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Gabrielle Miller
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Gabrielle Miller is one of Canada's most celebrated performers. A professional actor for over two decades, she is widely recognized for her lead roles on two of Canada's most successful series: the runaway hit CTV series Corner Gas (6 seasons), which inspired a feature film in 2014, as well as an animated series, and the critically acclaimed series Robson Arms (3 seasons).
She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for her role in the feature film Moving Day and was a series regular on City TV/Hulu's Mother Up!, a 13-episode, half-hour adult animated comedy series starring Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives).
Along with her recurring role on Call Me Fitz, opposite Jason Priestley, Gabrielle has also recurred on Hallmark's Good Witch, and guest-starred on CBS's Person of Interest, ABC's Once Upon a Time, and Showtime's popular series Lost Girl. She starred in the feature film Down River alongside Helen Shaver (The Color of Money, Desert Hearts), which won Best Picture at the 2014 Leo Awards.
In the spring of 2012, she starred on stage in New York at the Cherry Lane Theatre in the popular play Psycho Therapy. Combined, Gabrielle has garnered 14 Gemini and Leo Award nominations. In 2005 and 2006 she won a Leo Award for her role as Lacey Burrows on Corner Gas, and in 2007 took home a Gemini Award for best ensemble cast in a comedy. For her portrayal of Bobbi Briggs on Robson Arms, Gabrielle won the 2007 Leo Award and 2009 Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Performance. Most recently Gabrielle took home the Leo Award for Best Supporting Female in a Motion Picture in 2019 for her mesmerizing performance in Rabbit.
Talented and vivacious, Gabrielle has been busy on the big and small screen with a number of projects including a guest star role on Hallmark's Hailey Dean Mysteries, a recurring role on Disney's Puppy Prep Academy, and a guest star on SYFY's The Magicians. Before that, she starred in the feature film Sisters & Brothers and the Hallmark Hall of Fame MOW Trading Christmas. Other film and TV credits include Elijah, Holiday in Handcuffs, Love and Other Dilemmas, Breaking News, Pasadena, Frasier, The X-Files, DaVinci's Inquest, The Outer Limits, NCIS and Cold Case, to name a few. Gabrielle also does extensive charitable work, supporting organizations such as Vela Microboard and World Vision.
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire — Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
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Jihaan Aziizah
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Jihaan Najlaa Aziizah is a young Indonesian actress/talent best known for her performances in various short films produced by Intidom Films. Unlike Jelita Zahra and Magda Yuan, who have been part of the channel since its first film, Jihaan joined Intidom Films as a newcomer in its eighth production, titled Memiliki Viola.
Jihaan made her acting debut in 2025 with the release of Memiliki Viola. Since then, she has frequently been cast in the role of the victim in Intidom Films’ psychological thriller productions. Despite this, Jihaan has also demonstrated her range by occasionally taking on contrasting roles, portraying childish psychopathic characters, which adds a unique and unsettling dimension to the films she appears in.
Jihaan Aziizah’s acting characteristics include: The ability to strongly convey victimized characters, evoking empathy from the audience. Occasionally portraying childish psychopathic characters with an innocent yet disturbing tone. Flexibility in exploring a wide range of roles within the short-film psychological thriller genre.
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Kirsten Lepore
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Kirsten Lepore is an American animator known for her stop-motion short films, including Sweet Dreams (2008), Bottle (2011), and Move Mountain (2013). From 2014 to 2015, she worked on an episode of the American cartoon series Adventure Time entitled "Bad Jubies", serving as writer, storyboard artist, and director. The episode eventually aired on January 14, 2016, to critical acclaim.
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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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Carlos-Manuel Vesga
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Carlos-Manuel Vesga is a Colombian actor known for his extensive work in Latin American TV and film, gaining recent international attention as Manousos in Apple TV's Pluribus (2025) and for roles in The Hijacking of Flight 601 (2024) and News of a Kidnapping (2022). Born in Bogotá on January 30, 1976, he initially studied architecture but pursued acting, training in New York at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and has become a significant presence in South American productions like Pura Sangre and Amor Sincero.
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Kim Yeon-sil
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In 1927, Kim Yeon-sil debuted in the film industry as a country girl in Na Un-gyu's first production, A Farewell. Kim Yeon-sil's interest in film was largely influenced by her brother Kim Hak-geun, who was her lawyer. Her cameraman, Kim Hak-seong, was also her biological younger brother. She is said to have been active as a public singer after 1930. After liberation, she defected to North Korea. In North Korea, she served as an actress at the Joseon Art Film Studio, and she was awarded the title of People's Actress. She died in August 1997.
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Bram Stoker
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Abraham Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. Before writing Dracula, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper and wrote stories . He married Florence Balcombe and had one child with her. Stoker also enjoyed travelling, particularly to Cruden Bay where he set two of his novels. In travelling, Stoker went to the English coastal town of Whitby which, in part, inspired his famous work Dracula. He died on 20 April, 1912 of "Locomotor ataxia 6 months" and was then cremated.
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Ray Brady
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Ray Brady's first feature "Boy Meets Girl" (1994) was made in the first year of his Film & Media degree after selling his flat and its contents to help raise the production budget. Originally shot on 16mm the film was blown up to 35mm, it screened in competition at Edinburgh, Birmingham, Sitges, Viennale, Fantasporta, and a dozen other major festivals and competitions. The film premiered at the NFT 1 and was screened at the ICA and at over forty other cinemas in the UK including the Glasgow film theatre and the Irish Film Centre in Dublin. In the third year of his degree course, Brady was paid to give lectures to the 1st year students that he was still attending himself, his signature being originality with the highest production values. With a career spanning over thirty years of filmmaking, Ray Brady's films have continued to win international awards for best film and best director, his films continue to be festival favorites. For the last twelve years, Ray has partnered with Anne Nauth-Misir in a highly successful collaboration that in 2018 saw the release of both a narrative feature and a documentary feature co-directed with his eighteen-year-old daughter Athen
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Francisco Sánchez Solís
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Francisco Sánchez Solís is a Mexican writer, director, and producer. Francisco's debut feature JACARANDA SEASON is an adaptation of Antonio Santa Ana's best-selling novel Los Ojos del Perro Siberiano. His short films have screened at international film festivals like Guadalajara, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Huesca, Minikino, and Chicago Latino. As a producer, his credits include the award-winning documentary SANCTUARY, the queer drama ALL OF THE FIRES, and the horror hot DON'T FOLLOW ME, the first Spanish-language Blumhouse film.
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