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Thomas Wivel

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Kort om Thomas Wivel Thomas Wivel er en af de helt store. Ikke bare på grund af hans medvirken i et hav af tv- og radioprogrammer, men også på grund af en enorm produktivitet, der tæller bøger, satireudgivelsen Blæksprutten, adskillige dvd’er og en serie velanmeldte shows. Han var med fra stand-uppens tidlige barndom i 1991 – og siden har han findyrket sin undrende, lidt provokerende stil, blandt andet sammen med kollega Povl Carstensen.   Wivel i egen liga Thomas Wivel har stået i spidsen af dansk stand-up i over 18 år og er en evig inspiration for alle, der holder af stand-up. Thomas Wivel kan noget med timing og levering, som ingen kan gøre ham efter, og han har energi og en utæmmelig sceneoptræden. Det ser så legende let ud, når han går på scenen, men underkend aldrig det enorme engagement, som driver Thomas Wivel. Han er tændt, hurtig og ualmindelig skarp og er senest portrætteret som ”Godfatheren”, en af hjørnestenene i dansk stand-up i ny bog om stand up comedy (2009) fra journalist og anmelder Henrik Palle og Anders Hjort.   En dynamisk duo Siden debuten på legendariske Café Din’s i 1991 har han medvirket i flere tv-programmer, bl.a. ”Gintberg – men nok om mig”, ”Stand-up.dk” og ”Talegaver til børn”. Thomas er desuden tekstforfatter på ”Gintbergs store aften” på TV2 Zulu, og han skrev desuden for det populære underholdningsprogram ”9 ud af 10”, han har arbejdet i redaktionen på talkshowet Meyerheim og har senest været en af ankermændene bag Nyhedsministeriet på TV2. Med showet ”117 ting, vi bør vide om hinanden” skabte han og komikeren Povl Carstensen i 2005 et enestående univers, hvor rammende refleksioner over de to køn og fremragende komik gik op i en højere enhed. Showet blev fulgt op af en anmelderrost bog om emnet, udgivet på Gyldendal. I 2005 udgav Thomas desuden sit stand-up-onemanshow ”Med ryggen mod muren” på dvd. I 2006 gik Thomas på scenen med Povl Carstensen, Mette Frobenius og Omar Marzouk. De lavede showet “De hellige køer” og behandlede alvorlige emner som truslen mod ytringsfriheden, religion og terror. Showet mundede ud i bogen De hellige køer, som Thomas forfattede.   Forfatteren Wivel Thomas er forfatter til flere bøger og skriver ofte klummer og artikler til aviser og fagblade. Han er far til fire, og måske derfor skrev han i 2006 børnebogen Svare Sara – en omvendt spørge-Jørgen, hvor forældrene bliver sat på plads. Thomas bidrog desuden sammen med en række andre stand-up-komikere med en godnathistorie til bogen Til dig fra os samt Stå op fra 2009. I flere år har han været medforfatter på Svikmøllen og skriver nu for Blæksprutten. Sammen med Povl Carstensen har Thomas blandt andet udgivetVerdenshistorien før og nu, Hvordan man overlever sin kones graviditet. En Guide til frustrerede mændsamt bøgerne Hvad enhver kvinde bør vide om mænd og Hvad enhver mand bør vide om kvinder. Han har skrevet den satiriske Hallo!, den kontroversielle debatbog om Muhammedtegningerne De hellige køer”, har oversat Bruce Springsteen på turné og har ikke mindst forfattet den anmelderroste Tysk humor. I starten af 2009 gik Thomas atter på scenen på Comedy Zoo med sit onemanshow ”Pengene eller livet”, der var indbegrebet af god, klassisk stand-up, og som vises på TV2Zulu i efteråret 2009.
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Piotr Szulkin

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Piotr Szulkin was a Polish film director and writer. He directed over thirteen films, both Polish and international productions. He was a recipient of "Best Science Fiction Film Director" at Eurocon in 1984. During the latter part of his career, he was also a professor at the National Film School in Łódź. He was the son of Paweł Szulkin, a Polish physicist from an assimilated Jewish family (his grandparents were Idel Szulkin and Małka Frydzon). His paternal uncle was Michał Szulkin, a historian and publicist. In 2013, Piotr Szulkin demanded the removal of information about the Jewish ancestry of Paweł Szulkin in his biography in the Polski Słownik Biograficzny (Polish National Dictionary). After Piotr Szulkin sued Polski Słownik Biograficzny, in January 2014, the Civil Court in Kraków, as a protective action, put a one-year prohibition on the dissemination of the volume of Polski Słownik Biograficzny including the biography of Paweł Szulkin.
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Yoji Matsuda

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Yoji Matsuda (松田 洋治, Matsuda Yōji, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was born in Setagaya, Tokyo. His older brother is Naoyuki Matsuda, a musical translator and professor at Komazawa University. After studying at Aoyama Gakuin High School, he dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University's Faculty of Letters and Department of Education. Among his classmates is a member of the Diet and the House of Councilors Renhō (his classmate from high school to university). He joined the Himawari Theatre Group at age five and made his child debut in the TV drama Mother's Suzu in 1974. He gained attention as an actor in the 1983 TBS television drama Family Game (as Shigeyuki Numata). He appeared in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, and, in 1987, portrayed the main character Shuna in Shuna's Journey. In 1997, he voiced Ashitaka in the anime movie Princess Mononoke, and voiced Leonardo DiCaprio's role Jack Dawson in the American film Titanic to raise his profile. In 2006, he taught acting as a lecturer at Tokyo Animation College. He became active around the stage, working with directors such as Yukio Ninagawa and Yoji Aoi. He appeared in the drama From the North Country.
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Oliver Cotton

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After training at the Drama Centre London, he has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre playing in many productions including The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Oedipus, In His Own Write, Hamlet, Tamburlaine, No Man's Land, The Passion, Despatches, Half Life, The World Turned Upside Down, Julius Caesar, The Madras House, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Crucible, Piano, Troilus and Cressida, Money, Summerfolk, The Villain's Opera, Life x 3. At the Royal Court Theatre, he has appeared in The Local Stigmatic, The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, The Enoch Show, Erronenous Zones, The Tutor by Brecht, Lear and Bingo by Edward Bond and Piano/Forte by Terry Johnson. He was a founder member of Joint Stock appearing in their inaugural production The Speakers by Heathcote Williams. At The Royal Shakespeare Company he has played in The Marrying of Ann Leete, Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, The Plain Dealer, Some Americans Abroad by Richard Nelson, Brand by Ibsen. His West End appearances include The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff, Benefactors by Michael Frayn (in whose Liberty Hall he also appeared in at the Greenwich Theatre), An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Life x 3 by Yasmina Reza, and Brand by Ibsen. He has also played the title role in King Lear at the Southwark Playhouse and Malvolio in Shakespeare's Globe's all-male production of Twelfth Night. His many TV appearances have included The Borgias (Cesare Borgia), David Copperfield, The Year of the French, The Play on One, Redemption, Poirot, The Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Zorro, Sharpe's Battle, Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley, Waking the Dead, M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Beastly Games, Sensitive Skin, Midsomer Murders, Hotel Babylon. His films include Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, The Day Christ Died, Firefox, Oliver Twist, The Sicilian, Eleni, Hiding Out, Christopher Columbus, Son of the Pink Panther, The Innocent Sleep, Phoenix Blue, The Opium War, Beowulf, Baby Blue, The Dancer Upstairs, Shanghai Knights, The Bone Collector, Raindogs, Colour Me Kubrick.
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Anne Carey

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Anne Carey is President of Production at Archer Gray, a media production, finance, and venture investment company based in New York City. In her career as an independent producer, Carey has been associated with filmmakers such as Ang Lee, Anton Corbijn, Bill Condon, Todd Field, Greg Mottola, Tamara Jenkins, Alan Ball, Mike Mills and Nicole Holofcener. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Warner Independent Pictures, Focus Features, Miramax and HBO have distributed Carey’s films. Her films have played and premiered at major domestic and international film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Carey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Larenz Tate

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Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. Tate was born on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. He is the youngest of three siblings whose family moved to California when he was nine years old. Convinced by their parents to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, the trio did not take the lessons seriously until classmate Malcolm-Jamal Warner's ascent to fame after being cast on the sitcom The Cosby Show. Subsequently realizing that they could parlay their efforts into a tangible form of success, the siblings began to receive small roles and in 1985, Tate made his small-screen debut in an episode of The New Twilight Zone series. Following appearances in such television series as 21 Jump Street and The Wonder Years, Tate was cast in the television movie The Women of Brewster Place before receiving the recurring role of Steve Urkel's nemesis, Willie Fuffner, in the family comedy series Family Matters (1989). He was also a cast member on the CBS series The Royal Family, starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese, which ended prematurely when Redd Foxx suddenly died. In the video game 187 Ride or Die, Tate voices the main character, Buck. Following numerous small-screen roles, offers began pouring in for Tate, and in late 1992, collaborative filmmaking siblings Albert and Allen Hughes approached him to star in their debut feature Menace II Society. A jarring vision of inner-city desperation and decay, the film found Tate channeling his substantial energy into creating "O-Dog", a trigger-happy teenager. Following up with the little-seen but often-praised television series South Central, Tate would later appear in the family comedy-drama The Inkwell (1994) before re-teaming with the Hughes brothers for Dead Presidents (1995) and taking on the role of a love-stricken young poet in the romantic drama Love Jones (1997). Larenz Tate also played the role of Kenny in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the episode "That's no Lady That's my Cousin". There followed roles in The Postman (as the automotively monikered Ford Lincoln Mercury), the Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998, with Tate as Lymon), and 2000's Love Come Down. Though a big theatrical release had eluded Tate for the first few years of the millennial turnover, Tate would soon turn up opposite Laurence Fishburne in the high-octane but critically derided Biker Boyz (2003), A Man Apart (2003), Crash (2004), as music legend Quincy Jones in Ray (2004), and Waist Deep (2006). Larenz was also featured in R&B singer Ashanti's 2003 released music video Rain on Me, where he played the jealous, abusive spouse of Ashanti. The video touched on the subject of domestic abuse. He can be seen in the latest season of FX Network's Rescue Me. Tate is married to Tomasina 'Geneva' Parrott. They have two sons together named Myles and Zander.
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Justine Lord

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Justine Lord (born Jennifer Lily Schooling; 8 March 1937) is an English actress, active on television throughout the 1960s. She began her acting career in repertory theatre. In the 1960s she made guest appearances in Live Now, Pay Later (1962), The Avengers ("Propellant 23", 1962), The Saint ("The Bunco Artists" and "The Saint Plays with Fire", 1963; "The Saint Steps In" and "The Imprudent Politician", 1964; "The Checkered Flag", 1965; "The Fiction-Makers", 1968), The Prisoner ("The Girl Who Was Death", 1968) and Man in a Suitcase, as well as playing regular roles in Crossroads, Compact, The Troubleshooters and The Doctors. Lord married James Ridler in 1971. She retired from acting in the late 1970s, with the exception of an appearance in The Young Ones in 1982.
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Jorge Rivero

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Jorge Pous Rosas, known as Jorge Rivero, is a Mexican actor. In his time he was one of the most athletic actors in Mexican cinema, which made him one of the biggest male sex symbols of the 1970s and 1980s. Very handsome and muscular Mexican leading man of Spanish origin, on-screen from the mid-1960s. Ironically, in his debut film he played a masked wrestler and his face was never shown. Rivero soon became a sex symbol and a major box-office star, and was called by Hollywood to star with John Wayne in Howard Hawks's Río Lobo (1970). Since the 1980s he has worked only occasionally in Mexican films and soap operas -- he has lived in Southern California for more than a decade -- but shows up in international productions, sometimes billed as "George Rivero."
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Madeleine Sami

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Actor Madeleine Sami won international acclaim starring in two Toa Fraser plays: 1998's Bare and solo show No 2. Aged 18, she debuted on screen on Shortland Street and Pio. Following Insiders Guide to Happiness, she played Oscar Kightley's romantic interest in Sione's Wedding. Sami went on to win an NZ acting award for Super City, in which she created and played multiple characters. In 2018 comedy The Breaker Upperers hit cinemas; Sami co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred with Jackie van Beek.
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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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