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Liev Schreiber
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Isaac Liev Schreiber (/ˈliːɛv ˈʃraɪbər/ LEE-ev SHRY-bər; born October 4, 1967) is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award and nominations for nine Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.
Schreiber's early film roles include Mixed Nuts (1994), Party Girl (1995), The Daytrippers (1996), and Big Night (1996). He appeared in the first three Scream horror films (1996–2000), Ransom (1996), The Hurricane (1999), Hamlet (2000), Kate & Leopold (2001), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Painted Veil (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Spotlight (2015). He acted in the Wes Anderson films Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). He made his directorial film debut with Everything Is Illuminated (2005).
He made his Broadway debut in In the Summer House (1992). He earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing Richard Roma in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross (2005). He was Tony-nominated for his roles in the Eric Bogosian play Talk Radio (2007), the Arthur Miller revival A View from the Bridge (2010) and the John Patrick Shanley revival Doubt (2024). He also acted in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016).
For his television roles, he most notably portrayed the titular character in the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan (2013–2020). He reprised the role in the television film Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022). The role has earned him nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. He also portrayed Orson Welles in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999) and Otto Frank in the Nat Geo miniseries A Small Light (2023).
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Mark Speno
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Mark Speno is an American-born actor and adventurist who began performing in high school productions and at Great America theme park. He later became a member of the Barbary Coast Players at The Opry House in California performing comedy vaudeville melodrama. Attended Washington State University where he was a cheerleader (and lived). After graduating he took up flying trapeze under the direction of famed circus pioneer Bob Christians going on to perform for audiences in four countries. Recognizing his skills as a performer and instructor, Mark was hired by Canadian circus troop Cirkids to prepare their trapeze team for international performances including the World Expo in Japan.
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Bloody Hawk
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Nikolaos Kitsos (Xanthi, November 4, 1995), better known as Bloody Hawk, is a Greek rapper. He was born in Xanthi on November 4, 1995 and in 2012, at the age of 16, he took the first steps in his career in collaboration with Spave, Epel and Nimbus D with whom he shares the common YouTube channel Ftheiromai. He is considered a special rapper of modern Greek hip hop and his musical themes concern social inequalities, the economic crisis, joy and sorrow, hope, his childhood, romance and love. Throughout his career, he has released 2 mixtapes ("Hawk Eyes", "Complex Lines"), 3 group projects ("Blue Gardens", "Shut The Fuked Up", "The Deal"), 1 extended play ("Fasting"), 7 albums (33-inch discs) ("Vals", "Signore Falco", "Kompleksiko", "1 EURO", "Thimima", "Cheap tricks", "Cheap tricks 2"). In addition, he has released more than 20 singles of different sounds with great acceptance and success in the wider Greek hip-hop scene. In addition, he has also participated in many tracks by other artists (Fann, Trouf, Dani Gambino, Toquel, Immune, Vlospa, Buzz, Beats Pliz, Gio Melody, Novel 729, Wang, Rack).
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Igor Maslennikov
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Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Масленников; 26 October 1931 – 17 September 2022; Nizhny Novgorod) was a Soviet and Russian film director.
Maslennikov was born in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1954 he completed his education in the department of journalism of the Leningrad University and worked as an editor, script writer, and cameraman on Leningrad television. In 1965 he entered the Higher Directors' Courses of Lenfilm (Grigori Kozintsev's workshop), at end of which he became the director of this motion picture studio.
In the cinema, Maslennikov made his debut at the end of the 1960s with a film about a senior pupil: the Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentin. He directed children's films (Tomorrow and 3 April), movies about sports (Racers), historical costume-dramas (Yaroslavna, the Queen of France). He worked on the joint Soviet-Norwegian picture Under a Stone Sky, which narrates the sad events which occurred in one of the Norwegian towns during the Nazi occupation. He filmed Vera Panova's autobiographical Sentimental novel.
Enormous success came to Maslennikov when he directed a cycle of films about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The successful selection of the actors, among whom there were Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Boryslav Brondukov, Rina Zelyonaya, Nikita Mikhalkov and the outstanding talent of the director ensured audience's love of the film. In 1985 Maslennikov presented the melodrama Winter Cherry. The movie became one of the greatest blockbusters of the decade and gained Yelena Safonova a wide reputation. The special feature of this everyday melodrama was that for the first time the spectator saw on the screen a strong but misunderstood woman played by Safonova. The popularity of this film inspired Maslennikov to create sequels in 1990 and 1995 and the same-name TV-series in 1997. In 1989 Maslennikov filmed the television adventure picture Philipp Traum, based on the unfinished Mark Twain novel The Mysterious Stranger. The cinema version was named Chronicle of Satan Jr.. He made a co-production with French partners, filming the story of Leonid Andreyev (The Dark), where the main roles were played by Oleg Yankovsky and Kseniya Kachalina. The year 2000 saw the release of the 10 series of Chto skazal pokoynik (What Has the Deceased Said) (2000) after the popular Polish writer Ioanna Khmelevskaya, and start of the filming of Vospominaniya o Sherloke Kholmse (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), which united all the five famous Sherlock Holmes films with a single plotline. In 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Maslennikov became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2001 he received the State Prize of the Russian Federation. By his 75th birthday in 2006 Igor Maslennikov finished his book of memoirs under the title The Baker Street in Petrogradskaya.
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Austin Judd
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Austin debuted onstage in her first performance in kindergarten, but honed her craft through St. Petersburg Children’s Theatre, John Hopkins Middle School Theater Magnet and Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High in her native Florida.
Stepping into a leading role came naturally to Austin as a preacher’s child. She grew up singing and assisting with worship productions. This launched her into active social justice leadership, from her early protest marches in her stroller to public speaking and leading workshops in diversity where she drew from her own experience as the daughter of a mixed-race family with same-sex parents.
Using her extensive technical theater experience, Austin launched her professional modeling career in 2010 with regional work in benefit runway shows, underwater dance, body painting, fitness modeling, fine art photography and video work. She continues to be sought after for studio modeling for professional artist and has a working relationship with Ringling College of Art & Design.
Austin's gifted, natural talent led her to being cast as the lead role CANDY in the feature film BIG TOP EVIL (2019) which garnered rave reviews for her performance and the opportunity to work with Iconic Horror star Bill Moseley. Most recently Austin stars as CHRYSTAL in CANNIBAL COMEDIAN (2020).
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Hannah Bush
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Hannah Patricia Bush was Kate Bush's mother. She worked as a staff nurse at Epsom Grove Hospital and was one of 12 children who originally hailed from the harbor town of Dungarvan in County Waterford (Ireland).
She married Robert John Bush in early 1943, giving birth to John Carder Bush a year later. On December 9, 1952, Paddy Bush was born. Six years later, Kate was born.
Hannah's voice can be heard in Kate Bush's songs The Ninth Wave, saying the line 'Come here with me now', in the song And Dream Of Sheep, and among the many voices calling to the heroine between the tracks Under Ice and Waking The Witch. She can be seen in the video for Suspended in Gaffa.
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Corina Salvini
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Corina Vanesa Salvini is an emerging filmmaker from Mar del Plata, Argentina, currently studying animation film at the Da Vinci Multimedia School. From an early age, Corina showed a deep interest in visual storytelling, which led her to explore the world of film and animation.
Throughout her training, she has worked on several projects that highlight her ability to tell stories through narratives that do not need dialogue to communicate. Her visual approach and creativity stand out in her short films, where she manages to convey emotions and complex concepts in an intuitive way.
Although she is still in the process of building her career, Corina continues to develop her unique voice, with the goal of impacting her audience through animation and visual art.
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Hiroyuki Sanada
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Hiroyuki Sanada (真田 広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born Hiroyuki Shimosawa (下澤 廣之, Shimosawa Hiroyuki); 12 October 1960) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. Before breaking in to the movie business, he trained at Sonny Chiba’s Japan Action Club hoping to one day become a martial arts action film star. Sanada appeared in many action films in the 70s and early 80s, but as it became clear he was actually a talented and well-rounded actor, he was able to branch out into all different types of roles in every genre. Today he is best known in the west for his involvement in big-budget Hollywood productions such as The Last Samurai and Rush Hour 3.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Dario Argento
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Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him frighting bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own--according to him--was a normal one. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper "Paese Sera". Inspired by the movies, he later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his western collaborations, which included Cimitero senza croci (1969) and the Sergio Leone masterpiece C'era una volta il West (1968).
He is known in italy as Master of Horror.
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