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Rihito Itagaki

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Rihito Itagaki is a Japanese actor who was born in Yamanashi prefecture. He is under Stardust Promotions. Rihito has been a model since he was 2 years old, but it wasn't until he was in 5th grade of elementary school, when he passed an audition at Stardust Promotions Entertainment, that he began his career as an actor. He is well known for his role as Heure in the "Kamen Rider Zi-O" TV series and also for his role as Norman in the live-action movie adaptation of the popular manga "The Promised Neverland".
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Gower Champion

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Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Champion was born on June 22, 1919, in Geneva, Illinois, as the son of John W. Champion and Beatrice Carlisle. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated from Fairfax High School. He studied dance from an early age and, at the age of fifteen, toured nightclubs with friend Jeanne Tyler billed as "Gower and Jeanne, America's Youngest Dance Team". In 1939, "Gower and Jeanne" danced to the music of Larry Clinton and his Orchestra in a Warner Brothers & Vitaphone film short-subject, "The Dipsy Doodler" (released in 1940).
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Nozomi Sasaki

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Nozomi Sasaki (ささき のぞみ, Sasaki Nozomi, February 19, 1983) is a Japanese voice actress born in Kanagawa Prefecture. She is affiliated with the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society (Haikyou). She has blood type A. *** Not to be confused with the voice actress of the same name but different kanji, Nozomi Sasaki (佐々木 希). After graduating from college, she participated in a workshop held at Animation Kobe while working office lady and shrine maid. Anime director Akitaro Daichi liked her voice in a performance held at the workshop and invited her to an audition for his upcoming tv anime project We Were There. As a result, Sasaki was accepted for the role of the heroine, Nanami Takahashi, marking her debut as a voice actress. Her real name is 佐々木 望, which is pronounced the same. On July 4, 2006, she assumed her current stage name, a Hiragana version of her real name. It is assumed that she did it to avoid being confused with the well-known voice actor Nozomu Sasaki, whose name is written with the same kanji characters. In October 2007, she became a member of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society (Haikyou), after being working as a freelancer.
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Jack Kilmer

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John Wallace "Jack" Kilmer (born June 6, 1995) is an American actor known for starring in the 2013 film Palo Alto and for playing Pelle "Dead" Ohlin in the 2018 Norwegian black metal biopic Lords of Chaos, and for playing Ozzy Osbourne in Ozzy's "Under the Graveyard" video. He is also the narrator of Val, a documentary about his father Val Kilmer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kilmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hugo Becker

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Hugo Becker (born 13 May 1987) is a French actor, director and producer. He is known for his roles as Louis Grimaldi in the American drama television series Gossip Girl and Romain in the French thriller series Chefs. Becker attended the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in France, the court Florent (Olga Hörstig Prize) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of London. He was part of the promotion of Young Talents Cannes in 2010. That same year, he made his debut on screen in a variety of roles. He played a young politician in L'Assaut, directed by Julien Leclercq, an alcoholic hitchhiker in La Proie, directed by Eric Valette, a student in Marie-Castille Mention Schaar’s Ma Première Fois and a young businessman in La Croisière, by Pascale Pouzadoux. In 2010, he made his debut in Hollywood, playing Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in the CW drama Gossip Girl. Initially, he signed on for two episodes in the fourth season. Later, his role was extended for another eighteen episodes. In 2011, he played Xavier in the American film Damsels in Distress, directed by Whit Stillman. The film closed the 68th Venice Film Festival and was selected at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2012, Becker starred as Antoine Lavoisier in the American docufiction Mystery of the Matter, directed by Mr. Meyer. In 2013, Hugo played Isaac Dreyfuss, a football star involved in a terrorist affair, for two episodes of a BBC3 series. In 2014, he played the role of Romain in the 6 episodes of the miniseries Chefs alongside Clovis Cornillac, for which he received the Adami Prize for the best promising actor at the Luchon festival. Since 2014, he has been one of the producers at Nouvelle Donne Productions. In 2015 and 2018, he played the lead role in the 12 episodes French series entitled Au service de la France, written by Jean-François Halin, for the role of André Merlaux, a young recruit to the French secret service in the year 1960, in the two seasons (24 episodes) of the French television series Au service de la France, known in English as A Very Secret Service. In 2016, he began playing the role of Cyril Balsan in the political drama series Baron Noir alongside Niels Arestrup, Kad Merad and Anna Mouglalis. In the same year, he starred in a main role alongside Yon González and Lluís Homar in the Spanish crime drama series Bajo sospecha. He played the role of a police officer infiltrated to find a missing person in a hospital in Madrid. He also played the role of Guillaume in the comedy Un jour mon prince, directed by Flavia Coste. In 2018, he starred in Xavier Durringer's Paradise Beach alongside Sami Bouajila, Kool Shen, Seth Gueko and Tewfik Jallab. In the same year, he starred in Jusqu'ici tout va bien, by Mohamed Hamidi, alongside Gilles Lellouche, Malik Bentalha and Sabrina Ouazani. In 2019, he starred as Paul Vanhove in the Netflix science fiction series Osmosis. He is set to play a role as Paul WR in Le dernier voyage de l'énigmatique Paul W.R. by Romain Quirot and as Max in the film Döner directed by Jean-Luc Herbulot. Hugo Becker is fluent in English and Spanish. Source: Article "Hugo Becker" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ranveer Singh

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Ranveer Singh Bhavnani (born 6 July 1985) is an Indian film actor who appears in Hindi films. After completing a bachelor's degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Singh returned to India to pursue a career in film. He made his acting debut in 2010 with a leading role in Yash Raj Films' romantic comedy Band Baaja Baaraat. The film emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning Singh a Filmfare Award in the Best Male Debut category. Singh went on to star in the romantic drama Lootera (2013), Sanjay Leela Bhansali's tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013), his biggest commercial successes to that point, and in the action-drama Gunday (2014). In 2015, he starred in the ensemble comedy-drama Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), and portrayed Bajirao in the historical romance Bajirao Mastani, one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films, for which he garnered critical acclaim and won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
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Peng Xiaoran

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Peng Xiao Ran is a Chinese host and actress born in Beijing and graduated from the Broadcasting Department of Communication University of China. She first started out in April 2013 as the host of "iQiyi Morning Flight". In March 2015, she attended the 8th "Variety Show" festival and won the "Potential Host of the Year". Her acting stint began in February 2014 with her supporting role in the mysterious and suspenseful horror drama "Ferryman". In November 2019, she won the "Best Actress of the Year Online Drama" Award at the First Internet Film and Television Culture and Entertainment Festival for her role as an innocent princess in the 2019 costume romance drama "Goodbye My Princess".
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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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Ferdinando Scarfiotti

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Ferdinando Scarfiotti (6 March 1941 – 30 April 1994) was an Italian art director and production designer. After graduating in architecture at the University of Rome, he was approached by Luchino Visconti, who asked him to design his stage production of La Traviata for the 1963 Spoleto Festival. After working in opera theatre for over a decade, director Bernardo Bertolucci asked Scarfiotti to work with him on the film The Conformist followed by Visconti's Death in Venice. In 1980 he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on a number of films, including American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982) and Scarface (1983). Scarfiotti won a BAFTA for Visconti's Death in Venice in 1971 and an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor in 1987. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ferdinando Scarfiotti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ruth Cele

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Ruth Cele (2 Feb 1939 - 22 Dec 2010) was a South African actress best known for her starring role as Ma Moloi in the SABC3 sitcom, Suburban Bliss. Othet television series she acted in included Going Up, Mzee wa Two Six and 'Sgudi 'Snaysi. She also appeared in several feature films including African Skies, Panic Mechanic and Mr Bones. Also known as "Ma­Mgobhozi" after a character she played in the television drama Hlala Kwabafileyo, Cele died on 22 December, 2010 after a short illness. She was 71.
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