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Chanidapa Pongsilpipat
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Chanidapa Pongsilpipat, nickname Best, is a Thai actor, model, and presenter under CH3. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Srinakharinwirot University, majoring in Acting and Directing with a minor in Business Administration.
Best was signed under Exact Studio from 2007 to 2012 and decided not to renew her contract after its expiration. In 2013, she signed with CH3 and has been working under CH3 since. She is best known for her role in the 2007 film The Love of Siam.
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Alessandro Nivola
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Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor. His best-known roles include Pollux Troy in Face/Off (1997), Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park (1999), Billy Brennan in Jurassic Park III (2001), Arthur "Boy" Capel in Coco Before Chanel (2009), Anthony Amado in American Hustle (2013), Peter Forente in A Most Violent Year (2014), Governor Williams in You Were Never Really Here (2017), Mark Madoff in The Wizard of Lies (2017), photojournalist Lee Berger in the miniseries Chimerica (2019), Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Detective Hiltz in Amsterdam (2022), and Detective Conley in Boston Strangler (2023).
He has been married to actress Emily Mortimer since 2003; they have two children.
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Yuliya Savicheva
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Russian pop singer, graduate and finalist of the TV project “Star Factory 2”, participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, actress. Her first performance took place at the age of 4, when she took to the stage in Kurgan with the group “Convoy”, in which, as noted above, her father worked as a drummer. Later the team was invited to Moscow, and Stanislav Savichev with his family moved to live in Moscow. In the House of Culture MAI Savicheva played in New Year's performances, in parallel with her studies at school and classes in the choreographic team "Crane". At the suggestion of Azadanova, a teacher of ballroom dancing, Julia goes to her team. Together with a partner, they become twice the champions of Moscow in their class. Later, director Poleiko made an offer to Julia to play a major role in the New Year's performances of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The following year, she was again offered to take part in the New Year’s performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, she played the main role - the role of "Blowing Snow", and took part in 40 plays. Little Julia was invited to record the first album of singer Linda. Julia gives the opening text in Linda’s song “Do this.” In addition, the little artist starred in the video for this song along with the singer. Savicheva can also be caught briefly in Linda’s video for the song “Marijuana”. At age 8, Julia worked with Linda on children's backing vocals, starred in several of her videos. March 7, 2003 Julia becomes a participant in the television project "Factory of Stars 2" under the leadership of Maxim Fadeev. With the song “High”, Julia becomes the owner of the “Golden Gramophone” and with the same song she gets into the final of the festival “Song of the Year 2003”. In March 2004, Savicheva took part in the World Best contest, where she represented Russia and took 8th place, and in May of the same year she became the representative of Russia at Eurovision 2004 in Turkey with the English song “Believe me”. Having taken 11th place at Eurovision, the singer began working on her debut album. After Eurovision, Julia began a tour of Russia called "Hurricane in your city!" On March 29, 2005, Julia released her debut disc “High” under the label “Monolith”. In the fall of 2005, Savicheva released the song “If Love Lives in the Heart”, the soundtrack to the television series “Don't Be Born Beautiful”. In April 2006, Julia introduced a new song, “Hello,” followed by a second album, “Magnet,” in June 2006. In 2007, the single “No way” was released, which made it to the finale of “Song of the Year”. On February 14, 2008, Julia presented the album Origami. The album includes 10 new songs and one remix. From the very first days of sales, the album gained popularity among listeners. The songs "Winter", "Love-Moscow" and "Nuclear Explosion" took high positions in the charts. And many more other songs.
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Aldo Francia
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If there is a filmmaker who embodies the so-called New Chilean Cinema, it is Aldo Francia. Although he was the author of a short filmography of only two finished films, Valparaíso mi amor (1969) and Ya no basta con rezar (1972), France understood cinema from the first moment as a collective action and his individual authorship always remained in the background with respect to his most beloved creation: the Viña del Mar Film Festival.
A pediatrician by profession, Aldo Francia developed as a self-taught filmmaker. As he recalls in his book New Latin American Cinema in Viña del Mar (1990), his first approach to cinema took place in Paris on a cold autumn afternoon in November 1949. "On one of those evenings in a small cinema in the quartier, on the side of Boulevard Saint Michel, where the film projector had just been turned off and the lights on in the room, we all found ourselves with tearful eyes, without any possibility of concealing it. They had just projected Bicycle Thief by Vittorio de Sica. And we had the feeling that something new had started in the cinema. At that moment, being already a doctor, I decided that one day I would also be a filmmaker" (Francia, Aldo. New Latin American Cinema in Viña del Mar Santiago: CESOC: Chile-America, 1990. 242 p.).
The exhibition of the classic of Italian Neorealism left a deep impression in Francia. He soon got a Paillard 8mm camera and began a career as an amateur filmmaker. Paris in autumn (1957); Paceña (1959), about the indigenous neighborhoods of the city of La Paz; Carnaval (1960), filmed in Rio de Janeiro; and Lluvia (1961), made in the Latin quarter of Paris, were his first works. He later founded a Cine Club (1962), built the Cine Arte cinema in Viña del Mar, created a film magazine and, once all that was achieved, launched an international call for other amateur filmmakers from around the world. Thus was born the first Viña del Mar Amateur Film Festival (1963).In that city, the greatest Latin American film meeting of the time was held and Aldo Francia was its host par excellence. He discovered that his desire to make and learn was also a way to generate social change. The airs and graces of the revolution turned Viña del Mar into the ideal space for reflection and dissemination of a cinema in process.
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Jon Spaihts
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Jon Spaihts (/speɪts/) (born February 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter and author. He is best known for co-writing Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021) and its sequel Dune: Part Two (2024), both films based on the novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. He also wrote the screenplays for the films Prometheus (2012), Passengers (2016) and Doctor Strange (2016). For his work on Dune, Spaihts was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Robert Nelson Jacobs
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Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter.
In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.
He attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jacobs began his career as a writer of short stories that were published in little, prestigious magazines that generated little, prestigious income. Jacobs’ love of movies brought him to California, where it took a number of years for his work to finally start paying the rent.
Jacobs’ screenplay credits include Out to Sea, Dinosaur, Chocolat, The Shipping News, Flushed Away, The Water Horse, and Extraordinary Measures.
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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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Alina Reyes
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Alina Reyes (born Aline Patricia Nardone on 9 February 1956) is a French writer, best known for her literary treatment of eroticism.
She was born at Bruges, Gironde. Originally a freelance journalist, she devoted herself to fiction after a stay in Montreal. Reyes acquired notoriety with the success of her first novel, The Butcher, which was translated into numerous languages and adapted for the theatre; like many of her subsequent novels and essays, it showed a concern with contemporary eroticism and how to treat it in literary fiction.
She now splits her time between Paris and the Pyrenees.
Source: Article "Alina Reyes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Goutam Ghose
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Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, actor, music director and cinematographer, who works primarily in Bengali cinema. Ghose was greatly influenced by the movies of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Rajen Tarafdar, Mrinal Sen and Ajoy Kar who had heralded a new era in Bengali movies through their works. He is the only Indian to have received the "Vittorio Di Sica" Award, Italy, in 1997. In 2017, he was inducted as a member of the Oscar Academy.
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František Velecký
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Velecký was a very particular figure of Slovak acting, being antipode to venerated mainstream showbiz celebrities. Although he had never received any formal training in acting, he managed to earn great respect of both filmmakers and audience members.
He performed in some 50 Slovak, Czech, German, Hungarian and UK/US movies, but he will be most remembered for portraying the lead character of Mikoláš in the Czech movie Marketa Lazarová.
Velecký was born 8 March 1934 in Zvolen. He originally studied civil engineering and worked as a designer for few years. However, since his early age he was attracted by the world of cinema and finally in his 30s managed to get his first major roles.
Practically at the beginning of his acting career, after a few minor films including Každý týždeň sedem dní (1964) and Nylonový mesiac (1965), he received the role of his lifetime in Marketa Lazarová (1966). This experience deeply influenced the rest of his life.
In interviews, he described with gratitude how the director František Vláčil completely changed his way of seeing the world during the long production of this movie.
Despite the impact the role had on the film (widely considered the best Czech cinema) and on his life, Velecký would probably be more recognized by Western audiences for his appearances in The Brothers Grimm (released 2005) and the Academy Award-nominated Želary (2003).
For most of his career, Velecký was free of any theatre company ties except being briefly associated with the Theatre of Spišká Nová Ves in the 1980s.
During his professional career, Velecký was not limited to acting. He was assistant director to Juraj Jakubisko on the film Zbehovia a pútnici (1968) and he applied his talent in fine arts during the 1990s.
Velecký died of cancer 5 October 2003 in Bratislava.
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