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Maged El Kedwany
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Maged El Kedwany is an Egyptian film and television actor. In 1967, he was born in Shubra in Cairo, but lived in Kuwait up until age 18. He began his professional career while studying design at the Faculty of Fine Arts. He began acting in a number of amateur plays, which led to him being cast in various TV shows like "Qanfad" (Hedgehog) and "Nahnu al Nazre el-Shook." He's worked on dozens of films, among them are some of the most well-known films of the 1990s, like "Afareet el-Asphalt" (Asphalt Ghosts) in 1996 and "Saidi fe Gaea al-Amrikeya" (Saidi at the American University in Cairo) in 1998. His other films include "Harameya Ki-Gi-To" (Ki-Gi-To Thieves), "Harameya fe Thailand" (Thieves in Thailand), "Al-Ragel al-Abyad al-Motawast" (Average White Guy), and "Khaly min Kolesterol" (Cholesterol-Free). In 2012, he appeared in two high-profile movies, "Hafla Montasif al-Leil" (Midnight Party) and "Saaa we Nos" (Hour and a Half). studied in the (design) division of the faculty of fine arts. Thereafter he enrolled in the Institute of Theatrical Arts and graduated in 1995. Amongst the theatrical productions that he has performed in are “Pallo” and “Diwan Al Baqar”. Maged has also made several television appearances, which include roles in “Nahnu la Nazra Al Shawk”, “Al Farar Men Al Hob”, “Al Shara’a Al Jadeed”, “Zayzenia” and “Arabesque”.
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Ansel Elgort
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Ansel Elgort (born March 14, 1994) is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film Carrie (2013) and gained wider recognition for starring as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama film The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and for his supporting role in The Divergent Series (2014–2016). In 2017, he played the title character in Edgar Wright's action thriller Baby Driver, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his lead role in The Goldfinch (2019) and his performance in the lead role of Tony in Steven Spielberg's 2021 film version of West Side Story.
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Antonino Bruschetta
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Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter.
Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi 'Nutrimenti terrestri', a stage company which primarily focused on subjects of social value, and was active both as an actor and a director. In 1987 he debuted as a screenwriter with the indie drama La gentilezza del tocco, and in 1989 he co-directed the indie film Private Screening. He is also very active as an actor in films and television series.
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Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote
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Beam Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote was a Thai actor.
He went to Phibun Upatham School and Satri Witthaya 2. During his youth he was a taekwondo athlete and participated in countless competitions, but he stopped with martial arts at the age of 14. In high school, he started singing in a band and performing in bars. His mother convinced him to participate in castings for television. From 2016, he joined the cast of long-running series Nong Mai Rai Borisut. He also got the lead role in Water Boyy The Movie in 2015. Since then, he has appeared in several TV series and has fully focused on his acting career. In 2019, he played one of the main characters of the Thai Netflix series The Stranded.
On March 23, 2022, he was found unresponsive by his relatives, as they thought he was sleeping. Efforts to reanimate him failed. He was 25 years old at the time of his passing.
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Marina Foïs
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Marina Sylvie Foïs (born 21 January 1970) is a French actress.
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in a family from Russian, Jewish Egyptian, German and Italian ancestry, Marina Foïs was discovered in 1986 for her comedy work in The School for Wives, at the age of 16. She decided to take classes by correspondence and obtained her high school final exam two years later. She then joined The Royal Imperial Green Rabbit Company, which later became Les Robins des Bois, composed of students from the Cours Florent taught by Isabelle Nanty.
The troupe caught the attention of Dominique Farrugia in 1996 and went on to act and direct in the Comédie+ show La Grosse Émission for two years. During that period, Foïs co-wrote sketches with Pierre-François Martin-Laval, playing a number of various characters, like the dim-witted Sophie Pétoncule and the pedantic director Marie-Mûre. The show continued the next year on Canal+ and had a bigger audience. In June 2001, Foïs and the troupe parted ways to focus on their individual film careers. Marina Foïs became a prolific actress, with two to five films released every year.
On 25 November 2020, it was announced that she will be the host for the 46th César Awards.
Marina Foïs has two sisters. Giulia Foïs is a journalist at Libération and a former columnist in the program Arrêt sur images presented by Daniel Schneidermann on France 5, and a current news anchor on I-Télé. Her second sister Elena is a doctor. Their brother, Fabio, died of an airplane crash while participating in an aerobatic demonstration.
Marina was in a partnership with fellow "Robins des Bois" actor Maurice Barthélémy. She also dated Maxime Lefrançois, Mister Univers 2010.
She started dating the director Éric Lartigau in 1999. On December 3, 2004, she gave birth to a boy, Lazare at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris. They had a second son, Georges, born on 25 September 2008.
Source: Article "Marina Foïs" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Jermaine Washington
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Jermaine's acting career started by accident when he took a friend to a local extra casting call. At first, Jermaine was not interested in the casting call, but a producer persuaded him to try out. After a few more extras casting calls and attending an acting workshop, the acting bug bit him.
He contacted Shari Rhodes, a local New Mexico and Texas casting director, for personal coaching in acting. Instead, she encouraged him to audition for a supporting role in the movie Urban Justice starring Steven Segal and Eddie Griffin. He was booked for the role, since then he has been on various movies and television series. He has had the privilege to work in such movies as Felon, Ring of Death, In Plain Sight, Terminator Salvation, Gamer, The Book of Eli, and Thor.
Jermaine continues to pursue an acting career with enthusiasm as well as opportunities to work in stunts.
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Greg Aiello
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Greg Aiello was born to be in the wild. Greg grew up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California near Yosemite National Park. At an early age, he and his older brother, Jeff (producer of Motion) ventured into the High Sierra to explore, backpack, fish and climb.
At 21, Greg went to work in the television industry as writer/producer for local broadcast affiliates around the country including WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida and KPHO in Phoenix. But his love for the mountains brought him back to California where he left the TV business behind to become a professional mountain guide specializing in long-duration trips on the famous John Muir Trail which runs from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney in the southern range of the Sierra.
As an accomplished mountaineer, Greg's experience in the backcountry field-craft is deep. In addition to his extensive time in California's mountains, Greg has summited Mt. Aconcogua in Argentina, climbed in the southern Alps of New Zealand, ventured through Australia's outback, explored the jungles of Costa Rica and spent 10 days on the Galapogos Islands in the Pacific.
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Frank Delfino
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Frank Delfino (born February 13, 1911, died February 19, 1989), was an American actor.
He was born in Brooklyn in 1911, and began his acting career in 1955 with an uncredited role in The Court Jester. He later had minor parts in films such as Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Planet of the Apes and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, as well as more significant roles in productions including The Odd Couple, Little Cigars, White House Madness, The Feather and Father Gang and Never Con a Killer. He and his wife Sadie Delfino were standins for the actors who played Bobby and Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch, until Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen outgrew the Delfinos.
His last role on screen came in 1988, when he played a minor character in the TV series Circus.
He died in February 1989, six days after his 78th birthday.
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Isabel Jeannin
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Isabel Jeannin est comédienne et chanteuse. Elle a été formée au sein de la compagnie Michel Galabru et a participé à plusieurs de ses pièces lors de festivals et tournées nationales. Musicienne de formation classique, elle obtient son DFE en saxophone et solfège au conservatoire du Xe, à Paris. Elle fait partie du groupe Mix Bizarre, avec Samuel Brafman (Octave), dont on retrouve certains morceaux dans la bande originale de la série Le Visiteur du Futur. Elle a rencontré François Descraques en 2002, et a participé à plusieurs de ses projets depuis.
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