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Bryan Brown
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Bryan Neathway Brown (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along Came Polly (2004), Australia (2008), Kill Me Three Times (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
Bryan Brown was first introduced to English-Australian actress-director Rachal Ward on the set of the TV mini-series "The Thorn Birds" in 1983 and married her a few months after filming wrapped. They have three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marissa Bode
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Marissa Bode (/ˈboʊdi/ BOH-dee; born August 28, 2000) is an actress based in Los Angeles. She made her feature film debut as the character Nessarose Thropp in the musical films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025). Marissa has been acting since the age of eight in a number of plays and musicals. "Little Shop of Horrors", "The Diviners", "Peter Pan" and "Mary Poppins" are just a few notable performances. She also has training in the arts and studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. In addition, Marissa's self written, self directed, self produced short film "You're Adorable" was previously accepted into the 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival.
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Jerry Haynes
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Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011) was an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Mr. Peppermint (1961–1969), which was retitled Peppermint Place for its second run (1975–1996). He also had a long career in local and regional theater and appeared in more than 50 films. A 1944 graduate of Dallas' Woodrow Wilson High School, he was the father of Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes.
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Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons.
Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”.
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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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Sierra McCormick
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Sierra McCormick (born October 28, 1997) is a European-American businesswoman, entrepreneur, actress and producer, best known for her role as Olive Doyle on the Disney Channel series A.N.T. Farm and her participation on the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.
McCormick was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She moved to Los Angeles, California at a young age.
McCormick first took an interest in acting in 2006 when she joined The Corsa Agency in Los Angeles. Her first onscreen appearance was uncredited, in the television series 'Til Death at the age of nine. In 2007, she beat out thousands of other children to be cast in the second season of the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? She also guest starred on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana in the 2008 episode "Welcome to the Bungle". She also co-starred with McClain in the film Jack and Janet Save the Planet. McCormick's other credits include the film Ramona and Beezus in 2010 as Susan Kushner and the television film A Nanny for Christmas in 2011. In 2011, she was chosen for the role of Olive, a girl with an eidetic memory, in the Disney Channel series A.N.T. Farm. She was cast after an audition where she continually talked about tigers. Dan Signer stated: "And as I heard her continually talking about tigers, I thought, 'That's just how Olive would sound.' Which is how Sierra got that part." According to an interview with McCormick, getting the role was easy because she and China were already friends from their previous work experience.
McCormick currently lives in Los Angeles, California with her parents and sister Kayla. She has a dog named Annie, with whom she appeared with in a PETA ad campaign promoting the adoption of shelter animals.
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Fotos Lambrinos
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Fotos Lambrinos was a graduate of the Moscow Film Institute (1965-1970) in the workshop of Mikhail Romm. He worked as a director in radio and theater, as well as as a film critic in the newspapers Avgi and Demokratiki Allagi. He also directed many documentaries and the feature films: Aris Velouchiotis – the dilemma (1981), Doxombous (1987), Birthday Party or A Silent Balkan Story (1995), Captain Kemal, the Comrade (2007), The Great Utopia (2017). He extensively researched, in collaboration with Costas Gavras, Nikos Svoronos and Dimitris Despotidis, the international newsreel film archives in Europe and the USA, which helped in the subsequent production of the Panorama of the Century series (1982-1987) for ERT. He contributed to the establishment of the film archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and collaborated as a documentarian with the National Audiovisual Archive. He has taught "Relations between cinema and history" at the Universities of Crete, Thessaly and Panteion. He was responsible for ERT's program for international documentary co-productions (History Doc) and has published texts on Greek and Balkan cinema in foreign publications (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995; La Biennale di Venezia, 2000) and domestic publications (History of Modern Hellenism, volumes 6-10, Greek Letters, Athens 1993). He has translated Chekhov, Camilleri and Tsvetaeva. Kastaniotis Publications publishes his books: My Power is the Love of the Lens – Cinematic Current Events as Evidence of History (1895-1940) (2005), White Shoshanas (2006), Is It a Junta? Will It Pass? – The film Current Affairs during the Dictatorship, 1967-1974 (2013) and Palamidiou 10 (2019), which gave us the occasion for the following discussion.
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Juana Acosta
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Juana Acosta is a Colombian actress although she carried out the most part of her artistic career in Spain. She started her television career in the Tv show 'Mascarada', where she played Mariana. Her first role in a movie was in the film 'Golpe de estadio' in 1998. Her increase popularity was due to her participation in some acclaimed Spanish tv shows like 'Hospital Central' or 'Velvet'.
On a person level, she is in a sentimental relationship with Argentinian actor Ernesto Alterio with whom she has a child in common called Lola. She is also sister-in-law of actress Malena Alterio and daughter in law of actor Héctor Alterio.
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Justin Trudeau
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark; he is also the first to be the child or other relative of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.
Born in Ottawa, Trudeau attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, graduated from McGill University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature, then in 1998 acquired a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia. After graduating he taught French, humanities, math and drama at the secondary school level in Vancouver. Initially relocating back to Montreal in 2002 to further his studies; advocacy work related to youth and environmental issues would be his primary focus serving as chair for the youth charity Katimavik and as director of the not-for-profit Canadian Avalanche Association. In 2006, he was appointed as chair of the Liberal Party's Task Force on Youth Renewal.
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Joaquín Cociña
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Cristóbal León (Chile, 1980) and Joaquín Cociña (Chile, 1980) are artists and filmmakers who live and work in Santiago de Chile. They have been working together since 2007. Independent of each other, they make drawings, animations, installations as well as backdrops and they also write texts. Their work often finds direct or indirect inspiration in children's literature, using and resituating their narratives and visual aesthetics.
Joaquín Cociña was born to Loreto Varas and Carlos Cociña on March 18, 1980. He obtained his bachelor's degree in fine arts at the Universidad Católica de Chile. He participated in various exhibitions in Chile and beyond and also worked as a writer, illustrator and a backdrop designer for the theatre.
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