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An Xin
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Zhou Anxin (born 25 December 2006) is a Chinese actor and singer, and a member of the boy group ALPHA DRIVE ONE. Born in Shanghai, he is of Han ethnicity.
Zhou made his film debut in Boxing Storm (2014), playing the young Gao Yuan. He gained early recognition in 2015 after covering The Vast Sky on Beijing Television’s Music Masterclass, later performing the song with Terry Lin on CCTV’s Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. That year, he also appeared on I Want to Perform on the Spring Festival Gala and sang the finale at Beijing TV’s New Year’s Eve Gala.
In 2016, Zhou performed Unforgettable Tonight and Bringing Happiness Home on CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala and Lantern Festival Gala, and appeared in the film Second Child. He took part in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala countdown in 2017 and released the single When the Hills Bloom with Flowers through the Youth Era Music Project. The following year, he starred in the film Love Ahead and later performed Bringing Happiness Home on CCTV’s China Arts.
In 2024, Zhou competed in the Korean survival show MAKEMATE1, where he placed 14th overall. In 2025, he participated in Boys II Planet, finishing second overall and debuting as a member of ALPHA DRIVE ONE.
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Samuel Habib
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Samuel Habib is the Emmy Award winning co-director of the New York Times Op-Doc, My Disability Roadmap. In 2016, he created a film about disability rights leader Judith Heumann, that was featured in the Breaking Down Barriers Film Festival in Moscow, Russia. Samuel also helped Dan create the nationally broadcast film Mr. Connoly Has ALS. Samuel uses a wheelchair for mobility and a communication device (as well as his voice) to express himself. In addition to exploring his current and future academic and career options, Samuel also navigates significant, chronic health challenges.
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Heino Torga
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Heino Torga (March 18, 1933 Narva – September 9, 2012 Tallinn) was an Estonian theatre director and actor.
In 1955 he graduated from Estonian Drama Theatre's learning studio, and 1967 Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema. From 1958 until 1962, he was an actor, from 1967 until 1970, a director and from 1970 until 1979, the principal stage manager-chief of Ugala Theatre in Viljandi. From 1981 until 1986, he worked at Tallinna Linnahall. From 1986 until 1993, he was an actor at Vanalinnastuudio. In 1993 he became a freelance actor. Besides stage roles he has also acted on films and in television series.
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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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Pete Seeger
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Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.
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Maya Karin
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Maya Karin Roelcke better known by her stage name Maya Karin, is a German-born Malaysian film actress, television host, and singer. One of the leading and established actresses in Malaysia's local film industry, she garnered wide recognition from the critics and public for her award-winning and memorable performances in movies such as Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam and Ombak Rindu.
Maya holds the record in the history of the Malaysia Film Festival for an actress with most nominations in the category of Best Actress Award and she's among few actresses to have won the award twice. Maya is also the first of only two Malaysian actresses to have won the prestigious Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
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Regīna Razuma
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Regīna Razuma (born Regīna Vesere; September 22, 1951 – May 14, 2023) was a Latvian actress and ballerina.
Razuma was born into a large family in Riga on 22 September 1951. In 1968, she graduated from the Riga Choreographic School.
From 1968 to 1974, Razuma was a ballerina of the Daile State Song and Dance Ensemble. In 1971, she began acting in films. She retired as a ballerina in 1975. From 1975 to 1978 she studied at the People's Film Actor Studio at the Riga Film Studio. In 1982, she graduated from the acting department of the theater department of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. From 1980 to 1992 she was an actress at the Dailes Theatre. From 1992 to 2023, she was an actress at the New Riga Theatre.
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Shari
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Shari a.k.a. Sadhana is an Indian film actress. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s and 1990s in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu films.
She rose to fame after Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal. She got a Kerala State film award for the same. In Tamil industry, she is known as Sadhana, she got her first offer as a supporting role in Hitler Umanath in 1982 where she act as Sivaji Ganesan's daughter, however she gained more attention when she makes debut as a heroine in Nenjathai Allitha where she was paired with actor Mohan which was released in 1984.
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Leilani Marie Smith
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Leilani Marie Smith (also credited as Leilani Marie, Leilani Mareé and Leilani Smith) is an actress, writer, producer and martial artist. She was born in Korea and is biracial. She studied martial arts at Rifkin Pro Karate; training is based in traditional Tae Kwon Do with Aikido and Jujitsu self defense techniques. On Sept. 15th, 2007, she obtained her 1st degree black belt.
Now teaching as well as assisting at the dojo, she has set her sights on competing professionally in a martial arts league. She has taken up Muay Thai, grappling and Arjunkenpo at the House of Champions. She has trained 2 years in advanced scene study with Bennet Guillory of the Robey Theatre, and studied over a year in Ivana Chubback's Master Class.
Leilani has appeared in many movies and TV shows. She was the sexy contortionist in The Player's Club and on The Parkers. She had a scene opposite Ving Rhames in The Don King Story and shot Straight out of Compton 2 in Maine as a Mocha Girl, a bodyguard with fight sequences. She was Nicole in the award winning short "Gabrielle" and played Kat in the family comedy Uncle P. She was the co-host in a pilot called "Lounge Act" for Mind Spring Productions.
She was quoted and pictured in the magazine article "Madame Mentors" featured in "Inside Kung Fu", September 2006.
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Richard Gilliland
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Gilliland (born January 23, 1950) is an American television and movie actor.
Gilliland was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He appeared onscreen in the 1970s. Notable appearances include Thirtysomething, Party of Five, Little Women, and a recurring role on Designing Women (where he met his wife Jean Smart, who starred as Charlene in that series). The couple has one son, Connor. Richard recently played Ellis Kapp on The Unit and Captain Stan Cotter on 24 while his wife Jean Smart played the First Lady Martha Logan in season 5. (He was in episode 2:00am to 3:00am). Gilliland is best friends with actor Joe Mantegna.
Gilliland is also very active in the theatre. Recent credits include Balancing Act, with Yeardley Smith and I Remember You, with Tony Danza; both at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre. He studied at the Goodman School of Drama, Playwright's Kitchen Ensemble and spent four seasons at summer stock.
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