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Alfonso Arau
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Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker, actor, and singer. He worked as an actor and director in both Mexican and Hollywood productions for over 40 years, before his international breakthrough with the 1992 film Like Water for Chocolate, based on his wife Laura Esquivel's novel of the same name. His other films include A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Picking Up the Pieces (2000), The Magnificent Ambersons (2002), and Zapata: El sueño del héroe (2004). He is a five-time Ariel Award winner, including Best Director for Like Water for Chocolate, and a BAFTA nominee.
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Christophe Bourseiller
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Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller, is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.
He was born Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923–2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934–1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara.
From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in War of the Buttons, the film by Yves Robert. He then played under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy and Pierre Jolivet. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays.
At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s.
Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards.
On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter Franck Ferrand.
In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You?" by Bourin Éditeur.
Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of Pascal Ory.
Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers.
In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter.
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Morgan Hinkleman
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Morgan is your typical little girl. She loves school, her sisters, the beach, and music. From the young age of 3, she loved posing for the camera. This led to the start of some modeling. It wasn't until about 5 she discovered a true passion for acting.
Acting, singing, and modeling are top on her list of favorite activities, but Morgan also enjoys her time on the field playing softball, and loves spending time enjoying her new hobby.... surfing!
She plays young Charlie Matheson on Revolution.
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Huang Kin-Lung
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Often called Bruce Le for Bruceploitation purposes.
Huang Kin-Lung was a contract player for the Shaw Brothers, where he appeared in the science fiction opus Infra-Man. He did not spend much time with the Shaws, however, and quickly went on to making Bruce Lee inspired "tribute" films Born in Burma, Half Chinese Half Burmanese, he was educated in Rangoon when he was young. With this proficiency in martial arts, he started learning Hong Quan, White Crane, and Karate when he was 11 years old. Later Huang left Burma for Macau, where he founded a martial arts training school with some friends. His students came from Hong Kong and Macau. Veteran director Wang Feng was impressed by his skills in martial arts and invited him to join Shaw Brothers to play the role of Kuai Chueh Chi (literally "Ghost-foot Seven"), a disciple of the kung fu master Huang Fei-hung, in "Rivals in Kung Fu". In the late 1970s, Huang left Shaw Brothers and adopted the stage name of Lu Xiao-Long to continue his movie career. He played lead in various kung fu movies such as "My Name Called Bruce", "Enter the Game of Death" and "Bruce & The Dragon Fist". In 1992 he directed "Comfort Women".
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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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Chieko Matsui
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Chieko Matsui (December 4, 1899 – April 2, 1929) was a Japanese actress of the silent era. The eldest daughter of a doctor, she left home in 1922 after her mother passed away and her father remarried. She became an actor at Shochiku Studios, performing in fifty-five movies between 1925 and 1929. In 1927, she became one of the first female screenwriters in Japan, writing screenplays for the films "Lake of Melancholy" and "Spring Rain." She starred in both as well.
Matsui underwent surgery for kidney disease in 1928. She passed away in 1929, while recuperating in her home.
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Paul Greengrass
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Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and former journalist.
One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include three entries of the Bourne action-thriller film series: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016). He also directed United 93 (2006), for which Greengrass won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director; as well as Green Zone (2010) and Captain Phillips (2013). In 2004, he co-wrote and produced the film Omagh, which won the Single Drama award from the British Academy Television Awards.
In 2007, Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014. He ranked 28th on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood in 2007. In 2008, The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture. In 2017, Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship.
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Wen Zhuo
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Wen Zhuo is a Chinese actor and director born in Jilin Province and graduated from Tongji University. He officially entered showbiz in 2012 with his lead role in the scifi drama "Battle Strike Team: Giant Saver". In February 2014, Wen made his debut in the music circle with the release of his first solo single "Make You Beautiful". In 2015, he became well-known for his role Li Xiaoyao in the stage play "Legend of the Sword and Fairy". The public welfare micro-film "Transmitting the Chinese Dream Long Love" starring Wen Zhuo, won Beijing Outstanding Network Audiovisual Program Audiovisual Public Welfare Award. In 2017, he won the most popular actor award in the online film unit of Asian New Media Film Festival for his role as the magic stick Su Yang in the fantasy film "The Soul of the Soul Hunter".
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Kristina Hughes
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Kristina Hughes, a New England native and a firm believer that through hard work and perseverance one's acting career can flourish to "expected heights" while unveiling "unexpected roles".
While growing up in Medford, Massachusetts and attending Lexington Christian Academy in the suburbs of Boston in her late teens, she was captivated by the Entertainment Industry while acting in local theatre productions, participating in finishing school and involving herself in modeling. Ms. Hughes then took the next step to follow her curiosity and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English/Communications with a concentration in Writing and Theatre from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.
With the intent of making acting her career, she re-located to Los Angeles. Since the big move she has appeared on Boston Legal, Old School, Unwrapped, Days of Our Lives, --- has been cast in several independent films (notably as the lead in the psychological thriller Green River), well-known Web Series (The Resolve, Vegan 101) and has appeared in numerous national commercials. Not one to be shy of the stage, Kristina is also a valuable member of the Moveable Theatre Company.
Behind the camera, Kristina is a producer of web content (The Resolve) and a series of commercials (Storitz.com).
Kristina has traveled as a seminar leader or guest speaker for SAG Conservatory, SAG Foundation, The Actors Center, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, The Image Awards, The Actor's Network, Acting Success Now, The Actors Fund, Children in Film, BizParentz, Actors Creative Workshop, The Sanford Meisner Studio, The ShowBiz Expo, Creative Actors Alliance, Women In Film and other numerous esteemed performing organizations. Kristina addresses the problems performers face and provides them with innovative solutions through Holdon Log's webware product, PerformerTrack.
As an professional writer, you can find Kristina's published articles at PerformerNation.com and PageantNation.com.
Kristina has been interviewed or her products reviewed in print with high praise for How to be a Working Actor, Back Stage, New England Entertainment Digest, Hollywood How-To, MovieMaker, Chuckle Monkey, Music Connection, Theatre Bay Area, Supermodels Unlimited, Amateur Stage. Kristina also enjoys embracing technology having appeared in podcasts and recorded interviews for The Thriving Artists Circle, REEL Ladies on the Spot, Actors Connect, Inside Entertainment, Business Of Entertainment and Everything Acting Podcast.
Kristina is an accomplished equestrian, and is passionate about her charities (Paralyzed Veterans of America and The Lange Foundation).
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Robert Beavers
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Robert Beavers (born 1949) is an American experimental filmmaker whose work stands among the most significant in postwar avant-garde cinema. He is best known for My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, an 18-film cycle spanning decades of work, much of it later re-edited.
Beavers developed a distinctive visual language using hand-cut mattes, filters, and precise sound–image structures, often focusing on craft and manual labor as metaphors for filmmaking itself. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he began making films in New York before moving to Europe in 1967 with his partner, Gregory J. Markopoulos. Together they withdrew their films from distribution, presenting them only at the Temenos screenings in Arcadia, Greece (1980–86). After Markopoulos’s death in 1992, Beavers founded Temenos, Inc. to preserve both of their legacies.
His films draw deeply on place and history, from Florence in From the Notebook of… (1971/1998) and Venice in Ruskin (1975/1997) to the Greek landscapes of Wingseed (1985), The Hedge Theater (1986–90/2002), and The Ground (1993–2001). Later works include Pitcher of Colored Light (2007), The Suppliant (2012), Listening to the Space in My Room (2013), and The Sparrow Dream (2022).
Beavers continues to live and work between Berlin and Massachusetts with filmmaker Ute Aurand, while overseeing the preservation of both his own films and Markopoulos’s Eniaios.
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