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S Siqingaowa Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Siqin Gaowa, born Duan Anlin, is a Chinese-born Swiss actress. She was born in Guangzhou to a Han Chinese father and a Mongol Chinese mother. Her father died when she was 4, she was raised by her mother in Inner Mongolia. She has been married to musician Chen Liangsheng (Chen Liangsheng) since 1986 and currently holds Swiss citizenship together with her husband.

s stevenWhat Film & TV · People's Republic of China

He Jia (English: Steven He O'Byrne, December 31, 1996 -), also transliterated as Steven He O'Byrne, commonly known as Steven He (English: Steven He), is an Irish Chinese comedian, Internet celebrity, and Youtube creator. He Jia is primarily known for his satirical comedy sketches posted on YouTube and TikTok. He rose to fame in the 2020s for playing characters inspired by his father, who parodied stereotypes of East Asian parenting styles. He even made the term "emotional damage" a household name through his videos.

Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Film & TV · United States

Steven Spielberg, KBE, was born in Cincinnati, United States. He is a Jew. He is a famous American film director, screenwriter, filmmaker and philanthropist. His main directorial works include the "Jurassic Park" series, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), "Schindler's List" (1993) and "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) and many other film history classics. In addition to movies, Stephen also directed and shot TV series. The 2002 war miniseries "Brothers" was well received. The film swept 19 Emmy Award nominations that year and won the 54th Primetime Emmy Award for Best Miniseries, and won the 59th Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries/TV Movie.

Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert Film & TV · United States

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (English: Stephen Tyrone Colbert, /koʊlˈbɛər/, formerly /ˈkoʊlbərt/ (Colbert), May 13, 1964 -) is an American television host and comedian, and Emmy Award winner. Known in the United States for his satirical style of comedy, Colbert hosts the Comedy Central channel's satirical news show The Colbert Report, in which Colbert plays a conservative political commentator. On September 8, 2015, Colbert took over CBS's late-night show "The Late Show with Stephen Cobell", succeeding David Letterman. Colbert originally planned to study to become a theater actor, but he became interested in improvisational theater while attending Northwestern University, where he met Del Close, the director of the Second City comedy troupe. Colbert first performed at Second City as Steve Carell's stand-in, with fellow comedians including Paul Dinero and Amy Sedaris, the comedians with whom he developed the sketch comedy series Exit 57. Prior to filming the cult television series Strangers with Candy, Colbert created and starred in the short-lived Dana Carvey Show. He gained attention for his role as closeted gay history teacher Chuck Noblett in the latter. Colbert gained widespread recognition as a reporter on Comedy Central's news parody series "The Daily Show." In 2005, he left "The Daily Show" to host "The Colbert Report." Adhering to the news parody concept of "The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report" is a satirical take on "The O'Reilly Factor," a personality-driven political commentary show in which he plays a comical "conservative political pundit." The series became one of Comedy Central's highest-rated series, earning Colbert an invitation to perform as a featured artist at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2006. After wrapping up "The Colbert Report," he was hired in 2015 to replace the retiring David Letterman as host of the CBS Late Show. In September 2017, he hosted the 69th Emmy Awards. Colbert has won 9 Emmy Awards, 2 Grammy Awards and 2 Peabody Awards. Colbert was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2006 and 2012

Stephen Colletti Stephen Colletti Film & TV · United States

Stephen Colletti (English: Stephen Colletti, July 7, 1986 -) is an American actor. His major credits include the CW television series Basketball Brothers. He plays the role of Chase Adams in this TV series.

Stephen King Stephen King Film & TV · United States

Stephen Edwin King (English: Stephen Edwin King, September 21, 1947-) is an American writer known as the "King of Horror". He is best known for his horror novels, but also dabbles in suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy and mystery and other genres. Although best known for his novels, King also wrote about 200 short stories, most of which were published in short story collections. King established his position in the horror literary world with his debut work "Carrie" in 1974. Later, "Tales of Four Seasons" (1982) included four novellas, which was his first major departure from the horror genre in terms of genre. Several of King's works have been adapted into films, including "Carrie" (1976), "Ghost Shop" (1980), "Die Again" and "Christine: Allure" (both 1983), "Stand By Me" (1986), and "Dangerous Days" (1990). Year), "The Big Apple" (1994), "The Big Apple" (1995), "The Green Miracle" (1999), "The Fog" (2007), "It" (2017) and "The Great Race" (2025) and other film and television works. He also published under the pseudonym "Richard Buckman" and co-authored with other writers, including his friend Peter Strobel and his sons Joe Hill and Irving King. In addition, King has written nonfiction, such as "Dead Light: A Study in Horror Fiction" (1981) and "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" (2000). King has won many literary awards, including the O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in Black" (1994). He also won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the Suspense/Thriller category for "11/22/6" (2011). He has also received many awards for his overall literary contributions, such as the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature, the 2007 Mystery Writers of America Masters Award, and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates said of King: "A deeply rooted, psychologically realistic author whose American life scenes have always been his source of inspiration, and American popular culture provides him with an inexhaustible treasure trove of possibilities."

Stephen Merchant Stephen Merchant Film & TV · U.K.

Stephen James Merchant (November 24, 1974 -) is a British writer, director, radio host, comedian and actor. He has written and appeared in a number of British TV series and films. Best known for his collaborations with Regis Gervin, co-writing and directing the popular British sitcom The Office, and co-writing, directing and co-starring in Extras, Gervin's syndicated series for radio, podcasts, audiobooks and television. The show won a Bronze Medal at the Sony Awards.

Yui Aragaki Yui Aragaki Film & TV · Japan

Aragaki (yuán) Yui (Japanese: Aragaki Yui/Summary Yui, Romanized: Aragaki Yui (June 11, 1988 -) is a Japanese actress, singer and model. She was born in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture. She is 169 cm tall and has blood type A. She was formerly affiliated with LesPros Entertainment. She announced her marriage to Gen Hoshino on May 19, 2021. At the same time, she announced her withdrawal from the agency and continued her activities as an individual.

Risa Niigaki Risa Niigaki Film & TV · Japan

Aragaki (yuán) Risa (October 20, 1988 -), born in Hodogaya District, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been affiliated with the brokerage company UP-FRONT AGENCY for a long time, and is a Japanese female idol group Morning Musume. Fifth term member. Height 155cm. Joined on August 26, 2001, took over as the sixth-generation vice-captain on June 2, 2007, took over as the seventh-generation captain on October 1, 2011, graduated on May 18, 2012, and has been enrolled for 10 years and 9 months (3918 days). After graduating from Morning Musume, she aimed to become an actress and was active in stage plays. On June 13, 2016, she married the actor Kaichi Kotani, who had co-starred in the stage play, but they announced their divorce on January 5, 2018. On August 1, 2020, he left the agency UP-FRONT AGENCY where he had been for nearly 20 years and became a youtuber.

Xin Haicheng Xin Haicheng Film & TV · Japan

Shinkai Makoto (Japanese: Shinkai Makoto/Shinkai Makoto, Romanized: Shinkai Makoto, February 9, 1973 -), whose real name is Shinkai Makoto (Shinkai Makoto/when Makoto, Niitsu Makoto), is a Japanese animation director and screenwriter. Makoto Shinkai was born in a rural area in Omi Town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He loved drawing and writing stories since he was a child. When he grew up, he went to Tokyo to attend university and graduated from the Faculty of Literature of Chuo University in 1996. Then he worked for the game company Japan Falcom, mainly responsible for graphic design, but also learned to make videos. Since 1997, Makoto Shinkai has independently produced three animated short films, of which "Her and Her Cat" (2000) is his first official film. The film received good results from public sales and became an opportunity for Makoto Shinkai to establish cooperation with CoMix Wave Films. In 2001, Xin Haicheng resigned from his regular job and concentrated on completing the 25-minute short film "Voice of the Stars" alone. After the film was released in 2002, it became a best-seller and won several awards. Xin Haicheng gained fame and fortune and began to attract attention. Afterwards, Makoto Shinkai tried to produce feature films of more than one hour, and organized an animation team to cope with the larger workload, but he still handled the scripts and storyboards. He successively released "Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place" (2004), "5 Centimeters Per Second" (2007) and "Children Chasing Stars" (2011), all three of which have award-winning records. Among them, "Children Chasing Stars" was Makoto Shinkai's biggest work at the time, but it became a box office bomb after it was released. Makoto Shinkai began to focus more on audience acceptance with "The Garden of Words" (2013), which eventually achieved good box office success and launched his cooperation with mainstream film studio Toho. Toho's producer Genki Kawamura became the planner of Makoto Shinkai's subsequent works, and they released "Your Name" three years apart. "(2016), "Weathering With You" (2019) and "Suzuya's Journey" (2022). "Your name. "" sold 25.1 billion yen in one fell swoop, bringing a breakthrough to Makoto Shinkai's career. The subsequent two works failed to reproduce this result, but they both had a box office of more than 14 billion yen. These three films are all thematically related to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and are collectively referred to as the "Disaster Trilogy" by some media. In terms of story selection, Xin Haicheng drew inspiration from many aspects, including his own life experience, and

Shinta Shinta Shinta Shinta Film & TV · Japan

Arata Makkenyū (Japanese: Arata Makkenyū/Arata , Romanized: Arata Makkenyū, November 16, 1996 -), formerly known by his stage name Makkenyū, is a Japanese actor who was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. His agency is TOP COAT (Japan) and Asian Film Entertainment (United States). His father is the late Japanese actor, producer, director and martial artist Shinichi Chiba. On January 22, 2023, he announced his marriage to his outsider girlfriend of two years.

Fang Lishen Fang Lishen Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Alex Fong Lik-sun (English: Alex Fong Lik-sun, February 26, 1980 -) is a Hong Kong male singer and actor. He was one of the top ten outstanding young people in Hong Kong in 2014. He is a retired member of the Hong Kong swimming team. He once held 11 Hong Kong swimming records. After he set a new Hong Kong record in the 200-meter backstroke and 400-meter medley at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he held the Hong Kong record for more than 21 years before it was broken. Alex Fong joined the entertainment industry after the 2000 Sydney Olympics and started his college career. He started a "three-dimensional life" of singing, swimming and reading. Later, he gradually faded out of swimming and devoted himself to the entertainment industry. In 2018, he and his partner opened a swimming school, Hong Kong Swimming Academy, to train swimmers. On November 5, 2019, Alex Fong launched the "Hong Kong Island Swimming 45km Charity Challenge" for the charity "Every Little Bit is Life" and completed the entire course in a conference record-breaking time of 10 hours, 43 minutes and 06 seconds, becoming the first native Hong Konger to swim the entire distance.

F Fang Zhanrong Film & TV · Republic of China

Fang Zhanrong (September 1948 -), a native of Chaoshan, was born in a pear garden family in Hongyang Town, Puning City. He is a famous Chinese Teochew opera performing artist, Gong Chouxing, and a national first-class actor. He is one of the most representative clown actors in the Teochew opera world and is known as the "Ugly King" of Teochew opera. In 2017, he won the "Second Guangdong Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award". He has won the Peony Award for Chinese Opera, the 7th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Award and other awards. He is known as the representative inheritor of Teochew Opera in China's national intangible cultural heritage project and served as the leader of the second troupe of Guangdong Teochew Theater. He is known for his superb acting skills and vivid stage image. He is especially good at showing the civilian characteristics of his characters through exaggerated body language and humorous narration. In Teochew opera, ugly students (also known as "peanuts") are a favorite character type among the audience, and Fang Zhanrong is known as the "King of Ugly Students" and his performances in classic plays such as "Chai Fang Hui" are widely praised.

F Fang Shuqiao Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Fang Shuqiao (November 1935-), a native of Wuqiao County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, graduated from Shenyang No. 8 Senior High School. He is a well-known cartoon voice actor. His representative works include "Smart Ikkyu", "The Adventures of Antelope", "Time Ship", etc.

Fang Haowen Fang Haowen Film & TV · British Hong Kong

Charmaine Fong Ho-man, May 1, 1980 -), nicknamed "Xiao Ming", formerly known as Wu Jiaxin, a Hong Kong female singer. The major awards she has won include "Chizha Music Pop Chart Award Ceremony" and "Chizha" "Silver Award for Singer-Songwriter in the Music Circle", "My Favorite Female Singer in the Music Circle" and "My Favorite Song Award in the Music Circle", as well as "Top Ten Outstanding Singers" in the "Metro Awards Ceremony".

F Fang Yihua Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Mona Yat-wah Fong, Lady Shaw (English: Mona Yat-wah Fong, Lady Shaw, July 27, 1934 - November 22, 2017), her husband's surname was Shao Fong, formerly known as Li Menglan, also known as Fong Menghua, born in Shanghai, Shaw's second wife, known as the Sixth Aunt. Hong Kong female singer, media worker and executive, former vice chairman of Shaw Brothers Film Company and non-executive director of Television Broadcasting Company Limited.

S Shi Runjiu Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Shi Runjiu (1969-), a filmmaker from Beijing, China. After graduating from the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1992, he went on to direct many documentaries and music videos for MTV. He served as assistant director for Zhang Yimou and Lu Le's films "Alive" and "Mr. Zhao" respectively. His first feature film was Brave New World (1998), a romantic comedy about a farmer who wins a Shanghai apartment in a lottery. Shi Runjiu works for Yima Film Technology Co., Ltd. and is a member of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers. He believes that his work is an interpretation of changing social customs in China.

Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Film & TV · Germany

Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf (German: Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf, June 14, 1969 -), a German former professional tennis player, the highest singles ranking in the world, 22 Grand Slam winners, the only annual Golden Slam winner in the history of tennis, and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Graf can perform stably on any type of surface. Whether it is hard court, clay, grass or indoors, he can perform to the best and win championships. His tennis skills are very comprehensive, which is very rare in the tennis world. Graf's best playing style is the laser-like forehand and the extremely low arc of the backhand. The Germans call her the "Forehand Girl (Fräulein Vorhand)". Graf has outstanding physical fitness, an excellent serve, and a very lethal forehand attack. It is her most powerful scoring weapon and is recognized as the best forehand in women's history. The backhand is mostly cutting. Although the offensive power is average, it can force the opponent to be unable to make a powerful return. Graf's footwork is perfect, accurate and quick in position, which is conducive to his forehand attack. His style of running quickly throughout the court, with forehand attacks and backhand cuts, was once called track tennis. Graf is one of the most successful female players in the history of tennis. What is particularly shocking is that in 1988 she set the only Calendar Year Golden Slam in the history of tennis. Among all male and female players, Graf is the only tennis player who has won more than 4 times in each of the 4 Grand Slams. He is also the longest-serving player in the women's world. Graf teamed up with Becker, another German men's tennis legend of his generation, to create an unprecedented golden age for German tennis. In particular, winning the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open in 1989 was one of the most classic memories in German sports history.

Saori Hayami Saori Hayami Film & TV · Japan

Hayami Saori (Japanese: Hayami Saori/Hayami Saori, Romanized: Hayami Saori, May 29, 1991 -) is a Japanese female voice actress and singer. I'm Enterprise owned. Born in Tokyo. Height 164cm. Representative works include "LovePlus" (Takamine Aika), "Momohana Yuepan" (Kawabi Peach Blossom), "There is a Fox Fairy-sama in My Family" (Jiao), "Wagtail Goddess" (Knot), "A Thing from the Sky" (Ikaros), "My Sister Isn't So Cute" (Aragaki Ayase), "The Irregular Student at Magic High School" (Shiba Miyuki), "Sure enough, my youth romantic comedy went wrong. ” (Yukishita Yukino), “Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches” (Rei Shiraishi), “Red-haired Shirayuki Princess” (Shirayuki), “Movie version of The Shape of Sound” (Nishimiya Glass), “Gambler” (Yumeko Snake Ghoul), “RDG Endangered Species Girl” (Suzuhara Izumiko), “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” (Ninja Kucho), “ONE PIECE" (Yamato), "SPY×FAMILY Spy Family Wine" (Joel Foger), etc.

Wanda Sykes Wanda Sykes Film & TV · United States

Wanda Sykes (English: Wanda Sykes, March 7, 1964 -) is an American writer and actress. She won a 1999 Emmy Award for "The Chris Rock Show." In 2004, Entertainment Weekly named her one of the 25 most interesting people in America. Her works also include "Life is a Play." In November 2009, her own late-night talk show, "The Wanda Sykes Show," premiered on Fox and aired every Saturday until the show was canceled in April 2010. Films in which she has acted or voiced roles include "The Impersonator 2", "Marriage Certificate", "Into the Woods", "Bear 2", "Rio" and "Iceland 4: Tectonic Drift".

Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino Film & TV · United States

Quentin Jerome Tarantino, American male director, screenwriter, producer and actor. The characteristics of his films are non-linear narrative plots, satirical themes, violent aesthetics, alternate history and neo-noir style.

Mingjie Mingjie Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Minh Tiệp (Vietnamese: Minh Tiệp, born in 1977) is a famous Vietnamese actor, model, and program host. His original name is Nguyễn Minh Tiệp. He has parents, sister and brother at home. Graduated from the University of Foreign Languages. Currently, he is the director of the Industrial and Commercial Office of Vietnam M.T.S Company.

Y Yi Zhenxing Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Yi Zhenxing (July 15, 1984 -), whose online names are "Calling Beast", "I'm a Stupid Dad" and "Calling Beast Yi Xiaoxing", is an online video producer, film and television director and actor in mainland China.

Yi Yang Qianxi Yi Yang Qianxi Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Yi Yang Qianxi, Chinese actor, singer, member of TFBOYS group. In 2021, he won the Academy Award for Best Newcomer for "Young You", and in 2025, he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for "Little Me". Other films include "A Little Red Flower for You", "Miracle: Stupid Kid", "Changjin Lake", "Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge", "All the Rivers Are Red", "The Silent Insect" and "Wild Times".