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Eva Mendes

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Eva de la Caridad Méndez (born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American retired actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut(2000). Mendes's performance in Training Day (2001) marked a turning point in her career and led to parts in the commercially successful films 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and Hitch (2005). She starred in Ghost Rider (2007) and The Spirit (2008), both film adaptations of comics, and ventured into more dramatic territory with We Own the Night(2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009), Last Night (2010), and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). Her other films include Out of Time (2003), The Women (2008), The Other Guys (2010), and Girl in Progress (2012). Mendes has appeared in several music videos for artists such as Will Smith and has also been an ambassador for brands including Calvin Klein, Cartier, Reebok, Pantene shampoo, and Peek & Cloppenburg. She has designed for New York & Company and is the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a makeup line sold at Walgreens.
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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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Christopher Heyerdahl

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Christopher Heyerdahl (born September 18, 1963) is a Canadian actor who portrayed Alastair in Supernatural, the Wraith Todd in Stargate Atlantis, Sam in Van Helsing, "Swede" in Hell on Wheels, and Marcus in The Twilight Saga. Heyerdahl was born in British Columbia, and is of Norwegian and Scottish descent. His father emigrated from Norway to Canada in the 1950s. Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin. Heyerdahl also speaks Norwegian and studied at the University of Oslo. Heyerdahl is primarily known for his recurring role as the enigmatic and sinister "Swede" in AMC's Hell on Wheels. This post-American Civil War drama debuted as the second highest rated original series in AMC history. He is also known for his role as Leonid in the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Thirteenth Floor" and as Nosferatu in the episode "Midnight Madness". He played the characters Halling and Wraith commander Todd in Stargate Atlantis, and Pallan in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Revisions".He played H. P. Lovecraft in the film Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) and a punk, new at drug dealing, in Cadavres (2009). He played the part of the demon Alastair in three episodes of Supernatural. He also played the part of Zor-El in the television series Smallville, as well as playing John Druitt and Bigfoot in the series Sanctuary. He played the part of Dieter Braun on True Blood during the show's 5th season. His most notable film role was in the feature film New Moon, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's second book in her Twilight Saga. In this film, he played a vampire, Marcus, who is part of a powerful Italian family called the Volturi. He reprised that role in both parts of Breaking Dawn, the two-part adaptation of the fourth book in the Twilight Saga. He has also performed on stage and was a member of the Young Company at the Stratford Festival in 1989 and 1990.
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Elizabeth Hurley

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Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English model and actress. She became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s after accompanying him to the Los Angeles premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media notice. The highlight of Hurley's professional life has been her association with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder. The company gave Hurley her first modeling job at the age of 29 and has used her as a model for its products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995. Her best known cinematic work was as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedies, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Hurley currently models and designs an eponymous beachwear line. Hurley was born as a middle child in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Angela and Roy Hurley. Her Irish father was a Major in the British Army, while her Anglican mother was a teacher at Kempshott Infant School. She has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother Michael James Hurley. Hurley was a struggling actress in 1987, when she met Hugh Grant while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. While Hurley was his girlfriend, Grant was embroiled in an international scandal for soliciting the services of a female prostitute in 1995. Hurley stood by him and accompanied Grant to the premiere of his movie Nine Months. After 13 years together, Hurley and Grant announced an "amicable" split in May 2000. Hurley lived in a London home owned by Grant after the break-up. She invited Grant to her wedding in 2007, but he chose not to attend. On 4 April 2002, Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley. The baby's father, Steve Bing, denied paternity by alleging that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001. A DNA test, however, established Bing as the child's father. In late 2002, Hurley started dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who runs a small software company since 1998. On 2 March 2007, Hurley and Nayar married at Sudeley Castle and then had a second wedding at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India.
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Jenny McManus

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Jenny McManus is an American actress known for her background performances in film, television and stage. Her first role was in the film Dark Waters (2019), followed by films including Wrong Turn (2021), Bones and All (2022), The Bikeriders (2023), and Nutcrackers (2024). She has also applied her acting experience as a stand-in on Alto Knights (2025). Jenny has also appeared on multiple television episodes of Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago PD, as well as the streaming docudrama The Big Conn (2022). Her on-stage work with the Cincinnati Opera includes as a supernumerary in Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio (2024) and as a lightwalker for Marriage of Figaro (2019).
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Keira O'Connor

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Keira O'Connor is an award-nominated Melbourne based actress, producer and director, best known for her role as Kerri in the Australian TV series "Flunk", a global hit with international TV distribution and amassing 200 million views on YouTube. She also stars in feature films such as, "Lost & Found You" (TUBI) , "Detention with Daisy" (Amazon Prime Video) and "Falling for Daisy" (Amazon Prime Video) and "They Kiss At The End" (Amazon Prime Video). Keira made her international feature film debut in Faisal Hashmi's Gujarati horror-comedy film "Faati Ne?," (2024) where she played the supporting role of Angelina. The film gained recognition in both Australia and India. Keira has since worked in other aspects of the film industry. She made her directorial debut in "Passion", a short film about a struggling actor, in which she also wrote, produced and starred. Since then, she has gone on to produce and assistant direct other films and continues to work within the industry, not only as an actor but also a filmmaker.
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Rebecca Knowles

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Rebecca Knowles is a bicoastal actor and producer who splits her time between Los Angeles, Boston, and New York City. Her most recent television credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Mindy Kaling's Never Have I Ever (Netflix), and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix). New media: Intern in Chief (YouTube/Brat), which hit 1 million views on YouTube in the first week, and a recurring role on Snapchat's Solve. Her film credits include the horror feature anthology Immortal opposite Dylan Baker, the award- winning feature film Stalker - screening in national film festivals, and well as over a dozen indies and short films during her blossoming career. Theatrically, she was seen in Lincoln 2020: an award-winning Hollywood Fringe show, Girls in White at 54 Below (with Michael Cerveris, Lauren Patten, Bonnie Milligan, Ephie Aardema), New York Musical Theatre Festival, A Musical Christmas Carol (Pittsburgh CLO), and Rope (The REP). Rebecca believes in the importance of community and is serving on multiple SAG AFTRA committees, including the Los Angeles Next Generation of Performers (NextGen) Committee, the Los Angeles Women's Committee, and the National Next Generation of Performers Committee. Additionally, she can be heard sharing her experience on multiple podcasts, as well as educating young students, speaking at workshops for The American Theatre Wing and Los Angeles' Notre Dame High School. Her advice to aspiring performers? "There will always be someone to tell you you're not good enough or talented enough or that your dreams are too big. Don't let that person be you."
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Fortune Feimster

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Emily Fortune Feimster (/ˈfiːmstər/; born July 1, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, and actress. Having made her television debut on NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2010, she starred as Colette on The Mindy Project (2015–2017). In July 2019, she began hosting the hit radio show What a Joke with Papa and Fortune with Tom Papa, interviewing comedians and celebrities, the first live programming on the Sirius XM channel Netflix is a Joke. She played Heather in The L Word: Generation Q, a reboot of The L Word. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fortune Feimster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Richard Sinnott

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Richard Sinnott (born 5 June 1963) is a professional actor, writer and director based in Manchester. He has played over forty credited roles in British television series such as Coronation Street, Life on Mars and The Street, and films such as The Parole Officer. He teaches beginners' acting classes in Manchester and is a freelance Performing Arts lecturer at the University of Salford. He is the author of the theatre play Laid Upon A Pebble-Bed Sinnott was born in Aldridge, Staffordshire. His brother is the Altrincham football club manager Lee Sinnott, who was Watford's centre-half in the 1984 FA Cup Final.
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Sami ElSalamouny

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Sami El-Salamouni studied at the Institute of Cinema and the Institute for Artistic Appreciation after completing his university studies at the Faculty of Arts, Department of Journalism .. He later tried several attempts at short documentary films, namely: City ... 1971 and Boredom ... 1972 and Cowboy ... 1973 and the morning ... 1982 and the train ... 1989 and the moment ... 1991. He also participated in preparing some television programs on cinema, such as: (Stars and Movies) and (Yesterday and Today's Cinema). Sami El Salamouny was keen in his film criticism to be honest and frank. He wrote articles on football. Sami El-Salamouny was a member of the Film Association, then Chairman of its Board of Directors from 1972 to 1977, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cairo Film Club. He has written many articles and film studies in Al-Masaa newspaper, Al-Tali'ah magazines, Al-Kawakeb, Al-Hilal, Cinema, Theater and Cinema Club newsletter. He published three non-periodical books: (Camera 78), (Camera 79) and (Camera 80). He worked as a film critic for the radio and television magazine until his death. And he received many awards, including: 1972 Screenplay Award for (City). The first and second criticism awards, 1975, for the films (A Woman in Love) and (The bullet is still in my pocket). Personal Honor Award 1984 from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema. Best Director Award 1985 for (The Morning). Medal of Honor 1986 from the Film Association. Society Film Award 1986 for (The Morning). The silver award for medium-length documentary films in 1988 for (Al-Sabah).
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