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Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself. La Doña, as the star was known after the character of her 1943 movie Doña Bárbara, starred in 47 movies, most of them forgettable except for her presence in them. More a star than an actress, she constructed an image of a tough woman, a sort of one-liner she-male that went beyond the traditional role of Latin American women. Her marriage to Agustín Lara the most popular Latin composer from the 30s to the 60s, was a great event itself. Her fame went beyond Mexico to Latin America, Spain, France and Italy. She always refused to learn English, so she never acted in any English language movie. That's the main reason why her fame was related almost exclusively to Latin countries. After her last film, she was linked to a number of film projects, but never came back to the screen. Her last performance was on a Mexican historic soap opera, in 1970.- Actor
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Aaron O'Connell's Biography (2021)
Aaron John O'Connell was born April 8th, 1986 in Dayton, Ohio. In 2013, Aaron was casted in the first television drama ever created by Tyler Perry, The Haves and The Have Nots (2013-2020). Due to the growing popularity of OWN's first scripted drama series, Aaron garnered much attention as his role of "Wyatt Cryer", and since then he has starred along side Jean-Claude Van Damme as CIA Operative in Black Water (2018), Runnin' from My Roots (2018), along with recent guest starring roles in "NCIS," and "Lethal Weapon", and is anticipated in his lead role on "Game of Love" alongside Brenda Song (2021).
In 2013, he earned his private pilot's license, and later became an instrument-rated pilot in 2014. When Aaron gets a break from the entertainment business, he loves to fly for the charity "Pilots 'N Paws," ferrying dogs from kill shelters to their new families.- Actor
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Akhil is the son of Akkineni Nagarjuna and Amala, both his parents are famous actors.His elder half-brother Naga Chaitanya is also an actor Akhil is the grandson of Akkineni Nageswara Rao,recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest honorary award for achievement in Indian cinema and also honored with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, for his contribution towards Indian cinema. Akhil started his education at Chaitanya Vidyalaya, before heading to study in Australia for two years and returned to complete his studies at Oakridge International School, Hyderabad- Actor
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Alejandro Botto was born on 8 April 1977. He is an actor and producer, known for Últimos Colores, Nueces para el amor (2000) and The Boarding School (2007).- Alejandro Rial is known for Todo x 2 pesos (1999).
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Alexis Krause was born in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Jersey Boys (2014), The Ugly Truth (2009) and How I Met Your Mother (2005). She has been married to Dennis Di Salvo since 2010.- Actor
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Alfie Bass was born on 8 April 1916 in Bethnal Green, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Moonraker (1979) and The Bespoke Overcoat (1955). He was married to Margaret Beryl Bryson. He died on 15 July 1987 in Barnet, London, England, UK.- Alfred 'Uganda' Roberts was born on 8 April 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Treme (2010).
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Allan F. Nicholls was born on 8 April 1945 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an assistant director and actor, known for Slap Shot (1977), Nashville (1975) and Popeye (1980).- Actor
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Allu Arjun nicknamed Bunny was born on April 8, 1980. His father, Allu Aravind, is a famous producer and his uncle, Chiranjeevi is one of the top actors in the Telugu industry. Also, he is the grandson of late comedian Padmashree Allu Ramalingaiah. He is well-known as stylish star for his unique way of acting and dancing. He is also known for changing his hair and body for each movie that he does. He has starred in 5 movies so far and all of them are super hits. Besides being a illustrious actor though, Allu Arjun gives back to his community and shows to be a successful role-model. Every year on his birthday, April 8th, he donates blood and attends functions for physically and mentally challenged kids.- Amanda Hayes was born on 8 April 1972 in Taft, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for WRAL Murder Trials (2003).
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A true professional with a tireless work ethic and vibrant personality to match, Amelie McKendry is a versatile American actress who has appeared in many popular TV Shows, feature films and commercials for nearly two decades.
Amelie was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and grew up with a love of performing. She is of UK and European descent, and was named after her great-grandmother, a Welsh opera singer. Inspired by her supporting family, many of whom are artists and performers in their own right, Amelie decided to pursue a career in acting after high school. She moved to Los Angeles and obtained a B.A in Theater Arts and Dance from the California State University of Los Angeles. During that time, she began to hone her professional skills working steadily as an actress, a dancer and a model.
After graduating, Amelie made her professional acting debut in the pilot episode of the TV show Miss Match, starring Alicia Silverstone. Since then, she has been a constant presence on both, the big and small screens. To date she has amassed over 30 on screen credits and is a member of SAG Aftra.
On TV, Amelie has appeared on high profile shows such as Orange Is The New Black, Law & Order SVU, The Bold and the Beautiful, Redheads Anonymous and the Emmy winning HBO mini-series documentary, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst by Andrew Jarecki, and A Wilderness of Error by Marc Smerling.
Selected feature credits include Let Them Have There Way, NYC Rooftop Story, All We Had with Katie Holmes, Norman with Richard Gere, Ovum, Bubble Girl with Abigail Hawk, and the horror film, Dry Bones. Most recently, Amelie had a starring role in Terry R. Wickham's Hitchcockian thriller Double Vision.
In addition to acting Amelie has branched out working behind the scenes as an associate producer on several films including festival favorite, NYC Rooftop Story and the award winning short The Kids Menu featuring Vincent Pastore from the Sopranos. She is also a strong supporter of women's rights and gender equality in the film industry.- Actress
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Ana de la Reguera grew up in the tropical state of Veracruz, on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. She began her performance arts studies in the Cultural Institute of Veracruz, then left for Televisa's Center for Artistic Education (CEA) and TV Aztecas' artistic institute (CEFAC) in Mexico City, later taking study with Lisa Robertson and Aaron Spicer in Los Angeles and acting coach Juan 'Carlos Corzza in Spain. In theater she participated in "El Cartero" ("Il Postino") for which she received two awards: one for "Best Actress" from the Association of Theatre Journalists in Mexico and the other for the year's "Most Promising Actress" from the Association of Theatre Critics and Journalists.
De la Reguera's professional career began with her role in the telenovela Azul (1996), followed by Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1997)--for which she received the Heraldo Award for "Best Breakout Female Actress"--and Desencuentro (1997), which was her third telenovela under the direction of the internationally recognized Ernesto Alonso. _"Tentaciones" (1998)_ marked her beginning with powerhouse Argos Comunicación. She was immediately offered roles in _"Destino" (1998)_ and Todo por amor (2000), for which she received "The Golden Palm Award." After that, it was non-stop work for de la Reguera. In 2002 she starred in Cara o Cruz (2001), which was the first telenovela co-produced by Argos Comunicación and Telemundo, made exclusively for the Hispanic audience living in the US. The following year she played María in the telenovela Por tí (2002) for TV Azteca and the mini-series that followed up on Pedro el escamoso (2001), Como Pedro por su casa (2003), which was a co-production between Colombia's Caracol and Telemundo. Additionally, de la Reguera also had the lead role in the Peruvian soap opera Luciana y Nicolás (2003).
De la Reguera's introduction into film began with Por la libre (2000), which earned her two nominations: "El Heraldo de la Revelación Femenina" (Best New Actress) and "Eres Mejor Actriz" (Best Actress). Later she acted in Un secreto de Esperanza (2002) with Oscar nominee Katy Jurado. In 2003 Ana starred in the highly acclaimed comedy Ladies' Night (2003), alongside Ana Claudia Talancón. The movie became the box-office success of the year and won her three major awards: "the Latin America MTV's Favorite Actress Award," the Mexican movie industry Award for Best Actress of the year, "CANACINE," and the "Diosa de Plata (Silver Godess) Award" for Best Supporting Actress (2003).
In 2005 she played the starring role in Gitanas (2004), which aired on Telemundo in the US and now has been seen as far away as Ukraine, Spain and Argentina. In 2006 de la Reguera had the lead in the powerful On the Edge (2006), which earned her her second "Diosa de Plata [Silver Goddess] Award" for best actress. In addition, she also starred in Paraiso Travel (2008), playing the role of Milagros, singing and dancing for the first time in a movie. John Leguizamo and Colombian star Margarita Rosa de Francisco were also in the cast. The film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and later released throughout the US and Latin America. That same year Ana received her big break into American cinema when she landed the role of Sister Encarnación in the comedy Nacho Libre (2006). The film by Jared Hess--director of Napoleon Dynamite (2004)--and co-starring Jack Black gave her the opportunity to be seen around the world.
In 2008 she became the new face for Cover Girl worldwide, alongside celebrities like Drew Barrymore, Queen Latifah, Ellen DeGeneres and Rihanna. From there her career received many other impressive endorsements, including campaigns with Pantene, Special K and Flip, Macy's, Coca-Cola (Ciel), Pepsi (Be Light) and Caress, among many others. She began 2010 with a worldwide publicity campaign for Lipton Tea alongside actor Hugh Jackman. Most recently, she did an international campaign with Kahlúa benefiting her hometown of Veracruz, Mexico, left demolished after the resent destruction of Huricaine Karl.
In the action-thriller film Sultanes del Sur (2007), filmed mainly in Argentina, she plays Monica Silvari, a mean and sophisticated bank robber alongside Spanish actors Jordi Mollà and Tony Dalton. In the spring of 2008 Ana began filming Capadocia (2008), an HBO mega-production TV show about the chaotic and miserable life in a women's prison in Mexico. The show aired with record-breaking ratings in Mexico and Latin America, and was released in the US in the fall of 2008 for HBO OLE. Three of the most recognized directors in Latin America participated in this HBO original production: Epigmenio Ibarra, Jorge Aragón and Luis F Peraza. The successful series got three International Emmy nominations for its first season, and this fall marked the opening of "Capadocia"'s second season.
In 2009 she shot Di Di Hollywood (2010) from famed Jamón, Jamón (2000) director Bigas Luna. That same year she went back to the Mexican theatre for six months where she played "Desdemona" in William Shakespeare "Othello". The play was hugely successful in Mexico's renowned Juan Ruiz de Alarcón theater, and she was named "Best Actress" by the Journalist Theatre Association at the annual Bravo Awards and by the ACTP. Later that year she filmed the extremely moving Mexican film El Traspatio (2009), in which she played a cop in an outlaw border city controlled by drug traffickers and killers. Directed by Carlos Carrera (The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), nominated for an Oscar for "Best Foreign Film"), the picture was chosen to represent Mexico in the 2010 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category, and earned de la Reguera the "Best Actress Award" at the Imagen Awards and the CANACINE Awards, and won the "Silver Plaque" at the Chicago Film Festival.
The beginning of 2010 brought the opening of her Hollywood film Cop Out (2010), co-starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and directed by Kevin Smith. She played Gabriela, a strong-willed woman with very picante and colorful language, who gets rescued by Willis and Tracy--and gets them in trouble in the process. In that same year brought the release of her film Hidalgo. La historia jamás contada (2010), about the controversial life of Mexico's independence hero, priest Miguel Hidalgo. She plays Hidalgo's second wife and shares credit with Demián Bichir (Weeds (2005), Che: Part One (2008)).
In the US she also had a recurring role on the USA Network's series Royal Pains (2009), and starred in the critically-acclaimed, Will Farrell-produced HBO comedy Eastbound & Down (2009) co-starring Danny McBride as down-and-out baseball player and love interest Kenny Powers. She also had a role in the Jon Favreau-directed Cowboys & Aliens (2011) starring Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Sam Rockwell, produced by Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. The film crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in its story about a lone cowboy leading an uprising against murderous aliens from outer space. Ana also played a nurse in the teen drama Everything, Everything (2017), and in 2021, starred in two action-horror films, Army of the Dead (2021) and The Forever Purge (2021).
As if her busy acting career isn't enough, de la Reguera is also heavily involved with charity work. Most recently she uploaded a video to YouTube in order to help raise awareness for Veracruz, her home state, affected by heavy rains and a devastating Hurricane Karl. In the video she speaks about a variety of options for support and help that victims of the Hurrcane can utilize, and offers methods to make donations. The viral campaign went all over Twitter and other online sites, raising much needed money for the victims of the hurricane. She also founded the organization VeracruzANA AC, which is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to raise funds and build a tourist boulevard of Antigua--something that has been promised by political organizations for years. Antigua is one of the most important and historical communities in Veracruz, and also one of the areas the most damaged by the hurricane. This June marked the culmination of her hard work and the grand Opening ceremony for the touristic boulevard.- Actor
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Early on, Andy Stahl moved around as his airline pilot father was transferred, including early school years in the bay area of California. When he was nine, he moved with his parents to the family farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky which he still owns and operates. He graduated from Western Kentucky University, and had early careers as a musician and visual artist before taking up acting in local regional theater. In New York, he studied with Wynn Handman, Jack Waltzer and William Hickey, and eventually migrated back to the Southeast to build his career. He currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia and Nashville, Tennessee when he's not at home on the farm.
He has one son, Reuben, and two step children, Liza and Sam, the youngest a sophomore in high school.- Anna Osceola was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Confess, Fletch (2022), Mad Men (2007) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). She has been married to Jon Hamm since 24 June 2023.
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Anouk was born on 8 April 1975 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. She is an actress and composer, known for Amazones (2004), Anouk Is Alive (2006) and Divorce (2012). She was previously married to Remon Stotijn and Edwin Jansen.- Actor
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Ben Freeman was born on 8 April 1980. He is an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), The Dark Channel and The Three Musketeers (2023). He was previously married to Jennifer Biddall.- Producer
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Beryl Vertue initially worked as secretary to Alan Simpson, although when Alan Simpson and his writing partner Ray Galton joined Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes to form Associated London Scripts, Vertue moved to the new co-operative. She eventually, and almost accidentally, became an agent with ALS, responsible not only for finding work for members of the co-operative and negotiating their fees, but also selling formats of British TV successes abroad. "Sanford and Son", based on "Steptoe and Son" was one of her placements. When Robert Stigwood bought out the majority of the ALS business, Vertue became MD of the new company. She founded Hartswood Films when the Stigwood organisation decided to divest itself of its TV interests.- Actress
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Betty Ford was born on 8 April 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), Dynasty (1981) and The Betty Ford Story (1987). She was married to Gerald Ford and William Cornelius Warren. She died on 8 July 2011 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.- Actor
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Biz Markie was an African-American rapper, disk jockey and actor. He was known for his hit 1989 song "Just a Friend". He played a beatboxing alien in Men in Black II (2002) alongside Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. He was originally going to voice The Grizz in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (2013) but left during pre-production of the game with Fred Tatasciore replacing him. He passed away in 2021 due to complications from diabetes.- Composer
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Brenda Russell was born on 8 April 1949 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is a composer and actress, known for Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Bad Company (2002) and John Q (2002). She was previously married to Brian Russell.- Actor
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Brian Delate was born in Trenton, New Jersey, but grew up mostly in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father, Joseph, was a gifted tennis player and World War II veteran. His mother, Patricia, held a key position at Gallup and Robinson in Princeton, New Jersey. Delate was a below-average student for the most part, unless his passion was ignited by such things as sports, sailing, and tennis. After graduating from high school in 1967, he worked in a record store for a year before going into the army in 1968. He spent 1969 in Vietnam as a decorated non-commissioned officer. After addressing a long-time reading problem, he became an above-average student while attending Bucks County Community College, where he discovered theatre, then transferred to Rider University, where he received a BFA with a theatre track in directing and acting. He spent a good part of his senior year at Princeton's McCarter Theatre where he was selected to be a directing intern. He was also nominated for inclusion in the Who's Who of Colleges and Universities for 1975.
After college graduation, Delate moved to New York City and spent his first few years adapting, both professionally and personally, to the novelty and pace of the city. Delate's first professional acting work (and his very special association with the New York Shakespeare Festival) began in 1981, when he was cast in both of the plays performed in Central Park that summer - Henry IV, Part I and The Tempest. Other plays followed (including Joseph Papp's Hamlet with Diane Venora), and in 1984-1985, Delate received critical acclaim for his performance in the award-winning play, Tracers, which had successful runs in both New York (NYSF) and London (Royal Court). An abundance of daytime television and commercial work followed. In 1987, William Friedkin cast him in Python Wolf and not long after, David Jones cast him opposite Robert DeNiro and Ed Harris in Jacknife. Theatre, film and television opportunities all combined to help Delate thrive as an actor. He spent three seasons with the River Arts Repertory, and three seasons with Phoenix Theatre Company doing rotating repertory theatre, along with numerous theatre acting stints in and out of New York. One piece of trivia from that time was that Delate got to play the Humphrey Bogart role of Rick in the only sanctioned stage production of Casablanca permitted by Warner Brothers.
Delate has had the privilege to work with some of the most talented and creative directors and actors in the industry -- most recently in the acclaimed HBO Season 2 of The Comeback for Michael Patrick King. Brian did 5 episodes with its star Lisa Kudrow. Brave One (directed by Neil Jordan, with Jodie Foster), in Salome on Broadway, directed by Estelle Parsons and elsewhere and in the film, Salomaybe (both with Al Pacino), as well as in My Brother (directed by Anthony Lover), Buffalo Soldiers (directed by Gregor Jordan, with Ed Harris and Joaquin Phoenix), The Truman Show (directed by Peter Weir, with Jim Carrey and Laura Linney), American Wake and Home Before Dark (both directed by Maureen Foley, the latter with Katherine Ross), Sudden Death (directed by Peter Hyams), Far From Heaven (directed by Todd Haynes), Ash Wednesday (directed by Edward Burns), and The Shawshank Redemption (directed by Frank Darabont, with Tim Robbins).
Under the aegis of Liberty Studios, Delate has spent the last two years writing, directing and acting in, his first indie feature, Soldier's Heart (with James Kiberd and Cady McClain), which takes a promising look at the prolonged effects of PTSD caused by war, and the healing that's possible. Now near completion, Soldier's Heart will soon be making the rounds of the film festivals. Delate has also co-written the screenplays, Dante's Obsession and War Queen with Eric Pederson.
Delate resides in Los Angeles. His daughter Tirsa just graduated with honors from Bryn Mawr College.- Actress
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Carmen McRae was born on 8 April 1920 in Harlem, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Real Genius (1985), Hotel (1967) and Excess Baggage (1997). She was married to Ike Isaacs and Kenny Clarke. She died on 10 November 1994 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Composer
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Casper Hatlestad is known for Eurovision Song Contest Turin 2022 (2022), We Are Domi: Lights Off (2022) and We Are Domi: Let Me Follow (2019).- Actress
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Chantal Contouri was born on 8 April 1950 in Agios Georgios, Vion, Lakonias, Greece. She is an actress, known for Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Sullivans (1976) and Thirst (1979).- Writer
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Chris Kyle was born on 8 April 1974 in Odessa, Texas, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for American Sniper (2014), Stars Earn Stripes (2012) and Conan (2010). He was married to Taya Kyle. He died on 2 February 2013 in Glen Rose, Texas, USA.- Actor
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Christian Tafdrup was born on 8 April 1978 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an actor and director, known for Speak No Evil (2022), En forelskelse (2008) and Parents (2016).- Christine Boisson was born on 8 April 1956 in Salon de Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for The Truth About Charlie (2002), Emmanuelle (1974) and Identification of a Woman (1982).
- Claire Nielson was born on 8 April 1937 in Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for The Revenue Men (1967), Kidnapped (1971) and Boy Meets Girl (1967). She has been married to Paul Greenwood since 1994. She was previously married to Dennis Vance.
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Craig Mazin was born on 8 April 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Chernobyl (2019), The Last of Us (2023) and Mythic Quest (2020).- Producer
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Dan is the CEO and Head Wrangler of Rideback, the film and television company known for producing tentpole live-action and animated content for global audiences. Rideback is housed inside Rideback Ranch. This innovative, creative campus formed by Lin in LA's Historic Filipinotown district is also home to industry leading companies Warner Animation Group, David Ayer's Cedar Park Entertainment, premier animation studio Animal Logic, and Margot Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment.
Since his company's formation in 2008, Lin has produced films that have grossed over $4 billion in worldwide box office. He most recently produced Disney's $1 Billion blockbuster "Aladdin," Stephen King's "It: The Second Chapter," and the acclaimed Netflix awards contender, "The Two Popes."
His past films include LEGO movie franchise films "The LEGO Movie," "The LEGO Batman Movie," "The LEGO Ninjago Movie," "The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part," Stephen King's "It," and Netflix's "Death Note."
Lin also previously produced the hit mystery thrillers "Sherlock Holmes" and "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," which starred Robert Downey Jr., and executive produced Fox's TV series "Lethal Weapon," based on the film franchise.
Prior to forming Lin Pictures, Lin served as Senior Vice President of Production for Warner Bros. Pictures. During his eight-year tenure at the studio from 1999 to 2007, he oversaw the development and production of such films as Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning drama "The Departed."
Lin serves on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations, including the Evolve Entertainment Fund, the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children, and the I Dream of Fish Foundation. In June 2015, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Lin received his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1999.- Darlene Gillespie was born on 8 April 1941 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is an actress, known for The New Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957), Corky and White Shadow (1956) and Dr. Kildare (1961). She was previously married to Jerry Joseph Fraschilla, Donald Laverne McDavid and Phillip David Gammon.
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Darryl Robert Cox was born in a U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was Wayne Windell Cox, an NCO in the U.S. Air Force who eventually achieved the rank of Senior Master Sargeant before his retirement from the Air Force in 1972. His mother was Marian Elizabeth Cox (Thomas). Darryl was the third of three boys (his older brothers were Dan and Frank), with another sister and brother (Nancy and Rick) born after him. As an "Air Force brat" he grew up on or around U.S. embassies and military bases from Yugoslavia to Texas to Spain to Wyoming to Louisiana to England for his entire childhood, before his family finally settled in his father's home state of Oklahoma when he was 14.
He first became seriously interested in acting at Del City High School in Oklahoma at age 15, but when he went to the University of Oklahoma he decided to become a naval officer through the OU NROTC program and was commissioned as an Ensign in May of 1977. He served most of his four years on a destroyer, the USS Forrest Sherman, before deciding to resign his commission in May of 1981 at the rank of Lieutenant and return to OU, determined to return to his first love, acting, at the OU School of Drama graduate acting program.
After two years of graduate work at OU he determined that it was time for him to seriously pursue a professional acting career, focusing on film and television. He began by moving to Dallas, Texas in July of 1983 after signing with an agent there. For the next four years he built his career from the ground up, doing mainly commercials and industrial video work before beginning to book principal roles in film and television and becoming eligible to join SAG and AFTRA. Crucial in developing his career was his training at Film Actor's Lab, run by Adam Roarke. In 1987 he married Carolyn Susanne Ingels and joined SAG/AFTRA, moving to Los Angeles.
After three years in Los Angeles, where he not only worked as an actor but as a writer/producer at a promo production company, Davis*Glick Productions, he returned with his wife to Dallas where he signed with the top regional agent at the time, Kim Dawson Agency. He had previously begun teaching Acting for the Camera, first at Film Actor's Lab and then at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. This continued along with his acting until he received an offer to teach Acting for the Camera at Oklahoma City University, and then at the University of Oklahoma. He returned to Norman, Oklahoma while still retaining the Kim Dawson Agency in Dallas less than three hours away, and in Norman his wife gave birth to a daughter, Alexandria Camille Cox, in 1995.
He has had a career divided between acting and teaching Acting for the Camera (also at the University of Central Oklahoma and other locations, including the Actor Factory in Norman). He has been directed in his many film and television roles by, among others, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Terrence Malick, Paul Verhoeven, Sterlin Harjo, Bille August, Mark Pellington, Lee Isaac Chung, Paul Dano, Tim Blake Nelson, Adam Arkin, and Oliver Stone. Actors he has worked opposite include Owen Wilson, Jeff Bridges, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tim Robbins, Helena Bonham Carter, Hal Holbrook, Mira Sorvino, Jack Warden, Liam Neeson, Steven Yeun, Joan Cusack, Jason Bateman, Patrick Swayze, Zahn McClarnon, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brandon Lee, Peter Coyote, Armand Assante, Michael Chiklis, Scott Bakula, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, Jimmy Smits, Luke Wilson, Martha Plimpton, Aiden Quinn, Bill Paxton, Dennis Franz, Kelly Preston, Terry O'Quinn, Ron Perlman, Halle Bailey, Timothy Dalton, Chuck Norris, Miguel Ferrer, Peter Weller, Marina Sirtis, Sean Young, JoBeth Williams, Kevin Sorbo, Alan Ruck, and Howard Keel.- Actor
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Darwin is a graduate of Truman State University where he earned a B.A. in Theatre. He caught his bug for acting with childhood buddy Leonard Roberts in a high school production of West Side Story. Darwin's Dad is a minister, his Mom is a retired elementary school teacher, and his brother Darold is a middle school teacher. Darwin resides in Manhattan, New York.- David Dichiera was born on 8 April 1935 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Karen VanderKloot. He died on 18 September 2018 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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Dean Batali was born in the USA. Dean is a producer and writer, known for That '70s Show (1998), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Good Witch (2015).- Actor
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Dean Joseph Norris is an American actor. He is well known for playing DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008-2013). He also portrayed town councilman James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome (2013-2015) and played mob boss Clay "Uncle Daddy" Husser on the TNT series Claws. He reprises his role as Hank Schrader in the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul (2020). Throughout his career, Norris has acted in nearly 50 movies and more than 100 different TV shows.
Norris has appeared in films such as Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Hard to Kill (1990), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), The Firm (1993), Starship Troopers (1997), The Cell (2000), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Evan Almighty (2007), and Sons of Liberty (2015), and has more recently starred in films such as The Book of Henry (2017), Death Wish (2018), and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019).- Composer
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Deke Richards was born on 8 April 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Italian Job (2003) and Phenomenon (1996). He died on 24 March 2013 in Bellingham, Washington, USA.- Dennis Peron was born on 8 April 1946 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to John Entwistle Jr. He died on 27 January 2018 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Dorian Brown Pham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Honey Boy (2019), Wilfred (2011) and Casual (2015). She has been married to Guy Pham since 29 April 2006. They have one child.- Actress
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Dame Dorothy Tutin's esteemed company of peers included other remarkable dames, including Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Unlike these others, Dorothy had limited screen time over the years and would develop the respect but not the stardom afforded the other two outside the realm of the theatre. Dorothy was born in London on April 8, 1930, the daughter of John and Adie Evelyne (Fryers) Tutin. Educated at St. Catherine's, she studied for the stage at PARADA and RADA, making her debut performance as "Princess Margaret" in "The Thistle and the Rose" on September 6, 1949. In the early 1950s, she joined both the Bristol and London Old Vic companies where she rose in stature with secondary roles in "As You Like It", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "Henry V" and "Much Ado About Nothing". She later demonstrated her versatility outside the classics when she originated the role of "Sally Bowles" in "I Am a Camera" in 1954 and later played "Jean Rice" in "The Entertainer" in 1957.
Great promise was held for Dorothy after an auspicious film debut as "Cecily Cardew" in the classic Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Despite sterling film portrayals of "Polly Peachum" opposite Laurence Olivier's "Macheath" in The Beggar's Opera (1953) and "Lucie Manette" in a remake of A Tale of Two Cities (1958) with Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy abruptly left the cinema to return to the comforts of a live stage. She continued to play all the illustrious Shakespearean femmes (Juliet, Desdemona, Rosalind, Ophelia, Portia, Cressida) during her excursions with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and Royal Shakespeare companies, and won the coveted Evening Standard award for her "Viola" in "Twelfth Night" in 1960. During this time, she returned to the role of "Polly Peachum", this time on stage, in 1963, and won acclaim for her "Queen Victoria" in "Portrait of a Queen" in 1965. She took the role to Broadway in 1968 and won a Tony nomination. In the 1970s, she appeared in everything from Harold Pinter plays to "Peter Pan".
Though her film and TV output was limited, the performances Dorothy gave during these sporadic occasions were nothing less than astonishing. Included among these triumphs has to be her "Anne Boleyn" opposite Keith Michell as one of The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), and "Goneril" in Laurence Olivier's heralded adaptation of King Lear (1983). In a rare and rather bizarre moment on film, she top-lined one of Ken Russell's quirky biopics of the 1970s, the flop-turned-cult classic Savage Messiah (1972), in which she played a Polish noblewoman married to the much younger sculptor, "Henri Gaudier-Brzeska".
In later years, Dorothy enhanced several costumed TV movies with an always fascinating grande dame eloquence. An intriguing "Desiree Armfeldt" in "A Little Night Music" in 1989 and both an Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Award winner for her superlative work in "A Month in the Country", Dorothy took her final curtain in a revival of "The Gin Game" opposite Joss Ackland in 1999. Honored with the title "Commander of the British Empire" in 1967, she was made a "Dame" for her services to the theatre in the 2000 New Year Honors.
Diagnosed with leukemia, Dame Dorothy died on August 6, 2001, at the Edward VII Hospital in London. She was survived by her actor husband (since 1963) Derek Waring and their two children, Amanda Waring and Nick Waring, both of whom are actors. Daughter Amanda, in fact, occasionally appeared as younger versions of her mother on TV during the 1990s and went on to gain a bit of fame for herself as a musical "Gigi". Her husband died in 2007.- Producer
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Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer, Douglas Trumbull, was one of the Special Photographic Effects Supervisors for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He went on to become the Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
Mr. Trumbull directed Silent Running (1972), Brainstorm (1983), Back to the Future... The Ride (1991) and numerous other special format films.
He is the recipient of an Academy Award in the area of Scientific and Technical Achievement, as well as the International Monitor Award and American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of filmmaking. Douglas is currently involved in the evolution of visual effects using virtual digital sets and electronic cinematography.- Dragan Banjac was born on 8 April 1975 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Flesh (2018), Meso (2017) and Zene, ljudi i ostalo (1999). He died on 28 February 2022 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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At the age of 4 years old she sang the Portuguese national anthem at her home in Montijo, a small town located in front of Lisbon on the other side of the river Tejo. Daughter of Lourdes and the bookkeeper Tomás Pontes, she was born on the 8th of April of 1969, year in which, in the field of music, the prodigious decade of sixties was powering down with the mythic Woodstock festival, the last recordings of The Beatles ('Abbey Road' and it's famous sleeve of the zebra crossing) and the murder of an African American member of the audience in Altamont by the "Hell's Angels", the security staff that The Rolling Stones contracted. The young Dulce, completely foreign to all those rock music events that was trying to change the world, but that should have woke-up from this dream with the violent decade of seventies, was just starting to walk in the last years of "salazarismo", in a isle and back warded Portugal. She was introduced to the fado tradition for her uncle Carlos Pontes, also bullfights lover. He was her maestro. At seven years old she started to attend the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of Lisbon and the piano was her favourite instrument and where she studied until the forth year. During those years she listened to classical music as such as Portuguese and English popular music. During her adolescence she dedicated for a short period to learn modern dance, but her teachers told that she was too old to become a dancer so she definitely decided to be a musician. In Montijo she became the leader of a urban rock band The "percapita", an amateur project without any aspirations for the future. The first professionals experiences came up when the young singer was chosen among various applicants, to substitute the main actress of the musical 'Enfim Sos", in November 1988. The rehearse was done at Namouche studios where Dulce will know her future first producer Guillherme Ines, a prestigious musician who collaborates among others with Zeca Afonso. She got her first musical contract. After have been the leading actress of another musical, she was invited at TV programs, recording of commercial advertising's and shows at Estoril Casino, where Dulce got the attention for the quality of her voice, her interpretations of fado and Shirley Bassey's themes. The appreciations of the public began with the TV show 'Regresso ao passado', where she sang song of sixties, among them 'The fool on the hill' of Lennon and McCartney. She did her first decisive step at the Eurovison in 1991 where she won the competition with the song 'Lusitana Paixao' , a soul ballad but with a clear homage to fado in its text. This success gave her the passport to represent Portugal at the Eurovision Festival that took place in the same year in Rome (at Cinecitta), where she obtained the 8th place (the best ranking Portugal has ever obtained till that edition) and the critics award for the best performance.
The following year she published her first CD 'Lusitana' following pop music style. Is 1993 when she decided to begin her real musical course with the CD 'Lagrimas'. The new meeting with Guillherme Ines will brings to a new result after a large work of recordings in which the fado and the music of Zeca Afonso, the two sides of the Portuguese music, lived together in a space that until that moment was prohibited for ideological reasons. Amalia Rodriguea and the author of 'Grandola Vila Morena' became her reference point of Portuguese music, although in this work we can begin to see Maghribian and Bulgarian influences, and the synthesizers replaced the Portuguese guitar in various songs. The reinterpretation of 'Cançao do mar' was going to be during the next years the most universal Portuguese song of all times and with more international versions. The song was part of the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera 'As pupilas do Senhor Reitor' (1994). The same interpretation of this song of Ferrer Trindade was the main theme of the soundtrack of the movie 'Primal fear' (1996), of Gregory Hoblit, with Richard Gere and Edward Norton as main characters.
The most important thing Dulce Pontes obtained with 'Lagrimas' it was to stimulate a sociological effect that has no precedents, such as re-discover the fado when it was dying and the new generation was not interested in it. It is not possible to conceive the new-fado of this first decade of XXI century without the decisive contribution of the singer from Montijo. First Madredeus, with other style, and than Dulce Pontes, leaded the popularization of the music sang in Portuguese language trough all the world.
Dulce began to perform in international tours, traveling all over Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, German, Italy, U.S.A., Japan, Brazil. The Italian composer Ennio Morricone, in 1995, invited the singer to sing the theme 'A brisa do coraçao', as part of the soundtrack of the movie 'Sostiene Pereira' of Roberto Faenza, with Marcello Mastroianni as main character in one of his last performances before he died.
The collaboration between Pontes and Morricone strengthened forward and had its climax with a CD signed by both artists. In the vortex of this spectacular success (more than 300.000 records sold) she recorded in 1995 the double live CD 'A brisa do coraçao' live recorded into the Coliseu of Porto.
'Caminhos', in 1996, was her last step with the Movieplay editor. The CD was recorded in four countries and there was the collaboration of Carlos Nunez, Leonardo Amuedo and Xiradela. But Dulce was not convinced about the production, because the CD was recorded among airports and concerts, the artist's aim was a change of path: a more natural and acoustic sound that she developed in her following projects. 'O Infante' that opens the CD is an incredibly inspired Pontes' composition on a Fernando Pessoa's poem.
In 1997 Dulce Pontes did an almost permanent tour and she performed in the concert 'Yes for Europe', broad-casted by seventeen TV channels, in the World Food Day organized by the FAO in Rome, in the concert for the 52nd United Nations anniversary celebration, in New York, at the concert for Amnesty International in Madrid. In 1998 she gave her own concert for first time in U.S.A. and Canada, and than went, as guest artist, with the Irish group The Chieftains, as clearly requested Paddy Maloney, to their North American tour of that year. She performed at the First Solidarity Festival of Barcelona, where she knew Elvis Costello. Italy became her second international market after the Spanish one. In the same year she recorded the duet 'O mar e tu' together with Andrea Bocelli. At Lisbon Expo in 1998 she gave two concerts, the second one with an audience of 30.000 people. In the same year she was invited as guest to sing with Cesaria Évora and with the Brazilian singer Marisa Monte. After her great participation in the first CD of the Galician bagpipe and flute player Carlos Nunez 'A irmandade das estrelas', another major Spanish musician, the Basque accordionist Kepa Junkera, asked for her because he wanted her voice in two songs 'Matia nun zira' and the classic from Cabo Verde 'Sodade' in the CD 'Bilbao 00.00 H'.
She was the author of the soundtrack of the fiction documentary 'Curiua Catu - A grande Expedicao de Pedro Teixeira', a Portuguese-Brazilian co-production directed for Carlos Barreto, that tells the adventures of this explorer who, in the XVII century explored a good part of the Amazon, succeeding in annexing the forest to Portuguese colonial territory of that period. Her composer side is beginning to spread.
In the month of February and March 1999 she recorded one of her fundamental masterpiece 'O primeiro canto' at Helioscentric studios in London. It was the first CD she produced herself with the help of Antonio Pinheiro da Silva and that was published at the end of September with Universal. The Uruguayan guitarist Leonardo Amuedo will be the co-author of some themes together with Dulce. In this work she unblocked all her talent as a composer. Wayne Shorter, Jaques Morelembaum, Trilok Gurtu, Justin Vali, Kepa Junkera, Waldemar Bastos, Maria Joao, Gemma Bertagnolli, Myrdhin, Anders Norude (of Hedningarna), Hubert Jan Hubeek, among more famous other artists will share Dulce's talent in this CD, about the four natural elements, and that let her conquer the Jose Afonso award in the year 2000. The CD was launched in two tours in Spain and Netherlands. She received the new of the death of Amalia Rodrigues while she was in Barcelona. She sent a deep release to the media. At the Auditori of the Catalan Capital she respected a minute of silence before she started the concert. In this same year Dulce gave a concert together with Caetano Veloso at Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo and she led an ambitious tour in historical monuments of Portugal. Among the public there was an unknown Mariza who didn't miss any concert.
She performed at Hannover Expo, ended an open air 'world' Festival near Brussels, performed at Istambul and went back to Tokio.
In 2001 Dulce's friendship with Ennio Morricone emphasizes and she took part as guest at the Barbican Theatre of London, at the Arena of Verona, at the Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia of Rome, among other auditoriums.
She put her voice for the Italian-Spanish co-production 'La luz prodigiosa' , whose author was Ennio Morricone and that won the 25th International Cinema Festival of Moscow. In September she canceled her official tour in U.S.A. on doctor's order because she was on her 5th month of pregnancy. In the occasion of the birth of her first son Jose Gabriel, she dedicates the year 2002 to her recent motherhood and she paused her artistic career. When she came back to performances Maestro Ennio Morricone invites her again. In to Forum studios in Rome, during the spring of 2003, they recorded the CD 'Focus' where the artist sang the still famous themes of the italian composer, and some new songs specially composed for her. The result of this work was performed in concert in halls like the Royal Albert Hall of London, the Arena of Verona, the Auditorium parco della Musica of Rome, at the Mazda Palace of Milan, the Congress Palace of Paris and the International Forum Hall of Tokio. In Spain the record was near to be gold record (45.000 copies).
Finally she performed with her own concert at the Barbican Theatre of London in the month of October of the same year.
In June 2004, the Lisbon City Hall invites Dulce Pontes, Ennio Morricone and the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra to give a concert. About this project Morricone said:" I knew that the final result should have been a success, but I never imagined that all this experience should have been so exceptional ". The concert took place at the Monsanto Park. In that same year Dulce Pontes obtained the Amigo award for the best latin performer from the Spanish Asociacion Fonografica y Videografica, and the International award Tenco, awarded from the Italian Club Luigi Tenco, the same prize that was given to artists such as Jacques Brel, Ute Lemper, Tom Waits, Caetano Veloso, Joan Manuel Serrat. Sergio Godinho together with Dulce are the only two Portuguese artists that received such award. Dulce received the award as 'Cultural Operator' for the recovery of Zeca Afonso And Amalia Rodrigues work, "for her sensible and honest interpretation inside of the best musical and poetic Portuguese tradition". At the award ceremony Dulce was introduced as a 'new fado craftswoman'.
Spain is becoming her first market and between 2004 and 2005 she gave more than 60 concerts. Madrid is the town of the world where she has performed most.
Her artistic maturity, reached without any doubt, became more active and curious. She goes on with the research of detailed associations for special projects, like the event 'Fado Tango' , where Dulce Pontes divided the scenario of the Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon with the Argentinian poet and historian Horacio Ferrer, who, together with Astor Piazzolla, have revolutionized the Argentinian Tango. About Dulce's performance of his song 'Balada para un Loco' the poet said: "She recreated it in a such way that, for the first time, I am beginning to learn something of my own song. This work is a confidence and she succeeded in performing the poet... ".
Greece became a Country that acclaims to the singer with passion and her performances at Athens and Thessalonica are real milestones. The famous singer George Dalaras, one of the most prestigious artist of this Country, invited her at the Greek Festival in 2005, at the Herodes Atticus Odeon at the Acropoli. About that concert it was published the CD 'Mediterraneo' in which Dulce sings in six songs and the same Dulce awarded Dalaras with the platinum record in a ceremony that took place in Athens. She was working at her new double CD untitled 'O coracao tem tres portas', that it has been recorded live during the new tour 'Por dentro do fado', where the artist recovered her love and a new perspective about this genre, and a second CD recorded into the Santa Maria's Church of Obidos and into the Convento de Cristo of Tomar, with rapprochements of Fado to classic music, folk and medieval sounds.
Her first official U.S.A. tour took place during the recordings of this CD in the October 2005. The musical reviewers praised the artist on prestigious publications such as 'The Boston Globe' or the Los Angeles 'Variety', where the writer Phil Gallo defined her as a mix between Ella Fitzgerald and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
In December 2006 'O coracao tem tres portas' (double CD and a DVD) was launched on the market in Portugal self edited for Dulce Pontes, after having ended her contract with Universal. The CD will be gold record and received best reviews of the international specialized press such as 'Songlines' or enter in the European World Music Charts top-20. A part of the music of the CD n. 2 was sed for the Spanish director Alberto Luna for the documentary 'Juan de Castillo, el constructor del mundo'. In that same year she made her second U.S.A. tour and made her debut at the prestigious Carnegie Hall of New York with a great success. John Pareles, reviewer of the 'The New York Times', wrote: "Miss Pontes has an extraordinary voice: intense and faithful, delicate and strong, with a length like a natural soprano". And added to his praiseworthy commentary: "Pontes was surprised about she succeeded in managing the public of the Carneige Hall, when she invited them to sing and the public smiled. And also, when she sang with tears and sorrow, she passed them happiness, sign of a characteristic Portuguese inheritance".
The organization of the "New Seven World Wonders" asked to Dulce Pontes to compose the official Anthem that she recorded together with the Spanish Tenor Jose Carreras. The event was performed at Estadio da Luz of Lisbon, and was one of the most seen TV transmission of the history. The year 2007 ended with a tremendous performance at the 'Aula Magna' of Caracas and another one in Paris, but she also put a musical "brooch" at the Signature of the Tratado de Lisboa into the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos cloister.
The year 2008 begins of course with live concerts. Stands out her performance at Festival Cultural de Zacatecas (Mexico) where she shared the list with Bob Dylan, and her first concert in Moscow at the International House of Music. During the summer there was the Spanish tour together with the Spanish flamenco singer Estrella Morente. 'Dulce Estrella' brought more than 50.000 persons in the various concerts they gave, where the music of both Countries where twinned. Estrella Morente repeated many times, to the media, that Dulce "es mi maestra" ("is my maestro"). And at the beginning of the 2009, the artist from Montijo became mother once more, this time she had a daugther named Maria, so she celebrated her 20 years with music with the editing of the double CD 'Momentos' with inhedited material and some new versions of songs like 'Cancao do mar', 'Lsgrima' and 'O Infante'. The CD was published in Portugal reaching the gold record. Some days after the paunch of this new CD Dulce was invited as guest, together with Juliette Greco and Randy Crowford, at the opening ceremony of the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna. In September she performed in a concert at the Herodes Atticus Odeon of Athens together with the Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Pena and the greek Bouzouki player Thanassis Polykandriotis, in an event where they mixed together the most representative musical styles of their own Countries. A month later she collaborated with the U.S.A. composer and Grammy Winner 2010 Christopher Tin, at the CD 'Calling all dawns' recording the song "Se e pra vir que venha". The music was played by the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, that recorded at the mythic Abbey Road Studios of London. A time later, the song 'Fado Morna da Cirandaia' that Dulce composed together with Beto Betuk, was included into the prestigious compilation "Muzyka Swiata: Siesta 5" that Universal Poland publishes each year. The year ended with the important performance of Dulce Pontes at a record homage of Latin American female singers to Joan Manuel Serrat, with the version of 'Bendita Musica'.
The 2010 year started with new spirit and the international edition of 'Momentos' . The German Editor Galileo Music has the most part of the rights and Spain is one of the Countries where this label will distribute the CD starting from March. The changes of this version are in the cover and the style of the inlay booklet. Dulce Pontes also renewed her live performances in Galicia in February, than she went on in Spain at Catalonia, with a concert in Girona and another one at the mythical Palau de la Musica of Barcelona and after two years she met again italian public in Lecce. Without doubt she is at present, the best Portuguese and one of the most important singer of the world.- Actor
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A native of San Francisco, CA, Dylan Saunders is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and a co-founder of StarKid. With performances ranging from The Second City in Chicago, to Roseland Ballroom in New York, to the House of Blues in Hollywood, StarKid has amassed over 300 million views, with work spanning original comedy series and concerts throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe, and Billboard and iTunes-charting albums.- Actor
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Suave Irish-born actor with resonant voice and a commanding presence, who made his theatrical debut in 'The First of Mrs.Fraser' (1942) at the age of 19 at the Cork Opera House. Nine years later, after spells with the Gate Theatre in Dublin and the Liverpool Repertory Company, Mulhare appeared in a Laurence Olivier-directed London production of 'Othello' with Orson Welles. It was there, that he was spotted by Alan Jay Lerner and signed as an understudy to Rex Harrison for the part of Henry Higgins in 'My Fair Lady'. The play ran on Broadway from 1957 to 1962, totalling a massive 2,717 performances. Harrison dropped out of the part in December 1957, and Mulhare, a relative unknown in the U.S., took over the role. This sparked a controversy with Actor's Equity over the hiring of foreign actors, which required a noted labour negotiator to resolve. In the end, Mulhare played Higgins to both audience approval and critical acclaim more than 1,000 times between 1957 and 1960. The play subsequently toured the Soviet Union, before returning to London. On Broadway, Mulhare also replaced Michael Rennie in the leading role of Dirk Winsten in 'Mary,Mary' and starred as Giacome Nerone in Dore Schary's 'The Devil's Advocate', alongside actors Leo Genn and Eduardo Ciannelli.
It was ironic, that Mulhare followed in Harrison's footsteps on television as well, playing the part of Captain Daniel Gregg (Harrison's in the 1947 movie), the titular spectre of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968). The popular NBC series updated the setting from turn of the century New England to present day, and, by comparison with its cinematic predecessor, was less sentimental, but wittier by some degree. There was an undeniable on-screen chemistry between co-star Hope Lange and Mulhare, who was Emmy-nominated for his portrayal as the cantankerous, but thoroughly charming captain. From 1982 to 1986, Mulhare also appeared on television as the articulate Devon Miles, David Hasselhoff's boss, in the fantasy series Knight Rider (1982).
Surprisingly, Edward Mulhare never achieved star status on the big screen. Among the few films he made, one only remembers his dastardly villains of Our Man Flint (1966) and Caprice (1967). He did, however, continue to make frequent guest appearances on television in series ranging from The Streets of San Francisco (1972) to Battlestar Galactica (1978). In 1988, he also hosted a series about the paranormal, entitled Secrets and Mysteries (1983). Mulhare, a confirmed bachelor, died during filming of the Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau comedy Out to Sea (1997) at the age of 74.- Actress
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Born as Emma Chukker and raised in San Diego, California, Emma Caulfield began studying drama at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe Theatre, where she won the distinguished honor of "Excellence in Theatre Arts". She picked up her drama studies once again at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) in London, all before finishing high school.
Caulfield, an award-winning actress known for her starring role as the young and beautiful demon-turned-mortal "Anya" on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) starting in 1999. Her role was initially conceived only as a guest demon-of-the-week appearance in a December 1998 episode, but she was called back for a few more guest spots when Joss Whedon recognized her talent. She appeared in most of the episodes the following season and, after that, was promoted to a full-time series regular. She has starred in numerous films, including the hit indie sci-fi/rom-com film Timer (2009) as the central character, Oona Leary, a woman on the verge of her 30th birthday who trusts that an implanted timer device will tell her the exact moment she will meet her true love.
Caulfield starred in the ensemble indie film Telling of the Shoes (2014) as "Alex", the quietly suffering wife of a man with a deep secret. She garnered praise in the role of Sarah in the short film Hollow (2007), picking up a Best Actress award at the Beverly Hills Short Film Festival. She starred as "Caitlin Green" in the Revolution Studios' thriller, Darkness Falls (2003). She also starred alongside Chaney Kley as a young woman attempting to take care of her troubled 8-year-old brother plagued by night terrors. Left to her own resources, Caitlin must tackle the legendary evil that haunts their small town in the dark.
Caulfield spent 2010 juggling two shows, Gigantic (2010) and Life Unexpected (2010), in heavily recurring arcs. She is also a writer and producer. In August 2009, she and her writing partner Camilla Ransten launched the successful web comic, Contropussy. A decidedly female-driven satire that showcases human behavior through the eyes of animals. She is also the co-creator, executive producer and star of the hit web series Bandwagon: The Series (2010).- Actor
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A highly respected Shakespearean for five decades until his death of colon cancer in 1995, classical actor Eric Porter's claim to international fame would, ironically, be outside of that realm, with one superb portrayal in one superb miniseries, The Forsyte Saga (1967), in which he won the BAFTA award. The son of Richard John Porter and Phoebe Elizabeth Spall, Porter first attended Wimbledon Technical College before stepping onto the stage as a walk-on in a production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in February 1945 at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge. He continued in repertory until joining the National Service with the RAF during the war years. Early post-war credits would include touring with Sir Donald Wolfit and Sir Barry Jackson in their prestigious companies. Favorite roles in his repertoire would eventually include "Macbeth", "King Lear" and "Uncle Vanya". He won London's Evening Standard Award for "Rosmersholm" in 1959. Joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, he became a prime, esteemed resident for decades. Porter made his film debut in mid-career with The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) at age 36, but it was the BBC that made him an international favorite as the ever-proper but intensely emotional and unhinged "Soames Forsyte". Taboos were broken on that series with a violent rape scene that had people talking for months. Along with the newly acquired fame came leads in lesser films such as The Lost Continent (1968) and Hands of the Ripper (1971), adding class to both those atmospheric horrors. On the plus side, Porter engaged himself frequently in quality TV miniseries fare including Anna Karenina (1977), The Jewel in the Crown (1984) and Oliver Twist (1985) (as Fagin), while transferring many classics to TV as well, with "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Man and Superman" and "Macbeth" being but a few.- Born to a Japanese father and an Algerian mother in Tokyo Erika had a well-off upbringing and engaged in dancing, playing piano and horseback riding. Her father owned several race tracks, which ensured her access to horses. However, her father died due to cancer while she was in junior high school, which only preceded the death of her older brother due to a car accident. Her father had abandoned the family for several years and had returned the year prior to his death. Nonetheless Erika debuted as a model while in grade six for the girls' manga magazine Ribbon She joined the ranks of Japanese 'idols' Angel Eyes in 2002 and appeared in her first TV serial, namely Hotman, in 2003. Apparently she had gotten into show business and auditioned in order to meet her idol, singer and actress Amuro Namie. By now she was also a racy gravure idol. Erika was cast in her first movie Mondai No Nai Watshitachi ('We Don't Have A Problem') in 2004 in which she was a supporting actress. A film called Pacchigi (Korean for 'Breakthrough') made her famous in 2004 and she was accorded Best Newcomer and Most Popular Actor awards at the Japan Academy ceremony. She was also the main character in the serial Ichi Litre No Namida ('One Litre Of Tears') in 2005. At this point she appeared in Taiyou No Uta ('Song Of Sun') where her character's name was Kaoru Amane, a name she made her own and used for the release of her 2006 album. She was the vocalist. In that year she was in no less than five movies. However, success proved fleeting. When on stage in theatre to promote Closed Note in 2007 she exercised her right to act according to her mood and gave curt answers to multiple questions thus earning the condemnation of the press and fans. The adoration of the masses turned into hatred. Stardust Promotion and her parted ways in 2009. She apologized one week later, but when interviewed for a TV program in 2010 claimed that it was imposed upon her by management and was insincere. She recanted. In the meantime, she had lost her planned role in the film, Space Battleship Yamato. More importantly she married producer Tsuyoshi Takashiro, 22 years her senior, in 2009, which lasted four years. Thus she ended up essentially blackballed and not having worked for 3 years. Despite that a Japanese beauty salon, called Taka No Yuri, used her in a commercial in 2010 and the seeds of a commercially beneficial redemption comeback was planted. Simultaneously Erika founded her own talent agency in Spain in 2010. She was back acting by 2012, which predictably was a success. The film was called Helter Skelter. Audiences claimed Erika was as beautiful as ever. Further on she was in a historical serial - a first for her - in 2016. In a 2017 interview she claimed she has not watched TV since 2006. Erika's oldest brother was also an actor. Sawajiri was taken into custody by Tokyo Police on 16.11.2019 for possession of the drug MMDA. She admitted to possession and chronic usage. NHK, which had contracted her for her next role, announced it would reassess her participation in the project.
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Esteban Morgado is known for Haroldo Conti, homo viator (2008), La Nación Sudamericana: Una Mirada de Methol Ferré (2011) and Hambre nunca pasé (2011).- Writer
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Ezra Koenig was born on 8 April 1984. He is a writer and actor, known for Peter Rabbit (2018), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008).- Actress
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Femi Taylor was born on 8 April 1961 in Niger. She is an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Apple (1980) and Great Performances (1971).- Music Department
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Fred Ebb was born on 8 April 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Chicago (2002), Cabaret (1972) and Shame (2011). He died on 11 September 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.- Fehérvári Gábor Alfréd was born on 8 April 1990 in Gyõr, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Freddie: Ez a vihar (2017), A Dal (2012) and Dalfutár (2016).Freddie
- Gabriella Wilde was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. She is descended from the aristocratic Gough-Calthorpe family. Her mother, Vanessa Mary Teresa (Hubbard), is the former wife of socialite Sir Dai Llewellyn, 4th Baronet. Her father, businessman John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is a former chairman of the Watermark Group, and the grandson of baronet Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Her ancestry includes English, as well as some Scottish and Irish.
Vanessa is a former model who sat for David Bailey and John Swannell. Wilde attended Heathfield St Mary's School, Ascot, and St Swithun's School, Winchester, before leaving to pursue a course in art while continuing with her modeling career. She studied fine art at the City and Guilds of London Art School but dropped out to pursue acting. - Actor
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Garrett Brawith is a Sacramento, California native by way of Maui, Hawaii, where he and his father started a golf business. Knowing few people, he auditioned for a small play, was hired as the lead, and quickly found himself deeply immersed in the world of local theater. Driven by a passion for acting, he left college, moved to Los Angeles and has since acted on several hit dramatic shows as well as in many films and commercials. He is active in the world of independent film producing and is best known as "the Magic Fridge" guy from his Bud Light Superbowl commercial, voted #1 spot in USA today.- Actress
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Georgina Simpson was born on 8 April 1946 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Otley (1969), Special Branch (1969) and BBC Play of the Month (1965). She has been married to Anthony Andrews since 1 December 1971. They have three children.- Actor
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The male lead on the #1 show on Netflix, Devil In Ohio, Gerardo Celasco is a Salvadoran actor, born in Miami and raised in El Salvador.
In the last few years, Gerardo was a series regular on Next from FOX, National Parks for ABC, and shouldered a guest arc as the hotshot E.R. doctor on Good Sam for CBS as well as a an arc as a memorable antagonist for Viola Davis on How to Get Away With Murder on ABC. In 2021 he was the male lead of Swimming With Sharks playing opposite Diane Kruger and Kiernan Shipka. You can currently check him out on Netflix as detective Lopez on their number one streaming show, Devil in Ohio.
In 2005 he relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue an acting career, a dream he had since he was child. His TV debut came soon after in 2005 when he booked a lead role on the NBC Daytime show "Passions." He has followed that up with various film and TV roles, including Moneyball, Battleship, Bones, and Person Of Interest.
An accomplished equestrian at a young age, he competed and represented El Salvador in the Central American Games. He attended the American School in El Salvador, and after graduating high school, he furthered his education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas graduating with a degree in finance.
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Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed as "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema."
Hou's birthplace, a county in Kuangtung Province, had been well-known as an intellectual center in China. In 1948, his family moved to Taiwan and, like all children raised there, he went through an extremely demanding educational system. In 1969, he studied film at the National Taiwan Arts Academy. After graduation in 1972, he worked briefly as a salesman. Later he began his film career as a scriptwriter and assistant director.
Hou's films are often concerned with his experiences of growing up in rural Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s. The 1950s marked a time in which refugee families from the mainland were struggling painfully for survival, while the 1960s saw the beginning of the most significant social change in modern Taiwan. The economic boom of that period meant the beginning of Western-style industrialization and urbanization. The normal frustrations of growing up were aggravated by these complicated changes, and Hou's films are intimate expressions of those experiences.
His emotionally charged work is replete with highly nostalgic images and beautiful compositions; their power lies in his total identification with the past and the fate of families who suffered through difficult times. His stories, often written in collaboration with scriptwriters T'ien-wen Chu and Nien-Jen Wu, depict the complex intertwining of the different strands that shape the lives of individuals. In a poetic yet relaxed style, they reflect a deep sympathy and a profound humanism.- Director
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Hugo Fregonese was born on 8 April 1908 in Mendoza, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Hardly a Criminal (1949), My Six Convicts (1952) and Savage Pampas (1965). He was married to Faith Domergue. He died on 17 January 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Humberto Tancredi was born on 8 April 1938 in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. He was an actor, known for La italianita (1973), Cara sucia (1992) and Jugando a vivir (1982). He died on 24 November 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Hywel Bennett was born on 8 April 1944 in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Neverwhere (1996), Percy (1971) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). He was married to Sandra Layne Fulford and Cathy McGowan. He died on 25 July 2017 in Deal, Kent, England, UK.- Actress
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The daughter of Vogue's editor-in-chief for 40 years, Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka was named for a Hungarian friend of her mother. She went to school in France and later acted in stock with Rube Miller in New York. Her first appearance on Broadway was as a maid in 'The Red Falcon' in 1924.
After co-starring in her next play, the mystery "Shall we Join the Ladies?" (with Leslie Howard, 1925), she established a reputation as an intelligent leading lady of the stage. She went on to have further successes in prestigious plays by Philip Barry ("The Animal Kingdom", 1932, as Grace Macomber), Thomas Mitchell ("Forsaking all Others", 1933, with Tallulah Bankhead), Eugene O'Neill ('Days Without End', 1934, as Lucy Hillman) and Clare Boothe Luce ("The Women", 1936, as Sylvia Fowler). In 1944, she starred in her adaptation of her novel "In Bed we Cry", playing an actress somewhat inspired by, or modeled upon, her own experiences and personality.
Although she appeared in several motion pictures, few came close to showcasing her caustic personality. The exception was, perhaps, The Big Knife (1955), in which she portrayed a Hedda Hopper-like newspaper columnist. An earlier role of note included Now, Voyager (1942). Bosley Crowther thought her 'cool' in Ocean's Eleven (1960).
Chase was known as much for her acting ability, as for her acidulous wit and sometimes scathing criticism, leveled at her contemporaries in general and her peers in particular. A member of the social elite herself, she used her insight in her best-selling autobiography, 'Past Imperfect', written in 1942. The book brought her nationwide fame, taking gratuitous pot-shots at writers, actors and socialites alike. It eventually led to her hosting a radio program, "Luncheon at the Waldorf". She was also actively involved in a number of charities and a staunch advocate of wildlife preservation and protection.- Actor
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Ilya Prusikin was born on 8 April 1985 in Ust-Borzya village, Ononsky district, Chita region, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and director, known for Little Big: Go Bananas (2019), Oliver Tree & Little Big: The Internet (2021) and Little Big: Faradenza (2018). He has been married to Irina Smelaya since 6 July 2016. They have one child.- Actor
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Izzy Stradlin was born on April 8, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA as Jeffrey Dean Isbell. Izzy was born in the same town as Axl Rose, and later joined the band, Guns and Roses. His notoriety as the rhythm guitarist and song writer for that band, got him a small role in the Dead Pool (1988) with Clint Eastwood and Liam Neeson. After Guns and Roses broke up, he started his own band, Izzy and the Ju Ju Hounds.- Actor
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"Irish" Jack O'Halloran was a rated heavyweight boxing contender in the middle '60s & early '70s. The 6'6" native of Runnemede, New Jersey, was considered one of boxing's most promising heavyweight hopefuls after he remained undefeated in his first 16 professional matches. O'Halloran went on to defeat former title contenders Cleveland Williams, Terry Daniels, Manuel Ramos and Danny McAlinden. In 1972 he won the California state heavyweight championship with a victory over Henry Clark. Scoring an upset victory over eighth-ranked Al "Blue" Lewis in 1973, O'Halloran was on the verge of a bout with Muhammad Ali when he was shockingly knocked out by Jimmy Summerville in Miami Beach, Florida. Even though he knocked out Summerville in the rematch, O'Halloran was never in contention again. He retired in 1974, because of a tumor of the pituitary gland, with a record of 34-21-2 with 17 knockout victories. He lost to future heavyweight champions George Foreman and Ken Norton. He achieved World ranking for several years and was the California Heavyweight Champion in 1972 & 73. He was also inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame and the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. Following his retirement he launched a successful career as a character actor in such films as Farewell, My Lovely (1975), King Kong (1976), Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), The Baltimore Bullet (1980), Hero and the Terror (1988), Dragnet (1987) and more. He is a published author with Family Legacy.- Actress
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Jacqueline Pinol was born in Queens, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Bosch (2014), Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020) and Spider-Man (2018). She is married to Jonny Blu. They have one child.- Music Department
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One of the most popular singers of French songs. After a childhood full of boredom and normality, Brel started to work in his father's cardboard factory. But he wanted a different kind of life. He had been writing songs all his life and in the early 1950s he went to Paris. After a few years he became hugely successful. His songs include 'Amsterdam', 'La Valse a Mille Temps', 'Vesoul' and 'Au Suivant'. He was covered by, among many others, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and David Bowie.
His songs have been translated in many different languages. In 1966, when he was more successful than ever, he quit performing on stage. Instead, he became an actor in musicals and films. He also directed two films. In the 1970s, he became a sailor and tried to sail around the world. He ended up at the Marquesas Islands in 1976. In 1973 Brel discovered that he had lung cancer. The illness took his life in 1978.
He was married to Thérèse 'Miche' Michielsen and had three daughters: Chantal, France and Isabelle. His last mistress was called Maddly Bamy, sister of Erick Bamy aka Erick Stevens.- James Herbert was born on 8 April 1943 in East End, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Unholy (2021), The Survivor (1981) and Deadly Eyes (1982). He was married to Eileen O'Donnell. He died on 20 March 2013 in Woodmancote, Henfield, West Sussex, England, UK.
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Janette spent 10+ years in the movie industry. She was most known for her recurring part as principal character in the HBO series Mr Show, which she held a principal role for 3 years. She stared in Baywatch a dozen times, Party of Five, 90210, and Hang Time. Roles in various movies such as: Independence Day, Speechless, Inventing the Abbotts, That Thing you Do, Impact Day, 187, Dangerous Minds, When a Man Loves a Women, Casper, Kids, and much more.
She succeeded in each of her Principal roles in various commercials such as: Kraft Salad Dressing, Subaru with Mel Gibson, Dr. Pepper with Jenifer Love Hewitt, and Pepsi. In addition, several staring roles in ABC and NBC movies of the week such as the Great Mom Swap.
Prior to her acting career, Janette was a runway Model for various Fashion Shows and Catalogs such as: Macy's, Sears, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's. She is also a proud winner of multiple Modeling Competitions & scholarships. Janette grew up in Orange County, CA and attended Foothill High School, which is a National Blue Ribbon School and a California Distinguished School. While a freshmen at Foothill, Janette was named a Student Ambassador under Teddy Roosevelt's most revered presidential program, People to People. Janette traveled all over Europe as a government appointed student ambassador in 1995. Later, in college, she was sent to China as an ambassador. This was her final ambassador appointment.
She has since graduated from prestigious universities: UCLA, USC, and UCI. She is now a CPA and back in the entertainment industry, which she loves. She has risen up to senior manager level at NBC Universal. Movie making was always her calling and it doesn't matter if it's in front or behind the screen.
She has worked at the most prestigious CPA firm worldwide, Deloitte. Worked on secret government projects at Boeing, where she held a top secret DOD (Department of Defense) clearance. She is highly honored for her internal audit and forensic accounting knowledge. She loves working behind the scenes in an industry she grew up in and in the finance world she has conquered. She is a success story of a child who got a taste of fame and later, as an adult, redirected her childhood success toward another avenue to help her excel at being a professional business woman.- Actress
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau was born on 8 April 1932 in Auxerre, Yonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), A Matter of Resistance (1966) and Bon Voyage (2003).- Actress
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Jessica Grabowsky was born on 8 April 1980 in Siilinjärvi, Finland. She is an actress, known for 8-Ball (2013), Where Once We Walked (2011) and Midnight Sun (2016).- Actor
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Jim Piddock is an actor, writer, and producer, who co-wrote, produced, and co-stars in the current Netflix original film "Mascots". He also co-created and co-starred in the 2013 HBO and BBC 2 series Family Tree with Christopher Guest.
He was born in Rochester, Kent, England, to Celia Mary (O'Callaghan) and Charles Frederick Piddock. He began his career on the stage in England, before emigrating to the U.S. in his early twenties. He was educated at Worth Abbey, a Benedictine boarding school, in the south of England. He gained an Honors degree in English literature at London University.
He made his theatrical debut in the U.S. in The Boy's Own Story, a one-man show about a soccer goalkeeper, at the Julian Theatre in San Francisco. The show was an instant success with critics and audiences, winning Piddock the Bay Area Critics' Best Actor Award. The show was then produced Off-Broadway and he quickly gained the attention of the New York theatre scene. That same year (1982), he was cast in Noel Coward's Present Laughter by George C. Scott, who directed/starred in the revival, which also featured Nathan Lane, Christine Lahti, Dana Ivey, and Kate Burton. The show was a big hit on Broadway and Piddock soon found himself appearing in a string of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including the original US production of Noises Off, The Knack at the Roundabout Theatre, and Make and Break with Peter Falk at the Kennedy Center. After replacing Frank Langella in Design For Living at the Circle-In-The-Square theatre, he moved to Los Angeles and has since appeared in a long succession of tv shows, such as The Tracey Ullman Show, Coach, Max Headroom, The Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote, Mad About You, Angel, ER, Friends, Crossing Jordan, The Drew Carey Show, Lost, Monk, Without A Trace, Dollhouse, Chuck, Law And Order:LA, Castle, Party Down, Two and a Half Men, Up All Night, Touch, and Children's Hospital. He has also starred in several notable tv movies and mini-series, like From The Earth To The Moon, A Mom For Christmas, She Creature on HBO, and The Women Of Windsor.
He appeared in his first movie in the top-grossing film of 1989, Lethal Weapon 2, in which one of his lines, "But...you're black" in answer to Danny Glover's request to emigrate to South Africa, became a catchphrase for the film. Other feature film roles soon followed, including notable appearances in Independence Day, Traces Of Red, Multiplicity, Burn Hollywood Burn, Austin Powers 3, A Different Loyalty, Love For Rent, See This Movie, The Prestige, Epic Movie, Who's Your Caddy?, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, Meet The Spartans, Falling Up, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Get Him To The Greek, The Cold Light Of Day, and The Five Year Engagement. But it is probably his memorable performances in the improvised Christopher Guest comedies Best In Show (as the Dog Show commentator with Fred Willard), A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration that he has gained the most attention as an impeccable, chameleon character actor, who is barely recognizable from role to role.
In November, 2007, Jim's reputation as one of the UK's most notable exports was cemented at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood, when he co-starred with Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Jane Leeves, Emily Mortimer, and Tracey Ullman in What About Dick?. The show was revived in April, 2012, at the Orpheum Theatre with the addition of Russell Brand and Sophie Winkleman, for a limited-run and was also filmed for a DVD release. Jim also starred on Broadway and in L.A. in 2009 in An Evening Without Monty Python, a limited-run celebration of the 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, directed by Eric Idle.
As a voice actor, he is most notable for providing the voice of Major Zero in the English version of the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Bolero the Bull in the movie Garfield 2, and the fictional artistic director of Forever Young Films, Kenneth Loring, doing the hilarious commentary in the directors' cut of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple.
In 1990, he also began another career as a screenplay writer, selling his first spec script, co-written with Margaret Oberman, for a mid six-figure sum. Since then, he has pursued multiple careers as an actor, writer, and producer, having had a diverse collection of films made, crossing all genres, such as Traces Of Red (Samuel Goldwyn Company), One Good Turn, A Different Loyalty (starring Rupert Everett and Sharon Stone), New Line's The Man (starring Samuel Jackson and Eugene Levy), and The Tooth Fairy (which he also executive produced) for Fox, starring Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Billy Crystal, Steven Merchant, and Julie Andrews. He also created, wrote and produced the BBC series Too Much Sun, starring Mark Addy, Alex Jennings, and Lee Majors.- Music Artist
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Joan Sebastian was a popular award winning Mexican singer and songwriter.
He won five Grammy Awards and seven Latin Grammy Awards. In 2006, he was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame for his prolific songwriting and musical arrangements.
His lyrics has been performed by prominent Latin artists, including Antonio Aguilar, Pepe Aguilar, Lucero, Lorenzo Antonio, Alberto Vázquez, Alicia Villarreal, Beatriz Adriana, Alejandro Fernández, Diego Verdaguer, Rocío Dúrcal y Vicente Fernández.- Producer
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Joan Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer in The Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller then a writer of feature films, "Thieves Like Us" and "Nashville" and the director of "Old Boyfriends" which was presented at "Director's Fortnight" at the Cannes Film Festival.
She has also written, directed numerous projects for Cable and Network television: "The Tenth Month," "Acorn People", "Cold Sassy Tree", "Sudie and Simpson", "Wild Texas Wind", the HBO's series "The Stranger", "On Promised Land", "Elysian Fields" and was a consulting producer for the CBS series, "The Guardian".
For the stage she wrote, directed and choreographed "Dance Card" for the Oregon Ballet theatre, wrote and directed "Jammed" presented at the Edinburgh Festival and wrote, directed and produced "Retrospective" at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York.
Ten years ago she developed a class, "Designed Obstacles, Spontaneous Response" which she has presented at Art Center, American Film Institute, Bard College, Chapel Hill, U.C.L.A., N.A.L.I.P. and various film maker labs and emersions though out the United States, Israel, Europe and Japan.
She participates as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute Native Lab, the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab and has created a Writers Forum at Los Luceros in Alcalde, New Mexico.
Her work has been honored by the Writers Guild, Humanitas, Golden Globes, the British Academy Awards, Cable Ace, Academy Awards best picture nomination for "Nashville" and the Los Angeles Critics award for best original screenplay.- Actor
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Joey D. Vieira has just celebrated 65 years in show business. As a child, he co-starred in the first version of Lassie (1954) to come to television, winning, in the years 1954 to 1958, two Emmy Awards for "Best Family Television show". Those four years of the long-running series, with Tommy Rettig as "Jeff" and Joey as his best friend "Porky", are still entertaining audiences today under the name "Jeff's Collie". Joey then started making appearances on other top television series, including The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959), My Three Sons (1960) and Hank (1965). He also starred in live TV shows like Playhouse 90 (1956), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), a Bob Hope Special and "The George Gobel Show". Joey made his first feature film in 1955 when he costarred with Charlton Heston in The Private War of Major Benson (1955). Other memorable movies over the decades include Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Red Heat (1988) and costarring with Mel Gibson in The Patriot (2000) as "Peter Howard". Joey has a diversified background in many other areas of entertainment. He has produced several recording artists including Rick Springfield and Taylor Dayne and has produced and directed national television and radio commercials for such heavyweights as AT&T, Ford, Subaru, Northern Telecom and Mattel Toys. As a writer, Joey co-created the 3-hour musical variety special for NBC,Motown Returns to the Apollo (1985), which won an Emmy for Best Variety Special of the Year. He has also directed presentation videos for some of the top corporations in the world...Bally's, Spiegel Catalog, Paramount Properties, Holiday Inns of America, and the government of the Isle of Mann, to name a few. Lately, Joey has written six original screenplays of different genres and signed with Innovative Artists Talent and Literary Agency for representation. He recently starred in four independent films including The Dwegons (2011) an animated feature film where Joey does the voices of seven characters. Joey says he looks forward to many more years in the biz and hopes they will be at least half as exciting and rewarding as the past half-century has been.- Actor
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John Durren was born on 8 April 1936 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Peopletoys (1974), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) and Lepke (1975). He was married to Dagmar Inez Liepa, Suzanne Hobbs, Laura Fraser and Margaret Cummings. He died on 6 July 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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John Gavin, the American film and TV actor, businessman and diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's first Ambassador to Mexico, was born Juan Vincent Apablasa in Los Angeles, California.
The future "Jack" Gavin was a fifth-generation Angeleno, the son of Delia Diana Pablos and Juan Vincent Apablasa, and was of Mexican, Chilean, and Spanish ancestry, a descendant of early landowners in Spanish California and the powerful Pablos family of the Mexican state of Sonora. His stepfather was Herald Ray Golenor. John had a fluency in Spanish that aided him in his career in diplomacy. He graduated with honors from Stanford University, majoring in Latin American economic history. "Law, Latin America and diplomacy were my early interests," Gavin later remembered. Too young to participate in World War II, he did serve in the military during the Korean Conflict. He was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy in 1952, where he served in naval air intelligence until his 1955 discharge. After his hitch in the Navy, Universal -- the home studio of 6'5" heartthrob Rock Hudson, who was on his way to becoming the top box office star in America -- offered the 6'4" Gavin a screen-test and a contract with the studio. Studio bosses always liked internal competition to keep the pressure on their major stars; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed Robert Taylor as a young backup to the King of Hollywood Clark Gable, and similarly, Gavin was positioned as the "next Rock Hudson".
Tall, dark and handsome, Gavin debuted in Behind the High Wall (1956), and three years later, in 1959, he had his first major lead in Douglas Sirk's remake of Imitation of Life (1959) opposite Lana Turner. Sirk, whose Ross Hunter-produced melodramas of the mid-1950's made Hudson a superstar, first directed Gavin in the role of a German soldier in his adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) the year before. Imitation of Life (1959), which was produced by Ross Hunter in his typical lavish style, was a huge hit. Gavin was on the road to becoming a major Hudson-style heart-throb, it seemed.
The following year, Gavin achieved cinematic immortality by appearing in two classics in supporting roles, as Sam Loomis in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and as Julius Caesar in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). Of Psycho (1960) and Spartacus (1960), he has said, "I didn't have an inkling they would be classics. Had I realized that, perhaps I would have paid more attention." The momentum of his cinema career petered out after appearing opposite Susan Hayward in the 1961 remake of Fannie Hurst's Back Street (1961), though he did move on to star in two television series during the 1960s, Destry (1964) and Convoy (1965). Both series were produced by companies that were subsidiaries of the Universal-M.C.A., Revue Studios and Universal TV, created by the legendary agent and studio boss Lew Wasserman, the éminence grise behind Ronald Reagan's movie, TV and political careers. More importantly, in 1961, he was appointed special adviser to the secretary general of the Organization of American States, a position he held until 1973. He also performed task-group work for the Department of State and the Executive Office of the President. From 1966 to 1973, he also served on the board of the Screen Actors Guild and was guild president from 1971-1973. For the next eight years, he was engaged in business activities, many of which took him to Mexico and other Latin American countries. The producers of the James Bond series signed him to replace George Lazenby as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), until they convinced Sean Connery to reprise the role with a $1 million charitable contribution and a $1 million salary. Thus, Gavin lost out on what could have been his career break into the big-time. However, he did not lament the loss of the role. If he had been a more successful actor, it "might have prevented me from fulfilling my real childhood dream: to be U.S. ambassador to Mexico."
During the 1970s, Gavin made some more movies, toured in summer stock in a production of The Fantasticks (Gavin has a fine baritone voice), and appeared on Broadway and in the touring show of the musical Seesaw (1973). He ended the decade by starring in TV mini-series Doctors' Private Lives (1979); he left show business to pursue business interests. The 1980s brought America a new president, and on May 7, 1981, Republican Gavin was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Reagan, serving until June 10, 1986. The American diplomatic mission in Mexico, one of the largest in the world, employed more than 1,000 American and Mexican employees tasked by over a dozen U.S. government agencies in consulates and offices throughout Mexico.
Gavin married the former stage and television actress Constance Towers in 1974. Each partner had two children from previous marriages. Gavin's daughter, Christina Gavin, followed in his footsteps and became an actress.
Since leaving government service, Gavin has become a successful businessman and civic leader, co-founding and managing successful ventures in the U.S. and Latin America. In 1986, Gavin was named president of Univisa Satellite Communications, a subsidiary of Univisa, Inc. He is founder/chairman of Gamma Holdings and serves on the boards of Apex Mortgage Capital, International Wire Holdings, and KKFC. Inc, and is a trustee and director of certain Merrill Lynch mutual funds. He is also a member of the Latin America Strategy Board of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Previously he was a managing director and partner of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (Latin America) as well as a director of Atlantic Richfield (where he had served as vice president of federal and international relations). He also served on the boards of Dresser Industries, Claxson and several other major corporations. Gavin also serves on the boards of several non-profit corporations, pro bono, including The Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, and the California Community Foundation. Gavin also is a member of the Congressional Policy Advisory Board as a defense and foreign policy expert.
Gavin served as founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Century Council's from May 1991 until December 1994, then served on the Council's Advisory Board until 1996. The Century Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting alcohol abuse, focuses on drunk driving and underage drinking problems and is supported by America's leading distillers.
John died on February 9, 2018 in Beverly Hills.- John Havlicek is an American professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA championships, four of them coming in his first four seasons with the team.
In the National Basketball Association he is one of four players to have won eight championships in their playing careers; only teammates Bill Russell and Sam Jones have won more, with 11 and 10 championships respectively. Havlicek is one of three NBA players with an unsurpassed 8-0 record in NBA Finals series outcomes. Havlicek is widely considered to have been one of the greatest players in the history of the game and was inducted as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984. He was a three-sport athlete at Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio.
In 1997, Havlicek was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, by a panel of journalists, players, coaches, executives, and general managers. - John Heilpern was born on 8 April 1942 in Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for BBC2 Playhouse (1973) and Theater Talk (1996). He was married to Joan Juliet Buck and Sydney Houghton Weinberg. He died on 7 January 2021 in New York City, New York, USA.
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John Madden was born on 8 April 1949 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and Proof (2005).- Actor
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John Richard Schneider IV was born April 8, 1960, in Mt. Kisco, New York, to Shirley and John Richard "Jack" Schneider III, a pilot and U.S. Air Force veteran. His parents divorced when he was two. John began acting at the age of eight. He was in many plays in New York City. He and his mother moved to Atlanta, Georgia, when he was fourteen. He got involved in the local theater and was in many local productions. He had a small part in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) starring Burt Reynolds.
His big break came when he won the role of Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) on CBS from 1979-1985. He auditioned for the role pretending he was a genuine country boy. He had a weeks growth of beard and held a beer can claiming he was from Snellville, Georgia. He later became a very successful country singer and had several hit songs including "I've Been Around Enough To Know" and "Country Girls." He has since opened Faith Works Productions in San Antonio, Texas. He also appears in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) as Daniel Simon/Red McCall.- Actor
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Kim Jonghyun was born on 8 April 1990 in Seoul, South Korea. He was an actor and writer, known for Jonghyun feat. Zion.T: Deja-Boo (2015), City Hunter (2011) and Oh My Venus (2015). He died on 18 December 2017 in Seoul, South Korea.- Actor
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JR Bourne was born on 8 April 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and executive, known for Mayans M.C. (2018), Miracle Desert (2019) and Teen Wolf (2011).- Juana Viale was born on 8 April 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an actress, known for Malparida (2010), The Widows of Thursdays (2009) and Sudamerican Rockers (2014).
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Julian Lennon was born on 8 April 1963 in Liverpool, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) and Julian Lennon: Too Late for Goodbyes (1984).- Actress
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Julia Isabel was born in Mexico City on April 4, 1944. The daughter of Don Luis de Llano Palmer (a pioneer in Mexican radio and television) and actress Rita Macedo, she began her career at age 14 singing in the rock group The Spitfires, which earned her second place in a radio competition. As a result of this she was signed by CBS. From then on she recorded various rock hits and has participated in numerous soaps and in over 35 features films.
From a young age she began acting and producing plays, becoming one of Mexico's leading theater producers and importing Broadway shows such as "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Grease", "Joseph", "Pippin" and many others. She has also produced TV soaps and created the Onda Vaselina musical group. She is the mother of two of Mexico's greatest talents, singer Benny Ibarra and actor Alejandro Ibarra.- Justin Smith is an actor, known for A Good Day To Die Hard (2013), Man Down (2015) and The Vampire Diaries (2009). Justin grew up in a humble blue collar family. His father was a firefighter, so as a kid Justin spent much of his free time at the fire station dreaming of following in his father's foot steps. That is until a friend in college convinced him to audition for a local production of Eugene O'Neill's, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'. Justin performed on stage a few times in high school, but never gave much thought to acting beyond that. So it came as a surprise when he was later cast as Edmund Tyrone. With a new found tenacity and endless passion for acting he quickly formed a tireless work ethic, switching his focus from fighting fires to studying theatre.
One of Justin's early film projects took him to Cape Town, South Africa for work on the award winning South African drama, 'The Silent Fall'. Prepping for the film, Justin gained some much appreciated life experience when he spent three weeks training alongside HIV/AIDS patients in some of Cape Town's most prominent clinics and dangerous townships. After returning from South Africa, Justin moved to Los Angeles where he began to build an impressive resume in television and film.
Justin is also an accomplished voice artist and television host. He first gained national attention while performing dual hosting duties between the nationally syndicated morning show 'The Daily Buzz' and the popular TLC series 'Designing Spaces'. And if you listen closely, you may even hear his voice on some of your favorite radio and TV ads.
Today Justin continues to split his time between hosting and acting, recently returning to the stage as the physically disabled and spiritually broken war soldier "Rory", in the nationally recognized and critically acclaimed WWII drama 'Flying' at The Tampa Rep. Justin can next be seen on the big screen co-starring alongside Shia LaBeouf and Gary Oldman in Dito Montiel's war drama 'Man Down'. - Actor
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Kane Hodder was born on April 8, 1955 in Auburn, California. He is best known for his role as horror icon Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988), Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), Jason Goes to Hell (1993), and Jason X (2001). He is also known for his role as the deformed serial killer Victor Crowley in Hatchet (2006), Hatchet II (2010), and Hatchet III (2013).- Actress
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This unique actress was born in 1952 in Tokyo. She is the daughter of a professor of international politics and a jewel designer. She began studying ballet at young age and attended the British Royal Academy of Dance for 3 years from the age of 12. Since her movie debut in 1971, she has won many awards, becoming one of the leading actresses in Japan. She is also a singer and has released 15 albums. In the past she hosted jazz dinner shows with famous Japanese jazz musicians such as Hino Terumasa. She continues to be active on TV and stage. At the time of this writing, she is producing a brand of jewelery called "Momoi in Maki".- Actress
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Kathryn Ann "Katee" Sackhoff (born April 8, 1980) is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009). She was nominated for four Saturn Awards for her work on Battlestar Galactica and won the award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005.
Sackhoff has also starred in the short-lived TV series The Fearing Mind (2000-2001) and The Education of Max Bickford (2001-2002); had recurring roles in the TV series Bionic Woman (2007), Nip/Tuck (2009), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2010-2011), and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2012-2013); and had a lead role in the eighth season of 24 as Dana Walsh (2010). She voices several characters including Bitch Pudding on Adult Swim's stop motion animated series Robot Chicken. Between 2012 and 2017, she starred in the A&E and Netflix series Longmire as Deputy Sheriff Victoria "Vic" Moretti before recurring on The Flash as Amunet.
She had lead roles in the films Halloween: Resurrection (2002); White Noise: The Light (2007); Batman: Year One (2011); The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, Sexy Evil Genius, Riddick, Oculus (2013) and Don't Knock Twice (2016).
Sackhoff was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in St. Helens, Oregon. Her mother, Mary, worked as an English-as-second-language (ESL) program coordinator, and her father, Dennis, is a land developer. Her brother, Erick, is co-owner of a vehicle modification shop near Portland. She graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton in 1998. She began swimming at an early age and by high school, was planning to pursue a career in the sport until her right knee was injured. This led her to begin practicing yoga-which she continues today-and to pursue an interest in acting.
Her first acting role was in the Lifetime movie Fifteen and Pregnant in which she played a teenager with a baby. The movie starred Kirsten Dunst and motivated her to move to Hollywood and pursue a career in acting after graduating high school. Sackhoff's first recurring role was Annie in MTV's Undressed, next gaining a supporting role as Nell Bickford in The Education of Max Bickford. Sackhoff made her motion picture debut in My First Mister, and next appeared in film as Jenna "Jen" Danzig in Halloween: Resurrection.
In August 2012, Sackhoff became the co-host of the Schmoes Know Movies podcast on the Toad Hop Network. One of her first shows was with guest Sean Astin.
Sackhoff announced in April 2015 a new TV-series project, Rain, which she wrote and is executive-producing through her Fly Free Productions. She also had a role in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III, performing voice over and motion capture as Sarah Hall. She portrayed Pink Ranger Kimberly in Power/Rangers, a short depicting a dystopian future in the Power Rangers universe.
In 2017, Sackhoff joined The CW series The Flash in the recurring role of villainess Amunet (Blacksmith), for which she is billed as a special guest star.- Actress
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Kirsten Storms was born on 8 April 1984 in Orlando, Florida, USA. She is an actress, known for Days of Our Lives (1965), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999) and General Hospital (1963). She was previously married to Brandon Barash.- Actor
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Klaus Löwitsch was born on 8 April 1936 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for World on a Wire (1973), Firefox (1982) and Cross of Iron (1977). He was married to Helga Heinrich. He died on 3 December 2002 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
Annan studied economics at Macalester College, international relations at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and management at MIT. Annan joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed secretary-general on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first office holder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon in 2007.
As secretary-general, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy, worked to combat HIV/AIDS (especially in Africa), and launched the UN Global Compact. He was criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for his resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme, but was largely exonerated of personal corruption. After the end of his term as secretary-general, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to the ongoing conflict there. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regards to conflict resolution. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis. He died in 2018 and was given a state funeral. - Actress
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Kyla Rae Kowalewski was born on 8 April 2001 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for The Amazing World of Gumball (2011), Buddy: Tech Detective (2015) and The Amazing World of Gumball: Mutant Fridge Mayhem (2012).- Actor
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Lance Irwin was born on 8 April 1969 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), Ray Donovan (2013) and You, Me and Dupree (2006).