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Jessie Buckley
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Jessie Buckley (born December 28, 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. The accolades she has received include a Laurence Olivier Award and nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.
Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC TV talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second. A RADA graduate, her early onscreen appearances were in BBC television series, such as War & Peace (2016) and Taboo (2017). Buckley made her film debut playing the lead role in Beast (2017) and had her breakthrough starring in the musical film Wild Rose (2018). Her performance as an aspiring country music singer in the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Buckley's career progressed with starring roles in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), season four of Fargo (2020), The Lost Daughter (2021), Men (2022) and Women Talking (2022). Her performance in The Lost Daughter earned her nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Buckley's portrayal of Sally Bowles in a 2021 West End theatre revival of Cabaret won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
In 2022, she released the collaborative album For All Our Days That Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize.
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Xiaozhen Wang
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Wang Xiaozhen (born 1989; Linyi, Shandong Province) is a Chinese documentary filmmaker. Wang Xiaozhen graduated with an MA in film directing from Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China. He describes himself as a calligrapher, writer, painter, and independent filmmaker. In 2013, he wrote and directed his first feature film "Around That Winter" (2013). Selected as the opening film of the Beijing Independent Film Festival, the film won the Best Debut Film Award at the same year edition of the China Independent Film Festival. Love Poem (2020) is his second feature film.
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Xu Kai
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Xu Kai, also known as Kevin Xu or Soso, is a Chinese actor and model born on March 5, 1995, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. He began his career as a model, winning first place in the print ads category at the 2013 China International Model Contest. In 2016, he transitioned to acting after signing with Huanyu Film, a production company.
Xu Kai gained widespread recognition for his role as Fuca Fuheng in the hit historical drama Story of Yanxi Palace (2018). His other notable works include The Legends (2019), where he played the lead role of Li Chenlan, and Arsenal Military Academy (2019), where he portrayed Gu Yanzhen. He has also starred in popular dramas like Falling Into Your Smile (2021) and Royal Feast (2022).
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Luis Urive
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Luis Ignascio Alvirde Urive is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, signed with WWE and appearing under the ring name Sin Cara (Spanish for "Without Face"). He is best known for his time in the lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Místico, where since 2006 he was the main técnico (face/storyline hero) in CMLL and the biggest box office draw in all of Mexico. Místico is Spanish for "Mystic", a religious ring character who is the storylineprotégé of the wrestling priest Fray Tormenta. Upon signing with WWE in January 2011, Urive was repackaged as Sin Cara. Urive is the son of Manuel Almanza, who wrestled under the ring name "Dr. Karonte", the brother of wrestlers Astro Boy, Argos, Argenis and an unspecified member of Los Mini Psycho Circus, the cousin of wrestler Magnus and the nephew of CMLL booker Tony Salazar.
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Patrick Wymark
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Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. He was brought up in neighbouring Grimsby and frequently re-visited the area during the height of his career. He attended University College, London, before training at the Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance in a walk-on part in Othello in 1951. He toured South Africa the following year and then directed plays for the drama department at Stanford University, California. Moving to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Wymark played a wide range of traditional roles, including Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing and Stephano in The Tempest. He also played the parts of Marullus in Julius Caesar and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other stage parts included the title role in Danton's Death and, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ephihodov in The Cherry Orchard. His theatre roles also included playing the part of Bosola in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1960. His film roles included: Children of the Damned (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Battle of Britain (1969), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Cromwell (1970). On television, where at one point he was considered as a replacement for William Hartnell on Doctor Who., he was best known for his role as the machiavellian businessman John Wilder in the drama series The Plane Makers/The Power Game, a role which led to offers of company directorships. Wymark, however, was a gentle man in real life, self-confessedly ignorant of business matters, who considered the Wilder character to be a "bastard" and was described by his wife as "the most inefficient, dreamy muddler in the world."
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Dean Winters
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Dean Winters (born July 20, 1964) is an American actor, who is known for his roles as Bobby on the YouTube series Wayne, Detective Brian Cassidy on Law & Order: SVU, Detective Russ Agnew on Battle Creek, 'The Vulture' Detective Pembroke on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Charley Dixon on FOX's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dennis Duffy on NBC's 30 Rock, Johnny Gavin on FX's Rescue Me, Ryan O'Reily on HBO's Oz. He also portrays "Mayhem" in Allstate commercials.
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Wu Yuheng
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Wu Yuheng, also known as Christopher Wu, was born on September 11, 1996, in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. He is a Chinese actor and singer. Wu Yuheng gained recognition through his participation in the music talent show The Coming One 2 in 2018, where he showcased his musical abilities. In 2021, he further rose to prominence as a contestant on the survival show Chuang 2021.
He has appeared in various TV dramas, including Moments of Youth (2024), Mr. Insomnia Waiting for Love (2023), and The Blessed Girl (2021).
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Ron Yuan
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Ronald Winston Yuan is an American actor, martial artist, director, and stunt choreographer. He is best known for his roles on Sons of Anarchy, Prison Break, Golden Boy, and CSI: NY. He has acted in numerous films, including an ensemble lead as Sgt. Qiang in Disney's live-action adaptation Mulan. He also supplied the voice of Sgt. Fideltin Rusk in the video game series Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Scorpion in Mortal Kombat 11.
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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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Ricardo Darín
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Ricardo Darín (born January 16, 1957) is an Argentine actor.
Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor. His most prominent roles as a film actor include Nine Queens (2000), El Hijo de la Novia (2001), Luna de Avellaneda (2004), El Aura (2005) and La Señal (2007), which was also his directorial debut. He starred in the Academy Award winning film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).
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