Alice Lowe

biography:
An English actress and writer, mainly in comedy. She is known for her roles in the Garth Marenghi series and as the lead and co-writer of the 2012 film Sightseers. She wrote, directed and starred in the 2016 black comedy Prevenge, whilst pregnant herself.

Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England. She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from King's College, Cambridge, where she studied classics. At university she became involved in theatre and comedy.

Lowe began her career in surreal experimental theatre shows including City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress in Flying Machine co-devising and performed along with colleagues such as Robert Webb and David Mitchell.

Lowe worked under the directorship of Paul King, who has since directed her in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. She was cast in Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight alongside fellow Cambridge graduates Richard Ayoade and Matt Holness and they were nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000. In 2001, she won an award for performing in the sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Her television credits include Channel 4's spoof horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Beth in the BBC comedy series My Life in Film, David Bowie in the BBC series Snuff Box, and a recurring role in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive. She was part of the all-female comedy show Beehive along with Sarah Kendall, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson which was aired on E4, and was a regular cast member of the CBBC show Horrible Histories during the second, third and fifth seasons. Her BBC Three pilot "LifeSpam: My Child Is French" was broadcast in 2009, and she co-wrote and starred in Channel 4's Orcadia. In February 2010, she appeared in and script-edited the pilot for a "sort-of-sketch-show" called Missing Scene.

She has also guest starred as Monkey in "The Priest and the Beast" episode of The Mighty Boosh, as Patricia in the "Fifty-Fifty" episode of The IT Crowd, a solicitor in the "Travel Writer" episode of Black Books, Madonna in an episode of Channel 4's Star Stories, and episodes of Little Britain, Come Fly with Me, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, Beautiful People and This is Jinsy. She appeared in the music video for "Bastardo" by Charlotte Hatherley, directed by Edgar Wright.

place_of_birth: Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK


Laurie Paton

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biography: Laurie Paton is a Canadian actress best known for her prominent roles in television movies and guest appearances across numerous popular American and Canadian television series.

known_for_department: Acting


Doug Ellin

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

known_for_department: Writing


Jane Wymark

biography:
Jane Wymark is a British actress, best known for her roles on the BBC drama Poldark (1975), as well as the television series Midsomer Murders (1997). She was born on October 31, 1952 in London, England, and is the daughter of American writer and playwright Olwen Wymark and English actor Patrick Wymark, both of whom she credits with instilling a love of acting in her.

Jane Wymark was educated a Birmingham University. She has appeared in a series of projects ranging from TV dramas to stage plays.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Sabrina Bryan

biography: Sabrina Bryan is an American actress, singer, dancer, and producer, best known for portraying Dorinda Thomas in Disney Channel's The Cheetah Girls film trilogy and as a member of the pop group of the same name. She has also appeared in Sydney White, Mostly Ghostly, and competed on Dancing with the Stars.

place_of_birth: Yorba Linda, California, USA


Jodi Russell

biography: Jodi Russell (born Jodi Varble) is an American actress and former model who has worked across independent films and television. She initially built a successful modeling career in Chicago during the mid-1980s before transitioning to acting.

place_of_birth: Rockford, Illinois, USA


Cam Neely

biography: Cameron Michael Neely (born June 6, 1965) is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive, former player and actor. He played right winger for 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins. Neely portrayed the character of Sea Bass in the Farrelly brothers films Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene, and Dumb and Dumber To. He had a small role as himself in the second film of the Mighty Ducks trilogy, D2: The Mighty Ducks.

place_of_birth: Comox, British Columbia, Canada


Hamish Linklater

biography: Hamish Linklater (born July 7, 1976) is an American actor.  He is known for playing Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine, Porter Collins in The Big Short, and Clark Debussy in Legion. He is the son of dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater. In 2021, he starred as Father Paul in the Netflix horror miniseries Midnight Mass, for which he received high critical acclaim.

place_of_birth: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA


Vicki Michelle

biography:
Vicki Michelle, MBE (born 14 December 1950) is an English actress and film producer. She is best known for her role as Yvette Carte-Blanche in the BBC television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo! and as a recurring character Patricia Foster in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.

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place_of_birth: Chigwell, Essex, England, UK


Arlene Mazerolle

biography: Arlene Mazerolle is an actress.


Terri Douglas

biography: Terri Douglas (born June 24, 1973) is an American casting director and voice actress performing ADR for feature films. She formed the ADR and voice casting agency Loop Troop.

place_of_birth: Fortuna, California, USA

known_for_department: Production


Shawn Phelan

biography:
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Shawn Michael Phelan (January 7, 1975 – September 27, 1998) was an American television and film actor.

On March 29, 1994, at age 19, Phelan was involved in an automobile collision when his Toyota Corolla was broadsided three blocks from his home. He suffered a traumatic brain injury which left him comatose for over four years. Phelan died at age 23.

place_of_birth: Stoughton, Massachusetts, USA


Audra McDonald

biography: Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win in all four acting categories. She has performed in musicals, operas, and dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, and Porgy and Bess. In addition to her six Tony Awards, she has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 2016 from President Barack Obama and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017.

place_of_birth: Berlin, Germany


Dawn DeNoon

biography: Dawn DeNoon  is a producer and writer.

place_of_birth: Moundsville, West Virginia, USA


Corbett Tuck

biography: Corbett Tuck  (born March 4, 1977) is an American actress and screenwriter. She is most known for roles in "Insidious" (2010) and "Insidious: Chapter 3" (2015). She also co-wrote the horror film "Wolf Man" (2025).  She has been married to filmmaker Leigh Whannell.

place_of_birth: Kerrville, Texas, USA


Ardal O'Hanlon

biography: Ardal O'Hanlon was born in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, Ireland. He is an actor and writer, known for Father Ted (1995), My Hero (2000) and Val Falvey TD (2009). He is married to Melanie. They have three children.


Brent Musburger

biography:
Brent Woody Musburger became one of sports broadcasting's most iconic voices over nearly five decades, transforming every game he called into a major event through his signature gravitas and storytelling ability that made audiences feel they were witnessing history. Born May 26, 1939 in Portland, Oregon and raised in Billings, Montana, Musburger sold programs at Billings Mustangs games as a boy and played Little League Baseball alongside future major league pitcher Dave McNally. After attending Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and working briefly as a minor league baseball umpire in the Class-D Midwest League during the 1959 season, Musburger began his career as a sportswriter for a now-defunct Chicago American newspaper.

In 1968, Musburger joined CBS, starting as a sports anchor for WBBM radio and television before CBS Sports hired him full-time in 1973. By 1975, he became the original host of The NFL Today, the groundbreaking Sunday pregame show that consistently ranked as television's highest-rated NFL studio program. His signature catchphrase "You are looking live..." became synonymous with weekend sports broadcasts, while his stylized pronunciation of "CBS" ("C.B. eeezz") created another memorable trademark. Musburger is credited with coining the phrase "March Madness" to describe the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament while covering the Final Four.

His most legendary broadcasts captured sports history at its most dramatic. On November 23, 1984, he called Doug Flutie's miraculous Hail Mary touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan that defeated defending national champion Miami 47-45 in the Orange Bowl, forever known as "Hail Flutie." In October 1995, working for ABC, Musburger delivered an electric call when Edgar Martinez's eleventh-inning walk-off double scored Ken Griffey Jr. to send Seattle Mariners to their first League Championship Series: "Mariners win it! Mariners win it!" He also provided the soundtrack to the 1988 Miami-Notre Dame showdown known as "Catholics vs. Convicts" and the triple-overtime thriller between Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns in the 1976 NBA Finals.

Fired from CBS during the 1990 Final Four, Musburger quickly joined ABC Sports and ESPN, where he called seven BCS National Championship games, succeeded Keith Jackson as Rose Bowl play-by-play announcer in 2007, and became the SEC Network's lead voice for football and basketball in 2014. He retired from ESPN in January 2017.

Currently, Musburger serves as managing editor of Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN), hosting "My Guys in the Desert" from a custom studio at South Point Casino. He and his sons sold VSiN to DraftKings in March 2021 but repurchased it in 2024. Musburger served as Las Vegas Raiders radio voice from 2018 through 2022 and received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2025. Married to Arlene Clare Sander since 1963, Musburger remains active in sports media at age 86.

place_of_birth: Portland, Oregon, USA


Chris Cooke

biography: Christopher Cooke was an American stage, film and television actor. He was a Director of the Suffolk County Film Commission on Long Island, New York and founded the Long Island Film Festival in 1983.

place_of_birth: Amityville, New York, USA


PJ Harvey

biography: PJ Harvey (born Polly Jean Harvey on 9 October 1969) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Outside her better-known music career, Harvey is also an occasional artist and actress. In 1998, she appeared in Hal Hartley's film "The Book of Life" as Magdalena and had a cameo role as a Playboy Bunny in "A Bunny Girl's Tale," a short film directed by Sarah Miles. Harvey also collaborated with Miles on another film, "Amaeru Fallout 1972."

place_of_birth: Somerset, England, UK


Miho Nikaido

biography: Miho Nikaido is a Japanese actress, producer and designer. She is married to Hal Hartley.

place_of_birth: Hokkaido, Japan


Danny Gilmore

biography: Danny Gilmore (born December 23, 1973) is a Canadian actor, who is best known for his role as Vallier in John Greyson's Lilies, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 17th Genie Awards.

place_of_birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada


Khanh Hua

biography: Khanh Hua (1954 – May 25, 2022) was an actor mostly known for his role of M. Ming in the Québec sitcom Catherine (1999–2003).

place_of_birth: Saigon, Vietnam


James MacTaggart

place_of_birth: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

known_for_department: Directing


Sarah Gadon

biography: Sarah Gadon (born April 4, 1987) is a Canadian actress. She has had roles in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. She has guest starred in a number of notable television series including Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Dark Oracle, Doc, In a Heartbeat, La Femme Nikita, Life with Derek, and Mutant X. She has voice-acted for Mattimeo, My Dad the Rock Star, Ruby Gloom, Total Drama, and Wayside.

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Victoria Justice

biography:
Victoria Dawn Justice (born February 19, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She has received several accolades, including a Bravo Otto and two Young Artist Awards, in addition to nominations for three Imagen Awards, three Kids' Choice Awards and a NAACP Image Award.

Justice made her acting debut with a guest appearance on the comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls (2003) and rose to fame on Nickelodeon, playing Lola Martinez on the comedy-drama series Zoey 101 (2005–2008), Tori Vega on the teen sitcom Victorious (2010–2013), and Jordan Sands in the television comedy horror film The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010). She subsequently appeared in the romantic comedy film The First Time (2012), the teen film Fun Size (2012), the comedy-drama film Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015), the teen comedy film The Outcasts (2017), the romance film Trust (2021), the comedy film Afterlife of the Party (2021), and the romantic comedy film A Perfect Pairing (2022). Also, she starred in the lead role of Lindy Sampson on the MTV thriller television series Eye Candy (2015).

In music, Justice has recorded several songs for the soundtracks of her acting projects, including Victorious and the 2009 Nickelodeon musical Spectacular!. Her debut single, "Gold", was released in 2013. She took a seven-year hiatus from music, making her comeback with the track "Treat Myself", released in December 2020.

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place_of_birth: Hollywood, Florida, USA


Tara Platt

biography:
Tara Platt is an American film and television actress and voice actress who is married to fellow voice actor Yuri Lowenthal.

Platt studied at Rutgers University and at the London Academy of Theatre, where she received a BFA in theatre arts. She has performed in a number of shows written and directed by John de Lancie. She played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (with both the Pasadena Civic and the Toyota Youth Shakespeare Series with the Los Angeles Philharmonic); Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew; and appeared in First Nights: Clara and Robert Schumann at the Walt Disney Concert Hall as Clara Schumann, in a role written for her by de Lancie. Platt and Lowenthal founded in 2004, Monkey Kingdom Productions, an independent film production company which has produced two feature films including Lowenthal's Tumbling After, and mockumentary Con Artists, currently in post. The production company is currently working on web-series Shelf Life WebSeries, airing now on YouTube. Platt and Lowenthal do the voices of two characters in the anime Naruto. Platt does the voice of Temari and Lowenthal does the voice of Sasuke Uchiha. In 2007 and 2008, Lowenthal and Platt gave their voices for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3: Lowenthal as the main character, Ryoji and Pharos and Platt as Mitsuru Kirijo and Elizabeth. Platt and Lowenthal also did voices for two characters in theMexican syndicated-cartoon show, El Chavo Animado. Platt does the voice of Patty and Lowenthal does the voice of Nono (Junior in English dub). Platt and Lowenthal also co-authored a book on voice-over called Voice-Over Voice Actor: What It's Like Behind the Mic. It is available through Bug Bot Press and Emerald Book Company. In Spring 2012, they became vegans, as they began following the Esselstyn diet.

place_of_birth: Fairfax, Virginia, USA


Philip Barantini

biography:
Philip Barantini (born 13 July 1980) is a British director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Known for his intense one-shot works, he directed the film Boiling Point (2021), its follow-up series (2023) and the miniseries Adolescence (2025), all starring Stephen Graham.

As an actor, his notable roles include appearances in Dream Team, Band of Brothers, and The Responder.

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place_of_birth: Liverpool, England, UK


Francis Lee

biography:
Francis Lee (born 1969) is an English filmmaker known for his debut feature film, God's Own Country (2017), and subsequent film, Ammonite (2020), which won the World Cinema Directing Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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place_of_birth: Soyland, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK


Mick Hucknall

biography:
Michael James Hucknall (born 8 June 1960) is an English singer and songwriter. Hucknall achieved international fame in the 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter of the soul-influenced pop band Simply Red, with whom he enjoyed a 25-year career and sold over 50 million albums. Hucknall was described by Australian music magazine Rhythms as "one of the truly great blue-eyed soul singers", while Q credited him with "the most prodigious voice this side of Motown".

Hucknall, born at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, on 8 June 1960, was an only child. His mother abandoned the family when he was three; the upheaval caused by this event inspired him to write "Holding Back the Years", which would become one of Simply Red's biggest and best-known hits. He was brought up in Denton by his father, Reginald (1935–2009), a barber in Stockport. According to Hucknall he had a happy childhood until the age of 10, when he began to clash with his father "because there was no woman to act as referee". He attended Audenshaw School, before continuing his education at Tameside College and Manchester Polytechnic's School of Art, where he was a fine art student: whilst at art school he lived in Hulme. It would not be until the mid-1990s that he would reconnect with his mother, Maureen, who was by then living in the US city of Dallas. As of a 2008 interview, he had only seen her twice since she left. He is of Irish ancestry from his mother, whose father was from County Offaly, along with his paternal grandmother. His maternal grandmother was Jewish.

Hucknall was among the people present at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in June 1976 where the Sex Pistols were playing. His interest in the music scene led to the launch of his career in the late 1970s, when he was part of the band Frantic Elevators. The Frantic Elevators released four singles, including a version of "Holding Back the Years", which he later recorded with Simply Red.

As lead singer and core member of Simply Red, he became the identifiable face of the band. His face and long curly red hair were featured prominently on album artwork and in videos.

In 1997, Hucknall won an Outstanding Achievement award from the Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO Awards) despite being white.

Hucknall is also one of the founders and financial backers of the reggae label Blood and Fire. He also manages the record label simplyred.com.

In October 2007, on David Jensen's show on the Gold network, he announced Simply Red would split in 2009. In 2008, he released his first solo album Tribute to Bobby, a tribute to the blues musician Bobby "Blue" Bland.

In October 2009, Hucknall appeared at a charity performance as vocalist for a re-formed version of Faces, replacing Rod Stewart. In October 2011, he was awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge award in recognition of his contribution to music.

In October 2012, he released American Soul, a collection of his favourite music re-recorded with his vocals. ...

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place_of_birth: Manchester, England, UK


Miranda Raison

biography: Miranda Raison is an English television, stage, voice, and screen actress.

place_of_birth: Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, UK


Stephen McKinley Henderson

biography: Stephen McKinley Henderson (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Omar York in the television drama, New Amsterdam, which ran for one season in 2008. His notable film roles include portraying Arthur in Everyday People (2004), Lester in Tower Heist (2011), Father Leviatch in Lady Bird (2017), and Thufir Hawat in Dune (2021).

place_of_birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA


Stacey Farber

biography: Stacey Farber is a talented Canadian actress best known for her iconic role as the goth-turned-journalist Ellie Nash on the hit teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She has built a prolific, multi-decade career across both Canadian and American television network dramas, streaming series and television films

place_of_birth: Toronto, Canada


Paul Drake

biography: Paul Drake (born November 27, 1949) is an American actor.

place_of_birth: Austin, Texas, USA


Ike Barinholtz

biography:
Ike Barinholtz (born February 18, 1977) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his starring roles in the comedy series MADtv (2002–2007), Eastbound & Down (2012), The Mindy Project (2012–2017), Bless the Harts (2019–2021), The Afterparty (2022), History of the World, Part II (2023), and The Studio (2025–present), the latter which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination.

His films include Disaster Movie (2008), Neighbors (2014), Sisters (2015), Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), Snatched (2017), Blockers (2018), Late Night (2019), The Hunt (2020), and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022). He co-wrote the action comedy film Central Intelligence (2016) and directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the comedy film The Oath (2018).

On February 2, 2023, he won the inaugural primetime season of Celebrity Jeopardy!, earning $1,000,000 for charity, Pacific Clinics, and advancing to the semifinals in the 2024 Tournament of Champions. On August 14, 2024, he and his father, Alan, became the first duo and the second celebrities overall to win the $1,000,000 top prize for their charity, the ASL Program at Los Encinos School, and the fifteenth overall million-dollar winners on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He also previously won $125,000 for his charity, Uplift Family Services, on April 22, 2020.

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place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Noah Reid

biography:
Noah Nicholas Reid (born May 29, 1987) is a Canadian-American actor and musician, best known for his work on the television series Franklin and Schitt's Creek. In 2016, he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song for his work in the feature film People Hold On. In 2019, he received a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his work on Schitt's Creek.

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Penelope Keith

biography: Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, DBE, DL (née Hatfield; 2 April 1940 – 29 June 2026) was an English actress and presenter, active in all genres, including radio, stage, television and film and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.

place_of_birth: Sutton, Surrey, England, UK


Tony De Santis

biography: Tony De Santis (born January 29, 1956) is a Canadian stage, film/TV actor and producer.

place_of_birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Emmy Clarke

biography: Emmy Clarke (born September 25, 1991) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Julie Teeger, daughter of Natalie Teeger (played by actress  Traylor Howard) in the series Monk (2002). She also played the role of Aimée in My House in Umbria (2003), a film directed by Richard Loncraine, and she played the role of Grace Arbus in Steven Shainberg's film Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006).

place_of_birth: Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA


Peter Bellwood

biography: Peter Bellwood was born on July 24 1939. He was a writer and actor, known for Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Highlander (1986) and Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970). He died on July 13 2025.

place_of_birth: York, England, UK


Eve Best

biography:
Eve Best (born Emily Best; 31 July 1971) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Dr. O'Hara in the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie, as Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech, and Dolley Madison in the 2011 American Experience television special about that First Lady.

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place_of_birth: Ladbroke Grove, London, England, UK


Anthony Molinari

biography:
Anthony Molinari (born May 9, 1974) is an American actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator. He played Neary in The Fighter. Three-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee.

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place_of_birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States


Bradford Anderson

biography:
Bradford Anderson is from the small lakeside town of Meredith, New Hampshire. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Bradford has been seen on stages all over the country and screens, big and small.

On the east coast, he has appeared on such stages as The Goodspeed Opera House, Papermill Playhouse, Barrington Stage, Arena Stage, and Philadelphia Theater Company-where he was nominated for a Barrymore Award for his role as Billy in Edward Albee's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? opposite John Glover.

After being encouraged to relocate to LA, Bradford found success immediately, booking a guest starring role on Veronica Mars (a role which recurred) in only his 2nd week in town. A few months later, Bradford was cast on ABC's General Hospital, in a role that was only supposed to last a month or two. The role, Damian Spinelli, became a fast fan favorite, and Bradford has gone on to play that role for 10 years (earning him 5 Emmy nominations).

Bradford's other TV credits include Homeland (Recurring Guest), Minority Report, NCIS LA, Castle, Perception, NCIS, GH Night Shift, What About Brian, and Ed. Film credits include American Pie Presents: Beta House, Carts, Kissing Cousins, and Falsely Accused (with Roseanna Arquette and John Gries).

In addition to Bradford's acting career, he co-hosts the PodcastOne podcast, "That's Awesome With Steve and Bradford" which has over 4 million downloads it's first 16 months. Bradford and his podcast partner, Steve Burton, also tour the country with a 90 minute musical and comedy show.

place_of_birth: Meredith - New Hampshire - USA


Kate Pierson

biography: Catherine Elizabeth Pierson is an American singer, lyricist, and founding member of the B-52s. She plays guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments. In the early years, as well as being a vocalist, Pierson was the main keyboard player and performed on a keyboard bass during live shows and on many of the band's recordings, taking on a role usually filled by a bass guitar player, which differentiated the band from their contemporaries. This, along with Pierson's distinctive wide-ranging singing voice, remains a trademark of the B-52s' unique sound. Pierson has also collaborated with many other artists including the Ramones, Iggy Pop and R.E.M.

place_of_birth: Weehawken, New Jersey, USA


Mark Anthony Love

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


Aramis Knight

biography:
Aramis Knight (born October 3, 1999) is an American actor. After appearing as a child actor in television series, including Boston Legal (2005), Dexter (2008), Lost (2010), The Middle (2010), and Psych (2011), he has since starred in Into the Badlands (2015–2019), Runt (2019), Ms. Marvel (2022), Centurion: The Dancing Stallion (2023), and Karate Kid: Legends (2025).

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place_of_birth: Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA


Frankie Valli

biography: Frankie Valli (birthname:Francesco Stephen Castelluccio; born May 3, 1934), is an American singer and actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the Four Seasons.

place_of_birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA


Fiona Dourif

biography: Fiona Dourif (born October 30, 1981) is an American actress and producer. She is mostly known for her role as Nica Pierce in the Child's Play movies and the Chucky TV series. She is also known for her role as Bart Curlish in BBC America's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and as the young Diane Jones in Dustin Lance Black's When We Rise. She has appeared in Showtime's Shameless and in a recurring role on NBC's The Blacklist.

place_of_birth: Woodstock, New York, USA


Leslie-Anne Panaligan

biography: Leslie-Anne Panaligan is an American actress, writer and producer. She is best known for her roles as Penelope in MacKenzie Falls and Rayna Cruz in The Vampire Diaries.

place_of_birth: San Fernando Valley, California, USA


Lucy Hale

biography: Karen Lucille Hale (born June 14, 1989), better known as Lucy Hale, is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Becca Sommers in Bionic Woman, Rose Baker in Privileged, Sherrie in the horror film Scream 4, and as Aria Montgomery on the hit ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars. She is also known for her appearance on the reality show American Juniors.

place_of_birth: Memphis, Tennessee, USA


Wrenn Schmidt

biography: Melinda Wrenn Schmidt (born February 18, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as NASA engineer, flight director, and later director of NASA Margo Madison in the Apple TV+ original science-fiction space drama series For All Mankind. Her other television roles include Julia Sagorsky in the period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2012–2013), KGB handler Kate in the spy drama series The Americans (2014), Dr Iris Campbell on the thriller series Person of Interest (2014–2016), and Megan Holter in the horror series Outcast (2016–2018).[5] Her film roles include the horror film Preservation (2014), the biographical drama I Saw the Light (2015), the war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), the romantic comedy, The Good Catholic (2017), and the science-fiction horror film Nope (2022).

place_of_birth: Lexington, South Carolina, USA


Heather Hemmens

biography: Heather Hemmens is an American actress, film director and producer. She is best known for starring as Marcie Holmes on OWN's soap opera If Loving You Is Wrong and as Alice Verdura on The CW's college cheerleading series Hellcats.

place_of_birth: Maine, USA


Mark Williams

biography:
Mark Williams is an American film director, writer, and producer.

He is best known as the creator of the television show Ozark. He was nominated for three Emmys in 2019, 2020, and 2022 for his work on the show. He has also written and directed for films, including the 2020 Honest Thief and the 2022 Blacklight film.

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place_of_birth: USA


Jeremy Allen White

biography:
Jeremy Allen White (born February 17, 1991) is an American actor. Raised in New York City, White began his career with minor roles before his breakthrough role as Phillip "Lip" Gallagher in the comedy-drama series Shameless from 2011 to 2021, which earned him a  Critics' Choice Television Award nomination.

White received wider acclaim for playing chef Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto in the comedy-drama series The Bear (2022–2026), for which he received three consecutive Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. White portrayed wrestler Kerry Von Erich in the biographical drama film The Iron Claw (2023). He has served as a global ambassador for Calvin Klein since 2024.

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


Justine Mitchell

biography: Justine Mitchell is an Irish actress. She is best known for playing Elaine Lynch in the Irish thriller series Smother (2021-2023) and for portraying Joan Hathaway in Chloé Zhao's 2025 period drama film Hamnet.

place_of_birth: Dublin, Ireland


Jessica Barth

biography: Jessica Barth is an actress and producer, known for Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015) and Next (2007). She has been married to Danny Cusumano since 2015. They have one child. She was previously married to Brett Dicksa.

place_of_birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Tom Pelphrey

biography:
Tom Pelphrey is an American actor. Tom was born and raised in New Jersey. He grew up in the town of Howell and attended the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Howell High school. He received a BFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University where he also had the opportunity to study Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre in London, England.

Tom's first professional job was on the long running CBS daytime show, Guiding Light. In two and a half years on the show he was nominated for four consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards; he won twice. (2006, 2008) Since then he has worked in theater, television, and independent film. His first lead role in a film was playing the crystal meth addict David in Junction alongside Michael O'Keefe, David Zayas and Anthony Rapp. That led to lead roles in other features including the romantic comedy, Excuse Me for Living, where he worked with Jerry Stiller, Christopher Lloyd, Dick Cavett, and Robert Vaughn. He eventually became a series regular on the hit Cinemax show "Banshee" playing ex neo-nazi Kurt Bunker.

Tom is a founding member and the current Artistic Director of the Apothecary Theatre Company; a NYC based not-for-profit that develops and produces world premieres of new plays by up and coming playwrights. He made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Judy Garland's last husband, Mickey Deans, in the critically acclaimed "End of the Rainbow", directed by Tony Award winner Terry Johnson.

place_of_birth: Howell, New Jersey, USA


Mark Hapka

place_of_birth: Buffalo, New York, USA


Slaine Kelly

biography: Slaine Kelly was an Irish television and film actress, best known for her role as Jane Howard in the series The Tudors. She passed away on July 4, 2026, at the age of 43 after a battle with cancer.


Aidan Turner

biography: Aidan Turner (born 19 June 1983) is an Irish actor. He played the roles of Ross Poldark in the 2015–2019 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic, and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human. He played Kíli in The Hobbit film series.

place_of_birth: Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland


Adetokumboh M'Cormack

biography:
Frederick Adetokumboh M'Cormack (sometimes credited as Adetokumboh McCormack, Frederick McCormack, or Adetokumoh McCormack) is a Sierra Leone Creole actor, known for his roles in the television series Lost and Heroes.

McCormack was born in Sierra Leone. He lived in Nigeria and Kenya before attending SUNY Purchase in New York. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

He has appeared in numerous TV-series, and he portrayed a recurring character on Lost as Mr. Eko's deceased brother, Yemi. He also portrays the recurring role of Tuko on Heroes. He played Zeze Eto'o in 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland in season 7, episodes 4 and 5.

His first feature film was the Academy award-nominated Blood Diamond (2006), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou.

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place_of_birth: Sierra Leone


Ashley Rickards

biography:
Ashley Nicole Rickards (born May 4, 1992, height 5' 3¾" (1,62 m)) is an American actress, known for her role in MTV's Awkward as Jenna Hamilton, and as Samantha "Sam" Walker, a troubled young girl taken in by Brooke Davis who becomes her foster-mother, in The CW teen drama series One Tree Hill. She also starred in the 2011 independent drama film Fly Away as Mandy, a severely autistic girl.

Rickards grew up on a horse farm that catered for children with special needs. She attended a local Montessori school where, at age 13, she had her first taste of acting in an opera production. Rickards graduated from high school at age fifteen and is a member of Mensa. After attending a local talent showcase, organized by Lou Perlman, Rickards traveled to Los Angeles where she eventually gathered a team of representatives. Upon graduating, Rickards began to appear in a number of minor roles, as child labor laws restricted the number of hours she was able to work. After making a number of guest appearances and shorts, she landed the role of Samantha Walker, a runaway foster child, in One Tree Hill for the 2008-2009 season. Although not aware of the show before auditioning, Rickards found that she "learned so much from acting techniques to different ways of shooting things".Her character did not return the following season, while in the same year she had a bit part in her first feature film, Gamer.

Rickards spent much of 2009 attending auditions while a proposed lead-role in the film Dirty Girl fell through. In 2010 she appeared opposite Jimmy Smits in an episode of the legal drama Outlaw while she also auditioned for the lead-role in Awkward. Initially rejected, her manager Adam Griffin sent the producers a tape Rickards had made for Fly Away "to show how she can do anything". The actress landed both roles and filmed the pilot for the MTV series prior to Fly Away, a feature where she played a severely autistic girl.

A former competitive equestrian, she helped to launch the Project Futures Somaly Mam Foundation (2011), which works to prevent and end human trafficking and sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. Rickards writes poetry, scripts, and enjoys painting in her spare time. She also appeared in The Fray's video for "How to Save a Life", and also in The Format's video for "She Doesn't Get It".

place_of_birth: Sarasota, Florida, USA


Shea Adams

biography: Shea Adams is known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013).

known_for_department: Crew


Andrew Astor

biography: Andrew Astor was born in Arizona. The Astor family bloodline dates back to 1623 on his father's side and while the Astor family are most notably relatives of the English & German John Jacob Astor family, that bloodline also includes decedents from Northern Italy and Spain. Andrew's mother is Sicilian and grew up in the Bronx surrounded by members of "the family".

place_of_birth: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA


Kay Cannon

biography: Kay Cannon is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress. She is best known for writing and producing the Pitch Perfect film series. She made her directorial debut with the comedy film Blockers. Cannon was also a writer and producer for the NBC comedy series 30 Rock and the FOX comedy series New Girl.

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Holland Roden

biography: Holland Roden is an American actress. She is best know for playing Lydia Martin on the television series Teen Wolf, based on the film of the same name.

place_of_birth: Dallas, Texas, USA


Alessandra Torresani

biography:
Alessandra Torresani (born Alessandra Olivia Toreson; May 29, 1987) is an American actress. Prior to 2007, she is credited as Alessandra Toreson.

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place_of_birth: Palo Alto, California, USA


Scott MacArthur

biography: Scott MacArthur (born August 6, 1979) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for playing Jimmy Shepherd, a main character on the Fox comedy series The Mick.


Macon Blair

biography:
Macon Blair (born 1974) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, comic book writer and actor known for his roles in the films Blue Ruin (2013) and Green Room (2015), as well as his directorial debut I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017).

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place_of_birth: Alexandria, Virginia, USA


Frederic Doss

biography: Fred is a born entertainer, but did not discover acting until his senior year in High School. After studying theater in college at Missouri Southern State University, he eventually earned a bachelor's degree in sociology, got married and shortly after 9/11 joined the US Air Force. It wasn't until 2006, while stationed at Holloman AFB in New Mexico that he was pulled back into acting, this time in front of a camera working for Michael Bay on "Transformers" (his first acting on film). Shortly after that, Fred deployed to Afghanistan working for 10th Mountain under a joint arrangement. After returning he separated from the service and relocated to Texas. He is the only actor to have been killed by both the Decepticons and Cobra on the big screen. He has worked in film as a producer, director and assistant director in addition to being an actor. He and his wife, Andrea (a writer and artist) have two children and presently reside in Texas.

place_of_birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA


Albert Kim

biography: Albert Kim is a producer and writer.


Heather Craney

biography: Heather Craney is an English actress, known for portraying Joyce Drake in Vera Drake, Alison Weaver in Life of Riley and Emily Holroyd in Torchwood.

place_of_birth: Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK


Eliza Coupe

biography: Eliza Kate Coupe (born April 6, 1981) is an American actress, comedian and model, known for playing Jane Kerkovich-Williams in the ABC comedy series Happy Endings, Denise "Jo" Mahoney in the final two seasons of the medical comedy-drama Scrubs, her starring role as Tiger on the Hulu comedy series Future Man, and her recurring role as Hannah Wyland in Quantico.

place_of_birth: Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA


Harvey Guillén

biography:
Javier "Harvey" Guillén (Latin American Spanish:[xaˈβjeɾ ˈxaɾβi ɣiˈʝen]; born May 3, 1990) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the human familiar Guillermo de la Cruz in the television series What We Do in the Shadows.

Guillén is the son of Mexican immigrants. He adopted the name Harvey when school teachers could not pronounce his first name. Guillén attended Citrus College, completing the three-year Citrus Singers program in 2005. His father, who was the first person who encouraged him to pursue acting, died of lung cancer in 2017.

Guillén speaks Spanish, English, and Japanese—the last acquired during a 13-month visit to Japan. He identifies as queer.

Guillén at the 2022 Phoenix Fan Fusion

Guillén has appeared in recurring roles on television series such as Alistair Delgado on Huge (2010), Cousin Blobbin on The Thundermans (2013–2018), George Reyes in Eye Candy (2015), and Benedict Fenwick on The Magicians(2017–2018). He also appeared in the 2013 film The Internship.

Beginning in 2019, Guillén played the role of Guillermo, the vampires' human familiar, in the FX television series What We Do in the Shadows. He was set to appear in Quibi's science fiction drama series Don't Look Deeper before the platform shut down in December 2020.

Guillén has received considerable acclaim for his role as Guillermo. TheWrap included Guillén in a list of "2019 Emmy Contenders". Hank Steuver, in his review of What We Do in the Shadows in The Chicago Tribune, stated that Guillén "provides at least half the big laughs" in the show.

Guillén provided the voice of Funny the Magic House in Mickey Mouse Funhouse. He played Nightwing in season 3 of Harley Quinn.

In 2022, Guillén provided the voice for the comedic sidekick character Perrito in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

In 2023, Guillén appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in a skit as Representative George Santos.

In 2024, Guillén reprised his role as Cousin Blobbin from The Thundermans in The Thundermans Return. He also provided the voice of Odie in The Garfield Movie and played Vassago in Helluva Boss.

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place_of_birth: Orange County, California, USA


Devon Weigel

place_of_birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Cariba Heine

biography: Cariba Heine is a South African-born Australian actress and dancer. She is known for her roles as Rikki Chadwick in the Network Ten show H₂O: Just Add Water, Bridget Sanchez in the third series of Blue Water High, and Caroline Byrne in A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne.

place_of_birth: Johannesburg, South Africa


Jen Lilley

biography: Jen Lilley is a multi-talented American actress, singer, author and prominent philanthropist. She is widely recognized for her extensive work in daytime soap operas and her status as a beloved leading lady in romantic television movies.

place_of_birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA


Alex Essoe

biography: Alex Essoe (born March 9, 1992) is a Saudi-Canadian actress who who has appeared predominantly in horror films. Essoe had her first lead role in the 2014 American horror film Starry Eyes, and she had a starring role in the 2017 American horror film Midnighters. Essoe has also appeared in various independent features, and television shows including HOUSE OF LIES, CALIFORNICATION, and CRASH.

place_of_birth: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia


Aliyah O'Brien

biography:
Aliyah O'Brien (born in 1981) is a Canadian actress, best known for  her television roles in the TV series Rookie Blue and Bates Motel and in  the film Maximum Conviction.

Aliyah O'Brien was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and is  of Irish, Spanish, and Welsh descent. She was actively involved in  musical theatre while a student at Spectrum Secondary School, however,  her interest in kinesiology, which led her to study it while  attending Camosun College and a jobs as a personal trainer at Club  Phoenix and theUniversity of Victoria. After graduation, she's traveled  to 32 countries and describes herself as an "adrenaline junkie".

place_of_birth: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada


Inbar Lavi

biography:
Inbar Lavi (Hebrew: ענבר לביא, born October 27, 1986) is an Israeli actress.

Inbar Lavi is an Israeli actress known for her starring roles in several popular television series, most notably playing Eve in Lucifer, Maddie in Imposters, and Sheba in the Prison Break revival.  Born on October 27, 1986, in Ramat Gan, Israel, she studied ballet and acting in Israel before moving to New York City at age 17 to pursue her career, later attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles on a full scholarship.

place_of_birth: Ramat Gan, Israel


Deborah Ann Woll

biography:
Deborah Ann Woll (born February 7, 1985) is an American actress. She played Jessica Hamby in the HBO drama series True Blood (2008–2014), which earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She also portrayed Karen Page in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil (2015–2018), The Defenders (2017), The Punisher (2017–2019), and Daredevil: Born Again (2025). Her film roles include Mother's Day (2010), Seven Days in Utopia (2011), Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011), Catch .44 (2011), Ruby Sparks (2012), Meet Me in Montenegro (2014), The Automatic Hate (2015), and Escape Room (2019) and its 2021 sequel. In 2022, she provided the voice and motion capture of Faye in the video game God of War Ragnarök.

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


Jack Whitehall

biography: Jack Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter, actor and writer. He is best known for his stand up comedy, for starring as JP in the TV series Fresh Meat (2011–2016), and for playing Alfie Wickers in the TV series Bad Education (2012–2014) and the spin-off film The Bad Education Movie (2015), both of which he also co-wrote. He has also starred in Frozen in the role of Gothi the Troll. From 2012 to 2018, Whitehall was a regular panellist on the game show A League of Their Own. In 2017, Whitehall appeared with his father, Michael, in the Netflix comedy documentary series Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father and starred in the television series Decline and Fall. Since 2018, Whitehall has been the host of the BRIT Awards.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Italia Ricci

biography: Italia Ricci is a Canadian-American actress known for her roles in television and film. She played April Carver in the ABC Family series Chasing Life from 2014–2015, and Emily Rhodes in the Netflix political drama Designated Survivor. She also starred in the Netflix original series The Imperfects as Dr. Sydney Burke, and appeared in the Hallmark movies Rome in Love, Love in Winterland, and Breakup Boot Camp.

place_of_birth: Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada


Alper Kul

place_of_birth: Istanbul, Turkey


Carlo Marks

biography: Carlo Marks is a Canadian actor who graduated from the University of Victoria and is a prominent fixture in television, most notably as a recurring lead in feel-good romantic comedies.

place_of_birth: Tofino, British Columbia, Canada


Madeleine West

biography: After commencing a university degree in Law, Madeleine caught the irrepressible acting bug and decided to defer her studies indefinitely. From an early age Madeleine has shown a flair for the arts, performing in front of family and friends at any given opportunity. Her talent for acting was rewarded in 1992 with entry into the NSW Talented Child Drama Ensemble, and has since been honed through years of study at such institutions as Swinburne University, Tamworth Conservatorium of Music and Riverina Drama Ensemble. She has also undertaken short courses at the highly esteemed NIDA, along with courses in Voice, Movement, Drama and musical theatre at various ensembles both in Victoria and interstate. In 1999 Madeleine was awarded the 'Be Your Best' Performance Scholarship from the Australian Drug Foundation. While Neighbours is her first full time television role, Madeleine's amateur theatre credits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Night Reflections, Theatre in the Raw, After Midnight Before Dawn, Bye Bye Birdie, None the Wiser, and Snow Queen among several others. Also a trained singer and dancer, Madeleine is looking forward to refining her craft on Australia's longest-running series, Neighbours.

place_of_birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Taraneh Alidoosti

biography: Tarane Alidousti is an Iranian actress of theatre and cinema and also a translator who was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. She has been featured for the first time in the movie "I'm Taraneh, 15" by Rassoul Sadr Ameli, and this movie can be considered as a turning point in her career. She won the Crystal Simorgh Award for Best First Role Actress from Fajr Festival for this movie. Her other cinematic works include "Caanan" by Mani Haghighi, "Beautiful City" by Asghar Farhadi, "At The End of the 8th Street" by Alireza Amini, and "Seller" by Asghar Farhadi. She also played for the first time in front of Hassan Fathi's camera, in the "Shahrzad" series.

place_of_birth: Tehran, Iran


Matthew Beard

biography: Matthew Beard is a British actor and model.


Martin Wallström

biography: Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz (born 7 July 1983) is a Swedish actor. He is most well-known internationally for his 2015 American debut role as Tyrell Wellick in the USA Network cyber-thriller Mr. Robot.

place_of_birth: Uddevalla, Göteborgs och Bohus län, Sweden


David Hartman

biography: David Hartman is an American director, illustrator, character designer and producer based in Los Angeles, California. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Columbus College of Art & Design. His directorial credits include the live-action horror film Phantasm: Ravager and episodes of the animated series Transformers: Prime, Trese, My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, Jackie Chan Adventures, Godzilla and many more. He is also an illustrator for comic books, magazines and music albums covers.


Geoffrey C. Ward

biography:
Geoffrey C. Ward is an author, editor, historian and writer of scripts for American History Documentaries for Public Television. He is the author or co-author of 18 books.  Five books are companion books to documentary films that he has written. He has won seven Emmy Awards.  The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War (1990,) Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on many of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War and Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This work has garnered him five Emmy Awards. He also won two Emmys for the American Experience series, including The Kennedys, in 1992 and TR,The Story of Theodore Roosevelt in 1996.  His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005[3] and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography.  In 2006, the Organization of American Historians gave Ward their Friend of History Award for his outstanding contributions to American history:

"Over the last twenty years Geoffrey Ward's writings on American History have had a greater influence and reached a wider audience than those of any other American writer and historian. [His] work is always his own, but he has also helped free ideas that otherwise might have been imprisoned in the academy and helped them find a wider world. He has helped academic historians understand the possibilities, limits, and demands of what has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history."  The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition (2011), brought Ward his seventh Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. He is currently at work on a multi-part series "Vietnam", with Lynn Novick and Ken Burns.  He is the principle writer or co-writer of 24 documentary films.  Ward is married to the writer and social/environmental activist Diane Raines Ward. He has three children.

place_of_birth: Newark, Ohio


Indiana Evans

biography: Indiana Rose Evans (born 27 July 1990) is an Australian actress, singer and songwriter, known for her roles in Home and Away as Matilda Hunter, H2O: Just Add Water as Bella Hartley, and Blue Lagoon: The Awakening as Emmaline Robinson.

place_of_birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Deon Cole

biography: Deon Cole is an American actor, comedian, and comedy writer. Originally  based out of Chicago, he is best known as a member of the writing staff  of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009–2010) and subsequently  Conan (2010–present) and also for being a cast member on the sitcom  Angie Tribeca (2016–present).

place_of_birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA


Jason Nash

biography:
Jason Nash is an American Internet celebrity, actor and comedian. Nash rose to prominence through comedic shorts on Vine before joining David Dobrik's "Vlog Squad" and launching his own popular YouTube channel and podcast. He also appeared on Last Comic Standing in 2010

*Not to be confused with Canadian actor Jason Nash.

place_of_birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Paul Tibbitt

biography: Paul Harrison Tibbitt IV (Born: May 13, 1968) is an American animator, television producer, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter, voice actor, and director, best known for working on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.

place_of_birth: Los Angeles County, California, U.S.


Clint Curtis

biography: Clint Curtis is known for Blade (1998), Deep Rising (1998) and The Mexican (2001).


Samantha Fox

biography:
Samantha Karen Fox (born 15 April 1966) is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Wood Green in North London. She has appeared on reality television shows and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress.

Fox began her glamour modelling career at age 16. After she placed second in a Sunday People amateur modelling contest, The Sun recruited her to pose for Page 3, where she made her first appearance in February 1983. Named The Sun's "Page 3 Girl of the Year" for 1984, 1985 and 1986, she became one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s and a notable sex symbol of the era. She left Page 3 in 1986, aged 20, to focus on pop music, but made occasional glamour modelling appearances thereafter, notably featuring in a 1996 Playboy pictorial. In 2008, she was voted the top Page 3 model of all time.

Released in March 1986, Fox's debut single for the Jive Records label, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", became a top-10 hit across Europe, North America and Australia, reaching number one in several countries. Her first three studio albums—Touch Me (1986), Samantha Fox (1987) and I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988)—all produced international hit singles and she was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category at the Brit Awards 1988. Her subsequent albums—Just One Night (1991), 21st Century Fox (1997) and Angel with an Attitude (2005)—were less successful, but she has continued to tour and has announced a forthcoming seventh studio album, produced by Ian Masterson.

In her early career, Fox dated men including Peter Foster, the Australian fraudster, and Paul Stanley, the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of rock band Kiss. Following persistent rumours in the 1990s about her sexual orientation, she came out as a lesbian in 2003. She was in a long-term relationship with her former manager Myra Stratton from 2003 until Stratton died from cancer in 2015. In 2022, she married her tour manager, Linda Birgitte Olsen.

Fox was born on 15 April 1966, the eldest child of John Patrick Fox, a builder, and Carole Ann Wilken, an actress and former dancer on the 1960s pop music programme Ready, Steady, Go! She grew up in Crouch End in North London, later describing her background as "a working-class market-trader family".

Fox took an interest in the theatre from an early age, attending the Anna Scher Theatre School from age five, and subsequently attending Mountview Theatre School. She also attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green. She formed her first pop band when she was 14 and signed her first record deal with Lamborghini Records at age 15.

Fox's glamour modelling career began at age 16 when her mother took photographs of her wearing lingerie and submitted them to The Sunday People's "Face and Shape of '83" amateur modelling contest. After Fox placed second, a photographer for The Sun invited her to pose topless for Page 3; at the time, she was the youngest person to model topless for the feature. British publications could then legally feature topless models aged 16 and older, although the minimum age was raised to 18 in May 2004. ...

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place_of_birth: Mile End, London, England


Tyler Hynes

biography:
Tyler Hynes was born in Toronto Canada. He is an accomplished actor, director, producer, editor, writer.

Tyler got his Professional start at the age of 8 during a 72 performance run of the Musical Stage Production of "A Christmas Carol," followed by the Cross Canada Tour of The Who's Rock Opera "Tommy" playing the role of 10 year old Tommy.

After getting his start in Theater, he moved in front of the camera with his first feature film "Little Men" starring Mariel Hemingway. He then went on to star in various television and film productions, alongside the likes of Tim Roth, Andie MacDowell, James Franco, Sienna Miller, Henry Cavil, Elliot Page, Billy Bob Thornton and more.

Nominated "fan favorite" as a teen, Tyler starred in the 24 episode run of the TV Series "Tales from the Never Ending Story" as Atreyu and as "The Chosen One" in "Peter Benchley's Amazon" for 26 episodes.

He then turned in Award Nominated performances in Disney's "The Other Me" and "Terrorized by Teens: The Jonathan Wamback Story" which told the real life story of a young man bullied and beaten and left with permanent brain damage which gained Major National Media attention, launching anti bullying town halls and a TV blitz across Canada.

As an adult he further cultivated his acting craft as a regular on such TV series "Saving Hope," "The Firm" based on the John Grisham's novel, critically acclaimed Police drama "19-2" and the Emmy winning Lifetime series "Unreal." He also enjoyed guest starring roles on NCIS, Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Transporter, Star Trek:Discovery, etc. - some of which earning Award recognition.

Recently, his standout performance as Sgt. Reece in the WWII Feature "Recon" has been lauded by critics. This character is in great contrast to his sudden rise as one of Hallmark Channel's top leading men bringing a unique and refreshing approach to the genre. All while appearing, and contrasting further still, on Hulu's breakout comedy series "Letterkenny." Hynes plays the lovable Dierks, the antagonist to Letterkenny's most beloved star Jared Keeso, Hynes's friend and former co-star in 19-2.

A fan of filmmaking as a whole, Tyler has expanded into directing, writing and producing. Some of his short film credits include "Help Doug Recycle" a 40 minute documentary about a homeless man struggling with substance abuse while recycling to make ends meet, the dark coming of age drama "Firefly" and "AFK_", a proof of concept funded by BELL Media as part of a television pitch piece. Upon the release of "AFK_" online it earned praise with features on taste-maker websites like "short of the week" among others.

With notoriety growing behind the camera Tyler was then getting requests to helm music videos for multi-platinum and Grammy winning artists. Seeing it as an opportunity to test his craft, Tyler wrote, directed, produced and edited over a dozen music videos for artists such as multi-platinum/Grammy nominated Shaun Frank, Coachella headlining Rezz and others. These videos earned features on sites like Billboard and nominations in Award shows like the "Much Music Video Awards".

From a World War II drama, to a unique hit comedy series, a romantic fan favorite, to his work behind the lens, Hynes is seeing a diversity in the industry shared by few.

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Madisen Beaty

biography: Madisen Beaty is an American actress, known for her roles as Daisy Fuller in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doris Solstad in The Master, Rebeccah Mulcahey in Other People, and as Talya Banks in the ABC Family series The Fosters. Wikipedia

place_of_birth: Centennial, Colorado, USA


Audrey Fleurot

biography:
Audrey Fleurot is a French actress, born July 6, 1977 in Mantes-la-Jolie in the Yvelines.

She became known to the general public through the role of the Lady of the Lake in Kaamelott (2005-2009). It confirms with those of Josephine Karlsson in Engrenages (2005-2020) and Hortense Larcher in Un village français (2009-2017).

At the same time, she broke into the cinema by playing in the hit film Intouchables (2011). Alternating first and secondary roles, she led a prolific career from then on and appeared in particular in The Flower of Age (2012), But who re-killed Pamela Rose? (2012), Pop Redemption (2013), The Real Life of Teachers (2013), The Queens of the Ring (2013), Fonzy (2013), The Brotherhood of Tears (2013), The Gazelles (2014), Beautiful as a Woman Another (2014), Under the Girls' Skirts (2014), The Canterville Ghost (2016), The Ideal (2016), etc.

She did not neglect television, however, and she played, in particular, in the Netflix miniseries, Safe (2017) and Le Bazar de la Charité (2019) before experiencing major success with HPI (2021 and 2022) by holding a again the leading role.

place_of_birth: Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines, France


Osamu Kobayashi

biography: Osamu Kobayashi (小林 治 Kobayashi Osamu, born January 9, 1945) is an animator and animation director perhaps best known for Magical Angel Creamy Mami. He was born in Fuchuu-shi, Tokyo. He belongs to Ajia-do Animation Works. In 1963, he entered Toei animation (existing TOEI ANIMATION) at the same period as Tsutomu Shibayama and Hayao Miyazaki. He was a chief animator working with Shibayama after having transferred to an A production (an existing Shin-ei-animation). He established Ajia-do Animation Works with Shibayama Tsutomu in 1978. (Wikipedia)

place_of_birth: Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan


Kim Farrant

biography: Kim Farrant is an Australian film director best known for her work on Strangerland, Angel of Mine and The Weekend Away. Wikipedia

place_of_birth: Australia


Keenan Tracey

biography: Born in 1991 in Canada, he began acting at the age of 17. His early roles included guest stars in Fringe, Supernatural, and Arctic Air, in which he was nominated for a UBCP Award in the category of Best Newcomer. He then recurred largely in Bates Motel, The 100, The Returned, and Rogue. He was nominated for a Leo Award as Best Supporting Actor for his supporting lead role in The Hunters. His father is also an actor, which is how he got introduced to film.

place_of_birth: Vancouver, Canada


Paul Anderson

biography: Paul Anderson is an English actor who started his acting career in the late 2000s. He was previously a ticket scalper who decided to attend Webber Douglas drama school, subsequently landing roles in theatre and in films such as The Firm, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Passion. Anderson is known for his breakout role as Arthur Shelby in British television series Peaky Blinders.

place_of_birth: London, England, UK


Alban Lenoir

biography: Alban Lenoir (born 16 December 1980) is a French actor, screenwriter and stuntman. He was nominated for a Lumières Award for his leading role in the film French Blood (2015). As a stuntman, he has worked on Les Brigades du Tigre (2006), Taken (2008), Hero Corp (2008-2010), The Princess of Montpensier (2010), Outside the Law (2010), Point Blank (2010), Erased (2012).

place_of_birth: Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France


Kevin Janssens

biography: Kevin Janssens was born on August 21, 1979 in Antwerp, Belgium. He is an actor.

place_of_birth: Antwerp, Belgium


Dan Stevens

biography:
Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2012).

He also starred as David in the thriller film The Guest (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama Marshall (2017), Charles Dickens in the biographical drama The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) and Russian Eurovision singer Alexander Lemtov in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020). From 2017 to 2019, he starred as David Haller in the FX series Legion. In 2018, he starred in the Netflix horror Apostle. Since 2023, he has starred as Korvo Opposites in the animated series Solar Opposites. In 2024, Stevens starred as Trapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

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place_of_birth: Croydon, London, England, UK


Kathryn Newton

biography:
Kathryn Love Newton (born February 8, 1997) is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles as Louise Brooks in the CBS comedy series Gary Unmarried (2008–2010), Abigail Carlson in the HBO mystery drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), and Allie Pressman in the Netflix teen drama series The Society (2019). She is also known for portraying the older versions of Claire Novak in The CW dark fantasy series Supernatural (2014–2018) and Joanie Clark in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire (2016–2017).

Newton has appeared in various films, including Bad Teacher (2011), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Blockers (2018), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), Freaky (2020), The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), and Abigail (2024). For her role in the horror film Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), Newton received the Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film.

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place_of_birth: Orlando, Florida, USA


Hajo Gies

biography: Hajo Gies is a German film and television director.

place_of_birth: Lüdenscheid, Germany


Rebel Wilson

biography:
Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson (born March 2, 1980) is an Australian actress, comedian, writer, and producer. After graduating from the Australian Theatre for Young People in 2003, she began appearing as Toula in the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) comedy series Pizza (2003–2007; 2019), and subsequently appeared in the sketch comedy series The Wedge (2006–2007). Wilson wrote, produced and starred in the musical comedy series Bogan Pride (2008). The following year, she won the Tropfest best actress award for her role in Bargain and made a guest appearance in City Homicide. Shortly after moving to the United States, Wilson appeared as Brynn in the feature film Bridesmaids (2011).

In 2012, Wilson appeared in the films What to Expect When You're Expecting, Struck by Lightning, and Bachelorette, which led to Variety naming her one of their “Top Ten Comics to Watch for 2012”. She also played the role of Fat Amy in the musical comedy Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017), which earned her several award nominations and wins, including the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress. In 2016, Wilson appeared in the films How to Be Single and Grimsby.

Wilson wrote and starred in Super Fun Night (2013), a television sitcom that aired for one season on ABC. In 2019, she starred in her first lead role as Natalie in Isn't It Romantic, and went on to play Penny Rust in The Hustle, Jennyanydots in Cats, and Fraulein Rahm in Jojo Rabbit.

place_of_birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Saori Hayami

biography:
Saori Hayami is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator. She is represented by the agency I'm Enterprise. As a singer, she is signed to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Japan. In 2016, she won the 10th Seiyu Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Her major voice roles include Yukino Yukinoshita in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Ayase Aragaki in Oreimo, Shirayuki in Snow White with the Red Hair, Miyuki Shiba in The Irregular at Magic High School, Shinoa Hiiragi in Seraph of the End, Kotohae Hanami in Witchy PreCure!, Urara Shiraishi in Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Yotsugi Ononoki in Monogatari, Aila Jyrkiäinen in Gundam Build Fighters, Wako Agemaki in Star Driver, Shōko Nishimiya in A Silent Voice, Yumeko Jabami in Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler, Shinobu Kocho in Demon Slayer, and Yor Forger in SPY × FAMILY.

place_of_birth: Tokyo, Japan


Sara Canning

biography: Sara Canning (born July 14th, 1987) is a Canadian actress.

place_of_birth: Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


Zach Roerig

biography: Zach Roerig (born February 22, 1985) is an American actor who is best known for roles of Casey Hughes on As the World Turns, Hunter Atwood on One Life to Live and Matt Donovan on The Vampire Diaries.

place_of_birth: Montpelier, Ohio, United States


Katie Aselton

biography: Kathryn "Katie" Aselton (born October 1, 1978) is an American film director, producer, and actress from Milbridge, Maine. She is married to her co-star on The League, Mark Duplass.

place_of_birth: Milbridge - Maine - USA


Jamie Blackley

biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jamie Alexander Blackley (born 8 July 1991) is a Manx actor of screen, television and stage. Blackley was born in Douglas, Isle of Man. His first major appearance was in the London stage production of Spring Awakening. Blackley had a small role in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman but some of his most prominent film roles include Mark in Uwantme2killhim?, Ziggy in The Fifth Estate, and Adam in If I Stay.

place_of_birth: Douglas, Isle of Man, Crown dependency


Esther Smith

place_of_birth: Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK


Shay Mitchell

biography: Shannon 'Shay' Mitchell (born April 10, 1987) is a Canadian model and actress. She is best known for portraying Emily Fields in the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars, and Peach Salinger in the TV series You.

place_of_birth: Toronto, Ontario,  Canada


Ben Schwartz

biography:
Benjamin Joseph Schwartz (born September 15, 1981) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his recurring role as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, his starring role as Clyde Oberholt on the Showtime series House of Lies, and his voice roles as Randy Cunningham in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Dewey Duck in DuckTales, and Leonardo in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sonic the Hedgehog in the eponymous film series and its spin-off miniseries Knuckles. He also appeared many times in the CollegeHumor web series Jake and Amir.

His film career also includes roles in Peep World: Everybody's Fine, The Other Guys; Transformers: Age of Extinction; The Walk; This Is Where I Leave You; Standing Up, Falling Down; and Flora & Ulysses. On television, he has starred in the Netflix comedy series Space Force (2020–2022) and the Apple TV+ murder mystery comedy series The Afterparty (2022–2023). He also voiced in the Netflix interactive special We Lost Our Human as Pud.

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place_of_birth: New York City, New York, USA


Eloise Mumford

biography: Eloise Mumford is an American actress known for her roles on the television series Lone Star, The River and the Fifty Shades of Grey films.  A native of the Pacific Northwest, she graduated NYU's Tisch School of The Arts in summer 2009, where she studied with the Atlantic Theatre Company.

place_of_birth: Olympia, Washington, USA


J.G. Quintel

biography: James Garland Quintel (born September 18, 1982) is an American voice actor, animator, television writer, producer and director best known for creating Cartoon Network’s Regular Show (2009-2017) and HBO Max’s Close Enough (2020-2022). He also wrote and directed Regular Show: The Movie (2015)

place_of_birth: Hanford, California, USA


Carola Neher

biography: Carola Neher (born Katharina Karolina Neher; 2 November 1900 – 26 June 1942) was a German stage and screen actress and singer. In 1926, she went to Berlin to work with Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the role of Polly Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera" for her. While in Berlin, she practiced boxing with Turkish trainer and prizefighter Sabri Mahir at his studio, which opened to women, including Vicki Baum and Marlene Dietrich, in the 1920s. Carola Neher positioned herself as a "New Woman", challenging traditional gender categories. In 1932 she left Germany after Adolf Hitler's ascension to power. She first emigrated to Prague, where she worked at the New German Theater, but went on to the Soviet Union in 1934, where she met Gustav von Wangenheim and worked with him at his Cabaret Kolonne Links. In 1936, during the Great Purge, she denounced herself as a Trotsky supporter and was arrested on 25 July 1936. She was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent to Black Dolphin Prison near Orenburg in Russia, where she died of typhus.

place_of_birth: Munich, German Empire [now Germany]


Emery Hawkins

biography:
Emery Hawkins was an American animator, best known for his work during the Golden Age of American animation, working in various studios in the industry.

Hawkins began his career in the animation industry as a cel inker at the Charles Mintz studio, where he would later be promoted to animator. He would then work at MGM and then move to Walt Disney Productions in the late 30's but would leave in 1941 during the Disney animators' strike because his colleagues said they would never talk to him again if he did strike.

Initially going back to Mintz' studio (now renamed Screen Gems), he would later move to Walter Lantz Productions, where he would co-redesign their flagship character Woody Woodpecker with Art Heinemann. Later in mid-1946 he would move to Warner Bros. Cartoons to animator for Arthur Davis, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, and Friz Freleng up until 1950. Hawkins later worked in John Sutherland Productions as well as working and directing the 1954 Mexican cartoon Manolin Torero with his former colleague Pat Matthews at Dibujos Animados. He briefly did commercials for different companies in the 1950s, including Playhouse Pictures, Storyboard Inc., Pelican Films, Quartet Films and Bill Melendez Productions.

place_of_birth: Jerome, Arizona, USA

known_for_department: Visual Effects


Riyoko Ikeda

biography: Riyoko Ikeda (池田 理代子 Ikeda Riyoko, born December 18, 1947) is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, being best known for The Rose of Versailles.

place_of_birth: Osaka, Japan


Mia Hansen-Løve

biography: Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter and former actress. Her film The Father of My Children, won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, she won the Silver Bear for Best Director for her film Things to Come at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

place_of_birth: Paris, France


Sienna West

biography: Sienna West was born on November 6, 1977 in Orange County, California. Her family hails from Uruguay. West moved to Miami, Florida at age ten and participated in bikini competitions while living in that particular state. Sienna eventually moved back to California to pursue a career in the adult entertainment industry. West worked for nine years as a dancer doing private and erotic shows at the best clubs in Los Angeles and became close friends with many people in the porn cinema business. Sienna first began performing in explicit hardcore movies in her late 20's in 2007.

place_of_birth: Orange County, California, USA


Juro Kara

biography:
Jūrō Kara (唐十郎, Kara Jūrō; born Ōtsuru Yoshihide (大靏 義英); 11 February 1940 – 4 May 2024) was a Japanese avant-garde playwright, theatre director, author, actor, and songwriter. He was at the forefront of the Angura ("underground") theatre movement in Japan.

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place_of_birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan


Yoon Hee-seok

biography: Yoon Hee-seok (윤희석) is a South Korean actor.


Jhong Hilario

biography: Virgilio "Jhong" Viernes Hilario Jr. (born August 11, 1976) is a Filipino actor, dancer, television host, and politician. He is a member of the Filipino dance group Streetboys. He is widely known for his antagonist roles in television, as Gary David in the 2010 remake of Mara Clara (originally portrayed by Eruel Tongco from 1992 to 1996 and William Martinez for its movie version), and as Homer "Alakdan" Adlawan in FPJ's Ang Probinsyano. He currently appears as a regular host on the noontime variety show It's Showtime.

place_of_birth: Asingan, Pangasinan, Philippines


Ryan Agoncillo

biography: Kristoffer Lou "Ryan" Gonzales Agoncillo (born April 10, 1979) is a Filipino actor, host, musician, and photographer. Agoncillo started as a model at the age of 15. He is most memorable for playing the love interest of Judy Ann Santos, his now-wife, in the television soap opera Krystala. He once again appeared with Santos in the movies Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo (2006) and Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo (2007). He received Best Actor nominations from various award-giving bodies for his portrayal of a confused newlywed husband in this film.

place_of_birth: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines


Yelena Rufanova

place_of_birth: Velikiy Ustyug, Vologda Oblast, Russia


Benh Zeitlin

biography: Born in New York City and raised in Sunnyside, Queens and then Westchester County, Benh Zeitlin began his career as a filmmaker at the tender age of 6 when he and a friend made a Batman movie. He continued making films as a child before attending Wesleyan University, where he majored in film. After graduation, Benh spent a summer in Prague working with a prominent animation artist. Returning to the U.S., he worked in a private school in Manhattan helping elementary students create short films.

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


Igor Savochkin

biography: Igor Savochkin was born on 14 May 1963 in Berezovka, Saratovskaya oblast, USSR. He was an actor, known for Anna (2019), Night Watch (2004) and Papers, Please: The Short Film (2018). He was married to Ekaterina Marakulina. He died on 17 November 2021 in Moscow, Russia.

place_of_birth: Beryozovka, Saratovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR


John McCain

biography: John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.

place_of_birth: Canal Zone, Panama


Karen Lee Choi-Ling

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


Rick Ross

biography:
William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally as Rick Ross, is an American rapper and record executive. Prior to releasing his debut single, "Hustlin'", in 2006, Ross was the subject of a bidding war, receiving offers from Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment and Irv Gotti's Murder Inc., until signing a multimillion-dollar deal with Jay-Z on Def Jam Recordings. Ross released his debut album Port of Miami through the label later that year, debuting at the top spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, with sales of 187,000 units during the first week. Ross released his second studio album, Trilla in 2008, once again debuting atop the Billboard 200.

Outside of his solo career, Ross was a lead member of the hip hop group Triple C's, alongside fellow Florida rappers Gunplay and Torch in 2005. Ross founded the record label Maybach Music Group in 2009, on which he released his studio albums Deeper Than Rap (2009), Teflon Don (2010), God Forgives, I Don't (2012), Mastermind, Hood Billionaire (2014), Black Market (2015), and Rather You Than Me (2017). His tenth album, Port of Miami 2 was released in August 2019 and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 charts. Prominent industry acts have also been signed to Rick Ross through the Maybach Music label, including Meek Mill, Wale, and French Montana, among others. In early 2012, MTV named Ross as the Hottest MC in the Game.

place_of_birth: Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA


Jai Courtney

biography: Jai Stephen Courtney (born March 15, 1986) is an Australian actor. He started his career with small roles in films and television series before being cast as Charlie in the action film Jack Reacher (2012). He has gone on to star in A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), I, Frankenstein (2014), and The Exception (2016). He has also played Kyle Reese in Terminator Genisys (2015) and supervillain Captain Boomerang in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) films Suicide Squad (2016), The Suicide Squad (2021), and The Flash (2023).

place_of_birth: Cherrybrook, Sydney, Australia


Bobby V

biography: Bobby V is an American R&B singer.


Paco León

biography:
Francisco León Barrios (born 4 October 1974), known as Paco León, is a Spanish actor, producer, director, screenwriter and activist from Seville, Andalusia. Beginning as a comedy performer, he rose to prominence on channel Antena 3 with sketch show Homo Zapping, and in Aída, playing the main character Luisma. He gained more prominence for portraying María José Riquelme in the Netflix series The House of Flowers, and writing, directing, and starring as Manolo in Movistar's Arde Madrid. He is also a prominent campaigner for HIV/AIDS causes.

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place_of_birth: Sevilla, Spain


Monica Chan Fat-yung

biography: Monica Chan Fat-yung is a Hong Kong actress. She is the 1989 winner of the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. Monica was signed to TVB after she won the Miss HK beauty pageant. She went on to compete in the Miss Chinese International 1989 where she finished as 1st runner up. She also took part in the international beauty pageant, Miss Universe 1990 where she finished 23rd. After nearly ten years with TVB, she left TVB and joined ATV. In the recent years, Monica is less involved with the entertainment industry. While occasionally spotted in award shows and promoting various products as a spokesperson, she hasn't been featured in any HK dramas or movies for several years.

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China


Philippe de Chauveron

biography:
Philippe de Chauveron (born 15 November 1965) is a French film director, and writer. He is best known for his 2014 film Serial (Bad) Weddings.

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Paolo Genovese

biography: Paolo Genovese (born August 20, 1966) is an Italian comedy film director and screenwriter. His best known film is Perfect Strangers (2016), which holds the Guinness World Record for most remade movie ever, having since been adapted in more than 20 countries around the world.

place_of_birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy


Mark O'Brien

biography: Mark O'Brien (born May 7th, 1984) is a Canadian actor and director. He is best known for playing the role of Des Courtney in Republic of Doyle (2010) and Tom Rendon in Halt and Catch Fire (2014).

place_of_birth: St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada


Wendell Ramos

biography: Wendell Xavier Ramos is a Filipino actor best known as an original cast member of the GMA Network comedy show Bubble Gang.

place_of_birth: Tondo, Manila, Philippines


Ryan Eigenmann

biography: Born in 1977 into the prominent Mesa-Gil showbiz clan, Ryan Eigenmann is a versatile Filipino actor with over 30 years in the industry. He is the son of actors Michael de Mesa and Gina Alajar. Eigenmann began his career at the age of 11, starring in the television sitcom Family 1+3 from 1989 to 1993. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 22nd Gawad Urian Awards for his role in the 1998 gangster film Gangland.


Adrian Alandy

biography: Adrian Louis Castro Alandy, also known as Luis Alandy and Adrian Alandy, is a Filipino actor and model. He has since appeared in soap operas and in theater, including the stage musical All About Men. He has also starred in several hit movies like Pacquiao: The Movie, Citizen Jake, and Alone/Together.

place_of_birth: Manila, Philippines


Will Devaughn

biography: William Devaughn Stumpf (born February 27, 1982) is a Filipino-German-American commercial model and actor.

place_of_birth: Germany


Joseph Gilgun

biography:
Joseph William Gilgun (born 9 March 1984) is an English actor known for several roles, including that of Vinnie O'Neill in the Sky One series Brassic, Eli Dingle in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jamie Armstrong in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, Woody in the film This Is England (2006) and its subsequent spin-off series, and Rudy Wade in E4's Misfits. From 2016 to 2019, he starred in the AMC television adaptation of the Vertigo comic Preacher as the Irish vampire Cassidy.

Gilgun was born in Chorley, Lancashire, to Judith and Andrew Gilgun. He grew up in Rivington, Lancashire, as part of a working-class family with his two younger sisters, Jennie Seddon and Rosie Thomson. Gilgun attended Rivington VA Primary School and Southlands High School. He has dyslexia and ADHD, which he describes as the "biggest pain of [his] life" and in interviews has openly discussed depression and anxiety. He started drama workshops at the age of eight, following advice from an educational psychologist, and was described as having "exceptional talent". He also trained at the Laine Johnson Theatre School and the Oldham Theatre Workshop. When he was 10, he got his first TV acting role in Coronation Street. He stayed with the show until he was thirteen years old.

Gilgun studied A-Levels at Runshaw College. Outside of odd jobs and a few roles in small theatre productions, Gilgun worked as a plasterer until returning to acting full-time with Emmerdale in 2006.

place_of_birth: Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK


István Szabó

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

István Szabó (born 18 February 1938, Budapest) is a Hungarian film director.

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place_of_birth: Budapest, Hungary


Garry Kasparov

biography: Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 255 months overall for his career.

place_of_birth: Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]


Ariana Grande

biography:
Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a pop icon and an influential figure in popular music, Grande is known for her four-octave vocal range, which extends into the whistle register. Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, 39 Guinness World Records, and ten MTV Video Music Awards.

She began her career as a teenage actress by appearing in the Broadway musical 13 (2008). She rose to fame as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and its spin-off series Sam & Cat (2013–2014). Grande signed with Republic Records and released her retro-pop and R&B-influenced debut studio album, Yours Truly (2013), which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. She blended pop, R&B, and electronic on her second and third albums, My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016), which both achieved international success and contained the singles "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang", "One Last Time", "Into You" and "Side to Side".

Personal struggles influenced Grande's trap-infused albums Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019). The former won Grande her first Grammy award, while the latter garnered US number-one singles "Thank U, Next" and "7 Rings", and made her the first solo artist to occupy the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100. She subsequently achieved the most number-one debuts in Hot 100 chart history with the title track of her sixth album, Positions (2020), as well as the collaborations "Stuck with U" and "Rain on Me". After a musical hiatus, Grande released her seventh album, Eternal Sunshine (2024), which yielded the US number-one singles "Yes, And?" and "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)". She returned to film acting with the political satire Don't Look Up (2021) and received critical praise for her portrayal of Glinda in the fantasy musical Wicked (2024), earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

place_of_birth: Boca Raton, Florida, USA


Vera Pacheco

biography: Vera Pacheco (August 29, 1955 - December 11, 2021) was an American clean-up animation supervisor at Walt Disney Animation Studios.


JR

biography: JR is a French photographer and artist. Describing himself as a photograffeur, he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in public locations, in a manner similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist.

place_of_birth: Paris, France


Nina Janković

biography: Nina Jankovic is a Serbian actress who has become popular by taking on the role of Valerija in one of the most popular Serbian movies Montevideo, God Bless You!. She was born in Sabac, Serbia as the second child of Radusko and Slavica Jankovic. She has an older brother Filip. In her earliest years, Nina began absorbing the acting craft from her father who was a coordinator of a drama club in Sabac. She often appears on many most beautiful women lists and is often referred to as the Serbian sex symbol.  - IMDb Mini Biography

place_of_birth: Sabac, Serbia, Yugoslavia


David Otunga

biography: David Daniel Otunga is an American actor, lawyer, and former professional wrestler. Otunga is best known for his time working with WWE. He was the runner-up on the first season of NXT. He is also an original member of The Nexus and The New Nexus, being the only member present through the entire duration of the stable in every incarnation. As part of the faction, he became a two-time WWE Tag Team Champion, having one reign each with fellow Nexus members John Cena and Michael McGillicutty.

place_of_birth: Elgin, Illinois, USA


Chung King-Fai

biography: Chung King-Fai (鍾景輝) is a Hong Kong  stage, film and television actor. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, he lived in Taishan, China and later in Hong Kong. After graduating from Pui Ching Middle School (香港培正中學) in Hong Kong, he majored in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He then moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama at the Oklahoma Baptist University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University's School of Drama. Back in Hong Kong, he worked a teacher at Baptist College, and as an actor and television producer for Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and later Asia Television Limited (ATV). In 1983, he was appointed the founding Dean of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performance Arts and remained in the post for 18 years.

place_of_birth: Bangkok, Thailand


Jennifer White

biography: Jennifer White (born February 7, 1988, in Agoura Hills, California, U.S.) is an American porn star and adult model. Jennifer entered the industry in January 2009 at the age of 20 and has since admitted it was always a fantasy of hers to have sex on film.

place_of_birth: Agoura Hills, California, USA


Ayman Zeidan

biography:
Ayman Ghaleb Shukri Zidane or Ayman Zidane, a Syrian actor, director, producer, writer, and presenter.

He was born on September 1, 1956 in the city of Al-Rahiba (located 50 km northeast of Damascus). He is the older brother of actors Shadi Zidane and Wael Zidane. He joined the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria when he was 22 years old. After graduating, he participated in several plays, both as an actor and as a director, and gave much of his creativity to the National Theater.

He traveled to Germany to take a course in theater directing in Berlin. Several years later, he became the director of the traveling theater and decided to try his hand at standing in front of a television camera for the first time in 1983 when director Mamoun Al-Bunni gave him a role in the series (Women Without Wings). Director Muhammad Malas also gave him an important role in the film (Dreams of the City), which won the Cannes Film Festival Award in 1984. It was his first opportunity in front of the cinema cameras, and he continued to work after that.

place_of_birth: Ar Ruhaybah, Syria


Jimmie Vaughan

biography: Jimmie Vaughan is an influential four-time Grammy-winning American blues rock guitarist and singer who helped revitalize the national roadhouse blues and R&B scene during the late 20th century. He is highly regarded for his tough, lean, and strictly economical guitar style. He is also widely recognized as the older brother and primary musical role model of the late guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.

place_of_birth: Dallas, Texas, USA


Natalie Hamel-Roy

biography: Natalie Hamel-Roy is a Québec actress specialized in dubbing. She is the voice of Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd, Melissa McCarthy and many more.


Jericho Rosales

biography: Jericho Rosales (born September 22, 1979) is a highly acclaimed Filipino actor and producer. With a career encompassing over 50 productions, he has delivered memorable performances in films such as Tanging Yaman (2000), Bagong Buwan (2001), Forevermore (2002), Baler (2008), #WalangForever (2015), and notably, Alagwa (2012), which earned him the Gawad Urian Best Actor award. His producing work on Alagwa (2012)  also received international acclaim. Rosales is a recipient of the "Ani ng Dangal" award, and his short film Basurero (2019)  was nominated at the Busan International Film Festival.  Recent highlights include the TV Series Lavender Fields (2024), the highly anticipated action series Sellblock, and the upcoming Quezon (2025) biopic, produced by TBA Studios. He is also actively producing through Inventory Films.

place_of_birth: Quezon City, Philippines


Katrina Halili

biography: Maria Katrina Irene Grace Morales-Halili (born January 4, 1986) is a Filipino actress. She began her career after finishing as a finalist on the reality talent search StarStruck (2003). In 2024, Halili won Best Supporting Actress at the Emirates Film Festival for her role in AbeNida (2023).


Diether Ocampo

biography: Diether Ocampo (born July 19, 1974) is a Filipino actor, singer, model, and military officer. He is known for Nasaan Ka Man (2005), Apoy sa Dagat (2013), and La Vida Rosa (2001).

place_of_birth: Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines


Erich Gonzales

biography: Erika Chryselle Gonzales Gancayco-Lorenzo (born September 20, 1990), better known by her stage name Erich Gonzales, is a Filipino actress. She started her showbiz career at the age of 14, as a contestant in the reality talent search Star Circle Quest. She came to prominence in her lead role in Katorse.

place_of_birth: Davao City, Davao Region, Philippines