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Saygın Soysal

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Saygin Soysal was born on May 21, 1982 in Ankara, as the only child of his family. They moved to Bursa when he was 2 years old. After completing primary school, they moved to Trabzon. After graduating from high school in Trabzon, she graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Performing Arts department. Saygin Soysal starred in the TV series "KirikKanatlar" in 2005 with Cansel Elçin, Mehmet Ali Nuroglu, Özge Özberk, Begüm Birgören, Semsi Inkaya, Türkü Hazer, Sermiyan Midyat and played the character of Sergeant Yunus. In 2006, he starred in the television series "Hatirla Sevgili" starring Cansel Elcin, Beren Saat and Okan Yalabik. In 2013, he played the character of Mercan Aga in the TV series "Magnificent Century" He starred with Saygin Soysal in the line called "Kara Para Ask" in 2014. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin
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Dominik Diamond

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Paul Dominik Diamond (known as Dominik Diamond) is a Scottish television and radio presenter and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the original presenter of Channel 4's video gaming programme GamesMaster. He was a stand-up comedian before he started presenting and was known for working with then unknowns Simon Pegg, David Walliams and Matt Lucas. In recent years he has mainly presented radio programmes for UK stations XFM and Radio 5 Live. Since January 2009 he has been living in Canada and presenting radio shows.
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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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Reza Rahadian

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Reza Rahadian (born in Bogor, Indonesia on March 5, 1987) is an Indonesian actor. Born in Bogor, he took up acting while in senior high school and made his feature film debut in 2004. Since receiving his first Citra Award in 2009, he has acted in over a dozen films, ranging from comedies and romances to dramas and biopics. He is widely recognized as one of the most talented and versatile actors in Indonesian cinema, known for his ability to embody diverse characters across various genres. Reza began his acting career in television before making his breakthrough in films. His role in Perempuan Berkalung Sorban (2009) earned him the Best Supporting Actor award at the Indonesian Film Festival. He later gained widespread acclaim for portraying Indonesia’s third president, B.J. Habibie, in Habibie & Ainun (2012), a role he reprised in Rudy Habibie (2016) and Habibie & Ainun 3 (2019). Throughout his career, Reza has starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including My Stupid Boss (2016), Imperfect (2019), Surga Yang Tak Dirindukan (2015), Gadis Kretek (2023), and many more. His ability to seamlessly transition between drama, comedy, and historical roles has made him a favorite among audiences and filmmakers alike. Beyond acting, Reza is also involved in theater, directing, and serves as a jury member for film festivals. His contributions to Indonesian cinema have earned him multiple awards, including several Citra Awards, solidifying his status as one of Indonesia’s most respected and influential actors.
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Emily Rose Everhard

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Emily Rose Everhard (born April 10, 1996) is an American teen actress best known for her role as Amy Carson on the CBS television series Cake and as Cherish in "Bratz-The Movie". Emily has been on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno three times in skits for Baby Fat, Nicole Richie Barbie, and getting tripped by President Obama at a soccer game! Currently Emily is shooting a pilot for ABC starring Jason Jones and Missi Pyle called "How To Be A Better American". HTBABA is written and produced by the same team that brought us Scrubs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emily Rose Everhard, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Adel Adham

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An Egyptian actor, born in Alexandria in 1928, and tried to go to acting at the beginning of his life, but he changed his mind for years due to Anwar Wagdy’s opinion about him, who thought that he was not suitable for that, so he went to dancing, and he did not appear on the cinema screen after A few times during that period, and after that he worked for years in the cotton trade until the issuance of nationalization decisions in the fifties, and instead of implementing his decision to emigrate abroad, he decided to return to the experience of acting again after he got acquainted with the director Ahmed Diaa in 1964, which he presented through (Am I Crazy?), And since that time, Adel Adham has starred in many films, the most important of which are: (Gossip over the Nile, the most dangerous man in the world, Quail and Autumn, the sad night bird, the devil preaches, the unknown, a supermarket). He died in 1996 after contracting severe pneumonia at the age of 67.
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Matthew J. McCarthy

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Matt McCarthy (born November 9, 1979) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and improviser living in Los Angeles. He is best known for his appearances on Conan and CollegeHumor.com and for hosting the We Watch Wrestling Podcast. McCarthy co-stars as Carl on the  CBS show How We Roll. Matthew McCarthy, the youngest of three, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, at the old Women & Infants Hospital on Maude Street. He grew up in an Irish-Catholic home in Rumford, Rhode Island. He attended St. Margaret's School and La Salle Academy. The New York Times described him as a "John Belushi-like madman, " McCarthy began performing stand-up comedy after graduating from Fordham University, where he was the mascot of The Ram from 1999 to 2001. He then studied improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. Before becoming a performer, he appeared as a contestant on a Cash Cab episode aired on June 26, 2006. In 2008, he starred in a Guinness commercial for St. Patrick's Day. The following year, he portrayed The Cable Guy in  Verizon Fios commercials. McCarthy co-founded the sketch video group Front Page Films with fellow comedians and creators, including frequent collaborator Pete Holmes. FPF made sketches, commercials and viral videos for Doritos, Crunch Fitness, CollegeHumor, and Comedy Central. McCarthy also starred in many shorts for CollegeHumor. Numerous Front Page Film videos were featured on Atom.com and Comedy Central's Tosh. In 2010, McCarthy hosted Action Pack on AMC with Nick Stevens. McCarthy was an avid pro wrestling fan who was a creative writer for WWE from 2011 to 2012 and 2016-2018. In 2013, McCarthy began recording episodes of the We Watch Wrestling Podcast with fellow stand-up comedians Vince Averill, Tom Sibley, and producer Rob Sibley. From October 2013 through June 2014, McCarthy was a series regular and writer on The Pete Holmes Show on TBS following Conan. McCarthy began performing comedy in New York City in 2003 at various open mics, barker, and bringer shows. Quickly found a home in the East Village at the now-defunct Comedy Social, a weekly comedy showcase at Sin Bar. Soon after, he hosted a stand-up at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction. McCarthy had a month-long run of his solo show "McCarthyism" at the infamous Rififi Cinema Classics. McCarthy also ran "The Matt McCarthy Stand-Up Comedy Show" at Comix NY for several months. In 2011, McCarthy ran a monthly comedy extravaganza called MARKING OUT in Manhattan. His stand-up comedy television performances include Season 3 of Live at Gotham, John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central. McCarthy has performed at such festivals as Just for Laughs in Montreal, All Tomorrow's Parties, Sasquatch! Music Festival, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival and Bonnaroo. Named one of LA Weekly's Comics to Watch in 2014. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Matt McCarthy (comedian), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jason Isaacs

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Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise series (2002–2011), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), James Wolfe in Battle of the Brave (2004), Antonio Pérez in The Escorial Conspiracy (2007), Georgy Zhukov in The Death of Stalin (2017), and John Godfrey in Operation Mincemeat (2021). His television roles include Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy in the Netflix supernatural mystery drama streaming series The OA (2016–2019) and Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2018). His voice acting roles include Admiral Zhao in the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) and the second season of The Legend of Korra (2013), and the Grand Inquisitor/Sentinel in Star Wars Rebels (2014–2016). Isaacs has appeared on stage as Louis Ironson in Declan Donnellan's 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theatre premiere of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes and as hitman Ben in a 2007 revival of Harold Pinter's 1957 play The Dumb Waiter at Trafalgar Studios in the West End. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor—Miniseries or Television Film for The State Within (2006) and for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe (2008). He also was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actor, won the Satellite Award for Best Actor—Miniseries or Television Film for Case Histories (2011–2013), and was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actor—Television Series Drama for Brotherhood (2006–2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Isaacs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Eric Elmosnino

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Éric Elmosnino (born 2 May 1964) is a French actor and musician. He is known internationally for portraying Serge Gainsbourg in Gainsbourg, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor. He studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. After leaving the Conservatory, he worked at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers with Jean-Pierre Vincent. In 1992 he played Christian Ribet, a friend of Guillaume de Tonquédec, in the film Tableau d'honneur (Honour Roll) by Charles Nemes. In 2006, he played in the theater as Edward Bond, directed by Alain Francon, at the Avignon Festival and the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris. In January 2008, he performed in a show at the Theatre Antoine in Paris for Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage. Source: Article "Éric Elmosnino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sergio Castellitto

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Sergio Castellitto (born August 18, 1953) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, to parents from Molise and Abruzzo, Southern Italy. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as La Madre by Brecht, Merchant of Venice, and Candelaio by Giordano Bruno. At the Teatro di Genova he starred in the roles of Tuzenbach in Chekhov's Three Sisters and Jean in Strindberg's Miss Julie, both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. In the coming years, he also starred in such theatrical productions as L'infelicità senza desideri and Piccoli equivoci at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He also appeared in Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon. During his years in the theatre, he worked alongside many famous actors, including Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo, and Enzo Muzii. Castellitto began his film career in 1983 beside Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli in The General of the Dead Army by Luciano Tovoli. He interpreted many films like Sembra morto...ma è solo svenuto directed by Felice Farina, Piccoli equivoci by Ricky Tognazzi and Stasera a casa di Alice by Carlo Verdone. He became more famous with the films The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi and The Star Maker by Giuseppe Tornatore. In the late 1980s, Castellitto appeared in several Italian television miniseries, including Un siciliano in Sicilia (1987), Cinque storie inquietanti (1987), Piazza Navona (1988), Cinéma (1988), and Come stanno bene insieme (1989). He also appeared in the miniseries Victoire, ou la douleur des femmes (2000). Success arrived with the films La famiglia, L'ultimo bacio, Caterina in the Big City, My Mother's Smile, Mostly Martha, and especially with Don't Move, written by his wife Margaret Mazzantini. Other films that he interpreted include Il regista di matrimoni by Marco Bellocchio and La stella che non c'è by Gianni Amelio. In France, Castellitto played the male lead opposite Jeanne Balibar in Jacques Rivette's Va savoir (2001). His most recent accomplishment as an actor has been in his role as Padre Pio: Miracle Man, arguably the defining role of his career. The first film that he directed is Libero Burro, followed by Don't Move. He played the role of the antagonist, King Miraz, in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. His most recent film as director was Twice Born, which played at the Toronto Film Festival (2012), where it was not well received by much of the English speaking press. Most recently, Castellitto appeared in the television series In Treatment in the role of Giovanni. Castellitto is married to Margaret Mazzantini with four children, one of these is Pietro, actor and film director himself. Source: Article "Sergio Castellitto" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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