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Abdellatif Abdelhamid
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Syrian director, born on January 5, 1954, is the Syrian cinematographer, and the landmark in the history of Syrian cinema. He is considered one of the most important directors in the seventh art field in the entire Arab world. He worked as an actor, musician, director and singer in the student theater and the theater of the cultural center. He studied Arabic literature at Tishreen University before being dispatched to Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the High Institute of Cinema in Moscow. At the Film Institute, he performed 3 works "Goodnight, Old Class, Upside Down."
Awards - "Old Lesson" won 6 awards.
- He won five awards for his movie "Nights of Jackal".
Won four awards for his film "Oral Letters".
- He won five awards for his film "The Rise of the Rain."
Received seven awards for the movie "The Breeze of the Soul".
He won three awards for his film "Qumran and Zaitouna".
- He won the gold medal award for the movie "What listeners demand" at the Rabat International Festival.
- He won the Best Asian Film Award at the Delhi Festival for his movie "What listeners ask for".
Among his cinematic works (writer and director): “Oral Letters” - “The Rise of Rain” - “The Breeze of the Spirit” - “Qumran and Zaitouna” - “What the listeners ask for”.
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Juliette Plumecocq-Mech
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Juliette Plumecocq-Mech is a French actress.
Originally from Bordeaux, she entered the Bordeaux Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. She then joined Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil troupe. There she met the actor Christophe Rauck who created the Compagnie Terrain Vague in 1995, which Juliette joined.
Because of her androgynous physique, Christophe Rauck also entrusted her with male roles (Lancelot in Le Dragon, Khlestakov in Le Révizor, Aristarque in Cœur ardent), and in 2016 directed her in an original text where she plays, lying down, a man assaulted in a cafe.
Juliette Plumecocq-Mech is also pursuing a career in cinema (with Romain Goupil, and Jean-Pierre Améris) and television (the series Cherif, Le Tueur du lac).
In 2021, she appeared in the play A la vie by Élise Chatauret, Thomas Pondevie and the Compagnie Babel.
Source: Article "Juliette Plumecocq-Mech" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Michelle Wong
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Michelle Wong is a Singaporean actress and host.
After graduating from Monash University, she entered Mediacorp Channel 5’s acting and hosting competition, “The 5 Search” and emerged as one of the Top 5 finalists. Since then, she has expanded her repertoire to comedy and hosting in Channel U’s “Project W”, played one of the main supporting leads in Channel 8’s 170 episode long form drama “Peace and Prospertiy”, and main leads in Channel 5’s “Faculty” and “Code of Law 4”. She acted alongside with Rebecca Lim, Chen Han Wei and Shaun Chen in the highly anticipated 2018 blockbuster Blessings 2.
Besides television work, she had the opportunity to be involved in “Wonderboy” – the Dick Lee biopic in which she played his doting younger sister. She has also dabbled in Variety – participating in Channel 8’s travelogue programme “Take a Break”, as well as roving reporting for Channel 5’s “The 5 Show” and “We are Singaporeans”.
As for live hosting, she served as the 2016 New Year’s Countdown Pre Show host, and “Its Good to be Home on 5” roadshow. Michelle is also the resident host of “The Celebrity Takeover”, an initiative by The Celebrity Agency to share motivational stories and inspire students by holding talks in various educational institutes.
Michelle is proficient in English, Chinese and basic conversational Korean.
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Ann-Margret
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Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Tommy (1975). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU.
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Chad Patrick Flynn Keith
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Chad was born in Northern California. He was interested in acting at an early age, but abruptly stopped after his appearance in "Lights, Camera, Bubbles!". He has had several notable achievements, such as being recognized by the FAA for piloting rotorcrafts, was a runner-up for "volunteer of the year" award for the city of San Jose, CA in 2001, and played drums with his metal band, Jameson, on The Vans Warped Tour in 2007 on the Ernie Ball Stage. Chad graduated from Musician's Institute with a degree in Percussion Performance in 2007, and graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration/Marketing from the California State University, Northridge, in 2024. He also has two Associate of Science degrees from Los Angeles Pierce College (In Systems Operations Management, and General S.T.E.M. studies), and two Associate of Arts degrees from Los Angeles Pierce College (in Sociology, and General Education), which were all earned in 2022. He has also had his band's music featured in an episode of "Bones", on the Fox Network (Season 4, episode 19 "Mayhem on a Cross", where he is also an actor, playing the drummer for a fictional metal band named "Zorch" that uses his band's song, "Get To The Choppah" from their first full-length album, "Down For The Count", released on Jameson The Band Records in 2008. Two additional members of the band are also featured in the episode. Chad would release one more album, titled "Nothing Survives The Winter" on BlkHeart Group Records in 2011, shortly before their dissolution. After the label fell apart, Chad continued with Jameson for several more years, while the guitarist role changed to the very talented Nita Strauss (ex-Iron Maidens, Alice Cooper, Nita Strauss), the band would not release and more material and Chad would not pursue music any longer. He currently lives with his significant other, Courtney, and their daughter, Abigail, in the San Fernando Valley.
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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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Dinita Gohil
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Dinita Gohil is a British actress. She is best known for her performance as Amanda in the satirical film Greed (2019), and on-stage as Viola in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Twelfth Night (2017–2018).
Dinita Gohil was born in Hodge Hill, Birmingham. She was educated at Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls, and later studied Spanish and French language at Royal Holloway, University of London. Gohil received a Master of Arts from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied acting for three years
Before acting, Gohil worked as a translator. In 1999, Gohil began her on-screen acting career in the post-apocalyptic miniseries, The Last Train as Anita Nixon. In 2017, Gohil played Sajani in the National Geographic documentary and science fiction television series, Year Million.
From 2017 to 2018, Gohil played Viola in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare. In a three-star review for The Guardian, Michael Billington called Gohil's performance "the best performance of the evening, [...] a bright-eyed figure who surrenders happily to Orsino's kisses and who delivers the famous "willow cabin" speech with a level of rapture I have not heard in ages."
In 2019, Gohil played a leading role in the 2019 satirical film Greed as Amanda, a personal assistant of Sir Richard McCreadie (played by Steve Coogan). In April 2020, The Royal Shakespeare Company released the 2017 production of Twelfth Night which Gohil features in as Viola, on the streaming service Marquee TV.
In September 2023, Gohil played Annette Raleigh in the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith production of God of Carnage alongside Freema Agyeman.
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Uttsada Panichkul
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Over a decade of entertainment experience, Utt's a familiar name in Southeast Asia. Thai/Chinese American-born Utt grew up in California where he attended California State University Northridge before transferring his studies to Thailand at Assumption University, where he studied Communication Arts with a major in Advertising.
Utt's popularity is credited to his range to both host and act. His hosting lists include music, travel, entertainment, the supernatural, and more. Utt is at his best handling Live Events and Telecast Shows, having hosted a Live Talent Show, a Live Band Series, and Grandeur Events such as the Asia TV Awards three times, the Mandarin Music Honors, Countdown Shows, and the Miss Earth Beauty Pageant.
He's an established Actor, acting in over a dozen dramas in Thailand in which several have been critically received. His acting experience has crossed over to Singapore taking the lead role in an Award-winning screenplay that was adapted for television called Chase, it was well-received and bought over to countries such as Japan a spinoff to the series was soon put into production with Utt leading the cast once again.
Utt's first film, an independent romantic comedy film called Tied In Knots was shot and produced in LA. He's the face of countless endorsements in Asia, Utt displays the right balance a blend that gives him the opportunity to cross different markets.
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Nathalie Guetta
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Nathalie Evalyne Guetta, known as Nathalie Guetta (Paris, 9 September 1958), is an Italian naturalized French actress and circus, known to the Italian television audience for the role of the perpetual Natalina in the TV series Rai Don Matteo.
She is the half-sister of the disc jockey and producer David Guetta and of the political journalist Bernard Guetta. At the age of 16 he leaves his native Paris to take courses and circus shows in France and the Benelux. After six years, he arrives in Naples and starts his activity also teaching clowning and performing shows with puppets.
In 1989 he gained notoriety with a wider audience, thanks to his participation in the Maurizio Costanzo Show in various acrobatic numbers. It is then noticed by Cristina Comencini, who wrote for her film I divertimenti della vita privata, and thus began her career as an actress, appearing above all in television productions. Since 2000 he has been in the cast of the fiction Don Matteo of Rai 1.
It was recently separated from the Cuban Yudiel Sanchez, known during a trip to the Caribbean island in 2007.
In 2018 he took part as a competitor to the thirteenth edition of the talent show of Rai 1 Ballando con le stelle, conducted by Milly Carlucci.
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Eyad Nassar
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Eyad Nassar is a Jordanian actor and director. He was born in Amman in 1974, and worked as a teacher, before switching his career to art. He started by working as an assistant director in many television series, after which he directed theater plays. Nassar's acting talent appeared strongly in the popular Syrian series “Al Amin wal Ma'moun,” after which he moved to live in Cairo and started a new phase in his career through working in Egyptian television dramas like “Sarkhet Ontha” (A Female's Cry). His breakthrough performance was that of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan El Banna in the historical series “Al Gama'a” (The Community). He received wide critical acclaim for his depiction of the Brotherhood leader and earned a big fan base in Egypt. From then on, his work shifted majorly to Egyptian television series, and he went on to play successful roles in series like “Al Mowaten X” (Citizen X) and “Moga Harra” (Heat Wave). Nassar also worked in film, starring in works like “Bentein min Masr” (Two Girls from Egypt) and “Basra.”
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