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Omar Epps
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Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor, rapper, and producer. Epps's film roles include Juice, Higher Learning, The Wood, In Too Deep, and Love & Basketball. His television work includes the role of Dr Dennis Gant in the medical drama series ER, J. Martin Bellamy in Resurrection, Dr Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House from 2004 to 2012, Isaac Johnson in the TV series Shooter from 2016 to 2018, and Detective Malcolm Howard on the Starz crime drama Power Book III: Raising Kanan. He has been awarded nine NAACP Image Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, one MTV Movie Award, one Black Reel Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Jennifer Hale
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Jennifer Hale (born January 30, 1972) is a Canadian-American voice actress, known for her work in video game series including Baldur's Gate, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, BioShock Infinite, Metroid Prime, Overwatch, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. In 2013, she was recognized by Guinness World Records as "the most prolific video game voice actor (female)".
Hale is featured in animation such as Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, The Powerpuff Girls, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Avatar: The Last Airbender as well as its continuation The Legend of Korra and Totally Spies!. She also voices Cinderella and Princess Aurora in some of the Disney Princess media of the 2000s and 2010s.
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Adnan Jaffar
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Adnan Jaffar (Urdu: عدنان جعفر) is a Pakistani actor and former anchor from Karachi. He is known for his work in theatre, film and television industry of Pakistan for which he is extensively appreciated.
Adnan began his career after attending National Academy of Performing Arts and Arizona State University.[2] A mass communication graduate, before taking on acting, he was for some time a broadcast journalist for Dawn News.[3] He made his film debut in 2015 in Jalaibee followed by Manto (2015), Moor (2015) and Jeewan Hathi (2016). Apart from films, he has also appeared in television series such as Coke Kahani, Jackson Heights and Behadd. Adnan will appear in upcoming three films Chupan Chupai (2017), Parwaaz Hay Junoon (2017) and Project Ghazi (2018).
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Khemanit Jamikorn
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Khemanit Jamikorn, nicknamed Pancake, is a TV actress, singer and model born in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated at the Faculty of Humanities from Kasetsart University. In 2014, Chamikon received a Master's in public administration from Ram KhamHaeng University.
Pancake began acting in the Thai lakorn industry in 2005 when she was barely seventeen, after winning 'Thai Supermodel Contest: 2004 edition' and later won 'Model of the World 2004' in China. During ten years, from 2005 to 2015, Jamikorn's acting career was born under Channel 7.
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Tanya Stephan
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Tanya Stephan is a BAFTA and multi award-winning British documentary director and series director. She is best known for her feature length documentary "The Missing Children" (2021) which won the BAFTA Specialist Factual Award 2022 and the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Award for Best Documentary Current Affairs International 2022. Her films address major current affairs stories and challenging social issues though people's personal stories (Sheridan Smith: Becoming Mum, 2020). She trained in Documentary Directing at the National Film & TV School in the UK, and went on to direct many prime time documentaries for British TV and international broadcast.
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William Sylvester
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William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). Born in Oakland, California and married at one time to the British actress Veronica Hurst, he moved to England after the Second World War and became a staple of British B films at a time when American and Canadian actors were much in demand in order to give indigenous films some appeal in the US.
As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail (1953), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also made What Every Woman Wants the following year. He also starred in such minor films as The Stranger Came Home (1954, for Hammer), Dublin Nightmare (1958), Offbeat (1960), Information Received (1961), Incident at Midnight, Ring of Spies and Blind Corner (all 1963). There were also lead roles in four British horror films: Gorgo (1960), Devil Doll (1963), Devils of Darkness (1964) and The Hand of Night (1966). Among his many TV credits were a 1959 BBC version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (playing Mark Antony), The Saint, The Baron, The High Chaparral, Harry O and The Six Million Dollar Man.
His later films included You Only Live Twice (1967) and, back in the USA after his prominent role for Kubrick, Busting (1973), The Hindenburg (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He died in Sacramento, California in 1995, aged 72.
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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 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.
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Pierre-Benoist Varoclier
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Pierre-Benoist Varoclier (born 30 April 1983 in Fontainebleau, France) is a French actor and theatre director. He made his film debut as a child in Volker Schlöndorff's The Ogre (1996).
Varoclier first studied economics and philosophy in business school, at École Normale Supérieure, at Harvard University, and at Bristol University. He began his career as an auditor in a large American firm, but chose not to pursue this career path. Consequently, he trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA, Class of 2008) and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD, Class of 2009) in Paris. Varoclier was elected Talent Cannes in 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival.
Former junior chess champion, Varoclier started competing at the age of 8, as a young prodigy, often winning over experienced adult players. He won inter-club tournaments, then junior tournaments in parisian districts (in 1991 and 1992), as well as two junior titles in Brussels (in 1993) and in Prague (in 1994). He belongs to the generation of future French international grandmaster Étienne Bacrot: hence, he faced him 4 times, winning only once though. He stopped competing at the end of 1994, age 11, the year of his best Elo ranking (2179), ranked 173rd worldwide at the time.
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Maxwell Caulfield
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Maxwell Caulfield (born 23 November 1959) is an English-born leading actor of film, stage, and television best known for his role as Michael Carrington in the musical film Grease 2 (1982) and as Miles Colby in The Colbys (1985–87) and its parent show Dynasty (1985–86). He has more than 70 credits to his name encompassing film, television and stage. He starred in the Ronald F. Maxwell American Civil War drama Gettysburg (film) (1993) and Tom DiCillo's The Real Blonde (1987). He is a supporter of Chelsea F.C.
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Leonel Brizola
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Leonel de Moura Brizola (22 January 1922 – 21 June 2004) was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazilian states. An engineer by training, Brizola organized the youth wing of the Brazilian Labour Party and served as state representative for Rio Grande do Sul and mayor of its capital, Porto Alegre. In 1958 he was elected governor and subsequently played a major role in thwarting a first coup attempt by sectors of the armed forces in 1961, who wished to stop João Goulart from assuming the presidency, under allegations of communist ties. Three years later, facing the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état that went on to install the Brazilian military dictatorship, Brizola again wanted the democratic forces to resist, but Goulart did not want to risk the possibility of civil war, and Brizola was exiled in Uruguay.
One of the few Brazilian major political figures able to overcome the dictatorship's twenty-years ban on his political activity, Brizola returned to Brazil in 1979, but failed in his bid to take control of the reemerging Brazilian Labour Party as the military government instead conceded it to Ivete Vargas. Brizola founded the Democratic Labour Party on a democratic socialist, nationalist and populist platform descended from Getúlio Vargas' own trabalhismo legacy, promoted as an ideology he called socialismo moreno ("tanned socialism"), a non-Marxist, Christian and markedly Brazilian left-wing political agenda for a post-Cold War setting. In 1982 and 1990 he was elected governor of Rio de Janeiro, after a failed 1989 bid for the presidency, in which he narrowly finished third, after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In the 1990s, Brizola disputed for preeminence in the Brazilian left with future president Lula Workers' Party, later briefly integrating his government in the early 2000s. He was also vice-president of the Socialist International and served as Honorary President of that organization from October 2003 until his death in June 2004. Known for his sharp, energetic rhetoric and frank, direct style, Brizola is considered one of the most important historic figures of the Brazilian left.
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