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Mischa Barton
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Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British-American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career onstage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and took the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York City's Lincoln Center. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children (1995) and voicing Betty Ann Bongo on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam! (1996–97). Her first significant film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs (1997), a drama co-starring Sam Rockwell. She appeared in major pictures such as the romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) and M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller The Sixth Sense (1999). She also starred in the indie crime drama Pups (1999).
Barton later appeared in the independent drama Lost and Delirious (2001) and guest-starred as Evan Rachel Wood's girlfriend on ABC's Once and Again (2001–02). She played Marissa Cooper in the Fox television series The O.C.(2003–2006), for which she received two Teen Choice Awards. The role brought Barton into mainstream fame, and Entertainment Weekly named her the "It Girl" of 2003.
Barton has since appeared in the comedy remake St Trinian's (2007), the Richard Attenborough–directed drama Closing the Ring (2007) and Assassination of a High School President (2008). She returned to television, starring in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher-produced CW series The Beautiful Life (2009).
In 2012, she returned to the stage, performing in the Irish production of Steel Magnolias. She also appeared alongside Martin Sheen in Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014). She has garnered critical praise for her roles in independent films, with the Los Angeles Times praising her "standout" performance in Starcrossed (2014). Barton was cast in the first season of the MTV series The Hills: New Beginnings (2019–2021), a reboot of The Hills. In 2023, she was cast in an extended guest role for the rebooted Australian soap opera Neighbours on Amazon Freevee and Network 10.
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Cho Jung-seok
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Jo Jung-suk (born 26 December 1980) is a South Korean actor. He began his career in theater, starring in Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the stage adaptation of The Harmonium in My Memory, among many other musicals and plays.
After nearly a decade on the stage, Jo made his film debut as a comedic supporting actor in the 2012 box office hit Architecture 101, which became his breakout role. His versatility was further showcased by the television series The King 2 Hearts (2012), You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin (2013), Oh My Ghost (2015), and Don't Dare to Dream (2016), as well as films The Face Reader (2013), My Love, My Bride (2014) and My Annoying Brother (2016).
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Allie Meixner
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A Pittsburgh native, Allie became interested in show business at a very young age. She grew up taking master classes from teachers all across the country. At the age of 17, Allie moved to New York City to pursue her dreams of performing. Three months later she was cast as the lead in the Tony Award winning musical, Contact, as the “girl in the yellow dress.” Allie has since accumulated an impressive list of credits in her young career which include touring with Toni Braxton, performing live on numerous episodes of Saturday Night Live, featured as the head cheerleader in the movie, Across the Universe, and has danced with Beyonce on VH1 Fashion Rocks, MTV Video Music Awards, a L’oreal Commercial, and was seen in Macy’s stores all across the country in the Dereon print campaign, Beyonce’s clothing company. She also had the chance to create the role of “Lady Cross” in Tony award winning director, Jerry Mitchell’s, production of Peep Show, featuring Mel B, Kelly Monaco, and Holly Madison. Allie also can be seen in Katy Perry’s California Gurls music video and was featured in the new 98 Degrees comeback video, Microphone. She most recently was featured in a Sony and a national GM commercial and has appeared as a sketch performer on the Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno. She just finished playing "young groupie" in the Las Vegas Production of ROCK of AGES and this summer will be featured in the new Step Up 5 movie.
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Paulina Gálvez
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Paulina Gálvez (born September 14, 1969) is a Spanish actress. She was born in Santiago de Chile, Chile to a Chilean mother and a Spanish father, both economists. She was raised in Madrid from the age of eight. Started her artistic career as a Flamenco dancer in several companies (Carmen Cortes, Zambra), theatre with famous experimental Catalan group Els Joglars, from Barcelona and films and television in Europe. Actually she lives in the United States. She played the role of Gabriela in the movie Un rey en la Habana, 2005.
In 2000 she played Marta, the Gypsy servant of the Queen of Swords and with Tessie Santiago were the only two actors to appear in all 22 episodes of this TV series filmed at Texas Hollywood, Almeria, Spain.
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Jesse Pruett
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Jesse Pruett was born in San Diego, California. He is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who started the band Parker Theory in the summer of 2000 and has released 4 albums and 2 EP's. Songs he has written have been heard on MTV, VH1, NBC, ABC, CW, The Hills, Smallville, Jersey Shore, The Real world, Snooki and JWOWW, and many other TV shows, movies, and radio. Parker Theory have released albums through labels in the U.S., Japan, Brazil, and Sweden. Over the years he has shared the stage with Blink 182, Jason Mraz, Switchfoot, Smashmouth, Eve 6, P.O.D., and many other great bands and artists. He continues to write, record and release music through parker theory and other projects. He and T.J. Hill wrote the score and original soundtrack to the film General Education. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Imagine Entertainment and Management
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Kong Lin
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Kong Lin (Chinese: 孔琳; born Kong Linglin; 5 January 1969) is a Chinese actress, television series and movie producer, art director, and semi-rock-pop singer. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang she now lives in Beijing, Jilin.
Kong is known as one of her generation's most distinguished graduates of the Beijing Film Academy, praised for her great ability and multitalented abilities. Before graduating, she was already contributing to several film projects directed by prominent filmmakers, such Zhang Yimou in his 1991 movie, Raise the Red Lantern.
Well known as a villain in many television series because of her performance in Raise the Red Lantern, she has appeared in The Proud Twins (2005), Zhen Qing Gao Bie (2003), The Raging Butterfly (2003), Lucky Zhu Bajie (2003) amongst many others.
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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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Hari Nef
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Hari Nef (born October 21, 1992) is an American actress, model, and writer. Nef's breakthrough role was Gittel in the Amazon original series Transparent, for which she was nominated for a SAG award in 2016. She made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week Spring 2015, walking for both Hood By Air and Eckhaus Latta, and subsequently became the first openly transgender woman signed to IMG Models. She became the first openly transgender woman to appear on the cover of a major British magazine. Nef has written on a breadth of topics from fine art and film to sex, gender, and transgender identity. She lives and works in New York City.
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Mickey Mason
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Grew up in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Mickey Mason first began acting at the age of 14 while at high school, playing various roles in school pantomimes. He spent a lot of time in hospital from a young age. It was there that he learned to use different accents whilst performing puppet shows for the other children in the ward.
His first television appearance was in an episode of 'Blue Peter' at 10 years of age. He joined different theatre groups, involving himself in and around various stage productions. He was a boxer for years, and fought in the County Antrim and Ulster championships. Mickey joined the National Youth Theatre in London, and in 2008, he was cast in his first television role by producer and director Lawrence Gough, as killer Daniel Young in an episode of Stirling productions television series 'In Cold Blood'(2006).
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David Lambert
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David Lambert (born November 29, 1993) is an American actor, best known for playing Brandon Foster on the Freeform original series The Fosters.
He can play the piano and trumpet, and is learning the electric guitar. He also has a very strong tenor singing voice. He has been doing theater for many years, beginning when he was cast in the play the Wizard of Oz at age 3.
Lambert was discovered at an open casting call by agent Joy Pervis in Atlanta. After performing his monologue, he was asked to do something else. At first thought, he recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and it worked. He was in Georgia when he got the call to pack for Canada, where Aaron Stone was filmed.
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