Laurent Lafitte

biography:
Laurent Lafitte (born 22 August 1973) is a French actor. He is known for playing the role of Patrick in Elle. In March 2016 he was named as the host of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2023 he starred in the Netflix mini-series Class Act (original name "Tapie") as the French businessman and politician Bernard Tapie.

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place_of_birth: Paris, France


Saturnino García

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place_of_birth: Bariones de la Vega, León, Spain

known_for_department: Acting


Rei Kikukawa

biography:
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Rei Kikukawa  (born February 28, 1978) is a Japanese actress, model and television presenter. Kikukawa was born in Urawa (now called Saitama), in Saitama Prefecture. She is a graduate of the University of Tokyo where she majored in architecture. She was scouted by an agent while shopping, and eventually came to be represented by Oscar Promotions. Her first major role came in 2002 when she was chosen to co-host the Sunday night NTV show "Bankisha." Despite her collegiate pedigree, her lack of knowledge on a variety of subjects was exposed on a variety/quiz show, and she rarely offers input on the issues on Bankisha. Although promoted as an "intelligent idol", a bra commercial in 2007 may indicate a move towards classification as an "obaka-aidoru" or "dumb idol" - entertainers known for their good looks and lack of intelligence.

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place_of_birth: Saitama, Japan


Cédric Kahn

biography: Cédric Kahn (French: [kan]; born 17 June 1966) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. His films include L'Ennui (1998), based on the Alberto Moravia novel Boredom, and Red Lights (2004), based on the Georges Simenon novel. His film Roberto Succo was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

known_for_department: Directing


Stacy Harris

biography:
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Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was a Canadian-born actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris.

Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Volunteer Group as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist.

Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as Dragnet, Noah's Ark, GE True, Adam-12, and Emergency!.

Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles. Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin. He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin.

Harris appeared too in three syndicated series, Whirlybirds, starring Kenneth Tobey, Sheriff of Cochise and U.S. Marshal, both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western series, Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen. He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.

In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961.

In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena, Texas, in the episode "The Oldest Law" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831-1912), who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett, who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San Antonio, becomes the seat of government of Karnes County. Tom Lowell (born 1941) played Emmett Butler, and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode.

Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California of an apparent heart attack. CLR

place_of_birth: Big Timber, Quebec, Canada


Svetlana Khodchenkova

biography:
Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, known for her roles in Bless the Woman (2003) and in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). She was born Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova on January 21, 1983, in Moscow and spent her childhood in Zheleznodorozhny, a small city about 6 miles east of Moscow, Russia. She was raised by a single mother, attended a public school, and once dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. In 1998, at the age of 15, she started a career as a fashion model in Moscow, and also made a few international gigs. In 2000 she began her studies at the Moscow Institute of World Economics, but quit in favor of acting. From 2001 to 2005 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There she attended the class of Nina Doroshina and Alekandr Lyubimtsev, graduating in 2005 as actress.

While a student, she starred in films of directors Stanislav Govorukhin, and Viktor Merezhko, and also appeared in popular Russian TV series. In 2008, she earned the best actress award at Gdynya Polish Film Festival, for the leading role in Mala Moskwa (2008). In 2012, she won COFCA Award for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate, actor Vladimir Yaglych, and also took her husband's name, changing her name from Svetlana Khodchenkova to Svetlana Yaglych.The couple married on the 13th on purpose; because all their filming contracts were signed on the 13th, they believed that 13 would keep working as a good number for them. However, their marriage did not last, ending in divorce. Svetlana has been involved in several stage productions of Independent stage project in Moscow. She made stellar appearances in such plays, as "Moulin Rouge Hospital" and "Theatre with and without rules" earning herself much critical acclaim. Outside of her acting profession, Svetlana is skilled in horse-back riding. She is also fond of winter sports, such as alpine skiing: she practiced her downhill at the ski resort of Courchevel, France.

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place_of_birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]


Eva Axén

biography: Eva Axén is a Swedish actress and model.  She appeared in Italian films, some of them by Luchino Visconti and Dario Argento.

place_of_birth: Stockholm, Sweden


Gillian Jacobs

biography:
Gillian Jacobs (born October 19, 1982) is an American film, theatre and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community.

Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was a Carnegie Mellon University director of alumni relations at the Heinz College. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker.She was raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. She is of French, German, Irish, and Scottish descent. Her family owned the Jackson Koehler Eagle Brewery, established in 1847 in Erie, Pennsylvania, where her grandfather, John Martin Magenau Jr., served as President and CEO until its closure in 1978.

Jacobs began studying acting at the age of eight, and attended acting classes on Saturdays at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up.She performed with the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where she was a perennial contender in the Public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest, leading her to be cast as Titania in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After graduating from Mt. Lebanon High School in 2000, Jacobs moved to New York City, New York to attend the Juilliard School, where she was a member of the Drama Division's Group 33. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2004.

place_of_birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA


Maurice Lamy

biography: Sometimes confused with Booder (another French comedian known for his unusual appearance), Maurice Lamy is known for starring in several Orangina Rouge ads.

place_of_birth: Lyon, France


Marco St. John

biography:
Marco St. John (born Marco John Figueroa, Jr.; May 7, 1939) is an American actor who has appeared in films and television programs. He is known for his role as the horny truck driver in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise and for playing Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

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place_of_birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA


Robert Benchley

biography: Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor.

place_of_birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA


Tunde Adebimpe

biography:
Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe (born February 25, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is best known as a founding member and co-lead vocalist of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. In April 2025, Adebimpe released his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz.

As an actor, Adebimpe has appeared in the films Twisters, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marriage Story and Rachel Getting Married, in addition to several independent feature films. He appeared in the 2024 science fiction television series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and provided voice acting on the animated series Strange Planet, Lazor Wolf, Pantheon, and Tuca & Bertie.

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place_of_birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA


Gloria Estefan

biography:
Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan (née Fajardo García; born September 1, 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a four-time Grammy Award winner and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has been named one of the Top 100 greatest artists of all time by both VH1 and Billboard. Estefan's record sales exceed 100 million worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

A contralto, Estefan started her career as lead singer of Miami Latin Boys, which was later renamed Miami Sound Machine. She and Miami Sound Machine earned worldwide success with their 1985 single "Conga", which became Estefan's signature song. The group followed this with a number of hit singles throughout the decade, including "Anything for You", "1-2-3", "Bad Boy", and "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You". The group was redubbed as Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine with the release of their 1987 album Let It Loose, and in 1989, Estefan rose to solo stardom with her debut solo album, Cuts Both Ways.

In March 1990, Estefan sustained a life-threatening cervical fracture of her spine when her tour bus was involved in a crash near Scranton, Pennsylvania. She underwent an emergency surgery and made a full recovery. The following year, Estefan launched her comeback with a worldwide tour and album, Into the Light. Estefan's 1993 Spanish-language album, Mi Tierra, won the first of her three Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Latin Album. The album was also the first Diamond album in Spain. Estefan's catalog of international solo hits includes "Don't Wanna Lose You", "Get On Your Feet", "Coming Out of the Dark", "Turn the Beat Around", "You'll Be Mine (Party Time)", and "Heaven's What I Feel".

Estefan has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Las Vegas Walk of Fame and was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2017 for her contributions to American cultural life. Estefan won an MTV Video Music Award, was honored with the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement and has been named BMI Songwriter of the Year. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has received multiple Billboard Music Awards. She is also a recipient of the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was conferred by the then-President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Billboard has listed Estefan as the third-most successful Latina and 23rd-greatest Latin Artist of all time in the U.S., based on both Latin albums and Latin songs chart. Hailed as the "Queen of Latin Pop" and "Mother of Latin Pop" by the media, she has amassed 38 number one hits across Billboard charts, including 15 chart-topping songs on the Hot Latin Songs chart. ...

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place_of_birth: Havana, Cuba


Jake McDorman

biography: John Allen 'Jake' McDorman IV (born July 8, 1986) is an American actor best known for the 2014 film American Sniper and starring on television shows such as CBS' Limitless (2015–2016) and the Disney+ historical drama The Right Stuff as Alan Shepard. He is also well known for his roles on the ABC Family comedy-drama Greek (2007–2011), the fourth season of the Showtime comedy-drama Shameless (2014), the revival of the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (2018), and FX's What We Do in the Shadows.

place_of_birth: Dallas, Texas, USA


Craig Conway

biography: Craig Conway is an English actor. Conway has appeared in a number of stage plays and television series in addition to his film work.

place_of_birth: South Shields, England, UK


Iddo Goldberg

biography: Iddo Goldberg (born 5 August 1975) is an Israeli actor known for his roles as Freddie Thorne in Peaky Blinders (2013), Ben in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2011),  Isaac Walton in Salem (2014–2017), and Bennett Knox in Snowpiercer (2020–2024).

place_of_birth: Tel Aviv, Israel


Dziga Vertov

biography: Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. The independent, exploratory style of Vertov influenced and inspired many filmmakers and directors. The Dziga Vertov Group borrowed his name. In 1960, Jean Rouch used Vertov's filming theory when making Chronicle of a Summer. His partner Edgar Morin coined Cinéma vérité term when describing the style, using direct translation of Vertov’s KinoPravda. The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.

place_of_birth: Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire


David Henrie

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David Clayton Henrie (born July 11, 1989) is an American actor, rally driver, musician, and film producer. He is noted for playing Justin Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place and Larry on That's So Raven. He is the brother of actor Lorenzo Henrie.

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place_of_birth: Mission Viejo, California, USA


John Voldstad

biography: John Voldstad was born in Norway but raised in the United States since early childhood. A film and television actor, Voldstad is best-known for his roles on the long-running television series Newhart (1982) playing "Darryl #2" (one of a bizarre trio of brothers, two of whom never speak) and in the cult film Stripes (1981) as "Stillman's Aide".

place_of_birth: Oslo, Norway


Rodrigo Cortés

biography:
Rodrigo Cortés Giráldez (born 31 May 1973) is a Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, writer and occasional actor. He is best known for directing the 2010 psychological thriller Buried.

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place_of_birth: Pazos Hermos, Ourense, Galicia, Spain


Yasujirō Ozu

biography: Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are prominent themes in Ozu's work. His most lauded films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). His reputation has continued to grow since his death, and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential directors. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, Ozu's Tokyo Story was voted the greatest film of all time by world directors.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan


Don Houghton

biography:
Donald Herbert Houghton (2 February 1930 – 2 July 1991) was a British television screenwriter and producer.

Born in Paris to Scottish parents, Houghton started writing for radio in 1951 before moving into film and television in 1958. In the 1970s, he was a primary writer for Hammer Films including Dracula A.D. 1972, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and Shatter.

Houghton lived and worked in Australia for a number of years where his credits included The Astronauts (1960).

His television work includes Doctor Who for which he wrote the serials Inferno (1970) and The Mind of Evil (1971), the fifth Sapphire & Steel television story (known informally as Dr McDee Must Die) co-written with Anthony Read, Emergency Ward 10, Crossroads, Ace of Wands, New Scotland Yard, The Professionals and at least one episode of C.A.T.S. Eyes (1985).

Houghton also created and wrote for the soap opera Take the High Road (1980). He also wrote three novels: Column of Thieves and Blood Brigade and Take the High Road: Summer's Gloaming.

known_for_department: Writing


Jack Ging

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Jack Lee Ging (born November 30, 1931, in Alva in Woods County in northwestern Oklahoma) is an American actor best known for his role as General Harlan 'Bull' Fullbright in the NBC television series The A-Team.

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place_of_birth: Alva, Oklahoma, USA


Dylan Sprouse

biography:
Dylan Thomas Sprouse (born August 4, 1992) is an American actor and the twin brother of Cole Sprouse. He is known for his role as Zack Martin on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck.

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place_of_birth: Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy


Bruno Dumont

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Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) is a French film director. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006). Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, and will be distributed in France in 2009, and by IFC in the U.S. in 2010.

Dumont has a background of Greek and German (Western) philosophy, and of corporate video. His films often show the ugliness of extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films. Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts, and he typically uses long takes, close-ups of people's bodies, and story lines involving extreme emotions. Dumont does not write traditional scripts for his films. Instead, he writes complete novels which are then the basis for his filmmaking.

He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Abbas Kiarostami. He is frequently considered an artistic heir to Robert Bresson.

His work has been associated with the New French Extremity. His film Outside Satan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Bailleul, France


Liam Hemsworth

biography: Liam Hemsworth (born January 13, 1990) is an Australian actor. He played the roles of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and Marcus in the children's television series The Elephant Princess. In American films, Hemsworth starred as Will Blakelee in The Last Song (2010), as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), and as Jake Morrison in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

place_of_birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Michele Dotrice

biography:
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Michele Dotrice (born 27 September 1948) is an English actress best known for her portrayal of Betty, the long-suffering wife of Frank Spencer, played by Michael Crawford, in the BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, which ran from 1973 to 1978.

Her father Roy Dotrice is an actor, as was her mother Kay Dotrice. She has two sisters, Karen Dotrice and Yvette Dotrice, who also followed their parents’ footsteps into acting.

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place_of_birth: Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK


Ivan Chendej

place_of_birth: Dubove, Ukraine


Nina-Friederike Gnädig

biography: Nina-Friederike Gnädig is an actress.

place_of_birth: Nürnberg, Germany


Donald Douglas

biography:
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Donald Douglas (24 August 1905 – 31 December 1945) was a Scottish actor in films and on radio.

Douglas appeared in over 100 films from the late 1920s to the 1940s including The Great Gabbo (1929), Life Begins (1932), Men in White (1934), Madame X (1937), Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942), Tall in the Saddle (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Show Business (1944) and Gilda (1946).

Douglas was a one-man cast on The Black Castle. He played all roles in each episode and was the announcer. A review of The Black Castle in the trade publication Billboard complimented Douglas's handling of multiple roles in the drama. Bob Francis wrote: "Except for the fact that he is inclined to ham the wizard, making the role often seem more silly than awesome, Douglas puts on a good 15 minutes. His vocal changes are sharp and clear, and his characterizations come over effectively."

He also had the title role in John Steele, Adventurer and played Chief Jake Workley in Scattergood Baines. He was also a member of the cast of Kelly's Courthouse.

Douglas died on 31 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, aged 40, after emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

place_of_birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


Ayumi Hamasaki

place_of_birth: Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, Japan


Rodrigo Sorogoyen

biography:
Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo (born 16 September 1981) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Realm. He was previously nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Director for Stockholm, the Goya Award for Best Director, and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for May God Save Us. For the short film Mother, Sorogoyen won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He often works in tandem with Isabel Peña.

Born on 16 September 1981 in Madrid, Rodrigo Sorogoyen is the grandson of filmmaker Antonio del Amo. He graduated in history from the Complutense University of Madrid and entered the ECAM in 2004.

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place_of_birth: Madrid, Spain


Matthew Lewis

biography:
Matthew David Lewis (born 27 June 1989) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series.

Born in Leeds, Lewis made his acting debut in Some Kind of Life (1995), guest-starring on dramas for ITV and BBC One before appearing in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). Lewis played the role for ten years, concluding with the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), for which he received critical praise. Following the series, Lewis reoccured in The Syndicate and performed his first theatre role in Our Boys at the Duchess Theatre in 2012.

Lewis starred in The Rise (2012) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews and made appearances on BBC dramas Bluestone 42 and Death in Paradise in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Lewis had a supporting role in Me Before You (2016), which became a box office success. He was cast in the crime dramas Ripper Street and Happy Valley before starring on the ITV drama Girlfriends in 2018. Lewis appeared in Terminal (2018), which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as Baby Done (2020). Since 2020, Lewis has starred in Channel 5 television series All Creatures Great and Small to critical praise.

place_of_birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK


Shuler Hensley

biography: He was awarded the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Supporting Performance of 1998 for his role in Oklahoma! He had to wear padding, a massive amount of make-up, and huge lifts in size 24 shoes to make him appear over 7 feet tall as Frankenstein's monster in "Van Helsing." Won Broadway's 2002 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for his role as Jud Fry in a revival of "Oklahoma!" He has now played Frankenstein's monster three times. In Van Helsing (2004) on the concept album and workshop of "Frankenstein" The Musical by Mark Baron and Jeffrey Jackson, and finally in the Broadway production of "Young Frankenstein".

place_of_birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA


Pedro Armendáriz

biography: Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.

place_of_birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico


Marsha Hunt

biography:
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Marsha Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American actress, novelist, singer and former model, who has lived mostly in Britain and Ireland. She achieved national fame when she appeared in London as Dionne in the long-running rock musical Hair. She enjoyed close relationships with Marc Bolan and Mick Jagger, who is the father of her only child Karis.

According to Hunt, The Rolling Stones' controversial hit song "Brown Sugar" was based on her. She has written three novels, as well as three volumes of autobiography, which include a frank account of life as a breast cancer sufferer.  Hunt's film career included appearances in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), Britannia Hospital (1982) directed by Lindsay Anderson, The Sender (1982), Never Say Never Again (1983), Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985), and Tank Malling (1989). In 1990, Hunt played Bianca in the BBC television production of Othello directed by Trevor Nunn

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Natar Ungalaaq

biography:
Natar Ungalaaq is a talented filmmaker, actor and sculptor from Igloolik, NU. Ungalaaq began his artistic practice carving when he was a child using his grandparent’s tools, eventually selling his works to buy camera gear along with Zacharias Kunuk to start an Igloolik based production company known as Isuma Productions.

Ungalaaq has acted and appeared in many films and television shows most notably starring as the lead Atanarjuat in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He made his directorial debut in 2016 with the film Searchers (2016). He is also a talented carver. Ungalaaq’s carvings are often made from stone and depict traditional Inuit imagery and practices. Ungalaaq has been known to also incorporate animal hair into some of his carvings, such as Sedna with Hairbrush (1985). Ungalaaq represents the goddess Sedna in white soapstone reclining on a rock with her fish like tail wrapping around the bottom of the stone. Sedna’s hair is made from fur and sticks out around her head, creating halo of red. In her right hand she holds a bone hairbrush. Ungalaaq’s sculptures are boldly carved with minimal amounts of negative space and with figures always seemingly caught mid-action.

Ungalaaq has received many awards for his acting including ‘Best Actor’ from the American Indian Movie Awards in 2002, ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role’ from the Genie Awards in 2009 and his film The Necessities of Life, or Inuujjutiksaq, was shortlisted for the 2009 Oscars under the Best Foreign Language Film category. Ungalaaq has acted, produced, directed and run cameras in countless Isuma film work. Before playing the lead role in the genre-creating, Cannes Camera D’or award-winning Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), Natar played major roles in other Canadian and American films, including Kabloonak (1994), Glory & Honor (1998), Frostfire (1994), Trial at Fortitude Bay (1994), Sleep Murder (2004), The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006), The Necessities of Life (2008) and Maïna (2013). He has attended multiple film festivals as an actor and director including the Cannes Film Festival. Ungalaaq’s carvings have been exhibited across Canada and are housed in major institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON. He has been written about in multiple publications including many times in Inuit Art Quarterly and has his piece Sedna with Hairbrush on the cover of the Fall 1993 issue. Most recently, Isuma TV has been chosen as an artist collective to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale Art Festival in 2018.

place_of_birth: Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada


Hideyuki Hirayama

biography: Hideyuki Hirayama (平山秀幸) is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film Maria's Stomach in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for The Games Teachers Play in 1992. In 1995, School Ghost Stories was a big hit and made into popular series. Begging for Love in 1998 got many awards as International press award (FIPRESCI) in Montreal World Film Festival, Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director etc. In 2001, Hirayama won Best Director Choice for Turn at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. He also got several Japanese film awards for director, including the Best Director award for The Laughing Frog and Out at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan


Aleksandr Robak

place_of_birth: Zlatoust, Chelyabinskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR


Nathalie Boltt

biography:
Nathalie Boltt (born 19 July 1973) is a South African actress known for Riverdale and District 9. Her initial break into acting was in her birth country, South Africa, as Joey Ortlepp on the SABC 3 drama Isidingo from 2001 to 2004.

Internationally, she portrayed Penelope Blossom on The CW's teen drama series Riverdale from 2017 to 2023. She has been seen in the films District 9, Demonic, and the 2005 television remake of The Poseidon Adventure. She also voices the character of DottyWot in the New Zealand children's series The WotWots.

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place_of_birth: Johannesburg, South Africa


Lisa Rinna

biography: Lisa Rinna (born July 11, 1963) is an American actress, television personality and model. She portrayed Billie Reed on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives and Taylor McBride on Fox's television drama Melrose Place. Between 2014 and 2022, Rinna starred on Bravo's reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Other television credits include being a contestant on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice and ABC's Dancing with the Stars, as well as guest-starring roles on Entourage, Veronica Mars, Community, The Middle, and American Horror Stories. Rinna made her Broadway debut in Chicago as Roxie Hart in June 2007.

place_of_birth: Newport Beach, California, USA


Michelle Michaels

place_of_birth: San Bernadino, California, USA


Chuck Vincent

biography:
Writer/director/producer/editor Charles Vincent Dingley was born on September 6, 1940, in Garden City, Michigan. He began his show-business career in regional theater as a director and stage manager. He subsequently moved east and worked for both Yale Repertory and the Negro Ensemble Company prior to founding the production company Platinum Pictures in New York City. Chuck made his cinematic debut in 1971 with the comedic adult short feature The Appointment (1971). He churned out a slew of often humorous and frequently arousing hardcore X-rated movies from the early 1970s up until the mid-'80s, such as While the Cat's Away... (1972), Blue Summer (1973). Lecher (1973), Heavy Load (1975), Visions (1978), Dirty Lily (1978). Jack+Jill (1979), MisBehavin' (1978), Roommates (1982). Puss 'n Boots (1982), In Love (1983), Bordello (1985), House of the Rising Sun (1987) and Sex Crimes 2084 (1985).

Among the popular porno thespians he regularly worked with are Veronica Hart, Samantha Fox and Jamie Gillis. Outside of his hardcore porno fare, Chuck also did "legitimate" R-rated low-budget films, such as the amusing lowbrow comedies Summer Camp (1978), Hot T-Shirts (1980), C.O.D. (1981), Preppies (1984), Hollywood Hot Tubs (1984), Wimps (1986), Sex Appeal (1984), Slammer Girls (1987) and New York's Finest (1990), the horror shocker Deranged (1987), the period action drama Warrior Queen (1987) and the erotic thriller sequel Bedroom Eyes II (1989). He appeared in small parts in a handful of his own pictures.

Chuck Vincent died at age 51 from AIDS complications on September 23, 1991 in Key West, Florida.

place_of_birth: Michigan, USA


Nika King

biography: Nika King is an actress and producer. She’s best known for playing Leslie Bennett on Euphoria.

place_of_birth: Маямі, штат Флорида, США


Ronald Mlodzik

biography: Ronald Mlodzik is an actor, known for his roles in David Cronenberg's early films, Shivers (1975), Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970).


Riley Keough

biography:
Danielle Riley Keough (/ˈkiːoʊ/ KEE-oh; born May 29, 1989) is an American actress and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She made her feature film debut in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying Marie Currie. Keough subsequently starred in the independent thriller The Good Doctor (2011) before being cast in a minor role in Steven Soderbergh's comedy film Magic Mike (2012). She appeared in her first big-budget release in the action feature Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

In 2016, Keough had her breakthrough role as an escort in the first season of the anthology series The Girlfriend Experience, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as a wayward young woman in the drama American Honey (2016) earned her further acclaim, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female.

Keough went on to star in the horror film It Comes at Night (2017) and in Soderbergh's heist film Logan Lucky (2017); she then appeared in the horror films The House That Jack Built (2018) and The Lodge (2019). Following a leading role in the comedy-drama Zola (2020), Keough starred in the Amazon Prime Video thriller series The Terminal List (2022) and the drama miniseries Daisy Jones & the Six (2023). The latter earned her nominations for another Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Keough is a co-founder of the production company Felix Culpa. She has co-directed the drama War Pony (2022), which won the Caméra d'Or. She became the sole owner of Elvis Presley's estate, Graceland, following her mother, Lisa Marie Presley's death in 2023.

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place_of_birth: Santa Monica, California, USA


Frank Zappa

biography:
Frank Vincent Zappa  (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

While in his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship.

Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist and gained widespread critical acclaim. Many of his albums are considered essential in rock and jazz history. He is regarded as one of the most original guitarists and composers of his time. He also remains a major influence on musicians and composers. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and for most of his career was able to work as an independent artist. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

Zappa was married to Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa manages the businesses of her late husband under the name the Zappa Family Trust.

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place_of_birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.


Ann Turkel

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ann Kathryn Turkel (born July 16, 1946 in New York, New York, United States) is an American actress and model.

Turkel studied at the Musical Theatre Academy.

She was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in England, the Bahamas and Sardinia during the early seventies and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.

She has starred in television film, her first major roles occurring in the 1974 film 99 and 44/100% Dead and 1976's The Cassandra Crossing, both alongside her future husband Richard Harris; they were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce she and Harris remained good friends and when Harris died in 2002 Turkel was so saddened and called him a mentor and good friend.

She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Adam Wingard

biography:
Adam Wingard (/ˈwɪŋɡɑːrd/ WING-gard; born December 3, 1982) is an American filmmaker. He has been a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, actor, and composer in numerous American films.

Following an early career as a member of the mumblecore movement, he became notable for his works in the horror and action genres, especially the films You're Next (2011) and The Guest (2014) and the bigger-budget franchise films Blair Witch (2016), Death Note (2017), and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), and its sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024).

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place_of_birth: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA


Laura Giglio

biography: Laura Giglio is known for The Blue Hole (2022), Beyond the Dark Veil and Mad Doctor of Zombie Island (2008).


Erika Smith

biography:
A versatile performer with a chameleon-like ability to transform herself with each role, Erika acts regularly on the New York stage, film and television. Often cast as the sweet, sexy girl next door or the sultry femme fatale, Miss Smith also has a natural gift for comedy and is often seen in comedic roles.

Raised in the suburbs of Boston, Erika was inspired to pursue a career in the arts after seeing "Gone With the Wind" as a child. After numerous stage roles, she began what has become a thriving career in independent films.

place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Matt Mitler

biography:
Matt Mitler (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor. He is also founding director (1997) of Dzieci Theatre (the polish word for "children"), which balances its work on performance with work of service, through creative and therapeutic interaction in hospitals and a variety of institutional settings. The company is firmly dedicated to process and includes in its repertory the critically acclaimed Fools Mass, which was presented at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona in 2004 and has been a staple since 1999 at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. Mr. Mitler and Dzieci Theatre are profiled in Working on the Inside: The Spiritual Life Through the Eyes of Actors by Retta Blaney, and are included, under Performance Theatre, in the current edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion.

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler

biography: Jamie-Lynn Sigler (formerly DiScala; born May 15, 1981) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the HBO television series The Sopranos.

place_of_birth: Jericho, Town of Oyster Bay, New York, USA


Anastasiya Vertinskaya

biography: Anastasiya Alexandrovna Vertinskaya (Russian: Анастасия Александровна Вертинская, born 19 December 1944, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, who came to prominence in the early 1960s with her acclaimed performances in Scarlet Sails, Amphibian Man and Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet.

place_of_birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR


Olga Mashnaya

place_of_birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR


Oleg Tabakov

place_of_birth: Saratov, RSFSR, USSR


James Darren

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

James William Ercolani (June 8, 1936 - September 2, 2024), known by his stage name James Darren, was an American television and film actor, television director, and singer. He wanted to be an actor and studied in New York City with Stella Adler for a number of years. He would also occasionally sing although he later said "I wasn't really a singer. I was a kid in Philly whose dad would take him to bars and nightclubs and I would get up and sing two songs."

Darren was discovered by talent agent and casting director Joyce Selznick after he got some photographs taken by Maurice Seymour to show potential agents:  His secretary, a woman by the name of Yvonne Bouvier, "asked me if I was interested in getting into film. I said yeah, I was. She said I know someone you should meet. She set up a meeting between me and Joyce Selznick, who worked for Screen Gems. Joyce brought me over to Columbia Pictures about a week later and got me a contract there."  Columbia signed Darren to a long term contract in July 1956. A few weeks later, he was filming his first film, Rumble on the Docks.  His appearance was well received and he got a lot of fan mail - second at the studio only to Kim Novak. Darren guest starred on an episode of TV's The Web ("Kill and Run") then Columbia gave him a support role in an "A" picture, the comedy Operation Mad Ball, starring Jack Lemmon.

He had support roles in two films directed by Phil Karlson: The Brothers Rico and Gunman's Walk. In between he was in The Tijuana Story, although his role was relatively small. Darren was third billed in the surf film, Gidget. He also sang the title track. The film was a hit with teen audiences and so was the song. Darren wound up recording a string of pop hits for Colpix Records, the biggest of which was "Goodbye Cruel World". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Another sizeable hit was "Her Royal Majesty". He is also featured in one of the Scopitone series of pop music video jukebox films ("Because You're Mine").

Darren was third billed in a series of films for Columbia: The Gene Krupa Story, All the Young Men,  and Let No Man Write My Epitaph. He had a cameo as himself in a teen film, Because They're Young, singing the title track. Darren had a supporting role in the World War II film The Guns of Navarone. Also popular was Gidget Goes Hawaiian, where Darren reprised his role as Moondoggie; he was given top billing.

Darren also acted in Diamond Head as well as a third time in Gidget Goes to Rome, which he sang the title track for, Under the Yum Yum Tree. In 1963, Darren signed a seven picture deal with Universal, starting with The Lively Set. He was the singing voice of Yogi Bear in the animated film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, on the song "Ven-e, Ven-o, Ven-a". He was the singing voice of his own character "Jimmy Darrock" on an episode of The Flintstones. However the character's dialogue was provided by voice actor Lennie Weinrib.  He subsequently launched a career as a director, notably of action-based series , including Hunter, The A-Team, Silk Stalkings, Renegade, and Nowhere Man, as well as dramas such as Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place.

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place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Nicholas Worth

biography: Worth was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 4, 1937. He served for three years in the army as a paratrooper and studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Pasadena Playhouse.

place_of_birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA


Rebecca Balding

biography:
Rebecca Balding (September 21, 1948 – July 18, 2022) was an American actress best known for her appearances on Soap and Charmed.  Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She attended the University of Kansas. She had the role of Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas' child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 through 1980. Balding played Corky Crandall in 1979 in the sitcom Makin' It, as well as the original female reporter Carla Mardigian during the first three episodes of the inaugural 1977 season of the drama series Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner, before that character was written out for a different female reporter. That same year, she again appeared with Asner, playing his daughter Julie, in the classic Christmas TV film, The Gathering. Also in 1977, Balding played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell. In 1980 she starred in the pilot of the sitcom Mr. and Mrs. and Mr., that was never progressed as a series. In 1996, she made a guest appearance on 7th Heaven as Ellen, the mother of Matt's new girlfriend Tia.

In 1998, Balding guest starred as Aunt Jackie in the season one episode "The Fourth Sister" of Charmed. She later returned to the show during its fourth season in 2002 under a different role. Balding played the recurring character Elise Rothman, a newspaper editor-in-chief and the boss of Phoebe Halliwell (played by Alyssa Milano). She played the role until the show's eighth and final season in 2006.

Balding was married to television producer James L. Conway, whom she met while auditioning for a part in the 1981 horror movie The Boogens, which Conway directed and in which Balding ultimately starred.

Balding died on July 18, 2022, in Park City, Utah, at the age of 73, after having suffered from ovarian cancer.

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place_of_birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA


Vanessa Bell Calloway

biography:
Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress and dancer. She is known for her film roles as Princess Imani Izzi in the 1988 comedy Coming to America, as well as for her roles in What's Love Got to Do with It, The Inkwell, Crimson Tide, and Daylight. She is a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee.

She began her acting career in the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children in 1985. After moving to Los Angeles in 1986, she began appearing in episodes of prime time shows such as The Colbys, Falcon Crest, 227, China Beach, A Different World, and L.A. Law. She made her film debut on Number One with a Bullet (1987), before supporting role of Eddie Murphy's character's arranged wife in the 1988 comedy Coming to America.

In 1990, she co-starred alongside Joe Morton in the ABC drama series, Equal Justice. During the 1990s, she had a number of supporting roles in films, including What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) opposite Angela Bassett, The Inkwell (1994), and Crimson Tide (1995) as Denzel Washington's character wife. She also voiced main role in the 1992 animated comedy, Bébé's Kids.

She had a number of leading and supporting roles in made for television movies. In 1995, she co-starred opposite James Earl Jones and Joe Morton in the short-lived CBS prime time soap opera, Under One Roof, the first drama series that featured African-American lead characters. For her role on the series, Calloway was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. She had leading roles on the short-lived NBC sitcom Rhythm & Blues (1992–93), and starred alongside Larry Hagman as his girlfriend in the CBS drama Orleans (1997).

In the 2000s, she had recurring roles on Boston Public and The District. She co-starred in films including The Brothers, All About You, Dawg, Biker Boyz, Love Don't Cost a Thing, and Cheaper by the Dozen. She has guest starred on The Division, Strong Medicine, The Closer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dexter, Rizzoli & Isles, Castle, and Grey's Anatomy. From 2010 to 2011, she had the recurring role in the TNT medical drama, Hawthorne. In 2011, she began appearing in the Showtime comedy-drama, Shameless.

In 2016, she was cast as lead character in the Bounce TV first prime time soap opera, Saints & Sinners. Also in 2016, she co-starred as president Obama's future mother-in-law, Marian Shields Robinson, and in the comedy-drama film Southside with You. In 2018, she appeared in the Christian drama film Unbroken: Path to Redemption and the crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete.  In 2019, she played abolitionist Harriet Tubman's mother in the biographical drama film Harriet. She reprised her role as Imani Izzi in the 2021 sequel Coming 2 America.

place_of_birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA


George Sawaya

biography: George Sawaya (August 14, 1923 – September 17, 2003) was an American stuntman and actor. He acted in almost one hundred different films and television episodes, but always as minor characters. His careerwas relatively consistent from the 1950s to the 1980s.  Sawaya acted in the original Star Trek several times, first as Chief Humboldt in "The Menagerie, Part I" and then as Klingons in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove".

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Robyn Stevan

biography: Robyn Stevan is a Canadian actress and theatre artist best known for her role in the 1989 musical drama film Bye Bye Blues, which earned her the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has established a prolific career spanning film, television and live theatre.

place_of_birth: Whistler, British Columbia, Canada


Rochelle Greenwood

biography: Rochelle Greenwood is a versatile Canadian actress and voice actress. Over a career spanning four decades, she has seamlessly transitioned from a prominent child actress in the late 1980s to a steady fixture in television, film, and video game voice-overs.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Joan Swift

biography: Joan Swift was born on May 11, 1933 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Brainstorm (1965) and I Spy (1965). She was married to Clancy. She died on June 26, 2016 in Concord, California, USA.

place_of_birth: Sacramento, California, USA


Matt Lasky

biography: Matt was born in Waco, Texas and raised in the Oklahoma City area. His reckless teen years culminated with him spending his twentieth birthday in state prison over a series of group brawls. Exactly a year after his release, at the end a long day of high rise window washing, he found himself involved in a road rage incident in which his coworker was murdered directly in front of him. Matt then made his way to Hollywood where he graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and went on to be a member of their theater company ('06).. He supported his early years bouncing and working as an autism behavioral therapist. Matt rowed a boat from Monterey, CA to Oahu, HI over the summer of 2014 in 57 days 5 hours 45 minutes. Matt shares the world record with his 3 crew mates for the first ever mixed sex team of 4 to row across the Pacific ocean unsupported.

place_of_birth: Waco, Texas, USA


Catriona MacColl

biography:
Catriona MacColl (born 3 October 1954) is an English actress and former ballerina. She was initially a ballerina who trained at a top ballet school in England before suffering an injury that abruptly curtailed her burgeoning career as a dancer. In the wake of said injury Catriona joined a repertory company which eventually led to her moving to Paris, France where she acted in French television shows and played her first lead role as the titular character in Lady Oscar (1979).

She gained cinema popularity by playing the female leads in three gruesome and atmospheric Italian horror films directed by Lucio Fulci: City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981), and The House by the Cemetery (1981).

place_of_birth: London, England


Brenda Strong

biography: Brenda Lee Strong is an American actress. She began her career in television, including guest starring appearances in Twin Peaks, Party of Five, Seinfeld, Scandal, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Blossom and Sports Night. She also starred as Mary Alice Young on Desperate Housewives.

place_of_birth: Brightwood, Oregon, USA


Claudia Llosa

biography: Claudia Llosa Bueno (born 15 November 1976) is a Peruvian film director, writer, producer, and author. She is recognized for her Academy-Award-nominated film The Milk of Sorrow.

place_of_birth: Lima, Peru


David Hess

biography: David Alexander Hess (September 19, 1936 – October 7, 2011) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and director. He came to prominence for his portrayals of murderous villain characters in several films in the 1970s and 1980s such as The Last House on the Left (1972).

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Paul King

biography:
Paul Thomas King (born July 1978) is an English screenwriter and director. He works in television, film and theatre and specialises in comedy. He directed all 20 episodes of the surreal comedy series The Mighty Boosh (2004–2007), and in 2005 he earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best New Director.

His work on the family comedy films Paddington (2014) and its 2017 sequel earned him British Academy Film Award nominations for Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2023, he directed and co-wrote Wonka, a film which serves as a backstory to the literary character Willy Wonka and explores his early days as a chocolatier.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Ray Sharkey

biography: Raymond Sharkey Jr. (November 14, 1952 – June 11, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy.

place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.


Ania Pieroni

biography: Ania Pieroni (born February 28, 1957 in Rome) is an Italian actress from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

place_of_birth: Rome, Italy


Asier Etxeandia

place_of_birth: Bilbao, Spain


Song Seon-mi

biography: Song Seon-mi (송선미) is a South Korean actress.

place_of_birth: Taean, South Chungcheong, South Korea


Clara Bow

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent films during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" after 1927. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.

Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). She was named first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and second box-office draw in 1927 and 1930. Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost two-to-one, a "safe return". At the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929).

Two years after marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and became a rancher in Nevada. Her final film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933. In September 1965, Bow died of a heart attack at the age of 60.

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


Jobyna Ralston

biography: Jobyna Ralston (born Jobyna Lancaster Raulston, November 21, 1899 – January 22, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. She had a featured role in the first Oscar-winning film, Wings in 1927, but is perhaps best remembered today for her on-screen chemistry with Harold Lloyd, with whom she appeared in seven movies.

place_of_birth: South Pittsburg, Tennessee, USA


Barack Obama

biography: Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president. Obama served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

place_of_birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA


Hulusi Kentmen

biography:
Hulusi Kentmen (20 January 1912 – 20 December 1993) was a Turkish actor.

He was born in Tarnovo, Bulgaria, in 1912. He studied at petty officer preparatory school and graduated with 3rd class petty officer rank. After serving in the navy for a long time, he took up acting. He acted in the play Hisse-i Şaiya and made his film debut in 1940 with Sürtük. Between 1942 and 1988, he acted in over 500 films. In 1967, he went on an Anatolian tour with Hüseyin Baradan, Şahin Tek and later with Atıf Kaptan.

place_of_birth: Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria


Marie-Pierre Castel

biography: Marie-Pierre Castel (born Marie-Pierre Yvonne Tricot) was a French actress. She is well-remembered for collaborating with director Jean Rollin on several occasions, particularly on films "La vampire nue", "Le frisson des vampires", "Requiem pour un vampire" and "Lèvres de sang".  She has also appeared in films with directors, such as, Jean-Marie Pallardy, Bernard Launois and Francis Girod. Her twin sister was Catherine Castel (1949–2018), with whom she appeared alongside is several films. She retired from acting in 1977 and died in 2013, at the age of 64.

place_of_birth: Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France


Steve Howe

biography: Stephen James "Steve" Howe is an English musician, songwriter, and producer, widely recognized as one of the most versatile and influential guitarists in rock history. He is best known as the definitive lead guitarist for the iconic progressive rock band Yes and the 1980s supergroup Asia. Howe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.

place_of_birth: Holloway, North London, England, UK


Rick Wakeman

biography:
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Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for his solo albums, contributing to the BBC comedy series Grumpy Old Men and for Rick's Place, his former radio show on Planet Rock that aired until December 2010.

Born in west London, Wakeman purchased his first electronic keyboard at 12 years of age. In 1968, he studied the piano, clarinet, orchestration and modern music at the Royal College of Music before leaving after a year in favour of session music work. He went on to feature on songs by artists including Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, T. Rex, Elton John and Cat Stevens. Wakeman joined the folk group Strawbs in 1969 and played on three of their albums. He first joined Yes in 1971 to replace Tony Kaye, and left the group in 1974 to work on his solo career. He returned in 1976 before leaving with lead vocalist Jon Anderson in 1980. Wakeman was part of the side project Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, a group of ex-Yes members formed in 1989, and the eight-member Yes lineup that followed until his third departure in 1992. He returned for two years in 1995 and once more in 2002, where he was part of the band's 35th anniversary tour until its end in 2004.

Wakeman began his solo career during his first run with Yes. His perhaps most known records being his first three, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1974) and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1975). He has produced over 100 solo albums that have sold more than 50 million copies. In November 2010, Wakeman was awarded the Spirit of Prog award at the annual Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards.

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place_of_birth: Perivale, London, England


Joseph W. Sarno

biography:
Joseph W. Sarno (March 15, 1921 – April 26, 2010) was an American film director and screenwriter.

One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of  shot-on-video features for the '80s hardcore video market.

Sarno, a pioneer of the sexploitation film genre, completed his first adult-oriented feature in 1961. Among his best-known films in the genre are Sin in the Suburbs (1964), Flesh and Lace, The Bed and How to Make It, and Moonlighting Wives (1966). Sarno's work of the sexploitation period is typified by stark chiaroscuro lighting, long takes and rigorous staging. He was also well known for scenarios centering around issues of psycho-sexual anxiety and sexual identity development.

During his sexploitation period, Sarno worked with such actors as Uta Erickson, Dyanne Thorne (star of the Ilsa series), Audrey Campbell (Olga's House of Shame series), Michael Alaimo, Patricia McNair, Tod Moore, and his cousin, Joe Santos, who would become a regular on television's The Rockford Files.

Beginning in 1968, Sarno's work became somewhat more explicit, predicting the emergence of soft-core. His breakthrough feature Inga (1968), was one of the first X-rated films released in the United States. Other noteworthy soft-core features include Vibrations (1968), Passion in Hot Hollows (1969), Daddy, Darling (1970), Young Playthings (1972), Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) and Misty (1975). Sarno was also the director of Deep Throat Part 2 (1974), the R-rated sequel to the hardcore classic Deep Throat.

After 1968, Sarno's soft-core work was divided between films produced in the United States and films produced in Europe, principally Sweden, Germany and Denmark. Many of Sarno's European features were made with American backing. In Europe, he was known for having worked with actresses Marie Liljedahl, Christina Lindberg, Helli Louise, and Marie Forså.

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place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA


Jon Provost

biography: Jonathan Bion Provost is an American actor, best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS series Lassie. Wikipedia

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S


Wende Wagner

biography:
From Wikipedia. Born to a U.S. Navy commander and swimming and diving coach father (John H. Wagner) and a mother (Rudy Arnold Wagner) who was a champion skier, Wagner grew up on Coronado Island in California and lived in nearly all the Continental United States with her family's various naval postings.[citation needed]

While living in Coronado, California, with her family, Billy Wilder, then filming Some Like It Hot, saw Wagner swimming and offered her a screen test. Her parents forbade it until she completed her senior year at Coronado High School. Some Like It Hot was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado as well as on the Coronado beaches. After graduating, she visited Wilder and did a screen test, but turned down a role in The Apartment.

Wagner travelled the world as a fashion model, then made her television debut in an episode of Wagon Train in 1959. While living in the Bahamas she became an underwater stunt double in the series Sea Hunt and The Aquanauts.She also doubled for Joanne Dru in underwater sequences in the 1960 film September Storm. Wagner appeared on What's My Line in December 1960 as a "Stunt skindiver for television films". She married fellow underwater expert Courtney Brown whom she had met while working on the shows.

In addition to her scuba diving and swimming she was also a surfer.

After having a daughter named Tiffany, she divorced Brown and became contracted to 20th Century Fox. Her film career included roles in Rio Conchos (1964), Out of Sight (1966), Destination Inner Space (1966), A Covenant with Death (1967), Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969). She married and divorced actor James Mitchum. Wagner was also friends with Sharon Tate with the two sharing an apartment for a while.

In 1965, she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Anona Gilbert in "The Case of the Feather Cloak." Wagner also made guest appearances in other television shows including Flipper, Lassie, Mannix, and The Rookies. During 1966-67, she had a regular role as Lenore "Casey" Case, the secretary to Britt Reid on The Green Hornet.

Wagner lived in Malibu but lost her home and belongings in a fire. She was active with the Malibu Historical Society.

place_of_birth: Connecticut, U.S.A.


Kimberly Taylor

biography: After becoming Penthouse Pet of the Month in December, 1988, Kimberly went on to a brief acting career, most notably appearing as a hooker in the outrageous horror comedy Frankenhooker (1990). In addition, she also appeared in three Chuck Vincent movies, two Ernest G. Sauer sex comedies and was regularly featured on The Howard Stern Show.


Jerry Douglas

biography: Jerry Douglas (November 12, 1932 – November 9, 2021) was an American television and film actor. For 25 years Douglas reigned as patriarch John Abbott in the fictional Genoa City on the daytime television serial The Young and the Restless. In 2006, his character was killed off, but his character later made special appearances.

place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Denise Gordy

biography:
Denise Georgette Gordy is a daughter of George and Rosemary Gordy and sister of Patrice and George Gordy, Jr., among others. Motown founder Berry Gordy is her uncle; her aunt is Anna Gordy Gaye. Gordy has appeared in numerous television and theatrical features, beginning in 1972 with Lady Sings the Blues as a dancer in the nightclub chorus. In 1974, Gordy appeared in Black Fist and ending most recently with Toy Soldiers in 1991. Gordy also has contributed vocals to the soundtrack album for the film Black Fist, which was originally titled Bogard, as well as recording the song "Let's Do It Again" for that same movie.

Gordy was married to actor Richard Lawson from December 31, 1978 until 1989. They share one child, actress Bianca Lawson. Gordy is also the biological mother of Marvin Gaye III, who was born on November 17, 1965 when she was sixteen years old. His biological father, singer Marvin Gaye, was twenty six years old and married to Gordy's aunt Anna at the time. She agreed to give birth to the child because her aunt was unable to conceive. Shortly after Marvin III's birth, Anna adopted him.

place_of_birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA


Tiffany Helm

biography:
Tiffany Helm (born May 12) is an American and Canadian film and television actress. She is the daughter of Peter Helm and veteran actress Brooke Bundy. Tiffany studied dance with Roland Dupree and was a member of "The Beverly Hills Mime Troupe". She started modeling in her mid-teens. Helm made her film debut with a small role in Hard to Hold (1984). She had her sole starring part as "Kate Haskell" in The Zoo Gang (1985). Tiffany portrayed "Violet" in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985). Helm also portrayed innocent juvenile delinquent "Andrea Eldridge" in the babes-behind-bars parody Reform School Girls (1986). Moreover, Tiffany made guest appearances on such TV shows as Freddy's Nightmares (1988), 21 Jump Street (1987), You Again? (1986), Santa Barbara (1984), The Young and the Restless (1973), Bare Essence (1983) and Likely Stories, Vol. 3 (1983). She also appeared as Italian scientist, Francesca Sabatini in the 1996 video game Rama (1997) (1997). Tiffany Helm left acting to devote herself to her portrait photography business. She has recently returned to the screen and can be seen in a few upcoming Canadian productions, including Come True (2020) (2020),Red Letter Day (2019) (2019) and Stephen Kings In the Tall Grass (2019) (2019).

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Claudine Beccarie

biography: Claudine Beccarie (born 14 June 1945 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France) was a French pornographic actress of the 1970s. She started her porn career early in 1972 with an 8 mm loop of Lasse Braun, released in the Netherlands. She became famous in 1975 because of the documentary Exhibition about herself,  which contained several staged hardcore scenes and gained the title  "first French porn star". In 1976 she quit hardcore pornography and  until the 1980s appeared in several Nazi exploitation films.

place_of_birth: Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France


Mika Nakashima

biography: Mika Nakashima (中島 美嘉, Nakashima Mika, born February 19, 1983) is a Japanese singer and actress. Five of her studio albums, one of her mini-albums and one of her compilation albums have reached number one in Japan's Oricon album chart. She also embarked on an acting career, most notably as Nana Osaki in the live action film adaptations of Nana. She sold 10 million records in Japan.

place_of_birth: Hioki, Kagoshima, Japan


Ras Kean

place_of_birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA


Dory Devon

biography: Adult film actress active between 1974-and 1980.


Alexandria Case

biography: Alexandria Case is an American former adult film actress.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Sylvia Hoeks

biography: Sylvia Gertrudis Martyna Hoeks (born 1 June 1983) is a Dutch actress and former model. She was born in Maarheeze, a southern town of the Netherlands. At age 14 she was scouted by Elite Models and traveled to many European countries to model.  After graduation, she made her national breakthrough with the Jos Stelling film Duska (2007), for which she won a Golden Calf (the Dutch equivalent of the Oscars) at the annual Dutch Film Festival. Hoeks is more know for her roles on The Best Offer (2013), Renegades (2017), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

place_of_birth: Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands


Tatsuo Sato

biography: Tatsuo Sato (佐藤 竜雄, July 7, 1964-April 24, 2026) was a Japanese anime director. He made his solo directorical debut in 1995 with the TV animation series "Soar High! Isami". After that, he directed the TV series "Martian Successor Nadesico"(1996) and its sequel feature film "Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince Of Darkness"(1998)

place_of_birth: Oiso, Kanagawa, Japan


Keith Buckley

biography: Keith Buckley was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. He was an actor, known for Sky Bandits (1986), Excalibur (1981), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Search for the Nile (1971) and Wuthering Heights (1967). He also made numerous TV appearances. Keith died on December 1, 2020 from complications caused by COVID-19.

place_of_birth: Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK


Bill Paterson

biography:
William Tulloch Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor. Throughout his career he has appeared regularly in radio drama and provided the narration for a large number of documentaries. Paterson has appeared in films and television series including Comfort and Joy (1984), Traffik (1989), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The Witches (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Doctor Who (2010), Outlander (2014), Fleabag (2016–2019), Inside No. 9 (2018), Good Omens (2019), Brassic (2020) and House of the Dragon (2022). He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Scottish BAFTAs.

William Tulloch Paterson was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1945. Paterson was raised in Dennistoun by his father, a plumber, and his mother, a hairdresser. He states that his interest in acting began with a school trip to the Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals in 1961. However, after school he chose to initially pursue a career based on an interest in architecture and spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice before deciding to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

place_of_birth: Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK


Rachel Matthews

biography: Born as Rachel Lynn Matthews. She is an actress, known for Happy Death Day (2017), Happy Death Day 2U (2019), and Frozen 2 (2019).

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Helena af Sandeberg

biography: Helena Beata Maria af Sandeberg (Solna, 1 September 1971) is a Swedish actress.

place_of_birth: Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden


Lena Brogren

place_of_birth: Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden


Tim Oliehoek

place_of_birth: Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands


Tricia O'Kelley

biography: Patricia Beth O'Kelley (born September 26, 1968) is an American actress and producer, best recognized as Marly Ehrhardt on the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–10), her recurring role as Nicole Leahy on The WB television series Gilmore Girls (2003–04), Jade Huntington Snell on Saved By the Bell (2020), as well as the lead role of Sylvia in the independent comedy film Weather Girl (2009), of which she also was producer.

place_of_birth: Melrose, Massachusetts, USA


Robert Colbert

biography: Robert Colbert is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the ABC television series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as Brent Maverick, a third Maverick brother in the ABC/Warner Brothers western, Maverick starring James Garner, Jack Kelly and Roger Moore. Wikipedia

place_of_birth: Long Beach, California, USA


Anton Leader

biography: Anton Leader (December 23, 1913 – July 1, 1988) was an American radio and television director. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 23, 1913. He directed radio dramas in New York in the 1940s and moved to Los Angeles in 1948. Subsequently, he worked as a free-lancer for Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures, among others. From the middle 1950s to the middle 1970s he directed many episodes of the popular television series of that era. Known as "Tony" to friends and colleagues, his screen credits alternated between "Tony Leader" and the more formal "Anton M. Leader." He died in Los Angeles, California, on July 1, 1988.


Loretta Walsh

biography: Loretta Walsh is an award-nominated Australian-Canadian actress, producer, and acting teacher best known for her role as Florence Blakeley (Yost) on the hit Hallmark Channel drama series When Calls the Heart. Classically trained, she has maintained a prolific, multi-decade career spanning television, film, and live theater.

place_of_birth: Queensland, Australia


Jake Kennedy

biography:
Jake Kennedy is a teacher, editor, filmmaker and experimental writer.

Originally from Streetsville, Ont., Kennedy lives in Kelowna, BC, the heart-fist of Canada's Okanagan region. He teaches English literature and creative writing courses at Okanagan College, where he blows students' cerebellums.

His first book, The Lateral, won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry from Montreal's Snare Books. Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic is his second collection of poetry, which was published by BookThug, who also published his bpNichol chapbook award winning Hazard. Kennedy also co-edited an anthology of graphic poetry, Boredom Fighters, with Paola Poletto.

With his bestfriend, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Kennedy has written and produced car interviews with several Canadian and American poets, including Bhanu Kapil and Margaret Atwood. These Silver Cars Sessions revel in culture obscurity. Currently, the two are curating a community-written novel called Death Valley.

place_of_birth: Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Tony Richards

place_of_birth: Astoria, New York, USA


Stefanie Scott

biography:
Stefanie Noelle Scott (born December 6, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Scott is best known for her roles as Lexi Reed on Disney Channel's A.N.T. Farm, Dana Tressler in the film Flipped, for which she won a 2011 Young Artist Award, and Quinn Brenner in the film Insidious: Chapter 3.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Neil Tennant

biography:
Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and music journalist, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He was a journalist for Smash Hits, and assistant editor for the magazine in the mid-1980s.

Tennant coined the phrase imperial phase to describe the period in which a musical artist is regarded to be at their commercial and creative peak simultaneously. This observation was initially self-referential, made as the Pet Shop Boys had achieved commercial success with four British number one hits ("West End Girls", "It's a Sin", "Heart", and "Always on My Mind"), had received critical praise for their first three albums and had expanded their creative horizons through innovative collaborations in the visual and performing arts.

Neil Francis Tennant was born in the town of North Shields, approximately 8 miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne, to William W. Tennant (1923–2009), a sales representative, and Sheila M. (Watson) Tennant (1923–2008). He has an older sister, Susan, and two younger brothers, Simon and Philip. The family moved to Greenfield Road (opposite the corner of South Bend), Brunton Park, Gosforth shortly after Neil was born.

Tennant attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School, an all-boys' Catholic school in Newcastle upon Tyne. His songs "This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave" and "It's a Sin" refer to his early life in Catholic school and the strict upbringing there.

As a child, Tennant taught himself to play guitar and piano and started writing songs. He also played cello in school. During his teenage years, he played in a folk music group named Dust, who were heavily influenced by The Incredible String Band. Tennant wrote several of their songs including "Can You Hear the Dawn Break?", which he regards as his first 'proper' song. He was also a member of the youth theatre at the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 1975, having completed a degree in history at North London Polytechnic (now part of London Metropolitan University), Tennant worked for two years as the production editor for Marvel UK, the UK branch of Marvel Comics. He was responsible for anglicising the dialogue of Marvel's catalogue to suit British readers and for indicating where women needed to be redrawn for the British editions. He also wrote occasional features for the comics, including interviews with pop stars Marc Bolan and Alex Harvey. In 1977, he moved to Macdonald Educational Publishing, where he edited The Dairy Book of Home Management (1980) and various illustrated books about cookery, playing the guitar and other home interests. Then he moved to ITV Books, where he edited TV tie-in books. After having commissioned Steve Bush, then the designer of Smash Hits and The Face, to design a book about the group Madness, he was offered a job at Smash Hits as news editor of the British teen pop magazine in 1982. The following year, he became assistant editor. He also edited The Smash Hits Yearbook from 1982 to 1985. ...

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place_of_birth: North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK


Maksim Drozd

place_of_birth: Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR


Tasso Kavadia

biography:
Anastasia (Tasso) Kavadia (Greek: Τασσώ Καββαδία; 10 January 1921 – 18 December 2010) was a Greek film and television actress.

Kavadia was born on 10 January 1921 in Patras. She studied piano in Athens, writing and decoration in Paris, scenario and clothing with Giannis Tsarouchis, and acting at the Drama School at the Art School with Karolos Koun. She became commonly associated with roles of strict and bad-tempered women, mothers-in-law, etc.

From 1954 until 1967, Kavadia worked as a radio journalist and radio executive. From 1955 until 1969, she was a newspaper reporter.

Kavadia died on 18 December 2010 in Athens and was buried in the First Cemetery of Athens.

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place_of_birth: Patras, Greece


Cailey Taylor

biography: Cailey Taylor (born 1981 in Newport Beach, California) is a retired American porn star.  She attended a private Catholic school in her youth and later went on to study architecture/interior design in college. After school, Cailey started working as a stripper, making the leap into porn in late 2002 when her lust for excitement pushed her to go beyond the strip club stage.

place_of_birth: Newport Beach, California, USA


Ann Bell

place_of_birth: Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK


Arthur Marks

biography: Arthur Ronald Marks (August 2, 1927 – November 13, 2019) was an American film and television director, writer, producer and distributor best known for his work in the blaxploitation genre, directing films such as Bonnie's Kids, Detroit 9000, Friday Foster, Bucktown, The Monkey Hu$tle and J. D.'s Revenge. He also directed and produced numerous episodes of the American legal drama Perry Mason, as well as episodes of Starsky & Hutch, Mannix, I Spy, My Friend Tony, The Dukes of Hazzard, Steve Canyon, and Young Daniel Boone.


Rikki Blake

biography: A great supporting pornographic player during the mid-eighties, this petite siren burned up the screen of x-films. Her career coincided with that of two x-film legendary actresses, Traci Lords and Christy Canyon. Rikki was sensational in her role as a maid in The Sex Goddess. She left the industry after just a few years and her whereabouts are unknown.


Jarvis Cocker

biography: Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist, and sole consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has pursued a solo career, and for seven years he presented the BBC Radio 6 Music show Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service.

place_of_birth: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK


Phil Lord

biography:
Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) is an American filmmaker with his filmmaking partner Christopher Miller. They are the creators and co-stars of the adult animated sitcom Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024) and the writers and directors of the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and The Lego Movie (2014), as well as the directors of the live-action comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014).

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

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place_of_birth: Miami, Florida, USA

known_for_department: Production


Wanja Mary Sellers

biography: Wanja Mary Sellers is a Kenyan-born actress, director and screenwriter who built a prominent career working primarily in Italy. She is especially recognized by horror cinema fans for starring in several cult classic Italian genre films during the late 1980s.

place_of_birth: Nairobi, Kenya


Elizabeth Stanley

biography: Elizabeth Stanley is an American actress.


Aleks Paunovic

biography:
Aleks Paunovic (born June 29, 1969) is a Canadian actor. Some of his many roles include prospector Jim McAllister on the drama TV series Arctic Air, Julius on the fantasy horror drama series Van Helsing, imposing warrior Wygar Oak on the second season of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Bojan "Boki" Boscovic on the dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer.

Paunovic is from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and "three generations of fighters" are in his family. His father is of Serbian descent, and his mother is of Croatian ancestry. His grandfather, father, and uncle were all champion boxers in Yugoslavia, and he was a champion boxer until a shoulder injury ended his career. Paunovic was in a rock band before he got an acting job at his first audition. He supports the Red Cross/Impact Anti-Bullying Campaign, as he had been bullied as a child.

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place_of_birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada


Vladimiros Kiriakidis

biography: Vladimiros Kyriakides graduated from the R.Paterakis Drama School in Thessaloniki. His first appearance was in the play «Odyssey», of the «Experimental Stage of art». A series of other collaborations with the same theatrical company followed. Furthermore he performed in plays for the NTNG (National Theatre of Northern Greece) Other Activities: Vladimiros Kyriakides is professor of drama at the Drama School Iasmos .

place_of_birth: Thessaloniki, Greece


Graham Coxon

biography: Graham Leslie Coxon is an English musician, singer-songwriter and painter who came to prominence as a founding member of the rock band Blur.

place_of_birth: Rinteln, Germany


C.B. Harding

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

C. B. Harding (sometimes credited as CB Harding) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer.

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Dana White

biography: Dana Frederick White, Jr. is an Irish-American businessman. He is the President of the mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

place_of_birth: Manchester, Connecticut, USA


Craig Borsari

biography: UFC Chief Content Officer and Executive Producer

place_of_birth: Fullerton, California, USA


Mikhail Kalatozov

biography:
Mikhail Kalatozov (28 December 1903 – 27 March 1973; born Mikheil Kalatozishvili) was a Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema film director best known for his films The Cranes Are Flying (1957) and Soy Cuba (1964). The former won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. In 1969, he received the People's Artist of the USSR accolade.

Kalatozov studied economics and changed many professions before starting his career as an actor and later — as a cinematographer. He directed several documentaries, including Their Kingdom (1928, with Nutsa Gogoberidze, the first Georgian female director) and Salt for Svanetia (1930).

In 1933, Kalatozov enrolled to the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts. Three years later, he oversaw Kartuli Pilmi, then he was suggested a place at the USSR State Committee for Cinematography. In 1939, he moved to Leningrad to work at Lenfilm as a director. During World War II, he made several propaganda films and worked as a cultural attaché at the Soviet embassy in the United States.

place_of_birth: Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]


Dax Ravina

biography: Dax Ravina was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he studied sociology and criminology at Saint Mary's University. He joined the university drama society and was cast in his first play-A Streetcar Named Desire playing the lead role of Stanley Kowalski. He then went on to study acting at the prestigious Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto. Dax was cast in his first feature film Wisegirls by director David Anspaugh (Rudy, Hoosiers). He was the lead in the award winning short film Backjumping which turned into a CBC pilot called Cheap Draft directed by Jay Dahl. Dax has been fortunate to work with Hollywood heavyweights Kurt Russell (The Art of The Steal) Tim Roth (The Padre) Taryn Manning (Weirdsville) Terrance Howard (Four Brothers) Matt Dillon (The Art of the Steal) and Ron Perlman (The Baker). He has appeared in 6 feature films produced by Los Angeles-Toronto based production company Darius Films (Nicholas Tabarrok ,Leah Jaunzems) two of those include The Retirement Plan starring Nicholas Cage and The Blue Iguana starring the late Bob Saget, filmed in Grand Cayman. He recently appeared in Shudder's hit resurrected franchise feature VHS94 and has a recurring role on the hit Netflix series Trailer Park Boys as Officer Gordon. Dax currently travels between Los Angeles and Toronto. He is represented by Nigel Mikoski with Connekt Creative Agency in Vancouver.

place_of_birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


Rooney Mara

biography:
Patricia Rooney Mara (born April 17, 1985) is an American film and television actress. Mara made her acting debut in 2005 and has gone on to star in films including A Nightmare on Elm Street, the remake of the 1984 horror film, and The Social Network. Mara also portrayed Lisbeth Salander, the title character in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a Sony Pictures film based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium book series.

Mara is also known for her charity work. She oversees the charity Faces of Kibera, which benefits orphans from the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa.

place_of_birth: Bedford, New York, USA


Brandon Auman

biography: Brandon Auman is a Saturn Award-winning, four-time Emmy nominated writer, showrunner and executive producer. He is currently head writer and showrunner of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, an adult animated series for Amazon Prime. Previous work include head writer and executive producer at both Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios. Brandon is also an illustrator and painter, and collector old books, vintage toys and artwork. He is already writing his next novel, a fantasy/horror epic.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, CA


Nelson Lee

biography: Nelson Lee (born October 16, 1975 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-Canadian actor raised in Saint John, New Brunswick.

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Jessica Gower

biography: Jessica Gower is an Australian actress. Gower graduated from the Australian National Theatre Drama School in 2000. Gower's first claim to fame was as a starstruck but confused fan in a 2001 television commercial for Telstra featuring John Farnham and Glenn Wheatley.

place_of_birth: Melbourne, Australia


Nina Doroshina

biography: Nina Doroshina was a Russian film actress.

place_of_birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]


Yoh Yoshinari

biography:
Yoh Yoshinari (吉成 曜) is a Japanese key animator, storyboard artist, and anime director.

He graduated from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College and joined Madhouse in 1992. He left in the same year and joined Gainax, where he worked until 2011 when he joined Imaishi and other ex-Gainax employees to form Studio Trigger.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Carrie Ng Ka-Lai

biography:
Carrie Ng Ka-Lai (Chinese: 吳家麗, born November 30th, 1963) is a Hong Kong actress well known for both Category-III cult and mainstream films. She won Best Actress at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival awards for her performance in Remains of a Woman and Best Supporting Actress at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Awards for The Kid. Other notable film credits include Edward Yang's Mahjong (1996) and cult classics Naked Killer (1992) and Sex and Zen (1991).

Ng made her directorial debut with the revenge-thriller Angel Whispers (2015), which she co-directed, produced and scripted with film executive Shirley Yung.

place_of_birth: Kowloon, Hong Kong


Jefferson Hall

biography:
Jefferson Hall (born 6 December 1977) is an English actor. He has played the roles of Hugh of the Vale in Game of Thrones, Varg in Wizards vs Aliens on CBBC, Torstein in Vikings and as Aaron Korey in Halloween. He was credited as Robert Hall in his earlier roles. In 2022, he was cast as twins Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister in the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.

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place_of_birth: Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK


Jean Ainslie

biography: Jean Ainslie was born on June 8, 1920 in Plumstead, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Secrets & Lies (1996), Wilde (1997) and Poirot (1989). She died on October 26, 2001 in London, England, UK.

place_of_birth: Plumstead, London, England, UK


Suzy Bloom

biography: Suzy Bloom is Miss Gilbert in 'EMMA' (Universal Pictures) directed by Autumn de Wilde, Catherine in 'The Art Of Love' (Netflix), Daisy in 'Sweet' (Angry Donkey) starring opposite Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt in this BAFTA nominated and award winning film. She is Patsy in Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher's 'Snuff Box' (BBC3) and Rachel in 'Genie In The House' - Nickelodeon's flagship sitcom.


Rob Epstein

biography: Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein is a gay non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. He has also won four national Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, two DuPont Columbia Journalism awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards for his documentary films.

place_of_birth: New Jersey, United States


Jeffrey Friedman

biography: Jeffrey Friedman is a non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Friedman has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California


Li Bingbing

biography: Li Bingbing  (李冰冰) was born February 27, 1973 in Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China. She is an actress and producer, known for Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution and Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Li's first big break came in 1999 when she played a kindhearted cop in the film "Seventeen Years" (过年回家). This film won her the Best Asian Actress award in the 2000 Singapore International Film Festival. In 2009, she was named a WWF Earth Hour Global Ambassador.

place_of_birth: Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China