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Charlie McDermott
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Charlie McDermott (born April 6, 1990) is an American television and film actor. Since 2004, he has worked on a wide range of television series, including The Office, Private Practice and The Middle (as a series regular). He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 16.
His biggest movie parts to date are Wild Bill in Disappearances and Troy J. 'T.J.' Eddy in Frozen River. In 2008, he received a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Actor for his Frozen River performance.
He currently plays Axl Heck in the Patricia Heaton sitcom The Middle.
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Laurie Bird
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Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American actress and photographer. She appeared in three films during the 1970s, two of which were directed by Monte Hellman. She was romantically involved with Hellman and Art Garfunkel, committing suicide in the latter's apartment by taking an overdose of Valium.
Bird's mother died by suicide when Bird was a baby. Her father was an electrical engineer. She had two older brothers. Her father restricted her social life and she fled home multiple times. In response, he placed her in an institution for troubled girls. She attended Jamaica High School, in New York City, until she was 15.
Described by Hollywood columnist Dick Kleiner as "looking like an innocent Hayley Mills", Bird appeared in just three films: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), and a small role as girlfriend to Paul Simon's character in the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977). While researching for Two-Lane Blacktop, screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer met her and recommended her to Hellman while he was looking for actresses for the same movie. In Two-Lane Blacktop she played a hitchhiker to whom the film's characters are initially attracted, but who runs off with a motorcyclist near the end of the film.
In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Her second release, Cockfighter, had her paired opposite Warren Oates. He loses her in a bet. Film critic Michael Atkinson wrote in his book Exile Hollywood (2008) "In two films, she made more of an impression, left more of a synaesthetic presence, than many actors do in a career".
Bird was the still photographer on Cockfighter and shot the cover photo for Art Garfunkel's 1977 album Watermark. She appeared on the cover of Garfunkel's 1975 album Breakaway.
She was romantically involved with her Blacktop and Cockfighter director Monte Hellman. From 1974 until her death in 1979, Bird was in a serious romantic relationship with Art Garfunkel.
In 1979, Bird died by suicide by taking an overdose of Valium in the New York apartment she shared with Garfunkel, who was deeply affected by her death. Garfunkel said, "She was beautiful, in a lonesome, haunted way, and I adored her. But I wasn't ready for marriage and she was not very comfortable being Laurie. She wasn't happy with herself. Her mother committed suicide at 26, and so did she."
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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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Wang Xueqi
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Wang Xueqi (Chinese: 王学圻; born 19 March 1946) is a Chinese film actor whose career has spanned over 25 years. He was often cast in early Fifth Generation films, such as Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and The Big Parade (1986), Huang Jianxin's Samsara, and Zhang Yimou's Codename Cougar (1989). He has since carved out a niche in the Chinese market as a character actor.
He has recently appeared in award-winning roles in Forever Enthralled (2008) and Bodyguards and Assassins (2009)
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Jaideep Ahlawat
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Jaideep Ahlawat, is an Indian film actor. Jaideep completed his graduation from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune in 2008. After completing his education, he headed Mumbai, to pursue his dreams to become an actor. He started his career in Bollywood with a small role in a short film called ‘Narmeen’ in 2008. Later, he got a role in ‘Aakrosh’ (2010) and the same year, he also starred in a satire comedy film called ‘Khatta Meetha’ wherein his negative role of a politician got appreciated in the film circles. He also did a small role in Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010).
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Steve Bond
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Bond was born Shlomo Goldberg in Haifa, Israel of a Romanian-born mother and a Hungarian-born father who had emigrated to Israel.He was a child actor who starred in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, a 1968 release. He recreated himself in America in the early 1980s after doing his mandatory military service for the state of Israel. He became a daytime television actor on General Hospital. In 1984 Bond posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster.
He married in 1982 and had a daughter. In 1989, he joined the cast of daytime drama Santa Barbara as Mack Blake where he stayed for one year only. Later, he starred as a seductive but evil vampire in the movies To Die For and Son of Darkness: To Die For II (1991).
1988 marked the year of Bond's breakthrough on to the Big Screen in his acclaimed theatrical role as Travis Abilene in the Andy Sidaris classic Picasso Trigger.
Born Jewish, he later embraced Christianity, describing himself as a "Christian Jew".
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Aline Mineiro
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Aline Mineiro, the Brazilian bombshell and Instagram sensation, Instagram star who got her start as an actress on television programs such as Pânico na Band and TV Fama . known for Conspiração Fatal (2022), Atração de Risco (2020) and Gota D'água (2023).
. She has a flight attendant course , but never pursued the profession. She has a degree in performing arts at the Wolf Maya School of Actors, where at the same time she was also studying journalism , but dropped out. In December 2014, she won the "Miss Mister Fitness Alphaville" contest. Mineiro debuted as a panicat in February 2015. Previously, she had worked on TV as a dancer on programs such as Programa do Gugu (2013), Arena SBT (2014) and Programa Raul Gil (2014).
In 2016, she was a judge at the "Garoto e Garota Fitness 2016" competition with Taiguara Nazareth. In 2018, Aline Mineiro debuted a comedy play in São Paulo. In September 2021, she was confirmed by RecordTV as one of the participants in the thirteenth season of A Fazenda , being the 13th eliminated from the reality show, together with MC Gui , in a match against Bil Araújo and Marina Ferrari, in which Aline obtained 19.77% of the votes to continue, placing seventh in the competition. She previously dated comedian Leo Lins , but the relationship came to an end after controversy with MC Gui during the reality show A Fazenda 13 . In 2023, she joined the cast of the third season of De Férias com o Ex: Caribe , as an original participant
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Santiago Madrussan
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Santiago forayed into art at the age of 13 at "Bazar de Magia", where he learnt the tools and skills required to start performing at social events, bars and restaurants. So far, during his six-year career, he has also stood out with TV appearances in "Paso a Paso", "Todo por hoy" and "Fox Sports".
At the age of 16, he also delved into theatrical comedy, clown, Commedia dell'Arte and physical comedy with world- class professors such as Gabriel Chamé Buendia, Jorge Costa, Nicolás Gentile and Pedro Alonso. Since 2020, he has been attending the Universidad Nacional de Artes (UNA - National University of Arts) to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts. He has recently played the starring role in the film "Before We Forget" (2025) jointly with Araceli Gonzalez, Sarah Parish, Oscar Morgan and Tomas Kirzner, among other.
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James Dunn
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James Dunn worked on the stage, in vaudeville and as an extra in silent movies before he was signed by Fox in 1931. His first movie with Fox was 1931's Sob Sister (1931). While at Fox, he appeared with Shirley Temple in her first three features: Baby Take a Bow (1934), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) and Bright Eyes (1934). Dunn's screen character was usually the boy next door or the nice guy. In 1935 musicals at the new 20th Century-Fox were out and Dunn would move to the "B" list, from which he would never return. In The Payoff (1935) he plays the nice guy newspaper columnist whose wife ruins his career. By the late 1930s he was drinking heavily and become unemployable. He would appear in small roles in films during the early 1940s, but those parts were few. In 1945 he was able to make a comeback and win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), but his rejuvenated career would not continue. By 1951 he would again be unemployed and bankrupt. Television would later supply some work and he would be a regular on the series It's a Great Life (1954).
Dunn was born 2 November 1901, New York City, New York, USA, and he died 1 September 1967, Santa Monica, California, USA (following abdominal surgery)
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María Valverde
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María Valverde Rodríguez (born March 24, 1987) is a Spanish actress.
She was born María Valverde Rodriguez in Carabanchel, Madrid. She was 16 when she got a leading role with Luis Tosar in a Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique, she won the 2003 Goya Award for this role.
She has also taken part in several films, such as Melissa P., a film based on the polemic book One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello.
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