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Charlie Kemp

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Charlie Kemp studied drama for 3 years at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating with distinction in 2001. He has worked on a number of TV shows (Emmerdale, White Gold, Bodkin) both in the UK and abroad including a number of commercials. He is the Co-creator/writer of This Week's This Show with Thaila Zucchi. He Co-Wrote and produced 'The Many Minds of Dr Jackson' for the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2011 with Rebecca Keatley. He has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe withThe FAs Jacuzzi show, many times. He is the co-host and co-creator of the podcast "Mind Canyon' with Steve Dawson that was nominated for 2 British podcast awards, receiving a bronze medal for 'the creativity' category He was a writer for Channel 4's Off Their Rockers. Charlie teaches Long Form Improv The Free Association in London and has been performing shows with their house team The Cartel. He has directed the show 'Episodes'. He performs with Austentatious on tour and in The West End
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Nelly

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​Cornell Haynes, Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper and singer. He has performed with the rap group St. Lunatics since 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999. Under Universal, Nelly began his solo career in 2000 with his debut album Country Grammar, the title track of which was a top ten hit. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and went on to peak at #1. Country Grammar is Nelly's best-selling album to date, selling over 8.4 million copies in the United States. His following album, Nellyville, produced the number-one hits "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma" featuring Kelly Rowland. Other singles included "Work It" featuring Justin Timberlake, "Air Force Ones" featuring Murphy Lee and the St. Lunatics, "Pimp Juice", and "#1". With the same-day dual release Sweat and Suit (2004) and the compilation Sweatsuit (2006), Nelly continued to generate many chart-topping hits. Sweat debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 342,000 copies in its first week. On the same week of release, Suit debuted at number one selling around 396,000 copies in its first week on the same chart. Nelly's fifth studio album, Brass Knuckles, was released on September 16, 2008 after several delays. It produced the singles "Party People", featuring Fergie, "Stepped on My J'z" and "Body On Me", featuring Akon and Ashanti. In 2010, Nelly released the album 5.0. The lead single, "Just a Dream", has appeared in the top ten of several singles charts and were certified platinum in the United States. The second single is "Move That Body" featuring T-Pain and Akon. "Gone" is the sequel to Nelly's 2002 worldwide number one single "Dilemma", also with Rowland, and serves as third single from Nelly's album. He won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004 and had a supporting role in the 2005 remake film The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. He has two clothing lines, Vokal and Apple Bottoms. He has been referred to by Peter Shapiro as "one of the biggest stars of the new millennium", and the RIAA ranks Nelly as one of the best-selling male artists in American music history, with 21 million albums sold in the United States.On December 11, 2009, Billboard ranked Nelly the #3 Top Artist of the Decade. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nelly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chanunphat Kamolkiriluck

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Trúc Anh, nicknamed Gigie, is an actress and model. She is Vietnamese, but also holds the Thai nationality. As a child, Gigie lived in both Vietnam and Thailand before her family settled in California (US). She has a twin sister named Trâm Anh, nicknamed Jennee and actor Nanon Korapat Kirdpan is their cousin. Gigie studied Business Administration at Cypress College. In 2017, she appeared in 'The Face Vietnam: Season 2', and afterwards worked as a model for various brands, as well as doing commercial and MV work. Gigie is now working in Bangkok as an actress under GMMTV, where she took part in such projects as 'He's Coming To Me' (2018), 'Endless Love' (2019), '2gether' (2020) or 'Girl Next Room: Security Love' (2020). She was previously credited as 'Sarocha Burin'.
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Mario Missiroli

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Mario Missiroli (13 March 1934 – 19 May 2014) was an Italian stage, television and film director. Born in Bergamo , at a young age Missiroli moved to Milan with his family. Later. he graduated in direction from the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome. In the 1950s Missiroli worked at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan as assistant director of Giorgio Strehler and in cinema he debuted as assistant director of Valerio Zurlini. In 1963 he directed his first and only film, La belle di Lodi , based on a novel by Alberto Arbasino and starring Stefania Sandrelli. In later years Missiroli focused his activities on theatre, in which he was regarded as having been one of the most innovative and nonconformist directors as well as being one of the fathers of Italian modern theatre. From 1976 to 1985 he was director of the Teatro Stabile di Torino ( it ). He was also active as a television director, mainly of literary adaptations.
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Alyssa Diaz

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Alyssa Diaz was born on September 7, 1985, in the city of Northridge (California), in the United States. Colombian and Mexican - American descent, Alyssa studied at Bishop Alemany High School. She began acting at the beginning of the new millennium, participating in some episodes of various series such as "CSI: Miami" and "The Brothers Garcia", "American Family". In 2005, she won the role of Celia Ortega on the popular soap opera "As the World Turns", in which she played for over 56 episodes. She later had some recurring roles, such as the Mercedes Moretta on the television series "Southland" and was a guest artist at shows, which include "The Unit", "Greek", "CSI: New York", "Three Rivers", "Lie to me" or "law & order: Los Angeles (Law & Order: Los Angeles)". Alyssa is currently working on "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" series which is broadcast by the ABC Family sign, and which plays the role of Jasmine, cousin of the protagonist Chloe King (Skyler Samuels), who discovers that she belongs to an ancient race call the Mai, and has powers similar to the of a feline, including their nine lives. Alyssa, that also filmed some short films and telefilms, participated in her first feature film in 2005, integrating the cast of the comedy "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer" starring America Ferrera. More recently filmed the horror 'Shark Night 3D' movie (2011) which co-starred along with Sara Paxton and Dustin Milligan. Her latest work for this medium was in the action movie "Red Dawn", whose filming was completed recently and which has the lead of Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, and Josh Hutcherson.
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Jaie Laplante

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Jaie Laplante is a Canadian-American screenwriter, actor and curator. Born in Alberta, Canada, Laplante's notable credits include co-screenwriter of Sugar, for which he received a nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category of the 2005 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 25th Genie Awards, along with co-writers John Palmer and Todd Klinck. As an actor, he appeared in Frisk, directed by Todd Verow. Laplante served as executive director and chief curator of Miami International Film Festival from 2010 to 2022. In 2022, Laplante was named artistic director for DOC NYC.
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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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Bud Luckey

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Bud Luckey (July 28, 1934 – February 24, 2018) was an American cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, and composer. He was best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for Toy Story, Boundin', Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. He was also beloved by generations of Sesame Street viewers for his numerous short animated films on that program. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bud Luckey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Yōko Minamida

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Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo, Minamida made her screen debut in 1953 for the Daiei studio and quickly rose to stardom, working with Kenji Mizoguchi on two films: “A Story from Chikamatsu” and “Princess Yang Kwei-fei.” In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio, where she starred in Takumi Furukawa’s “Season of the Sun” (1956), a smash hit that launched the so-called “Sun Tribe” boom for films about rebellious youth looking for sex and kicks on Shonan Beach — Japan’s nearest equivalent to Malibu. Minamida acted in dozens of movies for Nikkatsu, working with Shohei Imamura, Seijun Suzuki, and other directors. In 1961 she married her co-star on “Season of the Sun,” Hiroyuki Nagato. As she acted in fewer movies after the mid-1960s, Minamida made a smooth and successful transition to TV as both an actress and MC. She also continued to appear occasionally in movies, with the last being Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “Song of Goodbye” in 2006. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband to care for her. She died in Tokyo.
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Kelly Marcel

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Kelly Marcel (born 10 January 1974) is an English filmmaker and former actress.  After working as a child actor in the United Kingdom, Marcel had her breakout as a screenwriter in Hollywood when her script for Saving Mr. Banks made the 2011 Black List and was quickly acquired by Disney, which released the film in 2013. She is also known for writing the 2015 film adaptation of E. L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom (2018) as well as its sequels Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and Venom: The Last Dance (2024), the latter of which she directed in her directorial debut.  Marcel also created and served as executive producer of the television series Terra Nova (2011) and The Changeling (2023), for which she was the showrunner and wrote eight episodes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kelly Marcel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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