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Tammin Sursok

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Tammin Pamela Sursok (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian actress and musician of South African origin. She is best known for the role of Dani Sutherland on Home and Away, as Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless and as Siena in Disney Channels Hannah Montana. She also plays the role of Jenna on Pretty Little Liars for ABC Family. She also launched a singing career (under the name Tammin), with her debut single, "Pointless Relationship", released on 14 November 2004 and debuting in the top 10 of the Australian singles chart the following week. She portrayed Colleen Carlton on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2007–2009, and was nominated Daytime Emmy nomination during her time on the soap. She recently made her first made-for-television movie, Spectacular!, which premiered on 16 February 2009 on Nickelodeon. She also played Carrie in Flicka 2. She was also a recurring guest star on the fourth season of Hannah Montana as Siena, a new love interest for Jackson Stewart (Jason Earles). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tammin Sursok , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Joe Robert Cole

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Joe Robert Cole (born January 1, 1980) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his Emmy Award-nominated and Writers Guild of America Award-winning work on the first season of the true crime anthology television series American Crime Story, titled The People v. O. J. Simpson, and for co-writing the film Black Panther and its sequel, Wakanda Forever. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Robert Cole, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Selim Yıldız

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Selim Yıldız was born in 1985, in Bahcesaray District of Van province. He completed his compulsory education in Bahçesaray. Between 2007-2011 he worked as a construction worker while getting his training in documentary and photography at Free University of Istanbul. His works on Kurdish children and Kurdish press have been shown in multiple festivals and received numerous awards. He organized photography workshops with children affected by the 2011 Van Earthquake, struggling to survive in make-shift tent camps. He shot his first documentary,“ 29″, in 2013. His second movie called „I Remember“ was about the Roboskî Massacre. He received the Johan van der Keuken New Talent Award in Documentarist
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Fernando Spencer

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Fernando José Spencer Hartmann was born in 1927 in the São José neighborhood of Recife. He began working at the age of 17 at the Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social de Pernambuco, but his goal was to pursue a career as a writer. He contributed to several newspapers in Recife, including Diário de Pernambuco, Jornal Pequeno, and Jornal do Commercio. Spencer worked for forty years (1958-1998) as a journalist, proofreader, and film editor at Diário de Pernambuco and also gained experience in radio. In the 1960s, he created the programs Filmelândia and Falando de Cinema on Rádio Clube de Pernambuco and Rádio Tamandaré. From the 1980s to 2000, he took on the role of coordinator at the Cinemateca da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. His filmmaking career began in 1969, and he is considered one of the pioneers of Super-8 cinema with his film A Busca. The filmmaker also served as president of the Associação Brasileira de Documentaristas and was Director of the Theater and Cinema Division of the Secretaria de Educação e Cultura at the Prefeitura Municipal do Recife in the 1970s. He is the author of approximately 36 short films in various formats – Super-8, 16mm, and 35mm – winning numerous national and international awards.
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Joe Son

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Joseph Hyung-min Son (born November 22, 1970) is a South Korean-born American convicted murderer, as well as a former actor, mixed martial artist, kickboxer, and professional wrestler. He partook in Ultimate Fighting Championship, and K-1 Kickboxing during his combat sports career. As an actor, he is best known for his appearance in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. In 2008, he was arrested for forcible rape, kidnapping, and torture in connection to a 1990 cold case after DNA evidence linked him to the crime; there was an accomplice who was also convicted. Due to the statute of limitations, some charges were dropped. In 2011, he was found guilty of torture and sentenced to seven years to life in prison in California. While incarcerated, he was convicted of beating his cell mate to death and was sentenced to an additional 27 years for voluntary manslaughter.
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Denny Darko

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Denny Darko is an Indonesian sand animator, entertainer, magician, entrepreneur, art performer, and tarot reader. In 2009, Denny took part in a magician talent search event called The Master and been known as a magician who also often predicts events in the future. He even managed to become the runner up of the event. From there his name became known to the public and often appeared on many TV programs. Since 2012, he's been a content creator on YouTube by sharing various exciting and very interesting things such as predictions, podcasts, zodiac signs, to myths that are believed by the public.
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Joe Pasternak

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Herman "Joe" Pasternak (September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was an Hungarian-born American film producer in Hollywood. He was born to a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (now Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania). His father was a town clerk and Pasternak was one of eleven children. In 1920 he emigrated to the US as a teenager and went to stay with an uncle in Philadelphia. He worked in a factory, punching holes in leather belts, and did a variety of other jobs. He also studied acting in New York. Pasternak became an assistant director at Paramount on The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Several years later he was directing at Universal. In 1928 Universal sent him as an associate producer to Germany. Upon return from Europe he produced a number of hits with new talent such as Deanna Durbin and Gloria Jean, reputedly saving Universal from Bankruptcy. Pasternak also had careers at MGM, Fox and Euterpe. He made mostly musicals. In 1968 he was stricken with Parkinson's Disease. He recovered slightly two years later but made no more films. He said at the time "I am proud that I have produced 105 pictures and not one of them is adults only." In 1980 he estimated his films had earned $400 million. "If I had a percentage I'd be the richest man in town," he said. His career as a film producer spanned 40 years and earned him two Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations. He retired in 1968, having produced more than ninety feature-length films as well as three Academy Award shows.
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Lynda Boyd

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Lynda Boyd (born January 28, 1965) is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Hollywood films Final Destination 2 (2003) and She's the Man (2006) along with her on-screen son, James Kirk. She had minor roles in I Spy (2002), About A Girl (2007/08), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), and Intern Academy (2004). She was also the voice of Colongue in Ranma 1/2. Boyd is currently starring in the Canadian drama/comedy series Republic of Doyle as the character Rose Miller. In 2010 she was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role Republic of Doyle.
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Agáta Hanychová

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Agáta Hanychová Agata Prachařová, aka Agáta Hanychová (* 28 April 1985 Prague) is a Czech model, owner of a modeling agency, a presenter and also an occasional actress. In 2005, it became II. vicemiss of the Czech Republic. She is publicly present as a fashion designer. She is married and has a son and daughter. Her husband is a musician, actor and moderator Jakub Prachař, for whom she married on April 20, 2013 in Mariánské Lázně. She is also currently working at the International Conservatory in Prague. She graduated from the Secondary School of Art and Management - ŠUM Praha (Photography, Production, Directing, Camera). In 2010 she graduated in Creative Photography at Silesian University in Opava, where she received the BcA degree. In 2013 she moderated the night show of the 4th series of the reality show VyVolení. (Wikipedia)
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