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Olive Abercrombie

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Olive is a young actress best known for her portrayal of Abigail in Netflix's horror series The Haunting of Hill House. She also appeared in multiple episodes of DC's Stargirl. Olive's recent credits include Plan B's "Outer Range" (the horse-riding, adventuring Amy Abbott - with Josh Brolin) and the Disney biopic "Young Woman & The Sea" (playing young Gertrude Ederle - Daisy Ridley). Next she will be reprising her role as Daphne Mayfair in Season 2 of Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches on AMC. Her parents are filmmaker Karla Jean Davis and designer/illustrator James Abercrombie
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S. Sreesanth

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Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. In first class cricket, he played for Kerala and in the Indian Premier League, he played for Rajasthan Royals. He is also the first Kerala Ranji player to have played Twenty20 cricket for India. In September 2013, he was banned for life from playing Cricket by the BCCI, for his involvement in spot-fixing in the 2013 IPL season. Sreesanth is making his debut as an actor in the upcoming movie Big Picture.
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Rose Byrne

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Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress and made the transition to Hollywood in the small role of Dormé in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), followed by larger parts in Troy (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2007), and Knowing (2009). Byrne appeared as Ellen Parsons in the legal thriller series Damages (2007–2012), which earned her two Golden Globe Awards nominations and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Get Him to the Greek (2010) and Bridesmaids (2011) established her as a comedic actress, in addition to the dramas and thrillers in which she continues to appear. She has since starred in a number of commercially successful comedies and dramas, including Insidious (2010) and its sequel Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), X-Men: First Class (2011) and its sequel X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Annie (2014), as well as Peter Rabbit (2018) and its sequel Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021). Byrne also portrayed Gloria Steinem in the miniseries Mrs. America (2020) and led the comedy series Physical (2021–2023) and Platonic (2023). Byrne has been in relationship with American actor Bobby Cannavale since 2012 and they have two sons. And she is the sister-in-law of New Zealand actress Rose McIver from her brother's marriage.
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Baz Ashmawy

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Bazil Ashmawy, commonly known as Baz Ashmawy, is an Irish radio and television personality, whose TV show 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy won the International Emmy Award for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment award. In 2024, Baz created, wrote and starred a TV Series Faithless for Virgin Media Television. Baz hosts The Money List and Best Place To Be for RTE One and both shows have been renewed for a second seasons. Baz also is the host of DIYSOS The Big Build Ireland. In summer 2017, he hosted That Baz Thing on RTÉ Radio 1. Ashmawy co-hosted Weekend Breakfast with Baz & Lucy on RTÉ 2fm in 2010, and co-presented the 2008 reality show Fáilte Towers on RTÉ One, as well as the popular travel show How Low Can You Go on RTÉ Two. In 2018 he began presenting ITV's new singing show – Change Your Tune.
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Wilton Lackaye

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From Wikipedia Wilton Lackaye (September 30, 1862 – August 22, 1932) was an American stage and film actor, who originated the role of Svengali (from the 1895 novel Trilby) in both stage and film. He created the role of Svengali in the play Trilby in 1895 which he played on screen in 1915 opposite Clara Kimball Young. He enjoyed a lengthy and distinguished stage career before entering silent films in middle age. He was a unique and distinctive looking actor with large round eyes particularly effective when playing the control-freak Svengali.
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Mickey Rooney

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer, and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent film era. At the height of a career that was marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career. Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney "the best there has ever been". Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles, National Velvet and The Human Comedy, said he was "the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with". Rooney first performed in vaudeville as a child and made his film debut at the age of six. At 14, he played Puck in the play and later the 1935 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Critic David Thomson hailed his performance as "one of the cinema's most arresting pieces of magic". In 1938, he co-starred in Boys Town. At 19, he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in Babes in Arms, and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939. At the peak of his career between the ages of 15 and 25, he made 43 films, which made him one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most consistently successful actors and a favorite of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer. Rooney was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941 and one of the best-paid actors of that era, but his career would never again rise to such heights. Drafted into the Army during World War II, he served nearly two years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio and was awarded a Bronze Star for performing in combat zones. Returning from the war in 1945, he was too old for juvenile roles but too short to be an adult movie star, and was unable to get as many starring roles. Nevertheless, Rooney's popularity was renewed with well-received supporting roles in films such as Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and The Black Stallion (1979). In the early 1980s, he returned to Broadway in Sugar Babies and again became a celebrated star. Rooney made hundreds of appearances on TV, including dramas, variety programs, and talk shows, and won an Emmy in 1982 plus a Golden Globe for his role in Bill (1981).
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Gavril Gordeev

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Родился 17 декабря 1982 года в Перми. Учился в гимназии имени С. П. Дягилева. Закончил Пермский государственный технический университет. Первые роли играл в театре-студии «КОД» под руководством М. А. Оленевой, затем в театре «Новая драма». Участник команды КВН «Парма» и сборной Пермского края «Друзья». C 2006 года резидент «Comedy Club» под псевдонимом Гавр. Сначала часто выступал в шоу с Александром Реввой, в настоящее время работает в паре с Олегом Верещагиным. С января 2010 года участвует в скетч-шоу «Два Антона». Генеральный продюсер Comedy Radio.
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YAMA

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Yama is a former professional sumo wrestler who fought from Onoe stable beginning in January, 2007 at the age of 22, and at his peak weight of 586 lbs. was the heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler in history. A graduate of Nihon University, he won several amateur championships at national, world, and university levels before turning professional, making the top makuuchi division by the January, 2009 tournament. He fought under the ring name Yamamotoyama, formed simply by adding the suffix "yama" (mountain) to his birth family name. Despite his meteoric rise through the ranks, he struggled with injury after reaching his highest rank of maegashira 9, and fell to the second-highest juryo division. He returned to makuuchi for a single tournament but then suffered further injuries, forcing his withdrawal from several tournaments and ultimately dropping down to the fourth-highest sandanme division. In April of 2011 he was implicated in a wide-reaching bout-fixing scandal. Although he maintained his innocence of any putative bout-fixing, he accepted the punishments handed out by the Japan Sumo Association and retired from professional sumo. Besides his forays into acting and reality TV, he promotes the sport of sumo in the United States by staging training exercises and exhibition matches with other amateur sumo wrestlers.
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Aaron Swartz

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Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was involved in the development of the web feedformat RSS and the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. He committed suicide while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was characterized by his family as being "the product of a criminal-justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach".
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Anne Carlisle

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Anne Carlisle (born 1956) is an American artist, actress, performance artist, acting teacher, author, and model. She is known for co-writing and playing both the lead female and male counterpart roles in the film Liquid Sky. She also played a minor role of Victoria in the 1985 Susan Seidelman film Desperately Seeking Susan, the cross dresser prostitute Gwendoline in Crocodile Dundee and starred in an episode of TV series Miami Vice. Carlisle also adapted and wrote a novel version of her cult, new wave film Liquid Sky. Carlisle posed for Playboy in 1984. In 2014 in an interview with The Awl it was confirmed by Liquid Sky director Slava Tsukerman, a sequel, Liquid Sky 2, was in the works. Anne Carlisle would be returning in the sequel in the role of Margaret. As of 2020, however, the script had still not been completed.
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