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Leo Solomon
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Leo Solomon is an award-winning actor with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in acting & theater performance from the Actors Studio Drama School in New York and is a Finalist to become a Lifetime member at the world renowned The Actors Studio where he studies with Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons; a former student and protege of legendary acting teacher and founder of the Method Acting - Lee Strasberg.
Leo is conversational in Dari/Farsi, Hindi, Spanish, and French. Leo and his seven brothers grew up in Minnesota and all attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with 18 degrees between them, ranging from PHDs to JDs, MDs and MBAs. Leo is also passionate about playing classical piano.
Recognized notably for his recurring role as Rahim on Veep (HBO), his TV credits include Homeland, Blue Bloods, NCIS, Lie to Me and he's won several awards in various feature films under the Best Lead Actor category.
Leo's recent performances on Broadway includes performing a reading of Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by award winning writer Jamil Jan Kochai at The Symphony Space, and Off-Broadway in Sex Work Sex Play by Caytha Jentis.
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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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Nanami Asahi
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Asahi Nanami is a Japanese female model and actress. She belongs to Asia Promotion.
She used to work under the stage name Nanami Sakura, but she changed her name to Nanami Asahi after moving to Asia Promotion.
She was scouted while shopping at Laforet Harajuku and entered the entertainment world.
Her hobbies are watching movies, watching professional wrestling, and going to waterfalls. Her specialties are clarinet, trombone, cooking, and fortune-telling. Her favorite actress is Kasumi Arimura.
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Mamukkoya
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Mamukkoya was a popular Malayalam comedian actor. His unique usage of Mappila dialect and style marked his presence in the industry. He acted in more than 450 Malayalam films and was the first winner of State award for Best Comedian in Malayalam cinema.
He was born to Chalikandiyil Muhammed and Imbachi Ayisha on 5th July, 1946. He had a brother Koyakutty. He had his primary education from MM High School, Calicut.
He was married to Suhara. The couple had four children, Muhammed Nisar, Shahitha, Nadiya and Abdul Rasheed. He was residing in Beypore near Kozhikode.
Mamukkoya started his career as a theatre actor. He got his chance in the film industry through Anyarude Bhoomi (1979). His second entry to Malayalam cinema was through Sibi Mayil's movie Doore Doore Oru Koodu Koottam. After this film he was introduced to Sathyan Anthikkad by scriptwriter Sreenivasan. He landed a role in Gandhinagar Second Street. His portrayal of Gafoor in Sathyan Anthikkad's Mohanlal – Sreenivasan starrer Nadodikkattu (1987) carved a niche for him in Malayalam cinema. His award winning performance in Perumazhakkalam (2004) proved that he can handle non-comedy roles as well with ease. He did the title role in the film Korappan, the great (2001), which depicted him as a forest brigand like Veerappan. He got the Kerala State Award for Second Best Actor in 2004 for the movie Perumazhakkalam.
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Anisha Nagarajan
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Anisha Nagarajan (born May 21, 1983) is an American actress and singer. She was born to Hindu parents, she has a brother named Arjun. She grew up in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood and later moved with her family to the suburb of Fox Chapel, where she graduated from the local high school in 2002. She subsequently enlisted at NYU. While he was studying at NYU, she was chosen to play Priya in the musical's Broadway "Bombay Dreams"; and after working in this work, he was seen in several theater productions regional as "Rent" and "The Wiz", among others. Before the cameras, she made her debut in 2006 when she participated in the drama "Hope and a Little Sugar". Then she was seen in the short "The Trident" (2007), which was followed by a participation as guest in "Ugly Betty" (2009), and from 2010 can be seen in the skin of Madhuri in 'Outsourced' NBC series. In regards to her personal life, she is married to actor Aalok Mehta, whom she had met when she worked in "Bombay Dreams".
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Vladimir Jon Cubrt
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Vladimir Jon Cubrt is a writer, film producer and actor. As an actor, Vladimir is known around the world for his portrayal of Garret Jacob Hobbs on NBC's hit series Hannibal and is a regular guest at "Fannibal" conventions in North America and Europe. Vladimir has appeared in over 40 television shows and films including: Designated Survivor; In Contempt; Covert Affairs; Hollywoodland and Beauty & The Beast. In 2018 Vladimir was featured in three films that premiered at the biggest film festivals in North America: Stockholm (Tribeca); Kodachrome (TIFF); and Luba (Cinequest and Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival). Vladimir was nominated for a 2019 ACTRA Award for Best Male Performance for his portrayal of Luba's embattled ex-husband, Donnie Marchuk. Vladimir founded stage production company Zocalo Toronto, writing and producing a number of original works between 2007 and 2012 including The Weeping Salsa, a dance-drama hybrid in which he also starred.
Vladimir was born in Hamllton, Ontario and went to Etobicoke School of the Arts before graduating from Ryerson University's theatre program.
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Frédéric Chaslin
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Frédéric Chaslin (born 1963, in Paris) is a French conductor, composer and pianist. He recently joined the prestigious Music publishing house Universal Edition in Vienna.
The son of an architect, Chaslin studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won first prizes in harmony, counterpoint, fugue, piano accompaniment, vocal direction, and orchestration. He later studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, where his mentors included Paul von Schilawsky.
In 1989, Chaslin became an assistant conductor to Daniel Barenboim at the Orchestre de Paris and at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1991, he held a similar post with Pierre Boulez at the Ensemble Intercontemporain from 1989 to 1991. Boulez gave him his first concerts at an international level in Roma (July 1991) and at the Festival Wien Modern (19 October 1991). Chaslin was music director of the Opera de Rouen from 1991 to 1994. He was chief conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO) from 1999 to 2002, between the music directorships of David Shallon and Leon Botstein and again between 2011-2019. From 1999 to 2005, he was a resident conductor of the Vienna State Opera. He served as Generalmusikdirektor of the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 2005 to 2006.
Chaslin first conducted in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera in November 2002. In July 2009, he made his conducting debut at Santa Fe Opera (SFeO), in the first production of La traviata to feature Natalie Dessay as Violetta. In May 2010, SFeO announced the appointment of Chaslin as the company's second chief conductor in its history, effective October 1, 2010, with an initial contract of three years. He resigned his position with SFeO at the end of August 2012.
After making his house debut in the 1996/1997 season, Frédéric Chaslin became a fixture at the Wiener Staatsoper, where within 20 years he conducted more than 200 performances.
Frédéric Chaslin made his debut at the Semperoper Dresden in the 2016/2017 season with a new production of Les contes d'Hoffmann.
Recent engagements as a conductor also include, among many symphony concerts all over the world, several opera productions at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Carmen, Aida) and Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci) and at Opéra Royal de Wallonie (La Bohème, Mignon and Lakmé). He also led productions such as Werther at the Royal Opera House Muscat and in Bergen, Les contes d'Hoffmann in Copenhagen, Don Giovanni at the Chorégies d'Orange, Il barbiere di Siviglia in Savonlinna, Faust at the Teatro La Fenice, Carmen in Monte Carlo, Tosca at La Monnaie in Brussels, Die tote Stadt at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, La fille du régiment at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and a new production of La Gioconda at the Teatro alla Scala, where he leads a new staging of Les contes d'Hoffmann in 2023. In 2023, Frédéric Chaslin also returned to Tokyo to conduct concert performances of Puccini's Tosca at the Tokyo Spring Festival with Krassimira Stoyanova and Sir Bryn Terfel. ...
Source: Article "Frédéric Chaslin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Seth MacFarlane
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Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.
A native of Kent, Connecticut, MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. He was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for several television shows, including Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and Dexter's Laboratory, before creating his own series for 20th Century Fox entitled Family Guy in 1999. MacFarlane would go on to co-create American Dad! in 2005, The Winner in 2007 and The Cleveland Show in 2009 for 20th Century Fox.
As an actor, he has made guest appearances on shows such as Gilmore Girls, The War at Home and FlashForward. MacFarlane's interest in science fiction and fantasy has led to cameo and guest appearances on Star Trek: Enterprise and voicing the character of Johann Kraus in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In 2008, he created his own YouTube series entitled Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. As a performer, MacFarlane has sung at several venues, including Carnegie and Royal Albert Hall.
MacFarlane has won several awards for his work on Family Guy, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and an Annie Award. In 2009, he won the Webby Award for Film & Video Person of the Year. He has been a subject of criticism from television watchdog groups, such as the Parents Television Council, who regularly condemn Family Guy for its indecency. He occasionally speaks at universities and colleges throughout the United States, and is a supporter of gay rights.
On the February 10, 2011 episode of the TBS variety nighttime talk-show series Conan, MacFarlane announced he is directing his first feature-length film, Ted. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as an adult, who as a child, wished his teddy bear would come to life. MacFarlane will be the voice and motion capture for the bear.
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Jennifer Arnold
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Jennifer Arnold is an Emmy-nominated director who was raised a drama-geek / skateboard kid in Santa Barbara, California. Her summers were spent living off the grid, without electricity, in the Trinity Alps and Alaskan wilderness with her extended family. She became a world traveler at age sixteen; moved to Kenya at nineteen and continues to work and travel abroad. She credits her story sense to her adventurous upbringing.
In the episodic space Arnold has most recently directed "Based on a True Story," "P-Valley" and the pilot for "XO Kitty." which went number one on Netflix within 24 hours. Her other television credits include "Emily in Paris," "American Horror Story," "Younger," "Shameless," "The L-Word: Generation Q," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," and "The Last Man on Earth among others. Her independent and documentary work has premiered at prestigious festivals around the world, including four appearances at Sundance. Arnold's feature documentary A Small Act (HBO) won the Humanitas Prize, a NAMIC Vision Award, and was nominated for the Best Documentary Emmy. Her other documentaries include The Diplomat (ESPN), Tig (Netflix), and Thicker Than Water, about Greg Louganis for ESPN's 30 for 30 shorts series.
She has been an advisor at the Sundance labs and CNEX workshops in Asia and traveled to Kazakhstan with American Film Showcase. She attended UCLA's Graduate Film School and studied African History as an undergrad at UCLA and University of Nairobi. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife, the esteemed ASC cinematographer Patti Lee.
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Chikako Aoyama
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Japanese actor, color psychotherapist, and a native of Osaka Prefecture. In 1989, Chikko Aoyama played a role in the movie "Sentamako". In 1999, Chikko Aoyama obtained qualifications as a color psychotherapy consultant and teacher in the United Kingdom, and has qualifications as a color blender and JAA aroma therapist in Japan, but is now active in Japan as a color psychotherapist. She appeared in many restricted movies in her early stage, mainly showing her perfect figure and glamorous look. In the early 1990s, she starred in the Hong Kong films "Female Robot" and "Breaking Out", as well as a guest star in "When the King Comes Back". In the same period, he published the beautiful art photo album "Subtropical Climate" and "Subtropical Climate".
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