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Diana Hardcastle
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Diana Hardcastle (born July 12, 1949) is a British actress who has appeared largely in television roles. She is married to actor Tom Wilkinson, with whom she has two children.
She appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lynley and Taggart. She played recurring roles in the series First Among Equals and Fortunes of War. In 2011, she and her husband, Tom Wilkinson portrayed real life husband and wife Joe and Rose Kennedy in the mini series The Kennedys, and, in 2012, she had a supporting role in the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in which her husband starred.
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Edna Mae Harris
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Edna Mae Harris was one of the best-known Black actresses of the 1930s and 1940s. She starred in many all-black cast independently produced movies of the day. An attractive woman who had a soulful voice, personality and sex appeal, she could sing, dance and act. The personification of a Harlem performer, Edna found fame by playing in both stage and screen versions of The Green Pastures (1936) as Zeba. Audiences loved her, and she received glorious reviews, so it was no surprise when Hollywood asked her to repeat her role on screen to wide acclaim. Edna Mae was very much in demand starring in some of the top Black movies such as Spirit of Youth (1938), Paradise in Harlem (1939), Sunday Sinners (1940), The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940), and Tall, Tan, and Terrific (1946), showing her excellent acting skills in drama and comedy. Edna Mae Harris got to tell her story in her later years in the documentary, Midnight Ramble (1994), about independently produced Black films.
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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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Catalina Sandino Moreno
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Catalina Sandino Moreno (born 19 April 1981) is a Colombian actress. She is most notable for receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress nomination and sharing the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron for her performance as the lead role in Maria Full of Grace (2004).
Other credits include Fast Food Nation (2006), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Che (2008), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), Roa (2013), A Most Violent Year (2014), Falling Skies (2014), American Gothic (2016), Custody (2016), The Affair (2015–2019), The Quarry (2020, Barbarians (2021), From (2022), Silent Night (2023), and Ballerina (2024).
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Rachel McAdams
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Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the drama film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination, the comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002), and the comedy series Slings & Arrows (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award.
In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy The Hot Chick. She rose to fame in 2004 with the comedy Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook. In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and the comedy-drama The Family Stone. She was hailed by the media as Hollywood's new "it girl" and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Rising Star.
After a hiatus, McAdams gained further prominence starring in the films The Time Traveller's Wife (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Morning Glory (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), and About Time (2013). For her portrayal of journalist Sacha Pfeiffer in the drama Spotlight (2015), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This was followed by roles in the superhero film Doctor Strange (2016) and its sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), the romantic drama Disobedience (2017), the comedies Game Night (2018) and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020), and the comedy-drama Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).
On television, she starred in the second season of the HBO anthology crime drama series True Detective (2015), earning a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the Amy Herzog play Mary Jane (2024), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.
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Edgar Rodriguez
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Southern California native Edgar Rodriguez is an actor, known for The Christ Slayer (2019), The Long Walk (2019), Voyages of the San Salvador - Cabrillo's Journey (2017), and Envenenado (2013). At a young age, Edgar discovered his love for performance, appearing in school productions, ballet folklórico, and later earning “Best Actor” honors in high school. While briefly attending SDSU, he continued acting and performing original music before eventually rejoining the workforce with several odd jobs, then shifting his focus to graphic design, earning an Associate’s Degree from Platt College in San Diego. Immediately after graduation, Rodriguez began a career as a graphic artist, landing a job at the local paper. During this time, he also joined a couple of bands, before reigniting his passion for acting with background work on Into the Wild (2007). He went on to appear in numerous film and television productions, eventually booking speaking roles including pilot Bartolomé Ferrer in Voyages of the San Salvador – Cabrillo’s Journey for Cabrillo National Monument. He also worked both behind and in front of the camera on The Christ Slayer and earned a Best Actor award at SDSU’s Emerging Filmmakers Film Festival for his role as "Bo" in the short film The Long Walk.
In addition to on-camera work, Rodriguez is an experienced bilingual voice actor, performing character and commercial voices and narrating audio tours including The Musei Capitolini, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, Battleship Texas State Historic Site, and his favorite, Mission San Juan Capistrano. He has also designed award-winning posters for independent films for the local and regional film communities.
When time and life allows, he enjoys camping, hiking, woodworking, riding his beach cruiser, animating GIFs, learning new languages, working with his power tools or just tinkering in the garage.
A multidisciplinary creative, Rodriguez continues to pursue acting and voiceover, while continuing to do design work, and even the occasional translation or side-hustle, among other projects. With the goal of landing representation and voicing an animated character in a major series or feature film, he continues to develop and polish his resume. At a young age he did a lot of writing and poetry and is hoping to one day use his abilities and imagination to bring one of his own stories to life. Future endeavors focus on developing original stories of his own for stage or screen, behind or in front of the camera, as well as expanding his graphic design business.
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Andrew Dismukes
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Andrew Vincent Dismukes (born on June 21, 1995) is an American comedian, writer and actor known for being a featured player on Saturday Night Live. Dismukes began performing stand-up in 2013, while a freshman in college, and was active in the Austin comedy scene. He was the runner-up "Funniest Person in Austin" in 2016, a contest run by the Cap City Comedy Club. Following his graduation in 2017, he performed as part of the New Faces showcase at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and was subsequently offered an audition for Saturday Night Live. Dismukes was offered a writer's position and officially joined the writing staff at the beginning of season 43. As part of the writing staff, he received an Emmy nomination for the Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series in 2018 and 2019. After serving as a writer for three seasons with Saturday Night Live, Dismukes joined the cast as a featured player for its forty-sixth season.
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Issaka Sawadogo
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Isaka Sawadogo (born 1966), sometimes credited as Issaka Sawadogo, is a Burkinabé actor. He is most noted for his performances in the Canadian film Diego Star, for which he received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actor at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014, and the Dutch film The Paradise Suite, for which he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor at the 2016 Netherlands Film Festival.
In 2020, he appeared in a supporting role in Philippe Lacôte's film Night of the Kings (La Nuit des rois). In 2021 he played the lead role in Jorge Camarotti's short film Ousmane.
Source: Article "Isaka Sawadogo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Michael J. Sielaff
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Michael is a Los Angeles based actor and teacher originally from Fridley, Minnesota. He graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College where he majored in Religious Studies (and almost went to Seminary) and minored in Theater.
Impactful life events include studying a semester in India, being an Actor-Educator with CLIMB Theatre, founding the improv/storytelling/artivism community Rogue, producing/directing/performing in a 5-city tour with the sketch comedy troupe Laughtivism LA, snorkeling, expressing himself through poetry, being a storytelling coach for the formerly homeless, managing a sports card shop, reconnecting in-person with his Minnesota family and friends at least twice a year, coaching in the Comedy Sportz High School League, visiting Thailand, hosting 50+ episodes of the web series Fridley Fridays, performing duo improv, and going on a U.S. tour with the play Insidious: The Further You Fear.
Additionally, Sielaff is passionate about teaching, performing, and creating more spaces for socially conscious art, character-building improv, and first-person storytelling. He also discovered that commas are a great way to make a bio only five sentences long.
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Jeremy Hoop
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Jeremy Hoop is a veteran working actor and musician. Jeremy began his acting career in 1996, and has since built an extensive resume in film, television, commercials and as a voice actor. In September 2016, Hoop completed filming his latest role in "Stella", an indie film by veteran Hollywood producer Vanessa Greene, in which he stars as a reclusive war vet with severe PTSD. The film is slated for release late 2017, early 2018.
Among his many other credits include starring and supporting roles in indie films like Love Everlasting, Ephraim's Rescue, The Orchard, Charly, Lifted Up, Out of Step, The King's Falcon, The Singles Ward, Jonah and the Great Fish, The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd, by Academy Award winning director, Keith Merrill, and Danny Glover's, Just a Dream. On the small screen he has appeared along side actors the likes of John Heard, Gerald McRaney, Walton Goggins, and Danni Nucci in productions such as WB's Everwood, Sci-Fi's Firestarter Rekindled, CBS's Promised Land, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (the Jon Benet Ramsey Story), and Beyond the Prairie (the True Story of Laura Ingalls-Wilder), USA's Pacific Blue and Cover Me, and 5 appearances on CBS's Touched By An Angel. Hoop has also worked for many years as a voice actor on wide variety of projects and campaigns for companies all over the world such as Pokemon, Miller Lite, Verizon, Microsoft, Intel, Jakks Pacific, VMWare, Sinclair Oil, Orbital ATK, and many others.
Hoop trained on scholarship at Brigham Young University in its acclaimed Theater and Media Arts Department (the same program that produced Aaron Eckhart, Mireille Enos of "The Killikng", and Kevin Rahm of "Madam Secretary") where he received many awards, including the national Irene Ryan Award for Best Scene Partner (performing along side that years winner for best actor, Mireille Enos).
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