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Megumi Hayashibara

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Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ, Hayashibara Megumi, born March 30, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include: Megu-san, Megu-nee, Bara-san, Kakka, and Daijin. She is best known for her roles in Ranma ½ (as Ranma Saotome (female voice)), Neon Genesis Evangelion (as Rei Ayanami), Cowboy Bebop (as Faye Valentine), Slayers (as Lina Inverse), Detective Conan (as Ai Haibara), Pokémon (as Musashi/Jessie of Team Rocket), All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (as Atsuko Natsume and her counterpart Atsuko Higuchi from the OVA Nuku Nuku Dash!) and Shaman King (as Anna Kyoyama). She is also a fully qualified and registered nurse.
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Dasari Narayana Rao

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Dasari Narayana Rao (4 May 1947 – 30 May 2017) was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, dialogue writer, actor, lyricist, and politician known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, Television, and Bollywood. He has directed more than one hundred and fifty feature films in a variety of genres. His works emphasize social injustice, corruption and gender discrimination. Rao has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards including the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and four Filmfare Awards South including the lifetime Achievement. During his career he has also acted in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada languages.
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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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Elijah Wood

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Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer. A prominent child actor of the 1990s and a prolific figure in major studio features of the early 2000s, he earned accolades including two Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award. Wood made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989) at the age of eight and achieved recognition in the early 1990s as a child actor with roles such as Avalon (1990), Forever Young (1992), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), and The Good Son (1993). As a teenager, he starred in the films North (1994), The War (1994), Flipper (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), Deep Impact (1998), and The Faculty (1998). Wood achieved international fame in the early 2000s for playing the hobbit Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy(2001–2003), based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. As an adult, Wood appeared in a wide range of films, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Sin City (2005), and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017). He has had voice roles in projects such as Happy Feet (2006), The Legend of Spyro (2006–2008), 9 (2009), Tron: Uprising (2012–2013), and Over the Garden Wall (2014). On television, Wood starred in the series Wilfred (2011–2014), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017), and Yellowjackets (2023–2025). Wood founded the record label Simian Records in 2005, which was dissolved in 2015. He directed the 2007 music video "Energy" for The Apples in Stereo. In 2010, Wood co-founded a horror film production company, The Woodshed, which was renamed SpectreVision in 2014. Wood is a disc jockey and has toured globally with his friend Zach Cowie as the duo Wooden Wisdom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elijah Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Béla Tarr

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Béla Tarr (July 21, 1955 – January 6, 2026) was a Hungarian filmmaker. Much of his work is marked by philosophical elements and a pessimistic view of humanity. His films utilize unconventional storytelling methods, such as long takes and/or non-professional actors to achieve realism. Debuting with Family Nest in 1979, Tarr underwent a period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling mundane stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, the cinematography of Tarr's films gradually changed; Damnation (1988) was shot with languid camera movement aimed at establishing ambience. It marked Tarr's earliest experimentation with philosophical themes, focused mostly on bleak and desolate representations of reality. Sátántangó (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) continued this approach; both are considered by some critics to be among the greatest films ever made. Tarr would later compete in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man From London. Frequent collaborators of Tarr include his wife Ágnes Hranitzky, novelist László Krasznahorkai, film composer Mihály Víg, cinematographer Fred Kelemen, and actress Erika Bók. After the release of his film The Turin Horse (2011), Tarr announced his definitive retirement from film direction. He has been teaching at the Sarajevo Film School since. Tarr died on 6 January 2026 following a long and serious illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Béla Tarr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Aria Inthavong

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Aria Inthavong is an award-winning director, producer, writer and actor from Laos, currently based in Los Angeles. Aria’s work has amassed over 500 million views online and been featured by CNN, Vice, BuzzFeed, and more. In 2023, Aria’s directorial debut, “Nowhere Men,” an independent narrative feature, premiered and won top honors at the 2023 Micheaux Film Festival. Alongside being awarded “Best Actor” for his onscreen performance, the film was also nominated for “Best Writing” and won the “Panavision Award for Best Feature,” and an accompanying $60,000 grant. “Nowhere Men” was also selected for the 2023 Portland Film Festival, through which the film was made available for streaming via Comcast. Aside from Aria's narrative projects, his work in the non-fiction space, ranging from intimate documentaries to large-scale investigative exposés, have been viewed online over 350 million times. Arguably the most notable of these projects is “Serge,” a 2020 Academy Award-qualifying documentary short that Aria produced entirely from home during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 6 million views on YouTube alone, the viral success of “Serge” was also bolstered by acclaim; being awarded as a 2021 Webby Award Honoree and selected for festivals such as the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival and Film Fund. Aria is currently in production on his first feature documentary, while also developing his next narrative feature.
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Katarina Maya

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Katarina Maya is an Indonesian actress, model, designer, and entrepreneur. She is known for her role as the sorceress Xiu Zhang Xiang in the film The Trial, part of the Wizard Lineage universe directed by Dimas Aditya. In addition, she is known for her assertive and energetic acting style, so that any character can easily blend with her character. She also plays the main character in the horror film The Journal: Berawal Dari Sebuah Penelitian which was produced and directed by Dimas Aditya as well. Not only in the entertainment world, Maya is also involved in the hotel world and serves as a Front Office (FO) with her distinctive, friendly, and professional communication style.
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Norm Abram

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Norm Abram, born on October 3, 1949, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is a renowned American carpenter, author, and television personality, widely recognized for his role as the master carpenter on the PBS series This Old House and as the host of The New Yankee Workshop. Raised in Milford, Massachusetts, Abram learned carpentry skills from his father at a young age and began working on job sites by the time he was nine. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, initially studying mechanical engineering before switching to business administration, though he left before completing his degree. After working as a site supervisor for a New England construction firm, Abram founded his own contracting business, Integrated Structures Inc., in 1976. His television break came in 1979 when he was hired to build a small barn for television producer Russell Morash, who soon asked Abram to join This Old House as a regular fixture for its first televised renovation. Abram's humble, practical approach soon made him a fan favorite, and he became synonymous with quality craftsmanship on TV. In 1989, he began hosting The New Yankee Workshop, showcasing his woodworking expertise for 21 seasons, all while continuing his work on This Old House through more than 1,000 episodes and over 50 major home renovation projects. Aside from television, Abram has published several books, contributed to trades education initiatives like Generation NEXT, and has appeared in various media cameos. Respected for his gentle demeanor and passion for teaching, Norm Abram retired from This Old House in 2022, leaving behind a legacy as one of America's most beloved craftsmen and woodworking educators.
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Maisie Williams

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Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born April 15, 1997) is an English actress. Williams made her acting debut in 2011 as Arya Stark, a lead character in the HBO epic medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). She gained recognition and critical praise for her work on the show and received two Emmy Award nominations. Williams' other television appearances include Ashildr in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2015), starring in the British docudrama television film Cyberbully (2015), and in the British science-fiction teen thriller film iBoy (2017). She played the central character in the comedy action drama miniseries Two Weeks to Live (2020) and portrayed punk rock icon Jordan in Pistol (2022), a biopic about the Sex Pistols. Williams also voiced Cammie MacCloud in the American animated web series Gen:Lock (2019–2021). In 2014, she starred as Lydia in her first feature film, the coming-of-age mystery drama The Falling, for which she received critical acclaim and several awards. She co-starred in films such as the romantic period-drama film Mary Shelley (2017), the animated prehistoric sports comedy film Early Man (2018), and the romantic comedy-drama film Then Came You (2018). In 2018, she made her stage debut in Lauren Gunderson's play I and You at the Hampstead Theatre in London, to positive reviews. In 2020, she starred in the superhero horror film The New Mutants and the psychological thriller The Owners. In 2019, Williams jointly developed and launched the social media platform Daisie, a multi-media networking app designed to be an alternative means to help artists and creators (especially those who are trying to get started) in their careers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maisie Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rizaslayy

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Muhamad Riza, better known by his stage name Rizaslayy, is an Indonesian actor and modern dancer. He began his career in the entertainment industry as a dancer while still in school, appearing as an extra in the television series Kun Anta 2 in 2019. He gained further recognition for his role as the wizard Ruben in the YouTube series Wizard Lineage, directed by Dimas Aditya. Rizaslayy also actively collaborates with various production houses, including CIO Productions, the main media partner of Green Project Production.
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