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Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
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Anthony Wong Chau-sang (born Anthony William Perry; 2 September 1961) is a Hong Kong film actor, film director and singer, known for his intense portrayals of often-amoral characters. He has won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times for The Untold Story (1993), Beast Cops (1998) and Still Human (2018), and won Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for The Sunny Side of the Street (2022). He is the first Hong Kong actor to have won Best Actor awards in films, stage theatre and TV. His notable international credits include his roles as Triad gangster Johnny Wong in Hard Boiled (1992), police superintendent Wong Chi-shing in the Infernal Affairs trilogy (2002–2003) and General Yang in the Hollywood film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).
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Gary Indiana
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Gary Indiana is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference, chronicling the less permanent state of “depraved indifference” that characterized American life at the millennium's end.
Indiana has written, directed and acted in a dozen plays, mostly during the early 1980s. Performed in small New York City venues like Mudd Club, Club 57, the Performing Garage and the backyard of Bill Rice's East 3rd Street studio. Earlier plays included Alligator Girls Go to College (1979); Curse of the Dog People (1980); A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking (1980), which was filmed by Michel Auder in 1981; The Roman Polanski Story (1981); Phantoms of Louisiana (1981) and Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1992), written with Jack Smith for performance artist Ron Vawter. The latter was filmed in 1994 by Jill Godmilow.
Indiana has acted in several mostly experimental films by, among others, Michel Auder (Seduction of Patrick, 1979, which he co-wrote with the director), Scott B and Beth B (The Trap Door, 1980), Melvie Arslanian (Stiletto, 1981, where he plays a bellhop at the bellhopless Chelsea Hotel), Jackie Raynal (Hotel New York, 1984), Ulrike Ottinger (Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press [de], 1984, with Veruschka as Dorian Gray and Delphine Seyrig as Doctor Mabuse), Lothar Lambert (Fräulein Berlin, 1984), Dieter Schidor (Cold in Columbia, 1985), Valie Export (The Practice of Love, 1985) and Christoph Schlingensief (Terror 2000: Intensivstation Deutschland, 1994, in which Udo Kier kills his character with a machine gun).
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Naomichi Marufuji
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Naomichi Marufuji (born September 26, 1979) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently competing for Pro Wrestling NOAH, where he is a former four-time GHC Heavyweight Champion, one-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion and ten-time GHC Tag Team Champion. He is also the first of two wrestlers, alongside Minoru Tanaka, to win junior heavyweight championships in NOAH, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and All Japan Pro-Wrestling (AJPW). In 2020, he was appointed to the position of Executive Vice President of CyberFight, the parent company of NOAH.
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Bassam Kousa
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A prominent film and television actor in the Arab world, Bassam Kousa is known for his unconventional roles and his willingness to push the boundaries.
Born in Aleppo, Syria on November 7, 1963, Kousa broke into the public consciousness with a string of prominent roles in Syrian TV shows such as ‘Ayyam Shamiyah’.
One of his most popular roles was on ‘Bab Al Hara’, one of the most-watched TV shows in the Arab region. Although he only appeared in the first season of the show, his character, Idaghshiri, became instantly identifiable to an audience stretching from Gaza to the Arabian Gulf.
Kousa has also acted in a number of feature films, including Usama Muhammad’s ‘The Box of Life’, which was screened at the 2002 Cannes Festival winning the Un Certain Regard award.
In 2010, Kousa won the prestigious Adonia award, Syria’s version of the Emmys, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in ‘Wara’a al Shams’. In the show, Kousa plays a man struggling with autism, a controversial role that has raised eyebrows in a traditionally conservative region.
A passionate supporter of the Arab film industry, Kousa has called for a shift in perceptions in the Arab world, with a number of people still considering acting as an ‘immoral’ profession. He has said that in order to change perceptions, cultural establishments in the public and private sectors should cooperate to raise awareness on art as a form of entertainment and enlightenment.
During a recent visit to Amman, he was honoured by the Royal Film Commission, who screened three of his films.
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Jordan Garrett
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Jordan Garrett (born December 17, 1992) is an American actor.
Garrett has made guest appearances in numerous television shows, including Law & Order: SVU, Crossing Jordan, Criminal Minds, Six Feet Under, Angel, Medium, Hidden Hills, ER, and Without a Trace. He auditioned for the lead role in the 2006 movie Saving Shiloh, but lost the part to Jason Dolley, instead being cast in a supporting role. Garrett recently appeared in Death Sentence, as teenager Luke Hume, and The Least of These.
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Paola Andino
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Paola Andino is an actress best known for her role as Emma Alonso, a character based on the hit Nickelodeon series Every Witch Way. Every Witch Way is the English adaptation of Grachi, a spanish franchise created by Mariela Romero for the Nickelodeon channel. She also had an appearance in the Every Witch Way spinoff “WITS academy”, returning once again to play Emma Alonso. She also has appearances and cameos in other films and tv shows such as: the Every Witch Way movie , Every Witch Way: Spellbound, Sno Babies (2020), Beyond The Blackboard (2011), Lisa Frankenstein (2024) and Queen Of The South (2016-2021).
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Bobby Naderi
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Bobby Naderi (born 19 November 1984) is an Iranian actor. Born in Tehran, Naderi had an cultured childhood having being raised between Iran, Europe, Canada and the U.S. Bobby by sheer chance found his way into the Arts in his early 20s which led him to study with Judith Weston then began working on stage and the indie film. He gained notice for his lead role in Sundance Festival Hit! "The Taqwacores" which he received high praise for his performance. Naderi had a Supporting role in Nina Menkes Sundance film "Phantom Love" and a part in Ben Affleck's Oscar wining "Argo". Bobby continues to study the craft.
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Ivan I. Tverdovsky
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Ivan Ivanovich Tverdovsky (Russian: Иван Иванович Твердовский; born 29 December 1988, Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, cinematographer and actor. He is also a son of documentary filmmaker Ivan Tverdovsky (1961). He graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography "VGIK" (2011, experimental directing workshop of A. Uchitel).
Participant and prize-winner of national and international film festivals. Twice participated in the competition programme of Kinotavr. Shorts: in 2010 with the film “As If Waiting for a Bus”, for which he gained the jury diploma; and in 2013 with the film “Space Dogs”. His first feature film, “Correction Class” (2014) brought Tverdovsky the NIKA 2014 award in the category Discovery of the Year; the film won numerous awards at Russian and international shows, including a prize for Best Debut and the Prize of Film Distributors at Kinotavr-2014, the first prize in the East-West Competition and a special mention of the FEDEORA jury at Karlovy Vary IFF, and prizes at IFFs in Thessaloniki, Seattle, Tallinn, Kiev, etc. His second film, “Zoology” (2016), has been awarded a prize for direction in Karlovy Vary, the Grand Prix of festivals in Cottbus and Austin, Texas, a prize for Best Actress and the award of the Guild of Film Critics and Scholars at Kinotavr-2016. His third feature film, "Jumpman" (2018), screened in competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018. In 2020, Ivan I. Tverdovsky's new film "Conference" (2020) became a participant of the Venice Film Festival.
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Aqeel Ash-Shakoor
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Aqeel Taahir Ash-Shakoor was born in Murfreesboro, NC. He is known for Law & Order: SVU Season 24 (NBC) Precinct Commander Inspector Borsits; FBI Season 5 (CBS) as Geoff, MTA Mechanic; Chicago Med Season 4 (NBC) as Shrapnel Man and Season 7 as FBI Agent Russo; The Staircase (HBO Max) as State Police 2; and A League of Their Own (Prime Original Series) as Pastor Donald Turner.
In 2022, in his first major industry big screen production, Aqeel played Frank, a construction worker with great concerns, in "On Sacred Ground." In 2023, Aqeel will play James Farmer in the John Ridley directed "Shirley," based on the life of Shirley Chisholm, played by Regina King.
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Amy Redford
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Amy Hart Redford (born October 22, 1970) is an American actress, director and producer. She is the daughter of Academy Award-winning film director and actor Robert Redford and his first wife Lola Van Wagenen (m.1958–d.1985).
She has acted in such films as Maid in Manhattan, This Revolution, Sunshine Cleaning, The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams, and The Understudy, and on such television shows as Sex and the City, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and The Sopranos. She starred in the film When I Find the Ocean. She directed the film The Guitar which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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