Juno Temple

biography:
Juno Temple (born 21 July 1989) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–2023) and in the fifth season of the crime drama series Fargo (2023–2024). She earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for both as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for the latter. She also portrayed Teddy Payne in the superhero film Venom: The Last Dance (2024).

Temple, the daughter of film director Julien Temple, began working as a child actress, appearing in Notes on a Scandal (2006), Atonement (2007), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) and Mr. Nobody (2009). Her subsequent film roles were in The Three Musketeers (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Magic Magic (2013), Maleficent (2014), Black Mass (2015), Unsane (2018), and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). Temple received the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2013. She has also starred in the television series Vinyl (2016), Dirty John (2018–2019) and The Offer (2022).

Juno Temple was born in the Hammersmith area of London on 21 July 1989, the daughter of film producer Amanda Pirie and film director Julien Temple. She has two younger brothers, Leo and Felix. Her aunt Nina Temple was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain.  She grew up in Taunton, Somerset, where she attended Enmore Primary School, then Bedales School, returning to Taunton to finish at King's College.

In 2012, she appeared in The Dark Knight Rises, as a "street-smart Gotham girl", and portrayed Diane in the lesbian werewolf tale Jack & Diane. In February 2013, Temple won the EE Rising Star BAFTA Award, voted for by the public. Temple had a supporting role as Deborah Hussey in the true-crime film Black Mass (2015), which starred Johnny Depp; and played Jamie Vine, an A&R assistant for the fictional American Century record company, in the 2016 HBO series Vinyl.

In 2018–2019, Temple played a focal role as the protagonist's daughter in the Bravo series Dirty John, which was later acquired by Netflix. In 2020, she won the Best Actress award at the Prague Independent Film Festival for her role in the film Lost Transmissions. In August 2020, Temple began a regular role as Keeley, a former girlfriend of one of the team players and the unofficial team publicist, on the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso.

In 2022, Temple appeared in the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer, depicting the production of The Godfather. In 2023, Temple appeared in a starring role in the fifth season of the American crime anthology series Fargo.

place_of_birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK


Peter Berg

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biography:
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is known for directing films such as Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock and Battleship. He is highly regarded for developing the television series Friday Night Lights, based on the film of the same name which he also directed. In his more recent career he has worked to bring to the big screen true stories of ordinary Americans placed into extraordinary situations (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day). As an actor he is best known for his role as Dr. Billy Kronk on the 1990s-era CBS medical drama Chicago Hope.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA

known_for_department: Directing


Matthew Michael Carnahan

biography:
Matthew Michael Carnahan (sometimes credited as Matt Carnahan) is an American scriptwriter. Among his numerous works are screenplays for The Kingdom (2007); the film adaptation of the hit BBC television drama serial State of Play; and Lions for Lambs for United Artists. He also worked on the zombie film World War Z (2013). He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Dark Waters (2019), based on a 2016 feature article about industrial pollution in The New York Times magazine.

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known_for_department: Writing


Maya Zapata

biography: Maya Zapata is an actress, known for Bordertown (2006), De la calle (2001) and Under the same moon (2007).

place_of_birth: Ciudad de México, Mexico

known_for_department: Acting


Sinéad Matthews

biography: Sinéad Matthews is an English actress whose credits include film, television, radio and stage. Notable TV roles include Marcia Williams in season three of The Crown in 2019.

place_of_birth: Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK


Rupert Friend

biography:
Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019).

In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor.

Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold.

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place_of_birth: Oxfordshire, England, UK


Peter Chelsom

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Peter Chelsom (born April 20, 1956) is a British actor and film director. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance? and Hannah Montana: The Movie

Chelsom was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, the son of antiques shop owners Kay and Reginald Chelsom. He studied at the Central School of Drama in London. He worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as taking part in numerous film and television productions including A Woman of Substance which also included Jenny Seagrove and Deborah Kerr. While acting he developed a growing interest in writing and directing. From 1985-1998 he ran the television film course at Central School of Drama and later taught at both the Actor's Institute and Cornell University.

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place_of_birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK


Nick Cannon

biography: Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon (born October 8, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, rapper, record producer, radio and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenage sketch comedian on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, and America's Got Talent. He acted in the films Drumline, Love Don't Cost a Thing, and Roll Bounce. As a rapper, he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the hit single "Gigolo", a collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2006, Cannon recorded singles "Dime Piece" and "My Wife" for a planned album Stages, which was never released. Cannon married singer Mariah Carey on April 30, 2008.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Cannon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: San Diego, California, USA


Ely Pouget

biography: Ely Pouget was born on August 30, 1961 in New Jersey, USA as Elizabeth Pouget.

place_of_birth: New Jersey, USA


Michael Bailey Smith

biography:
Michael Bailey Smith is an American actor. He is best known for his appearances on the television series Charmed, where he played Belthazor, a Grimlock leader, and Shax. He also appeared in Men in Black II (2002) as Creepy, a minor antagonist.

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place_of_birth: Alpena, Michigan, USA


Rick Kavanian

biography:
Rick Kavanian, born Richard Horatio Kavanian on January 26, 1971, in Munich, is a German actor, comedian, writer, and voice actor. He grew up in an Armenian family that had emigrated from Bucharest to Munich. His collaboration with Michael Herbig began in 1990 with a radio show and led to numerous successful film comedies and parodies, such as *Der Schuh des Manitu* and *Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1*.

Rick is also known as a voice actor and has, among other roles, lent his voice to the German versions of Austin Powers and Marty from *Madagascar*.

place_of_birth: Munich, Germany


Nicholas D'Agosto

biography: Nicholas D'Agosto (born April 17, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the film Election (1999) and Final Destination 5 (2011), as well as his appearances in the television series Heroes, The Office, Masters of Sex, and Gotham.

place_of_birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA


Anne Bennent

biography: Anne Bennent is a Swiss stage and screen actress, chansoneuse and reader. She is actor David Bennent's big sister.

place_of_birth: Lausanne, Switzerland


Cameron Monaghan

biography:
Cameron Riley Monaghan (born August 16, 1993) is an American actor and model. The accolades he has received include nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

Monaghan is known for his roles as Ian Gallagher in the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless and as twins Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska, who serve as the Joker's origins on the DC Comics-based TV series Gotham. He also portrayed Cal Kestis in the action-adventure game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel Jedi: Survivor. Monaghan began his career as a child model at the age of three and as a child actor at the age of seven.

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place_of_birth: Santa Monica, California, USA


Marc Eyraud

biography:
Marc Eyraud (1 March 1924 – 15 February 2005) was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1995.

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place_of_birth: Saint-Étienne, Loire, France


Abbie Cornish

biography: Abigail "Abbie" Cornish (born 7 August 1982) is an Australian actress. Cornish is best known for her film roles as Heidi in Somersault (2004), Fanny Brawne in Bright Star (2009), Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch (2011), Lindy in Limitless (2011), Clara Murphy in RoboCop (2014), as Sarah in Geostorm (2017) and for her work with filmmaker Martin McDonagh in Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). For the latter, Cornish won her first Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast.

place_of_birth: Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia


Brian Eno

biography:
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.

Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting.   He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice".

Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.

place_of_birth: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK

known_for_department: Sound


Bigas Luna

biography: Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director. He began his professional career in the design world, creating the 'Estudio Gris' with Carlos Riart in 1969. In his earlier exhibitions, at the beginning of the sixties, he showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. Esteemed as an atypical director in the Spanish cinema, in 1986 he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting. In 1990 the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez persuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of 'Las edades de Lulú', a film which reached the general public. Without abandoning his dedication to painting and photography, reflected in numerous exhibitions, he began the well-known 'Trilogía Ibérica' with 'Jamón Jamón', 'Huevos de Oro' and 'La teta y la luna'. Subsequently, with the short film for internet 'Collar de Moscas' (2001), he revived his interest in avant-garde experimentation and audiovisual formats and at the same time he discovered a vocation for the investigation of digital cinema after the creation of the 'Taller Bigas Luna' project with Catalina Pons in 1999. The experience in the Taller introduced them to the world of new technologies and in 2002 they promoted PLATAFORM BL, dedicated to the creation and promotion of innovative projects and new talents. Despite being catalan, he is a lover of the aragonese culture. He re-designed an old folkloric cabaret café 'El Plata' in Zaragoza.

place_of_birth: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain


Wendy Schaal

biography:
Wendy Schaal (born July 2, 1954) is an American actress and voice actress, perhaps best known as the voice of Francine Smith on the television show American Dad!.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, she is the daughter of Lois (née Treacy) and the actor Richard Schaal, and the former stepdaughter of Valerie Harper.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Andrew Dominik

biography:
Andrew Dominik (born 7 October 1967) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper (2000) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Direction, the Western drama film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), the neo-noir crime film Killing Them Softly (2012), and the biographical psychological drama Blonde (2022). He has also directed the documentary film One More Time with Feeling (2016) and two episodes of the Netflix series Mindhunter in 2019.

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place_of_birth: Wellington, New Zealand


Eddie Redmayne

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Edward John David Redmayne OBE (born 6 January 1982) is an English actor and model. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award.

He began his professional acting career in West End theatre before making his screen debut in 1996 with guest television appearances. His first films were Like Minds (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). On the stage, Redmayne starred in the productions of Red from 2009 to 2010 and Richard II from 2011 to 2012. The former won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Redmayne's film breakthrough came with the roles of Colin Clark in the biographical drama My Week with Marilyn (2011) and Marius Pontmercy in Tom Hooper's musical Les Misérables (2012). He garnered consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014), and transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015), winning for the former. In 2016, he began starring as Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts film series.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Gertraud Jesserer

biography: Gertraud Jesserer is an Austrian stage and screen actress.

place_of_birth: Wien, Austria


Dana Elcar

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ibsen Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 - June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season.

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place_of_birth: Ferndale, Michigan United States


Éric Cantona

biography:
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born 24 May 1966) is a French actor and former French international footballer. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes and Leeds United before ending his professional footballing career at Manchester United, where he won four Premier League titles in five years and two League and FA Cup Doubles.

Cantona is often regarded as having played a key role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing force and he enjoys iconic status at the club. He wore the number 7 shirt at United, which was previously worn by George Best and Bryan Robson, and subsequently worn by David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo. Cantona is affectionately nicknamed by Manchester United fans "King Eric", and was voted as Manchester United's greatest ever player by Inside United magazine. Set against his footballing achievements was a poor disciplinary record throughout his career, including a conviction for assault on a fan in 1995.

Following his retirement from football, he took up a career in cinema and had a role in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, and the 2009 film Looking for Eric.

In 2010, he debuted as a stage actor in Face au paradis, a French play directed by his wife, Rachida Brakni.

On 19 January 2011, Cantona joined the revived New York Cosmos as Director of Soccer.

place_of_birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France


Eleanor Coppola

biography:
Eleanor Jessie Coppola (née Neil; May 4, 1936 – April 12, 2024) was an American documentary film director, screenwriter, and artist. She was married to director Francis Ford Coppola from 1963 until her death. She was best-known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children.

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place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Kristen Stewart

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Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress and filmmaker. The world's highest-paid actress in 2012, she has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a César Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Stewart first gained notice at age 12 for her role as the daughter of Jodie Foster's character in David Fincher's thriller Panic Room (2002), which earned her a Young Artist Award nomination. She subsequently starred in Speak (2004), Catch That Kid (2004), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and Into the Wild (2007). She went on to achieve global stardom for her role as Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series (2008–2012), which ranks among the highest-grossing film franchises; for the role, she was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010.

After starring in the fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Stewart eschewed roles in big-budget films in favor of independent productions in the years following. She took on roles in the dramas Camp X-Ray (2014) and Still Alice (2014), and the science fiction romance Equals (2016). In 2015, she garnered critical acclaim for her performance in Olivier Assayas' drama film Clouds of Sils Maria, which won her the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Stewart reunited with Assayas the following year in the supernatural thriller Personal Shopper (2016) and made her directorial debut with the short film Come Swim (2017). She returned to mainstream Hollywood with leading roles in the action film Charlie's Angels (2019) and the romantic comedy film Happiest Season (2020). Stewart's portrayal of Diana, Princess of Wales in Pablo Larraín's biographical drama Spencer (2021) earned her widespread critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.


Gregory Alan Williams

biography: Gregory Alan Williams (born June 12, 1956) is an American actor and author. He is best known for portraying LAPD Officer Garner Ellerbee in Baywatch. From 2011 until 2013, Williams portrayed the role of Coach Pat Purnell in the USA Network series Necessary Roughness.

place_of_birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA


Brad Anderson

biography: Brad Anderson (born 1964 in Madison, Connecticut) is an American film director. He has worked primarily in the thriller and horror genres, and is best known for directing "Session 9" (2001), starring Peter Mullan, "The Machinist" (2004), starring Christian Bale, and "The Call" (2013), starring Halle Berry.

place_of_birth: Madison, Connecticut, USA


Agata Buzek

biography: Agata Bronisława Buzek is a Polish actress and model. Agata, the daughter of Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland and President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, was born in Pyskowice in Gliwice County, Poland. At an early age she had poliomyelitis and was treated in Germany. Wikipedia

place_of_birth: Pyskowice, Poland


Cynthia Nixon

biography:
Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016).

Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole, the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes. Her other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt , Kade Prenall in NBC Hannibal Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix drama Ratched.

On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation. She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Kristin Davis

biography:
Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis; born February 23, 1965) is an American actress and producer. She is known for playing Charlotte York in the HBO romantic comedy series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She received nominations at the Emmys and the Golden Globes in 2004 for her role as Charlotte, and reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the revival of the show And Just Like That... (2021–2025) on HBO Max.

Davis's big break came in 1995, when she was cast as the villainous Brooke Armstrong in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1995–1996). Her film credits include The Shaggy Dog (2006), Deck the Halls (2006), Couples Retreat (2009), Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) and Holiday in the Wild (2019). Davis made her Broadway debut playing Mabel Cantwell in the 2012 revival of The Best Man, and her West End debut playing Beth Gallagher in the original 2014 stage production of Fatal Attraction.

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place_of_birth: Boulder, Colorado, USA


Chris Noth

biography:
Christopher David Noth (born November 13, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order (1990–1995), Big on Sex and the City (1998–2004), and Peter Florrick on The Good Wife (2009–2016). He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television for Sex and the City in 1999 and for The Good Wife in 2010.

He reprised his role of Mike Logan on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005–2008), and reprised his role of Big in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).  He starred in the first two seasons of the 2021 revival of The Equalizer, on CBS, and appeared in And Just Like That..., the revival of Sex and the City. His roles in both series were curtailed after the emergence of multiple sexual assault allegations against him in December 2021.

place_of_birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA


Vivian Matalon

biography: Vivian Matalon was a British theatre director. Born in Manchester, Matalon began his career as an actor in a series of forgettable British films, but his greatest success was as a director of West End, Broadway and regional theatre productions.

place_of_birth: Manchester, England, UK


Tang Wei

biography:
Tang Wei (simplified Chinese: 汤唯; traditional Chinese: 湯唯; pinyin: Tāng Wéi; Korean: 탕웨이; born 7 October 1979) is a Chinese actress. She rose to international fame for her role in Golden Lion-winning Lust, Caution (2007) by Ang Lee, for which she was banned by the Chinese government due to the explicit sexual nature of her performance, until her comeback in Crossing Hennessy in 2010. She gained further acclaim for her performances in Late Autumn (2010), Finding Mr. Right (2013), The Golden Era (2014), Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), Decision to Leave (2022), and Wonderland (2024).

Tang is the first and only non-Korean to be honoured as the Best Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards (twice), Blue Dragon Film Awards, Chunsa Film Art Awards and Buil Film Awards. She is also the first Asian actor to have won the Trophée Chopard, which she received at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Tang ranked 72nd on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2008, 70th in 2013, 38th in 2014, and 55th in 2015.

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place_of_birth: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China


John Corbett

biography: John Joseph Corbett, Jr. (born May 9, 1961) is an American actor and country music singer. He is best-known for playing Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995 and Aidan, Carrie Bradshaw's boyfriend, on Sex and the City. He also played the leading male role opposite Nia Vardalos in Vardalos's hit film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002).

place_of_birth: Wheeling, West Virginia, USA


Paris Hilton

biography:
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels). Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood best friend Nicole Richie. She is also known for her 2004 tongue-in-cheek autobiography, several minor film roles (most notably her role in the horror film House of Wax in 2005), her 2006 music album Paris, and her work in modeling.

As a result of several legal incidents, Hilton served a widely publicized sentence in a Los Angeles County jail in 2007. She is an example of the modern phenomenon of the 'celebutante', the celebrity who rises to fame not because of their talent or work but because of their inherited wealth and controversial lifestyle.


Christopher Lambert

biography:
Christophe Guy Denis "Christopher" Lambert (born 29 March 1957) is an American-born French actor who has appeared in American, as well as French and other European productions. He is best known for his role as Connor MacLeod, or simply "The Highlander", from the movie and subsequent movie franchise series of the same name. He is also known for his roles as Tarzan in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and as the thunder god Raiden in the first movie adaptation of the video game Mortal Kombat. He is credited internationally as Christopher Lambert, with the exceptions of French-speaking countries, where he is known as Christophe Lambert.

Lambert was married to Diane Lane from October 1988 to 1994. They have a daughter, Eleanor Jasmine. He married Jaiymse Haft on 6 February 1999. Since 2007, Lambert has been in a relationship with Sophie Marceau, with whom he appeared in La disparue de Deauville. They married in 2012.

Lambert has profound myopia and cannot see without his glasses. Because he cannot wear contact lenses, he is often forced to act while virtually blind. This has led to injuries while performing his own stunts without glasses. His myopia is often credited as being part of his appeal, by giving his stare a peculiar charm.

Lambert is also sole owner of Lamb Bear Productions, the name of the company is a play on his name "pronounced Lamb-bear".

place_of_birth: Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA


Kelly Brook

biography: Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons; 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.

place_of_birth: Rochester, Kent, UK


Rachael Leigh Cook

biography:
Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress, model, voice artist, and producer. She  is best known for her starring film roles as Laney Boggs in She's All That (1999), Doreen Carter in Get Carter (2000), Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats (2001), as well as TV roles as Kate Moretti on Perception, and Clara Wheeler on Into the West.

She had recurring roles as Penny Posin on Las Vegas, Abigail Lytar on Psych, and the voice of Lt. Jodi Yanarelli on Titan Maximum. She is also the voice behind various characters in Robot Chicken and Tifa Lockhart in the English version of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

She has produced and starred in multiple TV movies.

She first appeared in a public service announcement for foster care at seven years of age, and began working as a child print model at the age of 10, most notably in nationwide advertisements for Target and appearing on the boxes of Milk-Bone dog biscuits.  She married actor Daniel Gillies in August 2004, after less than a year of dating. They have one daughter, Charlotte Easton Gillies, born in September 2013.

place_of_birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


David Krumholtz

biography:
David Krumholtz (born May 15, 1978) is an American actor. Krumholtz is best known for portraying Bernard in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–present), Michael Eckman in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Goldstein in the Harold & Kumar film trilogy (2004–2011), Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs (2005–2010), and Isidor Isaac Rabi in Oppenheimer (2023).

Krumholtz has also had other supporting roles in notable films such as Addams Family Values (1993), The Ice Storm (1997), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Ray (2004), Serenity (2005), Superbad (2007), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Sausage Party (2016), Wonder Wheel (2017), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). He also portrayed Harvey Wasserman in the HBO drama series The Deuce (2017–2019) and Monty Levin in the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America (2020).

Krumholtz made his Broadway debut in the 1992 play Conversations with My Father. He returned to Broadway playing Hermann Merz in Tom Stoppard's semi-biographical Holocaust play Leopoldstadt (2022), for which he received a Drama League Award nomination.

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


Sabrina Siani

biography: Sabrina Siani is an Italian actress whose career began shortly after winning a beauty contest as a teenager. She swiftly found a modicum of success acting as leading ladies in several Spanish and Italian exploitation films by the likes of Jess Franco, Joe D'Amato, and Umberto Lenzi. Often criticized for her lack of acting, she apparently had few qualms about appearing nude and managed to get some leading roles anyway. She may be best remembered for her career-best performance as the villain "Okron" in CONQUEST in which she wears little more than a gold mask and a G-string throughout.

place_of_birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy


Tania Raymonde

biography:
Tania Raymonde (born March 22, 1988, height 5' 5¼" (1,66 m)) is an American actress. Raymonde's first prominent casting role was the recurring character of Cynthia Sanders in TV series Malcolm in the Middle between 2000–2003, followed by her role as Alex Rousseau in ABC's Lost from 2006 to 2010. She appeared in the Lionsgate feature film Texas Chainsaw 3D, which was released in January 2013.

Life and career:

Raymonde was born in Los Angeles, California. In 2002, she starred in the film Children on Their Birthdays and in 2003 she played Lauren O'Keefe in the sitcom The O'Keefes. Over the years she has appeared on several TV series including Providence, The Brothers Garcia, The Nightmare Room, That's So Raven, The Guardian, Lost, Medium, Malcolm in the Middle, and NCIS.

Her biggest role to date is her recurring role on the television drama Lost, where she played Alex Rousseau, the adopted daughter of Benjamin Linus, played by Michael Emerson.

She also appeared in the films The Garage (2006), The Other Side of the Tracks (2008), Japan (2008), Chasing 3000 (2008), and Elsewhere (2009). She also guest-starred in one episode of The Cleaner, and in one episode of CSI: NY. She had a recurring role as a lab technician on season 6 of Cold Case.

In 2006, she wrote, edited and directed the short film Cell Division. The film has won one of the three certificates of merit awards at The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

She has appeared in the music videos for Maroon 5's "Won't Go Home Without You" in 2007, Cursive's "I Couldn't Love You" in 2009, and Arshad Aslam's "Red Alert" in 2012.

She is working on her first feature as a director—a crime thriller she wrote set in Orange County called Little Saigon.

In 2013, Raymonde was cast in Chicago PD, a spin-off of the NBC series Chicago Fire. The series is currently scheduled as a mid-season replacement.

In 2013, Raymonde received positive reviews from critics when she portrayed convicted murderer Jodi Arias in the Lifetime original movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret.


Juraj Kukura

place_of_birth: Presov, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]


Simon Stone

biography: Simon Stone is a Swiss-born Australian actor, director and writer who works in film and theatre.

place_of_birth: Basel, Switzerland


Arnaud Desplechin

biography:
Arnaud Desplechin (French: [aʁno depləʃɛ̃]; born 31 October 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter.

Most known for his Esther Kahn (2000), Kings and Queen (2004), A Christmas Tale (2008) and his My Golden Days (2015) which won the César Award for Best Director.

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place_of_birth: Roubaix, France


Jim Sturgess

biography: James Anthony Sturgess (born 16 May 1978) is an English actor and singer-songwriter. His first major role was as Jude in the musical romance drama film Across the Universe (2007). In 2008, he played the male lead role of Ben Campbell in 21. In 2009, he played Gavin Kossef in the crime drama Crossing Over, appearing with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd. In 2010, Sturgess starred in the film The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir. Sturgess co-starred in the 2012 epic science fiction film Cloud Atlas.

place_of_birth: Wandsworth, London, England, UK


Reg E. Cathey

biography:
Reginald Eurias Cathey (August 18, 1958 – February 9, 2018) was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles as Norman Wilson in The Wire, Martin Querns in Oz, the game show announcer in Square One Television, Dr. Franklin Storm in the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four, and Freddy Hayes in House of Cards, the last earning him three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, including a win in 2015.

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place_of_birth: Huntsville, Alabama, USA


Elsa Zylberstein

biography:
Elsa Zylberstein (born 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long (2008).

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place_of_birth: Paris, France


Keir O'Donnell

biography: Keir O'Donnell (born November 8, 1978) is an Australian actor best known for his roles in the films Wedding Crashers and Paul Blart Mall Cop. He also had guest appearances in episodes of the television series Lost, CSI, and The Closer.

place_of_birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Margarethe von Trotta

biography:
Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement.

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place_of_birth: Berlin, Germany


Amy Ryan

biography:
Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski (born May 3, 1968), known professionally as Amy Ryan, is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone (2007) and is also known for her roles in the HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell; In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse; and The Office, playing human resources representative Holly Flax.

Ryan was born in Queens, New York City. She is the daughter of Pam, a nurse, and John, a trucking business owner. Ryan is her mother's maiden name. She is of English, Irish, and Polish descent. Growing up in the 1970s, Ryan and her sister delivered the Daily News by bike. At a young age, Ryan attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. At 17, she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts. Hired for the national tour of Biloxi Blues right out of high school, Ryan worked steadily off-Broadway for the next decade.


Michael Kenneth Williams

biography: Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021) was an American actor. He played Omar Little on the HBO drama series The Wire from 2002 to 2008 and Albert "Chalky" White on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2014. Williams was raised in the Vanderveer Projects in East Flatbush, Brooklyn and attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School. Later, Williams enrolled at the National Black Theatre in New York City.

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


Edi Gathegi

biography:
Edi Mūe Gathegi (born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan-American actor. He appeared as a recurring character, Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love"), in the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, as Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. Gathegi also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands as Baron Jacobee. He has also been a recurring character in the NBC television series The Blacklist as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi reprised the role in the 2016–2017 season crime thriller, The Blacklist: Redemption. He has also played a leading role in Startup, a television drama series on Crackle. Since 2022, Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. He is set to play the role of Mister Terrific in James Gunn's film Superman (2025).

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place_of_birth: Nairobi, Kenya


Hayley Atwell

biography:
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is a British and American actress. After appearing in various West End productions, Atwell gained popularity for her roles in period dramas, appearing in the films Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Duchess (2008) and the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010); for the latter two, she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and a Golden Globe Award respectively.

She rose to prominence with her portrayal of Agent Peggy Carter in several Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, starting with Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which inspired the creation of the spin-off ABC television series Agent Carter (2015–2016). Atwell also starred in the fantasy films Cinderella (2015), Christopher Robin (2018) and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) and had a leading role in the action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Atwell has received Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her work on stage for her leading performances in The Pride (2013) and Rosmersholm (2020).

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Tamara Taylor

biography:
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Tamara Taylor (born September 27, 1970, height 5' 6½" (1,69 m)) is a Canadian television actress.

Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a Scottish Canadian mother, her most famous role is that of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, on the forensic crime drama Bones. She also appeared in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs as Della and the UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in the role of Nina, both of which were short-lived.

Taylor has made guest appearances on NCIS, Numb3rs, Lost, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Party of Five and Dawson's Creek. She portrayed Debrah Simmons in the 2005 romantic-comedy Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Taylor also had a brief role in Serenity, the movie conclusion of the TV series Firefly by Joss Whedon. Through her part in Serenity, Taylor was able to audition for a show with actor David Boreanaz, who had previously worked with Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. She also appeared in the TV series Lost, as the former girlfriend of Michael and mother of Walt.

She first appeared in Bones in the first episode of the second season, "The Titan On The Tracks," portraying the character Dr. Camille Saroyan. In the first six episodes of the season, she was credited as "Guest Starring" because creator and writer Hart Hanson had planned to kill her in episode six when Howard Epps, a recurring serial killer, poisoned her in order to create more tension and drama between the two main characters. However, the response to Cam was so strong that the writers offered her a position as a recurring regular in the show. Thus, in episode 7, "The Girl With The Curl," she was credited as a main character of the series and appeared in the title sequence.

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Nelly Kaplan

biography: Born in Argentina to a Russian Jewish family, Nelly Kaplan relocated to Paris at age seventeen, where she became an assistant to legendary director Abel Gance before directing her first feature, the caustic revenge comedy A Very Curious Girl. Transgressive, satirical, and surreal, Kaplan's films are defined by their proactive female protagonists.

place_of_birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina


Garret Dillahunt

biography:
Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead. He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Burn Notice, Justified, and The Mindy Project. He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).

In films, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave.

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place_of_birth: Castro Valley, California, USA


Stephen Hawking

biography: Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

place_of_birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK


Yvonne Mitchell

biography: Yvonne Mitchell (July 7, 1915 – March 24, 1979) was an English actress of film and theatre, as well as an author and playwright.


Hugh O'Brian

biography: Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe) was a prominent American actor and humanitarian best known for starring as the legendary frontier lawman in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp from 1955 to 1961 and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973), as well as films, including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1965) and a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976).  Known for his athletic, square-jawed build and quick-draw skills, he became one of television's definitive early Western heroes. Beyond acting, he left a massive global legacy as the founder of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation (HOBY), a nonprofit organization that has trained over 500,000 high school scholars in leadership and service.

place_of_birth: Rochester, New York, USA


Peter Collinson

biography:
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Peter Collinson (1 April 1936 – 16 December 1980) was a British film director probably best known for directing the 1969 movie The Italian Job.

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place_of_birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK


Frank Stallone Jr.

biography: Frank Stallone Jr. is an American actor and musician. He is the younger brother of actor Sylvester Stallone and has written music for Sylvester's movies. His song "Far from Over" appeared in the 1983 film Staying Alive and was included on the film's soundtrack album.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Stanislav Govorukhin

biography: Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin (Russian: Станислав Сергеевич Говорухин; 29 March 1936 – 14 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was named People's Artist of Russia in 2006. His movies often featured detective or adventure plots.

place_of_birth: Berezneki, Permskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR


Mischa Auer

biography: Mischa Auer was a Russian-born American stage, screen, and television actor, in films from 1928.

place_of_birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]


Vlad Ivanov

biography: Vlad Ivanov (born, 25 June 1969 in Botoșani) is an Romanian actor of Lipovan origin.

place_of_birth: Botosani, Romania


Michael Cera

biography:
Michael Austin Cera (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, voicing the character of Brother Bear on the children’s television show The Berenstain Bears and portraying a young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

He has had numerous roles in United States television and film productions, including character George Michael Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and for his film roles as Evan in Superbad (2007), Paulie Bleeker in Juno (2007), Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and a fictional version of himself in This Is the End (2013). He voiced Dick Grayson/Robin in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry (a deformed sausage) in Sausage Party (2016), and Sal Viscuso, the voice behind the announcements in Childrens Hospital.

Cera made his Broadway debut in the 2014 production of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth. For his performance in the 2018 production of Lonergan's Lobby Hero, Cera was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Cera starred in the revival of Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery.

In addition to acting, Cera is a musician, having released his debut album True That in 2014. Cera has also performed as the touring bassist for indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly.

place_of_birth: Brampton, Ontario, Canada


Matt Frewer

biography: Matt Frewer is an American Canadian singer, comedian, film and television actor, best known for creating television icon Max Headroom. He is a graduate in Acting from the Bristol Old Vic Drama School, Bristol, England, UK.

place_of_birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA


Josh Stewart

biography: Joshua Regnall Stewart (born February 6, 1977) is an American actor best known for his role as Holt McLaren in the FX TV series Dirt. He was also cast as Brendan Finney in the final season of the NBC TV series Third Watch.

place_of_birth: Diana, West Virginia, USA


Lea DeLaria

biography: Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. She portrayed Carrie "Big Boo" Black on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black and Psychic Madame Delphina on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live from 1999 to 2011.

place_of_birth: Belleville, Illinois, USA


Art Carney

biography:
Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor and comedian. A recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and six Primetime Emmy Awards, he was best known for his role as Ed Norton on the sitcom The Honeymooners (1955–1956).

His film roles include Harry and Tonto (1974), The Late Show (1977), House Calls (1978), Going in Style (1979), Firestarter, The Muppets Take Manhattan (both 1984), and Last Action Hero (1993).

place_of_birth: Mount Vernon, New York, USA


Joe Carnahan

biography: Joseph Aaron "Joe" Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his films Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, Narc, Smokin' Aces and The A-Team. He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan.

place_of_birth: Sacramento, California, USA


Otar Ioseliani

biography: Otar Ioseliani (Georgian: ოთარ იოსელიანი otar ioseliani; 2 February 1934 – 17 December 2023) was a Georgian film director, known for movies such as Falling Leaves, Pastorale and Favorites of the Moon. Ioseliani received a lifetime achievement honor – the CineMerit Award at the Munich International Film Festival in 2011 for his career accomplishments.

place_of_birth: Tbilisi, Georgia


Susumu Hirasawa

biography: Susumu Hirasawa (born April 2, 1954) is a Japanese Music Composer, well known internationally for his work on Berserk (1997) and several of Satoshi Kon's anime. Susumu Hirasawa started to make music in elementary school, picking up the Electric Guitar. He got involved with progressive rock band, Mandrake, in 1973. Mandrake was later rebranded to P-Model to fit in with music trends in Japan at the time. In Japan, Susumu Hirasawa is recognized mostly for his work in P-Model. Susumu Hirasawa started his solo career in 1989. Manga author Kentaro Miura, a fan of Susumu Hirasawa, requested him to help compose the 1997 Berserk anime.

place_of_birth: Adachi, Tokyo, Japan


Bernadette Peters

biography:
Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children's book author. Over a career spanning five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings. She is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received seven nominations for Tony Awards, winning two (plus an honorary award), and nine nominations for Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.

Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works of Stephen Sondheim, Peters is particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage, including in the musicals Mack and Mabel (1974), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Song and Dance (1985), Into the Woods (1987), The Goodbye Girl (1993), Annie Get Your Gun (1999), Gypsy (2003), A Little Night Music (2010), Follies (2011), and Hello, Dolly! (2018).

Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenaged actress in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films including Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. Peters continues to act on stage, in films and on television in such series as Smash and Mozart in the Jungle. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once.

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


Kristen Bell

biography:
Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress and singer. Her work includes both film and television, and her accolades include two Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards. In 2025, Time included her in their selection of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Bell began her acting career starring in stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She made her Broadway stage debut as Becky Thatcher in the comedy musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001). She appeared in a Broadway revival of The Crucible (2002). She then appeared in the action film Spartan (2004). She received praise for her performance in the television drama film Gracie's Choice (2004).

Bell had her breakout performance as the title character in the television series Veronica Mars (2004–2007), a role she reprised in the 2014 spin-off film and the 2019 revival. She also starred as Elle Bishop in the superhero drama series Heroes(2007–2008), voiced the titular narrator in the teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and its 2021 standalone sequel, and starred in the Showtime comedy series House of Lies (2012–2016). She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her leading roles in the NBC comedy series The Good Place (2016–2020) and the Netflix romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This (2024); the latter also earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series.

During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell starred in the television musical film Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005) and the horror film Pulse (2006). She has since appeared in several comedy films, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), When in Rome (2010), You Again (2010), Burlesque (2010), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Stuck in Love (2012), The Lifeguard (2013), The Boss (2016), Bad Moms (2016), A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), How to Be a Latin Lover (2017), CHiPs (2017), Like Father (2018), Queenpins (2021), The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022), and Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023). She received further recognition for voicing Princess Anna in the Disney animated films Frozen (2013) and Frozen 2 (2019). She is also the voice of Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (2027).

place_of_birth: Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA


Maren Ade

biography:
Maren Ade began studying at the HFF Munich  in 1998 majoring in Production and Media Economics and then changed to the Film and Television Department in 2000 at the HFF Munich. In 2001 she founded the film production company Komplizen Film with Janine Jackowski and together they produced Maren Ade’s film The Forest for the Trees (2003). The film received several honours, including the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. During that same year it was nominated for the German Film Prize. Her second film Everyone Else (2009) was first shown in competition at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 2009 and received the Silver Bear as Best Film (the Grand Jury Award).  Her third feature film Toni Erdmann (2016) had its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and received the Fipresci Award. The film went on to play at many international festivals and won numerous awards.

Maren Ade doesn’t only produce her own films, but also works as a producer for other films, like Tabu (2012) and Una Mujer Fantástica (2017).

place_of_birth: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany [now Germany]


Chris O'Dowd

biography:
Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids (2011), Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired from 2012 to 2015 and brought him Irish Film and Television Award nominations for acting, writing and directing.

Since 2017, he has appeared as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty. He had a recurring role in the comedy-drama series Girls. His performance in the British comedy TV series State of the Union won him a Primetime Emmy Award. He made his Broadway debut in the play adaptation of Of Mice and Men in 2014, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2020, he was listed as #39 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

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place_of_birth: Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland


Alexander Knox

biography:
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Alexander Knox (January 16, 1907 – April 25, 1995) was a Canadian actor and author of adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century.

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place_of_birth: Strathroy, Ontario, Canada


Héctor Babenco

biography: Héctor Eduardo Babenco (born in Buenos Aires but raised in Mar del Plata) was an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.

place_of_birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina


Stephen Young

biography: Stephen Young is a retired Canadian actor known for Judd for the Defense (1967-1969), and his numerous guest roles on television. He worked mostly as a character actor and had supporting roles in the films Patton (1970), Soylent Green (1973), and The Silent Partner (1978).

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Billie Cook

biography: Billie Cook is an English actress, known for V for Vendetta, Vera Drake, and In Defence.

place_of_birth: England, UK


Madeleine Rakic-Platt

biography: Maddie Rakic-Platt is perhaps best known for playing the young Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta (2005). She is the younger sister of actress Abby Rakic-Platt. Maddie played Olga Dracula in series 2 of Young Dracula.

place_of_birth: Hackney, London, England


David Leitch

biography:
David Leitch (/liːtʃ/; born November 16, 1975) is an American filmmaker, stunt performer, coordinator, and actor. He made his directorial debut in the action film John Wick (2014) with Chad Stahelski, though only Stahelski was credited. He later also directed the films Atomic Blonde (2017), Deadpool 2 (2018), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), Bullet Train (2022), and The Fall Guy (2024).

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place_of_birth: Kohler, Wisconsin, USA


Joe Swanberg

biography: Joe Swanberg (born August 31, 1981) is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor. Known for micro-budget films which make extensive use of improvisation, Swanberg is considered a major figure in the mumblecore film movement. His films often focus on relationships, sex, technology, and the filmmaking process, and include V/H/S (2012), Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Win It All (2017), Digging For Fire (2015), and Nights and Weekends (2008), the last of which was co-directed by Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig.

place_of_birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA


Mark Rylance

biography:
Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960 in Ashford, Kent, England) is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright.

He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, between 1995 and 2005. His film appearances include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001). Rylance won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015). Rylance played the title role in Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the children's book by Roald Dahl, and appeared in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017), based on the British evacuation in World War II. He appeared as James Halliday in Spielberg's 2018 film Ready Player One, based on the novel of the same name.

place_of_birth: Ashford, Kent, England, UK


Larisa Oleynik

biography:
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Larisa Romanovna Oleynik ( born June 7, 1981) is an American actress. She came to fame in the mid-1990s, after starring in the title role of the popular television series, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and has also appeared in theatrical films, including The Baby-Sitters Club and 10 Things I Hate About You. Throughout the 2000s, she has mostly appeared in lower-budget films. During her period as a teen idol, Oleynik was described as "one of America's favorite 15-year-olds" and "the proverbial girl next door"

place_of_birth: Santa Clara County, California, USA


Andrew Keegan

biography: Andrew Keegan (born January 29, 1979) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his role in 10 Things I Hate About You.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Judd Apatow

biography:
Judd Apatow (/ˈæpətaʊ/; born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian known for his work in comedy films. Apatow is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he wrote, produced, and directed his films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020), and The Bubble (2022).

Through his company, Apatow produced and developed the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Undeclared (2001–2002), Funny or Die Presents (2010–2011), Girls (2012–2017), Love (2016–2018), and Crashing (2017–2019). He also produced the films The Cable Guy (1996), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall(2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Begin Again (2013), and The Big Sick (2017).

Throughout his career, Apatow has received nominations for 11 Primetime Emmy Awards(three wins), five Writers Guild of America Awards (one win), two Producers Guild of America Awards, one Golden Globe Award, and one Grammy Award.

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


Ivan Dykhovichnyy

biography: Ivan V. Dykhovichny (October 16, 1947 — September 27, 2009) was Soviet and Russian actor, Director, screenwriter and producer.

place_of_birth: Moscow, USSR


Leslie Mann

biography: Leslie Jean Mann (born March 26, 1972) is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films, including The Cable Guy (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), Big Daddy (1999), Knocked Up (2007), 17 Again (2009), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Blockers (2018) and Croods: A New Age (2020).

place_of_birth: San Francisco, California, USA


Maude Apatow

biography:
Maude Annabelle Apatow Mann (born December 15, 1997) is an American actress. She gained recognition for starring as Lexi Howard in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–2026).

She is the eldest daughter of filmmaker Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann. Apatow began her career playing the daughter of her mother's characters in her father's films Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), and This Is 40 (2012).

Apatow gained further recognition for her roles in the films Other People (2016), The House of Tomorrow (2017), Assassination Nation (2018), and The King of Staten Island (2020) and the Netflix miniseries Hollywood (2020).


Cyd Charisse

biography: Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually featured her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut.

place_of_birth: Amarillo, Texas, USA


Judy Geeson

biography:
Judith Amanda "Judy" Geeson (born 10 September 1948) is an English film, stage, and television actress. Her first major film appearance was as wayward teenager Pamela Dare in To Sir, with Love in 1967 alongside Sidney Poitier and popular singer Lulu. In the same year, she appeared in Berserk!. She became well-known as a result of a regular role in the BBC early-evening soap opera, The Newcomers. She also had a major role in the popular 1970s costume drama Poldark as Caroline Penvenen Enys.

Her other notable films include Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), Prudence and the Pill, 10 Rillington Place, Doomwatch and Brannigan. In the TV series Danger UXB, she played the female lead, Susan Mount, opposite Anthony Andrews and had the lead role of Fulvia in Sci-Fi series Star Maidens.

In 1984, Geeson left London for Los Angeles where she decided to stay. Among other roles she appeared regularly on hit US sitcom Mad About You as the neighbour from Hell, Maggie Conway. She also had a recurring role as Sandrine on Star Trek Voyager episodes "Twisted" and "The Cloud".

Having always had an interest in antiques, for ten years she ran her own antique store, Blanche & Co, on West 3rd Street in Beverly Hills, in addition accepting occasional acting roles. The store closed in December, 2009.

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place_of_birth: Arundel, Sussex, England, UK


Laraine Day

biography:
Laraine Day, born La Raine Johnson, was a major movie star of the 1940s and '50s. Raised in Utah as part of a prominent Mormon family, she came to Hollywood as a young woman, and made her film debut with an uncredited role in Stella Dallas. Before she was famous she also played the birth-mother of Tarzan and Jane's adopted son "Boy" in Tarzan Finds a Son. Her break came in 1939, with the wildly popular "Dr Kildare" sequels. Day played Kildare's nurse and love interest in the third through ninth Kildare movies, until her character married the doctor in Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day. As Mrs Kildare, she was written out of the next, and last, Kildare feature.

In 1942, she starred with Ayres again in the underrated axe murder melodrama Fingers at the Window. Over subsequent decades, her memorable films included the flashback-within-flashback-within-flashback drama The Locket, the gangster comedy Mr Lucky, and the campy paranoia piece I Married A Communist. She was among the all-star passengers in the overwrought airliner-in-peril drama The High and the Mighty, and in Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent it was Day who encouraged Joel McCrea to give his stirring report of the air raid at the film's climax Hitchcock's thinly-veiled plea for America to enter World War II.  When television became a viable income source, Day found the small screen more inviting and less time-consuming than making movies, and she became primarily a TV actress. She had a 15-minute series of uplifting vignettes called Daydreaming with Laraine, and another 15-minute daily celebrity chat show called The Laraine Day Show. Married to New York Giants manager Leo Durocher, Day became one of TV's first female sports reporters when she hosted Day with the Giants, an early 1950s baseball talk show with Giants' players that aired on New York City's Channel 11.  Her last film was a low-budget thriller, The Third Voice, in 1960, but she continued taking occasional guest roles on TV series Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, etc. through the mid-1980s. Following her retierment she spent the remainder of her life active in the Mormon church, Republican politics, and various charity related work. Upon the death of her third husband Michael Grilikhes in March 2007 she moved back to her native Utah where she died that November at age 87. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, CA.

place_of_birth: Roosevelt, Utah, USA


Mark Lindsay Chapman

biography:
Mark Lindsay Chapman (born 8 September 1954 in London) is an English film and television actor.

His credits include: Max Headroom, Dallas (as Brett Lomax), Falcon Crest (as Charley St. James), Baywatch, Murder She Wrote, Lois and Clark, JAG, Charmed, Roland Burke in The Young and the Restless, Dr. Anton Arcane (1990–1993) in Swamp Thing, and Nick Hopewell in The Langoliers.

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Ami Dolenz

biography:
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Ami Dolenz (born January 8, 1969) is an American television and film actress and producer.

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place_of_birth: Burbank, California, USA


Scott Mechlowicz

biography:
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Scott David Mechlowicz (born January 17, 1981) is an American actor. He began his professional acting career at age 20, working in commercials and television, and is best known for his lead roles in the films EuroTrip, Mean Creek, Peaceful Warrior, Gone, Waiting for Forever, Undocumented, and Cat Run.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Babak Karimi

biography: Babak Karimi (Persian: بابک کریمی, born 1960) is an Iranian actor. For his role in A Separation, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor (as part of ensemble) at 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

place_of_birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia


Georgina Chapman

biography:
Georgina Rose Chapman (born 14 April 1976) is an English fashion designer and actress. Together with Keren Craig, she is a co-founder of the fashion label Marchesa.

Chapman was born in London, England, the daughter of Caroline Wonfor, a journalist, and Brian Chapman, a co-owner of the coffee company Percol. Chapman grew up in Richmond, southwest London. Chapman attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire. In her 20s, Chapman model-led in an advertisement for Head & Shoulders, a dandruff shampoo, and one for throat lozenges Soothers. Chapman met future business partner Keren Craig while they were students at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Chapman graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 2001 and began her career as a costume designer. After graduation, Chapman appeared in various television shows and films.


Melissa Sagemiller

biography:
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Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974, height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is an American television and film actress.

Sagemiller was born in Washington, D.C. to a political activist mother and a professional American football player father, who played in the NFL for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. She attended Georgetown Day School. Her entry into the performing arts was at age 3 when she began studying tap dance, ballet, jazz dance and modern dance. She made her stage debut in To Kill a Mockingbird when she was 9 years old, and soon after she became a regular on her local stage. At 14, however, acting took a backseat to modeling after Sagemiller was scouted by Eileen Ford in a jewelry shop. She eventually left modeling to take an undergraduate degree in Art History at the University of Virginia.

Shortly after graduation, she decided to return to acting full-time, and studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, New York University's Stonestreet Studio and at Michael Howard Studios. Sagemiller appeared in Movieline magazine in August 2001. In November 2001, Sagemiller appeared in Gear magazine. In early career, she starred on number of teen films, like Get Over It and Sorority Boys, and was lead actress in 2002 box office bomb thriller Soul Survivors.

On television, Sagemiller portrayed the character Michelle Ernhardt in the TNT series Raising the Bar from 2008 to 2009. After that series was cancelled, Sagemiller joined Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in a recurring role as ADA Gillian Hardwicke. She replaced Paula Patton when Patton departed the series after just one episode. Sagemiller was featured in ten episodes of the 12th season of SVU. She was replaced in the 13th season by Stephanie March and Diane Neal. In 2013, she was cast as female lead on Chicago Fire spinoff Chicago PD,but later left from show.

place_of_birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA


Kenneth Choi

biography:
Kenneth Choi (born October 20, 1971) is an American actor. He is known for playing Henry Lin on the television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), Chester Ming in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Judge Lance Ito in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016). He is also known for his roles as Jim Morita and Principal Morita in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), respectively, and Lewis on the Fox comedy series The Last Man on Earth (2016–2017). Since 2018, he has starred in the Fox drama series 9-1-1, playing LAFD firefighter Howie "Chimney" Han.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Tovah Feldshuh

biography: Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh is an American actress, singer, and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for fifty years, earning four Tony Award nominations. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for Holocaust and Law & Order, and appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She's Funny That Way, and Kissing Jessica Stein. In 2015–2016, she played the role of Deanna Monroe on AMC's television adaptation of The Walking Dead.


Rebecca Miller

biography:
Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American filmmaker and novelist. She is known for her films Angela (1995), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002), The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), and Maggie's Plan (2015), all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly. Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Personal Velocity and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for Angela.

Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife, Inge Morath, a Magnum photographer.

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place_of_birth: Roxbury, Connecticut, USA


Manny Coto

biography:
Manuel Hector "Manny" Coto was an American writer, director and producer of films and television programs.

Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has experience in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. In 1990, Brian Helgeland and Coto sold a script, The Ticking Man, for $1 million, but the film was never made.

He wrote and directed an episode of Tales from the Crypt and also wrote an episode for and produced The Outer Limits when it was revived on Showtime in 1995.

He was given the chance to create and write a series for Showtime after The Outer Limits was cancelled. The resulting series was Odyssey 5 and starred Peter Weller.

Coto was the executive producer and showrunner of Star Trek: Enterprise in its final season, and executive producer of four seasons of 24. He was an executive producer and writer for the fifth season of the Showtime TV series Dexter.

Coto also was the Executive Producer of American Horror Story and American Horror Stories, having written numerous episodes of both series.

place_of_birth: Havanna, Cuba


Michelle Forbes

biography: Michelle Forbes (born January 8, 1965) is an American film and television actress, best known for many recurring appearances on genre and drama television shows such as "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Battlestar Galactica", "24", "Prison Break", and "True Blood".

place_of_birth: Austin, Texas, USA


Max Thieriot

biography:
Maximillion Drake Thieriot (born October 14, 1988) is an American actor. He began his career with roles in many family films including Catch That Kid (2004) with Kristen Stewart, The Pacifier (2005) with Vin Diesel, and Nancy Drew (2007) with Emma Roberts. In 2009, he co-starred in the erotic thriller Chloe alongside Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried. In 2012, he starred in the horror film House at the End of the Street, alongside Jennifer Lawrence.

From 2013 to 2017, Thieriot starred as Dylan Massett in A&E's horror drama series Bates Motel, a contemporary-set prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Afterwards, he was a regular in the first five seasons of the CBS drama SEAL Team. In 2022, he joined the main cast of the Netflix series Fire Country.

place_of_birth: Los Altos Hills, California, USA


Barrett Blade

biography:
Barrett Blade, (born March 11, 1973) is a pornographic actor and director. Barrett was married to porn actress Kirsten Price on October 9, 2004, but the couple has since divorced.

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place_of_birth: California, USA


Monica Mayhem

biography:
Monica Mayhem was born in 1978 and raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is half Australian and half Welsh. She attended Kenmore State High School but was expelled and moved to Sydney alone when she was 16 to pursue a career in modeling and acting. She ended up in the world of finance instead and before long she was involved in the foreign exchange and futures trading markets. She left Australia to travel around Europe, then moved to London, where she worked in the IPE brokerage division of the renowned firm of Salomon-Smith-Barney. Tired of the dry and boring financial world, she was looking for a little excitement when she ran across an ad for "glamor" models. She wound up doing some softcore photo shoots in London and then decided to try exotic dancing and managed to land a gig at the world-famous Spearmint Rhino club in London.

In December 2000 she spontaneously decided to leave London and jumped on a plane to the US (allegedly on a dare) to begin acting in pornographic films.  In 2002, she won the XRCO Award for Starlet of the Year and the FOXE Award for "Vixen of the Year". In August 2010, she announced that she had retired from pornographic acting, after over 400 films, and that she was engaged to a Sydney veterinarian.

place_of_birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia


Greg P. Russell

biography:
Greg P. Russell is an American re-recording mixer. He is a 16-time Academy Award-nominated post-production sound mixer who has worked in the film industry for more than 40 years, contributing to over 235 feature films. He had been the individual with the most Oscar nominations without a single win, with 16 nominations, before songwriter Diane Warren received her 17th nomination in 2026. He received Oscar nominations for his work on Black Rain, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, The Mask of Zorro, The Patriot, Pearl Harbor, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, Apocalypto, Transformers 1, 2 & 3, Salt and Skyfall. Other nominations include 12 CAS awards, 2 BAFTAs, and 2 Emmys, with a Daytime Emmy Award win in 1989.

Other notable credits include The Usual Suspects, Stargate, National Treasure, 13 Hours, Point Break, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Da Vinci Code, Rocky V, Crimson Tide, My Cousin Vinny, Men in Black II, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Hairspray (1988), The Bodyguard, Terminator 3, Terminator 5, Tremors, RoboCop, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire, Tommy Boy, Starship Troopers, Days of Thunder, Godzilla, Spy Game, and Steel Magnolias (1989).

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Ed Begley Jr.

biography:
Edward James Begley Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor and environmental activist. He has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He played Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988). The role earned him six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination.  Equally prolific in cinema, his film appearances include Blue Collar (1978), An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), The Accidental Tourist (1988), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), She-Devil (1989), Batman Forever (1995), and Pineapple Express (2008). He is a recurring cast member in the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, including Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016). He also co-hosted, along with wife Rachelle Carson, the green living reality show titled Living with Ed (2007–2010).

He has been married to actress Rachelle Carson since August 23, 2000, and they have one child.

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place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Kenny Johnson

biography:
Kenneth Allen Johnson is an American actor, producer, and former model. He's well known for his portrayal of Detective Curtis Lemansky on the American drama The Shield, Butch "Burner" Barnes in Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Detective "Ham" Dewey on Saving Grace, and Dominique Luca on the CBS series S.W.A.T.

He's had a number of recurring roles on TV series including Sons of Anarchy, Prime Suspect (US), Chicago Fire, Bates Motel, and Secrets and Lies.

place_of_birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA


Olivia del Rio

biography:
The Brazilian beauty Olivia Del Rio started in the adult film industry at the age of twenty-six and spent the next fourteen years pleasing her fans. Crucifixo Jones, in his Lex Steele XXX review, reports that she "got her start as a maid for a porn director in France who wisely suggested she share herself with the world." During her on-screen tenure the French speaking starlet appeared in over 170 titles. Plus she has appeared in a wide variety of different types of scenes; in everything from meat puppet DP to erotic solo scenes.

Olivia Del Rio has been nominated numerous times for her body of work

2005 - Nominated - AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene (film) - Debbie Does Dallas: The Revenge

2004 - Nominated - AVN Award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene - Flesh Circus

2004 - Nominated - AVN Award for Best Solo Sex Scene - Lost Angels: Olivia Del Rio

2004 - Nominated - AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year

2003 - Nominated - AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene (film) - Paradise Lost

2002 - Nominated - NINFA Award for Best Actress - Apasionadas y Coquetas

Currently Olivia Del Rio currently runs a bar with her husband; they have two kids, plus the live in France and Morocco.

place_of_birth: Rio Casca, Brazil


Laura Fraser

biography: Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1976) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for portraying Lydia Rodarte-Quayle in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

place_of_birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK


Alexondra Lee

biography:
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Alexondra Lee (born February 6, 1975) is an American actress. She was married to an American actor Stephen Dunham until his death in 2012.

She was born in Pennsylvania to parents Mae and Harry Lee. Lee studied ballet since the age of four and has danced in The Nutcracker Suite with the New York City Ballet Company. She began dancing with the New York City Ballet at the age of seven. She starred in the short-lived Special Unit 2 as Detective Kate Benson and had a regular role as Callie on Party of Five. In 2006, Alexondra appeared as one of five corpses recounting the tales of their death on a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode entitled "Toe Tags" The Episode originally aired on October 5th, 2006.

Lee was voted one of Stuff Magazine's 101 "Most Beautiful Women in The World" in 2001. She was ranked #81.

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place_of_birth: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA


Doris Schretzmayer

place_of_birth: Tulln an der Donau, Austria


Saleh Bakri

biography: Saleh Bakri (born March 1, 1977) is a Palestinian film and stage actor. Graduated at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts, he began his film career in 2007 playing lead roles in The Band's Visit and Salt of This Sea.

place_of_birth: Galilee, Palestine


John Enos III

biography:
John Enos III (born June 12, 1962) is an American film and television actor.

He has guest starred on television programs Murder, She Wrote, Sex and the City, NYPD Blue, and CSI: NY, among other TV series.

place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Ty Olsson

biography: Ty Olsson is a Canadian voice, film and television actor, best known for voicing the dragon Ord on Dragon Tales, for portraying actual 9/11 victim Mark Bingham in the A&E television film Flight 93, and for playing vampire Benny Lafitte in Supernatural.

place_of_birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


Misha Collins

biography: Misha Collins (born Dmitri Tippens Krushnic on August 20, 1974) is an American actor, producer, director and New York Times Best-Selling author. He is best known for his role as the angel Castiel on the CW television series Supernatural and for his activism and philanthropy. He is the co-founder and board president of Random Acts, a non-profit organization, as well as the founder of GISH, The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt, known for their charity donations and Guinness World Records. His most recent projects include a poetry book titled 'Some Things I Still Can't Tell You', being the host and executive producer of the PBS show 'Roadfood: Discovering America One Dish at a Time',  and the fiction podcast 'Bridgewater', where he is an executive producer and stars as Jeremy Bradshaw. He has been cast as Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the CW's upcoming DC show, Gotham Knights.


Sanjay Leela Bhansali

biography:
Sanjay Leela Bhansali (born February 24, 1963) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and music director known for his female-led films with a distinctive style of grand cinematic sets and extravagant costumes, incorporation of classical music and inspirations from dramatic epics. One of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of Hindi cinema, Bhansali is the recipient of several awards, including four National Film Awards and ten Filmfare Awards. In 2015, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award.

He made his directorial debut with Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) for which he received Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film. He rose to prominence in Indian cinema with commercially successful and widely acclaimed romantic drama Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), the romantic drama Devdas (2002) —which received nomination for Best Foreign Film at British Academy of Film & Television Awards (BAFTA)— and the drama Black (2005), for all of which he received multiple Best Director Award and Best Film Award along with additional Critics Award for Best Film for the latter at Filmfare Awards, and multiple National Film Awards for the latter two. However, he followed it by directing consecutive commercially flop films Saawariya (2007) and Guzaarish (2010).

He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India. He is the founder of a production house, Bhansali Productions. Bhansali has adopted the middle name "Leela" as a tribute to his mother, Leela Bhansali.

place_of_birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India


Shashawnee Hall

biography: Shashawnee Hall is an actor and producer.

place_of_birth: Savannah - Georgia - USA


Kelly Trump

biography:
Kelly Trump (* August 27, 1970 in Bottrop; real first name Nicole) is one of the most famous German porn actresses.

In 1994 she was asked by a friend if she would like to take pictures and appear in erotic shows. A short time later she got an offer to take part in a film that was to be shot in the Caribbean. It wasn't until the casting that it turned out to be a porn film. She decided to accept and thus began her career in the porn industry. Among her most famous films are titles such as Supergirl - Tits of Steel and Jeannie.

In 1996, Trump shot some porn abroad with well-known directors such as Marc Dorcel (France), John Leslie (USA) and Joe D'Amato (Italy). These helped her gain international renown and an exclusive contract with Multi Media Publishing in 1997.

In 2001, she announced her exit from the porn business at the Venus Awards in Berlin and has since tried her hand as a serious actress with small roles.

In 2002 she starred in the German movie "Wie die Karnickel". In 2004, she made headlines for her participation in the reality TV show Die Alm (Pro Sieben). Since January 6, 2005, Kelly Trump has hosted the show Love Check on the digital television channel LoveNight TV.

In October 2005, her autobiography was published. Kelly Trump lives in Gelsenkirchen with her partner, ex-Scooter member Axel Coon. The Hamburg cult singer Lotto King Karl dedicated the song Lang lebe Kelly Trump to her.

place_of_birth: Gelsenkirchen, Germany


Paul Blackthorne

biography: Paul Blackthorne (born 5 March 1969) is an English actor. Although born in Shropshire, he spent his early childhood on UK military bases in Britain and Germany. Blackthorne's first film role was in the Academy Award nominated Hindi-language Indian film Lagaan, released in 2001. Since then, he has mostly appeared in American films and television shows. He had recurring roles on ER and 24, both in 2004, and has been a main cast member in The Dresden Files (2007), Lipstick Jungle (2008–09) and Arrow (2012–18).

place_of_birth: Wellington, Shropshire, England, UK


Steve Byers

biography: Steve Byers (born December 31st, 1979) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his lead role in the television show Falcon Beach (2006).

place_of_birth: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada


Elizabeth Thai

biography: A Vietnamese actress and director, known for Saved! (2004), Man of Steel (2013) and Firewall (2006).

place_of_birth: Vietnam


Brennan Elliott

biography: Brennan Elliott is a Canadian actor and producer best known for his prolific work on television, particularly as a prominent leading man for the Hallmark Channel. He first achieved widespread recognition as Dr. Nick Biancavilla in the Lifetime medical drama series Strong Medicine. Elliott later had recurring roles on The 4400, Cedar Cove and UnREAL.

place_of_birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Anna Calder-Marshall

biography: Anna Calder-Marshall is an English actress. Her father was the novelist and essayist Arthur Calder-Marshall. Her husband is actor David Burke and her son is actor Tom Burke.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


James Greene

biography: James Greene was born on December 1, 1926 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA as James Nolan. He is an actor.

place_of_birth: Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA


Ryan Ross

biography: George Ryan Ross III (born August 30, 1986) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work as the former lead guitarist, backing and lead vocalist, and primary songwriter of the American rock band Panic! at the Disco before his departure in 2009. He alongside former Panic! bassist Jon Walker formed The Young Veins later that same year, in which Ross was the lead vocalist and guitarist.

place_of_birth: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


Ryan Hurst

biography:
Ryan Douglas Hurst, also known as Gobind Seva Singh (born June 19, 1976), is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans (2000) and Opie Winston in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2012). He portrayed the Norse god Thor in the 2022 video game God of War Ragnarök, for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination. He also portrayed "Lil Foster" Farrell in The Outsiders (2016–2017) and Beta in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2019–2020).

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place_of_birth: Santa Monica, California, USA


Belinda Bauer

biography: Belinda Bauer (born Belinda Sylvia Taubman; 13 June 1950) is a retired Australian actress and working psychologist whose film career spanned the 1980s and 1990s. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

place_of_birth: Pymble, New South Wales, Australia


Spike Feresten

biography: Spike Feresten is an American television writer, screenwriter, comedian and television personality, who is best known for his work on Seinfeld, writing for David Letterman, and hosting the late night Talkshow with Spike Feresten from 2006 to 2009 on Fox.

place_of_birth: Fall River, Massachusetts, USA


Gwynyth Walsh

biography: Gwynyth Walsh is a Canadian actress best known to Star Trek fans for portraying the recurring villain B'Etor, one of the scheming and power-hungry Duras sisters. Alongside her onscreen sister Lursa (played by Barbara March), Walsh brought a unique blend of menace and charisma to the Klingon political landscape throughout the early 1990s. Her multi-series footprint across the Star Trek franchise spans several notable appearances.

place_of_birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada