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Justin Willman

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Justin Willman (born July 11, 1980) is an American magician, comedian, producer, and television personality. He is the creator and star of Magic for Humans on Netflix. He has made regular appearances on The Tonight Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Conan. His debut comedy/magic special Sleight of Mouth premiered on Comedy Central in 2015. He hosts the shows Cupcake Wars, Halloween Wars and King of Cones on the Food Network and Disney’s Win, Lose or Draw on Disney Channel. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife Jillian Sipkins and son Jackson Willman.
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Leighton Samuels

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Leighton is a New York City based actor most recently featured in Netflix's Mindhunter. He's living that freelance hustle life, but has been consistently acting either in every medium from theater to film and even motion capture. University of North Carolina School of the Arts - BFA Acting Dean Gerald Freedman and Dean Carl Forsman He's also a sports-loving artist, particularly for his hometown Houston Astros, Texans, and Rockets. So if you ever want to talk sports... ​He is Repped by Kate Dunn Kennedy of Merging Artists Management and Mickey Shera of Innovative Artists (Commercial).
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Huw Parmenter

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Huw Parmenter trained at the Oxford School of Drama and Rose Bruford College. Productions include: Anything is Possible if You Think About it Hard Enough at Southwark Playhouse; The Lovely Bones for Birmingham Rep; The Mirror Crack’d at Wales Millennium Centre and Salisbury Playhouse; Jam Jars at Tristan Bates; After Orlando at the Vaults and Theatre Royal Stratford East; Desert Rats, Slow Falling Bird, The Late Wedding and The Ballad of the Lost Dogs for Chaskis Theatre; Home Theatre UK at Theatre Royal Stratford East; Dark Tourism at Park Theatre; Rebel Rebel at Theatre503; Living in the City With or Without Sex at the Old Red Lion; Pride and Prejudice at Kenton theatre; Basket Case on UK tour; Hearing the Song for Orange Tree; and Women Beware Women at the Sam Wanamaker Festival. Vikings, Killing Eve and EastEnders.
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Christa Théret

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Christa Théret (born 25 June 1991) is a French actress, best known for her roles as Lola in LOL (Laughing Out Loud) and as Andrée Heuschling in Renoir. As a child, Théret aspired to be a teacher and then to become an actress. Théret's acting career began at the age of 11; while playing in a school playground, she was noticed by a casting director, who then hired her for the film The Axe, in 2005. In this film, directed by Costa-Gavras, she plays Betty, the daughter of Bruno and Marlène Davert (played by José Garcia and Karin Viard). In 2007, she played Julie, a gothic teenager, in the film Et toi, t'es sur qui? (selected at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category and for the Caméra d'or). While enrolled at the Lycée Jules Ferry in Paris, she dropped out of school at the age of 17. In 2008, she had her first big break with the lead role in Lisa Azuelos' blockbuster LOL (Laughing Out Loud), co-starring with Sophie Marceau. The commercial success of this film brought her to the attention of the general public, and she was nominated for a César for Best Promising Actress. From April to June 2009, she shot The Village of Shadows, the directorial debut of Fouad Benhammou, followed in October by Le Mariage de chiffon, directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (director of Le Grand Meaulnes). This was the 5th episode of the Contes et nouvelles du XIXe siècle season, broadcast in April 2010 on France 2. At the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010, she starred in Bertrand Blier's new film, The Clink of Ice, alongside Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel. In 2010, she took on a series of projects, starting with Christophe Sahr's first film, Free Way, with Johan Libéreau and Isabelle Candelier. She also starred in Lars Blumers' Mike, with Marc-André Grondin and Éric Elmosnino. In 2012, she starred in The Man Who Laughs as Déa. In 2013, she played the lead in Renoir, directed by Gilles Bourdos, and appeared in Marguerite, by Xavier Giannoli. Since 2013, she has acted in numerous films including Olivier Loustau's The Boss's Daughter (2015) and Olivier Assayas's Non-Fiction (2018). Théret featured in Foals' 2019 music video for the track "Exits", as well as Yung Lean's "My Agenda". In 2023, she released a poem set to music, Gare Saint-Lazare. In the same year, she starred in Bertrand Mandico's Conann. In the future, she wants to be a director. She is also writing her first short film. Apart from acting, Théret writes experimental poetry, which she illustrates with her own drawings.
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Mo Gaffney

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Maureen E. Gaffney (born November 5, 1958, in San Diego, California) is an American actress and activist. Gaffney hosted two of her own television talk shows: Women Aloud! (which was shown on the Comedy Central network) and The Mo Show. She appeared in Seasons 4 and 5 of That '70s Show as Joanne Stupak, Bob Pinciotti's girlfriend, had a recurring role in Mad About You and guest starred in Friends and Veronica's Closet. In addition, she appeared in the black comedy about beauty pageants, Drop Dead Gorgeous. Gaffney appeared on the British television talk show The Full Wax starring Ruby Wax, in which she portrayed American correspondent "Taffy Turner", in the recurring segment "Taffy Turner: Inside America". Gaffney teamed up with Jennifer Saunders in a recurring role as Bo in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. From Wikipedia.
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Curtis Bernhardt

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Curtis Bernhardt (Kurt Bernhardt) (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany. Some of his American films were called "woman's films" including the Joan Crawford film Possessed (1947). Bernhardt trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1926. Other films include A Stolen Life (1946) starring Bette Davis and Sirocco (1951) starringHumphrey Bogart. Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940. Bernhardt produced and directed his last Hollywood picture Kisses for My President (1964) about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray. Description above from the Wikipedia article Curtis Bernhardt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mohamed Abdel Gawad

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An Egyptian actor, born in Cairo, graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Trade, and obtained the title of first representative of the university and first representative of the universities of Egypt, then joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. He worked in theatre, cinema and television; The most well-known role for him is his role in the TV war movie (The Road to Eilat), unlike him he participated in the films (Patience in the Salts, Hot Night_ directed by Atef El-Tayeb_, Al-Sagha, and No Intention Stay). He also participated in the theater in several works, including (The Dream Enters the Village, Brides Lurking, Disorientation, Thugs, Scribble, Between Between, People, Text by Text, A Bird Came From the Window). Among the most famous series in which he participated (My Aunt Safia and the Monastery, Dameer Abla Hikmat, Imam Al-Da’at, Imam Al-Shafi’i) and many others, as his greatest contribution to the field of television drama.
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Reese Witherspoon

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Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2015, and Forbes listed her among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, Forbes named her the world's highest earning actress, and in 2023, she was named one of the richest women in America with an estimated net worth of $440 million. Witherspoon began her career as a teenager, making her screen debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). Her breakthrough came in 1999 with a supporting role in Cruel Intentions, and for her portrayal of Tracy Flick in the black comedy Election. She gained wider recognition for playing Elle Woods in the comedy Legally Blonde (2001) and its 2003 sequel, and for starring in the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line (2005). Following a career downturn, during which her sole box-office success was the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011), Witherspoon made a comeback by producing and starring as Cheryl Strayed in the drama Wild (2014), which earned her a second nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She has since worked primarily in television, producing and starring in several female-led literary adaptations under her company Hello Sunshine. These include the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present), and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020). For the first of these, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. She has also produced the film adaptations Gone Girl (2014) and Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), and the miniseries adaptation Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). Witherspoon also owns Reese's Book Club and a clothing company, Draper James. She is involved in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation dedicated to women's causes.
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John Edwards

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Johnny Reid Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004 alongside John Kerry, losing to incumbents George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. He also was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008. Edwards defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election. Toward the end of his six-year term, he opted to retire from the Senate and focus on a Democratic campaign in the 2004 presidential election. He eventually became the 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Following Kerry's loss to incumbent President George W. Bush, Edwards began working full-time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC. Following his 2008 presidential campaign, Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 3, 2011, on six felony charges of violating multiple federal campaign contribution laws to cover up an extramarital affair to which he eventually admitted. He was found not guilty on one count, and the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining five charges, as the jury was unable to come to an agreement. The Justice Department dropped the remaining charges and did not attempt to retry Edwards. Though he was not convicted of any crime, the revelation that he had engaged in an extramarital affair and fathered a child while his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer, gravely damaged his public image and essentially ended his political career.
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Annemarie Carpendale

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Annemarie Carpendale (born October 29, 1977 in Hannover as Annemarie Warnkross) is a German television presenter and singer. She was a dancer with the band Bellini from 2000 to 2005. She has been working for ProSieben since 2005 and moderates the magazines taff und red! as well as the show Kiss Bang Love. She was born in Hannover and grew up in Siegen, where her mother worked as a primary school teacher. She danced in ballet, played piano and played at various theaters. During her schooldays, she spent a year at an American high school in Phoenix. In 1997 she completed her Abitur at the Fürst-Johann-Moritz-Gymnasium in Siegen-Weidenau and began studying business administration at the University of Cologne. In 2000 she became a dancer in the pop group Bellini. In 2005, she left the band to focus on her presenter and studies. She had occasional appearances on various TV series, shows and in the movie Pura Vida Ibiza. She was also active in the newsroom of RTL 2 and appeared on a part-time basis as a photo and catwalk model. In 2002, she participated in a casting at VIVA and came to the final selection. From March 2004, she moderated the charts, from May 2004, she was for the format Club rotation in use. From Wikipedia DE, the free encyclopedia (translation)
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