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Burak Dakak

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Burak Dakak (born 8 June 1998) is a Turkish actor. Burak Dakak was born on 8 June 1998 in Ankara. He started his acting career at the age of 10. In 2008, he started playing the role of Servet in Doğruluk Ekseni. In 2009, he appeared as young Mert in Ezel. His other projects were Geniş Aile, Benim Adım Gültepe, Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, Umuda Kelepçe Vurulmaz and Diriliş: Ertuğrul has appeared in such series. He studied at Bahçeşehir University – Cinema and Theatre School. Between 2019 and 2021, he starred in the TV series Çukur.
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Anthony Ross

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Anthony Ross (February 23, 1909 – October 26, 1955) was a Broadway stage, television and film actor. Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Ross appeared in 20th Century Fox films including Kiss of Death (1947) and The Gunfighter (1950); in the Nicholas Ray-directed film noir, On Dangerous Ground (1952), and in the popular serial Mysterious Island (1951). He appeared in many television productions, including the 1954 CBS series The Telltale Clue in which he starred as police Captain Richard Hale. Ross died at age 46 of a heart attack in 1955. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Robert Byrd

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Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also served as a U.S. representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history; he was the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress until surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Byrd is the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the state legislature and in both chambers of Congress.
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Edmund Lowe

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmund Dantes Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Edmund Lowe's career included over 100 films in which he starred as the leading man. He is best remembered for his role as Sergeant Quirt in the 1926 movie, What Price Glory. (Lowe reprised his role from the movie in the radio program Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, broadcast on the Blue Network September 28, 1941 - January 25, 1942, and on NBC February 13, 1942 - April 3, 1942.) Making a smooth transition to talking pictures he remained popular but by the mid 1930s he was no longer a major star although he occasionally played leading man to the likes of Jean Harlow, Mae West, and Claudette Colbert. He remained a valuable supporting actor at the major studios while continuing in leads for such "Poverty Row" studios as Columbia Pictures where his skills could bolster low budget productions. He also starred in 35 episodes of the 1950s television show, Front Page Detective and appeared as the elderly lead villain in the first episode of Maverick opposite James Garner in 1957. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edmund Lowe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Paul Rose

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Paul Rose is a British television presenter who mainly works for the BBC. He is an accomplished diver, mountain climber and explorer whose skills and interests led to his role as a BBC documentary presenter. Rose made frequent expeditions to Antartica, supporting scientists engaged in research, and for eight 6-month seasons was base commander of Rothera Research Station. In 2006, Paul Rose presented the 5-part BBC documentary entitled the Voyages of Discovery. In 2017, Paul Rose presented a 2-part BBC documentary on the Yorkshire Wolds Way, a walk of around 80 miles from the Humber to Filey on the coast. During the programme, Rose explored the wildlife and geographical features of the landscape he encountered. In the second part of the documentary, Rose took a dramatic glider flight from the Wolds Gliding Club, Pocklington, over part of the Wolds Way. In 2018 he presented a four-part BBC One series The Lakes with Paul Rose about the English Lake District.
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Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu

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Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu  (d. 7 Eylül 1979 - İstanbul)   Tiyatro, sinema ve dizi oyuncusu. Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu felsefeci olmayı düşünmesine karşın, lise yıllarında okul kulüplerinde başladığı tiyatro oyunculuğunu meslek edinmeye karar verdi. ODTÜ felsefe bölümünde Okuduğu üç yılı geride bırakıp, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tiyatro Bölümüne girdi. Daha okul bitmeden Devlet Tiyatrosu'nun sahnelediği oyunlarda görev aldı, hatta bir ara Semih Sergen'in asistanlığı yaptı. Çağan Irmak'ın senaryosunu yazdığı ve yönettiği Çemberimde Gül Oya dizisinden teklif alınca İstanbul'a geldi. 12 Eylül öncesi döneminin farklı bir bakış açısıyla anlatıldığı dizide, devrimci Mehmet karakterini başarıyla canlandırdı.Daha sonra Zincirbozan filminde ise Reis lakaplı Ülkücü bir genci canlandırmıştır. Sonradan yine aynı ekiple Kurtuluş savaşını anlatan Kırık Kanatlar dizisinde rol aldı.​
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Denjirō Ōkōchi

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Denjirō Ōkōchi (5 February 1898 – 18 July 1962) was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in jidaigeki directed by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Daisuke Itō, Sadao Yamanaka, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Hiroshi Inagaki and Masahiro Makino. His real name was Masuo Ōbe. Training in Shinkokugeki under Shōjirō Sawada, Ōkōchi entered Nikkatsu in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara films playing characters such as Chūji Kunisada and Sazen Tange. At his peak, he was one of the top jidaigeki stars alongside Tsumasaburō Bandō and Chiezō Kataoka. During World War II, he also appeared in a number of war films. His house and garden in Arashiyama, Kyoto, called Ōkōchi Sansō, are still preserved and open to the public. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denjirō Ōkōchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Master P

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Percy Robert Miller Sr. (born April 29, 1970), known by his stage name Master P, is an American rapper, record producer, record executive, actor and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the record label No Limit Records, which was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Universal Records and Koch Records, and again as Guttar Music Entertainment, and currently, No Limit Forever Records. He is also the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises and Better Black Television, which was a short-lived online television network. He gained fame in the mid-1990s with the success of his hip hop group TRU (formed with his brothers C-Murder and Silkk The Shocker) as well as his fifth solo rap album Ice Cream Man (1996), which contained his first single "Mr. Ice Cream Man". His popularity grew in 1997 after the success of his Platinum single "Make 'Em Say Uhh!". In total, Miller has released 15 studio albums.
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Marie Drucker

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Marie Drucker (born 3 December 1974) is a French journalist, author, television and radio personality. The daughter of Jean Drucker, a French television executive, and a niece of Michel Drucker, a television journalist, she was educated at the Sorbonne, where she received a degree in modern literature. Her family is Jewish (from Romania, Austria, Poland, and Algeria). Her journalistic career started in 1994, as a freelance reporter for such magazines as Le Figaro and ELLE, before she settled down with the Capa agency in 1997, working with them on the TV programme Qu'en pensez-vous? ('What Do You Think of It?') on the Canal+ channel. She was the co-presenter of the France 2 show Rince ta baignoire in 1999. Next, in August 1999, she joined the newly formed team of I-Télé, a 24-hour news channel which first went on the air in November 1999, with whom she stayed until September 2003. The following two years she worked for Canal+, the main station of the Canal+ Group. The Canal+ Group is the parent company of I-Télé. She then moved across to become the main news-reader on the France 3 evening news show Soir 3. At the end of August 2008 Drucker left Soir 3 to take up a new position as substitute anchor of the weekend news bulletins of the France 2 channel. Marie Drucker is a cousin of actress Léa Drucker. She was ranked the 22nd sexiest woman in the world in a 2006 poll by FHM France. Despite a desire to protect her privacy, Drucker has been in a number of well publicized relationships with high-profile individuals, several of whom she was engaged to, starting with novelist Marc Levy until 2005. Then starting in late spring 2006 she was the partner of former French Minister of the Interior François Baroin, which led her to resign from Soir 3 out of concerns regarding her objectivity, but the couple were reported to have separated in April 2008. In 2009 she had an affair with banker Matthieu Pigasse, which became the subject of a scathing book by Pigasse's scorned wife, Alix Étournaud, in which Drucker is never named but instead referred to by nicknames such as "la sorcière" (the witch), "Miss Météo" (weather girl) or "gorge profonde" (deep throat). She shortly thereafter entered a relationship with comic actor Gad Elmaleh which lasted about a year. In 2012, she was reported to be dating celebrity chef Cyril Lignac. Drucker now lives in the 8th arrondissement of Paris with her partner, Mathias Vicherat, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2014. On the night of 31 March to 1 April 2015 Drucker gave birth to their son, named Jean after her father. Source: Article "Marie Drucker" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Demet Akbağ

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Demet Akbağ (born 23 December 1959) is a Turkish theatre and film actress. Demet Akbağ was born in Denizli as the third child of Benan and Oktay İybar. Her maternal family is of Turkmen descent. Her paternal family is of Kurdish descent. Her father's religion is Alevism. His family was in Denizli at the time because of the duty of his grandfather as the head of justice department in the city. Her father was a journalist and photographer. She has two elder siblings, Sedef and Kemal. As her parents separated when she was 13, she and her mother and grandmother moved to Istanbul in 1972. She later enrolled in the Istanbul Girls High School, and as her parents got separated she started attending the Erenköy Girls High School and finished her education there. After finishing high school in 1982, she entered Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and completed school in four years. Her first marriage, when she was 21, lasted four years. She started her professional career first in theatre in the early 1980s and then in television from 1987 onwards. That same year, she was chosen as the TV Star of The Year by Turkey's Association of Magazine Reporters. Akbağ has been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Golden and Sadri Alisik Best Character Actor for her role in Vizontele, the Afife Jale Best Female Actor for Sen Hiç Ateşböceği Gördün mü?, the Golden Butterfly for Tersine Dünya in 1993, the Ismail Dumbullu (the first actress to get this prize after Suna Pekuysal) in 1995, the Golden Butterfly – Best Comedy Star of The Year in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and the MGD-Comedy Artist Award in both 1996 and 1997. She has also worked with the BKM Actors since their career starts and performed various leading roles in television including Bir Demet Tiyatro and Ölümsüz Aşk, in theatrical plays including Otogargara, Sen Hiç Ateşböceği Gördün mü?, and Bana Bir Şeyler Oluyor, as well as in movies including Where's Firuze?, Eyyvah Eyvah, Eyyvah Eyvah 2, and Eyyvah Eyvah 3. She played in "Kış Uykusu" which won Cannes Award, with Haluk Bilginer for many times.
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