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Giovanna Grigio
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Giovanna Grigio dos Santos is a Brazilian actress and presenter. She debuted on television in 2007 as a child reporter O Melhor do Brasil, on Rede Record, commanding the segment 'A Galerinha'. In 2009 she became a host of Band Kids, by Band, where she stayed until the following year. In 2013 she was chosen to play Mili in the second Brazilian version of the telenovela 'Chiquititas' on SBT. In 2016 she played Gerusa in 'Êta Mundo Bom' on Rede Globo. In 2017 she joined the cast of the twenty-fifth season of 'Malhação: Viva a Diferença' as Samantha Lambertini. In the second half of 2020, she debuted in Globoplay's exclusive series called 'As Five'.
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Lekaa El Khamisy
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Lekaa Abdul Malek al-Khameessy graduated from the High Institute of Dramatic Arts after finishing her commerce studies. She worked a as teacher at the University of 6 October. Lekaa participated in the play “Tehebb teshouf ma’ssaah i.e. Do you want to see a tragedy”. For TV, she played in many TV series such; “Al-‘attaar wal-saba’ banaat i.e. The perfumer and the seven girls”, “Haarat al-Tablaawy i.e. The Tabalaawy alley” and “Shabaab online i.e. Online youngsters”, she also played the radio series “Gaarat al-kamar i.e. The moon neighbor”.
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Tom Burlinson
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Tom Burlinson (born 14 February 1956) is a Canadian-born Australian actor and singer His English parents had migrated to Canada after World War II. The family transferred to New Jersey in 1958, and Tom was the typical all-American youngster with the Little League baseball cap, striped T-shirt and turned-up jeans. In 1962 the family transferred to England with the father's job and young Tom went to school with a North American accent. In 1965, just before Tom turned 10, the family transferred again, this time to Australia. After six months his parents divorced and his mother and two younger sisters went back to England, leaving him with dad and his older sister. After graduating from NIDA in 1976, he appeared in several television shows before landing the title role in the big-budget movie, The Man from Snowy River (1982). Since then he has always put in fine performances, deviding his career between Australia and United States, on stage often performing his Frank Sinatra tribute show. He has been married to singer-dancer Mandy Carnie since 1996 and they have three children.
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Robert Hartford-Davis
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Robert Hartford-Davis (born William Henry Davis, 23 July 1923 – 12 June 1977) was a British born producer, director and writer, who worked on film and television in both in the United Kingdom and United States. He is also sometimes credited as Michael Burrowes or Robert Hartford.
Hartford-Davis was born in Ramsgate, Kent in 1923 as William Henry Davis; he changed his name on becoming a television director in 1955. His television career encompassed drama, comedy and entertainment shows. Bob, as he liked to be called, started his career as an electrician in a South London film studio, where he went on to develop his skills as a cameraman. During the fifties he made a number of short films. These were innovative with the choice of cast and script content. In the late fifties he became an agent and worked for Roy Rogers, amongst others (in England).
His talents included co-writing many scripts for 'exploitation' movies and he used media events and people to forward his career. The Yellow Teddy Bears is a prime example of his vivid imagination, using an article in a national newspaper as fodder.
Robert dealt with the downturn of the film industry in the UK by investing his own money in two movies, The Fiend and Nobody Ordered Love.
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John Ridley
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John Ridley (born 1965 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film director, actor, and writer. Ridley got his start as a stand-up comedian. He eventually was hired as a writer for sitcoms such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Martin. He began to concentrate on writing and wrote his first novel, Stray Dogs, which became the basis the 1997 film U Turn, directed by Oliver Stone. Ridley also provided the original script for the film Three Kings, starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube. But his script was changed so much by director David O. Russell that he only received a credit for the original story. He also tried his hand at directing with the film Cold Around the Heart. He is one of the creators of Urban Entertainment, showcasing short films and animation from minority filmmakers, including his own works: the animated cartoons Undercover Brother (the basis for the Undercover Brother film starring comedian Eddie Griffin) and Those Who Walk in Darkness, featuring the voice of rapper Lil' Kim — which itself was the basis of a novel of the same name written by Ridley. Additionally, Ridley developed Tim Story's 2002 motion picture Barbershop into the short-lived 2005 Showtime comedy Barbershop: The Series. Ridley was the original co-host on the MSNBC daily morning show Morning Joe upon its premiere in 2007, and was an occasional guest on the network's cancelled nightly program Scarborough Country. He hosted the short-lived Movie Club with John Ridley on American Movie Classics and has written The Authority and The American Way for DC Comics. He has recently become a regular guest commentator on American Public Media's Weekend America in a segment called "Good News, Bad News, No News" which reviews the week's news. He co-produced the film Bobby. He wrote the play Ten Thousand Years about kamikaze pilots in World War II. On the weekend of August 19, 2006, John co-hosted the syndicated program Ebert & Roeper while film critic Roger Ebert was on medical leave. On August 28, 2007, it was announced that George Lucas hired him to pen the script for his upcoming World War II film Red Tails. Currently (December, 2009) Ridley is head writer and co-executive producer of The Wanda Sykes Show.
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Raymond Poulidor
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Raymond Poulidor (15 April 1936 – 13 November 2019), nicknamed "Pou-Pou", was a French professional racing cyclist, who rode for Mercier his entire career.
His distinguished career coincided with two other outstanding riders – Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. This underdog position may have been the reason Poulidor was a favourite of the public. He was known as "The Eternal Second", because he never won the Tour de France despite finishing in second place three times, and in third place five times (including his final Tour at the age of 40). Despite his consistency, he never wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in 14 Tours (of which he completed 12). He did win one Grand Tour, the 1964 Vuelta a España. Of the eighteen Grand Tours that he entered in his career, he finished in the top 10 fifteen times.
Raymond Poulidor was the son of Martial and Maria Poulidor, small farmers outside the hamlet of Masbaraud-Mérignat, where the Creuse region east of Limoges meets the département of Haute-Vienne. Poulidor began working on the farm where, he remembered, "the soil was poor and we had to work hard; farming incomes were poor." The need for working hands on the farm meant he left school at 14 even though he wanted to continue his studies. Local entertainment went little further than village fairs, with coconut shies, sack-races, competitions for bottles of home-made jam... and inter-village cycle races. Poulidor continued to help out on his parents' farm even after he turned professional.
Poulidor was given his first bike by a local shop owner at the age of 14. He started racing bicycles at the age of 16, picking up the interest from the magazine Miroir-Sprint given to him by one of his school teachers. He initially hid his passion from his mother, who was afraid of the dangers the sport entailed.
It was only when Poulidor was taken into the army for compulsory national service in 1955 that he first travelled in a train. Pierre Chany, a French reporter who followed 49 Tours de France, drew the comparison with Poulidor's eventual rival, Jacques Anquetil: by the time Poulidor first stepped into a train, Anquetil had already been to Helsinki, ridden the Olympic Games, won a medal for France, turned professional and won the Grand Prix des Nations. Yet there was less than two years between them.
The army sent Poulidor to the war then going on in Algeria, where he worked as a driver and put on 12 kg through lack of exercise. In 1960 he dedicated himself to cycling again and lost the weight in a month. He won his first race after army service by six minutes. When he then came second in the GP de Peyrat-le-Château and won 80,000 old francs, he calculated that he had won more in one race than he would have earned in six years on the farm.
Poulidor turned professional in 1960 with the Mercier team, directed by former Tour winner Antonin Magne. Magne offered Poulidor 25,000 old francs a month. Poulidor asked for 30,000. Magne countered that that was more than he paid Gauthier and Louis Privat and refused. Later, aware that he had a rival for Anquetil, he conceded. ...
Source: Article "Raymond Poulidor" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mary McLaglen
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Mary McLaglen, the daughter of Andrew McLaglen, is a producer and unit production manager who has contributed to a number of critically and financially successful motion pictures. Her career started on her father's North Sea Hijack (1979) as a production coordinator. She went on to work as a unit production manager on films like My Cousin Vinny (1992), Hope Floats (1998), Pay It Forward (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), Dodgeball (2004), Miss Congeniality 2 (2005), The Proposal (2009), Reel Steel (2011), The Internship (2013), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
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Abraham Zapruder
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Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970) was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer who witnessed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. He unexpectedly captured the shooting in a home movie while filming the presidential limousine and motorcade as it traveled through Dealey Plaza. The Zapruder film is regarded as the most complete footage of the assassination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abraham Zapruder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tinnasit Isarapongporn
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Barcode Tinnasit Isarapongporn is a Thai actor and singer-songwriter under GMMTV. After graduating from Suankularb College in February 2023, he went on to study at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Communication Arts.
In 2022, Barcode made his acting debut in the series "KinnPorsche". He was managed by Be On Cloud until April 2024 followed by a short period with Aplan International from May to September 2024. In October 2024, he launched his own label, Taintis Studio and joined GMMTV in December.
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Sean Spence
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The character of Father Brian is played by the multi-talented Sean Spence. Sean was recently cast in the Clint Eastwood directed feature film, "J. Edgar", opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, and can be seen starring in the independent film "Democracy At Work", short films "Special Delivery" (opposite Barry Pearl), "Based on a True Story" (opposite Ian Abercrombie), "Life Bingo", "Munch", "The Adventures of Mapboy" and "Lucidity", as well as past & current web series' "Compulsions" (Streamy Award), "Why I Hate Bitsy Malone", "Game Room", "Love On-The-Line" and "Good Times". Sean has also partnered with his wife, Robin Shelby, where he has written and directed the web series "Far From the Tree", currently in its 3rd season.
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