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Vincent Moscato

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Thierry Vincent Moscato, known as Vincent Moscato (born 28 July 1965, in Paris) is a former French rugby union player as well as radio talk host and actor. Moscato played as a hooker. He won the French Top 14 title with CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde in 1991, and he earned his first international cap on 22 June 1991 against Romania at Bucharest. He was sent off during a match against England at Parc des Princes in 1992 and never played for France again. Source: Article "Vincent Moscato" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Suzuka Ohgo

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Ohgo began acting in 2000 when she was seven, then she joined Sunflower (Himawari), which is a theatrical company. She debuted with the company at the Meiji-za in Story of a National Thief. In early 2005, Ohgo debuted in her first major film, Kita No Zeronen (北の零年, a.k.a. Year One in the North), directed by Isao Yukisada, with the well-known actor Ken Watanabe, where she played the role of Tae Komatsubara. In December 2005, she debuted in Hollywood with Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall, where she played Sakamoto Chiyo, the child version of the main protagonist Nitta Sayuri (the adult version is played by Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi). During the same year, she also won the Japan Film Critics Award for Best Newcomer. In 2006, Ohgo also starred in Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園, a.k.a. Symphony of Joy), which was released in June 2006 and is set during World War I, where she plays a girl of mixed German-Japanese heritage trying to find her German father who may be held there. In 2008, she began lending her voice to anime in Michiko to Hatchin as Hana (AKA: "Hatchin"). She also provided the voice Kaita in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. She worked at CATARMAN until 2013.
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Kim Dong-won

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Born in 1974. Graduated from the Film Department at Seoul Institute of the Arts. With his short 81, Hae-jeok Became the Disco King, KIM won the Miraebol Award at the 25th Korean Independent Short Film Festival. Starting his professional career as a scripter to BONG Joon-hos Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), he caught attention with his debut feature Bet on My Disco and received Critics Award at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Japan. He completed his second feature Drifting Away .
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Jane Goldman

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Jane Loretta Anne Goldman (born 11 June 1970) is a British screenwriter and producer. She is mainly known for collaborating with director Matthew Vaughn on the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), as well as X-Men: First Class (2011), Kick-Ass (2010), and Stardust (2007). Goldman also worked on the story of X-Men: Days of Future Past(2014), the sequel to First Class, again in partnership with Vaughn. Both met high critical praise for their work. Goldman's first solo screenplay is The Woman in Black (2012). She also wrote the script for The Limehouse Golem and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, released in 2016. She is the writer of Edgar Wright's upcoming remake of Barbarella. She has also written books such as The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1995) and the novel Dreamworld (2000). Goldman presented her TV show, Jane Goldman Investigates (2003–04), a non-fiction series on the paranormal, for the channel Living. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Goldman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Toby Haynes

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Toby Haynes is a British television director, notable for his work on Doctor Who (2010-2011), Sherlock (2012), Black Mirror (2017-2025), and Andor (2022). He also directed the Channel 4/HBO television film Brexit: The Uncivil War. He is a graduate of the National Film and Television School and an alumnus of Falmouth University. He won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) for the Doctor Who episodes "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang" (2010).
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Angelina Peláez

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Teacher Angelina Peláez is a graduate of INBA, with subsequent studies of Spanish Literature at UNAM. It was perfected with the teacher Héctor Mendoza. Since 1976 she has worked as a teacher at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), she also teaches at the CEA of Televisa and at the National School of Theater Art of INBA. With a career of 42 years, Angelina has participated in films such as Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman, Man on fire, Mezcal, The same moon and Five days without Nora. For the latter, she won the Ariel Award for Best Female Co-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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Brian Cox

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Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander. Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. He went on to train as a Shakespearean actor, starring in numerous productions with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Rat in the Skull (1984), for Royal Court, and Titus Andronicus (1988). He received two more Olivier Award nominations for Misalliance (1986) and Fashion (1988). Known as a character actor in film, he played Robert McKee in Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) and William Stryker in X2 (2003). For his starring role in L.I.E. (2001), he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other notable films include Manhunter (1986), Iron Will (1994), Braveheart (1995), The Boxer (1997), The Rookie (2002), Troy (2004), Match Point (2005), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Coriolanus (2011), Pixels (2015), and Churchill (2017). Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in the television film Nuremberg (2001). The following year, he guest starred on the NBC sitcom Frasier, earning his second Emmy nomination in 2002. He portrayed Jack Langrishe in the HBO series Deadwood. He starred as Logan Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018-2023), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
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Russia Hardy

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Born in Newport News, Virginia and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, Reagan came to Los Angeles in 2003 and started acting in films in 2005. Reagan resides in Los Angeles primarily. Most recently, she acted in Sean Brosnan's, "My Father, Die" along side Joe Anderson (Across the Universe), John Schneider, Sean Brosnan, and Chester Rushing; She is the lead in the family film series, "Toby's Big Adventure", directed by Michael Sarna, where her co-star is a baby white tiger. She also leads in the psychological thriller Abbadon (in the vein of "Dogville" meets "Silence of the Lambs"), slated to be released summer of 2020. She is one of six female leads in an upcoming series; more details on this series to be announced soon.
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Blutch

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Blutch, pen name of Christian Hincker (born 27 December 1967 in Strasbourg) is a French comic book author. He is considered one of the main authors of French comics since the early 1990s. After studying at Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Blutch was discovered through a competition organized by the monthly magazine Fluide glacial. He got his nickname from a classmate for his physical resemblance to Corporal Blutch, one of the heroes of the Tuniques bleues. His first strips appeared in Fluide Glacial between 1988 and 1993 (Pecos Jim, Waldo's Bar, Mademoiselle Sunnymoon). From 1993 he was part of the circle of cartoonists working for the independent comic book publisher L’Association. In 1996 he joined A Suivre magazine, where he designed the historical Péplum series. Rancho Bravo (with Jean-Louis Capron) and Blotch (two issues), a satirical portrait of Fluide Glacial magazine and its illustrators, appeared in the late 1990s. He underlined his versatility with the two-volume autobiography about his childhood in Le petit Christian (1998/2008) or with the comic novels Vitesse Moderne (2002) and La Volupté (2006). In 2002, Blutch received the Prix international de la Ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée for Vitesse Moderne, and in 2009 the Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême: that made Blutch president of the Angoulême comic festival in 2010. Source: Article "Blutch" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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