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Joe Berlinger

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Joseph "Joe" Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an American documentary film-maker who, in collaboration with Bruce Sinofsky, has created such films as Paradise Lost about the West Memphis 3, Brother's Keeper, Some Kind of Monster, and Crude. In collaboration with journalist Greg Milner, Berlinger has also written a book called Metallica: This Monster Lives, which is about his journey from making the poorly received Blair Witch 2 to creating Some Kind of Monster with Metallica, one of the world's most famous metal bands. Berlinger has also worked in TV series such as Homicide: Life on the Street, D.C. and FanClub. The first movie Berlinger directed, in 1992, was the documentary My Brother's Keeper, which tells the story of Delbart Ward, an elderly man in Munnsville, New York, who was charged with second-degree murder following the death of his brother William. Chicago Tribune film critic Roger Ebert, in his review of the movie, called it "an extraordinary documentary about what happened next, as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice." He graduated from Colgate University in 1983. He lives with his wife and daughters in New York.
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Nora Denney

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nora Denney (September 3, 1927 – November 20, 2005), also known and credited as Dodo Denney, was an American stage, television, and film actress. Her show business career began in Kansas City when she was hired by the local television station Channel 5 (KCMO TV) to play Marilyn the Witch, an onscreen host for horror movies. She performed in many television series, including Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Hart to Hart, Get Smart, Room 222 and That Girl, and her film credits included Who's Minding the Mint? (1967), I Walk the Line (1970), Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971), I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975), American Hot Wax (1978) and Truman (1995). She made her final film appearance in 1999, in Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil. Perhaps her most notable film role was as Mrs. Teevee in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder and Jack Albertson.
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Yoko Maki

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Maki Yoko is a Japanese actress. Maki has appeared in several films including 2003 film Infection and the 2004 American remake The Grudge. Maki made her film debut at the age of 19 in 2001 film Drug. Her film career sprung when receiving a role as Aya in the highly modernized remake of the Japanese vengeance film Lady Snowblood (later re-titled as The Princess Blade). Maki later began performing on stage in the 2002 play Cross. In November 2008, Maki announced that she had married a 26-year old man not in the Japanese entertainment industry.
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Elizabeth Chamberlain

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Elizabeth Chamberlain is a Canadian actress, singer-songwriter, and dancer who works in the film, theatre, and music industries. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Alberta and a diploma of Theatre Arts from Grant MacEwan University. Elizabeth's professional career has taken place on stage as well as in front of the camera. Elizabeth's most impressive theatrical accomplishments include playing Amy in "Little Women" (Opera NUOVA), Lucy in Mac Wellman's "Dracula" (University of Alberta's Studio Theatre), and the original and titular role of Red in the 82-show debut of "The Red Mountain" (Gold Fever Follies). Elizabeth is most known for her roles of "Elita" in Hollywood Sci-Fi film "Alien Storm" (Mahal Empire Productions), the gruesome and feminine lead Mildred Moyer in the slasher-comedy movie "Grotesque" (Higher Universe Pictures), and Alexandra 'Zee' Bradbury in the Hollywood Sci-Fi series "Space Command" directed by Marc and Elaine Zicree. Elizabeth also is known for her singing and songwriting and has composed and performed the theme songs for films such as her singles "Run Back to Me" for the English film "The Code" directed by multi-award winning director Patrick Ryder, "I Should Have Known" for "Markings of Murder" (Hot Shots Films), and "Casually Suicidal" for "Grotesque" (Higher Universe Pictures). When she is not performing, Elizabeth enjoys teaching musical theatre to youth. Elizabeth is particularly fond of her time as an instructor for Broadway North Youth Company where she first studied her craft as a child. Elizabeth believes that inspiring our youth with art creates a more vibrant future for everyone. Elizabeth is known for her fiery passion for the arts and her willingness to pursue her crafts wherever they may take her.
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Sandrine Bonnaire

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Sandrine Bonnaire (born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies. Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film À nos amours. She played a girl from the suburbs beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire directed by Patrice Leconte followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet. In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte's film: Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States. Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus novel La Peste (The Plague). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). Since March 2003 she has been married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandrine Bonnaire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gene Lockhart

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs. He became a United States citizen in 1939. Born in London, Ontario, the son of John Coats Lockhart and Ellen Mary (née Delaney) Lockhart, he made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with the Kilties Band of Canada. He later appeared in sketches with Beatrice Lillie. Lockhart is mostly remembered for his film work. He made his film debut in the 1922 version of Smilin' Through, as the Rector, but did not make his sound debut until 1934 in the film By Your Leave, where he played the playboy Skeets. Lockhart subsequently appeared in more than 300 motion pictures. He often played villains, including a role as the treacherous informant Regis in Algiers, the American remake of Pepe le Moko, which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also played the suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, the Dauphin's chief counselor, in the famous 1948 film Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. He had a great succession of "good guy" supporting roles including Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and the judge in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
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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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Britta Soll

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Britta Soll (until 2013, Britta Vahur; born July 14, 1984) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress and former fashion model. Britta Soll was born in Tallinn, where she attended schools. Her mother works in a bank and her father is a trolley driver. She has an older half-brother, Marius. She graduated from secondary school at the Jakob Westholm Gymnasium in 2002. Afterward, she enrolled at the EMA Higher Drama School (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, graduating in 2006. Among her graduating classmates were Inga Salurand, Risto Kübar, Mari-Liis Lill, Laura Peterson, Ursula Ratasepp, Lauri Lagle, and Sergo Vares. In 2006, she began an engagement at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn, where she still currently performs. During her career at the Linnateater, she has appeared in roles in productions of such varied authors and playwrights as: Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Selma Lagerlöf, Brian Friel, Ivan Turgenev, Ingmar Bergman, Bogusław Schaeffer, Juan Rulfo, Anton Chekhov, Peter Quilter, Tom Stoppard, Jean Anouilh, Tena Štivičić, Lee Hall, and Jean-Claude Grumberg, among several others. Additionally, she appeared in several productions of works by such Estonian authors and playwrights as: Mihkel Ulman, Madis Kõiv, Priit Pedajas, Uku Uusberg, and, Paul-Eerik Rummo. She has also worked as a fashion model and as a stage actress at several theatres, including: the R.A.A.A.M. theatre, Theatre NO99, the Tallinn City Theatre, and the Endla Theatre, among others. In 2006, Soll (then still using her maiden name Britta Vahur) made her first appearance on Estonian television with a role on an episode of the Eesti Televisioon (ETV) crime-drama series Ohtlik lend. This was followed by the role of Anu on the Kanal 2 crime series Kelgukoerad between 2007 and 2008; and as Marja-Liisa from 2011 until 2012 on the ETV historical comedy series ENSV: Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik, which reflects on life during the 1980s in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. She has also made appearances in smaller roles on such television series as: the TV3 serial Helena in 2006, the TV3 comedy series Kalevi naised in 2008, the TV3 crime-comedy Kättemaksukontor in 2009, the TV3 drama Kartulid ja apelsinid in 2014, and the TV3 drama Üheotsapilet in 2015. Soll made her film debut as Elisabeth in the Moonika Siimets directed film short Deus ex Machina in 2005. In 2007, she appeared as Karin in her first feature-length film, Nuga; a drama directed by Marko Raat which starred Mait Malmsten and Kersti Heinloo. The same year, she had a small role in the Peeter Simm directed biographic drama Georg, which chronicled the life of Estonian singer and actor Georg Ots. In 2016, she appeared in another small role as a sperm clinic doctor in the René Vilbre directed comedy film Klassikokkutulek. In 2021, she appeared as Katya in the Peeter Rebane directed historical drama Firebird.
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Annabella Sciorra

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Annabella Sciorra (born March 29, 1960) is an American film, television, and stage actress. Sciorra received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead for the 1989 film True Love, and came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever. She starred in the 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and received critical acclaim for her work in Cop Land. She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Gloria Trillo in the HBO series The Sopranos.
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Maggie Robertson

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Maggie Nicole Robertson made her film debut with the 2021 short film "By Faith, Denis," directed by Jeremy Ratzlaff, in which she portrayed the timid and emotional character Kit. Her compelling performance in the film garnered attention from several rising Saskatchewan filmmakers. Since then, Maggie has collaborated with multiple emerging directors, showcasing her versatile acting skills in many films, including the feature film "A Storm Blows Over" by Gavin Baird, "Melted" by Sophie Kokott, and "Our Last Day as Kids" by Dylan Hyrciuk. She also starred in a music video for the acclaimed pop-punk band Senses Fail. In 2023, Maggie reprised her role as Kit in the "By Faith, Denis" sequel, "Fear and Trembling," wherein she displayed her emotional depth as an actor. After its release, the film was showcased at the Soho Film Festival in New York City. In 2023, Maggie received Best Performance at the Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards for her role in "A Storm Blows Over" and Best Actress at the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival for her performance in "Fear and Trembling." In 2024, Maggie was featured in short films such as "First Laid Eyes" by Logan McCormick and "Maneater" by Jessica Gares. Her appearances in the feature films "Deathgasm II" by Jason Lei Howden, "#Vanlife" by Trevor Cameron, “War Party” by Dante Yore, and “Violent Night 2” by Tommy Wirkola are also notable. She is now mainly based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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