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Charlie Rhindress
Charlie Rhindress (born May 9, 1966) is an actor, writer, director and producer living in his hometown of Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Mount Allison University and is a co-founder and former Artistic Director of Live Bait Theatre, based in Sackville, New Brunswick. To date Rhindress has had eighteen of his plays produced, including The Maritime Way of Life, which was nominated for a Canadian Comedy award as best new play, and Flying On Her Own, based on the life of the late Canadian singer/songwriter, Rita MacNeil. The latter was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2008. Three of Rhindress's plays have been produced at Ship's Company Theatre in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia: Ivor Johnson's Neighbours (2009), The Maritime Way of Life (2012) and Making Contact (2013). Charlie has also written or co-written more than 30 dinner theatre scripts. The Canadian Encyclopedia says that Rhindress's work "suggests that New Brunswick is fertile ground for popular comedy. Of particular note is Rhindress's The Maritime Way of Life (1999), a dark satire on traditional East Coast lifestyles and personalities. Despite its vicious sarcasm, extensive cross-dressing, and absurd humour, The Maritime Way of Life is very popular with Atlantic audiences." His first book, I'm Not What I Seem - The Many Stories of Rita MacNeil's Life, was published by Formac Publishing in 2016. It was a bestseller in the Maritimes and was short listed for the Best First Book Award from the Atlantic Books Awards. His second book, Stompin’ Tom Connors: The Myth and the Man, was released in September of 2019 and has also appeared on multiple bestseller lists. Rhindress has acted in over fifty productions at theatres across Canada. His film and television credits include Red Rover, Trailer Park Boys, Haven, Mr. D, Chapelwaite, and Moonshine. He also starred in a very popular television commercial for Pro-Line which aired for over two years.
Donavon Stinson
Donavon Stinson (born August 25, 1976, in Rivers, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian actor and motion capture performer, 5′ 10½″ (179 cm) tall. He moved to Vancouver in 1997 and entered the industry through motion capture work at Mainframe Entertainment, beginning with Heavy Gear (47 episodes), before becoming a go-to performer for motion capture studios across animated series and video games — including Peter Parker/Spider-Man in MTV's Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003), Captain Shepard in the Mass Effect series, Gollum and Legolas in EA's Lord of the Rings games, Venkman in the Ghostbusters video game, and aliens in District 9 (2009). He transitioned to live-action with a guest role on Dark Angel (2002, created by James Cameron), and won a Leo Award for his role as Josh McTaggart in Call Me Fitz (2010–2013, 48 episodes, HBO Canada, with Jason Priestley). His most notable film credits include Nevin in Chaos Theory (2008, with Ryan Reynolds), an X Games Announcer in Fantastic Four (2005), a Heckler in Hot Rod (2007, with Andy Samberg), a Suited Man in The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), a Prison Soldier in Warcraft (2016), and a Police Officer in The Unforgivable (2021, with Sandra Bullock). On television he is best known as Ted Gallagher in Reaper (2007–2009, 31 episodes, CW, with Ray Wise), with additional credits in UnREAL (2015, 28 episodes, Lifetime), Supernatural (2017), Lucifer (2016), Three Moons Over Milford (2006, 8 episodes), Creepshow (2019), and more recently Stick (2025, with Owen Wilson) and Untamed (2025, with Eric Bana).
Moon Seong-hyun
Cast · Known for Alchemy of Souls
Moon Seong-hyun is a South Korean actor born on June 2, 2006. He is known for playing the younger versions of male leads in several popular K-dramas, beginning his career in 2021. He is managed by FNC Entertainment. He first appeared in the 2021 dramas Vincenzo and Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha. He gained significant recognition for his role as the young Seo Yul in the fantasy drama Alchemy of Souls and as Prince Simso in the historical series Under the Queen's Umbrella. His emotional performance in the latter received high praise. In 2024, Moon took on his first starring role in the web drama The Chairman of Class 9.he was nominated for "Best Young Actor" at the 60th Baeksang Arts Awards and won "Best Young Actor" at KBS Drama Awards with Beauty and Mr. Romantic.
Benicio del Toro
Cast · Known for Sicario: Day of the Soldado, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, The Usual Suspects
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (Latin American Spanish: [beˈnisjo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, a Goya Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide. Del Toro made his film debut in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by roles in Basquiat (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Snatch (2000). He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a morally upright police officer in the Steven Soderbergh crime drama Traffic (2000). He was nominated in the same category for his role as an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller 21 Grams (2003). He has since acted in Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Savages (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015), No Sudden Move (2021), and One Battle After Another (2025). He also took on franchise roles such as Lawrence Talbot in The Wolfman (2010), the Collector in three films from 2013 to 2018 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DJ, the codebreaker, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). On television, he portrayed Richard Matt in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benicio del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Julia Sawalha
Cast · Known for Chicken Run, Masterpiece Mystery
Julia Sawalha (born September 9, 1968) is an English actress, who is best known for her role as Saffron "Saffy" Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She is also known for portraying Lynda Day, editor of the Junior Gazette, in Press Gang, Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and voicing Ginger in Chicken Run. Additionally, she played Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford, Carla Borrego in Jonathan Creek, and Jan Ward in the 2014 BBC One mystery Remember Me. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Sawalha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Fred Dekker
Fred Dekker (born April 9, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film best known for his cult classic horror comedy films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad (written with Shane Black). He contributed the story ideas for both House (1986) and Ricochet (1991), and also directed and co-wrote RoboCop 3 with Frank Miller. One of his earliest movies was a short film he made in college titled Starcruisers directed in the early 1980s. Night of the Creeps was released on DVD in 2009. In a June 20, 2005 interview, Dekker said he was currently working on a, "scary, end-of-the-world thriller." Description above from the Wikipedia article about Fred Dekker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Burton Gilliam
Burton Gilliam (born August 9, 1938) is an American actor. He is best known for memorable roles in several popular 1970s movies, such as Blazing Saddles and Paper Moon, as well as comedic cameos in Back to the Future, Part III and Honeymoon in Vegas.
Louis Cancelmi
Cast · Known for Mayday, The Bride!, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Louis Cancelmi (born 9 June 1978, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American stage and film actor who studied Theater at Yale College. He is a frequent performer with the Public Theater, appearing at both its Astor Library home and the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (including The Tempest in Shakespeare in the Park, 2015). He is best known for playing Mike D'Angelo in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2014, 6 episodes), Victor Mateo in Showtime's Billions (2016–2023, 45 episodes), Sally Bugs in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman (2019), and Kelsie Morrison in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). He is married to actress Elisabeth Waterston (m. 2006), whose father is actor Sam Waterston. His filmography includes The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014, as the Man in Black Suit), 21 Bridges (2019), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021, as Richard Fletcher), Pet Shop Days (2023), Sorry, Baby (2025), In the Hand of Dante (2026, dual roles as Lefty / Guido da Polenta), and The Bride! (2026). On television he has also appeared in Blue Bloods (2015–2016, as Thomas Wilder), The Looming Tower (2018, as Vince Stuart, 10 episodes), A Murder at the End of the World (2023, as Todd Andrews, 7 episodes), The Penguin (2024, as Rex Calabrese), and Government Cheese (2025, as Jean-Guy Prevost, 5 episodes).
Rebecca Sugar
Executive Producer · Known for Steven Universe
Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987), is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter. She is known for creating the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network. Sugar was formerly a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time, until 2013. Her work on the two series has earned her five Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her work on Steven Universe, Sugar was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Short-format Animation for the episodes "Lion 3: Straight to Video" in 2015, "The Answer" in 2016, "Mr. Greg" in 2017 and "Jungle Moon" in 2018. In 2017, Steven Universe was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 28th GLAAD Media Awards, the goal of the awards is to "[recognize] the most inclusive and accurately portrayed representations of the LGBTQ community in film, television, and other platforms" In July 2016, Sugar said at a San Diego Comic-Con panel that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are in large part based on her own experience as a bisexual woman. In a July 2018 interview on NPR, Sugar said that she created the series's Gems as "non-binary women" in order to express herself, as a non-binary woman, through them.
J. A. Bayona
Director · Known for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Society of the Snow, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film director. He directed the supernatural horror film "The Orphanage" (2007), the disaster drama "The Impossible" (2012), the fantasy drama "A Monster Calls" (2016), and the science fiction adventure film "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" (2018), the fifth installment of the "Jurassic Park" series. His most recent film is "Society of the Snow" (2023), which is the Spanish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. He has also directed television commercials and music videos. He directed the first two episodes of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" (2022).
Morris Barry
Director · Known for Z-Cars
Morris Randolph Barry (9 February 1918 – 20 November 2000) was a producer and director for the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s, and also worked as an actor. He made his name as a producer and director on productions such as Angels, Compact and Z-Cars, but his most impressive credit was perhaps as producer of the highly popular dramatisation of Poldark by Winston Graham. Barry directed three Doctor Who stories during the Patrick Troughton years: The Moonbase (1967), The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967) and The Dominators (1968). He was known by the cast and crew of Doctor Who to be a somewhat strict and uncompromising director of the old school, but The Moonbase and The Tomb of the Cybermen are often spoken of as classics of 1960s Doctor Who. He was also well known for carrying a music stand to place his script on during rehearsals. He also appeared as an actor in the Doctor Who story The Creature from the Pit in 1979, playing the scientist Tollund. His other acting credits include episodes of Are You Being Served?, Blake's 7, The Day of the Triffids, Tales of the Unexpected, All Creatures Great and Small, and Hi-de-Hi!. Morris Barry died in 2000.
Jennifer Kluska
Cast · Known for Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Jennifer Kluska (born June 9, 1989) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist best known for her work on DC Super Hero Girls (2018) and Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022). In 2015, Kluska began her career by serving as a storyboard artist on Hotel Transylvania 2. In 2018, she again served as a story artist for Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. In the same year, Kluska directed her first short film #TheLateBatsby, which screened in theaters before the movie Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. The film led to Kluska directing multiple episodes of the television series DC Super Hero Girls, which debuted at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. Kluska gained notability when she signed on to co-direct Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, with animator Derek Drymon. In April 2021, she directed the short film Monster Pets, which is part of the Hotel Transylvania franchise. In June 2022, she was originally hired to direct an upcoming Ghostbusters animated film, before being replaced by Kris Pearn.
Philippe Lopes-Curval
Writer · Known for The Chorus
Philippe Jean Lopes-Curval (9 June 1951 – 13 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Born in Bayeux on 9 June 1951, Lopes-Curval directed a series of short films before directing his first feature film, Trop tard Balthazar, in 1986. Released on Canal+, the film was noticed by Jean-Claude Fleury, who introduced him to Gérard Jugnot. This began a longtime collaboration with Jugnot, having partnered for the films Casque bleu, Fallait pas !..., Monsieur Batignole, Boudu, and Fashion Victim. He also wrote the screenplay for the Christophe Barratier film The Chorus. In 2017, Lopes-Curval co-signed the booklet for the musical festival at the Folies Bergère. In addition to his film career, he worked on television as well, notably writing the screenplay for Maintenant ou jamais, directed by Jérôme Foulon. In 2011, he wrote a comic book, Les Grobec. Lopes-Curval was the father of fellow film director Julie Lopes-Curval and married to painter Catherine Lopes-Curval. He died in Bayeux on 13 February 2023, at the age of 71. Source: Article "Philippe Lopes-Curval" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Jason Goldberg
Executive Producer · Known for The Butterfly Effect
Goldberg married actress Soleil Moon Frye (best known as the child actress who portrayed the title character on the 1980s TV sitcom Punky Brewster) on October 25, 1998. They wed in a traditional Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles. Their first child, daughter Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg, was born on August 24, 2005. Their second child, daughter Jagger Joseph Blue Goldberg, was born on March 17, 2008. Their third child, son Lyric Sonny Roads Goldberg, was born February 9, 2014. Their fourth child, son Story Goldberg, was born May 16, 2016. Goldberg and Moon-Frye renewed their marriage vows in a ceremony in 2008. However, in 2020, after 22 years of marriage, the couple separated. The divorce was finalized in 2022.
Charlie Day
Cast · Known for Pacific Rim, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Wildwood
Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976) is an American actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on the FX/FXX dark comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), of which he is also a writer and an executive producer. In 2011, he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Satellite Award for the role. Subsequently, he co-created the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest (2020–2025) with Rob Mac and Megan Ganz. In film, Day is best known for his performances as Dr. Newton Geiszler in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013), Dale Arbus in the comedy Horrible Bosses (2011) and its sequel Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), and Andy Campbell in the comedy Fist Fight (2017). He is also known for his voice roles in Monsters University (2013), The Lego Movie film franchise (2014–2019) and Nintendo franchise character Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) and its sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026). He made his directorial debut with Fool's Paradise (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlie Day, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ryan Murphy
Director · Writer · Executive Producer · Known for All's Fair, American Horror Story, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Ryan Patrick Murphy (born November 9, 1965) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is best known for creating and producing a number of television series including Popular (1999–2001), Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), Glee (2009–2015), American Horror Story (2011–present), Scream Queens (2015–2016), American Crime Story (2016–present), Pose (2018–2021), 9-1-1 (2018–present), The Politician (2019–2020), 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–present), Ratched (2020), American Horror Stories (2021–present), and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022). Murphy also directed the 2006 film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir Running with Scissors, the 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love, the 2014 film adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, and the 2020 film adaptation of the musical The Prom. Murphy has received six Primetime Emmy Awards from 36 nominations, a Tony Award from two nominations, and two Grammy Award nominations. He has often been cited as "the most powerful man" in modern television, including having signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses".
Norbert Weisser
Cast · Known for The Thing, Schindler's List, Hocus Pocus
Norbert Weisser (born July 9, 1946) is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed movies (15 and counting). Weisser is a founding member of the Odyssey Theater and the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, where he developed the role of Trickster in Murray Mednick's epic seven-hour The Coyote Cycle. He has played roles in theaters throughout Europe and the US, including Broadway, where he played Rode opposite Ed Harris in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Most recently he played Oskar in John O'Keefe's Times Like These in San Francisco, Albany, New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Ovation Award, an LA Weekly Theater Award and an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for his performance. Weisser has directed plays at the Magic Theater in San Francisco and at the Mark Taper Forum's New Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles. Recently he produced two Albert Pyun films, Infection and Cool Air. He is the father of fellow actor Morgan Weisser, who starred in both movies. Weisser's television credits include: Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight, Riders of the Purple Sage, My Antonia, From the Earth to the Moon, Alias, The Agency, NCIS, ER, and Ghost Whisperer.
Jacqueline Lovell
Jacqueline Lovell (born 9 December 1974) is an American actress born and raised in Southern California. Most of her roles have been in B-films and erotic movies. From a very young age, she had the immense innate talent and enthusiasm for performance. She expressed this through school musicals and church plays from grade school through high school. In much of her free time, she was writing skits and performing them for her family. She attended many schools during her formative years, which instilled drive and independence in her. At eighteen, she went to Santa Monica College to pursue accounting and later landed a full time job as an accountant. However, she quickly realized her hunger was not being fulfilled. So she set sail and journeyed into the world of modeling. She quickly became the number one nude model in 1995 and was in over 150 magazines by '96. She completed more than 80 videos for Playboy, Penthouse and numerous independents. After being in the industry for one year, Jacqueline's desire to grow as a person led her to acting classes. As she studied her craft, her vocation became clear. She was cast in lead roles for Full Moon Entertainment, Zalman King Productions, Mystique Films, and many more.
Brenna O'Brien
Brenna O'Brien (born March 9, 1991) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for voicing Rin in the anime series Inuyasha. O'Brien was in the original pilot of The Middle in 2007 also starring Ricki Lake and Atticus Shaffer. This pilot was then re-created in 2009 with the current cast. O'Brien began her acting career at age 9, performing in local theatre productions and school plays. Her first film role was in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed at the age of 12 and from there went on to guest star in such films and televisions shows such as Supernatural as the NSA demon secretary Cecily, Stargate SG-1, Meghan in Zixx: Level Two, X-Men: The Last Stand, Phantom Racer and Girl in Progress. She is an accomplished voice over actor, having worked as a guest star as well as lead roles in several anime series, including Inuyasha, Hamtaro, Gundam SEED Destiny, and Elemental Gelade. She was a lead voice in Marvel’s animated feature Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, Marvel series Iron Man: Armored Adventures and Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost.
Mitchel Musso
Cast · Known for Monster House, Hannah Montana, Phineas and Ferb
Mitchel Tate Musso (born July 9, 1991) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in Hannah Montana, Jeremy Johnson in the animated series Phineas and Ferb, and his Disney XD role as King Brady on Pair of Kings as well as the host of Disney Channel's PrankStars. He voiced DJ in the animated film, Monster House, and starred as Raymond Figg in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Life Is Ruff, released in 2005, as well as Cleatus Poole in the film, Hatching Pete in 2009. Musso's self-titled debut album was released on June 2, 2009, on Walt Disney Records. The album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200.
Toby Kebbell
Cast · Known for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, I Play Rocky, Kong: Skull Island
Tobias Alistair Patrick Kebbel (born 9 July 1982) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in films such as Dead Man's Shoes (2004), Control (2007), RocknRolla (2008), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), War Horse (2011), Wrath of the Titans (2012), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Fantastic Four (2015), Warcraft (2016), A Monster Calls (2016), Ben-Hur (2016), and Gold (2016). He is also known for his work in the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" (2011) and starred in the second film of the MonsterVerse film series, Kong: Skull Island (2017), and the Apple TV+ series Servant (2019–2023) and For All Mankind (2023–2024). Kebbell, the fourth of five children, was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, but grew up in Nottinghamshire where he attended The Grove School (now the Newark Academy) in Balderton. He was brought up by his mother, Michelle (née Mathers), a cook and landscape gardener and his father, Robert Kebbell, an engineer from Zimbabwe. He was raised Catholic and attended a Catholic primary school. Kebbell trained in acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham along with Andrew Shim and Vicky McClure.
Yves Montand
Ivo Livi (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists. Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer. Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. The family left Italy for France in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris; she made him part of her act. Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. He is recognised for crooner style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant classics. He was one of the best known performers at Bruno Coquatrix's Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang "Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai?" (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him to sing "C'est si bon" but Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it. Montand was also very popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where he did a concert tour in 1956-57. During his career, Montand acted in American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He was nominated for a César Award for Best Actor in 1980 for I comme Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon! In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his best remembered performances, as the scheming uncle in Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources (both 1986), co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a worldwide critical hit and revived Montand's profile in the United States, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers. The marriage was, by all accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although Montand had a number of well-publicised affairs, notably with American actress Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one of her final films, Let's Make Love. He was the stepfather to Signoret's daughter from her previous marriage, Catherine Allégret. Montand's only child, a son named Valentin, by his second wife, Carole Amiel (b. 1960), was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that caused commotion across France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a DNA sample from him. Montand refused, but the woman persisted even after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken. The results indicated that he was not the girl's biological father. He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended Communist festivals and meetings. ... Source: Article "Yves Montand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Lucien Bodard
Cast · Known for The Name of the Rose
Lucien Bodard (9 January 1914 – 2 March 1998) was a French reporter and writer on events in Asia. Bodard was born on January 9, 1914 in Chongqing (central China) to the French consul Albert Bodard, who was stationed several years in China, i.e. in Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming and Shanghai. He grew up with the Chinese language and spoke Mandarin fluently as a child. Later on, he moved to Kunming and Shanghai after his father was positioned there. Before he reached adolescence, his mother decided to send Bodard back to France to study in a "decent school". His experience and knowledge of Asian cultures, mostly Chinese and Vietnamese, gave him a unique perspective on events that shook the Asian world during the first half of the twentieth century. In 1944, he began his career as journalist and was sent to the Far East to cover various topics such as the south-east Asian war and the rise of communist China, First Indochina war. He progressively became one of the most famous French war correspondents for his work during the first French Indochina war and then the beginning of the American Vietnam war, wars which he later described in several books. As he grew older, in the 1970s, he started writing novels which were essentially based on his knowledge of Asia, starting with his souvenirs when he was a child in China. His rich, baroque, detailed and sometimes humoristic style drew broad applause, and he won several French literary prizes, including the Prix Interallié for "Monsieur le consul", a book on his father while he was the French Consul in Chengdu and the Prix Goncourt for "Anne Marie", a book on the life and personality of his mother. His last book, "Le chien de Mao" (Mao's Dog), on Mao Zedong's third wife Jiang Qing, was published in 1998, the year of his death. He has been often compared to two other famous 20th century French journalists and novelists, Albert Londres and Joseph Kessel. Source: Article "Lucien Bodard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Oscar Isaac
Cast · Known for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Drive, X-Men: Apocalypse
Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. Recognized for his versatility, he has been credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood. He was named the best actor of his generation by Vanity Fair in 2017 and one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by The New York Times in 2020. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2016, he featured on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born in Guatemala, Isaac moved with his family to the United States as an infant. As a teenager, he joined a punk band, acted in plays and made his film debut in a minor role. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Isaac was a character actor in films for much of the 2000s. His first major role was that of Joseph in the biblical drama The Nativity Story (2006), and he won an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying political leader José Ramos-Horta in the Australian film Balibo (2009). After gaining recognition for playing supporting parts in Robin Hood (2010) and Drive (2011), Isaac had his breakthrough with the eponymous role of a singer in the musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), the thriller Ex Machina (2015) and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He became a global star with the role of Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). Isaac starred in the historical drama Operation Finale (2018)—which marked his first venture into production—the science fiction films Annihilation (2018), Dune (2021), and Frankenstein (2025), the crime drama The Card Counter (2021), and the animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). On television, Isaac was the lead in three miniseries: Show Me a Hero (2015), in which his portrayal of Nick Wasicsko won him a Golden Globe Award, Scenes from a Marriage (2021), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Moon Knight (2022). His stage work includes title roles in Romeo and Juliet (2007), Hamlet (2017) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Oscar Isaac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.