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Hazel McBride
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Hazel McBride (born 24 March 1949) is a British actress known for her role as Madeleine Duclos in the BBC television drama series Secret Army.
McBride became involved in amateur dramatics while reading history at Bristol University and her first professional engagement was working in a children's theatre company in Glasgow before her work for repertory theatres around the UK.
With a solid list of theatre credits including runs in the West End and Bristol Old Vic, McBride began to make appearances in television dramas in the 1970s before gaining the role of Madeleine in Secret Army, appearing in its second and third series in 1978 and 1979.
After the series ended its run, McBride continued her acting career mostly in theatre and television. She was interviewed about her time on Secret Army for the special features of the third series DVD release in 2004.
As of 2010, she is the director of School English Scene, a theatre company created to support English teaching in British secondary schools. In this capacity, she has written, produced, and directed.
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Greg Aiello
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Greg Aiello was born to be in the wild. Greg grew up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California near Yosemite National Park. At an early age, he and his older brother, Jeff (producer of Motion) ventured into the High Sierra to explore, backpack, fish and climb.
At 21, Greg went to work in the television industry as writer/producer for local broadcast affiliates around the country including WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida and KPHO in Phoenix. But his love for the mountains brought him back to California where he left the TV business behind to become a professional mountain guide specializing in long-duration trips on the famous John Muir Trail which runs from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney in the southern range of the Sierra.
As an accomplished mountaineer, Greg's experience in the backcountry field-craft is deep. In addition to his extensive time in California's mountains, Greg has summited Mt. Aconcogua in Argentina, climbed in the southern Alps of New Zealand, ventured through Australia's outback, explored the jungles of Costa Rica and spent 10 days on the Galapogos Islands in the Pacific.
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Jake Benson
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Jake Benson has been working in the Arts for over 10 years. As an actor, he has appeared in various theatre and screen productions including: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Greenside, Edinburgh); Years and Years (BBC/HBO); Iqbal Khan’s Of Mice and Men (Birmingham REP/Leeds Playhouse), the BAFTA qualifying film, First Sight, and most recently, Trainspotting. Alongside this, he has provided his voice for the LEGO video game franchise; The King’s Man; and podcasts Shadows at the Door; and The NoSleep Podcast.
As a writer, Jake debuted his first play How to (Politely) Dispose of One’s Mother in 2015 to a sell-out run, followed by an industry reading in London in 2023, it is now in development as a co-production with some of the UK’s major theatres. In 2021, he founded his own production company, Smoke & Shadow Productions. As of 2024, the company has five productions in development stages, 2 plays, 2 audio dramas and a short film, all with bases around the globe. Most recently, Jake is developing a new musical production which has been commissioned for development with Birmingham REP theatre. He is a frequent collaborator with Music Producer and Composer, Will Fox, the creator of Shadows at the Door, Mark Nixon, and award-winning filmmaker, Andrew McGee.
Jake is a guitarist, frequently playing in London (playing several gigs at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios) and across the UK. He is a member of the Kiln Theatre Collective, MESSY Collective and is based between Birmingham and London. He is also multi-lingual speaking English, German and French.
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Karen Gillan
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Karen Sheila Gillan (/ˈɡɪlən/; born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress and filmmaker. She gained recognition for her work in British film and television, particularly for playing Amy Pond, a primary companion to the Eleventh Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (2010–2013). Her early film roles include the thriller Outcast (2010) and the romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending (2013). She also worked on the stage in Britain, appearing in John Osborne's play Inadmissible Evidence (2011).
Gillan transitioned to Hollywood, starring in the horror film Oculus (2013) and playing the lead in the ABC sitcom Selfie (2014). She achieved stardom for portraying Nebula in several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe(2014–2023), which are among the highest-grossing films of all time, and Ruby Roundhouse in the fantasy films Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). She also wrote and directed the drama film The Party's Just Beginning (2018), which she starred in. She has starred in the comedy film Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), the thriller film Dual (2022), the coming-of-age film Late Bloomers (2023), and returned to British television with the series Douglas Is Cancelled (2024).
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Hasna El Becharia
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Hasna El Becharia (in Arabic حسناء البشارية), born June 28, 1950 in Béchar (Algeria) and died in the same city on May 1, 2024, is an Algerian singer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in diwane music and guembri player. She has established herself as a monument of this music.
Born Hasniat Hosni, she is the daughter of one of the masters of the diwan from Erfoud (southeast of Morocco) and an Algerian mother from Béchar. In 1972, she formed a group of four with her friends. They first distinguished themselves in the wedding celebrations in Béchar which they hosted for the women.
In 1976, they were the stars of a huge concert organized in Béchar by the National Union of Algerian Women (UNFA). In January 1999, Hasna arrived in Paris, following an invitation from Cabaret Sauvage as part of the Femmes d'Algérie festival.
Hasna El Becharia gained recognition throughout the South-West of Algeria, in an exclusively male universe, in the town of Béchar which contains some of the secrets of desert blues. Hasna has long played only for her own people, refusing to export her music beyond her “natural” borders. There was no question of even recording a record for fear of distorting the funds of this fertile tradition.
Until she arrived in Paris in 1999, invited as part of the Femmes d'Algérie festival: the singer coupled with an astonishing guitarist immediately delighted the audience. This is the beginning of a new story which will soon establish it on international stages, following the recording of a first album supervised by guitarist Camel Zekri. On the program for the woman nicknamed the rocker of the desert: trance music enhanced with blues accents, rhythms that twist and turn...
Ten years later, the heiress signed a second and highly anticipated album, Smaa Smaa, engraved in the stones of her childhood: an old ksar, these ancient granaries which dot the desert, where the memory of the sands is preserved. The ideal place to summon, in a calm voice, the saints who irrigate each of his compositions, to evoke this universe at the limits of the sacred and the profane. Like a constantly renewed revelation.
After several years in France, Hasna returned to Bechar and continued to perform internationally, notably in Canada in 2013 and 2014, where she recorded an EP at the beginning of 2020: Les Couleurs Du Sahara, before then performing dates in Algeria .
In 2022, director Sara Nacer dedicated a multi-award-winning feature documentary portrait film to her entitled “La Rockeuse Du Désert” (2022). Guest of honor at the Atri Desert Experience, the first electronic music festival in the dunes of Taghit, Hasna El Becharia sets the scene on fire with her musical training from Béchar and marks the undeniable return of the Desert Rocker.
Selective discography: Djazaïr Johara (Label Bleu, 2001), Smaa Smaa (2010), Les Couleurs Du Sahara (2020).
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Ashtine Olviga
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Ashtine Olviga (born May 19, 1999) is a Filipino actress and singer widely recognized as a breakout star of her generation. Initially rising to prominence in the P-pop music scene, she was a member of several groups under Viva Records, including UGG, Ppop Generation, and LITZ, before making a successful transition to film and television. Her cinematic journey includes supporting roles in Miss Granny (2018), The Ship Show (2023), and the 2024 films Sunny and Road Trip. Olviga reached a career turning point in 2025 with her breakthrough lead role as Jay-jay in the hit Viva One series Ang Mutya ng Section E, which established her popular on-screen partnership with Andres Muhlach. This success was quickly followed by her first lead film role in the 2025 blockbuster Minamahal: 100 Bulaklak Para Kay Luna. By 2026, she has established herself as a versatile dramatic actress, earning critical acclaim and a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 2025/2026 Metro Manila Film Festival for her portrayal of activist Agnes Magtibay in the crime drama Manila's Finest, directed by Raymond Red.
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Ala Nunu
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Polish animation director currently based in Portugal. She has experience in directing and art directing for commercial and artistic projects including TV series, social campaigns, music videos and short films. Her portfolio includes working for Adult Swim Toonami, Universal Studios and Frank Sinatra Estate, The Atlantic or the On Being Project. Her film Ahead has been screened at festivals like Animafest Zagreb, Bucheon International Animation Festival, Festival Anima in Brussels and her latest film Telsche, co-directed with Sophie Colfer premiered in Annecy, was screened at festivals like Tokyo Anime Awards and was awarded inter alia at the Cinanima festival for best Sound Design. She regularly teaches at the University of Algarve in Portugal and PJWSTK in Warsaw, Poland. She is also a co-founder of COLA international production cooperative, where she helps bring to life a wide variety of projects from short films to VR experiences. As an animator, Nunu has recently worked on films such as the Oscar nominated Ice Merchants or the multi awarded Slow Light.
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Sara Bernstein
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Sara Bernstein is an award-winning producer and Executive Vice President at Imagine Documentaries the newly launched documentary division of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's, Imagine Entertainment. Recent feature films she has executive produced include Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2019) and Dads (2019) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Ron Howard-directed documentary film, Rebuilding Paradise (2020), for National Geographic Films, D.Wade: Life Unexpected (2020) for ESPN Films and the documentary feature film on legendary chef Julia Child, Julia (2021) directed by Academy Award nominees Julie Cohen and Betsy West.
Prior to joining Imagine, Bernstein was Senior Vice President, HBO Documentary Films over seeing nonfiction development and production for HBO. Credits include Academy Award-winner Citizenfour (2014), Academy Award-winner Music by Prudence (2010), Academy Award nominees Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008), Iraq In Fragments (2006), The Children of Leningradsky (2005), Poster Girl (2010). Emmy-nominated The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), Emmy-nominated The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019), Judd Apatow's Emmy-winning The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018), Emmy winners Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015), White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012). Emmy-nominated The Case Against 8 (2014), Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures (2016), Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker's Emmy-nominated Unlocking The Cage (2016); Beware the Slenderman (2016), I Love You Now Die (2019) and Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017).
Bernstein has garnered 10 Emmy wins, 29 Emmy nominations and 11 Peabody Awards. Documentaries she has supervised have garnered 2 Oscars and 13 Oscar nominations.
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Mohamed Fellag
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Mohand Fellag (in Arabic محمد فلاق; in Berber ⴼⴻⵍⵍⴰⴳ), known as Mohamed Fellag or simply "Fellag" or sometimes Mohamed Saïd Fellag, is an Algerian actor, humorist and writer, born March 31, 1950 in Azeffoun in Algeria. Mohamed Fellag (ⴼⴻⵍⵍⴰⴳ in Tifinagh) was born in Azeffoun in Kabylia. He only spoke Kabyle until the family moved to Algiers when he was eight years old. He then learned Algerian Arabic and French.
His father, an FLN activist during the war, was killed in a car accident in 1965 during a mission (he was 15). He studied theater at the National Institute of Dramatic and Choreographic Art of Algiers, located in Bordj el Kiffan, from 1968 to 1972. He left the National Theater and founded his company with former students. They write texts, go on tour, play in prisons, factories, etc. He emigrated to Quebec in 1978, then to Paris in 1982, living from small jobs. In September 1985, he returned to Algeria and was hired by the Algerian National Theater to perform "The Art of Comedy" by Eduardo De Filippo. He worked as an actor and director, and began writing his texts, including his first show, "Les Aventures de Tchop" in 1986. He became a star thanks to performances mixing Berber, Arabic and French.
In 1991, "Babor Australia" was created in Kabyle, then performed in Algerian Arabic in Paris. At the Théâtre de l'Europe in 1992, it was performed alternately in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. "Babor Australia", updated to "A boat for Australia" in 2002, is based on a rumor, evoking the imminent arrival in Algiers of an Australian boat supposed to take unemployed people to provide them with employment and accommodation there, which caused a queue in front of the Australian embassy.
He directed the Béjaïa theater for a while in 1992-939.
The Algerian Civil War broke out, Fellag went on tour in 1994 with "Babor Australia", in Algeria then in Tunisia. At the end of the year, he settled in Tunis where he created "Delirium". In 1995, he went into exile in Paris. He writes there "Djurdjurassique Bled", which is represented alternately in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. Then, he adapted it into French and this first show in French, created in December 1997, earned him the 1997-1998 Critics' Union Prize, theatrical revelation of the year.
Fellag lived with the actress Marianne Épin, who died on December 9, 2017, who staged several of his last shows.
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Jona Oberski
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Jona Eliëser Joseph Oberski (20 March 1938) is a Dutch Holocaust survivor.
A year before his birth, his Jewish parents fled Nazi Germany, settling in Amsterdam. However, after WWII broke out, the Netherlands were soon occupied, and the Oberskis were interned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp: Jona survived, unlike both his parents.
In 1962, he started to work for the National Institute for Subatomic Physics in Amsterdam. Oberski is married, having three children. He wrote several memoirs about his experience in the Holocaust, including 'Childhood' (1978), dedicated to his foster parents.
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