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Aleyna Tilki

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Aleyna Tilki (born March 28, 2000) is a Turkish singer and songwriter. She achieved national recognition after the release of her song "Cevapsız Çınlama" along with its music video, which has more than 580 million views on YouTube. It is considered the most viewed Turkish music video on YouTube. The song went up to No. 2 on the Turkey's Trending List. Aleyna Tilki released her first solo single "Sen Olsan Bari" in July 2017 which became number 1 in Türkiye's charts. The music video currently has over 510 million views on YouTube.
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Yamin Messika

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Yamin Messika (born February 24, 1957) is an Israeli director, screenwriter, photographer, editor and producer. Messika was born in the neighborhood of Katamon T in the south of Jerusalem and grew up in the city of Jerusalem to a struggling family with many children of eight brothers and sisters. In the 1970s he took part in the tent movement in Jerusalem. In 1972, he even participated in the play "Yosef Goes Down to Katmona" at the Ohel Yosef theater which operated in the Katmon 9 neighborhood. Messika continued to study fine art photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and in San Francisco he studied film and television.
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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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Chayatorn Trairattanapradit

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Tui Chayatorn Trairattanapradit is a Thai singer, songwriter, beatboxer, music producer, drummer and lead vocalist of the boy group LYKN (ไลแคน) signed under Riser Music and GMMTV. He studies at Srinakharinwirot University's College of Social Communication Innovation, majoring in acting and directing for film. LYKN's debut single "May I?" premiered on May 5, 2023. In 2024, he got his start as an assistant writer on Win Metawin's "Night Ride" (ดึกมากแล้ว), also providing backing vocals on the track. He co-wrote for LYKN for the first time on their fourth single "Charm" (ฉ่ำ) before fully writing and composing his first single "LYKYOU" which was first performed at the LYKN UNLEASHED concert on September 21, 2024, months ahead of its digital release. It was with the release of his OST "From Now On" on August 30, 2024, that he made his solo debut. After making his acting debut in LYKN's short film "No Worries" in 2023, Tui booked his first TV role in the series "ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat".
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Sara Newens

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Sara Newens is a Los-Angeles based filmmaker and Emmy-award winning editor who began her career working for CBS News in New York City. Her first documentary feature, Top Spin, was acquired by First Run Features and received rave reviews from the LA Times and Wall Street Journal during its festival run and theatrical release. She also served as Editor/Writer for Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s feature, On The Record, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and distributed by HBO Max. She recently completed a second collaboration with Dick and Ziering as Supervising Editor on the HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow. She is also known for cutting several fiction shorts and co-editing the critically acclaimed indie feature Freeland, as well as directing and editing the award-winning documentary short, Footprint, featured in The New York Times Op-Docs series. A graduate of the MFA Documentary Film and Video Program at Stanford University, she continues to create original work through her production company Wild Pair Films, co-owned by Mina T. Son. Currently, they are developing their next feature entitled Racist Trees, which chronicles a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs fighting for the removal of a wall of trees that many residents believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation. In addition, she helms the LA chapter of Video Consortium, a global organization for nonfiction storytellers and video journalists.
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Erin Moriarty

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Erin F. Moriarty is an American television news reporter and correspondent. She has been a correspondent on "48 Hours" since 1990. She has won national Emmy Awards several times. Moriarty was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Ohio State University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in behavioral sciences and received a law degree from the university in 1977. Moriarty is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Maryland. Prior to joining CBS News, she was an award winning consumer reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago (1983-1986). She was also a reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio (1979-1980); at WJZ-TV in Baltimore (1980-1982); and at WJKW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio (1982-1983). Her reporting has earned Moriarty virtually every major journalism award available. In 2019, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. She's won nine Emmy Awards; three Gracie Awards; she was part of the team coverage of the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting which earned CBS News a 2014 duPont-Columbia award; and her work was part of "CBS Sunday Morning"'s 2015 Daytime Emmy Award. In 2000 and 2003, she was honored with the Top 100 Award from Irish America magazine. And in 1988, Moriarty received the Outstanding Consumer Media Service Award presented by the Consumer Federation of America.
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Charles Burnett

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Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director”, Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career.
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Petr Čepek

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Petr Čepek was a Czech actor associated with The Drama Club in Prague. His final film was Faust, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. Cepek attended the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) along with many notable Czech actors of the time, before appearing in Ostrava’s first theater, DPB until 1965.  After joining with fellow colleagues in Prague’s Činoherní Klub, where he contributed to the formation of numerous famous theatre productions such as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Gogo’s Revizor (The Government Inspector).   Čepek turned to politics in the late 1980s, participating in political rallies and negotiations before returning to the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU) to teach until his death in 1994.  Čepek was honored posthumously for his double role in the Švankmajers film Faust.
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Burr DeBenning

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Burr DeBenning (September 21, 1936 – May 26, 2003) was an American character actor, who has done work in both film and television. DeBenning appeared in nearly 100 films and TV shows during his career. His credits include the television films The House on Greenapple Road, Wolfen, The Incredible Melting Man, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, St. Ives, Cruising, and Love Field. He appeared in such television programs as Custer, Matlock, Matt Houston, Mike Hammer, Magnum, P.I., Matt Helm, Medical Center, McCloud, Columbo and Medical Story. Co-starred with Robert Wagner in City Beneath the Sea (1971). His character was called "Aquila" and had gills. Other guest appearance was in a war movie Beach Red (1967). DeBenning's last media appearance was a cameo in a music video for The Avalanches' hit song "Frontier Psychiatrist" in 2000. He died in California at age 66 from undisclosed causes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burr DeBenning, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Shashank

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Shashank is an Indian film director, screenwriter and lyricist who works in Kannada cinema. He made his debut as a director with the 2007 film Sixer. His second directorial Moggina Manasu (2008) received critical acclaim for its screenplay and its coming-of-age theme. He went on to direct other successful films in the romance genre such as Krishnan Love Story (2010) and Krishna-Leela (2015). He is also credited to have introduced actors Yash and Radhika Pandit who went on to become successful actors in Kannada cinema.
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