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Demetrius Shipp Jr.
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Demetrius Shipp Jr. (born November 20, 1988) is an American actor. He portrayed rapper and actor Tupac Shakur in the 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me, as well as gang leader Tyrone Moore in All American.
Shipp was cast in the role of Tupac in 2011, after a friend suggested he audition given his strong resemblance to the legendary hip-hop artist. Shipp remarked in an interview that he "never aspired to act." Principal photography did not begin until 2015, and the film was released in June 2017. Shipp's father worked with Tupac Shakur on the 1996 album which leads many speculators to believe Tupac is his actual father The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory on the song "Toss It Up".
Shipp worked at Target and Dish Network prior to his acting career.
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Giles Panton
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Giles Panton (born September 13, 1982) is an actor from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has worked in television, film, stage, and web media, and is also known for his voice work. Giles Panton trained as an actor at the William Davis Centre of Vancouver's VanArts (Vancouver Institute of Media Arts), graduating in 2005. He has also studied at acting studios in New York. Panton is the voice of Keith, a lead character in Voltron Force, the 2011 animated series from Nicktoons, based on the 1980s Voltron animated saga. He has appeared in many television shows and is known for playing the role of Joe Wylee, the police detective in the Flash Gordon television series. He also stars in the 2011 web series, Soldiers of the Apocalypse, playing the character of Twosev. His first film was the 2005 short production, Bedridden. A later short film, On the Bus (2008) was presented at Oklahoma's Bare Bones International Film Festival in 2009. Panton has also been active in Vancouver's alternate theatre scene. He was a headliner for Spectral Theatre Studio's 2009-10 season trio of paranormal plays, Deadends 666. And in 2006, he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his work in the I'm a Little Pickled Theatre Company production of The Book of Liz, by David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris.
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Madelyn Deutch
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Madelyn Deutch is an actress and musician from Los Angeles, California. At the ripe age of 10 she began singing Broadway duets with heavyweights such as Dick Van Dyke, Wayne Brady, the cast of Frasier, Seinfeld, and more. During her time at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts she became a nationally recognized singer - participating in the very selective Grammy Ensemble, and Brubeck Summer Colony. Sweeping the Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th Anniversary, receiving an Outstanding Soloist Award from Downbeat Magazine, winning the esteemed Silver Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and being granted a scholarship to the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. And upon high school graduation she performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in support of the Presidential Scholars ceremony. She completed her first film "Mayor Cupcake" in the summer of 2009 starring alongside Judd Nelson and Lea Thompson (for which she also composed three original pieces) - and graduated from the New School in May of 2011 with honors. Madelyn lives in Los Angeles, working as an actress, and performing with her indie-rock band Maddie and the Bad Hats.
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Nigel Anthony
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Nigel Anthony (born 23 December 1941 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English theatre, television, narrator and radio actor. His theatre work includes Twelfth Night, Dutch Uncle, Happy End, The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company and seasons at Scarborough and Chichester. Television appearances include Ted Roach in Casualty (series 1 and 2) The Diary of Anne Frank, Coronation Street, Midsomer Murders, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Wycliffe and Doctors.
He has spent a large part of his career working in radio drama where he won a Sony award and a Radio Times award.
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Maggie Chen
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Chen Xin Yu (English name: Maggie) is a Chinese actress and model managed by Shanghai Yaoke Media. She graduated from Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University. Chen was born in Shanghai. In 2010, Chen participated in the "Extreme Talent Search" competition of the Kia X GAMES Asian Extreme Sports Championship and eventually entered the top ten finals. In the same year, she participated in CJ and became a showgirl at Tencent's booth. In 2011, Chen participated in the WCG Showgirl selection of the competitive game "Blood Team" and won the championship, and assisted in the WCG2011 China finals.
In 2014, Chen starred in the Republic of China drama "The Great Master" which was broadcast, and she also entered the film and television industry.
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Melanie Stevens
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Melanie Stevens was born on 29 November 1992 to Sue Stevens, a nurse and Rik Stevens, a business consultant. She grew up in South Wales, with a couple of years spent living in Melbourne, Australia, and began acting and singing at the age of 6. She was an avid member of Bridgend Youth Theatre, where she met Roger Burnell who cast her in her first on-screen role as Angela in Running Pains which was aired on ITV. She then went on to train at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she met her husband Jack DeVos.
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Käte Kühl
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Käte Kühl was born on December 16, 1899 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Capriccio (1938), Das Geheimnis um Betty Bonn (1938) and Morgenrot (1933). She died on January 29, 1970 in West Berlin, West Germany. She associated in the 1920's with the satirist and author Kurt Tucholsky. Prolific on stage in Berlin, she was especially noted for being in the cast of the original production of Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" in August 1928. Her career diminished during the NS period, though she made a comeback after World War II as member and co-founder of the Berlin cabaret 'Außenseitern' (Outsiders). She left the communist party "SED" in 1950. She has terminated her position at the zone transmitter East without notice. The masculine artist, who has been regarded as a dreaded propagandist for 27 years, has changed from red Saul to white Paul. At the best broadcasting time at 8 pm, the 60-year-old in the American Rias broadcaster declared her own de-siding: She had suddenly realized that her artistic intentions were exploited politically.
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Wendy Drew
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Born in the shadows of Hollywood's motion picture studios, Wendy Drew had to travel three thousand miles across the country before receiving recognition as one of the outstanding young actresses of the day. Wendy wanted to give up California and try her luck on Broadway, but her family felt that at thirteen she wasn't quite old enough to live alone in New York. Instead, she turned to the Air Force, and at fifteen became a member of the Special Service Department, helping to put on shows.
Wendy finally made Broadway, but after a grand whirl, found herself without a job. To help make ends meet, she became a cigarette girl and turned to modeling. At the ripe old age of nineteen, Wendy entered television, forgetting half of her two-line part on her first show. It wasn't until she auditioned for a part on Lux Video Theater and left the directors weeping with her big scene that she really got a break. Although she is now recognized as one of the leading ingenues on TV, Wendy would like to give the legitimate theater a try next season.
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Hunter Schafer
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Hunter Schafer (born December 31, 1998) is an American actress and model. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Schafer first made headlines in 2016 with her activism against North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. She also developed skills in the visual arts, including watercolour painting and clothing design. In 2017, she began modelling for numerous worldwide fashion brands.
Schafer made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present), which garnered her critical praise. She has since starred in the films The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) and Cuckoo (2024).
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Umm Kulthum
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Fatima Ibrahim as-Sayyid al-Beltagi (Arabic: فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي), known as Umm Kalthoum (Arabic: أم كلثوم), also spelled Oum Kalsoum (or Om-e Kalsūm in Egyptian dialect) or sometimes Umm Kulthum, and nicknamed "Souma", is an Egyptian singer, musician and actress, born December 31, 1898 in Ṭamāy al-Zahāyira (in the Simballāwayn district of the Dakhleya governorate in Egypt) and died February 3, 1975 in Cairo.
Referred to by various nicknames, including "the Star of the East", "the Lady", "the Fourth Pyramid" and "the People's Singer", she is generally considered the greatest singer in the Arab world. President Nasser, whose favorite singer she was, exempted her from taxes for life. In Cairo, people used to say: "Egypt is Nasser, Umm Kulthum and the pyramids". Charles de Gaulle called her "The Lady" and Maria Callas "The Incomparable Voice".
From a young age, Umm Kulthum showed an exceptional talent for singing. Her father, a strict sheikh, often took her and her brother with him to religious ceremonies to chant verses from the Quran. One day, when her brother was ill, she took his place and immediately captivated the audience with her voice. This marked the beginning of her musical career.
She began by singing religious songs, often disguised as a boy to respect her father's austere morals. Her reputation quickly spread, and she was invited to perform throughout Dakahlieh and even in the capital, Zagazig. A renowned singer of the time, Sheikh Abou El Ala Mohamed, heard her and convinced her father to let her take him to Cairo. There, she gave her first paid evening on December 6, 1922, to great success.
Oum Kalsoum surpassed all her rivals to achieve unrivaled fame in the Arab world. She was sought after by opulent pashas, wealthy merchants, and political and artistic figures to give their parties supreme luster. Her fees became fabulous, and she toured abroad many times, including Paris in 1967.
In parallel with her singing career, she tried her hand at cinema (Weddad, 1936; Le chant de l'espoir, 1937; Dananir, 1940; Aïda, 1942; Sallama, 1945 and Fatma, 1947) but quickly abandoned the seventh art, her eyes affected by glaucoma not being able to tolerate the lighting of the sets. In 1953, she married her doctor, Hassen El-Hafnaoui, while including a clause allowing her to take the initiative of the divorce if necessary.
Oum Kalsoum died on February 3, 1975 in Cairo, her musical legacy continues to live and inspire generations of artists and music lovers around the world. In 2001, the Egyptian government opened the Kawkab al-Sharq ("Star of the Orient") museum in memory of the singer. The museum houses a range of Oum Kalthoum's personal effects, including her famous sunglasses and scarves, as well as photographs, recordings and other archival items.
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