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Elizabeth Tan
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Elizabeth Tan Su Mei (Chinese: 谭苏梅) or better known as Elizabeth Tan (born 18 November 1993) is a Malaysian singer, model and actress of Chinese descent. Elizabeth began her music career in 2014 by producing her solo album, "Knock Knock", "Setia" featuring Faizal Tahir (2015), and "Tabah" (2016). Besides that, she began her acting career through the film "Usop Wilcha Meghonjang Makhluk Muzium" (2015), directed by Shy8. Her talent in the musical field was recognized as she was nominated for "Best New Artist" in the "Anugerah Planet Muzik" awards ceremony in 2015.
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Vasyl Viter
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Vasyl Petrovych Viter (born 1951, in Velykopolovetsk, Skvyra Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is the chairman of the VIATEL studio. Honored Artist of Ukraine. Associate professor of the Department of Film and Television Directing and Dramaturgy at the I. Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theater, Film, and Television. Member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.
In 1981–1982, he worked as a director in the video film production department at the State Television and Radio Company of the Ukrainian SSR. He was one of the first directors in the USSR to start shooting feature films on video, namely the film "In the Meadow on an Old Sofa" based on the novel by E. Hutsalo.
He worked as a director and production director at the Ukrainian television film studio Ukrtelevizija from 1982 to 1993. In 1994, he founded and headed the VIATEL studio, which produced about 120 films.
Since 2013, he has been deputy chairman of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize Committee of Ukraine. He is a member of the expert commission on cinematography of the State Agency of Ukraine for Film.
Since 1996, he has been working as a lecturer and artistic director of the television directing course at the Department of Television Directing of the Ivan Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television, and since 2025, at the Department of Film and Television Directing and Dramaturgy. From 2010 to 2025, he was head of the Department of Television Directing at the Ivan Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television.
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Tom Randall
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Thomas Paul Randalll was born in South Africa, and grow in Sheffield (UK). He's climbing since he was 16, and he is a keen trad climber and has established many first ascents all over the world, mostly involving some kind of crack climbing. In 2011 he teamed up with Pete Whittaker to take on the world's hardest offwidth crack Century Crack, which is documented in the film "Wide Boyz" from Hotaches. His current project is to make the first ascent of “The Crucifix” in the USA.
A love for first ascents has also taken him around the UK and the world, with hard trad routes in Orco and Red Rocks to his name. With an appetite for suffering, a good sense of humour and endless enthusiasm, Tom has also pushed the boundaries closer to home with a string of creative challenges – some hard, some odd, but usually both.
Tom has also pushed climbing in unusual directions. After an injury forced Tom into avoiding crimps, he focused on developing crack climbing skills and eventually an offwidth obsession. After ticking everything in the UK and some of the hardest routes in Europe, there was only one place left to visit. A trip to the south-west of the US, the offwidth capital of the world, resulted in the first ascent of Century Crack (5.14b) – the hardest of its kind. From the widest of cracks, the obvious challenge was then the thinnest. After spending months in his now famous training basement, a trip to Squamish resulted in an ascent of Cobra Crack (5.14).
"I was born in South Africa and spent the following 20 years living in lots of different places due to my parents. I think the regular moving around gave me an appetite for change and ever since leaving school, I’ve never quite been satisfied with staying in one place for more than a few months. In recent years I’ve specialised in trad and in particular, crack climbing. This has taken me from the depths of my basement in Sheffield (training on wooden cracks) to some of the world’s best hard cracks. My main passion lies in new routing and exploring new places, so as my climbing progresses I naturally look for first ascents and ones that include hard crack climbing."
Notable Ascents: Pura Pura (5.14c), Orco - first ascent Century Crack (5.14b), Canyonlands - first ascent Cobra Crack (5.14b), Squamish Dinas Crac (E9 7a), Dinas Rock - first ascent Captain Invincible (E9 7a), Burbage North - third ascent Pure Now (E9 6c), Millstone - first ascent Appointment with Death (E9 6c), Wimberry - second ascent Muir-Corazon (5.13b), El Capitan - free ascent World record for most routes soloed in a day - 550 One Infinity(8b+/8A+), Sally-in-the-woods - first ascent Master's Edge (E7 6b), Millstone - multiple birthday ascents in fancy dress
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Brian Downey
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Brian Downey (born 31 October 1944 in Newfoundland, Canada) is a Canadian actor perhaps best-known for his portrayal of Stanley Tweedle, in the science-fiction television series Lexx.
Downey is a character actor who has appeared in various films and guest starring roles on TV, including a recurring role on Millennium. His first film role was in a 1986 Andy Jones film called The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, which features the entire cast of CODCO. Downey has enjoyed a long professional relationship with Lexx creator Paul Donovan, dating back at least to 1988, when Donovan cast Downey in the time travel adventure film, Norman's Awesome Experience. Downey appeared as Cardinal Juan de Mella in Donovan's upcoming medieval TV thriller, The Conclave. Downey has also worked with Jessica Lange, JoBeth Williams, Sam Rockwell, and directors such as Joe Sargent. He won the 2010 only acting award at the 2010 Atlantic Film Festival for his role in "Whirligig", directed by Chaz Thorne, with whom he has worked on 2 previous features. He played the evil gang leader "The Drake", who runs the town in the feature film, Hobo with a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener.
Downey is also a musician and writer. Before being recruited as an actor, he spent many years as a musician, as a bass player, guitarist, and blues harmonica player. He has been a writer for many stage plays, and has led many script writing workshops. His first full length stage play, "Peter's Other War", was produced during the summer of 2009.
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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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Gila Golan
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Gila Golan (born 1940) is an Israeli former fashion model and actress.
Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1940, she was adopted by a Roman Catholic family that found her left in a bundle at a train station during the Holocaust. Her adopted family sent her to be educated in a monastery. Arriving in Israel after World War II with the name Zusia Sobetzcki, she became Miriam Goldberg and continued her schooling in an Orthodox girls' boarding school.
After becoming enamoured with fashion and undergoing plastic surgery, she was spotted by an American photographer, and ultimately ended up in the Israeli women's magazine LaIsha. Her new fame launched her to the 1960 national fashion competition, where she won first place and was crowned Miss Israel, though she changed her name to Gila Golan to prevent word getting back to her religiously conservative benefactors. After receiving second place in that year's Miss World competition as Israel's representative, she was sent to the United States to raise funds, and she ended up staying there.
Director Stanley Kramer started her film career with the role of Elsa Lutz in his film Ship of Fools, whence she continued to establish herself in Our Man Flint, Three on a Couch, and The Valley of Gwangi. Golan was married and divorced, remarried and widowed, and finally married a third time, and has several children from her three marriages. In recent years she has returned to religion and now runs an investment business.
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Ydaiber Orozco
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Ydaiber Orozco is an actress and casting director. A Blend of Heritage, Passion, and Artistry
Ydaiber's name is a clever fusion of her two abuelas, Ida and Ever, whose influences have intricately woven into the fabric of her unique personality.
From Abuela Ida springs forth a love for the 1920s, evident in Ydaiber's fashion choices like T-strap heels and vibrant red lipstick. Meanwhile, Abuela Ever bequeathed a culinary passion that manifests in Ydaiber's love for food and entertaining.
Before gracing the screens of Los Angeles in shows like Hacks and Criminal Minds, Ydaiber refined her craft at the prestigious William Esper Studio in NYC. The city became her playground for bilingual exploration in theater, commercials, and independent films. Simultaneously, she thrived as an Event and Catering Manager, mastering multitasking in a dynamic environment.
Seamlessly transitioning into the role of an independent producer, Ydaiber brought her organizational prowess and storytelling finesse to the forefront. Whether connecting directors, DPs, actors, or editors, she injected each collaboration with the same zest and flair found in her culinary creations.
Despite trading T-straps for running shoes in L.A., Ydaiber remains a force to be reckoned with. Behind her laid-back exterior lies a recovering perfectionist who is also the creator and host of the Rekindle Your Light Podcast-an exploration of purpose, creativity, and grit in the face of darkness.
Whether in front of or behind the camera, Ydaiber is an artist committed to delivering performances as vibrant and creative as her namesakes, embodying a legacy of heritage, passion, and artistic flair.
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Hilda Gadea
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Hilda Gadea Acosta (21 March 1925 – 11 February 1974) was a Peruvian economist, and author. She was the first wife of communist revolutionary Che Guevara.
Gadea Acosta was Secretary of the Economy of the Executive National Committee for Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA, American Popular Revolutionary Alliance). Her activities in Peru led to her exile in 1948. She met Guevara in Guatemala in December 1953. Gadea and Guevara moved to Mexico due to political pressure. She introduced Guevara to several Cuban rebels.
They wed in Mexico in September 1955, after learning she was pregnant. They had a daughter named Hilda Beatriz 'Hildita' Guevara Gadea in February 1956, who died of cancer in 1995. The marriage ended in a divorce in May 1959.
Following the Cuban Revolution, in which Guevara fought, Gadea came to Cuba, confronted with the announcement by Guevara that he had fallen in love with another woman, Aleida March, and requested a divorce. Gadea remained loyal to Guevara's movement; she died in Havana in 1974.
She wrote the memoir 'My Life with Che', which is being adapted to film, starring Adriana Paz as Gadea.
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Yannis Stankoglou
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Yannis (or Yiannis) Stankoglou (Greek: Γιάννης Στάνκογλου; born 10 January 1974) is a Greek actor.
Yannis Stankoglou was born in Athens, and worked as a builder and construction worker in his teens, before discovering theatre. He attended the Athens Drama School and went on to study and work in New York, later returning to Greece to become a major figure in the theatre industry. Stankoglou works in Greece, Europe and the United States. He has toured internationally with productions of Greek tragedy and modern works, representing Greek theatre in China, Latin America, and Russia.
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Milly Alcock
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Amelia Alcock (born 11 April 2000), known professionally as Milly Alcock, is an Australian actress. She received an AACTA Award nomination for her performance in the Foxtel comedy-drama Upright (2019–2022). She gained wider recognition for starring as young Rhaenyra Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022–2024), for which she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Alcock will play Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, in James Gunn's DCU, starting with Supergirl (2026), following an uncredited cameo in Superman (2025).
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