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Drake Bell

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Jared Drake Bell (born June 27, 1986), better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, comedian, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer, and occasional television director. Bell is commonly associated with his real-life best friend Josh Peck, who co-starred with him in both The Amanda Show, with Amanda Bynes, and Drake & Josh. After beginning his career as a child star in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared on The Amanda Show and became well known among young audiences for his role on the series Drake & Josh. As of 2010, Drake Bell has won nine Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards. In addition to his acting, Bell has a growing career as a musician, and co-wrote and performed the theme song to Drake & Josh, entitled "Found a Way". In 2005 he independently released his debut album, Telegraph. His second album, It's Only Time, was released in 2006 after signing with Motown. Description above from the Wikipedia article Drake Bell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Winnie Holzman

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Winnie Holzman (born August 18, 1954) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actress, and producer. She is best known for writing the book of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Wicked," and for co-writing the screenplays for the two films based on the musical, "Wicked" and "Wicked: For Good." She also created the television series "My So-Called Life." Holzman's other television work includes the series "Thirtysomething" and "Once and Again." Her other stage work includes short plays (in which she appeared with her actor husband, Paul Dooley) and the full-length drama, "Choice." Description above from the Wikipedia article Winnie Holzman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vittorio Caprioli

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Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jordyn Raya James

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Jordyn Raya James was born in Upland, California. Having a diverse ethnicity of African-American. Korean and Caucasian, Jordyn began her performance career at the age of 18 months modeling for Carter's and made her first T.V. appearance in 2014 on the second season of ABC's Bet on Your Baby. No stranger to the camera Jordyn has grown with a passion for performance, arts, and music with a strong affection for playing the piano. Jordyn's short film debut was in the role of "Young Yuna", the Malaysian Indie R&B singer/ songwriter for the She's Mercedes International Women's Day campaign for Mercedes Benz called the Female Bond. Jordyn now reoccurs on the web series Kids React, People vs. Food and Try not to Smile or Laugh produced by Fine Brothers Entertainment. Commercial spots include Doc McStuffins baby nursery Ap and Disney Aqua Beads. Besides acting and modeling, Jordyn loves gymnastics and swimming
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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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Mike Nussbaum

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Nussbaum (December 29, 1923 - December 23, 2023) was an American actor and director. From the start of his acting career in the 1950s, Nussbaum appeared in many of David Mamet's plays both on and off Broadway, as well as in Chicago. His appearances in movies include roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Men In Black (1997). In 1997 he received a Jeff Award for his performance as Reverend Lionel Espy in David Hare's Racing Demon. His performance in Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway received a Drama Desk Award in 1984. As a director, his work has included Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart? (2002) by Art Shay. Nussbaum also appeared in local TV commercials for Chicago's Northwest Federal Savings (with the jingle, "It's Northwest Federal Savings Time, sixty-three hours a week"). Description above from the Wikipedia article  Mike Nussbaum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nathan Morris

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Originally from New Zealand, Nathan had a hands-on start in filmmaking, shooting and editing documentary films. He landed a job working as an editor for NZ broadcast television. He then directed and edited segments for the infamous (in New Zealand anyhow) multi-award-winning show The Living Room. In 2000 he flipped a coin and moved to London. After a few months of editing Robot Wars and high-profile shows like Tonight with Trevor McDonald and Popworld, he began to transition to directing full-time in the UK. Directing 'history’s greatest music show', Popworld (it was kinda like Between Two Ferns but with music). While in the UK he also worked with Lady Gaga, The Foo Fighters, The Smashing Pumpkins and Rihanna. He directed shows for C4, BBC and Channel 5. He then moved into branded content working with brands like Samsung, Sony, and Virgin. He also began to write his own narrative films. His debut short film At Dawn won the Directors' Choice Award at RIIFF. His next, People Are Only Interesting When You Get To Know Them, was selected for 3 Oscar qualifying festivals. My Eyes Are Up Here, a romantic comedy funded by the BBC and BFI, starring Jillian Mercado premiered on opening night at the 2022 London Film Festival. Combing techniques from both fiction and non-fiction, Nathan’s visual style is innovative. His films feature memorable performances and humour. Mixed with his strong sense of story results in gritty films with a big heart. He is currently developing a feature script and writing bio’s about himself in the third person.
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Tom Hooper

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Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is a British-Australian filmmaker. Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University, Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, and Cold Feet on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), as well as the 2003 revival of ITV's Prime Suspect series, starring Helen Mirren. Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust (2004), a British drama starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, before directing Helen Mirren again in the Company Pictures/HBO Films historical drama Elizabeth I (2005). He continued working for HBO on the television film Longford (2006) and in John Adams (2008), a seven-part serial on the life of the American president. Hooper returned to features with The Damned United (2009), a fact-based film about the English football manager Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen). The following year saw the release of the historical drama The King's Speech (2010), starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, which was met with critical acclaim. Hooper's next film was Les Misérables (2012), which featured an all-star cast led by Hugh Jackman. His 2015 film, The Danish Girl, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Recently, Hooper has directed two episodes of His Dark Materials and a live-action adaptation of the musical Cats, for which he won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. Hooper's work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Prime Suspect and John Adams, won one for Elizabeth I, and was nominated for the British Academy (BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best Director for Longford. The King's Speech won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy Awards and a Best Director nomination from BAFTA. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hooper (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. 
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Ken Resnick

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Ken Resnick is an American sports presenter and commentator, best known for his work in professional wrestling. He began his career in sports media before joining the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in 1983 as an interviewer, later moving to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1986. Resnick also worked with the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association, the American Wrestling Federation, and Ring Warriors. Outside of wrestling, he served as a narrator for the American Gladiators Live Tour and the TV show RollerJam. He resides in Edina, Minnesota, and has been a member of the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission.
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Angela Clarke

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Angela Clarke (August 14, 1909 – December 16, 2010) was an American stage, television and film actress. Clarke appeared in over thirty films throughout her forty-year career, usually in bit parts or in background roles, uncredited. Films in which she made a large impression included The Seven Little Foys, in which she played a large supporting role as Bob Hope's disapproving sister-in-law, House of Wax, A Double Life, The Gunfighter and The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. Clarke, despite entering the film business in her early forties (in 1949's The Undercover Man), cornered the market for grey-haired, matriarchal motherly-types (such as her role as Mama Caruso in The Great Caruso). (Source: Wikipedia)
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