, South Korea to pursue a career in pop music, Joon Park began recruiting friends and family to form his group, G.O.D.(Groove Over Dose) before breaking through into television success by way of commercial acting.
His first television role on the SBS sitcom “Soon Poon San Boo In Kua” as Song Hye Gyo’s boyfriend garnered him significant popularity with a Korean audience for his Eurasian appearance and mannerisms. Joon continued to pursue music, despite his television success and finalized his band G.O.D. in 1998 with the release of their first album and second albums. The success of these albums led to a Korean reality show based on the five band members and an infant, which quickly achieved great success on MBC. With the success of G.O.D., Joon landed numerous endorsement deals before the band split apart to pursue solo careers and complete mandatory military service.
Joon Park returned to Los Angeles to pursue acting, leading to several noteable cameos and a television role in the planned Friday Night Light’s spin-off webseries that will feature cross overs with NBC’s Parenthood.
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Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
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Sammo Kam-Bo Hung (Chinese: 洪金寶, born Hung Kam-Bo, 7 January 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, producer and director, known for his work in many kung fu films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a fight choreographer for, amongst others, Jackie Chan, King Hu, and John Woo. Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the vampire-like Jiang Shi genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong Kong film industry, by casting them in the films he produced, or giving them roles in the production crew. In East Asia, it is common for people to address their elders or influential people with familial nouns as a sign of familiarity and respect. Jackie Chan, for example, is often addressed as "Dai Goh", meaning Big Brother. Hung was also known as "Dai Goh", until the filming of Project A, which featured both actors. As Hung was the eldest of the kung fu "brothers", and the first to make a mark on the industry, he was given the nickname "Dai Goh Dai", meaning, Big, Big Brother or Biggest Big Brother.
Was a member of the"Seven Little Fortunes" in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School.
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Mehrdad Niknam
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Mehrdad Niknam is an actor and TV author, who was born in 1976 in Tehran, Iran. Niknam started his professional career by writing a series called "How Much Time Do You Have?" Made by Manuchehr Safarkhani. He also worked as the author of the "Factor Eight" series directed by Reza Mirkarimi. Niknam recently has cooperated as an author in "Recovery" series made by with Bahadur Asadi. Mehrdad Niknam has also been featured in the telefilm of "Bitter Soup" as an actor and writer.
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Frederic Forrest
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Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. (December 23, 1936 – June 23, 2023) was an American actor. A figure of the New Hollywood movement, Forrest was best known for his collaborations with director Francis Ford Coppola, playing prominent roles in The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), One from the Heart (1982), and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988). He was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Huston Dyer in the musical drama The Rose (1979).
Forrest came to public attention for his performance in When the Legends Die (1972), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. His other film credits include The Missouri Breaks (1976), Hammett (1982), Valley Girl (1983), The Two Jakes (1990), Falling Down (1993), and All the King's Men (2006), along with the television series 21 Jump Street, Lonesome Dove, and Die Kinder.
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Maggie Kiley
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Maggie Kiley is an award-winning director and executive producer. She directed the pilots and first block episodes for Dr. Death, Katy Keene, Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story and Breathe. Kiley started her career as an actress and later transitioned to writing and directing micro budget indies including her debut feature Some Boys Don't Leave (2009). Prior to directing pilots, Kiley directed many hours of television dramas for such prolific artists as Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and Lauren LeFranc among many others.
An alumna of AFI's DWW, Film Independent's Directing Lab and several diversity programs, Kiley was signed to an exclusive overall deal at Warner Brothers Television.
She is married to composer/songwriter Matthew Puckett. They have two children.
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