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Edward Atterton
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Atterton (born 24 January 1962 in Birmingham, England) is an English actor. Atterton's first television role was in an episode of ITV's Poirot in 1993. The same year, he was cast in the recurring role of Dr. Alex Taylor in the ITV drama series Medics. After continuing in various British television productions for some years, Atterton began working in the U.S. in the late 1990s. He had a role in the 1998 remake of The Man In The Iron Mask, and also starred in the WB's short-lived spy series Three. Following this, he had appearances in several cult sci-fi/fantasy productions including Alias, Firefly, and Charmed. He also played Duncan Idaho in the Sci-Fi Channel's adaptation of Children of Dune in 2003. His final television appearance to date was in a 2005 episode of the Lifetime Channel's drama series Wild Card. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Atterton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Felipe Cazals
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Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies.
Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
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Ranbir Kapoor
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Ranbir Kapoor, born on September 28, 1982, in Mumbai, India, is a prominent actor in contemporary Hindi cinema. He hails from the illustrious Kapoor family, often regarded as Bollywood’s first family, which has shaped Indian cinema for generations. His grandfather Raj Kapoor was a legendary actor-director, and his father Rishi Kapoor was a celebrated actor, while his mother Neetu Singh is also a respected actress. This cinematic lineage gave Ranbir early exposure to the world of films and storytelling.
Ranbir was formally trained in acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York, which gave him a foundation in method acting. He made his Bollywood debut with “Saawariya” (2007), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Although the film didn’t perform well commercially, critics noticed his potential. He gained his first major commercial and critical success with “Wake Up Sid” (2009) and “Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani” (2009), showcasing his versatility in portraying both relatable and quirky characters.
Over the years, Ranbir has built a reputation for choosing diverse roles. He has played everything from a troubled musician in “Rockstar” (2011) to a historical figure in “Besharam” (2013) and a gangster in “Barfi!” (2012), earning praise for his emotional depth and naturalistic style. His performances have won him multiple Filmfare Awards, India’s most prestigious film honours.
Apart from his acting, Ranbir is known for his charismatic personality and down-to-earth demeanour. Media and fans often highlight his humility despite fame. He has been linked romantically with high-profile actresses, most notably Deepika Padukone and is currently married to Alia Bhatt, another leading Bollywood star.
Ranbir Kapoor also carries a modern Bollywood image—blending artistic talent with commercial appeal, making him a favourite of both filmmakers and audiences. Outside the cinema, he supports charitable causes and is admired for his fashion sense, often setting trends in the Indian entertainment industry.
In essence, Ranbir Kapoor represents a blend of legacy, talent, and contemporary charm, making him one of the most influential actors of his generation in India. For anyone trying to understand modern Bollywood, Ranbir Kapoor is a name that defines both innovation and tradition in acting.
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Im Sung-min
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Im Sung Min is a South Korean actress and former announcer. She obtained a master's degree in Broadcasting and Media from Yonsei University. She made her debut as part of the 14th KBS open recruitment for announcers in 1991 as her family opposed her dreams of acting. After working at KBS for 10 years, she ended her contract and became a freelance announcer. She became the first female to be a quiz show MC when she hosted EBS's "Scholarship Quiz" in 2004. A year later, she began lecturing in broadcasting and acting as a professor at Baekje University of Arts, a position she held until 2016. In 2011, she married American professor Michael Unger who was teaching filmmaking at Sogang University at the time. The couple moved to New York and she acted in the off-Broadway musical "Green Card" in 2016-2017. She entered the American market in 2018 when she signed a contract with a management company and began using her English name, Julia Lim.
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Raymond Gérôme
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Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor.
Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas.
In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde.
Gérôme died in 2002, at his home in Les Lilas.
Source: Article "Raymond Gérôme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sam Fell
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Samuel Jason Fell (born 22 November 1965) is a British animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor.
Sam started his career as director on the short film The Big Cheese for 3 Peach Animation. He then joined Aardman Animations and worked on projects like Pop, Peter Lord's Oscar-nominated short film Wat's Pig, as well as Rex the Runt, before directing the 2002 project Chump. He also developed a children's TV series called Rabbits!.
In 2001, he came up with the story of Flushed Away which he developed through 2002. From 2003, he went on to direct (with David Bowers) the film for Aardman. He also provided the voices for the characters Liam, The Prophet, Ladykiller and Fanseller.
From 2008, he went on to direct The Tale of Despereaux for Universal Studios, and also provided the voices of the characters Ned and Smudge.
Fell co-directed Laika's ParaNorman, with Chris Butler, which was released in the United States in August 2012.
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SABU
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Sabu (サブ, Sabu, born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka.
Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 World Apartment Horror, a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner, a film that set his early style of "quirky action-comedies propelled by characters who hurtle headlong though squirming narratives steered more by the forces of incidence and coincidence than the actions of the protagonists themselves." Shin'ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu's first five films. Blessing Bell, starring Susumu Terajima (who has played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu's films), was a turn away from his kinetic, parodic, and black comedy narratives, and earned the NETPAC Award at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. Later films featured the J-pop band V6. In 2009, he directed The Crab Cannery Ship, a modern adaptation of a classic of Japanese proletarian literature written by Takiji Kobayashi.
He has continued to work as an actor, such as in Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer (2001).
His film Chasuke's Journey was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Mohamed Dione
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Momo Dione was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is of Guinean and Senegalese descent. His father is a Guinean diplomat and his mother is an entrepreneur specializing in event production and African fashion. Before reaching high school, the actor/filmmaker had already seen a great deal of the world. He came to the United States in 1993 when his father was appointed to the Guinea mission in New York City. While doing plays in elementary school on Roosevelt Island, he realized that acting was his true passion. He began auditioning for projects while in high school. But playing basketball and football, being class president for three consecutive terms, prom king, and carrying a heavy academic load left him with little time to follow his heart. He graduated from Yonkers International Baccalaureate High School in 2004. He has since been featured in plays, TV shows, commercials, music videos, student films, independent films, and feature films. Some of his credits are "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Across the Universe", "Notorious", the upcoming "Restless City" premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and several commercials. He is a graduate of the All Stars Project/Youth Onstage/Castillo Theater youth development acting programs. Momo was a member of the original cast and co-author of the All Stars Projects' original production of "Our City." He's also posed for paintings by Afro-American painter Kehinde Wiley. He is bi-coastal; living in Los Angeles and New York. Frequent travel is a way of life for Mohamed. He co-owns Caramel Cappuccino films, a production company that writes films that articulate relevant issues of life and relationship in under-served or under acknowledged communities with aims of producing them. He enjoys horseback riding, opera, Congolese soukous, sports, and anything that has to do with cinema. Dione is constantly auditioning and working on new projects in search of the role that will allow him to make his mark in the Hollywood and Broadway markets...and then the world.
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Noémie Lvovsky
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Noémie Lvovsky (born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.
Lvovsky was born in Paris in 1964, the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine to flee pogroms. She studied cinema at La Fémis in Paris, notably a contemporary of Arnaud Desplechin, with whom she often collaborates. Her first two films cast Emmanuelle Devos, who was then at the beginning of her career.
She is the actress with most nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress, with six nominations: in 2002 for My Wife Is an Actress, in 2006 for Backstage, in 2008 for Actrices, in 2010 for The French Kissers, in 2012 for House of Pleasures and in 2016 for Summertime. Her film Sentiments was nominated for the César Award for Best Film in 2004.
Her film Camille redouble was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix SACD.
She was named as one of the jury members for the Cinéfondation and short film sections of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Source: Article "Noémie Lvovsky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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