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Ellie Wen
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Ellie was born in Hong Kong and moved to Los Angeles when she was eight years old. She attended Stanford University and graduated in 2009 with a BA in Drama and a Minor in Sociology.
Upon graduation from Stanford, she moved back to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry. Ellie was selected for the 2012 Project Involve fellowship program and was named the Barbara Boyle Scholar. She has directed and produced numerous shorts, documentaries, and features, including White Frog, which she co-wrote. In addition to creating independently, she has also worked at CAA and CBS Films in all aspects of film finance, sales, acquisitions, production, and development. Most recently, she was the Director of Development in Original Series at Super Deluxe, an independent entertainment studio funded by Turner.
Her documentary Single Mother Only Daughter screened at the American Cinematheque's 12th Annual Focus on Female Directors and premiered online on Short of the Week and was a Vimeo Staff Pick. She will soon release a short documentary series online about social entrepreneurs around the world.
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Drupi
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Giampiero Anelli (born 10 August 1947), best known as Drupi, is an Italian rock singer, best known for the songs "Vado via", "Piccola e fragile", "Sereno è" and "Due".
Born in Pavia, Drupi, a former plumber whose hobby was fishing, started his career as lead singer of the band Le Calamite ("The Magnets"). Having been noticed by songwriters Luigi Albertelli and Enrico Riccardi, he entered the 1973 Sanremo Music Festival competition with the song "Vado via". The song ended in last place but achieved significant international success and launched his solo career. "Vado via", recorded on A & M Records, reached number 17 in the UK chart in January 1974 (remaining one of the very few songs not sung in English to enter the UK charts). National popularity arrived in the same year with the song "Piccola e fragile", which topped the Italian hit parade.
Drupi has lived in Austria since 2010. A singer from a rhythm and blues background, his popularity remains linked to several pop and soft rock hits. In 1975 he won the Festivalbar with the song "Due". He has returned several times to the Sanremo Music Festival, achieving third place in 1982 with the song "Soli".
His stage name is a reference to the Tex Avery character Droopy.
Source: Article "Drupi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Ankur Bhatia
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Ankur Bhatia (born February 1980) is an Indian actor. He grew up in Bhopal, India and resides in New York. He made his acting debut in 2010 in Payal Sethi's Grant St. Shaving Co. (2010) which was produced by Pooja Kohli. In 2012, he won the Best Actor Commendation Award at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Film Festival for Coconut Grove (2011). In 2013, Ankur played a negative role in a Indian film Zanjeer (2013). He appeared in Apoorva Lakhia's Haseena Parkar (2017), starring Shraddha Kapoor, which was released on 18 August 2017. In 2020, he plays a pivotal role in Disney+ Hotstar show Aarya (2020), starring Sushmita Sen and directed by Ram Madhvani .
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Dia Taylor
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Dia Taylor is an independent filmmaker and videographer. She has been working behind the camera professionally since 2007, founding her own event videography company Taymaynari Productions in 2017. Dia studied filmmaking briefly at NIDA before completing certificate III in digital media at The Gordon Institute of TAFE, and a bachelor degree of film production at SAE Institute. Dia has worked on numerous projects, directing her first feature film 'Marital Problems' at the age of twenty, which won best original comedy at the 2017 Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Dia's films have also received multiple awards, including 'Soy' which received a special mention at the One Reeler Film Competition in 2016, 'Dark Night of the Zomboogies' - official selection for the Warrandyte Film Feast 2017. 'I Have Gustave' - Official Selection - Cardiff International Film Festival 2017 and semi finalist at the Indie Best Films Festival 2018, and Blue. which received Official Selection at the 2018 Cefalu Film Festival. Dia continues to make her film ideas a reality and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia
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Ethan Scott Grey
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Ethan Scott Grey is an actor, director, writer, filmmaker, and musician with experience in film, television, and independent productions. His television credits include appearances on Under the Dome Sleepy Hollow and HBO’s Eastbound & Down as well as a day-player role in the film Christmas in Conway He has also appeared in and written several independent projects including Return to Salem’s Cove, Haunting, Paranormal, and Straight Until You Kiss Me. Beyond acting, Ethan works across multiple areas of production including cinematography, editing (Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve), and sound engineering. He is also a songwriter and recording artist performing original pop music.
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Georgia T. Willow
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Georgia T. Willow began acting at the age of 7 years old, with her first acting job on a national commercial for Chase bank. She began training that same year in her local community acting studio. Since the age of 14 she has been training with esteemed acting coach Lori Lively.
Her recent credits include guest roles on For The People (ABC), Another Period (Comedy Central), and Faking It (MTV). Where she's had the privilege of working with legendary comedians such as Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome, and celebrities such as Ernie Hudson, Greg Sulkin, the Fine Bros, Ryan Simpkins, and AnnaLynne McCord.
Her passion for acting allows her to work on projects that bring awareness to social injustices where she is able to build relationships with charitable foundations that help with the rehabilitation and rescuing of sex trafficking victims.
When Georgia isn't on set or training she enjoys working for various charitable organizations that work with children in need and at-risk youth and uses her acting knowledge to teach them different acting skills and how to break down a script.
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David Bradley
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Born to a miner father and a seamstress mother in Barnsley, South Yorkshire in 1953, David Bradley is best known for playing Billy Casper in Ken Loach's 1969 film, Kes. Prior to this starring role, Bradley had only ever acted in school pantomimes and secured the lead in an open audition against thousands of children. Following the success of Kes, Bradley had to change his name to Dai Bradley on account of the actor David Bradley already having an Equity card in that name. Bradley turned to television appearing as the lead in two children's series The Flaxton Boys and The Jensen Code and guest roles in Z Cars, Nearest and Dearest and A Family at War. He appeared in several other movies as a young man in the tail end of the 70s including All Quiet on the Western Front, Zulu Dawn and Absolution but by the following decade Bradley decided to retire from acting and tried his hand as a writer instead. In recent years he has returned to the profession as David Bradley once more and has had roles in the film Hummingbird and the children's TV series The Dumping Ground.
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Robert Preston
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Robert Preston (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards.
Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of a garment worker and a record store clerk. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School, training as a musician and playing several instruments, but quit at age sixteen to study acting at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
Preston made his Broadway debut in 1940 in the play The Philadelphia Story. He went on to star in a number of successful Broadway musicals, including The Pajama Game (1954), Damn Yankees (1955), and I Do! I Do! (1966). He also appeared in a number of films, including The Music Man (1962), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960), and Victor/Victoria (1982).
Preston was a versatile actor who could play a wide range of roles. He was known for his charisma, his singing voice, and his comic timing. He was a two-time Tony Award winner and was nominated for an Academy Award. He was also a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Preston died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 68. He was survived by his wife, Catherine Craig; the couple had no children.
A biography of the actor, @Robert Preston - Forever The Music Man”, was published in 2022.
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Ana Lucía Domínguez
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Ana Lucia Dominguez was born in Bogota, Colombia on December 2, 1983. At the age of nine appears in various television commercials as a model. Attracted by the interpretation of his idol Margarita Rosa de Francisco, he studied interpretation, including acting, tica fon and corporal expression. Its beginnings with important roles in the world of comedy begin with the series "Fathers and sons" and "head to toe" but before he starred in fifteen telenovela "Beautiful girl" where the actress appears nude. Many compare this series with the posthumous work of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. Over time Ana Lucia began to realize that his real vocation and his passion was the interpretation. Over time it was winning in interpretive quality and could prove his real talent on shows such as "head to toe" or "Gated". As any self-respecting also n could dedicate to the world of the television program "The angels of the Mega", Colombian variety program. With the soap opera "Wild cat" is given to know internationally since this series had a great acceptance by the public and was seen in various parts of the world. With the premiere of "Pasion de gavilanes" enshrined as one of the most important Latino stars in the field of the soap operas. Poses in magazines such as interview and SOHO, where it appears in sensual attitude and with few clothes, not being the first time that this actress appears in provocative attitude. In the latest magazine repeats as a model. Gets the Mara de Venezuela gold as best actress award for her role in the telenovela "Pasion de gavilanes", but also is recognized as the woman more beautiful and desired in 2006 appearing in various magazines and obtaining excellent criticism as woman and actress. Married twice in his life, the first with David Alberto Garcia, Colombian humorist who is married to the actress when alone is 18 years old. Her current husband is actor Jorge Cardenas. Participates in the series "dog love" with the actor Carlos Ponce Maritza Rodriguez, being the first time that sings on it. Her last telenovela is "The ghost of the hotel" still not was to premiered in Spain. It is one of the few series where the thriller has a significant role in a television space of this kind.
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