Trending
Popular people
Jo Hook
Biography
Jo’s father served during WWII with the Royal Engineers as a cartographer (he drew very fine maps of the Western Desert – something which had never properly been mapped before) . Jo’s grandfather served during WW1 and she therefore grew up avidly listening to her father’s tales of the Second World War and thus a passion in military history was born. In 1986 Jo spent 3 years working with the Ministry of Defence in Hong Kong which allowed her to widen her interest in military history. In 1994 she joined the Territorial Army (Royal Signals) and it was here that Jo had the opportunity to arrange battlefield tours. In 1995 she spent time on Operations in Bosnia. A subsequent move to Germany allowed Jo to concentrate on guiding German based British Military Groups specifically to study Operation Market Garden. At the same time Jo also returned to the UK to accompany UK based groups to both WW1 and WWII battlefields. Jo has also worked closely with the Normandy Veterans Association accompanying many of the veterans back to Normandy for the 6 June commemoration weekends as well as returning with Arnhem Veterans back to the battlefields of Holland. Having served both on operations and having experienced life as an Army wife with a husband on operations Jo understands the perspective of soldiers on the battlefield and the viewpoint of families at home as well as gaining an insight to the comparison between latter day soldiers and the life of the soldier on the modern day battlefield. Jo joined the Guild of Battlefield Guides in 2006 and attained badged status (Badge Number 48) in October 2010 and at the same time took over the role as Events Co-ordinator for the Guild. When time permits she also undertakes book reviews for Soldier Magazine and has been involved in typing up memoirs for the Paradata Archive. She is also in the middle of trying to attain a History Degree through the Open University – something she will one day finish! In 2010 Jo took part in the Help for Heroes Bridge Too Far Bike Ride as one of the battlefield guides and is also currently involved with the Wenches in the Trenches sponsored walk project in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund. This year Jo has also started working for Anglia Battlefield Tours predominantly with school tours something which she enjoys very much and finds extremely satisfying. Her main passion in life is ensuring that the story of the soldier and the sacrifices made by those who fought throughout history should not be forgotten. Her ambition is to try to track down the maps her father (an accomplished artist) drew in the Second World War and maybe one day to try and write a book.
Read more
Albert Nerenberg
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Albert Nerenberg (born Oct 13, 1962) is a Canadian independent filmmaker, actor, journalist, and laughologist. His films include Stupidity (2003), Escape to Canada (2005), Let's All Hate Toronto (2007), and Laughology (2009). Both Stupidity and Laughology are the first feature length documentaries to discuss the topics of stupidity and laughter.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Nerenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more
Natphatra Diloettrakun
Biography
Mcka (แมกก้า), whose real name is Nattaphat Deeloettrakun (ณัฐภัทร ดีเลิศตระกูล), was born on September 18, 2002, and is a member of the Thai T-Pop group 4MIX, where he shines as the group’s main rapper and lead dancer. Beyond his stage role, he is a versatile artist skilled in playing musical instruments, singing, dancing, and rapping.
Passionate about football, Mcka not only enjoys playing for fun but also competed seriously, even joining his provincial youth football team. Outside of sports, he loves singing, dancing, and rapping — passions that have become the foundation of his artistic journey.
There’s one thing he truly dislikes: snakes. As a child, he was bitten by one and briefly lost consciousness. His grandfather’s quick response saved him, but ever since that day, he has developed a lasting fear of snakes.
Mcka’s biggest inspiration is BTS, particularly V (Kim Taehyung). He admires how the group started from nothing — handing out flyers to promote their music — and grew into a global sensation with songs topping the charts worldwide. What inspires him most is BTS’s ability to constantly evolve their musical style, and V’s powerful stage presence and unique character, which push him to work hard toward his dream of becoming a renowned artist.
His personal motto perfectly reflects his determination and optimism:“Small body, big heart. Dreams are achieved through passion, not size.”
To his fans, Mcka shares a heartfelt message of unity and gratitude: “You will not walk alone, we will walk together forever.”
Read more
Sean Connery
Biography
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.
Read more
Jan Uuspõld
Biography
Jan Uuspõld (born December 14, 1973) is an Estonian stage, television, radio and film actor and musician.
Jan Uuspõld was born in Tallinn, the eldest of three sons of Ingar and Heidi Uuspõld. His mother is an accountant and his father was a long-distance truck driver. He was raised mostly in Hiiu, Nõmme and attended schools in Keila and Tallinn. In middle school was enrolled in music class and sang in a school choir. He graduated from Tallinn's 1st Industrial High School in 1991 where he trained as an offset printer. As a teenager, he wished to become a musician. Influenced in part by the Estonian punk rock band J.M.K.E., he formed a punk band called Trakulla at age fifteen with several classmates and younger brother Andrus after his mother gave him money to buy a guitar. The band went through several music styles and incarnations until eventually being called Luxury Filters and playing predominately jazz and Texas blues inspired songs. After recording several songs, the band appeared on the television Eesti Televisioon (ETV) program 7 vaprat and found a degree of success in Estonia. Their most popular single, "Tramm nr 66", sung by Uuspõld, was released in 1992 when Uuspõld was nineteen. The band folded not long after, but reformed on several occasions, performing on ETV and the 2013 August Blues Festival in Haapsalu.
After Luxury Filters broke up, Uuspõld was inspired to become an actor after watching Estonian actor Tõnu Kark perform in a stage production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1994 he applied to and was accepted at the EMA Higher Drama School (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, graduating in 1998. Among his graduating classmate were actors Harriet Toompere, Tiit Sukk, Veikko Täär, Liina Vahtrik, and Andero Ermel. While still a student, his course instructor Priit Pedajas offered him an engagement at the Estonian Drama Theatre. He would perform at the Estonian Drama Theatre from 1996 until 2013 in roles by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dostoyevsky, among many others. From 2005 until 2007 he also performed for two seasons at the Vanemuine theater in Tartu and from 2009 to 2014, with partner Karl Kermes, he created the Monoteater, which staged several plays. In 2013 he developed his own theater production company called Prem Productions.
Jan Uuspõld's first film role as an actor was in the 1999 Ervin Õunapuu directed short Kõrbekuu. His first television appearance as an actor was in the Kanal 2 comedy series Wremja in 2001. He would appear in the program as a regular until 2003. This was followed by a dual role in the Finnish YLE2 television series Siperian Nero! He would go on to appear in roles for such television series as: Rikospoliisi ei laula (2006), Ohtlik lend (2006), Kelgukoerad (2007), Brigaad 3 (2007), Kättemaksukontor (2009-2012), among others. Shortly after leaving the Estonian Drama Theatre, Uuspõld had an idea to create a comedic road movie. After presenting his idea to directors and screenwriters Rain Tolk and Andres Maimik, the three collaborated in making the 2007 comedy Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse (English release title: 186 Kilometers). In the film Uuspõld plays a down-on-his-luck caricature of himself, trying to hitchhike from Tallinn to Tartu to perform in a role at the Vanemuine theater.
Read more
Paul Dupuis
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Dupuis (August 11, 1913 – January 23, 1976) was a French Canadian film actor who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and performed in British films during the late 1940s. The roles he played were mainly as the romantic leading man. He died in Saint-Sauveur in Quebec.
His films include Johnny Frenchman (1945), The White Unicorn (1947), La Forteresse (1947), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Romantic Age (1949), The Reluctant Widow (1950), and Ti Coq (1953). He was also seen in the popular Quebec television series Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Dupuis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more
Tachakorn Boonlupyanun
Biography
Godji Tachakorn Boonlupyanun is a Thai actress, host, and producer under GMMTV. She has a bachelor's degree majoring in the Chinese Language from Chulalongkorn University and a master's degree majoring in Integrated Communication Management at Chulalongkorn University.
Godji built her reputation as a host of the travel program "Toey Tiew Thai." Since then, she has worked behind the scenes on many programs, such as the creative director of the show "Five Live Fresh" and the producer of the show "High School Reunion." She made her acting debut in 2013 with a guest role in the series "Love Balloon".
Read more
Josip Broz Tito
Biography
Josip Broz (7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. He also served as the president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 14 January 1953 until his death on 4 May 1980.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Josip Broz Tito, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more
Brian Dixey
Biography
Brian Dixey was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He is a guitarist, actor, martial artist and producer known for Life on the V: The Story of V66 (2014), Inside Scofield (2022) and Black Creek with Cynthia Rothrock. Also known for working on several compositions over the years, reflecting his love of rock, jazz, improvised and instrumental music. He has studied and worked with many legends in the music industry such as Steve Morse (guitarist of Deep Purple), Bradley Delp (singer of the band Boston), and Anthony J. Resta (music producer Collective Soul, Elton John, Duran Duran). In addition, he has been involved in martial arts for many years in the Chuck Norris organization (UFAF) and has been honored to train with several martial artists known from the television show Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) , as well as with Bill Wallace, Kathy Long and Benny Urquidez. Residing in the Boston area, Brian continues to be involved in a variety of music and film projects.
Read more
Yumarie Morales
Biography
Yumarie Morales, of Panamanian and Puerto Rican parentage, has always found herself at the intersection of American culture and traditional Latin American values. Being an "Army brat" afforded her the opportunity to live and travel around the globe, collecting experiences for what would turn out to be her true creative expression, performing. A graduate from the University of Northern Colorado, she promised her Mom she would secure a backup plan; so while double majoring in Theatre and Spanish Literature, she also minored in communication. Presently, Yumarie lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and can be spotted frequently during the commercial break. While commercial work has been a privilege, she hopes that the connections she's made in TV and film, continue to provide a path to perform for larger audiences while demonstrating a key message, Representation Matters.
Read more








