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Ragini

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Ragini (27 March 1937 – 30 December 1976) was an Indian danseuse and actress. She was the youngest of the famed Travancore Sisters; Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini. She started her acting career in the mid-1950s along with her sister Padmini and has acted in movies of different Indian languages, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. She also starred opposite Shammi Kapoor in film Mujrim (1958). The era of dance in Hindi cinema is considered to have begun with the entrance of Ragini and other South Indian actresses. Ragini died of breast cancer in 1976. She had acted in many dramas also.
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Kiran Shah

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Kiran Jethalal Shah MBE (born 28 September 1956) is a Kenyan actor and stunt double. Shah was born in Nairobi, Kenya to an Indian family. He lived in Kenya until he was twelve years old, when he moved to India with his family. While living in India, he became interested in films, and when his family moved to Feltham, he became involved in show business. His first film was Candleshoe (1977), as a stand-in. When stunt coordinator Bob Anderson asked him to do stunts as well, his career was started. Shah played the part of Bolum in The People That Time Forgot (1977). Shah is often confused with Deep Roy; they are both dwarf Nairobi-born Kenyan actors of Indian descent who got their starts in film and television in the late 1970s. He is the world's shortest stuntman according to the Guinness World Records. He has appeared as an actor in 31 films; and 37 as stuntman or body double.
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Clifton Dugan

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Clifton Dugan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the post production facility The Foundation located in Burbank, CA. Providing near-set dailies globally, assembly, final color correction, titling, 2D effects and delivery. Offering an end-to-end solution for episodic (Broadcast and OTT) providers. Prior to creating The Foundation, he was VP of Technical Sales at Technicolor, EVP of Laser Pacific's Television division, and before that VP Sales & Marketing at Ascent Media; spearheading sales of over $40 million annually for many of North America's most recognized TV post-production facilities including Encore Hollywood, Level 3 Post and R!OT. Helping to streamline post workflows and increase efficiencies allowing producers to meet their creative, technical, budgetary and delivery requirements. Prior to Ascent Media, he held a variety of post positions including off-line editor and post supervisor with The Arthur Company, later working as a facility producer at Foto-Kem and Anderson Video. He has a BBA in Business Administration and a BS in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin. - Biography By: C. Dugan
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Bellamy Young

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Bellamy Young (born Amy Young) is an American television, film, and theatre actress. She has starred on TV as Margaret Honeycutt on Promised Land, Jessica Whitly on Prodigal Son, and Mellie Grant on Scandal. She's had recurring roles as Beth Clemmons, Hotchner's love interest, on Criminal Minds, Dr. Miller on Scrubs, Ellen Darling on Dirty Sexy Money, Assistant State's Attorney Monica West on CSI: Miami, Diane Shaw on American Dreams, and Twyla Gentry on Peacemakers. She has guest starred on numerous television shows including Castle, Supernatural, Law & Order, Law & Order: LA, The Mentalist, The West Wing, United States of Tara, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Drop Dead Diva, Franklin & Bash, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, The X-Files, Two and a Half Men, Frasier, Cold Case, Private Practice, Boston Legal, ER, Nash Bridges, and General Hospital. She also has appeared in movies, with roles in A Wrinkle in Time, We Were Soldiers, and Mission: Impossible III. In addition to television and film, she has starred in several Broadway shows including The Life and Randy Newman's Faust.
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Anuradha Sriram

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Anuradha Sriram is an Indian carnatic and playback singer who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 5000 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. Anuradha has performed extensively all over India and U.S.A and has given many radio and TV programmes since the age of 12. Anuradha Sriram first entered the Tamil Cinema Industry as a child artist in the 1980 Tamil movie Kaali. In 1995, she was introduced as a singer by A R Rahman for the song "Malarodu Malaringu" in the movie Bombay. Her first solo was for A R Rahman in Indira. She specialises in Carnatic music and has sung in over 1000 concerts worldwide. Anuradha has several chart topping Devotional albums to her credit and she regales audiences all over south India with her Devotional concerts too. She also collaborates with her husband Sriram Parasuram on their very successful Classical Music Jugalbandhi concerts and their hit TV programme “Elaame Sangeetham Thaan”. She has also anchored many music programmes on TV. Having sung more than 3000 film songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, and six north Indian languages, some of her hits are "Nalam Nalam Ariyaaval" (Kaadal Kotai), "Dilruba Dilruba" (Priyam), "Meenamma" (Aasai), "Acham Acham Illai" (Indira), "Phenk Hawa" (Ram Jaane) and "Pehli Pehli" (Zor). She has composed the music for the movie Five Star along with her husband Sriram.
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Reggie Fils-Aimé

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Reginald Fils-Aimé (/ˈfiːsəmeɪ/ FEE-sə-may; born March 25, 1961) is an American businessman best known for being the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the North American branch of the Japanese video game company Nintendo, from 2006 to 2019. Prior to his promotion to president and COO, Fils-Aimé was Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Fils-Aimé gained celebrity status among gamers following his appearance at Nintendo's E3 2004 press conference in May 2004, and helped to revitalize Nintendo's image as a major contender among the other video game console makers, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Microsoft. Fils-Aimé had held previous sales and marketing executive roles at Procter & Gamble, Pizza Hut, Guinness, Derby Cycle, Panda Express, and VH1. Fils-Aimé retired as president of Nintendo of America on April 15, 2019 after an announcement on February 21, and was succeeded by Doug Bowser. He subsequently became a Leader in Residence at Cornell University and later named to the Board of Directors for Brunswick Corporation, GameStop, and Spin Master. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reggie Fils-Aimé, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Hans Zhang

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Hans Zhang Han (simplified Chinese: 张翰; traditional Chinese: 張翰; pinyin: Zhāng Hàn, born 6 October 1983) is a Chinese actor, singer and host. He graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 2007. Zhang is best known for his roles in Meteor Shower (2009) and Meteor Shower II (2010), Fall in Love (2011), The Queen of SOP (2012), Heroes in Sui and Tang Dynasties (2013), Boss & Me (2014), The Four (2015), Wolf Warriors 2 (2017), Here to Heart (2018), Sunshine of My Life (2021), and Gentlemen of East 8th (2022).
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David Macaulay

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David Macaulay is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. In 2006, Macaulay was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for his book Black and White, published in 1990.
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Nigel Humphreys

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Nigel Humphreys (born 24 September 1950 in Bognor Regis, Sussex) is a British actor who is best known for his television work. His most prominent roles include Dickie Fleming in Coronation Street and PC Pete Dodds in Softly, Softly: Task Force. Other television credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Expert, Warship, The Sweeney, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Minder, The Gentle Touch, Doctor Who (in the serial Warriors of the Deep), All in Good Faith, Pulaski, No Job for a Lady, The Bill and Birds of a Feather. His film credits include Danny Jones (1972), Joseph Andrews (1977), Scum (1979), The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979), The Long Good Friday (1980), Breaking Glass (1980), Who Dares Wins (1982) and Lamb (1985).
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