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Norm Li
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Norm Li is a Canadian cinematographer. Known for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), Li won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. Li is most noted for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. He was previously nominated in the same category at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for Never Steady, Never Still, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI. His other credits have included the films Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Below Zero (2011), In Their Skin (2012), Afflicted (2013), Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014), Edge of Winter (2016), Hollow in the Land (2017) and Same Old (2022).
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Harriet Bibby
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Harriet Anne Bibby (born 27 April 1998) is an English actress, known for her role as Summer Spellman in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street. Prior to her casting on the soap, Bibby appeared in episodes of Doctors and Brassic.
Harriet Anne Bibby was born on 27 April 1998 in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. She attended the De Aston School, where she featured in school theatre productions and eventually got into the National Youth Theatre summer school programme. After leaving De Aston, she attended the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA), where she obtained a BA in acting. Whilst studying at ALRA, she appeared in various stage productions, including Oppenheimer and Game.[3] Bibby made her television debut in a 2020 episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors, where she portrayed Clara Bindon. She then appeared in an episode of the Sky series Brassic. In 2020, Bibby was cast in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street as Summer Spellman. The role was previously played by Matilda Freeman, who had decided to leave the role earlier that year. She was 22 when she was cast as the 16-year-old character, accrediting her casting to her "baby face". After being cast as Summer, Bibby moved to Manchester with her sister. A year into her tenure, Bibby was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2021 Inside Soap Awards. Then in 2022, she was nominated for a National Television Award. In July 2022, Bibby took a break from the soap to appear in the theatre production Blackbird. She was meant to appear in the play prior to joining Coronation Street but it was postponed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on theatre. Also alongside her role on Coronation Street, Bibby works as a musical theatre teacher for children on Saturdays, due to enjoying them as a child.
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Bill Frist
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William Harrison Frist (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businessman, conservationist and policymaker who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine, and later founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. In the 1994 United States Senate election in Tennessee, he defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Jim Sasser.
After serving as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Frist succeeded Tom Daschle as the Senate Majority Leader. Frist helped pass several parts of President George W. Bush's domestic agenda, including the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 and the Medicare Modernization Act. Frist left the Senate in 2007, honoring his pledge to serve no more than two terms.
In his post-Senate career, he serves as chair of the global board of The Nature Conservancy. He is also a founding partner of Frist Cressey Ventures, a special partner and chairman of the Executives Council of the health service investment firm Cressey & Company, and co-chair of the Health Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He currently hosts the A Second Opinion Podcast on the intersection of policy, medicine, and innovation.
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Newt Zonifay
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Newt Zonifay is a director, editor, actor, and filmmaker whose work comes from a lifelong passion for cinema. Raised in Dallas, Texas, Newt began making films as a kid and has spent every year since sharpening a personal, hands-on approach to storytelling. Making at least a short film every year.
Over the years, Newt has created several short films, developing a signature style working across directing, editing, and performance, shaping stories from concept to final cut.
With multiple projects already completed, Newt is now developing a slate of larger films. These upcoming works aim to expand on a cinematic depth with a efficient but sincere emotion reflecting a filmmaker growing in scope while staying rooted in the DIY creativity that sparked everything.
Newt continues to build a body of work defined by imagination, persistence, and a deep love of movies.
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Alan Yang
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Alan Michael Yang (Chinese: 楊維榕; born August 22, 1983) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He was a writer and producer for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which he received his first Emmy nomination. With Aziz Ansari, Yang co-created the Netflix series Master of None, which premiered in 2015 to critical acclaim. The series was awarded a Peabody Award, and at the 68th Emmy Awards in 2016, Yang and Ansari won Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Master of None and became the first writers of Asian descent to win in the category, which was also nominated in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. Yang also was the screenwriter of the 2014 comedy Date and Switch. In 2018, Yang co-created the Amazon Video series Forever.
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Tarlan Rasulov
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Tarlan Rasulov is a theater director, founder of the DOM independent theater company (Azerbaijan), translator, manager, producer, writer and performance scholar. He is a PhD Candidate in Theater Studies of the University of Culture and Arts of Azerbaijan. Head of the laboratory of the Experimental Theater and Consultant of Azerbaijan Theater Union. Tutor in Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. Member of European network for drama in translation, East European Performing Arts Platform, Guild of Professional Filmmakers of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Theater Union. Participant of many theatrical conferences and festivals. His immersive performance "Limbo" (dedicated for World Refugee Day) won a special prize "For the development of a new stage space and ways of communication with the audience" at the VII International Festival of Turkic-speaking theaters "Tuganlyk" in 2019.
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his leading man roles on screen in both blockbuster and independent films, Clooney has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and four Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. His honours include the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2022.
Clooney's breakthrough role came as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He established himself as a film star with roles in From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the Ocean's film series (2001–2007). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a CIA officer in Syriana (2005). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air(2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Jay Kelly (2025).
Clooney has directed nine feature films, including the spy film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002), the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March(2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), and the coming-of-age film The Tender Bar (2021) starring BenAffleck. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). He made his Broadway debut portraying Edward R. Murrow in the play adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck (2025), for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.\n\nClooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Divorced from actress Talia Balsam, he has been married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney since 2014, with whom he has two children.
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Erica Yohn
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Erica Yohn was a talented American actress known for her contributions to film, television, and theatre. She showcased her versatility and skill in various roles throughout her career. Yohn gained recognition for her voice work in animated films, notably as Mama Mousekewitz in "An American Tail" and its sequel, "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West." Her expressive voice brought characters to life, endearing her to audiences and securing her a place among the cherished performers in animated cinema. Yohn's dedication to her craft and memorable contributions in the realm of voice acting left a lasting impact on the entertainment industry.
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Rudolph Schildkraut
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Rudolph Schildkraut (April 27, 1862 - July 15, 1930) was an Austrian film and theatre actor.
Schildkraut was born in Istanbul, in the Ottoman Empire, to a Jewish family. His parents ran a hotel. He grew up in Brăila, Romania. In Vienna, he received acting lessons from Friedrich Mitterwurzer. He debuted in the early 1880s in Sopro, his first solid role came in 1885 in Krems.
In 1893 he moved to Vienna to an engagement at the newly opened Raimund Theater. In 1898 he moved to the Carl Theatre. Among other things, he played the character Wurm in Love and Intrigue. In 1900 he came to the German Theatre in Hamburg, 1905 to the German German Theatre in Berlin.
There he became one of the most important actor in the theatre company players of Max Reinhardt. His Shylock, which he played in 1905 and 1913 in Reinhardt's productions of The Merchant of Venice was praised by Fritz Kortner as a "monument to the art of acting." Other major roles were the title role in King Lear (1908), Mephisto in Faust I (1909), Muley Hassan in Friedrich Schiller's Fiesco (1909), the grave-digger in Hamlet (1909) and Peter Bast in Knut Hamsun's From the devil fetched (1914). Schildkraut performed for the first time in the United States in 1910/11.
Schildkraut was known as a film actor in the German Empire in the early silent era. He starred in several film dramas. His last European-made film was a biography of the German Zionism founder Theodor Herzl, in which he played Herb Schildt "The struggling Israel." In 1920 he moved permanently to America and made his debut the same year in New York City in the play Silent Forces. From 1922 he also played in the English language. In 1925 he founded his own Jewish theatre in The Bronx.
In his last five years he appeared in several Hollywood productions. His most notable film, which raised his profile in America, was The King of Kings by Cecil B. DeMille in 1927 in which he played the High Priest Caiaphas.
He was married to Erna (Weinstein), with whom he had a son, Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), who was also known as an actor.
Schildkraut died at the age of 67 years of a heart attack, in Los Angeles. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. His son also died at the same age, also of a heart attack.
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Emma Croft
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Emma Croft is a London native, Los Angeles-based Hair and Makeup Artist & Department Head trained at the London College of Fashion. Her work spans TV, film, music & fashion, winning Best Styling in a Music Video at the 2018 UK Music Video Awards for the video ‘If You’re Over Me‘ by Years & Years, and nominated in 2017 for the video ‘Tyburn Jig’ by Police Dog Hogan. She won Best Makeup at the 2018 Unrestricted View Film Festival for the film ‘Another Game’ directed by Riyad Barmania. She’s worked with The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Lebron James, 50 Cent, Bishop Briggs and Finneas; for NBC, CBS, BBC, ABC, Disney & Netflix; and brands Gucci, Stella McCartney and Rag & Bone. She is a member of the Emmy’s Television Academy.
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