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Haruno Niiyama
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Haruno Niiyama was born and raised in Osaka. She started classical ballet at the age of 5 and played a leading role in singing solo songs in a kid’s musicals through an audition. She then became interested in acting.
She graduated as a theater major in Osaka. Also, she has been trained in acting at the Actor Clinic which is concluded as the sole agency of Stella Adler Studio in Japan. Moreover, she is trained in acting and dancing, singing, Japanese sword stunt performance, and Iaido.
Especially, Her samurai performance has attracted people’s attention, and her Instagram has more than 16,000 followers now.
In Japan, she was on a famous Japanese TV show “Ultraman Taiga”, other TV shows too. She was on a Chinese movie, “她杀”(2019) directed by Cao Baoping, and also appeared in commercial videos such as Twitter Japan, Tokyo Disneyland, Seven-Eleven, and so on.
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David Beecroft
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David Beecroft (born April 26, 1955) is an American actor noted for his television appearances, having played both regular and recurring roles in shows such as Falcon Crest (as Nick Agretti), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Melrose Place. He has also been a regular on the daytime soap operas One Life to Live as Trent Chapin (1985–1986) and All My Children in 1999-2001. He played the serial killer in 1990's The Rain Killer.
He is a 1974 graduate of W. T. White High School in Dallas, Texas.
His brother is former actor Gregory Beecroft, famous for three popular soap opera roles: Guiding Light's Tony Reardon (1981-1985); Brock Lombard on As the World Turns (1988-1989); and the short-lived recast of Duke Lavery on General Hospital (1989–1990).
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Kimberly Girkin
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Kimberly is an ambitious Renaissance girl. Born on the winter solstice in Blue Springs, Missouri, Kimberly is an imaginative and accomplished actress and writer with an intense eye for fine art. She is passionate about producing all aspects of film in addition to being an aspiring activist, philosopher, musician, ambassador, and astronaut. She spends time invested in her studies, writing screenplay, studying classic and contemporary literature and film, centering herself at the ballet studio, asking the big questions of life, and going on as many adventures as she possibly can with friends and family.
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Nao Kosaka
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Nao Kosaka is a Japanese singer, model, actress and member of the female Japanese idol group Hinatazaka46. She is an exclusive model for the female fashion magazine Seventeen.
On August 13, 2017, Kosaka passed the auditions for new members of Keyakizaka46's subgroup Hiragana Keyakizaka46 and entered the group as the second generation. She made her debut in the song "No War in the Future", a B-side to "Kaze ni Fukarete mo". On May 19, 2018, Kosaka made her runway debut at the GirlsAward 2018 SPRING/SUMMER show. On May 21, 2018, Seventeen announced that she will be one of the magazine's exclusive model.
After Hiragana Keyakizaka46 was renamed to Hinatazaka46 in February 2019, Kosaka was selected to hold the center position in their debut single, "Kyun". She continued to hold the position for every single released by the group since.
Kosaka was casted as the main character in the 2019 mystery film Japanese Doll of Terror (恐怖人形, Kyōfu Ningyō). She is also slated to appear in Hinomaru Soul, an upcoming film about ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics, in which her character is based on retired ski jumper Yoshiko Yoshiizumi.
In April 2021, Kosaka announced that her solo photobook, produced by the Seventeen magazine editorial staff, would be released on June 29. She would be the third Hinatazaka46 member to release a solo photobook, after Miho Watanabe and Kyōko Saitō. As a dinosaur enthusiast, she was also appointed the ambassador for Sony's DinoScience exhibition, which would be held from July to September.
Kosaka played volleyball in middle school and occasionally demonstrates her skill in her appearances. She has an older brother who is a Keyakizaka46 fan.
Kosaka's main interests include dinosaurs and reptiles. She also enjoys comedy shows and named Kazuya Kojima of Unjash and Audrey as her favorite comedians.
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Fabiana Udenio
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Fabiana Udenio (born December 21, 1964) is an Argentine character actress and sex symbol who has appeared in film and on television. She is best known for her role as "Alotta Fagina", a Bond girl parody in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Udenio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and moved to Italy where at the age of 13 was crowned "Miss Teen Italy". Fabiana's film roles include Italian foreign-exchange student Anna-Maria Mazarelli in Summer School (1987), the sunbather in the "Sunblock 5000" commercial within RoboCop 2 (1990), Dan Cain's only living girlfriend Francesca in Bride of Re-Animator (1990), as "Alotta Fagina" in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), as "Don Na" in The Godson (1998), and Gabriella in Paulie Shore's film In The Army Now. (1996).
Her television roles include Giulietta on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1985–1986) and "Adira Tyree", a Centauri dancer and the lover of Londo Mollari on the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5 and "Pia Claire" a first class passenger and survivor of an crashed airliner on Amazon.
She has made guest appearances on many television shows, including Full House, Freddy's Nightmares, Quantum Leap, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Cheers, Babylon 5, Mad About You, Wings and The Magnificent Seven. She is currently recurring on the new 90210 as Atooza Shirazi.
She was married to Robert McLeod for four years. She filed for divorce on February 5, 2009, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Adrian Kwan
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Adrian Kwan is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and actor. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Video from the University of Regina in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada, and a Master of Arts in Filming from the MetFilm School in London, England. He has directed and written more than twenty feature films, short films, and documentaries including L3000; DeathZone; Find Your Voice; Little Big Master; Team of Miracle: We Will Rock You; The Miracle Box; 6 Am; If You Care; and Life Is a Miracle.
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Terry Southern
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Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s.
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Wesley Thompson
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Wesley Thompson (born October 2, 1956) appeared as an Army Corpsman in the Season 11 episode of M*A*S*H titled "As Time Goes By". Wesley's other TV series guest appearances include The White Shadow, The Larry Sanders Show, Boston Legal, and Seinfeld. He has degrees in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University & UCLA.
Born in Chicago, IL and raised in Pasadena, CA, Wesley began his career on the stage. He was voted Best Actor in college for his leading role in prolific playwright and director George C. Wolfe's very first play, "Up For Grabs". he's performed all over the Southland in such roles as Honey in "A Member of the Wedding" (with Virginia Capers), convicted felon Ice in Miguel Pinero's prison drama "Short Eyes", and in three long-running productions at West LA's Odyssey Theater: Filtch in Molière's "The Miser" with George Murdock, soldier McGlade in a Vietnam drama, "The Bridgehead", directed by Stephen Tobolowsky, and wisecracking relief pitcher Duke in the baseball comedy hit, "Bullpen", which moved, after its initial run, to Boston's Hasty Pudding Theater at Harvard. He has since gone on to do dozens of plays all over, but none as rewarding as his supporting role as the lovable loan shark Jumbo in the 2000 production of the romantic-comedy "Panache". It opened at the Pasadena Playhouse but within two months was swiftly moved to off-Broadway, to the Players Theater in Greenwich Village, in which The New York Times called Wesley "an electric, on-stage presence".
He was a series regular on two ABC programs: He's the Mayor (1986) and Pursuit of Happiness (1987). His most recent stints include Friends (1994), Providence (1999), Just Shoot Me! (1997), Malcolm in the Middle (2000) and recurring roles on ER (1994) and Grounded for Life (2001). He has been very fortunate to have done over 200 commercials over the years.
His first audition for film was for a low-budget drama intended as a documentary where the actors had to be believed as real people. The director, a young newcomer to feature filmmaking, hired him on the spot. The director, Taylor Hackford ("An Officer and a Gentleman", "The Devil's Advocate"). The film, "Teenage Father" (1978), won the Academy Award as Best Live Action Short. From there he has appeared such films as the Walter Hill film Brewster's Millions (1985) with Richard Pryor and John Candy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), directed by Joe Dante and working alongside Alfre Woodard in the Ivan Passer film Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991). Other film roles include the stage manager in L.A. Story (1991) with Steve Martin; Christina Ricci's teacher, Mr. Curtis, in the Brad Silberling-directed/Steven Spielberg-produced Casper (1995); as John Travolta's boss in Desmond Nakano's White Man's Burden (1995) with Harry Belafonte and the winner of the Discovery Award at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival, Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (1999) produced by Martin Scorsese. He was last seen with Vivica A. Fox in Two Can Play That Game (2001), written and directed by Mark Brown (writer of Barbershop (2002)).
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Chow Yun-Fat
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Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
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Chan Shen
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Chan Shen (Chinese: 詹森, 11 March 1940 - 26 April 1984) was a Taiwanese-born Hong Kong film actor. He is best known for his roles as gangsters or villains in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s.
Already an established film actor in Taiwan, he entered the Hong Kong film industry in 1971. He was a particularly prolific actor and would often appear in as many as ten films a year. In his fourteen-year film career in Hong Kong, he appeared in 160 action films.
Much of his career was spent at Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Studio. He died because of a brain hemorrhage 26th of April 1984.
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