Park Sung-woong

biography: Park Sung Woong  (박성웅) is a South Korean actor. He was born on January 9, 1973. His acting debut was in 1997 gangster comedy film "No. 3". Sung Woong married actress Shin Eun Jung on October 18th, 2008. They met while filming "The Legend", in which the characters they played were lovers. He has a son named Park Sang Woo.

place_of_birth: Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea


Kim Ki-hyeon

type: Profile

place_of_birth: Okcheon, North Chungcheong, South Korea

known_for_department: Acting


Rory Kinnear

biography:
Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.

He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.

place_of_birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK


Sigurður Sigurjónsson

biography: An Icelandic actor, comedian and screenwriter, best known as a member of the comedy group Spaugstofan. He has starred in a number of films and television series since the late 1970s, as well as acting in the National Theatre of Iceland. He is famous for his recurring characters in the Spaugstofan television series, including Ragnar Reykás and Kristján Ólafsson. Sigurður has starred in many seasons of the annual television special Áramótaskaupið. He is also one of the leading Icelandic voice actors and has dubbed numerous animated features. In March 2015, Sigurjóns appeared in the music video for "Crystals," the lead single from the Of Monsters and Men album "Beneath the Skin."

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Pom Klementieff

biography:
Pom Alexandra Klementieff (French: [pɔmklemɑ̃tjɛf]; born 3 May 1986) is a French actress. She is best known for playing Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since 2017 and an assassin in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023).

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place_of_birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada


Joshua Bowman

biography: Joshua Tobias Bowman (born 4 March 1988) is an English actor best known for his role as Daniel Grayson in ABC's Revenge.

place_of_birth: Berkshire, England, UK


Selita Ebanks

biography:
Selita Ebanks is a Caymanian fashion model. She worked for

Victoria's Secret and as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2005-2008. She made her film debut in the 2010 full-length film directed and created by Kanye West entitled Runaway.

place_of_birth: George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands


Yukio Mishima

biography: Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century.

place_of_birth: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

known_for_department: Writing


Judith Chapman

biography: Judith Chapman (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress, best known for soap opera roles, particularly as Natalie Bannon Hughes in As the World Turns, Charlotte Greer on Ryan's Hope, Ginny Blake Webber on General Hospital, Sandra Montaigne on One Life to Live, Anjelica Deveraux Curtis on Days of Our Lives, and Gloria Abbott Bardwell on The Young and the Restless.

place_of_birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA


Ewa Szykulska

place_of_birth: Warszawa, mazowieckie, Polska


Lee Seong-jae

biography: Lee Seong-jae (1925 - 1996) was a South-Korean writer.


Ann Michelle

biography: Ann Michelle (born 11 August 1952 in Chigwell, Essex) is a British actress and writer.

place_of_birth: Chigwell, Essex, England, UK


Jon Jon

biography: Jon Jon was born on April 30, 1981 in San Diego, California, USA as Willard Evans. He is an actor and director.

place_of_birth: San Diego, California, USA


Dalia AlBehery

biography: Egyptian actress, born in 1970, got a bachelor's degree in tourism guidance from the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels at Helwan University, and worked for a period as a tourist guide, then joined the work as a program introduction in the Egyptian satellite channels, and then worked as a model and was one of the most important models in Egypt ..

place_of_birth: Gharbia Governorate, Egypt


Jennifer Pisana

biography: Jennifer Pisana is known for The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Goosebumps (1995) and Flash Forward (1995).


Silvia Colloca

biography:
Silvia Colloca (born July 23, 1977) is an Italian actress.

Colloca was born in Milan to Loredana and Mario Colloca. Her first major film role was in Van Helsing, in which she played Verona, one of Dracula's brides. In September 2004, she married the Australian actor who played Dracula in that film, Richard Roxburgh. They have three children.

Colloca is an opera-trained mezzo soprano and worked as a musical theatre performer in Italy before becoming a film actress.

place_of_birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Emer Kenny

biography: Emer Gwynne Morganna Kenny (born 10 October 1989) is a British actress and screenwriter.

place_of_birth: Haringey, London, England, UK


Pauline Étienne

biography: Pauline Étienne is a Belgian stage and screen actress, and director. Her notable films include Le Bel Âge and Silent Voice, for which she won the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress in 2010.

place_of_birth: Ixelles,Belgique


Urvashi

biography: Kavitha Ranjini, known by the stage name Urvashi is an Indian film actress, dubbing artist, television host, script dialogue writer and producer known for her works in the Southern film industry. Urvashi was a prominent lead actress of the 1980s and 1990s, primarily in Malayalam Films.

place_of_birth: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India


Reese Alexander

biography: Reese Alexander is an actor.

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Chanel Preston

biography: Chanel Preston is an American pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2010. She was the Penthouse magazine Penthouse Pet for March 2012. Preston was born and raised in Alaska. She is of English, German, and Spanish descent. At age 19 she moved to Hawaii, where she lived for six years. She worked as a stripper for over a year before working in porn. Preston has served as president of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee.

place_of_birth: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA


Yayan Ruhian

biography: Yayan Ruhian was born in Tasikmalaya (West Java) on October 19, 1968. He found his passion in Pencak Silat and other martial arts, becoming a professional martial arts instructor. Ruhian is also known as an instructor of an inner breathing technique designed to condition of the body to withstand any impact. In 1988, he began teaching at Perguruan Silat Tenaga Dasar Indonesia (Inner Breathing Technique Silat School in Indonesia). During his term as an instructor he traveled regularly to teach in different cities and abroad.

place_of_birth: Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia


Jennifer Stone

biography: Jennifer Lindsay Stone is an American podcaster, social media personality and former actress. As a child actor, she became known for playing Harper Finkle on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place. She also had roles in the comedy films Secondhand Lions and Mean Girls 2.

place_of_birth: Arlington, Texas, USA


Kiana Madeira

biography: Kiana Alexa Madeira (born November 4, 1992) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her work in the Netflix television series Trinkets and the horror film trilogy Fear Street.


Shin Myeong-cheol

biography: Shin Myeong-cheol is a former South Korean film child actor.


Kirio Urayama

biography:
Kirio Urayama (浦山 桐郎, Urayama Kirio, 14 December 1930 – 20 October 1985) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Urayama graduated from Nagoya University before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1954. After working as an assistant director to Yūzō Kawashima and Shohei Imamura, he debuted as a director with Foundry Town in 1962, a film that depicted the life of Zainichi Korean residents of Japan. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for that film. His 1963 film Bad Girl (Each day I cry) was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize.

He directed a total of nine films before his death in 1985.

place_of_birth: Aioi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

known_for_department: Directing


Greg Tiernan

biography:
Greg Tiernan was the director of Thomas and Friends from 2009 to 2012. In the twelfth season, he worked as unit director for Nitrogen Studios. He began work directing the series after the CGI transition, taking over from Steve Asquith. He was replaced by David Baas when production was moved to Arc Productions in 2012.

He is married to Nicole Stinn.

He has been working in the animation industry for twenty-seven years. Tiernan is a fan of the Railway Series. So much in fact, that he owns a copy of both The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways and Sodor: Reading Between the Lines. According to an interview with SiF, Greg Tiernan says he would like to remake Pop Goes the Diesel and Dirty Work. And, if it was his choice, he would reintroduce every character ever introduced. Tiernan was involved in the animation of "Happily N'Ever After", the last film George Carlin played a part in.

place_of_birth: Dublin, Ireland


Sang-il Lee

biography: Sang-il Lee is a Korean film director and screenwriter who works in Japan. His first film, “Chong,” was a short film about the lives of third generation Zainichi Koreans living in Japan. “Hula Girls” was declared best Japanese film of 2006 by Kinema Junpo, and Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for the film. His film “Unforgiven” was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Niigata, Japan


Suzanne Clément

biography: Suzanne Clément (born May 12, 1969) is a Québec film and television actress, best known for her feature film roles in I Killed My Mother (2009), Laurence Anyways (2012), and Mommy (2014).

place_of_birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada


Frank Hurley

biography:
James Francis "Frank" Hurley (1885–1962) was an Australian photographer and filmmaker. He served as the official cinematographer on multiple polar expeditions, capturing raw footage that resulted in early documentary films such as Home of the Blizzard (1913) and South (1919).

Hurley also worked as an official military photographer and cinematographer during both WWI and WWII, documenting campaigns across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. His broader filmography includes directing ethnographic documentaries and serving as a principal cinematographer on Australian narrative feature films.

place_of_birth: Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Rachel Starr

biography: Rachel Starr was born on november 26th, 1983 in Texas. She is 5 foot 4 inches, brown hair and brown eyes. Rachel started in the porn industry when she was 23 years old in the beginning of 2007. Miss Starr has been a valuable girl for brazzers. Her success is rapidly growing. She's famous for her big beautiful ass and charming personality. Check out one of our top chicks!!

place_of_birth: Burleson, Texas, USA


Joe Tucker

biography: Joe Tucker was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. Joe is an actor and director, known for Small Axe (2020), Greed (2019) and Chernobyl (2019).

place_of_birth: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK


Natalie Gold

biography:
Natalie Gold is an American actress who has appeared in film, television, and stage productions, including on Broadway. She is best known for playing Rava Roy on the HBO series Succession and Julia Harwell on the TV show Rubicon, as well as for appearing in films including Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, I Don't Know How She Does It, and Love & Other Drugs.

Gold grew up in Miami, Florida, and studied theatre at the New World School of the Arts and Emerson College.

place_of_birth: Miami, Florida, USA


Katya Virshilas

biography: Katya Virshilas is a Lithuanian-Canadian dancer and actress famous for her roles in Hollywood movies Shall We Dance and Take The Lead, and for being a pro dancer in BBC's Strictly Come Dancing

place_of_birth: Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]


Akiko Hiramatsu

biography: Akiko Hiramatsu (平松 晶子, Hiramatsu Akiko, born August 31, 1967) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated at Ken Production.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Xavier Dolan

biography:
Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and his first English-language film, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Dolan has also directed music videos, notably with Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for his work, including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of the World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards.

Outside of his own films, he has also starred in films from other directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), and It Chapter Two (2019).

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Niels Schneider

biography:
Niels Schneider (born 18 June 1987) is a Franco-Canadian actor. He gained early recognition for his roles in Xavier Dolan's acclaimed films I Killed My Mother (2009) and Heartbeats (2010), which earned him the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2013, he starred in Yann Gonzalez's provocative surreal film You and the Night.

Schneider's performance in Dark Inclusion (2016) earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017.

He also starred in Of Money and Blood (2023) and appeared in Woody Allen's Coup de Chance (2023).

place_of_birth: Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France


Brad Furman

biography:
Brad Furman is an American film director, producer, and writer. In 2011 he directed the The Lincoln Lawyer which starred Matthew McConaughey.

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place_of_birth: USA


Maiara Walsh

biography: Maiara Walsh is a Brazilian-American actress and singer. She played Ana Solis on the sixth season of the ABC show Desperate Housewives, Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and Simone Sinclair on the Freeform series Switched at Birth.

place_of_birth: Seattle, Washington, USA


Felipe Degregori

biography:
Felipe Degregori studied film in Moscow in the 1970s. Upon returning to Peru, he directed several short films before making his feature film debut with "Abisa a los compañeros" (Warn the Comrades), his first feature film, shot in 1979 and released in January 1980. The film was an adaptation of the book "Abisa a los compañeros, pronto" (Warn the Comrades Soon) by Guillermo Thorndike, who also wrote the screenplay. Both the book and the film recreate a true event that occurred in 1963, when a group of Trotskyist militants planned and carried out a bank robbery in Miraflores to finance their political activities. The film was a great success with audiences upon its release and sparked considerable controversy in the press at the time.

With "Todos somos estrellas" (We Are All Stars) (1993), Degregori attempted to offer a humorous take on the manipulation exerted by the media in the daily lives of Peruvian families, and on the desperate situation of families drawn into a spectacle where everyone seems to be winning. The film was awarded the Pre-Columbian Golden Circle for Best Film at the 10th Bogotá Film Festival and received a FIPRESCI Special Mention at the 15th Havana Film Festival.

After more than twenty years behind the camera, Degregori began a new phase in his film career in 2004, founding a production company that collaborates with non-governmental organizations and state institutions to produce socially conscious audiovisual works. Through this initiative, Degregori undertook a series of small documentary productions. Since 2008, Luis Felipe Degregori has expressed optimism about the current state of Peruvian cinema, which, in his opinion, has improved significantly since the new leadership took over the National Film Council. In 2009, the filmmaker worked on the feature film "Rosas de acero" (Roses of Steel), about the discrimination faced by the transgender population in Peru and Latin America. He directed No hoy lugar más diverso (2012).


Gianella Neyra

biography: Gianella Karina Neyra Magagna (Lima, 1977) is a prominent Peruvian actress, presenter, and former model. After beginning her career in media and training at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, she rose to fame starring in highly successful Peruvian telenovelas such as Malicia and Torbellino. Her charisma and versatility led her to establish a successful international career in countries like Argentina. In recent years, she has shone in Peruvian film and television with successful productions, notably her role in Al fondo hay sitio and box-office hits such as Soltera, Casada, Viuda, Divorciada and Amando a Amanda.

place_of_birth: Lima, Peru


Melania Urbina

biography: Melania Urbina was born on September 30, 1977. She is an actress and writer, known for Black Butterfly (2006), Milagros (2000) and Un día sin sexo (2005).


Emiko Hiramatsu

biography: Japanese screenwriter.

place_of_birth: Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan


Chloe Lattanzi

biography: Chloe Lattanzi is an American singer and actress. Her parents are Grease actress Olivia Newton-John and actor Matt Lattanzi.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Aya Hirano

biography: Aya Hirano is a Japanese voice actress and singer. After graduating from high school, she began seriously pursuing her voice actress and solo singing career. Her big break came in 2006, when she was cast as the voice of Suzumiya Haruhi, the title character of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

place_of_birth: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan


Nina Meurisse

biography:
Nina Meurisse (born 14 November 1986 in Caen) is a French actress.

Trained in music and dance at the Caen Conservatory and later in dramatic arts, she made her first film appearance as a teenager in Saint-Cyr (2000). She went on to collaborate regularly with Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud, notably on the feature film Partners (Complices, 2009). She pursues a career alternating between theatre, cinema, and television. In 2019, she gained widespread recognition for playing the title role in the biographical film Camille, winning the Valois for Best Actress at the Angoulême Film Festival and the Lumières Award for Best Female Revelation. On television, she has appeared in series such as Volcano (Mixte), B.R.I., Black Hearts (Cœurs noirs), and La Fièvre. In 2025, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Story of Souleymane (L'Histoire de Souleymane).

place_of_birth: Caen, France


Bogusław Linda

biography: Bogusław Linda (Polish: [bɔˈɡuswaf ˈlinda]; born 27 June 1952) is a Polish actor known from films such as Psy and Tato. He appeared in Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron and Danton and in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Blind Chance and the seventh episode of Kieślowski's Dekalog.

place_of_birth: Toruń, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska


Mercedes Colon

biography: Mercedes Colon is an actress.


Pierre Niney

biography:
Pierre Niney (born 13 March 1989) is a French actor. He made his acting debut in the two-part miniseries La dame d'Izieu in 2007, followed by films such as LOL (Lots of Lough) (2008), The Army of Crime (2009), Romantics Anonymous (2010), and Just Like Brothers (2012). In 2014, Niney starred as fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in a biopic, for which he won a César Award for Best Actor. He also co-created, co-wrote and starred in Netflix's Fiasco (2024), and was Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo (2024).

Niney was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. His family is of Sephardic Jewish (Turkish-Jewish) and Catholic background. His father, François Niney, is a film professor at Normale Sup, La Fémis and Sciences Po. His mother was born in Belgium and is an author of creative leisure manuals.

Niney studied at the French drama school Cours Florent in 2007. He made his acting debut in the two-part television miniseries La dame d'Izieu in 2007, followed by films such as LOL (Laughing Out Loud), The Army of Crime, Romantics Anonymous and Comme des frères. In October 2010, at age 21, Niney became the youngest member of the Comédie-Française.

In 2014, Niney starred as fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic of the same name directed by Jalil Lespert, for which he won a César Award for Best Actor. This role marked his first portrayal of an openly gay character and earned him widespread critical acclaim.

In 2024, Niney portrayed Edmond Dantès in the film The Count of Monte Cristo, and also starred in Fiasco, a 7-episode comedy miniseries that he co-created and co-wrote with Igor Gotesman for Netflix. Late that year it was announced that Niney will be re-collaborating with the team from The Count of Monte Cristo for an ambitious new adaptation of Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings novels. The series takes place during the 14th century succession crisis among the Capetian dynasty but Niney’s role was not disclosed upon announcement.

Since 2008, Niney has been in a relationship with Australian actress and photographer Natasha Andrews, with whom he has two daughters, born in 2017 and 2019.

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Jalmari Helander

biography: Jalmari Helander (born 21 July 1976) is a Finnish screenwriter and film director. He is known for the 2010 film Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (which Cate Blanchett named as one of her favorite movies), the 2014 action-adventure Big Game starring Samuel L. Jackson, and the 2022 WWII action film Sisu. Before turning to feature films, Helander directed several short films and award-winning television commercials.

place_of_birth: Helsinki, Finland


Phoebe Tonkin

biography: Phoebe Jane Elizabeth Tonkin (born 12 July 1989) is an Australian actress and model. She is best known for portraying Cleo Sertori in H2O: Just Add Water, Fiona Maxwell in Tomorrow, When the War Began and Faye Chamberlain in The Secret Circle.  Tonkin's first television appearance was on the Australian teen show H2O: Just Add Water, where she played one of the main characters, Cleo Sertori. While not a strong swimmer, she worked to improve her abilities during pre-production of the show. On 20 October 2007, Tonkin appeared on the Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards, where she presented the award for best band alongside H2O co-stars Claire Holt and Cariba Heine.  Her other credits include appearances on the Australian series Packed to the Rafters and the film Tomorrow, When the War Began, and guest starred on Home and Away in 2010. She has appeared in various commercials, including ones for Vauxhall Motors and Chic Management.  Tonkin stars as Faye Chamberlain in the CW series The Secret Circle, which premiered on 15 September 2011.  She also models, and has been in various photo shoots for catalogues and magazines such as Girlfriend, Teen Vogue, and Dolly.

place_of_birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Chris Pang

biography: Christopher Pang (born 29 December 1984) is an Australian actor and producer. He is known for his roles in the films Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Send Help (2026).

place_of_birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Kwak Min-seok

biography: South Korean actor.

place_of_birth: Seoul, South Korea


Kadir İnanır

biography:
Kadir İnanır (15 April 1949 - 26 June 2026) was a Turkish film actor and director.

İnanır was born on 15 April 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in 43 films since 1967 and appeared on television in Bütün Çocuklarım as Ali Yahya Kiroglu in 2004. In the Turkish movie industry (Yeşilçam) he has often portrayed the tough, macho guy, fighting against injustice. Kadir İnanır and Türkan Şoray are one of the most famous partners of Yeşilçam Turkish cinema.

During a 2013 visit to Kosovo, İnanır had a meeting with the Kosovan Minister of Culture Memli Krasniqi who was encouraging cultural and cinematographical cooperation between Kosovo and Turkey. İnanır said that he encouraged the idea and would personally work on the implementation of such a cooperation.

place_of_birth: Fatsa, Ordu, Türkiye


Van Williams

biography:
You could shoehorn actor Van Williams right in there between the other tall, dark and drop-jaw gorgeous heartthrobs Tom Tryon and John Gavin of the late 1950s/early 1960s who conveyed a similar bland, heroic image. All three were too often given colorless heroes to play on film and/or TV -- roles that played off their charm but seldom tested their talent.

Born on February 27, 1934 as Van Zandt Jarvis Williams, he was the son of a cattle rancher. He majored in animal husbandry and business at Texas Christian University but moved to Hawaii which changed the course of his life. While operating a salvage company and a skin-diving school during the mid-1950s, he was approached by Elizabeth Taylor and husband/producer Mike Todd, who were filming there. Encouraged by Todd to try his luck, Van arrived in Hollywood with no experience. Todd perished in a plane crash before he was able to help Van, but the young hopeful ventured on anyway, taking some acting/voice lessons, and was almost immediately cast in dramatic TV roles.

Warner Brothers had a keen eye for this type of photogenic hunk and smartly signed Van. Fitting in perfectly, he was soon showing just how irresistible he was as a clean-cut private eye on the series "Bourbon Street Beat (1959)". Although the show lasted only one season, Warners carried his Kenny Madison character into the more popular adventure drama Surfside 6 (1960) opposite fellow pin-up / blond beefcake bookend Troy Donahue. Series-wise, Van tried comedy next opposite "Walter Brennan in The Tycoon (1964)". After his contract expired at Warners, 20th Century-Fox handed him his most vividly recalled role, that of the emerald-suited superhero "The Green Hornet (1966)" with the late Bruce Lee as his partner Kato. The show, inspired by the huge cult hit "Batman (1966)" enjoyed a fast start but, like its predecessor, met an equally untimely finish.

Never a strong draw in films, Van revealed quite a bit of himself (literally) in his debut in "Tall Story (1960)" coming out of a shower. He was handed a typically staid second lead in "The Caretakers (1963)". Continuing well into the 1970s to guest sporadically on the TV scene in classics like "The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)", "Love, American Style (1969)", "Mission: Impossible (1966)", "The Big Valley (1965)", "Nanny and the Professor (1970)", "Barnaby Jones (1973)", and "The Rockford Files (1974)". Another starring series attempt with "Westwind (1975)" failed to make the grade and he soon let his career go. Van went on quite successfully in business with telecommunications, real estate and law enforcement supplies among his ventures. With his glossy, pretty-boy years far behind him, he has not felt the need to look back except for an occasional autograph convention.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

place_of_birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA


Michele Austin

biography:
Michele Austin is a British actress. She best known for her role as Yvonne Hemmingway on ITV's The Bill, for which she won the Screen Nation Award for Best Television Actress, and for her portrayal of Chantelle in Hard Truths, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actress.

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place_of_birth: UK


Mylène Farmer

biography:
Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born 12 September 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer, is a Canadian-born French singer, lyricist, writer, and entrepreneur. Having sold more than 30 million records in France, she is among the most successful recording artists of all time in that country. She holds the record for the most number one hit singles in the French charts, with twenty-one to date – eight of which were consecutive.

Born in Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada (a former city now part of the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro), to French parents, the family soon relocated to Chaville, near Paris, where Farmer pursued a career in modelling and acting. She later gained prominence as a recording artist with the release of her debut single "Maman a tort" in 1984. In 1988, she released her second studio album, Ainsi soit je..., which sold 1.5 million copies in France. The album spawned Farmer's first number one on the French singles chart, "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces". Her third studio album, L'autre..., sold two million copies, becoming Farmer's best-selling album to date. Its lead single, "Désenchantée", became Farmer's most successful single, and is often described as her signature song.

Departing from the synth-pop and Europop soundscape of her first albums, Farmer reinvented her musical style with the release of her fourth studio album, Anamorphosée, in 1995. Recorded in the United States, the album features more live instrumentation and shows rock and R&B-oriented influences. Her fifth studio album, Innamoramento, was released in 1999, featuring more techno influences. In the second part of the 2000s, Farmer continued exploring a range of genres on her albums, namely acoustic pop music on Avant que l'ombre... and electronica on Point de suture.

In 2010, Farmer released her eighth studio album, Bleu noir. The album marked Farmer's return to the dark synth-pop and Europop production of her first albums. The lead single, "Oui mais... non", sold over 170,000 copies in France. In 2015, Farmer's tenth studio album, Interstellaires, debuted at number one in France; the album was preceded by the lead single "Stolen Car", a duet with Sting, which reached the number one position on the French singles chart in September 2015. Her eleventh studio album, Désobéissance, was released in 2018, debuting at number one and selling over 265.000 copies.

In addition to her music career, Farmer also worked as a lyricist for French singer Alizée, while also being responsible for her image and public appearances. Her debut single, "Moi... Lolita", co-written by Farmer, reached number one in several countries in Europe, and peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart in February 2002. Farmer made her film debut in 1994, starring in Giorgino, and in 2018, she starred in the English-language horror film Ghostland.

Throughout her career, Farmer has broken a number of records. She is the best-selling French singer since 1984, has a record number of diamond records, and she is the only artist to have obtained a diamond album in four consecutive decades. Selling over two million copies, her 2001 greatest hits album Les Mots is the highest-selling compilation album by a French recording artist. ...

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place_of_birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada


Bruno Odar

biography: Bruno Odar (Lima, 1965) is an actor, director, educator, and playwright. He has been the founder and director of the Diez Talentos Cultural Association since 1998 and teaches at the School of Acting Training. In 2017, he received an Honorary Recognition Diploma from the Culture and Cultural Heritage Commission of the Congress of Peru. In France, he performed in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Pierre Corneille's The Comic Illusion, both directed by Pierre Debauche. In 2011, he won the Luces Award for Best Actor in a Play. In 2009, he starred in "Octubre" (October), which won the Jury Prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. He has appeared in countless telenovelas, series, films, and plays.

place_of_birth: Lima, Perú


Melissa Peterman

biography: Melissa Peterman is an American actress, comedian and television host best known for her iconic role as Barbra Jean in the hit sitcom Reba.

place_of_birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Wayne Forester

biography: A British voice over artist and actor who has created a wide range of voices for TV, film, animation, radio, corporate or commercial.


Benjamin Biolay

biography:
Benjamin Biolay (born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément—whose first three albums he wrote and produced—and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.

His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho. With the singer Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue, the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador, and has since worked as a writer, arranger or producer for other icons of French music, including Juliette Gréco, Julien Clerc, Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradis and Nolwenn Leroy.

He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud Viard, and released the album Home with his wife the same year. After two more rock oriented albums in 2005 and 2007 he was dropped by his record company and began working on his first independent release, La Superbe, released on Naïve records in 2009. This was followed by the soundtrack album Pourquoi tu pleures in 2011 and Vengeance in 2012.

Benjamin was married to actress and singer Chiara Mastroianni from 2002 to 2005; they have a daughter, Anna, born 22 April 2003.

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place_of_birth: Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France


Tomomi Miyashita

biography: Tomomi Miyashita (宮下 ともみ) is a Japanese actress. She was born on April 30, 1982. Her height is 164 cm (5'5"), and her measurements are 79-58-82 cm (31-23-32 in). She is size 24. She is best known for her work in Takashi Shimizu's horror film Marebito (2004).

place_of_birth: Hokkaido, Japan


Maria Sødahl

biography: Maria Sødahl is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. She is married to Hans Petter Moland (Aberdeen, The Beautiful Country, In Order of Disappearance, Out Stealing Horses).


John Wetton

biography:
John Kenneth Wetton was an English singer, bassist, and songwriter. He rose to fame with bands Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music and Uriah Heep.

Following his period in Uriah Heep, Wetton formed U.K., and later — after a brief stint in Wishbone Ash — he was the frontman and principal songwriter of the supergroup Asia,  which proved to be his biggest commercial success. Their eponymous debut album sold eight million copies worldwide, and was Billboard magazine's No. 1 album of 1982. He later formed the duo Icon with Geoff Downes (also from Asia, ex-Yes, ex-The Buggles), and from the 1990s had a successful solo career, releasing several studio and live albums.

Wetton had a long career as an in-demand session bass player, collaborating with many members of progressive rock bands such as Yes (Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, Alan White, Billy Sherwood, Peter Banks), Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera) and Genesis (Steve Hackett).

place_of_birth: Willington, Derbyshire, England, UK


Carl Palmer

biography: Carl Palmer is a legendary English drummer and percussionist, widely recognized as one of the most influential and technically accomplished drummers in rock history. He achieved global superstardom in the 1970s as a founding member of the progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) and later found massive commercial success in the 1980s with the rock band Asia.

place_of_birth: Birmingham, England


Geoff Downes

biography: Geoffrey "Geoff" Downes is an English rock keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer best known as a key member of The Buggles, the progressive rock band Yes, and the supergroup Asia. He famously earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for performing with 28 keyboards on stage during a single performance.

place_of_birth: Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK


Minami Aoyama

biography:
Minami Aoyama is a young actress of Pink Eiga who is supposed to be the most admired. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, on May 28th, 1982. She has a sexy mole under her right eye, and a round face that gives her a soft and tender look. Because she looks younger than her actual age, she has often been cast in Lolita-type high school roles. She began her career as a porn video actress when she was 21. She started acting in Pink Eiga that same year in, “Ambiguous” (directed by Toshiya Ueno).

Since 2005, she has worked on TV and V Cinemas (straight to video or DVD). She joined a theater company, “Gesshoku Kagekidan,” which performs avant-garde plays. In August 2008, she acted in Japanese avant-garde superstar, Shuji Terayama’s drama.

place_of_birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan


Julien Doré

biography:
Julien Doré (born 7 July 1982) is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

He is the winner of the fifth season of the television show Nouvelle Star, aired on the French Television M6 channel. He is also the great-great-grandson of Gustave Doré, a well-known illustrator of the 19th century.

Doré was born in Alès (Gard, Occitanie), and grew up in Lunel. After taking his baccalauréat littéraire at the college Louis Feuillade, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts of Nîmes for five years. He is the founder of the band Dig up Elvis. In 2006, he created with Guillaume de Molina the project "The Jean d'Ormesson disco suicide", "protean group" which covered pop and disco hits. In June 2007, Doré was voted number one in French Elle Magazine's "15 Sexiest Men" poll. He dated Louise Bourgoin, but the two separated in March 2009.

In 2007, Doré was selected at the casting session in Marseille for the fifth season of the music competition Nouvelle Star, where he presented himself with a ukulele. At the beginning, he only participated in the casting to get free publicity for his band. He convinced the jury when he sang "A la faveur de l'automne" (originally by Tété). His most memorable performances and revelations were while singing "Moi... Lolita" (Alizée) and "...Baby One More Time" (Britney Spears), dance music songs, in acoustics. He won the finale against Tigane.

Doré has had a successful musical career after winning Nouvelle Star with three studio albums, Ersatz (2008), Bichon (2011) and Løve (2013), all reaching top four on the official French Albums Chart. He has also gained chart success in Belgium and Switzerland. In 2009, he recorded a duet with Cœur de Pirate of her song, "Pour un infidèle." A video was released to promote the song, showing the two as a 1960s-era celebrity couple. Also in 2009, Doré recorded the song "Helsinki" with French singer Mélanie Pain. Doré also collaborated with French chanteuse Sylvie Vartan on her 2010 album release, Soleil bleu.

He was a guest coach for candidates Quentin Bruno and Law on Season 4 of The Voice: la plus belle voix the French version of the reality television singing competition The Voice.

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place_of_birth: Alès, Gard, France


George MacKay

biography:
George Andrew J. MacKay (/məˈkaɪ/; born 13 March 1992) is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor in Peter Pan (2003). He had starring roles in the British war drama Private Peaceful (2012), the romantic film How I Live Now (2013), For Those in Peril (2013), for which he won a BAFTA Scotland Award, and Marrowbone (2017). He gained wider recognition for his leading role in the war film 1917 (2019). He won a British Independent Film Award for his performance in Femme (2023).

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Erika Deutinger

place_of_birth: Radstadt, Salzburg, Austria


Suzanne Stokes

biography: Suzanne Stokes is a model and adult/porn actress. At age sixteen Stokes moved out of her parents' home to live with her friend. Following graduation from high school in 1997, Suzanne moved to Miami, Florida to start her modeling career. She appeared on the cover of "Boating" magazine and various swimsuit catalogs. Moreover, Stokes also did TV commercials for foreign companies including Heineken and Ruffles. In 1999 Suzanne went to Paris, France and appeared in the instructional video "Bricol' Girls." In addition, Suzanne was the winner of three beauty pageants; she won the titles Miss Hawaiian Tropic Miami, Miss Hawaiian Tropic United States in 1999 and Miss Photogenic at the international final of Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2000. Suzanne was named Miss February 2000 Playboy Playmate.

place_of_birth: Naples, Florida, USA


Ravi Teja

biography: Bhupatiraju Ravi Shankar Raju (born 26 January 1968), known professionally as Ravi Teja, is an Indian film actor known for his work in Telugu cinema. He is widely considered as one of the most popular and highest paid actors of Telugu cinema who has appeared in over a sixty films.

place_of_birth: Jaggampeta, Andhra Pradesh, India.


Farida Jalal

biography:
Farida Jalal (née Sami; born March 14, 1949) is an Indian actress active in Hindi cinema and television. In a career spanning nearly half a century, she has acted in over 200 films, and has received accolades such as four Filmfare Awards, two Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards, a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, and the Best Actress Award at the 2012 Harlem International Film Festival.

Jalal started her career in film as a teenager and went on to play leading and supporting roles in numerous motion pictures through the 1970s and early 80s. Later, she established herself as a household name for portraying motherly roles in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Since then, she successfully transitioned to television and appeared in numerous shows, including sitcoms, soap operas, and Netflix originals.

place_of_birth: Bombay, India [now Mumbai]


Caitríona Balfe

biography:
Caitríona Mary Balfe (/kəˈtriːnə ˈbælf/; born 4 October 1979) is an Irish actress, producer, and former fashion model. She is best known for her starring role as Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander, for which she received a British Academy Scotland Award, an Irish Film and Television Award, two People's Choice Awards, and three Saturn Awards. She also earned nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama.

At age eighteen, while studying Drama at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Balfe was offered work as a fashion model in Paris. She was featured both in advertising campaigns and on runways for such brands as Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Bottega Veneta, Oscar de la Renta and many others over ten years before refocusing on acting. She had leading roles in the web series The Beauty Inside (2012) and H+: The Digital Series (2012–2013), and appeared in the films Super 8 (2011), Now You See Me (2013), Escape Plan (2013), Money Monster (2016), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Belfast (2021).

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place_of_birth: Dublin, Ireland


Jason Woliner

biography:
Jason Woliner (born June 1, 1980) is an American comedy director, writer, editor and also a former child actor. He is the non-performing member of the comedy group "Human Giant" and has directed the bulk of their output. The group, which also consists of comedians Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer, produced an MTV sketch comedy show that ran for two seasons. The show is currently on hiatus and in November 2008, The Hollywood Reporter noted that the group is developing a feature film with Red Hour Films, the production company run by Ben Stiller and producer Stuart Cornfeld.

Woliner shot and edited the pilot episode of Jon Glaser's Adult Swim series Delocated and recently directed projects for comedians such as Patton Oswalt, Judd Apatow, Slovin and Allen, Chris Elliott, and H. Jon Benjamin.

His brother, Zach Woliner, is a profilic puppeteer and has worked on Wacky Man: Rise of a Puppeteer. Zach created his alter ego, Wally Wackiman in 2006.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Woliner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: The Bronx, New York


Theodor Pištěk

biography:
Theodor Pištěk (13 June 1895 – 5 August 1960) was a Czech actor and film director. He appeared in 234 films between 1921 and 1959. He is the father of the costume designer Theodor Pištěk.

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place_of_birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. [now in Czech Republic]


Giorgos Konstantinou

biography: Giorgos Konstadinou (Greek: Γιώργος Κωνσταντίνου; born October 27, 1934 in Vathi, Athens) is a Greek actor, writer, and director. He is the son of actress Nitsa Filosofou. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s. He has written and acted in several plays and TV series.

place_of_birth: Athens, Greece


Augusto Cabada

biography: Augusto Cabada Cáceres was born in Miraflores in 1961. He studied film at the University of Lima, where he later taught Film Language and Screenwriting for several years. He wrote film criticism for various publications, including the legendary magazine Hablemos de Cine (Let's Talk About Film), alongside Ricardo Bedoya, Federico de Cárdenas, José Carlos Huayhuaca, Nelson García, Reynaldo Ledgard, and others. He made his television screenwriting debut in 1985 when Danny Gavidia recommended him to Pancho Lombardi, who had begun producing a telenovela called Bajo tu piel (Under Your Skin), directed by Augusto Tamayo. There, he teamed up for the first time with Giovanna Pollarolo.


Carlos Alcántara

biography: Carlos Alcántara Vilar (Lima, 1964), also known as "Cachín," is an iconic Peruvian actor, comedian, and producer. He grew up in the Cercado de Lima district and worked at the Feria del Hogar (Home Fair). He rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the Pataclaun theater group, playing the endearing character Machín Cárcamo. His greatest achievement came in 2013 with the film ¡Asu Mare!, based on his autobiographical monologue, which became the highest-grossing film in Peruvian cinema history. After starring in its successful sequels, he made his directorial debut in 2023 with the spin-off ¡Asu Mare! Los amigos. Beyond his major successes on the big screen, his notable filmography includes dramas such as Perro Guardián (2014) and international comedies like Lusers (2015). He remains active in both production and directing within the local film industry.

place_of_birth: Lima, Peru


Liliana Trujillo

biography: Liliana Trujillo is a Peruvian actress, known for Rosa Chumbe (2015), Solo una madre (2017) and Ojos que no ven (2003).


Kristian Brooks

biography: Kristian Brooks was born on March 12, 1971 as Jason Brook Kanarr. He died on September 1, 2006 at a hospice in Colorado, USA. Sexy stud Kristian Brooks had a 6.5-inch cut cock, blond hair, blue eyes and began his porn career in about 1997. He both topped and bottomed and stood about 5' 10" tall. He named his interests as travelling, camping, hiking, climbing, computers, zoology, botany, diving and weights. He was HIV+ and latterly made a bareback appearance or two.

place_of_birth: Englewood, Colorado, USA


Pamela Tola

biography: Pamela Tola (b. 1981) is a finnish actress and a director. She gratuated from Helsinki's Theatre Academy. Her breakout role was in Tyttö sinä olet tähti (2005) and she made her directorial debut with Swingers (2018).

place_of_birth: Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland


Lotta Kaihua

biography:
Lotta Emilia Kaihua (born 12 July 1982 in Kemi) is a Finnish actress. Kaihua is best known for her roles in Q Theatre, in addition to which she has appeared in films and television series.

Kaihua acted since childhood in the Joensuu Children's Theatre, Youth Theatre and Student Theatre, among others. He was admitted to the Theatre Academy in his final year. Kaihua graduated from the Theatre Academy in 2005 with a Master's degree in Theatre Arts.

Alongside this, she pursues a career in film and television. On screen, she has notably appeared in the films Tyttö sinä olet tähti (2005), Kulman pojat (2012), and Häiriötekijä (2015), as well as in Finnish television productions such as M/S Romantic (2019) and the medical series Syke.

place_of_birth: Kemi, Finland


Morven Christie

biography: Morven Christie (born 1 September 1981) is a Scottish actress.

place_of_birth: Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK


'Fast' Eddie Clark

biography: Edward Allan Clarke (5 October 1950 – 10 January 2018), better known as 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, was a British guitarist who was a member of heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead. Of Motörhead's classic lineup, which consisted of Lemmy, himself and Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor, he was the last surviving member.

place_of_birth: Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK


N.T. Rama Rao Jr.

biography: Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (born 20 May 1983), known popularly as Jr. NTR, is an Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema and an accomplished Kuchipudi dancer. Tarak made his Telugu film debut as a child actor with Brahmarshi Viswamitra (1991) and Ramayanam (1997), which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film in 1998. Five years later he starred in a lead role with Ninnu Chudalani (2001). His notable filmography includes Student No. 1, Aadi, Simhadri, Yamadonga which were hits and have established himself as one of the leading actors in contemporary Telugu cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article N. T. Rama Rao Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India


Miles Heizer

biography: Miles Heizer (born May 16, 1994) is an American actor. His most notable film appearance was in Rails & Ties, playing Davey Danner when he was 12 years old. He also played the recurring character Joshua Lipnicki on the television series ER.

place_of_birth: Greenville, Kentucky, USA


Charles Schneider

biography: Charles Schneider was born on February 19, 1960 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Ghost World (2001), Zodiac (2007), and Alien Abduction (2005).

place_of_birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA


Haruko Wanibuchi

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Kim Kyu-tae

biography: Kim Kyu-tae (Hangul: 김규태) is a South Korean television director and producer. He directed the Korean dramas A Love to Kill (2005), Iris (2009), Padam Padam... The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats (2011), That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013), It's Okay, That's Love (2014), and “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo” (2016)

place_of_birth: South Korea


Carolyn Reese

biography: Carolyn Reese is a porn actress from the United States. She was born in Burbank, California on May 4, 1974. Her adult career began in 2007 at 33 years old. Carolyn has brown eyes and blonde hair. She is 165 cm tall, weighs 55 kg and her measurements are 36D-27-36.

place_of_birth: Burbank, California, USA


Rachel Roxxx

biography: Rachel Roxxx was born on March 2nd 1983 in San Antonio Texas. She first had interest in the adult film world when she was 21, but only started working in porn in 2007 when she was 24. Rachel has been in many scenes since starting in the business and has really made a big name for herself. She mainly does hardcore scenes, but has also done a lot of solo and lesbian shoots as well. Rachel is just under 5 feet tall and weighs right around 100lbs, and has some great 34D tits up top!

place_of_birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA


Austin Abrams

biography: Austin Noah Abrams (born September 2, 1996) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Ron Anderson in the fifth and sixth seasons of the horror television series The Walking Dead(2015–2016), as well as for playing high school teenagers in the drama series Euphoria (2019–2022) and the romantic comedy series Dash & Lily (2020). His film appearances include The Kings of Summer (2013), Paper Towns (2015), Brad's Status (2017), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Chemical Hearts (2020), and Wolfs (2024).

place_of_birth: Sarasota, Florida, USA


Laura Smet

biography:
Laura Huguette Smet (born 15 November 1983) is a French actress. She is the daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986, Johnny Hallyday recorded in her honor the song "Laura", written by Jean-Jacques Goldman.

She wanted initially to be a theatrical agent like her godfather, Dominique Besnehard. In 1999, she left school and began studying theatre with Raymond Acquaviva.

In 2002, she began her acting career when Xavier Giannoli, on the recommendation of Olivier Assayas, cast her in the role of Charlotte, a young cancer patient in Les corps impatients, and for which she received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress. In 2003 she starred in Claude Chabrol's film adaptation of the Ruth Rendell novel, The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur).

In 2004, Smet won the Prix Romy Schneider. In 2006 she played in Le Passager de l'été, a film written and directed by Florence Moncorgé-Gabin, the daughter of Jean Gabin. In 2007 she played Caroline in L'Heure zéro, Pascal Thomas's film adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel.

Source: Article "Laura Smet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


Shannon Lee

biography: The daughter of Bruce Lee and sister of Brandon Lee, Shannon was born in Santa Monica, California on April 19, 1969. Some of her credits include Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, WMAC  Masters, High Voltage, Martial Law, Blade and Enter the Eagles. Shannon  also co-wrote and sang on the album, The Mechanical Forces of Love with  Medicine and has sung in concerts in Hong Kong, China and the US with  renowned Cantonese singer Sam Hui.

place_of_birth: Santa Monica, California, USA


Jason Scott

biography: Jason Scott is an American archivist, technology historian, filmmaker, performer, and actor. He is known for his work in digital preservation and for directing technology-focused documentaries including BBS: The Documentary, Get Lamp, and DEFCON: The Documentary. He is also the creator of textfiles.com and has worked with the Internet Archive.

place_of_birth: Hopewell Junction, New York, USA


Kei Mizutani

place_of_birth: Aomori Prefecture, Japan


Kylie G. Worthy

place_of_birth: San Luis Valley, Colorado, USA


Emily Atef

biography:
Emily Atef (born 6 May, 1973; Berlin) is a German filmmaker based in Berlin.

At the age of 7, Atef moved from Berlin to Los Angeles with her French-Iranian parents and her brother the drummer Cyril Atef. She was 13 when they moved to France, where Atef finished school, and later she went to London to work as an actor in the London theater scene. Atef returned to Berlin to study film direction at the prestigious Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin.

Her first feature-length film Molly's Way which, like her 2 following feature films was co-authored by Esther Bernstorff received an advancement award at the Filmfest München (film festival Munich) in 2005 for best script and the Grand Jury Award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the only A-Festival in South America as well as several other awards. Her second feature-length film The Stranger in Me which deals with a young mother having postnatal depression also received several awards and was screened at the International Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, Emily Atef wrote and directed the feature film 3 Days in Quiberon It depicts 3 emotional days of one of Europe's biggest stars, Romy Schneider where she gave her last German interview to ‘Stern’ magazine. 3 Days in Quiberon had its world premiere in the competition section of the 68. Berlin International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Bear. 3 Days in Quiberon was the big winner at the German Academy Awards in 2018 taking home seven Lolas. In 2022 her film More Than Ever, starring Vicky Krieps and Gaspard Ulliel, was shown in the section Un certain regard at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Berlin, Germany


Richa Chadha

biography:
Richa Chadda is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. After debuting with a bit role in the comedy film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), she worked as a supporting actress in several films. Her major breakthrough was a supporting role in the film noir gangster saga Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), where her role as the bellicose and extremely foul-tongued wife of a gangster earned her a Filmfare award. Her sole foray into mainstream cinema has been as a supporting character in Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela (2013).

In 2015, Chadda made her debut in a leading role with the drama Masaan, playing a girl caught after indulging in casual sex. The film got a standing ovation when screened at the Cannes film festival. The film has been cited as a milestone in Chadda's career and through it she is said to have created a niche for herself in the Hindi film industry. Chadda has also worked in theatre, essaying the role of a married Delhi-based woman in Trivial Disasters (2014).

place_of_birth: Patna, Bihar, India


Marcel Duchamp

biography: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.

place_of_birth: Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France


Claudine Barretto

biography: Claudine Margaret Castelo Barretto is a Filipino actress. A recipient of two FAMAS Awards, she made her screen debut as a teenager on the youth-oriented variety show, Ang TV (1992–1996). Barretto later became a mainstay in several sitcoms, including Home Along Da Riles (1992–1997) and Oki Doki Doc (1993–1998), and a string of soap operas, including Mula sa Puso (1997) and Saan Ka Man Naroroon (1999).


Claes Bang

biography:
Claes Bang was born on April 28, 1967 in Denmark as Claes Kasper Bang. He is an actor, known for The Square (2017), The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) and Bron/Broen (2011). He is married to Lis Kasper Bang.  He graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 1996.

His name is pronounced "Class Bun-g". Apart from his native Danish, he's fluent in Swedish, Norwegian, English and German.

place_of_birth: Odense, Danmark


Filip Renč

biography:
Filip Renč (born 17 August 1965) is a Czech film director, screenwriter, and actor.

Since his childhood, he already proved his enthusiasm for movies and drama. As a young boy he appeared in several movies, including Julek (1980) and Leve kridlo (1983).  During his studies at FAMU (Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) he created documentaries (Zapadákov, Srdíčko) for which he was awarded at the International film schools festival in 1987 and 1988. His debut movie Requiem for a Maiden was also a great success at the Czechoslovakian film festival FORUM in Bratislava.  In the following years he directed a number of successful movies, including From Subway with Love (2005) and his latest piece At Your Own Risk (2008) which has just recently been released. He directed not only movies but also TV commercials and even music videos.  He also wrote screenplays which he later directed himself, such as The Rebels (2001), Válka barev (1993) and Requiem for a Maiden (1991). Filip Renč made numerous appearances as an actor, for an instance, in The Ride (1991) and even his own Requiem for a Maiden (1991).

place_of_birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]


Hong Sang-soo

biography:
Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has directed 35 films as of 2026.

Certain elements are commonly found in Hong's films. A typical Hong film highlights a theme of domestic realism with many of the scenes set on residential streets, cafes, hotels, schools, and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Characters are seen walking around the city, drinking soju, and having sex. The main characters are often movie directors or actors, and scenes typically consist of a single shot, often beginning and ending with a camera zoom. The budgets for his movies average about $100,000.

Hong is often spontaneous when shooting, delivering the day's scene on the morning of the shoot and frequently changing stories while on set. He rarely prepares scripts in advance.  Hong's style has been compared to Eric Rohmer's, and it has even been argued that allusions to Rohmer's films appear in some films directed by Hong.

place_of_birth: Seoul, South Korea


Isild Le Besco

biography: Isild Le Besco (born 22 November 1982) is a French actress and filmmaker. She has starred in many films, including Sade (2000), a French film starring Daniel Auteuil, and in The Good Heart, directed by Dagur Kari. She is the sister of actress and film director Maiwenn, and the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja.

place_of_birth: Paris, France


Nicole Scherzinger

biography:
Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Valiente was born on June 29 in Honolulu, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. While attending a performing arts high school, she won the Coca-Cola Classic Talent Contest and performed in many plays at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. She furthered her studies majoring in theater arts at Wright State University before entering the premiere season of the WB's television show, "Popstars" (2000/I), where she earned the role of lead vocalist in the female pop group, Eden's Crush.

Outside of her work with The Pussycat Dolls, Nicole performed with Japanese superstar Yoshiki Hayashi, at the Tokyo International Forum of Japan and had guest appearances on "My Wife and Kids" (2001) and "Wanda at Large" (2003). Nicole has a single out on Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates (2004) soundtrack: a cover of UB40's "Breakfast in Bed". Her two most recent film roles are the voice of Sina in Moana (2016) and Penny Rivera in Dirty Dancing (2017).

During her career, Scherzinger has received nominations for a Grammy, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a Tony Award. She won the 2024 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Norma Desmond in the 2023 West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2025 when the show transferred to Broadway in 2024.

place_of_birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA


T.J. Thyne

biography: Thomas Joseph "T.J." Thyne is an American film and television actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist, botanist, and mineralogist Dr. Jack Hodgins on the police procedural comedy-drama series 'Bones' (2005-2017).

place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Gerard Murphy

biography: Gerard Murphy was a Northern Irish actor of film, television and theatre fame. His most famous film roles included that of The Nord in Kevin Costner's ambitious Waterworld and the corruot Judge Faden in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. On television, he was famous for playing Richard Maynarde in the 1988 Doctor Who 25th anniversary serial Silver Nemesis and for the role of the airplane pilot in the classic Father Ted episode Flight Into Danger from 1996. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 64 in August 2013.

place_of_birth: Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK


Terry Marcel

biography:
Terry Marcel (born 10 June 1942, Oxford, England) is a British film director, perhaps best known for the cult film Hawk the Slayer (1980), which he co-created with producer Harry Robertson.

His other films include Prisoners of the Lost Universe, The Last Seduction II and Jane and the Lost City, while his TV work includes fantasy series Dark Knight, an update on the Ivanhoe legend with fantasy trappings.

His children include the actress Rosie Marcel and the writer and actress Kelly Marcel.

place_of_birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK


Michael Margotta

biography: Michael Margotta (born September 1, 1946) is an American actor.

place_of_birth: Pearl River, New York, USA


Allen H. Miner

biography: Allen H. Miner was an American television and film director known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s. He directed episodes for various television series, including The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, and Bonanza. Miner's direction was noted for its narrative clarity and ability to build suspense, contributing to the success of many classic television episodes.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, United States


Stacy Haiduk

place_of_birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA


Christopher Miller

biography:
Christopher Robert Miller (born September 23, 1975) is an American filmmaker with his filmmaking partner Phil Lord. They are the creators and co-stars of the adult animated sitcom Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024) and the writers and directors of the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and The Lego Movie (2014), as well as the directors of the live-action comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014).

Lord and Miller are best known for working on the film series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie and Spider-Verse, which won them the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and a nomination for the aforementioned award for producing the sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). They have also worked on the television series The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) for Fox, Unikitty! (2017–2020) for Cartoon Network, and most recently, The Afterparty (2022–2023) for Apple TV+.

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place_of_birth: Everett, Washington, USA

known_for_department: Production


Michelle Johnston

biography:
Michelle Johnston, a highly sought-after director, choreographer, and movement coach, has over 20 years of experience in the business. In front of the camera or behind it, Michelle always brings her experience and expertise to the table. Michelle’s latest directorial work is the Nickelodeon made-for-TV movie, “Blurt”, starring Jace Norman and JoJo Siwa. She also recently directed and produced the 2016 film, “A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits” for Freeform and Disney Channel. Her work as a choreographer can be seen on television in such shows as “Castle”, “Mistresses”, “Parks & Recreation”, “American Dreams”, and “Mad Men”, and in films like “A Cinderella Story”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, and “Gangster Squad”. Michelle has also worked with such stars as Jane Krakowski, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Demi Moore, and John Travolta to name a few.

Michelle served as choreographer on Madonna’s “Who’s That Girl” World Tour and segments of the “Girlie Show” World Tour which took her career to a whole new level. She has worked with artists like Alicia Keys, Ritchie Sambora, Lil’ Kim, Hillary Duff, and Kelly Rowland. Michelle has also been in demand in the Broadway scene, working with Oscar nominated actress, Lesley Ann Warren in “Dream” as well as touring with the Tony Award winning show, “Fosse” in one of the lead roles. Michelle continues to find new and exciting venues in which to develop and showcase her broad scope of talent.

place_of_birth: California, USA


Jenna Lamia

biography: Jenna Lamia is an American actress, writer, and audiobook narrator.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Ann Weldon

biography: Ann Weldon (February 28, 1933 - January 14, 2024) was an American singer and actress. She appeared in guest roles in numerous television series and starred in the short-lived 1980 sitcom One in a Million as Edna Simmons. Some of her best-known films are Shampoo (1975), Bird (1988), and What's Cooking? (2000). Her siblings Charles Weldon and Maxine Weldon were also performers.

place_of_birth: Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA


Joel de la Fuente

biography: Joel de la Fuente (born April 21, 1969) is an American actor, known for his roles as 1st Lieutenant Paul Wang in 1995's Space: Above and Beyond and recurring appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as TARU Tech Ruben Morales.

place_of_birth: New Hartford, New York, USA


George Perez

biography: George Perez was born on September 9, 1972. He is an actor and producer, known for Tin Cup (1996), Selena (1997) and Toy Soldiers

place_of_birth: Tijuana, Mexico


Bob Minor

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Lee Minor or Bob Lee Minor (born January 1, 1944) is an African-American stunt performer, television and film actor, best known for doubling many celebrities such as: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Bernie Mac, Danny Glover, Carl Weathers and John Amos. Minor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and made his first television appearance in 1973 on the television program, Search, then appeared in tons of shows such as: Barnaby Jones, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man, Eight is Enough, and Starsky and Hutch among other popular television programs.

place_of_birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USA


Charles Esten

biography: Charles Esten Puskar III (September 9, 1965), also known as Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician and comedian. He is best known for his role as country singer Deacon Claybourne on the ABC/CMT drama Nashville (2012-2018), which subsequently kickstarted his own musical career. He's also known for his comedy (as Chip Esten) on the US version of the improv series Whose Line Is it Anyway?.

place_of_birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA


Josie Lawrence

biography: Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, June 6, 1959) is an English actress and comedian known for Whose Line Is It Anyway? and playing Manda Best in EastEnders.

place_of_birth: Staffordshire, England, UK


John D'Aquino

biography: John D'Aquino is an American film and television actor.

place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA


Ellie Harvie

biography: Ellie Harvie is a prominent Canadian actress, comedian, and director best known for her iconic portrayal of Morticia Addams in the live-action sitcom The New Addams Family (1998–1999) and the quirky, hiccup-prone scientist Dr. Lindsey Novak across the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis franchises.

place_of_birth: Belleville, Ontario, Canada


Jonathan Weiss

biography: Jonathan Weiss (born 1964) is an American writer-director known for his 1998 micro-budget adaptation of J.G. Ballard's experimental novel The Atrocity Exhibition.


Larry Manetti

biography: Larry Manetti was born on July 23, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), Black Sheep Squadron (1976) and Battlestar Galactica (1978). He has been married to Nancy DeCarl since February 19, 1980. They have one child.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Kat Graham

biography:
Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham (born September 5, 1989) is a Swiss-born American actress, model, singer and dancer. She is known for her role as Bonnie Bennett on The CW supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017).

Her film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), 17 Again (2009), The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 (2011), Addicted (2014), and All Eyez on Me (2017). In music, she was previously signed to A&M/Octone and Interscope Records, and has released two extended plays and two studio albums.

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place_of_birth: Geneva, Switzerland


David Ursin

biography: David Ursin was born on 3 February 1951. He is an actor, known for Die Hard (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Jerry Maguire (1996).

place_of_birth: New York, United States


Francesca P. Roberts

biography: Francesca P. Roberts (born December 19, 1953) is an American film and television actress known for playing "Big Bertha" in a live action movie Super Mario Bros. in 1993, as well as Anita Craig in ABC's sitcom TV series Baby Talk, which lasted from 1991 to 1992, and Anna-May in Frank's Place.


Patricia Stich

place_of_birth: Manchester, Connecticut, USA


Michael Medeiros

biography: Raised in Hawaii, Michael Medeiros moved to NYC to study with famed acting teacher and coach, Uta Hagen and has been working as a writer, director, actor and composer ever since. His feature film, Tiger Lily Road starring Tom Pelphrey (Mank, Ozark) played U.S. and international film festivals, winning the Audience Award at Woods Hole. It was the opening night film at Orlando FF and subsequently ran at NYC's Quad Cinema. He wrote and directed 3 Minutes, a film about a mass shooting which premiered at Soho International Film Festival and is the writer/composer/lyricist of A Wild Thing, a '60s rock musical that was partly developed at The Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals and was a finalist for a 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. As an actor he has appeared in big budget films and award winning indies, including X-Men First Class, RoboCop 2, Synecdoche New York, and Margot At The Wedding. On television, he starred in the Custer mini-series Son of the Morning Star and guest-starred in many TV series, including Manifest and seven episodes of Law & Order. On stage, he won critical acclaim in Goodman Theatre's radical reconstruction of Williams' Camino Real and has sung the title roles in Sweeney Todd and Man of La Mancha. He has also appeared at City Center Encores, The Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Long Wharf, Huntington, Kennedy Center and many others. He was lucky enough to spend ten summers at New River Dramatists, a writer's retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains.


Joe Warfield

biography: Joe Warfield was an American actor, director, and academic professor with a career spanning over 50 years across stage, film, and television. He was highly regarded for both his character roles on screen and his pedagogical contributions to film and theater instruction.

place_of_birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Carol Leifer

biography:
Carol Leifer is an American comedian, writer, and producer whose career as a stand-up comedian started in the 1970s when she was in college. She has written many television scripts including The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld.

Leifer's inner-monologue driven, observational style is often autobiographical, encompassing subjects about her Jewish ancestry and upbringing, coming out, same-sex marriage, relationships, and parenting.

From Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: New York, U.S.


Gordon Kennedy

biography: Grew up in Tranent, East Lothian, and attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh. He then went to the Scottish School of PE at Jordanhill College (now part of the University of Strathclyde).

place_of_birth: Scotland


Eric Millegan

biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Eric Millegan (born August 25, 1974) is an American actor, primarily known for his work on the Fox series Bones in which he played Dr. Zack Addy. Millegan is openly gay, and was out before being cast as Addy in Bones.  Millegan was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and raised in Springfield, Oregon.  Millegan began his musical theatre career at age 7, in the 1981 Eugene Opera production of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. He continued with the company in several other productions, including Madame Butterfly, La Bohème, Carmen, and Hansel and Gretel. Millegan appeared on Broadway in the 2000 production of Jesus Christ Superstar.  In January 2005, he starred as Harold opposite Estelle Parsons' Maude in the world premiere of Tom Jones and Joseph Thalken's Harold & Maude: The Musical at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. In 2006, he returned to Eugene, Oregon to play Frederic in Eugene Opera's production of The Pirates of Penzance. In August 2009, Millegan released a video on YouTube in which he comes out about his experiences living with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder.

place_of_birth: Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA


Judy Kain

biography: Judy was born in San Mateo, California, and began her professional acting career in Los Angeles in 1978. She has been in over 400 commercials, and 150 TV and film projects. She has won numerous awards for coaching and teaching at her own studio Keep it Real Acting Studios in addition to awards for her performance in MAD MEN gleaning the SAG AWARD for the Show. She travels all over the country teaching and inspiring actors with her vast knowledge and experience. Judy is also a published author of the Commercial Handbook called "I Booked It!" She also has a new book and online course entitled THE BUSINESS OF ACTING. She has done numerous seminars sharing her vast experience. Also, Judy hosts the Podcast HOLLYWOOD GAME CHANGERS @keepitrealacting/HGC. Being an avid Hiker, she wrote a book about her hikes all over the world called LIFE IS LIKE A HIKE...the best view comes after the Hardest climb. Her son Frankie Manes is also an actor.

place_of_birth: San Mateo, California, USA


Tom Ligon

place_of_birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA


Matthew Arkin

biography: Matthew Arkin was born on March 21, 1960. He is an actor.


Maureen Mueller

biography: Maureen Mueller is an American actress and former fashion model known for her extensive career spanning several decades across television, film and theater. She has maintained a steady presence in major television dramas and independent comedies alike, establishing herself as a versatile character actress. She has the rare distinction of playing six different characters across the three primary shows of the universe: the original Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.


Jason Jurman

biography: Jason Jurman was an American actor.

place_of_birth: Los Gatos, California, USA


Mark Cullingham

place_of_birth: Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK


Claudia Weill

biography:
Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance. Girlfriends would be one of 82 films made by a female director to compete at Cannes. In 2019, Girlfriends was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

It's My Turn (1980 for Columbia Pictures)—with Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin—won her the Donatello, or International Oscar for best new director.

Earlier work includes 30 films for Sesame Street, freelancing as a camerawoman, and numerous documentaries, notably The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, a documentary about the first women's delegation to China in 1973, headed by Shirley MacLaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Donald Li

biography: Donald Li (born 1961) is a Chinese actor. He is best known for Big Trouble in Little China and The Avengers. He played multiple parts in Alan Cook's stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel East of Eden.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Leslie Jones

biography:
Annette 'Leslie' Jones (born September 7, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, singer, and game show host. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019. In 2017 and 2018, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live.

In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime, and in 2020, she had another special, Time Machine. She starred as Patty Tolan in Ghostbusters (2016) and Mary Junson in Coming 2 America.

place_of_birth: Memphis, Tennessee, USA


Justin Bruening

biography: Justin Bruening is an American actor and former fashion model. He was originally discovered at McDonald's in Escondido, California, by Sue Nessel, a scout for Scott Copeland. Within a week, he was shooting photos with Bruce Weber.

place_of_birth: Helena, Montana, USA


Gildart Jackson

biography: Gildart Jackson is an English actor, television host and former entertainment lawyer based in in Los Angeles, California. He has two daughters with actress Melora Hardin, whom he married in June 1997.


David Garrison

biography: David Earl Garrison (born June 30, 1952) is an American actor. His primary venue is live theatre, but he is best known as the character Steve Rhoades in the television series, Married... with Children. He also appeared in numerous theatrical plays, particularly that of The Wizard in many tours of the musical, Wicked.

place_of_birth: Long Branch, New Jersey, USA


Michael Kostroff

biography: Michael Kostroff was born on May 22, 1961. He is an actor.


Chandra Wilson

biography:
Chandra Danette Wilson (born August 27, 1969) is an American actress and director, best known as Dr. Miranda Bailey on the ABC television drama, Grey's Anatomy.

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place_of_birth: Houston, Texas, USA


Saundra Santiago

place_of_birth: The Bronx, New York, USA


Rebecca Creskoff

biography:
Rebecca Creskoff was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Betty Jane Creskoff, a home maker, and Howard Creskoff a lawyer, and has an older sister. Her father is of Russian Jewish decent and her mother is of mostly English and German ancestry--a true Midwestern protestant.

The New Yorker Magazine describes Creskoff as "immensely gifted, with formidable technique" and named her one of the best performers of 2010.

Creskoff studied English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and then, following the advice of her friend and mentor Debra Messing, chose to hone her craft more seriously at the prestigious MFA acting training program at New York University. Classmates included David Costible, Victor Williams, Sean P. Thomas, Glenn Fleshler and Aunjanue Ellis.

Her first job after graduating was the long running Steve Martin play "Picasso At The Lapin Agile" at the Promenade Theater in New York City with Gabriel Macht and Jason Antoon. During this time she supported her theater habit by doing national commercials for products such as Massengill Douche, Budweiser with co-star Cara Buono (Stranger Things) Puff tissues, Olive Garden, Joy dish washing detergent, and Pampers diapers.

Her first television role was playing a waitress on Law and Order: SVU. Later that year she guest starred on the original Law and Order and then returned to Law and Order twelve years later in the role of public defender Veronica Masters in season 20.

Her theater credits include the Broadway play Lousing Louie at Manhattan Theater Club, The All-American at Lincoln Center 3, multiple productions playing Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as numerous plays at the Williamstown Theater Festival (most notably playing Luca in Arms and the Man opposite Christopher Evan Welch) and the Berkshire Theater Festival in Miss Julie opposite Mark Feuerstein and Marin Hinkle. She later starred opposite Feuerstein in the movie Knucklehead and with Hinkle in the play Measure for Measure.

She made her way out west after being cast in Love's Labor Lost at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego directed by Roger Reese. She made a side trip to Los Angeles and her first audition was for E.R. which she did not get. But producer John Wells brought her back in the next day to read for Aaron Sorkin's new show The West Wing. Creskoff was cast in a large guest starring role opposite Rob Lowe with Jamie Denton on the first episode of the second season of the acclaimed hit show. Numerous guest starring and substantial recurring roles followed on The Practice, Justified, Bates Motel, Parenthood, Mad Men, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Girlfriends, Desperate Housewives, Party Down, How I Met Your Mother, Justified, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the mother of the Jonas Brothers, among others.

Her series regular roles include a fiery Irish Catholic mother of two on the WB series Greetings From Tuscon, a fiery Irish Catholic mother of five on the Fox sitcom Quintuplets opposite Andy Richter and then as the fiery pimp Lenore on the HBO series Hung opposite Thomas Jane, Jane Adams and Anne Heche. She most recently played a non-fiery Irish Catholic mother of three on the NBC pilot Where I'm From and on the CBS pilot Taxi-22 opposite John Leguizamo.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Alex Manette

biography: Alex Manette (born October 31, 1969) is an American actor.

place_of_birth: Long Island, New York, USA


Fran Lebowitz

biography:
Frances Ann Lebowitz (/ˈliːbəwɪts/; born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls.

Lebowitz gained fame for her books Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), which were combined into The Fran Lebowitz Reader in 1994. She has been the subject of two projects directed by Martin Scorsese, the HBO documentary film Public Speaking (2010), and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021).

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place_of_birth: Morristown, New Jersey, USA


Roma Downey

biography: Roma Downey (born 6 May 1960) is an Irish actress, singer, and producer, from Derry, Northern Ireland. She is best known for her role as angel Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel.

place_of_birth: Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland


Jonathan Chapin

biography: Jonathan Chapin is known for Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), Sixteen Candles (1984) and Say Anything... (1989).


Arian Ash

biography:
A native Floridian, Arian Ash has been a professional actor since 1992. Her career began at Nickelodoen Studios, at Universal Studios in Orlando. Since then, Arian has had the privilege to work alongside A-Listers like Colin Farrell, John Travolta, James Gandolfini and Denzel Washington. Arian is also an accomplished graphic designer, as well as a self-taught pianist and songwriter.

- IMDb mini biography by: Arian Ash

place_of_birth: Orlando, Florida, USA


Holly Floria

place_of_birth: Corona Del Mar, California, USA


Evander Holyfield

biography:
Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion at cruiserweight in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and is the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the three belt era.

Nicknamed "the Real Deal", Holyfield is the only four-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified WBA, WBC, and IBF titles from 1990 to 1992, the WBA and IBF titles again from 1993 to 1994, the WBA title a third time from 1996 to 1999; the IBF title a third time from 1997 to 1999 and the WBA title for a fourth time from 2000 to 2001.

place_of_birth: Atmore, Alabama, USA


Leigh French

biography: Leigh French (born July 14, 1945) is an American actress.

place_of_birth: Ashland, Kentucky, USA


Louis Del Grande

biography: Del Grande was born in Union City, New Jersey, United States on March 23, 1943. In 1964, he moved to Toronto after being drawn by the Stratford Festival. In Toronto, he pursued a career as a stand-up comedian and comedy writer. Eventually, he became the head writer for the successful sitcom, The King of Kensington, which aired until the late 1970s. Del Grande also occasionally appeared on the show as Fred, a friend of the main character. Later on, he became the co-producer of the show alongside Jack Humphries. Del Grande's next venture was Seeing Things, a series that he created, wrote, and produced. It ran from 1981 to 1987 and featured Del Grande as a clairvoyant tabloid reporter who solved crimes. His real-life wife, Martha Gibson, portrayed his character's wife on the show. Seeing Things gained popularity and earned Del Grande four Gemini Awards. In addition, he gained recognition beyond Canada for his role as the ConSec scanner in the memorable "head explosion" scene in the film Scanners, directed by David Cronenberg. Del Grande has also made appearances in various TV movies and series, including Due South, The Outer Limits, and Goosebumps.

place_of_birth: Union City, New Jersey, USA


Andrew Havill

place_of_birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK


Kieran Bew

biography:
Kieran Bew is an English actor known for his roles in television series such as Da Vinci's Demons, The Street, and Warrior. He has also starred in films such as Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale and Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands.

Bew was born in Hartlepool, England, in 1980. He studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2001. After graduating, he began his acting career in British theatre, appearing in productions such as The Crucible and Richard II.

Bew's first major television role came in 2006, when he was cast as Gary Parr in the BAFTA Award-winning series The Street. He went on to star in a number of other television series, including Da Vinci's Demons, The Borgias, and The Musketeers.

In 2019, Bew starred in the Cinemax series Warrior, which is based on an original concept by the late Bruce Lee. He played the role of Ah Sahm, a Chinese immigrant who becomes a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader.

Bew is also a talented stage actor. He has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare's Globe, the Old Vic, and the Royal National Theatre.

Bew is currently filming the upcoming television series House of the Dragon, a prequel to the HBO series Game of Thrones. He will play the role of Hugh Hammer, a knight of the Kingsguard.

place_of_birth: Hartlepool, England, UK


Richard Dillane

biography: Richard Dillane (born 1964) is a British actor. He appears in a lead role of the Netflix series Young Wallander, based on the character Kurt Wallander created by novelist Henning Mankell. He played British intelligence agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning 2012 political thriller Argo, and Merv Humphreys, husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.

place_of_birth: London, England, United Kingdom


Rachel Melvin

biography:
Rachel Melvin (born February 9, 1985) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Chelsea Brady on Days of Our Lives and as Penny in Dumb and Dumber To.

Melvin landed her first acting job in the 2005 independent film Boo. She later won the role of Georgia LaMarque, a French girl whom Bo and Billie had been falsely led to believe was their daughter on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives, but only appeared in five episodes. Months later, she took over the role of Chelsea Brady (originally portrayed by Mandy Musgrave). She and her dog were seen on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, when she was randomly interviewed at a gas station for a segment. Melvin has also guest-starred on Summerland, Jack & Bobby and 8 Simple Rules. With her family, she has also appeared on Family Feud.

In 2010, Melvin starred as Kaia in Seven Deadly Sins which premiered on Lifetime alongside Dreama Walker. The first part premiered on May 23 while the second part premiered on May 24, 2010. In 2011, Melvin appeared in episodes of House M.D. and Castle.

In 2014, Melvin appeared as Penny Pinchelow in Dumb and Dumber To, portrayed Mary in Zombeavers, and Sarah in the drama thriller film Madtown.

She appeared in the final season of MTV's Awkward.

place_of_birth: Elmhurst, Illinois, USA


Luke Robertson

biography: Luke Robertson is an actor.


Sean Hewitt

biography: Sean Kenneth Hewitt, born on October 4, 1935, in Matheson, Ontario, Canada, was an actor, producer, and vibrant soul known for his infectious laugh. He discovered his passion for acting in night classes, leading him to London, UK, where he met his wife Claire. His career spanned film, TV, and the West End stage, notable for works like Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret alongside Judi Dench, and the cult horror film The Sender. He is known for his contributions to various productions, including "Battlefield Earth" (2000), "Crimson Peak" (2015), and his involvement in the Canadian educational television series "Read All About It!" (1979).  In his 70s, he ventured into film production, creating Carry Me Home for Showtime and establishing EmChris Films. After the end of his marriage, Sean embarked on a new journey as a Gay man, championing LGBTQ rights in New York City. Hewitt passed away on June 6, 2019, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, leaving behind a legacy within the entertainment industry.


Edward Bennett

biography:
Edward Bennett (born 9 April 1979) is an English actor.

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place_of_birth: Honeybourne, Worcestershire, England, UK


Bunny Yeager

biography:
Linnea Eleanor "Bunny" Yeager (March 13, 1929 – May 25, 2014) was an American photographer and pin-up model. Her family moved to Florida when she was 17, and after graduating high school she enrolled at the Coronet Modeling School and Agency and subsequently won numerous local beauty pageants and became one of the most photographed models in Miami. Photos of Yeager appeared in over 300 newspapers and magazines.

Yeager entered photography to save money by copying her modeling photographs, enrolling in a night class at a vocational school in 1953. Her career as a professional photographer began when a picture of Maria Stinger, taken for her first school assignment, was sold to Eye magazine for the cover of the March 1954 issue. She became a technically skilled photographer noted for, among other things, her early use of the fill flash technique to lighten dark shadows when shooting in bright sun. Yeager was one of the first photographers to photograph her models outdoors with natural light. Bunny discovered legendary pin-up queen Bettie Page in 1954. Her photo of Page posing in nothing but a fur-trimmed Santa hat was published as the centerfold in the January 1955 special holiday issue of "Playboy." This photo, along with other pictures of Bettie taken by Bunny, played a key role in establishing Page's iconic status. Her photographs were featured in a huge array of men's magazines throughout the years. Bunny also published over 20 books on photography.

place_of_birth: Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, USA


Gina Rodriguez

biography: Gina Rodriguez is an American film and television actress, best known for her leading role as Majo Tonorio in the feature film Filly Brown, and as the titular character Jane Gloriana Villanueva on the comedy drama series Jane the Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards in the category Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy, winning in 2015.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Brooke Anne Smith

place_of_birth: Aurora, Colorado, USA