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Juan Diego Botto

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Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor. Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appearances as a child actor, he landed a breakthrough role in the 1995 film Stories from the Kronen. He has since starred in films such as Martín (Hache) (1997), Plenilune (2000), Broken Silence (2001), Obaba (2005), Go Away from Me (2006) and Ismael (2013). He has also worked as a stage director and playwright and debuted as a film director with the 2022 social drama thriller On the Fringe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Juan Diego Botto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Claudette Colbert

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Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 — July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France, she was brought to the United States as a child three years later and went to high school in New York. While studying at the Art Students League when, in 1923, she took the name Claudette Colbert for her first Broadway role in "The Wild Westcotts". Her most noteworthy stage vehicle was the "The Barker" in 1927. Her first film was a silent For the Love of Mike (1927), directed by Frank Capra. Made on a shoestring, the movie was a flop, and she vowed that it would be her last film role: "I only left Broadway when the crash came. The Depression killed the theater, and the pictures were manna from heaven". She had her first film success the next year, however, in The Lady Lies (1929). Her early notable films were all box-office hits and included Cleopatra (1934), in which she played the title role enticingly. She had her greatest triumph playing a runaway heiress, with enormous charm, opposite Clark Gable in Capra's comedy It Happened One Night (1934), for which she won the Academy Award as Best Actress. By 1938 her keen ability in business made her the highest paid star in Hollywood. By 1950, though, her star had begun to wane. She returned to the stage in 1956 when she replaced Margaret Sullavan during the spring and summer in the comedy "Janus". Appearances in other Broadway productions followed, including "The Marriage-Go-Round". Besides the stage, she did TV specials and had a supporting role in a notable TV movie, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987), for which she received a Golden Globe award. In 1989 she was presented with a Life Achievement award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She married actor Norman Foster in 1928, although they never lived together and were divorced after seven years. She married surgeon Dr. Joel Pressman soon after and remained married until his death in 1968. In latter years she divided her time between an apartment in New York and a 200-year-old plantation house in Speightstown, Barbados, where she entertained such guests as Frank Sinatra and Ronald Reagan. She remained on Barbados Island after her stroke. On July 30, 1996, Claudette died in Speightstown, Barbados. She was 92.
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Clara Henry

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Clara Henry, born on April 9, 1994, in Partille, Sweden, is a Swedish comedian, author, actress, and television and radio host. She gained popularity through her YouTube channel, which had around 395,000 subscribers as of May 2020, and has also hosted her own talk show on Kanal 5 Play. In 2015, she made her literary debut with Ja jag har mens, hurså?, a book about menstruation that has been translated into multiple languages. She was one of the hosts of Melodifestivalen 2017 and launched the podcast Konsten att vara with Gustaf Jernberg in 2018. Raised in Gökskulla near Landvetter, she studied journalism at Ingrid Segerstedt's high school in Gothenburg. She has a younger sister, Kimberly, and a younger brother, Christoffer. Her father is originally from the UK but has lived in Sweden for many years. She is openly pansexual. Henry began her career as a youth reporter for Göteborgs-Posten and started blogging at the age of 12. From 2011 to 2017, she was one of the biggest YouTubers in the Nordic region. She also had a talk show on Kanal 5 Play in 2013 and later hosted Häng med Clara Henry, where she spent a day with her guests rather than conducting studio interviews. She won Vlogger of the Year at the Blog Awards 2013. In 2014, she worked with SVT Play, interviewing contestants and guests during Melodifestivalen, and later became one of the main hosts in 2017. She also hosted the Guldtuben awards, recognizing Sweden’s top YouTubers, and won Vlog Channel of the Year. That same year, she participated in Valfeber, an SVT comedy show about politics. She was a summer host on Sommar i P1 in 2015 and worked with Musikhjälpen, traveling to the Philippines to report on families affected by typhoons. She also hosted radio programs, including Hallå i P3 and Clara Henry i P3. Beyond hosting, she ventured into acting, starring as Ellen in Sjukt oklar, a series released on SVT in 2018. She also appeared in Bäst i test, winning its third season, and had a role in Solsidan in 2019. In 2020, she participated in Robinson, joining mid-season and making it to the final three. The following year, she hosted Vem kan vad on SVT.
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Hiroshi Harada

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Hiroshi Harada suffered from bullying during his childhood, a frequent theme in his films. His career as an entertainer began in 1976. Between 1987 and 1992 he worked on the adaptation of Midori: the girl with the camellias, a manga by ero-guro author Suehiro Maruo . Due to the controversy of the film, Harada had trouble financing it and had to do most of the work on his own. Over the years it would become a cult film, as well as being one of the few (if not the only) anime of the ero-guro genre . For the rest of the 90s , Harada remained anonymous using pseudonyms such as Hisaaki Etsu. In 2006 he directed the Humanoid Monster Bem series, the highest-budget play of his career up to that point. In Latin America the series was released by Animax . In 2012 he directed 5 shorts for the anthological series Folktales from Japan which, as its name suggests, adapts popular tales from Japanese culture.
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David Rees Snell

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David Rees Snell (born August 20, 1966) is a television actor cast as Detective Ronnie Gardocki, on the FX Networks' crime drama The Shield. When The Shield was picked up by FX, Snell was initially hired as a supporting cast member on the show. He was told, that the writers had no plans for developing his character, due to him only being a last minute addition to an already large cast of actors. However, after merely a few episodes, his character was made a permanent member of the tactical unit aka The Strike Team. Snell has subsequentially appeared in almost every episode since, with his character garnering a sizable following amongst fans of the show. When his screen time expanded even further, during the fifth season, he became a full-time cast member. Snell is also a voice actor, who has appeared in such short films as P1 and Draw the Pirate. He also had a speaking role in the video game Need for Speed: Undercover. Back on TV, he co-starred in the 2006 Hallmark TV movie Desolation Canyon with fellow The Shield cast member Kenneth Johnson. More recently, he was cast in a recurring role as a terrorist during the fourth and final season of The Unit. Recently he could be seen guest starring on Hawthorne, Numb3rs, Lie to Me and Criminal Minds.
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Zhang Linghe

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Zhang Linghe (张凌赫) is a Chinese actor born in Wuxi, Jiangsu December 30, 1997. He was admitted to Nanjing Normal University in 2016. In addition to joining the Aerospace Agency, due to his interest in physics, he majored in Electrical Engineer in the School of Electrical and Automation Engineering. A chance meeting and discussion with an agent during this time lead him to discover a significant interest in acting, which steered him to pursue entering the show business circle. He debuted as an actor in the 2020 period drama series, 'Maiden Holmes'. On January 20, 2021, he won the "New Force of the Year" award at the 5th Jinguduo Network Film and Television Festival.
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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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Thyagarajan

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Thiagarajan is an Indian actor, director and producer of Tamil films. He is the father of Tamil actor Prashanth. Thiagarajan made his acting debut with "Alaigal Oivathillai "appearing as the elder brother of film's lead actress Radha. The film became successful and offers poured in for him. His portrayal of jungle bandit in "Malaiyoor Mambattiyan" provided him major breakthrough in his career. He was also a part of successful films like "Neengal Kettavai", "Payum Puli". He acted in Malayalam film "New Delhi" which became successful and his portrayal of a goon received acclaim. The success of the film prompted Thiagarajan to make his directorial debut titled "Salem Vishnu" based on the character which he had played in that film.
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Chantal Poullain

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Chantal Poullain (* 17 August 1956 Marseille) is a Czech-French theater and film actress. She studied theater at Geneva, then studied in England, starring in several French and Swiss television films. She was married to Bolek Polívka, with whom he has a son Vladimír Polívka. She lived in Brno in the Czech Republic and now lives in Prague. She is the founder and president of the Archa Chantal Foundation. From the eighties, along with Bolek Polívka, appeared on the stage of the Na Provázku Theater in the legendary production Šašek and Queen, with whom they also appeared on a number of foreign scenes. Since 1993, this game has been featured on the stage of Bolek Polívka Theater. She attended Klicper's Theater in Hradec Králové in performances of Romeo and Juliet, Antelope and Master and Markétka. At the Ungelt Theater in Prague, she played at the Games of Marriage, Six Dance Lessons at Six Weeks At Your Risk! and Kurtizana. In January 2017 she joined the production The Naked Truth - Revealed Truth, which originated in the co-production of Bolek Polívka Theater and StageArtCz. In the years 2010-2013 she performed concerts in the Czech Republic with a chanson project accompanied by a band of saxophonist Štěpán Markovič. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kimiko Yo

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Kimiko Yo was born in Yokohama, a city just south of Tokyo to a Japanese mother and Taiwanese father on the 12th of May 1956. Her cousin was actress Bunjaku Han. She became active in front of the camera in 1987 and has been a feature of Japanese television and cinema ever since. She had begun acting on the theatre stage in 1976. Audiences may mostly know her for her supporting role in Shin Gojira, as a sympathetic colleague in the 2008 films Departures, which won an Oscar, and kind wife and waitress in Ramen Girl, but she has almost 200 credits to her name. These include an abnormal neighbour in The Drugstore girl and serene presence in Café Lumière where she was directed by a Taiwanese director in Japan. Dear Doctor (2009) propelled her name forward in Japan and was an award winner. She has several Japan Academy prizes to her name. Like most celebrities she pushes products and has done commercials for telephone companies, shampoos and cosmetics manufacturers. Yo is married to a man who at the time was a NHK employee in 2006 and is managed by the Alpha Agency.
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