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Renata Dzhalo
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Renata Dzhalo was born in 1997 in Saint Petersburg to a Russian mother and a Bissau Guinean father. In 2021 she graduated from VGIK, where she studied in Alexei Uchitel’s studio of experimental cinema. Her debut feature-length work, the documentary film Lenechka, about composer Leonid Desyatnikov, received an award at the Message to Man IFF. She directed a play based on her own script, Vitya Needs to Leave, which was performed at the School of Modern Drama, House of Cinema and the 8/3 Stage. On This Land is her first experience in feature-length fiction filmmaking.
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Monona Wali
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Monona Wali is a short story writer and novelist, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. Her stories have been published in The Santa Monica Review, Stone Canoe, Tiferet, Catamaran, A Journal of South Asian American Literature and other literary journals. She was born in Benares, India, and immigrated to the United States with her family as a young child. She has two grown daughters, Kanchan and Maya Wali-Richardson. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and teaches creative writing at Santa Monica College and volunteers with InsideOut Writers, an organization that offers writing classes for incarcerated youth.
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Patrick Chêne
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Patrick Chêne (born 26 April 1956 in Lyon) is a French journalist who worked mainly on France TV, where he commented on the Tour de France between 1989 and 2000.
Educated at the Lyons High School of St. Mary Lyon, and then becoming a law graduate, Patrick Chêne began his journalistic career in 1977 as a freelancer at the Progrès de Lyon. He then worked in the letters department, then the sports section of the newspaper.
In 1982 he joined the newspaper L'Équipe, then in 1985 he worked on television at Antenne 2 as a journalist for Stade 2.
He commented on the Tour de France from 1989 to 2000 in the company of Robert Chapatte, then Bernard Thevenet.
Patrick Chêne was appointed sports director of Antenne 2 and presented Stade 2 between March 1992 – July 1995 before moving to newscast the newsshow 13 heures on France 2 from 1995 to 1998. He was then director of the sports department of France Télévisions from 1998 to 2000, succeeding Jean Reveillon.
From 1997 to 1999 he co-hosted Telethon with Sophie Davant. He also co-hosted Les Trésors du monde with Nathalie Simon in 1994.
After leaving France Télévisions in 2000, he founded and directed the group Sporever which specializes in publishing and content production.
He was also host of the Histoires de Sport on Orange sport.
In September 2010 Patrick Chêne had taken over for Pierre Sled – Also a former presenter of Stade 2 – on The Parliamentary Channel and presented Politique Matin, the "little political lunch" of the TV channel. He was also executive producer of the show.
In September 2012 Patrick Chêne created a TV channel dedicated to sports news, Sport365 where he hosted the show Incognito.
In July 2015 Patrick Chêne announced he was leaving Politique Matin and CPAC but that the shows will continue.
In 2009 he wrote a play, C'est pas gagné (It is not won). The main performers are his daughter Juliette and his son-in-law Jean-Charles Chagachbanian. Given the success of the performances, a tour was organized until 2011.
He wrote four TV movies about a policeman in the series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes: Un mort sur les pavés. The action takes place during the Paris-Roubaix and Patrick Chêne appears as himself.
Patrick Chêne is the father of five children. One of his daughters, Juliette, is an actress, best known for the role of Juliet in the soap opera Plus belle la vie.
His niece, Astrid Veillon, is also an actress, and best known for her role in Quai numéro un.
Source: Article "Patrick Chêne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Aubrey Morris
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Aubrey Morris (June 1, 1926 - July 15, 2015) was a British actor was a British actor known for his appearances in the films A Clockwork Orange and The Wicker Man. His many memorable performances include: the Freud-fixated writer Mr. Mybug in Cold Comfort Farm (1968); the sleazy probation officer Mr. Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange (1971); a sinister gravedigger in The Wicker Man (1973); the oily manservant Grosvenor, asking Michael Palin for the use of the 'naughty books', in "The Curse of the Claw" episode of Ripping Yarns (1976); the jolly captain of the 'B-Ark' (filled with such folk as telephone sanitizers), spending years luxuriating in his bubble-bath in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981); and last, but not least, the ancient thespian Chesterton, shuffling off this mortal coil while being read quotes from King Lear in HBO's Deadwood (2004).
Residing in the U.S. since the mid-1980s, Aubrey Morris continued to ply his trade right up until his death at the venerable age of 89.
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Coleen Gray
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Coleen Gray (born Doris Bernice Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. After graduating from high school she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping off at La Jolla where she worked as a waitress. After several weeks there, she moved to L.A. and enrolled in a drama school. Her performances attracted a talent scout from 20th Century-Fox, with whom she signed a contract after a screen test. Although Fox put her in several good pictures (Kiss of Death (1947), Nightmare Alley (1947), The Razor's Edge (1946) in which she acquitted herself well, many of the roles they gave her were not worthy of her talent and she never became as big a star as many thought she should have. Still, she has an extensive list of credits in films, TV, radio and on the stage.
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Patrick Swayze
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Patrick Wayne Swayze (August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best-known for his tough-guy roles, as romantic leading men in the hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991. His film and TV career spanned 30 years.
Diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in January 2008, Swayze told Barbara Walters a year later that he was "kicking it". However, he died from the disease on September 14, 2009. His last role was the lead in an ill-fated A&E TV series, The Beast, which premiered on January 15, 2009. Due to a prolonged decline in health, Swayze was unable to promote the series. On June 15, 2009, Entertainment Tonight announced the show's cancellation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patrick Swayze, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Julian Glover
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Primarily a classical stage actor, Julian Glover trained at the National Youth Theatre, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and became a familiar face to British television viewers by appearing in many popular series during the 1960s and 1970s. His talent for accents and cold expression made him an ideal choice for playing refined villains. During the 1980s, Glover achieved some fame in Hollywood by playing roles in such popular films as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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Christopher Lee
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Christopher Lee (May 5, 1922 – June 7, 2015) was an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars episodes II and III (2002, 2005) and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). He is well known for his deep, commanding voice. Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948 making him the Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever. He was knighted in 2009 and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011.
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John Rhys-Davies
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John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and vocal artist. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which he also voiced the ent, Treebeard. He also played Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of Sherwood, General Leonid Pushkin in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, and Macro in I, Claudius. Additionally, he provided the voices of Cassim in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, and Tobias in the computer game Freelancer. He is also the narrator for the TV show Wildboyz.
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Diane Ladd
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Diane Ladd (born Rose Diane Ladner; November 29, 1935 – November 3, 2025) was an American actress. She appeared in over 200 films and television shows, receiving three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a BAFTA Award. She was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice (1980–1981).
Ladd's other film appearances include Chinatown (1974), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Primary Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and Joy (2015). She was the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
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