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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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Erich Fleshman
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Erich Fleshman is a Meisner trained actor raised in Livermore, California where he grew up playing like a performing artist and acting like a basketball player. After a BA in Economics his inner wanderer took over and he jumped into a study abroad program which led him to Vietnam. His travels continued as he delved into the languages, cultures, and film histories of Southeast Asia. His first acting job was on the HBO film A Bright Shining Lie with Bill Paxton, shot in the jungles of Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Erich was later approached on a basketball court by a TV director while he teaching at Chulalongkorn University and he found his calling after landing a supporting TV role, all in Thai. Erich then began working regularly and extensively in the local and international entertainment industry both in front of and behind the camera. Within a few years he had been involved in American, Asian and European feature films, television dramas, as well as international TV commercials.
Erich won the hearts of the Thai people for his role in the popular film Heaven's Seven (2002), in which he played the role of Mike, a GI who made his living bootlegging American oil to the Thais. The role quickly pushed Erich into the limelight, and following lead roles in numerous Thai TV series, including The Red Roof (2004), Champion Boxer (2003), Strange Tree in the Forest (2002), and Power (1999), he became a genuine celebrity in Thailand. Erich went on to work with award-winning Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang in the short film Twelve Twenty (2006) and as Tim, the reclusive father of Paula Taylor, in the popular Thai TV3 series Lady Maha-chon aka The People's Lady (2006). He also worked with Paula in her TV debut In a Strange Country (2002) and again in the US feature film Hellgate (2009) where he worked closely with William Hurt and Cary Elwes behind the scenes.
In 2009 Erich produced and directed two documentaries and over the next few years began working extensively as an acting and dialect coach. For the next few years Erich worked behind the scenes on five big budget international films including Ip Man 2 (2010) where he provided the English voiceover for a character played by Wong Shun-Leung. Also that year, he worked as a drama and dialect coach for Hong Kong superstar Shawn Yue in My Best Bodyguard (2010). In 2011, he juggled multiple accents/characters as a drama and dialect coach for a slew of international stars, including: Tomer Sisley, Ulrich Tukur, and Nirut Sirichanya on The Burma Conspiracy (2011). He capped off the year working on Elephant White (2011), with award winning talent Prachya Pinkaew (director of Ong Bak), Djimon Hounsou, and Kevin Bacon as a drama and dialect coach.
After a long-term career based in Asia, Erich relocated back to California from 2012 to 2023 and worked on numerous films, TV shows, and worked on multipile national TV commercials. He worked repeatedly with with award-winning independent filmmaker Rob Nilsson and continued his career in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2024 Erich founded Illuminate Acting Academy BKK. His goal is bring his unique experiences in front of and behind the camera to the Southeast Asian talent. Erich continues this on set work as well as private training for on set talent.
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Terry Bradshaw
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Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is an American actor, recording artist, and former professional football player who was a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). Since 1994, he has been a television sports analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday.
He played for 14 seasons with Pittsburgh, won four Super Bowl titles in a six-year period (1974, 1975, 1978, and 1979), becoming the first quarterback to win three and four Super Bowls, and led the Steelers to eight AFC Central championships. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility. Bradshaw was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
He has participated in several television shows (mainly as himself) and films, most notably co-starring in the movie Failure to Launch, and releasing several country music albums.
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Lalita Panyopas
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Lalita Panyopas is a Thai film and television actress. Her nickname is "Mew". She is best known in Thailand for her roles in soap operas. She made a string of feature films in the late 1980s and also was the lead actress in many Thai lakorns in the late 1980s to early 2000s.
Her most prominent film role was as Tum, the unlucky central character in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's 1999 film 6ixtynin9. In 2007, she was reunited with Pen-Ek, starring in Ploy, which was screened in the Director's Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
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Chermarn Boonyasak
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Ploy Chermarn Boonyasak is a Thai film and television actress and model. She is well known for her role as June / Tang in the movie The Love of Siam. Her other film roles have included the title ghost character in director Yuthlert Sippapak's horror-comedies Buppah Rahtree and Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns. She was also featured in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Last Life in the Universe, in which she portrayed the younger sister of the character played by her real-life older sister, Daran Boonyasak.
In 2001, when she was just 18, she played a teen mum in the drama Na Tang Baan Raek (The First Window). And despite having been a big star since her 20s, she did a supporting role in the 2007 gay-teen drama Love Of Siam, which eventually won her a Suphannahong National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her role as a vengeful ghost in Buppha Ratree is also interpreted as an expression of feminine anger over patriarchal society.
In 2014, she has joined forces with the UN Refugee Agency and celebrities around the world to help spread the message of World Refugee Day.
She's also a mentor on the modelling-themed reality series The Face Thailand Season 1 and The Face Thai and season 4 All-Stars, aired on Channel 3.
She left Thai TV3 in 2017 and became a free agent.
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Chartayodom Hiranyasthiti
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Chai Chatayodom Hiranyatithi is an actor, model, and director. He won Best Actor at the 2007 Komchadluek Awards and Mue Dok Rak Ban in 2008. That same year, Chai also won Best Leading Actor from TV Gold Award in Mue Dok Rak Ban. In 2011, he won Best Supporting Actor from Natataj Awards in Sai Soke. In May 2024, for his work on "To the Moon and Back" (มาตาลดา), he won Best Actor in addition to Best Supporting Actor for his work on "The Betrayal" ( เกมรักทรยศ) at the Komchadluek Awards. In June 2024, he won Actor of the Year at the year's 9entertain Awards.
Chai is married to actress Vicky Sunisa Jett. The two met on the set of the 2008 TV drama “Phik Tai Kub Bai Khao.” They have two sons; Tristan was born in March 2017 and Tyler was born February 2021. His younger brother Boromwuti Hiranyatithi is also an actor.
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Nattawin Wattanagitiphat
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Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat is a model and actor affiliated with Channel 3 from 2014 to 2019. He went to Thammasat University before transferring to the Faculty of Communication Arts at Rangsit University. In 2014, Nattawin signed a contract as an actor with Channel 3 and made his debut in Sud Kaen Saen Rak. In 2018, his last lakorn with Channel 3 was Chart Suer Pun Mungkorn. Nattawin went on hiatus for more than 2 years after his contract expired in 2019. In 2021, Nattawin returned as a freelance actor in the Thai series, KinnPorsche.
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Andrew Gregson
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Andrew Gregson was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and is Thai/German. His awards include Top Awards 2001 - Best Male Lead Actor from Tarng Parn Kamathep; 16th Annual Golden TV Award 2001 - Best Male Lead Actor from Ruk Kerd Nai Tha Lard Sod; Kom Chud Leuk Award 2 2004 - Most Popular Male Lead Actor from Reun Mai See Beige; Mekalah Award 2004 - Best Male Lead Actor in the Drama Genre from Reun Mai See Beige. He also won as HOWE THE BEST ACTOR AWARD in the 2019 Thai Adaptation Crime Drama "Voice".
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Michael Caine
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Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive South London accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film icon. As of February 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide.
Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Alfie. His roles in the 1970s included Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), Sleuth (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He earned his second Academy Award nomination for Sleuth and achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita (1983) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) earning him his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Caine is also known for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Secondhand Lions (2003). He received his second Golden Globe Award for Little Voice (1998). In 1999, he received his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a sympathetic doctor in The Cider House Rules. He portrayed a British journalist in Vietnam in The Quiet American (2002), earning his sixth Oscar nomination, and appeared in Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian drama film Children of Men (2006). Caine portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). He appeared in several other of Nolan's films including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014) and Tenet (2020). He also appeared in the heist thriller film Now You See Me (2013), the action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), the Italian drama Youth (2015) and the crime film King of Thieves (2018).
Caine officially confirmed his retirement from acting on 13 October 2023 after The Great Escaper (2023).
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Kevin McNulty
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McNulty was born in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. He has acted on three aviation movies: Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 with William Devane,Final Descent with Robert Urich and Snakes on a Plane with Samuel L. Jackson. He had a supporting role to Roger Moore and Nancy Allen in Bill Condon'sThe Man Who Wouldn't Die (1995). McNulty also appeared in the 2009 remake of The Uninvited where he worked alongside A Series of Unfortunate Events' Emily Browning. He also played The Reverend Roy Le Grange in the "Supernatural" TV episode "Faith"
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