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Arie Kriting

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Satriaddin Maharinga Djongki, known as Arie Kriting, is a solo comedian and actor of Indonesian nationality. The man who comes from Wakatobi Regency is known as the third winner of the third season of the Stand Up Comedy Indonesia Kompas TV event in 2013. Previously, he started to make jokes on small stages with the solo comedian community Stand Up Indo Malang. With his distinctive Eastern Indonesian accent, he managed to break into the top 3 with Babe Cabita and Fico Fachriza in the third season of Stand Up Comedy Indonesia Kompas TV in 2013. Arie became the first East Indonesia representative to successfully enter the top 3 at the event, before finally the achievement was solved by Abdurrahim Arsyad who was able to enter the grand final in 2014. Success as a comedian, Arie then tried his luck in the world of acting. In 2014, he was trusted to play Comic 8. His career in acting continues to improve, he was nominated for the Citra Cup for Best Supporting Actor at the 2016 Indonesian Film Festival thanks to his acting in the film Aisyah: Let Us Brothers. Other film titles that Arie has starred in are Warkop DKI Reborn Series, Stip & Pensil (2017), Susah Sinyal (2017), Si Juki the Movie (2017), Kulari Ke Pantai (2018), Bumi Itu Bulat (2019). Then in 2020, Arie made his directorial debut for the film Pelukis Hantu.
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Roger Garcia

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Roger Garcia is a film festival executive, producer and writer. He has been executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and Asian Film Awards Academy, artistic director of the Hainan Island International Film Festival, and curator, consultant and juror to many international film festivals. He is also a film producer who has worked in Asia, Europe and Hollywood on films and TV. His latest work is an expanded cinema piece with film, live performance and laser that premiered at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts in 2022 and featured in the New Vision Arts Festival, Hong Kong, 2023. He is also a film critic with books and articles published by British Film Institute, Cahiers du Cinema, Film Comment, etc. He has been a Board member of M Plus Museum in Hong Kong, and was awarded Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government in 2018. He is also a member of the European Film Academy.
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Denis O'Dea

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Denis O'Dea (26 April 1905 – 5 November 1978) was an Irish stage and film actor. He was born in Dublin and attended Synge Street CBS. When very young he and his mother Kathleen (from County Kerry) moved in with her sister, who kept a boarding house at 54 South Richmond Street. He worked in insurance until taking up acting. O'Dea was a leading member of Dublin's Abbey Theatre where he had a great acting career from 1929 to 1953; a list of his performances can be found in the Abbey archives. He also appeared in numerous plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, some of which toured New York and England. His work led to a number of notable film roles, including two mid-1930s John Ford films, The Informer and The Plough and the Stars (1936), and the part of the police inspector in pursuit of IRA man James Mason in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947).
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Lynn Anderson

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A member since 1999, Lynn has been a faithful servant of Lighthouse Church. Her primary role is to lead the "Women of Faith" ministry, which encourages the fellowship of women in our church through a monthly meeting, which includes bible study, prayer, and the occasional outing. Lynn is also active with our children's ministry, working alongside her husband, Michael, developing the church's very own vacation bible school programs during the summer. Lynn is also a teacher for our "Saturday School" and a vocalist for the worship team.
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Ahsia Pettigrew

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Dancer, choreographer, performer, entertainer, artist, vocalist, composer, TikTok star, online content creator, social media personality, actress, singer, and songwriter who has performed with artists including Cardi B, Normani, Beyoncé, Usher, and Missy Elliott. She appeared in series such as Cobra Kai and Step Up: High Water. In the year 2011, she moved to Atlanta to pursue a professional career in dance. She was in the films Coming 2 America and Praise This. She assisted Sean Bankhead's choreography design for Victoria Monet's performance at the 2024 BET Awards. She has amassed more than 240,000 followers on her ahsiajanae TikTok account.
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Benjamin Wallfisch

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Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch (born 7 August 1979) is a British composer, conductor, and music producer known for his work on film scores. He has contributed to over 50 feature films since the mid-2000s, including notable works like Blade Runner 2049, Shazam!, It, It Chapter Two, The Invisible Man, Hidden Figures, A Cure for Wellness, The Flash, Twisters, Alien: Romulus, Kraven the Hunter and Predator: Killer of Killers. His work has earned recognition, including a joint nomination with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for Hidden Figures, as well as nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Blade Runner 2049. In 2020, Wallfisch was nominated for Film Composer of the Year for the second consecutive year at the World Soundtrack Awards. Wallfisch's film compositions have contributed to movies with a combined worldwide box office revenue of over $2.5 billion. In 2019, Variety acknowledged his achievements by including him in their Billion Dollar Composer series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Wallfisch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Damien Rice

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Damien Rice is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Rice began his musical career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper, who were signed to Polygram Records in 1997. The band enjoyed moderate success with a couple of single releases, but a projected album floundered because of record company politics. After leaving Juniper, he worked as a farmer in Tuscany and busked throughout Europe before returning to Ireland in 2001 and beginning a solo career. The rest of the band went on to become Bell X1.
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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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Christopher James Healy

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Chris J W Healy is a Scottish Actor in Film, Tv and Stage. Alongside his acting career, Chris is also a published model and supporting artist. Chris began his acting career in February 2019 when he was successfully cast in “The Silence” a Feature Film by Rogue Film Labs. Since then Chris has Been Cast in a variety of Films and also landed the lead role in a music video for the singer JD Allan and 3 Recurring roles in Shug the dug Productions up and coming radio play “ Shipyard Shenanigans” Chris Had his stage debut in April 2019 when he was cast as the leading role in Laurel and Hardy as Stan Laurel doing Pre-Show entertainment to shug the dug productions Show “Two on the Roof” This was held in the world famous Britannia Panopticon. Since then Chris has complete his tour with Tram direct theatre company in “Paddy’s” based on the closure of paddy’s market and is currently rehearsing for “The lying king” Christmas Panto. chris has also worked as a supporting artist for major network channels such as BBC, Channel4 and HBO and STARZ.
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Gene Wilder

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Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, singer-songwriter, and author. He began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in an episode of the TV series The Play of the Week in 1961. Although his first film role was portraying a hostage in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder's first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1967 film The Producers for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was the first in a series of collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, including 1974's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, which Wilder co-wrote, garnering the pair an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is known for his iconic portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991), as well as starring in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972). He directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984). With his third wife, Gilda Radner, he starred in three films, the last two of which he also directed. Her 1989 death from ovarian cancer led to his active involvement in promoting cancer awareness and treatment, helping found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center in Los Angeles and co-founding Gilda's Club. After his last acting performance in 2003 – a guest role on Will & Grace for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor – he turned his attention to writing. He produced a memoir in 2005, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art; a collection of stories, What Is This Thing Called Love? (2010); and the novels My French Whore (2007), The Woman Who Wouldn't (2008), and Something to Remember You By (2013).
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