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Kō Nishimura

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Lincoln A. Castellanos

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Lincoln, born and raised in Indio, CA, grew up with a strong love for performing at an early age in front of his brothers and parents. They supported his love by encouraging him to be in his catholic school's Christmas shows. His newfound passion continued on into Drama club at Indio High School, where he led several productions, and was awarded Best Actor in his senior year. Lincoln was accepted into UCLA's prestigious School of Theater, Film, & Television. As an undergraduate, he studied acting, as well as Shakespeare, On-camera technique, Movement and Dance. After graduation he continued to work hard creatively. He wrote, directed and starred in several short films. Lincoln's first professional booking was a Guest-star role in an episode of "The Mentalist" on CBS. He continued to push himself as a performer, becoming a member of the Los Angeles chapter of Theater 68. He later costarred in the film "I Am Gangster", and starred in the short film "Square Circle Love Triangle", for which he was awarded "Best Actor" by the Santa Barbara Short Film Festival in 2013. Lincoln chose to expand his creativity back into education, now as a graduate student with UCR, where he will graduate with a Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting. In 2015, Lincoln was cast in AMC's "Fear The Walking Dead" as Tobias, a wise-beyond-his-years high school student, who quickly became a fan favorite. The companion series to "The Walking Dead" had the highest-rated debut season for a cable TV series. The pilot in which Lincoln's character was introduced drew in over 13 million viewers. Season 2 is set to debut in 2016, with Lincoln's character/return left up in the air.
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Wayne Farris

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Roy Wayne Farris, better known by his ring name The Honky Tonk Man, is an American professional wrestler. A 1975 graduate from University of Memphis with a B.S. degree in Education, Farris coached high school football for two seasons at Munford High School in Munford, Tennessee. Currently working on the independent circuit, he previously worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF)--now WWE. He is best known for his first run with WWF, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Championship for a record 64 weeks, and lost it to Ultimate Warrior in the very first pay-per-view of SummerSlam. He is the cousin of professional wrestler and color commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler.
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Babs Olusanmokun

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Babs Olusanmokun (born September 18, 1984) is a Nigerian-American actor, best known for his roles in the films Dune (2021), Too Old to Die Young (2019), and Black Mirror (2017). He is also a multilingual actor, fluent in English, French, Yoruba, and Portuguese. He is a third degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and champion. Olusanmokun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1984. He moved to the United States to attend college, where he studied theater at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating, he began his acting career in New York City. Olusanmokun's first major film role was in the 2017 episode of Black Mirror titled "Black Museum." He then went on to appear in the films Too Old to Die Young and Dune. In 2022, he began starring in the Paramount+ original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Dr. Joseph M'Benga.
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Arduíno Colassanti

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Arduino Colasanti (Livorno, February 15, 1936 — Niterói, February 22, 2014) was an Italian-born Brazilian actor. With a 40-year span, Colassanti's mainly associated with films made during the 1960s an 1970s, under the Cinema Novo (Brazilian New Wave) movement. He's known for portraing the titular frenchman in 1971s "Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês" (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman). Seen as one of the main leading men of Cinema Novo by his distinguishable blond hair and blue eyes, during his career Colassanti was directed by filmmakers such as Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Leon Hirszman, Walter Lima Jr., Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Tereza Trautman and Luiz Carlos Lacerda. Born in Livorno, Italy, Colassanti was also a surfer and an pioneer in the early steps of aquatic photography in Brazil. He spent his twillight years in the city of Niterói, where he passed and was buried in 2014.
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Richard Schiff

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Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his television directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode titled "Talking Points". He is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World. He had a recurring role on the HBO series Ballers. He had a leading role in ABC's medical drama The Good Doctor, as Dr. Aaron Glassman, president of a fictional teaching hospital in San Jose, California. He also provided the voice and motion-capture for Odin in Santa Monica Studio's God of War: Ragnarök, released in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Schiff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Peter Cadwell

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Peter has been a professional actor for 25 years (mostly in theatre, then moving into film). Peter has also worked as a theatre playwright, then moving into screenwriting. He has also worked as a theatre director & producer, as well as a film producer. Currently, Peter is developing a small slate of feature film projects, as an actor, screenwriter, director, producer combined. His next feature film 'The Stolen Sun' is in late development/early pre-production. Peter will be acting as one of the lead characters in 'The Stolen Sun', as well as directing (with this being his feature film directorial debut). Peter is also 'The Stolen Sun' screenwriter & producer.
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Peter "Peppe" Eng

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Peter "Peppe" Eng, (born 20 December 1948) is a Swedish sports journalist and television presenter working for TV4. For many years he was the presenter for TV4's sports shows Sporten and Tipslördag along with Billy Lansdowne and Peter Antoine. He is best known under the nickname of Peppe, which he got when he started working for TV4. He started his media career by presenting the radio show Radiosporten at Sveriges Radio during the 1980s. Peppe Eng's first television presenter job was on the TV4 show Småpratarna in 1994. Eng presented the 1998 World Cup broadcasts and also in the 2002 World Cup for TV4. He has also participated in the comedyshow Time out, Sen Kväll med Luuk and he was a celebrity dancer on season one of the dancing show Let's Dance 2006.
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Magda Yuan

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Magda Yuan Tanti Kalistya is an Indonesian actress/talent and dancer, best known for her roles in various short films within the psychological thriller genre, particularly those centered on intimidation and domination, released on the Intidom Films YouTube channel. Her distinctive acting style—combining gentle, maternal expressions with an intensely psychopathic undertone, has set her apart among independent short film audiences. Magda Yuan began her active acting career in 2024 with the short film “Makanlah, Bella..!!”. Since then, she has been involved in numerous short films in the thriller, domination, and intimidation genres, which have become the signature style of Intidom Films. Through her performances, Magda successfully portrays psychopathic characters who torment their victims with tenderness, creating an unsettling yet captivating experience for viewers. Before entering the world of acting, Magda Yuan had shown artistic talent from a young age. She has been actively involved in dance since the third grade of elementary school (around 2017), with a particular focus on traditional Javanese dance. Magda Yuan’s acting characteristics include gentle and maternal facial expressions, portraying characters who abuse their victims through softness, slowly breaking their victims’ mental state. She is known for her bold exploration of roles with a “gentle” yet subtly “mad” nuance, and for frequently portraying characters trapped in confusing, tense, and psychologically charged situations.
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