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Serhii Masloboishchykov

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Serhii Volodymyrovych Masloboychikov is a Ukrainian film director, theater director, playwright, screenwriter, set designer, and graphic artist. He is an Honored Artist of Ukraine (2019). Academician, full member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Scientific Secretary of the Film Arts Department of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2021, for the play "Verba" based on Lesya Ukrainka's fairy-tale drama "The Forest Song"). Associate Professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Member of the Unions of Artists, Theater Workers, and Cinematographers of Ukraine. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, Faculty of Graphics (1981), and the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors of the USSR State Film Committee, Faculty of Feature Film Directing (1989). He began his professional career in Kyiv. In 1981–83, he was a production designer at the Kyiv Variety Theater. In 1984–87, he was the chief artist of the Kyiv Young Theater. Since 1990, he has been working as a director and production designer at the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv. In 2016, he became a lecturer at the Department of Scenography at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Since the 1990s, he has directed a number of feature and documentary films that have enjoyed success at festivals. In 1995, he was the first Ukrainian director to appear in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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S. Epatha Merkerson

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S. Epatha Merkerson (born Sharon Epatha Merkerson) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has won a Golden Globe, Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, Obie Award, 4 NAACP Image Awards, and 2 Tony Award nominations. She is best known for her role as NYPD Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (1993–2010) on the long-running NBC police procedural drama series Law & Order, as well as the Law & Order TV movie Exiled. She appeared in 390 episodes of the series, more than any other cast member. She has a starring role as Sharon Goodwin on NBC's Chicago Med. She also had a recurring role as Reba (the mail carrier) on Pee-wee's Playhouse, and Ms. St. Marth on the TV series Here and Now. She has appeared in feature films including She's Gotta Have It, Loose Cannons, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Random Hearts, Radio, Black Snake Moan, Lincoln (2012), and Peeples. She has also appeared in TV movies including A Place for Annie, A Mother's Prayer, Breaking Through, Lackawanna Blues, and The Gabby Douglas Story.
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Elsie Ferguson

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From Wikipedia Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress. At the peak of her popularity, several film studios offered her a contract but she declined them all until widely respected New York-based French director, Maurice Tourneur, proposed she appear in the lead role as a sophisticated patrician in his 1917 silent film, Barbary Sheep. She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic in 1912, and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in 1915. Producer and director Adolph Zukor then signed her to an 18-film, three-year contract. In 1921, she accepted another contract offer from Paramount Pictures to star in four films to be spread over a two-year period. One of these was the 1921 film entitled Forever in which she starred opposite the leading heartthrob of the day, Wallace Reid. In 1925, she made only one film before returning to the Broadway stage. In 1930 she made her first talkie that would also be her final film, titled Scarlet Pages, which is now preserved in the Library of Congress. Although her voice came across well enough, at age 47, she was well past her prime for fans who wanted to see her as the great youthful beauty she had once been. Elsie Ferguson died in Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut in 1961.
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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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Toni Schumacher

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Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher (born 6 March 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany. Schumacher won the 1980 European Championship and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986. In the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi-final, he controversially collided with and seriously injured French defender Patrick Battiston. Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1986. Since April 2012, he has served as vice president at 1. FC Köln. Schumacher made his first-team debut with 1. FC Köln at the age of 19. He played for the club from 1972 to 1987, including in 213 consecutive Bundesliga matches from 1977 to 1983. For most of those years, until well into the mid-1980s, he was widely considered one of the world's top goalkeepers, and he was the automatic first-choice goalkeeper for his country. He backstopped Köln to the double in 1978, winning the Bundesliga title (ahead of Borussia Mönchengladbach on goal difference) and the DFB-Pokal (defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf). The year before he had led Köln to a DFB-Pokal victory (against Hertha BSC in the final), the club's first major trophy win in nine years. He appeared in two other DFB-Pokal finals, in 1980 (lost to Fortuna Düsseldorf) and 1983 (defeated Fortuna Köln). Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year twice, in 1984 and 1986, by the nation's football journalists. Schumacher played 76 international matches for West Germany between 1979 and 1986, including 15 World Cup qualifying matches and 14 World Cup matches. He won the 1980 European Championship (defeated Belgium 2–1 in the final) and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 (to Italy, 3–1) and 1986 (to Argentina, 3–2). In the 1982 tournament, in the controversial semi-final against France, he saved two penalty kicks in the post-extra time shootout, which West Germany ultimately won. In the 1986 quarter-final against tournament hosts, Mexico, he saved two of the three shootout penalties he faced, enabling West Germany to advance. ... Source: Article "Toni Schumacher" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mark Hampton

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Mark Hampton is an actor and filmmaker known for his award-winning performances in Town vs. Gown (2015) and Acceptance (2020). Born in New Zealand, Mark moved to the UK and made his big-screen debut opposite Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham in Una vacanza all'inferno (1997) an Italian co-production also starring Marco Leonardi. He then played American heart-throb Brad in the TV series Comin' Atcha! (1999). He went on to appear in a number of classic British television series, including detective drama Jonathan Creek (1997), long-running children's show Grange Hill (1978) and medical drama Casualty (1986). He also had guest roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) and World War Z (2013). After a career break Mark returned as an actor and filmmaker. His first short film A Walk in the Woods (2013) starred veteran British actor Richard Heffer taking a haunting journey to the past. In 2015 Mark wrote, directed and starred in short film Town vs. Gown (2015). The film premiered in the US at Academy Award qualifying the Rhode Island International Film Festival and in the UK at the BAFTA qualifying British Urban Film Festival. Mark won several awards and Town vs. Gown (2015) was nominated for Best Short Film at the Empire Awards 2017. He followed this with political drama Acceptance (2020) in 2020. His central performance as a US Congressman earned him several Best Actor awards. Mark's television appearances include pandemic drama This England (2022), vampire comedy Count Abdulla (2023), Liaison (2023) for AppleTV and British soap opera Emmerdale Farm (1972). Big screen appearances include horror anthology Midnight Peepshow (2022), Kevin Hart action comedy Lift (2024), One More Shot (2024) with Scott Adkins, playing the British Prime Minister in thriller Control (2023) and opposite John Cena in Heads of State (2025). Unlicensed, Mark's debut feature film as writer/director was completed in 2025. Mark Hampton is represented by Nina Malone at Identity Agency Group.
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Tommy Flanagan

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Tommy Flanagan (born 3 July 1965) is a Scottish film actor. His distinctive facial scars are a result of a mugging. Flanagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the 3rd of five children. Flanagan first television roles were in Screen One, 1992 and Taggart in 1993. Flanagan worked in Carlyle's Raindog Theatre for three years before being cast in Braveheart (1995). He has had roles in Face/Off, The Game, Sunset Strip, Gladiator, Alien vs. Predator, Sin City, Smokin' Aces, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball, When a Stranger Calls, All About the Benjamins, The Last Drop and the mini-series Attila. He is a regular cast member on Sons of Anarchy, in which he plays outlaw biker Filip "Chibs" Telford.
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Gybzy Wanida Termthanaporn

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Wanida Termthanaporn, nicknamed Gybzy, is a Thai singer and actress from Bangkok. Termthanaporn has a Bachelor of Arts Political Science and studied English. She is a graduate of both Ramkhamhaeng University and the University of Bangkok. Termthanaporn speaks English and Thai fluently and currently resides in Bangkok. She is five feet and two inches tall. Termthanaporn is the lead singer for the four-girl group known as Girly Berry. The other members of the group are Giftza, Nannie, and Bell. The group debuted in 2002 with the self-titled album, Girly Berry. In 2009, Girly Berry was named the Sexiest Girl Group In Thailand. In addition to producing several albums and singles, several members of the group have done television advertising for Yamaha, PCT, Fisho, EXIT, Nestle, Glico, Tipco, 1900, Clean & Smooth, Panasonic, Miss Teen, J. Ling, Coke, LEONA, Carr Barley and Hanami among others. Termthanaporn has done ad work for 12 Plus, Green Nut, Milk Plus, Shine, In 2 It, Mistine Sezy Cheek, Benice, and Nestea. As an actress, Termthanaporn’s TV career includes countless appearances in different television shows and soap operas from 2001 and on. In 2003, she made her film debut as Sally in the comedy film, Club Zaa: Pit Tamraa Saep. In 2009, Termthanaporn took on her most notable role as May in the film Nymph, a fantasy drama where an urban husband and wife travel to the jungle, and learn just how precious their relationship is. That same year she starred in the horror movie My Ex, directed by Piyapan Choopetch. The film was released on August 27, 2009 in Thailand. Two years later, Termthanaporn appeared in the 2011 musical comedy, Small Ru Gu Naew. In 2013, she made a small appearance as Thip in the comedy Grean Fiction, and the following year, she starred as Mae Nak in the 2014 Poj Arnon-directed comedy, Make Me Shudder 2: Shudder Me Mae Nak. The same year, Termthanaporn appears in the 2014 3D horror film, Spell 3D.
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Omar Gooding

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Omar M. Gooding (born October 19, 1976) is an American actor. He is the younger brother of veteran actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. and the son of singer Cuba Gooding, Sr. Gooding is best known for appearing in television shows such as Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Smart Guy, and Playmakers, and also the films Ghost Dad and Baby Boy. He was one of the original hosts of the Nickelodeon television show Wild and Crazy Kids from 1990 to 1992. Gooding played D.H., a running back, on the ESPN show Playmakers in 2003. He played the character Odell in the 3rd season of Deadwood. In 2005, he took the role of Chicago barber Calvin Palmer, Jr. in Showtime's Barbershop: The Series, based upon the 2002 film of the same name. Coincidentally, he also appeared on the UPN sitcom One on One as a barber in Flex Washington's barber shop. His latest role began in May 2009, where he stars in the new Bruckheimer television drama Miami Medical on CBS. Description above from the Wikipedia article Omar Gooding, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kelly Wenham

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Kelly Wenham (born 28 November 1983) is an English actress, director, screenwriter and comedian. Wenham was born in Stockport. Her early career was spent in modelling, before answering a casting call for a bit part in Always and Everyone. Following this she entered drama school, but quit three months later after being cast in a regular role in Where the Heart Is, as Jess Buckley, a role she kept for three years. In 2003 Wenham appeared in Will Young's music video “Leave Right Now”. After leaving Where the Heart Is, she appeared in Coronation Street as barmaid Danielle Spencer. Wenham also appeared in 'Waterloo Road' series 6 episode 14 as union rep leader Anna. In 2004 she was cast in a leading role as Julie Priestly in Steel River Blues, though the programme lasted only one series. Wenham has also made one-off appearances in Life on Mars, Holby City, Wild At Heart, Heartbeat and Dead Set. Kelly provided the voice for Syrenne in the 2012 British and American releases of The Last Story on the Wii. She also appeared in the fifth series of the BBC fantasy series Merlin as Queen Mab. She starred in the 2013 film Dracula: The Dark Prince as Dracula's love interest, Alina, and in Jeremy Woodings film The Magnificent Eleven with Josh O'Connor, Joseph Millson, Robert Vaughn und Sean Pertwee. She also created and portrayed Clare Fist, an ambitious, but seemingly dimwitted journalist and social commentator in her online series Clare Fist's London, which aired on YouTube from 2 June 2015 to 6 September 2015. In 2017 Kelly starred alongside Danny Morgan, Michael Socha and Georgia Groome in Double Date, a British horror comedy She also starred in Abigail Blackmores film Tales from the Lodge in 2019 with Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura Fraser, Sophie Thompson and Johnny Vegas. In 2020 she played a small guest role in the Ben Whishaw thriller Surge by Oscar winner Aneil Karia.
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