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Katy Jurado
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Katy Jurado (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García, was a Mexican stage and screen actress.
Jurado had already established herself as an actress in Mexico in the 1940s when she came to Hollywood becoming a regular in Western films of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with many Hollywood legends, including Gary Cooper in High Noon, Spencer Tracy in Broken Lance, and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and such respected directors as Fred Zinneman (High Noon), Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and John Huston (Under the Volcano).
Jurado made seventy one films during her career. She became the first Latina/Hispanic actress nominated for an Academy Award when she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her work in 1954's "Broken Lance" and was the first to win a Golden Globe. Like many Latin actors, she was typecast to play ethnic roles in American films. By contrast, she had a greater variety of roles in Mexican films; sometimes she also sang and danced.
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Steven Yeun
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Yeun Sang-Yeop (Korean: 연상엽; born December 21, 1983), known professionally as Steven Yeun (/jʌn/ YUHN), is an American actor. Yeun initially became famous for playing Glenn Rhee in The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for the films Burning (2018) and Minari (2020). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the first Asian American actor to be nominated. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. In 2023, he starred in the dark comedy series Beef (2023), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Yeun has also appeared in the films Okja (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), The Humans (2021) and Nope (2022). He has also voiced main characters in animated television series such as Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016–2018), Tales of Arcadia (2016–2021), Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters (2017–2018), Final Space (2018–2021), Tuca & Bertie (2019–2022), and Invincible (2021–present).
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Akira Maeda
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Akira Maeda (born in 1959 as Go Il-myeong) is a former Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, and promoter, best known as one of the pioneers of shoot-style wrestling, which aimed to bring a more realistic and combat-oriented approach to pro wrestling in Japan.
He began his career with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in 1978 after gaining attention in karate. He wrestled in the UK under the name Kwik-kik-Lee and had a short stint in WWF in 1984, where he won an international title. That same year, he co-founded the first UWF, but left due to creative conflicts with Satoru Sayama (Tiger Mask).
After returning to NJPW, he was involved in controversial incidents, including a real-life altercation with André the Giant and a kick that seriously injured Riki Choshu, which led to his departure from the company.
In 1988, he founded Newborn UWF, which was initially very successful but eventually dissolved due to internal disagreements. In 1991, he established Fighting Network RINGS, a promotion that combined shoot-style wrestling with legitimate MMA fights. He retired in 1999 after facing Olympic champion Alexander Karelin in a widely publicized match. RINGS later became a full MMA organization and helped launch the careers of fighters like Fedor Emelianenko and Dan Henderson, before folding in 2002.
Since 2008, Maeda has run The Outsider, an amateur MMA series where he revived the RINGS brand. In 2012, he officially relaunched it with Battle Genesis Vol. 9.
In his personal life, Maeda holds an 8th dan black belt in Kyokushin Budokai, was a fan of Ultraman as a child, and is a close friend of Mother video game creator Shigesato Itoi. He is of Korean descent and later became a naturalized Japanese citizen.
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Jayson Johnson
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Jayson Johnson is an actor/producer/director born and raised in Chicago Illinois. Jayson Johnson is education with a bachelors of arts in Media Broadcasting and a masters of the arts in Radio/TV/Film from Eastern Illinois University. He moved to Los Angeles were he attended the Jean Sheldon Actor’s Studio in California. Jayson Johnson has acted in various films, commercials and theater. He has produced and directed several films in Hollywood, L.A. and for the Bollywood film industry. Jayson Johnson also host his own internet show called the Jayson Johnson show shown throughout the world wide web. One of his first acting experience was in the movie "Empire of Danger" where he portrayed a character named "Barthalmus" a Barbarian officer of the Siperion Empire.
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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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Patrick Ball
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Patrick Marron Ball is an American actor. He made his television debut as a guest on Law & Order in 2023 and is best known for his role as Dr. Frank Langdon on the Max medical drama television series The Pitt.
Ball grew up in Summerfield, North Carolina. His father is a paramedic and his mother is an emergency room nurse. He attended Northwest Guilford High School. In 2022, he received a Certificate in Drama from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. The following year, he received a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Gerry Grimes
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Gerry Grimes is an Irish based actor from Dublin, Republic of Ireland, undertaking the role of “Detective O’Connor”. Gerry is a seasoned experienced actor, taking part in a number of productions both independent and studio based throughout his career, working such projects as “Michael Inside”, “The Siege of Bóthar Anam”, “The American Wake” and “The Green Fella”. Gerry has also worked as a voice over actor for several productions, most recently lending his voice for the famous Irish Whiskey "Red Breast" commercial. Kevin and Gerry had first met on a pervious short film entitled “My Son & I” that tackled the subject of homelessness, this project was also written and directed by Kevin J. Mc Corry. After working with Gerry on this project, Kevin wanted to work alongside Gerry once more after witnessing his acting ability and seeing the potential within his work and what it could offer to a more sinister and dramatic role.
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Amy Lynn Baxter
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Baxter grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The niece of Max ("Jethro Bodine") Baer Jr. immigrated to Hollywood at age 17 to live in Baer's mansion and her uncle promptly set up her up with James Woods, who she dated for several months. Despite being in California, Amy Lynn actually began her acting career in Florida where she picked up roles in T&A beach comedies like Summer's Games (1987), Summer Job (1989) and Lauderdale (1989) and in the Italian production Karate Warrior 2 (1988); all of which were filmed in and around Daytona Beach and Miami. Afterward, Baxter appeared in a nude pictorial in Penthouse magazine, becoming their "Pet of the Month" for June 1990. Other acting roles followed, mostly in softcore films directed by Ernest G. Sauer and shot in New York City.
Baxter is perhaps best known as a frequent fixture on Howard Stern's radio show and as the cover girl for his autobiography Private Parts. She appeared in Playboy's "Women of Radio" issue on behalf of the Stern show, which ended up severing her ties with competitor Penthouse. Amy Lynn has also appeared on talk shows like Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show and The Maury Povich Show.
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Geraldine Keams
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Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951 in Flagstaff, Arizona) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in numerous television series often playing a motherly role. She is a member of the Navajo Nation. She guest starred in the television series, Dharma and Greg as a sweat-lodge medicine woman. She made her debut in the 1976 Clint Eastwood western The Outlaw Josey Wales as Little Moonlight.
In recent years, she is also a successful stage actress and storyteller, taking part in children's plays about Indian legends.
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Liù Bosisio
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Italian actress, voice actress and playwright.
Born Luigia Bosisio Mauri in Milan, Bosisio attended from 1953 to 1955 the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in her hometown. Among other things, she acted on stage with the Luca Ronconi company, and was also active as a stand-up comedian. Occasionally active in films in character roles, she is best known as "Pina", the wife of Paolo Villaggio in several chapters of the Fantozzi film series. She also appeared in television roles since 1956. Since 1983 she focused her activities on stage. Bosisio also worked as a voice actress, notably being the Italian voice of Marge Simpson for the first 21 seasons. [from Wikipedia]
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