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Louise Linton

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Born in Scotland, Louise was quick to take to the stage with her first title role on stage at age six. Immediately dedicating herself to the craft she went on to attend the prestigious Edinburgh Drama Academy and later earned the coveted Honors Certificate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.  After boarding school she volunteered in Zambia for six months during the Second Congolese War and wrote a book about her experience. Louise then moved to Los Angeles and in a few short years has racked up roles in the indie feature, “BANKING ON LOVE”, a role on mega hit “CSI: NY” and the FOX, FUEL TV sketch comedy show, “THE DAILY HABIT”.  Robert Redford cast her in the United Artists film, “LIONS FOR LAMBS”, starring Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. Then she booked a lead role in the Roy Lee thriller “THE ECHO”. Linton then joined the cast of indie comedy “SCREWBALL” . Following this, she filmed global US detective smash “COLD CASE” and then left Los Angeles to film “CREW TO CREW”, set in Rome.  Immediately after her return to Los Angeles Louise then booked the female lead in “SCAVENGERS” opposite Sean Patrick Flanery. Louise then completed a role in the comedy, “SHE WANTS ME” opposite Charlie Sheen, Josh Gad, and Hillary Duff. She then filmed “THE POWER OF FEW” opposite Christopher Walken and Christian Slater in Louisiana.  In Spring 2011, Louise filmed the Lifetime movie, “WILLIAM & KATE” about the Royal couple. After this she spent the summer on stage in New York starring in the Off Broadway show, “MANIPULATION” at the famous Cherry Lane Theater. After New York, Louise traveled to Alabama to shoot Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Award Winning Feature, “A SMILE AS BIG AS THE MOON”. This June, Louise will film the lead role in the psychological thriller, “INTRUDER” opposite John Robinson (Elephant, Lords of Dog Town) in Oregon. In July she will play the female lead in the romantic comedy, “SERIAL DATERS ANONYMOUS”. (Taken from louiselinton.com)
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Fiona Gélin

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Fiona Gélin is a French actress. Born Bénédicte Gélin, the daughter of actor Daniel Gélin, she started her acting career at an early age and made her breakthrough in cinema with the role Inspector Sabine Clément in the 1985 José Pinheiro film Parole de flic starring Alain Delon. Another role worthy of mention came in 1987 with Aldo Lado film Scirocco. Through her father, her half-siblings were Xavier Gélin and Maria Schneider. They were also actors. Source: Article "Fiona Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Yao Wenlong

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Yao Wen Long came into prominence after participating in “Star Search 1993”. He won the Most Popular Newcomer Award in “Star Awards 1994”. He is a talented artiste who has starred in a multitude of diverse and challenging roles, he is also often nominated for the Best Supporting Actor category in the annual Star Awards, and winning the trophy in 2001 for his most memorable role as an effeminate hairstylist in “Looking For Stars”. To date, Wen Long has played many memorable and iconic roles on television including the award-winning blockbuster serial “The Little Nyonya” where he convincingly portrayed a simple-minded butcher. His recent dramas include “Dear Neighbours", “All Around You” and “A Quest To Heal”.
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Henrik Sjöman

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Grown up and living at Värmlands Näs in Säffle with his parents Eva Sjöman and Bo Sjöman. He's made his own movies since he was a child. Later he went to Munkfors Teatergymnasium and Belkinge Läns Folkhögskola to study theatre and has appeared in short films and big screens since then. He start to write a Screenplay and made his first short film in 2006, which he also directed and produced. In summer 2009 he made his first film På djupet starring: Rickard Ihre, Emilie Holm, Jens Nyqvist, Tim Nilsson, Magnus Sundberg, Annika Olsson, Robert P. Olsson and Michael Mansson.
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Bridgit Mendler

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Bridgit Claire Mendler (born December 18, 1992) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, musician and producer. She is best known for her lead role as Teddy Duncan on the Disney Channel Original Series Good Luck Charlie, her recurring role as Juliet Van Heusen on Wizards of Waverly Place and her lead role as Olivia on the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth. She has also appeared in Labor Pains, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2. In 2015 she joined the main cast of the NBC sitcom Undateable as Candace, which aired until 2016. In 2019, she starred on Netflix's Merry Happy Whatever as Emmy Quinn. Aside from her artistic career, Bridgit also has a master's degree on MIT and is currently working on JD in Harvard Law School and PhD on MIT.
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Luke Gilford

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Luke Gilford is a filmmaker and photographer from Evergreen, Colorado and currently based in New York City and Los Angeles. Luke studied Art at UCLA and his photography and films have been exhibited around the world; including MoMA in New York, FOAM in Amsterdam, and at Sundance's NEXT festival. Luke's work provides a poetic and cinematic look into his surreal world, combining a unique visual style with a strong sense of intimacy with his subjects. This is exemplified by Connected, the short film Luke wrote and directed in 2016, which premiered on VICE and received a Webby Award for ‘Best Drama’ in 2017. Luke has directed music videos for Christina Aguilera, Kesha and Troye Sivan, and photographed & directed campaigns for Valentino, Apple and Mercedes Benz. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. His photography monograph, National Anthem, was published in 2020 by Damiani Books and is currently a traveling exhibition to museums and galleries internationally. Luke wrote and directed a feature film adaptation of National Anthem, premiering at South By Southwest Film Festival 2023.
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Ashley McGuire

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Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country, Vicky Houghton in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt, Shakira in the Channel 4 comedy series Man Down and Bev Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. McGuire attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. McGuire has portrayed various TV roles, including Malory Towers, Coronation Street, Dead Boss, Small Axe, Decline and Fall, It's a Sin and Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After. She has also appeared as Shakira in Man Down, "Big" Mandy Harris in This Country and Bev Slater in EastEnders. Her stage work includes Home by Nadia Fall (2012 and 2013), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (2015) and Top Girls (2019) by Caryl Churchill, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (2015), and The Suicide by Suhayla El-Bushra (2016), all at the Royal National Theatre. Susannah Clapp, a theatre critic for The Observer, wrote about McGuire's portrayal of Falstaff in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse (2014): "A magnificent Falstaff... she is glorious. A one-person vindication of the all-female enterprise. If it were needed.
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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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Yui Aragaki

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Yui Aragaki is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host. She is most well-known for her role in the 2007 movie "Koizora" (also known as "Sky of Love") which was a box office hit. Yui Aragaki was born in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture on June 11, 1988, and has two older sisters. After seeing an audition notice for the junior fashion magazine Nicola (ニコラ Nikora), she applied for it and won the Grand Prix award for the audition. In 2001, at the age of 13, she began her Nicola modelling career and was very well received as a Nicola model, having set a record for appearing on cover for 15 times. A fellow Nicola model Ayako Enomoto gave her the popular nickname "Gakki." At the age of 15, Aragaki moved to Tokyo and enrolled in Horikoshi High School, a private high school popular for being attended by many Japanese celebrities. In 2004, she decided to put her Nicola career on hold and expand her career path into gravure and acting, and she also appeared in variety shows and commercials, with her Pocky commercials being the most popular. A year later, she officially graduated from Nicola. Even so, she still appears in the magazine occasionally. In 2005, Aragaki took up a role in the TBS drama, Dragon Sakura, starring alongside Japanese idols like Tomohisa Yamashita and Masami Nagasawa. This marked a breakthrough in her acting career. Since then, she has been cast in many other dramas, like My Boss, My Hero and Gal Circle. She also starred in the 2007 tragic love story movie hit Koizora, for which she won her first award, the Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer. Currently, she has 5 newcomer awards. Aragaki won the Film prize at the 45th Golden Arrow Awards in 2008. Her tremendous number of movie shoots as well as the preparation for her debut album resulted in her suffering from work-related stress in 2007. Outside acting she also released her first album, Sora, and the single "Heavenly Days", a song from Koizora. "Memories", the theme song for Tokyo Serendipity, was included in her debut album. She also performed at Budokan. She was also the co-hosts for popular radio program Girls Locks in 2010-2012.
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Jay Silverheels

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Jay Silverheels was born on a reservation in Canada to a Mohawk chief. He was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman in 1938. He worked in a number of films though the 1940s before he gained some notice as the Osceola brother in Humphrey Bogart's film Key Largo (1948). Most of his roles consisted of bit parts as "Indian." In 1949, he would work in a movie called The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) with another "B movie" actor named Clayton Moore. It was later that same year that Jay would be hired to play the faithful Indian companion, Tonto, in the television series "The Lone Ranger" (1949). This role, while still playing the "Indian," would bring Jay the fame that his motion picture career never did. As Tonto, on his horse Scout, Jay could show up where the Ranger could not and some of the time he would be shot at or beat up for his trouble. Jay would play Tonto in all the episodes except for those that he missed when he had his heart attack. In those episodes, he was replaced by the Ranger's nephew, Dan. However, Clayton Moore would miss the third season when he was replaced by John Hart. Jay would reprise the role of Tonto in two big-screen color movies with Moore, The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After the series ended in 1957, Jay could not escape the typecasting of Tonto. He would continue to appear in an occasional film and television show, but he would become a spokesman to improve the portrayal of Indians on TV.
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