Anton Chekhov

biography:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

The son of a former serf, Chekhov started out supporting his family by writing popular comic sketches as a medicine student. While practicing as a doctor, he produced his first full-length play, Ivanov (1887). He took up serious themes with stories such as “The Steppe” (1888) and “A Dreary Story” (1889); later stories include “Ward Number Six” (1892), “The Black Monk” (1894) and “The Lady with the Dog” (1899). His play The Seagull (1896) was badly received until its successful revival in 1899 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre.  After this he converted his earlier work The Wood Demon (1889) into the universally acclaimed play Uncle Vanya (1897). To nurse his eventually fatal tuberculosis he moved to the Crimea, where he wrote his famous last plays, Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

place_of_birth: Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]


Alexandra Daddario

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biography: Alexandra Anna Daddario (born March 16, 1986) is an American actress. She had her breakthrough portraying Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson film series (2010–2013). She has since starred as Paige in Hall Pass (2011), Heather Miller in Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), Blake Gaines in San Andreas (2015), Summer Quinn in Baywatch (2017), and Alexis Butler in We Summon the Darkness (2019). She has also guest starred in television series such as White Collar, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, True Detective, New Girl, and American Horror Story: Hotel. In 2021, she starred in the first season of the HBO series The White Lotus, for which she received widespread critical acclaim and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2022.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA

known_for_department: Acting


Adjoa Andoh

biography: Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. On stage, she has played lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre.

place_of_birth: Bristol, England, UK


Lee Toland Krieger

biography: American film director and screenwriter best known for the films The Vicious Kind (2009), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), and The Age of Adaline (2015). Krieger was born and raised in Los Angeles. He became "hooked" on filmmaking at the age of 13 when his neighbor, film producer Steve Perry, brought him to the set of the 1996 film Executive Decision.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

known_for_department: Directing


Kristen Schaal

biography:
Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/; born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls, as well as for playing Mel on Flight of the Conchords, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provides several voices for BoJack Horseman, most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game, Anthem.  Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a secretary.

Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older. She graduated from Northwestern University and then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".

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place_of_birth: Longmont, Colorado, USA


Christina Hendricks

biography: Christina Renée Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress and former model. With an extensive career on screen and stage, she has received various accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She is probably best known for her role as Joan Harris in the critically acclaimed AMC drama series Mad Men. In 2010, a poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine named her "the sexiest woman in the world". She was also voted "Best Looking Woman in America".

place_of_birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA


Stephen J. Cannell

biography: Actor / Producer / Writer.

known_for_department: Creator


Samuel Maoz

biography:
Samuel Maoz (born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film Lebanon won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Tel Aviv, Israel


Toby Wallace

biography: Toby Wallace (born 6 June 1995) is a British-born Australian actor, known for his role in Babyteeth (2019), for which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and the AACTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2020.

place_of_birth: Westminster, London, England, UK


Pip Miller

biography: Pip Miller is an actor.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Pernille Fischer Christensen

place_of_birth: Copenhagen, Denmark


Ikuya Sawaki

biography: Sawaki Ikuya was born August 25, 1951 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He is a veteran voice actor who currently is affiliated with Arts Vision, previously he was a member of Haikyou. His real name is Mikami Yoshinobu (三上 芳信).

place_of_birth: Chiba Prefecture, Japan


Penn Badgley

biography:
Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor. He is primarily known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You (2018–2025). For Gossip Girl, he received six Teen Choice Award nominations, and for You, he earned MTV Movie & TV Award and Saturn Award nominations.

Badgley first became known for portraying Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000–2001), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination, and he followed this with roles in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Drive-Thru (2007). Badgley went on to appear in a number of films, such as the thriller The Stepfather (2009), the teen comedy-drama Easy A (2010), the financial thriller Margin Call (2011), the biographical film Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012) and the independent drama The Paper Store (2016). For Margin Call, he won an Independent Spirit Award.

place_of_birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Skyler Samuels

biography: Skyler Rose Samuels (born 4 April 1994) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Kathy, a producer for unscripted series, and Scott, a U.S. marshal. She has three brothers, Cody, Harrison, and Jack, and one sister, Heather. In 2024 Skyler is married to Lucas Till and they have one child.


Jamie Harris

biography: Tudor St. John "Jamie" Harris (born 15 May 1963) is an English actor. He is the son of actor Richard Harris and socialite Elizabeth Rees-Williams. His two brothers are actor Jared Harris and director Damian Harris.

place_of_birth: Whitechapel, London, England, UK


Satoko Yokohama

place_of_birth: Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan


Ryo Sugimoto

biography: Ryo Sugimoto (杉本 亮, Sugimoto Ryō, born 1976) is a Japanese art director. He received the the Best Art Award of the Japan Academy for the films Villain and Unforgiven directed by Lee Sang-il.

place_of_birth: Japan

known_for_department: Art


Naoko Kouda

biography: Naoko Kouda (幸田 直子, Kōda Naoko, born March 22, 1959) is a Japanese actress and voice actress from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Her real name and former stage name is Yumiko Sato (佐藤 由美子, Satō Yumiko). She also worked under the stage name of Naoko Kouda (幸田 奈穂子, Kōda Naoko). She is affiliated with Remax. She was formerly affiliated with Mausu Promotion, Mouvement and Office Kaoru.

place_of_birth: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan


Peter North

biography:
North has appeared in over 2000 adult films and also directed more than 70 movies (notably, his North Pole and Anal Addicts series), most of them between 1998 and 2007. He also produced over 20 movies, including 15 in the North Pole series. In 2001, he successfully launched his own production company, Northstar Associates.

He became famous for his large and impressive cumshots.

place_of_birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


Richie Sambora

biography:
Richard Stephen 'Richie' Sambora (born July 11, 1959) is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, and singer/songwriter who was the longtime lead guitarist of the popular rock band Bon Jovi. He and frontman Jon Bon Jovi formed the primary songwriting unit of the band. He is also a solo artist, having released three solo albums: Stranger in This Town in 1991, Undiscovered Soul in 1998, and Aftermath of the Lowdown released in September 2012.

In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi, and reunited with his former bandmates for a performance at the induction ceremony. That year, he formed the duo RSO alongside his girlfriend, Orianthi. After two EPs, the pair released their debut album Radio Free America in May.

He was listed by Time magazine as one of the best guitarists of all time.

He was married to actress Heather Locklear from 1994 until their divorce in 2007; they have a daughter, Ava, born in 1997. He dated Australian guitarist/singer-songwriter Orianthi from 2014 to 2018.

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place_of_birth: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA


Tico Torres

biography:
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Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres (born October 7, 1953) is an American drummer and percussionist for Bon Jovi. He also has taken lead vocals on a song on the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as backing vocals on a couple of the early Bon Jovi tracks, notably "Born to Be My Baby" and "Love for Sale".

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place_of_birth: New York, USA


David Bryan

biography:
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David Bryan (born David Bryan Rashbaum; February 7, 1962) is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song "In These Arms", one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him as songwriter. He is considered one of the best keyboard players in rock history, and is also the writer of the successful Broadway musical Memphis.

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place_of_birth: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.


Ahn Sang-hoon

biography: Ahn Sang-hoon (안상훈) is a South Korean director.

place_of_birth: South Korea


J Blakeson

biography: Jonathan "J" Blakeson is an English film director and screenwriter. His first feature film was The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009), followed by The 5th Wave (2016) and I Care a Lot (2020).

place_of_birth: Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK


Sophie Nyweide

biography:
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Sophie Nyweide (July 8, 2000 - April 14, 2025) was a child actress. She was best known for her roles in Bella, Mammoth and the lead child role in An Invisible Sign.

place_of_birth: Burlington, Vermont, USA


Jason Mantzoukas

biography:
Jason Mantzoukas, born on December 18, 1972, in Nahant, Massachusetts, is an American actor, comedian, and improviser known for his eccentric characters and quick-witted humor. His comedic journey began with improvisational comedy, where his sharp wit and knack for off-the-wall characters shone.

Mantzoukas gained recognition for his roles in various comedy series and films, often portraying eccentric and unpredictable characters. He's notably known for his roles in TV shows like "The League," where he portrayed the eccentric Rafi, and his recurring role as Derek in "The Good Place." His performances are characterized by his ability to infuse even the most absurd characters with a bizarre charm and infectious energy.

With a knack for stealing scenes and a unique comedic timing that keeps audiences on the edge of laughter, Mantzoukas has become a beloved figure in the comedy world. His distinctive voice and comedic style have also led to numerous voice acting roles in animated series and films.

place_of_birth: Nahant, Massachusetts, USA


Takako Matsu

biography: Takako Matsu is a Japanese actress and pop singer born on June 10, 1977. She gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s through hit  TV dramas starring alongside Takuya Kimura, including the massive success Long Vacation (1996) and Love Generation (1997). These roles established her as a leading actress in television. She has received Best Actress awards multiple time in her career.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Matthew Warchus

place_of_birth: Rochester, England, UK


Judi Barrett

biography:
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Judi Barrett is an author of several picture books, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing. Several of her most popular books are illustrated by her former husband Ron Barrett.

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place_of_birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

known_for_department: Writing


Ron Barrett

biography:
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Ron Barrett is a cartoonist and artist best known for illustrating Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. He is a graduate of the High School of Industrial Art, now the High School of Art and Design, in New York City. While still in high school he was an apprentice in the studio of Lucian Bernhard, the great German graphic designer. He also found a mentor in Ervine Metzl, illustrator and President of the Society of Illustrators, who predicted that the young Mr. Barrett "...would either wind up in a mental institution or make a million dollars." After early success as an art director at Young & Rubicam and Carl Ally, winning the Gold Medal of the Art Directors Club of New York, he left advertising to become an illustrator, author and puzzle maker. He wrote The Nutty News and has illustrated many books, such as a series of children's books with Judi Barrett, including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing. He has also worked on several books for adults, including the best-selling O. J.'s Legal Pad with Henry Beard and John Boswell. In 2009 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs became an animated feature in 3D, created by Sony Animation.

During the 1970s he had many comic strips in the National Lampoon comic pages, of which the best remembered is perhaps "Politeness Man".

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Andrew McNee

biography: Andrew McNee (born 25 December 1974) is a Canadian actor, best known for starring as Coach Malone in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise and Hoss in Scary Movie 4.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Lou Rawls

biography: Louis Allen Rawls was an American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and record producer. Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably his song "You'll Never Find Another Love like Mine". He worked as a film, television, and voice actor. He was also a three-time Grammy-winner, all for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Edrick Browne

biography: Edrick Browne is known for Stolen (2012), Ender's Game (2013) and Snitch (2013).

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


Dylan Minnette

biography:
Dylan Christopher Minnette (born December 29, 1996) is an American actor, musician, and singer. He is known for his role as Clay Jensen in the Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why. He has made guest appearances in several television series, such as Lost, Awake, Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural, Prison Break, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. He is also the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the American alternative rock band Wallows.

In films, Minnette has appeared in the horror film Let Me In (2010), the thriller film Prisoners (2013), the family comedy film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), the family fantasy film Goosebumps (2015), and the horror films Don't Breathe (2016), The Open House (2018) and Scream (2022).

place_of_birth: Evansville, Indiana, USA


Kaj-Erik Eriksen

biography: Kaj-Erik Eriksen (pronounced "Kai-Erik") is a Canadian actor. Over a career spanning four decades, he transitioned from a prominent child star to a versatile television staple across the United States and Canada. He is most widely recognized for playing Michael Chiklis's son, David Scali, on the hit 1990s police drama The Commish and Danny Farrell on the sci-fi thriller series The 4400.


Lily Collins

biography:
Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress and model. Born in Guildford, Surrey and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC comedy drama Growing Pains. In the late 2000s, Collins began acting and modelling more regularly, and she had a career breakthrough with her performance in the sports-drama film The Blind Side, which was the third highest-grossing film of 2009. She went on to appear in leading roles across feature films such as the sci-fi action-horror Priest (2011), the psychological action-thriller Abduction (2011), the fantasy Mirror Mirror (2012), the urban fantasy The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), and the independent romantic comedies Stuck in Love (2012), The English Teacher (2013), and Love, Rosie (2014).

Collins was critically acclaimed for her roles as Marla Mabrey in the comedy Rules Don't Apply (2016), which earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and for her portrayal of a young adult with anorexia in the controversial Netflix drama To the Bone (2017). She has also achieved recognition for her work in biographical films: she starred as Liz Kendall in the Netflix drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), as J.R.R. Tolkien's wife Edith in Tolkien (2019), and as Rita Alexander in Mank (2020), the latter of which was a critical success, earning 10 Academy Award nominations.

Collins played Fantine in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables (2018–2019), and, since 2020, she has portrayed Emily Cooper in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She made her writing debut with Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (2017) in which she discussed her struggles with mental health, including an eating disorder she suffered as a teenager.

place_of_birth: Guildford, Surrey, England, UK


Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

biography:
Sara Hjort Ditlevsen is a Danish actress. She got her breakthrough in the role of Katrin in the TV Show Performances. In 2010 she was nominated for the Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and in 2013 she received the Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Excuse Me.

Ditlevsen's mother is a school teacher and her father is a physicist. She has two sisters, Amalie and Lea. Ditlevsen lived with her family in a commune until the age of 15. After she graduated High School she moved to Berlin for a year after which she moved to Vesterbro in Copenhagen.

place_of_birth: København, Danmark


Emily Alyn Lind

biography:
Emily Alyn Lind (born 2002) is an American actress best known as Vanessa in the Hallmark movie, November Christmas and as Emma in All My Children. She's the daughter of actress Barbara Alyn Woods and John Lind. She has an older sister, Natalie Lind, and a younger sister, Alyvia Lind.

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place_of_birth: Illinois, USA


Pinky Cheung Man-Chi

biography: Pinky Cheung Man-Chi grew up in Hong Kong, but spent some of her schooling years abroad in the USA and Japan. After the attention brought by her presence in the Miss Asia contest, she was signed up by ATV and was in a number of TV series – one of the most popular being My Date with a Vampire. After this she embarked on a series of horror films.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Chuck Michael

biography: Chuck Michael is an Emmy-nominated sound designer.

known_for_department: Sound


Susanna White

biography:
Susanna White (born 1960 or 1961) is a British television and film director.

She spent 12 years making documentaries for BBC2, but is best known for directing the BBC miniseries Jane Eyre, the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, and the Disney+ series Andor. She has won multiple awards, including one BAFTA Television Award, and received numerous nominations, including nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two BAFTA Awards.

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place_of_birth: England, UK


Alexandra Lamy

biography:
Alexandra Lamy (born 14 October 1971) is a French actress.

Lamy was born in Villecresnes, near Paris, but grew up in Languedoc-Roussillon. When she was six months old, her parents, Michel and Michèle, moved the family to La Grande-Motte in Southern France. A few years later, her family moved again to Alès, where her father ran a fabric shop. She fell in love with theatre while performing in school plays. She later moved to Paris to begin her career, where she worked to lose her southern French accent.

Her sister, Audrey Lamy, is also an actress and currently stars in the French sitcom Scènes de ménage. Their cousin is the politician François Lamy.

From 1999 to 2003, she starred in Un gars, une fille.

Lamy started dating her Un gars, une fille costar Jean Dujardin in 2003. They married in 2009, and divorced in 2013.

She was previously in a relationship with actor Thomas Jouannet from 1995 to 2003, with whom she had a daughter, Chloé, born in October 1997.

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place_of_birth: Villecresnes, Val-de-Marne, France


Peter Sherayko

place_of_birth: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA


Kajal Aggarwal

biography:
Kajal Aggarwal is an Indian film actress and  model. One of the most popular Indian celebrities, she has established a  career in the Telugu and Tamil film industries and has been nominated for four Filmfare Awards South. In addition to acting, Kajal participates in stage shows and is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products.

Aggarwal made her acting debut with the 2004 Bollywood film Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... and had her first Telugu film release in 2007 Lakshmi Kalyanam. In the same year, she starred in the box office hit Chandamama, which earned her recognition. The 2009 historical fiction Telugu film Magadheera marked a turning point in her career, earning her critical acclaim. It ranks among the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time and fetched her Best Actress nominations at several award ceremonies including Filmfare.

She subsequently rose to prominence by starring in several critical and commercially successful Telugu films like Darling (2010), Brindavanam (2010), Mr. Perfect (2011), Businessman (2012), Naayak (2013), Baadshah (2013), Govindudu Andarivadele (2014), Temper (2015) and established herself as one of the leading and highest-paid actresses in Tollywood.[8]

Kajal gained further recognition by featuring as the female lead in the high-profile Tamil projects Naan Mahaan Alla (2010), Maattrraan (2012), Thuppakki (2012), Jilla (2014), Maari (2015) and emerged as a leading actress in Kollywood as well. She made a comeback to Bollywood with Singham (2011) which was a blockbuster while her Special 26 (2013) was also declared a box-office success.

place_of_birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India


Michael Trevino

biography: Michael Trevino (born January 25, 1985 in Montebello, California) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Tyler Lockwood on The Vampires Diaries.

place_of_birth: Montebello, California, USA


Friedrich Mücke

biography: Friedrich Mücke (born 12 March 1981) is a German actor who has appeared in more than twenty films since 2006, many of which have tackled issues relating to the former GDR.

place_of_birth: Berlin, Germany


Luke Evans

biography:
Luke George Evans (born 15 April 1979) is a Welsh actor. Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake. Following his debut, Evans was cast in such action and thriller films as Immortals (2011), The Raven (2012), and the re-imagined The Three Musketeers (2011).

In 2013, Evans starred as the main antagonist Owen Shaw in the blockbuster Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character's film origin story, Dracula Untold. In 2017, Evans starred as Gaston in Disney's live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and portrayed American psychologist William Moulton Marston, creator of fictional character Wonder Woman, in the biographical drama Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

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place_of_birth: Pontypool, Wales, UK


David Michôd

biography:
David Michôd (/ˈmɪʃoʊ/ MISH-oh;) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010) and dystopian drama The Rover(2014). He also co-wrote Hesher (2010).

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place_of_birth: Sydney, Australia


Danielle Campbell

biography:
Danielle Campbell (born January 30, 1995) is an American actress, best known for her role as Jessica Olson in the 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck. Campbell is from Hinsdale, Illinois. Her parents are Georganne and John Campbell. She was discovered in a hair salon in Chicago. Her first big break was as a guest star on Prison Break appearing in four episodes. She also appeared in a nationwide commercial for Build-A-Bear Workshop and played the character of Darla in the 2008 movie The Poker House. In 2010, she appeared in the Disney television movie Starstruck, and has signed a development deal with the company. She starred in the movie Prom, released on April 29, 2011, costarring with Nicholas Braun (Lloyd), Nolan Sotillo (Cameron), and Aimee Teegarden (Nova).

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place_of_birth: Hinsdale, Illinois, USA


Alexandra Jiménez

place_of_birth: Zaragoza, Spain


Bettie Page

biography:
Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She has often been called the "Queen of Pinups". Her look, including her jet black hair, blue eyes and trademark bangs, has influenced many artists.

She was "Miss January 1955", one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine. "I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society," Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told the Associated Press.

In 1959, she converted to born-again Christianity, and later worked for Billy Graham. Her later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state psychiatric hospital.

place_of_birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA


Roberto Fontanarrosa

biography: Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa (Rosario, November 26, 1944 – ibid., July 19, 2007) was an Argentine cartoonist, illustrator, screenwriter, comic strip artist,a and writer.

place_of_birth: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina


Raj Lal

biography: Raj Lal is a Canadian actor and stunt performer who is best known for appearing in a wide variety of television series and blockbuster feature films, often in supporting, guest or uncredited roles. Aside from acting, he is an avid Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and drag racing champion.

place_of_birth: British Columbia, Canada


Roman Vasyanov

biography:
Roman Sergeyevich Vasyanov, ASC, RGC (Russian: Роман Сергеевич Васьянов; born October 24, 1980, in Moscow) is a Russian cinematographer. He is best known for his collaborations with director David Ayer and the Russian musical film Stilyagi, for which he was nominated for a Golden Eagle Award for Best Cinematography.

Roman Vasyanov was born on October 24, 1980, in Moscow, in a Russian family. As a child, he was engaged in photography with his father, who worked at the ZIL automobile plant. Made photos and videos as a freelancer for magazines and newspapers. Later, thanks to his father's friend M. D. Koroptsov, he got acquainted with the profession of a cameraman. In 1998 he entered VGIK (the workshop of V. I. Yusov). At the XXIV International Film Festival, VGIK received the prize for the best camera work in the film "Hide and Seek" (dir. V. Panov). While studying at VGIK, he worked as an assistant cameraman to Yu. Raisky on the set of the cult TV series Brigada. Graduated from VGIK in 2003. Filmed over 300 commercials for Philips, Puma, Budweiser, Dell, Pepsi, and others.

In 2008, he was the cinematographer for Valery Todorovsky's cult film Stilyagi. In 2012 he worked on David Ayer's police thriller End of Watch, which earned him a nomination as Best Cinematographer at the 28th Independent Spirit Awards. Afterwards Vasyanov worked on the movies The Motel Life and The East.

Vasyanov again teamed up with Ayer for the World War II film Fury and the comic book adaptation Suicide Squad.

Vasyanov has been a member of the Russian Guild of Cinematographers and the American Society of Cinematographers since 2022.

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place_of_birth: Moscow, Russia

known_for_department: Camera


Bo Burnham

biography:
Robert Pickering "Bo" Burnham (born August 21, 1990) is an American comedian, musician, actor, film director, screenwriter, and poet. He began his career on YouTube in March 2006, with his videos gaining more than 300 million views as of March 2021.

Burnham signed a four-year record deal with Comedy Central Records and released his debut EP, Bo fo Sho, in 2008. His first full-length album, Bo Burnham, was released the following year. At the age of 18, he became the youngest person to record a half-hour comedy special with Comedy Central. In 2010, his second album, Words Words Words, was released along with his first live comedy special of the same name on Comedy Central. His third album and second comedy special, what., was released in 2013 on his YouTube channel and Netflix. He finished in first place at the 2011 Comedy Central Stand-up Showdown. His third stand-up comedy special, Make Happy, was released exclusively on Netflix in 2016. His fourth comedy special, Bo Burnham: Inside, premiered on Netflix in 2021.

In 2013, Burnham co-created and starred in the MTV television series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and released a book of poetry called Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone. His first feature film as a writer and director, Eighth Grade, was released in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim; among other accolades, it received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. In 2020, Burnham starred as Ryan Cooper in the film Promising Young Woman.

place_of_birth: Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA


Kaya Scodelario

biography: Kaya Rose Scodelario-Davis (née Humphrey; born 13 March 1992) is an English actress best known for her roles as Effy Stonem on the E4 teen drama Skins (2007–2010, 2013), and Teresa in the Maze Runner film series (2014–2018). Other roles include Catherine Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights (2011), Carina Smyth in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Carole Ann Boone in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Haley Keller in Crawl (2019), Katarina Baker in the Netflix original series Spinning Out (2020) and Claire Redfield in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021).

place_of_birth: Haywards Heath, West Sussex, London, England, UK


Júlia Lemmertz

biography: Júlia Lemmertz Dias (Porto Alegre, March 18, 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is known for her dramatic performances in films, on stage and on television. She has already received several awards, including a Grande Otelo, a Candango from the Brasília Festival and two Quality Brazil Awards, in addition to having received three nominations for the Guarani Prize, and a nomination for the Molière Prize for the play Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar, by Arnaldo Jabor. She is the daughter of actors Linneu Dias and Lílian Lemmertz.

place_of_birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil


Sydney Sweeney

biography:
Sydney Bernice Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is an American actress. She rose to prominence with her roles in the teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–2026) and the first season (2021) of the acclaimed anthology series The White Lotus, and in films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019). She is also known for her performances in The Handmaid’s Tale (2018), the romantic comedy Anyone but You (2023), and the psychological thriller The Housemaid (2025).

Born in Spokane, Washington, Sweeney is the eldest child of Lisa (née Mudd) Sweeney, a lawyer, and Steven Sweeney, a healthcare professional. In her youth, her parents encouraged her to explore many interests, leading her to participate in sports like soccer, skiing, golf, and mixed martial arts, as well as ballet. Determined to become an actress, she auditioned for and landed a role in the independent horror film ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) near her hometown. Her younger brother Trent also appeared in the film. She convinced her family to move to Los Angeles to support her career. Her early guest roles included Heroes, Criminal Minds, 90210, Grey’s Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, and In the Vault.

Sweeney’s career gained major momentum in 2018 with her role as Emaline Addario in the Netflix series Everything Sucks!. That same year she played Eden Spencer in The Handmaid’s Tale and appeared alongside Amy Adams in Sharp Objects. In 2019 she was cast as Cassie Howard in Euphoria, a breakout performance that brought her widespread acclaim and a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2022 for her portrayal of a complex teenager navigating friendship, sexuality, and identity issues.

2021 she starred in the first season of The White Lotus as Olivia Mossbacher, the privileged daughter of wealthy parents at a luxury Hawaiian resort. The character deals with sibling rivalry, drug use, betrayal, and parental pressure. Her performance earned her a second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series in 2022.

In film, Sweeney has appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as a member of the Manson Family, earned critical acclaim as Reality Winner in Reality (2023), starred in the hit rom-com Anyone but You (2023), appeared in Madame Web (2024) and Immaculate (2024), portrayed boxer Christy Martin in the 2025 biopic Christy, and starred in The Housemaid (2025).

2020 she founded the production company Fifty-Fifty Films to support female authors, screenwriters, and producers. The company has backed several of her projects, including Anyone but You, Immaculate, and Christy.

Beyond acting, Sweeney has made headlines with marketing campaigns. In May 2025 she released “Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss,” a Dr. Squatch soap made with her own bathwater. The 5,000 bars sold out quickly and were resold at a profit. The campaign drew mixed reactions, with some criticizing the perceived sexualization while others saw it as empowering. Two months later, her American Eagle ad with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” in which she discussed genetics and heritability, sparked intense debate. Some accused it of promoting eugenics, while others called it a clever play on words.

place_of_birth: Spokane, Washington, USA


Tien Niu

biography: Tien Niu (Chinese: 恬妞, born 23 January 1958) is a Taiwanese actress. She won the Best Actress Award at the 15th Golden Horse Awards for her role in "The Diary of Di-Di."

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Adam Yauch

biography:
Adam Nathaniel Yauch (August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012), was a founding member of hip hop trio the Beastie Boys. He was frequently known by his stage name, MCA, and other pseudonyms such as Nathanial Hörnblowér.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Charlotte Riley

biography:
Charlotte Frances Riley (born 29 December 1981) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue (2008) and  Catherine Earnshaw in ITV's adaptation of Wuthering Heights (2009).

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place_of_birth: Grindon, England, UK


Eric Edwards

biography: Eric Edwards has gained recognition on the big screen and on television, in live theater, and on the stand-up comedy circuit, working non-stop in all four mediums. In fact, in one year, Eric co-starred in two feature films, one television movie, and an original one-man show, all while simultaneously continuing as an active member and teacher of the prominent Los Angeles-based repertory group, Playhouse West. Eric produced, co-wrote, and co-starred in Fatman and Mr. Taco which was awarded Best Feature Film at the 11th annual East L.A. Chicano/Chicana Film Festival.  Eric got his feet wet in stand-up comedy opening for headliners like Andrew "Dice" Clay. His high-energy performances have entertained audiences in concert halls across the country and he's made numerous guest TV appearances including Fox's Townsend Television, BET's The Comic View, and as Tonya Harding's heavy-set hit man in Showtime's award-winning special, Attack of the 5'2" Women. Also, Eric appeared in the television movie Junior in Love in duel roles.  IMDb Mini Biography By: Tricia Edwards

place_of_birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA


Danny John-Jules

biography: Danny John-Jules is a British actor, singer and dancer. He is best known for his role as Cat in the science-fiction comedy, Red Dwarf, as well as his role as Dwayne Myers in the crime drama, Death in Paradise. He was also a protagonist in the hit CBBC children's spy drama M.I. High, in which he portrayed Lenny Bicknall, the caretaker.

place_of_birth: London, England


Paul Levesque

biography:
Paul Michael Levesque is an American professional wrestler, actor and WWE executive, better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley. As well as wrestling on the Raw brand, Levesque is a Senior Advisor to WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, and Head of WWE's talent development department.

Before joining WWE, Levesque began his wrestling career with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994, wrestling under the ring name Terra Ryzing and later as Jean-Paul Lévesque. Levesque joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1995 with the on-screen persona of wealthy sophisticate Hunter Hearst Helmsley.  He later abbreviated his name to Triple H and adopted an alternative image in the stable D-Generation X (DX). After the dissolution of DX, Triple H was pushed as a main event wrestler, winning several singles championships.  As part of a storyline, Triple H married Stephanie McMahon, who later became his real-life spouse. In 2003, Triple H formed another stable known as Evolution,  and in 2006 and 2009, reformed DX with Shawn Michaels. Overall, Levesque has won 23 championships in WWF/E, including thirteen World Championships, having won the WWF/E Championship a record eight times (tied with John Cena), and the World Heavyweight Championship five times (Triple H is also recognized as the first World Heavyweight Champion under WWE's lineage).  He has the highest number of world title reigns of all active WWE wrestlers. In addition, Levesque won the 1997 King of the Ring, the 2002 Royal Rumble, and was the second Grand Slam Championship winner. Outside wrestling, Levesque has made numerous guest appearances in film and on television

place_of_birth: Nashua, New Hampshire, USA


Jehane Noujaim

biography:
Jehane Noujaim is an Egyptian American documentary film director best-known for her films Control Room, Startup.com and Pangea Day.

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place_of_birth: Washington, D.C., USA


Naoki Urasawa

biography: Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. By December 2021, his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide.

place_of_birth: Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan


Logan Miller

biography: Logan Miller (born February 18, 1992) is an American actor. He is known for Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) and Love, Simon (2017), as well as the Escape Room franchise (2019–2021).

place_of_birth: Englewood, Colorado, USA


Masato Hagiwara

biography:
Masato Hagiwara (born August 21, 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He is employed by Alpha Agency.

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place_of_birth: Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan


Yuuka Nanri

biography: Yuuka Nanri is a Japanese pop singer, voice actress and former child star. She is affiliated with Space Craft Entertainment. Yuuka (vocals) collaborates with Japanese composer Yuki Kajiura (composition, lyrics and keyboards) in the Japanese pop duo FictionJunction YUUKA.

place_of_birth: Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan


Philip Dunne

biography:
Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox. He crafted well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s–1950s. He is best known for the films How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Robe (1953) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).[1]

Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting: How Green Was My Valley (1941) and David and Bathsheba (1951). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel The Agony and the Ecstasy, as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), including the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

Many notable directors worked with Dunne's screenplays, including Carol Reed, John Ford, Jacques Tourneur, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Michael Curtiz, among others.

place_of_birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA


David A.R. White

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

David Andrew Roy White, also known as David White, is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. He grew up in a small farming town that was located outside of Dodge City, Kansas. He is a co-founder of Pure Flix Entertainment, a distribution and production company. The company's first film was Hidden Secrets.

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place_of_birth: Dodge City, Kansas, USA


Rocco Reed

biography: Rocco Reed was born on July 26, 1982 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA as Joshua Luke Broome. He is an actor and director. Became engaged to Asa Akira on 25 February 2010. The couple called off their nuptials in 2011. Former Men.com exclusive model. Announced his retirement from the adult industry on May 17, 2013.

place_of_birth: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA


Stephanie Northrup

biography:
Excelling in both comedy and drama, Stephanie possesses that rare ability to portray leading lady and character roles with consummate skill.

Stephanie trained in Los Angeles at the Ivanna Chubbuck Studio in Hollywood. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of Virginia, with a BA in English Literature and Modern Studies.

Hot off the set, Stephanie wrapped Endless Love, directed by Shana Feste, playing opposite Bruce Greenwood, Alex Pettyfer, Joley Richardson and Gabriella Wilde. Release is set for Valentine's Day 2014!

Hotter off the set, Stephanie finished up Season II of Banshee. She plays the recurring character "Meg Yawners" in this hit Cinemax series by Alan Ball, directed by Greg Yaitanes.

Watch for Stephanie opposite Owen Wilson as sexy "Bonnie" in the feature film You Are Here directed by Mathew Weiner. The film is currently at the Toronto Film Festival 2013!

Stephanie recently co-starred on Lifetime's hit show Drop Dead Diva as porn star wife "Lisa Hillman" which aired live in July 2012.

Watch for Stephanie on the indie circuit too! She stars in Headsome the grisley 3-D horror movie. She landed a supporting role in the tear-jerker The Heart of the Country directed by John ward. She is currently in production as the darling nemesis "Stella" in The 12 Lives of Sissy Carlyle.  Stephanie's first professional TV role was bit part on the soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful. Stephanie went on to take leading roles as gun-shooting Annie McBride in the Western Vengenace Trail and as Parker in the cult classic Scream Bloody Murder. Stephanie's first Guest Star role on network television was as British fashionista "Ms. Jacobs" in Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.

Stephanie was awarded Best Actress for her breathtaking portrayal as Sunny in The Last Night of Ballyhoo on the SMTG stage. Stephanie recently wowed Atlanta audiences with her comedic skills in Got Sketch? appearing on the mainstage of Sketchsworks Comedy.

Stephanie continues to develop her first love of dancing. She grew up performing and competing nationally in tap, jazz, ballet and modern. She founded The University of Virginia Dance Company and went on direct and choreograph original works. Stephanie now studies flamenco at Calo Gitano Flamenco Academy.

Stephanie is world travelled, having lived in Prague and Italy for two years as a writer and model. Stephanie returned to her native home of Atlanta where she currently resides in a Victorian house with her cat, Cotton.

place_of_birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA


Siena Goines

biography: Siena Goines is an actress and producer.

place_of_birth: Washington D.C., USA


Johannes Bah Kuhnke

place_of_birth: Strömsund, Jämtlands län, Sweden


Paul Feig

biography:
Paul Feig (/fiːɡ/; born September 17, 1962) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing films such as Bridesmaids (2011), The Heat (2013), Spy (2015), Ghostbusters (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Last Christmas (2019). He often collaborates with actress Melissa McCarthy.

Feig created the comedy series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and Other Space (2015). He has also directed several episodes of Arrested Development, Nurse Jackie, Mad Men, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, and Weeds. He received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards for writing on Freaks and Geeks, and two for producing and directing on The Office. His most notable acting roles were as Bobby Wynn in the sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show (1992–1993), Tim the Camp Counselor in the comedy film Heavyweights (1995), and Mr. Eugene Pool on the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996–1997).

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place_of_birth: Royal Oak, Michigan, USA


Deborah Twiss

biography: Deborah Twiss (born December 22, 1971) is an American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer. In the 2000s she became well-known with roles in films and television shows such as Kick-Ass, Gravity, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and White Collar.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Lyndsy Fonseca

biography:
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress, best known for her roles as Colleen Carlton on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, and Alexandra "Alex" Udinov on The CW show Nikita.  She was discovered by a talent manager in San Francisco. She then relocated to Los Angeles for her first pilot season at age 13, in the middle of the school year. The following year, she landed her breakthrough role, playing Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless with a three-year contract.  In she had a recurring role as Ted Mosby's future daughter on How I Met Your Mother and as Donna on HBO's Big Love. She starred in the 2005 Hallmark TV film Ordinary Miracles, as a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent who goes to live with a judge (Jaclyn Smith).In fall 2007, she played Dawn in the film Remember the Daze. She joined the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives as the daughter of Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), a character moving onto Wisteria Lane.

In 2008, she was nominated at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives (2004), shared with the cast.

She played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass, which also featured her Nikita co-star Xander Berkeley in the cast. She appeared in three more films in 2010, including Hot Tub Time Machine, and she was cast as new recruit Alex on the CW's Nikita. She was listed at #62 in the 2010 Maxim Hot 100 and #89 in the 2011 list.

place_of_birth: Oakland - California - USA


Gene Farber

biography:
Gene Farber (born November 14, 1978, in Minsk, Belarus) is an American actor of Belarusian-Jewish descent.

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place_of_birth: Minsk, Belarus


Ema Fujisawa

biography: Born in 1982, Ema started her career as a magazine model while she was attending Sofia University in Tokyo. She made her TV debut as a lead in the popular NHK series Tenka in 2004, and her screen debut in Kidan in 2005.

place_of_birth: Tokyo


Teppei Koike

biography: Teppei Koike (小池徹平) is a Japanese singer and actor. Koike and Eiji Wentz (ウエンツ瑛士) forms the singer-songwriter duo WaT. The duo released their debut single Boku no Kimochi (僕のキモチ) in 2005.

place_of_birth: Osaka, Japan


Nami Tamaki

biography: Nami Tamaki is a Japanese pop singer. As a teenager under the Sony Music Japan label, she had four top-ten albums, two of which reached number one. Her singles were used as theme songs for anime shows such as Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, and D. Gray-man, as well as being representative of the J-Pop music trend. She has various commercial tie-ins with the anime and games industry and has also performed in stage musicals and a movie.

place_of_birth: Wakayama-ken, Japan


Kitaji Ishikawa

place_of_birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan


Kazuya Konaka

biography: Kazuya Konaka is a long-time Japanese action director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work in the Ultraman franchise with Ultraman Dyna and Ultraman Nexus. He is also the brother of writer Chiaki J. Konaka (Ultraman Gaia, Digimon Tamers).

place_of_birth: Mie Prefecture, Japan


Patrick St. Esprit

biography: Patrick St. Esprit is an American character actor, best known for playing tough, authoritative roles such as Romulus Thread in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Elliot Oswald in Sons of Anarchy, and LAPD Commander Robert Hicks in S.W.A.T.

place_of_birth: California, USA


Beau Mirchoff

biography: Beau Mirchoff is a versatile American-Canadian actor, producer and director best known for his prominent roles across major television series like MTV's Awkward, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Freeform's Good Trouble. Born in Seattle, Washington and raised on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Mirchoff holds dual citizenship and has carved out a steady career across drama, comedy and romance

place_of_birth: Seattle, Washington, USA


Homayoun Ershadi

biography: Homayoun Ershadi, sometimes spelled Homayon Ershadi (May 26th, 1947 - November 11th, 2025), was an Iranian actor. Ershadi was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1947. He studied architecture in Italy and worked in that field. Acclaimed Iranian New Wave director Abbas Kiarostami chose him to play the leading role in Taste of Cherry. A non-professional actor, who started acting in his middle age, he has had immediate success in both cinema and television, with his expressionless, relaxed face and monotonous voice often giving his characters an intellectual personality. Most recently, he can be seen in the movie The Kite Runner, playing the role of Baba. He is one of the few Iran-based Iranian actors who are permitted to act in Western movies. He currently resides in Karaj, Iran.

place_of_birth: Isfahan, Iran


Davy Kaye

biography: Davy Kaye MBE (born David Kodeish, 25 March 1916 – 3 February 1998) was an English comedy actor and entertainer.

place_of_birth: London, United Kingdom


Prithviraj Sukumaran

biography:
Prithviraj Sukumaran (born October 16, 1982) is an acclaimed Malayalam actor, director, producer, and playback singer, known for seamlessly balancing stardom with critically acclaimed performances. Making his debut at 19 in Nandanam (2002), he quickly rose to prominence as one of the most versatile and daring actors of his generation.

Through the 2000s, Prithviraj delivered a string of memorable films such as Vellithira (2003), Swapnakoodu (2003), Vellinakshatram (2004), Ananthabhadram (2005), Classmates (2006,Highest grossing Malayalam movie at time of release), Vaasthavam (2006), Chocolate (2007), Thalappavu (2008), Thirakkatha (2008), Puthiya Mukham (2009,Catapulted Prithviraj to Superstardom) , Robin Hood (2009), Thanthonni (2010), Pokkiri Raja (2010) and Anwar (2010), showcasing his ability to shift between commercial and experimental cinema.

He later headlined some of Malayalam cinema’s biggest hits and acclaimed dramas: Urumi (2011), Indian Rupee (2011), Ayalum Njanum Thammil (2012), Mumbai Police (2013), Memories (2013), 7th Day (2014), Sapthamashree Thaskaraha (2014) , Ennu Ninte Moideen (2015), Amar Akbar Anthony (2015), Anarkali (2015), Paavada (2016), Ezra (2017), Koode (2018), Driving Licence (2019), Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020), Jana Gana Mana (2022) and The Goat Life (2024), among others.

Outside acting, Prithviraj has proven his mettle as a filmmaker with the hit Lucifer (2019), starring Mohanlal, which became one of Malayalam cinema’s biggest boxoffice successes. He owns a production banner, Prithviraj Productions which continues to back ambitious projects.

With over two decades in cinema, a National award, multiple Kerala State Film Awards, and a filmography that bridges commercial blockbusters and auteur driven cinema, Prithviraj Sukumaran stands as one of the defining forces of contemporary Malayalam cinema.

place_of_birth: Trivandrum, Kerala, India


Nancy Reagan

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She served as the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.  Davis' film career began with small supporting roles in two films that were released in 1949, The Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford and East Side, West Side starring Barbara Stanwyck. She played a child psychiatrist in the film noir Shadow on the Wall (1950) with Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott; her performance was called "beautiful and convincing" by New York Times critic A. H. Weiler. She co-starred in 1950's The Next Voice You Hear..., playing a pregnant housewife who hears the voice of God from her radio. Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that "Nancy Davis [is] delightful as [a] gentle, plain, and understanding wife." In 1951, Davis appeared in Night into Morning, her favorite screen role, a study of bereavement starring Ray Milland. Crowther said that Davis "does nicely as the fiancée who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief," while another noted critic, The Washington Post's Richard L. Coe, said Davis "is splendid as the understanding widow." MGM released Davis from her contract in 1952; she sought a broader range of parts, but also married Reagan, keeping her professional name as Davis, and had her first child that year. She soon starred in the science fiction film Donovan's Brain (1953); Crowther said that Davis, playing the role of a possessed scientist's "sadly baffled wife," "walked through it all in stark confusion" in an "utterly silly" film. In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy (1957), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair, and appeared in a film for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called "a housewife who came along for the ride." Another reviewer, however, stated that Davis plays her part satisfactorily, and "does well with what she has to work with."

Author Garry Wills has said that Davis was generally underrated as an actress because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance. In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: promotional material from MGM in 1949 said that her "greatest ambition" was to have a "successful happy marriage"; decades later, in 1975, she would say, "I was never really a career woman but [became one] only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry. I couldn't sit around and do nothing, so I became an actress." Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon nevertheless characterized her as a "reliable" and "solid" performer who held her own in performances with better-known actors. After her final film, Crash Landing (1958), Davis appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas, such as the Zane Grey Theatre episode "The Long Shadow" (1961), where she played opposite Ronald Reagan, as well as Wagon Train and The Tall Man, until she retired as an actress in 1962.

place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Alissa Skovbye

biography: Ali Skovbye is a Canadian actress, born and raised in Vancouver, BC. Some of her credits include ONCE UPON A TIME, FRINGE, MOTIVE, SUPERNATURAL, FALLING

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Tom Pickett

biography: Tom Pickett is a versatile Canadian actor and theater performer recognized for bringing a warm, soulful authenticity and commanding presence to his roles. Boasting a professional acting career spanning over three decades, he is heavily featured across television series, major feature films and seasonal TV movies.


Virginie Efira

biography:
Virginie Efira (born 5 May 1977) is a Belgian-French actress and television presenter. Efira got her first leading role in the romantic comedy It Boy (2013). She subsequently received critical praise for her performance in the comedy drama In Bed with Victoria (2016), for which she received a Magritte Award for Best Actress as well as a César Award for Best Actress nomination. She then appeared in Paul Verhoeven's psychological thriller Elle (2016), the drama An Impossible Love (2018), the comedy drama Sibyl (2019) and the black comedy Bye Bye Morons (2020).

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place_of_birth: Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium


Nacho Vigalondo

biography:
Ignacio Vigalondo Palacios (born 6 April 1977), better known as Nacho Vigalondo, is a Spanish filmmaker.

Vigalondo's first film was the 2003 Spanish-language short film 7:35 in the Morning, about a suicide bomber who terrorizes a cafe, which was only eight minutes long. The film won significant accolades: it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film, got another Best Short Film Award nomination at the European Film Awards, and received the Bronze Moon of Valencia at the Cinema Jove – Valencia International Film Festival, and the Prix UIP Drama at the Drama Short Film Festival.

He finished his first full length feature film, Los Cronocrímenes (English title: Timecrimes), in 2007, in which he also co-starred.

Vigalondo's next film was the 2011 Spanish-language alien invasion film Extraterrestre.

In 2011, it was reported that Vigalondo was recruited to direct a film adaptation of Mark Millar's Supercrooks.

From 2012 to 2014 he wrote and directed a segment in three different anthology horror films: The ABCs of Death, The Profane Exhibit, and VHS: Viral. In 2014 he also released Open Windows, a techno-thriller film that marked his English-language debut.

Vigalondo's most recent film is Colossal, which he wrote and directed. The film is a twist on the Kaiju genre and an homage to the Godzilla franchise. Before starting production on Colossal, Vigalondo described his plan as to make a serious film with "old school" practical effects on a low budget Vigalondo's latest directorial effort is the Hulu original film Pooka, released December 2018 in the Into the Dark series.

place_of_birth: Cabezón de la Sal, Cantabria, Spain


Igor Sklyar

place_of_birth: Kursk, Kurskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR


Hiroko Yakushimaru

biography:
After passing the audition for the film produced by Haruki Kadokawa, she began her acting career. Along with teen idols Tomoyo Harada and Noriko Watanabe who debuted from Kadokawa Haruki Corporation, she was often dubbed as one of "Kadokawa Sannin-musume" in her early career.

Yakushimaru made her acting debut in the 1978 movie Never Give Up. In 1981, she came into prominence with Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, the film where she played the leading role. She also recorded the same-titled theme song for the film, which hit No. 1 on Oricon in late 1981, and stayed there until January 18, 1982.

Since rising to fame, Yakushimaru has gained success as both an actress and a pop singer, mainly during the 1980s. She had also worked as a prolific recording artist until her marriage with Kōji Tamaki, the leader of the band Anzen Chitai.

place_of_birth: Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo, Japan


Bill Dow

biography: Bill Dow is an actor, director and writer in theatre, film, and television. He is best known for playing Bill Lee in the StarGate franchise.

place_of_birth: Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada


Ingrid Boulting

place_of_birth: Transvaal, South Africa


Dakota Johnson

biography:
Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Johnson made her film debut at age ten with a minor role in Crazy in Alabama (1999), directed by her then-stepfather Antonio Banderas and starring her mother. After graduating from high school, she began auditioning for roles and had a minor part in The Social Network (2010). Johnson had her breakthrough playing the lead role in the erotic Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018). In 2016, she received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and was featured in a Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Her profile grew with roles in the crime drama Black Mass (2015), the drama A Bigger Splash (2015), the romantic comedy How to Be Single (2016), the horror film Suspiria (2018), the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), the coming-of-age film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), the romantic drama Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), and the superhero film Madame Web (2024).

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place_of_birth: Austin, Texas, USA


Janus Metz

biography: Janus Metz Pedersen (born 1974) is a Danish film director and documentary filmmaker.

place_of_birth: Denmark


Anthony Flanagan

biography:
Anthony Flanagan (born 11 April 1972 as Tony Bonello) is an English actor most widely known for his portrayal of policeman Tony in Channel 4's comedy-drama series Shameless.

Flanagan was born in Stockport, Cheshire. At school he was called Anthony Bonello. After leaving Grange Comprehensive School, in Oldham, he worked as a joiner. At 16 he went to London, taking on occasional odd jobs and for a time slept on the streets. Flanagan has described this as "a very bad period". Flanagan decided to become an actor after seeing a friend of his sister perform at RADA.

Flanagan studied at Oldham College and Capitol Theatre in Manchester (now Manchester Metropolitan University) after a year of unemployment. Flanagan's first professional job was in a lead role at the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) in the 2001/02 season, playing Pat Harford in Peter Whelan's play A Russian in the Woods. (Flanagan would later reflect on the experience of appearing on stage naked.) This led to a collaboration with writer and theatre critic Richard Edmonds on a one-man show on the life of Baudelaire entitled King of a Rainy Country.

Notable work includes roles series in Shameless, Vincent, Cracker (where his roles as Kenny Archer in the 2006 TV film was almost universally praised despite mixed critical reaction to the comeback show itself), Life on Mars, Foyle's War, All About George, Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, Spooks, Spooks: Code 9, Doctor Who, Survivors and Red Riding. He played his first major lead role in the short serial Instinct, broadcast in February 2007 and was due to appear in the West End in Glengarry Glen Ross in October 2007 but withdrew due to 'personal reasons'.

place_of_birth: Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK


Robert Sheehan

biography: Robert Sheehan (born 7 January 1988) is an Irish actor. Sheehan is known for playing Klaus Hargreeves on Netflix's original series The Umbrella Academy. He is the son of Joe and Maria Sheehan. His father was a member of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland. As a child, Sheehan was interested in performing music. He learned how to play the banjo, the bodhrán, and the spoons. He took part in the Fleadh Cheoil, an Irish music competition for children and teenagers. His interest in acting started when his mother took him to an audition for drama film "Song for a Raggy Boy" (2003), about an oppressive school for boys during World War II. Sheehan won an acting part in the film and socialized with other young actors. Following his film debut, Sheehan started acting in theatrical performances.

place_of_birth: Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland


Zhang Lu

biography:
Zhang Lü (Chinese: 张律; pinyin: Zhāng Lǜ; Korean: 장률; born May 30, 1962; Yanbian, Jilin) is a Korean-Chinese filmmaker. Zhang was originally a novelist before embarking on a career in cinema. His arthouse films have mostly focused on the disenfranchised, particularly ethnic Koreans living in China; these include Grain in Ear (2006), Desert Dream (2007), Dooman River (2011), Scenery (2013), and Gyeongju (2014).  Zhang Lü is a third-generation ethnic Korean born in Yanbian, Jilin, China in 1962. He first became known in his native land China as a respected author of novels and short stories, such as Cicada Chirping Afternoon (1986). Zhang moved to South Korea in 2012, and began teaching at Yonsei University.

Zhang was then a 38-year-old professor of Chinese Literature at Yanbian University when an argument with a film director friend led him to take a bet that "anyone can make a film." With no technical training but with the support of film industry friends such as Lee Chang-dong, he set out to direct his first short film Eleven (2001), a fourteen-minute nearly silent vignette of an eleven-year-old boy's encounter with a group of soccer players his own age set in a post-industrial wasteland. Eleven was invited to compete at the 58th Venice International Film Festival and several other international film festivals, and this unexpected success made Zhang decide to become a full-time filmmaker.

place_of_birth: Yanbian, Jilin, China


Lin Chi-ling

biography: Lin Chi-Ling (born 29 November 1974, in Taipei, Taiwan), is a Taiwanese model and actress. As of 2006, Lin has served as an official spokesperson for both China Airlines and Longines. Lin's unusually fast rise to fame was noted by one Taiwanese commentator, who coined the phrase "The Lin Chi-Ling Phenomenon".

place_of_birth: Taipei, Taiwan


Piotr Adamczyk

biography:
Piotr Aleksander Adamczyk (Polish: [ˈpjɔtraˈdamt͡ʂɨk]; born March 21, 1972) is a Polish film, television, voice, and theatre actor. He is known for portraying pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin in the biographical film Chopin: Desire for Love (2002), Pope John Paul II in the TV miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (2005) and its sequel Karol: The Pope, The Man (2006), Tomas in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ series Hawkeye (2021), and Sergei Nikulov in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind (2021–2024).

From his early childhood, Adamczyk wanted to become an actor. He attended the Machulski youth theatre group in Warsaw. Thanks to an international scholarship, he was able to attend international theatre workshops in the United Kingdom and Germany. He continued his acting education by attending the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. During his second academic year, he won a scholarship from the Soros Foundation, which allowed him to attend the British American Drama Academy for one year, where he performed Hamlet for his diploma.

Once he graduated from the Theatre Academy, Adamczyk was hired by the Teatr Współczesny in Warsaw. His career in the film industry, however, grew much more intensively. He played Stawrogin in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed. The breakthrough in his career was his part as Frédéric Chopin in the film Chopin: Desire for Love—and he became a Polish star.

The climax of his popularity was reached when he played the title role of another Polish historical figure in a two-part Italian TV movie—Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and Karol: The Pope, The Man. The movie was viewed by several dozen million viewers and made him popular in Italy, Latin America, and many other Catholic countries.

Adamczyk also managed to take advantage of his popularity abroad to act at the Sala Uno Theatre in Rome, in Italian. He also appeared in Liliana Cavani’s movie Einstein and in the Portuguese production Second Life.

In 2014, Adamczyk, Bartosz Opania, and Paweł Domagała starred in the comedy film Wkręceni.

He has been in over 800 radio roles and around 100 theatre, television, and film parts. He is also appreciated for his roles in Polish dubbing. In animated films he voiced, among others, Melman the giraffe in Madagascar, Lightning McQueen in Cars, and Syndrome in The Incredibles.

He has received many prestigious awards in Poland. In 2011, he was voted the most popular Polish actor.

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place_of_birth: Warszawa, Poland


Mika Shinohara

biography: Mika Shinohara is married to anime director Makoto Shinkai. She provided voices in his early works.


Yuriy Kuznetsov

place_of_birth: Abakan, Khakasskaya AO, RSFSR, USSR


Del Close

biography:
Del Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century. In addition to an acting career in television and film, he was one of the influences on modern improvisational theater. Close is co-founder of the ImprovOlympic (iO).

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place_of_birth: Manhattan, Kansas, USA


Tom Noonan

biography:
Tom Noonan (April 12, 1951 – February 14, 2026) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter, best known for his roles as Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter (1986), Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad (1987), Cain in RoboCop 2 (1990), The Ripper in Last Action Hero (1993), Kelso the hacker in Heat (1995), Sammy Barnathan in Synecdoche, New York (2008), Mr. Ulman in The House of the Devil (2009), Reverend Nathaniel in Hell on Wheels (2011–2014), the Pallid Man in 12 Monkeys (2015–2018) and as the voice of everyone else in Anomalisa (2015).

Noonan is also a writer and director of theatre and film. His debut feature film What Happened Was (1994) won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA


Jean-François Laguionie

biography:
Jean-François Laguionie (born October 10, 1939 in Besançon) is a French animator, film director and producer of animation.

Laguionie was originally interested in theatre but his encounter with Paul Grimault gave him the opportunity to learn the techniques of animated film. Though they were very close to each other, Paul Grimault and Jean-François Laguionie rarely worked together (though Grimault produced Laguionie's first three shorts).

Jean-François Laguionie then directed several short films, climaxing with the now famous La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame (Rowing across the Atlantic) (1978), which won the César Award for best short animated film in 1979.

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place_of_birth: Besançon, France


Abbas Kiarostami

biography:
Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; June 22, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director, and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and emphasized the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.

Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works.

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place_of_birth: Tehran, Iran


Harumi Inoue

place_of_birth: Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan


Elliott Lester

biography: Elliott Lester is a director known for Blitz (2011), Aftermath (2017) and Nightingale (2014).

place_of_birth: Londra


Tanny Tien Ni

biography: Tanny Tien Ni (Chinese: 恬妮 ) is a Taiwanese actrees. Born in Shanghai in 1948 and raised in Taiwan. She studied Beijing Opera and in 1967 formally entered the entertainment word after being named 'Sweater Princess' in a local beauty pageant. After appearing in Taiwanese television series, she made her film debut in "Sword of Endurance". In 1972 signed a contract with Shaw Brothers. Li Han-Hsiang appreciated her special brand of sex appeal and cast her in "Illicit Desire" (1973). Its box office success led to her starring in a number of Li-directed erotic films. Trivia: Married to actor classic wu xia actor Yueh Hua in 1975. Her younger sister Tien Niu was also a major Shaw Brothers star of the 1970s.

place_of_birth: Shanghai, China


Phylicia Rashād

biography:
Phylicia Rashad (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress. She was most recently dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University before her three-year contract ended in May 2024. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she has received two Tony Awards as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominations in 1985 and 1986. She also played Ruth Lucas on Cosby (1996–2000), and Brenda Glover in Little Bill (1999–2004). She was also Emmy-nominated for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun (2008) and This Is Us (2019–2021).

On stage, Rashad became the first Black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for a revival of A Raisin in the Sun (2004). She won her second Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew (2022). Her other Broadway credits include Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008).

She has appeared in various films such as For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), Creed III (2023), and The Beekeeper (2024). She lent her voice to the Disney-Pixar animated film Soul (2020).

In the 21st century, she has directed revivals of three plays by August Wilson, in major theaters in Seattle, Princeton, New Jersey; and Los Angeles. She also directed Purpose (play) in its 2024-2025 run at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway.

place_of_birth: Houston, Texas, USA


Gregory Jacobs

biography: Gregory "Greg" Jacobs is an American film director, assistant director, producer, and screenwriter. He has frequently collaborated with several film directors, most notably Steven Soderbergh. Jacobs has also been operating as a director himself, having overseen projects such as Criminal, Wind Chill and Magic Mike XXL.

place_of_birth: Harrington Park, New Jersey, USA


Natalie Core

biography: Natalie Core (February 21, 1919 - October 14, 2011) was an American actress.

place_of_birth: Ford City, Pennsylvania, USA


Anita Brown

biography: Anita Brown is a Canadian actress and former professional model best known for her roles in high-profile feature films like The A-Team (2010), Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Fifty Shades Freed (2018).

place_of_birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


Dalila Bela

biography: Dalila Bela (born 5 October 2001) is a Canadian-American actress who is known for her role as Agent Olive on the TVOKids/PBS Kids series Odd Squad, the voice of Sydney in the PBS Kids animated series Ready Jet Go!, in films such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and work on television shows such as Once Upon a Time and Anne with an E.

place_of_birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Robert B. Williams

biography: Robert Williams was born on September 23, 1904 in Glencoe, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Killing (1956), Pillow Talk (1959) and Revenge of the Creature (1955). He died on June 17, 1978 in Orange County, California, USA.

place_of_birth: Glencoe, Illinois, USA


Ernie Stanton

biography: Ernest George Burch (August 23, 1890 - February 6, 1944) professionally known as Ernie Stanton, was an English-American actor from London, England.  He originally did vaudeville acts with his brother, Val Stanton as the team, Val and Ernie Stanton.  He is notably known for his minor roles in films such as Stage Struck (1936), Hats Off (1936), Mickey’s Parrot (1938) and many more.  Not only was Ernie an actor, he was a very well accomplished athlete as both a baseball player and a boxer.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Yuriko Yoshitaka

biography: Yuriko Yoshitaka is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse. Yoshitaka made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel "Snakes and Earrings" in 2007. Portraying Lui, a teenager whose life goes into a downward spiral after meeting the forked-tongued and tattooed Ama, the role was Yoshitaka's breakthrough role. The Japanese public began to take notice of her, and in a poll conducted by Oricon, Yoshitaka was the fifth promising young actress of 2009 and 2009's freshest female celebrity. In 2010, Oricon again conducted a poll on the most promising actress and she managed climb up to top the poll. Yoshitaka began to receive more work in 2008 as she appeared in Flow's music video "Arigatō" (ありがとう, "Thanks"), was given her first lead role in the comedy drama Konno-san to Asobo (紺野さんと遊ぼう, Let’s Play with Konno-san) and took up the lead role in the film Yubae Shōjo (夕映え少女, A Girl in the Sunset) before the theatrical release of her other lead film Snakes and Earrings. In 2009, Yoshitaka was given the role of the suicidal Kairi Hayakawa in the romantic-comedy drama Love Shuffle. Later in the year, she portrayed Yūki Matsunaga (松永 由岐, Matsunaga Yūki) in the police drama "Tokyo Dogs" with Shun Oguri and Hiro Mizushima as her co-stars.

place_of_birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan


Thom Andersen

biography: Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and --- ------- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois


Robert Clampett

biography: Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood, and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry. After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

place_of_birth: San Diego, California, USA


Léa Seydoux

biography:
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [lea sɛdu]; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress. Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 2009, she won the Trophée Chopard Award for Female Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Seydoux was appointed a Dame of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2022, the French government made her a Dame of the National Order of Merit.

She began her acting career with her film debut in Girlfriends (2006), with early roles in The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She won acclaim for her French roles in The Beautiful Person (2008), Belle Épine (2010), and Farewell, My Queen (2012). During this time, she expanded her career by appearing in supporting roles in high-profile Hollywood films, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).

Her breakthrough role came with the controversial and acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), for which she received the Lumières Award for Best Actress, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival alongside her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. She received her second Lumières Award in the same year for the film Grand Central. She gained international attention for her role as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

She has appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021). Other notable roles include Beauty and the Beast (2014), Saint Laurent (2014), The Lobster (2015), Zoe (2018), France (2021), Crimes of the Future (2022), One Fine Morning (2022), The Beast (2023) and Dune: Part Two (2024).

Seydoux has also worked as a model. She has been showcased in Vogue Paris, American Vogue, L'Officiel, Another Magazine and W magazine, among others. Since 2016, she has been a brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton.

place_of_birth: Passy, Paris, France


Elizabeth Lee Mei-Fung

biography: Elizabeth Lee Mei Fung (Chinese: 李美鳳) is a Hong Kong actress.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Fabrizio Bentivoglio

biography:
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio (born January 4, 1957) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor and a screenwriter.

Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan (his father is Venetian). After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter, he left his sporting career because of an injury to his left knee and attended the school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. He debuted on stage acting in Timone d'Atene by William Shakespeare and also pursued his artistic career in cinema.

Continuing his studies in medicine, he then moved to Rome. With Dario de Luca and in association with Studio Universal he founded the Tipota Movie Company.

With the band Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel he has staged the show La guerra vista dalla luna. He has also filmed the short film Típota (1999) and has completed a tour performing his own songs.

The soundtrack of Eternity and a Day (Italy/France/Greece, 1998) by Theo Angelopoulos contains the track The Poet, with Bentivoglio's voice.

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place_of_birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Ivan Padilla

biography:
Ivan Padilla is a Filipino-American actor known for his early career in Hollywood under the screen name Germaine De Leon with recurring and guest roles in American television series such as Dexter, Lucifer, and Criminal Minds, as well as supporting parts in films like Here Comes the Boom, before relocating to the Philippines to pursue acting under his real name in prominent local productions including Maria, Expensive Candy, Goyo: The Boy General, and 100 Tula Para kay Stella.

Padilla comes from a prominent Filipino show business family as the grandson of actor-diplomat Amado Cortez and actress Gloria Sevilla, and a relative of the Padilla clan, including actor Robin Padilla.

place_of_birth: San Francisco, California, USA


Michaela Conlin

biography:
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Michaela Conlin (born June 9, 1978, height 5' 8" (1,73 m)) is an American stage and television actress, best known for her work on the Fox TV series, Bones as Angela Montenegro. Conlin was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She was born to a Chinese-American mother and an Irish-American father.

She performed in her first play at the age of six and continued to appear on stage in numerous Pennsylvania community and regional productions. Following her graduation from Parkland High School, Conlin moved to New York City to study acting and was accepted into New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While working toward her B.F.A. in Theater, she appeared in several productions at the Atlantic Theater Company and the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and traveled to Amsterdam to study with the Experimental Theatre Wing's International Training Program.

Following her graduation from NYU, Conlin was chosen to be a part of the cable documentary series The It Factor, which focused on the lives of young actors in New York City. Soon after, she relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she landed her first starring role in the series MDs, playing an idealistic young intern taken under the wing of the hospital's two renegade doctors, played by William Fichtner and John Hannah. She followed that with a leading role in the drama series The D.A., playing an outspoken political consultant to Steven Weber's district attorney.

place_of_birth: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA


Yorgos Lanthimos

biography:
Yorgos Lanthimos (Greek: Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, born 23 September 1973) is a Greek filmmaker. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a Golden Lion, as well as nominations for five Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Lanthimos started his career in experimental theatre before making his directorial film debut with the sex comedy My Best Friend (2001). He rose to prominence by directing the psychological drama film Dogtooth (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Lanthimos transitioned to making English-language films with the black comedy The Lobster (2015), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).

He collaborated with actress Emma Stone in the period black comedies The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) and the anthology film Kinds of Kindness (2024). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for The Favourite and Poor Things, in addition to winning the Golden Lion for the latter.

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place_of_birth: Athens, Greece


Christos Stergioglou

biography: Christos Stergioglou was born in 1952 in Didymoteicho, Thrace, Greece. He is an actor and producer, known for Dogtooth (2009), The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (2013) and Unfair World (2011).

place_of_birth: Didymoteicho, Grecia


Stuart Gibbs

biography:
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Stuart Gibbs (born June 11, 1969) is an American author who has written mostly mystery and humor books that are aimed for tweens and teens.

Gibbs' books have been described as "fun, fast-paced" and "entertaining." He has written six book series: the FunJungle series, the Moon Base Alpha series, the Spy School series, the Charlie Thorne series, the Last Musketeer and Once Upon a Tim. He also wrote a Batman comic called Bruce Wayne: Not Super. Gibbs wrote screenplays for Showdown (1993), See Spot Run (2001), and Repli-Kate (2002).

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.


Toshiki Inoue

biography: Toshiki Inoue is a Japanese screenwriter from Saitama Prefecture. He is known for his work on anime and tokusatsu dramas and films. He is the son of Masaru Igami, who himself was a screenwriter for tokusatsu dramas. He is also a manga author, and has written both Mebius Gear and Sword Gai.

place_of_birth: Saitama Prefecture, Japan


Alan Williams

biography: Alan Williams is an actor and writer, known for London Boulevard (2010), Vera Drake (2004) and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).

place_of_birth: Manchester, England, UK


Kazuyuki Sogabe

place_of_birth: Funabashi, Chiba, Japan


Flora Cross

biography:
Flora Cross (born January 11, 1993) is a French-American actress.

Cross was born in Paris, France. Her father, Joseph Cross, is a journalist. Flora is Jewish. She has traveled extensively with her family, most recently back to France to finish her degree. She graduated from La Sorbonne where she received her BA in Sociology. She currently resides in Jacmel, Haiti where she is a teacher. Her two brothers are also actors (Eli Marienthal and Harley Cross). Cross attended French schools since childhood (Lycée français de New York), and speaks French, Spanish and English fluently. During high school, she switched to the American school system and attended a private school in Los Angeles' Westside. She graduated from New Roads School in 2012. She graduated from La Sorbonne in 2016 and then moved to Haiti. She has three kids. She is a Montessori teacher as well, as a soap maker. She has a small business called Yaquimel Savon.

Cross played the lead role of Eliza in the 2005 film Bee Season, opposite Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche and Max Minghella. She auditioned for the part shortly before moving to Argentina, where she was living when offered the role. "My manager sent the tape in, and then I was called in for an audition that was very long and very tiring," recalls the actor. "It went on for five hours. Two weeks later I was told I got the part".

Her next role was playing the eccentric daughter of Jennifer Jason Leigh's character in director Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding. She worked alongside actors such as Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, & John Turturro.

Cross co-starred in Chlorine, written and directed by Jay Alaimo. The film also stars Kyra Sedgwick and Vincent D'Onofrio as Cynthia's troubled parents, and Ryan Donowho as her eccentric brother.

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place_of_birth: Paris, France


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