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Alan Yang
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Alan Michael Yang (Chinese: 楊維榕; born August 22, 1983) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He was a writer and producer for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which he received his first Emmy nomination. With Aziz Ansari, Yang co-created the Netflix series Master of None, which premiered in 2015 to critical acclaim. The series was awarded a Peabody Award, and at the 68th Emmy Awards in 2016, Yang and Ansari won Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Master of None and became the first writers of Asian descent to win in the category, which was also nominated in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. Yang also was the screenwriter of the 2014 comedy Date and Switch. In 2018, Yang co-created the Amazon Video series Forever.
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Heloísa Helena
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Heloísa Helena (28 October 1917 – 19 June 1999) was a Brazilian actress and singer. Her real name was Heloísa Helena Almeida Gama de Magalhães or Heloisa Helena de Almeida Lima. She was born on in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In her early career, Heloísa sang in English on the radio, which she spoke with an American accent. The United States embassy made a cultural exchange with Brazil and Heloisa Helena ended up going to New Orleans, staying there for some time.
She appeared in several movies and was the host of the Brazilian What's My Line? television program. She also appeared on the December 16, 1956 episode of the American What's My Line? (Wikipedia)
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Suriya
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Saravanan Sivakumar known by his stage name Suriya, is an Indian film actor, producer and television presenter, best known for his work in Tamil cinema.
After making his debut in Nerukku Ner (1997), Suriya landed his breakthrough role in Nandha (2001) and then had his first major commercial success with the thriller Kaakha Kaakha (2003). As of 2010, he has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2013, Suriya founded the production house 2D Entertainment.
He is the eldest son of Tamil film actor Sivakumar and his younger brother Karthi is also an actor. Suriya married co-star Jyothika in 2006, after being engaged for several years. In 2008, he began Agaram Foundation, which funds for various philanthropic activities.
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Zhang Tian Lin
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Marcus Zhang is a Taiwan-born actor. He was born on October 31, 1978, and graduated from the Department of Sports Management at Aletheia University in Taipei. He got an early start in the entertainment business when, while still a high school student, he appeared in the music video for a song recorded by pop singer Wakin Chau. He then went on to appear in a number of commercials, and made his acting debut in 2001, appearing in the drama series “Toast Boy's Kiss.” He has since appeared in numerous hit drama releases, including “The Eternal Love” (2017) and “Legend of Awakening” (2020).
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Ahmed Abdelhady
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A late Egyptian actor, born in Cairo in 1938. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema and obtained a master’s degree in cinema. He worked as a teaching assistant in the Acting Department at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. During his artistic career, he presented a wide range of diverse artistic works between cinema, theater and serials. Among his most prominent plays is (The Valley). Sayed Al-Shaghal, Al-Zaeem, Al-Baqiyya fi Hamatak), and among his series are (Tears in Shameless Eyes, Raafat Al-Hagan 2, One Thousand and One Nights).
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Tarık Akan
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Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan.
He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.
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Norm Li
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Norm Li is a Canadian cinematographer. Known for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019), Li won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. Li is most noted for his work on the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. He was previously nominated in the same category at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for Never Steady, Never Still, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Tricks on the Dead: The Story of the Chinese Labour Corps in WWI. His other credits have included the films Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Below Zero (2011), In Their Skin (2012), Afflicted (2013), Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (2014), Edge of Winter (2016), Hollow in the Land (2017) and Same Old (2022).
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Patara Eksangkul
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Foei Patara Eksangkul is a Thai actor and host working for GMMTV. He graduated from the Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University. He was selected to be one of the school's Generation 5 mace-bearers for the 70th Chula–Thammasat Traditional Football Match in 2015.
He first entered the entertainment industry after becoming the first freshmen year student who became a lead actor in his faculty musical show "Pic Ka An" in 2013. He made his acting debut in 2015 with a main role in the series "GPA Sabatan Pan Saeb".
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Marge Redmond
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Marjorie "Marge" Redmond (December 14, 1924 – February 10, 2020) was an American actress and singer.
Redmond may be best known as Sister Jacqueline in The Flying Nun, which aired on ABC from 1967-70. She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sister Jacqueline during the 1967-68 season. She made guest appearances on numerous television programs. Redmond was also well known for her portrayal of sage innkeeper Sarah Tucker in a series of television commercials for Cool Whip during the 1970s.
Films in which Redmond appeared include The Trouble with Angels (1966), Billy Wilder's Fortune Cookie (1966), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976) and Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Redmond's theatrical experience included understudying both Angela Lansbury in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing. She played a supporting role in the 1981 Broadway production of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. In 1999, she appeared Off-Broadway in playwright Joan Vail Thorne's comedy The Exact Center of the Universe.
Redmond died in February 2020 at the age of 95. Her death was not publicly announced until May.
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Oldřich Kaiser
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He has starred in many films in his long career. Recent films include Dark Blue World, Shark in the Head and Handcuffs. He also plays the lead role in Menzel's adaptation of Hrabal's I Served the King of England. He is also famous for his roles in TV series such as 30 Cases of Major Zeman and Hospital on the Edge of Town.
He has also appeared in many TV shows such as Maybe the Magician Will Come or the improvisational Russian Roulette as a well-known comedy duo with Jiří Lábus. Together they also made the long-running radio improvisation series The Tlučhořovi, which reached eight hundred episodes in November 2007, and the successful TV show Zeměkoule.
A species of shoebill (Cychrus kaiseri) is named after him, which he discovered together with entomologist and neurosurgeon Vladimir Benes in the summer of 2004 in Asia. From 1980 to 2005, his wife was the Czech actress Naďa Konvalinková. Since 2020, his wife has been the singer-songwriter Dáša Vokatá.
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