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Marlon Wayans
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Marlon Lamont Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work with his brother Shawn Wayans on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–1999) and the comedy films Don't Be a Menace (1996), Scary Movie (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), White Chicks (2004), Little Man (2006), and Dance Flick (2009).
Wayans' other film credits include Above the Rim (1994), The 6th Man (1997), Norbit (2007), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), The Heat (2013), A Haunted House (2013) and its sequel A Haunted House 2 (2014), Naked (2017), Fifty Shades of Black (2016), Sextuplets (2019), and On the Rocks (2020). He also had several dramatic roles, including the psychological drama film Requiem for a Dream (2000).
Wayans partnered with Randy Adams to create What the Funny, an online destination for urban comedy. He created the comedy competition television show Funniest Wins, which aired on TBS in 2014. In 2014, Wayans and his brothers travelled the U.S. with "The Wayans Brothers Tour". In 2017, he co-wrote and starred in the NBC sitcom Marlon, which ran for two seasons.
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Sarah Thompson
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Sarah Thompson Kane (born October 25, 1979; Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. She is most widely known for the hit comedy Cruel Intentions 2 with Robin Dunne and Amy Adams and Keri Lynn Pratt. Sarah has enjoyed much television work: she joined the cast of 7th Heaven in its tenth season as "Rose", Simon's fiancee; she was well known for her role as Eve in Angel on The WB, during that show's fifth season; and she was cast as a character on ABC Family's Wildfire. She has also appeared in a number of movies, including Malibu's Most Wanted, Dear Me, Brutal, Broken Windows, Hansie, A Christmas Proposal, Taking Chance, Brooklyn's Finest, Break and The Pink Conspiracy. She also appeared in Raajneeti, a hindi movie, as Sarah Jean Collins.
She married Brad Kane on July 28, 2007.
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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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Samira El Ouassil
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Samira El Ouassil (born 1984 in Munich) is a German author, journalist, actress, and columnist, known for her work at DER SPIEGEL and her books on the power of stories and myths, such as "Erzählende Affen." She studied communication studies, German studies, philosophy, and political science at the LMU, completed acting training, and was politically active with the PARTEI, where she ran as the chancellor candidate. El Ouassil is a versatile media talent who also works as a ghostwriter, speaker, and in satire formats like Walulis sieht fern.
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Blas Diaz
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Blas Diaz Figueroa, better known as Sien to the music industry, is a Puerto Rican singer and actor, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 10, 1977. He currently resides between Puerto Rico and Miami. He began his artistic career participating with Fat Joe in Sangre Nueva Special Edition with the song "Vamos a Sacarla". He moved to Miami where it start to unfold, collaborate and share events with artists like Rick Ross , Fat Joe , Majic , Pitbull, Hector El Father , Yomo , Rakeen y Ken- Y, Alexis y Fido, Jock Young , DJ Khaled , Lil Wayne, Arcange , Jowell y Randy among others and proceeds to be part of "Terror Squad" (Fat Joe & Big Pun Crew ).
In addition to music, he has been actively involved as an actor in films and television series.
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Prakash Raj
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Prakash Raj is an Indian actor, film director, producer, jhaantu and television presenter who is known for his works in the South Indian film industry. Apart from his mother-tongue, Kannada, his fluency in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi and English has placed him among the most sought after actors in Indian cinema. He has played a variety of roles, most notably as an antagonist and character actor. He won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998 for Mani Ratnam's Iruvar and a National Film Award for Best Actor in 2009 for his role in Kanchivaram. As a producer, he won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for Puttakkana Highway.
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Sandy Batchelor
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Sandy was brought up in the east coast of Scotland before training at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Since then he has enjoyed working in theatres around the country playing a variety of roles.Most recently he performed as First Soldier and Cassio understudy in Othello, directed by Nic Hytner and Sergeant Conrad in The Captain of Kopenick, directed by Adrian Noble both for the National Theatre. Previously to this he played the Boatswain in The Tempestdirected by Adrian Noble, Brodie in The Real Thing directed by Kate Saxon and Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk directed by Andrew Panton. in Perth Theatre. From 2009 – 2011 Sandy performed at Pitlochry Festival Theatre playing Dr Johnston in Dr Angelus, Bo Decker in Bus Stop,Steven Flowers in Privates on Parade, Freddy Eynsford-hill in My Fair Lady, Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate, Sergeant Odd in Whisky Galore – A Musical! and Prince Charlemagne in Cinderella directed by John Durnin, Ken Alexander and Richard Barron. He has also played Scarecrow in The Citizens Theatre’s production of The Wizard of Oz Directed by Guy Hollands and Andrew Panton.Film and Radio credits include Angus Crombie in Our World War for BBC3, Private McGregor in Magic Grandad for BBC1and Watty in Silver Bullet for BBC Radio 4.
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Dimitri Venkov
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Dimitri gained initial recognition with his debut film, "Mad Mimes," in 2012. His subsequent work, "Krisis," was selected for the Oberhausen Film Festival and featured in Documenta 14. In 2018, Dimitri's film, "The Hymns of Muscovy," received accolades at international film festivals, was broadcast on TV and streaming platforms, and found its place in prominent institutional and private art collections.
Dimitri has participated in biennials in Moscow, Bergen, Goteborg, Wroclaw, among others. His works have been showcased at esteemed galleries such as Whitechapel and Hayward, and he has held personal exhibitions at MHKA, Nassauischer Kunstverein, CCA Winzavod, and Manezh. Dimitri's contributions have garnered attention from both Russian writers, including Anna Tolstova, Alexandra Novozhenova, Boris Klushnikov, Andrey Shental, Gleb Napreenko, Alexander Evangely, and international figures such as Kate Sutton, Simon Mraz, Yin Xiuzhen, Nagihan Haliloğlu, and Davide Deriu.
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Fina Torres
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Fina Torres is a film director. She became known by winning la Caméra d'Or award at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival with her directorial debut film, Oriana.
She studied design, photography and journalism in Venezuela and later on film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris. She now lives in Mexico and the United States. She continues to work with film projects related to Latin America as well as giving workshops in direction and script writing in Venezuela.
Her notable works include Mécaniques célestes (Celestial Clockwork) (1995), Woman on Top (2000), Habana Eva ("Havana Eva" (2008).
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France Roche
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France Roche is a French journalist, film critic, television producer and presenter, actress, born April 2, 1921 in Saint-Tropez and died December 14, 2013 in Paris 10th. She has also written books and film scripts, adapted plays and acted in films.
She collaborated in particular with: Ciné Mondial (1941-1944), Cinévie and especially Cinémonde of which she was editor-in-chief, magazines devoted to cinema; Marie France then France-Soir, as head of the cinema page of Pierre Lazareff's daily newspaper. The newspaper then has a circulation of more than a million copies and can have three or four editions per day. She is the “Madame Cinema” of the most powerful French newspaper; the ORTF, as part of the broadcasts: Five columns on the front page, where she notably carries out an interview with Brigitte Bardot, Cinépanorama (programs on cinema, notably on the Cannes festival), Thirty years of silence (on the stars of silent cinema) and Headliner: long interviews with Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Renaud (1966), Jean Marais (1968), Arletty, Annie Girardot (1969), Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse (1970), Michel Piccoli (1971), Jeanne Moreau (1972)…; Antenna 2: called by Jacqueline Baudrier, she becomes deputy editor-in-chief and editorialist, head of the culture department. She is the specialist in cinema, entertainment and fashion on the television news (1969-1986) within the framework of which she notably presents live every day during the Cannes Film Festival a column on the films in competition. She also interviews Woody Allen in the show Woody Allen or the Funniest Anhedonist in the World (1979).
She then participated in the shows Sexy Folies created by Pascale Breugnot (1986) in which she advised viewers on the telephone then J'aime à la Folie devoted to the Avignon Festival (1987-88): Canal Jimmy, where, at the request of Michel Thoulouze and Pierre Lescure she hosts T'as pas une idées, a trans-generational show in which a guest, born in the 1950s to 70s, is questioned by young people from the 1990s (1991-2001); CinéCinéma, where she presents the show Ciné-ciné court dedicated to short films; France Inter where she is a columnist for Pierre-Yves Guillen in the show Piment Rose.
France Roche is the author of several film scripts, notably with Michel Audiard, whom she discovered and starred in around fifteen films between 1950 and 1958.
She was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1961.
France Roche's career presents an atypical profile. Familiar with the general public until around 1965, she then took on executive functions more in the background, with less visibility, before returning to the screens from 1986. Such a long eclipse, although only apparent, and her return, have at the time created astonishment.
She was the wife of François Chalais then of Gilbert de Goldschmidt, with whom she has a son: Frédéric, born in 1959.
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