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Tony Hawk Tony Hawk Film & TV · United States

Tony Hawk (English: Tony Hawk, real name Anthony Frank Hawk, English: Anthony Frank Hawk; May 12, 1968 -) is a skateboarder and actor.

S Songtaga Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Song Taijia (1974-), a Tibetan from Tongde, Qinghai, graduated from Qinghai Normal University and Beijing Film Academy, director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist.

M Matsu Takako Film & TV · Japan

Matsu Takako (Japanese: Takako Matsu/pine tree Takako, Romanized: Matsu Takako, June 10, 1977 -), Japanese female singer and actress. Born in Tokyo, her real name is Takako Fujima. She is 165 centimeters tall and has blood type A. "Matsumoto Yukika" is Matsu Takako's stage name in the Japanese dance field (dance name, the first Matsumoto style).

Ariel Ariel Ariel Ariel Film & TV · Republic of China

Ariel Lin (English: Ariel Lin, October 29, 1982 -) is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She debuted in the TV series "The Promise of Eighteen" in 2002. In 2008, she won the Drama Actress Award for the first time at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards for "Prank 2 Kisses". She is the first actress to win an award for an idol drama. In May 2009, Ariel Ariel joined AVEX Records and released her first Mandarin album "Happy Encounter" in the same year. In 2012, she won the Drama Actress Award for the second time at the 47th Golden Bell Awards for the TV series "I May Not Love You".

F Forest Farmer Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Lin Nong (1918 - July 21, 2002), formerly known as Su Duoze, male, native of Nanchong, Sichuan, Chinese film director, former director of Northeast Film Studio. Representative as the movie "Sino-Japanese War".

Lin Jiaxin Lin Jiaxin Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Karena Lam Ka Yan (English: Karena Lam Ka Yan, August 17, 1978 -) is a Hong Kong and Taiwanese actress and female singer. She is currently mainly active in Hong Kong. She is the first Grand Slam actor in the history of the Golden Horse Awards to win three acting awards: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best New Actor.

Lin Xiawei Lin Xiawei Film & TV · Hongkong

Rosina Lam (English: Rosina Lam, June 30, 1987 -) is a Hong Kong actor and entrepreneur. She is currently a contract artist of TVB and an artist of Shaw Brothers. After her marriage, her focus turned to her family. On January 2, 2022, for her role as "Gu Yuyan" in "Seven Princesses", she won the Best Actress Award at the "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony 2021" and was crowned Queen of Television. The artist Lin Feng is her cousin.

L Lin Miaoke Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Lin Miaoke (July 1, 1999 -), a native of Fuzhou, Fujian, was born in Beijing. He is an actor, singer and former child star in the People's Republic of China. He graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts.

Lin Lingdong Lin Lingdong Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Ringo Lam Ling-tung (English: Ringo Lam Ling-tung, October 23, 1955 - December 29, 2018), a Hong Kong film director and actor, was a disciple of director Wang Tianlin. He is known for his action movies, and his film style is called "violent realism". He is most famous for his "The Storm" trilogy ("The Storm", "The Storm", "The Storm"), and won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Director for "The Storm".

Ruby Lin Ruby Lin Film & TV · Republic of China

Ruby Lin (January 27, 1976 -), Taiwanese actress, singer, executive producer, and producer. In 1993, he started his acting career as a part-time model. In 1998, she became widely known as "Ziwei" in the TV series "Huan Zhu Ge Ge". In 2001, she co-performed "Love in the Rain" with Zhao Wei and Leo Ku. In 2009, she established Ruby Lin Studio and began to engage in drama production. In 2010, he performed in "Beauty's Scheming" and was selected as the most popular Chinese actor at the Seoul International Television Festival. In 2011, she performed in the movie "Perfect" and won the 5th Huading Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie. In 2015, the long-running TV series "16 Summers" in which she participated won the 50th Golden Bell Award for Best Drama Program. In 2024, the long-running TV series "In This Lifetime" she produced once again won the 59th Golden Bell Award for Best Drama Program.

L Lin Zhengying Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Lam Ching-ying (English: Lam Ching-ying, December 27, 1952 - November 8, 1997), formerly known as Lam Genbao, was a Hong Kong actor known for his role as a Taoist priest in zombie movies. He was also Bruce Lee's dedicated martial arts instructor.

L Lin Hao Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Lin Hao (December 9, 1998 -), male, native of Wenchuan, Sichuan, public figure of the People's Republic of China, now a self-media practitioner, was a primary school student who suffered the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. He once represented China with Yao Ming in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Lin Run'e Lin Run'e Film & TV · Republic of Korea

Lim Yoon-a (ē) (Korean: Lim Yoona/Lin Yun, Romanized: Lim Yoon-a, May 30, 1990 -), whose stage name is Yoon-a (Korean: Yoona), is a South Korean female singer, host and actress. She graduated from Dongguk University and is a member of the Korean girl group Girls' Generation and its sub-group Girls' Generation-Oh! The leader of GG, he serves as the facade, center, sub-vocalist, sub-dancer, and sub-rapper of the team. In 2002, Yoona participated in the Saturday Open Casting Audition audition held by SM Entertainment in Seoul, passed the selection, and entered the company as a trainee. Before his debut, he made his debut in the MV of his senior TVXQ. Then she appeared in the MVs of seniors Tianzhang Jixi, Super Junior, etc. On July 22, 2007, Yoona made her debut as an actress in the MBC drama series 2 out of 9. She debuted with the girl group Girls' Generation on August 5, 2007, and served as the center, sub-vocalist, lead dancer, and face of the group. In 2018, he formed Girls' Generation's sub-group Girls' Generation-Oh! GG with Taeyeon, Sunny, Hyoyeon and Yuri, and served as the leader of the sub-group. As an actress, Run'e made her solo debut. Since 2008, she has starred in film and television works such as "You Are My Destiny", "Male Version of Cinderella", "Love Rain", "The Prime Minister and Me", "Martial God Zhao Zilong", "THE K2", "The King in Love", "Extreme Escape", "Hush", "Bad Lawyer", "Secret Mission", "Secret Mission 2", and won multiple popularity awards and acting awards. In addition to music and performance fields, since 2009, Run'e has begun to host large-scale award ceremonies and many other celebrations. She is also known as the "CF Queen" because of her endless advertising endorsements.

Lin Zhen'er Lin Zhen'er Film & TV · Republic of Korea

Im Jin-ah (Korean: Jinah Lim, Romanized: Im Jin-ah, September 14, 1991 -), stage name Nana (Korean: Nana), is a South Korean actress, model, and singer. He was a member of the third phase of the girl group After School and a member of the sub-group Orange Caramel and the sub-unit After School Red. On August 30, 2024, his contract with Pledis Entertainment expired and was not renewed. He officially graduated from the group and was the last graduating member of the team.

Lin Chaoxian Lin Chaoxian Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dante LAM Chiu-Yin, BBS (English: Dante LAM Chiu-Yin, July 1, 1964 -), is a Hong Kong film producer and film director who has worked as a film actor, action director and assistant director. "Beast Detective", a collaboration between Lin Chaoxian and Chen Jiashang, won the Best Film and Best Director at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards. However, "The Supreme Scoundrel", a collaboration between Lin Chaoxian and Chen Jiashang, was shortlisted for the Worst Director Award in the 2007 Golden Flower Film Awards. Its leading actor is Liao Qizhi. Among Lin's team, the famous screenwriter Wu Weilun is one of them. They have been working together since 2001's "The End of the Road" and are known for their hot plots and solid writing. Lin Chaoxian's movies are very particular about the details of police operations and the use of firearms. In addition, starting from "The Witness", Lin's works began to pursue detailed descriptions of the psychological changes and struggles of each character, opening up a new path for literary drama in action films. From 2008 to 2012, Lam Chiu-yin collaborated with artists such as Nick Cheung Ka-fai and Nicholas Tse Ting-fung to film "The Witness", which not only made Nicky Cheung the best actor in the film industry, but also brought Liu Qizhi to the spotlight again. "The Informer" transformed into an offensive and intense chase scene, and the "Little Ghost" played by Nicholas Tse won the Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Brigitte Lin Brigitte Lin Film & TV · Republic of China

Brigitte Lin (November 3, 1954 -), Taiwanese actress and writer. In 1973, when she was only 19 years old, she made her official debut in Qiong Yao's film "Outside the Window". She was one of Taiwan's Qiong Yao-style romance film superstars in the late 1970s. She was known as the "Two Qin and Two Lins" together with Qin Xianglin, Qin Han, and Lin Fengjiao. In the mid-to-late 1980s, she gradually shifted her focus to the Hong Kong film industry. In the 1990s, she successfully transformed into costumed martial arts movies. The Invincible East is her most representative movie role. Brigitte Lin has been in the film industry for more than 20 years. She retired from the film industry after getting married in 1994. Before her retirement, she had appeared in more than 100 films, half of which were literary and romantic films. In 1976, she won the Best Actress at the 22nd Asian Film Festival for her role as Yang Huimin in the patriotic and anti-Japanese film "Eight Hundred Heroes". In 1990, she won the Best Actress at the 27th Golden Horse Awards for her role as the female writer Shen Shaohua in "Red Dust". In 2023, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.

Yuki Kashiwagi Yuki Kashiwagi Film & TV · Japan

Kashiwagi Yuki (Japanese: Kashiwagi Yuki/Kashiwagi snow, Romanized: Kashiwagi Yuki, July 15, 1991 -) is a Japanese female artist, a former member of the female idol group AKB48, and a member of NMB48 and NGT48. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, his agency is Watanabe Entertainment. He debuted as a member of the third generation of AKB48 in 2007. Relying on his stage skills developed over many years to connect with fans, he became one of the iconic figures of AKB48 and the entire AKB48 group. He officially graduated from AKB48 on April 30, 2024. He is the longest member of AKB48 with 6233 days in the group.

Charles Bronson Charles Bronson Film & TV · United States

Charles Bronson (English: Charles Bronson, November 3, 1921 - August 30, 2003), an American actor, was born in Pennsylvania to a family of Tatar immigrants from Lithuania. Known for starring in action movies, he won the 1976 Golden Globe Award for "The World's Most Popular Entertainer". Bronson, who was born into abject poverty, worked in a mine when he was young until he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943 to fight in World War II. After retiring, he joined a theater troupe and studied acting. He began playing various supporting roles in films and television in the 1950s, and his performance in the 1958 film "Machine Gun Kelly" was his first leading role. He played heavy supporting roles in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "The Third Concentration Camp" (1963), "Pengmen Jasper's Beauty Tears" (1966) and "Commando" (1967). On television, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for an episode of "GE Playhouse." Afterwards, actor Alain Delon (a fan of Bronson) hired him to co-star in the French film "Goodbye" (1968), and in the same year he played one of the leading roles in the spaghetti western "The Sands", and Bronson was becoming a big star in Europe. Bronson went on to star in a number of action, Western and war films produced in Europe, including Strangers in the Rain (1970), which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Finally, he returned to the United States and collaborated with director Michael Weiner on many occasions, including "Wolf" (1972), "Dragon" (1972), "The Devil" (1973), and "Stranger Things" (1974). At this point, Bronson became the world's number one box office star, with each film grossing $1 million. Among them, he played an architect-turned-vigilante in "Stranger Things" and became a representative character for the rest of his acting career. Although the film was controversial, it was a box office success and spawned four sequels. Until his retirement in the late 1990s and his death in 2003, Bronson starred almost exclusively in action films, often working with director J. Lee Thompson, and also appeared in television movies. In 1991, he participated in "Brotherhood" directed by Sean Penn.

Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin Film & TV · united kingdom of great britain and ireland

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (English: Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977), British comedian, screenwriter, and director. Charlie Chaplin was the most successful movie star in the early and mid-term Hollywood movies, laying the foundation for modern comedy movies. Together with Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, he is known as the "three major comedians in the world". Charlie Chaplin's most classic image on the screen is wearing a white shirt, showing gentlemanly demeanor, wearing a narrow dress, large trousers and shoes, a boehler hat, holding a bamboo cane, and a mustache. The look of him wearing a boehler hat and black dress symbolizes comedy movies, so that many artists have imitated his performance style in the future. During the silent film period, Chaplin, as the most talented and influential figure in acting, wrote, directed, performed, and distributed his own films. From his performance as a child actor at the British Theater to his death at the age of 88, his career spanned more than 70 years (77 years).

Charlie Zhehua Charlie Zhehua Film & TV · Thailand

Charlie Trairat (English: Charlie Trairat, Thai: ชาลี ไตรรัตน์, January 19, 1993 -) was born in Thailand. He debuted at the age of six. He is a famous child star in Thailand. He is now a famous Thai film actor, host and model.

Charlie Brooke Charlie Brooke Film & TV · U.K.

Charlie Brooker (English: Charlton "Charlie" Brooker, born March 3, 1971) is a British journalist, screenwriter and broadcaster. His style of humor is crude, vulgar, often controversial, often satirical and pessimistic, with elements of the surreal. The main work is the mini-television series "Black Mirror".

Charlize Theron Charlize Theron Film & TV · South Africa

Charlize Theron (English: Charlize Theron, /ʃɑːrˈliːz ˈθɛrən/ shar-LEEZ THERR-ən; Afrikaner: [ʃarˈlis trɔn]; August 7, 1975 -), South African actress and producer. She is the first South African-born Academy Award winner. In 2003, she won the 76th Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie "The Devil", as well as the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Berlin Film Festival and other awards. Theron has been a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2007. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, and in 2016 Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

K Ke Shouliang Film & TV · Republic of China

Blackie Ko (English: Blackie Ko, February 22, 1953 - December 9, 2003), a Taiwanese actor, singer, stuntman, director, and racing driver, nicknamed Blackie, is famous for his extreme speeding stunts. He once flew a motorcycle over the Great Wall and the Potala Palace in Tibet. On June 1, 1997, he flew a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV RS (CN9A) over the Hukou Falls of the Yellow River to celebrate the return of Hong Kong. He is known as "Asia's No. 1 Flyer". During his lifetime, he planned to fly over the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, but failed to do so.

Kirsten Dunst Kirsten Dunst Film & TV · United States

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (English: Kirsten Caroline Dunst, April 30, 1982 -) is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in the 1989 multi-sequence film Oedipus Wrecks, directed by Woody Allen. At the age of 12, she gained widespread recognition for her role as vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. He starred in "Little Women" in the same year and "Escape" the following year, which received further acclaim. After starring in supporting roles in the TV series "Journey," and in a number of films including "Wag the Dog," "Small Soldiers" (1998), and "The Virgin Suicides" (1998), Dunst transitioned to romantic comedies and comedies, starring in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" in 1999 and "Bring" in 2000. It On), and in 2001 starred in "Get Over It" and "Crazy/Beautiful". Dunst gained worldwide fame playing Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy from 2002 to 2007. Other films she has appeared in since then include the 2004 romantic comedy "The Ballad" and the romantic science-fiction film "The Big Deal," and the 2005 Cameron Crowe tragicomedy "Elizabethtown." In 2006, she starred in "Versailles" directed by Sofia Coppola, and in 2008 she starred in the comedy "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People." In 2011, she starred in Lars von Trier's "Wedding at the End of the Century", for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Award for Best Actress. In 2021, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the first time for her performance in "Inuyama Chronicle". 2001's "Broken Love" was Dunst's first on-screen singing performance, in which she sang a total of two songs. In addition she also