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Mao Hamasaki
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Mao Hamasaki (浜崎 真緒, Hamasaki Mao, born October 20, 1993) is a Japanese AV actress and DJ from Chiba Prefecture. She was formerly affiliated with Lotus Group's Two Top Promotion, but is now under Funstar Promotion. Her body measurements are 85-59-84cm (E-65 cup) and she is 1.65m tall.
In June 2012, she made her AV debut and became an exclusive actress until March 2013. In 2017, she began working as a music DJ under the stage name DJ MAO as well. Mao built her global reputation from her works across films and tv dramas around the Asia region since 2012 and was inspired to take a step forward with her DJing in the year 2018. In the same year, Mao's DJ career lift-off by getting invited to perform around Asia, including Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia, and many more. Mao Hamasaki is always exploring new ways to interact with her crowd and gives out her most to keep the vibe on the roof. Specialized Genres: EDM, Trap, Hardstyle, Pop, Top 40. On August 9, 2024, she announced her retirement after 13 years as an AV actress.
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Genevieve O'Reilly
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Genevieve O'Reilly is an Irish actress known for her versatility, having earned recognition for her performances across stage and screen. Most recently, Genevieve reprised her groundbreaking and legacy role of 'Mon Mothma' in the second and final season of Andor (2022), the Star Wars series on Disney+ described in 2025 by Vanity Fair as "the best television of the year so far."
Her performance has been widely acclaimed: Variety praised her "excellent supporting turn," The Playlist highlighted her portrayal as "one of the finest seen from any actor on any screen," and Screen Rant called it "essentially flawless... eloquence and vulnerability." The second season has become the highest-rated live-action Star Wars series on Rotten Tomatoes to date. The first season was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2024 Emmy Awards, won a Peabody Award for Entertainment, and Genevieve was nominated for Supporting Actress - Drama at the 2023 IFTA Awards.
For film, Genevieve was nominated as Best Lead Actress in Film at the AACTA Awards for her role in The Dry (2020), the adaptation of Jane Harper's multi-award-winning novel. The film opened at the top of the Australian box office on New Year's Day and achieved the fifth-highest opening day for a local film in history. Released by IFC Films in the US, The Dry (2020) garnered similar acclaim and was announced as runner-up for Best Narrative Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her other notable film appearances include Tolkien (2019), the biopic of the iconic author J.R.R. Tolkien. The film explored Tolkien's formative years against the brutal backdrop of the First World War. Additionally, Genevieve appeared in the acclaimed films The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and The Young Victoria (2009).
Genevieve is also known for her leading role in Tin Star (2017), Her portrayal of Angela Worth earned her an Irish Film and Television Award nomination. The series, a significant success for the channel, accumulated more than 17 million downloads and views during its first season. Genevieve's further television credits include Episodes with Matt LeBlanc, the Peabody Award-winning drama The Honorable Woman (2014) alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, the BAFTA-nominated The Secret for ITV, BBC's Spooks and The Snowman with Michael Fassbender.
On stage, Genevieve delivered a powerful performance as Mary Carney in Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, first at the Royal Court Theatre and later in London's West End. She reprised the role on Broadway following the production's record-breaking, sold-out run. Directed by Sam Mendes, the play won three Olivier Awards, Evening Standard Awards, and a UK Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. The New York Times called the production 'fiercely gripping,' and The Hollywood Reporter praised Genevieve's performance, noting her 'gorgeous speech,' which 'spills out full of conflicting impulses of hurt and compassion.' Genevieve's additional theatre credits include Ibsen's epic Emperor and Galilean as Helena, wife to Andrew Scott's emperor Julian, and Mike Bartlett's 13 at the National Theatre, Splendour by Abi Morgan at the Donmar Warehouse, Richard II at the Old Vic, The Way of the World with the Sydney Theatre Company, and The Weir at the Gate Theatre Dublin.
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Arash Labaf
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Arash has said that the reason he chooses to sing in his native language is because of his "deep attachment to Iran and Persian culture."
His debut album, Arash, was released by the Warner Music Sweden in June 2005, after he had finished college. His singles, "Boro Boro" ("Go Away") and "Temptation" (featuring Rebecca) made it to the hit lists around Europe, and their respective videos garnered significant airplay on more than 20 MTV outlets across the world. In addition to successes in his home countries' music charts, namely Sweden and Iran, the platinum-selling singer and producer Arash has had hits notably in Eastern European and South-East European charts like Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey and in Asian music charts like in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and throughout the Arab Middle Eastern countries. His singles have charted many times on Swiss and Finnish charts and he is especially famous in Poland.
Arash's records were certified gold in 5 countries: his album Arash in Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Greece and single "Boro Boro" in Sweden. This song was also featured in the Hindi Bollywood film Bluffmaster! and he was the featured Artist of the Month on MTV India. Helena did not take part in the music video of "Pure Love", although her voice was used in it. The video was starred by Arash, together with the Venezuelan beauty queen, Marianne Puglia.
Arash has produced along with Thomas G:son, Robert Uhlmann, and Johan Bejerholm the Swedish entry to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 "Allt jag vill ha" that was performed by Josefine Ridell.
In early 2009, it was revealed that the Azerbaijani entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 would be the song "Always" which was written and composed by Arash. The song was performed by Aysel Teymurzadeh and Arash in a duet in Semifinal 2 of the Eurovision competition. The song qualified for the Eurovision Song Contest final which took place on 16 May 2009, and was placed third.
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John Coghlan
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John Robert Coghlan (born 19 September 1946) is an English musician, best known as the original drummer of the rock band Status Quo.
The son of a Glasgow-born father and a London-born half-French mother, Coghlan grew up in Dulwich and was educated at Kingsdale Comprehensive School. He left school at 15 to begin an apprenticeship as a mechanic. He attended drumming tuition under Lloyd Ryan, who also taught Phil Collins the drum rudiments.
John Coghlan joined Status Quo, then called The Scorpions (latterly The Spectres), in early 1962 after a meeting with bassist Alan Lancaster, guitarist Francis Rossi and keyboard player Jess Jaworski. "The three of them were playing away through a single Vox AC30 amplifier," he recalled. "But it sounded amazing and that was the start of it all."
Coghlan played on the first fourteen Quo albums, including their first and most successful live album, Live! in 1977, and songs such as Caroline", "Down Down", "Rockin' All Over the World" and "Whatever You Want".
While Quo were recording what became their 1+9+8+2 album, Coghlan unexpectedly quit after almost twenty years of being in the line-up. According to Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, Coghlan went into the studio, sat behind his kit, "tapped around" on it, "then he got up, kicked the whole kit apart, walked out and that was that."
"It had been creeping up on me," the drummer explained. "I always felt that we never got enough rest; there were parties every night… Also, things weren't happy for me at home in those days, and nobody in the band was too interested in anybody else's problems… It was such a shame, because the original band were shit-hot and we allowed it to fall apart… Alan [Lancaster] told everybody when I left the room that I'd be back the next day. In fact, I was on a plane, going home."
Coghlan was replaced by Pete Kircher, formerly of the 1960s band Honeybus.
Subsequently, Coghlan played with Partners in Crime, but the band failed to earn major attention. He also played on a one-off single by The Rockers, a supergroup also featuring Roy Wood, Phil Lynott and Chas Hodges. Their "We Are The Boys (Who Make All The Noise)", a rock and roll medley, was released in November 1983 and made No. 79 in the chart. His own band, John Coghlan's Diesel, was a loose ensemble of musicians he'd known in his years with Quo, notably Bob Young and Andy Bown. Diesel never signed a proper recording contract.
Coghlan continued to play in his own solo bands mostly known as John Coghlan's Quo, and also with members from other bands, including members from well known Quo tribute acts, including Rick Abbs (Dog of Two Head), Rick Chase and Mick Hughes from Predatur. He also leads the John Coghlan Band, or JCB, which comprises the members of the 12 bar boogie rock band and the King Earl Boogie Band (with former members of Mungo Jerry).
In 2012 Coghlan, along with bandmates Rick Parfitt, Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster, reunited for a special one-off jam session at Shepperton Studios for the band's first ever cinematic documentary Hello Quo!, directed by Alan G. Parker. It was the first time the four had all been in the same room and played together since Coghlan left in 1981. ...
Source: Article "John Coghlan (drummer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Gary Coleman
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Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 — May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986) and for his small stature as an adult. He was described in the 1980s as "one of television's most promising stars". After a successful childhood acting career, Coleman struggled financially later in life. In 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business advisor over misappropriation of his assets, only to declare bankruptcy a decade later.
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Elizabeth Peña
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Elizabeth Maria Peña (September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014) was an American actress, and the daughter of a theater-company co-founder, who has also compiled experience as a television director in her own right. Peña was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, daughter of Estella Margarita (née Toirac), an arts administrator and producer, and Mario Peña, the Cuban-born actor, writer, and director who jointly founded the Latin American Theatre Ensemble. It is unknown whether Peña was named after the town of her birth. Peña graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977. Her classmates included Ving Rhames, alongside whom she would later co-star in Jacob's Ladder, and Esai Morales, alongside whom she would later co-star in La Bamba. She is also a founding member of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors.
In 1979, Peña appeared in her first film, El Super, "an exceptionally moving and melancholy comedy about a family of lower-middle-class Cuban refugees attempting to adjust to life in Spanish Harlem.", New York City. Peña worked once again with film director, Leon Ichaso in his next feature Crossover Dreams opposite Ruben Blades.
Peña has appeared in movies such as La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Lone Star, Vibes, and Rush Hour. In 2002, she starred in Showtime's Resurrection Blvd. as Tia Bibi Corrades in the episode "Justicia," which she also directed. During the next year, 2003, she appeared in and directed "It Was Fun While It Lasted," an episode of The Brothers Garcia. She also provided the voice of the character Mirage in Pixar's animated film The Incredibles. She guest starred in the 18th episode of Numb3rs, Season Two, as Sonya Benavides. Although the actress does speak Spanish, she does not dub her own voice for Spanish releases.
Peña is also noted for having starred in I Married Dora, a sitcom that lasted only 13 episodes in 1987, as Dora Calderon, the "Dora" of the show's title. In the final show, the cast broke the "fourth wall" of suspended disbelief by announcing their cancellation on-camera and taking a curtain call.
Writer-director John Sayles produced the critically acclaimed but short-lived television series Shannon's Deal (1989–1991) co-starring Peña alongside series lead Jamey Sheridan. In 1996 Sayles wrote and directed the mystery film Lone Star and again cast her in a co-starring role.
Peña died on October 14, 2014 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at the age of 55.
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Juliette Martin
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Juliette was born in Sydney, Australia in the Eastern Beaches. Growing up she immersed in the arts and performing, developing her passion for Film and Theatre. She has always had a flair for entertaining people and making them laugh. In 2020 Juliette graduated with a Diploma of Screen Acting from Screenwise Film and TV School. Since then, she has created and starred in a couple of short films including, "What's Leftover". She has also participated in a number of other short film productions and a commercial for SILK MILK. Currently, she is working on developing more productions and furthering her acting skills at The Hub Studio and filmmaking study at SAE.
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Peter Morén
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Peter Morén (born 5 May 1976 in Mora, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the indie rock trio Peter Bjorn and John, formed in Stockholm in 1999.
Morén began his musical career playing violin before switching to guitar and later studying music in Västerås, where he met future bandmate Björn Yttling. While studying film science in Stockholm, he met John Eriksson, and the three later formed Peter Bjorn and John.
In addition to his work with the band, Morén has released several solo albums, including “The Last Tycoon” (2008), “I Spåren Av Tåren” (2010), “Pyramiden” (2012), and “40” (2017). He is also a founding member of the Stockholm-based artist collective INGRID.
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Mohamed Emam
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An Egyptian actor and the son of the artist Adel Imam and the brother of the director Rami Imam, born on September 16, 1984, he participated with the artist Adel Imam in one of his films, the movie (Hanafi Al-Abha) 1990, and his first television work was the series (Kanaria and Partners) in 2003 with the artist Farouk Al-Fishawy, Then he participated in several films such as: (The Yacoubian Building) 2006, then graduated from the American University in Cairo, then (Hassan and Morcos) 2008, followed by his first absolute cinematic starring in the movie (Romantic Beh) 2009, but the year 2012 was the most fortunate for the artist (Mohamed Imam) for his participation (Al-Saqa) in the championship of the television series (Red Lines), which was widely accepted by the masses. In the same year, his father participated in the championship of the series (Najy Atallah Band), and participated in the championship of many works such as (The Thief of Baghdad) And (the tiger).
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Elias Harger
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Elias, a Colorado native, has been acting since the age of five. He has appeared in numerous performances in the Denver theatre community; among them a "A Christmas Carol" & "Shrek: The Musical" as well as several commercials. Between the stage and in front of the camera Elias continued to appear in new projects & went from playing roles like the innocent Tiny Tim to darker, more otherworldly roles in the film Popsy (2014) and Lifetime Network's The Ghost Inside My Child (2013). Most recently, after a vast search, Elias snagged one of the leads of Netflix's series revival Fuller House (2016) as DJ's charismatic son, Max. Elias is in a Spanish-immersion school and enjoys swimming, skiing, playing the piano, and creating art.
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