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Hija de Perra
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Hija de Perra (which translates to Daughter of a Bitch) was a radical Chilean performer, writer, and activist known for her confrontational, provocative, and deeply political work that challenged normative ideas about gender, sexuality, the body, and beauty. Active primarily in the 2000s until her death in 2014, she became an iconic figure in Latin America's underground art and queer scenes.
She deliberately refused to reveal her legal name, viewing it as part of a patriarchal and heteronormative identity system she sought to dismantle. Her persona and stage name were a statement against the domestication of bodies and identities by societal norms.
Hija de Perra died in 2014 from cancer, but her influence endures in queer, feminist, and dissident art and activism throughout Latin America. She remains a symbol of radical resistance — not only for what she said, but for how she embodied her politics. Her legacy is celebrated by those who continue to resist the binary, the normative, and the sanitized.
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Hal Kanter
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hal Kanter (born December 18, 1918) is a veteran writer, producer and director, principally for comedy actors such as Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley (in Loving You and Blue Hawaii), for both feature films and television. Kanter helped Tennessee Williams turn the play by Williams into the film version of The Rose Tattoo. Since 1991, he has been regularly credited as a writer for the Academy Award broadcasts.
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Marlon Brando
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Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned six decades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards. Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. Having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting, derived from the Stanislavski system, to mainstream audiences.
He initially gained acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfully on Broadway. He received further praise, and a first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, for his performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One proved to be a lasting image in popular culture. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957), an adaptation of James A. Michener's 1954 novel.
The 1960s saw Brando's career take a commercial and critical downturn. He directed and starred in the cult western One-Eyed Jacks, a critical and commercial flop, after which he delivered a series of notable box-office failures, beginning with Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). After ten years of underachieving, he agreed to do a screen test as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). He got the part and subsequently won his second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in a performance critics consider among his greatest. He declined the Academy Award due to alleged mistreatment and misportrayal of Native Americans by Hollywood. The Godfather was one of the most commercially successful films of all time, and alongside his Oscar-nominated performance in Last Tango in Paris (1972), Brando reestablished himself in the ranks of top box-office stars.
After a hiatus in the early 1970s, Brando was generally content with being a highly paid character actor in supporting roles, such as Jor-El in Superman (1978), as Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979), and Adam Steiffel in The Formula (1980), before taking a nine-year break from film. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($16 million in inflation-adjusted dollars) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days' work on Superman.
Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of only six actors named in 1999 by Time magazine in its list of the 100 Most Important People of the Century. In this list, Time also designated Brando as the "Actor of the Century".
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Gabrielle Rose
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Gabrielle Rose (born 1954) is a Canadian actress. She has an extensive resume that include multiple nominations for Genie Awards and Gemini Awards. She has worked with director Atom Egoyan on many films including Where the Truth Lies, The Sweet Hereafter, Speaking Parts, Family Viewing and The Adjuster and director Bruce Sweeney on the film Excited, for which she won the Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Feature Length Drama. Other appearances include the films In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, The Five Senses and On the Other Hand, Death and recurring roles in such TV shows as Rising Damp, Dark Angel and Robson Arms. She has also done voice work for the Heritage Minute segment about the Terrace massacre.
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Beatrice Straight
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Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film, and television actress. Hers remains the shortest acting performance in a film to win an Oscar. In her winning role in the 1976 film Network, she was on screen for five minutes and forty seconds. She also received an Emmy nomination for her role in The Dain Curse. Straight can also be recognized as Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist.
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David Loughery
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David Loughery was an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Chicago, Loughery attended Ball State University and the University of Iowa where he was a member of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. His first produced screenplay was Dreamscape in 1984. It marked his first collaboration with director Joseph Ruben for whom Loughery wrote or rewrote several films including The Stepfather, The Good Son and Money Train. Other screenplays include Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Flashback, Passenger 57, The Three Musketeers, Lakeview Terrace and Obsessed.
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LeVar Burton
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries Roots (1977), and was the host of the PBS Kids educational television series Reading Rainbow for 23 years (1983–2006). Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow.
His other roles include Cap Jackson in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Donald Lang in Dummy (1979), Tommy Price in The Hunter (1980), which earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, and Martin Luther King Jr. in Ali (2001). Burton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards for his narration of the book The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990, he was honored for his accomplishments in television with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From 2017 until 2024, Burton created and hosted the podcast LeVar Burton Reads, often described as "Reading Rainbow for adults". In October 2024, Burton appeared as the host of the Trivial Pursuit television game show broadcast on The CW network and streaming online.
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Onur Tuna
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Tuna was born in Çanakkale on 2 July 1985. His maternal is of Turkish origin who immigrated from Thessaloniki, Greece. His mother is retired from the land office, his father is a teacher of mathematics.
He completed his undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Economics. He also studied Turkish classical music at Ege University Conservatory. Onur Tuna who knows how to play the guitar also has two songs called Acın Verdi and Tıpkı Sen. Onur Tuna has played licensed volleyball and basketball since the middle school years. He started to take part in theater plays in middle school and high school years. While studying at University in İzmir, he worked as a professional model for 4 years. He studied acting at Izmir Müjdat Gezen Art Center. When Onur Tuna settled down in Istanbul, he took private lessons for acting. Those acting pieces of training were containing method and front-camera acting skills. For this purpose, he worked with Ümit Çırak, Ayla Algan, Craft Theatre and Saim Güveloğlu.
His acting career started with Hayat Devam Ediyor (Life Goes On) Turkish TV series in 2011. Other TV series he took part are; Huzur Sokağı (Street of Peace), Filinta, Cesur Yürek (Brave Heart), Yasak Elma, Mucize Doktor (Miracle Doctor).
Onur Tuna also acted in two movies in Turkey. In 2014, he played as an actor in Bi Küçük Eylül Meselesi Turkish drama film. Another Turkish film that Onur Tuna played as a leading actor was Ağır Romantik (Heavy Romance or Severe Romantic).
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Steven-Charles Jaffe
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Steven-Charles Jaffe (born 1951) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter known for his work on such films as Motel Hell (1980), Near Dark (1987), Strange Days (1995), and the Best Picture-nominated romantic fantasy film Ghost. He is a long-time friend and collaborator of directors Nicholas Meyer and Kathryn Bigelow, and has worked with them on films like Time After Time (1979), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Timothy Findley
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Canadian novelist and playwright Timothy Findley, born in 1930 in Toronto, initially aimed for a career in the arts but found his calling as a writer during a stint in London. Back in Canada, he scripted for various media, notably contributing to CBC’s The National Dream, winning him an ACTRA award. His acclaimed novel "The Wars" based on his Uncle Thomas's wartime letters earned him critical acclaim and the Governor General’s Literature Award in 1977, touching on themes recurring in his works like violence and individual survival. A vocal advocate, he co-founded the Writers’ Union of Canada and led the Canadian chapter of P.E.N. International. His life was profiled in the 1992 film, "Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer." His substantial literary legacy includes 10 novels, short story collections, plays, and screenplays, notably the film adaptation of "The Wars" in 1981. Recognized by the Officer of the Order of Canada, Findley valued his characters’ self-naming, believing it added authenticity to his narratives.
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