Kirsten Vangsness

biography: Kirsten Vangsness (born July 7, 1972) is an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as FBI technical analyst Penelope Garcia on CBS's Criminal Minds, as well as the spin-offs Suspect Behavior and Beyond Borders.

place_of_birth: Pasadena, California, USA


Anaïs Demoustier

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biography:
Anaïs Aude Marie Michèle Demoustier (born 29 September 1987) is a French actress. She was nominated for Most Promising Actress twice at the César Awards, in 2009 for Les Grandes Personnes and in 2011 for Living on Love Alone. In 2020, she won the César for Best Actress for her performance in the film Alice and the Mayor.

In April 2023, Demoustier was announced as the president of the Caméra d'Or Jury for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

During the filming of Marguerite & Julien, Demoustier began dating her co-star, Jérémie Elkaïm. In December 2015, it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child. Demoustier gave birth to a daughter in March 2016.

Her brother, Stéphane Demoustier, is a filmmaker and screenwriter.

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place_of_birth: Lille, Nord, France

known_for_department: Acting


Bill Bailey

biography: Bill Bailey was quite possibly one of the freshest faces as far as the male capacity of the porn business goes. In an industry that hires women more readily than men, Bill made his starting mark in 2009 and since then has appeared in over 500 productions. He had worked with several top studios including Wicked Pictures, Brazzers, Evil Angel, New Sensations and Zero Tolerance to name a few from a growing list of notable companies. Bill brought both reliability, boyishly good looks and muscularity to all of the scenes he had appeared in with some of the most popular female performers and also fellow newcomers to the business. He passed away on March 3, 2019 from an accidental fall.

place_of_birth: Tennessee, USA


Mr. Pete

biography: Handsome and muscular Mr. Pete was born on January 30, 1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He first got involved in the adult industry in the late 1990's after meeting hardcore actress Capri Cameron in a strip club. Mr. Pete first began performing in porn movies in 2000 and directed his first X-rated feature in 2003. Nominated for a XRCO Award for Unsung Woodsman in 2007, he won the XRCO Award for Unsung Swordsman in 2012. Moreover, Mr. Pete won the AVN Awards for Most Outrageous Sex Scene in 2004, Best Group Sex Scene in 2007, and Best Three-Way Sex Scene in 2011. He's married to adult film actress Alexis Texas.

place_of_birth: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


Michael Irby

biography:
Michael Clinton Irby (born November 16, 1972) is an American film and television actor. He is known for portraying Sergeant First Class Charles Grey in The Unit.

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place_of_birth: Palm Springs, California, USA


Lio Tipton

biography: Lio Tipton (formerly Analeigh Tipton; born November 9, 1988) is an American actor and fashion model. Tipton was the last contestant eliminated on Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model and played roles in the films Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Warm Bodies (2013), and Two Night Stand (2014).

place_of_birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Megan Taylor Harvey

biography: Megan Taylor Harvey is an American actress who is known for providing voices for English dubs of anime for New Generation Pictures and NYAV Post.

place_of_birth: North Hollywood, California, USA


Pierre Coffin

biography:
Pierre Coffin, born in 1967, is a French animator and director. He was trained at the Gobelins in Paris and started to work at Amblimation, the 2D London based facility, where he worked on the Steven Spielberg-executive-produced We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. He then started as a freelance animator in the French CGI studio Ex Machina where he worked as animator, animation supervisor, and eventually director. Afterwards, he started to collaborate with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff where in 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal. He also provided voices for a few of the minor characters. Peter Coffin has created animations named Pings ( animations of penguins being hurt or killed).

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place_of_birth: Limoges, France

known_for_department: Directing


Chris Renaud

biography:
Chris Renaud is an American illustrator and film-maker. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the 2006 animated short No Time for Nuts, which featured the character Scrat from the computer animated Ice Age films. Most recently, he directed Despicable Me, starring the voice of Steve Carell, which debuted #1 at the U.S. box office on July 9th, 2010.

After graduating from Syracuse University with an illustration degree, Renaud began work as a graphic designer in the sports entertainment industry. He has created logo designs and mascot characters for NFL Properties, the NBA, and Foot Locker, among others. After working as a designer and illustrator for a variety of publications and agencies, Chris began drawing and writing comic books. Working for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, his notable projects include illustrating Marvel's Starfleet Academy and pitching the original story concept that evolved into Batman: Cataclysm. This yearlong tale across all Batman-related comics resulted in increased sales and visibility for the renowned character.

As the production designer on the Disney Channels’ The Book of Pooh, Renaud transitioned into the world of children’s television. Since that groundbreaking project, he has been able to design virtual sets and puppet characters for Bear in the Big Blue House, Lazy Town, Curious Pictures, Sony Animation, and many more. With the new show It's a Big Big World, currently airing on PBS, he took the lead role in the visual development and design of every aspect of this Emmy-nominated children’s program.

Renaud worked for Blue Sky Studios as a story artist on such films as Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and the Dr. Seuss classic Horton Hears A Who!. He also wrote and co-directed the animated short No Time for Nuts, which received an Annie Award and a 2007 Oscar nomination within the animated short films category. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2006.

Renaud works for Illumination Entertainment and lives in Paris, France. He directed Despicable Me, starring Steve Carell, which was released in the U.S. on July 9, 2010.

place_of_birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Adam Horovitz

biography:
Adam Keefe Horovitz (born October 31, 1966), popularly known as Ad-Rock, is an American rapper, guitarist and actor. He is best known as a member of the pioneering hip hop group Beastie Boys.

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place_of_birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

known_for_department: Sound


Kimberley Nixon

biography:
 Kimberley Nixon (born 24 September 1985) is an English-born Welsh actress. Nixon is known for her role as Sophy Hutton in the BBC One period drama Cranford, and appearances in various films such as Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. She also starred as Josie Jones in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Fresh Meat and as Sarah Pearson in the BBC Two comedy Hebburn.

Born in Bristol to Welsh parents, Nixon and her six brothers were raised in Ynysybwl near Pontypridd, Wales, where she attended Coedylan Comprehensive School, now known as Pontypridd High School. After high school, Nixon trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff alongside Tom Cullen and Aneurin Barnard. Before her graduation in 2007, she signed to Universal Studios after appearing in a college production of The Comedy of Errors. She is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Wales.

Nixon's career began in 2007, when she starred as the motherless Sophy Hutton in the BBC One costume drama series Cranford. In 2008, she had supporting roles in the films Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Nixon appeared in Easy Virtue and played one of the leads in Cherrybomb opposite Rupert Grint and Robert Sheehan, before starring in Black Death. In 2011, Nixon played Josie in the Channel 4 TV comedy-drama series Fresh Meat, and starred alongside Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough and Iwan Rheon in Resistance, an adaptation of an Owen Sheers novel, which was released in the UK in November 2011. Nixon starred alongside Jaime Winstone and Aneurin Barnard in Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons, a horror film about an aspiring teen detective who stumbles into her first real case when investigating the mysterious new family, the Gammons, in her neighbourhood. The film was released on 20 April 2012. In 2012, Nixon starred in the movie Offender, a thriller about a man who sets up his own imprisonment in order to avenge the assault of his girlfriend. She also had leading roles in the ITV drama series "Kidnap and Ransom" and the BBC Two comedy-drama series Hebburn, alongside Chris Ramsey and Vic Reeves. The sitcom is written by stand-up comic Jason Cook and is based on his experiences of growing up in the north-east of England. Nixon starred in the medical drama Critical, with Lennie James, Emma Fryer and Paul Bazely, that debuted on Sky 1 on 24 February 2015. She also starred in a Welsh thriller titled Kingdom of Rain, with Julian Lewis Jones and Robert Kazinsky.  She took a lead role in the third season of Outlander.

place_of_birth: Bristol, England, UK


Zaida Bergroth

biography: Zaida Bergroth is a Finnish film director. She graduated from the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2004. Her first feature, Last Cowboy Standing was released in 2009.

place_of_birth: Kivijärvi, Finland


Lauri Tilkanen

biography:
Lauri Tilkanen (born 6 November 1987) is a Finnish actor. He has appeared on television and in films such as Skavabölen pojat (2009), Paha perhe (2010), Hiljaisuus (2011), Härmä (2012) and Juoppohullun päiväkirja (2012). He studied at the Helsinki Theatre Academy and graduated in 2012.

Tilkanen has been in a relationship with actress Pamela Tola since 2011. Tola gave birth to their son in March 2013. They married in 2015

place_of_birth: Karinainen, Finland


Miyoshi Umeki

biography: Miyoshi Umeki (梅木 美代志, Umeki Miyoshi; or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki, May 8, 1929 – August 28, 2007) was a Japanese American singer and actress. She was best known for being the first Asian actor to win an Academy Award for her acting debut as Katsumi in the romantic drama film Sayonara (1957).  Umeki was also best known for playing Mrs. Livingston in the television series The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969-1972) and for playing Mei Li in the broadway musical Flower Drum Song, which earned her a nomination for a Tony Award. She would later reprise the role for the musical's 1961 film adaptation.

place_of_birth: Otaru, Hokkaidō, Giappone


Yuri Mamin

biography:
Yuri Borisovich Mamin (Russian: Юрий Борисович Мамин; born 8 May, 1946; Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, stage director, screenwriter, composer, actor, author and television host, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. His "Window to Paris" (1993) remains one of the most popular movies in Russia. His Buddhist-themed film "Don't Think About White Monkeys" (2008) is popular among the Russian noncomformist youth, including punks and rockers. Yuri Mamin is the only person in Russia to have won the Chaplin's Golden Cane award. The award was presented by Charlie Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin, at the festival marking 100 years since the birth of the great comedian. The festival was held in the Swiss city of Vevey, where Chaplin was buried.

Mamin's works are known for a strong emphasis on social justice and criticism of hypocritical social norms. Because of this, he found difficult to find support for his productions in the totalitarian USSR, as well as in today's Russia, where film makers became dependent on corporate oligarchy. His characters often portray an inspired citizen in the fight for social justice against corporate capitalism.

Yuri Mamin began his directing career under the communist regime. He was never a communist and was always opposed to the oppressive power of the Communist Party. Because of this, he could not create his films until the beginning of Perestroika in 1985 and Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival to power. His works are popular among alternative socialist groups who criticize both capitalism and the Soviet system. The Gorbachev period ended in 1991 and Yuri Mamin again became a persona non grata for the criminal tycoons who almost immediately took over all the leading positions in Russian cinema and mass media. From the early 1990s, a group of official Russian film critics, controlled by the regime, began a period of notorious denigration of the film director and his art. Against this background, Mamin's films won the love of audiences throughout the nation. Almost all of his films received numerous grand prizes and other awards.

place_of_birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR


Patrick Yau Tat-Chi

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]


Andrew Scott

biography:
Andrew Scott (born 21 October 1976) is an Irish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, his accolades include a British Academy Television Award, Silver Bear Berlin International Film Festival, and two Laurence Olivier Awards, along with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

Scott first came to prominence portraying James Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017), for which he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. His role as the priest in the second series of Fleabag (2019) garnered him wider recognition. It earned him the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He is also known for his roles in the films Pride (2014), Spectre (2015), and 1917 (2019). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his starring role in the romantic drama film All of Us Strangers (2023). In 2024, he starred as Tom Ripley in the thriller series Ripley, for which he received Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award nominations as well as a Peabody Award.

On stage, Scott played the lead role of Garry Essendine in a 2019 production of Present Laughter at The Old Vic, for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He also won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre in 2005 for his role in A Girl in a Car with a Man at the Royal Court Theatre.

place_of_birth: Dublin, Ireland


Park Gri-na

biography: Greena Ell Park (born January 8, 1985) is a South Korean actress. Park debuted in the film The Ghost (2004). Known for her ability to act various characters, she is loved by many viewers for her outstanding roles, including the cafe waitress Hee-young in BABO (2008), the tom·boy Soon-nam in Once Upon a Time in Seoul (2008), and the female cop Lee Min-jae in the television series The Devil (2007).

place_of_birth: South Korea


Daniel Espinosa

biography: Jorge Daniel Espinosa (born 23 March 1977) is a Swedish film director from Trångsund, Stockholm of Chilean origin. He attended the National Film School of Denmark and graduated in 2001. His third feature film, Easy Money, was the Swedish film with most admissions in Sweden in 2010.

place_of_birth: Trångsund, Sweden


Mitsuki Saiga

biography:
Mitsuki Saiga is a Japanese voice actress. Due to her masculine voice she is mostly typecast to voice manly women or male characters.  Her major roles include Tsukasa in .hack, Maria Ross in Fullmetal Alchemist, MakubeX in GetBackers, Wolfram von Bielefeld in Kyo Kara Maoh! Chie in My-Hime / My-Otome, Teito Klein in 07-Ghost and Jing in Jing: King of Bandits. She is noted for having a deep voice that is used to portray male or masculine female characters. She won a Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2nd Seiyu Awards for her work in Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, Gurren Lagann and Toward the Terra. She also won the Overseas Fan Award at the 4th Seiyu Awards for her portrayals of Wolfram in Kyo Kara Maoh! and Souji Okita in Peacemaker Kurogane. As the band Mitsuki Saiga feat. Just, she released several albums and singles that have charted on Oricon.

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Makoto Satou is an alias of Saiga Mitsuki for adult games and anime.

place_of_birth: Saitama, Japan


Tom Bennett

biography: Tom Bennett is a British actor, best known for his roles in David Brent: Life on the Road, A.P. Bio and Red Dwarf.


Tom Amandes

biography: Tom Amandes (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor. His best known role to date is that of the role of Dr. Harold "Hal" Abbott on the The WB Drama series Everwood.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Ivy Chen Yi-Han

biography: Ivy Chen Yi-Han is a Taiwanese actress known for her award-winning performance in "Hear Me" (2009). She has since starred in various popular projects, including crime drama "Black & White", idol TV series "Skip Beat!" (2011), and Doze Niu's "Paradise in Service".

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Elisabeth Röhm

biography:
Elisabeth Röhm (born April 28, 1973) is a German-born American television actress. She is best known for playing the Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn in the American TV series Law & Order, and as Detective Kate Lockley in the TV series Angel.

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place_of_birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany


Micaela Ramazzotti

biography:
Micaela Ramazzotti (born 17 January 1979) is an Italian actress. Her film credits include Non prendere impegni stasera, The First Beautiful Thing and Il cuore grande delle ragazze. Ramazzotti was a regular cast member of the show Crimini bianchi.She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress for her role in The First Beautiful Thing in 2010.

She married film director, writer and producer Paolo Virzì, on January 17, 2009, in Livorno. Together they have 2 children: Jacopo (born 1 March 2010) and Anna (15 April 2013).

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place_of_birth: Rome - Lazio - Italy


Claudia Pandolfi

biography: Claudia Pandolfi was born in Rome, the daughter of the CEO of the Laura Biagiotti Fashion House. Her career began in 1991 on the stage of the Miss Italia beauty contest, in which she reached the semi-finals, capturing the attention of Michele Placido who offered her the main role in the drama film Le amiche del cuore. She reached a large popularity thanks to the television series Amico mio, Un medico in famiglia, Distretto di Polizia and I liceali.

place_of_birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy


Ryoko Kuninaka

biography: Ryōko Kuninaka is a Japanese actress and singer. She hails from Naha City in Okinawa, Japan and currently works for Vision Factory.

place_of_birth: Naha, Okinawa, Japan


Yūichi Abe

biography:
Yuichi Abe (アベ ユーイチ, Abe Yūichi, February 6, 1964) is a Japanese film director, anime director and screenwriter. He was born in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan. He was formerly known by his real name Yuichi Abe (阿部 雄一, Abe Yūichi) until 2004, when he changed his writing to アベ ユーイチ. He is mainly a live action and anime director.

Not to be confused with drama director of the same name Yûichi Abe (阿部 雄一)

place_of_birth: Sakata, Yamagata, Japan


Beverly Adams

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Beverly Adams (born November 7, 1940) is a Canadian-born actress and author.

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place_of_birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada


Pavel Blyakhin

place_of_birth: Saratovskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

known_for_department: Writing


Hideki Takeuchi

biography: Takeuchi Hideki is a Japanese TV drama director, producer, film director, CM director.

place_of_birth: Japan


Mohamed Saad

biography: Mohamed Saad is an Egyptian actor. His artistic career began with a small role in the series The Nile Still Flows, followed by several small roles in several films, including The Road to Eilat, in addition to the series Who Doesn't Love Fatma?. But his real breakthrough was through the character of El Lembi, which he presented for the first time in the film The Headmaster by director Sherif Arafa, then he moved with it and performed his first absolute starring in the movie E Lembi (2002). Saad's roles rolled after that, most of which depended on an eccentric character that he creates himself with strange names like Okal, Boha, Tatah, Puskas, and many others. Saad starred in the movies Mohamed Hussein, The Treasure, and My Life Is Poor.

place_of_birth: Cairo, Egypt


Makoto Satō

biography: Makoto Satō (18 March 1934 – 6 December 2012) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 2008.

place_of_birth: Kanzaki District, Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan


Elena Satine

biography: Elena Marié Satine (born November 24, 1987) is an American film actress and singer.

place_of_birth: Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [Republic of Georgia]


Ben Lokey

biography: Ben Lokey is known for his work on Breakin' (1984), Staying Alive (1983) and Captain EO(1986).


Viktor Avilov

place_of_birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR


Robert Goulet

biography: Robert Gerard Goulet (November 26, 1933 – October 30, 2007) was a Canadian American entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway musical Camelot. His long career as a singer and actor encompassed theatre, radio, television and film.

place_of_birth: Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA


Crystal Reed

biography: Crystal Reed (born February 6, 1985) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Denise in the feature film Skyline and as Allison Argent in the MTV series Teen Wolf.

place_of_birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA


Archie Panjabi

biography: Archana "Archie" Panjabi (born May 31, 1972) is a British film and television actress, best known for her roles in the movies "East Is East", "Bend It Like Beckham", and "A Mighty Heart", as well as for her portrayal of Kalinda Sharma in the CBS television series "The Good Wife". She graduated from Brunel University, England, with a degree in Management Studies (BSc).

place_of_birth: Edgware, Middlesex, England, UK


Alba Rohrwacher

biography:
Alba Rohrwacher is an Italian actress.

In 2009, she received a David di Donatello for Best Actress for her performance in Pupi Avati's Giovanna's Father. On 6 September 2014, Rohrwacher won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for the film Hungry Hearts.

place_of_birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy


Tim Kincaid

biography: Of the 'Sam & Joe Gage brothers' fame (Sam Christensen and Tim Kincaid). He used this alias to maintain a career on the 'legit' side of things.  Often considered one of the best, Joe Gage had several of the most commercially successful gay porn films of the 70's/early 80's era. Interestingly enough, he left the "adult" business just as video was taking over film, doing just one movie in video format (Closed Set 2), and directed a few low-budget horror films, under the name Tim Kincaid (such films as Breeders, and Robot Holocaust).  In several of his adult films, he appears as one of the many men in the orgy scenes (many of the guys simply credited as "The Gage Men"). Some rumors said the reason Gage made films in the 80's under the name Mac Larsen was because of trouble with Reagan's crack down on porn, or tax issues - not true. He said in an interview that he lost interest in making porno films, but they offered some quick money, and he made a deal with P. M. Productions to do several with a quick turn-around and a set budget. Those films were shot in 1 or 2 days, then edited and handed over to P.M. in a matter of just a few days total (in comparison to L.A. Tool and Die, which took 20 days for shooting alone, an unheard of amount of time for a porno movie). He is featured in one early film, from 1975, Morning Noon, and Night. He also directed an off-Broadway hit, Naked Highway in 1983. Gage became a 2001 GayVN Video Awards Hall of Fame inductee, and began his return to the porno business with his 2001 release "Tulsa County Line".  He went on to earn 2 more GayVN awards in 2006 for best non-sex performance (in the Buckshot Productions film Beyond Perfect) and in 2010 for best director (for his film Dad Takes a Fishing Trip).  He has also won an XBIZ award for best director in both 2011 and 2016.

place_of_birth: Santa Barbara, California, USA


Teresa Farley

biography: Teresa Farley is an actress, known for Breeders (1986) and Bad Girls Dormitory (1986).


Frances Sherman

biography: American actress who appeared in a number of horror and exploitation films throughout the 1980s (three of which were directed by Tim Kincaid), most notably Buddy Cooper's The Mutilator as Linda and Gorman Bechard's Disconnected. Frances is also the niece of the classic film and television actor, Claude Raines.

place_of_birth: Reno, Nevada, USA


Natalie Savage

biography: Natalie Savage is an actress known for her roles in various films and television series. She has appeared in F*ckUps Anonymous (2025), Worth (2020), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). Savage has also been involved in the City on a Hill series from 2019 to 2022 and the Creed II film released in 2018. She was previously married to Joe Savage. Savage's work has been recognized, and she has received the 2022 ZTV Outstanding Studio Package award as well as a nomination for the 2022 non-fiction short-form student production award for the Central Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.


Amy Brentano

biography: Amy Brentano is an actress and producer, known for Waking the Wild Colonial (2018), Blood Sisters (1987) and Robot Holocaust (1986).

place_of_birth: USA


Dave Rowntree

biography: David Alexander De Horne Rowntree (born 8 May 1964) is an English musician, politician, solicitor, composer and animator. He is the drummer for the rock band Blur and was a Labour Party councillor in Norfolk County Council from 2017 until 2021.

place_of_birth: Colchester, Essex, England, UK


Patricia Haines

biography: Patricia Haines was born on 3 February 1932 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), The Last Shot You Hear (1969) and The Night Caller (1965). She was married to Bernard Kay and Michael Caine. She died on 25 February 1977 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK.

place_of_birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK


Lance Reddick

biography:
Lance Solomon Reddick (June 7, 1962 – March 17, 2023) was an American actor. He portrayed Cedric Daniels in The Wire (2002–2008), Phillip Broyles in Fringe (2008–2013), and Chief Irvin Irving in Bosch (2014–2020). In film, he played Charon in the John Wick franchise (2014–2025) and General Caulfield in White House Down (2013).

He also portrayed Detective Johnny Basil in the fourth season of Oz (2000–01), Matthew Abaddon in Lost (2004–10), Albert Wesker and his clones in the Netflix series Resident Evil (2022), and Zeus in Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2024), the latter released posthumously and earned him a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer nomination. He provided the voice and likeness for video game characters Martin Hatch in Quantum Break, Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, and Commander Zavala in the Destiny franchise.

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place_of_birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Brendan Penny

biography: Brendan James Penny (born November 9, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actor who first became well known to TV audiences as A.J. Varland in the first season of Whistler that aired in Canada from 2006–2008. He is perhaps best known as Detective Brian Lucas in Motive, a Canadian crime drama centred on a team of Vancouver homicide detectives, also starring Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira and Lauren Holly, which aired from 2013–2016. Brendan currently stars as Kevin O'Brien in the Hallmark Channel family drama series Chesapeake Shores, which premiered on August 14, 2016. He has also been the hero of a number of Hallmark originals.

place_of_birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Masahiko Tanimura

place_of_birth: Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan


Josh Safdie

biography:
Joshua Henry Safdie (born April 3, 1984) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for his work with his younger brother, Benny Safdie, as one half of the acclaimed Safdie Brothers. Together, they developed a reputation for raw, urgent storytelling in films such as Heaven Knows What (2014), Good Time (2017), and Uncut Gems (2019).

In 2024, it was reported that the Safdie Brothers would no longer co-direct and would instead pursue solo projects. Josh's first feature since the split, Marty Supreme (2025), was critically acclaimed, earning him nine Oscar nominations, including best picture and best director.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Ben Queen

biography:
Benjamin Queen is an American writer and producer. He was the creator/showrunner for the NBC television show A to Z. He wrote the screenplays for MGM's The Addams Family 2 and the Pixar animated movie Cars 2, and co-wrote the story for Cars 3. He was also the creator of the NBC television series, Powerless and the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox television series, Drive.

He is the author of the graphic novel Bear, which was published by Archaia and Boom! Studios in September 2020. It was listed as one of the New York Public Library's 100 Books of the Year for 2020. In 2021, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers. It also won the EGLA Award for Best Children's Graphic Novel—Fiction.

He wrote and produced the pilot Heart of Life for ABC and 20th Television in 2019, which was based on John Mayer's song.

He is adapting A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West into a live-action feature film for Netflix.

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Chantal Akerman

biography:
Chantal Anne Akerman (June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).

Despite being categorised as such by others, Akerman frequently distanced herself from the feminist label, explaining, "when people say there is a feminist film language, it is like saying there is only one way for women to express themselves". Instead, Akerman acknowledged that her cinematic approach took inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as from filmmakers Michael Snow and Jean-Luc Godard.

Many directors have cited Akerman's directorial style as an influence on their work. Kelly Reichardt, Gus Van Sant, and Sofia Coppola have noted their exploration of filming in real time as a tribute to Akerman.

place_of_birth: Brussels, Belgium


Christiane Torloni

biography: Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni (São Paulo, February 18, 1957) is a Brazilian actress. She is the winner of numerous awards, including an APCA Award, two Quality Brazil Awards, and a Shell Award, as well as receiving nominations for a Grande Otelo and three Press Trophies. She is one of the most renowned actresses in Brazilian television drama.

place_of_birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil


Logan Marshall-Green

biography: Logan Marshall-Green (born November 1, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series The O.C., Traveler, Dark Blue and Quarry, as well as his roles in the films Prometheus, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Upgrade.

place_of_birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA


Biel Duran

place_of_birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain


Gregor Schmidinger

biography: Gregor is a Vienna-based independent screenwriter and director. He studied screenwriting at the University of California Los Angeles. His work includes short films, music videos, commercials as well as one theatrically released feature film. His two short films THE BOY NEXT DOOR (2008) and HOMOPHOBIA (2012) have combined more than 15 million views on YouTube. His first feature film NEVRLAND (2019) was awarded the Youth Jury Prize at the 40th Max-Ophüls Filmfestivals as well as the Thomas-Pluch Spezialpreis for Best Screenplay at the Diagonale 2019. He is a jury member of the Austrian Motion Picture Rating Organisation, one of the founders of Porn Film Festival Vienna as well as part of Transition Queer and Minority Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Linz, Austria


Emily Beecham

biography:
Emily Beecham (born 12 May 1984) is an English actress. She is best known for her role in the Coen Brothers film Hail, Caesar!, the AMC series Into the Badlands, and the title role in the 2017 film Daphne. She starred in the 2019 film Little Joe, for which she received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK


Tōya Satō

place_of_birth: Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan


Nick Jonas

biography:
Nicholas Jerry Jonas (born September 16, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Jonas began acting on Broadway at the age of seven and released his debut single in 2002; this caught the attention of Columbia Records, where Jonas formed a band with his older brothers and Joe, known as the Jonas Brothers. The group released their debut studio album, It's About Time, through the Columbia label in 2006. After leaving Columbia Records and signing with Hollywood Records, the group released their self-titled second studio album in 2007, which became their breakthrough record. The band became prominent figures on the Disney Channel during this time, gaining a large following through the network, and appeared in the widely successful musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010), as well as two of their series, Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream (2008–2010) and Jonas (2009–2010).

The band's third studio album, A Little Bit Longer(2008), saw continued commercial success for the group; the album's lead single, "Burnin' Up", hit the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following the release of their fourth studio album, Lines, Vines and Trying Times (2009), the Jonas Brothers confirmed a hiatus. Jonas formed a new band known as Nick Jonas & the Administration, who released the album Who I Am in 2010. Afterwards, Jonas shifted his focus to acting. He had a recurring role on the television series Smash and some Broadway shows.

After the group's official disbandment in 2013, Jonas began work on his second solo studio album, signing with Island Records and releasing Nick Jonas through the label in 2014, which saw the commercial success of the single "Jealous". Jonas later co-founded Safehouse Records, a record label in conjunction with the Island and Hollywood labels. His third studio album, Last Year Was Complicated (2016), peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. Jonas won the Songwriters Hall of Fame's Hal David Starlight Award in 2016 following the release. In 2017, Jonas appeared in the adventure comedy film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which became the fifth highest-grossing film of the year. The Jonas Brothers reformed in early 2019 and released the album Happiness Begins in June of that year. Jonas' fourth solo studio album, Spaceman, was released on March 12, 2021.

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place_of_birth: Dallas, Texas, USA


Sire Ma

place_of_birth: Chongqing, Sichuan, China


Hailee Steinfeld

biography:
Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough with the western film True Grit (2010), which earned her various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.

Steinfeld gained wider recognition for her roles in the Pitch Perfect film series (2015–2017) and The Edge of Seventeen (2016), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. She also starred in Ender's Game (2013), Begin Again (2013) and Bumblebee (2018). She voiced Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its 2023 sequel, and Vi in the Netflix series Arcane (2021–2024). She portrayed Emily Dickinson in the Apple TV+ series Dickinson (2019–2021), and has portrayed Kate Bishop in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2021.

Steinfeld gained recognition in music after performing "Flashlight" in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), signing with Republic Records soon after and released her debut single, "Love Myself", followed by her debut EP Haiz (2015). She went on to release a series of successful singles, including "Starving", "Most Girls" and "Let Me Go". In 2020, she released her second EP, Half Written Story.

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place_of_birth: Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA


Kathy Chow Hoi-Mei

biography: Kathy Chow Hoi-mei is a Hong Kong actress and singer who is widely known for her leading roles in Hong Kong TVB series during the late 1980s to 1990s such as The Breaking Point and Time Before Time.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Nobuhiro Doi

biography:
Nobuhiro Doi (土井裕泰, Doi Nobuhiro) is a Japanese television and film director. Doi graduated from Waseda University School of Economics and Politics

Affiliated with the drama production department of TBS TV and Content Production Department. As the leading director of TBS TV, he has directed so many masterpieces that if you are interested in Japanese dramas, there is no one who has not seen at least one drama directed by this director. Friends is the first Korean-Japanese collaboration drama produced to commemorate the joint hosting of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup . Directed by Nobuhiro Dodo.

After graduating from the Department of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, he joined TBS TV in 1994 and continues to this day. Starting with Now, I'm Going to Meet You in 2004 , in addition to directing dramas, he also directs movies.

place_of_birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan


Julian Beck

biography: Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)


Sergei Bodrov

biography:
Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov (born June 28, 1948) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Bodrov was born in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Russia). His son, actor Sergei Bodrov, Jr. was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002 while shooting his film which was tentatively titled The Messenger. Bodrov's grandmother was ethnic Buryat which influenced his decision to film the movie Mongol. Bodrov currently has an apartment in Los Angeles and a ranch in Arizona. He is married to American film consultant Carolyn Cavallaro.

place_of_birth: Khabarovsk, RSFSR, USSR


Da Shichang

place_of_birth: Shanghai, China


Cynthia Patrick

biography: The adopted daughter of an Air Force colonel, strawberry blonde Cynthia Patrick grew up in Europe, acting and modeling there before relocating (and finding the same sort of work) in Hollywood. A Universal-International contractee, she appeared in a small handful of pictures (mostly bits) before she began to freelance in TV. Patrick later went into real estate.

place_of_birth: San Rafael, Marin County, California, USA


Anna Tsuchiya

biography: Anna Tsuchiya (土屋 アンナ, Tsuchiya Anna; born March 11, 1984) is a Japanese singer, actress and semi-retired model. Since 2005, she is primarily known as a singer.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Yan Ni

biography:
Yan Ni (Chinese: 闫妮), born Yan Kaiyan, is a Chinese film and television actress. Most well known for her role as Tong Xiangyu in the hit sitcom My Own Swordsman. She works for the Television Art center of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.

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place_of_birth: Xi'an, Shaanxi, China


Ben Levi Ross

biography: Benjamin Levi Ross (born January 15, 1998) is an American stage actor and singer. They are best known for their work in the Tony Award winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, where they played Evan on Broadway and in the national tour.

place_of_birth: Santa Monica, California, U.S.


Daphne Pollard

biography: Daphne Pollard (born Daphne Trott; October 19, 1891 – February 22, 1978) was an Australian-born actress, comedian and dancer known for her roles in comedy films during the 1920's and 30's.

place_of_birth: Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Rihanna

biography:
Robyn Rihanna Fenty (/riˈænə/ ree-AN-ə; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman and actress. She is noted as the best-selling female recording artist of the 21st century by Guinness World Records and the highest-certified female digital single artist by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). As of 2024, Rihanna is the third wealthiest musician in the world. She has seven U.S. diamond-certified singles and 14 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The recipient of various accolades, Rihanna is among the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales estimated at 250 million units globally.

Rihanna signed with Def Jam Recordings in 2005. She found mainstream recognition after releasing her first two studio albums, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006). Both were influenced by Caribbean music, and the albums peaked within the top ten on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), incorporated dance-pop elements, establishing her status as a pop icon. Its lead single, "Umbrella", peaked atop the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and won her first Grammy Award.

Rihanna continued to blend pop, dance and influences in her subsequent albums, Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011), and Unapologetic (2012)—the latter of which topped the Billboard 200. The albums spawned the Billboard Hot 100-number one singles "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?", "S&M", "We Found Love", and "Diamonds". Her eighth album, Anti (2016), showcased new creative control following her departure from Def Jam in favour of Jay-Z's label, Roc Nation. Becoming her second U.S. number-one album, it was supported by the chart-topping single "Work".

Aside from music, Rihanna is recognized for her humanitarian involvement, entrepreneurship, and influence in the fashion industry. She established the Clara Lionel Foundation, cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty, and fashion house Fenty under LVMH, becoming the first black woman to lead a luxury brand for LVMH. Rihanna has acted in major roles in Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). In 2018, the Government of Barbados appointed her as an ambassador and declared a National Hero of Barbados in 2021.

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place_of_birth: Saint Michael, Barbados


Yasuhiro Yoshiura

biography: Yasuhiro Yoshiura is a Japanese writer and director of animated short films. Born in 1980 in Hokkaido, and raised in Fukuoka, he graduated from Kyushu University's Faculty of Design (formerly Kyushu Institute of Design) in 2003. He moved to Tokyo following the release of his critically acclaimed film Pale Cocoon  in 2006. Yoshiura's production company is called Studio Rikka. He often  also provides the voice of a minor character in his works.

place_of_birth: Hokkaido, Japan


Sarah Wright

biography:
Sarah was involved with local drama as a child, and became a model at age 14. Her big break came when she was discovered by organizers from the 1999 Mossimo model search contest. She attended LeGrande Elementary and Hart County High School before moving to Louisville to finish her high school career.

Sarah played the character of Paige Chase in the sitcom Quintuplets. She co-starred in the sitcom The Loop as Lizzy in Season 1. She also guest-starred in Season 11 of the CW series 7th Heaven as Jane, a best friend of Andrea Morris's character Margaret. She appeared as Sarah Mason, one of the girls with whom Patrick Dempsey's character has a one-night stand in the 2008 film Made of Honor.

In 2011, Wright began a recurring role in the CBS mid-season replacement comedy series Mad Love, and maintained a small recurring role as Millicent Gergich on the NBC show Parks and Recreation.[1]

In 2014, she co-starred alongside Casey Wilson and Ken Marino in the short-lived NBC sitcom Marry Me.

She co-founded a parenting website called Your Zen Mama with fellow actress Teresa Palmer.

place_of_birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA


Xiong Xinxin

biography: “The Human Whirlwind” would be a fitting nickname for stuntman, fight performer and actor Xiong Xin Xin due to his incredibly fast and electrifying wu-shu acrobatics and fighting moves. His physical prowess and bravery as a stuntman and stunt-double had already brought him some level of repute when he was finally given opportunities to shine playing characters in movies. This revealed an actor with a raw and distinct presence even if he was called upon to play only villainous or supporting roles. He might have become a new Yuen Wah if it hadn’t been for an unfortunate change in H-K action cinema. At the end of the 1990s we saw not only a sharp decline in action filmmaking but also a shift away from performers with genuine skills to being supplanted in action roles by screen-savvy special effects enhanced actors.

place_of_birth: Liuzhou, Guangxi, China


Lau Kar-Wing

biography: Lau Kar Wing (simplified Chinese: 刘家荣; traditional Chinese: 劉家榮; pinyin: Liú Jiārong; born 1944) is a Hong Kong martial arts film director, action choreographer and actor. He was a member of the Sammo Hung Stuntmen's Association.

place_of_birth: Jiangmen, Guangdong, China


Jayden Jaymes

biography: Jayden Jaymes (born February 13, 1986 in Upland, California) is an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, and model. She is of Norwegian, Irish, English descent. She has appeared in around 100 movies since starting her adult film career in November 2006. She was featured in an episode of MTV's True Life about pornography. She has also made appearances in mainstream films, featuring in small roles. Her other nicknames are Jayden James, Jayden Jaymes, Jayden, Jaden, Jaden James, Jayden Michele Jaymes. Her measurements are 36-26-36.

place_of_birth: Upland, California, USA


Marcus London

biography: Marcus London (born 15 January 1968 in London, England) is an English pornographic actor. He began appearing in adult films in around 1995 at the age of about 27, and has since appeared in over 120 movies. He married porn actress Devon Lee on 14 January 2007 in Las Vegas, after they had been dating for around eight months

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Ezra Miller

biography:
Ezra Matthew Miller (born September 30, 1992) is an American actor. Their feature film debut was in Afterschool (2008), which they followed by starring in the dramas We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

After a supporting role in the comedy Trainwreck (2015), Miller played Credence Barebone in the Fantastic Beasts fantasy films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). In 2020, they had a recurring role on the miniseries The Stand. Miller played the Flash in the DC Extended Universe, including in the films Justice League (2017) and The Flash (2023).

place_of_birth: Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA


Totò

biography:
Totò was born Antonio Clemente in a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente from Sicily and Marquis Giuseppe De Curtis from Naples. Nicknamed “il principe della risata’ (the prince of laughter), he was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter, and widely considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century.  While he first gained his popularity as a comic actor, his dramatic roles, poetry, and songs are all of cultural import; his style and a number of his recurring jokes and gestures have become universally known memes in Italy.

As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.  At the age of 15, he was already acting as a comedian in small theatres, under the pseudonym "Clerment". His early repertoire mostly consisted in imitations of Gustavo De Marco's characters. He served in the army during World War I and then went back to acting to develop the trademarks of his style.

In 1937, he appeared in his first movie "Fermo con le mani", and later starred in 96 more films, many of which are still frequently broadcast on Italian television. In his vast cinematographic career, Totò had the opportunity to act side by side with virtually all major Italian actors of the time. Totò's unmistakable figure, with his peculiarly irregular face (due to an accident in his teen years), and his unique trademark ability to disarticulate his body like a marionette, soon became very popular and his comic gags became part of the Italian culture. Totò died at the age of 69 in Rome after a series of heart attacks. Due to overwhelming popularity there were three funeral services: the first in Rome, and the second and third in Naples. Totò's birth home has been recently opened to the public as a museum.

place_of_birth: Naples, Campania, Italy


Melissa Bickerton

place_of_birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia


Owen Campbell

biography: Owen Campbell (born June 9, 1994) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as RJ in X (2022), Zach in Super Dark Times (2017) and Jack in As You Are (2016). He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. His earliest film credit dates back to 2009, with Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin', where Campbell starred alongside the late Carrie Fisher.

place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA


Keir Gilchrist

biography: Keir David Peters Gilchrist (born 28 September 1992) is a Canadian actor and musician. On television, he portrayed Marshall Gregson on the Showtime comedy-drama United States of Tara (2009–2011) and headlined the Netflix comedy-drama Atypical (2017–2021). His film roles include the comedy-drama It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) and the supernatural horror It Follows (2014). Outside of his acting career, Gilchrist is the vocalist of grindcore band Whelm and death metal band Phalanx.


Sean K. Reynolds

biography: Sean K. Reynolds was a professional game designer who has worked on and co-written a number of D&D supplements for Wizards of the Coast, as well as material for other companies. He worked for Black Isle Studios on the canceled projects Van Buren (Fallout 3) and Project Jefferson (Baldur's Gate 3: The Black Hound).


Kimiko Ikegami

biography: Kimiko Ikegami (born January 16, 1959) is a Japanese actress. Born in Manhattan, New York City, she moved to Kyoto at age 3. Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University. She is closely related to the Bandō Mitsugorō kabuki actors: her grandfather was the eighth, her uncle the ninth (later Bandō Minosuke VII), her cousin (Bandō Yasosuke V) the tenth to take that name. With the encouragement of that cousin, Kimiko turned to acting. Ikegami is best known for playing the lead role of Gorgeous in the 1977 film House.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Kumiko Ohba

biography:
Kumiko Ohba (大場 久美子, Ōba Kumiko; born January 6, 1960, in Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese actress, singer, and psychological counselor who is represented by Office Keiko. She is eldest of three siblings (one brother and one younger brother).

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place_of_birth: Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan


Yōko Minamida

biography:
Yōko Minamida (南田 洋子, Minamida Yōko, March 1, 1933 – October 21, 2009) was a Japanese actress. Born in Tokyo, Minamida made her screen debut in 1953 for the Daiei studio and quickly rose to stardom, working with Kenji Mizoguchi on two films: “A Story from Chikamatsu” and “Princess Yang Kwei-fei.”  In 1955, she moved to the Nikkatsu studio, where she starred in Takumi Furukawa’s “Season of the Sun” (1956), a smash hit that launched the so-called “Sun Tribe” boom for films about rebellious youth looking for sex and kicks on Shonan Beach — Japan’s nearest equivalent to Malibu. Minamida acted in dozens of movies for Nikkatsu, working with Shohei Imamura, Seijun Suzuki, and other directors.  In 1961 she married her co-star on “Season of the Sun,” Hiroyuki Nagato. As she acted in fewer movies after the mid-1960s, Minamida made a smooth and successful transition to TV as both an actress and MC. She also continued to appear occasionally in movies, with the last being Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “Song of Goodbye” in 2006.

She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in November 2008, and a TV documentary was made about her condition and the efforts of her husband to care for her. She died in Tokyo.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Ai Matsubara

place_of_birth: Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan


Eriko Tanaka

biography: Eriko Tanaka is a Japanese actress, best known for playing the role of Melody in the 1977 film House.


Soichiro Kitamura

place_of_birth: Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan


Brad Peyton

biography: Brad Peyton (born May 27, 1978) is a Canadian director. He is best known for his collaborations with Dwayne Johnson, including the films Journey 2 the Mysterious Island (2012), San Andreas (2015), and Rampage (2018).

place_of_birth: Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Drake Doremus

biography: Drake Doremus (born March 29, 1983) is a film director and screenwriter best known for directing the films Like Crazy (2011) which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Douchebag (2010) which was in Dramatic competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and Spooner (2009). He also taught at the Orange County High School of the Arts for a couple semesters.

place_of_birth: Orange, California, USA


Jack Paar

biography: Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly, "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar."

place_of_birth: Canton, Ohio, USA


Madison Ivy

biography: Madison Ivy was born Clorisa Briggs on June 14, 1989 in Bayern, Germany. The gorgeous, blue-eyed 5’0”, European American woman was raised in Texas. Ivy eventually moved to Sacramento, California, where she laid tile, worked for the fast food restaurant chain In-N-Out Burger, and was a mechanic at a bowling alley. Madison started out in the adult entertainment industry dancing at a strip club. During this time she met adult film actress Aurora Snow, who gave Ivy the necessary contacts to begin a career in porn. Madison first began performing in explicit hardcore movies in her late teens in 2008. Ivy also works as a personal trainer and yoga instructor. She was nominated for an AVN Award for Best Tease Performance in 2012.

place_of_birth: Bavaria, Germany, EU


Quentin Dupieux

biography: Quentin Dupieux (born April 14, 1974) is a French filmmaker, electronic musician, and DJ.  Dupieux is credited with his legal name for his films, while the name "Mr. Oizo" is used for his musical works. Dupieux is known for his surrealistic, abdurdist comedy films, including Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, and Reality.

place_of_birth: Paris, France


Amanda Fuller

biography: Amanda Fuller (born August 27, 1984) is an American actress and producer.

place_of_birth: Sacramento, California, USA


Kaoru Sakurako

biography: Sakurako Kaoru (Japanese: 薫桜子/薰櫻子, Hepburn: Kaoru Sakurako) is a Japanese gravure model, AV idol and pink film actress. First coming to prominence as an AV actress, Kaoru successfully made the transition to the theatrically released softcore pink film genre. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 2007.


Aya Cash

biography: Aya Rachel Cash (born July 13, 1982) is an American actress, the daughter of poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash, and the granddaughter of Wimbledon champion Pauline Betz Addie and sportswriter Bob Addie. In 2014, Cash was listed among "10 Comic Actresses Who Deserve A Big-Screen Leading Role" by Indiewire.

place_of_birth: San Francisco, California, USA


Masahiro Shinoda

biography:
Masahiro Shinoda (篠田 正浩 Shinoda Masahiro, March 9, 1931 – March 25, 2025) was a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.

He married the actress Shima Iwashita, who appears in several of his films, such as 1969's Double Suicide.

His 1986 film Gonza the Spearman was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. He won the 1991 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Childhood Days.

He retired from directing after the release of Spy Sorge in 2003, a biopic on the life of Richard Sorge.

place_of_birth: Gifu, Gifu, Japan


Taeko Tomioka

biography: Poet, novelist, and literary critic.

place_of_birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan


Jiro Sato

biography: Jiro Sato (佐藤 二朗 Satō Jirō, born 7 May 1969, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He grew up in Tōgō, Aichi District. He is represented with From First Production. He graduated from Shinshu University Faculty of Economics.

place_of_birth: Aichi, Japan


Jorge Donn

biography:
Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in Ciudad Jardin, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer. He was best known for his work with Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the 20th Century. He died of AIDS on 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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place_of_birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina


Jennette McCurdy

biography: Jennette Michelle Faye McCurdy is an American actress, writer, director, and podcaster. She's best known for her Nickelodeon roles as Sam Puckett in iCarly and the spin-off Sam & Cat, which also starred Ariana Grande. McCurdy won four Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for her portrayal of Sam. She's also the author of the memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, which won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award and the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Jake Weary

biography: Jacob Weary (born February 14, 1990) is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter and music producer. He is known for his role as Luke Snyder in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, Vince Keeler in NBC's action-drama series Chicago Fire, and for his role as Kevin in Fred: The Movie (2010), its two sequels, and the television adaptation, Nickelodeon's Fred: The Show. He starred as Deran Cody in the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, based on the Australian film of the same name.

place_of_birth: Trenton, New Jersey, USA


Gary Clarke

biography: Gary Clarke (born Clarke Frederick L'Amoreaux August 16, 1933) is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Hill in the NBC Western television series The Virginian with James Drury and Doug McClure.


Eric Lutes

biography:
Eric Lutes (born August 19, 1962) is an American actor known for his roles as Del Cassidy on Caroline in the City, Jerry Stanton in Switching Goals, and Jake Carlson on So Little Time (which starred both Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen). His career started with several commercial spots. He then moved to New York City and appeared in many off-Broadway productions before finally moving to Los Angeles, where he landed a role on Caroline in the City. He also played the KACL station manager Tom Duran in the second season of Frasier and has appeared in numerous TV movies.

Lutes was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and raised in Charlestown, Rhode Island, the son of Claire, a psychiatric nurse and astrologer, and John Lutes, an artist.

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place_of_birth: Charleston, Rhode Island, USA


Wu Ma

biography:
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Wu Ma (Chinese: 午馬, 22 September 1942 – 4 February 2014) was a Chinese actor, director, producer and writer. Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with over 300 appearances to his name (plus over 40 directorial credits within a twenty-five year period), Wu Ma was one of the most familiar faces in the history of Hong Kong Cinema. He was best known as the Taoist ghosthunter in A Chinese Ghost Story.

place_of_birth: Tianjin, China


Wunmi Mosaku

biography:
Oluwunmi Olapeju Mosaku (born 31 July 1986), known professionally as Wunmi Mosaku, is a Nigerian-British actress. She rose to prominence for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016). In 2019, she appeared in the fifth season of Luther, followed by her role as Ruby Baptiste in HBO's Lovecraft Country (2020). She portrayed the character Hunter B-15 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023). She reprised the role in the film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).

Mosaku was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actress and won the BIFA for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for her role as Rial in the film His House (2020). For her performance as Annie in the 2025 horror film Sinners, Mosaku won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an Actors Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

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place_of_birth: Zaria, Nigeria


Scud

biography: Scud was born as Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. He is a writer and producer, known for Amphetamine (2010), Voyage (2013) and City Without Baseball (2008).

place_of_birth: Guangzhou, China


Henrik Rafaelsen

place_of_birth: Kristiansand, Norway


Rita Karin

biography: She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

place_of_birth: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]


JeeJa Yanin

biography:
Jeeja Chanthathanisa Tang, formerly Yanin Vismitananda, is an actress and martial artist specialising in Muay Thai from Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a 4th Dan Black belt in Taekwondo and received a bachelor's degree from Kasem Bundit University.

Jeeja's film debut was the starring role in the 2008 film "Chocolate" (ช็อคโกแลต).

On 29 August 2012, Yanin revealed that she was five months pregnant and married Andrian Robert Bowden, a co-star in her previous films and younger brother of singer Pamela Bowden. On 22 January 2013, she gave birth to her son, Jayden Bowden Vismitananda. They are now divorced.

place_of_birth: Bangkok, Thailand


Kevin Nash

biography:
Kevin Scott Nash is an inactive American professional wrestler and actor, who is signed to WWE. Nash has wrestled under various ring names, but is most notably known by his real name in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and in WWE/World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment, where he was known as Diesel during his first and current run with the company.

Between WWE, WCW, and TNA, Nash has won 21 total championships, including six world championships (having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship five times and the WWF Championship once). He has achieved notable success in the tag team division as well, being a twelve-time world tag team champion: a nine-time WCW World Tag Team Champion, two-time WWF World Tag Team Champion and one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion. He is also a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion and a two-time winner of the TNA Legends Championship (now known as the TNA Television Championship). In addition to championships, he won the 1998 WCW World War 3. Nash is a member of The Kliq, a group which includes Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Scott Hall and Sean Waltman and was known in the WWE during the 90's as a backstage group were shown favoritism by owner Vince McMahon and often refused to work with others outside of their group. He is also one of the three founding members of the New World Order (nWo), along with Hulk Hogan and Scott Hall.

place_of_birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA


Jade Jolie

place_of_birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA


Yugo Kanno

biography:
Yugo Kanno (菅野 祐悟 Kanno Yūgo, born June 5, 1977) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his soundtracks to many TV series, movies, and anime.

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place_of_birth: Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan


Monique Alexander

biography: Alexander was born in Vallejo, California and began working in the adult industry as a stripper in Sacramento when she was 18 to supplement her daytime earnings as a receptionist. She appeared in several adult magazines with her first photo shoot being with Earl Miller. She started performing in adult films in 2001 beginning with a girl-girl scene in Hot Showers Number and becoming a contract girl for Sin City in that year. In addition to a catalog of solely girl-girl hardcore work, she appeared in a handful of softcore erotic films produced by HBO and Cinemax such as Hotel Erotica, The Sex Spa, Sex House and Voyeur: Inside Out. She also became a solo and girl-girl internet nude model. Alexander appeared in a mainstream film titled Spider's Web with Stephen Baldwin in 2002. Monique makes a cameo appearance in the Season 3 finale of the HBO series Entourage.In 2007 she became a sports reporter on National Lampoon Comedy Radio's The Phil Show.

place_of_birth: Vallejo, California, USA


Michael B. Jordan

biography:
Michael Bakari Jordan (/bɑːˈkɑːri/ bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer, and director. His accolades include an Academy Award, three Actor Awards, and a Producers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Emmy Awards. Jordan was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2020 and 2023, People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2020, and The New York Times ranked him 15th on its list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century.

Jordan initially broke out in television, playing Wallace in the first season of the HBO crime drama series The Wire (2002). He starred in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006) and the NBC sports drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011). He later starred in and produced the HBO television film Fahrenheit 451 (2018), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

Jordan's film breakthrough came as Oscar Grant in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), for which his performance received critical praise. He earned further acclaim for his performances in Coogler's subsequent films, including Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), and Sinners (2025); the latter earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jordan reprised his role of Donnie Creed in Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), the latter of which also marked his directorial debut. His other films include Chronicle (2012), That Awkward Moment (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), and Just Mercy (2019).

Aside from filmmaking, Jordan is also a co-owner of Premier League club AFC Bournemouth.

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place_of_birth: Santa Ana, California, USA


Jan Hřebejk

biography:
Jan Hřebejk (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦr̝ɛbɛjk]; born 27 June 1967) is a Czech film director and actor. Born in Prague, Hřebejk graduated from high school in 1987 and continued his studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) from 1987 to 1991, majoring in screenplay and dramaturgy. He was at FAMU alongside Petr Jarchovský, who is also his classmate from high school and subsequently a frequent collaborator as a screenwriter.

While at FAMU, Hřebejk directed and produced two short films, Co všechno chcete vědět o sexu a bojíte se to prožít (1988) and L. P. 1948 (1989),[1] from scripts written by his classmate Petr Zelenka. His professional directorial debut was a short film for Czech TV, Nedělejte nic, pokud k tomu nemáte vážný důvod (1991), also written by Zelenka. His films caught the attention of viewers and critics, and entered student film festivals.

Also while still at FAMU, Hřebejk and Jarchovský wrote a comedy screenplay inspired by Hřebejk's background at a summer camp, entitled Pejme písen dohola. This screenplay was filmed in 1990 as a full-length feature by director Ondřej Trojan. In 1992, Hřebejk filmed a version of his FAMU graduate thesis, an interpretation of Egon Hostovský's Dobrocinny vecírek.

This was followed by Big Beat, a rock and roll comedy set in the 1950s and Hřebejk's first major box office success. The film was written by Jarchovský, based on a story by Petr Šabach, and won four Czech Lion awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Hřebejk. In 1996, Hřebejk directed a children's TV series, Kde padají hvezdy, which was syndicated around Europe. The following year, Hřebejk and Jarchovský won awards from the Film and Television Association and the Literary Fund for their contribution to dramatic television programming, for three episodes they wrote for the TV series Bachelors.

The writing and production team behind Big Beat subsequently reunited for two further films, Cosy Dens (Czech: Pelíšky; 1999) and Divided We Fall (Czech: Musíme si pomáhat; 2000), both of which became enormously successful within the Czech Republic.

His 2009 film Kawasaki's Rose was selected as the Czech entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but didn't make the final shortlist.

place_of_birth: Prague, Czechia


Neil Sandilands

biography: Neil Joseph William Sandilands is a South African actor, filmmaker, and musician

place_of_birth: Randfontein, South Africa


Damien Chazelle

biography:
Damien Sayre Chazelle (/ʃəˈzɛl/; born January 19, 1985) is a French-American filmmaker. He directed the psychological drama Whiplash (2014), the musical romance La La Land (2016), the biographical drama First Man (2018), and the period black comedy Babylon (2022).

For Whiplash, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His biggest commercial success came with La La Land, nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning six, including Best Director, making him the youngest person to win the award at age 32. He has also directed two episodes of the Netflix limited series The Eddy (2020).

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place_of_birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA


Mark Valley

biography: Mark Thomas Valley (born December 24, 1964) is an American actor, best known for his role as Brad Chase on the TV drama Boston Legal.

place_of_birth: Ogdensburg, New York, USA


Matt Smith

biography:
Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor. He is known for playing the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who (2010–2013), Prince Philip in Netflix's historical series The Crown (2016–2017)—for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination—and Daemon Targaryen in HBO's fantasy drama series House of the Dragon(2022–present).

Smith initially aspired to be a professional footballer, but spondylolysis forced him out of the sport. After joining the National Youth Theatre and studying drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, he began his acting career in 2003, performing in plays such as Murder in the Cathedral, Fresh Kills, The History Boys, and On the Shore of the Wide World in London theatres. Extending his repertoire into West End theatre, he has since performed in the stage adaptation of Swimming with Sharks with Christian Slater, followed a year later by a critically acclaimed performance in That Face.

Smith's first television role was in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North. His first significant television role came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals. In film, he has played a dual role in the science fiction film Womb (2010), the physical forms of Skynet in the cyberpunk action film Terminator Genisys (2015), a 1960s pimp in the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (2021) and Milo Morbius in the superhero film Morbius (2022).

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place_of_birth: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK


Lynne Margulies

place_of_birth: San Fernando, California, USA


Mariusz Bulski

place_of_birth: Blachownia k. Częstochowy, Polska


Maciej Sosnowski

place_of_birth: Wrocław, dolnośląskie, Polska


Nathalie Baye

biography:
Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (July 6, 1948 – April 17, 2026) was a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005). Her other films include Day for Night (1973), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Tell No One (2006), and The Assistant (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France, she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from where she graduated in 1972 with a second prize in comedy, dramatic comedy, and foreign theatre.

Her second cinema appearance was in Two People (1973), directed by Robert Wise. She became better known as the script girl in Day for Night (La Nuit américaine, 1973) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s, she played the good girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film and television.

She won her first César, as best supporting artist, for Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie), 1980) directed by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre, 1982) and La Balance (also 1982).

Baye won two more César Awards, Best Supporting Actress, for Strange Affair (Une étrange affaire, 1981), and Best Actress for La Balance, 1982). Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple and their daughter is Laura Smet, now an actress.

After changing her image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in J'ai épousé une ombre (1983) and En toute innocence (1988). In 1986, she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti.

In 1999, she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and starred in Vénus Beauté (Institut) (2000) by Tonie Marshall which won multiple César Awards including Best Film.

She has worked with Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg.

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place_of_birth: Mainneville, Eure, France


Denden

biography: Denden (でんでん Denden, born Yoshihiro Ogata (緒方 義博); 23 January 1950) is a Japanese actor and former comedian. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1981.

place_of_birth: Chikushino, Fukuoka, Japan


Ren Osugi

biography: Ren Osugi, born Takashi Osugi, was a Japanese actor. For his work on Cure, Hana-bi, and other films, Osugi received the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima.

place_of_birth: Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan


Vera Filatova

biography:
Vera Filatova (born 6 November 1982) is a Ukrainian-born British actress.  She has played Elena in Channel 4's cult series Peep Show alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Eva in Lesbian Vampire Killers with James Corden and Mathew Horne; and Svetlana in a five-part BBC1 drama The Deep opposite Minnie Driver, James Nesbitt and Goran Višnjić.

Vera was born in Khartsyzsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, and later moved to the UK. Filatova was educated at Brighton College, and is married to Italian architect Robin Monotti Graziadei. They live in London with their son and daughter.

Filatova's TV credits include The Last Detective (ITV), All About Me (BBC One), The Bill, Spooks, The Pagan Queen (USA), Agatha Christie: Poirot (ITV), Blue Murder, The Deep (BBC1), Me and Mrs Jones (BBC1). She appeared in the 2009 comedy horror film Lesbian Vampire Killers with James Corden and Matthew Horne, and played Elena in series 6 of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show opposite David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

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


Nicette Bruno

biography:
Nicete Xavier Miessa, better known by her stage name Nicette Bruno (Niterói, January 7, 1933 — Rio de Janeiro, December 20, 2020), was a Brazilian actress. Nicette made her professional debut in 1945, in the play Romeo and Juliet, based on the literary work of the same name by William Shakespeare.

Daughter of actress Eleonor Bruno, Nicette was married to actor Paulo Goulart, with whom she had three children, actors Beth Goulart, Bárbara Bruno and Paulo Goulart Filho. Her television work includes Rosa dos Ventos (1973), Éramos Seis (1977), Selva de Pedra (1986), Bebê a Bordo (1988), Rainha da Sulcata (1990), Mulheres de Areia (1993), A Próxima Vítima ( 1995), Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (2001–04), Alma Gêmea (2005), Sete Pecados (2007), A Vida da Gente (2011), and other television works, being a pioneer of Brazilian television and one of the references in the history of teledramaturgy in the country.

place_of_birth: Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Ben Wheatley

biography:
Ben Wheatley (born 1972) is an English filmmaker, film editor, and animator. Beginning his career in advertising, Wheatley first gained recognition and acclaim for his commercials and short films, before transitioning into feature films and television programmes. He is best known for his work in the thriller and horror genres, with his films frequently incorporating heavy elements of black comedy and satire.

Wheatley has received numerous accolades for his work, including an Evening Standard British Film Award, five British Independent Film Award nominations, and numerous awards and honours from film festivals including South by Southwest, Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plata, Raindance, Toronto and Cannes.

place_of_birth: Billericay, Essex, England, UK


Maarja Jakobson

biography:
Maarja Jakobson (born December 8, 1977) is an Estonian television, stage and film actress whose career began in the late 1990s.

Maarja Jakobson was born in Tartu in 1977. She is distantly related to 19th-century writer and politician Carl Robert Jakobson, who played a pivotal role in the Estonian national awakening. She graduated from the 15th Secondary School of Tartu (now, the Tartu Descartes Lyceum) in 1995 and enrolled at the University of Tartu to study German for a year before enrolling in the performing arts department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn in 1996 to study acting under the direction of theatre pedagogue and stage director Ingo Normet, graduating in 2000. Among her graduating classmates were actors Kersti Heinloo, Margus Prangel, Eva Püssa, Katrin Pärn, Tambet Tuisk, Piret Simson and directors Urmas Lennuk, Tiit Ojasoo and Vahur Keller.

In 2002, she graduated cum laude from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master's degree in theatre and drama. She had spent the previous year studying at the Berlin University of the Arts collecting her master's thesis material.

In 1998, while still a student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Jakobson was cast in the role of Jane Peterson on the long-running Eesti Televisioon (ETV) television drama series Õnne 13; a role Jakobson has, to date, been performing on the series for over twenty years. In 1999, she made her feature film debut in a small role in the sci-fi adventure Kass kukub käppadele for Exitfilm.

In 2001, Jakobson began an engagement as a stage actress at the Endla Theatre in Pärnu before leaving in 2004 to become a freelance actress. As a freelance actress, she has appeared on the stages of the Vanemuine, the Von Krahl Theatre, the Rakvere Theatre, the Tartu New Theatre and the Kuressaare City Theatre.

After appearing in several film shorts, Jakobson received her first starring role in a feature-length film as Alice in the 2005 Peeter Urbla directed Exitfilm comedy-drama Stiilipidu opposite Anne Reemann and Evelin Võigemast. The same year, she appeared as Stella in the Peeter Simm directed comedy-drama Kõrini!

In 2006, she appeared as Maarja in the comedy-drama Tabamata ime, based on the 1912 play of the same name by author Eduard Vilde and later the same year played the role of Helina in the Veiko Õunpuu directed drama Tühirand, based on the story of the same name penned by Mati Unt. The following year she appeared as Laura, a single mother in the Veiko Õunpuu directed drama Sügisball for which she won the Best Actress award at the 11th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on 9 December 2007. On 11 February 2006, she was among ten European actors selected from twenty-one candidates, each representing their country, to be presented with the European Shooting Stars Award by the European Film Promotion (EFP). The event took place during the 56th Berlin International Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]


Ned Eisenberg

biography: Ned Eisenberg (January 13, 1957 – February 27, 2022) was an American actor known for his recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Roger Kressler.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Klaus Schulze

biography: Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than sixty albums released across six decades.

place_of_birth: Berlin, Germany


Mirtel Pohla

biography:
Mirtel Pohla (born January 28, 1982) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress.

Mirtel Pohla was born in Tartu. She attended secondary school at the Tartu Karlova Gümnaasium, graduating in 2000. Afterward, she applied to and was accepted at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2004.

Between 2004 and 2006, she was engaged as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. In 2005, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award for her portrayal of Elsa Seebalt in a staging of Andrus Kivirähk's Adolf Rühka lühikene elu. From 2006 until 2014 she was an actress at Theatre NO99 in Tallinn. In 2012, Pohla was awarded the Best Supporting Actress prize at the Estonian Annual Theatre Awards; and was nominated for the same category in 2013. In 2014, she left the Theatre NO99 but has returned as a guest actress. She has also performed at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu and several other theatres throughout Estonia.

Apart from work on the stage, Pohla has appeared in a number of motion pictures and on Estonian television. Her first large television role was that of Berit in the Estonian TV3 soap opera Kodu keset linna from 2003 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2009.

Her first starring role in a motion picture was that of Ilge in the 2005 Kaaren Kaer directed historical comedy Malev, opposite actor Ott Sepp. In 2006, she had a recurring role as Paula in the popular Kanal 2 television crime series Kelgukoerad. In 2007 she appeared in three popular movies; the Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk comedic road movie Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse; the Peeter Simm directed biopic Georg, based on the life of Estonian tenor Georg Ots; and as Jaana, in the Veiko Õunpuu directed bleak drama Sügisball, adapted from Estonian author Mati Unt's 1979 novel of the same name. In 2015, she appeared in the Veiko Õunpuu-directed drama Roukli, and in 2016, appeared in a starring role in the Vallo Toomla-directed thriller Teesklejad opposite actor Priit Võigemast. In 2016, she was offered and accepted the starring role of Karina in Lauri Lagle's directorial film debut Portugal, released in 2018.

From 2008 until 2013, she starred as Maret Roo-Kallaste, one of the four main characters, in ETV's Tuulepealne maa, which was a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series chronicling the pre-World War II history of Estonia; its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.

In 2021, she had a starring role as Marleen in the Ergo Kuld directed comedy film Jahihooaeg alongside Harriet Toompere and Grete Kuld.

place_of_birth: Tartu, Tartu District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]


Jaan Tootsen

biography:
Jaan Tootsen (born October 14, 1975) is an Estonian film director, screenwriter and film producer.

Tootsen's father is journalist, writer and politician Toivo Tootsen. Since 2000 he has worked at Estonian National Broadcasting. He has been a long-time editor of radio program "Ööülikool". From 2012 to 2016 he was the cultural advisor for the Estonian president at the time Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

place_of_birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]


Elmo Nüganen

biography:
Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor.

He has been the artistic director of the Tallinn City Theatre since 1992.  He was a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1988 and then a professor at the academy in 1998–2002 and 2008–2012. He directed the war films Names in Marble from 2002 and 1944 from 2015. Names in Marble was seen by more than 168,000 people in Estonia and was selected for the 2003 Taormina Film Fest, while 1944 had the highest opening-week audience numbers in Estonian film history and became the country's submission for the Academy Awards.

Nüganen has received multiple awards for his work in theatre, including the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for Best Director in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2007, and 2010, and the Estonian National Cultural Award in 1996, 1999, and 2009.

place_of_birth: Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]


Priit Võigemast

biography: Priit Võigemast (born April 18, 1980) is an Estonian film, television and stage actor. Between 2002 and 2007 he has performed in the Ugala, Tallinna Linnateater and other theatres. He is probably best known for the role of Henn Ahas in the 2002 war drama Names in Marble. He was married to actress Evelin Võigemast.

place_of_birth: Alu, Rapla District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Rapla County, Estonia]


Richard Ashcroft

place_of_birth: Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK


Meelis Rämmeld

biography: Meelis Rämmeld (born April 4, 1975 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor. In 1997 he graduated from Viljandi Culture Academy Theatre Department. After graduating he worked in Ugala Theatre. Since 2015 he is working at Endla Theatre. Besides theatre roles he has played also in several films and television series.  In early summer 2016, Rämmeld married actress Kadri Adamson. In 2017, the couple had a daughter.

place_of_birth: Tallinn, Harju District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]


Uldis Pūcītis

biography:
Uldis Pūcītis (April 15, 1937 – December 14, 2000) was a Latvian television, theater and film actor, scriptwriter and film director.

Uldis Pūcītis was born in Ranka parish, Gulbene District to Jānis Pūcītis and his wife Anna Pūcīte. After graduating from school in Ranka he continued his studies in Riga and studied at the Latvian State Conservatory, graduating in 1959. Following his graduation, he worked as schoolteacher in the town of Aizpute for four years while engaged at the Liepāja Theater from 1960 to 1972, the Dailes Theater from 1964 to 1973 and the Youth Theatre from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1973 until 1992.

Pūcītis made his film debut in a small role as a fisherman in the 1959 Ada Neretniece-directed Latvian language Soviet film Svešiniece ciemā (English release title: Stranger in the Village) before his first starring role opposite Latvian actress Vija Artmane in the Leonīds Leimanis-directed period-drama Purva bridējs, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Latvian writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis. He would go on to appear in a number of film and television roles throughout the 1960s and into the 1990s, as well as continuing his stage career.

In 1998, Pūcītis would write the script and co-direct the television mini-series Izpostītā ligzda for Latvijas Televīzija (LTV) with Armands Zvirbulis. The film and both Zvirbulis and Pūcītis would be awarded the Lielais Kristaps; the highest prize awarded for Latvian cinema.

Pūcītis was married to Olīvija Pūcīte (née Poselanova). Their daughter is actress Milēna Gulbe-Kavace, and grandson is professional tennis player Ernests Gulbis. In late 2000, Pūcītis fell ill at his summer home in Jūrmala. After being taken to the hospital in Riga, he was initially diagnosed with a stomach ulcer. However, he died in hospital of a pulmonary embolism and was buried at the Riga Forest Cemetery.


Andres Mähar

biography:
Andres Mähar (born on February 2, 1978 in Tartu) is an Estonian actor.

Mähar studied at Türi Secondary School and sang in the Türi Boys' Choir. In 1996, he enrolled at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's performing arts department in Tallinn, studying acting under course supervisor Ingo Normet, graduating in 2000.

From 2000 until 2006, and again since 2011, he been a contracted actor at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu. From 2006 until 2011, he worked at the NO99 Theatre. Besides stage roles he has also acted on films and television series.


Gina Malo

biography: Gina Malo was born on 1 June 1909 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Door with Seven Locks (1940), Waltz Time (1933) and Jack of All Trades (1936). She was married to Romney Brent. She died on 30 November 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.

place_of_birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA


Michael N. Harbour

biography:
Michael N. Harbour, with the "N" standing for Ninian, was born in Edinburgh. He was one of six children of a veterinarian and grew up in London and St. Albans, Hertfordshire. It was there that he developed an interest in amateur dramatics and met his wife, Lesley, whom he married in 1968. Their daughter, actress and voice-over artist Kate Harbour, was born the following year.

He graduated from the Rose Bruford Drama School in Kent and became a member of the BBC Radio Repertory Company. He also presented the children's educational programme "Finding Out." Widely recognized for his stage work at Stratford East, he was an accomplished singer and performed in musicals including "Zorro" and "Into the Woods," although he was ultimately cut from the film adaptation of "Sweeney Todd." He died of cancer in April 2009 while staying with relatives in Cornwall.

place_of_birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


Tony Peck

biography: Tony Peck was born on October 24, 1956. He is an actor and writer, known for Sliver (1993), Pirates (1986) and El río que nos lleva (1989). He was previously married to Cheryl Tiegs.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Kim Bum

biography: Kim Sang-beom, known professionally as Kim Bum, is a South Korean actor, dancer, singer, and model born on July 7, 1989. He gained international fame for his role as So Yi-jung in the popular drama "Boys Over Flowers" (2009). He graduated from Chung-Ang University with a major in Theater and Film and began his career through the talent show "Survival Star Audition." He has starred in numerous successful projects showcasing his versatility, including "Tale of the Nine Tailed," "Law School," and "Ghost Doctor."

place_of_birth: Seoul, South Korea


Cho Jin-woong

biography: Cho Jin-woong (조진웅) is a South Korean actor. Born Jo Won-joon on April 3, 1976, he is best known for his roles as Sejong's loyal bodyguard in Deep Rooted Tree (2011), a mobster in Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), and a mysterious villain in A Hard Day (2014). He also gained recognition and praise for his performance as a detective in the television series Signal (2016).

place_of_birth: Busan, South Korea


Mario Salieri

biography:
Mario Salieri (born November 29, 1957 in Naples) is an Italian porn director and producer.

Salieri started his porn career with semi-amateur films shot in Amsterdam for the Italian market. Since early 1990s, he has directed and written many porn titles with divas like Zara Whites and the Italian actress Selen. He is also the owner of Salieri Productions. He has usually cast Roberto Malone and also Don Fernando for main roles in his movies.

Silvio Bandinelli and many newer porn directors in Italy and France, like Dino Toscani and Jenny Forte, follow his distinctive style. His wife Nicky Ranieri (who used to be a porn actress for Salieri films under the name Magdalena Lynn) also directs porn movies for Salieri Productions.

place_of_birth: Naples, Italy


Joy Karins

biography: Joy Karins (January 25, 1966, Paris, France) is a former French porn star and adult model, known for her large, natural breasts as well as her anal and double penetration scenes. She was active from 1987 to 2002 (she began her career around the age of 21).

place_of_birth: Paris, France


Ahn Sun-young

biography: Ahn Sun-yeong (안선영) is a South Korean actress.

place_of_birth: Busan - South Korea


Ignasi Abadal

biography: Ignasi Abadal, also known as José Ignacio Abadal, was a Spanish actor and voice actor from Barcelona. He began in theatre before working in film and television. His screen credits included Investigación criminal, La diligencia de los condenados, Veinte pasos para la muerte, and Nine Queens. He died in Barcelona on 3 May 2010.

place_of_birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain


Robert Eggers

biography: Robert Houston Eggers (born July 7, 1983) is an American filmmaker. After working for years as a production designer, he became known for writing and directing the period horror films The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019) and Nosferatu (2024), as well as co-writing and directing the Viking action film The Northman (2022). Noted for his attention to historical period detail, his films often incorporate elements of folklore and mythology.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Karel Čapek

biography: Karel Čapek was a Czech writer of the early 20th century. He had multiple roles throughout his career, including playwright, dramatist, essayist, publisher, literary reviewer, photographer and art critic. Nonetheless, he is best known for his science fiction including his novel War with the Newts and the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word robot

place_of_birth: Malé Svatoňovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary


Tania Gunadi

biography: Tania Gunadi is an Indonesian actress. She moved to Los Angeles when she was a teenager. She is best known for playing Emma Lau / Dark Tamera on Aaron Stone, Miko Nakadai on Transformers: Prime, Sashi Kobayashi on Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Sakti Deon / Techno on MyMusic, and Pliny on StuGo.

place_of_birth: Bandung, Indonesia


Derek Cianfrance

biography:
Derek M. Cianfrance (/ˈsiːənfræns/; born January 23, 1974) is an American film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for writing and directing the films Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, and The Light Between Oceans, as well as the HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True. For his contributions to the story of Sound of Metal, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with its director Darius Marder, and Abraham Marder.

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place_of_birth: Lakewood, Colorado, USA


Lucy DeVito

biography:
Lucy Chet DeVito (born March 11, 1983) is an American actress. She was a recurring character on ABC Family's Melissa & Joey (2010–2012), starred in the Hulu sitcom Deadbeat (2014–2015), and was a main voice actor and executive producer of the FXX animated comedy Little Demon (2022). DeVito has appeared in several theatre productions, including her Broadway debut, I Need That (2023). Since 2007, she has been a member of the New York developmental theatre company Ensemble Studio Theater.

She is the daughter of actor Danny DeVito and actress Rhea Perlman.

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