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Jerry Haleva
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Jerry Haleva (born May 26, 1946) is an American actor and political lobbyist. He gained fame as an actor as a doppelgänger of Saddam Hussein due to his physical resemblance to the late Iraqi leader, with all of his film roles having him portraying Hussein.
Jerry Haleva, a Sephardic Jew, is a member of the Republican Party and has worked as a lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, among others. In 1973, he was an adviser to a legislative committee investigating prison conditions in California. He served in the California Senate in 1977 as chief of staff for William Campbell.
In 1989, a colleague of Haleva distributed a photo of the then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein among his co-workers with the text "Now we know what Haleva does on his weekends". A few years later, Haleva contacted Ron Smith, who represented doppelgängers in the film industry, and Smith had a small role for Haleva in the feature film Hot Shots! (1991), followed by a more prominent role in its sequel, Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993). Haleva played Hussein in half a dozen films. Besides the Hot Shots! movies and The Big Lebowski, he appeared in a few other films and also appeared in commercials (including for Nintendo).
In the spring of 2003, when Iraq was invaded, he decided to stop working as Hussein's doppelgänger. In January 2004 he came back to this decision and said in an interview that he was interested in continuing his acting career.
As of 2016, he was a contract lobbyist (Sergeant Major Associates) and lived in Sacramento, California.
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Chelan Simmons
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Chelan Simmons (born Chelan Lauren Simmons, October 29, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actress and former professional model, 5′ 4″ (163 cm) tall. The middle child of three, she made her screen debut at age seven as Laurie Ann Winterbarger (the first victim of Pennywise) in the TV miniseries IT (1990), and went on to work as a child model and commercial actor before transitioning to film and television. She is married to Greg Street (since 2015) and has one child. Her most notable film credits include Ashley Freund in Final Destination 3 (2006), Carol in Good Luck Chuck (2007), Chloe in Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010), a Lotus Land waitress in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010, cameo), Kayla in See No Evil 2 (2014), and Hope Henry in Ogre (2008). On television she is best known as Hillary Shepard in Kyle XY (2006–2009, 21 episodes, ABC Family), Alicia Lowe in The L.A. Complex (2012, 6 episodes, IFC), Helen Shyres in Carrie (2002), Jen in Monster Island (2004, with Carmen Electra), and Lindsay Lohan in Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story (2008), with additional credits in Smallville (2002–2004), Supernatural (2005), Wonderfalls (2004), Stargate Atlantis (2005), Grey's Anatomy (2013), Hannibal (2013), and How I Met Your Mother (2012).
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Aline Mineiro
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Aline Mineiro, the Brazilian bombshell and Instagram sensation, Instagram star who got her start as an actress on television programs such as Pânico na Band and TV Fama, known for Conspiração Fatal (2022), Atração de Risco (2020) and Gota D'água (2023).
She has a degree in performing arts at the Wolf Maya School of Actors, where at the same time she was also studying journalism, but dropped out. In December 2014, she won the "Miss Mister Fitness Alphaville" contest. Mineiro debuted as a panicat in February 2015. Previously, she had worked on TV as a dancer on programs such as Programa do Gugu (2013), Arena SBT (2014) and Programa Raul Gil (2014).
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Marc Clotet
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Spanish actor born in Barcelona (Catalonia). He has a degree in Business Administration and Management from the Universitat Ramón Llull in Barcelona. He is also fluent in 4 languages: Catalan and Spanish (native), English and French. He began his career in television with several participations in series of Catalan regional television as 'Estació d'enllaç' or 'El cor de la ciutat', series in which he became known for his role as Iago in 2007. He has also participated in some state television series such as 'El comisario', 'Física o química' and 'Amar es para siempre', all of them on Antena 3. In cinema he debuted with the film 'Mil cretins', and participated in the film 'La voz dormida' which was nominated for the Goya Awards and pre-selected for the Oscars. In the theatre we have seen him in plays such as 'Amantes' and 'Romances'.
On a personal level, he is the brother of the actress Aina Clotet, and son of Dr. Bonaventura Clotet. In 2011 he married actress Ana de Armas, whom he divorced two years later. He is currently in a relationship with actress Natalia Sánchez.
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Karen Mok Man-Wai
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Karen Mok Man-Wai (born Karen Joy Morris (Chinese: 莫文蔚)) is a Hong Kong pop diva who is one of the leading Asian pop singers and actresses with a career spanning three decades. She is the first female Hong Kong singer to win the Golden Melody Award and has won it a total of three times. She has released 18 solo studio albums, starred in over more than 50 movies, has over 15 million followers on leading Chinese social media site Weibo, took the lead in the Broadway musical Rent on its Asian tour, holds the Guinness World Record for the Highest Altitude Mass-Attended Music Concert.
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Holly Madison
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Holly Madison (born Holly Sue Cullen; December 23, 1979) is an American television personality, best known as a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner and for her appearance in the reality television show The Girls Next Door. She also starred in her own reality series, Holly's World, which ran from 2009 to 2011. She has released two books, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny in 2015, about her life in the Playboy Mansion and her relationship with Hefner, and The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice, and the Road to Reinvention in 2016.
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Pauline Clément
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Pauline Clément (born in 1986 in Évry) is a French actress and comedian.
Trained at the Cours Florent, the 8th arrondissement conservatory of Paris, the Studio-théâtre d'Asnières, and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD), she joined the Comédie-Française in 2015 and became its 546th full member (sociétaire). On stage, she performs in both classical and contemporary plays, earning a nomination for the Molière Award for Best Female Newcomer in 2020 for A Flea in Her Ear (La Puce à l'oreille). She is also a member of the comedy collective Yes vous aime.
In film and television, she has appeared in feature films such as C'est la vie! (Le Sens de la fête, 2017), The Special Needs (Hors normes, 2019), Jumeaux mais pas trop (2022), and Heureux Gagnants (2024), as well as in television series and short formats including Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent), Calls, and the satirical short series Broute. In 2026, she co-wrote and starred in the comedy film De la Comédie-Française.
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Tinnu Anand
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Tinnu Anand is an Indian actor and director belonging to the Bollywood industry. His most famous directorial outings were Kaalia (1981), Shahenshah (1988), Main Azaad Hoon (1989) and Major Saab (1998). He then went on to perform roles in several movies such as Chhupa Rustam (2001), Paisa Vasool (2004), Bluffmaster! (2005), Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007), Ghajini (2008), Dabangg (2010), Rabba Main Kya Karoon (2013) Phata Poster Nikhla Hero (2013), Aisa Yeh Jahaan (2015) and Santa Banta Pvt Ltd (2016). His 2022 release includes Janhit Mein Jaari.
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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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Stanley Townsend
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Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004.
Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing.
ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
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