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June Clyde
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June Clyde (December 2, 1909, St. Joseph, Missouri – October 1, 1987, Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She was a niece of actress Leona Hutton. Clyde's career began at age seven on the vaudeville stage, billed as "Baby Tetrazini" (her mother's maiden name) at the age of nine. She made her first screen appearance at age ten with Noah Beery, Sr. in The Sea Wolf. Later her voice changed and she joined a stock company. She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1932 and she progressed to a modest career in Hollywood films before marrying film director Thornton Freeland. Clyde moved to England with her husband and appeared in several British films and stage productions starting in 1934, as well as returning to the United States periodically for both stage and film work. A Mormon, she became friends with actress Dennie Moore, who nicknamed Clyde "The Loveliest Latter Day who ever lived".
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Brian Skiba
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Brian Skiba, named Arizona's Filmmaker of the Year and recognised as a "prolific genre filmmaker" by the LA Times (Noel Murray, April 2019), is a director, producer, and writer. A graduate with a B.A. in English from Arizona State University, Brian's passion for storytelling led him to co-write and direct Blood Moon Rising (2010), a horror comedy distributed by Entertainment One. The film achieved notable success within the zombie genre, prompting Brian to direct Dirty Little Trick (2011), a thriller starring Dean Cain and Michael Madsen, which premiered as a Showtime Original.
Since 2012, Brian has been a dynamic force in filmmaking, having produced, directed, and/or written twenty-two feature films, each premiering on prime-time TV or in theatres. In 2017, he directed the fast-paced female empowerment film Chokehold, followed by Rottentail, a Grindhouse horror comedy based on the graphic novel published by Source Point Press. The film earned sold-out screenings and widespread festival acclaim and was released in select theatres.
Brian's directorial work also includes My Adventures with Santa (2019), starring Barbara Eden, Denise Richards, and Patrick Muldoon, which Universal Studios theatrically released. The studio was so impressed with the film that they entrusted him to write and direct Christmas Castle (2020).
A passionate advocate for strong storytelling, Brian often cites Alfred Hitchcock's famous quote, "To make a great film, you need three things—the script, the script, and the script," as a guiding principle in his career.
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YB Chang Biste
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She was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised there until she was 12. Seeing that she I loved storytelling, drawing and writing, her parents decided to send her to America. At age 12, she went to the U.S. and continued her passion for creative writing, but this time in English. She attended high school in Palos Verdes, California and took a video production class as an elective. There, she learned that she actually loved making videos, since it was a way of visual storytelling.
She was accepted into the University of Southern California for their film & TV production program, which was her dream school. She learned everything about filmmaking there, especially focusing on directing and editing. She discovered her passion for editing and wanted to pursue that further. After graduating, she began an internship at BuzzFeed, and entered the world of digital media. She fell in love with creating YouTube videos and reaching a worldwide audience. She was hired as a full time video editor at BuzzFeed and worked on their big shows including the Try Guys, Worth It, and Ladylike, and also appeared in some videos as talent, which helped her start her own YouTube channel.
In 2018, the Try Guys left BuzzFeed and made their own company. She was in contact with them and they offered her a job, so she joined them as their video editor. She continued her YouTube channel and worked as a talent as well. In 2024, she was their senior video editor and also part of the main cast, sharing her passion for editing and creating videos through her social media.
On May 20, 2026 due to personal health reasons, she left her position as Senior Video Editor at Try Guys/2nd Try. She continues to appear as a cast member and edit some videos as a freelance editor.
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Peter Christian
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Peter Christian was born on the 14th of August 1947 in Dingle, Liverpool and is best known for his roles on UK Television in 'Emmerdale Farm' (1972), 'Scully' (1984), 'Give Us a Break' (1984), 'Truckers' (1987) and 'Heartbeat' (1992). In 1983 he appeared in the original Liverpool Playhouse production of Willy Russell's 'Blood Brothers' as Sammy, one of the older Johnston brothers. Christian's acting career started when his cousin asked for some help with an amateur dramatics production being staged by the Liverpool-based David Lewis Theatre Group. Although he was there to help construct the sets and paint the scenery, Christian soon got landed with a part and acting immediately caught his imagination and he began to appear regularly in amateur plays round the area. Eventually this enthusiasm led to his first professional part. "I played a gentleman walking across the quayside with a bag. This lad comes up to me and asks to carry my bag. My first professional line, and the only one in that play was 'Go away boy'. That was it," says Christian. "I also had to wear this huge hat. I remember thinking if only my mates from the docks could see me now." After that his acting career blossomed and soon he was appearing in well known theatre productions such as 'Look Back in Anger' and 'Blood Brothers'.
However he is best known for 'Brookside' (1982-83) in which he first appeared in the Channel 4 soap as Frank Blackburne, an associate of Gavin Taylor played by Danny Webb, and then more famously as Frank Rogers from 1987 until the character was killed off in 1993. In this role Peter, as the resident lorry driver of Brookside Close became one of the most famous truckers in Britain.
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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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Zahri Josita Jackson
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ZAHRI JOSITA JACKSON is a New York-based Creative Producer, Production Coordinator, and Actor from Prince George’s County, MD. Working across corporate entertainment marketing, independent film, and performance, she brings a production-first lens to storytelling, shaping ideas from development through final delivery with precision, cultural fluency, and a strong visual point of view.
Her creative work centers the inner lives of flawed female protagonists, where loneliness and longing unfold in vivid color and deliberate shadow. As an actor, she has appeared in projects for HBO, Disney+, and Netflix. Behind the camera, Zahri has held production roles at Culture.House Media, Paramount+, and Showtime, supporting high-level campaign workflows, and formerly co-directed the digital publication, TEAM Mag.
A 2021 Gucci Changemaker and member of the Gucci Creative Fellows Program, Zahri earned her BFA in Film & Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2022. Her debut short film, In My Garden, premiered at the Black Film Festival of New Orleans, with additional screenings at the Urbanworld Film Festival and Chelsea Film Festival. She is currently in post-production on her sophomore short, $FREE.99.
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Bruce Brown
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Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 - December 10, 2017) was an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown.
His surfing films are Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf Crazy (1959), Barefoot Adventure (1960), Surfing Hollow Days (1961), Waterlogged (1962), and his most well known film, The Endless Summer (1964) which received a nationwide theatrical release in 1966. Considered among the most influential in the genre, The Endless Summer follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August around the world. Thirty years later Brown would film The Endless Summer II with his son in 1994.
He also made a number of short films including The Wet Set, featuring the Hobie-MacGregor Sportswear Surf Team and one of the earliest skateboarding films, America's Newest Sport, presenting the Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team. These short films along with some unused footage from The Endless Summer were included in the DVD Surfin' Shorts, as part of the Golden Years of Surf collection. Brown has gone beyond surfing a few times with the ski film, The Incredible Pair of Skis (1967), a film about motorcycle sport, On Any Sunday (1971) which is held in high regard as one of the best motorcycle documentaries of all time, and a documentary about extreme sports, The Edge (1975), On Any Sunday II (1981) Baja 1000 Classic (1991), and On Any Sunday, revisited (2000) He made a guest appearance in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode SpongeBob vs. The Big One.
Brown was a 2009 inductee into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California.
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McKinzie Scott
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McKinzie James Scott (born February 10, 2006) is an American–Dutch actor. In 2024, while attending the Professional Performing Arts School, he made his film debut in the documentary-drama Untouchables and later appeared in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing. Scott first gained recognition for his lead performance as a childish man in Tyson Anthony’s coming-of-age series Manhood (2025).
Scott was born in New York City and raised in central Harlem. He is the son of Joy Green, who is of black Native American heritage, and James Scott Jr., a legal Dutch citizen of Netherlands origin. He has a younger brother, McKhel Joyner, a basketball player.
He attended P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman Learning Center for elementary school, where he was held back in third grade after not completing summer school. He continued his education at Frederick Douglass Academy I, where he played lacrosse and trained in taekwondo, though he later described the environment as “toxic” and unsupportive of his growth. He remained there until his junior year, before transferring to the selective Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS).
Scott has credited Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in The Revenant (2015) as the inspiration for his pursuit of acting. During his sophomore year of high school, he applied to PPAS on his own initiative, determined to prove to his mother that he was serious about an acting career. His audition earned him a callback within an hour, marking what he has described as a turning point in his passion for the craft. As a senior, he starred in Manhood (2025) and was the cover of SUNY Financial Aid Advertisement (2025), while completing his studies, graduating that same year.
Following high school, Scott received offers to study drama at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA), where he was awarded a scholarship. Ultimately, he chose not to pursue college, citing his desire to focus fully on his acting career and avoid the financial burdens of student debt.
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Yasmin Al-Khudhairi
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Yasmin Al-Khudhairi is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the final two series of the Channel 4 comedy-drama Ackley Bridge (2021–2022). Al-Khudhairi was born to Arab Muslim parents from Iraq in Kingston upon Thames, South West London. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2016 with a Bachelor of Social Science in Social Anthropology. During university, she befriended Rishi Pelham when she auditioned for one of his plays.
Having met director and writer Rishi Pelham at university and working with him on a number of fringe theatre projects, Pelham cast Al-Khudhairi as Ayala in his 2019 independent dance film Hilda, marking Al-Khudhairi's professional screen acting debut. This was followed by her television debut with a minor guest appearance in a 2020 episode of the BBC thriller Killing Eve.
In 2021, Al-Khudhairi starred in the television film version of the biographical play Adam opposite the titular Adam Kashmiry as himself for the National Theatre of Scotland, and the BBC. Later that year, she landed her first main television role when she joined the cast of the Channel 4 school comedy-drama Ackley Bridge for its fourth series as Fizza Akhtar. She would reprise her role as Fizza for its fifth and final series in 2022.
In 2023, Al-Khudhairi appeared in the romantic comedy film Rye Lane and had a recurring role as Princess Yadira in the third series of the Sky Max political thriller COBRA. She has a role in the BBC Three adaptation of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
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Carla Woodcock
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Carla Woodcock (born 4 October 1998) is an English actress. Woodcock made her acting debut as Susie Garrett on the Netflix series Free Rein (2017–2019). She was then cast as Marina Perry in the fourth series of the Channel 4 series Ackley Bridge (2021), and starred in the ITVX teen drama Tell Me Everything (2022). She then went on to play Becca Bell in the Netflix series a Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2024)
Woodcock was born on 4 October 1998 in Wheldrake, York. While she was young, she began taking lessons in horseriding, but stopped when she began studying acting. At the age of eleven, she began studying at Stagecoach Theatre Arts in York. When she was thirteen, she began attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). While at LAMDA, Woodcock was noted for her "star quality" and it has been stated that she achieved distinctions in each LAMDA grade. She then went on to study Acting at York College in 2015
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