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Barry Fitzgerald
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Brother of actor Arthur Shields, with whom he performed in several films, most notably John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952). One of the very few character actors ever to achieve star status.
Fitzgerald was the only player ever nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year for the same role. The recognition was for Going My Way (1944). After he received this double nomination, the Academy immediately changed their rules to prevent this from happening again, rules which have remained unchanged to this day.
One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and joined Dublin's world-famous Abbey Players. He subsequently starred in the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role that he recreated in his film debut for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1930. He was coaxed to the U.S. in 1935 by John Ford to appear in Ford's film adaptation of another O'Casey masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars (1936). Fitzgerald took up residence in Hollywood and went on to give outstanding performances in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), None But the Lonely Heart (1944), And Then There Were None (1945), Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and what is probably the role for which he is most fondly remembered, The Quiet Man (1952). He won the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of gruff, aging Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way (1944). He was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the same role and was the only actor to ever be so honored. Barry Fitzgerald died in his beloved Dublin in 1961.
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Minami Koike
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Koike Minami or “Miichan” is the only 1st Generation member from Kansai. Despite her quiet and shy demeanor, she would not hold back if you make fun of her Kansai-ben (Kansai dialect). From an unconfident girl from Hyogo Prefecture, Koike steadily grew to a confident person and became one of the core members of the group. One of the breakthroughs she had was when she stepped forward for “Futari Saison” dance solo on the last day of their “Keyakizaka46 Summer Zenkoku Arena Tour 2018" when the song's original center, Hirate Yurina, was injured. She has also covered 6 different positions in “Ambivalent” including the center position. Her first center performance for the song was during the “KEYAKIZAKA46 Live Online, but with YOU!” live performance which was widely acclaimed by fans.
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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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Hanani Taylor
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Hanani Taylor, born June 16th, 1998, Columbus, Ohio. Musically, Hanani is known as "Hana Ni". Hanani began publicly performing, singing, acting and dancing at age 3. She won her first major singing and acting competitions in Dallas, Texas when she was 8 years old. She also had her acting debut at age 8. Since then, she has been featured on Showtime at the Apollo as a kid star of tomorrow, American Idol when she was 15 as a top 100 contestant out of 125,000 people who auditioned across the country. She has also been in television commercials, radio commercials and numerous print ads and also won Miss T.E.E.N Ohio in 2013. Her first big TV break was a guest star role on CBS's Criminal Minds. Afterwards, she booked a guest star spot on FOX's "The Orville" as well as ABC's "Speechless". She lead her first feature film, "Raise Your Hand" in 2016 and, in the same year, booked a recurring role on the Verizon series "Mr. Student Body President" and also started her own production company. In 2017, Hanani performed (under the name Hana Ni) as the opening act for R&B star, Ginuwine, Mila J, Calvin Richardson and Lyfe Jennings. She also shot and directed her own feature film titled "Rosehill Dwelling". Her first full length album released in early 2018. Her latest album entitled "Everything is Temporary" was released in January 2021. In 2019, Hanani shot her second feature film "Playground". In 2020, Hanani booked a recurring spot on the Peacock TV Original show "Punky Brewster". In 2021, Hanani booked the role of Susie Bryd in the film adaptation of NY Times Bestselling novel, "Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe". She worked alongside Eva Longoria, Lin Manuel Miranda, Kevin Alejandro, Isabella Gomez, Luna Blaze, Aitch Alberto and many more. The film is set to debut in the near future. In 2022, Hanani booked the role of "Kayla" in Nickelodeon and Paramount's film "Fantasy Football" alongside Marsai Martin, Kelly Rowland, Omari Hardwick and Rome Flynn.
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Yurii Yevsiukov
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A soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. Honored Artist of Ukraine (2007). People's Artist of Ukraine (2017).
He was an actor in The Kharkiv Ukrainian Drama Theater in 1984-1988 and from 1995 .
Yevsiukov entered the acting rather late. He became an active member of the Ukrainian movie scene at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. He played a number of iconic roles, in particular in the cult film "Hunt for the Cossack's Gold" (ukr. "Вперед, за скарбами гетьмана!") . Critics claim that his characters are characterized by kindness, energy, psychological insight and enormous experience. He teaches at the Kharkiv I. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts (Department of Actor's Mastery).
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William Simmons
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Born in Norwich England, Simmons begin has filmmaking journey at age 17 with his A-Level film Ambula (2024), about a young man having a mental breakdown. In which he directed and acted in. He has created other more experimental short films such as the biographical End of the Prologue (2024). Simmons went on to study film at the University of Kent where he is studying to this day. Creating more short films such as Crassa (2025) and the apollo project (2025), and working on student films such as Walking with Students (2025).
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Bobby Driscoll
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Bobby Driscoll was an American child and young-adult actor whose substantial career included work on the screen, television, stage, and radio. The 1949 films So Dear to My Heart and The Window earned him an Academy Award as the year's outstanding juvenile actor. His career and life eventually gradually went into decline. In late 1961, addicted to drugs (having begun using when 17), he was sentenced to prison. In 1965, a year after his parole expired, he relocated to New York City. He was found dead in an abandoned East Village tenement in March 1968.
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Lena Horne
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Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather.
Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums.
She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died on May 9, 2010 in New York City.
During her lifetime, Horne was awarded four Grammys, a Tony, and a NAACP Image Award . She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1984.
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Edwin Rodriguez
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Edwin Rodriguez (also known as Edwin C. Rodriguez) is a fledgling actor with a deep love for film. Originally from Manila, Philippines, Edwin started exploring his craft in Toronto, Canada, where he found his footing in community theater a few years after moving there.
With a career background in technology, Edwin has honed skills in teamwork, adaptability, and empathy - qualities he's excited to bring into his journey as an actor. Though he's early in his film career, he's already gained valuable on-set experience through some independent and short films, where he's been busy shaping his creative voice.
Edwin is eager to dive into all aspects of character development and genre, with a dream of someday appearing in a sci-fi or superhero film - two genres he's always been passionate about. Beyond acting, Edwin is also a comic book enthusiast who loves discovering new stories and revisiting classic ones. He even runs a blog where he shares his thoughts on the comics, movies, and shows he's watching.
Edwin looks forward to growing within the acting community and can't wait for more opportunities to learn and collaborate.
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Gavin Webster
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Gavin Webster (born 13 November 1969 in Blaydon-on-Tyne) is a British stand-up comedian. He made his debut in February 1993 at the Barley Mow pub in Gateshead, on the same bill as Ross Noble although he had been a straight man in a double act called Scarboro and Thick a few months prior to this.
His television work includes Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Stand-up Show, Does Doug Know, Take The Mike, The Regionnaires, The Eleven O Clock show, The Comedy Store, Comedy Blue and The World Stand Up Tour (Channel 9 Australia, Comedy Central USA). He was one of the writers and was a voiceover performer in the hit BBC1 Children's programme Walk on the Wild Side in 2009, 2010 and again in 2013. In 2011 he voiced Sid the Sexist for Channel 4's series Blaps adapting Viz.
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