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Luiza Parvu
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Luiza Parvu is a filmmaker, visual artist, and educator based in Tempe, AZ. She is a member of the European Film Academy. She holds an MFA in Film Production from New York University's Tisch School of The Arts, New York, USA. She is an experienced media maker with professional working knowledge of all areas of production and post-production. Her directing and editing work covers a variety of genres, in both fiction and creative non-fiction: documentary, multimedia installation, immersive media, and commercial.
The award winning films she has directed or edited so far have been recognized in film festivals and events worldwide such as Karlovy Vary IFF, Sundance FF, BFI London, Busan IFF, Transilvania IFF, Tribeca FF or Abu Dhabi IFF. In 2012, she was a nominee in the Rising Star category at the GOPO Romanian Film Industry Awards for directing her short film Draft 7.
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Angelique Midthunder
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Angelique Midthunder began her career in the mid-1990s by answering an ad on a whim for a casting call. After landing a leading role in a foreign film and working internationally as an actress, she consequently discovered an intrigue for the casting process. Angelique spent many successful years working in Los Angeles, and in 2005 relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she quickly became one of the state's preeminent casting directors. In 2010 she was nominated alongside Richard Hicks and David Ruben for an Emmy for "Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special" for Georgia O'Keeffe - and in 2017, she was nominated alongside Jeanne McCarthy for an Aritos Award for location casting for "Captain Fantastic."
Mother of Amber Midthunder, with her husband David Midthunder.
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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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Aubrey Plaza
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Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. As a teenager, she began acting in local theatre productions and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. After graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Plaza made her feature film debut in Mystery Team (2009). She gained wide recognition for her role as April Ludgate on the NBC political satire sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015).
In film, Plaza had a supporting role in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and a leading role in Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). From 2017 to 2019, Plaza portrayed the Shadow King and Lenny Busker in the critically praised FX superhero series Legion and produced and starred in the 2017 black comedy films The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West. She also starred in the romantic comedy Happiest Season and thriller Black Bear (both 2020) and produced and played the title character in the crime film Emily the Criminal (2022).
Plaza received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for her role as a strait-laced lawyer in the second season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus (2022). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. In 2024, she starred as Rio Vidal in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Agatha All Along.
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Brandon Wardell
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Brandon Wardell (born March 25, 1975 in High Point, North Carolina is an American actor, producer, musician. Currently, he plays Johnny Dollar in the Broadway show Catch Me If You Can at the Neil Simon Theatre. He is also currently working as a producer on the feature film Shift with his company Johnny Roscoe Productions. Brandon has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards for his work as a producer.
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Eric Allan Kramer
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Eric Allan Kramer (March 26, 1962) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, real estate attorney, actor and fight choreographer, perhaps best known as Little John in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, as Thor in The Incredible Hulk Returns, as Whitey van de Bunt in Bob. and as Dave Rogers in The Hughleys. He currently co-stars in the Disney Channel sitcom Good Luck Charlie as Bob Duncan.
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Ayaka Miyoshi
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Ayaka Miyoshi (三吉彩花), born on June 18, 1996, in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan, is a Japanese actress, model, and former idol. She began her career in modeling during elementary school and later joined the talent agency Amuse Inc. Miyoshi was a member of the idol group Sakura Gakuin from 2010 to 2012, where she showcased her singing abilities.
Her acting career took off with her appearance in the TV drama Otoko no Kosodate in 2007. Miyoshi has since starred in various films and dramas, including Confessions (2010), Dance with Me (2019), and the Netflix series Alice in Borderland (2020–present), where she plays Ann Rizuna. She has also been recognized for her modeling work, becoming an exclusive model for Seventeen magazine and serving as Tiffany & Co.'s first brand ambassador for Japan in 2022.
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John Blood
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John Blood's multi-faceted work unifies ideal concept and theory with the reality of production, expanding the applications of architectural knowledge into new realms and affirming the role of design in worlds both real and imagined.
As a designer for film, he creates worlds that bring stories to life. He has collaborated as concept illustrator, set designer, and art director on numerous feature films and television series by notable filmmakers including Terrence Malick, Mike Judge, Robert Rodriguez, and Taylor Sheridan. He has created visions of dystopian future worlds for television programs including NBC’s Revolution, HBO’s The Leftovers, Fear the Walking Dead and Tales of the Walking Dead, and has designed settings for historical dramas including The Son based on the Pulitzer Prize finalist novel by Philipp Meyer, and 1883, The Bass Reeves Story, part of the Yellowstone television series.
Blood is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is a principal at Danze Blood Architects. His practice is linked with his scholarship and is a means of integrating practice and theory and their powerful connection with space, design and construction. Danze Blood Architects has designed numerous award-winning projects both built and unbuilt including the T3 parking structure and Saints Peter and Paul Chapel.
As an educator, he teaches a comprehensive view of design creating a cross-disciplinary conversation that teaches students to see connections and consider how their knowledge can be used in inspiring ways. He is a recipient of the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, twice recipient of the UT School of Architecture Outstanding Teacher Award (Studio), and the Texas Excellence Teaching Award.
He earned a BArch from the University of Texas at Austin and MArch from Yale University. He has taught concurrently at both Yale and UT for over thirty years and has also taught in the department of Radio Television and Film at UT.
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Shin Sae-kyeong
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Shin Sae-kyeong (born July 29, 1990) is a South Korean actress. She started as a child actress and had her breakthrough in with the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof (2009). Since then she starred in the films Hindsight (2011), R2B: Return to Base (2012) and Tazza: The Hidden Card (2014), as well as the television series Deep Rooted Tree (2011), A Girl Who Sees Smells (2015), Six Flying Dragons (2015–2016), The Bride of Habaek (2017), Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (2017–2018), Run On (2020) and Captivating the King (2024).
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Larry Hovis
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Larry Hovis was born February 20, 1936, in Wapato, Washington. He grew up in Houston, Texas. He started out as a vocalist, singing with his sister Joan Hovis, then joined a quartet called "The Mascots", and they appeared on Arthur Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" (1948). While Larry was earning his degree in philosophy at the University of Houston, he was signed to Capitol Records, where he recorded the album "My Heart Belongs to Only You". In the late 1950s, he moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway shows "The Billy Barnes Revue" (1959) and "From A to Z" (1960).
In 1963, Larry relocated his family to California, where he performed stand-up comedy routines in local clubs. His first notable appearance on a major TV show was in 1964 on "Gomer Pyle: USMC" (1964), appearing in ten episodes. He also appeared in two episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960). Larry eventually landed a minor role on the pilot episode of "Hogan's Heroes" (1965). When two other actors backed out of the series, he was given the permanent role of demolition man "Sgt. Carter". While a regular on the popular TV series, Hovis continued to write scripts for television specials and also wrote and performed on the breakthrough comedy series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1967). In 1966, he wrote the screenplay for the film Out of Sight (1966). After the unexpected cancellation of "Hogan's Heroes" (1965), Hovis appeared in such TV programs as "The Doris Day Show" (1968), "Adam-12" (1968), "Chico and the Man" (1974), "Holmes and Yo-Yo" (1976), "Alice" (1976) and others. Behind the scenes Larry produced several game shows, including "Liar's Club" (1976), in which he was a panelist from 1976 to 1978. In 1993, he appeared in the theatrical film Shadow Force (1992).
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