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Jonathan Banks
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Jonathan Ray Banks (born January 31, 1947) is an American character actor in film and television.
Banks dropped out of Indiana University to join a touring company as a stage manager. He went to Australia with the company and stayed on working in theatre there. In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles and performed on stage before picking up bit parts on television. Probably his best-known movie roles are in two films starring Eddie Murphy: 48 Hrs. and Beverly Hills Cop. In 48 Hrs. he plays a character who is a friend of the lead and is killed by the villain, beginning the lead characters' story. In Beverly Hills Cop, he plays a villain who kills the lead characters' friend and begins his story. Other movie roles include appearances in Armed and Dangerous, Freejack, Flipper, Airplane!, Gremlins, Murder Me, Murder You, and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.
His biggest break on television, came with the series Wiseguy, in which he played Frank McPike for four years, a role which led to an Emmy award nomination. Although his character was primarily the hero's mentor, stories occasionally featured McPike as hero. In 1981 he appeared as Dutch Schultz on the NBC series the Gangster Chronicles. He also starred on the short-lived science fiction TV series Otherworld, as Kommander Neveen Kroll and in the sitcom Fired Up.
Banks has also made guest appearances on TV shows including Alias, CSI, Day Break, Highlander: The Series, Matlock, SeaQuest DSV, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Women of the House and Walker Texas Ranger. Most recently, Banks appeared in the final Season Two episodes of Dexter, and in episodes of ER, Cold Case, and Shark, Modern Family. In the second season finale of Breaking Bad, Banks appeared as a mysterious character named Mike. Banks was made a series regular for the third season.
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Anne-Sophie Lapix
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Anne-Sophie Lapix (born 29 April 1972 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a French journalist and television presenter mainly for the French news program on France 2. She used to deputise for Claire Chazal, presenting the evening news bulletin (20 Heures) on France 2 from Friday to Sunday as well as the lunchtime bulletin at 1 PM (13 Heures). She also presented the Sunday evening magazine program Sept à Huit with Harry Roselmack (who used to substitute for TF1 newsreader Patrick Poivre d'Arvor).
After gaining a degree from the IEP of Bordeaux, Lapix has worked for Bloomberg, LCI and M6 where she has presented French leading newsmagazine Zone Interdite before joining TF1's staff. She hosted C à vous from 2013 to 2017. Lapix is married to Arthur Sadoun, CEO of the advertising agency Publicis. She has two children from a previous relationship.
Source: Article "Anne-Sophie Lapix" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kacee Carlisle
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Kacee Carlisle (born February 11, 1980) is a female professional wrestler. She has wrestled throughout the independent circuit for many promotions including Women Superstars Uncensored, National Wrestling League, World Xtreme Wrestling, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). She has held the NWA World Women's Championship one time and is the current Queen of VALKYRIE. Carlisle knew she wanted to be a professional wrestler since she was eight years old. She admired female wrestler Sherri Martel.At an independent show in 1997, Carlisle met wrestler Shorty Smalls. He agreed to train her as a manager and wrestler.She debuted as a manager for Smalls in 1998. Carlisle worked sparingly until 2003, when she debuted for the National Wrestling League/House of Pain Wrestling Federation. She wrestled in her first match on July 30, 2005 against Krissy Vaine at a World Xtreme Wrestling (WXW) show as a last minute substitute for a sick wrestler. In 2006, she wrestled in WXW's Elite 8 Tournament where she lost in the final round to Mercedes Martinez. There was one very memorable match that Kacee Carlisle had with Cindy Rogers. During this encounter, Cindy Rogers was wearing shiny black spandex tights.
In February 2011, Carlisle participated in TNA Gut Check, a recruitment program for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, but she did not earn a contract with the promotion.
Carlisle defeated Tasha Simone on October 20, 2012 to win the NWA World Women's Championship.She later lost the title to Barbi Hayden on January 25, 2014.
On October 24, 2014 Carlisle defeated Sumie Sakai at VALKYRIE III: Queen's Road to become the inaugural Queen of VALKYRIE for VALKYRIE Women's Professional Wrestling.
On October 25, 2014, Carlisle defeated Sara Feeny to become the inaugural 1CW Women's Champion for First State Championship Wrestling. On December 13, 2014, she successfully defended the title against Jessie Kay.
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Carlisle grew up in Washington D.C..Carlisle ran for her high school team.She also lived in Manassas, Virginia, where she worked as an office manager. Her interests include animals, traveling, and photography
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Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
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Sammo Kam-Bo Hung (Chinese: 洪金寶, born Hung Kam-Bo, 7 January 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, producer and director, known for his work in many kung fu films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a fight choreographer for, amongst others, Jackie Chan, King Hu, and John Woo. Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the vampire-like Jiang Shi genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong Kong film industry, by casting them in the films he produced, or giving them roles in the production crew. In East Asia, it is common for people to address their elders or influential people with familial nouns as a sign of familiarity and respect. Jackie Chan, for example, is often addressed as "Dai Goh", meaning Big Brother. Hung was also known as "Dai Goh", until the filming of Project A, which featured both actors. As Hung was the eldest of the kung fu "brothers", and the first to make a mark on the industry, he was given the nickname "Dai Goh Dai", meaning, Big, Big Brother or Biggest Big Brother.
Was a member of the"Seven Little Fortunes" in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School.
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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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Ashton Leigh
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Ashton Courtney Leigh, a New Orleans native, is an actress and model. She is also experienced in the areas of dance, broadcasting, stunts, and voiceover.
She was introduced to the entertainment industry at a very early age via pageants, commercials, theatre and modeling. She holds a degree in international studies/business with a minor in French from the University of New Orleans.
She has appeared in TV series including Ambitions, NCIS: New Orleans, Queen Sugar, Killing It, Queen of the South, Looking for Alaska , On Becoming a God in Central Florida , The Act, Preacher, Cobra Kai, Tremé, and the reboots of MacGyver and Dynasty. She has had acting roles in true crime series Murder Chose Me, Homicide Hunter and Dead Silent. Also, she has appeared in several films and TV movies.
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Robert Brodie
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Robert Brodie, is an actor based in Sydney, Australia. Standing at 4'3", with a dynamic range and a unique on-screen presence, Robert continues to built a diverse portfolio of work across film and television.
His credits include an appearance on Hughesy, We Have a Problem (2018), multiple short and feature length films, and has also shared the screen with cast members from Talk to Me (2022), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and the iconic Australian TV series, Home and Away (1988).
Known for his dedication and versatility, Robert brings depth and authenticity to every role, making him an exciting talent within the industry.
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Tomas Arana
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He co-starred as Quintus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), the Dreamworks-Universal movie and winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture, co-starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, and Oliver Reed. Three of Tomas Arana's more recent films are: La volpe a tre zampe (2005), directed by Sandro Dionisio, a Teatri Uniti (Angelo Curti)/Cattelya Production that co-stars Miranda Otto, Angela Luce, and Nadja Uhl; Outpatient (2002), directed by Alec Carlin, with Justin Kirk and Catherine Kellner and the Jean-Claude Van Damme action film, Derailed (2002), directed by Bob Misiorowski. He was in Chimera (2001), directed by Pappi Corsicato, with Iaia Forte and Tommaso Ragno. He has appeared in more than 40 films, ranging from large budget Hollywood Studio pictures to Independent films in both the U.S. and Europe. His studio pictures include L.A. Confidential (1997) (as Bruening, a rogue cop), The Bodyguard (1992) (as Portman, Kevin Costner's antagonist and Whitney Houston's assassin), The Hunt for Red October (1990) (as Loginov, the Russian Saboteur), Tombstone (1993), and First Kid (1996).
He played Lazarus in Martin Scorsese's controversial The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). He was also featured in the Sundance-developed Wildflowers (1999), an independent film by Melissa Painter starring Clea DuVall and Daryl Hannah. Arana has played leading and supporting roles in over 30 European productions including films by directors such as Lina Wertmüller, Liliana Cavani, Carlo Verdone, Michele Soavi and with one of Japan's most successful directors: Koreyoshi Kurahara in the Toho production See You (1988). In theatre, Arana was the producer as well as a leading actor in the internationally acclaimed Theatre Company Falso Movimento, based in Naples, Italy. Under Arana and the artistic director Mario Martone (now a major Italian Film Director), Falso Movimento won many awards including Best Play of the Year, Best Set Design and the prestigious Mondello Prize. The company toured worldwide for more than nine years at major International Festivals including London, Frankfurt, New York, Los Angeles, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Jerusalem, and others. Tomas Arana grew up in San Francisco and studied classical theatre at its prestigious American Conservatory Theatre, afterwards relocating to New York and acting in off-Broadway productions. He then hitchhiked throughout Europe and ended up living in Naples, Italy, where he worked in the Lucio Amelio Art Gallery, working with such artists as Warhol, Rauschenberg, Beuys, Richter, Longobardi, Clemente, Gilbert & George, etc. Andy Warhol painted his portrait, which is now part of his extensive art collection. He has both U.S. and Italian citizenship. He is married and has two sons.
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Daniel Wu
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Daniel Wu Neh-Tsu (Chinese: 吳彥祖; born September 30, 1974) is a Hong Kong actor and filmmaker. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. A three-time Golden Horse Award winner, he starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.
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Hania Aamir
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Hania Aamir is a Pakistani actress who works in Urdu television and films. She has received three Hum Awards and a Lux Style Award. She began her acting career with the comedy films Janaan (2016), Na Maloom Afraad 2 (2017) and subsequently began her television career with Phir Wohi Mohabbat (2017) which earned her the Hum Award for Best Television Sensation Female.
Aamir achieved success with the commercially successful films the combat film Parwaaz Hai Junoon (2018) and the comedy Punjabi film Sardaarji 3 (2025). She gained popularity with Mere Humsafar (2022) and Mujhe Pyaar Hua Tha (2023) and gained praise for her headstrong portrayals in the romantic dramas Anaa (2019), Ishqiya (2020), Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum (KMKT) (2024) and Meri Zindagi Hai Tu (2025). For her portrayal as Sharjeena in KMKT, she received her first Lux Style Award for Best TV Actress.
In addition to acting, she serves as the ambassador for several brands and products. On Instagram, Aamir is the most-followed Pakistani woman.
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