Pablo Schreiber

biography: Pablo Tell Schreiber is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003, 2008), William Lewis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2013–2014), Mad Sweeney on the Starz series American Gods (2017–2020), and as George "Pornstache" Mendez on Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He stars as Master Chief in the Paramount+ live-action series Halo (2022–2024) which is based on the franchise of the same name.

place_of_birth: Ymir, British Columbia, Canada


Mitch Hedberg

type: Profile

biography: Mitchell Lee "Mitch" Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 30, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes, mixed with absurd elements and non sequiturs. Hedberg's comedy and on-stage persona gained him a cult following, with audience members sometimes shouting out the punchlines to his jokes before he could finish them.

place_of_birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

known_for_department: Acting


Elio Germano

biography:
Elio Germano (born September 25, 1980) is an Italian actor. He made his film debut in 1993 as a child actor, before gaining prominence with a string of roles in youth-oriented movies in the early 2000s.

He achieved stardom following his lead role in Daniele Luchetti's My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), for which he won his first David di Donatello for Best Actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (tied with Javier Bardem for Biutiful) and at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for Volevo Nascondermi, portraying painter Antonio Ligabue.

Subsequent starring roles include Tutta La Vita Davanti (2008), Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012), Il Giovane Favoloso (2014), Suburra (2015), The Man Without Gravity (2019), Bad Tales (2020) and Rose Island (2020). Outside of Italy he appeared in the Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005), and Nine (2009), opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.

place_of_birth: Rome, Italy


Riccardo Scamarcio

biography: Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer.

place_of_birth: Trani, Apulia, Italy


Alexandre Aja

biography: Alexandre Jouan-Arcady (born August 7, 1978) is a French filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre, beginning with his acclaimed French-language breakthrough slasher film High Tension (2003) before making the transition to American films with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (2006). He has gone on to direct other notable horror films such as Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013), Crawl (2019), Oxygen (2021) and Never Let Go (2024).

place_of_birth: Paris, France

known_for_department: Directing


Daniella Alonso

biography: Daniella Alonso is an American actress known for her guest appearances as Anna Taggaro on One Tree Hill and her lead roles in The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Olivia Wilde

biography:
Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn; /ˈkoʊbərn/ KOH-bərn; March 10, 1984) is an American and Irish actress, director and producer. She played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House (2007–2012). She appeared in the action films Tron: Legacy (2010) and Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the romantic drama film Her (2013), the comedy film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), and the horror film The Lazarus Effect (2015). She made her Broadway debut playing Julia in 1984 (2017).

Wilde made her directorial debut with the teen comedy film Booksmart (2019), which received critical acclaim and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. She directed the thriller  Don't Worry Darling (2022), which she also starred in.

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Stephen Schaffer

biography:
Stephen Schaffer is an American film editor who has worked on several  Pixar films. At the 59th American Cinema Editors Awards, he won an ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical for WALL-E; this marked the first time the award went to the editor of an animated film.

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place_of_birth: USA

known_for_department: Editing


Fabio Frizzi

biography: Fabio Frizzi was born on July 2, 1951 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a composer, known for working for Lucio Fulci in his most popular films: The Psychic (1977), Zombie (1979), City of the Living Dead (1980) or The Beyond (1981).

place_of_birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

known_for_department: Sound


Bob Odenkirk

biography:
Robert John Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker best known for his role as Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022). For the latter, he has received five nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer on Better Call Saul since its premiere, he has also received six nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. He is also known for the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), which he co-created and co-starred in with fellow comic David Cross. In 2015, he and Cross reunited, along with the rest of the Mr. Show cast, for W/ Bob & David on Netflix.

Odenkirk wrote for television series Saturday Night Live (1987–1991) and The Ben Stiller Show (1992), winning Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1989 and 1993. He also wrote for Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–1994) and acted in a recurring role as Agent Stevie Grant in The Larry Sanders Show (1993–1998). In the early 2000s, Odenkirk discovered the comedy duo Tim & Eric. He produced their television series Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004–2006) and Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007–2010). His feature directorial credits include the films Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003), Let's Go to Prison (2006), and The Brothers Solomon (2007).

The success of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul led to acting work in high-profile projects such as Nebraska (2013), the first season of Fargo (2014), Steven Spielberg's The Post (2017), Pixar's Incredibles 2 (2018), Little Women (2019) and, as the lead, the action film Nobody (2021), which he also produced.

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place_of_birth: Berwyn, Illinois, USA


Paula Marshall

biography: Paula Marshall  (born June 12, 1964) is an American actress.

place_of_birth: Rockville, Maryland, USA


Jaume Collet-Serra

biography: Jaume Collet-Serra (born March 23, 1974) is a Spanish filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films House of Wax (2005), Orphan (2009), Unknown (2011), The Shallows (2016), Jungle Cruise (2021) and Black Adam (2022). He is the co-founder of Ombra Films.

place_of_birth: Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Barcelona, Spain


Izabella Miko

biography: Born to a pair of Polish actors, Grazyna Dylag and Aleksander Mikolajczak, Izabella Anna Mikolajczak made her first appearance in Lodz, Poland on January 21, 1981 at 3:15 a.m. When she was ten years old she auditioned for the National Ballet School in Warsaw. At the age of 14 Izabella left Warsaw for Biennale to study ballet in a summer workshop, where an American choreographer discovered her, and invited her to NYC to study ballet on a scholarship. On her fifteenth birthday Izabella left Warsaw, Poland, for New York, New York. Izabella auditioned for the highly acclaimed SAB (School of American Ballet) and, soon after her acceptance, moved into the SAB dormitory. After two and one-half years at the SAB Izabella suffered an injury to her vertebrae. She quit dancing and returned to Poland.   Casting directors calling with jobs for her parents offered Izabella a role in a silent made for television movie called Lithuania You Are My Motherland directed by Tadeusz Bystram. The movie was shot on location in Poland, Russia and Lithuania. Izabella rejoiced. Acting filled the void that dancing had left behind. Izabella studied acting at Strassberg and began modeling with Q models, but acting lessons and modeling does not an actor make. To act one needs an agent and agents live in LA. Once in the City of Angels, Izabella became a prisoner of public transportation and her snickers - walking to almost all of her appointments. While in Los Angeles She began to work unofficially with a huge agent, this in turn led to her first audition for Jerry Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly. Slew of films followed in years ahead, utilizing Izabella's "all or nothing" attitude. Izabella lives in Los Angeles and New York respectively.

place_of_birth: Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland


Pascal Laugier

biography:
Pascal Laugier is a former assistant to director Christophe Gans, having directed the "making-of" documentary about Gans' 2001 film, Brotherhood of the Wolf (Laugier also starred in the film). He has written and directed the fantasy-horror feature films Saint Ange, Martyrs, and The Tall Man. Laugier has been associated with the New French Extremity movement.

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place_of_birth: France


Patricia Tulasne

biography: Patricia Tulasne (born January 16, 1959) is a Québec actress.


Sandra Hess

biography: Sandra Hess is a film and television actress, best known for playing Sonya Blade in the feature film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

place_of_birth: Zurich, Switzerland


Liza Colón-Zayas

biography:
Liza Colón-Zayas (born July 15, 1972) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for playing Tina Marrero on the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2024.

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place_of_birth: Bronx, New York City, New York, USA


Nikki DeLoach

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach (born September 9, 1979) is an American actress and singer.  DeLoach was born in Waycross, Georgia. She is the eldest of three children of Terri, Pierce County School superintendent and David DeLoach, an owner of a wood products company. Her sister LeAnne is a Valdosta State University graduate in education and her brother Brett is a baseball player for the University of Georgia. They grew up on a farm. As a child, she was heavily involved in the pageant world, winning numerous state and national titles. DeLoach secured an agent for modeling at a young age and landed several jobs for print ad modeling. She and her mother spent one summer in New York City to pursue modeling jobs. DeLoach was a member of the Georgia 4-H Performing Arts group Clovers & Company from 1991 to 1994.

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place_of_birth: Waycross, Georgia, U.S.


Alice Eve

biography:
Alice Sophia Eve (born February 6, 1982) is a British-American actress, she began her career with supporting roles in the films Hawking and Stage Beauty (both 2004). On television, she has had played recurring roles on HBO's Entourage (2011), Marvel's Iron Fist (2018) and Amazon Prime's The Power (2023).

Eve is the daughter of British actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan.  During her gap year, she studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and then read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. At Oxford, she appeared in student productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, Animal Crackers (which toured to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Scenes from an Execution.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Debra Feuer

biography:
Debra Lee Feuer is an American former actress. She starred in the films Moment by Moment, The Hollywood Knights, To Live and Die in L.A., MacGruder and Loud, Il burbero and Homeboy: the latter in which she starred with her then-husband Mickey Rourke.

In November 1978, Feuer portrayed Daisy Mae in an NBC-TV special, Li'l Abner in Dogpatch Today. She also played a minor role as Becky Mae in the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, in the Season 2, Episode 6, "The Ghost of General Lee". She also played Sonny Crockett's love interest in the first two episodes of Season 5 of Miami Vice.

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place_of_birth: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


Scott Subiono

biography: Scott Subiono is an actor and producer.


Tina Benko

biography: A highly regarded performer on the New York and national stages, Tina Benko also enjoyed regular work in films and on television, most notably in a starring role on "Flesh and Bone" (Starz, 2015).The Pittsburgh, PA native received her training at Carnegie Mellon and made her screen debut in Stephen Gyllenhaal's drama "Waterland" in 1992. Benko logged minor roles in features and on television throughout the 1990s while also appearing regularly on stage, both as an understudy in Broadway productions like "The Real Thing" (2000) and "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (2003) and in more substantive roles Off Broadway and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In 2006, she enjoyed a recurring role as Kath Parry, a former flame of Irish gangster Michael Caffee (Jason Isaacs) on "Brotherhood" (Showtime, 2006-2008), which led to supporting and guest appearances on episodic dramas like "Law & Order" (NBC, 1990-2010) and roles in major features like "The Avengers" (2012). Her stage roles, too, grew in stature, and by 2011, she was starring in an international touring production of Toni Morrison's "Desdemona" (2011) directed by Peter Sellars and earning critical praise as Titania in Julie Taylor's 2013 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which was filmed for a 2014 theatrical release. In 2013, Benko also earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for playing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Elfriede Jellinek's solo play "Jackie," and by the following year, had transitioned into a busy character actress, with two or three film or television credits to her name each year. Chief among these was a minor role in Woody Allen's "Irrational Man" (2015) and a turn as a series regular on "Flesh and Bone," Starz's drama set in the ballet world. Benko played Jessica, a former dancer who returns to her former ballet company to serve as its manager.

place_of_birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA


Miss Coco Peru

biography:
Miss Coco Peru, aka Clinton Leupp, is a gay male American actor and drag performer, perhaps best known for his role in the 1999 independent film Trick. Peru also starred in Richard Day's Girls Will Be Girls (2003), was one of six performers featured in the Logo original stand-up comedy series Wisecrack (2005), and had a cameo appearance in the 1995 comedy film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. He has appeared in a number of other supporting and guest-starring roles in film and television, including Will & Grace, the Bravo reality series Boy Meets Boy, and the comedy Straight-Jacket (as the secretly lesbian wife of S.R.O. studio's head).

Leupp has almost always been credited as either "Coco Peru" or "Miss Coco Peru" rather than under his given name. In 2006, he received his first credit as a voice actor playing "Mama Hippo" in the animated feature The Wild.


Dom Irrera

biography: Dom Irrera is an American actor and stand-up comedian born on November 18, 1948, known for storytelling rooted in his Italian-American upbringing and appearances on shows like Seinfeld and The King of Queens.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Antony Starr

biography:
Antony Starr (born October 25, 1975) is a New Zealand actor, known for his television roles. He played the dual roles of Jethro and Van West on Outrageous Fortune (2005–2010), Lucas Hood on Banshee (2013–2016), and Homelander on The Boys (2019–2026).

For his role in the 2012 Australian film Wish You Were Here, Starr won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, among other accolades. He was nominated for the New Zealand Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in After the Waterfall (2010).

place_of_birth: Auckland, New Zealand


Skye Bennett

biography:
Skye Deva St. John Bennett was born on the 2nd of May 1995 in London, England to American parents. She is a dual British-American citizen.

Skye began her professional career at ten years old when she won her first film role playing Steven Seagal's daughter in 'Shadowman'. This led to further film and television roles, including playing Mina in the film adaptation of David Almond's Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Children's Award-winning book, 'Skellig' and as the mysterious, tarot card reading little girl in series two of 'Torchwood'. She also appeared as young Martha in the TV adaptation of Ken Follett's historical novel, 'The Pillars of the Earth'.

Skye's theatrical debut at age 13 was as Nadia in Peter Flannery's translation of 'Burnt by the Sun' at the National Theatre, London, in March 2009. She was also cast in Mark Haddon's play 'Polar Bears' at London's Donmar Warehouse in Spring 2010.

Skye's voice acting debut occurred in the 2017 fantasy JRPG video game Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and its 2018 prequel DLC expansion, Torna ~ The Golden Country. In both games, she portrayed deuteragonists Pyra and Mythra.

Skye started releasing music as Deva St. John in October 2018.

place_of_birth: Lambeth, London, England


Brandi Alexander

biography: Brandi Alexander is a Canadian actress and former model who has built a diverse resume spanning popular television dramas, streaming series and numerous romantic comedies for networks like Hallmark.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Kath Soucie

biography: Kath Soucie was born on February 20, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American voice, film, stage and television actress known for playing Linka in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Lola Bunny in the Looney Tunes franchise, Fifi La Fume and Li'l Sneezer in Tiny Toon Adventures, Minx in Jem, Bea in Mighty Max, Dexter's Mom in Dexter's Laboratory, Maddie Fenton in Danny Phantom, Phil, Lil and their mother Betty DeVille in Rugrats, Princess Sally Acorn in Sonic the Hedgehog, Cadpig and Rolly in 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Kat Harvey in The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Morgana Macawber in Darkwing Duck, and Kanga in the Winnie the Pooh franchise. She voiced Tuffy Mouse from The Tom and Jerry Show, Perdita from 101 Dalmatians, since 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003), and Ray Ray Lee in The Life and Times of Juniper Lee.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Junichi Suzuki

place_of_birth: Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan


Jimmy Pop

biography: James Moyer Franks better known by the stage name Jimmy Pop (originally Jimmy Pop Ali), is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and composer. He is best known as the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, and co-founder of the band Bloodhound Gang.

place_of_birth: Trappe, Pennsylvania, USA


Warren Kole

biography: Warren Kole was born on September 23, 1977 in San Antonio, Texas, USA as Warren David Blosjo Jr. He is an actor.

place_of_birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA


Sebastian Stan

biography:
Sebastian Stan (born August 13, 1982) is a Romanian-born American actor and producer. He gained recognition for his role as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise, beginning with the film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and serving as a lead actor in the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the film Thunderbolts* (2025).

On television, Stan played Carter Baizen in Gossip Girl (2007–2010) and the Mad Hatter in Once Upon a Time (2012), and starred in the miniseries Political Animals (2012). In 2022, he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Tommy Lee in the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. On Broadway, Stan has appeared in the Eric Bogosian play Talk Radio (2007) and starred in the William Inge play Picnic (2013).

On film, Stan had a supporting role in The Martian (2015) and starred in I, Tonya (2017) and Fresh (2022). For his performance in A Different Man (2024), he won a Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. For his portrayal of a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice (2024), Stan earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

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place_of_birth: Constanța, Romanian SR [now Romania]


Kate Walsh

biography: Kathleen Erin "Kate" Walsh (born October 13, 1967) is an American film and television actress, currently known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on the ABC dramas Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.

place_of_birth: San Jose, California, USA


Tatiana Maslany

biography:
Tatiana Gabriele Maslany (/mæsˈlæni/ mas-LAN-ee; born September 22, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016) and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–2018). Maslany is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category for acting in a Canadian series.

Maslany also appeared in television series such as Heartland (2008–2010), The Nativity (2010), Being Erica (2009–2011), Perry Mason (2020), and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) in the lead role of Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk. Her other notable films include Diary of the Dead (2007), Eastern Promises (2007), The Vow (2012), Picture Day (2012), Cas and Dylan (2013), Woman in Gold (2015), Stronger (2017), and Destroyer (2018). For starring in the romantic drama The Other Half (2016), she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress.

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place_of_birth: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada


Frank C. Turner

biography: Frank C. Turner is an actor and iconographer born in Wainwright, Alberta and now living in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He received his theatrical training at the University of Alberta, graduating in 1975 with a BFA. For the first few years after graduation he acted in theatres across western Canada and Ontario. In 1983 he moved to Vancouver, BC and has worked mainly in film since then. His favourite credits include, Air Bud (1997), Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998), Air Bud 3 (2000), Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002), The New Addams Family: Addams Family Feud (1999), Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1995), Cats & Dogs (2001), Snow Dogs (2002) and The Duke (1999). Frank has previously performed the GKC - GBS debate in Calgary, St. Paul, Minnesota, and on Apostle of Common Sense with EWTN. In 1991 he began studying iconography under Vladislav Andreyev. He has completed about 50 icons in the Byzantine tradition for individuals and churches in the Vancouver area. A frequent attendee of the Mount Angel Iconography Institute where he studied with Charles Rohrbacher, Mary Katsilometes, and Cathy Sievers; more recently he studied with Father Gianluca Busi from Bologna, spending six weeks there in 2007. He gives private instruction in iconography. Along with Chris Kielsinki and Michal Janek, Frank was a founding member of Epiphany Sacred Arts Guild, and has served as its president for four years. He also served on the curriculum advisory board of Living Waters College, soon to be opened in Derwent, Alberta.

place_of_birth: Wainwright, Alberta, Canada


Alia Shawkat

biography: Alia Martine Shawkat (born April 18, 1989) is an American actress. She is known for her performances as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006; 2013–2019), Dory Sief in the TBS and HBO Max dark comedy series Search Party (2016–2022), and Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy film The Final Girls, as well as her roles in State of Grace and The Old Man. She has also guest-starred as historical figures Frances Cleveland, Virginia Hall, and Alexander Hamilton on Comedy Central's Drunk History.

place_of_birth: Riverside, California, USA


Daniel Bacon

biography: Daniel Bacon is a British-Canadian actor and acting coach based in Vancouver, Canada, best known for his extensive work in film, television and voice acting. He transitioned into acting in his mid-twenties after briefly singing in a boy band. He honed his craft at Vancouver's Gastown Actors Studio and The Lyric School of Acting. Over a career spanning nearly three decades, Bacon has amassed more than 150 screen credits

place_of_birth: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK


Trevor Wright

biography: Trevor Christopher Wright (born August 23, 1982) was an American actor, now working in real estate. Wright was born in La Jolla, California. His breakthrough acting role was in the 2007 film Shelter. Wright's recurring role as Zack Powers on George Lopez and guest starring in television series such as NYPD Blue, Scrubs and Boston Public led to his being named in 2003 by Teen Vogue as a "young and upcoming star that's here to stay." His very first break came through his involvement in music videos when, in 1989, Wright, along with fellow actor Elijah Wood, appeared in the video for Paula Abdul's single "Forever Your Girl," directed by David Fincher. He subsequently starred opposite singer and cousin Stacie Orrico in the videos for her singles "Stuck" (2003), and "I Could Be the One" (2004). His first feature-film role was in 1993's Memories by Joe Frank, but it was his role of "Zach" in the 2007 independent film Shelter, co-starring Brad Rowe and Ross Thomas, that brought Wright much acclaim and attention. Wright's more recent film roles include Vicious Circle, in which he appeared in the role of the character "Fin." He was also the lead actor in Vacancy 2: The First Cut, the prequel to the 2007 film Vacancy, which had a straight to DVD release on January 20, 2009. His 2010 films include The Social Network and 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams. Wright is a diehard athlete who enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing and other extreme type activities. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He was previously engaged to actress Odette Yustman before their breakup in 2008.

place_of_birth: La Jolla, California, USA


Skyler Gisondo

biography:
Skyler Augustus Gisondo (born July 22, 1996) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Licorice Pizza, Booksmart, and Vacation, as well as the television programs Psych, The Righteous Gemstones, and Santa Clarita Diet.

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place_of_birth: Palm Beach County, Florida, USA


Oxmo Puccino

biography:
Abdoulaye Plea Diarra (born 3 August 1974), better known by his stage name Oxmo Puccino, is a French-Malian rapper.

A longtime hip hop fan, at age 21 Diarra began his collaboration with the fledgling rap collective Time Bomb, honing his craft alongside future superstars like Booba and Diam's. He quickly developed into a lyricist with a metaphorical ingenuity far more advanced than his contemporaries, crafting violent yet strangely poetic portraits of urban Paris life and drawing on the street-smart American hip-hop of the Notorious B.I.G. and other icons to document life in Paris' hardscrabble 19th district. In 1996 Oxmo Puccino made his recorded debut with Pucc. Fiction, a contribution to the compilation L432. A series of subsequent mixtape appearances solidified his growing reputation within the French rap underground, and in 1998 he issued his solo debut, Opéra Puccino. Its 2001 follow-up, L'Amour Est Mort, proved Puccino's creative and commercial breakthrough, while 2004's Le Cactus de Sibérie confirmed his star status. After signing to the venerable jazz label Blue Note, Puccino assembled a new backing group, the Jazzbastards, to record 2006's Lipopette Bar.

In 2007, rapper Styles P. used the instrumental of "Black Desperado" in his own album Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman), in the song "Holiday". The track was produced by DJ Green Lantern.

In 2011, he was in a Nike ad promotion reciting a passage from Cyrano de Bergerac.

He has appeared in 2011 music video for "1990" by Orelsan, as a tribute to the 1990s. He was invited to sing the track in Orelsan's live tour as a guest in the Paris Olympia gig in 2012.

He is featured as the spoken word artist on Ibrahim Maalouf's track, "Douce", from the 2011 studio album, "Diagnostic".

Puccino was born in 1974 in Ségou, Mali. He came to Paris one year later, and lived in the 19th arrondissement from the age of 5. Oxmo Puccino is the older brother of the French international basketball player Mamoutou Diarra.

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place_of_birth: Ségou, Mali


Ja Rule

biography:
Jeffrey Atkins (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor. Born in Hollis, Queens, he began his career in the group Cash Money Click and debuted in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its single "Holla Holla". From 2000 to 2004, Ja Rule had several hits that made the top 20 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, including "Between Me and You" with Christina Millian, "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" with Jennifer Lopez, "Always on Time" with Ashanti, "Mesmerize" also with Ashanti, and "Wonderful" with R. Kelly and Ashanti. During the 2000s, Ja Rule was signed to The Inc. Records, which was formerly known as Murder Inc. and was led by Irv Gotti.

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


Chris Messina

biography:
Christopher Messina (born August 11, 1974) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for starring as Danny Castellano in the series The Mindy Project (2012–2017), which earned him two nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

He has appeared in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Devil (2010), Argo (2012), Ruby Sparks (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Cake (2014), Birds of Prey (2020), I Care a Lot (2020), Call Jane (2022), Air (2023) and The Boogeyman (2023). Messina wrote, executive produced, and starred in the comedy film Fairhaven (2012). He also directed and starred in the drama film Alex of Venice (2014).

On television, Messina appeared as Ted Fairwell in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2005), Chris Sanchez in the Audience Network legal thriller series Damages (2011–2012), Reese Lansing in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014), Richard Willis in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), Nick Haas in the USA Network crime drama series The Sinner (2020), Angelo Lano in the Starz political miniseries Gaslit (2022), and as Nathan Bartlett in the Peacock comedy thriller Based on a True Story (2023).

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Kay E. Kuter

biography:
Kay E. Kuter was an American actor best known for his character roles in film and television. He was born on April 25, 1925, in Los Angeles, California. Kuter had a career that spanned several decades, and he appeared in numerous popular movies and TV shows.

Kuter's acting career began in the 1950s, and he made his film debut in the 1952 movie "Thunderbirds." Over the years, he appeared in various genres, including dramas, comedies, and westerns. Some of his notable film credits include "The Last Starfighter" (1984), "Warlock" (1989), "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998), and "The Princess Diaries" (2001).

In addition to his work in films, Kuter was also a familiar face on television. He appeared in numerous TV shows throughout his career, often portraying supporting or character roles. Some of the notable TV series he appeared in include "Gunsmoke," "The Twilight Zone," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "MAS*H," and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." He also lent his voice to animated shows such as "TaleSpin" and "Justice League Unlimited."

One of Kuter's most memorable roles was that of the character "Reverend Buckshot" in the TV series "Green Acres" (1965-1971). His portrayal of the bumbling, absent-minded preacher became a fan favorite and remains one of his most iconic performances.

Sadly, Kay E. Kuter passed away on November 12, 2003, at the age of 78, in Burbank, California. Despite his departure, his contributions to the entertainment industry and his memorable performances continue to be appreciated by fans of film and television.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Chris Pine

biography:
Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot film series (2009–2016) and Steve Trevor in the DC Extended Universe films Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).

Pine rose to prominence for his roles in the romantic comedies The Princess Diaries 2 (2004) and Just My Luck (2006). His roles include Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods (2014); Jack Ryan in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014); Bernie Webber in The Finest Hours (2016); and Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King (2018). He starred in Unstoppable (2010), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Hell or High Water (2016), The Contractor, Don't Worry Darling (both 2022), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023). Pine made his directorial debut with Poolman (2023). In 2025, he acted for the first time in a non-English role (Italian) in the movie The Kidnapping of Arabella, which was also praised at 2025 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti category.

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Bille Woodruff

biography:
Bille Woodruff is a music video and film director, noted for directing many videos for a number of R&B and hip-hop artists since the mid-1990s. These artists include Joe, for whom Woodruff has directed nine music videos since 1994, and Toni Braxton, whom he has worked 6 times since 1996. Woodruff directed the videos for some of Braxton's biggest singles, including "Un-Break My Heart".

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place_of_birth: Denver, Colorado, USA


Rob Brownstein

biography: Rob Brownstein is an actor and director.


Sasha Pieterse

biography: Sasha Pieterse Sheaffer (born 17 February 1996) is a South African-born American actress and singer.  She is best known for her leading role as Alison DiLaurentis in the mystery-drama hit series "Pretty Little Liars" (2010-17) and in its spin-off "Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists" (2019).

place_of_birth: Johannesburg, South Africa


Lauren Cohan

biography: Lauren Cohan (born January 7, 1982) is a British-American actress best known for her role as Maggie Greene in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead (2011–2018; 2020–present). Her other notable TV roles include Bela Talbot in the dark fantasy drama Supernatural (2007–2008), Rose in the supernatural teen drama The Vampire Diaries (2010–2012), Vivian McArthur Volkoff in the action comedy Chuck (2011), and Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge in the action comedy-drama Whiskey Cavalier (2019). Her film appearances include the comedy Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006), the psychological thriller horror The Boy (2016), the biographical drama All Eyez on Me (2017), and the action thriller Mile 22 (2018).

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Noel Trinidad

biography: Noel Trinidad, apart from being the son of radio industry pioneers Koko Trinidad and Lina Flor, is recognized for his long career in radio, music, film, television, and theater. He and his childhood friend and fellow actor, Subas Herrero, were best known for their comedic duo, in which they appeared together via RPN 9's "Champoy".

place_of_birth: Manila, Philippines


Shin-ichiro Miki

biography: Shin'ichirō Miki is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce and most known for his role as Kojiro (James) in Pokémon. Miki is also a singer with the four-man band Weiß. Miki is also very active in BL dramas. He won Best Actors in supporting roles in the 4th Seiyu Awards. He often gets cast as handsome, young men in anime roles.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Sibelle Hu Hui-Chung

biography: Sibelle Hu Hui-Chung or Hu Huizhong (Chinese: 胡慧中, born 4 May 1958) is a Taiwanese actress, singer and TV personality who starred in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies. She acted in many movies in the 1980s and 1990s and retired in the late 1990s.

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Sisqó

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Mark Althavean Andrews (born November 9, 1978), known by his stage name Sisqó, is an American R&B singer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, and also for "Thong Song", a song from his first solo LP, Unleash the Dragon, that became an international hit.

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place_of_birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.


Tessa Thompson

biography:
Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Thompson began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College, acting in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. She made her film debut in the horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006), followed by leading roles in the independent drama Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010). Thompson received favourable notices for roles in the comedy-drama Dear White People (2014) and as civil rights activist Diane Nash in Ava DuVernay's historical drama Selma (2014).

She gained mainstream attention for her roles in franchise films, playing Bianca Taylor in the sports dramas Creed (2015), Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), and as Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the movies Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as her leading role in Men in Black: International (2019). She starred in the independent films Sorry to Bother You (2018), Little Woods (2018), and Annihilation (2018). For her role as a black woman living during the Harlem Renaissance in Passing (2021), she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She portrayed the title role in Hedda (2025), which she also executive produced.

On stage, she acted in the off-Broadway production of the Lydia R. Diamond play Smart People (2016). On television, she took recurring roles in shows such as the teen mystery series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), the historical drama series Copper (2012–2013), and the science fiction series Westworld (2016–2022). She starred in the romantic drama film Sylvie's Love (2020) on Amazon Prime Video. Also, she served as an executive producer, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.

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Garfield Wilson

biography: Garfield Wilson is a British-Canadian actor and musician widely recognized for his versatile performances across television and major feature films. Originally establishing himself as a vocalist, he transitioned seamlessly into screen acting, accumulating an expansive list of television and film credits.

place_of_birth: Sutton, Surrey, England, UK


BJ Harrison

biography: BJ Harrison (born Barbara Jeanne Harrison) is an American-born actress with over 100 film and television credits. Originally from Los Angeles, California, she relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she trained at the Gastown Actors Studio and built a prolific career as a character actress.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S


Chad Michael Murray

biography:
Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and former fashion model. He is best known for his roles as Lucas Scott on The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill, Edgar Evernever on Riverdale, Mirabeau Lamar on Texas Rising, Jacob Thompson on the ABC series Marvel's Agent Carter, Jacob Orr on Chosen, a recurring role as Tristan Dugray on The WB/CW series Gilmore Girls, and Charlie Todd on The WB series Dawson’s Creek.

He also had supporting roles in the films Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story, House of Wax, and Fruitvale Station.

place_of_birth: Buffalo, New York, USA


Emma Lung

biography: Emma Lung is an Australian-born actress and producer of Scottish, French, and Chinese decent. She is best known for her acting roles in short subject, television, and movies.

place_of_birth: Sydney, Australia


Jarrad Paul

biography: Jarrad Paul (born June 20, 1976) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor.

place_of_birth: Miami, Florida, USA

known_for_department: Writing


Will Forte

biography:
Orville Willis Forte IV (/ˈfɔːrteɪ/ FOR-tay; born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He was a cast member and writer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons from 2002 to 2010. During his time on the show, he played a recurring character that led to a feature film adaptation, MacGruber (2010), and a streaming limited series in 2021. Forte also created and starred in the sitcom The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018). He received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the series: two for acting and one for writing.

After obtaining a history degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and becoming a financial broker like his father, Forte changed his career path to comedy and took classes with the improv group The Groundlings. Before joining Saturday Night Live, he worked as a writer and producer on 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show. Forte played various roles in comedy before starring in the drama film Nebraska (2013). He has provided voice work for the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films (2009–2013), My Life as a Courgette, Get Squirrely (2016), Luis & the Aliens (2018), The Willoughbys and Scoob! (2020), also voicing Eddy in Disney XD's Lab Rats, and Abraham Lincoln in Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024), The Lego Movie films (2014–2019), Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops (2014), America: The Motion Picture (2021), Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) and Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024–present).

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place_of_birth: Alameda, California, USA


Akiva Schaffer

biography: Akiva Schaffer (born December 1, 1977) is an American filmmaker. He began his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live and a member of The Lonely Island, a sketch-comedy troupe that first found success on the Internet, which includes Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone. He majored in film at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is best known for directing the films Hot Rod (2007), Popstar (2016), and the reboot of The Naked Gun (2025).

place_of_birth: Berkeley, California, USA


Danny McBride

biography: Danny McBride is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his sharp, offbeat humor and collaborations with filmmaker Jody Hill. He rose to fame with Eastbound & Down (2009–2013), where he starred as disgraced pitcher Kenny Powers, and went on to co-create and star in acclaimed HBO series like Vice Principals (2016–2017) and The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). McBride has also appeared in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), and This Is the End (2013), solidifying his reputation for bold, irreverent comedy.

place_of_birth: Statesboro, Georgia, USA


Katja von Garnier

biography:
A German film director. Her 1993 practice film Abgeschminkt! was shown in theaters all over Germany and attracted 1.2 million visitors. The project had been rejected by several producers that had not believed that a one-hour film could become a commercial success.The 1997 film Bandits starring Katja Riemann was also a commercial success and was the winner of the Grand Prize at the 10th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival held in February 1999.

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place_of_birth: Wiesbaden, Germany


Clinton Shorter

biography:
Clinton Shorter (born March 18, 1971) is a Canadian film and television composer. He is particularly known for his score for Neill Blomkamp's film District 9. He has also composed the music for over 300 television episodes.

Shorter was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He initially studied jazz in college before switching to music composition.

Shorter created the score for an independent film, Come Together, in Vancouver. He went on to create music for several more films in the Vancouver area, including Neill Blomkamp 's short Alive in Joburg.

Shorter was asked to create a score for Blomkamp's 2009 science fiction film District 9, "something 'raw and dark' but which maintained its African roots". The resulting music has been described by reviewers as "rhythmic" and "magnificent", as "mournful ethnic-action strains", and as having "pseudo-exotic ambiance as a post-modern theme of loss". The sound track was released separately as a CD.

In 2014 Shorter wrote the score for the action film Pompeii. He subsequently composed music for the television series The Expanse and Colony.

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place_of_birth: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Paul Campbell

biography: Paul Campbell is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who is widely recognized as one of the most prominent leading men and creative voices on the Hallmark Channel. He first gained mainstream fame in the early 2000s for his role as Billy Keikeya on the critically acclaimed sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica. He has since successfully transitioned into a multi-talented "double threat" in the romantic-comedy and holiday film space.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


JR Bourne

biography: David J.R. Bourne (born April 8, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He's best known for his roles as Isaac on Mayans M.C., Tom Price on Somewhere Between, Russell Lightbourne VII / Sheidheda on The 100, Kenny Ryan on the drama series Revenge, Chris Argent on Teen Wolf, Martouf / Lantash on Stargate SG-1, and Ray in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005). He is perhaps best known in Canada for his appearance in a Molson I Am Canadian television commercial

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Yvonne Strahovski

biography: Yvonne Strahovski (born Strzechowski on 30 July 1982) is an Australian actress. Born in Australia to Polish immigrant parents, Strahovski speaks Polish and English. After graduating from University of Western Sydney she featured in a number of Australian television shows before winning the starring role of Sarah Walker in the American television series Chuck.

place_of_birth: Werrington Downs, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Kwak Jae-yong

biography:
Kwak Jae-yong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the smash-hit film My Sassy Girl in 2001. He is known for his limitless fondness of love stories set in a mix of different genres.

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place_of_birth: Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea


Gianna Jun

biography: Jun Ji-hyun (born October 30, 1981) also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She had her breakthrough role in 2001 as The Girl in the film My Sassy Girl which became the highest grossing Korean comedy of all time. Other notable films include Il Mare (2000), The Thieves (2012), and Assassination (2015).

place_of_birth: Seoul, South Korea


Jang Hyuk

biography: Jang Hyuk (장혁), born Jung Yong-joon (정용준), is a South Korean actor. He was born on December 20, 1976.

place_of_birth: Busan, South Korea


David Hillenbrand

biography:
David Hillenbrand was born on 5 September 1968 in the USA. He is a director and producer, known for King Cobra (1999), Deadtime Stories (2012) and Survival Island (2002).

David Hillenbrand is an American writer, director, and composer. He often collaborates with his brother Scott Hillenbrand on projects.

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place_of_birth: United States


Josh Miller

biography:
Josh Miller (born September 23, 1978), sometimes credited under the alias Worm Miller, is an American filmmaker, writer, director, and actor. He often collaborates with his high school friend Patrick Casey. He is best known for creating the Fox animated series Golan the Insatiable and writing Sonic the Hedgeog and its sequels, as well as directing the horror-comedy Hey, Stop Stabbing Me!. He is the host and co-founder of the long-running Los Angeles–based horror screening series Friday Night Frights. He was a frequent contributor to the now-defunct cinema website CHUD.com, contributing reviews, criticism, and interviewing filmmakers, writers, and actors such as Zach Braff, Charlie Day, and Don Cheadle.

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place_of_birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Scott Hillenbrand

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Scott Hillenbrand is an American director, actor and screenwriter. He often collaborates with his brother David Hillenbrand on projects. He is usually credited under the name "Scott Brandon" when he acts.

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place_of_birth: USA


Pat Casey

biography:
Patrick Casey (born December 19, 1978) is an American writer, actor, director, and author. He often collaborates with writer/director/actor Worm Miller. He is best known for his work on the Fox animated series Golan the Insatiable and the Sonic the Hedgehog feature films.

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place_of_birth: Minnesota, USA


Danielle Fishel

biography:
Danielle Christine Fishel (born May 5, 1981) is an American actress and television personality best known for her role as Topanga Lawrence on the 1990s TV sitcom Boy Meets World and as the host of Style Network's The Dish. She also appeared in National Lampoon's Dorm Daze and its sequel and was a spokesperson for NutriSystem.

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place_of_birth: Mesa, Arizona, USA


Ane Dahl Torp

biography:
Ane Dahl Torp (born August 1, 1975) is a Norwegian actress known for her versatile performances in film and television. She was born in Bærum, Norway, and is the daughter of linguistics professor Arne Torp.

Torp made her film debut in The Woman of My Life (2003) and gained recognition for her roles in Svarte penger, hvite løgner (2004), Gymnaslærer Pedersen (2006), and Lønsj (2008), winning multiple Amanda Awards for her performances. She was also named a Shooting Star at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006.

Her television career includes starring in the Norwegian political thriller series Occupied (2015–2020), as well as leading roles in Home Ground (2018) and Deliver Me (2024). She has also appeared in films such as The Wave (2015), The Quake (2018), and Charter (2020)1.

In her personal life, she married jazz trumpeter Sjur Miljeteig in 2007, and they have two children.

place_of_birth: Bærum, Norway


Christian Ditter

biography:
Christian Ditter (born 1977) is an award winning director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films, television and commercials. He is best known for his films The Crocodiles (2009), Love, Rosie (2014), How to Be Single (2016), and the Netflix series Girlboss (2017).

Ditter was born on March 9, 1977, in Giessen, Hesse. He graduated from the Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh in 1996 and went to the University of Lüneburg from 1997 to 1998, majoring in Applied Cultural Studies. He then focused his studies on directing at the University of Television and Film Munich from 1998 to 2006.

While in school, Ditter's short films Enchanted (2000) and Grounded (2003) won numerous awards at international film festivals. His debut feature film French for Beginners hit theaters in 2006. He subsequently directed on the Adolf Grimme Prize and the German Television Award-winning series Turkish for Beginners (2007) and on the award-winning series Doctor's Diary (2008).

In 2008, he adapted the popular German children's book, The Crocodiles, for the big screen. The film won over fifty audience and jury awards at international film festivals and was followed up by two sequels, The Crocodiles Strike Back (2009) and The Crocodiles: All for One (2010), which he directed and produced respectively. He moved on to writing and directing Germany’s first major adventure film shot entirely in 3D, Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods, which debuted at No. 1 in the German box office.

In 2014, he directed his first English-language feature Love, Rosie starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin. In 2016, he followed it up with his U.S. debut How to Be Single starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie. After working with Kay Cannon on How to Be Single, they partnered with Charlize Theron's company Denver and Delilah to create the Netflix series Girlboss in 2017, loosely based on the book #Girlboss by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso.

Ditter is currently serving as the showrunner-director on the Netflix series Biohackers, which is set to be released in 2020.

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place_of_birth: Giessen, Germany


Alessandra Martines

biography:
Alessandra Martines (born 19 September 1963) is an Italian French dancer and actress mainly working in the English-, French-, and Italian-speaking worlds. She started young in ballet on opera stages in Switzerland, France, the United States and then Italy before becoming a lead on television for RAI captured ballets and entertainment shows (the Italian national public broadcasting) in the eighties.

She is primarily known for portraying the main role in the cult Fantaghirò series, consisting of five films (1991–1996) still regularly re-run across Europe as of 2020, and for her work in auteur productions such as nine films by Claude Lelouch to whom she was married until 2009.

She was awarded numerous prizes including the Best Actress Telegatto for The Cave of the Golden Rose (1991), the Grolla d'oro for Edda [it] (2005), the Silver Hugo for Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival (1998) for Chance or Coincidence, the Diamanti al Cinema Award in Cannes (2007) or the 2009 European Golden Globe in Rome. In 2008, she was made Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite awarded by the President of the French Republic. She received the lifetime achievement Kineo Award at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014.

Second cousin of Carla Bruni and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, she moved to France with her family at the age of five. As a teenager, she enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris where she studied solfeggio, history and theory of dance and classical music and dance.

Martines debuted at a young age as a dancer at the Zurich Opera House in 1972. After some time working in the United States, including the Chicago City Ballet, she moved to Rome where she worked at the Teatro dell'Opera. In 1985 she began her collaboration with RAI, with the lunchtime chat / quiz show Pronto, chi gioca?; she later gained great popularity with the Saturday Night shows Fantastico and Europa Europa, and then for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghirò in the Fantaghirò series.

In cinema, she is best known for her interpretations under the direction of her ex-husband, the French director Claude Lelouch, in several film including Les Misérables and And now... Ladies and Gentlemen. She also starred on stage, most notably in L'appartamento by Franca Valeri.

place_of_birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy


Roxanne Kernohan

biography: Roxanne Kernohan (born March 20, 1960) was a Canadian actress and model. She made her film debut in 1988 with Fatal Pulse and made four more appearances that year, including her best-known role as Lee the bounty hunter in Critters 2: The Main Course. Other films include Tango & Cash and Angel III: The Final Chapter. In addition to appearing as herself in the 1991 direct-to-video title Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, she also modeled for Playboy magazine four times in 1989 and 1991 and was featured in two Playboy video specials, as well as music videos by L.A. Guns and Cheap Trick. On February 5, 1993, Kernohan died in Santa Clara, California at age 32 from injuries she sustained after a car accident.

place_of_birth: Ontario, Canada


Hans Christian Andersen

biography:
Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children: his stories express themes that transcend age and nationality.

Andersen's fairy tales, of which no fewer than 3381 works have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well.

His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina".

His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.

place_of_birth: Odense, Funen, Kingdom of Denmark–Norway [now Denmark]


Kirk Jones

biography:
Kirk Jones (b. Oct 31, 1964 in Bristol, England) is an English film director and screenwriter.

Kirk Jones grew up in Long Ashton, Bristol and attended Newport Film School from 1985–87, specializing in directing drama and television commercials. He graduated in 1987 after winning a National Student Film award and started to work for a London based production company as a production runner and later as assistant film editor.

Whilst working in the cutting room, he continued to write and direct his own films and, after collecting a Silver award at the Creative Circle Awards for his Mercedes commercial in 1990, he was invited to join Xenium Productions as a director.

His Absolute Vodka film, which he wrote and directed was awarded a Silver in 1991 and Kirk began directing commercials full time in London and Europe, working for agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty and Mother.

Kirk’s producer, Glynis Murray set up Tomboy Films in 1991 and he joined her soon after. Awards at NABS in ‘94 and a Silver at the Creative Circle Awards followed and Kirk continued to direct commercials for clients including The National Lottery, National Westminster Bank, Reebok, & HSBC.

His campaign for Heinz won a Silver Lion at Cannes in ’96 (Best Campaign) and his Reebok campaign won awards at both The Creative Circle and the British TV Advertising Awards in ‘98.

Kirk was nominated for a BAFTA as ‘Best Newcomer’ in 1999 for his first feature film WAKING NED, which he both wrote and directed.

Proportionate to budget Waking Ned was the second highest grossing film in the world that year (behind ‘The Blairwitch Project’) and won awards in the U.S and Europe. These included: New York Comedy Film Festival for Best Feature, Grand Jury and Critics Prize for Best Feature at Comedy d’Alp in France and Audience Award for Best Feature at Paris Film Festival.

In 2004 Kirk directed his second feature film NANNY MCPHEE for ‘Working Title’ and ‘Universal Pictures’. Starring Emma Thompson and Colin Firth, it was a top ten highest grossing film in the UK with $30m and took $135m worldwide.

In 2008 Kirk wrote and directed his third film EVERYBODY’S FINE. Starring Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell, it is an adaptation of an Italian film and was released through Miramax 2009 and Disney worldwide in 2010.

place_of_birth: Bristol, England, UK


Charlie McDermott

biography:
Charlie McDermott (born April 6, 1990) is an American television and film actor. Since 2004, he has worked on a wide range of television series, including The Office, Private Practice and The Middle (as a series regular). He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 16.

His biggest movie parts to date are Wild Bill in Disappearances and Troy J. 'T.J.' Eddy in Frozen River. In 2008, he received a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Actor for his Frozen River performance.

He currently plays Axl Heck in the Patricia Heaton sitcom The Middle.

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place_of_birth: West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States


David Gordon Green

biography: David Gordon Green is an American filmmaker. He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote. In 2008, he transitioned into comedy, directing the films Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter, as well as episodes of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down. In 2013, he returned to his more dramatic roots with the independent films Prince Avalanche and Joe. Since then, he has directed the films Manglehorn, Our Brand Is Crisis, Stronger, and episodes of the television comedy-drama Red Oaks, on which he also serves as executive producer. He directed the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth installments in the Halloween franchise, which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Danny McBride.

place_of_birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA


Damon Albarn

biography: Damon Albarn, OBE (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the British rock band blur as well as co-founder, vocalist, instrumentalist and principal songwriter of the virtual band Gorillaz.

place_of_birth: Whitechapel, London, England, UK


Paweł Pawlikowski

biography:
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski (Polish: [ˈpavɛwalɛˈksandɛr pavliˈkɔfskʲi]; born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with Ida (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Cold War (2018), for which Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

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place_of_birth: Warsaw, Poland


Tom Fridley

biography: Tom Fridley was born on February 15, 1965 in the USA. He is an actor, known for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Face/Off (1997) and Phenomenon (1996).


Maïwenn

biography:
Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.

Maïwenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress—notably as "Elle, as a child" (the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani) in the 1983 hit film L'été meurtrier (One Deadly Summer).

Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Maïwenn interrupted her career for several years. During this period, she only appeared in a supporting part in Besson's Léon (1994), in which she was credited as Ouin-Ouin. She also directed the film's making-of. Perhaps Maïwenn's most internationally-seen film role was her appearance as the alien Diva Plavalaguna in Besson's The Fifth Element (1997).

After she and Besson divorced, Maïwenn returned to France. She performed as a stand-up comedian in an autobiographical one-woman-show, and reentered the movie business after several filmmakers saw her comedy routine in Paris. She appeared in several notable movies, including the horror film Haute Tension (English title: High Tension), in which she starred opposite Cécile de France. By the time the film came out in 2003, she had decided she wanted to try directing.

In 2006, Maïwenn wrote and directed her first feature film, Pardonnez-moi, a drama about a dysfunctional family.[6][10] She also starred in the film which earned her nominations for the César Award for Best First Feature Film and César Award for Most Promising Actress in the 2007. Her second film was Le bal des actrices (2009, All About Actresses), in which she appears as herself making a documentary. She achieved international recognition when her third film, the social drama Polisse (2011), won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Maïwenn's 2015 film Mon roi was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. She co-wrote, directed, and starred in the 2020 film, DNA, an Official Selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival which was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. She co-wrote, directed, and starred in her first period film, the 2023 film Jeanne du Barry about the life of Madame du Barry with Louis XV portrayed by Johnny Depp, which opened the 2023 Cannes Film Festival out of competition and earned the highest French gross for a Cannes opening film since 2013.

place_of_birth: Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France


Modesto Lacen

biography: Born in Puerto Rico, Modesto Lacen is a stage, film and television actor. He holds a BFA from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.

place_of_birth: Loíza, Puerto Rico


Craig Robinson

biography:
Craig Phillip Robinson (born October 25, 1971) is an actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his roles on The Office as Darryl Philbin and in the films Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Hot Tub Time Machine.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


John Ales

biography: John Ales (born January 3, 1969) is an American actor best known for appearing in Spy Hard, The Nutty Professor, You Wish, and other films and television series.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA


Anson Leung Chun-Yat

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


Daniel Wu

biography:
Daniel Wu Neh-Tsu (Chinese: 吳彥祖; born September 30, 1974) is a Hong Kong actor and filmmaker. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. A three-time Golden Horse Award winner, he starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.

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place_of_birth: Berkeley, California, USA


Fan Bingbing

biography:
Fan Bingbing (Chinese: 范冰冰, born 16 September 1981 in Yantai) is a Chinese actress. From 2013 to 2017, she was included as the highest-paid celebrity in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006. She appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2017.

Fan's early work was in East Asian cinema and television, notably appearing in drama series My Fair Princess (1998–1999). Her breakthrough came with the film Cell Phone (2003) which was China's highest-grossing film of the year. She went on to star in several Chinese films, which include Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011) and Double Xposure (2012). For headlining the film I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016), Fan won the Silver Shell for Best Actress at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, as well as the Asian Film Award for Best Actress. Her foreign film roles include the French film Stretch (2011), the Korean film My Way (2011), the American superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and the Hong Kong-Chinese-American film Skiptrace (2015).

In 2018, Fan disappeared for three months, reportedly during an investigation into her tax affairs by the Chinese authorities. She was reportedly fined a sum greater than her net worth. She subsequently appeared on social media, offering a public apology over tax evasion, for which she was fined more than CN¥883 million (US$127 million).

place_of_birth: Qingdao, Shandong Province, China


Ki Joo-bong

biography:
Ki Joo-bong, born in 1955, is a South Korean actor. he majored in film and theatre from Sorabol Art University (now part of Chung-Ang University).

He debuted in 1977 when he established the theater company 76 along with his brother KI Guk-seo, also an actor and stage director. They were not earning a lot, but KI didn’t mind.  However, along with his marriage came the moral obligation of feeding his family and so he tried other jobs, without much success. He went back to the stage, and since the late 1990s began to appear in movies.

place_of_birth: South Korea


Laurent Tirard

biography: Laurent Tirard was a French film director and screenwriter. He passed away in Paris on 5 September 2024, at the age of 57, after a long battle with cancer.

place_of_birth: Roubaix, France


Philip Granger

biography:
Philip Granger: is the distinguished recipient of a Gemini Award and two Hollywood Drama-Logue Awards. He has garnered 5 Leo Nominations, A Kevin Spacy Artist of Choice winner, Two Union of B.C. Performer Nominations, Los Angeles Web Fest Best Actor Award Winner and The Union of B.C. Performers Best Emerging Performer Award Winner. You would be hard placed not to find an actor, writer, director or producer in Vancouver that hasn’t worked with Phil Granger on one project or another. With a resume that boast over a hundred acting credits, thirty producing and fifteen directing credits, Phil is one of the most established actors in Canada’s film community.

He holds an impressive resume that includes titles like AMC’s thriller, The Killing, Once Upon A Time, Lucifer, Arrow, Rogue, Paramount Pictures Monster Truck, Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, Caprica, V, Comforting Skin, Southern Justice, Walter Hill’s Broken Trail starring Robert Duvall, Steven Spielberg’s Taken, and the critically acclaimed film, The Paper Moon Affair, for which Phil was nominated for a Leo Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film. Philip will be seen in a starring role in the much-anticipated film “Juggernaut” slated for release 2017. On stage, Phil has starred in or produced over fifty plays, including the original production, The Final, which he had developed along with Bruce Mckintosh in their own private theater company, The Naked Stage, in Los Angeles. Phil would later receive the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Direction.

Phil had begun his acting training almost forty years ago, training under the legendary Stella Adler at Yale University. For the next ten years, Phil would go on to continue his schooling with such pillars of the art like Robert Lewis, George Shadanoff, and Peggy Fury. Phil Granger has been recognized by the Governor General of Canada, Ramon John Hnatyshyn.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, Canada


Adam Marcus

biography:
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Adam Marcus (born 1968) is an American film director, writer and actor.

Marcus was born in Westport, Connecticut in the U.S.. He is the brother of Young Artist Award-nominated actor Kipp Marcus. Marcus attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

He notably directed the 9th entry in the Friday the 13th series Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.

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place_of_birth: Westport, Connecticut, USA


Jean-Marie Poiré

biography:
Jean-Marie Poiré (born 10 July 1945) is a French film director, and screenwriter. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.

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place_of_birth: Paris, France


Bob Newhart

biography: George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitioned his career to acting in television.

place_of_birth: Oak Park, Illinois, USA


Neil Ross

biography:
Neilson David Ross (born 31 December 1944) is a British-American voice actor and announcer, now resident in the United States, working in Los Angeles. Noted for his Trans-Atlantic accent, Ross has provided voices in many American cartoons, most notably Voltron, G.I. Joe, and Transformers. He has also done voice work in numerous video games, including Mass Effect and Leisure Suit Larry 6 and 7. Ross has also provided voice roles (such as radio announcers) for many movies, including Back to the Future Part II, Babe, Quiz Show, and Being John Malkovich.

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place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Ma Jingwu

place_of_birth: Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China


Tara Morice

biography: Tara Morice is an Australian actress, singer, and dancer.

place_of_birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia


Victoria Rowell

biography:
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Victoria "Vicki" Lynn Rowell (born May 10, 1959) is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for her portrayal of ballerina-turned-model Drucilla Winters on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, and medical examiner/pathologist Dr. Amanda Bentley on the CBS drama Diagnosis: Murder. From 1993 to 2000, she appeared on both series simultaneously.

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place_of_birth: Portland, Maine, USA


Marie Kreutzer

biography:
Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian filmmaker. She studied at the Vienna Film Academy with Walter Wippersberg. Her films have been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2022 Cannes Film Festival, 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and 2022 New York Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Graz, Styria, Austria


Scott Cooper

biography:
Scott Cooper (born April 20, 1970) is an American filmmaker and former actor. He is known for the films Crazy Heart (2009), Out of the Furnace (2013), Black Mass (2015), Hostiles (2017), Antlers (2021), The Pale Blue Eye (2022), and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025).

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place_of_birth: Abingdon, Virginia, USA


Nadine Velazquez

biography:
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Nadine E. Velázquez (born November 20, 1978, height 5' 5" (1,65 m)) is an American actress and model known for her roles as Catalina Aruca on My Name Is Earl and Sofia Ruxin on The League.

She has also appeared in films such as War and Flight, and is a cast member on the TV series Major Crimes.Velazquez was born in Chicago, Illinois and is of Puerto Rican descent. After graduating from Notre Dame High School for Girls,she earned a bachelor of arts in marketing from Columbia College Chicago in 2001.

place_of_birth: Chicago - Illinois - USA


Travis Schuldt

biography: Travis Schuldt (born September 18, 1974, height 6' 0¾" (1,85 m)) is an American actor. He originated the role of Ethan Winthrop on the NBC soap opera Passions from 1999 to 2002, and played a recurring role of Keith Dudemeister in the sitcom Scrubs from 2006-2008.

place_of_birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA


Angelica Lee Sin-Jie

biography:
Angelica Lee Sin-Jie (Chinese: 李心潔; pinyin: Lee Sin-je; born 23 January 1976 in Kedah, Malaysia) is a Malaysian Chinese film actress and pop singer.  She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Lee starred in The Eye, the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers, winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Festival and a Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Award. She is among the very few Asian artists to be awarded as Berlin Film Festival Best Newcomer Awards in 2001 for her role in Betelnut Beauty. Lee has also starred in the films 20 30 40 (where she co-starred with the person who discovered her, Sylvia Chang Ai Jia), and Koma. She worked with the Pangs again on Re-cycle, which was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

She is married to director Oxide Pang Shun.

place_of_birth: Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia


Lawrence Chou Chun-Wai

biography: Lawrence Chou Chun-Wai (周俊偉) is a Hong Kong-Canadian singer and actor born 19 April 1979.

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


Phil Daniels

biography:
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Philip "Phil" Daniels (born 25 October 1958, Islington) is an English actor, most noted for film roles as "cockneys" such as Jimmy in Quadrophenia, Richards in Scum, Stewart in The Class of Miss MacMichael, Mark in Meantime, Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, DCS Frank Patterson in New Tricks and Edward Kitchener "Ted" Trotter, or Grandad, in the prequel Only Fools and Horses spin-off, Rock & Chips in 2010 until 2011.

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place_of_birth: Islington, London, England, UK


Kenny Ortega

biography:
Kenneth John 'Kenny' Ortega (born April 18, 1950) is an American producer, director, and choreographer. He is known for directing the High School Musical trilogy and Michael Jackson's This Is It concert tour.

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place_of_birth: Palo Alto, California, USA


Karina Fernandez

biography: Karina Fernandez is a film and television actress.


James Clayton

biography: James Clayton is a producer known for Amazing Grace (2006), Flyboys (2006) and Closer (2004).

known_for_department: Production


Valentine Davies

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Ioan Gruffudd

biography:
Ioan Gruffudd (Welsh: [ˈjɔan ˈɡrɪfɪð]; /ˈjoʊɑːn ˈɡrɪfɪθ/; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh-American actor. He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.

He was first noted for his portrayal of Harold Lowe in Titanic (1997) and for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the Hornblower series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in King Arthur (2004), Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four (2005) and its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006), Tony Blair in W. (2008), and Adam Lockwood in Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024).

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place_of_birth: Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, UK


Irene Bedard

biography: Irene Bedard is a Native American film and television actress, director and producer, best known for voicing the title character in the Pocahontas (1995) animation feature film franchise.

place_of_birth: Anchorage, Alaska, USA


Emmanuel Mouret

biography:
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  Emmanuel Mouret (born 30 June 1970) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.

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place_of_birth: Marseille, France


John Michael McDonagh

biography:
John Michael McDonagh is an English-born film director and screenwriter of Irish descent. He wrote and directed The Guard. His brother is the playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh.

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place_of_birth: Elephant and Castle, London, England


Tony Jay

biography: Tony Jay was an acclaimed British-American actor, voice artist, and singer. He was widely celebrated for his remarkably deep, distinctive baritone voice. His deep register made him a definitive talent for portraying sophisticated, authoritative, and sinister villains across television, film, and video games. He is best known as the voice of Claude Frollo in Walt Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the virus Megabyte in the award-winning CGI animated series ReBoot. A former member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, Jay built a decades-long legacy as one of the most memorable voice actors in modern entertainment history.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Rob Letterman

biography:
Robert Thomas Letterman (born October 31, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut as co-director of the animated comedy film Shark Tale(2004), for which he received a nomination for the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production. He co-directed the animated science fiction comedy  Monsters vs. Aliens (2009).

Letterman has since transitioned into live-action filmmaking, directing the fantasy comedy film Gulliver's Travels (2010), the horror comedy film Goosebumps (2015), and the fantasy mystery film Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019).

Letterman was born in Hawaii and attended Mid-Pacific Institute and USC.

Before joining DreamWorks Animation, Letterman directed the short film Los Gringos, which was accepted at 2000's Sundance Film Festival.

In 2002, Vicky Jenson and Eric "Bibo" Bergeron invited him as a screenwriter (then as co-director) in the making of Shark Tale. In 2010, Letterman directed the live-action film Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black in the lead role. He also directed the live-action/CGI film Pokémon Detective Pikachu, based on the Pokémon videogame franchise. The film was released on May 10, 2019. It grossed $433 million at the box office. It attained the highest percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for a film adaptation of a video game at the time.

In 2020, Netflix announced Letterman as director for an upcoming live-action animated film adaptation of Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil video game. Since then, no further updates have been given for the film since the announcement.

Letterman is in a relationship with Beth Pontrelli and has two children, Jack and Eva.

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place_of_birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA


Mihalis Kakogiannis

biography:
Mihalis Kakogiannis or Michael Cacoyannis (Greek: Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης, Michalis Kakogiannis; 11 June 1922 – 25 July 2011) was a Greek Cypriot filmmaker, best known for his 1964 film Zorba the Greek. He directed the 1983 Broadway revival of the musical based on the film. Much of his work was rooted in classical texts, especially those of the Greek tragedian Euripides. He was nominated for an Academy Award five times, a record for any Cypriot film artist. He received Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film nominations for Zorba the Greek, and two nominations in the Foreign Language Film category for Electra and Iphigenia.

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place_of_birth: Limassol, Cyprus


Kristian Levring

biography:
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Kristian Levring is a Danish director born in 1957 in Denmark. He was the fourth signatory of Dogme95. He lived eight years in France. He graduated in editing at the National Film School of Denmark and has edited a large number of documentaries and feature films besides directing two feature films, among these, Et skud fra hjertet (1986). He is the recipient of some 23 Danish and international awards for his commercials. The King is Alive (Dogme 4) is his third feature film. The King is Alive tells the story of a mixed group of tourists in Namibia, Africa, whose bus breaks down in a remote, abandoned village (formerly a mining town). Facing starvation, dehydration, cabin fever, and death, one of the group decides to stage a production of Shakespeare's King Lear and casts the others as characters. As the thin veneer of civilized behavior breaks down, the group experiences the absurdity of putting on a play (for no audience except one lone indigenous man) in such dire and fatal circumstances. Filmed in stark digital and adhering to the tenets of Dogme filmmaking, The King is Alive is a fascinating study in the dark heart of people under extreme stress. Herzogian in its theme and mood, the film's location (remote Namibia) is as much a character in the film as the actors, like the space ship in Ridley Scott's Alien. The King is Alive features Jennifer Jason-Leigh and Brion James (Blade Runner's "Leon"; Cabin Boy). Dark, tense, and desperate, it stands as a powerful piece of filmmaking. Levring's next film after The King is Alive is called The Intended and features some of the same actors from the former. Set in the jungle of Borneo in the 1920s, it concerns an isolated English settlement/ivory trading station. Similar in nature to The King is Alive, it focuses on what happens to small isolated groups under both internal psychological pressure and external pressure from the environment around them. As The King is Alive was filmed by Dogme rules and restrictions, The Intended instead has steady camera shots (rather than shaky/handheld) and ambient music throughout. Subtle yet powerful, the film explores Conradian contexts through the lens of a female perspective. Its influence can be seen in the Australian frontier film The Proposition.

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place_of_birth: Copenhagen, Denmark


Eleni Anousaki

biography: Eleni - Electra Anousaki (Greek: Ελένη Ανουσάκη, Athens, 1 May 1944) is a Greek actress and politician. Her parents are actress Malaina Anousaki and opera tenor and protagonist of the revue genre, Evangelos Anousakis. She first appeared in cinema in 1950 at the age of six. She was the little girl held by Eleni Hatziargyri in the film I Sinned for My Child, in which her father starred. At the age of 16, she entered the Drama School of the National Theatre as an exceptional talent. She appeared in the film The Red Traffic Lights and was expelled from the school due to her appearance. Later, the decision of the director Thanos Kotsopoulos was overturned and she returned. At the same time, she accepted an invitation from FOX and went to Cinecittà to study, with teachers such as Carol Reed, Rex Harrison, Richard Bard, Monica Vitti, etc. She did not complete her studies, but she played in Carol Reed's film, Agony and Ecstasy. She followed an important career in theater, cinema and television. Her husband is the director and cinematographer Dimitris Papakonstantis.

place_of_birth: Athens, Greece


David Chiang Da-Wei

biography: David Chiang Da-Wei (Chinese: 姜大衛, born 29 June 1947 in Suzhou, Jiangsu), sometimes credited as David Chiang, is a Hong Kong actor, director and producer. This 70's martial arts superstar signed by the Shaw Brothers Studio, has appeared in over 130 films and 30 television series.

place_of_birth: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China


Richard Norton

biography:
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Richard Norton (born 6 January 1950 - died March 28, 2025) was an Australian martial artist, action film star, and stuntman. Norton worked as a bodyguard in the entertainment business before pursuing an acting career. He has attained an eighth-dan in Zen Do Kai, Australia.

His first screen appearance was in the 1980 Chuck Norris film The Octagon, and he worked on over 70 feature films and television programs.

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place_of_birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Annie Golden

biography:
Annie Golden (born October 19, 1951) is an American actress and singer.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Golden began her career as the lead singer of The Shirts (which headlined CBGB's in the late seventies). During the early 90s she performed as part of the duo Golden Carillo with Frank Carillo. They released 3 albums, Fire in Newtown, Toxic Emotion, and Back for More. She then returned to The Shirts. Since then she has performed solo and with a band. She performs a revue of songs from her stage career along with originals called Annie Golden's Velvet Prison.

While with The Shirts she was discovered by Miloš Forman who gave her a part in Hair. She has had featured roles on Cheers and Miami Vice. On Broadway, she has appeared in the 1977 revival of Hair, Leader of the Pack, Ah, Wilderness!, On the Town, and The Full Monty as well as the title role in the workshop of the short lived adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Carrie. She also played the role of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins in 1991. In 2007, she was hired as stand-by actress for the two comic villain roles in Broadway's Xanadu musical. Annie Golden was also the voice of Marina in the Don Bluth film The Pebble and the Penguin.

Golden has the distinct honor of having appeared in three separate versions of Hair: a Broadway revival in 1977, the motion picture in 1979 and a special benefit performance concert in 2004. In recent years, she has been seen in commercials for Coinstar, in which she portrays The Tooth Fairy. Annie's trade mark is her over bite.

She appeared in the movie musical Temptation with actors Adam Pascal, Tony Award Winners Alice Ripley and Anika Noni Rose, and film actress Zoe Saldana and in 2009 had a small role in I Love You Phillip Morris, with actors Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey, playing a simple woman requiring legal assistance.

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place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA


George Tillman Jr.

biography:
George Tillman Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American film director and producer. He attended John Marshall High School in Milwaukee, where he took Mass Communications magnet classes. He graduated from Columbia College in Chicago in 1991 with a major in Film and Video.

Tillman is most notable for directing the films Soul Food (1997) and Men of Honor (2000). He is also the producer of the Soul Food: The Series on television and the three films in the Barbershop series: Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, and Beauty Shop. He also directed the 2009 biopic Notorious about the New York-born rapper Notorious B.I.G.

place_of_birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA


Hiroshi Abe

biography: Hiroshi Abe (born June 22, 1964) is a Japanese model and actor. He began his career as a model, but he successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences in Japanese media. He is a 1988 graduate of Chuo University.

place_of_birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan


Jesse García

biography:
Jesse García (born December 14, 1982) is a Mexican-American actor. He is known for his roles in Quinceañera and Flamin' Hot, for which he won Imagen Awards Best Actor.

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place_of_birth: Rawlins, Wyoming, USA


Hiroshi Saitou

biography: Hiroshi Saitou is a screenwriter. He wrote many scripts for Nikkatsu Roman Porno films during the 1980's.

place_of_birth: Japan


Todd Solondz

biography:
Todd Solondz (/ˈsoʊləndz/; born October 15, 1959) is an American filmmaker and playwright known for his style of dark, socially conscious satire. Solondz's work has received critical acclaim for its commentary on the "dark underbelly of middle-class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background in New Jersey. His work includes Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2004), Life During Wartime (2009), Dark Horse (2011), and Wiener-Dog (2016). He is also a professor at New York University.

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place_of_birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA


George Wendt

biography: George Robert Wendt Jr. was an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Atticus Shaffer

biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Atticus Shaffer (born June 19, 1998) is an American actor, known for portraying Matty Newton in the 2009 supernatural horror-thriller film The Unborn and Brick Heck in the ABC comedy TV series, The Middle.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Atticus Shaffer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

place_of_birth: Santa Clarita, California, USA


Sumalee Montano

biography: Sumalee Montano (Thai: สุมาลีรัตน์ มอนทาโน; RTGS: Sumalirat Monthano; born August 3, 1972) is an American actress and voice actress. Born in Columbus, Ohio, she had worked as an investment bank analyst in New York City and Hong Kong before starting her acting career and is also a writer. She has acted in ER, Minority Report, The West Wing, Boston Legal, Bones, Nip/Tuck, Hancock and Commander in Chief. As a voice actress, she has provided the voices of the President in Saints Row IV, Yerema in Dead Island, Cali in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Arcee in Transformers: Prime and Mera in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. She resides and works on her career in Los Angeles.

place_of_birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA


Matt Bomer

biography:
Matthew Staton Bomer (born October 11, 1977) is an American actor. He is the recipient of accolades such as a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

In 2000, he made his television debut on the long-running soap opera All My Children. Bomer graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Soon after, he had a contract role on Guiding Light, as well as appearing on primetime shows, including Tru Calling.

In 2005, Bomer made his film debut in the mystery-thriller Flightplan, then in 2007 gained recognition with his recurring role in the NBC television series Chuck. 2009 saw Bomer then land the lead role of con-artist and thief Neal Caffrey in the USA Network series White Collar with the series lasting to 2014. He has featured in supporting roles in the 2011 science fiction thriller In Time, the 2012 comedy-drama Magic Mike and its 2015 sequel, the 2014 supernatural-drama Winter's Tale, and the 2016 neo-noir film The Nice Guys. In 2015, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for playing a closeted writer of The New York Times in the drama television film The Normal Heart about the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City. Bomer made a guest appearance on the fourth season of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story. He was later upgraded to the main cast during the fifth season. In 2017 he received praise for his performances in the drama films Walking Out, Anything, and the 2018 comedy-drama Papi Chulo. He portrays Larry Trainor in the DC Universe series Doom Patrol, which premiered in 2019.

On stage, Bomer starred in the Dustin Lance Black play 8 on Broadway, and at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles as Jeff Zarrillo, a plaintiff in the federal case that overturned California's Proposition 8. In 2018 he starred in revival of the Mart Crowley play The Boys in the Band on Broadway playing Donald; he reprised his role for the 2020 film of the same name.

place_of_birth: Webster Groves, Missouri, USA


Liang Yusheng

biography: Liang Yusheng (1924.3.22~2009.1.22), formerly known as Chen Wentong, was a famous Chinese martial arts novelist. Together with Jin Yong and Gu Long, he is known as the three great masters of Chinese martial arts novels, and is known as the founder of the new school of martial arts novels.

place_of_birth: Guangxi, China


Finola Hughes

biography:
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Finola Hughes  (born 29 October 1959; London, England) is an English actress and author, who is best known for her portrayal of Anna Devane on the soap operas General Hospital, All My Children and General Hospital: Night Shift (season 2), and her portrayal of Anna Devane's identical twin sister, Doctor Alexandra Devane Marick, on All My Children. She also guest starred as Patty Halliwell on the supernatural series, Charmed.

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place_of_birth: Kensington, London, England, UK