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Mary Chris Wall
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Mary Chris Wall is an actress, who is best known for the role of Ellen Talbot, the mother of Joe Talbot, on the 1995-1998 children's television show Wishbone that aired on PBS. Mary Chris Wall actually is the biological mother of Jordan Wall, the young actor who plays Joe Talbot.
She has appeared in such feature films as Blank Check and Ruby, in which she played Jackie Kennedy. She also has appeared in the 1990 ABC movie Challenger, the Walker, Texas Ranger television series and has more than 250 industrial films and commercials to her credit. Her stage experience includes the Broadway and national touring company of "42nd Street" and regional exposure in Six Women with Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know, Grease and Misalliance. She received her professional training from New York University, London University and the Image Theatre and Studio in New York.
She can now be seen in "Get a Mac" commercials as a spokeswoman for "PC." Also has been in a back to school commercial for Walmart in the summer of 2009.
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Valeria Vera
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From the age of 6 she entered Televisa's art workshop under the direction of Martha Zavaleta, where she practiced disciplines such as ballet, jazz, fencing, singing, acting, stage management, among others. Among the teachers were Irma Montero, Gabriela Cárdenas and Jorge Becerril, and there was also a mambo workshop taught by Adalberto Martínez "Resortes".
At the age of 11, she was part of the musical group A.T.M. along with Horacio and Israel, classmates from the same workshop, a project created by Mildred Villafañe in 1990, who also produced Flans. At the end of 1992 the project was dissolved due to the closure of the Melody record label.
Later, in 2001, after having participated in the Peruvian soap opera Boulevard (1997), together with Jorge D'alessio, she formed the group B.A.S.E. with Dann, Lui, Gerson and Tana, in which she also began to compose. They released an album of eleven songs with the singles "Pisando Raya" and "Niña Rebelde".
In 2004, thanks to Gerardo Quiroz and Juan Carlos "El Borrego" Nava, he was cast for the role of Anybody's (which in the Mexican production was called X), when she went with some friends to the audition for Amor sin Barreras.
After this work and her participation in the telenovela Mujer de madera (2004), she stopped acting and became a production assistant at Endemol in order to study acting in the United States, but after being accepted into the academy and receiving an invitation to a professional course for foreigners, she had the opportunity to participate in Nacho Cano's Hoy No me Puedo Levantar in 2006, so she decided to stay in Mexico to play the role of Patricia Luli.
In the following years she expanded her experience in theater with her participation in the plays Chicas Católicas (2007), Avenue Q (2008), Show Roxana Castellanos, 7 Mujeres (2011), Ni princesas Ni esclavas (2011) and Divorciadas (2011). In addition to participating in the films Pamela (2008) and Casi divas (2008).
In 2015 she presented on Broadway with the play Que no se culpe a nadie de mi muerte, a story by Humberto Robles in which she plays five characters: the grandmother, the mother, the boyfriend, the sister and the protagonist. During the same year she presented it in Mexico, and performed it again in 2017 at the Foro Shakespeare.
In mid 2019 she got married in Zacatlán de las Manzanas, Puebla, to Lucía Cano, where Jannette Chao composed a song for the ceremony.
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Jack De Sena
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John Patrick De Sena (born December 6, 1987) is an American actor. He is best known for his voice roles of Sokka on the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005 - 2008) and Prince Callum on the Netflix series The Dragon Prince (2018 - 2024). He was also a regular performer in the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That from 2002 to 2005. Since January 19, 2016, DeSena and his longtime friend Chris W. Smith have been creating and starring in comedy sketches on their YouTube channel "Chris and Jack".
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Shaaban Abdel Rahim
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Sha’ban was born in al-‘Assal, an area in al-Shurabiyah. He worked with his father on laundry by day while singing at weddings by night. He realized fame by singing to Ahmed Helmy’s “Atgawiz ‘Aydah”. He also became well known for singing songs that had a political air, songs such as “Bakrah Israel” (“I Hate Israel”) which caused significant clamor. Sha’ban also worked on several musical plays and on series such as “Samhooni Makansh Asdee” (“Forgive Me, I Did not Mean to”). He also sang on the film “’Afareet al-Asfalt” (“Spirits of the Asphalt”).
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Rachid Bouchareb
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Rachid Bouchareb (born September 1, 1953 near Paris) is a French film director of Algerian descent.
From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production (S.F.P). Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a production company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988.
Bouchareb began making short films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Baton Rouge. Since then his acclaimed films have included Poussières de vie (Dust of Life) (which received an Academy Award nomination in 1995for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995); Little Senegal (which was shown in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival; and Days of Glory, which received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 2006 and also won prizes at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Bouchareb's films have a following amongst international cineastes.
His film, Hors-la-loi, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May. It was the Algerian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and was one of the five final nominees.
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Natalie Britton
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Natalie has played Catherine alongside Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent in “Perrier’s Bounty” and Susan Sanders in Noel Clarkes “4.3.2.1”. Her TV credits include “NCIS:LA” opposite Chris O’Donnell and she is appeared in a lead role of Detective Robinson in “A Date to Die For” on Lifetime.
Her stage credits include various professional Shakespeare productions, Elsie Mandelspiegel in “The Time of Your Life” at the Finborough Theatre and Janice Keating in the world premiere of “Corktown ’57” at The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Victoria Diamond
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Victoria Diamond is a multi-disciplinary artist who started performing at a young age in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she studied ballet, jazz and tap dance, and she was cast in her first professional lead role in a play at age 9. From there, she performed a variety of roles in TV, film, theatre, and musicals, as well as voiceover work in her home city.
After graduating from a French immersion high school and finishing university studies in philosophy and history, she was accepted in a 3-year contemporary dance program in Montreal. It was there that she came to the attention of a director who had an extensive background in French theatre and encouraged Victoria to pursue acting, casting her in her first French play. Upon graduation from dance school, Victoria continued to pursue her acting studies in various programs and workshops, including the Neighbourhood Playhouse in NYC, physical theatre in Italy, as well as a various other forms of acting and movement related training: clown, voice training, improvisation, yoga teacher-training, and Alexander technique.
Victoria has developed an eclectic and successful career, working in both English and French entertainment industries in television, theatre, film and voice-over work. In 2019, she won a Gemini award for her performance in the Quebec TV series, Nomades.
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Carla Gonzalez
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Carla Gonzalez is an American professional wrestler. As of March 2022, she is signed to WWE where she performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Roxanne Perez. She is the current NXT Women's Champion in her record-tying second reign and a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Cora Jade. Before signing with WWE, Gonzalez wrestled under the ring name Rok-C in Ring of Honor (ROH), where she was the inaugural ROH Women's World Champion. She also worked for several independent promotions such as Reality of Wrestling.
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Lauren Cohan
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Lauren Cohan (born January 7, 1982) is a British-American actress best known for her role as Maggie Greene in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead (2011–2018; 2020–present). Her other notable TV roles include Bela Talbot in the dark fantasy drama Supernatural (2007–2008), Rose in the supernatural teen drama The Vampire Diaries (2010–2012), Vivian McArthur Volkoff in the action comedy Chuck (2011), and Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge in the action comedy-drama Whiskey Cavalier (2019). Her film appearances include the comedy Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006), the psychological thriller horror The Boy (2016), the biographical drama All Eyez on Me (2017), and the action thriller Mile 22 (2018).
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Fernando Poe Jr.
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Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor. During the latter part of his career, Poe was defeated by incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the 2004 Philippine Presidential elections, a result roundly believed to have been fraudulent. His long career as an action film star earned him the moniker "King of Philippine Movies" (often shortened to Da King).
Poe was posthumously declared a National Artist of the Philippines for Film on 23 May 2006 by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The award was confirmed by President Benigno Aquino III on 20 July 2012, and was presented to his family on 16 August.
Ronald Allan K. Poe was the son of Filipino actor Allan Fernando R. Poe (Fernando Poe, Sr.) and Elizabeth Kelley, an American. He was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. His parents were not yet legally married when he was born on August 20, 1939, although his parents were later married in 1940. His opponents tried to derail his bid for the presidency when they sought to disqualify him as an illegitimate son of a non-Filipino mother. He was the second among six siblings and it was his brother Andy who was really named Fernando Poe, Jr. which FPJ later adopted, to bank on the popularity of his father who was a top actor in his time. Conrad Poe, a Filipino actor is FPJ's half-brother, the illegitimate son of the late Fernando Poe Sr. and actress Patricia Mijares. Pou is the original spelling of the family's surname from his grandfather, playwright Lorenzo Pou, a Catalan migrant from Majorca, Spain, who ventured into mining and business in the Philippines.
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