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Raymond Massey
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Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor known for his commanding stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on TV and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr Gillespie in the NBC TV series Dr Kildare (1961–1966), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940), Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
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Rhys Ernst
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Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and artist. Ernst was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for directing and producing the webseries This Is Me. He created the award-winning trans history web series We’ve Been Around, and is a Producer, Director on Amazon’s Transparent; he also created the Transparent title sequence. Ernst has shown work in the Whitney Biennial, Sundance, Oberhausen, and The Hammer Museum; he has won awards at Outfest, Chicago International Film Festival and the LA Transgender Film Festival; he has won two GLAAD Awards, was a Point Scholar, a Project Involve Fellow, and was awarded the Point Foundation Horizon Award and the ACLU Liberty Award for his work on LGBTQ representation in the media. He lives in Los Angeles and is the director of the forthcoming feature ADAM.
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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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Joshua Boshell
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Joshua is an American filmmaker who creates content out of a passion for storytelling, world building, and sharing his values of friendship, loyalty and perseverance with others.
His past projects have won awards at film festivals such as AIMAFF, Absurd and Under The Stars International, and selected at MidWest WeirdFest. He’s currently working in location sound and postproduction in Chicago whilst developing several larger, high-concept projects--including the pilot of a sci-fi/horror series based on his latest award-winning directorial work, SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE.
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Loïc Corbery
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Originally from Avignon, he quickly discovered the theater thanks to his parents (his father was an engineer and his mother a professor of literature). At the age of six, he accidentally met Agnès Varda, who cast him in the short film she was shooting in Avignon at the time. The short film is called 7 rooms kitchen and bathroom.
After his baccalaureate, he left for Paris to follow theatrical studies at the Périmony course. He then joined the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where he studied from 1997 to 2000, in the classes of Stuart Seide and Jacques Lassalle.
In 2003, he played in Le jour du destin and won a nomination for the Molières 2004 for male theatrical revelation. In addition to the theatre, he can be seen in several French television series, most often for an episode, but he also held recurring roles, such as in the series Commissaire Valence, broadcast on TF1, with Bernard Tapie in the title role.
Loïc Corbery receiving the Swann d'Or at the 2014 Cabourg Film Festival.
He joined the Comédie-Française in 2005, where he was particularly noticed for his interpretations in Le Cid by Pierre Corneille, directed by Brigitte Jaques and The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, directed by Oskaras Koršunovas. He became a member in 2010.
The artistic direction of the tribute to Molière was entrusted to him in 2009.
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J.N. Canabarro
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J.N. Canabarro began his career in the south of Brazil as an actor in a local theater company. Later, in his own theater company, he became a director, set designer and actor. At the beginning of the 1980s, he had his first experience in cinema, acting in a Super 8 production, "Tempo sem Glória". From then on, he dedicated himself to regional and national productions. He has also appeared as an actor in TV series such as TV Globo's "O Tempo e o Vento" in 2014 and GNT's "Animal" in 2014. He has extensive experience acting in films, most recently in the film "Casa vazia", which won an award at the Gramado Film Festival (Brazil) in 2019. His most recent production is the feature film O Velho Nepo, scheduled for release in 2025.
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Shane Harper
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Shane Harper standing in at 6' 2" (1.88 m) was born on February 14, 1993 (Aquarius) as Shane Steven Harper. He is a male American actor, dancer and singer. Shane began dancing, singing, and acting in community theater at the age of 9. He was offered agency representation in the spring of 2006, at a regional dance competition. Shane obtained a black belt in Kempo Karate, and is an accomplished musician and songwriter, as well as a professionally trained dancer. After booking the first 3 jobs that he auditioned for, he continued to work hard, and pursued a career in the entertainment industry. Shane has become an established actor in television and feature films. He is best known as his role as Spencer Walsh in the Disney Channel's teen sitcom Good Luck Charlie and as a principal dancer in High School Musical 2. He has also been seen in the season 4 of Wizards of Waverly Place guest starring as "Fidel". His self-titled debut album was released on April 12, 2011. He resides in Los Angeles, Ca.
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Travis Kelce
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Travis Michael Kelce (/ˈkɛlsi/ KEL-see; born October 5, 1989) is a three-time Super Bowl champion tight end for the American football team, the Kansas City Chiefs. Kelce is engaged to marry singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and is the younger brother of former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, with whom he cohosts their podcast New Heights.
Kelce played college football at the University of Cincinnati before being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013. He was named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team and is an eleven-time Pro Bowler. He holds the NFL record for most consecutive seasons with 1,000 receiving yards by a tight end (7).
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Richard Madden
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Richard Madden (born 18 June 1986) is a Scottish actor. He was cast in his first role at age 11 and made his screen acting debut in 2000. He later began performing on stage whilst a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he reprised in the West End in 2016. Madden rose to fame by portraying Robb Stark in the fantasy drama series Game of Thrones from 2011 to 2013.
Madden subsequently played Prince Kit in the romantic fantasy film Cinderella (2015) and Italian banker Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici (2016). In 2018, he gained acclaim for his performance as a police officer in the thriller series Bodyguard, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. The following year, Madden was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time. He had supporting roles as music manager John Reid in the biopic Rocketman and Lieutenant Blake in the war film 1917. He has since starred as Ikaris in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021) and as a spy in the action thriller Citadel (2023–present).
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Denise Burse
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Denise Burse-Mickelbury (born January 13, 1952) is an American actress, best known for her role as Claretha Jenkins in the television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
An African-American native of Atlanta, Burse received professional training at the Just Us Theatre, The Alliance Theatre and The Atlanta Children's Theater. She has numerous television credits such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Burse has also appeared in various stage productions such as An American Daughter, Harriet’s Return, Ground People, Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West, and Radio Golf. In 2016, she appeared in "San Junipero", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
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