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James Clay
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James Clay is Actor, Director and Producer. James trained at Drama Centre London and has worked consistently in television, theatre and film.
His television credits include Life in Squares, Holby City, Vexed, Casualty, Midsomer Murders and Whitechapel.
Film credits include 27 Memory Lane and My Week With Marilyn.
On stage, James has worked at the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal and Derngate, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Soho Theatre. Most recently he appeared in two-hander Kicked In the Shitter, at the Hope Theatre.
Most recently James filmed a supporting role in four eps of ITV’s The Long Shadow, out on ITVX, and has a guest part in Tim Burton’s Wednesday, available on Netflix.
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Amanda Jansson
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Amanda Jansson (born 26 April 1990 in Skärplinge) is a Swedish actress.
Trained at the Luleå Theatre Academy from 2013 to 2016, she began her career by alternating between stage productions in Swedish theatres and television appearances, notably in the third season of the series The Restaurant (Vår tid är nu, 2019). She achieved widespread recognition in Sweden for her leading role as Sara, a young Christian police officer, in the drama series Thin Blue Line (Tunna blå linjen, 2021–present). In the following years, she diversified her screen roles by starring in the drama series Riding in Darkness (Nattryttarna, 2022) and the miniseries My Brother (Jag for ner till bror, 2025). In cinema, she portrayed the title role in the historical drama film Stormskerry Maja (Stormskärs Maja, 2024), directed by Tiina Lymi.
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Kanabek Baiseitov
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He was taught literacy by a mullah and, at the age of 15, became a teacher at a rural school for adult literacy. He worked as secretary of the revolutionary committee, head of the volost committee, and chief of the district police department.
In 1925, he entered the Kazakh Pedagogical Technical School. Even during his student years, he was recognized as a talented amateur actor: in 1926, he played the lead role in the play "Arkalyk Batyr" by Zh. Shanina.
In 1927, he organized the Workers' Youth Theater, where he became the chief director.
From 1929, he was an actor at the Kazakh Drama Theater (now the M. O. Auezov Kazakh State Academic Drama Theater), which, in 1933, relocated from Kyzylorda to Almaty due to the transfer of the capital.
In 1934, he participated in the establishment of the Kazakh Musical Theater (now the Abai Kazakh State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet) in Almaty with the production of the musical comedy "Ayman-Sholpan" by M. Auezov and I. Kotsyk, where Kanabek played the role of Arystan. He also performed on the opera stage, creating unique images of Khan Arystan, Targyn, the brave warrior Tolgen from the Jagalbaili clan, and others. In the following years, he played leading roles in the operas of Evgeny Brusilovsky, including Kyz-Zhibek (1934), Zhalbyr (1935), Er Targyn (1936), but his peak performance was the role of Abai in the opera of the same name by Akhmet Zhubanov and Latif Khamidi (1944). In this opera, Bayseitov, demonstrating refined theatrical technique, conveyed the image of the great Abai through deep empathy for the character and drama. For his performance in the lead role, Bayseitov was awarded the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR.
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Sun Yueh
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Sun Yueh (Chinese: 孫越; pinyin: Sūn Yuè; 26 October 1930 – 1 May 2018) was a Taiwanese actor. Born in Yuyao, Zhejiang on 26 October 1930, he moved to Taiwan in 1949. Sun appeared in his first film in 1962, and retired in 1989. Over the course of his career, he received the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1968, and the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor in 1983. Sun stopped smoking after his baptism as a Christian in 1981, and in later life became a humanitarian known for his work with the John Tung Foundation. He cautioned youth against the use of tobacco, and drew attention to ailments related to smoking, namely chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.In 2010, Sun received a Golden Horse Award for special contributions.
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Isabelle Renauld
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Isabelle Renauld (born 24 November 1966 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French actress. She trained at the Nanterre Amandiers theatre school directed by Patrice Chéreau from 1985 to 1987. She was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.
Born in Saint-Malo to a pharmacist father and a mother who was an IFOP researcher, her parents divorced when she was 5 years old and she grew up with her mother and her sister, who is 3 years her senior. She quickly developed a passion for theatre and at the age of 16 decided to leave Brittany to devote herself to acting in Paris. She was admitted to the "free class" of the Cours Florent in 1984 where she met Pierre Romans who encouraged her to try for the Nanterre Amandiers school which he runs with Patrice Chéreau. She succeeded in the competition when only the top twenty become part of Patrice Chéreau's cast. She learned her trade with Agnes Jaoui, Vincent Pérez, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Bruno Todeschini, Marc Citti.
She met Laurent Malet there, who became her companion and the father of her son Théo.
In 1990, she landed the role of Isabelle in L'Opération Corned-Beef alongside Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. She rose to prominence in 1996 with the scandalous Parfait Amour! by Catherine Breillat which earned her the Prix Michel-Simon.
A year later, in 1997, she met Theo Angelopoulos and acted in Eternity and a Day which received the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1998.
She has appeared in three films by François Dupeyron in 1999, 2001 and 2003 (What is life?, Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, and the House of Officers), two by Philippe Lioret in 2006 and 2011 (Don't Worry, I'm fine and All Our Desires), and two by Catherine Breillat.
She lives in Paris but often returns to Saint-Malo to "recharge" and to reconnect with her roots.
Source: Article "Isabelle Renauld" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 — 10 June 1982) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor. Considered one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, Fassbinder was prolific; in a professional career less than fifteen years, he completed forty feature-length films, two television film series, three short films, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, and four radio plays.
He had tortured, personal relationships with the actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his pictures demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity.
Fassbinder died in June 1982 at the age of 37 from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates. His death has often been cited as the event that ended the New German Cinema movement.
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Whit Kunschik
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Whit Kunschik was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is of Native American, Czechoslovakian and Swedish descent.
Raised in a small town with her mother, step-father, and two sisters, her love for film began at a young age when she received her first video camera at the age of 11, piquing her curiosity into filmmaking. She excelled in arts and and athletics, and received a scholarship to play college basketball and would later transfer to the University of Central Oklahoma where she studied Broadcasting and minored in History of Film. Upon graduating she relocated to New York where she studied Meisner Technique and worked on various music videos, commercials, and short films. She has since relocated to Los Angeles and studies at the Bojesse Christopher Truth Be told Actors Collective, a studio where a select group of emerging and notable actors come together each week, surrendering to emotional journey into self discovery, while experimenting with the combined components of Stanislavski's Preparation of Building a Character along with Meisner's Repetition Exercise.
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Henri Czarniak
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Henri Czarniak is a French actor of Polish origin, born on September 1937 in Mulhouse and died on March 1986 in Paris. His first name is sometimes spelled Henry in credits. Left too early to be truly known to the general public despite important filmography and recognition in the world of cinema, even across the Atlantic with Woody Allen, he would have been approached to take on roles "like Lino Ventura", his looks of gangster and big mouth helping him there. He died like in a movie: around a poker table on a Sunday afternoon...
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Zoltan Bathory
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Zoltan Bathory (born in 1978[1]) is a Hungarian-born American musician and martial artist. He is the founder and rhythm guitarist of Las Vegas-based heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. In 2010, he was named Golden God's "Best Shredder" by Metal Hammer magazine. Bathory is also a founding board member of the veterans nonprofit Home Deployment Project in Las Vegas and sits on the Board of Advisors at VETPAW (Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife), an anti-poaching organization operating on the African continent, composed of US combat veterans. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Zoltan Bathory was born on May 16, 1978 in Szentendre, Hungary. He is a writer, known for Five Finger Death Punch: House of the Rising Sun (2014), Supernatural (2005) and Criminal Minds (2005).
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Dorothée Jemma
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Dorothée Jemma est une actrice française spécialisée dans le doublage. Elle est notamment la voix française de Jennifer Aniston, Melanie Griffith et Sheryl Lee.
Fille du comédien Jean-Louis Jemma (célèbre comme voix française de Zorro) et nièce de l'acteur Marcel Jemma, elle voulait être danseuse mais son père la tourna plutôt vers le monde du théâtre. Elle démarra son métier d'actrice dès 16 ans. Vivant à la campagne, elle adore l'équitation et le ski. Dorothée Jemma était l’invitée de Japan Expo 4e Impact en juillet 2002.
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