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Tony Leung Chiu-wai

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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Chinese: 梁朝偉, born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognised actors and was named as "Small Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB. Leung is widely considered the best native Hong Kong actor of his generation and has a comprehensive set of awards that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a six-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography."
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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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Rinio Dragasaki

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Rinio Dragasaki (Greek: Ρηνιώ Δραγασάκη) was born in 1980. She studied directing in Athens and documentary in Barcelona. She has worked in cinema, advertising and television and has written and directed four short films and one feature film. The short film “My Dad, Lenin and Freddy” was screened at many international festivals: Clermont-Ferrand, Sao Paulo, Chicago, Edinburgh etc. where it was distinguished. In 2012 it won the award for best short film from the Hellenic Film Academy and three more awards at the Drama Festival including the Argyros Alexandros. The film was screened on Canal+ in France and on SBS in Australia. “The Courtyard” premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Crystal Bear, while it was one of the five nominations for the best short film of 2014 by the Hellenic Film Academy. The film participated in many international festivals (Guanajuato, Edinburgh, Dresden, Brest, etc.) and was distinguished for its experimental form. In 2014, she participated in the Sundance IF Instabul Screenwriter’s Lab with the script of her first feature film “Cosmic Candy”. The film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, in September 2019.
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Võ Hoài Nam

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Merited Artist Võ Hoài Nam (born 29 December 1956 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese actor. Originally working at Hanoi National Theatre Company of Vietnam, he gained recognition during the late 90s for his role as the police officer Chiến in the acclaimed television series "Cảnh sát hình sự." In 2002, he played the role of Trọng in the movie "Vua bãi rác" ("The Landfill King" or "Foul King"), earning him a Best Young Actor award in the 47th Asia-Pacific Film Festival in Busan (Korea). In 2021, after a long hiatus, he returned to play the role of Mr. Sinh in the TV series "Hương vị tình thân."
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Pip Torrens

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Philip D'Oyly "Pip" Torrens (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor. Torrens portrayed courtier Tommy Lascelles in the Netflix drama The Crown, aristocrat Lord Massen in the HBO series The Nevers, Herr Klaus Starr in Preacher, and held leading roles in Poldark and Versailles. His film appearances include The Danish Girl, The Iron Lady, War Horse and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He has played The Curator in Supermassive Games' Dark Pictures Anthology series of horror video games since 2019, appearing in four entries. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pip Torrens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Douglas Hadow

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Douglas Robert Hadow was a British novice mountaineer who died on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Hadow was born in 1846 at 49 York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the son of Patrick Douglas Hadow (chairman of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company) and Emma Harriett Nisbet (daughter of Robert Parry Nisbet, of Southbroom House, Devizes, Wiltshire), who married at Southbroom on 28 January 1845. Hadow's paternal great-grandfather was George Hadow, professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at the University of St Andrews, and one of his younger brothers was Frank Hadow, who won the Wimbledon championship in 1878. Hadow was educated at Harrow School, where he and six of his brothers who also attended the school were known as the 'Harrow Hadows'. In 1865, at the age of nineteen, Hadow undertook his first trip to the Alps as a protégé to Charles Hudson, a clergyman from Skillington in Lincolnshire, and a leading advocate of guideless climbing. Together they made a swift ascent of Mont Blanc and other climbs; these ascents – together with the backing of a climber of Hudson's stature – persuaded Edward Whymper that Hadow was a suitable companion for an attempt on the Matterhorn. Whymper later wrote: "Before admitting his [Hudson's] friend—Mr. Hadow—I took the precaution of asking what he had done in the Alps, and, as well as I remember, Mr. Hudson's reply was, "Mr. Hadow has done Mont Blanc in less time than most men." He then mentioned several other expeditions that were unknown to me, and added, in answer to a further question, "I consider he is a sufficiently good man to go with us."" In 'A Modern View of the 1865 Accident', the Alpine Club president Capt. J. P. Farrar (1917–19) concurred with this positive estimation of Hadow's ability: "Hadow was one of those active young Englishmen capable, with experienced companions, of going anywhere. I say distinctly that Hudson and Croz were fully qualified to conduct him on the proposed expedition, and that the sum of the powers of the party was much above the average of half the parties that go mountain-climbing today." During the first ascent of the Matterhorn on 14 July 1865, Hadow was, however, challenged by the technical difficulties presented by the mountain. Whymper noticed his inexperience after the party had traversed onto what he termed the 'north-west face' whilst ascending the mountain. In a piece published by The Times shortly after the accident, he wrote: "The general slope of the mountain at this part was less than forty degrees, and snow had consequently accumulated and filled up the irregularities of the rock face, leaving only occasional fragments projecting here and there. These were at times coated with a thin glaze of ice, from the snow above having melted and frozen again during the night. Still it was a place which any fair mountaineer might pass in safety. We found, however, that Mr. Hadow was not accustomed to this kind of work, and required continual assistance; but no one suggested that he should stop, and he was taken to the top. It is only fair to say that the difficulty experienced by Mr. Hadow at this part arose, not from fatigue and lack of courage, but simply and entirely from want of experience."
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Matthew Gittelson

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Matt grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and Potomac, Maryland until the age of 18. Despite having trouble with school work, and struggling with parental confrontations, he found his first interest in acting reading Julius Ceasar in the 10th grade. To expand his interest, he took a Theatre class during his senior year, while auditioning for his school plays.After his High School graduation, he enrolled in an acting school in North Hollywood, California. Shortly after, he got his first paid acting job as an extra for a short film Prism (2010)) back at his own High School
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Raymond Trouard

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Raymond Trouard (9 August 1916 – 17 December 2008) was a French classical pianist. Born in Étampes, Trouard had André Bloch, Joseph Morpain, Victor Staub, Emil von Sauer, Marcel Dupré, Paul Dukas, Philippe Gaubert and Bruno Walter as teachers at the Conservatoire de Paris. His classmates included Maurice Baquet, Henri Betti, Paul Bonneau, Léo Chauliac, Henri Dutilleux, Louiguy and Pierre Spiers. He won his First Prize in piano in 1933 and a Second Prize in directing in 1937. He perfected his musical studies with Yves Nat, Sergueï Rachmaninov, Manuel Infante, and Maurice Ravel. Trouard gave his first piano recital in 1935. He won the 1st Louis Diémer Grand Prix in 1939. This was the beginning of a great international career that would take him all over the world: in France of course, but all over Europe. He also played in South and North Americas. He played in recital and with orchestra under the direction of the greatest conductors: Philippe Gaubert, Pierre Monteux, Eugène Bigot, André Cluytens, Pierre Dervaux, Richard Beck, Carl Schuricht. His repertoire was vast, from Bach to Dutilleux. He excelled in Liszt whose technique and spirit he possessed through his relationship with Emil von Sauer. Trouard was one of the great interpreters of Frédéric Chopin. On the disc, he gave a reference version of the 14 waltzes. He made numerous recordings for Odeon, then CBS, and EMI. These recordings have been remastered, and have been re-released (May 2008) in an 11-CD box set by the Sony firm, a box set entitled "Raymond Trouard: Une vie pour le piano". In 1953, he took part in the short film Trois hommes et un piano by André Berthomieu, in which he played three pieces of classical music as well as C'est si bon with Henri Betti and Léo Chauliac. Trouard had many students such as Michel Dalberto, Jean-Gabriel Ferlan, Eric Ferrer and Marc-Henri Lamande, at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a teacher from 1969 until 1985. Trouard died in Paris at the age of 92. Source: Article "Raymond Trouard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Zana Briski

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Zana Briski is an English artist (photographer, filmmaker) and activist. Briski's interest in photography began at age 10. After earning a master's degree at the University of Cambridge, Briski studied documentary photography at International Center of Photography in New York. In 1995, she made her first trip to India, producing a story on female infanticide. In 1997, Briski returned to India and began her project on the prostitutes of Calcutta's red-light district, which led to her work with the children of prostitutes. Briski has won numerous awards and fellowships including George Soros' Open Society Institute Fellowship, an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 2000 to research and photograph in the Brothels of India, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism. Briski and co-director Ross Kauffman were awarded grants from the Sundance Institute, the Jerome Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts for Born into Brothels. Born into Brothels was the winner of the Best Documentary Feature at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005. Briski is the founder of the non-profit organisation Kids With Cameras. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zana Briski, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Cecilia Noble

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Cecilia Angela Noble (born 11 June 1966) is an English actress who has appeared in various television series, films and on stage with a career spanning over thirty years. Some of her notable television roles include Beverley Jackson in The Bill (2004), Pauline in The Teacher (2022) and Barbara in Killing Eve (2022). Her notable theatre roles include Ruta Skadi in the play His Dark Materials (2003–2004) and Aunt Maggie in Nine Night (2018). Noble was born on 11 June 1966 in Hackney, London and attended Our Lady and St Joseph's Catholic Primary school leaving in 1978. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She began her acting career in 1992, with her first credited role being Grace Kelley in the crime drama Resnick. In 1995, she played Captain Tara Weldon in two episodes of Space Precinct. In 1997, she appeared in the third series of Thief Takers as Marilyn Parker on a recurring basis. In 2004, Noble portrayed Beverley Jackson in seven episodes of the police drama The Bill. In 2015, she played Myrtle in the drama film Danny and the Human Zoo. In 2018, she appeared in an episode of Death in Paradise. In 2022, Noble appeared in the Channel 5 miniseries The Teacher. She played Pauline, a friend and colleague of co-star Sheridan Smith's character. She also appeared in the final series of Killing Eve as Barbara. Noble has also appeared extensively in theatre and has received several nominations for her work. In 2014, she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in The Amen Corner at the National Theatre, and in 2019, she was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performances in Faith Hope and Charity and Downstate. Her other theatre credits include Nine Night, His Dark Materials, Henry V, The Recruiting Officer and Is God Is.
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