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Lesley Nicol
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Lesley Nicol (born August 7, 1953 in Manchester, England) is an English actress. She is a three-time SAG Award winner in the Best Cast in a Drama Series category for her role as Beryl Patmore in the ITV and PBS drama TV series Downton Abbey. She also starred in the 2019 feature film adaptation of the series, its 2022 sequel, and its 2025 finale.
Nicol is also notable for her role as Mrs Beaver in the 1988 BBC adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and as the Queen Giant in the 1990 adaptation of The Silver Chair. She has guest-starred on numerous British television series and also appeared as Rosie in the West End production of Mamma Mia! from 2000 to 2002. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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James Wolk
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James Wolk, also known as Jimmy, is an American actor. He is known for his starring roles in the CBS comedy series The Crazy Ones, the AMC period drama series Mad Men, the CBS drama thriller series Zoo, the CBS All Access psychological thriller series Tell Me a Story, and the HBO superhero limited series Watchmen. Wolk is on the Board of Directors of the Brad Cohen Tourette Foundation. From 2009 to 2012, he also volunteered at Camp Twitch and Shout, which is a camp in Winder, Georgia for children, ages 7 to 17, who have Tourette syndrome. He met Elizabeth Jae Lynch, a schoolteacher, while the two of them were volunteering at Camp Twitch and Shout. In June 2015, the two were married in Los Olivos, California. They welcomed their first child, a boy, in early 2017.
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Callum Turner
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Callum Robilliard Turner (born 15 February 1990) is an English actor. After beginning a career as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. He had lead roles in the drama film Queen and Country (2014) and the mystery miniseries Glue (2014). He played Theseus, the brother of Newt Scamander, in the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
Turner's performance in the mystery series The Capture (2019) earned him a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He has since starred as Joe Rantz in the biographical film The Boys in the Boat (2023) and as John "Bucky" Egan in the miniseries Masters of the Air (2024).
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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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Mohamed Ramadan
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Mohamed Ramadan began acting while at school. He has received the award for greatest nationwide talent three times consecutively – an unprecedented achievement. He started his career with small roles in TV series like “The Cindrella,” until he had his big break in Yousry Nasrallah's “Ehky Ya Sharazad” (Tell me, Shahrazad). He then went on to star in blockbusters produced by the the famous Egyptian producers Mohamed and Ahmed El Sobky, which made him one of the most valuable actors in the middle east. Mohamed Ramadan is perhaps the only Egyptian actor to have been praised by the internationally renowned performer ‘Umar el-Shereef who stated that he had chosen Mohamed to perpetuate his acting legacy.
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Joel Edgerton
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Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2018, he wrote, directed and starred in the drama Boy Erased, about gay conversion therapy. In 2019, he starred and co-wrote The King.
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Bill Walsh
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Bill Walsh was one of the most innovative and successful coaches in NFL history, revolutionizing the game with his West Coast offense. Born on November 30, 1931, in Los Angeles, Walsh attended Hayward High School, where he played running back. He played quarterback at the College of San Mateo for two seasons before transferring to San José State University, where he played tight end and defensive end. Walsh also participated in intercollegiate boxing, winning a golden glove. He graduated from San José State with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1955, then spent two years in the U.S. Army participating on its boxing team before earning his master's degree in physical education from San José State in 1959.
Walsh began his coaching career at Washington High School in Fremont, California, before moving through assistant positions at Cal, Stanford, and with the Oakland Raiders (1966). He spent eight seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals (1968-1975), where he developed the West Coast offense to suit quarterback Virgil Carter's strengths. He later refined the system with Ken Anderson, who became one of the era's most efficient quarterbacks. After a stint with the San Diego Chargers in 1976, where he helped develop Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts, Walsh became Stanford's head coach (1977-1978), posting a 17-7 record with victories in the Sun Bowl and Bluebonnet Bowl.
In 1979, Walsh became the head coach and general manager of the San Francisco 49ers, inheriting a team that had gone 2-14. Over ten seasons, he compiled a 102-63-1 record, winning three Super Bowls (XVI, XIX, XXIII), six division titles, and three NFC Championships. Under Walsh's leadership, San Francisco scored 3,714 points—the most of any team during that span—averaging 24.4 points per game. He was named the NFL Coach of the Year in 1981 and 1984.
Walsh's coaching strengths earned him the nickname "The Genius": meticulous game-planning (famously scripting the first 10-15 offensive plays before each game), exceptional attention to detail in practice execution, and an extraordinary ability to identify and develop talent. He drafted Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, and Charles Haley, and acquired Steve Young in a trade. His innovative play-calling and systematic approach to building a championship organization established what became known as "the 49ers Way."
Walsh's West Coast offense transformed football by emphasizing short, horizontal passing routes over traditional run-first strategies. This system stretched defenses horizontally, creating opportunities for both explosive runs and deep passes. The precisely-timed passing attack required exceptional quarterback-receiver communication and changed how offenses approached the game, making it more dynamic and high-scoring.
After retiring from the 49ers in 1989, Walsh worked as NBC's lead NFL analyst (1989-1991) before returning to Stanford as the head coach (1992-1994), leading the Cardinal to a 10-3 record and a Pac-10 championship in 1992. He later served the 49ers as vice president and general manager (1999-2001) and consultant (2002-2004).
Walsh's coaching tree remains unmatched, producing six Super Bowl-winning head coaches. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993 and passed away from leukemia on July 30, 2007, at his home in Woodside, California.
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Carmen Yazalde
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Britt Nichols was born in Gonçalo, Guarda, Portugal in 1950 as María do Carmo Ressurreição de Deus. Coming from a extremely impoverished home where many of her siblings passed away in childhood, she found a way out through the entertainment industry, first starting as a folk dancer, and then being noticed by modeling agents and filmmakers. She made her first notable screen appearance as a human sacrifice to skeletal Templar zombies in Amando de Ossorio's atmospheric Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), which was popular enough to spawn three sequels. Afterward, she appeared in major roles in seven exploitation films for director Jesus Franco, mostly in the horror genre. She had the titular role in Daughter of Dracula (1972), played a suspected witch in The Demons (1973) and played another bloodsucker in Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972). Usually best regarded among the Franco period she took part in was A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973), where she played a bizarre member of a bizarre family gathering for the reading of a will. Britt also acted for Juan Bosch in one film: Killer with a Thousand Eyes (1973).
After acting for just a few years, Britt married famous Argentine soccer player Casimiro Yazalde (then with Sporting Clube de Portugal) and relocated to Argentina with him in 1977, where she became a celebrity and worked as a runway, print and advertisement model under the name Carmen Yazalde. She still makes the occasional TV appearance.
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Takeo Ōtsuka
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Takeo Ōtsuka (大塚 武生, Ōtsuka Takeo) is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Men's Teioh (also written MEN's Teioh). The English translation of his ring name, Terry Boy, is a homage to American professional wrestler Terry Funk. Men's Teioh is a longtime mainstay of Big Japan Pro Wrestling as well as a former competitor of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. He is known as an original member of the group, Kai En Tai, which competed in Extreme Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation during the late 1990s. He was also briefly a member of the BWO while in Extreme Championship Wrestling, and appeared on the promotion's first PPV event Barely Legal in 1997.
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Dan Scanlon
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Dan Scanlon (born June 21, 1976) is an American animator, storyboard artist and director, working for Pixar, for whom he has directed Monsters University and Onward.
Scanlon was an animator for Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, The Indescribable Nth and Joseph: King of Dreams. He served as a storyboard artist for The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure.
Scanlon joined Pixar in 2001, where he was a story artist for Cars and Toy Story 3. He co-directed the short film Mater and the Ghostlight. He illustrated part one of Unmentionables, a comic book written by his wife, Michele Scanlon, and wrote and directed the live-action feature film Tracy. Tracy was Scanlon's first feature film as a writer/director. He also served as a member of the senior creative team on Brave and Inside Out.
Scanlon and his wife Michele live in San Francisco and work together on projects under the production company name Caveat Productions.
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