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Josy Eisenberg
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Josy (Yossef) Eisenberg (12 December 1933 – 8 December 2017) was a French television producer and rabbi. A Hasidic Jew of Polish origin (his father Oscar (Ovadia) was a Polish-born rabbi), he produced an animated TV show, À bible ouverte, which has been running on France 2 since the early 1960s. He was also the co-scenarist of the movie The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob and wrote a number of different books including Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals with Adin Steinsaltz and Job ou Dieu dans la tempête with Elie Wiesel.
Rabbi Eisenberg died on 8 December 2017 at 83 years old.
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Lashonda Morgan
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Lashonda Morgan is a black actress, writer and musician based in London. After many years behind the camera she decided to finally take the step to live out her dream in front of the camera in 2020, starting her training at Identity School of Acting in the professional classes and becoming a member of the National Youth Film Academy. Lashonda has been a creative for as long as she can remember, picking up instruments at the drop of a hat, writing herself into her favourite TV shows and films, and creating both still and video content for others in her freelancing and full time endeavours.
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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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Wunmi Mosaku
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Oluwunmi Olapeju Mosaku (born 31 July 1986), known professionally as Wunmi Mosaku, is a Nigerian-British actress. She rose to prominence for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016). In 2019, she appeared in the fifth season of Luther, followed by her role as Ruby Baptiste in HBO's Lovecraft Country (2020). She portrayed the character Hunter B-15 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023). She reprised the role in the film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Mosaku was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actress and won the BIFA for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for her role as Rial in the film His House (2020). For her performance as Annie in the 2025 horror film Sinners, Mosaku won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an Actors Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Marília Batista
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Marília Monteiro de Barros Batista (Rio de Janeiro, April 13, 1918 – July 9, 1990) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.
She was one of the most important interpreters of Noel Rosa's work, and she recorded six of his compositions with her as a duo: "De Babado," "Cem Mil Réis," "Provei," "Quanos Beijos," "Você Vai Se Quiser," and "Quem Ri Melhor." In 1940, after the composer's death, she released her classic "Silêncio de Um Minuto." Possessing a characteristic deep timbre and a resourceful composer herself, she dedicated herself to promoting Noel Rosa's work. (Wikipedia)
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Juliana Almeida
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Actress, arts educator, playwright, and performer, born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. A graduate of the theater course at Palácio das Artes (CEFART), she had her first professional experience on stage as a child. She is part of the main cast of the short films “Eterna Possessão” (dir. Manoel Rocha) and “Cada Caso é um caso,” the latter chosen as the best Brazilian short film by the Gralha Internacional Monthly Film Awards. She stars in the short film “Menu” (dir. Hectory Gottschalg) and the series “Nosso Doce Aroma” (dir. Gustavo Kontch).
She holds a degree in Political Science from UFMG, where she deepened her studies in the relationship between art, politics, and citizenship. She is fluent in Spanish.
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Jesseca Liu
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Spotted by a producer in Mediacorp in 2004, Jesseca Liu was offered the meaty role of He Yi Xuan in the sports-themed drama, “The Champion”. From then, she began her career as a full-time actress in Singapore. Her portrayal of a Vietnamese bride in the 100-episode drama serial “Portrait of Home” bagged her the Most Popular Newcomer Award and earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at Star Awards 2005. She scored her first leading role in “Rhapsody In Blue” in 2006 which led to more lead roles for the popular star. She played the female lead in many Mediacorp highly-rated serials including “Secrets For Sale”, “The Oath”, “Marry Me”, “Blessings”,” Mind Matters”,” Babies On Board” and “Hero”. In 2014, she wrote her first web drama script, “Who Killed The Lead” where she played the female lead and the script was awarded for Best Digital Fiction & Non-Fiction Series at the Asian Television Awards. She also played the role of a mother for the first time and paired with Taiwan actor-host Jacko Chiang in a local movie, “Bring Back The Dead”. Most recently, she received the "Outstanding Leading Actress in Comedy" Award at the 2019 Asia Rainbow TV Awards for her role in
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Ephraim Asili
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Ephraim Asili is an African-American artist, filmmaker, deejay, and traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. He studied at Temple University and received his MFA in film and video arts from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He has had screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Black Star Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Milan and New Orleans Film Festivals, NY Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Whitney Museum of American Art, amongst many others. Asili was a 2016 Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence, and a Media City Film Festival Grand Prize Winner (2017). His recent feature The Inheritance premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival in 2020. Writing about his work has recently appeared in Hyperallergic, Vogue, USA Today, Artforum, etc. He is a professor in Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College, and lives in Hudson, New York.
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Jack McCarthy
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John "Jack" McCarthy (born August 3, 2001) is an American. Born into a family of wild boars in Trumbull Connecticut Jack quickly rose through the ranks with his vicious take-downs of 20th century bourgeois and his singularly avant garde style. His films have earned him seats at 7 straight Academy Award Golden Globe, and MTV award ceremonies from 2008 through 2014, losing in every attempt. In 2018 he was again nominated for best Documentary but decided not to attend. Still he always swung for the fences, often casting small names in his films which gave the world their first introductions to the likes of Lou Ferrigno, David Huddleston and Nicolas Cage. Never married, he currently he lives a quiet life retired to watching his favorite films with his 34 adopted grandchildren and 2 cats.
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Jules Sitruk
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Jules Sitruk (born 16 April 1990 in Lilas, near Paris) is a French actor, most widely known for his roles in the 2002 Jugnot film Monsieur Batignole and the 2007 Hammer & Tongs film Son of Rambow.
Sitruk began acting at the age of 8, after being cast at his hairdressers. His first feature film was Monsieur Batignole (2001) with Gérard Jugnot, who acknowledged his talent amongst other young French actors at the time. Other films include Moi César (2003), Vipère au poing (2004) and Les Aiguilles rouges (2005).
Sitruk is also one of the three narrators in the original first-person version of March of the Penguins. His first English-language film was Son of Rambow, filmed in London in 2006.
In 2018, he starred in Garth Davis's historic film Marie Madeleine.
Sitruk is Jewish. He is related to the comedian Olivier Sitruk. Jules has studied Literature Baccalaureate at the Lycée Général of Paris, after completing his time at the Young School of Acting.
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