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Tomasz Kot
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Tomasz Kot (born 21 April 1977) is a Polish actor. He gained great popularity by portraying singer Ryszard Riedel in Jan Kidawa Błoński's 2005 film "Destined for Blues" as well as for his role as Zbigniew Religa in Łukasz Palkowski's 2014 film "Gods". In 2015, he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. Most recently, Kot has received award-season buzz for his starring role as Wiktor in Paweł Pawlikowski’s feature "Cold War". The project has earned him a nomination for best actor by the European Film Awards and the movie has been recognized by the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, and the National Board of Review in the best foreign language film category. In 2018 Kot appeared in Agnieszka Holland’s "Spoor" and had a starring role in Jaroslaw Marszewski’s “Bikini Blue,” the latter earning him the award for best lead actor at the Milan Film Festival. In 2019 Kot starred in BBC One series "World on Fire" opposite Brian J. Smith, Julia Brown, and Helen Hunt.
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Engin Günaydın
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Engin Günaydin (born 29 January 1972) is a Turkish actor and comedian.
Günaydin was born in Erbaa, Tokat Province. He began his university studies at Hacettepe University Conservatory, but in his second year he switched to Mimar Sinan University from where he graduated in theatre.
In 1997, he had a small role in Otogargara which caused him to be cast in the television series Bir Demet Tiyatro where he played Zabita Irfan. Later he acted in Askim Askim with Mehmet Ali Erbil and Emel Sayin. In 2001, he acted in Zeki Demirkubuz's film Yazgi for which he received the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Ankara Film Festival. In 2004, he began doing sketches on Okan Bayülgen's show. In 2005, he accepted an offer from Gülse Birsel and joined the cast of the sitcom Avrupa Yakasi as Burhan Altintop, his most famous role. In 2009, he wrote the screenplay of and starred in Vavien directed by the Taylan Brothers. For this, he won a number of screenwriting awards at the Istanbul Film Festival, Yesilcam Awards and the Siyad awards.
Additionally, he did a series of stand up shows titled O Hikayedeki Mal Benim.
He shared the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival's Best Actor Award in 2012 together with Ilyas Salman for his role in Inside.
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Damla Sönmez
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Damla Sonmez was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Her native language is Turkish and is fluent in English and French. Cinema has been her greatest passion since she was child. She is an award-winning actor of international distinction. She received several nominations for her performance in
Bornova Bornova (2009) , winning the Antalya Golden Orange Award, Ankara Flying Broom Women's Film Festival Award and a Sadri Alisik Theatre & Movie Award. She was also nominated for The Young Talent Award at the Yesilcam Movie Awards for her performance in Mahpeyker - Kösem Sultan (2010) As a young actress, Sonmez trained in cities throughout Europe. After graduating from Saint Joseph French High School in Istanbul, she was accepted to Université de La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III Theatre department. She studied for a year in Paris before being awarded a scholarship to the Yeditepe University Fine Arts Theatre Department in Istanbul. She also attended Jillian O'Dowd's Contemporary Acting Workshop at the London Dramatic School of Arts.. Sonmez made her film debut in
Kampüste çiplak ayaklar (2009) , which was quickly followed up with her award-winning performance in Bornova Bornova (2009) in which she played a confused, yet ruthless Lady M-inspired girl from Izmir. She played a young conservative worker in _Çakal(2010)_ and was nominated for her work as an Ottoman Empire Sultan in Mahpeyker - Kösem Sultan (2010). Sonmez next played an abused girl who takes matters into her own hands in the comedy Kurtulus Son Durak(2012) She continued her work in film in Uzun Hikaye (2012) as an attorney's daughter who meets the love of her life, followed by Sen Aydinlatirsin Geceyi (2013) playing a young town girl who has the ability to stop time.
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Lene Maria Christensen
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Lene Maria Christensen (born 10 April 1972 in Hillerød) is a Danish actress.
Graduating from the Danish National School of Theatre in 1999, she works regularly in theatre, film, and television. She gained recognition in cinema for her roles in Terribly Happy (Frygtelig lykkelig, 2008) and A Family (En familie, 2011), performances that earned her several Bodil and Robert Awards for Best Actress. On television, her role in the drama series The Legacy (Arvingerne) won her a Robert Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Television Role.
From 2020 onward, she continued her career with the thriller The Exception (Undtagelsen, 2020) and distinguished herself in the drama Rose (2022), which earned her both a Bodil Award and a Robert Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in the films Unruly (Ustyrlig, 2022), Kingmaker (Mørkeland, 2024), and Honey (2025). On television, she featured in the series The Dreamer - Becoming Karen Blixen (2022), The Orchestra (Orkestret, 2024), and Uniformen (2026).
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Vanessa Gauvin-Brodeur
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Vanessa is a director represented by Roméo in Montreal, and Asymetric in Toronto.
After years of working as a journalist, she never lost her love for storytelling. Today, she translates that love through her sensitive and human oriented video work. Raised on 3 different continents, she is deeply interested by people and is passionate about their identity, individuality, and roots, as showcased in her documentary style aesthetic.
Vanessa also has a background in theatre, and has worked for a long time in a Montreal based international advertising agency, both as producer and creative.
She has directed spots for clients like Air Transat, John Frieda, Dove, Volkswagen, the Government of Québec and the Port of Montreal, editing most of her projects, and conducting all the interviews with the protagonists within her portfolio.
In 2024, her first movie ABESTOS which she directed, wrote, edited, and produced, was selected within the official competition of the prestigious Hot Docs festival.
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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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Dhruv Solanki
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Dhruv Solanki is a writer-director based in Vadodara, Gujarat. He has co-written and directed Blah Blah Blah, an independent comedy currently in post-production. He developed The Rebels of Shakambhari, a period action feature, as a fellow of the Writers Ink Screenwriting Lab. It was an official selection at the Cinephilia Film & TV development workroom and was also invited to participate in Rewrite, a screenwriting residency lab. It’s All in Your Head is his debut feature as a writer and director
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Félix Iñurrategi
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Felix Iñurrategi Iriarte (born in Aretxabaleta, Gipuzkoa, on April 1, 1967; died on Gasherbrum II on July 28, 2000) was a Basque mountaineer. Together with his younger brother Alberto Iñurrategi, he formed a highly popular duo within the mountaineering community and on the international stage over the years—a partnership that ended with his death in a tragic accident in northern Pakistan, an event that deeply affected the Basque Country.
Like his brother Alberto, Felix loved the mountains and began hiking with the "Murrukixo Mendizale Elkartea" association. Later, he began rock climbing and hiking outside the Basque Country alongside Alberto. Felix Iñurrategi studied agricultural engineering in Atarrabia. During his adolescence, he also demonstrated talent for *Bertsolaritza*—an art form involving improvised, rhymed, and strophic verse singing, performed by *bertsolaris* and dating back to the 18th century. Between 1987 and 1988, he and his brother climbed peaks in the Alps before traveling to North America in 1989 to visit Yosemite, where they ascended El Capitan (via the *The Nose*, *Zodiac*, and *Lurking Fear* routes) and Half Dome (via the normal route).
Then began the Iñurrategi brothers' Himalayan odyssey: on September 29, 1990, they climbed Pumori (7,161 m) with a group of Catalan mountaineers. The following year, the two brothers climbed Makalu via the Kukuczka route, accompanied by Felipe Uriarte. In 1992, they reached the summit of Everest via the South Col (normal) route without supplemental oxygen; the race to summit all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks had begun. A year later, they attempted to climb K2 via the North Face but were unsuccessful. In 1994, they succeeded in reaching the summit of the "Savage Mountain" via the Cesen Route, alongside climbers including Juanito Oiarzabal. In 1995, they climbed two peaks in two weeks via the normal route: Cho Oyu and Lhotse. In 1996, they again climbed in pairs, both times via the British Route: Kangchenjunga with Juanito and Shishapangma with Josu Bereziartua. In 1997, they climbed Broad Peak via the normal route after attempting to pioneer a new path. That same year, they climbed Aoraki/Mount Cook (New Zealand) as part of the Spanish television program *Al Filo De Lo Imposible*. The following winter, they made two unsuccessful attempts to climb Manaslu. In 1998, after a tremendous effort, they reached the summit of Dhaulagiri with Juanito Oiarzabal. That same year, they attempted to climb Gyala Peri (a 7,000-meter peak) but did not succeed. In July 1999, on Nanga Parbat, the two brothers helped rescue a Colombian mountaineer before reaching the summit a few days later. They were honored for this action by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. In the spring of 2000, they reached the summit of Manaslu.
Felix Iñurrategi successfully climbed twelve peaks over 8,000 meters; the last was Gasherbrum II on July 28, 2000. During the descent, he fell 400 meters, a fall that proved fatal. His body rests on Gasherbrum II.
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Claire Forlani
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Claire Antonia Forlani (born 17 December 1971) is an English actress. She became known in the mid-1990s for her leading role in the film Mallrats, and in the Jean-Michel Basquiat 1996 biopic Basquiat, later in 1998, she achieved wide recognition for starring in the fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black. Other notable films include Boys and Girls (2000), The Medallion (2003) and In the Name of the King (2007). Forlani also has appeared in numerous TV films and series, including her starring role on the historical-fantasy-drama series Camelot, and her recurring roles on the CBS action series CSI: NY, NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0.
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Erkan Kolçak Köstendil
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Erkan Kolcak Köstendil, is a Turkish actor, writer, director, and singer.Her uncle is actor Bülent Sakrak. Born and raised in Bursa, a large city located in northwestern Anatolia, Kostendil was considering and working towards becoming a goalkeeper until his path crossed with two seasoned actors who made such an impression on him that he decided to study theater at the prestigious Mimar Sinan University of the Fine Arts. Kostendil later went on to write, direct, and act in plays and short films. He wrote and starred in the play 'Karsi Cinsle Tanisma Sanati' and was in another play named 'Aut', for which he was chosen 'Actor of the Year'. This play also earned him a 'Young Actor Special' award. Kostendil always kept busy as he wrote and directed the first Turkish Facebook Series, 'Mukadderat'. He gained widespread industry recognition as well as many awards with his short film, 'Vakit'. Kostendil then went on to write and direct a medium-length film which was shot in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Making a successful transition into TV acting, Kostendil has appeared in numerous popular shows and has claimed his place within the acting world by capitalizing on his unique character interpretations. He first appeared on 'Kurtlar Vadisi' in 2005. Kostendil got his first big break with the 2009 production, 'Sakarya Firat' in which he played a low-ranking soldier, and portrayed the character with utmost authenticity. In the following years he appeared in a number of movies and TV shows. In 2014, he portrayed the character 'Karlos Nevizade', on the hit TV show, 'Ulan Istanbul'. This character became a phenomenon among the Turkish TV audience, and gained Kostendil huge fame and recognition all around Turkey. It was on this show that he and one of his co-stars, Sebnem Bozoklu, performed a song he had written named 'Yanarim Yanarim' in one of the episodes. This performance got millions of views on Youtube. After a couple more successful projects, Kostendil appeared in the internationally aired historical drama, 'Muhtesem Yuzyil: Kosem', successfully portraying 'Shahin Khan Girai', the last Khan of Crimea. His last appearance was on the TV show, 'Familya'.
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