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Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
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Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West End production of the musical Chicago while at school. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her acting debut was in a minor role in the television series The Eagle in 2005. She followed this by playing Roxie Hart in a Copenhagen production of Chicago, and later on the West End. Sørensen's breakthrough role was as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in the television political drama Borgen (2010–2013).
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Samy Naceri
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Samy Naceri was born on July 2, 1961 in Paris, France as Saïd Naceri. He is an actor and producer, known for Taxi (1998), Taxi Taxi (2000) and Léon - Der Profi (1994). He has been married to Marie Guillard since 2005. His father Djilali comes from Algeria and his mother Jacqueline from Normandy. Samy grew up in modest circumstances with seven siblings. An older brother died of complications from drug use. Naceris father left the family when he was 16 years old.In his early twenties he was involved in a traffic accident, which left permanent scars on the left side of the face.
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Esmail Koushan
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Esmail Koushan (Persian: اسماعیل کوشان) (1917-1981) was an Iranian film director who was one of the pioneering figures of Persian cinema. He was one of the first active figures in the Second Filmmaking Period (post 1945) there he has been called "the father of the Iranian film industry" by Georges Sadoul.
Koushan, who studied film-making in Germany at Universum Film Aktienge-Sellschafe (UFA), began by dubbing foreign-language films into Persian. He then set up the Mitrafilm company, which produced his first feature film in 1948, The Storm of Life. He directed more than 20 and produced more than 50 movies during the years. He died in 1981.
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James Soares-Correia
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James is a Montreal-born actor who graduated from Dawson College's professional theatre program. He studied Improv at Theatre ste Catherine for two years. His most recent appearance on stage was as Hamlet in Bard in the Park, before appearing as Iago in Othello. He also starred in Raise the Stakes Theatre's production of True West as Austin and subsequently their production of Salt Water Moon, as Jacob Mercer. His latest role is playing the maverick chemist 'Supplies' in the feature film Belushi's Toilet (2018).
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Matthew Sauvé
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Matthew Sauvé is an international multi-award winning leading actor from Toronto, Canada. He has appeared in over forty film and television productions. He is best known for his lead role performance as 'Travis' in the dramatic short film "One Night Stand". The film for which Matthew is also the executive producer of has received critical acclaim around the world, and also in Canada winning 2nd place at the 2019 CTV 'Best in Shorts' national competition. Matthew received the jury prize of "Best Actor" at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival in June of 2017, and the annual Golden Fox award for "Best Actor of the year" in Calcutta, India in December of 2017. In July of 2018 he was awarded "Best Lead Actor" at the Madrid International Film Festival, and again in August 2018 was awarded "Best Lead Actor" at the Amsterdam International Filmmakers Festival of World Cinema. In September 2018 Matthew was awarded the jury prize of "Best World Actor" at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. In February 2019 he won "Best Lead Actor" at the North Europe International Film Festival in London, England , and again winning "Best Lead Actor" at the South Europe International Film Festival in Valencia, Spain in May 2019. Matthew has also been nominated for "Best Lead Actor" at many International Film Festivals throughout Europe and North America. In August of 2019 Matthew won 2 Honorable Mention's at the Top Shorts Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Awards as well as "Best Actor in an Indie Film" at the Festigious International Film Festival in LA , The Actors Awards in LA, and the New York Film Awards. He also won "Best Lead Actor" at the West Europe International Film Festival, nominated in the same category as Hollywood veteran Vincent D'Onfrio for the second time in 2019. Matthew also won "Best Actor" at the London Independent Film Awards in the UK, "Best Lead Acting" at the European Cinematography Awards in the Netherlands, and won the "Award of Merit: Special Mention" at The Best Shorts Film Festival in September 2019. In October 2019 Matthew won "Best Actor" at the Royal Wolf Film Awards, The Global Film Festival Awards in Los Angeles, The Oniros Film Awards in Italy, the Florence Film Awards in Italy, the South Film and Arts Academy in Chile, and The FilmCon Awards. Matthew also won 2 additional "Best Lead Actor" awards in India during 2019. You can see him as the lead actor in Simple Plan's 'Singing in the Rain' music video which climbed the U.S. charts on Ryan Seacrest's weekly Top 40, and the U.S. 'Billboard Hot 100'.
Matthew is also known for his stand up comedy performances, having opened for all 5 of Tim Meadow's "SNL", "Mean Girls" 2012 Canadian shows. Dedicated to his craft and the development of young actors, he regularly teaches kids acting workshops in Toronto.
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Andrey Loshak
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Andrei Borisovich Loshak (Russia: Андрей Борисович Лошак; born November 20, 1972; Moscow) is a Russian documentary filmmaker, journalist and reporter.
Loshak was born on November 20, 1972, in Moscow into the family of graphic artists Boris Loshak and Olga Uvarova. He graduated from MSU Faculty of Journalism in 1996. Loshak started working in television in 1995: in his fourth year of university he became an administrator in Leonid Parfyonov's program Namedni. Non-Political News for the Week on the NTV channel. Later he began to make small stories for this program, then became a scriptwriter and editor-in-chief of the talk show About It - the first talk show about sex in Russia. Since 2000, Loshak worked as a scriptwriter and producer of the TV series Russian Empire. From 2001 to 2004, he was a correspondent for the programs Segodnya and Strana i Mir, as well as for the updated program Namedni. From the fall of 2004 to 2009, Loshak was a regular contributor to the television show Profession - Reporter.
Loshak left NTV in 2010 and became editorial director of Esquire magazine (Russia) a year later. In 2012, NTV aired Loshak's five-part investigative series Russia. Total Eclipse made in the pseudo-documentary genre. From 2013 to 2015, Andrei Loshak worked for Dozhd TV. In December 2014, he directed a 6-part documentary Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: A special way for Dozhd. From May 2015 to April 2016 he was the editor-in-chief of the information portal Help Needed. Until November 2017, worked there as one of the columnists. In 2019, Loshak directed the documentary series Holivar. History of Runet. The series was presented in Cannes. In Russia, the series was nominated for the Laurel Branch Award as the best scientific and educational film. In December 2021, Loshak released He is the only one a documentary filmed for the anniversary of Tinkoff Bank. In February 2022, Loshak's documentary series Russian Hackers: The Beginning was released. The film focused on the birth of hacking in Russia and its impact on the world.
Loshak moved to Georgia in March 2022 after the outburst of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Same year in June, he released the documentary film Breaking the Link about the rifts in Russian families that occurred after the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. On February 17, 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Loshak to the list of foreign agents. On October 14, 2023, Loshak released the documentary film Pentagon about the social problems of modern Russian society. The film portrays people living in a former dormitory that belongs to the administration of Novouzensk.
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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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Adèle Exarchopoulos
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Adèle Exarchopoulos (born November 22, 1993) is a French actress. She is best known for her leading role as Adèle in Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she earned international attention and critical acclaim; at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, she became the youngest person in the history of the festival to be awarded the Palme d'Or. For her performance in Blue Is the Warmest Colour, she won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year, among dozens of other accolades.
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Yoon Chan-young
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Yoon Chan-young (윤찬영) is a South Korean actor born on April 25, 2001, in South Korea. He began his acting career in 2013 as a child actor, appearing in various television dramas where he often portrayed the younger versions of main characters. Through these early roles, he gained attention for his emotional depth and natural screen presence.
He gradually built his career with supporting roles in notable dramas such as Mama (2014), Dr. Romantic (2016), and Nobody Knows (2020), showcasing his growth and versatility as an actor. His breakthrough came with the role of Lee Cheong-san in the Netflix original series All of Us Are Dead (2022), which earned him international recognition and significantly expanded his global fanbase.
Following the success of the series, Yoon Chan-young took on leading roles in projects such as Hope or Dope (2022) and Delivery Man (2023). He is widely recognized for his ability to portray emotionally complex characters and is considered one of the most promising young actors of his generation in the South Korean entertainment industry.
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Robert Lence
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Robert Lence has been a major contributor on some of the most successful films in the history of animated features. In his twenty-eight-year animation career, he has worked as a Screenwriter, Head of Story, Storyboard Artist, Visual Development Artist, and Story Consultant, helping create original characters, writing dialogue, and shaping the story on over a dozen major-release animated features.
Robert has worked at Walt Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks. He worked in Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King 2 (1998), A Bug's Life (1998) and Shrek 82001). Robert served as Co-Head of Story on Pixar's 1995 Toy Story, the first ever computer animated feature film.
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