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Nedra Anita Shamberger

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The talented performer won the prestigious AUDELCO Award for her "Song of Sheba" work at the National Black Theater. She has also showcased her skills in Off-Broadway musicals across the country and around the world. In addition, she has completed nine films and a TV Pilot. Currently, she can be seen streaming in the popular comedy "Impolite Boys," portraying a jealous stepmother, and in the industry commercial "Inspire-3WTC" for the World Trade Center. For further details, kindly visit her website at www.nedrashamberger.com.rger.com.
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Mark Boals

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Mark Robert Boals (born December 5, 1958) is an American heavy metal vocalist and occasional bassist, best known for his vocals with Yngwie Malmsteen. He is currently a member of the band Foundry. Boals' first album with Malmsteen, 1986's Trilogy, achieved platinum status in the US and sold several million copies worldwide. As a young child, he learned to play the piano and bass guitar. Although Boals has never had any vocal lessons or training, as a teenager he gained experience as a vocalist in local groups. Boals is the founder and vocalist for the band Ring of Fire, and had a brief stint as the bassist for Dokken. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Boals licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Thomas Torjussen

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Thomas Seeberg Torjussen is a Norwegian creator, writer and director of series, feature films and theatre. His series have received many accolades, including an International Emmy nomination for NORWEGIAN COZY (2011) and the Rose d’Or, Prix Jeunesse and Kidscreen Awards for ZOMBIELARS (2017–2019). Both series, which Torjussen wrote and co-directed, were also winners of Norway’s Golden Screen Award for Best TV Drama. Torjussen directed 3 episodes of STRUGGLE FOR LIFE (2014) which won him Norway’s Golden Screen Award for Best Director. Most recently Thomas created, wrote and directed the sci-fi series DOME 16 which premiered in late 2022. His latest work includes Kuppel16 for Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK), a sci-fi series written and directed for a younger audience.
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Dalton Trumbo

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Dalton Trumbo was an American film and television screenwriter and novelist. He was one of the Hollywood Ten, the group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the American motion picture industry. While blacklisted and not permitted to work, he won two Academy Awards in the category "Best Writing" for "Roman Holiday", originally given to front writer Ian McLellan Hunter, and for "The Brave One", awarded to Robert Rich, one of Trumbo's pseudonyms.
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Patricia Mok

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Patricia Mok is a Chinese Singaporean actress, best known for humorous roles on Comedy Night during her stint as a JTEAM artistto 2012. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1996 to 2012. Mok left Mediacorp in early 2012 after her contract expired. Mok was educated in Ping Yi Secondary School and Yishun Junior College. Mok made her debut in the 1990s comedy show Comedy Nite. She was a cast member from 1996, until the demise of the show. Her roles in the skits helped her to land a contract with MediaCorp in 2006. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award in the Star Awards 2003 for playing a dowdy and meek wife in Holland V, and earned two nominations in the Asian Television Awards in 2006 and 2008. Mok was switched to hosting MediaCorp events and shows in 2010. In a 2012 interview, she confessed that she felt uncomfortable being an emcee and thought she was better suited to acting in dramas and sitcoms. Mok left the entertainment industry in early 2012 after her contract expired and is currently under the management of Fly Artistes. In 2016, she appeared in the Singaporean-Malaysian comedy film Let's Eat!.
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Gary Gray

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Gary Gray is a professional wrestler with a career spanning over 21 years, Gary has wrestled under various alter egos, including “Gary The Barn Owl,” “Gerald James,” and “Jay Lutz.” Standing at 5’10" and weighing 169 lbs, he is known for signature moves like the “KickFace Stunner” and the “Frog Stop Shadows Over Helbow.” Gary Jay has left his mark as both a singles wrestler and a tag team competitor, earning nicknames like “High Chief” and “Stiff Robo Ginger” during his time in the ring
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Kevin Anderson

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Kevin Anderson (born January 13, 1960) is an American theater, film and TV actor, as well as a singer and drummer. He is best known for his roles as Ben Woodward in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Robert G. Kennedy in Hoffa (1992), Bob Richmond in Rising Sun alongside Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, Peter Lewis in A Thousand Acres (1997), Frank Gifford in Monday Night Mayhem (2002), Mr. Parable in Charlotte's Web (2006), and Father Ray in the ABC series Nothing Sacred (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for this role). He belongs to the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which has also featured John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, and Laurie Metcalf. He has won a Theatre World Award and Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans . In 1993, he created the role of Joe Gillis in the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard opposite Patti LuPone who originated the role of Norma Desmond. Both Anderson and LuPone were subsequently fired from the production without warning, having been told that they would be reprising their roles in the original Broadway production of the show. Anderson won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for a Tony Award for the revival of Death of a Salesman. In January 2008 he opened on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba. Since September 2009, he has started as Andy Dufresne in "Shawshank Redemption" at the Wyndhams Theatre in London.
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Socks Whitmore

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Socks Whitmore (they/them/theirs) is a Los Angeles-based agender/gender non-conforming performer, creative, and storyteller. In their early days as a vocalist, they performed with the NAfME national honors choir and the Honors Performance Series in renowned spaces such as the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. They’ve originated roles on stage in productions like the immersive show Stardust, the ballet operetta Children Cannot Sleep, and the new musical The Bully Problem, as well as their own original works, and on screen they’re known for their performances in The Magical Christmas Tree, Blue Belt, and Baby Cat. You can hear their VO skills across the internet in audio dramas (Georgie Romero Is Done For, The Sheridan Tapes, Life with Leo(h)), video games (Detour Bus, Cryptid Crew, Georgia), audiobooks (the Narwhal & Jelly series, This Is Our Rainbow, Blood City Rollers), and over 20 different animated shorts. Socks’ creative work as a musician and wordsmith spans from live performance to digital media to print, including audio dramas, narrative design for games, poetry, short fiction, op-eds, and more. They have been produced by New Musicals Inc., Overtone Industries, and Feminist Fairytales, and published by Translash Media, the American Composers Forum, Sappho Small Talk blog and Queer Quarterly magazine, among others. They specialize in book, lyrics, and music for original music theater, such as their work on Marrow (Original Vision Selection 2022), We Are Here (NMI's New Voices Project winner 2019), and Back to One: A Coming of Self Musical (CalArts 50th Anniversary Alumnx Showcase 2023). In addition to acting, singing, and writing, Socks serves as a neuroqueer educator, director, producer, and consultant. Socks is a co-founder of the gender expansive vocal group 8TPS, a queer events producer at Prismatic.one, a leader at the trans-led indie Bolero Game Studio, and the recipient of Celebration Theatre’s 2024 Vibrant Voice award. They are a graduate of the Beth Morrison Projects Producer Academy and hold a BFA Performer-Composer degree from CalArts with minors in Digital Arts and Creative Writing.
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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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Michael Gambon

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Sir Michael John Gambon (October 19, 1940 – September 27, 2023) was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and four BAFTA TV Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Gambon was nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards, winning three times for A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), A View from the Bridge (1987), and Man of the Moment (1990). In 1997, Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight, earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Gambon made his film debut in Othello (1965). His other notable films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Insider (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Quartet (2012), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gambon also appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Gambon gained wider recognition through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002. For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Gambon's other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he was listed at No. 27 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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