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Lori McCoy-Bell
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Lori McCoy-Bell is an American hairstylist. She won a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series for her work on the television program Westworld. She also won a British Academy Film Award for the film American Hustle.
McCoy-Bell has been a longtime collaborator with film director David O. Russell. In 2024, she was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Maestro. She shared her nomination with Kazu Hiro and Kay Georgiou.
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Gary Nelson
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An American television and film director. He has directed many well-know television series, including Gunsmoke, The Patty Duke Show, Gilligan's Island and Happy Days among dozens of others. In addition, Nelson has directed five films, including two for Walt Disney Pictures. In 1978, Nelson was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directoral Achievement for Washington: Behind Closed Doors. He was married to actress Judi Meredith and has two sons. Nelson has semi-retired, but continues to occasionally teach the University of Nevada at Las Vegas
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Freema Agyeman
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Freema Agyeman (born 20 March 1979) is an English actress who is known for playing Martha Jones and Adeola Oshodi in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who and reprising the role of Jones in its spin-off series Torchwood, Amanita Caplan in the Netflix science fiction drama Sense8, and Dr Helen Sharpe in the NBC medical procedural series New Amsterdam.
She held a starring role as Alesha Phillips in the crime procedural drama Law & Order: UK between 2009 and 2012. In 2013, she made her US television debut on The CW's teen drama The Carrie Diaries as Larissa Loughlin, a style editor at Interview magazine. Other television appearances include Old Jack's Boat, Silent Witness, and Survivors. She also appeared as Penny in the 2015 film North v South.
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Toni Tennille
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Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist, best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her former husband Daryl Dragon; their signature song is "Love Will Keep Us Together". Tennille has also done some musical work independently of her husband, including solo albums and session work.
While living in Corona del Mar in Newport Beach, California, during the late 1960s, Tennille was a member of the South Coast Repertory. Ron Thronsen, one of the directors of the repertory, asked Tennille in 1969 to write the music for a new rock musical he was working on called Mother Earth. The musical was a success locally, went on the road to San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1971, and eventually made it to Broadway for a few dates at the Belasco Theatre in October 1972. Although Tennille was no longer associated with the musical by the time it reached Broadway, she was credited as the composer under her married name, Shearer.
In 1971, Tennille met her future husband Daryl Dragon in San Francisco during auditions for Mother Earth. Dragon had previously toured with the Beach Boys and had recorded with them as a studio musician. After Mother Earth ended, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and introduced Tennille to the band.[8] Tennille played electric piano with the band during their 1972 tour. In 1973, Tennille and Dragon left to form Captain & Tennille and began performing at local clubs. In September 1973, they released their self-financed debut single, "The Way I Want to Touch You", which was a local hit and helped them to get a record contract with A&M Records. The duo recorded a cover version of the Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield song "Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1975 that became a huge success and eventually went on to win the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
In 1974, Tennille sang background vocals on Elton John's Caribou album. In 1979, she sang backing vocals on Pink Floyd's The Wall. Following a December 1979 pilot, from September 1980 to February 1981 Tennille hosted her own syndicated television talk show, The Toni Tennille Show. From September 1998 to June 1999, Tennille performed as "Victoria Grant/Count Victor Grazinski" in the national tour of the play Victor Victoria.
With her then husband Daryl Dragon, as Captain & Tennille, she recorded the Christmas song "Saving Up Christmas" included in their DVD box set for 1976-1977's The Captain & Tennille Show; this was followed by a full-length Christmas album titled The Secret of Christmas, released in 2007.
In April 2016, Tennille released her memoir, Toni Tennille: A Memoir, and went on a book tour to promote it later that summer.[18][19] An audiobook of the memoir was also released on the audiobook service Audible.
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Wim Wenders
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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award.
Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023).
Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018).
Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director.
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Giacomo Gianniotti
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Giacomo Gianniotti was born in Rome, Italy. He immigrated with his family at a young age and grew up in Toronto Canada. Giacomo splits his time in the year between Toronto, Rome, and LA, working in stage, film, and television. He is a bilingual actor working both in English and Italian. He graduated from Humber College's Theatre Program and has also completed an actor's residency at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, in Toronto. He is an actor, producer and director, looking for noteworthy stories about the curiosities of our existence.
His first experience in film was a small role in a Giulio Base's feature film featuring Shelley Winters and Vittorio Gassman, shot in "Cinecitta" in Rome.
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Mitsu Dan
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Mitsu Dan—whose real name is Shizuka Saitō—is a Japanese actress, writer, and model born on December 3, 1980. After studying at Showa Women's University, Mitsu Dan became known as an actress for her role in Be My Slave (Watashi no Dorei ni Narinasai), released in 2012.
The following year, she played the lead role in the erotic thriller Sweet Whip (Amai Muchi), directed by Takashi Ishii. At the 37th Japan Academy Prize ceremony, Dan was recognized as the breakthrough actress of the year for her performance in Amai Muchi. In the following years, she appeared in numerous television series, variety shows, films, and advertising campaigns. Mitsu Dan also writes books in many genres, including an autobiographical book Mitsu no aji (A Taste of Honey).
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Sandra Amy
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Sandra Amy or rather Sandra Prajin is better known as Sandra Jose to the Malayali audiences. She was born on 5th June 1982 and hails from the Idukki district of Kerala. Sandra was trained in classical dance right from a very young age
Sandra Amy is a South Indian film and Television actress as well as a video jockey.
She is former Miss Trivandrum who was a child artist in Malayalam films After appearing in supporting role in the Malayalam films Kasthooriman, Swapnakoodu". Sandra went on to act in Tamil films Poraali, Sivappu enaku pudikkum, Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam, Urumeen and Singam 3.
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Viktor Ryzhakov
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Viktor Anatolyevich Ryzhakov (Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Рыжако́в; born 25 May, 1960; Khabarovsk) is a Russian theater director, filmmaker and actor.
From 1995 to 2001, he was the artistic director of the Drama and Comedy Theater in Kamchatka, where he created the first Russian board of trustees at the state theater. From 2013 to 2020 - director of the Vs. Meyerhold Theater and Cultural Center. Since 2020 - artistic director of the Moscow Theater "Sovremennik".
Director of performances based on the plays of Ivan Vyrypaev: "Oxygen", "Genesis No. 2", "Valentine's Day" (Saratov Drama Theater), "The City where I am", "July", "Sunny Line", "Drunk", "Iranian Conference". Conducts master classes on the topic "The Stanislavsky System and Modern Theater" in Germany, Poland, the USA, Hungary. He lectures and conducts classes on directing and acting skills with graduate students of Harvard University (an educational program at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater), the Novosibirsk Theater Institute, Higher Production Courses (VGIK), RSUH. At Russian and foreign theater festivals, he conducts master classes on the topic "Working with text in modern theater".
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Cho Jung-seok
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Cho Jung-seok (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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