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Quoc Bao Tran
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Mentored by master action director Corey Yuen, Bao's approach draws on spectacle through story and character. Screen Anarchy praised his written-and-directed short 'Bookie' for its "flawlessly realized world driven by a compelling narrative and brought to sumptuous life." His editing credits include 'Cho Lon', one of Southeast Asia's highest-budgeted action blockbusters, and 'Jackpot', a heartfelt comedy selected as Vietnam's official entry to the 2016 Oscars for Best Foreign Film. 'The Paper Tigers' is an upcoming indie action-drama-comedy that will be his first feature film as director. Ain't It Cool News enthusiastically declared Bao as "a director I expect to see big things from."
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Nguyen's debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and many other accolades. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.
Nguyen is a regular contributor, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, covering immigration, refugees, politics, culture, and Southeast Asia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020 was elected as the first Asian American member of the Pulitzer Prize Board in its 103-year-history. In the teaching field, in 2023, Nguyen is also the first Asian American to headline the Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Series at Harvard University.
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Brendan Douglas
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Brendan grew up on the south coast of England in Dorset. He started performing as a singer in various local bands and later decided to take up acting classes and audition for and was offered a place at the Oxford School of Drama. After graduating he moved to London to start his acting career initially appearing in local fringe plays and a UK wide tour. After moving abroad to Barcelona he started one of Europe's best improv groups before then moving to Prague.Europe. Since then some of his recent film and TV work has included TV Series " Death By Lightning" "Carnival Row", "Britannia", "Genius", and "Knightfall". the film "Borg Mcenroe". He also recently won a best actor award for his role as Thomas in "An Evenings Trail". Brendan is also an avid writer and is penning several projects.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Veronika Kovtun
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Veronika Kovtun (January 29, 1972 Tallinn), actress. Member of the Estonian Theater Association and the Actors' Union (1997).
Graduated from Tallinn 5th High School in 1989 and GITIS in 1995. Worked at the Russian Theater from 1996 to 2006 (from 2004 with a role contract). Lived in Moscow since 2006, works as a freelancer. Played in the films ("Foreign fields", 2000, Denmark; "Lilja 4-ever", 2002, Sweden-Denmark) and TV series ("Airport", 2005, "Kõrgeim pilotaaž", 2009, both Russia).
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Flavio Sciolè
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FLAVIO SCIOLE' (1970). Actor, director, performer. Italian-Croatian Stateless Anti-artist, for years now he has contributed to anti-theatrical research (with Teatro Ateo), anti-film experimentation and performance. Mainly devoted to artistic deconstruction of any classical art, he finds his own reason for being in defragmentation and deconstruction acts. Iconoclastic as a vocation, he is not keen on compromise and he makes the art as a request, the ethic art his own raison d'être. About 300 of his videos have been projected-awarded-reported in national and international festivals in Italy and all around the world. Over 1000 viewigs in Italy (Rai Uno, 52a International Art Exposition "La Biennale" of Venice, Romaeuropa, Macro, Cannes) and all over the world (France, Portugal, Morocco, Greece, Finland, Romania, Usa, Argentina, England, Germany, Russia, etc). He has received prizes, retrospectives (Casablanca, Rome, Turin, Berlin, New York, London), writings.
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Vladimir Bogachov
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Soviet and Russian opera singer (tenor). The son of the artist of the Moscow Operetta Theater Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Bogachyov and actress Lenkom - Ella Burova. On the recommendation of Elena Obraztsova, he was accepted to the Bolshoi Theater, where he worked for thirteen years, and performed 25 major roles in operas. The first performance on the professional opera stage was the role of Jose in the opera Carmen on November 17, 1985. In the first year of work he performed 12 main parts (a unique case in the history of the theater). From 1985 to 1998 he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. Possessing a rare voice of lyric-spinto, he preferred the repertoire of the heroic tenor. After being injured in an accident, in 1999 he was fired from the theater, but restored his health and began performing abroad, where he became one of the leading performers of the dramatic tenor repertoire parties - Herman, Othello, Canio. He works under contracts at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and the Vienna State Opera. Permanent participant of the Chaliapin Festival in Kazan.
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Fei Qiming
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He is a film and television actor, pop singer, and program host in Mainland China. He graduated from the Department of Culture Communication of Jining College. In 2018, he appeared in his first film and television drama "Waiting for you in the future", thus officially entering the entertainment circle; in August, as an intern teacher participated in the iQiyi parent-child experimental reality show "Super Kindergarten"; September 17th, launched the first A solo single "Wish". In 2019, as a regular guest, participated in the iQiyi RV Touring Reality Show "The Flower Road of Youth"; in May, hosted the Zhejiang Satellite TV star Food Passing Emotional Reality Show "Familiar Taste Season 4". On April 24, 2021, the youth science fiction drama "Orphan on Mars" starring Fei Qiming was launched.
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
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Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (/maɪˈtreɪi ˌrɑːməˈkrɪʃnən/my-TRAY-ee RAH-mə-KRISH-nən; born 28 December 2001) is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for her leading role as high school student Devi Vishwakumar in the Netflix teen comedy series Never Have I Ever (2020–2023). She played voice roles in the Pixar film Turning Red (2022) and the animated series My Little Pony: Make Your Mark (2022–2023) and My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale (2022–2024).
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Aimee McGuire
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Aimee McGuire is an actress known for her captivating range in both comedy and drama, effortlessly blending humor with emotional depth. She was raised in a military family and grew up in Albuquerque, NM. She discovered her passion for acting at the age of 12 while performing in school plays, and her talent quickly propelled her toward a career in the arts. After honing her skills in Albuquerque, Aimee moved to Los Angeles, where she has trained with some of the city’s top coaches and developed a versatile skill set that allows her to take on a wide range of roles.
Her recent projects showcase her incredible versatility, including the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, alongside Ayo Edebiri and Murray Bartlett in the A24 thriller Opus and in the AMC/Netflix series Dark Winds. Beyond her acting career, Aimee is also an accomplished screenwriter with a wealth of life experience to draw from. As a breast cancer survivor, she approaches both her personal and professional life with strength and creativity. Her eclectic side-gig journey includes stints as an esthetician, Sham-Wow product demonstration performer, and bridal stylist, making her a wellspring of fascinating stories.
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