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Josephine Langford

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Josephine Langford (born on August 18, 1997) is an Australian actress. She started taking acting classes at 13 years old, and later joined Perth Film School in 2012. She appeared in several short films, eventually working her way into Australian TV, before making her feature film debut as Darcie Chapman in Wish Upon (2017). Langford started gaining recognition as the lead starring role, Tessa Young, in the After franchise (2019-2023). She has also starred in The Other Zoey (2023), Gigi & Nate (2022), and Moxie (2021).
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Fiona Bell

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Fiona Bell is a Scottish actress, known for her role as Sergeant Angela McLeod in the ITV drama series Soldier Soldier (1997–1998), as Donna Killick in the BBC One crime drama series Shetland (2018) and as Hilary in the BBC One drama series The Nest (2020). Bell was born in Rosneath then part of Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She took an interest in acting and joined the Scottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow at the age of 15. She graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a BA Acting degree in 1986.
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Doctor Dale Russell

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Dale Alan Russell (27 December 1937 – 21 December 2019) was an American-Canadian geologist and paleontologist. Throughout his career Russell worked as the Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature,[2] Research Professor at the Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at North Carolina State University, and Senior Paleontologist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Dinosaurs he has described include Daspletosaurus and Dromiceiomimus, and he was amongst the first paleontologists to consider an extraterrestrial cause (supernova, comet, asteroid) for the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Russell also helped lead the China-Canada Dinosaur Project from 1986 to 1991. In 1982, Russell created the "dinosauroid" thought experiment, which speculated an evolutionary path for Troodon if it had not gone extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago and had instead evolved into an intelligent being. Russell commissioned a model of his dinosauroid by artist Ron Seguin, and the concept became popular. Various later anthropologists have continued Russell's speculations about intelligent Troodon-like dinosaurs, though they often find his original idea too anthropomorphic.
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Ai Kayano

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Ai Kayano is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Pro-Fit.talent agency; she is represented by Office Osawa since 2015. After debuting as a voice actress in 2010, she played her first lead role as Meiko "Menma" Honma in the 2011 anime television series Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. She is also known for her lead roles as Inori Yuzuriha in Guilty Crown, Utaha Kasumigaoka in Saekano, Mashiro Shiina in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou and Shiro in No Game No Life. She has also performed opening, ending, and insert theme for various anime she has acted in.
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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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Ionut Grama

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Ionut Grama (born December 12 1982) is a Romanian film, stage and voice over actor. He graduated from the National University of Drama and Film (UNATC) in Bucharest in 2007. At age 26, he recieved a nomination for Best Debut at the Romanian Association of Theatre Artists Awards for his performance as George in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His film credits include English speaking roles in A Royal Christmas (2014), Sons of Liberty (2014), Closer to the Moon (2013), The Devil Inside (2013), The Whistleblower (2011) and The Robbery (2010). He starred in the Romanian productions A Month in Thailand (2012) and Gruber's Journey (2009) and several short films. On stage, Ionut has performed in the Romanian productions The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2014), The Most Beautiful Novel in the World (2013), Orphans (2013), Julius Caesar (2012), Girl Gone (2009). He also starred in several UNATC productions, such as Two Worlds Hotel (2011), Parasites (2010), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2008), Belgrade Trilogy (2007) and Some Explicit Polaroids (2007). He was cast in the British site-specific productions of The Winter's Tale (2012) and Pericles (2010), performing in English, Czech and Polish. From 2013 to 2014, Ionut was the Romanian continuity voice for DIVA Universal. His voice over work includes roles in the Romanian dubbed versions of The Boxtrolls (2014), Escape from Planet Earth (2014), Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy (2014), Khumba (2014), Planes (2013), Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012) and several Disney Channel and Nickelodeon TV series. In 2014, Ionut attended Neil LaBute's Why Don't We Do It In The Road? workshop at Sibiu, Romania. He participated at the Sarajevo Film Festival Talent Campus in 2013.
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Anamaria Vartolomei

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Anamaria Vartolomei (born 9 April 1999) is a French-Romanian actress. She began her career as a child actress in the film My Little Princess (2011). She won the Lumières Award for Best Actress and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Happening (2021). She appeared on the UniFrance and Screen International list of rising French talents to watch. Vartolomei was born in Bacău and lived in the Plopu village of Dărmănești. Her parents began working abroad when Vartolomei was as young as two, first in England and later France. Having been being cared for by her grandparents in the meantime, she joined her parents at the age of six, settling in Issy-les-Moulineaux. She attended l'école Anatole France. She trained in acting at the Cours Florent and Les Enfants Terribles. She was admitted to the Sorbonne, but opted not to go in favour of her acting career. Source: Article "Anamaria Vartolomei" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ian Delaney

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Growing up throughout the Midwest, Ian became involved in the Arts early on focusing on both music and acting. Mainly performing in musicals on the local stage in his youth allowed him to gain experience as both a dancer and singer. Ian was accepted into the professional actor training program at the University of Arizona where he received his BFA and performed in classics like "Dancing At Lughnasa" and "The Philadelphia Story". He now resides in Los Angeles, Ian is focusing on film and television work, as well as developing his own projects with producing partner and long-time friend, J. Michael Trautmann.
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Jackie Fields

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein, February 9, 1908 – June 3, 1987) was an American professional boxer who won the World Welterweight Championship twice. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Fields as the #19 ranked welterweight of all-time. Fields was elected to the United Savings-Helms Hall of Boxing Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1987, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004. Jackie Fields, who was Jewish, was born Jacob Finkelstein on Maxwell Street, in Chicago, Illinois, on February 9, 1908. His father was a Jewish Russian immigrant who worked as a butcher. Some of his initial boxing instruction came from the legendary black boxing trainer and former lightweight boxer Jack Blackburn, who would later train Joe Lewis. When his family moved to Los Angeles in 1921, Fields continued boxing at Jack Dempsey's Gym. He boxed as an exceptional amateur for the Los Angeles Sporting Club, under the instruction of George Blake, a master trainer who recognized Jackie's potential as early as the age of thirteen. An exceptional boxer in Blake's stable, Fidel LaBarba, future world flyweight champion, sparred with the young Fields after he arrived in Los Angeles, and would spar with him on other occasions to improve his technique and speed.
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Ushasie Chakraborty

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Ushasie Chakraborty is an Indian actress and academic who works in Bengali language films. She has played the role of Satyabati opposite Abir Chatterjee in Anjan Dutt's film adaptations on Byomkesh Bakshi. She also played the role of June Guha in the Bengali television show Sreemoyee (2019-21). In 2020, she submitted her PhD thesis in the midst of personal challenges, including the death of her Marxist father, Shyamal Chakraborty. At Jadavpur University, she wrote about bias against female drivers for her MPhil.
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