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Jonny Beauchamp

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Jonny Beauchamp is a Puerto Rican actor from New York City known for his work on Showtime's series Penny Dreadful, NBC's Chicago P.D., and Roland Emmerich's 2015 film, Stonewall. Beauchamp attended numerous performing arts high schools in and around New York City but attributes the bulk of his training to New York's Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS.) It was there that Beauchamp participated in a production of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge, which he claims lead him to "understand what it meant to really be an Actor." Beauchamp also received his BA in Theatre Performance with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Marymount Manhattan College.
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Marlene Schmidt

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Fled East Germany in 1960 to live in Stuttgart and work as an electronics engineer. Soon after, she entered a beauty contest on a whim and ended up winning the title of Miss Germany. That led to being crowned Miss Universe in 1961. She married actor Ty Hardin in 1962, but the marriage only lasted 3 years. In 1969, she married Iraqi-born filmmaker Howard Avedis. Their partnership resulted in numerous drive-in hits and cult classics, including The Stepmother (1972), The Teacher (1974) and Mortuary (1983). Marlene always produced, sometimes wrote and usually appeared in supporting roles in these productions.
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Tawan Vihokratana

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Tay Tawan Vihokratana is a Thai actor and compère under GMMTV. He was born in Bangkok and raised in Chiang Mai. Initially, he took up a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Faculty of Science at the Chulalongkorn University (CU) before he shifted and graduated from the Faculty of Economics. In 2012, Tay was selected to be one of the school's Generation 5 mace-bearers for the 68th Chula–Thammasat Traditional Football Match. Tay began his career in the entertainment industry under GMMTV (then Bang Channel) as a host of the 2014 program "Five Live Fresh". Later, he debuted as an actor in the 2014 series "Room Alone", earning widespread recognition after making it in CLEO Thailand's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors of 2014. As a photographer, Tay had a showing and auction of his work at Never Normal studio and has a dedicated photography Instagram. Outside his acting and hosting career, Tay co-owns a clothing and accessory brand named No.Grass.Type, a spa called Bamboo Secrets, and a Japanese food Delivery Business called Salmon-San.
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Mark Rhino Smith

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Mark Ferrol 'Rhino' Smith was born in London in 1969, however he has a hugely colorful heritage —Jamaican, Cherokee Indian, Ghanaian, White and Chinese. This mix along with his green eyes has given him a very a distinctive look. He first catapulted onto our screen as Rhino in the massive ITV series, Gladiators where he reigned for five years. His champion bodybuilding background led him to the show. At the age of seventeen, he was inspired to take up bodybuilding. His dedication to the art soon reaped him many titles including 'London Men's Heavy Weight Champion', Junior British champion. His aggressive style earned him his nickname - Rhino. His natural good looks and distinctive green eyes ensured he stood out and it wasn't long before he came to the attentions of LWT Gladiators. He eventually become one of the shows most loved and undefeated characters. He has continued to be a very physical person, boxing competitively and recently completing four Marathons for Charity. He has gone on to appear in many films and TV dramas. Mark's film work includes the blockbuster Batman Begins directed by Christopher Nolan for Warners, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Argo where he played the Evil Villain, also No Good Deed for Screen Gems. He also starred in the highly acclaimed British Gangster film Rollin with the Nines. He has appeared in a number of TV drama's including Eastenders, Hustle, The Bill. Other TV work includes BBC's Synchronicity and the Lynda La-Plante production, Trial and Retribution for ITV. He was also part of the cast for the BBC's series Robin Hood series in which he played an Arabian knight called Karim.
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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Michael Sacks

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Sacks (born September 11, 1948) is an American actor and tech executive who played the role of Billy Pilgrim in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five, an adaptation from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Sacks also appeared in Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express, as the kidnapped highway patrolman; The Amityville Horror, as James Brolin's character's friend and coworker; and Hanover Street, with Harrison Ford. On Broadway, he was the bewildered Viet Nam vet "Mark" in Kennedy's Children by Robert Patrick. He apparently retired from the entertainment industry in 1984; his last role was in the made for TV film Why Me?, with Annie Potts. After spending time working in technology positions on Wall Street, Sacks in 2004 joined the online bond trading company, MarketAxess, as head of global applications development. He was employed by Morgan Stanley from 1994 to 2004, as executive director, global head of bond technology for the fixed income division. Other assignments at MS included chief operating officer for fixed income technology and global head of technology for the foreign exchange division. Prior to Morgan Stanley he held positions at Salomon Brothers, Inc. and IBM Research Division. Mr. Sacks has an A.B. in Social Relations from Harvard College and a M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Sacks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Liz Torres

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Elizabeth Larrieu Torres (born September 27, 1947) is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Torres is best known for her role as Mahalia Sanchez in the NBC comedy series The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996), for which she received two Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. She is also known for her role as Patricia "Miss Patty" LaCosta in The WB family comedic drama series Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls (2000–07) starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. In the 1970s, she played Julie Erskine on Phyllis and also had a recurring role as Teresa Betancourt on All in the Family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liz Torres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dana Brown

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Dana Brown (born December 11, 1959, in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer and filmmaker and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown. His films include The Endless Summer Revisited (2000), which is made up of unused footage from The Endless Summer (1964) and The Endless Summer II (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films. His first all-original film was Step Into Liquid (2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled Dust to Glory (2005). In 2009, he debuted a new film called Highwater during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. In 2014, the movie On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film On Any Sunday (1971).
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Pete Richens

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter "Pete" Richens (born August 18, 1952) Richens is perhaps best known as the writing partner of Peter Richardson, writer/director/star of the long-running TV series The Comic Strip Presents. In his own words, Richardson is "the boss" of the script, with Richens acting as a "mechanic" who is "paid to make these ideas work." His talent for shaping a script was honed in the early days of The Comic Strip stage performances, where he would transcribe the best of the performer's improvisations and create a coherent narrative from them. He has also acted as associate director on Comic Strip productions, and enjoys the occasional cameo role, notably as a cheerful depressive in Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase. He has also contributed material to stand-up comic Jenny Eclair. Pete Richens has enjoyed a long career in film and is still an active member of the comedic community. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Richens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Bradley Fowler

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Bradley Fowler is an actor from Cedar Rapids Iowa. He received his degree from the University of Northern Iowa while playing college football for the Panthers. He is proud of his homespun heritage but the most unique thing about this die-hard actor and all around entertainer is that his grandmother was a teacher, his parents were principals and his sister has a Ph.D in early childhood development. Similar to his sister, Fowler aspires to attain the rank of (a Ph.D in Acting). Academy Award winners, Daniel Day-Lewis, Heath Ledger, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Fowler smiles, "These guys all really epitomize what I strive for as an actor. They commit so fully to a role; it's my hope that I will commit as fully as they have in whatever projects I undertake, regardless of the degree of success that I have in my acting career. The All American Actor with the boy-next-door looks, confides, "It's tough having to pursue acting outside of my home state and so far away from my family." In a perfect world, Iowa would have its own little 'Paramount Studio' tucked away in a cornfield just outside of the Amanas."
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