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Wen Zhuo

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Wen Zhuo is a Chinese actor and director born in Jilin Province and graduated from Tongji University. He officially entered showbiz in 2012 with his lead role in the scifi drama "Battle Strike Team: Giant Saver". In February 2014, Wen made his debut in the music circle with the release of his first solo single "Make You Beautiful". In 2015, he became well-known for his role Li Xiaoyao in the stage play "Legend of the Sword and Fairy". The public welfare micro-film "Transmitting the Chinese Dream Long Love" starring Wen Zhuo, won Beijing Outstanding Network Audiovisual Program Audiovisual Public Welfare Award. In 2017, he won the most popular actor award in the online film unit of Asian New Media Film Festival for his role as the magic stick Su Yang in the fantasy film "The Soul of the Soul Hunter".
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Merlin Olsen

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Merlin Jay Olsen (September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010) was an American professional football player, announcer, and actor. For his entire 15-year professional football career (1962 - 1976), he was a defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams. He was selected to play in the Pro Bowl a then-record 14 times (surpassed only by Tom Brady). He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. As an actor, Olsen is best known for portraying farmer Jonathan Garvey on the fourth through seventh seasons of Little House on the Prairie (1977 - 1981). He went on to star as the title character in the Western series Father Murphy (1981 - 1983).
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Juliana Harkavy

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Juliana Harkavy was born in New York City to mother Berta Carela and father Michael Harkavy. At age 9, she moved to Los Angeles, CA, where her only sibling, August Harkavy, was born in 1998, and where her acting career began. Juliana trained at the Young Actors' Space in Los Angeles, CA for 9 years. At age 11, she began landing roles in national commercials, film, television, and theatrical productions. Juliana attended her first year of high school at Le Lycee International de Los Angeles, where she became fluent in French, and did part of her schooling in the South of France. She earned her high school diploma from the Milken Community High School in Los Angeles, where she starred in many of the school's theatrical productions. After high school, Juliana attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she majored in Theater in the Sanford Meisner studio. In addition to acting, Juliana is a published writer and poet, visual artist, musician, and athlete.
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Brian Eno

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Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting.   He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice". Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.
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Paola Borboni

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Italian film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema. She also made a substantial contribution to theatre. She entered film in 1916 in the silent picture Jacobo Ortis directed by Giuseppe Sterni, and made over 80 film appearances between then and 1990. Appearing in several silent films before 1921 she was absent from cinema for some 14 years during which time she made numerous stage appearances. She gained notoriety in 1925 when she appeared in a show as a mermaid exposing her breasts which she saw as natural in the role but caused considerable outrage at the time. She returned to the silver screen in 1936 in the Mario Mattoli film L' Uomo che sorride. She went on to appear in films such as the Carlo Lizzani-directed film Ai margini della metropoli in 1952 in which she appeared alongside the main cast of Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti and Giulietta Masina. Between 1936 and 1956 her career was at its peak and her roles gradually became less numerous in the decades that followed, making a final appearance in the Giorgio Mosa filmBlue dolphin - l'avventura continua in 1990. She died of a stroke aged 95 on 9 April 1995. (wikipedia)
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Dharmendra

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Dharmendra Singh Deol known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Legendary Hindi film star who has appeared in more than 200 Hindi-language films. In 1997 he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema. He is regarded as the Undisputed "Action King" of Hindi cinema having starred in numerous action blockbusters and is greatly considered a Living legend. He is father of notable actors Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and Esha Deol. He was the Main lead of the all-time Blockbuster film, Sholay and also went on to star in numerous successful Bollywood films cutting across four remarkable decades. Dharmendra has thus established himself as one of the most prominent figures of the Hindi film industry
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Natsuki Hori

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Natsuki, usually referred to as Natsu or Nacchan, is a member of a Jpop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH. He started dancing in elementary school at a local studio. In middle school, he took a break from dancing to focus on soccer. In high school, he started dancing again by attending LDH's dance school EXPG Nagoya. His dancing talent led him to join the EXPG trainee team EXILE GENERATIONS as well as participate in EXILE's concerts as a backup dancer before making his debut in Fantastics in 2018.
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Dimitri Diatchenko

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A native of San Francisco, Dimitri Diatchenko attended Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts. After high school, he attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida where he was a scholarship music student, majoring in classical guitar. After completing the Bachelors program, he matriculated to Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida where he continued with his acting and music studies in the Masters program. His first acting experience was as the lead in the play, Foxfire, by Hume Cronin, where he played the country music star, Dillard Nations. Diatchenko continued to develop his acting skills both on stage and on camera in Florida-based projects from 1990 - 1996, while studying with Ken Stilson and George Judy. Some of these projects include the award-winning short films, Third on a Match, Used Cars and Goiter Boy. . In April of 1996, as Dimitri was graduating with his Masters degree from Florida State University, he landed a small role as a Navy Seal in Ridley Scott's Demi Moore starer G.I. Jane. After that break, Diatchenko moved out to Los Angeles and officially started his professional acting career. In addition to his acting, Diatchenko continues to perform as a master classical guitarist. As a soloist, he has four guitar CDs in release. His original composition for solo guitar, entitled, "Tango en Paraiso" is featured on the soundtrack for his film, Remarkable Power. Mel Bay Publications has published this piece in "Master Anthology of New Classic Guitar Solos, Vol. 1." Dimitri has also performed on the soundtrack of the film he co-stars in, Clubhouse and performs his arrangement of Hungarian Dance No. 5 by J. Brahms with a Django gypsy jazz treatment in the film, Repossessed. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Dimitri Diatchenko
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Kanako Higuchi

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Kanako Higuchi (樋口 可南子, Higuchi Kanako) (born December 13, 1958) is a Japanese actress. Her credits include film, television, and radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles. Born in Kamo, Niigata, she played her first lead at age 20 in the television drama Kōrogi-bashi. Kanako's film credits include Hokusai Manga, Bedtime Eyes, Zatoichi (1989), Casshern, Memories of Tomorrow, and Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes. Among her television roles are Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama Taiheiki. She has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao.
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Kelly Karbacz

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Kelly Karbacz played the part of Judy in the 2008 comedy Get Smart starring Steve Carell. She also appeared in the 2003 film A Tale of Two Pizzas as well as American TV shows such as Regular Joe, Undeclared, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Without a Trace and Third Watch. She is also a theatre actress. In 2012, Karbacz played the role of Casey in the Seattle production of First Date the Musical. In 2016, Karbacz joined the cast of Orange Is The New Black in their fourth season, playing the role of Kasey Sankey, an inmate with white supremacist beliefs.
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