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Ingkarat Damrongsakkul
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Ryu Ingkarat Damrongsakkul is a Thai actor. He is currently studying at Saint Gabriel's School. He began his acting career as a child star at the age of 9. At age 12, he caught his big break in acting when he starred in the movie "How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)" (2015) for which he won Best Supporting Actor in the prestigious Suphannahong National Film Awards/Thailand National Film Association Awards (2015). This big break was followed by main roles in the series "Dead Time Stories" (2015), "GGEZ" (2018), and "Quarantine Stories" (2020).
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Hiroyo Matsumoto
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Hiroyo Matsumoto (born November 6, 1985) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer. She is known for her appearances across the Japanese independent scene, becoming a top singles champion in OZ Academy, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling and SEAdLINNNG, and winning other titles in Ice Ribbon, World Wonder Ring Stardom, NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling and JWP Joshi Puroresu. In the Unted States, she is a former one-time Shimmer Tag Team Champion and entered the 2018 Mae Young Classic for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
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Danielle Campbell
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Danielle Campbell (born January 30, 1995) is an American actress, best known for her role as Jessica Olson in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck. Campbell is from Hinsdale, Illinois. Her parents are Georganne and John Campbell. She was discovered in a hair salon in Chicago. Her first big break was as a guest star on Prison Break appearing in four episodes. She also appeared in a nationwide commercial for Build-A-Bear Workshop and played the character of Darla in the 2008 movie The Poker House. In 2010, she appeared in the Disney television movie Starstruck, and has signed a development deal with the company. She starred in the movie Prom, released on April 29, 2011, costarring with Nicholas Braun (Lloyd), Nolan Sotillo (Cameron), and Aimee Teegarden (Nova).
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Frank González
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Frank González. Reconocido actor de voz cubano. Con su voz a interpretado diversas producciones de animación que eran realizadas en el Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos. Entre sus personajes se destaca el del Elpidio Valdés. Asi como también, prestó voz en el doblaje de películas y series de animación japonesa.
Mientras pasaba el Servicio Militar actuó, como aficionado, en grupos de teatro y grupos musicales. A partir de 1967 comenzó a trabajar en el ICRT, como diseñador de vestuario y decorador, especialidades para las que se preparó durante un año. Paralelamente cursó estudios de actuación con excelentes profesionales del radio y la televisión tales comoRoberto Garriga, Marta Jiménez Oropesa, Odilia Romero y Oscar Luis López.
En 1969 comienza a actuar en la programación dramática de radio y TV, medios donde ha realizado una extensa carrera y en la década del 70, así como en el cine. En teatro ha participado en obras como Los diez días que estremecieron al mundo con el grupo Teatro Estudio, La cuadratura del círculo y Romance a Federico en el Teatro Nacional.
Realizó dos giras nacionales con la obras Quieren casar a Maltina y El Arca de Noé. Es un excelente actor de carácter y, además, posiblemente el mejor actor de doblajes de nuestro país: le ha dado vida a múltiples personajes de los dibujos animados y, entre ellos, al emblemático Elpidio Valdés. En 1984 actuó en el programa de fin de año de la televisión húngara; en el 2001 en la serie de la televisión mexicana Operación Coraje; y en el 2002 participó en el Festival de Cine Caribeño de St. Barthélemy.
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Owen Sheers
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Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and TV presenter. He was the first writer in residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team.
Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974, and brought up in Abergavenny, south Wales. He was educated at King Henry VIII School in Abergavenny, before going on to study at New College, Oxford and the University of East Anglia, where he completed an MA in Creative Writing. During his time at New College, Sheers captained the Oxford University Modern Pentathlon team.
In 1999, Sheers received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. His first collection of poetry, The Blue Book, was published by Seren in 2000. A collection of poems about family, first love and farming life, it was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and the Forward Prize for 'Best First Collection'. Following this first publication, Sheers worked on the light entertainment television show The Big Breakfast as a researcher.[3] His debut prose work, The Dust Diaries, was published by Faber in 2004. A non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe, it won the Wales Book of the Year in 2005, and was also shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.
In 2004 Sheers was Writer in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust and was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society’s 20 Next Generation Poets. Sheers' 2nd collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill (Seren, 2005) won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award. Unicorns, almost his one man play based on the life and poetry of the WWII poet Keith Douglas was developed by Old Vic, New Voices, and performed by Joseph Fiennes.
Owen is currently Professor of Creativity at Swansea University.
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Helen Martin
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Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television who is perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 as Marla Gibbs' neighbor Pearl.
Martin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Amanda Frankie (née Fox) and William Martin, a minister.
Martin was a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. She appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows including Jean Genet's The Blacks, Raisin from 1973 to 1975, Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious (and later the musical version, which was called Purlie), The Amen Corner and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment. She was an original member of the American Negro Theater.
She first became famous later in life for her guest role as Wanda on the television series Good Times, and later as the wisecracking neighbor Pearl Shay on the television sitcom 227. She also played on the short-run sitcoms Baby, I'm Back (as mother in-law, Luzelle) and That's My Mama; as Loc Dog's grandma, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), the matronly grandmother Mama Doll in the 1998 film Bulworth, and the no-nonsense grandmother in the film Hollywood Shuffle. Helen Martin died of a heart attack on March 25, 2000.
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Luis Barboo
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Luis Barboo (20 March 1927 – 30 September 2001) was a Spanish actor.
He played Baxter Gunman in Per un pugno di dollari (1964). He played Truto in The Demons (1973), and Caronte in La Maldición de Frankenstein (1973), both directed by Jesús Franco.
He played Red Hair in Conan the Barbarian (1982), directed by John Milius and written by Oliver Stone.[5] He appeared in Spanish films like O camiño das estrelas: Galicia (1993), directed by Chano Piñeiro and starring Sabela Páez and Gustavo Salmerón,[6] and Supersonic Man (1979), directed by Juan Piquer Simón
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Billie Bennett
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Billie Bennett (October 23, 1874 – May 19, 1951) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 52 films between 1913 and 1930. She was born in Evansville, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Author E. J. Fleming writing in his 2004 book, The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine, states that when she ceased making films at the end of the silent era, she ran a high class bordello in an exclusive part of the Los Angeles area. Bennett's girls were made up to look like movie stars of the period even undergoing surgical alterations to achieve the illusion. Much of the brothel was sponsored by MGM courting out of town clientele and foreign distributors and exhibitors from around the world.
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Antonino Bruschetta
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Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter.
Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi 'Nutrimenti terrestri', a stage company which primarily focused on subjects of social value, and was active both as an actor and a director. In 1987 he debuted as a screenwriter with the indie drama La gentilezza del tocco, and in 1989 he co-directed the indie film Private Screening. He is also very active as an actor in films and television series.
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Barbara Cupisti
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Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-winning documentary director with a long career as film actress.
As an actress, she is well known outside of her native country by horror fans, who will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento.
As a director, she is considered one of the most talented female directors of documentaries in the world. Mostly focused on human rights, she said that her goal is to give voice to the people who don't have the opportunity to speak.
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