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Erin Fitzgerald
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Erin Fitzgerald is a Canadian voice actress who provides voice-overs for a number of cartoons, video games and English language dubs of Japanese anime. In animation, she voices Raven Queen in Ever After High and C.A. Cupid in both Monster High and Ever After High. In recent roles, she voices Bo and other characters in the American children's educational show Ask the StoryBots on Netflix.
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Sigge Fürst
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Karl Sigurd Tore "Sigge" Fürst was a Swedish stage and screen actor, entertainer and presenter. He graduated from the the Police Academy in 1927, and worked as a Police Constable for 3 years. In the early 30's he was offered stage and film parts, sometimes as a policeman. His film debut was in Victor Sjöström's "Markurells i Wadköping" (1931). From 1946 he hosted "The Breakfast Club" a popular radio-show that was broadcasted till 1978. Ingmar Bergman engaged him at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in the 60's. Sigge Fürst appeared in more 150 feature films, and numerous radio and television productions.
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José Carlos Burle
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José Carlos Burle was a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, and composer. He was instrumental in the early development of Brazilian cinema, co-founding the Atlântida Cinematográfica in 1941, which became a pivotal studio in the country's film industry. Burle directed and wrote several influential films, including É com Este Que Eu Vou (1948) and Depois Eu Conto (1956). Additionally, he composed popular songs such as "Cabocla" and "Meu Limão, Meu Limoeiro," which have been recorded by various artists. Burle's multifaceted contributions have left a lasting legacy in Brazilian culture.
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Matt Ross
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Matthew Brandon Ross (born January 3, 1970) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Alby Grant on the television series Big Love (2006–11) and Gavin Belson on Silicon Valley (2014–19), as well as his performances in the films The Last Days of Disco (1998), American Psycho (2000), and The Aviator (2004). He wrote and directed the 2016 comedy-drama film Captain Fantastic.
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Dakota Blue Richards
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Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of 'His Dark Materials: Northern Lights' to the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. In June 2006, twelve-year-old Dakota, a Londoner schoolgirl, was awarded the part after the casting directors' took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist.
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Hayati Azis
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Hayati Azis is an Indonesian fashion model and actress. She was scouted by the modeling agency Persona Management in 2016. She rose to prominence after walking for Patrick Owen's collection at Jakarta Fashion Week 2017. In 2018, she won the Beauty Awards in the Model of the Year category at BeautyFest Asia 2018.
In 2019, she entered the acting world through the horror film Danur 3. In the film, Hayati starred alongside Prilly Latuconsina, Sandrinna Michelle, Rizky Nazar, and Syifa Hadju, playing the role of a ghost named Kartika. In 2023, she appeared in the Dutch film Sweet Dreams. In 2025, Hayati starred in the film Pabrik Gula as Nyi Wilengi and Kalimayit.
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George Moorse
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George Moorse was an American film director and screenwriter who made significant contributions to German cinema. Educated at Hofstra College and Washington Square College in New York, he began his career in Germany as a screenwriter, collaborating with directors like Peter Lilienthal. Moorse was a prominent figure in the New German Cinema movement, directing films such as Kuckucksjahre (1967) and Der Findling (1967), an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's novella. His work is noted for its innovative storytelling and exploration of complex human emotions.
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Kees Torn
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Kees Torn is a Dutch text writer, composer and comedy performer. Torn started his cabaret performance in 1991, when he was studying at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. As "Kees en Ik" (Kees and I), he performed quite a successful show with fellow student Gerrie Hondius. In 1994 he made his official solo-debut with the show. Torn is known for his old fashioned style of comedy performance, which consists largely of songs and poems. Torn prefers to write about whisky, cigars and love. He won a Poelifenario for his show 'Dood en verderf '('Death and destruction').
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Eleanor Antin
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Eleanor Antin, who has worked in film, video, photography, installation, writing and performance since the 1960s, uses fictional characters, autobiography and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls, "the slippery nature of the self." In her performance-based video works, Antin uses role-playing and artifice as conceptual devices, adopting archetypal personae — a ballerina, a king, a nurse — in her theatrical dramatizations of identity and representation.
Antin was born in New York City in 1935. She studied art at The High School of Music & Art in New York, and received a B. A. in creative writing and art at City College of New York in 1958. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, among others. Antin has also participated in many group exhibitions, at venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, for the 2002 Sydney Biennale; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the 37th Venice Biennale.
Antin has been honored with several retrospectives of her work, including Eleanor Antin: I wish I had a paper doll I could call my own... at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York in 2016, Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's Selves held at the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York in 2013, a survey of Antin's work was on view at the Washington University Gallery of Art in St. Louis, Missouri in 2000 and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1999. In 2006, Antin received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association and a Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts Award from the Women's Caucus for Art, she was awarded a Media Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 1998, and was also awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1997. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
Antin lives and works in San Diego, CA.
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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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