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Meryl Streep Meryl Streep Film & TV · United States

Meryl Streep is an American actress.

Tom Hanks Tom Hanks Film & TV · United States

Tom Hanks is an American actor and film producer.

Leonardo Dicaprio Leonardo Dicaprio Film & TV · United States

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer.

9m88 9m88 Film & TV · Republic of China

Tang Yuqi (November 20, 1990 -), whose stage name is 9m88, is a Taiwanese female singer-songwriter and actress. In November 2016, she duet with King Leo on the single "Holidays with You". In early 2017, her solo single "Kyutoshen Hina" was released on the Internet and began to be well-known on social media. On August 8, 2019, the first solo album "Beyond Mediocrity" was officially released. In 2020, this album won the Best Newcomer Award at the 11th Golden Music Creation Award.

Joe Junior Joe Junior Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Raleigh (Portuguese: José Maria Rodriguez, July 22, 1946 -), whose stage name is Joe Junior or Zu Zunnia, was born in British Hong Kong, Portuguese, Hong Kong male singer and actor. He had never been to Portugal before filming "Three Young Boys Go Traveling", and he didn't speak Portuguese at all.

J.J. Abrams J.J. Abrams Film & TV · United States

Jeffrey Jacob Abs Abrams (/ˈeɪbrəmz/, June 27, 1966), is an American male director, producer, screenwriter and composer. He is famous for his action, drama and science fiction-themed works. He has directed films such as "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006), "Star Trek" (2009), "Super 8" (2011), "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013), "STAR" WARS: The Force Awakens" (2015) and "STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker" (2019). He also successfully created the ABC television series "Double Agent" and "Lost" and collaborated with Matt Levy on Warner's "Felicity." On July 14, 2006, Abraham signed five-year and six-year contracts with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. respectively, worth more than $55 million. In January 2013, he signed a contract with Walt Disney Pictures to direct "STAR WARS: The Force Awakens".

P Papi sauce Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Papi Jiang (February 17, 1987-), whose real name is Jiang Yilei, is an Internet celebrity and actor in mainland China.

Ruby Rose Ruby Rose Film & TV · Australia

Ruby Rose Langenheim (English: Ruby Rose Langenheim, March 20, 1986 -) or simply Ruby Rose (English: Ruby Rose), Australian actress, model and television host. She is best known for serving as one of the hosts of the TV shows "Australia's Next Top Model" (2009) and "The Project" (2009 to 2011). In 2016, she became famous after starring in "The Last Chapter". In 2015, she began to participate in the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black" and received critical acclaim. She also starred in the 2019 CW series Batwoman.

S Stephanie Film & TV · United States

Stephanie Nonoshita Topalian (English: Stephanie Nonoshita Topalian, Armenian: Ստեանի չոալյան, August 5, 1987 -), stage name Stephanie (Stephanie), is a Japanese-American female singer who currently lives in Tokyo.

D Dinghei Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Ding Hei (?—), male, Chinese director. His representative works include "Jade Guanyin", "Aspects of the Great Qin Empire", "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire", "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full", etc.

Wanfang Wanfang Film & TV · Republic of China

Wanfang (Minnan: Bān-hong, July 6, 1967-), whose real name is Lin Wanfang, is a Taiwanese female singer and actress. She was born in Bade District, Taoyuan City. She graduated from the Department of Business Management of the Private Chinese Culture University. Throughout the 1990s, he published many best-selling records and occupied a place in the Chinese pop music scene with his high-pitched, gentle and soft singing voice. He has sung the theme songs of many dramas. Among them, the theme song of the same name as the lead singer of the Hong Kong movie "New Love" in 1993 is still widely circulated today. He is one of the finalists for Taiwan's Three Gold Awards (Golden Melody, Golden Bell, and Golden Horse).

Toshiro Mifune Toshiro Mifune Film & TV · Japan

Toshiro Mifune (Japanese: Toshiro Mifune, April 1, 1920 - December 24, 1997), was born in Qingdao, China during the Japanese Lend Period, and is a Japanese film actor. In 2016, Toshiro Mifune was posthumously awarded a celebrity star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of his contribution to world cinema.

M Mone Kamishiraishi Film & TV · Japan

Kamishiraishi Moe (Japanese: Kamishiraishi Moe/Kamishiraishi Mone, Romanized: Kamishiraishi Mone, January 27, 1998 -) is a Japanese actress and singer, born in Kagoshima Prefecture, affiliated with Toho Entertainment Agency. In 2016, he worked on the animated film "Your Name" written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. 》The heroine Mitsuha Miyamizu has received widespread attention for her dubbing. My sister is Moege for Shiraishi.

Y Yan Jizhou Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Yan Jizhou (October 9, 1917 - June 21, 2018), male, was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, and is a Chinese film director and screenwriter.

Y Yan Gong Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Yan Gong (January 19, 1914 - July 4, 2010), formerly known as Chen Baorun, male, native of Nanjing, Jiangsu, Chinese director and screenwriter.

Tighten up Tighten up Film & TV · Republic of Korea

Uhm Jung-hwa (Korean: Eom Jeong-hwa, Romanized: Uhm Jung-hwa, August 17, 1969 -) is a South Korean female singer and actress, also often translated as Uhm Jung-hwa. Her younger brother is the actor Uhm Tae-woong.

Y Yan Shunkai Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Yan Shunkai (June 6, 1937 - October 16, 2017), male, Shanghainese, Chinese performing artist, first-class actor in Shanghai Comedy Troupe.

Suzuka Nakamoto Suzuka Nakamoto Film & TV · Japan

Nakamoto Suzuka (Japanese: Nakamoto Suzuka/Nakamoto Suzuka, Romanized: Nakamoto Suzuka, December 20, 1997 -) is a Japanese idol artist and singer, born in Hiroshima Prefecture, and belongs to the agency Amuse. Nicknames are SU, SU-san, and SU-chan. Debuted in 2007, she was a member of AMUSE's girl groups Sakura Gakuin and Poor Girl's. She is now the lead singer and dancer of the metal idol group BABYMETAL under the name SU-METAL. His sister is Nakagen Hikari, a former member of Nogizaka46.

Miki Nakatani Miki Nakatani Film & TV · Japan

Miki Nakatani (January 12, 1976 -), Japanese actress and female singer, 160 cm tall, blood type A, born in Tokyo. Nakatani is a winner of various film awards including the Film Festival Award. At the end of July 2015, Nakatani left his original agency Stardust Communications and established his own agency. On November 27, 2018, Nakatani announced in a public handwritten letter that he had married German violist Thilo Fechner.

Dan Castellanida Dan Castellanida Film & TV · United States

Daniel Louis Castellaneta (/ˌkæstələˈnɛtə/; October 29, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons (as well as other characters on the show such as Grandpa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Willie the Superintendent, Joe Quimby, and Hans Moleman). Castellaneta is also known for voicing Grandpa Phil on Nickelodeon's Big Head, and has had voice roles in a number of other shows, including Futurama, Sibs, Slytherin, Dynamo Duck, Batman, Back to the Future, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim and Manic Towers. In 1999, he appeared in the Christmas special "Oliver the Reindeer" and won an Annie Award for his role as the postman. Castellaneta released a comedy album, "I'm Not Homer," and wrote and starred in a solo show called "Where Did Vincent van Gogh?"

Danny Glover Danny Glover Film & TV · United States

Danny Lebern Glover (English: Daniel Lebern Glover, July 22, 1946 -), American actor, director, producer and political activist. Glover is best known for his role as Roger Murphy in the Lethal Weapon film series (1987-1998). Other works include "The Four" (1985), "The Purple Sisters" (1985), "Sleeping with Anger" (1990), "Fighter 2" (1990), "Angels" (1994) Year), "Saw" (2004), "Sniper" (2007), "2012" (2009), "The Perfect Farewell" (2010) and "Beyond the Lights" (2014).

Daniel Craig Daniel Craig Film & TV · U.K.

Daniel Wroughton Craig, CMG (English: Daniel Wroughton Craig, March 2, 1968 -) is a British actor. Craig trained at the National Youth Theater and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in 1991, where he began his career in stage theatre. He made his film debut with "The Boy Has to Be Strong" (1992). Early on, Craig also appeared in the action-adventure TV series Sulo, the historical war drama Sharpe's Eagle, the Disney film The Dragon (1995) and the biopic Elizabeth (1998). From 1998 to 2005, Craig starred in the British TV movie "Double Duty" (1998), the independence war film "The Last Battle" (1999), the drama film "The Man Who Loved Me" (2000), "Illegal Justice" (2002), the crime thriller "Double Duty" (2004) and Steven Spielberg's "Munich" (2005). In October 2005, Craig was cast as the sixth actor to play the fictional British secret agent James Bond/007, and starred in his first 007 film, The Royal Nightclub, which was released in November 2006. Although there was initial dissatisfaction with Craig's casting as Bond, his performance as Bond for the first time was widely praised and he was shortlisted for the British Film Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Actor. "007 Part 1: Royal Nightclub" became the box office champion of the Bond series at the time. Craig then starred in four more Bond films, namely "Quantum of Solace" (2008), "007: Airborne" (2012), "007: The Devil Surrounds" (2015) and "007: Life and Death" (2021). Among them, "007: Airborne" is currently the highest-grossing film in the Bond series. In 2006, Craig joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Since taking on the role of Bond, he has continued to play leading roles in other films, including the World War II film "Homeland" (2008), the science-fiction film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), the suspense thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011) based on Stieg Larsson's novel, and the crime drama "Logan" (2017). Craig appeared as Bond in 2012 with Queen Elizabeth II

Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis Film & TV · Ireland

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (English: Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis, April 29, 1957 -), a British actor, is the first and currently the only actor to win the Oscar title three times since the establishment of the American Academy Awards in 1929. In his nearly 50-year acting career, he has been nominated for a total of 212 acting awards, of which 139 have won the complete list. In 2014, he was conferred a knighthood by the British government in recognition of his achievements in acting. In 2017, he officially retired in 2018 after completing his final performance in the movie "Phantom of Color".

Daniel Radcliffe Daniel Radcliffe Film & TV · U.K.

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (English: Daniel Jacob Radcliffe, July 23, 1989 -) is a British actor. He made his official debut in the 1999 BBC One TV movie "The Last Days" at the age of 10. He later became well-known for his role as Harry Potter in the "Harry Potter" series of films. Following "David Copperfield", Daniel Radcliffe made his film debut in 2001 in "Danger". In the same year, he was cast as the protagonist Harry Potter in the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Over the next ten years, he played the same character in seven sequels of the series, culminating in the final film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II (2011). During the 10-year filming period, he became one of the highest-paid actors in the world and enjoyed global fame, popularity and critical acclaim. In 2007, Daniel Radcliffe's acting career began to involve stage performances. He starred in the West End Theater and Broadway theater production "Equus". From 2011 to 2012, his performance slowly expanded to stage plays, and he portrayed J. Pierrepont Finch in the Broadway revival of the musical "One Step Up". He then went on to appear in the West End and Broadway in Martin McDonald's black comedy The Cripple of Inissiman in 2013-2014, and in Tom Staple's Old Vic revival of Hamlet. He has also performed on and off Broadway in the satires "Privacy" (2016) and "The Lifespan of Truth" (2018). Following the success of the "Harry Potter" series, Daniel Radcliffe played the role of lawyer Arthur Kips in the 2012 horror film "The Man in Black" Kipps), and later starred in the romantic comedy film "The Book of Friends" in 2013, and played the role of poet Alan Kanesburg in the independent drama film "The Darlings". Later, in 2015, he starred in the science fiction horror film "The Big Brother". He played the role of Ego in "Frankenstein: The Father of Creation", and later played a sentient corpse in the 2016 comedy film "3000". He played the role of Technique in the 2016 heist crime film "Exception 2".