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Li Bingbing

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Li Bingbing (李冰冰) was born February 27, 1973 in Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress and producer, known for Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution and Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Li's first big break came in 1999 when she played a kindhearted cop in the film "Seventeen Years" (过年回家). This film won her the Best Asian Actress award in the 2000 Singapore International Film Festival. In 2009, she was named a WWF Earth Hour Global Ambassador.
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Doris Dawson

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Doris Dawson Levy was born on April 16, 1905, in Goldfield, Nevada, the child of Bonewitz Xerxes Dawson and Reba Greenwood. She was another starlet working away in low-budget silent and early sound movie comedies as well as doing some photo modeling for the fashion industry. Some Information from archive.org motion picture realm 1929: Height 5 '1", red hair, blue eyes, 103 lbs. Schooling: Miss Gildner's School for Girls, and the Virginia College in Roanoke, VA. Swimming, dancing, reading and riding. No formal training in stage. Doris Dawson got her start in 1927 in The Christie Comedies silent shorts made by Al Christie. “A girl I had known was working at the Mack Sennett studio. I went to lunch with her one day and then went back to the studio to watch her work during the afternoon. It was the first time I had ever been inside of a studio and I was quite excited. They were ‘shooting’ some swimming scenes and needed some girls who could dive. “My chum, knowing that I could, said she would get me a job working in the picture if I wanted to. I declined at first since I had never before been given a thought to entering pictures. However, she urged me on and said we would have a lot of fun so I went to work.” Later on in 1927 she had small roles in "Gold From Weepah" and in the Tom Mix western "The Arazona Wildcat". During 1928 she was awarded the female lead opposite Harry Langdon in Heart Trouble. The role earned her a 1929 WAMPAS Baby Star nod (The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) and the trade paper Variety thought she had "more sex appeal than a lot of peaches Harry has picked in the past." Alas, Langdon's career was waning and few liked this comedy. After that she had roles in "Do Your Duty" and "The Little Wildcat" both made in 1928. Hardly anybody enjoyed her film, Hot Stuff released in August of 1928. It was a college burlesque which was set in "a little village in the state of Coma." During 1929 she had roles in "His Captive Woman", "Children Of The Ritz", "Hot Stuff" and in an early sound musical called "Broadway Scandels". After that she survived being hit by a car during September of 1929. On April 14, 1930 in Lyndhurst, New Jersey she married Pat William Rooney III the son of the famous Broadway tap dancer. Her screen career suffered a severe setback with the advent of sound due to a voice that some called "graiting". After divorcing Pat Rooney in 1934 Doris returned for a final film, the low-budget disaster "epic" Silver Streak in 1934. In 1938 she remarried to Robert Davis Levy and they both ran a dog kennel in Florida, where they raised some award winning show dogs. Doris passed on April 20, 1986, in Coral Gables, Florida, at the age of 81.
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Peter-Jürgen Boock

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Peter-Jürgen Boock moved out of his parents' house in his youth to live in a commune. He was sent to a reform school for drug possession, where he met the RAF founding members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Astrid Proll. He became active in the RAF scene in 1975 and took part in their actions from 1977 onwards. Among other things, he was involved in the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the "Landshut" plane hostage-taking. Although he distanced himself from the RAF in the following years, he had to serve a prison sentence from 1981 to 1998. Today, Boock works as an author.
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Sarp Apak

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Kerim Sarp Apak is a Turkish TV, film and theater actor. At the age of 5, he moved to Bursa with his family and grew up there. He received his high school education at Bursa High School for Boys. While he was planning to study business administration at that time, his theater life started when he received an application form for the talent exams. In 2004, after graduating from Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Acting, he went to Istanbul with the support of his teacher Baris Erdenk. He made a successful acting performance in the play Agir Roman at the Sadri Alisik Theater. At the end of that year, he joined the BKM Group, which also included Yilmaz Erdogan, and had the opportunity to play a small role in the movie Organize Isler. He also starred in the TV series Anadolu Kaplani, En Son Babalar Duyar. He acted in the children's play Sizinkiler, Dünya Kac Bucak and went on tour in Turkey with this play. The talented actor, who also performed stand-up shows in a venue with a small stage called "Mutfak" next to BKM, caught his real fame with his role as Tanriverdi in Avrupa Yakasi. After his mimics and movements were highly appreciated, he played the role of "Emrecan" in the play "Op Babanin Elini" at Gazanfer Ozcan - Gönül Ulkü Theater. In 2007, with the song "Askinla Yandim", which he wrote and composed himself, he managed to enter the list of many rock music listeners. He starred in Mahsun Kirnizigül's Beyaz Melek, Günesi Gördüm and Murat Saracoglu's O... Cocuklari. He left Kavak Yelleri for a short time but later returned again. After the end of Kavak Yelleri, he played the character of Emir Danisman in Gülse Birsel's new sitcom series Yalan Dünya. The series finalized in its 4th season. IMDb mini bio by; yusufpiskin
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Isaac Mizrahi

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Isaac Mizrahi (Born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer, actor, singer, television presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand for Xcel Brands. Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. Mizrahi was previously a judge on Project Runway All Stars. In 2022 he played Amos Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isaac Mizrahi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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José Luis Perpuli

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José Luis Perpuli Rodríguez is a mexican filmmaker born in La Paz, Baja California Sur on December 1, 2001. He attended CAAV University of Audiovisual Media in Guadalajara, Jalisco in the fall of 2020 and obteined a degree in Filmmaking with Orientation in Audiovisual Media in the summer of 2023. He wrote and directed his first independent short film in the spring of 2022, a four minute experimental horror titled "No Ink". The short film was made in collaboration with Frida Tlacuilo, a filmmaker from Guadalajara, with whom Perpuli founded Seafilms Productions, an independent production company dedicated to tell out of the box stories. Seafilms got its first taste of success in the summer of 2022 when "No Ink" placed as a quarter-finalist at the third edition of the Serbest International Film Festival. Later that year, Perpuli served as editor of Frida Tlacuilo's autobiographical documentary short titled "Tlacuilo", which premiered at the University of Guadalajara's Cineteca FICG on October 9, 2022. In early 2023, Perpuli wrote a screenplay based on the films of Steven Spielberg, the filmmaker whose movies inspired him in the first place. This became his second independent directorial project, "The Thing That Drifted Ashore", an eighteen minute horror short film that touches upon our strange addiction to spectacle and what we're willing to do for fame. After partnering up with Wondervid, another independent production company from Guadalajara, Perpuli returned to his hometown, La Paz, and shot "The Thing That Drifted Ashore" five days straight in the Pulguero Tepetates Beach. The short film completed post-production in Guadalajara a month later.
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Kang Shin-il

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Kang Shin-il (hangul: 강신일; born November 26, 1960) is a South Korean actor. Kang graduated from Kyung Hee University with a degree in electronic engineering, but he soon put aside his studies and spent most of his time in Daehangno, Seoul's theater district, where he formed a troupe called Testimony that performed at smaller venues. In 1985, he made his acting debut in Chilsu and Mansu, and soon gained fame as a stage actor in plays such as Kimchigook Goes Crazy and Chronicles of Han. He appeared onscreen for the first time in the 1988 film adaptation of Chilsu and Mansu and became a prolific supporting actor in Korean cinema and television (notably in Kang Woo-suk's Public Enemy franchise), while continuing to do theater. In 2007, Kang was diagnosed with liver cancer, but after recovering from surgery, he resumed his acting career.
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Gabriel Lizama (Liz Taylor)

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Gabriel Lizama Sangüeza AKA Liz Taylor (Santiago de Chile, 1990) is a Chilean artist and academic who has dedicated himself to: music, cinema, film criticism, research, photography and audiovisual teaching. Since 2010 he has created short experimental, fiction and documentary films, music videos and audiovisual research. He is a member of the Film-maker's Cooperative (NYC, USA). After a 10-year hiatus from making short films, in 2024 he returned with his saga (still in development) "Chilean Chants", short films that explore various traumas and events related to the fragmented identity of Chile, through the moving image and its eternal dance with time. Some of his films have reached festivals and markets in the U.S., France, Perú and Chile. He's the coordinator and programmer in the Sala Sazie Cine Club of the University of Chile, the oldest and most prestigious in the country.
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David Sandberg

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David Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker and visual effects artist who began his career creating television commercials and music videos. He developed an early passion for VFX, self-teaching 3D animation from the age of 16, driven by a desire to insert fantastical elements into his own projects . He spent his early twenties carving out a career in commercials and motion work, but gradually grew dissatisfied with the pace of progress toward his feature-film ambitions. In 2012, he made a bold career pivot, quitting commercial work to invest his own savings into crafting the trailer that would become Kung Fury .
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Hoagy Carmichael

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Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.
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