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Sam Shepard
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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
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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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Rickie Wang
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Rickie Wang lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is in grade five, and his favourite subjects are drama and social studies. He loves singing, dancing, acting, songwriting, DJing and scratching. He also enjoys playing piano and guitar.
At a young age, Rickie has an impressive resume with numerous credits in film, television and theatre. Select theatre credits include Mr. Mistoffolees and Quaxo in Children’s Theatre of Richmond’s production of Cats, and Tiny Tim in Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol at the Arts Club Theatre, directed by Bobby Garcia. Rickie voiced the character Min in Heroes of the Golden Mask, alongside Christopher Plummer, released in 2022. Other credits include Vancouver Children’s Musical Festival, 6th Small Golden Bell Music Festival, CCTV Youth Talent Show (China), and Love Global Peace Charity Concert (SinoMedia). Film and television credits include Gumboot Kids (CBCKids) and Missed You at Rose Terrace. Most recently, in recognition of his talent and high achievement, in , he received three 1st place awards and two medallions in the Junior Voice Competition at Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival.
Next Rickie will perform his original songs in Gateway Theatre’s Songs of Summer Concert, and play Kurt in the Arts Club Theatre production of The Sound of Music, directed by Ashlie Corcoran in the winter of 2022.
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Abdelrahman Dnewar
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Abdelrahman Dnewar is an Egyptian filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. His short film My Brother, My Brother received international acclaim, including a Jury Special Mention at Clermont-Ferrand and the Golden Gate Award in San Francisco. It has screened at more than forty festivals, is nominated for Best Animation at the AMAA, and is currently streaming on ARTE.
Abdelrahman began his career as a duo with his twin brother Saad, who passed away at the young age of 29. Much of his upcoming work continues the creative path they started together and are based on Saad’s writings.
His practice is driven by formal experimentation, moving between traditional animation, live action, and found-footage collage. His films explore personal, political, and psychological themes, often centered on twin narratives and the blurring of self within intimate relationships, sometimes set against the backdrop of global imperialism and multicultural identity.
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Ángeles Cruz
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Ángeles Cruz is a Mexican actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. Originally from La Mixteca area in Oaxaca, she has a degree in acting from the School of Theater Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts. She has participated as an actress in more than a dozen national and international feature films with directors such as Ignacio Ortiz, Jorge Pérez Solano and Francisco Vargas among others. Her work in "Tamara y la Catarina" of Lucía Carreras, earned her the "Colón de Plata" as Best Actress awarded by the "Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva" 2017 and was "Nominated for Ariel" for best female performance in 2018. It was "Nominated for the Golden Beetle" as Best Actress by the Swedish Film Academy for her work in the film "La hija del puma"(Ulf Hulberg, 1994) and in 2000 for Ariel as best female co-acting for the film "Rito Terminal" (Óscar Urrutia, 2000). Her work as a screenwriter and director has produced three award-winning short films: "La tiricia or como curar la tristeza", "La carta" and "Arcángel". Her first feature film "Nudo mixteco" will be released soon.
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Emma Rayne Lyle
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Emma has often been described as "an old soul." As an actor she expresses a maturity and wisdom of someone far older. Emma is known in the industry for her professional attitude on set and her incredible awareness. As an actor, she has been described as "a natural." Emma is the youngest of three children. She lives in the country and has two chocolate labs Lou and Lola. Emma is home schooled and loves to go fishing with her dad. In her first year and a half of acting she has filmed nine films: I Don't Know How She Does It, Predisposed, Return, House Hunting, The Projectionist, Little Red Wagon, Gutted, Digital High and the Shoe Box.
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Corinne Cléry
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Born near Paris, and raised in Saint Germain-en-Laye, Cléry started her acting career in the late 1960s very shortly under the name 'Corinne Piccoli'. Her first important film was Joël Le Moigne's Les Ponettes with Johnny Halliday and famous DJ Hubert Wayaffe, whom she married at the end of the filming, aged 17.
Cléry first came to prominence in the controversial movie Story of O (1975) (Histoire d'O). She also modelled for a noted cover of the French magazine Lui in which she is holding a huge copy of the book Story of O.
Cléry is also noted for being the Bond girl Corinne Dufour in the James Bond movie Moonraker (1979). She also starred with the other James Bond actors Barbara Bach and Richard Kiel in the little-known movie The Humanoid. Clery also starred in the movies, Covert Action and Hitch Hike (1975) with the actor David Hess. She also appeared in Sergio Corbucci's Bluff - storia di truffe e di imbroglioni (1976) with Adriano Celentano and Anthony Quinn.
Most of her movies, following Moonraker, were made in Italy in Italian.
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Lena Olin
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born 22 March 1955) is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Mentored by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, she made her screen debut with a small role in his film Face to Face (1976). After graduating from the drama school, Olin joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre, followed by roles in Bergman's films Fanny and Alexander (1982) and After the Rehearsal (1984). She made her international breakthrough with a role of a free-spirited artist in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), which earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
Olin garnered further critical acclaim for her portrayals of a Jewish survivor in the comedy-drama Enemies, A Love Story (1989), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an abused wife in the comedy-drama Chocolat (2000), for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Her other film roles include The Adventures of Picasso (1978), Havana (1990), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), Mr. Jones (1993), The Ninth Gate (1999), Queen of the Damned (2002), Casanova (2005), The Reader (2008), Remember Me (2010), Maya Dardel (2017), and The Artist's Wife (2019).
On television, Olin starred as KGB agent Irina Derevko on the spy thriller Alias (2002–2006), which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Her other television roles include the sitcom Welcome to Sweden (2014–2015), the drama series Riviera (2017–2020), and the drama series Hunters (2020–2023).
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Kevin Saunders
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Originally from Maryland, Kevin Saunders has enjoyed acting on stage and on film for more than ten years. Though initially from a theatre background, Saunders considers film acting his true passion. Still, he credits the stage with cultivating his love of performance. Now working in the Georgia market, Saunders is an active member in the Atlanta film community.
Saunders likes to keep busy, having appeared in several television shows, multiple national commercials, and a handful of short films. A versatile performer, he loves comedic roles but truly relishes in dramatic performances that evoke audiences' emotions. When he is not acting, Saunders also enjoys directing, producing, and writing.
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Jacob Moran
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Jacob Moran is known for his role of Billy in the Blumhouse Universal Pictures blockbuster “The Black Phone.” Jacob starred as Tristan, in Thommy Kane’s “New Shoes” that premiered at the American Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival which earned Jacob "Best Actor" and "Rising Star" awards. Most recently, Jacob portrayed David in the Warner Bros./Essex horror film "The Curse of the Necklace" which was released in September 2024.
This past year Jacob wrapped two highly anticipated projects “Regarding Us”, Nicole Kidman’s new film “Holland Michigan” and "Brooklyn, Minnesota".
Jacob has had Guest Star roles in a variety of television shows including ABC’s “Wonder Years,” NBC’s “New Amsterdam” and Netflix’s Emmy-award winning “Christmas on the Square” with Dolly Parton. Jacob is credited with over 300 performances of the First National Broadway show "The School of Rock." Jacob resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and Actors' Equity Association (AEA).
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