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Gülşah Alkoçlar

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Gülşah Alkoçlar Soydan (born April 24, 1969) is a Turkish film actress. She was born on April 24, 1969, the daughter of actress Hülya Koçyiğit and football player Selim Soydan. When Gülşah Alkoçlar was 5 years old, her first children's movie was shot on behalf of Gülşah Film. She became the youngest actress of Gülşah Film, which was established in her name. On January 17, 1988, she married Ender Alkoçlar. In 1988, her first child Neslişah Alkoçlar and in 1993 her second child Aslışah Alkoçlar were born.
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Laura L. Cottrel

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Laura Lynn Cottrel was an only child born and raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She was dubbed a "social butterfly" by her teachers and began performing in school theater productions by the age of nine. After her graduation from college (BA/Theater), she spent two seasons as an NFL cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles. After the second season with the Eagles came to a close, she began to pursue her acting career. She is a member of SAG and continues to successfully pursue this endeavor. - IMDb mini biography by: MJ
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Elena Anaya

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Elena Anaya (born July 17, 1975) is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995. Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain on July 17, 1975. She is the youngest of 5 children. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía) and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella (Talk to Her). Her best-known Hollywood film role was as a vampire in 2004's Van Helsing, playing Dracula's bride, Aleera. She is also featured in Justin Timberlake's music video for his 2006 single, SexyBack. In 2004, she was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elena Anaya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Peter Algiers

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Peter Lyle Algiers is an American director and screenwriter. He was born and raised in Burbank, California. The youngest of 7, Peter was deemed a prodigy at a young age when it was discovered that he could recite all of the presidents by memory at the age of 2. Peter was always considered to be very intelligent in spite of getting average grades in school. He quickly developed a love for film when he started studying historic and culturally significant movies at the age of 10. By the age of 16, he was a self-made film-historian. Around this time, Peter developed a love for music, teaching himself how to play the piano and writing his own songs. Peter became a business professional right out of high-school, gaining a decade of office/managerial experience. While he never completed college, he did work his way from entry-level to the top of his department in two different industries, proving to be of many talents. He never forgot his love of film, and has continued to write and direct, even while working other full-time jobs. He has self-produced a number of short films over the years and is now producing feature-length movies.
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Shebin Benson

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Shebin Benson is an Indian film actor who predominantly features in Malayalam movies. He made his debut in the 2013 film Idukki Gold, under the direction of Aashiq Abu. Revolving around a group of friends who are on the lookout for their old friends, Shebin was cast to play the younger self of Maniyanpilla Raju's character in the film. He then went on to feature in the Mammootty starrer drama film Varsham, followed by the role of teen Aloshy in the Amal Neerad movie IyobintePustakam and also did the teen Dawood in the action comedy film Inspector Dawood Ibrahim (2016). His other project in 2016 was Don Max's directorial venture 10 Kalpanakal, in which he starred as part of the supporting cast, whereas Anoop Menon and Prashant Narayanan played the lead roles. His 2017 movie includes Kaattu, which stars Asif Ali, Murali Gopy, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Manasa Radhakrishnan in the lead roles, under the direction of Arun Kumar Aravind. In 2018 he did his first lead movie Kaly which is directed by Najeem Koya and produced by August CInemas and he also played the younger version of Sethu Madhavan in the movie Mohanlal directed by Sajid Yahiya. His upcoming movies are Paviettante Madhurachooral and Oronnonnara Pranaya Kadha.
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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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Michael Mack

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Michael Mack is an Actor, Writer, Producer and Founder/Instructor of the Fearless Acting Workshop in Washington D.C. A native of Washington D.C., Mack was fortunate enough to work at the K-B MacArthur Theater when it featured the world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. On opening night, Mack met the entire lead cast. As a budding writer, one of his dreams was to write for Star Trek: The Next Generation, in part, because they were the most writer friendly series to work for. He was fortunate enough to join the TNG writing team for a six-week internship in 1994 during the series' seventh season, working with such greats as Jeri Taylor, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, and René Echevarria. Though he was not allowed to write an episode themselves, he was allowed to contribute ideas to the episodes. His main job was to review the unsolicited scripts that were submitted to the series, where on one occasion he found an idea in one of the submitted scripts that he successfully pitched. Because of Mack's Shakespearean background, he was approached by Taylor, who encouraged him to audition for any guest roles that might arise during his stay. Initially he was offered a role in "Parallels" to portray one of the Enterprise-D captains from another quantum reality, a role that eventually became that of Riker from the alternate Borg conquered Federation. He turned the audition for role down because he felt that it was simply too short and there was no way to play it "credibly" because all the performance required was a "freak out". When the next episode, "The Pegasus", was being cast, he told Taylor that he wanted to audition for the role of the Romulan Commander Sirol, who was originally written as a female character with a single scene. In spite of being a black actor auditioning for a species traditionally depicted by white actors, he reminded Taylor of the black "Vulcan midwife" who appeared in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and seeing as Romulans were "cousins" to the Vulcans, he saw no reason why there couldn't also be black Romulans. Taylor gave Mack her answer the next morning by offering him an opportunity to audition, and after Mack impressed both Taylor and episode director LeVar Burton, he was given the role, becoming not only the first writing intern to act on the show, but more importantly the first actor to portray a black Romulan. Following his being cast in the role, Braga and Moore expanded the role and made the character a bit more complex on Mack's behalf.
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Kei Fujiwara

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Kei Fujiwara (born March 12, 1957) is a Japanese actress, cinematographer, editor, writer and film director. Her first role was in the American film, The Neptune Factor, but she is perhaps best known for starring in the Japanese cult film, Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Recently she has devoted her time to writing and directing, and is known for her surreal and violent experimental films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kei Fujiwara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Darío Grandinetti

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Darío Grandinetti (born March 5, 1959 in Rosario) is an Argentine actor. Among many other films, he worked under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar in the Academy Award winner Talk to Her. Grandinetti started as a television actor to slowly move towards the cinema. His filmography is mainly of Argentine production or co-productions with his country. His first work in a foreign production was the Bolivian El Día que murió el silencio of 1998, and has recently worked in a number of Spanish films, and also participated as guest in Spanish TV series. He is considered one of the most important Argentine actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Darío Grandinetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    
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Zacharie Malek

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Zacharie Malek was born in Athens, Ohio in the U.S., son of a teacher-researcher father and a schoolteacher mother. He has a passion for film since childhood. After returning to France at the age of two his parents separated. He attended a school in Agneaux and became involved with the dramatic arts thanks to a director who organized plays with the students and a performance at the end of each year. He then starts to imagine himself acting in place of the children he sees in the films. In 2018 he obtained his economics and social sciences baccalaureate with honors and began studying psychology at the University of Caen. He directed many short films there, which he shoots with his friends. Tired of his studies, he leaves school his third year and returns to his main passion, film, and goes on many castings. He then joins the team of Mason Ewing Corporation.
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