Barry Gibb

biography: Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE, is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born on the Isle of Man to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed the Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major success when they returned to England. Known for his high-pitched falsetto singing voice, Gibb holds the record for consecutive Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones as a writer with six. He also is the only songwriter to have written or co-written five songs that were simultaneously in the Top Ten.

place_of_birth: Douglas, Isle of Man, UK


Robin Gibb

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biography:
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE, was an English singer and songwriter. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees pop group with elder brother Barry and fraternal twin brother Maurice. Robin Gibb also had his own successful solo career.

Born to English parents, the trio started their musical career in Australia and found major success when they returned to England. With record sales estimated in excess of 100 million, the Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all time.

known_for_department: Acting


Maurice Gibb

biography: Maurice Ernest Gibb, CBE was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in the Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry. He is best known as a member of the singing/songwriting trio the Bee Gees, formed with his brothers Robin and Barry. The trio got their start in Australia and found major success when they returned to England. The Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups ever.


Raven-Symoné

biography:
Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman (born December 10, 1985 in Atlanta, Georgia), known professionally as Raven-Symoné, or simply Raven, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, comedian, dancer, television producer and model. Symone launched her successful career in 1989 after appearing in the show A Different World as Olivia. She released her debut album, Here's to New Dreams in 1993; the single, "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" charted number sixty-eight on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Symoné appeared in several successful television series, such as The Cosby Show and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, on the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2003, Symone went on to star in the highly successful Disney Channel series, That's So Raven in which Symone starred as Raven Baxter, a psychic teenager who tried her best to keep her psychic powers a secret. Symone starred in the series from 2003 until 2007. Symone's co-stars of That's So Raven went onto appear in the follow up, Cory In the House; however, Symone did not feature permanently, as she only appeared as a guest in one episode. During her time on That's So Raven, Symone released her third studio album, This is My Time (2004) which was Symone's best selling solo album to date, charting at number fifty-one on the Billboard 200. In 2008, she followed up This Is My Time with the release of her fourth album, Raven-Symoné (2008), which charted at #159 on the Billboard charts.

She transitioned to a film career, starring in several films aimed at teenage audiences, including Dr. Dolittle (1998), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), College Road Trip (2008), and television movies successful, including The Cheetah Girls (2003), Cheetah Girls 2 (2006), Revenge of the Bridesmaids (2010). Raven has also lent her voice to the animated series Kim Possible, for the character Monique and films such as Disney‘s Tinker Bell. Raven-Symoné also owns a "how-to" video website, Raven-Symoné Presents.

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place_of_birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA


Wojtek Smarzowski

biography: Wojciech Smarzowski (born 18 January 1963) is a Polish screenwriter and director. He studied filmmaking at the Jagiellonian University and the National Film School in Łódź (1990). His 2004 film, The Wedding earned special jury mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005. He began his film career as a video camera operator.

place_of_birth: Korczyna, Poland

known_for_department: Directing


Sally Yip Sin-Man

biography: Sally Yeh (born 30 September 1961), sometimes credited as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-Man, is a Hong Kong Cantopop diva and actress.

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Margherita Buy

biography: Margherita Buy (born 15 January 1962) is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and seven-time Nastro d'argento winner. After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's Una grande storia d'amore (1986), which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects It's Happening Tomorrow (1988) and The Week of the Sphinx (1990). For the last one, she won the best performance by an actress in a leading role award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Now Margherita Buy is one of the most appreciated actresses of European cinema: Ferzan Özpetek's The Ignorant Fairies, in which she portrayed a widow who discovered her husband had been having an affair with a man for the last seven years won her a Silver Ribbon as best lead.

place_of_birth: Rome, Italy


Andrei Abrikosov

biography:
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Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov (14 November 1906 – 21 October 1973) was a Soviet stage and film actor. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He appeared in 39 films between 1931 and 1972. His son, Grigori Abrikosov, also was a film actor.

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place_of_birth: Simferopol, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)


Corbin Bleu

biography: Corbin Bleu Reivers (born February 21, 1989) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and producer. He's best known for his role as Chad Danforth in Disney's High School Musical franchise, and has also appeared in Broadway productions including Godspell, In the Heights, Holiday Inn, and Kiss Me, Kate. He won a Chita Rivera Award for his performance as Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Tuva Novotny

biography:
Tuva Moa Matilda Karolina Novotny Hedström is a Swedish actress, director, and singer. She was born in Stockholm, and was raised in Åmot, Brunskog, outside Arvika. She is the daughter of Czech film director David Jan Novotný and Swedish artist Barbro Hedström.

She is fluent in Swedish, Czech, Danish, and Norwegian.

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place_of_birth: Stockholm, Sverige


Steven Shainberg

biography:
Steven Shainberg (born 5 February 1963) is an American film director and producer.

He is the nephew of author Lawrence Shainberg. Both are part of the Shainberg family of Memphis, Tennessee, founder of the Shainberg's chain of stores, which is now part of Dollar General.

Shainberg received his BA from Yale University in English Literature and East Asian studies. After graduation, he worked as a location manager, assistant director, production coordinator, and assistant editor on a number of films, commercials, and rock videos. He also worked as an independent producer developing adaptations of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent and Henry James’ The Americans. At the American Film Institute, he directed and wrote four short films including The Prom starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and J. T. Walsh. The Prom won the Grand Prize at the Houston International Film Festival, the Critics’ Award at the Breckenridge Film Festival, and the Silver Medal for Drama at the New York Film Festival.

In 1998, his short film series “Mr. Virgil” ran for almost six months on MTV as well as his video for Debbie Harry’s "Strike Me Pink".

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place_of_birth: USA


Baltasar Kormákur

biography:
Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson (born 27 February 1966) is an Icelandic actor, theatre and film director, and film producer. He directed the films 101 Reykjavík, The Sea, A Little Trip to Heaven, Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest, Touch, and the TV series Katla.

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place_of_birth: Reykjavik, Iceland


Jacki Weaver

biography:
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Her accolades include five AACTA Awards(including the Longford Lyell Award), a National Board of Review Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Weaver emerged in the 1970s during the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and several television films and miniseries. She also starred in Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Weaver received international attention and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the crime film Animal Kingdom (2010) and the comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012), the former of which also earned her the National Board of Review Award. This attention led her to receive roles in further Hollywood projects, including the films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box, Widows (both 2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022).

On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series Blunt Talk (2015–2016), the Fox Showcasepolitical thriller Secret City (2016–2019), the Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019), and the Stanscience fiction series Bloom (2019–2020). Since 2021, she has played a recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series Yellowstone.

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place_of_birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Mary Ure

biography: Eileen Mary Ure (born 18 February 1933, Glasgow, Scotland - died 3 April 1975, London) was a Scottish actress of stage and film.

place_of_birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK


Andres Veiel

biography: Andres Veiel (German: [ˈandʁəs ˈfaɪəl]; born 16 October 1959) is a German film and theater director and writer.

place_of_birth: Stuttgart, Germany


Anna Keaveney

biography: Anna Keaveney was born on October 5, 1949 in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Formula 51 (2001), Vera Drake (2004) and Ali G Indahouse (2002).

place_of_birth: Runcorn, Cheshire, England, UK


Sheila Kelley

biography: Sheila Kelley is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Gwen Taylor on L.A. Law, Dr. Charlotte "Charley" Bennett Hayes on Sisters, and Debbie Wexler on The Good Doctor.

place_of_birth: Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA


Andrey Zvyagintsev

biography:
Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev (born 6 February 1964) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His film The Return (2003) won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Following The Return, Zvyagintsev directed The Banishment and Elena (2011). His film Leviathan (2014) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2014 and won the Best Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His most recent film Loveless won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was among the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. He also won the Achievement in Directing award for this film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

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place_of_birth: Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR [now Russia]


Kumiko Goto

biography: Kumiko Goto is a Japanese former singer, actress, and Japanese idol active in the 1980s. She abandoned her artistic career in 1995 when she married the French racing driver, Jean Alesi. Wikipedia

place_of_birth: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan


Mark McCorkle

biography: Mark McCorkle (born August 1961) is an American screenwriter, television writer and television producer. He is the co-creator of the Disney Channel animated series, Kim Possible, alongside Bob Schooley, who frequently works with McCorkle.

place_of_birth: Morrisville, Pennsylvania, USA

known_for_department: Writing


Céline Sciamma

biography: Céline Sciamma is a French screenwriter and film director. Sciamma's work is strikingly minimalist, partly the legacy of her mentor, Xavier Beauvois, who advised her while she was a student at the major French film school, La Fémis.

place_of_birth: Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France


Louise Blachère

place_of_birth: Saint-Etienne, France


Adèle Haenel

biography:
Adèle Haenel (born 11 February 1989) is a French actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards from seven nominations and one Lumières Award from two nominations.

Haenel began her career as a child actress, making her film debut with Les Diables (2002) at the age of 12, and quickly rose to prominence in the French entertainment industry as a teenager. She received her first César Award nomination for her performance in Water Lilies (2007), which also marked the beginning of her long professional and personal relationship with director Céline Sciamma. In 2014, Haenel received her first César Award for her supporting role in Suzanne, and in 2015 won the César Award for Best Actress for Love at First Fight. She continued to garner recognition for her performances in BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017), The Trouble with You (2018) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019).

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place_of_birth: Paris, France


Show Aikawa

biography: Show Aikawa is a Japanese actor. He's starred in a variety of films ranging from V-Cinema productions to mainstream ventures. In the course of his career, he's collaborated extensively with a number of directors such as Banmei Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takashi Miike.

place_of_birth: Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan


Godfrey Reggio

biography: Godfrey Reggio (born March 29, 1940) is an American director of experimental documentary films.


Jessica Harper

biography:
Jessica Randolph Harper (born October 3, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Harper began her feature film career with a starring role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), and subsequently featured in films including Love and Death (1975), Inserts (1975), and My Favorite Year (1982). She is best known for her portrayal of Suzy Bannion, the protagonist of Dario Argento's cult classic Suspiria (1977), and appeared in a supporting role in Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake.

Her other films include Stardust Memories (1980), Shock Treatment (1981) (the followup to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which she replaced Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss), Pennies from Heaven (1981), The Blue Iguana (1988), Safe (1995), Minority Report (2002), Bones and All (2022) and Nightbitch (2024). In addition to acting, Harper is also an author of children's music and books.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Heather Graham

biography: Heather Graham (born January 29, 1970), a talented actor born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, rose to prominence for her captivating performances on screen. Her career took off with memorable roles in films such as "Boogie Nights" and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," showcasing her versatility and charm. Graham's ability to embody diverse characters across genres, from comedy to drama, solidified her as a versatile and esteemed actor. Beyond her on-screen success, she's also ventured into writing and directing, further showcasing her multifaceted talent in the entertainment industry. Her dedication to her craft and her enduring presence in Hollywood have made her a respected figure among audiences and peers alike.

place_of_birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA


Maude Barlow

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Maude Victoria Barlow (born May 24, 1947) is a Canadian author and activist. She is the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, a citizens’ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the right to water. Maude chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch and is also an executive member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly. She has authored and co-authored 16 books.

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place_of_birth: Canada


Jasmine Trinca

biography:
Jasmine Trinca (born 24 April 1981) is an Italian actress. Trinca was born in Rome, Italy. She began her career in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for his award-winning The Son's Room, receiving the Guglielmo Biraghi prize as Best New Talent of the Year. In 2004, she won a Nastro d'Argento for The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù). Trinca played again with Moretti in Il caimano (2006).

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place_of_birth: Rome, Italy


Joan Harrison

biography:
Joan Harrison (20 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar when the category was introduced in 1940, and was the first screenwriter to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year in separate categories, for co-writing the screenplay for the films Foreign Correspondent (1940) (original) and Rebecca (1940) (adapted), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship.

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place_of_birth: Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

known_for_department: Production


Irina Pantaeva

biography: Irina Pantaeva (born 31 October 1967) is a Russian model and actress. Pantaeva was born in Ulan-Ude, Buryat ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.


Edgar Froese

biography:
Edgar Willmar Froese (6 June 1944 – 20 January 2015) was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967. Froese was the only continuous member of the group until his death. Although his solo and group recordings before 2003 name him "Edgar Froese", his later solo albums bear the name "Edgar W. Froese".

Froese was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia), on D-Day during World War II; members of his family, including his father, had been killed by the Nazis and after the war, his mother and surviving family settled in Berlin. He took piano lessons from the age of 12 and started playing guitar at 15. After showing an early aptitude for art, Froese enrolled at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin to study painting and sculpture.

One of his most lucrative jobs was to design advertising posters for the Berlin buses. He started an evening degree in psychology and philosophy and received his doctorate on Kant's categorical imperative. Since his interpretation was not by the academic way of thinking, he left the college with the remark: "The dust of the universities is like a shroud over the truth."  In 1965, he formed a band called The Ones, who played psychedelic rock, and some rock and R&B standards. While playing in Spain, The Ones were invited to perform at Salvador Dalí's villa in Cadaqués. Froese's encounter with Dalí was highly influential, inspiring him to pursue more experimental directions with his music. The Ones disbanded in 1967, having released only one single "Lady Greengrass" (b/w "Love of Mine") on Star-Club Records. After returning to Berlin, Froese began recruiting musicians for the free-rock band that would become Tangerine Dream.

place_of_birth: Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany

known_for_department: Sound


Johannes Schmölling

biography:
Johannes Schmoelling (born 9 November 1950 in Lohne, Germany) is a German musician and keyboard artist. He was a member of the prolific electronic music group Tangerine Dream from 1979 to 1985.

A classically trained musician, he began playing piano at the age of eight. By twelve he had begun playing the pipe organ and successfully mastered the instrument so well that he began to play professionally at various churches. By 1978 Johannes had graduated from college with a degree in sound engineering and secured a job working on live theater performances at the prestigious Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin. He ended his stint with Tangerine Dream at the end of 1985 to pursue a solo career and has produced several solo albums as well as soundtrack music for numerous German television programs.

place_of_birth: Lohne, Germany


Emily Chu Bo-Yee

biography: Emily Chu (Chinese: 朱寶意; born 31 October 1960) is a Hong Kong film actress.

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Dean DeBlois

biography: Dean Allan DeBlois (/dəˈblwɑː/ də-BLWAH; born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker and writer. He is best known for writing and directing the Oscar-nominated animated feature films Lilo & Stitch for Walt Disney Animation Studios (with Chris Sanders), the How to Train Your Dragon film trilogy for DreamWorks Animation (the first film also with Sanders), and directing the documentary Heima about the Icelandic band Sigur Rós.

place_of_birth: Brockville, Ontario, Canada


Taurean Blacque

biography:
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Taurean Blacque (born Herbert Middleton Jr. in Newark, New Jersey, May 10, 1941) is an American television and stage actor, best known for his role as Detective Neal Washington on the series Hill Street Blues. He also is a past national spokesman for adoptive services, having been one of the first single black men in the United States to adopt a child.

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place_of_birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA


Maureen O'Hara

biography: Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons, August 17, 1920 - died October 24, 2015) was a native Irish and naturalized American actress and singer, and a natural redhead, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s.  She was known for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. She was one of the longest-lived stars from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.

place_of_birth: Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland


Tatsuya Nakadai

biography:
Tatsuya Nakadai (仲代 達矢, Nakadai Tatsuya; born Motohisa Nakadai; December 13, 1932 – November 8, 2025) was a Japanese actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, he collaborated extensively with many of Japan's best-known and acclaimed directors. In his over seven decade career, he appeared in more than 160 films, and received numerous accolades. He was honored with a Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1996 and Japan's Order of Culture in 2015.

Nakadai rose to prominence starring in Masaki Kobayashi's films, with his breakthrough being the protagonist of the epic anti-war trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961). He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for his performance as the vengeful ronin in Harakiri (1962), a role he considered his finest. Nakadai collaborated on eleven films with Kobayashi—including Kwaidan (1964) and Samurai Rebellion (1967)—and five with Akira Kurosawa, most notably as the tragic warlord in Ran (1985), a performance that earned global acclaim. His other notable credits included Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), The Sword of Doom (1966), The Face of Another (1966), Goyokin (1969), Kagemusha (1980), and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013).

A lifelong stage actor, he founded the Gendai Nohgaku-kai troupe in 1975 and continued performing on stage into his nineties.

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place_of_birth: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan


Chelah Horsdal

biography:
Chelah Horsdal is a Canadian actress. She is known for her regular roles in the television series Hell on Wheels, When Calls the Heart, and The Man in the High Castle, recurring roles on Stargate SG-1, Level Up, Arrow, and Star Trek: Discovery, and for her roles in the films Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Horsdal was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She says she "was born to hippie parents while surrounded by friends and family on the 'farm' Headacres."

She is the daughter of mother Lindsay and folksinger father Valdy. She grew up with her mother in Kitsilano and attended Bayview Elementary followed by Lord Byng Secondary. She began modelling in locally shot TV shows and commercials at 18, and then lived in the Caribbean for a year.

Horsdal began her acting career in 2002. She has since appeared in more than 75 commercials as well as in films and on television. She has played lead and supporting roles on Hell on Wheels, The Man In the High Castle, When Calls the Heart, Candiland, Patterson's Wager, Three Weeks, Three Kids, On Strike For Christmas, Marley & Me: The Puppy Years, and Lifetime's The Client List. She had lead roles in Lying To Be Perfect and Mrs. Miracle.

Additional credits include leads on the feature Burning Mussolini, Nickelodeon's Gym Teacher: The Movie, co-starring Christopher Meloni and Amy Sedaris, Flirting with Forty with Heather Locklear and the FOX TV pilot The Virgin of Akron, Ohio. Supporting leads include Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem for 20th Century Fox and Possession alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as Elegy with Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz and Rise of the Planet of the Apes with John Lithgow and James Franco.

Her performances in the short films Dark Room (2006) and The Hostage (2010) both earned Leo nominations for Best Performance. Recurring roles include Battlestar Galactica, Exes & Ohs, The L Word, Stargate: SG1, Saved, DaVinci's Inquest, Whistler, Blackstone, Clue and Cartoon Network's Level Up.

The Hostage, for which Horsdal was nominated for Best Actress at the 2011 Leos, co-starred and was produced by Tahmoh Penikett and Aleks Paunovic. Horsdal was nominated for four more Leo Awards for her guest starring turn on Arctic Air (2013), for Hell on Wheels and When Calls the Heart, and for Patterson's Wager.

place_of_birth: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada


Kanako Higuchi

biography:
Kanako Higuchi (樋口 可南子, Higuchi Kanako) (born December 13, 1958) is a Japanese actress. Her credits include film, television, and radio dramas, stage, commercials, and voice roles.

Born in Kamo, Niigata, she played her first lead at age 20 in the television drama Kōrogi-bashi.

Kanako's film credits include Hokusai Manga, Bedtime Eyes, Zatoichi (1989), Casshern, Memories of Tomorrow, and Ashura no Jō Blood Gets In Your Eyes. Among her television roles are Lady Yodo in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune and Hanayasha in the 1991 Taiga drama Taiheiki. She has represented the cosmetics firms KOSÉ and Kao.

place_of_birth: Kamo, Niigata, Japan


Jennifer Warren

biography:
Jennifer Warren (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress and film director.

Warren was born in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, the daughter of Paula Bauersmith, an actress, and Barnet M. Warren, a dentist. Her uncle was Yiddish theatre actor and director Jacob Ben-Ami. Warren graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School. Warren married producer Roger Gimbel in 1976. They have a son, Barney, a writer and editor. Gimbel died on April 26, 2011.

She made her Broadway debut in 1972 in 6 Rms Riv Vu, for which she won the Theatre World Award. She also appeared in the short-lived P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!. Warren's film credits include Slap Shot (as the frustrated wife of hockey coach Paul Newman), Night Moves, Ice Castles, "The Swap" (1969) and Life Stinks. She has directed two features, The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994) and Partners in Crime (2000). She was listed as one of the twelve "Promising New Actors of 1975" in John Willis' Screen World, Volume 27.

Warren's small screen credits include numerous made-for-television movies and guest appearances on The Bob Newhart Show, Kojak, Cagney and Lacey, Hotel, Hooperman, and Murder, She Wrote, among others.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Eartha Kitt

biography:
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable for the final season. She also was famous for being the voice of Yzma in Disney's The Emperor's New Groove as well as its sequel and TV series.

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place_of_birth: North, South Carolina, USA


Sarah Jane Morris

biography:
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Sarah Jane Morris (born April 12, 1977, height 5' 5½" (1,66 m)) is an American actress. She plays Julia Walker on Brothers & Sisters and formerly had a recurring role on Felicity.

place_of_birth: Memphis, Tennessee, USA


Emily Browning

biography: Emily Jane Browning (born December 7, 1988) is an Australian actress. She made her film debut in the television film The Echo of Thunder (1998), and subsequently appeared in television shows such as High Flyers (1999), Something in the Air (2000–2001), and Blue Heelers (2000–2002). Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship, which introduced her to a wider audience. In 2005, Browning won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Violet Baudelaire in the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).

place_of_birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Tom Hooper

biography:
Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is a British-Australian filmmaker.

Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, Painted Faces, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University, Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, and Cold Feet on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas Love in a Cold Climate (2001) and Daniel Deronda (2002), as well as the 2003 revival of ITV's Prime Suspect series, starring Helen Mirren. Hooper made his feature film debut with Red Dust (2004), a British drama starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, before directing Helen Mirren again in the Company Pictures/HBO Films historical drama Elizabeth I (2005). He continued working for HBO on the television film Longford (2006) and in John Adams (2008), a seven-part serial on the life of the American president. Hooper returned to features with The Damned United (2009), a fact-based film about the English football manager Brian Clough (played by Michael Sheen). The following year saw the release of the historical drama The King's Speech (2010), starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, which was met with critical acclaim. Hooper's next film was Les Misérables (2012), which featured an all-star cast led by Hugh Jackman. His 2015 film, The Danish Girl, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Recently, Hooper has directed two episodes of His Dark Materials and a live-action adaptation of the musical Cats, for which he won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Director and Worst Screenplay.

Hooper's work was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for Prime Suspect and John Adams, won one for Elizabeth I, and was nominated for the British Academy (BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best Director for Longford. The King's Speech won multiple awards, including Best Director wins for Hooper from the Directors Guild of America and the Academy Awards and a Best Director nomination from BAFTA.

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Martin Rosen

biography:
Martin Gerald Rosen (born August 31, 1936) is an American-British filmmaker and theatre producer. He directed the animated film adaptations of Watership Down (1978) and The Plague Dogs (1982), both from the Richard Adams novels.

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Misaki Itō

place_of_birth: Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan


Teddy Chan Tak-Sam

biography: Teddy Chan Tak-Sam is a Hong Kong film director and artist.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony


Gary David Goldberg

biography:
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Gary David Goldberg (born June 25, 1944) is a United States writer and producer for television and film. Goldberg is best known for his work on Family Ties (1982–89), Spin City (1996–2002), and his semi-autobiographical series Brooklyn Bridge (1991–93).

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

known_for_department: Creator


Philip Michael Thomas

biography: Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949) is a retired American actor and musician, best known for his role as detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice. His first notable roles were in Coonskin (1975) and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film Sparkle. After his success in Miami Vice, he appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies and advertisements for telephone psychic services. He also voiced the character Lance Vance in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006).

place_of_birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA


John Payne

biography: John Payne was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films and for his roles in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the television series The Restless Gun (1957-1959).

place_of_birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA


Lazar Ristovski

biography: Lazar Ristovski is a famous Serbian actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly in lead roles.

place_of_birth: Ravno Selo near Vrbas, Serbia, Yugoslavia


Michelle Dockery

biography:
Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress. She is best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised her role in the films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).

After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dockery made her professional stage debut in His Dark Materials in 2004. For her role as Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 London revival of Pygmalion, she was nominated for the Evening Standard Award. For her role in the 2009 play Burnt by the Sun, she earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Dockery has appeared in the films Hanna (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Non-Stop (2014), and The Gentlemen (2019). She has also played lead roles in the western miniseries Godless (2017), for which she received her fourth Emmy nomination, and the drama miniseries Defending Jacob (2020) and Anatomy of a Scandal (2022). She attended the Finch Stage School, and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2004

place_of_birth: Romford, Essex, England, UK


Mark Humphrey

biography: Mark Adrian Humphrey is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Pastor Frank Hogan on the Hallmark Channel drama series When Calls the Heart. He has built a prolific career in television and film spanning several decades.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Andrea Arnold

biography: Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961; Dartford) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series Transparent, as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies. Her documentary Cow premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and played at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Dartford, Kent, England


Aline Küppenheim

biography:
Aline Adriana Küppenheim Gualtieri (born 10 August 1969) is a Chilean actress. She has appeared in forty films and television series since 1991.

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place_of_birth: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain


Imtiaz Ali

biography: Imtiaz Ali  is an Indian film director and writer. He started his career with writing and directing television shows. He directed shows like Imtehaan, Naina and Kurukshetra. In 2005 he made his directorial debut with Socha Na Tha, that did not do well. Then he earned critical and commercial success for his direction of Jab We Met (2007). Love Aaj Kal (2009) and Rockstar (2011) made him known amongst youngsters.

place_of_birth: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India


Tom Signorelli

biography: Tommy Signorelli was born in Brooklyn, New York. He made his film debut in 1963 on an episode of Wagon Train, then made his movie debut in The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare in 1964. Signorelli appeared in films such as Dick Tracy, The Sicilian and The Cotton Club.


Alden Ehrenreich

biography:
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich (/ˈɛərənraɪk/; born November 22, 1989) is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in the television series Supernatural (2005) and in Francis Ford Coppola's films Tetro (2009) and Twixt (2011). Following supporting roles in the 2013 films Blue Jasmine and Stoker, his breakthrough came in 2016 with a lead role in the Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar!, for which he gained praise.

Ehrenreich played Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and starred in the dystopian television series Brave New World (2020). In 2023, he had starring roles in the comedy Cocaine Bear, the thriller Fair Play, and a supporting role in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer.

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place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Rob Riggle

biography:
Robert Allen Riggle Jr. (born April 21, 1970) is a European-American actor, stand-up comedian, and retired United States Marine officer. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, joining the Marines in 1990 and later attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Riggle is known for his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show from 2006 to 2008, as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2004 to 2005, as the recurring character Gil Thorpe on the 20th Television sitcom Modern Family from 2013 to 2019; and for his comedic roles in films such as Step Brothers (2008), The Hangover (2009), Killers (2010), The Internship (2013), Let's Be Cops (2014), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) and How to Be a Latin Lover (2017). He has also co-starred in the Adult Swim comedy-action series NTSF:SD:SUV::. In 2012, he replaced Frank Caliendo for the comedy skit and prognostication portions of Fox NFL Sunday. Riggle currently co-hosts the miniature golf game show series Holey Moley with Joe Tessitore on ABC.

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place_of_birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA


Zoë Lund

biography: Zoë Lund was an American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter. She was best known for her association in two films with film director Abel Ferrara: Ms. 45 (1981), in which she starred, and Bad Lieutenant (1992), for which she co-wrote the screenplay.

place_of_birth: New York, New York, USA


Ari Graynor

biography: Ariel Geltman Graynor (born April 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series The Sopranos (2001), Fringe (2009–2010), Bad Teacher (2014), I'm Dying Up Here (2017), and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). In film, she has starred in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), The Sitter (2011), For a Good Time, Call... (2012), and The Disaster Artist (2017).

place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Buck Taylor

biography:
Walter Clarence "Buck" Taylor, III (born May 13, 1938) is an American actor and water color artist best known for his role as gunsmith-turned-deputy Newly O'Brien in 113 episodes during the last eight seasons of CBS's Gunsmoke television series (1967–1975). In recent years, he has painted the portrait of his friend and Gunsmoke costar James Arness. Taylor's painting specialty is the American West, and each year, he creates the posters for several Texas rodeos. Taylor lives with his second wife on a ranch near Fort Worth, Texas.

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place_of_birth: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States


Justin Chadwick

biography:
Justin Chadwick (born 6 December 1968) is an English actor and television and film director. He directed episodes of EastEnders, Byker Grove, The Bill, Spooks and Red Cap before directing nine of the fifteen episodes of the mini-series Bleak House, which was broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by PBS in the United States as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series.

Chadwick was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special, the Royal Television Society Award for Breakout Performance Behind the Scenes and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Bleak House, which was the Best Drama Serial winner in the British Academy Television Awards 2006.

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place_of_birth: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK


Anders Danielsen Lie

biography:
Anders Danielsen Lie (born 1 January 1979) is a Norwegian actor, musician and medical doctor.

Danielsen Lie made his film debut when he was 11 years old in the title role of Herman (1990) by Erik Gustavson. He is best known for his leading roles in multi-award winning Reprise (2006) and Oslo, 31 August (2011) by Danish-Norwegian director Joachim Trier. Oslo, 31 August was selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Oslo, Norway


Nanette Newman

biography:
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Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934) is an English actress and author.

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place_of_birth: Northampton, Northamptonshire, England


Emily Meade

biography: Emily Meade (born January 10, 1989) is an American actress.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Benoît Delépine

biography:
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Benoît Delépine (30 August 1958 –) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+.

Director of the TV program Guignols de l'info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael.

In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols.

In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave de Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions from the Groland adventure wrote and directed it as a road movie where two enemies travel the roads of northern France and Finland following an accident. Also with Gustave Kervern, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was awarded screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His upcoming film Mammuth was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

He is a supporter of Attac.

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place_of_birth: Saint-Quentin, France


Gustave Kervern

biography:
Gustave de Kervern (born 1962) is a French film actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with Benoit Delepine. In 2004 he wrote, directed, and starred in Aaltra with Benoit Delepine. Also with Delepine, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The duos film Louise-Michel won a Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Their latest film Mammuth starred Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani. It was nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Mauritius


Anil Kapoor

biography:
Living in a Chawl in Tilak Nagar, Punjabi-speaking Anil was born in 1959 to Surinder and Nirmal aka Suchitra Kapoor. He has an elder brother, Boney, a sister, Reena, and a younger brother, Sanjay. His dad used to be Shammi Kapoor's Secretary.

A loner, without many friends, he studied in the nearby O.L.P.S. (Our Lady of Perpetual Succor) School, and was an ardent fan of Bollywood flicks that were telecast during the Ganesh Maha Utsav every year. He was a fan of Raj Kapoor, and it was this that influenced his acting, and people saw him as a mimic of the legendary showman. He landed a role as a child artiste with Shashi Kapoor in the lead, but the movie (Tu Payal Main Geet) was never released.

After school, he went to study in St. Xaviers College. He commuted by bus and train from Chembur to Bombay V.T., and the walked the rest of the way. It was here that he met Mazhar Khan. A distracted Anil was kicked out of College in the second year due to his lack of presence. His attempts to join the Pune Film Institute were in vain, as he failed in the written examination. He then decided to join Roshan Taneja's Acting school.

He first appeared on the silver screen in Hamhare Tumhare in a character role. His first lead role was in 'Woh 7 Din' and from thence on there has been no looking back. He has acted in close to a 100 movies, and has 5 in production. He has produced two movies (Gandhi My Father & Badhaai Ho Badhaai), as well as been a Casting Director/Outdoor In charge for 'Hum Paanch'.

Kapoor's first role in an international film was in Danny Boyle's 2008 Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. His performance in the eighth season of the action series 24 generated rave reviews from the American press Globally, Anil Kapoor is one of the most recognized Indian actors.

Anil met wealthy and chic model, Sindhi-speaking Sunita Bhambhani, and married her in 1984. Since then they have given birth to 3 children, kapoor has two daughters and a son Harshwardhan Kapoor.Kapoor's elder daughter is actress Sonam Kapoor. Rhea Kapoor attended school in New York and is now a producer in Mumbai.

place_of_birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India


Lika Minamoto

biography:
is a Japanese actress and model currently residing in France. Minamoto began modeling while attending university in Japan. After graduating, she worked as an office lady at a major trading company for a few months, but left to pursue a career in film. While on vacation in Paris to take ballet lessons, she was scouted by a French modeling agency, signed a contract, and resumed her modeling career in Paris.

Minamoto became a well-known figure in the European advertising industry, appearing in ads for beauty brands such as Clarins, Dior, La Roche-Posay, L'Oréal, Garnier, Wella, and Agnès b. She also appeared in many music videos for leading English and French acts such as Pet Shop Boys, Alain Chamfort, and David Hallyday.

In the spring of 2006, she auditioned in Paris for the role of Tamao in Edogawa Ranpo-based film Inju: The Beast in the Shadow, opposite Benoît Magimel, and it played at Cannes. Minamoto fell in love at first sight with Academy Award-nominated director Barbet Schroeder, and despite the objections of the Japanese producer, who insisted on using a local celebrity, she won the role 18 months after her audition and after several callbacks.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Jennifer Lawrence

biography:
Jennifer Shrader Maroney (née Lawrence, born August 15, 1990) is an American actress and producer. She has starred in both action film franchises and independent dramas, and her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide. She was the world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016.

Lawrence began her career as a teenager with guest roles on television. Her first major role was as a main cast member on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009). In 2008, she made her film debut with a supporting role in the drama Garden Party. She earned the Marcello Mastroianni Award for her performance in The Burning Plain. Her breakthrough came with the role of a poverty-stricken teenager in the independent film Winter's Bone (2010), for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Lawrence achieved international stardom for portraying the mutant Mystique in the X-Men film series (2011–2019) and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2012–present). The latter franchise made her character the highest-grossing action heroine of all time.

Lawrence collaborated with filmmaker David O. Russell on three films, which earned her various accolades. For portraying a troubled young widow in the romance Silver Linings Playbook (2012), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the second-youngest winner in the category at age 22. Lawrence also won a BAFTA Award for her supporting role in the black comedy American Hustle (2013) and a Golden Globe Award for portraying businesswoman Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy (2015). She later starred in the sci-fi romance film Passengers (2016), the psychological horror film Mother! (2017), and the spy thriller Red Sparrow (2018) to varying critical and commercial success. After a hiatus, Lawerence returned to acting with the satirical dark comedy Don't Look Up (2021). She has since starred in the dramas Causeway (2022) and Die My Love (2025), and the comedy No Hard Feelings (2023), all of which she co-produced.

Outside of acting, Lawrence founded the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation in 2015, which advocates for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Special Olympics, and the production company Excellent Cadaver in 2018. She sang lead on the 2014 single "The Hanging Tree", which charted worldwide. She is a feminist and advocates for women's reproductive rights. She is also an active member of the anti-corruption organisation RepresentUs. She is married to gallery director Cooke Maroney, with whom she has two children.

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place_of_birth: Indian Hills, Kentucky, USA


Céline Sallette

biography:
Céline Sallette (born 25 April 1980) is a French actress. In 2012, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in House of Tolerance. In 2016, she was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2017 she gained critical success with her interpretation of the role of "Masha" in Les Trois Soeurs by Simon Stone at Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe.

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place_of_birth: Bordeaux, Gironde, France


Lesley Manville

biography: Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999), and Secrets & Lies (1996), and her performance in Phantom Thread (2017), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also had a supporting role in Maleficent (2014). Manville's extensive stage career includes roles in As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Alchemist. Her film debut was in Dance with a Stranger (1985).

place_of_birth: Brighton, England, UK


Alison Garland

biography: Alison Garland is an actress, known for All or Nothing (2002), The Bill (1984) and Virtual Sexuality (1999).


Marion Bailey

place_of_birth: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK


Paul Jesson

place_of_birth: Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK


Kathryn Hunter

biography:
Aikaterini Hadjipateras (Greek: Αικατερίνη Χατζηπατέρα; born 9 April 1957), known professionally as Kathryn Hunter, is an actress and theatre director known for her work in physical theatre. Hunter has appeared as Arabella Figg in the Harry Potter film series, as Eedy Karn in the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor, and as the Three Witches in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth. Hunter's accolades include the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Gary McDonald

biography:
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Gary McDonald (born in London in 1961) is an English actor of Jamaican descent. A student at Elliott school in Putney, McDonald played football for Wimbledon FC under Dario Gradi.

He was a member of the Royal Court Theatre from 1979-80, appearing in various plays at the Court such as Hard time Pressure, Hero’s Welcome and Che Walker’s Been so Long. In the 1980’s he performed with the Talawa Theatre company in The Black Jacobins, The Importance of Being Earnest and A Raisin in the Sun with the Black Theatre. He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Macbeth and Black Poppies, Rhapsody in Black & White and at The Cottlesloe in Blood Wedding. Other theatre credits include Scrape of the Black and Mike Leigh’s It’s a Great Big Shame at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

His first notable television role came in 1987 when he was cast as Darren Roberts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He left the role in 1988. He has also appeared in Numb3ers, The Bill, Between the Lines, South of the Border, as Captain John Black in Dream Team (1999-2006) and in Brothers and Sisters, among others. He has also appeared in various films.

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Edna Doré

biography: Born Edna Lillian Gorring on May 31, 1921 in Bromely, Kent Edna Doré was an actress, best known for playing the battleaxe Mo Butcher in EastEnders from 1988 to 1990 and for the films Les Misérables (1998),  and the Mike Leigh films Another Year, All or Nothing and High Hopes, the latter saw her receive the award for Best Supporting Player at the 1989 European Film Awards. She was married to Alexander Doré. She died on April 11, 2014 in Sussex, England at the age of 92.

place_of_birth: Bromley, Kent, England


Xavier Beauvois

biography:
Xavier Beauvois ( born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.

His film Of Gods and Men received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist.

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place_of_birth: Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France


Colin Farrell

biography:
Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor. A leading man in blockbusters and independent films since the 2000s, he has received various accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards and a nomination for an Academy Award. The Irish Times named him Ireland's fifth-greatest film actor in 2020, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.

Farrell began acting in the BBC drama series Ballykissangel (1998) and made his film debut in the drama The War Zone (1999). His first lead film role was in the war drama Tigerland (2000), and he made his breakthrough in Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Minority Report (2002). He took on high-profile roles such as Bullseye in Daredevil (2003) and as Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004), with further starring roles in Michael Mann's Miami Vice (2006) and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream (2007).

Farrell earned acclaim for playing a novice hitman in his first film with frequent collaborator Martin McDonagh, the dark comedy In Bruges (2008), winning a Golden Globe Award. He went on to play a variety of leading and character roles in the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011), the science fiction film Total Recall (2012), the drama Saving Mr. Banks (2013), the dark comedies Seven Psychopaths (2012) and The Lobster (2015), the thrillers The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Beguiled (2017), and Widows (2018), and the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Dumbo (2019). He also starred in the second season of HBO's thriller series True Detective (2015).

Farrell played Oz Cobb/Penguin in the superhero film The Batman (2022) and the HBO series The Penguin (2024), winning a Golden Globe award for the latter. In 2022, he gained acclaim for his roles in the science fiction drama After Yang, the survival film Thirteen Lives, and McDonagh's drama The Banshees of Inisherin. For playing a naïve Irishman in the lattermost, he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and another Golden Globe, in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

place_of_birth: Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland


Nenji Kobayashi

biography: Toshiji Kobayashi (小林 稔侍, Kobayashi Toshiji, born on February 7, 1941), known by his stage name, Nenji Kobayashi (alternative reading of 稔侍), is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Poppoya.

place_of_birth: Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan


Darrin Navarro

biography: Darrin Navarro, ACE, began his film career in the late 1980s, working as an assistant editor on low-budget exploitation films for independent producers such as Roger Corman and Fred Olen Ray before finding work at the major studios on pictures like Sam Raimi’s Darkman (1990) and Peter Bogdanovich’s The Thing Called Love (1993). In 1995, he assisted on William Friedkin’s Jade, which began a nearly three-decade relationship with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, eventually editing Friedkin’s late-career masterworks, Bug (2005), Killer Joe (2011), and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023). Navarro has also collaborated extensively with the director, Azazel Jacobs, including on Terri (2010), and The Lovers (2017); and with James Ponsoldt on The Spectacular Now (2012) and The End of the Tour (2015). His credits for television include episodes of I Love Dick, Ballers, Mozart in the Jungle, Outer Banks, Euphoria, and Cape Fear.

place_of_birth: Whittier, California, USA

known_for_department: Editing


Toni Servillo

biography: Marco Antonio Servillo (born 25 January 1959), known as Toni Servillo, is an Italian actor and theatrical director.

place_of_birth: Afragola, Campania, Italy


Oldřich Kaiser

biography:
He has starred in many films in his long career. Recent films include Dark Blue World, Shark in the Head and Handcuffs. He also plays the lead role in Menzel's adaptation of Hrabal's I Served the King of England. He is also famous for his roles in TV series such as 30 Cases of Major Zeman and Hospital on the Edge of Town.

He has also appeared in many TV shows such as Maybe the Magician Will Come or the improvisational Russian Roulette as a well-known comedy duo with Jiří Lábus. Together they also made the long-running radio improvisation series The Tlučhořovi, which reached eight hundred episodes in November 2007, and the successful TV show Zeměkoule.

A species of shoebill (Cychrus kaiseri) is named after him, which he discovered together with entomologist and neurosurgeon Vladimir Benes in the summer of 2004 in Asia. From 1980 to 2005, his wife was the Czech actress Naďa Konvalinková. Since 2020, his wife has been the singer-songwriter Dáša Vokatá.

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place_of_birth: Liberec, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]


Saburo Shinoda

place_of_birth: Minato, Tokyo, Japan


Michael Stuhlbarg

biography:
Michael Stuhlbarg (/ˈstuːlˌbɑːrɡ/ STOOL-barg; born July 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known as a character actor, having portrayed a variety of roles in film, television, and theatre. He has received several awards, including nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.

He rose to prominence as troubled university professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 dark comedy film A Serious Man, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Stuhlbarg has since become known as a character actor and has appeared in numerous films and television series portraying real-life figures, such as George Yeaman in Lincoln (2012), Lew Wasserman in Hitchcock (2012), Andy Hertzfeld in Steve Jobs (2015), Edward G. Robinson in Trumbo (2015), Abe Rosenthal in The Post (2017), and Stanley Edgar Hyman in Shirley (2020). His other supporting roles include Hugo (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012), Blue Jasmine (2013), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Arrival (2016), Call Me by Your Name and The Shape of Water (both 2017), and Bones and All (2022). He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing as Nicodemus West in Doctor Strange (2016) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

On television, he portrayed Arnold Rothstein in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010–2013), Richard A. Clarke in The Looming Tower (2018), and Richard Sackler in Dopesick (2021), receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nominations for the latter two. He also acted in FX's Fargo (2017), Showtime's Your Honour (2020–2023), and HBO's The Staircase (2022). On stage, Stuhlbarg has acted in numerous productions, including the 2005 debut of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman on Broadway, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award nomination. He returned to Broadway playing Boris Berezovsky in Peter Morgan's Patriots (2024) and received a second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play.

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place_of_birth: Long Beach, California, USA


Ryuhei Matsuda

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Ryuhei Matsuda (松田 龍平, Matsuda Ryūhei, born 9 May 1983) is a Japanese film and television actor. Matsuda's best known film roles include the young and desirable samurai Sōzaburō Kanō in Taboo and the rock star Ren Honjo in Nana.

At age 15, Matsuda was offered the role of the desirable young samurai Kanō Sōzaburō in Nagisa Ōshima's 1999 film Taboo. The role helped boost him from an entirely unknown actor to a film star, earning him a Japanese Academy award "Newcomer of the Year", as well as "Blue Ribbon", "Kinema Junpo", and "Yokohama Film Festival" Awards for the "Best New Actor".  Since appearing in Taboo, Matsuda has played a wide range of roles, from the high school student Kujo in the 2001 film Blue Spring to the rock star Ren Honjo in the 2005 film Nana. In February 2013, it was revealed that Matsuda would play the part of a Japanese gangster in the sequel to the 2012 Indonesian film The Raid, named Berandal.

In 2020 portrayed Ryūnosuke Akutagawa in the film A Stranger in Shanghai. It depicts Akutagawa's time in as a reporter in the city.

place_of_birth: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan


Eduardo Verástegui

biography: Mexican model, singer, actor and humanitarion. He was part of band Kairo and later a solo music career, before he started appearing in Mexican telenovelas and eventually feature films like Chasing Papi, Bella, and Little Boy, the latter two produced by his own production company, Metanoia.

place_of_birth: Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico


Isolda Dychauk-Ott

place_of_birth: Surgut, Tyumen Oblast, Russia


Jacques Rivette

biography: Jacques Rivette (March 1, 1928 - January 29, 2016) was a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette was one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors. In common with many of his peers, he had a background in film criticism, where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin. Rivette's films progress in unconventional ways—often following multiple plots that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at once and employing extensive improvisation—and are often extremely long.

place_of_birth: Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France


Michiru Oshima

biography: Michiru Oshima (大島ミチル, Ōshima Michiru, born March 16, 1961 in Nagasaki) is a Japanese composer based in Paris, France, who works on music in a wide range of areas such as movies, anime films, television series, video games and concerts. She has received numerous awards, including the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Music for 125 Years Memory.

place_of_birth: Nagasaki, Japan


Michael McElhatton

biography: Michael McElhatton (born 12 September 1963) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He joined the series as a guest star in the second season, and continued to play this role until the sixth season, promoted to a regular cast member from the fifth season onwards.

place_of_birth: Terenure, Dublin, Ireland


Matthias Schoenaerts

biography:
Matthias Schoenaerts (/ˈʃoʊnɑːrts/ SHOH-narts, Dutch: [ˈmɑtjɑs ˈsxunaːrts]; born 8 December 1977) is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 14 in Daens (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his roles as Filip in Loft (2008), Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), and Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominee Rust and Bone (2012), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He played Eric Deeds in The Drop (2014), Bruno von Falk in Suite Française (2015), Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Hans Axgil in The Danish Girl (2015), and Uncle Vanya in Red Sparrow (2018).

Schoenaerts received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD in Disorder (2015), and for his performance as an inmate training a wild horse in The Mustang (2019).

In 2015, he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.

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place_of_birth: Antwerp, Belgium


Fridtjov Såheim

biography: Fridtjov Såheim is a Norwegian actor.

place_of_birth: Norway


Tiësto

biography:
Tijs Michiel Verwest, OON ( born 17 January 1969), known as Tiësto (Dutch pronunciation: [cɛsto]), is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto. On his latest productions, however, he has dropped the "DJ" label and is now known simply as "Tiësto", an alias which is a twist of his childhood nickname.

In 1997, he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink, where he released the Magik and In Search of Sunrise CD series. Tiësto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in 1998, and the two have worked together extensively since then. Reijers is credited as producer, writer, composer, or arranger on many of Tiësto's releases. In 1999 and 2000 Tiësto collaborated with Ferry Corsten to create Gouryella. His 2000 remix of Delerium's "Silence" featuring Sarah McLachlan exposed him to more mainstream audiences. In 2001, he released his first solo album In My Memory which gave him several major hits that launched his career. He ranked in the #1 poll position 3 consecutive times in the DJ Magazine Top 100 Popularity Poll from 2002 to 2004.

Just after releasing his second studio album Just Be in 2004 at the Summer Olympics, he performed live at the opening ceremony in Athens, Greece, becoming the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympics. Tracks he made especially for the Olympics were mixed together and released as the mix compilation Parade of the Athletes later that year. In April 2007 Tiësto launched both his radio show Tiësto's Club Life on Radio 538 in the Netherlands and released his third studio album Elements of Life. The album reached number one on the Dutch album chart as well on "Billboard Top Electronic Albums" in the U.S. and received a nomination for a Grammy Award in 2008.Tiësto released his fourth studio album Kaleidoscope in October 2009.  As at 2012, Tiësto attained the #3 poll position of the DJ Mag 100 Popularity Poll, and he refers to the styles he mainly plays as House, Electro House, and Progressive House. He plays a new balanced sound sometimes demonstrating lesser known genres such as Dubstep. For nostalgia, Tiësto still throws in the odd Trance House record, the style he became attached to in the early 2000's.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Tiësto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands


Makoto Shinkai

biography: Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto) is a Japanese animation director, author, and manga artist. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) She and Her Cat (1999). Beginning his longstanding association with CoMix Wave Films, Shinkai then released the science-fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002, and followed this with his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004). Shinkai's second feature film, the romantic drama anthology 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), gained critical acclaim, as did his subsequent releases, the dramas Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) and The Garden of Words (2013). Shinkai's 2016 fantasy romance Your Name was a critical and commercial success, becoming the third highest-grossing anime film of all time. His 2019 film, Weathering with You, also achieved similar critical and commercial success. His seventh film, Suzume, was released in Japan in November 2022.

place_of_birth: Koumi, Japan


Philippe Le Guay

biography: Philippe Le Guay is a French screenwriter, film director and occasional actor. He studied film at the IDHEC and began his career as a screenwriter before directing his first feature film Les Deux Fragonard in 1989. He is known for his work on The Women on the 6th Floor (2010), which was well received at the French box office, and the César Award-nominated Bicycling with Molière (2013).


Janette Scott

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is an English actress. She was born in Morecambe, England. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird. She started her acting career as a child actress, known as Janette Scott, and became a popular leading lady. Among her best known roles was as April Smith in the 1960 film School for Scoundrels, based on the "One-upmanship" books by Stephen Potter, in which Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas competed for her attention. Scott wrote her autobiography at the age of 14. Her role in the film The Day of the Triffids is referenced in the opening song of The Rocky Horror Show ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") which made references to many B-movie sci-fi and horror films.

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place_of_birth: Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK


Shea Whigham

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Shea Whigham (born January 5, 1969) is an American actor best known for portraying Elias "Eli" Thompson in the drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also appeared in the first season of True Detective and the third season of Fargo and in numerous films, including Wristcutters: A Love Story, Take Shelter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, Kong: Skull Island, First Man, Vice, Joker, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. He has appeared as Agent Michael Stasiak in Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6, and F9.

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place_of_birth: Tallahassee, Florida, USA


Sasha Grey

biography: Sasha Grey (born March 14, 1988) is a former American pornographic actress who has since become a mainstream actress, model, author and musician. After her feature film debut as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience", she shifted her focus to mainstream acting. She starred in the black comedy/horror film "Smash Cut", and played a semi-fictionalized version of herself in the seventh season of the HBO television series "Entourage". She has also appeared in independent films, such as "I Melt With You". She is a former member of aTelecine, an industrial music band.

place_of_birth: Sacramento, California, USA


Goran Dukić

biography: Goran Dukić is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor best known for writing and directing the 2006 film Wristcutters: A Love Story.

place_of_birth: Zagreb, Croatia


Cindy Pickett

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Cindy Lou Pickett (born April 18, 1947) is an American actress best known for her 1970s role as Jackie Marler-Spaulding on the CBS soap Guiding Light; her role as Dr. Carol Novino on the hugely-popular television drama St. Elsewhere in the 1980s; for her critically acclaimed performance as the real-life Kay Stayner, the mother of a boy who was kidnapped for several years, in the dramatic TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven; and for her cinematic roles and performances as Valerie St. John in Roger Vadim's little-known 1980 erotic cult film, Night Games, for which she would have the leading role, and as the tough-as-nails and heroic Dr. Jane Norris in the 1989 sci-fi-horror film DeepStar Six. Pickett, however, is handily best-known to audiences for her highly memorable turn as Katie Bueller, Matthew Broderick's titular character's loving and unsuspecting mother, in the 1986 classic and iconic American comedy movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

place_of_birth: Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA


Amanda Righetti

biography:
Amanda Righetti (born April 4, 1983) is an American actress and former model. She is best known for her roles as Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist, Madeline Kenner in Colony, Whitney in Friday the 13th (2009), Isabel in Role Models (2008), Jenna Moretti on FOX's series Reunion, Tessa Lewis on FOX's primetime soap North Shore, Hailey Nichol on FOX's series The O.C. She also had a small role as a SHIELD Agent in Captain America: The First Avenger (2009).

She began modeling at age 14, then later moved to Los Angeles at age 18 to start her acting career. After securing a role in the pilot for a proposed series by the name of No Place Like Home, she played a recurring character in the teen drama The O.C.  In April 2008, she was cast as the female lead in the slasher film Friday the 13th (2009). That same year, she was signed to the CBS series The Mentalist, in the role of Grace Van Pelt. Her 2012 to 2013 pregnancy was not reflected in her character's storyline, during which she was filmed using selective angles and largely limited to desk duty.

She married director and writer Jordan Alan on April 29, 2006, and they have a son, born in 2013. She filed for divorce in 2017.

place_of_birth: St. George, Utah, USA


Andy Merrill

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andy Merrill (born November 27, 1966 in Newark, Ohio) is a television writer, producer, and voice actor best known for his comedy voice portrayal of the character Brak on Space Ghost: Coast To Coast and Cartoon Planet and other related productions from Cartoon Network utilizing characters from the Space Ghost series. He is a graduate of Asbury University where he majored in media communications.

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place_of_birth: Newark, Ohio, USA


Andrea Libman

biography: Andrea Libman (July 19, 1984, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian actress and voice actress. She is known for her work as the voice of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, as well as for her roles in Dragon Tales, Madeline, X-Men: Evolution, and ReBoot. In addition to her voice work, she has appeared in live-action productions such as Highlander, Susie Q, and The X-Files. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia.

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Tomas Alfredson

biography:
Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and the 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge Award for Best Direction twice: in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown and in 2008 for Let the Right One In.

He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson.

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place_of_birth: Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden


Eric Winter

biography: Eric Barrett Winter (born July 17, 1976) is an American actor and former fashion model. He has appeared in the television roles of Rex Brady on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, FBI Special Agent Craig O'Laughlin on the CBS drama series The Mentalist (2010–2012), Dash Gardiner on the Lifetime fantasy-drama series Witches of East End (2013–2014), and Sergeant Tim Bradford on the ABC drama The Rookie. His film appearances include Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) and The Ugly Truth (2009).

place_of_birth: La Mirada, California, USA


Tim McGraw

biography:
Samuel Timothy 'Tim' McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. Many of his albums and singles have topped the country music charts, leading him to achieve total album sales in excess of 40 million units. He is married to country singer Faith Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw.

He had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with his wife Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.

He has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. Taylor Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw", refers to him and his song, "Can't Tell Me Nothin'".

In honor of his grandfather's Italian heritage, he was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation's 29th Anniversary Gala.

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place_of_birth: Delhi, Louisiana, USA


Colin Ford

biography: Colin Ford (born September 12, 1996) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Wheeler in Daybreak, Joe McAlister in Under the Dome, the voice of Jake on Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Mikey on Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?, which earned him a Young Artist Award, young Sam Winchester in Supernatural and Dylan Mee in the family film We Bought a Zoo.

place_of_birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA


Corey Stoll

biography:
Corey Daniel Stoll (born March 14, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Congressman Peter Russo on the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards (2013–2016), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2013, and Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on the FX horror drama series The Strain (2014–2017). From 2020 to 2023, he portrayed Michael Prince, a business rival to protagonist Bobby Axelrod, in the Showtime series Billions. He was also a regular cast member on the NBC drama series Law & Order: LA (2010–2011).

Stoll played Darren Cross/Yellowjacket/M.O.D.O.K. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man (2015) and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). For his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. His other notable films include Black Mass (2015), First Man (2018), The Seagull (2018), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), and West Side Story (2021). He acted off-Broadway in Intimate Apparel (2004) and on Broadway in Appropriate (2023).

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


Kyle Newman

biography: Kyle Newman is an American filmmaker, author, and actor, renowned for his dynamic contributions to the entertainment industry. His directorial ventures, notably “Fanboys” (2009), “Barely Lethal” (2015), and “1Up” (2022), showcase his versatility and storytelling prowess. Beyond filmmaking, Newman co-authored the New York Times bestselling book “Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History,” underscoring his multifaceted talent.

place_of_birth: Morristown, New Jersey, USA


Josie Maran

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Johanna Selhorst "Josie" Maran (born May 8, 1978) is an American model and actress.

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place_of_birth: Menlo Park, California, USA


Jeremy Saulnier

biography:
Jeremy Saulnier (/soʊˈnjeɪ/ soh-NYAY; born June 10, 1976) is an American film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.

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place_of_birth: Alexandria, Virginia, USA


Keke Palmer

biography:
Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (/ˈkiːki/ KEE-kee; born August 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and television personality. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Time magazine included her on its list of most influential people in the world in 2019.

Palmer debuted as a child with roles in the films Barbershop 2: Back in Business and The Wool Cap (both 2004) before achieving her breakthrough role as Akeelah Anderson in the drama film Akeelah and the Bee (2006). Her career progressed with roles in films such as Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Jump In! (2007), The Longshots (2008), and Shrink (2009), and the release of her debut studio album So Uncool (2007). She rose to prominence on Nickelodeon, playing the title character in the sitcom True Jackson, VP (2008–2011), providing the voice of Aisha in the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club (2011–2014), and headlining the television film Rags (2012).

Palmer transitioned to mainstream roles with the VH1 biographical film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013) and afterwards made her Broadway debut as Ella in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella (2014–2015). She has since starred in the Fox satirical horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the Epix drama series Berlin Station (2017–2019), and the slasher series Scream (2019). Her film roles include Animal (2014), Pimp (2018), Hustlers (2019), Nope (2022), and One of Them Days (2025), with the last two earning her critical attention.

As a singer, Palmer has released five extended plays. In addition to acting, she has hosted the talk shows Just Keke (2014) and Strahan, Sara, and Keke (2019–2020) and the game show Password since 2022. In 2024, she released her second book, Master of Me, a hybrid memoir and self-help manual.

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place_of_birth: Harvey, Illinois, USA


Robert Gustafsson

biography: Robert Gustafsson was born on 20 December 1964 in Katrineholm, Södermanlands län, Sweden. He is an actor and writer, known for Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (2013), Fyra nyanser av brunt (2004) and Morran och Tobias (2014). He has been married to Lotta since 1988. They have two children.

place_of_birth: Katrineholm, Södermanlands län, Sweden


Nikolaj Arcel

biography:
Nikolaj Arcel (born 25 August 1972) is a Danish filmmaker. He is best known for his 2012 film A Royal Affair, which won two prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, as well as the 2017 American film The Dark Tower.

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place_of_birth: Copenhagen, Denmark


Lauren Storm

biography: Lauren Storm is on the Board of Directors with Kids With A Cause and Olive Crest, both charity orginaztions. She graduated at age 16 from the Excelsior School of Los Angeles

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Olivier Megaton

biography: Olivier Megaton (born Olivier Fontana) is a French film director, writer, and editor, best known for directing the films The Red Siren, Transporter 3, Colombiana, and two films in the Taken franchise starring Liam Neeson. He also served as a second unit director for the film Hitman.


Nash Edgerton

biography:
Nash Edgerton (born 19 January 1973) is an Australian film director, stuntman and actor, and a principal member of the movie-making collective Blue-Tongue Films.

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place_of_birth: Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

known_for_department: Crew


Christopher Kirby

biography:
Christopher Kirby is an Australian-American actor. He is known for his performance in the 2012 film Iron Sky. Other films he has appeared in include The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).

He is best known for his role as Mitch Hanson on "The Saddle Club". Having permanently relocated to Australia in late 1999, Kirby frequently portrays American characters in Australian film and television productions. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Mauser from The Matrix trilogy of films.

place_of_birth: USA


Sid Mitchell

biography: Sid Mitchell was born in 1981 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Vera Drake (2004), The Kid (2010) and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005).

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Yul Vazquez

biography:
Yul Vázquez was born in Cuba. He is an actor and he is married to Linda Larkin. He has appeared as “Bob” in the Seinfeld episodes “The Soup Nazi”, “The Sponge” and “The Puerto Rican Day”.

YUL VÁZQUEZ has appeared in over thirty films including “The A-Team” (2010) with Liam Neeson, John Sayles' Amigo, Steven Soderbergh’s two-part epic “Che” (2008), “The Take” (2008), “American Gangster” (2007- SAG Award nomination, Outstanding Cast), “Music Within” (2007), "War of the Worlds" (2005), “Bad Boys 2” (2003), "Traffic" (2000- Winner, SAG Award, Outstanding Cast), and "Runaway Bride" (1999). An original member of LAByrinth Theater Company, Vazquez has appeared in countless LAB productions, including Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”, directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Other theater includes Terrence McNally’s “The Stendhal Syndrome” at Primary Stages With Isabella Rossellini, and Eduardo Machado’s “The Floating Island Plays” at Mark Taper Forum. Upcoming feature films include “Fugly!” with John Leguizamo, “Salvation Boulevard” with Pierce Brosnan and "The Missing Person", which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Vazquez will be returning to the stage in the Broadway premiere of "Motherf**ker With The Hat" which also boasts the talents of Bobby Cannavale, Annabella Sciorra and comic Chris Rock (previews March 22, 2011).

Yul Vázquez currently serves as co-Artistic Director of LAByrinth Theater Company with Stephen Adly Guirgis & Mimi O'Donnell in New York City. In 2010 Yul Vazquez founded mechanizedmules. A film production company with Ed Vassallo, Rick Rodgers and Robert Leaver. Their first short film F--K premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in spring of 2010. They are currently in production for their first feature film which is shot in Sugar Hill section of New York City - surrounding the last active graveyard in Manhattan. Trinity Cemetery between 152nd and 155th street on the west side of Manhattan.

place_of_birth: La Havana, Cuba


Tracy Brooks Swope

biography: Tracy Brooks Swope was born on February 20, 1953 in New York City, New York, as Margaret Tracy Brooks Swope. She is an actress and producer, known for General Hospital (1963), Another World (1964) and The Power of One (1992). She was previously married to John G. Avildsen.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Ha Jung-woo

biography:
Ha Jung-woo (Korean: 하정우; born Kim Sung-hoon on March 11, 1978) is a South Korean actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. One of the highest grossing actors in South Korea, Ha's starring films have accumulated more than 100 million tickets. Only 3 other actors have reached this milestone, with Ha being nearly a decade younger than the rest when achieving this.

His breakthrough to stardom came with the role in Na Hong-jin's serial killer film The Chaser (2008). One of the leading actors of his generation in Korean cinema, Ha showcased his versatility across films of various genres: road movie My Dear Enemy (2008), sports film Take Off (2009), action thriller The Yellow Sea (2010), gangster saga Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012), romantic comedy Love Fiction (2012), spy actioner The Berlin File (2013), and action thriller The Terror Live (2013). Ha is also known for his role as grim reaper Gang-rim in the fantasy action film Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017) and its 2018 sequel.

He made his directorial debut through the comedy film Fasten Your Seatbelt (2013), followed by Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (2015).

place_of_birth: Seoul, South Korea


Na Hong-jin

biography: Na Hong-jin ( born 20 July 1974) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. His filmography is characterized by the incorporation of violent thriller and horror elements. Na's emergence in the film industry began with his feature film debut, The Chaser (2008), which achieved both critical and commercial success, ranking as the third-highest-grossing film in South Korea for its release year. His subsequent film, The Yellow Sea (2010), was presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The Wailing (2016) further contributed to Na's critical and commercial standing, earning accolades that included the Best Director award at the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards and recognition at the Bucheon International Film Festival.


Mia Wasikowska

biography:
Mia Wasikowska (/ˌvʌʃɪˈkɒfskə/ VUSH-i-KOF-skə; born 25 October 1989) is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment (2008). She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun (2009).

Wasikowska gained worldwide recognition in 2010 after starring as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and appearing in the comedy-drama film The Kids Are All Right. She starred in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011), Gus Van Sant's Restless (2011), Park Chan-wook's Stoker (2013), Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), John Curran's Tracks (2013), Richard Ayoade's The Double (2013), David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars (2014), and Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak (2015). In 2016, she reprised her role as Alice in the film Alice Through the Looking Glass and has since appeared in several independent films, including Damsel (2018), Judy and Punch (2019), and Bergman Island (2021).

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place_of_birth: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia


Karen Duffy

biography: Karen Duffy (born May 23, 1962) is an American writer, model, television personality, and actress.


Van Morrison

place_of_birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK


Johnny Pacar

biography:
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Johnny Pacar (born John Edward Pacuraru on June 6, 1981) is an American film and television actor who portrayed Cody Jackson in the television series Flight 29 Down. He is also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Now You See It.... He had a main role in the 2004 film Purgatory House, and a recurring role as Jimmy Francis in American Dreams. Pacar now stars as Damon Young, a recurring role on ABC Family's Make It or Break It, a series about teenage gymnasts striving for the 2012 Olympics.

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place_of_birth: Dearborn, Michigan, USA


Ric Roman Waugh

biography:
Ric Roman Waugh (born February 20, 1968) is an American film director, writer, producer, actor, and former stuntman. He is known for his work in Felon (2008), Snitch (2013), and Shot Caller (2017). He wrote and directed Angel Has Fallen (2019), the third instalment in the Has Fallen series.

He is the older brother of director Scott Waugh.

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place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Liz Renay

place_of_birth: Chandler, Arizona, USA


Natalie Martinez

biography: Natalie Martinez is an American actress and model, known as the spokesmodel for JLO by Jennifer Lopez, and for her supporting role in Death Race. She has appeared in several music videos and telenovelas.

place_of_birth: Miami, Florida, USA


David Samson

biography: David Samson (June 19, 1918 — August 12, 1993) was an American actor best known for his collaborations with cult filmmaker John Waters.

place_of_birth: New Jersey, USA


David Thornton

place_of_birth: Cheraw, South Carolina, USA


Felicia Day

biography: Kathryn Felicia Day is an American actress, known for her work as "Vi" on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and for parts in movies such as Bring It On Again and June, as well as the Internet musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Day is also the star, script writer and producer of the original web series The Guild, a show loosely based on her life as a gamer, which is directed by Sean Michael Becker. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Web Television. Felicia made her gaming debut appearance in Fallout: New Vegas, where she provided her voice for Veronica Santangelo.

place_of_birth: Huntsville, Alabama, USA


Jakob Oftebro

biography: Jakob Oftebro, born January 12, 1986 in Oslo, is a Norwegian actor.

place_of_birth: Oslo, Norway