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Tamara Taylor

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tamara Taylor (born September 27, 1970, height 5' 6½" (1,69 m)) is a Canadian television actress. Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a Scottish Canadian mother, her most famous role is that of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, on the forensic crime drama Bones. She also appeared in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs as Della and the UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in the role of Nina, both of which were short-lived. Taylor has made guest appearances on NCIS, Numb3rs, Lost, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Party of Five and Dawson's Creek. She portrayed Debrah Simmons in the 2005 romantic-comedy Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Taylor also had a brief role in Serenity, the movie conclusion of the TV series Firefly by Joss Whedon. Through her part in Serenity, Taylor was able to audition for a show with actor David Boreanaz, who had previously worked with Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. She also appeared in the TV series Lost, as the former girlfriend of Michael and mother of Walt. She first appeared in Bones in the first episode of the second season, "The Titan On The Tracks," portraying the character Dr. Camille Saroyan. In the first six episodes of the season, she was credited as "Guest Starring" because creator and writer Hart Hanson had planned to kill her in episode six when Howard Epps, a recurring serial killer, poisoned her in order to create more tension and drama between the two main characters. However, the response to Cam was so strong that the writers offered her a position as a recurring regular in the show. Thus, in episode 7, "The Girl With The Curl," she was credited as a main character of the series and appeared in the title sequence.
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Mo Gaffney

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Maureen E. Gaffney (born November 5, 1958, in San Diego, California) is an American actress and activist. Gaffney hosted two of her own television talk shows: Women Aloud! (which was shown on the Comedy Central network) and The Mo Show. She appeared in Seasons 4 and 5 of That '70s Show as Joanne Stupak, Bob Pinciotti's girlfriend, had a recurring role in Mad About You and guest starred in Friends and Veronica's Closet. In addition, she appeared in the black comedy about beauty pageants, Drop Dead Gorgeous. Gaffney appeared on the British television talk show The Full Wax starring Ruby Wax, in which she portrayed American correspondent "Taffy Turner", in the recurring segment "Taffy Turner: Inside America". Gaffney teamed up with Jennifer Saunders in a recurring role as Bo in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. From Wikipedia.
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Sophia Miller

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Sophia started acting at the age of five. Her most notable role to date is that of "Young Karen" Strode in 2018 in the blockbuster hit Halloween (2018). In addition to acting, Sophia is a competitive gymnast, a 2nd degree black belt in American Karate, and a former competitive archer just to name a few. She jokes that she's training to become "The Perfect Weapon". Sophia is actively involved in the film community - attending classes when available, performing both in front of the camera on various projects and short films as well as behind the scenes on her smaller projects. She enjoys helping with the technical aspects that go into getting a project from the script to the screen. Having various family members and friends that are either actors or film crew members she appreciates the hard work it takes to make filmmaking productive yet enjoyable. She also stays involved in the community performing volunteer services - most often helping members for the 501st Legion on their various troops to support The Special Olympics, The Make a Wish Foundation, and various other charitable and fund raising events. She strives to be a true team player.
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Livia Brito Pestana

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Brito was born on July 21, 1986 in Havana, Cuba. She daughter of actor Rolando Brito Rodríguez and Gertrudis Pestana, her family immigrated to Mexico in the year 2000. Brito was between 13 and 14 years of age at the time. A year after settling in Mexico City, her father opened a restaurant called La Cubana, which offered traditional Cuban dishes. Brito worked as a waitress at the family restaurant, and later as a model, to help pay for her studies in Business Administration.[1] She represented Mexico in the 2009 edition of the Reina Mundial del Banano, finishing as first runner-up and awarded Miss Photogenic.[2] She later enrolled in Televisa's Centro de Educación Artística (CEA). Her talents attributed to heredity, coming from an artistic family. Her father was a leading actor in Cuba, while her mother was a major ballet dancer.
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Andrea Elson

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Andrea Elson is a well-known former actress estaodounidense, famous for her role in the sitcom "ALF" from 1986. Andrea Elson was born in 1969, in the city of New York, United States. Lived all her childhood in New York, raised by parents who willingly signed up at a theatre school when she told them that she wanted to be an actress. Little after completing her primary studies began attending castings of characters getting an appearance in the 1983 series "Whiz Kids". After that made countless appearances in various series such as "Simon & Simon" in 1983, "Silver Spoons" in 1985 and which came after ALF. In September 1986 premiered the sitcom "ALF" where a charismatic alien joined an American family, creating countless funny situations. From the moment of its appearance in the TV series became a success overall, reaching cramming the market with their costumes and posters. Its protagonists were Max Wright, the father of strict and loving, Anne Scheeden, the sympathetic mother, Benji Gregory, son and the character of Andrea: Lynn, a teenager in full growth. In 1990 series came to an end after 102 episodes and four seasons, leaving a huge gap in the youth of 1980. After time, Andrea appeared in "Who's the Boss?" in 1990, "Married with Children" in 1993, "Mad About You" in 1994 and "Men Behaving Badly" of 1997, among many others. In 1993 she married TV producer Scott Hopper and together they had a little girl called Claire in 1997. Currently Elson is dedicated to do fashion shows and direct them from behind the gateway.
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Hind Rostom

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Hind Rostom was an Egyptian actress and is considered one of the icons in Egyptian cinema. She was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria on November 12, 1929, to a middle-class Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her breakthrough was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan Al Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night). Her known films include Ibn Hamido (1957), Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958) with Farid Shawqi, Salah Abu Seif's Sleepless (1958) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza, Struggle in the Nile (1959) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, dubbed "Marilyn Monroe of the East". She starred in more than 80 movies in her career. She retired from acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best. Rostom would later turn down an offer of one million Egyptian pounds for her biography in December 2002. This offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel that wanted to portray her life story as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors and filmmakers of the past, such as Farid Shawqi, Youssef Chahine, Shoukry Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. In 2004, she refused to accept Egypt's State Merit Award in Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the Middle East, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse for them to honor me before Shadia, she deserved it and she was a star for a long time before me", Rostom commented. On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.
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Zhang Song

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A film and television actor in Mainland China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's 2013 Performance Department. In 2013, he was admitted to Beijing Film Academy. As a student of the 2013 Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy, he participated in many drama performances on campus, such as Ruan Lingyu, The Orphan of Zhao, Sunrise, etc. He plays Brother Xiang; the play "Follow Your Shadow"; the play "North Street and South Courtyard" plays Tan Tian; it can be said that he has rich performance experience. In 2015, he starred in the TV series "Fighting Golden Ridge" and starred in the spy war hero string for the first time. In October 2016, participated in Paris Fashion Week. In May 2018, his partners Chen Weiting and Guli Nazha participated in the TV series "Storm Dance", playing the enthusiastic and sincere Ma Xiaojun. [4] He played Fengshan in the TV series " Patriot " cooperating with Zhang Luyi and Tong Liya, which premiered on Jiangsu Satellite TV on June 9, 2018.
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Alexandra Shipp

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Alexandra Ruth Shipp (born July 16, 1991) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the third season of Nickelodeon's mystery teen drama series House of Anubis (2011-2013) playing the role of KT Rush, but rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014) and Kimberly Woodruff in the Oscar-nominated film Straight Outta Compton (2015). Shipp is best known for playing Storm in the X-Men franchise, starting with X-Men: Apocalypse, Abby Suso in the 2018 romantic comedy Love, Simon, and Susan Wilson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom!.
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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Persian: محمود دولت‌آبادی‎, Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi) (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience. In 2020, he wrote and recited a work called Soldier (Half-Burned boots) for the Art of Peace global project, composed and arranged by Mehran Alirezaei. He has collaborated with this project.
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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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