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Matt Skollar
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Matt Skollar was born in New York City to mom, Haydee, born and raised in Panama, and Stan, New York native of Russian/Jewish ancestry. Matt began acting, dancing and singing at a young age, which led him to his first professional job (age 10) playing a young prince in an 8-week run of "The King and I." Matt's passion for performing arts further grew as he aged, leading him to put higher education on hold to pursue his childhood dream. This move would take Matt back to New York, where he was admitted to the prestigious New Actors Workshop. Matt studied for two years, full time, with master teachers such as George Morrison, Paul Sills and the late Mike Nichols. The emphasis of his training, steeped in Stanislavski and improvisation, allowed him to quickly showcase his talents in several off-Broadway plays, eventually leading to a contract with the esteemed Abrams Artists Agency.
During his career, Matt has guest starred on numerous prime time shows such as Sex and the City (HBO), Law and Order SVU (NBC), Game of Silence (NBC) and most recently MacGyver (CBS). Matt also had a recurring role on the daytime drama, One Life to Live (ABC). He has appeared in various indie films, including the Oscar winning Best Picture, "The Artist" and "Beast Beast" which made it's screen debut during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
His stage work includes a two-man show in the NYC Fringe Festival, as well as, performances at the prestigious Williamstown Theater Festival. Matt would eventually relocate from Los Angeles to Atlanta to take advantage of Georgia's fast growing film industry. To continue his studies, Matt enrolled in Nick Conti's Professional Actors Studio as an advanced student. Matt's passion and experience in performing arts subsequently led him to teach and mentor fellow performers at the Professional Actors Studio. Since moving to Atlanta, Matt has co-written and co-starred in an indie original and award-winning TV production, "Outside the Perimeter" with fellow actors and colleagues, Franco Castan and Scott Oakley.
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Woody Jackson
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Woodrow Wilson Jackson III (born June 10, 1970) is an American composer and session musician. He is best known for his work with Rockstar Games, composing scores for its video games Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, Grand Theft Auto V, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, Jackson studied at Virginia State University for one year, taking harmonica lessons before dropping out and playing guitar in a band. He moved to Los Angeles in 1992, and eventually joined the band Friends of Dean Martinez. He later became a session musician, working on the soundtracks of films like Ocean's Twelve (2004) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Since 2009, he has owned and operated Electro-Vox Recording Studios, where he has recorded two original albums and much of his composing work. He is an avid collector of vintage instruments.
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Juan Escalera
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is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) better known as Octagón. He is best known for working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), having worked for the company since it was founded in 1992. In 2011 he was inducted into the promotion's Hall of Fame. Octagón formed a tag team with El Hijo Del Santo to take on Los Gringos Locos (Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr) in a double mask versus hair match on the first pay-per-view put on by a Mexican wrestling promotion to air in the United States. Over the years the Octagón gimmick has spawned a Mascot called Octagoncito and an "Evil clone" known as Pentagón. In 2014, Escalera quit AAA.
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Trương Minh Quý
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Trương Minh Quý was born in Buôn Ma Thuột, a small city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. His hometown’s landscape and childhood memories are constant features in his films, in which he juxtaposes the abstract with personal images, and improvises while shooting. His films have been selected for international film festivals and exhibitions such as Locarno, New York, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Viennale, Busan and VideoBrasil. He is an alumnus of the 2012 Asian Film Academy and 2016 Berlinale Talents.
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Richard Selway
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Richard Selway is an art director working on feature films and commercials. He is known for his work as a senior art director on the HBO TV series The Nevers and as an art director on feature films Wonder Woman 1984, Entebbe, and Aladdin directed by Guy Ritchie. Other directors include Wayne Holloway, Tom Petch, Ed Sayers, Ric Cantor, Rankin, Henry Littlechild, and David Tennant.
Richard has worked on commercials and promos as a production designer for brands including Citroen DS3, GE, Boots, Walkers, Activia, Snickers, and Marmite for production companies including Smuggler, Outsider, Rattling Stick, 2AM, and Weilands. He has worked with notable production designers, including Gemma Jackson, Gavin Bocquet, Rick Heinrichs, James Foster, Jonathan Lee, and John Beard.
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Megan Henning
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Megan Henning (born September 13, 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress. She is known for playing Meredith Davies on 7th Heaven and Monica Shaw on David E. Kelley's The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire. In 2008 she began playing the recurring role of Judy Hofstadt, Betty Draper's compassionate sister-in-law, on Mad Men.
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David Lean
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Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, he is best remembered for adapting the works of Charles Dickens and Noël Coward, and for his large scale period epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).
Acclaimed and praised by directors such as Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, winning twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five).
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Keith Urban
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Keith Lionel Urban (born October 26, 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, Urban found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Records and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts.
Still signed to Capitol, he made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it also produced his first American Number One in "But for the Grace of God". His breakthrough hit was the Number One "Somebody Like You", from his second Capitol album Golden Road (2002). This album also earned Urban his first Grammy Award win for "You'll Think of Me", its fourth single and the fourth Billboard Number One of his career. 2004's Be Here, his third American album, produced three more Number Ones, and became his highest-selling album, earning 4× Multi-Platinum certification. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, producing the record-setting #17 country chart debut of "Once in a Lifetime", as well as Urban's second Grammy for the song "Stupid Boy", while a Greatest Hits package entitled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. This album was re-released a year later as Greatest Hits: 19 Kids with one track added: the number one "You Look Good in My Shirt", which he had previously recorded on Golden Road. Additional albums Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on March 31, 2009 and November 16, 2010, respectively.
Urban has released a total of nine studio albums (one of which was released only in the United Kingdom), as well as one album in The Ranch. He has charted more than fifteen singles on the U.S. country charts, including ten Number Ones. Urban plays acoustic and electric guitar, as well as ganjo, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, sitar, bouzouki and drums.
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Aqeel Ash-Shakoor
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Aqeel Taahir Ash-Shakoor was born in Murfreesboro, NC. He is known for Law & Order: SVU Season 24 (NBC) Precinct Commander Inspector Borsits; FBI Season 5 (CBS) as Geoff, MTA Mechanic; Chicago Med Season 4 (NBC) as Shrapnel Man and Season 7 as FBI Agent Russo; The Staircase (HBO Max) as State Police 2; and A League of Their Own (Prime Original Series) as Pastor Donald Turner.
In 2022, in his first major industry big screen production, Aqeel played Frank, a construction worker with great concerns, in "On Sacred Ground." In 2023, Aqeel will play James Farmer in the John Ridley directed "Shirley," based on the life of Shirley Chisholm, played by Regina King.
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Shaken Aimanov
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Shaken Kenzhetaevich Aimanov (Kazakh: Шәкен Кенжетайұлы Айманов; born 15 October 1914 – 23 December 1970; Bayanaul) was a Soviet (Kazakh) film director, screenwriter, actor. He is considered to be the father of Kazakh cinematography, as well as an iconic film director and actor. He directed eleven films between 1954 and 1970.
Aimanov was born in Bayanaul, Russian Empire (now Kazakhstan) in 1914. He studied at the Kazakh Institute of Education in Semipalatinsk (now Semey) from 1931 to 1933. He began his acting career at the Kazakh Theater of Drama in Alma-Ata in 1933. Vivid social and psychological characteristics are inherent in his art. His best roles include Akhan Seri in Akhan Seri and Aktokty by Gabit Musirepov, Isatai in Isatai and Makhambet by Akhinzhanov, Kobylandy Batyr in Kobylandy by Mukhtar Auezov, Kodar in Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu by Gabit Musirepov, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, and Tikhon in The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky. He also worked as a director and from 1947 to 1951 was chief director at the Kazakh Theater of Drama. Working in films since 1940, as both an actor and a director, Aimanov played Zhambyl in the film of the same name and directed the 1958 film Our Dear Doctor, among others. He was a deputy of the fourth and seventh convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR. In 1963 he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.[5] In 1952, he received the Stalin Prize for his work in the theater, and in 1968 he received the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR. He has been awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
The Kazakhfilm, where Aimanov worked as a film director, was named after him in 1984. The Shaken's Stars International Film Festival was held in 2013 to support and help young artists and filmmakers.
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