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Eero Spriit
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Eero Spriit (born September 4, 1949), is an Estonian actor, theatre producer and director, and film and television producer. Spriit's career as an actor began in the early 1970s.
Eero Spriit was born as one of two children in Pärnu to journalist, satirist, and politician Edgar Spriit and journalist Ester Spriit (née Tartu). His parents divorced when he was young and his father married dancer and dance pedagogue Elonna Goretski. From this union, he has a half-brother, Egon Spriit. In 1972, he enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn to study acting under course supervisor Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1976. Among his graduating classmates were Merle Karusoo, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Aare Laanemets, Kalju Orro, Jüri Krjukov, Anne Paluver, Priit Pedajas, Lembit Peterson, Külliki Tool, Urmas Kibuspuu, and Peeter Volkonski.
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Chotika Wongwilas
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Noey Chotika Wongwilas is a Thai actress and model under contract with Thailand's Channel 3 Television broadcaster for whom she has acted in several lakorn/ dramas. Known primarily for her "villainous roles".
Chotika grew up in Phatthalung Province in southern Thailand where she attended the Satri Phatthalung School. She obtained her B.A. in IT Business Management at Prince of Songkla University and then went on to earn a Master's degree in Recreation and Tourism Management at Chulalongkorn University.
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Mohamed Fadel
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Egyptian director born in Alexandria on 22 June 1938. He's a graduate of the faculty of Agriculture. His first work was the hit TV series Cairo and People (1972). He formed a duet with writer Osama Anwar Okasha and they worked together on many series such as My Dear Children, Thank You (1979), And the Sea Said (1982), Abo El Ela El Beshri S1&2 (1985&96), The White Flag (1988), and The Foul Wind (1991), among many others. He's also directed several films such as Love in a Jail Cell (1983) and Nasser 56 (1996).
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Colin Wyatt
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Colin Wyatt (born 1939) worked from 1957 to 1980 for IPC Magazines as an illustrator of children's comics.
Concentrating mostly on the very young children's stories, he contributed to such well-known titles and Tiny Tots and Jack and Jill, as well as illustrating many Disney tie-in comics and inserts.
In 1975, Wyatt began work on the controversial boy's comic Action! as Assistant Art Editor. When that title was withdrawn following the infamous "banned" issue, he became the Art Editor on IPC's new launch, science fiction comic 2000AD. Overseeing the comic's second and third years in print, he played a large role in nurturing the developing talents of Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon, among others.
After leaving IPC, Wyatt became a freelance artist, creating such children's series as the Poddington Peas.
Colin was fond of the Performing Arts and was a member of an Amateur Dramatics group in Thundersley, Essex. He performed in such shows as The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance and Fiddler on the Roof.
Colin has been married to Jan since 1965 and has two children: illustrator, Justin Wyatt and Debz Hobbs-Wyatt novelist and award-winning short story writer.
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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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James Franco
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James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for appearing in films such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He frequently collaborates with fellow actor Seth Rogen, including in Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Franco's first prominent acting role was on television. He starred as Daniel Desario on the short-lived ensemble comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), which developed a cult following. He portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco also had a recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He starred in the David Simon-created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–2019).
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Bruce Broughton
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Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career and has contributed many pieces to music archives, including the 1994 version of the 20th Century Studios fanfare, and conducting the Cinergi Pictures logo composed by Jerry Goldsmith. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at UCLA.
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Barbara Laage
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Barbara Laage (30 July 1920 – 21 May 1988) was a French film actress who flourished in the 1950s.
After fleeing Paris with her family during the German occupation in World War II , Laage returned to the city after the war and began her acting career in the Paris theater district of Montparnasse.
Her first move to Hollywood was arranged by theatrical agent William Morris , founder of the William Morris Agency. She is one of several Hollywood stars of the era who would frequent the Chateau Marmont.
She was the first choice for the lead role in the Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai , though the part was eventually awarded to Rita Hayworth.
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Yulduz Rajabova
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Yulduz Rajabova (born January 24, 1987, in Navoi, Uzbekistan) is an Uzbek and Turkish film and theater actress known for her powerful performances in historical dramas, television series, and contemporary cinema.
After graduating from the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture, Rajabova began her artistic career at the institute’s theater and later became an actress at the Diydor Theater Studio. Her theatrical background helped her develop a strong stage presence and emotional depth that became a defining part of her screen performances.
Rajabova gained recognition through roles in Uzbek films and television projects, including Turist (2013), Oyqiz ertagi (2016), Virus (2016), Maqsad (2018), Scorpion (2018), Yolg‘on girdobi (2018), and Baron 2.
Her breakthrough came with the historical drama Faridaning ikki ming qo‘shig‘i (2000 Songs of Farida, 2020), where she played one of the leading roles. The film was selected as Uzbekistan’s submission for the Academy Awards and brought international attention to her work.
She achieved further popularity with her role as Qutlibeka in the historical television series Mendirman Jaloliddin (2021), expanding her recognition among audiences in Uzbekistan and other Turkish-speaking regions. She later appeared in the internationally known Turkish historical series Kuruluş Osman (2024).
Known for portraying strong and emotionally complex characters, Yulduz Rajabova has become one of the prominent actresses of modern Uzbek cinema, representing a new generation of performers connecting national cinema with international productions.
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Noriko Sakura
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Noriko Sakura is a Japanese actress and masseuse currently based on the United Kingdom. She worked as an actress in Japan on stage, TV, film and radio for 11 years and taught relaxation and physical expression for actors. Then she moved to England to do workshops at RADA and took a one year course in European theatre at LAMDA. She currently resides in the UK. As an actress, she is known for Felice... Felice (1998), The Forest (2016) and Nuclear (2019).
Not to be confused with Japanese voice actress Noriko Sakura.
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