Melanie Mayron

biography: Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as photographer Susan Weinblatt in the 1978 comedy-drama film Girlfriends.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Jamie Campbell Bower

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biography:
Jamie Metcalfe Campbell Bower (born 22 November 1988) is an English actor, model and singer. He made his feature film debut in 2007 with a supporting role in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, before going on to feature in The Twilight Saga (2009–2012) and as the young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018). Bower was part of the main cast of the fantasy series Camelot (2011, Starz) and Will (2017, TNT), both of which only ran for a single season each.

From 2015 to 2020, he served as the frontman of London-based band Counterfeit. In 2020, he began releasing music as a solo artist. In 2022, Bower joined the cast of the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things, where he plays Henry Creel/Vecna in the fourth and fifth seasons, a role for which he has garnered wide critical acclaim. On 19 December 2025, he reprised the role onstage in his Broadway debut, a surprise appearance in the final scene of Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Bower will reportedly appear in the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, as well as a starring role in the Screen Gems horror The Haunting in Wicker Park.

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK

known_for_department: Acting


Peter New

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Xie Miao

biography: Xie Miao is a Chinese actor and martial artist who began his career as a child actor. Born in Beijing, he won championship titles in several wushu tournaments. He rose to fame when he starred as a father-son duo with Jet Li in the films The New Legend of Shaolin and My Father Is a Hero.

place_of_birth: Beijing, China


Shinobu Yaguchi

biography: Shinobu Yaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed.[citation needed] His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third season in 2005. He was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Swing Girls.

place_of_birth: Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

known_for_department: Directing


Tai Bo

biography: Tai Bo (Chinese: 太保, born 21 October 1950) is a Hong Kong-Taiwanese actor born as Chang Chia-Nien (張嘉年).

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony


Huh Joon-ho

biography: Huh Joon-ho (허준호) is a South Korean actor.  He was born on April 14, 1964. His father was actor Heo Jang-kang.

place_of_birth: South Korea


Christine Ng Wing-mei

biography: Christine Ng Wing-Mei (Chinese: 伍詠薇; born February 24, 1969) is an actress and singer based on Hong Kong. She is under contract to Hong Kong's TVB and ATV. She is known for her roles in TVB's dramas including C.I.B. Files and The Silver Chamber of Sorrows.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Christopher Shyer

biography: Christopher Shyer is a Canadian/American actor who has appeared in over 100  film and television roles.

place_of_birth: Downsview, Ontario, Canada


Liam Redmond

place_of_birth: Limerick, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]


Pascale Arbillot

biography: Pascale Arbillot (born 17 April 1970) is a French actress. She is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Sciences; however, soon after, she decided to become an actress. She has appeared in films, on television and in the theatre.

place_of_birth: France


Ary Abittan

biography:
Ary Abittan (born 31 January 1974) is a French actor and humorist.

Ary Abittan was born on January 31, 1974 in Paris. He comes from a Sephardic Jewish (Maghrebi Jewish) family. His father is from Morocco and his mother from Tunisia. He spent part of his childhood between Garges-lès-Gonesse and Sarcelles. At age 19, he became a taxi driver, like his father, an activity that allowed him to finance his first theater lessons.

In 1993, Ary Abittan wrote (in parallel of theater lessons) his first sketches and then performed on stage since 1994 In 2007, he took the lead role in a play, Happy Hanukah, which Jean-Luc Moreau directed. The same year, he plays the main role during three seasons of Nos années pension, broadcast on France 2.

In 2012, he plays in Dépression et des potes of Arnaud Lemort. The same year, he made his first participation in Marrakech du rire. In 2014, he plays in Serial (Bad) Weddings with Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby by Philippe de Chauveron.

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place_of_birth: Paris, France


Tina Gordon

biography:
Tina Gordon Chism is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. She began her writing career writing the films ATL, and Drumline. She made her directorial debut in the 2013 film Peeples, which she also wrote. In 2019, she co-wrote the scripts to the comedies What Men Want and Little, while directing the latter. She wrote and directed the 2023 film, Praise This. She has also acted as a consulting producer on Good Girls.

Chism studied drama at Duke Ellington School for Performing Arts. She was inspired by The Cosby Show to tell stories of rich black families. In 2013, HBO greenlit a new series created by Chism called Crushed. In 2016, the pilot for Crushed was picked up by Hulu.

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place_of_birth: USA

known_for_department: Writing


Alex Meraz

biography: Alex Meraz is an American actor and martial artist. He is of Purepecha Native-Mexican descent.

place_of_birth: Mesa, Arizona, USA


Joe Lynch

biography: Joe Lynch (born March 23, 1976) is an American filmmaker, music video director and actor. He is best known for directing films such as Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007), Knights of Badassdom (2013), Everly (2014), Mayhem (2017), Point Blank (2019) and Suitable Flesh (2023).

place_of_birth: Long Island, New York, USA


Olivier Nakache

place_of_birth: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France


Joséphine de Meaux

biography:
Joséphine de Meaux is a French actress and director.

Joséphine de Meaux was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She studied at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1999 to 2002, acting in several plays.

Joséphine de Meaux started her career in theatre as an actor and director, and then moved to film. She made her on-screen debut in 2003, with the movie Who Killed Bambi?, directed by Gilles Marchand. The film was screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2012, she direct her first short movie called Crazy Pink Limo. In 2019, she released her first motion picture as a director, a comedy titled Les petits flocons. She appeared in the comedies Those Happy Days, Tellement proches and The Intouchables, all three directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. She also appeared in Vilaine, Case départ and more recently L'Élève Ducobu.

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Aaron Paul

biography: Aaron Paul Sturtevant (born August 27, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his critically acclaimed role as Jesse Pinkman in the hit AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–13). For his portrayal of Jesse Pinkman, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2010 and 2012, making him one of five actors to win this award more than once. He also won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television in 2010, 2012, and 2014, making him the only actor to win this award three times.

place_of_birth: Emmett, Idaho, USA


Roger Taylor

biography: Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the rock band Queen. As a drummer, he was recognised early in his career for his unique sound. In addition to his drum work, he is well known for his falsetto vocal range. He sometimes played keyboards, guitars and bass on his own songs. Alongside his bandmate, Brian May, he has a short cameo in Queen's biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

place_of_birth: Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK


John Deacon

biography: John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He joined Queen in 1971 on the strength of his musical and electronic skills. As well as bass, Deacon played some guitar, keyboards and piano on Queen's studio work. After the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1991 and the following year's Tribute Concert, he performed only sporadically with the remaining members of Queen before retiring from the music industry in 1997. His son, Luke, appears in Queen's biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

place_of_birth: Leicester, England, UK


Sylvie Moreau

biography: Sylvie Moreau (born December 30, 1964) is a Québec actress mostly known for her role of Catherine Beaulieu in the sitcom Catherine (1999–2003).

place_of_birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada


Lindsay Crosby

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Mona Achache

biography:
Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director and screenwriter.

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place_of_birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France


Sul Kyung-gu

biography: Sul Kyung-gu (born May 14, 1967) is a Grand Bell Award, Golden Space Needle Award, and Bratislava International Film Festival Best Actor winning South Korean actor. He studied film and theater at Hanyang University and upon graduation took part in mostly theatrical productions. After transitioning into film, Sol is best known for his roles in the popular Public Enemy and Silmido.

place_of_birth: Seocheon, South Chungcheong, South Korea


Jack O'Connell

biography:
Jack O'Connell (born 1 August 1990) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for playing James Cook in the British television series Skins (2009–2010, 2013). He is also known for his roles in This Is England (2006), the slasher film Eden Lake (2008), the television dramas Dive (2010) and  United (2011), and the Netflix Wild West miniseries Godless (2017), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination.

O'Connell gave critically acclaimed performances in the independent films Starred Up (2013) and '71 (2014), garnering nominations for the British Independent Film Awards. He subsequently starred as war hero Louis Zamperini in the war film Unbroken (2014) and received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He has since starred in the thriller Money Monster (2016), the biographical drama Trial by Fire (2018), the BBC miniseries The North Water (2021), the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022–2025), the Amy Winehouse biographical film Back to Black (2024) and the period horror film Sinners (2025).

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place_of_birth: Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK


Nicholas Braun

biography:
Nicholas Joseph Braun (born May 1, 1988) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Hirsch in the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), for which he received two SAG Awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, along with three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He has also appeared in several films, including Sky High (2005), Princess Protection Program (2009), Red State (2011), Prom (2011), The Perks of Being a Wallflower(2012), The Watch (2012), Date and Switch (2014), How to Be Single (2016), Zola (2021) and Cat Person (2023).

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Paul Ben-Victor

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Paul Ben-Victor (born July 24, 1965) is an American actor. Ben-Victor was born Paul Friedman, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman. Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the made-for-TV movie Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife and on an episode of Cagney & Lacey. Fifteen years after beginning his television career with bit parts, Ben-Victor found himself cast in important roles on HBO dramas The Wire and Entourage, as well as making a 2006 appearance as Coach Lou on My Name is Earl. He portrayed Moe Howard in the 2000 made-for-TV film The Three Stooges. Ben-Victor has been featured on many television cop dramas like Monk and CSI, and also had a recurring role as two-bit con man Steve Richards on three episodes of NYPD Blue from 1994 to 1997. Ben-Victor has co-written stage plays with his mother. At least two of their plays have been staged in the Manhattan area, including "Club Soda" and "The Good Steno". Ben-Victor had a starring role in the Sci-Fi channel television show, The Invisible Man, alongside Vincent Ventresca. The two later guest starred together on the hit TV show Las Vegas. They were reunited again on an episode of the new USA Network series In Plain Sight (Episode 1.2, "Hoosier Daddy"), on which Ben-Victor has a supporting role. Appeared on "Everybody Hates Chris" as Mr. Thurman In 2008, Ben-Victor held a supporting role in the feature film, Clear Lake, WI, starring Michael Madsen. In August 2008, Ben-Victor co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle.

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


Candice King

biography:
Candice Rene King (née Accola, born May 13, 1987) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Caroline Forbes in The CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries and her recurring role as the same character on the spin-off series The Originals and Legacies.

In December 2006, King released her debut album, It's Always the Innocent Ones, independently in the United States. King toured as a backing singer for Miley Cyrus's Best of Both Worlds Tour. She appeared as herself in the 2008 3D concert film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert.

Accola had guest appearances in a number of television series such as How I Met Your Mother, Supernatural, Drop Dead Diva, and The Oriville.

place_of_birth: Houston, Texas, USA


Trond Fausa Aurvåg

biography: Trond Fausa Aurvåg (born 2 December 1972) is a Norwegian actor and film director. After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2001, he has acted at Oslo Nye Teater since 2001. Here he has acted in plays such as Amadeus, Manndomsprøven and Tatt av kvinnen. As a film actor he is best known for his leading roles in the films Andreaskorset (2004), Den brysomme mannen (2006) and Tatt av kvinnen (2007). He won two Amandas – the main Norwegian film award – in 2006, for best actor for his role in Den brysomme mannen, and for the short film Alene menn sammen, which he directed. Aurvåg cohabits with his girlfriend, actress Lena Kristin Ellingsen, in Oslo.

place_of_birth: Fetsund, Norway


Salvador del Solar

biography: Salvador del Solar (born in Lima in 1970) is a Peruvian actor, director, and lawyer. After graduating with a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and studying at Alberto Ísola's workshop, he rose to international fame starring in the acclaimed film Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1999). Expanding his career, he wrote and directed the film Magallanes (2015), establishing himself as a prominent filmmaker. He has also been involved in Peruvian politics, serving as Minister of Culture (2017) and President of the Council of Ministers (2019).


John Beale

biography: John Beale is a Tronto-based television actor probably best known for his recurring role in the TV movie series Jesse stone. In addition to his acting on screen, he is classically trained stage actor and teacher at Seneca at York University, Humber College, and Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. Beale is also a master clown teacher.


Allen Leech

biography:
Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor best known for his role as Tom Branson on the historical drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015). He made his professional acting debut with a small part in a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, made his first major film appearance as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys & Angels, and earned an Irish Film & Television Awards nomination in 2004 with his performance as Mo Chara in Man About Dog.

He appeared as Willi in the Queen and Peacock (2000), at the Garter Lane Arts Centre. The following years, he was in The Morning After Optimism (2001) and then Da (2002). His breakthrough film performance was in Cowboys and Angels (2003), followed by a role in the 2004 cross-country caper film Man About Dog. He played the role of Shane Kirwan in Ireland's RTÉ series Love Is the Drug (2004), for which he received a Best Actor nomination from the Irish Film and Television Awards. He followed that up with the role of Willy in the television series Legend (2006), for which he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination from Irish Film and Television Awards.

In 2010, he appeared on the small screen in The Tudors (2010) as the doomed Francis Dereham. Leech also appeared in ITV 2010s television series Downton Abbey as chauffeur Tom Branson. He played the role of officer Sam Leonard in television series Primeval in 2011 in series five. He also starred in the 2012 film adaptation The Sweeney. In 2014 he starred as the spy John Cairncross, in The Imitation Game. He played Freddie Mercury's personal manager, Paul Prenter, in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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place_of_birth: Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland


Suriya

biography:
Saravanan Sivakumar known by his stage name Suriya, is an Indian film actor, producer and television presenter, best known for his work in Tamil cinema.

After making his debut in Nerukku Ner (1997), Suriya landed his breakthrough role in Nandha (2001) and then had his first major commercial success with the thriller Kaakha Kaakha (2003). As of 2010, he has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. In 2013, Suriya founded the production house 2D Entertainment.

He is the eldest son of Tamil film actor Sivakumar and his younger brother Karthi is also an actor. Suriya married co-star Jyothika in 2006, after being engaged for several years. In 2008, he began Agaram Foundation, which funds for various philanthropic activities.

place_of_birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India


Tamannaah Bhatia

biography:
Tamannaah Bhatia also known as Tamannaah, is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Telugu and Tamil films. She has also appeared in Hindi films. In addition to acting, she also participates in stage shows and is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products.

In 2005, she made her acting debut in the age of 15 in the Bollywood film, Chand Sa Roshan Chehra and appeared in Abhijeet Sawant album song "Lafzon main" from the album Aapka Abhijeet which was also released in the year 2005, before working in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. In the same year, Tamannaah made her Telugu film debut in Sri, and the next year she appeared in her first Tamil movie, Kedi. In 2007, she starred in two college-life-based drama films, Happy Days in Telugu and Kalloori in Tamil.

Her projects include the Tamil films Ayan (2009), Paiyaa (2010), Sura (2010) and Siruthai (2011), Veeram (2014) and Telugu films include 100% Love (2011). Other films include Racha (2012), Thadaka (2013), Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), Bengal Tiger (2015) and Oopiri (2016). She thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema.

Tamannaah has acted with major actors including Ajith Kumar, Vijay, Surya, Karthi, Dhanush, Jayam Ravi, Arya, Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, Nagarjuna, Allu Arjun, Ramcharan, Jr.Ntr, Ravi Teja, Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh. She is one of the highest paid actresses in South Indian cinema.

She is the first actress in India who was nominated at Saturn Awards (for Best Supporting Actress) but Lost to Jessica Chastain for Crimson Peak.

Tamannaah received the Kalaimamani Award in 2010 from the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

place_of_birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India


Wilson Bethel

biography:
Stephen Wilson Bethel (born February 24, 1984) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Ryder Callahan on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2009–2011), Wade Kinsella on Hart of Dixie (2011–2015), Deputy District Attorney Mark Callan on the legal drama All Rise (2019–2023), and as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter/Bullseye in the third season of the Netflix original series Daredevil (2018) and its upcoming standalone sequel Daredevil: Born Again (2025) on Disney+. He is also the star and creator of the web series Stupid Hype on the CW's online platform CWD (CW Digital Studio).

Bethel made his on-screen debut as Brad in the teen drama series The O.C., in the episode "The Telenovela." He had guest roles in JAG, Cold Case, and NCIS and portrayed Corporal Evan "Q-Tip" Stafford in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Generation Kill, starring Alexander Skarsgård. Bethel made his film debut in the 2008 Vietnam War film, 1968 Tunnel Rats, where he played the Army Special Ops soldier, Corporal Green. In 2009, he landed a recurring role as Ryder Callahan on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.

In The CW's comedy-drama series Hart of Dixie, Bethel played Wade Kinsella, "bad-boy" neighbour to the series' central character, Zoe Hart. Production for the show began in early 2011, and it premiered on September 26, 2011. The series concluded on May 7, 2015, after four seasons. BuddyTV ranked him #14 on its list of "TV's Sexiest Men of 2011"; in 2012 he was ranked #2 on the same list. He appeared in four episodes of ABC's legal thriller series How to Get Away with Murder as Charles Mahoney.

In 2017, he joined the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Last Match, which was set in the world of professional tennis. In 2018, he joined the cast of Daredevil as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter, also known as Bullseye, and will reprise the role in Daredevil: Born Again (2025-present). In 2019, Bethel landed a main role on the CBS legal drama series All Rise as Deputy District Attorney Mark Callan.

Bethel was born on February 24, 1984, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. He is the son of artist Steve Bethel and author Joyce Maynard. He married Dominican-American architect and designer Liesl Martinez-Balaguer (previously married to Matthew Paul Danison, August 2015) on November 28, 2020. Bethel is Jewish. He has one daughter.

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place_of_birth: Hillsboro, New Hampshire, USA


Anthony C. Ferrante

biography: Anthony C. Ferrante is an American film director, best known for directing The Asylum's Sharknado franchise.

place_of_birth: Antioch, California, USA


Katrina Begin

biography: Katrina Begin was born on August 10, 1982 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Katrina is an actor and writer, known for Single Parents (2018), Good Behavior (2016) and Christmas Break-In (2018).

place_of_birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Leighton Meester

biography:
Leighton Marissa Meester (born April 9, 1986) is an American actress and singer. She is mostly known for her starring role as Blair Waldorf in the teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–12). She has also appeared in the 2010 country drama film Country Strong, the 2011 thriller The Roommate, the 2011 romantic-comedy Monte Carlo, and the comedies The Oranges (2011) and That's My Boy (2012). Meester made her Broadway debut in 2014 in Of Mice and Men.

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place_of_birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA


Dan Tullis Jr.

biography:
Dan Tullis Jr. (born July 8, 1951) is an American actor most notable for his role as Officer Dan on the sitcom Married... with Children. He has also appeared in other shows such as The District, Home Improvement, 227 and Rachel Gunn, R.N.. He is the radio and television spokesman for SelectQuote, a life insurance company. Tullis identifies himself by name at the start of each ad so as to avoid confusion with Dennis Haysbert, the spokesman for Allstate.

In 1976, he appeared with his family on the game show Family Feud. Nine years later, he appeared on Tic Tac Dough, winning more than $15,000 in cash and prizes.

In 1987, Dan Tullis Jr. played the role of Sergeant 1st Class Luther Fry in the film, Extreme Prejudice; co-starring alongside Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, and Maria Conchita Alonso.

Tullis has also worked in theater. He has played Joe in Show Boat in over 18 productions worldwide, including Long Island, Europe and Australia.

He was featured as the voice of the flesh-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors, a California stage production.

place_of_birth: Oxnard, California, United States


Sanjay Mishra

biography: Sanjay Mishra is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Hindi cinema and television.

place_of_birth: Darbhanga, India


Shruti Haasan

biography: Shruti Haasan is an Indian actress, singer and music composer who has worked in South Indian film industry and Bollywood. Her parents are noted actors, Kamal Haasan and Sarika. As a child artist, she sang in films and appeared in a guest role, before making her adult acting debut in the 2009 action drama, Luck. She later went on to win critical acclaim for her role in the Walt Disney fantasy film, Anaganaga O Dheerudu, Oh My Friend and 7aam Arivu. In 2012, she starred in Gabbar Singh, Telugu remake of Dabangg.  She has also continued her stint in music through work as a singer in Indian languages, a career in music direction beginning with her father's production Unnaipol Oruvan and her own music band and album


Claire Holt

biography:
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Claire Rhiannon Holt (born 11 June 1988) is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as Emma Gilbert on the television show H2O: Just Add Water, Chastity Meyer on Mean Girls 2, and Rebekah Mikaelson on The CW series The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off series The Originals.Holt was born in Brisbane, Australia. She graduated from Stuartholme School in Toowong at the end of 2005. She is involved in several sports: swimming, volleyball, water polo, and Tae-Kwon-Do, in which she has a black belt. When she was younger, she was in the school choir.

place_of_birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia


Vladimir Mashkov

biography:
Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov (born 27 November 1963) is a Russian actor, best known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines. Mashkov has also worked as a movie director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film "Papa"

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place_of_birth: Tula, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]


Connie Britton

biography:
Connie Britton (born March 6, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for the roles of Nikki Faber on Spin City and on Friday Night Lights as Tami Taylor. Her most notable films are Friday Night Lights and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Despite the fact that the Friday Night Lights television series is based on the film, she portrays different characters in both of them. Her character in the show is named Tami Taylor while in the film her character is named Sharon Gaines.

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place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Sticky Fingaz

biography: Kirk Jones (born November 3, 1973), better known by his stage name Sticky Fingaz, is an American hardcore rapper, record producer, and actor best known as a member of multi-platinum hardcore rap group Onyx. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his television roles as Private Maurice "Smoke" Williams on the 2005 FX drama Over There, his recurring role as rapper Kern Little on The Shield, and as the title character in the 2006 Spike action-horror-drama Blade: The Series. He's also known for his co-starring role as Jeremy in the film Flight of the Phoenix (2004).

place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA


David Attenborough

biography:
Sir David Attenborough (born May 8, 1926) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Marc Messier

biography: Marc Messier (August 16, 1947 – July 7, 2026) was a Québec actor and writer known for La Petite Vie (1993) Les Boys (1997) and Lance et compte (1988).

place_of_birth: Granby, Québec, Canada


Collette Wolfe

biography:
Collette Wolfe is an American actress, known for her roles in Observe and Report (2009), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and its' sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), Young Adult (2011), and Interstellar (2014).  She also appeared in Semi-Pro, Four Christmases, and 17 Again.

She's had recurring roles as Kirsten on ABC's Cougar Town, as improv teacher Dorothy Durwood on the FXX sitcom You're the Worst, on TNT's Good Behavior, as Shawni on Your Family or Mine, and as Meredith on A.P. Bio.

place_of_birth: King George, Virginia, USA


Aziz Ansari

biography:
Aziz Ismail Ansari (/ɑːnˈsɑːri/ ahn-SAR-ee; born February 23, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He played Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) and created and starred in the Netflix series Master of None (2015–2021), for which he won several acting and writing awards, including two Emmys and a Golden Globe, which was the first award received by an Asian American actor for acting on television.

Ansari began performing comedy in New York City while a student at NYU Stern in 2000. He later co-created and starred in the MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant, after which he had acting roles in a number of feature films. From 2009 to 2015, Ansari played Tom Haverford in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. In 2015, Ansari co-created and starred in the first two seasons of Netflix's critically acclaimed series Master of None, for which he also served as a writer and director.

As a stand-up comedian, Ansari released his first comedy special, Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, in January 2010 on Comedy Central Records. He continues to perform stand-up on tour and on Netflix. His first book, Modern Romance: An Investigation, was released in June 2015. He was included in the Time 100 list of most influential people in 2016. In July 2019, Ansari released his fifth comedy special, Aziz Ansari: Right Now, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. In 2021, Netflix released Master of None Presents: Moments in Love, which Ansari wrote and directed. The following year, he released his comedy special Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian on Netflix.

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place_of_birth: Columbia, South Carolina, USA


Lisa Lu

biography: Lisa Lu Yan (simplified Chinese: 卢燕; traditional Chinese: 盧燕; pinyin: Lú Yàn; born July 8, 1927) is a Chinese-born American actress and singer. She won the Golden Horse Awards three times in the 1970s.

place_of_birth: Beijing, China


Pavel Shpringfeld

place_of_birth: Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire [now Krasnodar, Russia]


Stanislav Chekan

place_of_birth: Rostov-na-Donu, RSFSR, USSR


Leonid Kanevsky

biography:
Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater, film and dubbing actor, TV presenter; Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Member of the Public Council of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Leonid Semenovich Kanevsky was born on May 2, 1939 in Kiev in a Jewish family. My mother studied piano at the Kiev Conservatory, graduated from the 2nd year, got married at the age of 19, left the conservatory and went with her husband to the Caucasus, where he worked. In 1933, the elder brother Alexander was born, 6 years later Leonid was born.

At the age of 17, he left for Moscow and entered the Shchukin College for the course of Vera Konstantinovna Lvova.

From 1960 to 1967, he was an actor of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater.

From 1967 to 1991 — actor of the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.

His film debut was a cameo role in the film "Forty Minutes before Dawn" (1963).

The actor was widely known for the role of police major Alexander Tomin in the TV series "The Investigation is conducted by Experts", as well as the role of a smuggler in the comedy "Diamond Hand" and haberdasher Bonacieux in the mini-series "D'Artagnan and Three the Musketeer."

In 1991, he repatriated to Israel, where, together with director Eugene Arie, he created the Gesher Drama Theater in Tel Aviv (translated from Hebrew - "bridge"); the basis of his troupe are Russian actors who played on the stages of Moscow and Leningrad theaters.

In 2003, he was the host of the TV game "The Ninth Shaft" on the Israeli Channel 9.

From January 2006 to the present — presenter of the documentary TV show "The investigation was conducted ..." on "NTV".

In 2009, he starred in the TV series "Semin" and "Semin. Retribution."

He also took part in the dubbing of the cartoon "Cars 2" in the role of scout Finn Mcmistle.

Over the years of his creative activity, the actor has starred in more than fifty films and television series.

Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.

place_of_birth: Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]


Levan Gabriadze

biography: Levan Gabriadze is a Georgian-Russian actor and film director.

place_of_birth: Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR


Chlöe Bailey

biography: Chloe Elizabeth Bailey (born July 1, 1998), also known by her mononymous stage name Chlöe, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is best known for being one half of the musical duo Chloe x Halle along with her sister Halle. As an actress she is best known for her roles as Jazz Forster on the sitcom Grown•ish and Tosha Brown in Tyler Perry's film Meet the Browns.

place_of_birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA


Irina Murzayeva

place_of_birth: Krasnoufimsk, Russian Empire


Mikhail Efremov

place_of_birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR


Matt Bardock

biography: Matt Bardock (born 5 April 1969) is a British actor best known for playing paramedic Jeff Collier in the BBC's long running medical drama Casualty from 2007 to 2014 and DS Davey Higgins in The Coroner.

place_of_birth: Coulsdon, Surrey, England, UK


Joan Marie Laurer

biography:
Joan Marie Laurer (stage name Chyna) was a former American professional wrestler, actress, bodybuilder and pornographic film actress who was under contract to Vivid Entertainment. Chyna first rose to prominence upon debuting in the professional wrestling promotion WWE in 1997, where she performed under the ring name Chyna and was billed as the "Ninth Wonder of the World" (André the Giant was already billed as the eighth). A member of the stable D-Generation X, she held the WWE Intercontinental Championship (the first female wrestler to do so) and WWE Women's Championship, and was the first female wrestler to participate in the Royal Rumble and King of the Ring events. Since leaving the WWE in 2001, Chyna had wrestled sporadically, most notably with New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2002 and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2011. Laurer had a strained relationship with her family. She last saw her mother at the age of sixteen, and she claimed that her father never got over her decision not to join the FBI. She also alleged that her father took out several student loans in her name and without her knowledge, leaving her with $40,000 in debt. On an episode of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew in 2008, Laurer claimed to have a bad relationship with all of her family members, including her siblings. In September 2010, Laurer was hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping medication. As of February 2015, Laurer had reestablished a good relationship with her mother; her father died in May 2014.

Laurer taught English in Japan.

On February 9, 2015, during a WWE Network podcast with Steve Austin, Triple H mentioned that Chyna deserved to be in the WWE Hall of Fame but that problems with children Googling her prohibited it. After being in contact with Vince Russo she claimed in an interview that Triple H had hit her, which he later called a false statement.

Death

On April 20, 2016, Laurer was found dead at her home in Redondo Beach, California. She had been taking medication for anxiety and sleep deprivation. An official statement was posted to her Twitter account, saying "It is with deep sadness to inform you today that we lost a true icon, a real life superhero ... She will live forever in the memories of her millions of fans and all of us that loved her."

place_of_birth: Rochester, New York, USA


Robert Liensol

biography: Robert Liensol was born on 9 September 1922 in Saint-Barthélémy, French West Indies. He was an actor, known for L'exil du roi Behanzin (1994), Target (1985) and Coco-the-Flower, Candidate (1979). He died on 13 February 2011 in Paris, France.  Robert Liensol founded in 1954 and managed to 1972 the "Compagnie des Griots", the first French company of black actors. In that troupe, were Darling Légitimus, Théo Légitimus, Jenny Alpha, Bachir Touré, Toto Bissainthe, Thimotée Bassari, Lydia Ewandéand Danièle Van Berkeycke. They created "Les Nègres" by Jean Genet, directed by Roger Blin, "La tragédie du Roi Christophe" and "Une saison au Congo" by Aimé Césaire both directed by Jean-Marie Serreau. He merged the Griots company with the "Shango" theatre troupe of Med Hondo called "Griots-Shango"in 1972.

place_of_birth: Saint-Barthélémy


Paul Solet

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Paul Solet (born June 13, 1979) is an American film director, film producer, writer and actor.

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place_of_birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.


Tamera Mowry-Housley

biography: Tamera Mowry-Housley is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, television host and producer who first rose to fame as a teenager starring alongside her identical twin sister, Tia Mowry, in the iconic 1990s sitcom Sister, Sister. Over a multi-decade career, she successfully transitioned from a beloved child star to a prominent daytime television personality and lifestyle entrepreneur

place_of_birth: Gelnhausen, Hesse, West Germany [now Germany]


Sverrir Gudnason

place_of_birth: Lund, Skåne län, Sweden


John Ventimiglia

biography: John Ventimiglia is an actor and writer.

place_of_birth: Ridgewood, Queens, New York City, New York, USA


Noomi Rapace

biography:
Noomi Rapace (Swedish: [ˈnǒːmɪ raˈpasː]; née Norén; born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish actress. She achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium series (2009): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. For her performance in the Millennium series, Rapace won, amongst others, two Nymphe d'Or, a Guldbagge Award, and a Satellite Award as Best Actress, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award, an International Emmy Award and a European Film Award. Following the success of the Millennium series, Rapace has gone on to star in American movies.

She has also starred as Anna in Daisy Diamond (2007), Leena in Beyond (2010), Anna in The Monitor (2011), Madame Simza Heron in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), Beatrice in Dead Man Down (2013), Nadia in The Drop (2014), Raisa Demidova in Child 44 (2015), the seven lead roles in What Happened to Monday (2017), Leila in Bright (2017), Rupture (2016), Bianca Lind in Stockholm (2018), Sam Carlson in Close (2019), Lizzie in Angel of Mine (2019), Harriet Bauman in Jack Ryan (TV series, 2019), Maja in The Secrets We Keep (2020), Maria in Lamb (2021), Lisa in The Trip (2021), Bosilka in You Won't Be Alone (2022) and Caroline Edh in Black Crab (2022).

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place_of_birth: Hudiksvall, Gävleborgs län, Sweden


Marc Webb

biography:
Marc Preston Webb (born August 31, 1974) is an American filmmaker and music video director. Webb made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with the romantic comedy “500 Days of Summer” and went on to direct “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012) and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” (2014), which were later dubbed the "Webb-Verse" by Marvel Studios in 2021. He also directed the drama films “Gifted” and “The Only Living Boy in New York” (both 2017) and the Disney remake of “Snow White” (2025).

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place_of_birth: Bloomington, Indiana, USA


Damon Wayans Jr.

biography:
Damon Kyle Wayans Jr. (born November 18, 1982) is an American actor and comedian. He starred as Brad Williams in the ABC sitcom Happy Endings, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012, and as Coach in the Fox sitcom New Girl. In 2014, he starred in the comedy film Let's Be Cops, and provided the voice of Wasabi in Big Hero 6.

He is the eldest son of actor and comedian Damon Wayans, and nephew of Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kim Wayans, and Marlon Wayans.

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place_of_birth: Huntington, Vermont, USA


Roar Uthaug

biography: Roar Uthaug is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from The Norwegian Filmschool in 2002.

place_of_birth: Lørenskog, Norway


Yammie Lam Kit-Ying

biography: Yammie Lam Kit-Ying, also known as Yammie Nam, was a Hong Kong actress and most notable for her performances in TVB drama series The Greed of Man and Looking Back In Anger, as well as in the film series A Chinese Odyssey. Lam was found dead in her apartment at Leung Ma House in Stanley, Hong Kong, on 31 October 2018.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Alison Brie

biography:
Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress, writer, and producer. She received recognition for her starring roles as Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), Annie Edison in the comedy series Community (2009–2015), Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020), and as Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW (2017–2019), for which she received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

In addition to her television work, Brie has also starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011); The Five-Year Engagement (2012); The Lego Movie (2014); Get Hard (2015); Sleeping with Other People (2015); How to Be Single (2016); The Little Hours (2017); The Disaster Artist (2017); The Post (2017); Promising Young Woman (2020); Horse Girl (2020), which she also co-wrote and produced; and The Rental (2020).

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place_of_birth: Hollywood, California, USA


Brenda Song

biography: Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress, film producer, and model. Song started in show business as a child fashion model. Her early television work included roles in the shows Fudge (1995) and 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999). After many commercials and television roles in the late 1990s, Song won a Young Artist Award for her performance in The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000). She made her screen debut in Santa with Muscles (1996) and appeared in 20th Century Fox's Like Mike (2002). Her movies on the Disney Channel include Get a Clue (2002) and Stuck in the Suburbs (2004). In 2005, Song began playing the lead female role of London Tipton in the Disney series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. The character was noted as Disney's longest continuous female character in October 2009. Song gained more fame after she played the title role in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, which received over 5.7 million viewers on the night of its premiere. In 2006, Song was named the "Queen of Disney" by Cosmogirl Magazine. In the late 2000s, she starred in the coming-of-age drama Special Delivery, Walt Disney Pictures' College Road Trip, and The Social Network (2010). She was the celebrity endorser of Disney Cruise Lines in 2010. Song has been described as one of "young Hollywood’s most promising rising stars" and a "young phenomenon on the rise" by media outlets. TV Guide listed her in its 2008 list of "13 Hottest Young Stars to Watch".

place_of_birth: Carmichael, California, USA


Jesse Plemons

biography:
Jesse Plemons (/ˈplɛmənz/; born April 2, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a breakthrough with his role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2012–2013) and its sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). He received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role as Ed Blumquist in season 2 of the FX anthology series Fargo (2015). He won a Critics' Choice Television Award. He received a second Emmy nomination for his performance in "USS Callister", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror (2017).

Plemons has acted in supporting roles in films such as The Master (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), Game Night (2018), The Irishman (2019), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He starred in Other People (2016) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). For playing a rancher in The Power of the Dog (2021), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and for playing three roles in the anthology film Kinds of Kindness (2024), he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.

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place_of_birth: Dallas, Texas, USA


Rebecca Staab

biography:
Rebecca Staab is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder.

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place_of_birth: Hays, Kansas, USA


Joseph Culp

biography:
Joseph Culp (born January 9, 1963) is an American actor and director. He is the son of actor Robert Culp and his second wife, Nancy Ashe. He received his acting training at HB Studio in New York City.

Culp appeared in a recurring role as Archie Whitman, the depression-era father of Jon Hamm's character Don Draper in the AMC series Mad Men. He was the first actor ever to play Doctor Doom in the first film version of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four in the unreleased film, The Fantastic Four. He also narrated the film September 11—The New Pearl Harbour by Massimo Mazzucco.

Culp also featured in the neo-noir detective video game L.A. Noire as Walter Robbins in the homicide case "The Studio Secretary Murder".

He co-founded the Walking-In-Your-Shoes technique with Joseph Cogswell, a body-mind approach. In 1992, he and Cogswell founded the Walking Theatre Group, based in Los Angeles.

He is the uncle of American rapper Bones.

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place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Judith Rascoe

biography:
Judith Rascoe (born April 17, 1941) is an American screenwriter known for films like Havana, Who'll Stop the Rain, and Road Movie.

She attended Stanford University, spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Bristol, studied at Harvard for a time, and soon after began publishing short stories.

She later worked as a journalist and as a teacher of fiction at Yale before turning to screenwriting almost by accident. Independent director Joe Strick came across one of her stories in The Atlantic and asked her if she'd like to write a script. That offer turned into her 1973 debut, Road Movie.

In 1973, she also published a book of short stories called Yours, and Mine.

place_of_birth: San Francisco, California, USA


Steven R. McQueen

biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steven R. McQueen (born Steven Chadwick McQueen;  July 13, 1988) is an American actor, best known for his role as Jeremy Gilbert in The CW show The Vampire Diaries  and his recurring role as Kyle Hunter in Everwood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven R. McQueen, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Konstantin Lopushansky

biography: Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky (Russian: Константин Сергеевич Лопушанский; born June 12, 1947) is a Soviet and Russian film director, film theorist and author. He is best known for directing post-apocalyptic films Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989), Russian Symphony (1994) and The Ugly Swans. He also assisted Andrei Tarkovsky in directing the legendary film Stalker, based on the novel Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky.

place_of_birth: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR


Peter van den Begin

place_of_birth: Berchem, Flanders, Belgium


Nelson Franklin

biography:
Franklin was born to father Howard Franklin, a screenwriter and director. His stepmother is DJ Anne Litt. Franklin attended high school at Campbell Hall School in Studio City, California. He graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Franklin's first major role was a recurring role as Nick, the I.T. worker on NBC's The Office. Franklin later went on to appear as a series regular on the short-lived FOX comedy series Traffic Light. He appears with another Office actor, David Denman, who played Pam's ex-fiancée Roy. His side projects include a short for Funny or Die: a fake commercial promoting the Dudes-N-Bros Talking Points System, which is a service that helps guys who aren't dudes or bros hold a conversation with dudes and bros. He co-starred on the CBS sitcom The Millers and appeared on FOX sitcom New Girl, the HBO political comedy Veep, Black-ish, and Abby's.


Hayley Kiyoko

biography:
Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft (born April 3, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and author. As a child model and actress, she appeared in a variety of films, including Lemonade Mouth (2011), Jem and the Holograms (2015), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), and XOXO (2016). Alongside her film roles, she also had recurring roles in the TV series  Wizards of Waverly Place (2010) and The Fosters (2014), as well as lead roles on CSI: Cyber (2015–2016) and Five Points (2018–2019).

Kiyoko issued three solo extended plays: A Belle to Remember (2013), This Side of Paradise(2015), which includes the single "Girls Like Girls", and Citrine (2016). Following the singles "Sleepover", "Feelings", and "Curious", she released her debut studio album, Expectations (2018), which reached the top 20 of the charts in the United States, Canada, and Australia. She has since released a fourth extended play, I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit (2020) and her second studio album Panorama (2022).

In 2023, Kiyoko released her debut novel, Girls Like Girls, published by Wednesday Books. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Sellers list for Young Adult Hardcover and won the Goldie Award for Young Adult Fiction by the Golden Crown Literary Society. She has also created a comic book, with the help of Naomi Franquiz and Marla Vazquez, based on her song "Gravel to Tempo".

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Tony Leondis

biography:
Anthony Leondis (born March 24, 1972) is an American former animator, filmmaker, and voice actor, known for directing The Emoji Movie, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Igor, and the unreleased DreamWorks Animation film B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Yuliya Mayarchuk

biography:
Yuliya Mayarchuk (Ukrainian: Ю́лія Маярчу́к), born April 20, 1977 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine (when it was part of the Soviet Union), is a Ukrainian actress.

She had the lead role in the 2000 movie Trasgredire by Tinto Brass.

place_of_birth: Mykolaïv, Ukraine


Lee Hirsch

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Lee Hirsch (born 1972) is a documentary filmmaker. Hirsch wrote and directed the documentary Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony.

Hirsch also contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky).

As an outgrowth of his video work with the Black Eyed Peas, Hirsch directed John Legend's video "Show Me", in 2007.

His latest film The Bully Project will premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.

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known_for_department: Production


Kali Hawk

biography: Kali Hawk (born October 4, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Couples Retreat (2009), Bridesmaids (2011), and Fifty Shades of Black (2016).

place_of_birth: New York, New York, U.S


Hugo Myatt

place_of_birth: Hendon, London, England, UK


Tim Minchin

biography:
Tim Minchin is an Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer. He has been performing his unique brand of musical comedy in front of appropriately excitable and ever growing audiences since starting out in South Melbourne’s Butterfly Club in 2005. He won the Director’s Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for his break-out show Darkside, and followed this later the same year with one of the most successful debut acts ever at the Edinburgh Fringe – winning the

Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. Without wanting to go on and on about it, he’s done some pretty successful live shows since then, often in Australia or the UK, but also on the North American continent (yes that includes you too Canada). But not you Guatemala. Maybe one day.  His current songs span topics such as environmentalism, rationalism, prejudice(ism) and his amour de boobs(ism). In fact it would hardly be over the top to say that his love of boobs would be up there in the back of Plato’s cave in the bit that’s carved out for the most perfect and complete example of the love of boobs. But not in a weird way. During his shows he plays the piano, always nicely and oftentimes wildly and excitingly, whilst looking wonderfully athletic, in a pair of delightfully uncomfortable skinny jeans.  Tim has made many TV appearances: most recently on Good News Week in Australia and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in the UK. He’s also performed on radio; his most recent project being Strings, a brand new comedy sitcom pilot for BBC Radio 2, which he both wrote and starred in. His acclaimed 9-minute beat poem, Storm, is being animated for release in October. Tim is currently writing the music and lyrics for the musical Matilda with the Royal Shakespeare Company. This adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic opens in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010.  Tim, his wife and two young children, now live in London.

place_of_birth: Northampton, England, UK


Warren Ellis

biography:
Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of several original comic series, including Transmetropolitan (1997–2002), Global Frequency (2002–2004), and Red (2003–2004), which was adapted into the feature films Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013). Ellis is the author of the novels Crooked Little Vein (2007) and Gun Machine (2013) and the novella Normal (2016).

A prolific comic book writer, Ellis has written several Marvel series, including Astonishing X-Men, Thunderbolts, Moon Knight, and the "Extremis" story arc of Iron Man, which was the basis for the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Iron Man 3 (2013). Ellis created The Authority and Planetary for WildStorm and wrote a run of Hellblazer for Vertigo and James Bond for Dynamite Entertainment. Ellis wrote the video games Hostile Waters (2001), Cold Winter (2005), and Dead Space (2008). He also wrote the animated TV movie G.I. Joe: Resolute (2009), wrote the English version of Marvel Anime (2010–2011), and served as the head writer on the acclaimed animated Netflix series Castlevania (2017–2021).

Ellis is well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist (most notably nanotechnology, cryonics, mind transfer, and human enhancement) and folkloric themes, often in combination with each other. He is a humanist and former patron of Humanists UK, a charity focused on promoting humanism and advancing secularism. He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England.

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Reda Kateb

biography:
Reda Kateb (born 27 July 1977) is a French actor.

Kateb was born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin. He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine. He grew up in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, where he lived until 2011 before moving to Montreuil.

His short film Pitchoune was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France


Anna Wintour

biography:
Anna Wintour, OBE (born November 3, 1949) is the British-born editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and sunglasses, Wintour has become an institution throughout the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and her support for younger designers. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour".

She is the eldest daughter of Charles Wintour, editor of the London Evening Standard. Anna became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her father consulted her on how to make the newspaper relevant to the youth of the era. Her career in fashion journalism began at two British magazines. Later she moved to the United States, with stints at New York and House & Garden. She returned home for a year to turn around British Vogue, and later assumed control of the franchise's magazine in New York, reviving what many saw as a stagnating publication. Her use of the magazine to shape the fashion industry has been the subject of debate within it. Animal rights activists have attacked her for promoting fur, while other critics have charged her with using the magazine to promote elitist views of femininity and beauty.

A former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 bestselling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, later made into a successful film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor widely believed to be based on Wintour. In 2009 she was the focus of another film, R.J. Cutler's documentary The September Issue.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Oscar Kightley

biography: Oscar Vai To'elau Kightley MNZM (born 14 September 1969) is a Samoan-born New Zealand actor, television presenter, writer, journalist, director, and comedian.

place_of_birth: Apia, Samoa


Liz White

biography: Liz White is an English film and television actress, best known for playing Annie Cartwright in the BBC drama "Life on Mars". She trained at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, England, UK.

place_of_birth: Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK


Anne Marie DeLuise

place_of_birth: St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Lyman Ward

biography: Lyman Ward (born June 21, 1941) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Creature (1984), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Milk and Honey (1988).

place_of_birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada


Fred Wolf

biography: Fred Wolf is an American animator and director. His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as "The Point!" and "Free to Be...You and Me", and television series such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "James Bond Jr.", and Sarah Ferguson’s "Budgie the Little Helicopter". Wolf was also responsible for the famous Tootsie Pops “How Many Licks” commercial.

place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.


Jang Jin

place_of_birth: Seoul, South Korea


Michelle Brezinski

biography: Michelle Brezinski is a Canadian actress, voice actress, screenwriter, director and producer. Her extensive list of guest roles includes well-known series such as Supernatural (as Mrs. Collins in the episode "Wendigo"), Fringe, Psych, iZombie, Riverdale, Arrow and So Help Me Todd

place_of_birth: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada


Miguel Piñero

biography: Miguel Piñero was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.

place_of_birth: Gurabo, Puerto Rico


Tom Sturridge

biography: Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (born 5 December 1985) is an English actor. His early films include Being Julia (2004), Like Minds (2006), The Boat That Rocked (2009), and On the Road (2012). He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performances in Orphans (2013) and Sea Wall/A Life (2019). He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2016 for his performance in a West End revival of the play American Buffalo. Sturridge starred as Dream in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman (2022–2025).


Ferelith Young

biography: Ferelith Young is a Canadian stage, screen and voice actress. She has nearly two decades of experience working fluently in both English and French. Her work spans film, major television series and high-profile video games.


Masako Nozawa

biography:
Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Tokyo. Throughout her life, she has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce and self-owned Office Nozawa; she is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. Her late husband, Masaaki Tsukada, was also a voice actor.

As a voice actress, she is best known for the role of Son Goku in the popular anime franchise Dragon Ball, as well as all of Goku's male family relatives (except Raditz) and the villainous Goku Black. She has also voiced Tetsurō Hoshino (Galaxy Express 999) and Kitarō (GeGeGe no Kitarō, first and second series). In addition, she has also voiced two separate characters named "Hiroshi"; a character in Dokonjō Gaeru, and the characters known in the U.S. as "Pidge" and "Haggar" in Hyakujūō Golion. She also voiced Doraemon in the 1973 anime, replacing male actor Kōsei Tomita, who voiced the character in the first 26 episodes. In the 1979 anime, she was replaced by Nobuyo Ōyama, however Masako voiced Doraemon again in a 1988 special entitled Early English with Doraemon for unknown reasons.

place_of_birth: Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan


Osamu Suzuki

biography: Osamu Suzuki (鈴木おさむ) is a Japanese television writer, screenwriter, lyricist, radio personality, and tarento. Suzuki's pseudonym is Sumasuma Suzuki (すますま・すずき).

place_of_birth: Chiba, Japan


Gal Gadot

biography:
Gal Gadot (Hebrew: גל גדות, born 30 April 1985) is an Israeli actress, producer, and former model. She gained worldwide recognition for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, a performance widely praised for redefining the iconic superhero for a new generation and establishing her as one of Hollywood’s leading actresses. In 2018, Gadot was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world and ranked by Forbes as the tenth-highest-paid actress, later rising to third-highest in 2020. In 2025, she became the first Israeli actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Before beginning her acting career, Gadot was crowned Miss Israel 2004 and later represented her country at the Miss Universe pageant. She subsequently transitioned into acting, earning international attention as Gisele Yashar in the Fast & Furious franchise before achieving global stardom as Wonder Woman. Beyond acting, she has also built a successful career as a producer through Pilot Wave Motion Pictures, developing projects with a focus on compelling, character-driven stories.

Gadot first portrayed Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). The success of the film led to her starring in Wonder Woman (2017), which became a major box office hit, received critical acclaim, and is widely regarded as one of the defining superhero films of its era. She reprised the role again in Justice League (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), the latter of which she co-produced. Since then, she has starred in Red Notice (2021), Death on the Nile (2022), and Heart of Stone (2023), which she co-produced. In 2025 she portrayed the Evil Queen in Snow White and Gemma Donati in In the Hand of Dante.

Throughout her career, Gadot has been recognized for her charisma, screen presence, and versatility across action, adventure, thriller, mystery, and fantasy films. She has become one of the most internationally recognizable actresses of her generation, serving as a global ambassador for several major brands while supporting numerous charitable initiatives focused on children, healthcare, and women’s empowerment.

place_of_birth: Petah Tikva, Israel


Georgina Reilly

biography: Georgina Reilly is an English-born actress born in Surrey, England, UK.

place_of_birth: Guildford, Surrey, England, UK


Scott Mann

biography: Scott Mann (born 1979) is a British filmmaker. He is the creator of the Fall franchise. He is best known for directing the films The Tournament (2009), Heist (2015), Final Score (2018) and Fall (2022).

place_of_birth: Newton Aycliffe, United Kingdom


Alisen Richmond-Peck

biography: Alisen Down was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada. After graduating high school, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California and from there went to England to study with the British American Academy in Oxford.

place_of_birth: Langley, British Columbia, Canada


Ruben Fleischer

biography:
Ruben Samuel Fleischer (/ˈflaɪʃər/; born October 31, 1974) is an American film director, film producer, television producer, music video director, and commercial director who lives in Montclair, New Jersey. He is best known as the director of Zombieland (2009), his first feature film, and its sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap(2019). He has also directed the films 30 Minutes or Less, Gangster Squad, Uncharted, and 2018's Venom, which features the same Marvel Comics character. Before the features, he directed television commercials for brands like Cisco, Eurostar, ESPN, and Burger King and music videos for artists such as M.I.A., Electric Six, DJ Format and Gold Chains.

Fleischer was born and raised in Washington, D.C, the son of Karen Lee (née Samuel) and David Elliot Fleischer, a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and a professor of medicine. His brother, Lucas, works in new media. His father was born to a Jewish family, while his mother converted to Judaism. Fleischer was raised in Reform Judaism.

After graduating with a history major from Wesleyan University, Fleischer moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a freelance HTML programmer, unsure what he wanted to do with his life.

Taking the advice of close friend Mike White (also a Wesleyan graduate), Fleischer worked as a PA in the writers' office of Dawson's Creek. He eventually turned to directing and worked his way through the industry, tackling music videos and television commercials before landing his first feature film, Zombieland, in 2009. His second feature, 30 Minutes or Less, opened in theaters on August 12, 2011.

Fleischer directed Gangster Squad, a 2013 action thriller film based on the special tactical group created by the LAPD to combat the Los Angeles crime family. He next directed Venom, a film about the Marvel Comics character Eddie Brock, starring Tom Hardy; it was released on October 5, 2018.

In 2019, he directed Zombieland: Double Tap, reuniting the four original leads. In February 2020, he was hired to direct Uncharted, based on the video game series of the same name. In September 2022, he was hired to direct Now You See Me 3.

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place_of_birth: Washington, D.C., USA


Sarah Hyland

biography:
Sarah Jane Hyland (born November 24, 1990) is an American actress. Born in Manhattan, she attended the Professional Performing Arts School, then had small roles in the films Private Parts (1997), Annie (1999), and Blind Date (2007).

Hyland is best known for playing Haley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family, for which she received critical acclaim and numerous accolades and nominations, including four Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, which she shared with her cast members; and a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Hyland is also known for her roles in the films Geek Charming (2011), Struck by Lightning (2012), Scary Movie 5 (2013), Vampire Academy (2014), See You in Valhalla (2015), XOXO (2016), Dirty Dancing (2017) and The Wedding Year (2019).

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Christa Théret

biography:
Christa Théret (born 25 June 1991) is a French actress, best known for her roles as Lola in LOL (Laughing Out Loud) and as Andrée Heuschling in Renoir.

As a child, Théret aspired to be a teacher and then to become an actress.

Théret's acting career began at the age of 11; while playing in a school playground, she was noticed by a casting director, who then hired her for the film The Axe, in 2005. In this film, directed by Costa-Gavras, she plays Betty, the daughter of Bruno and Marlène Davert (played by José Garcia and Karin Viard).

In 2007, she played Julie, a gothic teenager, in the film Et toi, t'es sur qui? (selected at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category and for the Caméra d'or). While enrolled at the Lycée Jules Ferry in Paris, she dropped out of school at the age of 17. In 2008, she had her first big break with the lead role in Lisa Azuelos' blockbuster LOL (Laughing Out Loud), co-starring with Sophie Marceau. The commercial success of this film brought her to the attention of the general public, and she was nominated for a César for Best Promising Actress.

From April to June 2009, she shot The Village of Shadows, the directorial debut of Fouad Benhammou, followed in October by Le Mariage de chiffon, directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (director of Le Grand Meaulnes). This was the 5th episode of the Contes et nouvelles du XIXe siècle season, broadcast in April 2010 on France 2. At the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010, she starred in Bertrand Blier's new film, The Clink of Ice, alongside Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel.

In 2010, she took on a series of projects, starting with Christophe Sahr's first film, Free Way, with Johan Libéreau and Isabelle Candelier. She also starred in Lars Blumers' Mike, with Marc-André Grondin and Éric Elmosnino.

In 2012, she starred in The Man Who Laughs as Déa. In 2013, she played the lead in Renoir, directed by Gilles Bourdos, and appeared in Marguerite, by Xavier Giannoli.

Since 2013, she has acted in numerous films including Olivier Loustau's The Boss's Daughter (2015) and Olivier Assayas's Non-Fiction (2018).

Théret featured in Foals' 2019 music video for the track "Exits", as well as Yung Lean's "My Agenda".

In 2023, she released a poem set to music, Gare Saint-Lazare. In the same year, she starred in Bertrand Mandico's Conann.

In the future, she wants to be a director. She is also writing her first short film.

Apart from acting, Théret writes experimental poetry, which she illustrates with her own drawings.

place_of_birth: Paris, France


John Paul Jones

biography:
John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English musician, composer and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prior to forming the band with Jimmy Page in 1968, he was a session musician and arranger. After the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980, Led Zeppelin disbanded, and Jones developed a solo career. He has collaborated with musicians across a variety of genres, including the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as a member of Led Zeppelin.

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place_of_birth: Sidcup, Kent, England, UK


Michiel Huisman

biography:
Michiel Huisman (born July 18, 1981) is a Dutch film and television actor, musician, and singer-songwriter, who has acted in both Dutch and English-language productions. He's best known for his roles on television series as Eric 'Prince' Haase on Echo 3, Olivier Meyer on Angela Black, Alex Sokolov on The Flight Attendant, Steven Crain on The Haunting of Hill House, Walter Davidson on the miniseries Harley and the Davidsons, (the second) Daario Naharis on Game of Thrones, Cal Morrison on Orphan Black, Liam McGuinnis on Nashville, and Sonny on Tréme.

He's also known for his film roles as Dawsey Adams in The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Sam in Irreplaceable You, Ellis Jones in The Age of Adeline, Ellis in World War Z, and Ernest in The Young Victoria.

In Dutch TV series, he's known for his roles as Martijn Wager on Bloedverwanten, Hugo Biesterveld on De Co-assistent, Boudewijn Peuts on Meriden van de Wit, Bart on Costa!, and Rover on Goede tijden, slechte tijden.

place_of_birth: Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands


Rajinikanth

biography: Shivaji Rao Gaikwad, known by his mononymous stage name Rajinikanth, is an immensely popular actor in Tamil film industry of South India. He received the coveted Padma Vibhushan Award in 2016.  At the 45th International Film Festival of India (2014), he was conferred with the "Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year". At the 50th edition of the International Film Festival of India (2019), he was honoured with the Icon of Global Jubilee award. At the 67th National Film Awards, he was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

place_of_birth: Bangalore, Karnataka, India


Colman Domingo

biography:
Colman Jason Domingo (born November 28, 1969) is an American actor, playwright, and director. Prominent on both screen and stage since the 2010s, Domingo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.

Domingo's early Broadway roles include the 2005 play Well and the 2008 musical Passing Strange. He gained acclaim for his role as Mr. Bones in the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys (2011), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role in the 2014 West End production, receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical. In 2018, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.

After early roles in various incarnations of the Law & Order series and as part of the main cast for The Big Gay Sketch Show, Domingo had his breakthrough playing Victor Strand in the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023). He gained wider acclaim for his recurring role as the recovering drug addict Ali on the HBO series Euphoria (2019–present), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2022.

Domingo received consecutive nominations in 2024 and 2025 for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in the biopic Rustin and a prison inmate in the drama Sing Sing. His other notable film appearances include roles in Lincoln (2012), The Butler (2013), Selma (2014), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2021), and The Color Purple (2023).  Description above from the Wikipedia article Colman Domingo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Joyce Hyser

biography: Hyser appeared in various films in the early 1980s, the last of which — Just One of the Guys (1985) — achieved some cult status. She then mainly guest-starred in TV shows, including a recurring role in L.A. Law as Jimmy Smits's girlfriend. Hyser was interested in the role of Dr. Melfi on The Sopranos, but the role went to Lorraine Bracco. In the early 1990s, Hyser stopped appearing on TV in favor of once more making movies and screenwriting


Clayton Rohner

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Clayton Rohner (born August 5, 1957) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Rick Morehouse in the 1985 comedy movie Just One of the Guys. He also starred in the 1986 film Modern Girls as Clifford and Bruno X. He is a main character in the 1994 film Caroline at Midnight. Other credits include the films April Fool's Day, Destroyer and The Relic. Clayton starred in the short-lived science fiction series E.A.R.T.H. Force and G vs E. He starred in the 2005 film role in Formosa. Clayton's most recent film role is in the 2006 film Trespassers. His most recent TV role was Jared Pryor in the short-lived ABC midseason replacement Day Break.

Rohner starred on the TV series Murder One as Detective Vince Biggio from 1996 to 1997. His television guest appearances include Star Trek: The Next Generation as Admiral Jameson in the season 1 episode "Too Short a Season", Beverly Hills, 90210, Charmed, Crossing Jordan, Angel, and Weeds. He also appeared in the award-winning miniseries Into the West. Rohner was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Whitman college.

place_of_birth: Palo Alto, California, USA


Katsuhisa Namase

place_of_birth: Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan


Sharon Gans

biography:
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Sharon Gans (born July 29, 1942, in New York City) is an American actress. She played the part of Valencia, Billy Pilgrim's wife, in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five. Gans starred in the award-winning documentary Artists and Orphans: A True Drama.

In October 1988, Gans directed the play The Legend of Sharon Shashanovah, presented at the 47th Street Theater in New York City. Gans co-wrote A Chekhov Concert with Jordan Charney that was performed by the Moscow Contemporary Theater.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York


Cao Yu

biography: Cao Yu is a famous cinematographer. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in feature film photography, and worked in photography at Beijing Film Studio.

known_for_department: Camera


Harald Heide-Steen Jr.

biography: Harald Heide-Steen jr. was a Norwegian actor, comedian and jazz musician. He made his film debut at the age of twelve in "Storfolk og småfolk". Harald is best known as "Dynamitt-Harry" in the Norwegian Olsenbanden films and as "Daniel Gasmann Smestad" in the TV2 series "Karl & Co". He died on July 3, 2008 of incurable lung cancer.

place_of_birth: Oslo, Norway


Sverre Holm

biography: Sverre Holm was a Norwegian actor and singer. He is best known for his role as "Benny Fransen" in the Norwegian Olsenbanden films. Later he also became known among children for his role as "Stationmaster O. Tidemann" in the norwegian version of Sesame Street.

place_of_birth: Drammen, Buskerud, Norway


Joel Kinnaman

biography: Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman (born 25 November 1979) is a Swedish-American actor who first gained recognition for his roles in the Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. Kinnaman is known internationally for his television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in AMC's The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in the U.S. version of House of Cards. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the Warner Bros. film adaptations of the DC Comics anti-hero team Suicide Squad (2016), as well as James Gunn's 2021 sequel/soft reboot, The Suicide Squad. Since 2019, he has starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series For All Mankind.

place_of_birth: Stockholm, Sweden


Alexandra Rapaport

biography:
Alexandra Rapaport  is a Swedish actress and producer.

Graduating from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1997, she works regularly in film, television, and theatre, notably at the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten). She gained international recognition for her role as Nora Linde in the crime series The Sandhamn Murders (Morden i Sandhamn), as well as for her appearance in Thomas Vinterberg's film The Hunt (Jagten, 2012). She is also the executive producer and lead actress of the drama series Gåsmamman and Heder (Honour).

place_of_birth: Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden


Lynne Littman

biography: Lynne Littman (born June 26, 1941) is an American film and television director and producer. Her best known work is the 1983 film Testament and she has won several awards including an Academy Award for her documentary short film Number Our Days (1976).


Dawn Olivieri

biography:
Dawn Olivieri (born February 8, 1981) is an American actress perhaps best known for her turn as Lydia in Heroes and Monica Talbot in House of Lies.

She has appeared in the Showtime series House of Lies for 41 episodes, starting in 2012, playing the competitive management consultant and ex-wife of main character Marty Kaan and mother of their son, Roscoe Kaan. She acted as Janice Herveaux in the third season of the HBO series True Blood. She played a reporter and Damon Salvatore's girlfriend Andie Star in the hit CW show The Vampire Diaries. Wrapping up the 4th season on Heroes, she has also completed parts on TBS's My Boys, NBC's Knight Rider, TNT's Trust Me, and SyFy's Stargate: Atlantis, and recurred on CBS's How I Met Your Mother. Olivieri played a lead role in the SyFy movie Hydra, and she is the voice of Pepper Potts in the new Avengers animated series on Disney XD. She appeared in the October 2009 issue of Maxim. Olivieri appeared on HBO's Entourage on September 13, 2009, and hosted a contest on Scripped. She voiced Lucy Kuo in a PlayStation 3 video game, inFamous 2, which was released in June 2011.

As of March 2018, she has a recurring role on SEAL Team as Amy Nelson.

place_of_birth: Seminole, Florida, USA


Steve Vai

biography: Steve Vai is an American guitarist, composer, and producer widely recognized as one of the most technically accomplished virtuosos in rock music history. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he has won three Grammy Awards, sold over 15 million records, and established himself as a definitive "guitar god" through his jaw-dropping speed, unique phrasing, and eccentric instrument designs.

place_of_birth: Long Island, New York, USA


Barry Jenkins

biography:
Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a creative collaborator and a member of The Chopstars collective.

Following an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Jenkins directed and co-wrote the LGBTQ-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Jenkins received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and jointly won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Tarell Alvin McCraney. He became the fourth Black person nominated for Best Director and the second to direct a Best Picture winner. He released his third directorial feature If Beale Street Could Talk 2018, to critical praise and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.

He is also known for his work in television. In 2017, Jenkins directed "Chapter V" of the Netflix series Dear White People. In 2021, he created and directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad, based on the novel of the same name. The series received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination and won a Peabody Award. In 2017, Jenkins was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

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place_of_birth: Miami, Florida, USA


David Wohl

biography: David Wohl was born on September 22, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Revenge of the Nerds (1984), Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) and The Wackness (2008). He has been married to Eileen McMahon since August 1978.

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


Kōhei Oguri

biography:
Kōhei Oguri (小栗康平, Oguri Kōhei, born October 29, 1945, in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Born in Gunma, Oguri first became a freelance assistant director after graduating from Waseda University. He made his directorial debut in 1981 with Muddy River, which earned him both a Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and a citation in the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. Muddy River was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Silver Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1985 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.  His film The Sting of Death won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. He has also authored several books.

place_of_birth: Maebashi, Gunma, Japan


Christopher Scott Cherot

biography: Christopher Scott Cherot was born in November 1967 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for Hav Plenty (1998), G (2002) and Andre Royo's Big Scene (2004).

place_of_birth: The Bronx, New York, USA


Lance Hammer

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lance Hammer is an award-winning American filmmaker. His first film, Ballast, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.

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Kamal Haasan

biography: Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian filmmaker and politician, currently serving as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu. Among the most prominent and celebrated film auteurs in modern Indian cinema, his body of work spans over 230 films across six decades in a wide array of languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali. In addition to his extensive work as an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer and lyricist, he has also worked as an assistant director, choreographer, editor, make-up artist, narrator, television host, and film distributor. In 1987, he founded a literary magazine, Maiam, which he edited, and has written over 100 poems and some books. He was conferred the Kalaimamani in 1978, the Padma Shri in 1990, the Padma Bhushan in 2014, and the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier) by the Government of France in 2016. Haasan has also won the National Film Award four times (including three for Best Actor), and is also known for having starred in the most number of films (7) submitted by India in contention for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2025, he was invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to become a member of its actors' branch.

place_of_birth: Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, India


Domhnall Gleeson

biography: Domhnall Gleeson (born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor and son of the renowned actor Brendan Gleeson. Known for his versatility, Domhnall has appeared on Broadway, showcasing his stage talents in productions like The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He gained international recognition for his role as Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film series and has starred in acclaimed films such as Ex Machina, About Time, and The Revenant.

place_of_birth: Dublin, Ireland


Lo Mutuc

biography:
Lo Mutuc (/ˈmutuk/; formerly Charlyne Amanda Yi; born January 4, 1986) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and writer, known for their role as Dr. Chi Park in the Fox medical drama House (2011–2012), and for providing the voices of the Rubies in the Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe (2015–2018) and its epilogue series Steven Universe Future (2019–2020), Chloe Park in We Bare Bears (2015–2019), Alice in Summer Camp Island (2018–2023), Mai in Next Gen (2018), and Larry in StuGo (2025).

Mutuc's screenwriting debut, the feature film Paper Heart, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. As a comedian, their performances include music, magic, games, and often audience participation.

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place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Cate Shortland

biography:
Cate Shortland (born 10 August 1968) is an Australian director and screenwriter. She received international acclaim for her 2004 romantic drama film Somersault, her 2012 historical drama film Lore, and her 2017 psychological thriller film Berlin Syndrome. She is best known for directing the 2021 superhero film Black Widow.

Shortland was born in Temora, New South Wales. She graduated from the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, where she received the Southern Star Award for most promising student.

Shortland has created several award-winning short films: Strap on Olympia (1995); Pentuphouse (1998); Flower Girl (2000); and Joy (2000).

She spent three years directing episodes of the Network Ten television series, The Secret Life of Us.

In 2004, Shortland released her debut feature-length film, Somersault (2004), which was entered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. She directed the Australian television film The Silence.

Her second feature, Lore, had its Australian premiere at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. It won at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2012 the Prix du Public UBS. In November, the film won the Bronze Horse for best film at the Stockholm International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

In 2015, Shortland announced she was working on a third feature film, Berlin Syndrome. Based on the book of the same name by Melanie Joosten, the film starred Teresa Palmer as an Australian photojournalist who becomes imprisoned in the apartment of a man with whom she has a one-night stand. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

In July 2018, Shortland was announced as the director of the 2021 Black Widow film for Marvel Studios.

Shortland is a convert to Judaism. She married filmmaker Tony Krawitz in 2009, and they have two children.

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place_of_birth: Temora, New South Wales, Australia


Jessica Drake

biography: Texas native Jessica Drake was a dancer in an El Paso strip club that often featured porn stars, and she would watch them and think that she could do it better. She spoke with friends who were involved in the adult-film industry and eventually decided to give it a try herself. She made her first film in 2000, and that year was nominated for Best New Starlet at the AVN Awards. In addition to her work in hardcore, she has also appeared in quite a few "softcore" films made for cable TV and has made guest appearances on several TV series. In 2003 she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures.

place_of_birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA


Janel Parrish

biography:
Janel Meilani Parrish Long (born October 30, 1988) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for starring as Mona Vanderwaal in the mystery-drama franchise Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017, 2019) and as Margot Covey in the To All the Boys film series (2018–2021).

She also portrayed Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Misérables (1996), and Jade in the teen comedy film Bratz (2007).

place_of_birth: Oahu, Hawaii, USA


Jacob Tierney

biography: Jacob Daniel Tierney (born September 26, 1979) is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the son of veteran producer Kevin Tierney. He is an actor and producer, known for "The Trotsky" (2009), "Letterkenny" (2016) and "Twist" (2003), and is most recently known for his role as the creator, writer and director of the hit Crave TV series "Heated Rivalry."

place_of_birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Olga Mironova

biography: Olga Mironova is an actress, known for Come and See (1985).


Liubomiras Laucevičius

biography: Liubomiras Laucevičius (born June 15, 1950) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1979.

place_of_birth: Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]


Miloš Kopecký

biography:
Miloš Kopecký was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.  He was born into the family of craftsmen, Kopecký was involved with music and theater throughout his entire life.  Starting on stage in 1939, as a member of an amateur elocution group, Kopecký performed with numerous young artists during the German occupation of then Czechoslovakia.  Near the end of World War II, Kopecký’s mother was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp for her Jewish heritage, while Miloš was interned in the labor camp Bystřice u Benešova.  He would later credit these experiences as the cause for his struggle with Bipolar Disorder, then known as Manic-Depressive Disease.    Following the liberation, Kopecký began acting in the avant-garde studio Větrník in 1945, before joining the Vinohrady Theatre in 1965 at the behest of then-director František Pavlíček.  Kopecký  continued to make guest appearances at theaters throughout Prague, working with many notable actors of his era before appearing on film and television.  His first minor role was in the historic film Jan Roháč z Dubé (1947), but he quickly graduated to more important characters and gradually became one of the most popular actors in Czechoslovakia.   He may be best known today as Dr. Štrosmajer in the Czech television series Nemocnice na kraji města.  During his career he played mainly negative roles of traitors, lechers, and villain, which he famously depicted with elegance and esprit.

In the mid-1980s Kopecký acted in a politically biased documentary film about emigrants, and also presented very critical speech against current communist régimes in May, 1987, at the Fourth Congress of Dramatic Artists.  He was married five times, at one point to Czech actress Stella Zázvorková.

place_of_birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]


Suzy Kendall

biography:
Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1937) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her blonde attractive looks got her leading roles in some fairly prestigious productions. She later appeared in increasingly lower-profile films, including several giallo thrillers made in Italy and several TV series in the 1970s before retiring to spend more time with her family.

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place_of_birth: Belper, Derbyshire, England, UK


Will Poulter

biography:
William Jack Poulter (born 28 January 1993) is an English actor. He first gained recognition in School of Comedy (2009) and then for his role as Eustace Scrubb in the adventure film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) and his starring role in the comedy film We're the Millers (2013). He won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2014.

Poulter starred in the first and third films of the dystopian science fiction trilogy The Maze Runner (2014–2018), the period film The Revenant (2015), the drama film Detroit (2017), the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018), and the horror film Midsommar (2019). In 2021, he was featured in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor. In 2023, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. He had a recurring role in FX's series The Bear, which earned him another Emmy Award nomination.

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place_of_birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK