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Faye Grant
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Faye Grant was born in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, in 1957, and was involved in theater as a teenager. She left home at 18, hitchhiking throughout Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. After living in Mexico City, where she did Spanish commercials, she moved to Los Angeles. She played the role of Rhonda on The Greatest American Hero (1981), but is probably best remembered as Dr. Juliet Parrish in the hit TV mini-series, V (1983) and V: The Final Battle (1984), as well as the short-lived television series based on the two mini-series, V (1984). She has also appeared in several theatrical movies, including Crossing Delancey (1988), The January Man (1989) and Internal Affairs (1990). She is married to actor Stephen Collins, and they have one child, Kate.
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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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Patch Darragh
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Patch Darragh graduated with honors from Juilliard and began his career playing significant roles in award-winning new plays and revivals at many of the countries top regional theaters, as well our foremost theaters both on and off-Broadway. He has accrued an extensive list of TV credits, more recently on the award winning HBO series SUCCESSION on which he played WayStar Royco board member, Ray Kennedy from Season two to Season four. Patch also had notable arcs on LAW & ORDER: SVU, MR. MERCEDES, THE LOUDEST VOICE, THE PATH, LONGMIRE, BOARDWALK EMPIRE & KALEIDOSCOPE. He's perhaps best known as the lovable Dad on the Netflix cult hit EVERYTHING SUCKS! on which he was a series regular.
On the film side, Patch can be seen in the Blumhouse features THE FIRST PURGE and CAM. He also starred in the independent films , SULLY, BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON, and CABRINI. In 2017, Darragh starred in THE DEPTHS, and won Best Supporting Actor at the Los Angeles Film Awards. Upcoming: RESENTMENT, and THE UNION (Netflix).
As a writer, Patch has developed three television pilots, including two with fellow Juilliard grad Erin Gann. Their feature BIRTHRITE wrapped principle photography in June of 2023.
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Mark Lewis
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Mark Lewis is an Australian documentary film and television producer, director and writer. He is famous for his film Cane Toads: An Unnatural History and for his body of work on animals. Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with.
His films have earned him many awards, including a British Academy Award nomination, a nomination from the Directors Guild of America, two Emmy's for Outstanding Direction in documentary film, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Science Program on American Television.
As a student, Lewis helped planning Philippe Petit's famous 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. He talks about his involvement in the acclaimed documentary Man on Wire (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Lewis (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Angie Cepeda
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(Angélica María) Angie Cepeda Jiménez is an actress born on August 2, 1974 in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). His parents are both lawyers, Yadhira Jiménez and José Cepeda. She lived in Barranquilla before moving to Bogota, where she worked as a model. In the 1990s she began participating in the soap operas "The curse of paradise", "Only a woman" and "Candela". The 1996 Angie debuted in cinema with the film by Sergio Cabrera, Ilona Arrives with the Rain. At the end of the 1990s she strengthened her broadcasting career with the recording of telenovelas such as "Luz Maria", "Las Juanas" and "Pobre Diabla". On the big screen she played one of her best roles with her character of the Colombian in the adaptation of Francisco Lombardi, Pantaleon y Las Visitadoras (2000). Other titles in the filmography of Cepeda are Samy and Me (2002), Argentine comedy co-starring Ricardo Darin, Love for Rent (2005), and The Dead One (2007), horror fantasy co-starring Wilder Valderrama. In the film For the Good of Others (2010) she shared center stage with Eduardo Noriega and Belén Rueda. The actress also took part in "The Protected", "Vientos de agua" and "Fuera de lugar" among other television productions.
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Mélanie Doutey
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Mélanie Doutey is a French actress.
She is the daughter of filmmaker Alain Doutey and actress Arielle Séménoff. She appeared in Claude Chabrol's La Fleur du Mal and El Lobo, the true story of a mole within the Basque separatist group ETA. She also made a cameo in singer Calogero's video for En Apesanteur.
In 2006, she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Il ne faut jurer de rien!, a cinematographic adaptation of an Alfred de Musset play.
Her scene with Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, directed by Jan Kounen was cut from the final version of Les Infidèles (2011 film), but later appeared on some DVD versions.
From 2002 to 2013, Doutey was in a relationship with actor Gilles Lellouche. They have a daughter named Ava, born on 5 September 2009.
She dates chef Cyril Lignac.
Source: Article "Mélanie Doutey" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Stefania Rocca
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Stefania Rocca was born on April 24, 1971 in Turin. She is best known for her roles in the films Nirvana (1997), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Dracula (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's The Card Player. Among her most recent appearances, she was in Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy film Commediasexi where she played the main character, Pia Roncaldi. She starred as Hannah in the 1997 film Solomon.
Rocca was born on 24 April 1971 in Turin, the daughter of a Fiat chief of security and a stylist. Beginning in her adolescence Rocca studied piano, singing, and dancing at the Teatro Stabile di Torino. In the late 1980s she moved to Milan where she started working as a model; in Milan, she enrolled in a series of acting courses. In 1993, thanks to a scholarship, she joined the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She also studied at the Actors Studio in New York City.
Rocca is married to her long-time partner Carlo Capasa, whom she wed in a highly secretive ceremony in 2013. The couple has been together since 2005, and has two sons.
Rocca made her acting debut with a secondary role in Giulio Base's Policemen but her breakout role was the blue-haired Naima in the Gabriele Salvatores' cyberpunk film Nirvana (1997). After enrolling a course at the Actors Studio in New York, in 1998, Rocca had her first main role in the controversial erotic thriller Viol@, and for her performance she was nominated to the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. One year later, Rocca appeared in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley as Jude Law's lover, then she appeared in other international productions, including Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, Mike Figgis' experimental Hotel and Tom Tykwer's Heaven.
In 2003, Rocca had her main commercial success in Italy, with Alessandro D'Alatri's comedy Casomai, which also gave her a nomination for Best Actress at the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello Awards. In 2005, she played a blind lesbian in the Academy Award-nominated drama The Beast in the Heart, and for her performance, she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. Since the mid-2000s, Rocca has mainly appeared on television. She is also active on stage.
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Kosuke Yonehara
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Yonehara Kousuke is a Japanese singer and actor. He is part of the J-pop and acting group Run&Gun. He was born in Osaka.
He started his career as a Johnny's Jr. but left the company early to join the dance group DANK which later evolved into Run&Gun.
He is best known for his part in Musical Air Gear. In the first musical he played Team Bacchus' member Hamlet, but in the second installment he took over the role of Romeo from Kamiyama Ryuji after he had replaced Kenta Kamakari (who had fallen ill) as Ikki.
He also played the female role of Rosemary in several Maria Magdalena stages.
Between April 2010 and March 2012, he was the drummer of the ikemen J-rock group ココア男 (Cocoa Otoko).
Currently he mainly does stage acting.
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Micha Wertheim
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Wertheim studeerde Cultuur- en Wetenschapsstudies aan de Universiteit Maastricht. Tijdens zijn studie begon hij met schrijven voor de faculteit en later voor de universiteitskrant. In 1995 kreeg hij als columnist een vaste plek op de achterpagina van ‘De Observant’ In 1997 begon hij op die zelfde achterpagina een wekelijks feuilleton waar hij twee jaar later mee stopte. In1998 nam hij het initiatief tot het opzetten van Mosaiek, een door studenten gemaakt cultuurwetenschappelijk tijdschrift. In 1998 rondde hij de studie af met een doctoraalscriptie over het leven en werk van Franz Kafka onder de titel Wunsch, Indianer zu werden: een onderzoek naar de betekenis van het reismotief in het werk en leven van Franz Kafka. Na zijn afstuderen verhuisde Wertheim naar Amsterdam. Daar werd hij in café Toomler na twee audities aangenomen bij het stand-up gezelschap Comedytrain. In dat zelfde jaar, 1998, begon Wertheim met het maken van radiodocumentaires en het schrijven van bijdragen voor VPRO's De Avonden. Begin 2004 won Wertheim de jury- en publieksprijs tijdens het Leids Cabaret Festival, sindsdien treedt hij voornamelijk binnen en soms buiten Nederland op als cabaretier.
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Sandra Dickinson
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Sandra Dickinson is a talented American-British actress best known for her role as Trillian in the original BBC television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Her portrayal of Trillian, the lone human survivor in the universe, brought a mix of intelligence, humor, and charm to the character. Dickinson's performance added depth and warmth to the role, contributing to the appeal of the series. Her work in the show earned her recognition and solidified her as an integral part of the beloved adaptation of Douglas Adams' iconic work.
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