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Chandler Macocha
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Chandler Matthew Macocha is a screen actor, raised north of Detroit, where he spent his free time from middle school to high school exploring his passion for movies. At the University of Michigan, he continued his film and acting studies as well as aerospace engineering, in which he earned his bachelor's degree in 2012. During his time in college, he started his professional acting career which culminated in his first major role in A Matter of Faith (2014). He also co-founded a small production company with his friends with which they have found success in short and feature films, internet videos, and commercial advertisements.
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James Bobin
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James Bobin is a British film director, writer, and producer. He has worked as a director and writer on The 11 O'Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, and helped create the characters of Ali G, Borat, and Bruno. In 2003 and 2004, he directed and co-wrote all of the 12 episodes of Ali G in da USAiii for HBO.
With Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, he co-created Flight of the Conchords, also for HBO. Bobin had previously seen Clement and McKenzie perform and signed on to co-create the show. He has also directed campaigns for Diet Coke and Lloyds TSB. In January 2010 he signed on to direct The Muppets written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller.
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Chris Bridgewater
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Chris has come from a background of nearly 20 years training in Martial Arts and competing throughout this time in various styles. Having just wrapped up a 10 year professional Mixed Martial Arts career, with his last fight being on International soil, Chris has now bridged the gap to Film and Television where he continues to strive for greatness.
Chris brings with him years of experience in many different martial arts, traditional and competitive, and has used these on set a number of times as both an actor and fight choreographer.
To date Chris has worked on a number of feature films as an actor, stunt performer and stunt/fight choreographer as well as on a number of smaller productions. He has also acted in and coordinated combat scenes in numerous music videos for notable artists.
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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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Prasanna Puwanarajah
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Prasanna Puwanarajah (Tamil: பிரசன்னா புவனராஜா; born 1981) is a British actor, director, writer, and former junior medical doctor.
Puwanarajah was born at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk to Tamil Sri Lankan parents from Sri Lanka, his mother a psychiatrist and his father a dentist. He spent his early childhood on Churchill Avenue in Ipswich before the family moved to Hampshire when he was four. He participated in school plays and spent a season with the National Youth Theatre, but thought of acting as more of a hobby than a career choice at the time.
He trained in Medicine at New College, Oxford. After working as a junior doctor in reconstructive surgery for over three years, Puwanarajah decided to take a year out. It was during this time he decided to become a full-time actor, describing it as "more of a strong pull towards something else" than a "push away from" his medical career.
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Tom Wright
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Harold Thomas Wright is an American television and theatre actor. Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions on and off Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Wright also spent four years at the National Playwrights Conference and two summers at the Sundance Institute. On Broadway, he performed in A Taste of Honey which received two Tony Award nominations. Some of the notable theaters in which he has appeared include the American Place Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Stage, Yale Repertory Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford Stage, Los Angeles Stage and Film, and Theatre De La Jeune Lune in Minneapolis starring in Farthest From The Sun with Steve Guttenberg. In 1987, he played a hitchhiker in the horror film Creepshow 2. Wright co-starred in the feature films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business with Ice Cube. He also co-starred with Angela Bassett as her ex-lover in Sunshine State, his fifth film with writer/director John Sayles. The other four Sayles films include: Passion Fish, City of Hope, Matewan and The Brother from Another Planet. Since then he co-starred in another Sayles feature, Honeydripper. In 2000, Wright won the Best Actor Award at the Santa Monica Film Festival for his portrayal of John Shed in the indie film Dumbarton Bridge. He has played roles on several television programs but is best known for playing Mr. Morgan, Yankees co-worker of character George Costanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld; and the hybrid alien Tuvix in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tuvix".
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Zeki Alasya
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(d. 16 Nisan 1943, İstanbul), Ankaralı Türk tiyatro ve sinema sanatçısı. Kıbrıslı Mehmet Kamil Paşa'nın yeğenidir. Robert Koleji'den mezun oldu. Sanat hayatına da 1959'da MTTB tiyatrosunda amatör olarak başladı. Arena, Genar ve Ulvi Uraz tiyatrolarında çalıştıktan sonra Haldun Taner, Metin Akpınar ve Ahmet Gülhan ile birlikte Devekuşu Kabare Tiyatrosu'nun kurucuları arasında yer aldı. Film çevirmeye 1973'ten sonra başladı. Metin Akpınar ile birlikte Türk sinemasında yeni bir ikili oluşturdular. Birçok filmde yer aldı. 1998 yılında Kültür Bakanlığı'nca verilen Devlet Sanatçısı unvanını almıştır.
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Andy Barreca
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Born on March 26,1982 in Bra (Cn) Italy, Andy Barreca is a talented and versatile actor, writer and film distributor. He has lived in the United States and speaks English. He works in national and international film productions. Andy Barreca is known for his roles in films/TV series Vedalam (2015),"Non Uccidere 2" (2017),"Triangle" (2019), Dog (2021), The Ecstasy of Gold (2024), Old Wild Mob (2024). He won the "Best Leading Actor " and "Best Outstanding Cast" award at Venus Italian International Film Festival in Las Vegas - NV in 2019. He won the " Best Leading Actor" prize at Castellabate Film Festival (Italy) on July 2021 and "Best Leading Actor" award at Cannes Cinema Award 2021 in France. He is founder of Strong Film Distribution, in partnership with Adrama Srl based in Turin (Italy) and Los Angeles (Usa) . Andy is also 5 times Best Screenwriter at Venus Italian International Film Festival (USA),X-World Short Film Festival (ITALY-USA),Cutting Room International Short Film Festival NYC (USA),Best Script Award London (U.K.),White Crown Film Festival (CANADA) with his short screenplay "Manual of the Tyrant". Currently involved in many projects between Italy and USA.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Andy Barreca
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Moctesuma Esparza
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Moctesuma Esparza (born March 12, 1949) is an American producer, entertainment executive, entrepreneur and community activist. He is the chief executive officer of Maya Cinemas, a theater chain servicing to the United States Latino audience. He is also a partner with Carolyn Caldera in the company Esparza/Caldera Entertainment. He founded film distribution and production company Maya Entertainment in 2007.
Esparza is a promoter of Latino films, and many of his films focus on Chicano themes. He has produced over twenty films, several of them for television, and has won over 200 awards.
A participant in the 1960s-era movement for the civil rights and equality of Mexican Americans, Esparza continues to work with educational, cultural, and professional organizations, especially those that aim to educate Latinos in the business of media production.
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Pat Roach
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Proud and passionate Angle, Pat Roach, was born and raised in Birmingham, England and grew to be a mountain of a man standing at six feet, five inches tall, with doorway-wide shoulders and a barrel chest.
Pat wrestled competitively under the name of "Bomber" Roach, and at one time held both the British and European Heavyweight Wrestling Championships. While still in the wrestling game, Roach broke into acting with a bit part in the Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon (1975). He quickly became popular as an enforcer or warrior figure and appeared on-screen with some of Hollywood's biggest names. Many people would remember him as the muscle-bound, bald German guard who hands out a beating toHarrison Ford in Les aventuriers de l'arche perdue (1981), before being cut down by a spinning plane propeller.
In other film roles, Roach nearly eliminates 007 Sean Connery in the Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), in dual roles as a resurrected demon and as a fierce warrior, he fought Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Conan sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984), and was back as a ferocious Indian guard pummeling poor Harrison Ford once again in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), before falling into a rock crusher.
He also appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Red Sonja (1985) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Apart from his film activity, Pat ran a gymnasium in Birmingham, operated a used appliance business in the local markets and was known as a warm-hearted and genial man who was happy to chat with admiring fanatics, sign autographs and pose for photographs.
Roach was also very popular with English television audiences for his portrayal of gentle giant "Brian 'Bomber' Busbridge" in the series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) and was scheduled to appear in the fifth series of the show, when he died of cancer on July 17, 2004. He was 67 years old. - IMDb Mini Biography
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