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Jean-Marc Reiser

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Jean-Marc Reiser (13 April 1941 – 5 November 1983) was a French comics creator. A prolific cartoon artist from 1959 until his death, Reiser made his debut in the publication La Gazette de Nectar for the Nicolas winery. His works are to this day controversial, with some people enthusiastically endorsing them, and others loathing them. At a 2004 exhibition of his works in the Centre Pompidou, the entrance displayed the warning "Beware! Some of the exhibited pictures could hurt the feelings of several visitors." He founded the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Hara-Kiri in 1960 together with Fred and François Cavanna. Reiser was known to attack taboos of all kinds. Hara-Kiri was banned in 1970 by the French Minister of the Interior for mocking the just deceased Charles de Gaulle. Reiser subsequently published his drawings in the follow-up magazine Charlie Hebdo and several other publications. In 1978 he won the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême. He died on 5 November 1983, in Paris, of bone cancer. Source: Article "Jean-Marc Reiser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Joseph Shepherd

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Born and raised in Memphis, TN, he fell in love with hosting, writing, and editing in his high school's morning newscast. Joseph studied Broadcast Journalism and Film at Georgia State University where he hosted the school's weekly news show "The Panther Report" while also creating his own entertainment news show "The Scoop". While in Atlanta, Joseph was featured in television and film such as "The Walking Dead", "Meet the Browns", "Hall Pass", and "Life as We Know It". Joseph moved to NYC where he began his producing career in daytime talk shows with "Rachael Ray" and "The View". After a 3 year year stint in NYC, Joseph moved to Los Angeles where he currently resides. His producing continued with ABC's "FABLife", Freeform's "Happily Ever After", Snapchat's Discover Channel, and E!'s "Famously Single". Joseph's love of hosting and LGBT culture led him to create his interview web-series and podcast "Exposed" where he interviews influential drag queens and members of the LGBT community. Currently, Joseph hosts "Exposed" on YouTube and “Sissy That Talk Show with Joseph Shepherd” premiering on January 24th. Plus, he produces podcasts for Moguls of Media including "Hi Jinkx" with Jinkx Monsoon, "The Chop" with Latrice Royale and Manila Luzon, and "Famous This Week" with Priyanka.
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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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Ned Schmidtke

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Ned Schmidtke was born in St. Louis, Missouri as Edwin Christian Schmidtke, Jr. He attended David H. Hickman High School in Columbia and then studied at the Beloit College in Wisconsin. Schmidtke graduated in 1964. Schmidtke began his acting career appearing in a recurring role as Greg Barnard in Another World. Other shows he has appeared in are The West Wing (with Devika Parikh and Peter James Smith), NYPD Blue (with Currie Graham), NCIS (with Pauley Perrette and Francesco Quinn), The Unit (with Dennis Haysbert, Max Martini, and Michael Irby), and Heroes (with Zachary Quinto). Schmidtke has also had recurring and regular roles in shows like Texas, Point Pleasant (with Richard Burgi and Alex Carter), Medium (with Tony Curran), and Days of Our Lives. Aside of TV, Schmidtke has worked on films like The Change-Up (with Gregory Itzin), The Express, Accepted, Wedding Crashers, xXx: State of the Union, Mercury Rising (with Kirk B. R. Woller), The Relic (with Tom Sizemore), Chain Reaction (with Tzi Ma), and The Crazies.
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Adele Jergens

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 - November 22, 2002) was an American actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergen's birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in New York City. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee, Jergens landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde. Her chorus girl past came in handy when she played an exotic dancer in Armored Car Robbery (1950). She was usually cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers. She once played Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (1948) despite the fact that Jergens was only 9 years older than Monroe. In 1949, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo, a film noir set in San Francisco, she met and married co-star Glenn Langan (The Amazing Colossal Man). They remained married until his death in 1991. Their only child, actor Tracy Langan, predeceased his mother. She is interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Jergens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chris Hayward

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Chris Hayward is a characterful writer/performer adept at charming and often disarming comedy-drama, while having a keen interest in sci fi, horror, and fantasy projects. His recent film, Brian and Charles won the Audience Award at London Sundance 2022 and was nominated for Outstanding British Film at the 2023 BAFTAs. As an actor, his credits include The It Crowd, King Gary, Pls Like, and Friday Night Dinner. Chris currently has projects in development with the BBC, and another with Rupert Majendie and Mr Box.
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Omar Al-Hariri

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An Egyptian actor, born in 1926, his start was with cinema as a child, where he participated in the movie (Salama in Khair) 1937, after that he graduated from the Higher Institute for the Art of Arab Acting in 1947, to work in the Youssef Wahbi theater, where he participated in the play (jealousy) in 1948, Then he worked in the National Theater, and participated in many works before he left Cairo in 1968 to establish the National Theater in Libya until 1974 and worked there as a teacher for acting and directing, then he returned to participate in dozens of works between cinema, theater and television, among the most prominent of his works (Resident Qasadi, Sugar Hanem, See, he did not see anything), passed away in 2011 after suffering with bone cancer.
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George Ritchie

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George Ritchie is and Actor known for Criminal Record (2024). George starred in the West End production of BUDDY in the role of Ritchie Valens and was previously a contestant on the X Factor. He has appeared in many high profile TV commercials (currently jet2 holidays) and has recently completed a sell out run in Disney’s Aladdin in the role of his favourite Panto villain. George performs regularly at high end events in the UK & abroad and at venues that have included The Ritz hotel in Piccadilly and the IVY restaurant in London.
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Isabel Tay

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Isabel Tay is a visual artist and filmmaker from Singapore based in Portland, Oregon, whose work uses documentary, narrative, installation, and experiential strategies. Tay completed her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film and Video at Maryland Institute College of Art in May 2023. Tay’s work explores identity, and intimacy within – and beyond – herself through her life and family, research, documentation, interviews, and experimentation. Tay’s introspective nature influences her use of self to reimagine narratives that form the mundane, the overlooked, the voiceless, and the forgotten.
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Keum Sae-rok

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Keum Sae-rok (Korean: 금새록; born September 6, 1992) is a South Korean actress. After appearing in a number of television commercials and short films, she had her first feature in mainstream films, The Silenced (2015), and gained wider recognition for her prominent role in the comedy-drama series The Fiery Priest (2019), which brought Keum the Best New Actress at the 2019 SBS Drama Awards. She subsequently starred in the Youth of May (2021), The Interest of Love (2022–2023), and Soundtrack #2 (2023).
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