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José Ayala
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José Ayala Santiviago is an actor, TV and radio host, scriptwriter and creator of television content. Among his most notable works are “González vs. Bonetti”, “La Chuchi”, “Niñera de Adultos” and “Telecomio” in which he participated as an actor; and “Marque el 13”, “Por Fin Sábado” and “Mucho Gusto”, in which he worked as a TV host. He was the creator of the remembered program “La Mansión de los Políticos” and in the theater field he stood out in the role of “Julio” in “Los Vecinos de Arriba”.
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Myles Clohessy
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Myles Clohessy is a Director, Writer and Actor. The son of Actor Robert Clohessy, known for numerous starring Broadway stage performances and as a long standing TV star regular. Myles grew up excelling in sports and ended up playing Division 1 college soccer at Central Connecticut State University before transferring to pursue his acting degree full time at the renowned Conservatory of Acting at SUNY Purchase and then at the Drama Centre in London. He has since been seen steadily on prime time network TV and major indie films and is currently directing multiple big budget feature films that he wrote and directed via his Production Company Barefoot Kid Productions. So far his films have secured distribution with distributors such as Showtime, Paramount +, Shout Factory, Saban Films, Tubi, and Amazon.
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Aline Mayagoitia
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Aline Mayagoitia is a bilingual Mexican actor, singer, and writer. She was part of the 2021 ViacomCBS Comedy Showcase. Aline was born and raised in Mexico City where she began her acting career in theatre, film, and TV. At 10 years old, her family moved to the wonderful city of Austin, Texas which provided a solid base of training in music and dance before being admitted to the prestigious Musical Theatre program at The University of Michigan. Since graduating, she starred in Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation. Regionally she's appeared in Into The Woods, Kinky Boots, In The Heights, and Evita (as Eva Perón). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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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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Babette Bardot
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Babette Bardot (born 1940) is the stage name of a Swedish actress who appeared in Russ Meyer's films, including Common Law Cabin and Mondo Topless.
After attracting attention for her roles in Russ Meyer's films, Babette Bardot began touring the United States in 1968 as a burlesque dancer under the guidance of her husband and manager, Bob Baker. With the seductive coif of platinum blonde hair and the billing caption "44-24-38 World's Most Sensational Exotic Entertainer" her appearances included the Gayety Theatre in NYC, the Town Theatre in Chicago, and the Colony Club in Dallas. While covering the burlesque circuit, she became a frequent guest on TV and radio programs, including the Wally Phillips Show (WGN-Chicago), The Steve Allen Show and The Phil Donahue Show.
Although unconfirmed, Babette claimed that she was a distant relative of Brigitte Bardot and had once modeled for Pablo Picasso while in her late teens. During the Vietnam War, her popularity and public notoriety resulted in a photo insertion in the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes.
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Alessandro Bencivenni
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Alessandro Bencivenni (Salerno, 1954) is an Italian screenwriter.
Born in Salerno in 1954, he lives and works in Rome. Graduated in Literature and graduated from the CSC, he began writing screenwriting in the field of comics with Mickey Mouse, then went on to write for the cinema with the director Neri Parenti in 1986 for the film Superfantozzi, with Paolo Villaggio, Liù Bosisio, Gigi Reder and Luc Merenda, written together with the debutant Domenico Saverni and the already famous Leo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi.
With Domenico Saverni and Enrico Oldoini he conceives the successful television series Don Matteo (2000) with Terence Hill, Flavio Insinna and Nino Frassica.
With Saverni and Maestro Mario Monicelli he collaborated on the writing of Le Rose del deserto (2006), a candidate for the screenplay for the Silver Ribbons.
He won ten times the Golden Keys: the prize of the exhibitors to the greatest hits of the year.
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Simon Cowell
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Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur and record executive. He is the founder and sole owner of the British entertainment company Syco and is the creator of the X Factor and Got Talent franchises. He has judged on the British television talent competition shows Pop Idol (2001–2003), The X Factor UK (2004–2010, 2014–2018) and Britain's Got Talent (2007–present), and the American television talent competition shows American Idol (2002–2010), The X Factor US (2011–2013) and America's Got Talent (2016–present).
After some success in the 1980s and 1990s as a record producer, talent agent and consultant in the UK music industry, Cowell came to public prominence in 2001 as a judge on Pop Idol, a talent television show which he and its creator Simon Fuller successfully pitched to ITV Controller of Entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz. He subsequently created The X Factor in 2004 and Got Talent in 2006, which have become successful television franchises sold around the world.
Cowell often makes blunt and controversial comments as a television music and talent show judge, including insults and wisecracks about contestants and their singing abilities. He combines activities in both the television and music industries. Cowell has produced and promoted successful singles and albums for various recording acts whom he has signed and taken under his wing, including Little Mix, James Arthur, Labrinth, Leona Lewis, Fifth Harmony, Il Divo, Olly Murs, Noah Cyrus, Cher Lloyd, Fleur East, Ella Henderson, and Susan Boyle. He has also signed successful boy bands such as Westlife, One Direction, PrettyMuch, and CNCO.
In 2004 and 2010, Time named Cowell one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him sixth in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".The same year, he received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards.At the 2010 British Academy Television Awards, Cowell received the BAFTA Special Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry and for his development of new talent". In 2018, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the television category.
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Eugenio Barba
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Eugenio Barba is an Italian author and stage director based in Denmark. After completing high school at the Nunziatella military academy of Naples in 1954, he abandoned the idea of following his father into the military. Instead, in 1954, he emigrated to Norway to work as a welder and a sailor. He also took a degree in French, Norwegian literature, and history of religion at Oslo University. In 1961 he went to Warsaw in Poland to study theatre direction at the State Theatre School, but left one year later to join Jerzy Grotowski, who at that time was the leader of Teatr 13 Rzedow in Opole. Barba stayed with Grotowski for three years. Eugenio Barba created the Odin Teatret in Oslo 1964. The following year the Danish municipality of Holstebro invited Odin Teatret to create a theatre laboratory there.
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John F. Henry II
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New Jersey born and Los Angeles raised, John decided to become an actor in 1996, and has been training and working on stage and in film ever since. He has worked and trained with the deliberate intention of becoming versatile, believable and relatable as an "everyman". He uses his own life experiences and imagination to create the person he is portraying, always conscious of keeping that person in the world that is on the screen. Directors often remark that they find John's commitment to the work inspiring and that he is always super prepared and easy to direct. Other actors love working with him because of his commitment, versatility and believability "he draws you in". He is known for getting to the soul the person he is playing, without playing stereotypes or clichés, thus making all the people he portrays, very real, yet still cinematic. With his focus mostly on the work of an actor, he has tended to neglect the business side and thus, he has not yet been "discovered". Desiring to change that, in 2018 John and his wife Tanya started their own production company, Singularity Productions, and have been producing work that reflects their creative sensibilities of "story first", character driven pieces, for TV and film. Great classics such as "On the Water Front", "Apocalypse Now" & Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil" are some of the films that made John want to take on the craft of acting. The Atwater Playhouse and Method Acting School, is where John is a current and long time member, it is what John calls his "creative home". Early on, he trained at The Meisner Center in North Hollywood, CA, as well as with many other private coaches throughout his career.
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Vasilis Avlonitis
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Vasilis Avlonitis (Greek: Βασίλης Αυλωνίτης; 1 January 1904 – 10 March 1970) was one of the most famous old-school Greek comedians. He performed in numerous films and stage productions in the mid to late 20th century.
Vasilis Avlonitis is best known for his collaboration in films with Georgia Vasiliadou; he usually played her husband, brother or neighbour. Together they would cause laugh since he portrays the fat guy and she would be the ugly funny lady having problems with him. They would get calm at the end of the film, by resolving their arguments and/or marrying each other.
Avlonitis has also carried demanding drama roles, such as the leading character in the film Tis nyhtas ta kamomata.
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