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Jeroen Krabbé

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Jeroen Aart Krabbé (Dutch pronunciation: [jəˈrun ˈaːrt krɑˈbeː]; born 5 December 1944) is a Dutch actor and film director with a successful career in both Dutch and English-language films. He is best known to international audiences for his leading roles in the Paul Verhoeven films Soldier of Orange (1977) and The Fourth Man (1983), for playing the villain General Georgi Koskov in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987) and his parts in The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994). His 1998 directorial debut, Left Luggage, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Gufran Guffy Shaikh

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Gufran Guffy Shaikh is an Indian actor, bodybuilder, and multi-talented performer known for his powerful screen presence and versatility in portraying a wide range of roles across Indian cinema, web series, and advertisements. After years of struggle, Gufran began his professional acting journey with Hindustan Pictures, gradually earning recognition for playing characters such as a king, wrestler, bodyguard, bouncer, driver, villain, comic roles, and even transgender characters. With a background in bodybuilding, boxing, and wrestling, his physicality has brought authenticity to numerous action-oriented roles, while his adaptability has also led him to work in comedic and emotional performances. Gufran has featured in major Bollywood films like Sultan and Dangal, as well as popular web series like Mirzapur. He has also worked in several commercials and digital ads, including campaigns for Colgate, Rimi Circle, and Future Pass. Despite his extensive experience, Gufran continues to audition and push forward in the highly competitive film industry, remaining locked in consideration by major production houses. His journey reflects the grit and dedication of a self-made artist who continues to pursue his passion with unwavering determination.
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Laila Sheir

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An Egyptian actress, born in 1940. After studying at the French Lycée, she worked in the field of fashion shows, after which she moved to the cinema since the mid-sixties through the movie Zizi's Family (1963). She continued in cinema during the 60s through the films Cairo at Night, The Groom Arrives Tomorrow and Outside of Paradise. She continued to take some time away and come back, till she traveled to France to return to the field of fashion, and then returned to Egypt at the end of the 80s, and worked in art intermittently.
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Brent Butt

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Born in the small farming town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada (population 3000) as the youngest of seven children. Brent began doing stand-up comedy in 1988. He was soon headlining top clubs and theatres across Canada, and has been selected to represent his country at both the Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, and the World Comedy Tour in Australia. He has appeared in numerous Canadian television programs, and a few U.S. shows (The X-Files (1993), Millennium (1996), Becoming Dick (2000)). He was named 'Best Male Standup' at the 2001 Canadian Comedy Awards. He lives and works out of Vancouver, on Canada's West Coast, and is concentrating more on acting.
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Michael Lightfoot

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Michael Lightfoot is an acclaimed British-Australian artist, illustrator and cartoonist based in Brighton, UK. Michael’s fine art paintings and drawings which include Swing Dancing at Passing Clouds (2015), Heaven (2023) and Meta-morphoses (2023) are characterised by their bold yet elegant renderings of the human form. Alongside his contributions to fine art, Michael has designed storyboards which have helped realise the cinematic vision for Halal Daddy (2017), Desertion (2016) and Into the Surf (2015) and advertising campaigns for L’Oréal Paris. Michael’s interest in narrative storytelling has led him in recent years to writing and illustrating comics; these works include ‘Looking for Love in Brexit Britain’ which explores the societal divisions in the wake of the EU referendum and ‘Autumn 2014’ – a tender story of unrequited love – which came runner-up at the Guardian/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize in 2022. Michael studied Fine Art at Curtin University, Australia between 1994-1997.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Geoff Levin

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Geoff Levin (born September 14, 1945) is an American rock musician, film/television composer and songwriter. Performing as part of the Black Mountain Boys with Jerry Garcia in the early years of his career, in 1968 his own group, People!, scored a hit record "I Love You" on Capital Records.[1][2] Together with Geoffrey Lewis in 1970, he created Celestial Navigations, a storytelling group, that produced 8 albums, several made the Billboard (New Age) charts. He co-composed and co-produced "The Janitor", an Academy Award-nominated animated short based on a story by Geoffrey Lewis from the album Celestial Navigations.[3][4][5] Levin has scored over 40 full-length films and has created music used in many TV shows including The Sopranos, Chicago Fire, The Good Wife, Friends, Bloodline, SNL, Game of Thrones, Friday Night Lights, CSI, and Weeds. He co-wrote the theme song for Jakers, an Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning PBS animated series. In addition, he composed music for James Cameron's deep sea documentary, Last Mysteries of the Titanic.[6] In 2007, as part of People!, Levin was inducted into San Jose's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Evgeniia Lopareva

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Evgeniia Aleksandrovna Lopareva (Russian: Евгения Александровна Лопарёва, born May 30, 2000) is a Russian-French ice dancer who competes for France. With her partner, Geoffrey Brissaud, she is a three-time French national champion (2023-25), a seven-time Grand Prix medalist, and a six-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (including four gold). Lopareva and Brissaud represented France at the 2026 Winter Olympics. At the junior level, they finished in the top ten at the 2019 World Junior Championships and are the 2019 French junior national silver medalists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Evgeniia Lopareva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Polina Pushkareva

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Polina Pushkareva Nioly is a russian actress. influencer and model. Being professionally competent in building a personal brand on social media she gained more than 1 million followers on Instagram by 2020. In 2019, she received a Best Extraordinary Blogger award at the Fashion New Year Awards. In 2020, Polina Pushkareva has debuted as an actress playing in the Hollywood movie "WarHunt" starring Mickey Rourke. Pursing her film industry carreer forward, Polina Pushkareva Nioly has been participating in some new film projects as an executive producer and actress.
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Jessica Velle

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Jessica Velle was born in Los Angeles and became an Actress and Model during childhood. She performed in multiple theatrical plays and studied acting with various instructors. She took a break from the entertainment industry as a teenager. In 2015, she made her feature film debut as Jenny in the campy thriller "Heavy Makeup" by Award-Winning Film Director Chris Morrissey. She also appeared in the Award-Winning British Film "Jengo Hooper" directed by Joe Wheeler. Jessica was recently featured in a commercial ad campaign for "Gucci" directed by James Franco. She is also starred in the dramatic Digital Series "Dead in Minutes" by Bojesse Christopher and stars in a Funny or Die comedy series with Funnywurld, performing various comedy skits. In 2016 Jessica Velle created and stars in the Digital Comedy Series "It's Not Me, It's You!"
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