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Tejashree
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Tejashree born as Sonali Jaikumar Khele is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Kollywood movies. Tejashree is originally a kathak dancer, trained in kathak by her father Master Jaikumar Khele, a disciple of Pandit Gopi Krishna Maharaj. After a few modeling assignments, she broke into the southern film industry. She has danced in many item numbers and has good roles in big banner films. She speaks fluent Tamil, despite being a Maharastrian from Mumbai. She has appeared in many television commercials, such as advertisements for Chennai Silk Saree shop, Kritika Shikekai Shampoo Powder, and K.P.G. Jewellery.
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Bernard Hill
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Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known as a character actor of film, stage and television, having acted in nearly 130 projects. He is best known to British television viewers for playing Yosser Hughes in the groundbreaking 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff. On film he has played Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill is the only actor to have appeared in more than one of the three films awarded 11 Oscars, and one of only three actors to have starred in more than one film grossing more than $1 billion USD, namely: Titanic and The Return of the King (the others being Orlando Bloom who also starred in The Return of the King, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp who also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as Alice in Wonderland). Hill has appeared in three films which have won Best Picture: Gandhi, Titanic, and The Return of the King. Hill died on 5th May 2024 at the age of 79.
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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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Vladimir Nadein
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Vladimir Nadein (b. 1993) is a film producer, curator, educator and distributor. His first feature as a producer, "Detours" (dir. Ekaterina Selenkina), was co-produced with Netherlands and supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and won the Eurimages Lab Project Award in Les Arcs. The film has been screened at Venice Critics’ Week, Viennale, Thessaloniki, Berlin Critics’ Week, FICUNAM, Jeonju, IndieLisboa, Beldocs, Filmadrid, Camden, and more. With his film projects he participated in industry programs like FID Lab, LIM Meet, Cinemart IFFR, BoostNL, DocsBarcelona, Cinelink Sarajevo, East West Talent Lab - goEast. For over a decade, Vladimir has curated exhibitions and screenings for festivals and art venues across Europe and Asia including the Venice Architecture Biennale, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Image Forum Tokyo, Hamburg SFF, MIEFF, C-LAB Taipei, GoShort, Fotografiska Berlin, Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Minimalen Trondheim, BRNO 16 and many more. Vladimir has also been involved in the selection process for various editions of the First Cut Lab and the Pop-Up Film Residency Munich. Now he serves on the preselection committees for Vienna Shorts and European Short Pitch, and occasionally offers script and editing consultancy following his training at the Solace23 workshop led by Franz Rodenkirchen and Françoise von Roy. As an educator, he has lectured on experimental and archival film, found footage at the Taipei Media School and the National Taiwan University of the Arts, and has taught script and project development at the Moscow School of New Cinema.
In 2024, he co-founded the Paris-based production company Denapa, which maintains a strong focus on hybrid, experimental cinema, and docufiction. The company is currently developing I Can Feel You Breathing Into My Palm (dir. Alexandra Karelina) and Silence is the Enemy of the Sea (dir. Evgeny Rodin & Dina Karaman). In early 2026, he joined the Rome-based sales and distribution company Gargantua to lead the expansion of their catalog into feature-length films.
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Carlos Flores Delpino
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Born in Talcahuano in 1944. He studied Veterinary Medicine at the Austral University. He arrived in Santiago in the 60's where he studied Theater at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and then Film at the Escuela de Artes de la Comunicación of the same University. In 1969, he interrupted his studies to work with Guillermo Cahn in the production company Tercer Mundo. There he made his first audiovisual works. He is scriptwriter in "Casa o Mierda" (1969), directed by Guillermo Cahn and Samuel Carvajal in photography. His first documentary as director is "Nütuayin Mapu" (1969).
In 1970 he is hired by the Experimental Film Department. His first work was the production of the short film "No nos trancarán el paso" (1971), by Guillermo Cahn. Later he directed the first feature-length documentary produced entirely by the Film Department of the University of Chile, "Descomedidos y Chascones", which was not released on the planned date due to the military coup.
During the dictatorship, Carlos Flores decided to stay in Chile and dedicated himself to advertising. In 1976, together with Guillermo Cahn, they became partners in the production company Foco Film, dedicated to advertising and documentaries. "Pepe Donoso" was his first documentary after the military coup, a visual document about the life of José Donoso, produced by Guillermo Cahn. For this film, he won the 1977 CINE UC Award and the 1977 Chilean Art Critics Circle Award.
In 1979 he participated in the collective and clandestine production of the documentary short film "Recado de Chile", co-produced by Guillermo Cahn and the ICAIC of Cuba, about the activities that the Agrupación de Detenidos Desaparecidos carried out on Chilean soil. The work was never shown in Chile and was premiered in 1979 at the Lille International Short Film and Documentary Festival (it participated as the work of an "Anonymous Collective"). It was also presented at the First International Festival of New Cinema of Havana 1979; in both instances it won awards. At the end of the decade, Flores began the making of "The Chilean Charles Bronson" (1982). The film, produced by Guillermo Cahn, was recently screened at the 12th Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival BAFICI.
His academic training includes Literature at the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Chile, a Diploma in Cultural Criticism at the Arcis University and a degree in Theory and History of Art at the University of Chile. He is a graduate in Theory and History of Art at the same university, whose thesis work was transformed into the book "Eccentrics and Cunning" (2007). In addition to his work at the Chilean Film School, he was Director of the Bachelor's Degree in Documentary Film at the Academy of Christian Humanism. In 2007 he made his last work to date, a co-direction with Miguel Angel Vidaurre called "Corazón Secreto", produced under the auspices of the Chilean Film School.
In 2010 he left the Film School of Chile to join the Film and Television Career at the University of Chile, as Career Director.
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Kim Borana
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Kim Borana, professionally known as Borana, is a South Korean actress and singer born on October 16, 1972, in Seoul. She began her entertainment career in 1987 after winning the Photogenic Award at the Miss Lotte pageant, which led to her debut as a model for Lotte Confectionery. In 1992, she was officially selected as part of SBS's second talent recruitment class, marking her transition into acting.
Throughout the 1990s, Borana appeared in various television dramas, films, and musicals, and served as the lead vocalist on Uptown's fourth album Verbal Medication in 1999. That same year, she married music producer Dick (Gu Yong-hui) and temporarily retired from public life.
She returned to acting in 2017 with the independent film Flowers, and has since resumed her career with roles in productions such as Backstreet Rookie (2020), When My Love Blooms (2020), Red Balloon (2022), and Woman in a Veil (2023).
Borana is a Christian and attended the Seoul Institute of the Arts, though she did not complete her studies.
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Rob Warner
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Rob Warner is an LA-based actor, writer, comedian, singer, and lover of pizza. He performed in the Second City Premium show Trump in Space for two years, the IO House Sketch Team Garden Party, and can be seen in the upcoming production of Bachelor the Musical where he originated the role of Chris Harrison at UCB. He has published work in The Bold Italic and sung at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Training includes Upright Citizens Brigade, Leslie Kahn, and The Groundlings for comedy; Mary Jo Duprey for voice; and his mom.
Originally from Boston, Rob caught the acting bug early and starred in a number of local productions like The Music Man (Harold Hill), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye) and The Tempest (Prospero). After singing a capella at Brown University, Rob took a job in San Francisco at Google and worked in tech for 5 years before moving to LA to pursue acting and writing. He is currently working on digital products while awaiting multiple theatrical releases including StoneFruit, Addicted to You, and Ranchlands.
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Robert Taylor
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Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time.
Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Corps, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the ABC series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days.
Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.
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Ernie Reyes Jr.
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Ernie Reyes Jr. (born January 15, 1972) is an American actor and martial artist, known for his acting work in films such as The Last Dragon, Red Sonja (1985), as Donatello's stuntman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), Surf Ninjas (1993) and The Rundown (2003). He has also done stunt work in films such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as motion capture stunts in films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland. His TV work includes season 3 episode 4 Highway to Heaven dramas such as the short-lived Sidekicks (in which he co-starred with Gil Gerard) and NCIS: Los Angeles and reality TV series such as Final Fu.
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Tran Duy Hung
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Hung Duy Tran (b. 2004, Hanoi) is a promising cinematographer whose path to film was shaped by a bold 'leap of faith.' In 2023, after a year away from formal education, he relocated to Saigon to pursue his passion at the Ho Chi Minh City Academy of Theatre and Cinema. This transition marked a rebirth in his personal and professional growth, far surpassing his earlier years in Hanoi. Now in his third year of Cinematography, Hung brings a versatile background in Production and Camera work to his projects, consistently striving for excellence and gaining recognition for his contributions to the craft.
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