Film & TV

Shia Saide LaBeouf (French: Shia Saide LaBeouf, pronounced /ˈʃaɪə ləˈbʌf/ "SHY-uh luh-BUFF", June 11, 1986 -) is an American actor, performance artist and producer.

Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (English: Heathcliff Andrew Ledger, April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008), Australian actor, winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, represented by "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Dark Knight", died of a drug overdose in New York City, New York, United States in 2008 at the age of 28.

Hilary Swank (English: Hilary Swank, July 30, 1974 -) is an American actress and producer. She has twice won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the films "Boys Don't Cry" (1999) and "The Ascension" (2004). She is also one of the few "two nominations and two wins" winners in the history of the Oscars.

Hirano Aya (Japanese: Hirano Aya/Hirano Aya Hirano Aya, October 8, 1987 -) is a Japanese actress and singer. As a child actor, he entered the industry by appearing in TV commercials. In 2001, he made his debut as a voice actor in the animation "Angel Tail". In 2006, he became famous for starring in the "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" series. He successively won the 2007 Tokyo Animation Awards Voice Actor Award and the Best Newcomer Award at the Voice Actor Awards. His representative works also include the dubbing of characters such as Miami Sand in "Death Note", Izumi Matata in "Lucky Star", and Lucy Heartfilia in "Fairy Tail". Since 2010, he has transformed into a film, television and stage actor, starring in "This Is Not an Idol!" ? "(2012), "Mirror of the Muse" (2012) and other works. Hirano Aya was regarded as a representative figure of "idol voice actors" from the late 2000s to the early 2010s, and was one of the few voice actors who successfully crossed over into the mainstream entertainment industry. In addition to dubbing work, she is now releasing works under the music label Universal Sigma. She released her first single "Breakthrough" in 2006 and her first album "Riot Girl" in 2008.

Kurt Vogel Russell (English: Kurt Vogel Russell, March 17, 1951 -) is an American actor. In his early years, he was a second-string player on the American Professional Baseball team. In the past, he has starred in many comedy movies co-produced with Disney. He often collaborates with director John Carpenter. His representative works are the heroic movie "Escape from New York" (1981) about saving the President of the United States in the early 1990s and its sequel "Escape from Los Angeles" (1996). He played the articulate anti-hero Snake Pliskin, which was widely praised. In 1986, he also played the funny and dissolute truck driver Jack Burton in Carpenter's fantasy action film "Chinatown." Other well-known works include the horror film "The Third" (1982), the science fiction film "Star Trek" (1994) and the blockbuster action film "Fast and Furious 7" (2015). He played Star-Lord's biological father Ego in the 2017 Marvel movie "Strike 2". Russell mainly supported the Liberal Party, and when there was no suitable candidate from the Liberal Party, he supported the Republicans. He even said that he and his current live-in girlfriend Goldie Hawn moved to Colorado because it was different from the general political atmosphere in Hollywood.

Anno Hideaki (Japanese: Anno Hideaki/Anno Hideaki, Romanized: Anno Hideaki, May 22, 1960 -) is a Japanese animator, director, and the representative director and president of Khara Co., Ltd. Born in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. As an animator, he is famous for his mechanical and explosive special effects drawings. As a director, he has made achievements in both animation and live-action films. His most famous works are the 1995 animated series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and the 2016 special photo film "Shin Godzilla". Blood type is type A. His wife is cartoonist Yume Yoko Anno. Anno produced some amateur works when he was a student. After dropping out of the Imaging Planning Department (now Imaging Department) of the Art Department of Osaka University of the Arts, he entered the animation industry. During his period as a freelance original animator, he participated in the production of "Macross", "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" (1984) and other works, and respected Ichiro Itano and Hayao Miyazaki as his teachers. Later, he joined GAINAX due to the production of GAINAX's founding work "Wang Li's Space Army" (1987). His painting performance in "The King of Space Force" was highly praised, and Anno also claimed that this was the highest peak of his painting. He made his debut as an animation director in 1988 and successively directed "Over the Top" and "Natya", establishing a firm foothold in the industry. After a period of depression, he released "Neon Genesis Evangelion" in 1995, which received unprecedented response and became his most famous masterpiece. Anno then turned to live action and directed three films, but without any breakthrough. Khara founded Khara in 2006 and produced the animated film series "Evangelion: The New Movie", which has seen box-office increases. Afterwards, three live-action tokusatsu movies were released: "New Godzilla", "New Ultraman" (2022, not directed), and "New Kamen Rider" (2023). In his early years, he was fascinated by animation and special photography works. Influenced by this, Anno's works are always full of tributes to his favorite works in the past. His style blends postmodernism with a broad depiction of the thoughts and emotions of his characters, often using outside-the-box scenes to represent the mental deconstruction of these characters.

Conan Christopher O'Brien (English: Conan Christopher O'Brien; April 18, 1963 -), American talk show host, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known for hosting late-night talk shows for nearly 28 years and served as host of NBC News' Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-2009), The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009-2010) and TBS's The Conan Show (2010–2021). O'Brien was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, and raised in an Irish Catholic family. While studying at Harvard University, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Satirist magazine. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, where his first comedy-related job was as a writer for a comedy series, and he also worked as a writer for several talk shows. O'Brien then moved to New York, where he worked as a writer for "Saturday Night Live" and the cartoon "The Simpsons." Until he was commissioned by NBC to replace David Reitman as late-night host. O'Brien's original late-night run was virtually unknown to the public, and the show generally improved over time and was highly regarded when it concluded its run in 2009. O'Brien then moved from New York to Los Angeles and hosted his own "Tonight Show" for seven months until a host change in 2010. After his departure, O'Brien toured on a live comedy tour in approximately 32 cities across the United States and became the subject of the documentary "Can't Stop Conan O'Brien." From 2010 to 2021, he hosted "The Conan Show". He also hosted events such as the Emmy Awards and Christmas in Washington. O'Brien was a guest speaker at the 2013 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Known for his spontaneous hosting style, which The New York Times described as "awkward, self-deprecating humor," O'Brien's late-night show combines "raunchiness and weirdness with more elegant, narrative-driven shorts." With David Letterman's retirement on May 20, 2015, O'Brien became the longest-serving active late-night talk show host in the United States. This active streak ended with O'Brien's retirement from late-night television in June 2021, having lasted nearly 28 years throughout his career as a late-night host. In 2010, he was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine. In March 2025, he will serve as the 97th Oscars

Dick Liu Kai-chi (English: Dick Liu Kai-chi, September 30, 1953 - March 28, 2021), a Hong Kong actor, was a full-time lecturer at the Film School of Hong Kong Baptist University during his lifetime.

Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (English: Frank William Abagnale, Jr.; April 27, 1948 -) is an American security consultant who was famous for his experience in forging checks, impersonating identities, defrauding trust, and escaping in his early years. In the 1960s, in the five years since Frank Abagnale was 16 years old, he forged $2.5 million in checks in 26 countries and was wanted by many countries. He later claimed that he assumed no less than eight identities in the process, including a Pan Am pilot, a teacher, a doctor, a Federal Bureau of Prisons employee, and a lawyer, and that he escaped from detention twice, all before he was 21 years old. He spent less than five years in a U.S. prison before being released and working for the U.S. federal government. He currently serves as a consultant and instructor at FBI Academy and field offices. He also founded Abagnale & Associates, a financial fraud consulting firm. In 1980, Abagnale published his autobiography "Catch Me if You Can", which described his fraud experience in the first person. In 2002, Spielberg directed the film "Cat and Mouse" based on Abagnale's story. A musical with the same name was also staged in 2011.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Зеленський, Romanized: Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyi, pronounced: [woloˈdɪmɪr olekˈsɑndrowɪdʒ‿zeˈlɛnʲsʲkɪj]; January 25, 1978 -; or translated by Ukrainian name Volodymyr Zelensky) Ukrainian politician and former comedian, serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He has served as Chairman of the Supreme Command of Ukraine since February 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Due to the inability to hold general elections during the war, Zelensky has been extended to become Ukraine's second-longest-serving president and the only president with a single term of more than five years. Zelensky was born into a Jewish family in the central Ukrainian city of Krivilih, and his mother tongue is Russian. He obtained a law degree from the Kreverich School of Economics but never practiced law, instead pursuing a career in comedy and entertainment. He founded the production company 95 Block Studios, which produced films, cartoons and television shows, including the TV series "Servant of the People," in which Zelensky played the fictional president of Ukraine. The show aired from 2015 to 2019 and was very popular. In March 2018, employees at Block 95 Studios created a political party with the same name as the TV series. On the evening of December 31, 2018, Zelenskiy announced his participation in the 2019 presidential election while then-President Petro Poroshenko delivered a New Year's Eve speech on TV channel 1+1. A political outsider, he had emerged as one of the front-runners in election polls months before he formally announced his candidacy. He won the second round of the election with 73.23% of the vote, defeating Poroshenko with the largest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections. Zelensky has positioned himself as an anti-establishment and anti-corruption figure. As president, he has been a supporter of electronic government and the unity of the Ukrainian and Russian populations. He uses social media extensively, especially Instagram. His party won a landslide victory in the snap legislative elections held shortly after he became president. During his first two years in power, Zelensky oversaw the removal of the legal immunity of Ukrainian members of the Verkhovna Rada in parliament, the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent economic

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Маяковский; July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) was a Soviet poet and playwright of Ukrainian origin, a representative figure of Russian Futurism and Socialist Realism.

Francois·Roland·Truffaut（French：François Roland Truffaut，1932Year2moon6day—1984Year10moon21day）It's a French director、film critic，One of the representatives of the French New Wave film genre，「Film auteur theory」advocates of，With another famous French director Jean-Loup·Gundam tie，Enjoy a high reputation in the international film community。 Truffaut dropped out of school at the age of 14 because of truancy and had to work in a factory.As a teenager, he already loved movies，Organized a small movie screening event that resulted in debt，16Sent to a juvenile correctional center when he was young，Later by Andre·Bazin bailed，And led him into the field of film criticism，Basin was his spiritual mentor，It also deeply influenced his ideas on film.。 Bazin founded "Cinema Notes" in 1951. Later, Durufo joined to write film reviews and was considered the most acerbic critic in Paris. In 1955, he shot his first short film "The Visit", and later worked as an assistant to Italian director Rossellini. In 1957, Truffaut wrote an article predicting the arrival of "first-person" films. 1959First feature film of the year《four hundred blows》Immediately won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival，《four hundred blows》To secure the end·Dano（Antoine Doinel，Yoshinao-Biey·Leo's performance）as the protagonist，autobiographical，together with《Twenty year old love》、《blow a kiss》、《bed ground situation》、《love escape》An Duan·Dano Pentalogy。 He is also good at practicing Bazin’s teachings「long shot」theory，Story themes are rich and varied、Content varies；Especially good at photographing beautiful scenery、A fresh French-style literary love movie，Movie fans from all over the world are moved and recall it again and again to this day.。 Truffaut died of brain cancer in 1984. A total of 21 feature films and four short films were directed by the director.

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director whose family is Italian immigrants. His most famous works are "The Godfather" trilogy, "Apocalypse Now" and "400 Years of Blood." Coppola is considered one of the important figures of the American New Wave movement in the 20th century.

Alfred Thomas Highmore (February 14, 1992-), commonly known as Freddie Highmore, is a British actor. The 6-year-old Freddy made his debut in the 1999 comedy film "Women Talk Dirty". He then starred in the films "Finding Neverland" (2004), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), "August Love" (2007), "The Flirty Book" (2008), etc. He won many awards and nominations, including two consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Young Actor, becoming a well-known child star in Hollywood. As an adult, Freddie became famous internationally after starring in the American dramas "Bates Motel" (2013-2017) and "Murphy the Good Doctor" (2017-present). His outstanding acting skills were highly praised by critics and earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination. Freddie was nominated three times for the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his performance as Norman Bates in the thriller TV series Bates Motel, and eventually won a People's Choice Award. Later, he played the role of Dr. Sean Murphy in the TV series "Murphy". In addition to setting the highest ratings for a new ABC drama in the past 13 years, this role earned Freddy a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series. In addition to being an actor, Freddy is also a screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the executive producer of "Murphy" and has also written and directed "Bates Motel" and "Murphy". In August 2018, Freddy established his production company Alfresco Pictures to develop multiple projects, including the Italian series Leonardo, where he participated in the show and served as an executive producer.

Zhang Yishan (May 5, 1992 -), male, Han nationality, native of Beijing, Chinese actor.

Jang Dong Gun (Korean: Jang Dong-gun/Jang Dong Gun, Romanized: Jang Dong-gun, March 7, 1972 -) is a South Korean actor and singer. He is well-known to Chinese audiences for his TV series "Project Runway", "Falling in Love with Anchorwoman" and the movie "The Promise" directed by Chen Kaige. In 2004, he won the Korean Film Blue Dragon Award for Best Actor for the movie "The Flying Taigeuk Flag", which also made him the first person to win all the awards in the male actor category in the history of the Blue Dragon Awards. Jang Dong Gun married actor Go So Young on May 2, 2010, and they now have a son and a daughter. In 2012, he starred in the TV series "A Gentleman's Dignity" again after 12 years.

Zhang Yunlong (March 2, 1988 -), male, Han nationality, native of Dalian, Liaoning Province, actor and singer from Mainland China, graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy in 2009 and was a professional football goalkeeper. In 2014, he won the Best Actor Award in the 21st Beijing University Student Film Festival Original Film Competition for the micro-film "Love Express". In 2014, he became famous after filming the movie "Gardenia Blooms" and idol drama. Now he is an actor signed by Jiaxing Media.

Zhang Gang (1935-2006), formerly known as Zhang Wenkai, was originally from Manchuria and was a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi. National first-level director. Zhang Gang began to engage in art work in the 1950s and served as an actor in the Jiangxi Repertory Troupe. Before the Cultural Revolution, he wrote the drama "August 1st Storm", which put Zhou Enlai's image on the stage for the first time. Later, he wrote "Long Live the Laborers", which brought Liu Shaoqi's image to the stage for the first time. It was hit hard during the Cultural Revolution. In 1974, he created "The First Shot in Hongcheng" based on "August 1st Storm", breaking the preaching of model operas. After the Cultural Revolution, he served as a screenwriter for Jiangxi TV Station in 1980, writing the scripts "The Married Woman" and "Confidential Agent No. 5". In 1982, he directed his debut film "Regret" at Jiangxi Film Studio. In 1983, he created the first film of the Aman comedy series, "Smiling Face". "The Secret Service" filmed in 1984 set a box office record in the domestic film market at that time. In 1985, he established the Nanchang Film and TV Series Creation Research Institute and served as director and director, becoming China's first independent producer. Over the past 20 years, Zhang Gang has filmed 25 movies in the Aman series, which is currently the longest-running movie series in China. He is also known as the "Father of Aman". The comic image of "Aman" is known as "Yinjiro" in China. Before his death, he had just completed the 25th Aman series work "Romantic Giethoorn". He wrote a total of 33 films and directed 31 films. Because all of his films made money and he never lost money, he was called the "Zhang Gang Phenomenon" by the film industry at the time. In addition, he has also filmed a number of TV dramas that have been well received by audiences, such as the large-scale drama series "Liao Zhai", "The Biography of Wang Baochang", "The Biography of Wang Baochang", etc. The original plan to shoot a sequel to "The Legend of Wang Baochang" in 2006 became a last wish. Zhang Gang died in Nanchang at 2:30 a.m. on January 13, 2006 due to esophageal rupture due to advanced liver cirrhosis. A memorial service will be held at 8:30 a.m. on January 17 at Nanchang Funeral Home.

Joe Cheung Tung-joe (English: Joe Cheung Tung-joe, born July 24, 1944), known as "Brother Joe", is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.

Zhang Zhehan (May 11, 1991 -) is a Chinese actor, singer, and director. He graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy with a major in musical theater. In 2009, he entered the entertainment industry by starring in his first TV series "How Did I Fall in Love with You". In 2015, he rose to prominence by playing the young Lin Shu in the TV series "Nirvana in Fire". In the same year, he released his first solo EP "Light", and later starred in the TV series "The Legend of Yun Xi" (2018), "Everyone Wants to Meet You" (2020) and "Ruyi Fangfei" (2020). In 2020, the premiere concert was held for the second personal EP "I Met Me". In 2021, he won the title of Overseas Drama Champion Actor for his role as the male protagonist Zhou Zishu in "The Order of Mountains and Rivers". In August 2021, he was involved in a controversy involving rumors of a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine. He encountered violent online violence and was forced to suspend his acting career in mainland China. In December 2022, the album "Deep Blue" will be released on major overseas music platforms, and the second album "Mandala" will be released in April 2023. Starting from May 2023, the "Prehistoric Theater" tour concert and other performances will be held in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and other places. Starting from November 2023, "Chasing" fan meetings will be held in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Australia. In April 2024, the Tibetan cycling documentary "August" directed for the first time will be released globally. In May 2024, songs from the third album "Scavengers" will be released one after another. In November 2024, the first "Prehistoric Theater 2.0" concert was held in Seoul, South Korea. During the performance, he personally stated that he had never visited or paid homage to the Yasukuni Shrine.

Zhang Zijian (January 14, 2006 -), born in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, is a Chinese actor.

Nick Cheung Ka Fai (English: Nick Cheung Ka Fai, December 2, 1964 -) is a Hong Kong actor, singer, producer and film director; he was an artist under Asia Television and TVB. Nick Cheung has won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor twice and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor once, and his acting skills are highly recognized.

Zhang Jianya (1951-), whose pen name is Mu Jiang, is a native of Putian, Fujian, and is a fifth-generation director, screenwriter, and actor in China. His representative works include the movies "Sanmao Joins the Army", "Survival from Desperate Situations", "Crash Landing", and the TV series "The Reign of Zhenguan", etc. He won the China Film Huabiao Award for Outstanding Director in 1995 and 2000.

Zhang Binbin (January 19, 1993 -), male, native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, actor from Mainland China.