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Zhao Lusi

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Zhao Lusi (Rosy Zhao) is a Chinese actress born on November 9, 1998, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. She studied at Mingdao University in Taiwan and made her acting debut in 2017 with the romance drama Untouchable Lovers. Known for her vibrant charm and expressive performances, Zhao quickly rose to fame with leading roles in popular dramas such as The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Hidden Love, Love Like the Galaxy, and Who Rules the World. Her talent has earned her numerous accolades, including the "Breakthrough TV Actor of the Year" at the Tencent Video Star Awards and the "Best Actress Award" at the Hengdian Film and Television Awards. With her growing versatility and devoted fanbase, Zhao Lusi continues to be a standout figure in Chinese television and cinema.
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Cody Rhodes

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Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes is an American professional wrestler and actor, currently signed to WWE on the Raw brand. The son of Dusty Rhodes and half-brother of Dustin Rhodes, he first rose to prominence in WWE from 2006 to 2016 as Cody Rhodes and Stardust, winning multiple tag titles and two Intercontinental Championships. After leaving WWE, he competed in ROH, NJPW, TNA, and the independents, capturing the ROH World, IWGP U.S., and NWA World Heavyweight Championships. A founding Executive Vice President of AEW in 2019, he became the inaugural three-time AEW TNT Champion before returning to WWE at WrestleMania 38 in 2022.
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Jeff Donnell

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Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 — April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in South Windham, Maine. As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama. She was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures in 1942 and made her film debut in My Sister Eileen. She later had roles in some RKO films. She was not a major star, but she did have a lengthy film and television career in various supporting roles, including the role of Gidget's mother, "Dorothy Lawrence", opposite Carl Reiner in the 1961 movie Gidget Goes Hawaiian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Donnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Édouard Sulpice

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Édouard Sulpice is a French actor born in Chambéry in 1995. He studied at the CNSAD and began his film career by playing the role of Édouard in the film À l'abordage by Guillaume Brac. Édouard studied at the National Higher Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where he graduated in 2020. In 2020, he obtained his first film role, playing the character of Édouard in the film À l'abordage directed by Guillaume Brac. The same year, he played the role of young Rabut (played by Jean-Pierre Darroussin) at the age of 20, in the film Des hommes, directed by Lucas Belvaux based on the novel of the same name by Laurent Mauvignier. In 2021, he played the role of Patrick in L'Évènement directed by Audrey Diwan. In 2022, he played the role of Anthony in the play Their children after them by Nicolas Mathieu. He is in the UBBA agency, located in Paris. Source: Article "Edouard Sulpice" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Manolita Saval

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Manolita Saval (5 February 1914 Paris, France – 23 August 2001 Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish actress and singer. She studied music and drama in Spain, and began her career performing the opera Marina in Valencia. As a lyric interpreter, she toured Latin America, eventually settling in Mexico in 1938. Over the course of her career, she appeared in over 30 films and television programs, as well as in plays, operettas, and operas. She was born in Paris of Spanish parents and named 'Juana María Saval'. She was the mother of the actor Manuel Saval, and the niece of the Spanish opera singer Vicente Ballester Aparício. Saval died in Mexico City on August 23, 2001 of cardiac arrest due to thrombosis.
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Brian Klugman

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Brian Klugman (born September 15, 1975) is an American actor. Klugman was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father is a real estate broker, and his mother is a school teacher. Klugman's uncle is Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jack Klugman. Klugman has two brothers and one sister: Michael "Mike" Klugman (b. 1985), Jeffrey "Jeff" Klugman (b. 1972), and Laurie Klugman (b. 1977). He attended the Germantown Academy for high school, and Carnegie Mellon University for 2 years. Brian is nicknamed "Klugger". Klugman's most recent role has been in House on the episode "97 Seconds" as Thomas Stark, he has also appeared in Cloverfield, The Bogus Witch Project, Dreamland, Frasier, Joan of Arcadia, and National Lampoon's Adam & Eve. Klugman also appeared in the 2009 horror/thriller Vacancy 2: The First Cut in the role of "Reece". ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robyn Nevin

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Robyn Nevin (born September 25, 1942) is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. She is also known for her roles in films and televisions series. Nevin entered the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of 16 in the very first intake in 1959 was a brave step, in which she was fully supported by her parents. Nevin is currently lives with her long-time partner, US-born actor and screenwriter Nicholas Hammond since 1987.
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Ron Van Clief

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Ron "The Black Dragon" Van Clief is a martial arts legend. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, he started martial arts training in his early teens. At 5 feet 10 inches and 190 pounds, Van Clief was fast, powerful, and tough. He won 10 New York State Full-Contact Karate Championships. He won multiple Karate Point-Fighting Titles. By the early 1970s he had earned his 10th Degree Black Belt. His karate record was reported to be 110-8. In 1994 at age 51, he launched a comeback on December 16, 1994 fighting former World JuJitsu Lightheavyweight and Ultimate Fighting World Champion Royce Gracie. The Black Dragon landed one good punch, but was taken to the canvas where after a valiant battle was choked into submission, thus ending one of the greatest fighting careers in martial arts history.
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Azouz Begag

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Azouz Begag (Arabic: عزوز بقاق) (born 5 February 1957) is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS. He was the delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the government of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP) till 5 April 2007. He resigned to support the moderate centrist candidate François Bayrou, one of the two UMP ministers to do so. Before becoming minister, Begag was decorated and made Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite and Knight of the Legion of Honor. Begag is the son of Algerian parents who arrived in France in 1949. In his teens, he qualified as an electrician. He grew up in a shanty town outside Lyon, "les bas quartiers", before the family progressed to a tower block in the Cité de la Duchère. Begag is the father of two daughters. He is divorced from his wife. Begag has a doctorate in Economics from Lumière University Lyon 2. He has combined the functions of researcher in economy at the CNRS and at the Maison des sciences sociales et humaines of Lyon since 1980 and the one of professor at the École Centrale de Lyon. A visiting professor in Spring 2002 at the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, Begag was later made a honorary professor. In addition, he was a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York for one year. Begag's academic career, culminating in his place as a researcher at the CNRS, as well as his political career to date, have also centered around the problems of unequal opportunity for those brought up in industrial suburbs and ghettos. In his account in 2007 of his two years as minister, The Sheep in the Bathtub, he describes his research work as that of a sociologist. Begag has written approximately 20 literary books for adults and children, as well as songs. Furthermore, he is the scriptwriter of the French movie Camping à la ferme ("Camping at the farm"), where he exposed his vision of "three levels of riches" multiculturalism in today's French society: the advantages of its relatively new multiethnicity due to a new non-European immigration mixed with the basis of its historical and natural multiculturality whether coming from the riches of its several regional cultures and languages or from the successful integration of previous waves of European immigration during its history. ... Source: Article "Azouz Begag" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Art Smith

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Gordon "Art" Smith (March 23, 1899 – February 24, 1973) was an American film, stage and television actor, best known for playing supporting roles in the 1940s. Born in Chicago, he was a member of the Group Theatre and performed in many of their productions, including Rocket to the Moon, Awake and Sing!, Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, all by Clifford Odets; House of Connelly by Paul Green; and Sidney Kingsley's Men in White. The gray-haired actor usually played studious and dignified types in films, such as doctors or butlers. Smith appeared in many black-and-white noirish films in supporting roles alongside more handsome and popular movie leads, such as John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947) and Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (1950). He had a key role as a federal agent in 1947's Ride the Pink Horse, starring and directed by Robert Montgomery. Two of these films, In a Lonely Place and Ride a Pink Horse, were based on novels by Dorothy B. Hughes. Smith was one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist, which ended most of his film career in 1952. In 1957, he originated the role of Doc in the stage version of West Side Story. Smith only returned occasionally to the film business, for example in an uncredited part in The Hustler. He also worked on television before retiring in 1967. He died, aged 73, in Long Island, New York, from a heart attack.
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