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Stephen Lang
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Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American actor and playwright. He started in theatre on Broadway but is well known for his film portrayals of Stonewall Jackson in Gods and Generals (2003), George Pickett in Gettysburg (1993), and his 2009 roles as Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar and as Texan lawman Charles Winstead in Public Enemies. Lang was the co-artistic director (along with Carlin Glynn and Lee Grant) of the famed Actor's Studio at its headquarters in New York City from 2004 to 2006.
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Mary Chieffo
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Mary Elizabeth Chieffo is an American actress known for portraying the Klingon L'Rell on the television series Star Trek: Discovery.
Chieffo was born and grew up in the neighborhood of Valley Village, Los Angeles in California, only daughter of actors Michael Chieffo and Beth Grant. Her acting debut was at the age of three when she played a sleeping girl in Sandra Bullock's short film Making Sandwiches, in which her mother also had a role, and later acted in various TV shows and short and feature films. As a child, she attended Shakespeare theater camp at the Theatricum Botanicum, where she performed in a variety of shows including Antony and Cleopatra.
She attended the Drama division of Juilliard School in New York City, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2015. One of her classmates was future Star Trek: Discovery castmate Mary Wiseman. Her first high profile acting position was on Star Trek: Discovery, where she played the recurring character of L'Rell, a Klingon warrior and spy who becomes leader of the Klingon Empire at the end of Season 1.
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Billy Cox
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William “Billy” Cox is an American bassist, best known for performing with Jimi Hendrix. Cox is the only surviving musician to have regularly played with Hendrix: first with the experimental group that backed Hendrix at Woodstock (informally referred to as “Gypsy Sun and Rainbows”), followed by the trio with drummer Buddy Miles that recorded the live Band of Gypsys album, and, lastly, The Cry of Love Tour trio with Mitch Mitchell back on drums. Cox continues to perform dates with the Band of Gypsys Experience and the Experience Hendrix Tour.
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Greg Bronson
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Greg Bronson (September 2, 1954, in Tuba City, Arizona, USA – † January 7, 2017, in Arizona, USA) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films and TV series, including Apollo 13 (1995), Species (1995), Virtuosity (1995), Independence Day (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Starship Troopers (1997), and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000). On television, he appeared in The X-Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun, NYPD Blue, Angel, and JAG. In addition to his acting career, he worked with the local film industry in Arizona and supported the theater program at Scottsdale Community College.
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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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Robert Earl Jones
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Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and professional boxer. One of the first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.
Jones was best known for his leading roles in films such as Lying Lips (1939) and later in his career for supporting roles in films such as The Sting (1973), Trading Places (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Witness (1985). He was the father of actor James Earl Jones.
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Malik Bentalha
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Malik Bentalha (born 1 March 1989 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze) is a French humorist and actor of Algerian and Moroccan descent. He does stand-up comedy and has appeared in some films.
Malik Bentalha studied at the Cours Florent during one year, from 2007 to 2008. After that, he did sketches in Parisian café-théâtre, as the Théâtre du Point-Virgule.
In 2010, after Jamel Debbouze noticed him, Malik Bentalha integrated the Jamel Comedy Club and later on served as the opening act for Debbouze's tour, Tout sur Jamel, for two years. One day, he met Gad Elmaleh at Montmartre who asked him to do the opening act for his show at the Palais des Sports the following day. That same year, he was a part of Le meilleur de Paris fait sa comédie on France 2.
In 2011 he had a chronicle, Télé Délire, on Le Grand Direct, a radio program hosted by Jean-Marc Morandini. At first, he did it with Mathieu Madénian and since September 2011 with Benjamin Josse. In 2014, he joined Cyril Hanouna in his radio program Les pieds dans le plat on Europe 1, with Valérie Bénaïm.
Since 2010, he has been touring with his first one man show, Malik Bentalha se la raconte, directed by Alex Lutz. In December 2014, a DVD was released. In January 2015, W9 broadcast a live session of the one man show, followed by a TV report, Malik se raconte.
In 2015, he is going to film Pattaya, a Franck Gastambide film in which he'll have one of the main roles.
He is a godfather for the Theodora Children's Charity.
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Aurora Fearnley
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Raised in Stockport, Manchester, Aurora's mother was an ecologist before completing her PhD in animal behaviour and genetics. Her father is a teacher for children with special needs and violent offenders. Aurora was writing plays and winning acting awards as a teenager and that tenacious focus has since cemented her as a highly regarded talent in the UK indie filmmakers circles, known for her excellence as a storyteller in many forms.
She came to prominence as an actor playing recovery methamphetamine addict Rebecca in Mike Dawson's feature film Confession. Screen credits include; playing Greta Batchley alongside Seyan Sarvan and Jamie Robson in mystery Spin State and BBC TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy.
Aurora won The Pitch at Pinewood in 2014 and made epic sci-fi short Pulsar with David Gyasi and Jessie Buckley. The international festival success helped Aurora take awards as Breakthrough Filmmaker for her short psychological thriller Murmur, which was commissioned by Directors UK. Aurora is developing a Sci-fi feature debut Tipping Point with producer Jude Goldrei with funding from the BFI.
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Christine Horne
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Christine Horne (born December 14, 1981 in Aurora, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress who co-starred with acclaimed Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn in the movie The Stone Angel, which was adapted from a Canadian novel of the same name.
The Stone Angel is Christine's first feature film. She received her BFA in Theatre at York University, Toronto in 2004 and spends her days as the artistic co-director of the Thistle Project as well as co-founder of KICK Theatre.
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Sydney Sweeney
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Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She gained early recognition for her roles in Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid's Tale, and Sharp Objects in 2018. She received wider acclaim for her performances in the drama series Euphoria (2019–present) and the first season of the anthology series The White Lotus (2021), both of which earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards.
In film, Sweeney appeared in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and later had leading roles in the drama film Reality and the romantic comedy Anyone but You, both in 2023. In 2024, she played Julia Cornwall in the superhero film Madame Web and starred in the horror film Immaculate.
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