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Nan Ji
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Nan Ji is an actor, producer and a founder of Daji Films. She graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy. Nan Ji started learning dance at the age of 9, was admitted to the Dance Department of Minzu University of China at the age of 12, and was admitted to the Performance Department of the Beijing Film Academy at the age of 16. In 2014, he went to the United States to study acting under the tutelage of Hollywood star acting instructor Bobbie Shaw Chance, becoming classmates with Brad Pitt, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston, etc.
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Louis de Funès
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Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (French: [lwi d(ə) fynɛs]; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. According to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, he is France's favourite actor, having played over 150 roles in film and over 100 on stage. His acting style is remembered for its high-energy performance and his wide range of facial expressions and tics. A considerable part of his best-known acting was directed by Jean Girault.
The larger-than-life, conservative petit bourgeois characters he played, who typically kissed up to authority while persecuting their subordinates, particularly resonated with the changing Western societies of the 1960s and drove him to success. Yet in private life, De Funès was a notoriously shy and reserved man, and a devout Catholic.
One of the most famous French actors of all time, Louis de Funès remains to this day the most bankable actor in French cinema history. He enjoys widespread international recognition: in addition to his immense fame in the French-speaking world, he remains a household name throughout most of continental Europe including the former Eastern Bloc, the former Soviet Union, as well as Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Despite this international popularity, Louis de Funès remains an obscure figure in the English-speaking world. He was exposed to a wider audience only once in the United States, in 1973, with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, which is best remembered for its Rabbi Jacob dance scene and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
De Funès has two museums dedicated to his life and acting: one in the Château de Clermont, near Nantes, where he resided, as well as another in the town of Saint-Raphaël, Southern France.
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J.Stephen Brantley
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J.Stephen Brantley has appeared Off-Broadway in The Directors Co production of Murder In The First at 59E59, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Mope, and Theatre 167’s Pirira. Brantley has also worked with Big Dance, CapsLock, Cucaracha, Hard Sparks, Horse Trade, Jewish Plays Project, and Neo-Political Cowgirls, and at venues including HERE, Queens Theatre, LaMaMa, Metropolitan Playhouse, The New Ohio, P.S.122, and Soho Rep. His regional credits include Of Mice And Men at Bay Street and North Coast Rep, The Night Alive at Guild Hall, Slap & Tickle at Provincetown Theater, and Romeo And Juliet with it’s zombie sequel R & J & Z at Stonington Opera House. Film and television credits include 'The Blacklist' (NBC), 'Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter' (Adult Swim), 'Difficult People' (Hulu) and Eliza Hittman's indie feature 'Beach Rats'.
Brantley is also a playwright whose work has been produced across the U.S. and in Canada and Ireland. As a member of Theatre 167, he co-wrote and performed in Jackson Heights 3am and I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, Or, This Is A Mango. Brantley is a graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, an eight-time NYIT nominee, and a member of the Indie Theatre Hall Of Fame. He was awarded the Micheál MacLiammóir Award for Best Actor at the 2013 International
Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
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Anneke Putri
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Anneke Putri, whose full name is Anneke Lutfia Puteri, was born in Banyuwangi, East Java, August 24, 1966. Anneke is an Indonesian model and film star of the 1980s. Anneke herself is the wife of Ronggur Sihombing, a young director who is also the son of director Wahyu Sihombing and screenwriter Tatiek Maliyati.
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His first film debut DO NOT WANT TO OWN (1985) produced by PT. Kanta Indah This film is based on the popular song Dian Piesesha has sung. In the film directed by Ida Farida, Anneke supports the role played by Rano Karno and Meriam Belina.
In addition Anneke is also a magazine writer and entertainment tabloid. Even once published a collection of poetry, story cassettes, and children's songs. Later also played soap operas, including replacing the role of Mother in the drama series FAMILY CEMARA.
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Claud Allister
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Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor. After his education at Felsted, in Essex, he appeared in 74 films between 1929 and 1955.
He was born William Claud Michael Palmer in London, England and died in Santa Barbara, California. His interment was located in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
He began his career as a stockbroker's clerk but gave it up and made his stage debut in 1910. He toured England playing minor parts till the war started. He served in WWI and in 1924 went to America to act on the stage. In 1929 he made his film debut where he featured in The Trial of Mary Dugan.
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Erin Bradley Dangar
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Bitten by the acting bug as a child in Lancaster, PA, Erin Bradley Dangar began her career onstage in musical theatre. She landed the lead role of Susan in Here's Love, the musical adaptation of A Miracle on 34th Street, and played a multi-week run at Lancaster's historic Fulton Opera House. After shifting her focus to music performance and production in the 1990s, releasing several albums and touring with her numerous original indie rock bands on bass and vocals, she returned to film and television in the early 2000s with a lead role in the short film Herringbone, written and directed by Emily Soares.
The Georgia-based multi-tasker is known for her recurring role as Counselor Blatt on the Netflix series Cobra Kai, starring Ralph Macchio. In addition to her growing list of television, film, commercial, and industrial roles, Erin's other credits of note include wide-ranging behind-the-scenes experience in art direction and design, musical performance, and background/photo double/stunt work on a variety of projects. Constantly updating her actor's toolbox, she has trained in Meisner, improv, commercial, industrial, voiceover, dialects, and teleprompter, all while remaining professionally active in the burgeoning Atlanta market.
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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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Yorgos Zois
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Yorgos Zois is a Greek director born in 1982 and based in Athens. He studied applied Math & Nuclear Physics at the NTUA and film direction at UdK Berlin. He started his career working as an assistant director to Theo Angelopoulos and with a scholarship from Costa Gavras. His body of work—four shorts and two feature films—has been selected at A-festivals worldwide (Cannes—Semaine de La Critique, Berlinale—Encounters, Venice—Orizzonti, Rotterdam, Telluride, etc.) and has been acknowledged with numerous awards and distinctions worldwide including a European Film Academy nomination. In Greece, he has won the Best Short Film Director and the Best Newcomer Feature Film Director awards from the Hellenic Film Academy. His films have raised internationally acclaimed reviews about their meta-aesthetics and daring narration and have been broadcasted by ARTE, CANAL+, etc., and prestigious platforms like Criterion. He was also a member of the official Jury “Lion of the Future” at the 74th Venice IFF. His second feature film, “Arcadia,” premiered in Berlinale 2024, won the Best Male Actor award in Hong Kong IFF, the Best Director award in Sarajevo IFF, and was included in the final list of the EFA nominations, while the festival tour goes on.
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Dropkick Murphys
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Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. The lineup consists of co-lead vocalist Ken Casey, drummer Matt Kelly, co-lead vocalist Al Barr (on hiatus since 2022), rhythm and lead guitarist James Lynch, lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Tim Brennan, multi-instrumentalist and rhythm guitarist Jeff DaRosa, and bassist Kevin Rheault. Casey has been the band's only constant member since the band formed. The band is known for their loud, energetic live shows
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Takeharu Kunimoto
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Takeharu Kunimoto (国本武春, Kunimoto Takeharu, November 1, 1960 – December 24, 2015) was a prominent Japanese shamisen player and rōkyoku singer. In addition to performing and recording traditional music, he was also the only prominent shamisen player to perform and record bluegrass music; he spent some time in the 2000s in the bluegrass program of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. He also performed and record in a rock music-influenced style. At the age of 14 Kunimoto attended a Bill Monroe concert in Tokyo and shook his hand, thus inspiring Takeharu to play bluegrass. Kunimoto died at the age of 55 on December 24, 2015, following an illness.
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