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Elisabet Reinsalu
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Elisabet Reinsalu (until 2012, Elisabet Tamm; born April 21, 1976) is an Estonian stage, television, voice, and film actress.
Elisabet Reinsalu was born Elisabet Tamm in Tallinn to Tõnu Tamm and Mari Lill, both actors. She has an older sister named Katariina. Her maternal uncle is glass artist Ivo Lill.
Reinsalu graduated from secondary school in 1994 from Tallinn Õismäe Humanitarian Gymnasium. She spent three years studying advertising and media at Tallinn Pedagogical University (now, Tallinn University) before entering the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's Drama School, graduating in 2002. Among her graduating classmates were Priit Võigemast, Ott Aardam, Hele Kõrve, Karin Rask, Mart Toome, Evelin Võigemast, Maria Soomets, and Argo Aadli.
She made her film debut at age 15 in 1991 as Rita in the Roman Baskin directed drama Rahu tänav for Tallinnfilm, starring Mikk Mikiver and Jüri Järvet. Following this role, she returned to her studies and didn't appear in another film until receiving a small roll in the 2002 Elmo Nüganen directed historical drama Nimed marmortahvlil, adapted from the 1936 Albert Kivikas novel of the same name about the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence. In 2006, she played the role of Ottilie in the Roman Baskin directed Vana daami visiit; based on 1956 tragicomic play The Visit by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and starring Ita Ever and Aarne Üksküla.
Other small film roles include, the Marko Raat directed Agent Sinikael in 2002; the Mart Arjukese directed film short Viimane öö in 2003; as a voice actress in the Hardi Volmer directed animated film short Barbarid in 2003; in the 2005 Leeni Linna directed dramatic short film Personal Space; and the Sander Allikmäe directed dramatic short film Kastis in 2012.
In addition to film roles, she has also had a career as a voice actress; often dubbing foreign animated film characters into Estonian. She has voiced the characters Colette Tatou in Pixar's 2007 American computer-animated comedy film Ratatouille; Vanellope von Schweetz in the American 3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy film Wreck-It Ralph, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios; and Maggie in the 2013 3D Belgian-French computer-animated fantasy-comedy film The House of Magic, among others.
Tamm's first prominent television role as an actress was as Rita Leidpalu in the 2006–2007 ETV crime drama serial Ohtlik lend. In 2008, she appeared in the role of Helmi Reiman in the ETV twelve-part television historical mini-series Tuulepealne maa, which focused on the pre-World War II history of Estonia, its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.
Since 2010, she has appeared as Mari Murakas in the popular Kanal 2 drama series Pilvede all. In 2013, she played a central character named Vivian in the TV3 drama series Kartulid ja apelsinid.
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Leonie Wesselow
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Leonie Wesselow, born on April 7, 1998, in Buxtehude, is a German actress and voice artist who discovered her passion for acting at the age of eight and trained early at renowned institutions like the Stage School Hamburg and the Joop van den Ende Academy. She gained initial experience in theater productions at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as in the youth series Das Haus Anubis. She became known for her lead role in the feature film Back for Good (2017), followed by appearances in the Netflix series How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) as Fritzi (2019–2025), Tatort, Cortex (2020), and Ich dich auch! (2022–2024).
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Scarlett Abinante
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Scarlett Abinante was born on March 24, 2011 in California, USA. Scarlett is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Julia Cody in TNT's Animal Kingdom. She began her acting career portraying the role of Emma Boland on the television series Good Girls (2018). She made her professional acting debut in a 2018 short film Preschool in L.A. (2018). She also appeared on television series Team Kaylie (2019) and Disney Channel's Bunk'd (2015). She is the older sister of actress Cosette Abinate. She also has two younger sisters who are also actresses named Adele and Daphne.
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Tony Charmoli
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Tony Charmoli (June 11, 1921 – August 7, 2020) was an American dancer, choreographer, and director. He began dancing on Broadway in such shows as Make Mine Manhattan but soon began choreographing for television with Stop the Music in 1949. Charmoli then choreographed dance sequences for the popular Your Hit Parade, winning his first Emmy Award in 1955. He went on to direct and choreograph for some of the biggest stars including Dinah Shore, Lily Tomlin, Danny Kaye, Julie Andrews, Cyd Charisse, Shirley MacLaine, Mitzi Gaynor, and others. On Broadway, Tony choreographed Ankles Aweigh and Woman of the Year with Lauren Bacall.
More recently, Charmoli focused his talents on directing for television, where he directed such programs as the famous 1977 production of The Nutcracker starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, which was nominated for two Emmys (neither nomination was for Charmoli, however). He directed and choreographed nearly all of Mitzi Gaynor's television specials in the 1970s as well as two of Shirley MacLaine's. He also worked many times with Sid and Marty Krofft, directing all seventeen episodes of Lidsville and The Bugaloos, respectively, as well as their TV special Fol-de-Rol. He directed the first two years of Star Search, and several years of Circus of the Stars, as well as John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together, winning the Directors Guild Award.
Charmoli also directed several Bob Hope specials, more than twenty televised beauty pageants, and the short-lived summer replacement series The Keane Brothers Show.
He was the recipient of three Emmy Awards, plus eight other Emmy nominations.
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Youma Diakite
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Youma Diakite (born 1 May 1971), also known simply as Youma, is a Malian model, actress, television personality and showgirl, mainly active in Italy. She is internationally known[1] also as "the other Naomi" because she is very similar to Naomi Campbell.
Born in Mali and raised in Paris, Diakite became worldwide known at 18 years old when she was chosen by Benetton Group as spokesmodel for an advertising campaign. Moved to Italy in 1998, Diakite was a runway model for notable stylists including Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana.
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Houda Benyamina
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Houda Benyamina (born 30 November 1980) is a French-Moroccan director and screenwriter. She was born in Viry-Châtillon, France, to a Moroccan family. Her younger sister Oulaya Amamra is an actress.
Benyamina's debut feature film Divines was critically acclaimed. It was an official selection of the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and received the Cannes Film Festival Camera d'Or. Among other accolades were three César Awards (including Best First Feature Film) and four other nominations, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, a Munich Film Festival CineVision Award, and two Lumières trophies.
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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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Mbembo
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Elle débute en 1995 au théâtre de Gennevilliers avec Peer Gynt d'Henrik Ibsen, traduit et dirigé par Eric da Silva. Philos, Catherine Boskowitz et Frédéric Fachéna sont aussi à la mise en scène. En 1998, Ces deux derniers fondent le "Collectif 12" à Mantes-la-Jolie. Elle participe aux spectacles, événements et ateliers théâtre de ce collectif d'artistes jusqu'en juin 2013. Tour à tour comédienne, chanteuse et conteuse, elle travaille, par ailleurs, sous la direction d’autres metteurs en scène : Benjamin Jules-Rosette, Hassan Kassi Kouyaté, Suzanna Lastreto, Sylvaine Zaborowski, Stéphane Vérité, Jean-Louis Wacquiez ou récemment Claire Cafaro pour le jeune public. Elle a également fait quelques apparitions au cinéma et à la télévision.
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Jo Beckett
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Jo Beckett is a British script supervisor in both film and television. Her credits include Marvel Studios blockbuster features such as Doctor Strange (2016), Spider‑Man: Far From Home (2019), Eternals (2021), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), and Ant‑Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).
Her involvement extends well beyond the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She supervised Morbius (2022), the Cinderella reimagining (2021), The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2020), Last Christmas (2019), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018), The Mummy (2017), Maleficent (2014), and In the Heart of the Sea (2015), among many others.
Earlier in her career, Beckett established herself in British television with credits on series such as Room at the Top, Ashes to Ashes, Holby Blue, The Street, Wire in the Blood, Trial & Retribution, Event Horizon, Family Affairs, Dream Team, Misfits, and the BAFTA-winning short film My Wrongs 8245‑8249 and 117 (2003). She also handled units on features like Moon (2009) and Breaking and Entering (2006).
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Jonna Lundell
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Jonna Lundell (born April 11, 1994) is a Swedish YouTube personality, influencer, and author. Together with her husband, Joakim Lundell, she has consistently ranked among the most influential figures in Swedish social media, as recognized by Medieakademin's Maktbarometer.
Born and raised in Mjölby, she later moved to Norrköping. After attending two different high schools without completing her studies, she later enrolled in a folk high school. She met Joakim Lundell in 2011, and despite a rocky start—including a public feud and a police report for defamation—they eventually connected via social media and became a couple. In 2013, they moved in together, and Jonna became an integral part of Joakim’s YouTube content, initially participating in prank videos.
In March 2015, she launched her own YouTube channel, which later merged into the couple’s shared channel, first known as "Jocke & Jonna" and now "Familjen Lundell." The channel has become one of Sweden’s most popular YouTube platforms, documenting their lives and various projects.
Jonna and Joakim married in 2016. They have two children: a daughter born in October 2018 and a son born in August 2020.
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