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Kayako Oki
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Born in Fukuoka in 1987. Kayako Oki graduated from Department of Fine Arts (Textile) in Tohoku University of Art and Design. She started filmmaking during her study in the university and has continued to work with a series of “textilm” project focusing on similarities between film and textile. One of the series “Spinning Light” (2012) has been widely shown in international festivals in and out of the country, including Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2013 and The 8 fest Small-Gauge Film Festival 2015. She also made an official opening sequence for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011, while she has collaborated with acoustic musicians such as Haruka Nakamura by creating a special film for their live performance. “Shades of Safflower-dyed Celluloid”(2015) was selected to be screened in Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2016, Split Film Festival and Viennale' 16 Vienna International Film Festival.
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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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Raugi Yu
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In the late 1990s, Yu began appearing on television. In 1998 he appeared in one episode of The Sentinel. In 2001, he was the voice of the Cook in several episodes of the PBS children’s animated series, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat and also in an episode of Dark Angel. From 2002 – 2004, he appeared in three episodes of Da Vinci’s Inquest. He was seen in one episode of Gather Up Little People episodes of Dead Like Me in 2003, two episodes of The Dead Zone in 2003 and 2004, as well as playing the Chinese son in the film Spook in 2003.
In 2005, he also supplied the voice of Wendy’s Butler in an episode of the animated series The Cramp Twins. He is also friends with Selene Rose – notable member of UBC Improv of Vancouver, British Columbia.
In 2006, Yu appeared in the television shows Intelligence, and Masters Of Horror. In 2007 he played Dennis in When a Man Falls in the Forest and Wayne Kwan in an episode of Eureka. Most recently, Yu was seen as Kam Fong on the series JPod.
Yu was part of the recurring cast for Mr. Young.
During his early acting years, Yu was seen in several theatre productions, which soon grew into his film and television work.
For several years, during the 90s and early 2000s, Yu was an actor at Bard On The Beach in Vancouver, where he now continues to be an acting coach.
In 2002, Yu portrayed The King Of Siam in Theatre Under The Star’s theatre production of The King And I.
In the spring of 2008, Yu directed The Odd Couple for the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre company.
As of 2010-2011, Raugi teaches acting courses at New Image College of Fine Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also teaches the summer Young Shakespearian program which Bard puts on every year for youth ages eight to eighteen.
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Ronnie Wood
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Ronald David Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician, best known as a member of the Rolling Stones since 1975, and a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group.
Wood began his career in 1964, playing lead guitar with several British rhythm and blues bands in short succession, including the Birds and the Creation. He joined the Jeff Beck Group in 1967 as a guitarist and bassist, playing on the albums Truth and Beck-Ola. The group split in 1969, and Wood departed along with lead vocalist Rod Stewart to join former Small Faces members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones in a new group named Faces with Wood now primarily on lead guitar. The group found great success in the UK and mainland Europe from the early days on, but only reached major fame in the US during their last year of existence, 1975, with a major tour of the US. Wood sang and co-wrote the title track from their final LP, Ooh La La, released in 1973. He also worked extensively on Stewart's first few solo albums.
As Faces began to split, he started several solo projects, eventually recording his first solo LP, I've Got My Own Album to Do, in 1974. The album featured bandmate McLagan as well as former Beatle George Harrison and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, a longtime friend of Wood. Soon after Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stones, Richards invited Wood to join them; he did so in 1975, initially temporarily, but became an official member in 1976.
Besides I've Got My Own Album to Do, Wood has recorded several other solo efforts. Now Look was released in 1975 and peaked at No. 118 on Billboard; he also collaborated with Ronnie Lane for the soundtrack album Mahoney's Last Stand. Wood also released Gimme Some Neck in 1979, which hit No. 45 in the US; 1234 was released in 1981, peaking at No. 164. He released Slide on This in 1992, Not for Beginners in 2002, and I Feel Like Playing in 2010. As a member of the Rolling Stones, Wood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in 2012.
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Mike Newell
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Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan and David Yates, as confirmed by the UK Film Council in their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Newell won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 1994 for Four Weddings and a Funeral and the BAFTA Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing for his career prior to 2005.
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Kevin Lima
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Kevin Lima (born c. 1962) is an American film director who has directed a number of Disney films including his debut film A Goofy Movie in 1995, Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians, Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise at Christmastime and Enchanted. Before directing, he worked as an animator and character designer on films such as The Little Mermaid and The Great Mouse Detective and a story editor for Aladdin and Oliver & Company. At the moment he is working on a feature adaptation of the classic tale of Tom Thumb entitled Thumb for Warner Bros. Kevin is also developing Candy Land with Universal and Hasbro and Afterlife with Fox 2000.
Kevin studied film and animation at the California Institute of the Arts, during the mid-80's. He is married to Brenda Chapman, an animation Director at Pixar.
His grandparents were both Portuguese.
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Nyco Lilliu
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Nicolas "Nyco" Lilliu (born 1987) is a French singer of mixed French-Italian origin. His father is from Terralba, Sardinia and his mother from Brittany. He is the younger brother of French rock singer Pierrick Lilliu.
Lilliu was born in Carspach, near Mulhouse, Alsace. He started very early in music, learning to play the guitar at age 11, and was very much affected by Italian music. At 15, the family left Alsace to live in Brittany where his mother originated from. In 2006, at age 19, he left to Paris to pursue an artistic career.
His first studio release was "Comme un frère", a duo recorded with his brother Pierrick Lilliu and appearing in Pierrick's album Besoin d'espace. He was credited as Nicolas Lilliu on the album.
Lilliu's first solo recordings were with Mercury where he released an Italian album of songs including "Dimmi Perche". The solo album also contained "La Luna", Nyco's own composition.
He was signed to Universal Music and later to Warner Music where he is preparing his main commercial album due in 2013. The single from the upcoming album with Warner was the Italian-language song "Tu ed io più lei".
In 2013, he took part in Robin des Bois, a major musical in France, where he plays the role of Friar Tuck. His track "Un monde à changer", an official single of the French musical, released in September 2012, a full year prior to the official launch of the musical has charted on SNEP, the French Singles Chart and in Ultratip French Belgian Charts. The musical Robin des Bois is a modern adaptation of Robin Hood, where the lead role is played by French singer M. Pokora. The show premiered on 26 September 2013 in Palais des congrès de Paris.
In 2014, he took part in a compilation album Latin Lovers with three tracks: solo interpretation of "La solitudine" originally from Laura Pausini, a duo with Damien Sargue interpreting "Una storia importante" from Eros Ramazzotti and as a trio with Nuno Resende and Julio Iglesias Jr. singing "Più bella cosa" also from Ramazzotti.
Source: Article "Nyco Lilliu" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Laura Swift
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Laura Swift is a British stunt performer and actress. She joined the British Stunt Register in 2016 and holds a Level 3 Health & Safety certification. Her skill set includes firearms handling, kickboxing, wrestling, precision driving, high falls, fire burns, wire work, and motion capture. In addition to her stunt work, Swift is drama school trained and has experience in professional acting roles.
Swift has performed stunts in major films, including Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Black Widow, and The Batman. She has also worked on television series, including The Sandman Season 2 and The Lazarus Project Season 2. Her stunt doubling credits feature prominent actresses like Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer, Gal Gadot in Disney's Snow White, Amber Heard in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and Emma D'Arcy in House of the Dragon Season 2.
In addition to her stunt career, Swift has taken on acting roles, notably starring as Frances in the sci-fi horror film The Rizen (2017). She began her career in acting before transitioning into stunt work, leveraging her physical abilities to expand her opportunities in the entertainment industry.
Swift's filmography also includes appearances in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019), The King's Man (2021), and Spooks: The Greater Good (2015).
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Adam Harper
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Born in Iowa. Raised in Arizona. Trained in NYC. Adam earned a BFA in Theater Performance from Northern Arizona University, and then continued his training in New York studying with: Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), The Atlantic Theater Company, T. Schreiber Studio, Bob Krakower and The People's Improv Theater.
He is the current Voice Over talent behind the brands Just for Men and the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando.
Married to Hannah Ernst in 2010.
TV Credits include: Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Blacklist, Uncoupled, Law & Order: Organized Crime.
His short films Dear Liza and Scare Monster won numerous awards during their festival runs.
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Chris Buck
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Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little.
Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound.
Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series.
Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup.
A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.
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