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Ai Kayano

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Ai Kayano is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Pro-Fit.talent agency; she is represented by Office Osawa since 2015. After debuting as a voice actress in 2010, she played her first lead role as Meiko "Menma" Honma in the 2011 anime television series Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. She is also known for her lead roles as Inori Yuzuriha in Guilty Crown, Utaha Kasumigaoka in Saekano, Mashiro Shiina in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou and Shiro in No Game No Life. She has also performed opening, ending, and insert theme for various anime she has acted in.
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Julian Glover

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Primarily a classical stage actor, Julian Glover trained at the National Youth Theatre, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and became a familiar face to British television viewers by appearing in many popular series during the 1960s and 1970s. His talent for accents and cold expression made him an ideal choice for playing refined villains. During the 1980s, Glover achieved some fame in Hollywood by playing roles in such popular films as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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Manolo Solo

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Born in Algeciras in 1964, he was raised in neighbouring Los Barrios until age 6, later moving to Seville with his family. Part of the Sevillian musical scene in his youth, he was bassist-singer of Hacienda Somos Todos and Libertad Provisional. He later joined Arden Lágrimas and became the vocalist of rock band La Turmix/Relicarios, sharing stage with Santi Amodeo. Relicarios managed to release a full album, Detentebala. Solo earned a licentiate degree in Education Sciences from the University of Seville and trained his acting chops at the Seville's Instituto de Teatro. After debuting as a stage actor in 1989 and making a number of television appearances, he landed his feature film debut in the drama Everything in Place, released in 2002.
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Manuel de Coco

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Manuel de Coco was born in Athens, Greece. He is a film director and writer, best known for his poetic and transcendental style. He is also renowned for traveling to extreme and remote places to explore humanity's relationship with spirituality. Through his films, one can feel the harmony and divine essence of the earth, with a clear look at humanity that reveals a world in crisis. He frequently uses profound narratives, with an existential voice-over, non-professional actors and unconventional techniques to create a dreamlike and hypnotic effect. His films are visually arresting and immersive, offering a unique perspective on the art of cinema which elevates his work from a film to an experience. His directorial debut, the cult feature film "Unknown Land" (2012), was filmed in Israel and in Yemen (Socotra Island) during the period of "Arab Spring" and the monsoon season, with a broken camera. Its budget was €25,000 and the filming lasted only 12 days. It is the first feature film which has ever been shot in Socotra. This isolated island has been described as the most alien landscape on earth. The film has been screened at festivals worldwide (Cairo IFF, São Paulo IFF, Andrei Tarkovsky IFF, Film Festival Cologne etc.) and won several awards. Initially, the film was going to be Yemen's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award (Oscar), but Manuel de Coco was censored in Yemen. The film has subsequently been banned in many countries of the Arab world and in Israel. Eleven years later Manuel de Coco returned to the big screen with his second feature film, the avant-garde docu-fiction "Invisible World" (2023), filmed over a 17-year period in 10 countries (Tibet, Mongolia, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Vatican City, Nepal, India). As a result of Manuel's choice during editing, all scenes filmed in Nepal and India were cut completely. Most festivals were reluctant to present this controversial film due to political and religious reasons. Finally, "Invisible World" had its world premiere at the 27th Avanca Film Festival in Portugal and has been screened at selected festivals, receiving awards. Manuel de Coco's ambitious vision of the themes he dealt with in his first two films has divided both critics and audiences. His third feature film, "The Purification", an existential, metaphysical thriller, is in pre-production. The screenplay has been written and developed gradually over the past 25 years.
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Sharlto Copley

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Sharlto Copley (born November 27, 1973) is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated science fiction film District 9 and H. M. Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sharlto Copley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marshall Napier

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marshall James Napier is a New Zealand actor. He is the father of actress Jessica Napier and the uncle of actor James Napier. Before becoming an actor, Napier worked variously as an art student, factory worker and truck driver. In 1988, he moved with his wife and two children, Reuben and Jessica, to Australia, to pursue a career in acting, and has worked in theatre, film, and television productions. In his 40's, he began writing plays. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marshall Napier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Martina Arroyo

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Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1937) is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success. Arroyo first rose to prominence at the Zurich Opera between 1963 and 1965, and then was one of the Metropolitan Opera's leading sopranos between 1965 and 1978. During those years at the Metropolitan Opera, she was also a regular presence at the world's opera houses, performing on the stages of La Scala, Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro Colón, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the San Francisco Opera. She is best known for her performances of the Italian spinto repertoire, and in particular, her portrayals of Verdi and Puccini heroines. Her last opera performance was in 1991, after which she has devoted her time to teaching singing on the faculties of various universities in the United States and Europe. On December 8, 2013, Arroyo received a Kennedy Center Honor. Arroyo was born in New York City, the younger of two children of Demetrio Arroyo, originally from Puerto Rico, and Lucille Washington, a native of Charleston, South Carolina. Her older brother grew up to become a Baptist minister. The family lived in Harlem near St. Nicholas Avenue and 111th Street. Her father was a mechanical engineer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and earned a good salary which enabled Arroyo's mother to stay at home with their children. His job also allowed the family to experience New York's cultural offerings and the family frequented museums, concerts, and the theatre. It was attending several performances of Broadway shows during the 1940s that first inspired Arroyo's interest in becoming a performer. Her mother humored her dreams and allowed Arroyo to take ballet classes. Her mother was also a talented amateur classical pianist and taught her daughter to play the instrument. Arroyo's other musical experiences as a child were largely through singing in the choirs at her Baptist church and as a student at Hunter College High School. After finishing high school in 1953, Arroyo attended Hunter College where she earned a B.A. in Romance languages in 1956 at the age of nineteen. While there she studied voice as a hobby in an opera workshop with Joseph Turnau. Turnau recognized that Arroyo was a major talent who just needed proper training. After the workshop ended, he introduced her to voice instructor Marinka Gurewich, who immediately accepted her as a student. When Arroyo did not take her training as seriously as her teacher wanted, Gurewich eventually threatened to end their lessons. Arroyo said of the incident, "It was a real wake-up call. Up to then, I must have been, in my mind, treating singing as a hobby, a lark—something I loved that I was dabbling in". ... Source: Article "Martina Arroyo" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Farkhat Sharipov

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Farkhat Zhurabayevich Sharipov (Kazakh: Фарха́т Жураба́евич Шари́пов; 4 December 1983; Almaty) is a Kazakh film director, screenwriter and producer. Farhat Sharipov is a graduate of the Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts. According to him, when he entered the university, as a young musician, a member of the rock band "Utopia", he simply made the wrong door and instead of sound engineering applied for directing, from which he was expelled, in 2007 he graduated from the sound engineering department with a red diploma. After graduation, he went to the United States for a special internship at the New York Film Academy, where he took a film-making course, which includes producing, screenwriting, cinematography, and even acting.
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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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Tiffany Dean Gravile

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is an American model, professional wrestling valet, and professional wrestler. She is signed to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where she performs under the ring name Jessie Belle. Jessie made her professional wrestling debut at a Firestorm event on January 8, 2010, where she lost to Sassy Stephie.Jessie made her debut for Blue Water Federation (BWF), on September 25, 2010 at a BWF event, where she teamed up with Sterling Von Erich in a losing effort to Jennifer Blake and Dustin Daniels in a mixed-tag-team match. Jessie Belle made her debut for Florida Underground Wrestling (FUW), on November 15, 2011, at the FUW event in Largo, Florida, where she defeated Ferrari. On the November 22 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie defeated Jessika Haze with Ferrari as the special guest referee. On the December 12 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie teamed up with The James boys (Luke and Rich James) against Deimos, Ferrari and Marc Mandrake, in a winning effort.On the December 30 edition of FUW Tapings, Belle entered a feud with Mercedes Justine after Smothers competed against Justine, in a losing effort.On the January 10 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie defeated Mercedes Justine by disqualification On the January 17 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie teamed up with Trinity in a losing effort to Mercedes and Ferrari The following week, Jessie competed against Trinity, in a winning effort. On the January 31 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie competed in a losing effort to Mercedes.The following week, Jessie defeated Merceded in a singles match On the February 21 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie defeated Solo Darling in a singles match.On the February 27 edition of FUW Tapings, Jessie competed against Justine, in a winning effort. The followig month, Jessie defeated Justine on several occasions. On November 11, 2011, Jessie made her debut for Covey Pro, defeating Mickie James to win the Covey Pro Women's Championship. Her reign lasted nearly a year, when she lost it to Mary Elizabeth Hatfield on October 13, 2012. In her rematch clause on December 8, Jessie defeated Hatfield to win the championship for a second time. Smothers wrestled at an American Championship Wrestling event on July 21, 2012. At the event, A Fight For Dillion Wood, Smothers squared off against Mickie James. James won the bout gaining revenge for losing her Covey Pro Women's Title to Smothers the previous yea
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