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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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Oleg Mirochnikov
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Oleg Mirochnikov is native Russian born in Minsk, Belarus. He was professionally trained as an actor at the Belarusian Academy of Theatre and Art. After his graduation, he worked extensively as an actor in theatre and films in Russia, and served as a radio and television host and presenter on various shows and programmes. In the early 1990s, Oleg moved westward, first to Belgium and then to England. He is based in London. In addition to being an actor, he is also a director, voice-over artist, acting coach, as well as a Russian dialogue/dialect coach.
As an acting coach and tutor, Oleg has trained Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Russell Brand, Emilia Clarke, Gwendoline Christie, and Regé-Jean Page. His acting methods and coaching style are unique and draw equally from the three great Russian masters: Stanislavski, Meyerhold, and Vakhtangov.
Oleg has more than twenty years of experience as a voice-over actor and Russian dialogue/dialect coach. As a Russian dialogue/dialect coach, he has worked on many acclaimed projects and coached such high-profile actors and performers such as Kevin Bacon and Daniel Craig.
Oleg continues to coach both in acting and in Russian dialogue/dialect and provide actors with invaluable skills and insights to better perform their roles. He works on- and off-set as well as privately with actors on their film and television role preparations and script analysis. Oleg's own burgeoning acting work as a character actor on film and television allows him the intimate insight on the workings of an actor and all the essentials needed to create a stellar and truthful performance on-screen.
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Rick Dutrow
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In the second grade (c. 1970), Rick was cast by his homeroom teacher, Mrs. Vicini, to play the King Pumpkin in a musical she wrote about a vegetable garden and how all the vegetables were negatively impacted by the insecticide DDT. And it was this original school musical that started Rick's lifelong journey as an actor...
The summer prior to Rick's senior year in High School he was hired by a Pittsburgh-area Dinner Theatre to play Mercutio in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He was 17 years old, playing Mercutio who was 17 years old, and being paid as an actor! Unfortunately, Rick had to tell his High School football coach that he would be unable to make the first scrimmage of the season under the lights at home because he was acting in a Play. The coach was not very happy and Rick sat the bench his senior year; except for the fact that he was the only one who was able to snap the football back to the punter and that year they punted quite a bit! Rick still lettered in football that year despite his coach's efforts.
Rick started acting in community theaters at the age of 12, went on to College to major in Theatrical Performance, and began acting on the stages of various western Pennsylvania theaters. In 2017, Rick organically entered onto the Pittsburgh film industry scene.
In 2019, Rick married for the second time to the love of his life and his partner, Stephanie Swift, a Pittsburgh-area actress. Rick has three children; all of them in college right now, so please hire him!
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Owen Roe
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Owen Roe is one of Ireland’s foremost film, TV and theatre actors. Roe studied at the Oscar School of Acting and the Brendan Smith Academy in the late 1970s. Roe has been a prolific stage actor for decades. He won an Irish Theatre Award for playing Claudius in Hamlet. He also won a Special Tribute Award at The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019. He also wrote one play, Fear of Feathers, staged at the Andrews Lane Theatre in 1991.
On TV, Roe has appeared on Scarlett, The Ambassador, Ballykissangel, Rásaí na Gaillimhe, Penny Dreadful, Vikings and Fair City., and as Oliver Cromwell in The History Channel Documentary "Cromwell: God's Executioner" based on the book by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú He has appeared in several films, mostly made in Ireland, including Michael Collins (as Arthur Griffith), Intermission and Breakfast on Pluto. He has received three IFTA nominations.
On radio, Roe was one-third of the Scrap Saturday political satire series, and is best remembered for his impression of P. J. Mara, loyal adviser to Charles Haughey. He also appeared on Baldi (BBC Radio 4) as Inspector Rynne.
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Carmen Gutiérrez
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Carmen Gutiérrez was born on November 2, 1969 in Zaragoza (Spain).
She studied at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid, at the Estudio Nancy Tuñón in Barcelona, and at La Factoría del Gutiérrez in Madrid.
In THEATRE she starred in "Antigona", "La heredera" and "La Duquesa de Malfi", and participated in several productions of the Compañía Nacional de teatro Clásico and Centro Dramático Nacional, under the direction of Ernesto Caballero (El jardín de los Cerezos, Sainetes, Acastos, ...) She has also worked with directors such as Juan Pastor, Lucía Etxebarría or Gabriel Olivares, among others.
At the same time she develops her career in TELEVISION with characters such as Benita in "Amar en Tiempos Revueltos", (nominated for best TV actress by the Actors Union), Encarna, the hypochondriac mother in "La Tira", or the lawyer of the Alcántara family in "Cuéntame". In 2011 she plays Mayte Zaldíbar in "Mi gitana", and in Los Misterios de Laura she is Isabel, internal affairs police officer. In the TVE series "El caso" she plays Loli, owner of the legendary newspaper.
In CINEMA she has participated in "La Soledad", by Jaime Rosales, "El mal ajeno", or "Cándida", by Guillermo Fesser. She has recently starred in the short films "Página 52" (Best Short Film at the Castilla La Mancha Festival), "Sexteen", (Audience Award at the Malaga Film Festival 2016), "Némesis"(for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Raccord Gala at the Aragonia Cinemas), and "Ya no te quiero", screened at the SEMINCI in Valladolid and for which she won the Best Actress Award at the La Fila Festival, in Valladolid . In 2018 she obtains the SIMÓN Award from the Academia del Cine Aragones for Best Actress for her character in Grupo 2 Homicidios.
In 2014 she premieres "LAISA", her first short film as director and screenwriter, an autobiographical story for which she won the First Prize at the Festival Cine y Mujer de Andorra, and the Second Jury Prize at the Faludi Festival, in Budapest.
In her work as a teacher, after directing the theater group of the Ramón Llull University of Barcelona, she teaches acting seminars in front of the camera at the Actors Association of Zaragoza and courses in Performing Arts at the Institute of Spanish Radio and Television. She participates as a lecturer in the Master's Degree in Spanish Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid.
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Akira Hoshino
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Born in 1948. Graduated from Tama School of Art. Ever since he discovered 8mm film in the 1960s, he has been exploring for a new personal image by using celluloid. In 1970, he organized the independent screening group , and he has been working on various screening all over the country for more than 50 years. His main literary work “Filmmaking – an introduction to Kojin-eiga” is not only became a reference for independent filmmakers, but also played a establishing the concept of “Kojin-eiga” in Japan. He served as a Professor at Tama Art University (from 2001 to 2017), and jury members at Pia film festival [PFF](from 1979 to 1987).
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Prabhu Baskar
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An Actor, Singer, Director, Writer, Music Composer, Blogger "Father of Seo, Podcaster, Lyricist, Independent Journalist.
Parry Prabhu, basically a Engineering graduate. His real name is prabhu baskar. He is a blogger and a search engine expert. Time has changed his path and led into acting. The life has simply changed his life into acting from social media. He has done so many films in tamil film industry. Few of the movies are not released yet. He is a well good blogger. He has very vast knowledge in social medias and search engines.
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Alex Cooper
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Alexandra Cooper (born August 21, 1994) is an American podcaster and co-creator and host of Call Her Daddy, a weekly comedy and advice podcast on Spotify. In 2021, Time Magazine called her "arguably the most successful woman in podcasting" after she signed a three-year exclusive deal with Spotify worth $60 million. Making $20 million per year made her Spotify's highest earning female podcaster and the second-highest paid podcaster, behind only Joe Rogan. The show was also the second most popular podcast globally on Spotify for 2022 behind Rogan.
Rolling Stone labeled her "Gen-Z's Barbara Walters" for frequently enlisting high-profile Hollywood talent and influential individuals in American popular culture to be guests on her podcast. In 2023, Cooper was named to the Time 100 Next list.
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Trevor Ross
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Trevor Ross is the half-brother of famous New Zealand Actor Caleb Ross (The Tribe) and filmmaker Tessa McEwing (Body). He grew up travelling around New Zealand on a horse towed wagon with his family. His previous jobs include working as a rigger and first mate on ships, working on Hollywood cruises and safety manager. Trevor is also a writer, having had one short story published in New Zealand (under a different name) and a Thiseas on Safety Management, which is still used to teach safety in corporations today.
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Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
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Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (born 17 June 1948; Reykjavik) is an Icelandic film director. He is the brother of mathematician Þorvaldur Gunnlaugsson and the lawyer Snædís Gunnlaugsdóttir and the actress Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir. He is mostly known for his series of Viking films, sometimes called "Cod Westerns". He was married to Edda Kristjánsdóttir and they have four children: Kristján born 1968 who is a poet and playwright, Tinna who is an actress, Sól who is an art designer and Örk who is an artist and was born in 1993. He won the award for Best Director at the 20th Guldbagge Awards for When the Raven Flies.
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