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Zeudi Araya

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Zeudi Araya is an Eritrean-Italian actress, singer, model, and film producer who rose to fame in 1970s Italian cinema. Crowned Miss Eritrea in 1969, she was discovered while visiting Italy and made her film debut in La ragazza dalla pelle di luna (1972), directed by Luigi Scattini. Araya quickly became a cult icon in Italian erotic and exotic dramas, often playing sensual, mysterious characters set against lush tropical backdrops. She starred in a string of stylish and provocative films throughout the decade—including The Off-Road Girl (1973), Il corpo (1974), and La peccatrice (1975)—often with soundtracks composed by Piero Umiliani. Known not just for her beauty but her magnetic screen presence, she also lent her voice to several of these films, notably singing on the soundtrack of La ragazza fuoristrada. Beyond acting, Araya’s legacy expanded through her marriage to famed Italian producer Franco Cristaldi. After his death in 1992, she took over the family company Cristaldifilm, helping preserve and promote Italian cinema classics such as Cinema Paradiso. Though she gradually stepped away from acting, she became a respected film archivist and producer. Zeudi Araya remains a unique figure in European cinema history: a trailblazing African actress who challenged stereotypes, embodied 1970s glamour, and later helped shape the future of Italian film from behind the scenes.
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Zac Young

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Zac Young is the Pastry Director of Creaveable Hospitality Group, a nationwide company specializing in food and beverage management, licensing and consulting and responsible for the all-in-one Thanksgiving dessert sensation, The PieCaken. A graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and The Institute of Culinary Education, his experience includes Bouchon Bakery in New York City, and Alexandra Guarnaschelli’s Butter Restaurant, as well as training in France with renowned chefs such as Philippe Givre at Valrhona and Philippe Parc at Chocolate Michel Cluizel. Named one of the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America by Dessert Professional, his passion and pastry wisdom has been showcased on Cooking Channel’s Unique Sweets and on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay, Chopped, and Worst Cooks in America.
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Charles Frank

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Charles Frank is a director and founder of Voyager, a production company that tells stories of all sizes for brands, agencies, and audiences everywhere. His work has reached millions of people online, been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker, and has received ten Vimeo Staff Picks. His debut feature documentary, “Somewhere With No Bridges” (First Run Features), was heralded as "a celebration of life like you’ve never seen." In 2024, he co-directed a short documentary funded by Nike, “Through The Storm” (Big Sky Film Festival, Artistic Vision Award) which had its broadcast premiere during primetime on the NFL Network. His most recent short documentary, “Shanti Rides Shotgun,” had its World Premiere at SXSW 2025. Charles has brought his unique sensibilities to commercial projects for Jack Daniel’s, McDonald's, DICK’s Sporting Goods and many others.
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Cem Yılmaz

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While studying at the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management of Bogazici University, he started drawing comics for the Turkish humor magazine Leman. In August 1995 he did his first stand-up comedy show in "Leman Culture Center" performing with no serious career intentions as a comedian. However, after the positive response of the audience, he continued his show to attract larger crowds in Besiktas Cultural Center where he has appeared in over a thousand stand-up comedy shows since, becoming so popular that tickets have sold for 250TL (approx. US$140). His movie career started in 1998 with a co-starring role in the comedy Everything's Gonna Be Great (1998), directed by Ömer Vargi, and continued with a role in Vizontele (2001), directed by Yilmaz Erdogan and Ömer Faruk Sorak. He achieved his greatest success by starring in and writing big-budget science-fiction parody G.O.R.A. (2004), also directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, which despite spending several years in production because of financial and other technical problems became a box-office hit and described by Rekin Teksoy as a strong sign that showed that popular cinema was successful in appealing to wide audiences. He maintained this success with a starring role in the comedy feature movie Magic Carpet Ride (2005) AKA 'Magic Carpet Ride', also directed by Yilmaz Erdogan, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 11th Sadri Alisik Awards, and his directorial debut with The Magician (2006), co-directed by Ali Taner Baltaci, for which he won Best Actor at the 34th Brussels International Independent Film Festival and 12th Sadri Alisik Awards. He has since repeated his box office success with a sequel to G.O.R.A. (2004) called A.R.O.G (2008), also co-directed by Ali Taner Baltaci, and comedy Western parody called Yahsi Bati - The Ottoman Cowboys (2009), directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak. That same year, he co-starred, alongside veteran actor Sener Sen, in the police drama Hunting Season (2010), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul, and made a special appearance in drama Zefir (2010), written and directed by Belma Bas. After two years he also acted in Ferzan Özpetek's A Magnificent Haunting (2012). After he filmed his last stand-up comedy show CM101MMXI Fundamentals (2013) directed by Murat Dündar, he announced that for the next few years he will stop his stand-up comedy shows to have a rest. Along his professional career, he has won numerous awards and appeared in more than 4000 stand-up comedy shows, took part in 10 movies and contributed as a dubbing performer in 4 movies.
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Bryan Brown

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Bryan Neathway Brown (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along Came Polly (2004), Australia (2008), Kill Me Three Times (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). Bryan Brown was first introduced to English-Australian actress-director Rachal Ward on the set of the TV mini-series "The Thorn Birds" in 1983 and married her a few months after filming wrapped. They have three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hande Soral

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Hande Soral Demirci (born 22 February 1987) is a Turkish-Cypriot actress. Her career as an actress began when she appeared as a guest actor, in 2008, for a part on "Komedi Dükkanı" comedy improvisation series. This eventually led to offers of other roles from the show's producer when the program ended. Her breakthrough role is in popular series Küçük Kadınlar. She played in period series "Bir Günah Gibi" which based from novel "Kurt Seyt ve Murka". She played in "Yılanların Öcü" based from novel. From 2018-2019, she was a lead actress in season 5 of Diriliş: Ertuğrul alongside Engin Altan Düzyatan. In 2021, she played the character of Ümit in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova series. She was cast in historical series "Fatih" and Çalıkuşu which based from classic novel.
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Aïssatou Thiam

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Born in Dakar (Senegal), to a Martinican mother and a Senegalese father, Aïssatou Thiam grew up in Marseille. After starting out in modeling which gave her the opportunity to work with couturiers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, Paco Rabanne, Dior, Givenchy, among others, she also began her career as an actress in theater and cinema. and on television. Her training with Blanche Salant (studio actor), Isabelle Sadoyan (classical theater), the Herbert Bergoff Studio (in New York where she lived for 4 years), and Jean-Louis Jacopin (contemporary theater) gave her made it possible to acquire multiple knowledge of the theatrical tool. We saw her in the cinema in “L’Irrésolu” alongside Barbara Schultz, Sandrine Kimberlain, Vincent Lindon, “Mauvais Genre” by Laurent Bénégui with Monica Bellucci, “Bimboland” by Ariel Zeitoun with Gérard Depardieu & Dany Boon, “Le Genre Humain” by Claude Lelouch and more recently in “Le Missionnaire” , produced by Luc Besson alongside Jean-Marie Bigard. In the theater during the Avignon “In” festival and in several units and series for television, including “Les Monos” dealing with the problems of young adolescents as well as the famous “Tropiques amers” , a series on slavery for France Televisions seen by more than 5 million viewers! Her pronounced taste for all kinds of sports (rafting, climbing, scuba diving (qualified), water and alpine skiing, Thai boxing, modern jazz, horse riding) makes her a dynamic person with a little “breakage” side. -neck " ! She had the pleasure of leading theater workshops with a young audience, discovered her teaching skills and teaches in a high school of design studies to around a hundred students. Following the release of her book: “Un Grand Éclat de Rire” by Pascal Galodé Éditeur (editions le Cherche Midi) in 2008, an autobiography retracing her journey, she began writing alongside Marc Tardieu. As part of the SunArt festival she wrote a text: “Identity” and performed it in the show “Masques”. She created the main role in a play written by Alain Foix “Marilin”, in “Rue Saint Denis” and had the pleasure of playing alongside Jean-claude Drouot, among others in 2011. Since 2011 she has performed at the theater, in the play directed by Michael Batz: “Working Girls” and whose text “The Last Little Girl” is by Kay Ashead, it is a succession of 4 monologues, new dates to come … Recently she played in a triumphant play: “Ladies Night” directed by Thierry Lavat, in the role of Glenda, and in 2014, in her first film in English: “Keeping Silent”, by Mya James, in the role principal of Dara. More recently, in the role of mother, Barbara, alongside Victoria Abril, in season 8 of “Clem”, for TF1. Also, tssdl is a nerd and has a sad life :(
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Henok Berihun

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Henok started acting while he was a high school student at Emperor Minelik II Secondary School as a member of the school's Drama and Literature Club. After completing his secondary education, Henok attended different training programs. He also studied acting at Holy Land Arts Academy for one year. Later, Henok joined Addis Ababa University and studied Theatrical Arts, and graduated with a BA degree. Henok further pursued his higher education and studied Film Production for his Master of Arts. Henok acted in more than ten Amharic stage plays such as "Hindeke", "Abeto Iyasu", "Abdisa Aga", etc. He played different roles in a number of television dramas in Amharic like The Homework, The Bequest, The Dreams, The Ladies, etc. Furthermore, Henok acted in a couple of international films such as "Sweetness in the Belly" and "Mandela's Gun." Henok produced a feature length film entitled "Rahel's Way." In the 2022 Europe Film Festival, Henok produced a short documentary called "City Portrait of Addis" and won a prize. Currently, Henok plays the role of Happy, the Loman's younger son in Death of a Salesman.
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Soroush Jamshidy

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Soroush Jamshidy was born on March 10, 1980 in Tehran. He got the 9th rank in Azad University entrance exam in 1998 and studied electrical engineering at this university in Yazd. Soroush Jamshidy started his artistic activity since childhood by acting in student theaters and then continued by student theaters while studying at the university. In December 1998, for the first time, he appeared in front of the camera of a TV series called , Borna , which was broadcast on Yazd TV channel. This was the beginning of his professional artistic activities. After that, he entered the radio. For several years, he worked as an actor and announcer in Yazd radio and television, and at the same time, he continued his theatrical activities professionally.
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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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