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Jonas Armstrong (English: Jonas Armstrong, January 1, 1981 -), is an Irish-born British actor William Jonas Armstrong was born in Dublin, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. He trained at the Royal Academy, graduating in 2003.
Josh Dumo
Film & TV · United States
Joshua David "Josh" Duhamel (pronounced /dju'æməl/; born November 14, 1972) is an American actor and former fashion model. He first appeared in the ABC drama series "All My Children" as Leo du Pres, and later played the role of Danny McCoy in NBC's "Las Vegas". Duhamel has also acted in films, playing one of the main characters in four of the Transformers films, most recently Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). His other films include "Rome" (2010), "Destined to Be More Than You" (2010), "101 Happy New Years" (2011), "Love Haven" (2013) and "A Life in Progress" (2014). In 2015, he starred in the CBS crime drama "The Mismatched". He has also appeared in several video games, most notably Call of Duty: World War II (2017). In 2018, he performed in the romantic comedy film "Dear First Love". He currently stars as Sheldon Sampson in Netflix's superhero drama Jupiter.
Emile Jannings
Film & TV · Germany
Emil Jannings (German: Emil Jannings, July 23, 1884 - January 2, 1950) was a Swiss-born German/Austrian actor. Emile Jennings was the first Academy Award winner for Best Actor and the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 1937. To this day he is still the only German actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Emil Jennings is best known for his work with F.W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including the 1930 film "The Blue Angel" with Marlena Dietrich. The Blue Angel was the film in which Emile Jennings carved a niche for himself in the new medium of talkies, but it was Marlena Dietrich who stole the show. He was unemployed after the war due to his participation in many Nazi propaganda films.
Keanu Reeves
Film & TV · Canada
Keanu Charles Reeves (English: Keanu Charles Reeves, /kiˈɑːnuː/, kee-AH-noo; September 2, 1964 -), Canadian actor, director, producer and musician. Well-known works include the movies "The Adventures of Abby and Adi" (1989), "Breaking Point" (1991), "Half of a Man Is Still a Man" (1991), "The Matrix" (1994), "The Matrix" series (1999-2021), "Justice" (2008) and "The Matrix" series (2014 to present). In addition, he also starred as John Constantine in "Constantine: The Exorcist" in 2005. In terms of artistic creation, Levi has co-authored a book called "Ode to Happiness" with illustrator Alexandra Grant. He produced a 2012 documentary "Keanu Reeves: Digital Mission." He also directed the movie "Tai Chi" (2013). Levi starred as the male lead in the 2014 action film "The Last Stand", which received positive reviews, and later returned for several sequels.
Kit Connor
Film & TV · U.K.
Kit Sebastian Connor (English: Kit Sebastian Connor, March 8, 2004-) is a British actor. Well-known works include the movies "Catching Santa Claus" (2014), "Rocketman" (2019), and "Little Flowers" (2019), as well as the TV series "Rocket Island", "The Dark Element" and "Love Course".
M Mitsuko Horie Film & TV · JapanMidoko Horie (real name: Midoko Asami (previous surname: Horie), March 8, 1957 -) is a Japanese female animation singer and voice actress. Born in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, lives in Yokohama City, blood type AB. She is an artist belonging to Etoto and Aoji Production, also known as "Micchi" (Micchi), and graduated from Tsurumi Women's High School. Her spouse, Akio Asami, is a lyricist and composer, and also serves as the head of her personal agency. During her career as a singer, her representative songs include "Polo 5" opening song "VoltesVsong", "Britney" theme song "candy candy" and "Flower Fairy" theme song "", etc. The main works in his dubbing career include "Little Anna", "Dr. IQ", "Daddy Long Legs" and so on.
Masato Sakai
Film & TV · Japan
Masato Sakai (Japanese: Masato Sakai / Masato Sakai, Romanized: Sakai Masato, born October 14, 1973), Japanese male actor, born in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture. Wife and child actor Miho Kanno.
Taz Skylar
Film & TV · Spain
Tarek Yassin "Taz" Skylar (English: Tarek Yassin "Taz" Skylar, born December 5, 1995) is a Spanish-British actor, author, and screenwriter.
s sef Film & TV · People's Republic of ChinaSaifu (October 1953 - September 2, 2005), male, Mongolian, Chinese film director, screenwriter, first-level director, former Party Secretary and Director of Inner Mongolia Film Studio, and Vice Chairman of the China Film Association.
Samuel L. Jackson
Film & TV · United States
Samuel Leroy Jackson (English: Samuel Leroy Jackson, December 21, 1948 -) is an American actor and producer. His most well-known works include "Jurassic Park", "Danger Man" and "Star Wars Prequel Trilogy", and his recent works include "Marvel Cinematic Universe Series" and "Kingsman". At the beginning of his career, he mostly played drug addicts and villains. In the 1990s, he was able to transform and began to play some decent roles. Now he mostly plays strong second-line supporting roles. In 1991, he won a special Best Supporting Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for "Jungle Fever". In 1995, he won the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998 for "Blackout."
Summer Light
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Xia Zhiguang (English: Xia Zhiguang, January 4, 2000 -) was born in Hefei, Anhui Province, a Chinese singer, dancer and actor. He is a member of the Chinese men's singing group X Jiu Youth League and R1SE, and serves as the lead dancer in the team. In 2015, he participated in Zhejiang Satellite TV's talent development program "Burning Boy" and later made his debut as a member of the X9 Youth League. In 2017, he was admitted to the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy with the third highest score among boys. In 2019, he participated in the Tencent Video idol boy group competition for the development reality show "Produce Camp 2019"; later, he won 4th place in the program finals and debuted as a member of the limited group R1SE. Now he is mostly active as an actor.
Charles Boyer
Film & TV · France
Charles Boyer (French: Charles Boyer, pronounced: [ʃaʁl bwaje]; August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was an actor born in Figeac, France. Boyer played Napoleon I in "Napoleon in Love" released in 1937, and starred in "The Haunting of the Cape" the following year. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two consecutive years for these two works. At the 17th Academy Awards, Boyer was nominated for the Actor Award for "Gaslight" (1944). In terms of personal life, Boyer's wife was the British actress Pat Patterson, who died of cancer on August 24, 1978; Boyer committed suicide by taking medication two days later.
Xia Shaoya
Film & TV · Japan
Natsuyaki Miyabi (Japanese: Natsuyaki Miyabi/Summer Miyabi, Romanized: Natsuyaki Miyabi, August 25, 1992 -) is a Japanese idol female singer and a member of the singing group Hello! Project. She was born in Chiba Prefecture. Former Berryz Kobo Buono! vice-captain. Now the captain of PINK CRES.
X Xia Lei Film & TV · People's Republic of ChinaXia Lei (English name: Leon, September 28, 1977 -) is a Chinese dubbing artist and dubbing director, belonging to the "Yinxiong Lianmeng" dubbing team.
Dahyun
Film & TV · Republic of Korea
Kim Da-hyun (Korean: Dahyun Kim/Kim Da-hyun, Romanized: Kim Dahyun, English: Kim Da-Hyun, May 28, 1998 -) is a South Korean female singer and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group TWICE and serves as the lead rap and chorus singer in the team.
David Lean
Film & TV · united kingdom of great britain and ireland
Sir David Lean, CBE (English: Sir David Lean, March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991) was a British film director, film master, and one of the greatest directors in film history. His movies are famous for their majestic and moving plots. The main representative works are "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Dr. Zivago" and "A Journey to India".
David Caruso
Film & TV · United States
David Caruso (David Caruso, January 7, 1956 -) was born in Forest Hills, New York, United States. David has many identities. He is a film actor, television actor, producer, and owner of a high-end clothing store and a home furniture store. The two stores are located in Miami, Florida, United States. David began filming TV series in the 1970s. His achievements in TV series far exceed his achievements in movies. He was a popular actor during the days of NYPD Blue (1993), but he left television acting after that to become a film actor. After making many less successful movies, he joined the cast of "CSI: Miami" and played the main role as Horatio Caine, which was a great success. This brought him back to stardom.
David Lynch
Film & TV · United States
David Keith Lynch (English: David Keith Lynch, January 20, 1946 - January 15, 2025), American director, screenwriter, producer, composer and photographer. His film works have a distinctive style, mostly of surrealism. David Lynch has been nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Director and Best Screenplay). David Lynch has won two César Film Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, a knighthood in 2002, and an officer in 2007. The Guardian described David Lynch as "the most important director of our time." Allmovie calls him "a polymath of modern American filmmaking." The TV series "Twin Peaks" directed by him won the 1990 Television Critics Association Award, the 1991 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Actor, 8 1991 Emmy Awards and the 1991 American Association of Broadcasters Award for Best TV Series, and became a milestone in the history of American television. His style of work is so unique that it is often called "Lynchian" by film critics.
David Cronenberg
Film & TV · Canada
David Cronenberg, OC, FRSC (English: David Cronenberg, March 15, 1943 -), Canadian director and sometimes actor. David Cronenberg is a representative director of the body horror genre. David Cronenberg mostly explored horror and science fiction themes in his early career. He is considered by some film critics to be "the most daring and challenging director in the English-speaking world."
David Mitchell
Film & TV · U.K.
David Mitchell (July 14, 1974 -) is a British actor, comedian, writer, television host and radio host. He partnered with British actor Robert Webb to form the duo "Mitchell and Webb" and collaborated on "Peep Show", "The Mitchell and Webb Situation", "That Mitchell and Webb Sound", "That Mitchell and Webb Look" and "This Mitchell and Webb Book". At the same time, he is also an assistant host and presenter on many television programs.
David Attenborough
Film & TV · U.K.
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British commentator, biologist, natural historian and author. He is best known for writing and presenting nine natural history documentary series with the BBC Natural History Unit, making up the Life collection, a comprehensive survey of plant and animal life on Earth. He was a senior manager at the BBC, serving as director of BBC Two and program director of BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1954, he became the host of the famous documentary "Zoo Quest" for the first time. His career spanned 80 years as a writer, presenter and narrator. Its documentaries include the "Natural World", "Wildlife", "Pulse of the Earth" series and the "Blue Planet" series, as well as the "Prehistoric Planet" series in collaboration with Apple. He is the only person to win a BAFTA award in all categories including black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K television. Based on his broadcasts and love of nature, NPR said he "travels the world sharing his discoveries and passions in his signature semi-whisper narrative." In 2018 and 2019, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Narrator. Attenborough's early works focused more on the wonders of the natural world, while his later works expressed more support for environmental causes. He advocates restoring the planet's biodiversity, limiting population growth, using renewable energy, slowing climate change, reducing meat consumption and setting aside more nature reserves. David Attenborough is recognized as a "national treasure" in Britain, although he himself does not like this term. In 2002, he was named one of the "100 Greatest Britons" following a UK-wide BBC poll. He is the younger brother of the late director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough, and the older brother of John Attenborough, the late executive of Italian carmaker Alfa Romeo.
David Fincher
Film & TV · United States
David Andrew Leo Fincher (English: David Andrew Leo Fincher, August 28, 1962 -), American music video and film director. Before directing his first film, "Alien 3," he only helped shoot music videos and some commercials for Aerosmith and Madonna. Although the first film was very unsuccessful, the two subsequent films "Seven" and "Fight Club" were widely praised for their profound reflections on social issues such as moral decay in contemporary society.
David Letterman
Film & TV · United States
David Michael Letterman (English: David Michael Letterman, April 12, 1947 -), born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, is an American talk show host, comedian, and television program producer. Letterman's satirical, absurdist comedy was strongly influenced by comedians such as Johnny Carson.
Otomo Katsuhiro
Film & TV · Japan
Otomo Katsuhiro (Japanese: Otomo Katsuhiro/Ootomo Katsuhiro, Romanized: Otomo Katsuhiro, April 14, 1954 -) is a Japanese cartoonist and animation director. He was born in Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He made his debut in 1973 with "Manga ACTION". Representative works include "Child's Dream" and "Akira". With an innovative style that was not seen in Japanese comics at the time, such as detailed drawing of even lines that did not rely on brush strokes, and complex perspective picture composition, it had a huge impact on the Japanese comics industry after the 1980s. In 1988, "Akira", which he directed and produced, was highly praised outside Japan and became a pioneer of the "Japanimation" animation movement outside Japan. In recent years, he has been mainly active as a film director. Otomo Katsuhiro was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal by the Japanese government in 2013 in recognition of his contribution to the field of art. He has also won many international awards, including the French Order of Arts and Letters, the Eisner Award Hall of Fame, the Winsor MacKay Award, the Prix Angouleme and other awards.