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Lee Sung-kyung

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Lee Sung-kyoung (Hangul: 이성경; born 10 August 1990) is a South Korean actress and model. Lee began her entertainment career as a model where she competed at the local Super Model Contest in 2008. Lee made her acting debut as the first actress from YG Entertainment and model company K-Plus strategic partnership in the SBS drama "It's Okay, That's Love". She acted in the television dramas Cheese in the Trap and The Doctors before taking her first leading role as the titular character in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo. Lee began her entertainment career as a model where she competed at the local Super Model Contest in 2008. In 2013, The Papers collaborated with Lee with the single "I Love You". In 2014, Lee made her acting debut with a supporting role in television drama It's Okay, That's Love, being the first model-actress promoted under the joint venture of YG Entertainment and K-Plus. This was followed by the weekend drama, Flower of Queen in 2015. She won "Best New Actress" in a Special Project Drama at the MBC Drama Awards for her role. In January 2016, Lee featured in tvN's college romance series, Cheese in the Trap. On April 28, 2016, Lee released a collaboration single with Eddy Kim, which is a cover of Sharp's "My Lips like Warm Coffee". Lee then starred in the SBS' prime-time medical drama, The Doctors as a neurosurgeon. The same year, she took on her first leading role in Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo, a youth sports drama inspired by the real-life story of Olympic weightlifting champion Jang Mi-ran. In 2017, Lee dubbed the film Trolls alongside Park Hyung-sik. She was also cast in the romance film Love+Sling, directed by first-time director Kim Dae-woong. She was also featured in PSY's 4X2=8 with the single "Last Scene". In 2018, Lee starred in the fantasy melodrama About Time. She was cast in the action-comedy film Miss & Mrs. Cops released on May 9, 2019, alongside Ra Mi-ran. In 2020, Lee starred in the second season of the hit medical drama Dr. Romantic, playing Cha Eun-jae, a skilled cardiothoracic surgeon with Ahn Hyo-seop as her leading man. Dr. Romantic Kim 2 went down to be the highest viewed cable drama of 2020, Lee was praised for her portrayal of Cha Eun Jae and won many accolades for her role
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Elisavet Moutafi

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Elisavet Moutafi (real name: Elisavet Moutaftsi, Thessaloniki, 13 November 1976) is a Greek actress. She made her first appearance on television in 2000 in the mystery thriller series Secret Routes on Alpha. There she played a young journalist named Niki who investigated various mystery cases that concerned the general public, co-starring alongside Marinos Desyllas and Nikos Psarras. The series ended prematurely in 2001, after only 8 episodes, due to problems between the channel and the production company. In the same year, she joined the leading cast of the second season of the drama series Aerines siopes on Mega Channel, again playing a young journalist who falls in love with one of the pilots of the series. Also in 2001, she starred in the films My Best Friend, directed by Lakis Lazopoulos and Yorgos Lanthimos, and Brasilero. In the 2003-2004 season, she had one of the leading roles in the drama series With a View of the Sea. In the 2004-2005 period, she starred in two television series on Mega Channel. On the one hand, she took part in the social series "Metrao doktoki", where she co-starred with Stavros Zalmas, Stelios Mainas and Eleni Zioga, while on the other hand, she was part of the leading cast of the daily series of Elena Akrita and Giorgos Kyritsis Vera to the Right. The second series was what made her particularly well-known to the general public, playing the role of singer Elsa Saranti. She remained in the series until its completion in the summer of 2007, co-starring with Katia Dandoulaki, Kostas Kazakos, Marianna Toumasatou, Yro Loupi and others. Alongside Vera, she made guest appearances in the series The Stories of Policeman Beka and The Red Room. In the 2007-2008 season, she collaborated again with the Akrita-Kyritsi duo in the comedy If You Were Here I Would Have Divorced You. The following season, she starred alongside Tania Trypi, Maria Antoulinaki and Jenny Theona in the black comedy Who's Catching Us! on Mega Channel. She returned to television in December 2011 with the daily series Stolen Dreams on Mega, directed by Dimitris Arvanitis. In the series, she played Alexandra Valatou, a woman from a wealthy family who learns that her father and husband swapped her child on the day of birth, replacing it with her husband's other child who was born on the same day. She left the series in 2015 at the beginning of the fourth season. In 2014, she appeared in an episode of the comedy series Triches on ANT1. In 2017, she made a guest appearance in the comedy series "Tamam" while in the same year she starred in the daily series Arena on Star Channel. In 2018, she made a special appearance in the daily series Parthena Zoi on ANT1 while in the 2018-2019 season she starred in the drama series Orgi. In the 2020-2021 season, she starred in the daily series To mystiko tis petaloudas on RIK1. In the first half of the following season, she played Sofia Kyriakaki-Hatzi in the Mega crime series To abyro mas eksperts. In 2023, she starred in the ERT1 mini-drama series The Bracelet of Fire, playing Benoita Cohen. In the 2023-24 season, she starred in the drama series The Concubine of Julia on the Alpha channel.
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Brenda Blethyn

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Brenda Anne Blethyn is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. In addition, she has won a BAFTA, an Empire Award and a Golden Lion, and has earned a Theater World Award and both a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work. Born into a working class home in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn pursued an administrative career until her early 30s before enrolling in the Guildford School of Acting after the dissolution of her marriage in 1973. She subsequently joined the Royal National Theatre and received credits for her performances in Troilus and Cressida (1976) and Mysteries (1979). In 1981, Blethyn earned her first critical acclaim for Steaming. In 1980, Blethyn made her television debut in Mike Leigh's film Grown-Ups; then, after a modest number of guest spots in several productions, in the mid-1980s she garnered leading roles in the short-living sitcoms Chance in a Million and The Labours of Erica. Having followed her big screen debut with smaller supporting roles in films such as The Witches (1990) and A River Runs Through It (1992), she made her real cinema breakthrough with her role in the 1996 dramedy Secrets & Lies, for which she received rave reviews. Blethyn has since appeared in an eclectic range of films, including independent comedies such as Saving Grace (2000), Plots with a View (2002) and Clubland (2007), music-themed films like Little Voice (1998) and Beyond the Sea (2004) and big-budget dramas such as Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007). In addition, Blethyn has appeared in television productions including The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), Belonging (2004) and War and Peace (2007). Her most recent leading role in TV drama is the title role in Vera (2011), playing Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Blethyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chloé Jouannet

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French actress, daughter of actors Thomas Jouannet and Alexandra Lamy. She made her first appearance in cinema at the age of 12 in a small role in the film Lucky Luke, where she acted alongside her mother and step-father, Jean Dujardin, but it was due to her role in the dramatic comedy My Summer in Provence, directed by Rose Bosch, that she came to prominence, where she played a rebellious teenager along with Jean Reno and Anna Galiena. She lived in London with her mother between 2013 and 2018. In 2016, she officially confirmed her relationship with the actor Zacharie Chasseriaud.
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Chesney Allen

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From Wikipedia Chesney Allen, born William Ernest Chesney Allen (5 April 1893 – 13 November 1982) was a popular English entertainer of the Second World War period. He is best remembered for his double act with Bud Flanagan, Flanagan and Allen He began his career in straight acting, making his debut in stock at the Wimbledon Theatre, London, in 1912. Serving in Flanders in the First World War, he made friends with Bud Flanagan, and worked with him from 1924. As music hall comedians, they would often feature a mixture of comedy and music in their act and this led to a successful recording career and roles in film and television. Flanagan and Allen were also members of the Crazy Gang and worked together in that team for many years. Flanagan and Allen stopped performing together with Chesney Allen's retirement on health grounds.
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Tali Barde

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Taliesin Gabriel Barde was born on June 23, 1990 in Bensberg, Germany to parents Achim Barde and Angela Reith-Barde. His rather odd first name is based on the character Taliesin, the Merlin of Great Britain and bard at King Arthur's court in the famous novel "The Mists of Avalon". Even though Tali claims he has zero musical talent, he started telling stories at the age of 4, by drawing comics, cartoons and even short animation sequences. This passion later on transformed into his interest for acting and filmmaking. Gaining experience on stage and in front of camera as an actor in his teenage years and working on several film sets after his graduation, encouraged him to apply for film school. After being rejected he immediately started working on his first feature film, by the help of his friends and within a project group, which he founded a few years ago at his former school. The production process of For No Eyes Only (2013) took almost 2 years, but in the end brought the young filmmakers multiple awards, an international festival tour and a lot of recognition by the industry. When the film was released in German cinemas in the end of 2014, Tali was 24 years old. In the meantime he finished a new short film and started working on his next feature film project.
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Alex Cox

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Alexander Cox (born in Bebington, Merseyside, 15 December 1954) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career on independent movies of steadily declining budgets, championing the increased individual creative freedom that comes with lower production investment.
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Justin Marks

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Justin Marks (born March 25, 1981) is an American racing driver, entrepreneur, and current owner of Trackhouse Racing Team in the NASCAR Cup Series. He last competed in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, driving the No. 93 for Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian in the GT Daytona class. Marks has competed in sports car and stock car racing, competing in the ARCA Racing Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He also served as a road course ringer in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Cup Series.
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Lee Marvin

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Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. A prominent television role was that of Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the crime series M Squad (1957–1960). Marvin is best remembered for his lead roles as "tough guy" characters such as Charlie Strom in The Killers (1964), Rico Fardan in The Professionals (1966), Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen, Walker in Point Blank (both 1967), and the Sergeant in The Big Red One (1980). One of Marvin's more notable movie projects was Cat Ballou (1965), a comedy Western in which he played dual roles. For portraying both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim Strawn, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, along with a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, an NBR Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
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Hamilton Dlamini

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Award-winning film and stage actor, playwright, director and producer, Hamilton Dlamini was born in 1969 in Sebokeng, near Vanderbijlpark. He started his acting career in 1984 and currently runs his own production company, Ndlondlo Productions. Highlights of his career include his performance in Mncedisi Shabangu’s Ten Bush in 2008-2009, which won him a Naledi award for the best supporting actor; his collaboration with William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company on Woyzeck in the Highveld in 2009, which toured the world; performing opposite Mncedisi Shabangu in a Prince Lamla-directed production of Woza Albert! at the Market Theatre in 2012, which enjoyed a six month run; and in 2013, performing in Athol Fugard’s Nongogo, directed by James Ngcobo. A well-known face in a variety of television comedy and drama series over the years, including Ntokozo in SABC’s Zikhethele, Ndwandwe in Emzini Wezinsizwa and Mojo in Stokvel, Dlamini is the face and voice of the South African tavern industry, thanks to his industrial and corporate theatre profile. In addition, he has appeared in local film, including Regardt van den Bergh’s Faith Like Potatoes (2006), for which he won a SAFTA (South African Film and Television Award) for best supporting actor. Dlamini was trained by Vusi Dibakwane of Penguin Films as a multi-camera director, and he has, in this capacity, directed several pieces for eTV, including Sangoma, Mageza and Isipoki.
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