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John Atkins

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Praised for his dramatic intensity and comic touch in performances, John is focused now on Film, Television and Commercial acting. He spent many years on the stage as an Opera singer performing leading roles primarily at the LA Opera, and also around the country and in Europe. He enjoyed opportunities to work with directors including William Friedkin, Herbert Ross, Sir Peter Hall, John Schlesinger, and Gordon Davidson. Telling the story in a clear direct way is always the challenge and the goal, whether singing or talking, on stage or on camera.
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William Woollard

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William Woollard is a historian and retired British television producer and presenter. Woollard went to a state grammar school in London and Oxford University. He trained to be a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force. He worked with an oil company in Borneo and Oman. He has worked as a social scientist on corporate social responsibility with several American and European organizations. He has written about his Buddhist beliefs. He has also produced, written and presented many television documentaries and series, particularly on science and technology. They have been broadcast on the BBC and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, as well as the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel and the Public Broadcasting Service in the US.
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Spencer Tracy

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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy won two Academy Awards for Best Actor from nine nominations, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier. Tracy first discovered his talent for acting while attending Ripon College, and he later received a scholarship for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He spent seven years in the theatre, working in a succession of stock companies and intermittently on Broadway. Tracy's breakthrough came in 1930, when his lead performance in The Last Mile caught the attention of Hollywood. After a successful film debut in John Ford's Up the River starring Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, he was signed to a contract with Fox Film Corporation. His five years with Fox featured one acting tour de force after another that were usually ignored at the box office, and he remained largely unknown to audiences after 25 films, almost all of them starring Tracy as the leading man. None of them were hits although The Power and the Glory (1933) features arguably his most acclaimed performance in retrospect. In 1935, Tracy joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at the time Hollywood's most prestigious studio. His career flourished with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town. He made three smash hit films supporting Clark Gable, the studio's principal leading man, firmly fixing the notion of Gable and Tracy as a team in the public imagination. By the 1940s, Tracy was one of the studio's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, beginning another popular partnership that produced nine movies over 25 years. Tracy left MGM in 1955, and continued to work regularly as a freelance star, despite an increasing weariness as he aged. His personal life was troubled, with a lifelong struggle against severe alcoholism and guilt over his son's deafness. Tracy became estranged from his wife in the 1930s, but never divorced, conducting a long-term relationship with Katharine Hepburn in private. Towards the end of his life, Tracy worked almost exclusively for director Stanley Kramer. It was for Kramer that he made his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967, completed just 17 days before his death. During his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
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Singeetam Srinivasa Rao

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Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (born 21 September 1931) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, composer, and actor. Regarded as one of the most versatile directors in India cinema, he is credited with revolutionizing South Indian cinema with experimental films, primarily in the comedy and drama genres. He has directed about sixty films in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, and English languages across multiple genres, and has garnered two National Film Awards, five Nandi Awards, three Karnataka State Film Awards, and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2011, Rao was honored with Life Achievement Award from the Film Federation of India.
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Randall Okita

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Randall Okita is a Japanese Canadian artist and filmmaker known for creating work that involves rich visual language and innovative approaches to storytelling. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions, awarded internationally, and screened around the world. Recent work includes directing the feature film See for Me (premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival), writing and creating the virtual reality experience The Book of Distance (Sundance, Venice, Tribeca) with the National Film Board of Canada, and showing A Place Between, a solo exhibition of artwork at the Prince Takamado Gallery in Tokyo. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Okita lives and works in Toronto and Japan.
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Azucena Losana

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"Born and raised in Mexico City, 1977. I Live and work in Buenos Aires. I attended the Multimedia Arts Degree at the National Arts University in Argentina, the Abigail Child Found Footage workshop and Claudio Caldini's experimental film workshop. My work is related to experimental films, installations and video. I carry out and program the itinerant screening room for films called CINEMA CINICO. I'm also on charge of the mythical laboratory of the film resistance in Latinamerica: Arcoiris Super 8. I am currently working on the enhancement of the film collection of the Mexican Embassy in Argentina. Since 2012 I work with Carolina Andreetti in our project TAPP, a workshop dedicated to the construction of analog projectors with discarded materials or easily accessible for audiovisual ensambles. Received in 2009 the Third Prize of Arts and New Technologies from the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and Telefonica, in 2015 the exchange scholarship of the University of Sao Paulo / UNA. On 2016 a mention in the National Hall of Arts in Argentina. On 2017 received the Creation Grant from the Nacional Arts Fund in Argentina and the grant for the Art Creators National System Program (SNCA) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in Mexico. My films have been screened at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, BAFICI, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periferico, La Coruña, España, Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen Germany, Los Angeles Filmforum's film series Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, The Age d'Or Festival in Brussels, VIDEOEX in Zurich, Curta8 in Curitiba Brazil, PAF animation festival in Olomuc, Czech Republic, MEXPARIS MENTAL in France, the International Experimental Film Festival of Moscow MIEFF, the Week of the Experimental Film of La Plata - Argentina, UNCIPAR, among others." -A.L.
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Meisha Brooks

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Meisha Brooks is no ordinary rising face - a Harvard grad, fluent in Japanese, and a former D1 track star, Meisha is a multifaceted actress. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard, with a specialty in humanoid robotics and prosthetics from MIT. She completed the prestigious Professional Acting Practice program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 2024. Additionally, she has studied with renowned acting coaches Anthony Abeson, Lesly Kahn, Bob Krakower, and Sharon Chatten and trained at Upright Citizens Brigade. With a passion for action combat and Jeet Kune Do, Meisha loves bringing different characters to life. Meisha's voice shines as a leading character in the award-winning audio drama podcast 'The Crime at Camp Ashwood', and a supporting role in the feature film 'Out of Order', alongside Brooke Shields, Luis Guzman, Tao Okamoto, Sandra Bernhard, and Brandon Routh.
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Maia Morgenstern

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A Romanian film and stage actress,  described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film".  In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Balanţa, a film known in the United States as The Oak, set during the waning days of Communist Romania. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maia Morgenstern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ioanna Karystiani

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Ioanna Karystiani (Greek: Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη, born 8 September 1952 in Chania, Crete) is a Greek screenwriter and winner of the Greek National Book Award. Ioanna Karystiani was born in 1952 in Chania in Crete in a family from Asia Minor. She took up Law Studies and worked as a cartoonist for several media, among them the Greek communist newspaper Rizospastis (Greek Ριζοσπάστης) and the magazines "Tetarto", "Ena" and "Eikones". She has also worked as a scriptwriter and made a name for herself among the Greek film industry. She lives in Athens and in the Greek island of Andros and is married to the Greek film director Pantelis Voulgaris. They have two children. They have worked together in films such as Nyfes and Psyhi Vathia. Ioanna Karystiani has had success with her short stories book "I kyria Kataki" (Mrs Kataki) and her novel "Mikra Anglia" (Little England, published in English as "The Jasmine Island") in which she describes the romances, lives and work of a family in the sailor community of the island of Andros in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel achieved the Greek National Award for Literature. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Terry Kilburn

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terence Edward Kilburn (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor. Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in the late 1930s and the early 1940s. Kilburn was born in West Ham, Essex, in Greater London in 1926, to working-class parents. He did some unpaid acting as a young child, and an agent encouraged him to go to Hollywood. Kilburn and his mother immigrated to the U.S. in 1937, and his father arrived the following year. A talent scout for MGM discovered him rehearsing for Eddie Cantor's radio show, and he was cast in the British-set film Lord Jeff (1938). Known for his innocent, dreamy, doe-eyed look, Kilburn achieved fame at the age of 11 portraying Tiny Tim in the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version of A Christmas Carol, and also as four generations of the Colley family in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). He also played leading roles in two films which starred Freddie Bartholomew: Lord Jeff (1938) and Swiss Family Robinson (1940). He was featured in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone. In addition to Lord Jeff (1938), Kilburn worked alongside Mickey Rooney in Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939), A Yank at Eton (1942), and National Velvet (1944). In 1946 he was in Black Beauty. In his early 20s, in 1947 and 1948, he was in four back-to-back Bulldog Drummond films, as Seymour, a reporter; and in 1950 he had small roles in two seagoing films. After high school, Kilburn concentrated on stage work, and studied drama at UCLA. He made his Broadway debut, credited as Terrance Kilburn, as Eugene Marchbanks in a 1952 revival of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. He thereafter remained committed to live performances, as both actor and director. After 1952 he was credited on screen as Terence Kilburn. His final feature film role was a small part in Lolita (1962). Between 1951 and 1969, he was also in nearly a dozen teleplays, television movies, and television series episodes.
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