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Marina Ruy Barbosa

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Marina Souza Ruy Barbosa (born 30 June 1995) is a Brazilian actress. Barbosa started off her career as a child actress with her first major role was in the telenovela Começar de Novo. Following the latter, she received an invitation to audition for "Sabina", a prominent character in the telenovela Belíssima, both by Rede Globo. Later, she portrayed the character "Isabel" in Sete Pecados. Portraying the rebellious Vanessa in Escrito nas Estrelas, Marina had the idea to create the zipper earrings used by the character, an accessory that would eventually become a fad among Brazilian teenagers. In 2011, Barbosa played the prejudiced Alice in the telenovela Morde & Assopra, where she met Klebber Toledo, with whom she dated for 3 years. In 2013 she participated in the soap opera Amor à Vida, interpreting Nicole, a young orphan and millionaire who gets cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma type 4. In 2014, she gained great prominence in the telenovela Império, playing the nymphet "Maria Isis", thus winning the Contigo Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress. Her success in Império raised her career to the protagonist level. In 2015, she played the protagonist "Malvina" in Amorteamo, a character inspired by Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. As of 9 November 2015 she stars as the protagonist in the telenovela Totalmente Demais
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Sean Sloan

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Sean trained at Mountview Theatre School. Theatre work includes Marat/Sade at the Peacock, Dublin, Romeo for Solent People’s Theatre, Robin of Sherwood at the Liverpool Playhouse, Lock Up Your Daughters at Chichester, The Government Inspector at The Watermill and Dick Barton – Special Agent at Croydon. TV includes Health and Efficiency, Pilgrims Rest and 2 Point 4 Children for the BBC, Beyond Reason, Strange But True and The Bill. More recently a series of commercials for Bass Ireland and Shergar for Bluerider Films.
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Lee Se-young

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Lee Se Young is a South Korean actress managed by Prain TPC. She began her career as a child actress, starring in various movies and dramas such as Jewel in the Palace (2003), When I Turned Nine (2004), Lovely Rivals (2004) and The Wonder Years (2007). Lee gained increased popularity after starring in the 2016 family series"The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop", for which she won the "Best New Actress" award in the television category at the Baeksang Arts Award for her performance and Best Couple with her co-star Hyun Woo as were named as the “Achoo Couple” by fans. In 2017, Lee starred in her first leading role with KBS2's youth drama “Hit the Top”. In the same year, Lee starred in the fantasy romantic comedy drama A Korean Odyssey by the Hong sisters, and was praised for her portrayal of three different characters. In 2019, Lee starred in the tvN historical drama The Crowned Clown, based on the 2012 Korean historical film Masquerade, where she played the role of Queen Yoo So-woon. The same year, she appeared in the horror film Lingering and the medical drama Doctor John. In 2020, Lee starred in the mystery thriller Memorist as a genius profiler. She then reunited with Shin Sung-rok, whom she previously worked with in Trot Lovers, for the MBC drama Kairos In the 2021 MBC Drama Awards, Lee won the Top Excellence Actress award for her role in the historical romance series "The Red Sleeve", as well as the "Best Couple" award with Lee Jun Ho. In 2022, Lee made a special appearance as a cinema employee in the film Seoul Vibe. Lee also played the lead role as lawyer Kim Yu-ri in KBS romantic comedy drama The Law Cafe, reuniting with A Korean Odyssey co-star Lee Seung-gi.
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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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Hans Zhang

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Hans Zhang Han (simplified Chinese: 张翰; traditional Chinese: 張翰; pinyin: Zhāng Hàn, born 6 October 1983) is a Chinese actor, singer and host. He graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 2007. Zhang is best known for his roles in Meteor Shower (2009) and Meteor Shower II (2010), Fall in Love (2011), The Queen of SOP (2012), Heroes in Sui and Tang Dynasties (2013), Boss & Me (2014), The Four (2015), Wolf Warriors 2 (2017), Here to Heart (2018), Sunshine of My Life (2021), and Gentlemen of East 8th (2022).
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Emma Forbes

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Forbes's parents are Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes. She attended Hurst Lodge School. Forbes presented the cooking slot on Going Live!, a position she won after bombarding the production office with ideas for 'makes'. She was then selected as co-presenter for the replacement BBC children's show Live & Kicking with Andi Peters from 1993 through to 1996 and also presented ITV's teenage problem show Speakeasy. From 1994 to 1996, Forbes hosted a Meridian Television revival of the panel show What's My Line?. (Her mother had been a regular panellist on the 1970s BBC version of the show.) She has voiced Mummy Hippo in the children's animated series, Peppa Pig. She also presented the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, alongside Jonathan Coleman, before she left to present on Capital 95.8. Forbes was the face of a long-running television advert campaign for Head & Shoulders shampoo in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 1996, she was voted number 64 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women Poll, and has been represented by Storm Models. Alongside Mark Radcliffe, Forbes has co-hosted the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2. Also on BBC Radio 2 Forbes presented a Saturday show from 6 pm to 8 pm alongside comedian Alan Carr called Going Out with Alan Carr, and a Sunday morning breakfast show, replacing Pete Mitchell. On 13 December 2009, she announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2, but she continued to co-present Going Out With Alan Carr on Saturday evenings until April 2010. From March 2011, Forbes was a regular discussion contributor on ITV's daytime show The Alan Titchmarsh Show, which ended in November 2014.
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Archie Alemania

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Alemania has appeared in several television commercials such as Chippy, San Miguel, Globe and Pop Cola. He is a talent of ABS-CBN and a member of Big Brother's Dance Group, Big Men Dance Group, and the Big Men Singers. At present, Archie is into sitcom, honing his talents as an actor. Alemania has also been a host from 2004 to 2007 for Studio 23's weekly infotainment show and gag show Wazzup Wazzup with fellow hosts Toni Gonzaga and Vhong Navarro. He moved to GMA Network in 2010. his first appearance in GMA is I Laugh Sabado until 2011 as a mainstay before his quick return to ABS-CBN. after 4 years, he returned to GMA Network while he still appeared at two shows of ABS-CBN including Tubig at Langis and FPJ's Ang Probinsyano. Alemania is currently a mainstay of Bubble Gang since 2016. his first GMA Drama appearance is D' Originals. He has a son with actress Mickey Ferriols named Brent Marcus Alemania. He married Gee Canlas in October 2018.
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Raphael

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Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez, simply referred to as Raphael, is a Spanish singer and television, film and theater actor. Raphael is recognized as one of the most successful Spanish singers in the world. He is nicknamed both El Ruiseñor de Linares, El Divo de Linares and El Niño. His family moved to Madrid when he was nine months old, and he started singing when he was just three. He joined a children's choir at age four. When he was nine, he was recognized as the best child voice in Europe at a contest in Salzburg, Austria. His two idols were US singer Elvis Presley and French diva Edith Piaf. He began his professional career by singing with the Dutch record label Philips. He adopted his own peculiar singing style from the beginning; he is known for acting each one of his songs while on stage, emphasizing his gestures with high dramatic effect. It is not unusual for him to ad lib lyrics as to localize a song depending on the venue he's singing at. He also possesses a wide vocal range, which he often used in the beginning of his career as to evoke a choirboy approach to some songs. When he was nineteen, he won first, second and third awards at the famous Benidorm International Song Festival, Spain, in 1962 and 1963. After a brief relation with Barclay record label, he signed a contract with Hispavox recording company, and began a long artistic relationship with the musical director of this label, the late, talented Argentinian orchestrator Waldo de los Ríos and intensify the partnership with outstanding Spanish songwriter Manuel Alejandro.
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Alex Poei

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Alex Poei is an animation supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. His credits include The Hunger Games (2012), R.I.P.D. (2013), Aquaman (2018), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). At the 43rd Annie Awards, Alex Poei shared in winning the award for Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation in a Live Action Production for The Revenant (2015), explicitly recognised “for the bear,” alongside Matt Shumway, Adrian Millington, Blaine Toderian, and Kai-Hua Lan. More recently, his work on Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) earned him a nomination—again with colleagues Vincent Papaix, Georg Kaltenbrunner, Ziad Shureih, and Russell Lum—for the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Live Action Feature.
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Joseph Hendry

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Joseph Samuel Hendry (born 1 May 1988) is a Scottish professional wrestler and musician. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and has also been making appearances for WWE on the NXT brand since June 2024 via a working partnership between TNA and WWE. In TNA, Hendry is a former one time and the longest-reigning TNA Digital Media Champion. In addition to various other independent promotions, Hendry is known for his appearances in his native Scotland with Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) from 2013 to 2019, where he was a one-time ICW Tag Team Champion, and in England with New Generation Wrestling from 2015 to 2018 and Defiant Wrestling (formerly What Culture Pro Wrestling) from 2016 to 2018. He also performed in Ring of Honor, first in 2016 and then from 2018 to 2022, and also appeared in World of Sport Wrestling from 2018 to 2019. He first appeared in Impact Wrestling (renamed TNA in 2024) in 2018 before returning to the company in September 2022. Hendry first made some brief non-wrestling appearances for WWE in 2014 before returning in 2024 on NXT through a working partnership between TNA and WWE.
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