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Diane Morgan

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Diane Morgan (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She is notable for portraying Philomena Cunk on the review programme Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013–2020), the mockumentary series Cunk on Britain (2018), Cunk on Earth (2022), and the extended special Cunk on Life (2024).  She also played Liz on the BBC Two sitcom Motherland (2016–2022) and Kath in the Netflix dark comedy series After Life (2019–2022), as well as writing and starring in the BBC Two comedy series Mandy (2019–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Diane Morgan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Leela Varghese

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Leela Varghese (born 1992 in Bundaberg) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and actress. From 2008 to 2018, Leela Varghese worked as a presenter for the Australian children's series *Totally Wild*; beginning in 2011, she directed and wrote several short films. She garnered particular attention with the short film *Crush*, which won the award for Best Screenplay at Tropfest in 2019. Subsequently, together with Emma Hough Hobbs, she developed the feature film *Lesbian Space Princess*, which screened in the Panorama section at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded the Teddy Award for Best LGBTQIA+ Feature Film. Varghese is openly lesbian and frequently explores queer perspectives and diversity in her work.
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE (/ˈɡuːɡuːəmˈbætərɔː/; born 21 April 1983) is a British actress. She began acting at the National Youth Music Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She gained acclaim for her roles as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra in 2005 at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. She made her West End and Broadway debut, portraying Ophelia in Hamlet in 2009. For her role as the titular character in Jessica Swale's 2015 play Nell Gwynn, she received an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress nomination. Her early television roles include  Doctor Who(2007), the NBC series Undercovers (2010), and FOX's Touch (2012). She had her breakthrough with the British period drama film Belle (2013), for which she won the BIFA for Best Actress. After roles in the films Beyond the Lights (2014) and Miss Sloane (2016), she co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" (2016), for which she received acclaim. Her other film roles include Beauty and the Beast (2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), Misbehaviour (2020), and Summerland (2020). She has also acted in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019) and the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present). In 2017, Mbatha-Raw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. In February 2021, Mbatha-Raw was appointed a global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gugu Mbatha-Raw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Raffiella Chapman

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Raffiella Chapman is a British actress who plays the titular role of Vesper in critically acclaimed feature film Vesper (2022). Her first movie role was Lucy Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) followed by Claire in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) but it as Vesper that Chapman has attracted attention and won critical acclaim. "A star-making turn from Raffiella Chapman... There is a ferocity to Chapman's piercing eyes... she channels the anger and vulnerability of Gen Z" The Playlist "impressive up-and-comer, Chapman's stoic but winningly vulnerable performance keeps proceedings humane and honestly felt: Where so many YA heroines amount to dauntless adults in children's bodies, she plays the title character as a changeable, characterful child thrust into unreasonable adult responsibilities." Variety "Chapman is believably commanding in the lead, with a toughness that belies her tender years. But she still embodies the uncertainty of a teenager, and there's a touching vulnerability to her performance." Cineuropa
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Katarzyna Warnke

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Katarzyna Warnke (born on November 30, 1977 in Grudziądz) - Polish theater and film actress, director, playwright. She is a graduate of II High School. Jan III Sobieski in Grudziądz. For four years she studied acting at the Theater of Vision and Movement in her hometown of Grudziądz. She studied art history in Warsaw, but did not complete this study. In 2002 she graduated from the Acting Department at the Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Ludwika Solski in Krakow. During her studies, in exchange for Jan Peszek, she directed the spectacle Tree of the Tropics, staged at the Theater 38 in Krakow. In the years 2002-2007 she performed at the Stary Theater in Krakow, in the years 2007-2014 she was an actress at the Rozmaitości Theater in Warsaw, and in the years 2016-2017 she played at the Studio Theater in Warsaw. In 2013, she directed the author's monodrama Seducer, which premiered at the Nowy Theater in Warsaw. In 2015 she played the main role of Agnes in the film W spiral. In 2016, she created her own line of bags. On July 30, 2016, she married actor Piotr Stramowski. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ellen McLain

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Ellen McLain is an American opera singer, voice actress, and voice instructor who is best known as the voice of the maniacal artificial intelligence GLaDOS in the Portal series, a character who has been consistently lauded by many publications as one of the greatest video game villains of all time. Her performance as GLaDOS led to the similar roles of the A.I. of Gipsy Danger in Pacific Rim, and the A.I. of Gipsy Avenger in Pacific Rim: Uprising. Since 1986, McLain has been married to fellow voice actor John Patrick Lowrie, who she often performs alongside in video games.
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Gabby Douglas

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Gabby Douglas (born December 31, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the United States women's national gymnastics team, dubbed the Fierce Five by the media, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won gold medals in the individual all-around and team competitions. She was also a member of the gold-winning American team at the 2011 and the 2015 World Championships, and the all-around silver medalist at the 2015 World Championships. She was part of the Final Five at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she won gold in the team competition. Douglas is the first African American or the first of African descent of any nationality in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champions, and the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics. She and Simone Biles are the only two American all-around champions to win multiple gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Douglas is the first female reigning Olympic all-around champion to return to the World Championships and medal in the all-around since Elena Davydova in 1981. Gabby Douglas was also the 2016 AT&T American Cup all-around champion. As a public figure, Douglas' gymnastics successes have led to her life story adaptation in the 2014 Lifetime biopic film, The Gabby Douglas Story, as well the acquisition of her own reality television series, Douglas Family Gold.
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Junjun

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ジュンジュン (Junjun; Chinese: 純純), real name 李纯 (Lǐ Chún), currently known as 李沁謡 (Lǐ Qìnyáo) in China and best known by her Japanese stage name Junjun (ジュンジュン), is a Chinese singer and actress. She was announced to be joining as an eighth generation member of Morning Musume. on March 15, 2007. Along with Linlin, she is one of only two members in the history of Morning Musume. that is not of Japanese origin. She graduated from the group on December 15, 2010 with Kamei Eri and Linlin.
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Luna Winter

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Luna Winter (born 2007 in Hamburg) is a German actress. Luna Winter was born in Hamburg and works as an actress. She has accommodation available in Berlin, Kiel, and Cologne. Her native language is German; she also speaks English, French, and Spanish. In addition to acting, she plays the piano, sings in a choir, and participates in sports such as volleyball and handball. From 2021 to 2025, she attended the NEW TALENT Acting School. Additionally, from 2024 to 2025, she completed intensive musical theater training at The Young Talents, followed in 2025 by film acting training for young talent under the guidance of Teresa Harder. Winter gained her first significant stage experience between 2018 and 2020 in the theater production *Mary Poppins* at the Theater an der Elbe, in which she played the lead role of Jane Banks. On television, she rose to prominence through the role of Lou in the series *Die Pfefferkörner*, a character she portrayed from 2020 to 2022. In 2022, she reprised this role in *Schloss Einstein & Die Pfefferkörner – Der Schatz im Internat*. Further roles followed, including an appearance in *Am Ende der Wahrheit*, as well as in the 2026 series *Die Landarztpraxis im Sonnenhof*, in which she took on the lead role of Fanny. Also in 2026, she played the lead role in the short film *Zwischenton*.
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François Girard

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François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. In 1998, he wrote and directed The Red Violin, which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Soundtrack, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex and Novencento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed , in Tokyo and Zarkana, which will open at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011. His television credits include Le dortoir, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach. Description above from the Wikipedia article François Girard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​
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