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Mahesh Babu

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Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu (born 9 August 1975) is an Indian actor, producer, and philanthropist who primarily works in Telugu cinema. He is recognized for his nuanced performances, and has established himself as one of the most bankable and highest-paid stars in Indian cinema over the past two decades. He has received numerous accolades, including nine Nandi Awards, five Filmfare Awards South, and four SIIMA Awards, along with multiple nominations for Filmfare and SIIMA Awards. The younger son of actor Krishna, Mahesh began his career as a child actor in the 1980s, appearing in several films before making his leading debut with Rajakumarudu (1999). Early in his career, he appeared in films spanning various genres, including Murari (2001), Takkari Donga (2002), a Western-genre film, and Nijam (2003), which helped establish his career. Mahesh gained wider recognition with action dramas such as Okkadu (2003), Athadu (2005), and Pokiri (2006), the latter becoming a genre-defining blockbuster. In 2010, the conspiracy action entertainer Khaleja, the second collaboration between Mahesh and the director Trivikram, received critical acclaim. Although it initially garnered mixed reviews, the film eventually gained cult status among many film enthusiasts and inspired several directors in the Telugu film industry. Dookudu (2011) became the first Telugu-language film to gross over $1 million in the USA and earned Mahesh both a Nandi Award and a Filmfare award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He solidified his status as a leading actor with Businessman (2012), where he portrayed the anti-hero, a ruthless and ambitious kingpin of organized crime, and further showcased his versatility in 1: Nenokkadine (2014) by delivering a critically praised performance as a neurologically troubled rockstar on a quest to uncover his forgotten and mysterious past. He is known for portraying Stoic, principled heroes in socially conscious films such as Srimanthudu (2015), Bharat Ane Nenu (2018), and Maharshi (2019). His acting style is characterized by subtle intensity and restraint. He also appeared as the lead in numerous commercial films, namely Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020), Sarkaru Vaari Paata (2022), and Guntur Kaaram (2024). Beyond his film career, Mahesh is a humanitarian and philanthropist. He founded the Mahesh Babu Foundation, which supports underprivileged children primarily by funding life-saving congenital heart surgeries and providing financial aid to families with newborns facing heart ailments. Mahesh owns the production company named G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment, which has produced several films, including some in which he played the lead role. He also produced the biopic Major (2022).
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Olivier Frigon

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Olivier Frigon (born March 31, 1988) is a Québec writer and director. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in cinema from the University of Québec in Montréal where he specialized in cinematography. During his studies, he already begins to work as a camera assistant in cinema, television and commercials. He quickly climbs up the ladder and eventually works as director of photography on a first feature film, a few short films and several television series, notably for Discovery Channel. With the experience acquired on these numerous projects, he writes, produces and directs a few short films including The First and Last (La première et dernière) in 2014 and Layover (Escale) in 2020, selected in several film festivals. His technical knowledge and experience leads him to direct several commercials and music videos.
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Bernard McGrath

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Bernard Kevin McGrath is the most notorious paedophile in one of the most notorious Catholic religious orders in the world. McGrath is currently in a maximum security prison in Australia, serving a 39 year prison sentence for the sexual abuse of scores of young boys in Australia and New Zealand. His religious order, the Brothers of St John of God knew about McGrath's offending as far back as the 1970's but didn't report him to the police. Instead, they moved him from New Zealand to Australia and then to the United States in a desperate attempt to avoid police investigations. He was finally arrested in 1993 and has been in prison ever since. McGrath was one of many paedophiles in the Order of St John of God. His 2019 criminal trial was documented in the documentary series Revelation and presenter Sarah Ferguson interviewed McGrath inside the maximum security prison. During his interview, he confessed that the order had concealed his sexual abuse and named the superiors responsible for concealing his prolific abuse. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse found that over 40% of the Brothers of the Order of St John of God were alleged paedophiles.
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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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Suzanne Coy

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Suzanne Coy was an Actress, Writer and Entepreneur. A graduate of the National Theatre School Jamaican born Suzanne Coy also known as ZAN is a brilliant, versatile actor-master of over 30 dialects who always brings something interesting to every part. In addition to her stage work including a couple of comedic one-person shows Suzanne has numerous TV and film credits. You may have seen her as series regular in KING, the trend-setting police drama. Nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award she was a regular on CTV's new hit sitcom DAN FOR MAYOR. She had recurring roles both in CBC 's 'HEARTLAND' and Global's 'DA KINK IN MY HAIR'. You can also catch her on NETFLICKS in Rene Zellwegger's 'NEW IN TOWN', 'NOAHS ARCH: JUMPING THE BROOM, or 'MR and MRS LOVING' starring Timothy Hutton among others. An entrepreneur at heart she was part of a team that is bringing a number of ALTERNATIVE GREEN ENERGY products to the global market. She has always been a master networking and instrumental in closing deals where everyone wins. It's all part of a vision for film makers, corporations and change agents, to work together to improve the environment elevate our consciousness. Founder of 'ACT From the HEART Productions' Suzanne sees the artist as a community catalyst. Her 2 shorts on the great community leader Dr.Omowale Satterwhite from the East Palo Alto ghetto have played locally in California. Suzanne graduated from NCDI's Professional Development for Community Consultants in 2002 and has since applied her studies in her capacity as Program Manager for at-risk youth, literacy and numeracy camps. For the past 20 years Suzanne has participated in other community arts programs and that use creativity to teach life skills. ZAN feels it is her mission to increase our individual capacity for ridiculousness and if it isn't through her comic parodies; she also certifies people to laugh for no reason! ZAN is a sought after Acting Coach and teacher on and off film sets. She believes it is time reclaim the role of the artists to be a part of a new Star System not based on psychotic egoism but based on the idea that the storyteller is the inspiration for personal and community transformation.
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Reiko Yamaguchi

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Yamaguchi Reiko is a leading figure in Japanese adult videos and pornography. She is undoubtedly considered the second biggest AV star in the country after Sola Aoi. Known for her generous bust (G cup), she was born in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on December 15, 1978. Inspired by her own film career, she opened a bar called Bar Naked in Tokyo's Kabuchiko district in April 2010. She announced that she would serve drinks from her breasts at no extra charge. The bar was a business venture and a way for her fans to interact with her. Yamaguchi and Wife Next Door director Ikejima Yutaka traveled to Los Angeles with actress Yoshiyuki Yumi to attend the Boobs And Blood festival in September 2010. Yamaguchi was named "Psychotronic Actress Of The Year" at the event. She also won an AV Open award in Japan. She has starred in over 500 films. Her most famous films are The Japanese Wife Next Door Parts 1 and 2, for which she was interviewed in the documentary Reiko Yamaguchi Exposed Next Door.
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Sharif Amer

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An Egyptian TV presenter, who started his career as a translator in several press institutions, such as: Rosa Al Youssef, and Al Alam Al Youm. He was selected among the first crew for the channels Nile International and Nile News. In 2001, Amer assumed the position of Program Manager in the Cairo office of MBC, then moved to the United States, where he worked for Alhurra News Channel for four years. After that, he returned to Cairo, where he worked on Al Hayat channel, presenting the program Al Hayat Al Youm. In late 2013, Amer moved to MBC again with the program Happening in Egypt. He appeared in a number of productions as himself, including the movie Forced Escape, and the series Maemon & Co.
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Bessie Love

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Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton, September 10, 1898 - April 26, 1986) became one of the most recognizable faces of early American cinema. After her family moved to Los Angeles, she was sent to Biograph Studios, where legendary director D.W. Griffith noticed her talent and cast her in several films, including Intolerance (1916). During the silent era, she gained popularity for her lively, wholesome screen presence and worked with major stars such as Douglas Fairbanks. Her career soared in the 1920s, and she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1922, marking her as one of Hollywood’s most promising young actresses. Love made a successful transition to sound films—something many silent stars struggled with. Her performance as Hank Mahoney in The Broadway Melody (1929) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, cementing her place in film history. In the 1930s, she moved to the United Kingdom, where she continued acting in film, theatre, radio, and later television. Her career ultimately spanned from 1915 to 1983, making her one of the longest‑working performers of her generation. She died on April 26, 1986, in London at age 87.
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Joshua Odjick

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Joshua Odjick is a Canadian actor from Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance as Pasmay in the 2021 film Wildhood, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joshua Odjick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Larissa Bryant

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Larissa Bryant the only child of Ronnie Bryant a pastor and the late Minnie Gayle Crenshaw Bryant a nurse has always had a knack for performance whether theatrical, musical, or athletically. Larissa plays multiple musical instruments including the piano, clarinet, saxophone, and bagpipes. Larissa's first interest in acting came in high school when she signed up for speech and drama. Despite there being a school theatrical production each year of high school she never auditioned as she was shy and involved in conflicting extra curricular activities including marching band and softball. However, she did thrive as a member of her high school's Beta chapter group talent of which took the National Championship honor her junior and senior years of High school at Glasgow High School. Larissa was born and raised in Glasgow, KY where acting opportunities where limited until as recent as 2017. Larissa's first extra role came by accident literally as the catering director of a movie being filmed in the area ran a stop sign totaling her father's truck. Her father expressed her interest of acting and was told to have her show up to the set! Yet again dear struck and she did not go. Later that day she was called by casting landing her first background character role in Runaway Romance. Larissa attended Glasgow High School in Glasgow, KY before attending college undergraduate studies at Western Kentucky University following in her mother's footsteps becoming a nurse. She then chose to matriculate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN attending the School of Nursing becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner of which she spent several years working before choosing a path in entertainment. Larissa had been bitten hard by the acting bug and was ready to pursue acting as a career when her life changed overnight due to a rare illness. She had lost her independence, ability to walk, stand, or use her hands and left arm. Defeated she excepted that a career in movies was unattainable. Five years later an opportunity presented itself to audition. Larissa has an interest in all aspects of film from acting to producing to being a crew member. Her mantra is "I will, I can, I must!" She is excited to see where her rekindled passion for the art of film will take her.
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