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Kelly Liao
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Liao Yi Xuan was a famous ballet dancer in her early stage with outstanding dancing skills. She once played an important role in the large-scale ballet "Giselle". After joining Kaiwo, she focused on modeling. In recent years, she has been particularly popular with jewelry brands. In 2017, she began her acting career with a guest role in the historical drama Attention, Love! as the character, Lin Mei Yue.
She was once voted by netizens as the second most popular car model goddess, and she is also known as the "fairy".
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Micole Mercurio
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Micole Diana Mercurio (March 10, 1938 – January 19, 2016) was an American film and television actress and artist. Her film credits included the roles of Rosemary Szabo in Flashdance in 1983, Mrs. Kelly in Gleaming the Cube in 1989, Momma Love in The Client in 1994, Midge Callaghan in While You Were Sleeping in 1995, as well as What Lies Beneath in 2000. Mercurio's television work included guest appearances and recurring roles on Night Court, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Chicago Hope and FlashForward.
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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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Benedict Wong
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Benedict Wong (born 3 July 1971) is an English actor. He began his career on stage before starring in the film Dirty Pretty Things (2002), which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination, and the BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High (2002–2004). Roles followed this in the films On a Clear Day (2005), Sunshine, Grow Your Own (both 2007), and Moon (2009), the CBBC series Spirit Warriors (2010).
Wong gained further recognition in the 2010s for his roles as Kublai Khan in the Netflix series Marco Polo (2014–2016), Bruce Ng in the film The Martian (2015), and Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the film Doctor Strange (2016). He has since starred in the Syfy series Deadly Class (2019). His performance in the film Nine Days(2020) earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Since 2024, he has had a main role in the Netflix series 3 Body Problem and appeared in Weapons (2025).
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Pardis Pourabedini
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Pardis Pourabedini is an Iranian actress known for her impactful performances in film and television. Born on April 10, 2000, in Tehran, Iran, she began her acting career in theater before gaining widespread recognition for her role as Razieh in the popular TV series Aghazadeh (2020–2021). Her performance earned her a nomination at the Hafez Awards, establishing her as a rising star. She further showcased her talent in the acclaimed series Fereshteh's Sin (2023–2024). In cinema, Pourabedini has appeared in notable films like Killing a Traitor (2022) and Motherless (2022). Her portrayal of Kazhal in the war drama Unknown (2023) won her the prestigious Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress at the 41st Fajr International Film Festival.
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Eazy-E
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Eric Lynn Wright, known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. Dubbed the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap", he gained prominence for his work with N.W.A, where he has been credited for pushing the boundaries of lyrical and visual content in mainstream popular music. Born and raised in Compton, California, Eazy-E faced several legal troubles before founding the Ruthless Records record label in 1986. After beginning a short solo career, where he worked heavily with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, the trio came together to form the group N.W.A later that year. As a member of the group, he released the controversial album, Straight Outta Compton (1988), which tackled many socio-political issues. The album has been regarded as one of the greatest albums of all-time, and one of the most influential in the genre. The group released their final studio album three years later, and disbanded shortly after, due to long-standing financial disputes.
Eazy-E then resumed his solo career, where he released two EPs, which drew inspiration from funk music, contemporary hip-hop, and comedians. He also engaged in a high-profile feud with Dr. Dre, before being hospitalized with AIDS in 1995. He died a month after his hospitalization.
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Maria Howell
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Wanda Maria Howell is an American actress and also a singer. Maria was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and graduated from Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Howell worked as a jazz singer and made her film debut in The Color Purple. She lived in Okinawa, Japan, from 1995-2001. She made guest appearances on the television series Drop Dead Diva, Army Wives, The Game, Necessary Roughness, and The Vampire Diaries, and as well as co-starred in films that include Daddy's Little Girls, Mississippi Damned, The Blind Side, and What to Expect When You're Expecting. In 2013, Howell played Seeder in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Also in 2012, she was cast in the recurring NBC television series Revolution as Grace Beaumont, and in 2013 she plays Ida Hayes in the m comedy-drama Devious Maids.
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Merritt Wever
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Merritt Carmen Wever (born August 11, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix crime mini-series Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013, for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018 and for the mini-series Unbelievable, she was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020.
Wever has also had supporting roles in other television series, including Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), New Girl (2013), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016). She has also played supporting roles in such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Birdman (2014), and Marriage Story (2019), all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Birdman winning.
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Jad Gillies
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Based in Sydney, Australia, Jad Gillies has been a part of the UNITED team for ten years now. He is a worship leader and Creative Pastor at Hillsong Church and oversees both the technical and worship leadership teams across the church’s Australian Campuses.
Jad’s passion for the house of God was first ignited when he served in the music and youth ministries of his home church in New Zealand. There, he began leading worship at the age of 17 before moving to Sydney when he was 21 to pursue the study of Worship Ministry at Hillsong International Leadership College.
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Matt Crocker
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Matt Crocker is a Sydney based worship leader and songwriter who has grown up in Hillsong church. His younger years were spent playing the drums and learning how to write music in a band setting, where his love of songwriting was first sparked.
After being encouraged by Joel Houston and Marty Sampson to start writing for youth ministry, Matt began to take songwriting more seriously, and spent much of his teenage years learning how to write songs on his own. It was only years later, when he collaborated with other songwriters, that he saw the fruit of the time he had invested into songwriting in those early years.
10 years on since his first published song, and Matt has had the privilege of traveling the world with United and writing songs with influence that spans the globe. Now, at 28 years of age, Matt is happily married to his wife Breanna, and continues to write songs for Hillsong Church and UNITED, with the firm conviction that worship is able to unite the greater church and inspire the lost.
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