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Miloš Biković

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Miloš Biković is a Serbian actor and producer graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In 2020, he launched his own production company Archangel Digital Studios. Miloš Biković is fluent in Serbian, English, and Russian language. Miloš accepted the leading role of Petar Marash in South Wind which became the undisputed #1 box office hit according to Film Center Serbia's list. The film set a Serbian cinematography record, totaling over one million viewers globally. The Russian movie “The Servant”, starring Miloš Biković in main role is the most-watched comedy in the history of Russian cinema. His significant influence in Russia was affirmed with The Medal of Pushkin.
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Carlos D'Alessio

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Carlos d'Alessio (1935 – June 14, 1992) was an Argentina-born French composer. Carlos d'Alessio was born in Buenos Aires. He studied architecture and is interested in cinema and learn music. In 1962, he moved to New York and was introduced in the middle of the vanguard. In 1973, he drew the attention of the novelist Marguerite Duras, and became a filmmaker. The two then worked together several times. He died on June 14, 1992, in Paris. Source: Article "Carlos d'Alessio" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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James Caitlin

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James Caitlin is an Australian actor. Caitlin is a graduate (Bachelor of Arts Performance) of Theatre Nepean, the University of Western Sydney's, School of Visual and Performing Arts. He began his acting career in Sydney, at The Ensemble Theatre, studying with Hayes Gordon. James continued to study various screen acting and voice techniques at Screenwise, Lower Eastside Studios (Australia), The Actor's Centre, Screenskill, The Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and Kathy Evans Voice Management.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Jiang Wenli

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Jiang Wenli was born in a highbrow family. Her father was a railroad engineer, her mother was a railroad telephone operator, and her parents love literature and art. Since Wenli was a little girl, her father taught her to read famous book and painting, and listen to famous songs. When she was 5 years old, she dreamt about being a gymnast, so her mother sent her to study dance and gymnastics. However, since her stature didn’t fit the standard of a gymnast, the coach of Bengbu city gymnastic team refused to regard her as a formal team member. After that, she spent five years to practice as an informal team member of the gymnastic team. At the age of 17, she took the college entrance examination and regard going to normal university as her goal. However, she got accepted by a water conservation secondary school because her score was five points lower than the acceptance line of the normal university. In 1986, she graduated from the secondary school and starts to work in Bengbu City Water Company. Her job was to design ways of water transportation for residents. Nevertheless, she was not satisfied with her current life and decided to go to Beijing in 1988 and start her new life. Without any preparation, she got accepted by Beijing Film Academy. After become a student of film academy, there were countless film companies inviting her to play role in their films. Her first role was a nursery school teacher in a TV series named The Lily on Cliff, and this TV series won the Feitian TV Awards of that year. Also, she was a candidate for Best Supporting Actress Reward. After this, she played Shuixiu in a movie named Li Li Yuan Shang Cao, and this film won the award from French film festival. The last film of her college period was The Story of Xing Hua, and she played the girl named Xing Hua. After graduate from college, she went to America for a long time and then returned to China to continue her career. After came back to China, she played a role in Miaomiao Liu’s movie *Who you think you are. In 1993, she played an important role which is Chengyi’s mother in movie Farewell My Concubine,and this movie won the Best Movie Award at French Cannes Film Festival of that year. In 1999, she played a 20 episode TV series named Lead by the Hand, and this helped her won the highest honor of Chinese TV industry, Best actress from both Golden Eagle Awards and Feitian TV Awards. In 2000, based on the outstanding performance in film Team Spirit,she won the best actress from Huabiao Film Awards. In 2001, movie The treatment made her career even more successful. In 2011, the TV series When Happiness Knocks became a huge success in her career. This TV series is broadcasting on CCTV-1, which is the most important channel in China. Also, the average audience rating was 3%, which is on the top of other TV series in the whole country.
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Bi Gan

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Bi Gan (Chinese: 毕赣, born 4 June 1989) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer. His first feature film, Kaili Blues, was released in 2015 and won Best New Film Director at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards, the FIPRESCI Prize, The Golden Montgolfiere Prize at the 37th Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes,[3] and the Best First Feature Film Award at The 68th Locarno Film Festival. Bi Gan was born in Kaili City in Guizhou Province on June 4, 1989. He is an ethnic Miao. From 2008 to 2011, Bi Gan studied Television directing in Radio, Film, and Television Cadre College in Taiyuan, Shanxi. The college was renamed in 2013 as Communication University of Shanxi. During his college years, Bi watched Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, later stating in an interview, "Cinema can be different [from mainstream films]; you can make what you like. What I had seen up to that point were mainly Hollywood films. What I was taught was pretty boring." Because of this particular film, he made up his mind to pursue filmmaking. "Before that, my parents and my relatives thought I would become jobless after graduation since I didn't want to do anything." In 2010 he made the short fiction film South, which won the first prize at the university-sponsored "Guang Sui Ying Dong" (Light Follows the Motion of Shadow) Film Festival. Two years later in 2012, he made a black-and-white short film Diamond Sutra (《金刚经》; also known as The Poet and Singer), which features a story of murder in a small isolated town in the mountain. The film received Special Mention Award from the 19th Hong Kong ifva (Incubator for Film and Visual media in Asia), an award organized by Hong Kong Arts Centre,[9] and was ranked top 10 at the 9th China Independent Film Festival in Nanjing, China. In 2015, Bi's debut feature film, Kaili Blues, written by him, gave the emerging director wider exposure. The film also garnered the Best New Film Director at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards, the FIPRESCI Prize, the Golden Montgolfiere Prize at the 37th Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes, and the Best First Feature Film Award at the 68th Locarno Film Festival. In 2017, Bi wrote and directed his second feature film Long Day's Journey into Night, starring Tang Wei, Huang Jue, Sylvia Chang, and Lee Hong-chi. The film is also based in Guizhou Province and was released in 2018.
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Pearce Quigley

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Pearce Quigley is a Salford born actor known for his work on films such as Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Danny Boyle's Millions, The House of Mirth and The Way Back. He is also a familiar face on TV, specifically in comedy having appeared in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Car Share, Happiness, Rovers, and the detectorists, as well as dramas such as Three Girls, In The Dark, Cutting It, Prime Suspect 3 and Our Friends in the North. He is also a celebrated stage actor, performing at the National Theatre and the Globe.
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Dana Kippel

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Dana was involved in theatre and acting from a young age, attending Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack, NY. Her love of acting started because she was always drawn to the horror movie genre. As a child she first fell in love with it by discovering Halloween. She loved the scary shows on TV and would admire all the scary masks at the costume store in New York. Dana was in a gifted writers program in school and always had a big imagination. In class she would draw aliens, write about parallel universes and past lives, she was only 8 years old. She directed and produced movies for her middle school and high school projects as well as home movies she would write, direct and produce for her family and friends to watch. Dana moved to Los Angeles, CA in March 2019 to pursue acting professionally and has been working hard at it ever since. She started as an extra, moved on to commercials and is now pursuing a career in Film & Television. She also was a finalist in the Future Drifter Short Films Screenwriting Contest for a short sci-fi screenplay she wrote. Dana directed her first feature a metaphysical sci-fi thriller Reflect in late 2021 . Her interests lie in grounded sci-fi, horror and metaphysical sci-fi. She writes to represent the female perspective. Her influences are the Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock, Sacred Geometry, Mythology, and the topics listed above that she has intensely studied. Her overall message is that we are all connected and sentient from a cell to a tree to a human and have all the answers we need inside of us. She craves open endings and wants to show the world a true strong woman is someone who is vulnerable, one who burrows in those dark places and scratches her way out of the other side victorious. She aims to inspire young women and men to come together as a community and develop true connection.
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Debashis Das

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Debashis Das is a filmmaker, Scriptwriter who was born on July 1, 1991, in Gazipur, Bangladesh. He started practicing drama, recitation, debate, and music in college. Then he started trying to make short films from the time he was studying at Bangladesh Agricultural University. He has been awarded as ‘Zahir Raihan Best Short’ by the renowned filmmaker in Bangladesh Tareq Masood (late) for the Short film named 'Nun'. He started the two-year 'Filmmaking Training' course at the Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute (BCTI). During the course, he made a few short films and they earned some honors both inside and outside the country. The film "The Ballad of a Geek", which he made at an international film festival among the film schools of the world, Inspired by the famous writer Akhtaruzzaman Elias' story "Niruddesh Jatra", Das made his final diploma movie "Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit" and it got first place in the integrated merit list. His ongoing film project is ‘Mukuler Jadur Ghora’ which revolves around a child’s fantasy journey received the national film grant in the 2019-20 fiscal year.
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Stacie Lynn Renna

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Stacie Lynn Renna (born 1973) is an American film, television, and stage actress. She has worked in television and films since she was ten years old. In 2002, she founded the ANTG Management talent agency in Sherman Oaks, California, in which she represented approximately 75 actors for television and movie roles. Renna was born in 1973 and grew up in the Hillsborough, New Jersey section of Montgomery Township, New Jersey. She is a graduate of The High School for Performing Arts and attended DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Theatre and Publicity.
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