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John Witherspoon
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John Witherspoon was an African-American comedian and actor who has roles in over 20 movies and television shows. Acting for over three decades, Witherspoon starred in films such as Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Boomerang (1992), and the Friday film series. He also made appearances on television shows such as Barnaby Jones (1973), The Wayans Brothers (1994-99), The Tracy Morgan Show (2003), and Boondocks (2005). He has also taken his success in acting into screenwriting a movie called From the Old School where he takes the role as an elderly working man who tries to prevent a neighborhood convenience store from being developed into a strip club. Witherspoon released The John Witherspoon Collection, a line of comical greeting cards known as Spoon Cards.
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Megan Fox
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Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, model, actress, producer, director, writer and host. She made her acting debut in the family film Holiday in the Sun (2001), which was followed by numerous supporting roles in film and television, such as the teen musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), as well as a starring role in the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2004–2006). Her breakout role was as Mikaela Banes in the blockbuster action film Transformers (2007), which she reprised in its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). She also portrayed the titular character in the horror comedy Jennifer's Body (2009), starred as April O'Neil in the superhero action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and starred as Reagan Lucas in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Fox sitcom New Girl (2016–2017).
Fox has also made appearances in numerous magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone, and FHM. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two Scream Awards and four Teen Choice Awards.
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Tanya Christiansen
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Tanya Christiansen is an actor originally from TN. She began her acting career on stage at a very early age doing local theater. Her passion turned into a profession once she graduated from the University of Tennessee. Tanya's first on-air job was as a host for a shopping network. That career is what helped her to become comfortable in front of the camera, fine tuning her improvisational skills. National commercials, television pilots and feature films soon followed. Tanya resides in Florida with her family and continues to work in the industry that she loves. Challenging herself with a multitude of different characters, working in film and television is her passion.
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David Weil
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David Weil (born 1989/1990) is an American television writer, producer, director and showrunner. He is known for creating the Amazon Prime Video series Hunters (2020–2023). He is also known for creating the Amazon anthology miniseries Solos (2021). He also co-created the series Invasion (2021–present) with Simon Kinberg for Apple TV+.
Weil grew up in Great Neck, New York. He is Jewish. He is also the grandson of Holocaust survivors.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Nicolai Gedda
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Harry Gustaf Nikolai Gädda, better known as Nicolai Gedda (11 July 1925 – 8 January 2017), was a Swedish operatic tenor. Debuting in 1951, Gedda had a long and successful career in opera until the age of 77 in June 2003, when he made his final operatic recording. Skilled at languages, he performed operas in French, Russian, German, Italian, English, Czech and Swedish, as well as one in Latin. In January 1958, he created the role of Anatol in the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Vanessa at the Metropolitan Opera. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is one of the most widely recorded opera singers in history. His singing is best known for its beauty of tone, vocal control, and musical perception.
Gädda, who later changed the spelling of his surname to Gedda, was born out of wedlock in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a half-Russian father. He was raised by his aunt Olga Gädda and his adoptive father Michail Ustinov (a distant relative of Peter Ustinov), who sang bass in Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir and was cantor in a Russian Orthodox church. Gedda grew up bilingual in Swedish and Russian, and from 1929 to 1934 when his family were living in Leipzig, Germany, he learned German. At the age of 5 Gedda took part in a vocal quartet in the orthodox church in the city. They returned to Sweden in 1934, and the boy attended Katarina Secondary School and the Södra Grammar School. In school he learned English, French and Latin, learning Italian on his own after leaving school.
Gedda worked first as a bank teller in a bank in Stockholm and was obliged to support his parents financially; his sleeping arrangements were an alcove off the kitchen in their Stockholm apartment. One day he told a customer – a member of the Royal Opera House Orchestra – that he was searching for a good singing teacher, and the client recommended Carl Martin Öhman, a well known Wagnerian tenor from the 1920s, who is also credited with discovering Jussi Björling. Öhman was enthusiastic about Gedda and took him as a pupil, at the beginning without payment, because Gedda was at the time supporting his parents. Two months later his progress was such that he obtained a grant and then won the Christine Nilsson Prize. After a few months he obtained a scholarship and was later able to pay for Öhman's singing lessons. At the Royal Academy of Music and Opera School in Stockholm Gedda was in the class of Kurt Bendix and Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius from 1950 to 1952.
Gedda made his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm as part of the vocal quartet in the premiere of Der rote Stiefel by Sutermeister in November 1951. In April 1952, at the age of 26, Gedda made his triumphant debut in a principal role in Stockholm, performing Chapelou in Adolphe Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, alongside Hjördis Schymberg. The 'Ronde du Postillon' in the opera, ("Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire"), is considered one of the most difficult tenor arias in all of opera, as it calls for a demanding high D from the soloist.
An early appraisal of Gedda's singing was offered by Walter Legge, after first hearing him sing for the role of Dmitry in a planned recording of Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. ...
Source: Article "Nicolai Gedda" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Andy Lau
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Andy Lau Tak-Wah (Chinese: 劉德華, born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, presenter, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. The media refer to Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau, Leon Lai Ming and him as the Cantopop Four Kings (四大天王).
For his contributions, a wax figure of Lau was unveiled on 1 June 2005 at the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. He also entered into Guinness World Records for "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist". By April 2000, he had already won a total unprecedented 292 awards.
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Mohammad Saeed Harib
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An Emirati film director and actor, born in 1978. He studied at Northeastern University in Boston, USA, between 1995 and 2001, where he obtained a degree in General and Animation Arts. After graduating, he joined the Marketing Department in Dubai Media City in 2003, and worked on a number of high-profile projects such as the Dubai International Film Festival and Creative Awards for Media Students. In 2005, Mohamed was chosen to take on the position of Technical Director at the Media and Technology Free Zone Authority. He directed the animated series Freji with its seasons.
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Cheryl Smith
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Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith is an actress quite familiar to genre film fans. With leads in "B" pictures and meaty smaller parts in more major ones, her career showed great promise in the 1970s. Alas, it was not meant to be . . . the lure of hard drugs was to bring tragedy to the lovely and talented "Rainbeaux" (a nickname given her for being a mainstay at L.A.'s Rainbow Club, a popular spot for musicians). She was once a member of the legendary girl band The Runaways, but heroin plagued her life for many years and caused her to contract hepatitis, which ultimately killed her. She is the mother of a son, allegedly sired by a member of the rock band The Animals.
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Tabytha Gonzalez
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Tabytha Gonzalez is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for Destination Tomorrow – The Bronx LGBTQ Center. She is an award-winning international advocate, cultural strategist, public speaker, and storyteller dedicated to advancing equity, justice, and collective safety for historically marginalized communities.
Tabytha is a co-founding member of the Trans Equity Coalition, where she helped secure $3.8 million in funding for trans-led organizations across New York City. In her previous role as a Human Rights Specialist with the NYC Commission on Human Rights, she advised city agencies and public-serving institutions on equity, inclusion, and human rights protections. Her work included organizing and facilitating trainings on Human Rights Law, Working with Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Communities, Bystander Intervention, and Peer Mediation.
She has also consulted with grassroots and community-based organizations to strengthen staff development and implement evidence-based trainings grounded in cultural competency and lived experience. Tabytha’s work is deeply rooted in community care, leadership development, and advancing policies that improve the lives of those most impacted by systemic inequality.
Internationally, Tabytha’s cultural and advocacy work includes collaborations with Saints Europe, Ruhrtriennale Festival of the Arts, Fierce Foundations, and the FQ Crazy Sexy Cool Podcast, uplifting Black queer and trans Haus and Ballroom culture on a global stage. Through activism, cultural preservation, and storytelling, she centers power, authenticity, and accountability within LGBTQ+ communities.
Tabytha is featured in the HBO documentary The Stroll and currently serves as a Board Member of the Stonewall Community Foundation, where she helps guide philanthropic investment in grassroots LGBTQ+ movements.
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