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Wang Yutian (July 11, 1987 -), mainland Chinese actor, model and fitness coach. In 2018, he won the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Newcomer for his role as "Zhang Tiande (Stone)" in "Operation Red Sea".
Wang Xinping
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Linda Wong Hing-Ping (English: Linda Wong Hing-Ping, August 5, 1968 -), whose real name is Wang Chuanyin, is a Hong Kong female singer and actress. Her famous songs include "Don't Ask Me Who I am", "Ask You Ask Me", "With You for Life" and "Life Is Valuable", etc. She is also known as the "Polygram Four Little Flowers" together with Liu Xiaohui, Li Ruien and Tang Baoru. She once dated Hong Kong male singer Cheng Jiaying, but they eventually separated in 1998 due to her father's high-profile opposition. Later, she married her boyfriend Stephen Lee, who worked in the financial industry. After the marriage, she retired from the entertainment industry until her comeback in 2011. In recent years, I have become a yoga instructor and am passionate about Barre (a new physical fitness exercise that mixes yoga, Pilates and ballet).
Mary-Kate Olsen
Film & TV · United States
Mary-Kate Olsen (English: Mary-Kate Olsen, June 13, 1986 -) is a well-known American young actress. Together with Elizabeth Olsen and Ashley Olsen, they are known as the "Three Olsen Sisters".
Maria Callas
Film & TV · Greece
Maria Callas (English: Maria Callas, December 2, 1923 - September 16, 1977), a Greek-American soprano, was a representative figure in the revival of Italian "bel canto" (bel canto). Callas is competent in operas of all styles, and has performed in operas ranging from early classical opera to recent works by Verdi and Puccini. The society has also paid extensive attention to Karas's personal life.
Maria
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Mariam Maria Cordero Bibi, BBS, MH (Portuguese: Mariam Maria Cordero Bibi, February 18, 1954-), nicknamed "Fat Mom", is a Macau-born female singer, actress and program host who grew up in Hong Kong. She is famous for her black pop music style, wide vocal range and exaggerated noise tension. She became a member of the Meizhou Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference of Guangdong Province in January 2022. The name "Fat Mom" was given to her colleagues before she joined the industry, giving her the feeling of a mother taking care of her loved ones. Since she is fat, her colleagues called her "Fat Mom".
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Film & TV · United States
Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress, director, screenwriter and producer. As a member of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and playwright Naomi Fonna Gyllenhaal, and the sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her big-screen debut in her father's film, and began to gain recognition in a supporting role in the 2001 indie cult film "Death Illusion." The 2002 sadomasochistic romance film "Secretary" was Gyllenhaal's breakthrough work, for which she won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. Gyllenhaal has appeared in a variety of films, including "Shelly Baby," which earned her another Golden Globe nomination in 2006, the romantic comedy "Believe in Men," and a number of big-budget movies such as "World Trade Center" and "The Dark Knight." She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2009 musical drama Crazy Heart. In addition, Gyllenhaal has also appeared in stage plays and many TV movies, such as "Stealing Hearts" in 2000 and "Search" in 2004. Gyllenhaal has been dating Peter Sarsgaard since 2002. The two got engaged in 2006, and their daughter Ramona was born on October 3, 2006. The two got married in Italy on May 2, 2009, and their second daughter, Gloria Ray, was born on April 9, 2012. Gyllenhaal is a politically active Democrat and, like his parents and younger brother, is a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Before the United States went to war with Iraq in 2003, she participated in anti-war demonstrations. She is also active in human rights, civil liberties, poverty eradication and parental triggering.
Margot Robbie
Film & TV · Australia
Margot Elise Robbie (English: Margot Elise Robbie, July 2, 1990 -), an Australian Hollywood actress and producer. She started her career in TV series, including "Pan Am" (2011-2012), and later moved to the film industry, including "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013), for which she was nominated for multiple awards. In 2014, Robbie was nominated for the Hollywood Youth Award for Breakthrough Actress; the following year, she was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Rising Star. In 2016, she played the role of Harley Quinn in the superhero movie "Suicide Squad". Although the film received poor reviews, its box office revenue was the highest of that month. In 2017, Robbie's starring role as Tonya Harding in "My Name Is Tanya" earned her nominations for multiple Film Critics Association awards, and also earned her her first nomination for the leading actress in four major awards including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and British Academy Film Award. In 2019, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" co-starring with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt received wide acclaim and was nominated for and won many awards from major film critics associations. She was also nominated for the 77th Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in the Drama, Musical and Comedy categories and the 92nd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Big Deal".
Jean Harlows
Film & TV · U.K.
Jane Horrocks (English: Jane Horrocks, January 18, 1964 -), British actress. Won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Jennifer Lawrence
Film & TV · United States
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (English: Jennifer Shrader Lawrence, August 15, 1990 -) is an American actress and producer. She has starred in many blockbuster action movies, as well as in many independent dramas. Her films have grossed more than $6 billion at the global box office, and she became the world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016. Lawrence made guest appearances on many TV series in her early days, and later landed her first major role in the situation comedy "The Bill Enggworth Family Show." She starred in her first film "Garden Party" in 2008, and made her breakthrough with the independent film "Freeze to Death" in 2010, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. She became famous for her roles as the mutant queen in the "X-Men" film series (2011 to 2019) and Katniss Everdeen in the "Hunger Games" film series (2012 to 2015). Her role as Katniss has become the highest-grossing action movie heroine in film history. Lawrence won the Oscar for Best Actress for the 2012 film "The Job", becoming the second youngest winner in the history of this award at the age of 22. Later, she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress for "The Love of the Sea" and "Sister Huan Becomes Self-Strengthening" respectively. After participating in the 2019 movie "Dark Phoenix", Lawrence took a brief break from acting and returned in 2021 with "Don't Look Up". Later, she starred in "Across the Water Bridge", "Training Your Virgin" and "Die, My Love", and served as a producer through the production company Excellent Cadaver she founded. Lawrence is actively involved in charity and public affairs. In 2015, she established the "Jennifer Lawrence Foundation" to support different charities. She also serves as a director of the anti-corruption organization RepresentUs. She is a feminist and has publicly fought for women's rights many times. She is married to gallery director Cooke Maloney and has two sons.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Film & TV · United States
Jennifer Love Hewitt (English: Jennifer Love Hewitt, February 21, 1979 -) is an American actress, singer, producer and director. She is best known for her role as the heroine Lisa in the movie "Garfield". She began her career as a child actress and vocalist, appearing in national television commercials before joining the cast of the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated (1989-1991), for which she won a Young Artist Award in 1994. From 1995 to 1999, she played Sarah Reeves Merrin in the Fox teen drama "Party of Five," a role that became her breakthrough career; in 1997, she was recognized for her role as Julie James in the horror film "I Know What You Did Last Summer." James, rose to teen stardom and became a scream queen, and later reprized the role in the sequels I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025). Hewitt's other notable film appearances include the 1998 teen comedy Can't Wait, in which she played Amanda Beckett; The Lost Lady (2001), Tuxedo (2002), and two live-action Garfield films (2004-2006). In the field of TV series, her representative works include: playing Melinda Gordon in the CBS supernatural drama "Telepathy" from 2005 to 2010; playing Riley Parks in the Lifetime channel drama "The Client" from 2012 to 2013; and playing Special Agent Kate Callahan in the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds" from 2014 to 2015. Kate Callahan); since 2018, she has played Madd Buckley in the Fox/ABC emergency rescue drama "9-1-1"
Jennifer Jones
Film & TV · United States
Jennifer Jones (English: Jennifer Jones, March 2, 1919 - December 17, 2009), formerly known as Phylis Lee Isley, was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress/Supporting Actress five times in her acting career, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress/Supporting Actress in the 1943 film "The Song of Bernadette" (The Song of Bernadette). She was awarded the Best Actress Award after competing for an Oscar for the first time; her masterpieces include "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Love is a Many-Splendored Thing), co-starring with William Holden and shot at many famous attractions in Hong Kong.
Jennifer Arniston
Film & TV · United States
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (English: Jennifer Joanna Aniston, February 11, 1969 -), American actress, director, producer and philanthropist, has a name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her most well-known role is the role of Rachel Green in the classic American 10-year-old sitcom "The Sixers". She won the 2002 Emmy Award and the 2003 Golden Globe Award for this role. To this day, many people in Europe and the United States still affectionately call her "Rachel Green". In recent years, Aniston has starred in many Hollywood films that have also received critical acclaim, such as the independent films "Love Is the Only One" (1996), "A Worry at Work" (1999) and "Good Girls" (2002), as well as the commercial films "The Devil" (2003) and "Meeting Polly" (2004). , "Strange Bedfellows" (2006) and "Marley and Me" (2008), "Love Is Now" (2011), "Horrible Bosses" (2011), "My Family" (2013), "The Queen" (2018) and "Murder Mystery" (2019).
Jenna Jameson
Film & TV · United States
Jenna Jameson (English: Jenna Jameson, April 9, 1974 -), Italian-American entrepreneur, former porn actress, known as "the most famous porn star in the world" and "Porn Queen". She worked as a stripper and art model in her early years, and began to appear in pornographic films in 1993. By 1996, she had won "Top Newcomer" awards from three major American pornographic film industry organizations. Since then, he has won more than 20 adult film awards and entered the hall of fame of the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN). Jameson founded the erotic entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, who later married and divorced. Initially, Club Jenna was just a simple website. The business later expanded to manage other similar movie star websites, and in 2001, it began making porn movies. Her first porn film: Briana Loves Jenna (co-starring Brianna Banks), was named the best-selling and best rental porn film of 2002 at the 2003 AVN Awards. By 2005, Club Jenna's revenue was $30 million, an estimated half of which was profit. The website for her ads and films (often associated with her photos) features a 48-foot-tall billboard in New York's Times Square. She hosted the reality show "Jenna's American Sex Star" on Playboy TV, which inspired porn stars to compete for contracts with Club Jenna. Beginning with a small role in Howard Stern's 1997 film "Private Parts," Jameson also broke into mainstream pop culture. She has continued to gain exposure in mainstream media (such as guest hosting on the E! Her 2004 autobiography: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: Behind the Scenes
Richard Dawkins
Film & TV · U.K.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (English: Clinton Richard Dawkins; born March 26, 1941), is a British evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist, science communicator, and author. He was appointed full professor of zoology at the University of Oxford in 1990 and Simone Professor of Public Understanding of Science from 1995 to 2008. He is also a member of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins published his famous book "The Selfish Gene" in 1976, which attracted widespread attention. The book expounds the idea of evolution with genes as the core, compares all living things to genetic survival machines, and introduces the concept of "memes". Later, he published books such as "Extended Phenotype", "The Blind Watchmaker", and "The God Illusion", promoting the theory of evolution and opposing creationism. Among scientists, Dawkins is known for his outspoken tone and scientific attitude that challenges the religious concept of "God created the world." He is known as the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism" together with American philosopher Daniel Dennett, neuroscientist Sam Harris and British-American writer Christopher Hitchens.
Amber Goldberg
Film & TV · United States
Whoopi Goldberg (English: Whoopi Goldberg, November 13, 1955 -) is an American actor, writer, singer-songwriter, and talk show host. She is also one of the fifteen artists in the history of the American entertainment industry who has written the "Showbiz Grand Slam", namely the winner of the Academy Award (movie award), Emmy Award (television award), Tony Award (drama award), and Grammy Award (music award).
Joan Whitefield
Film & TV · U.K.
Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, DBE (English: Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, November 11, 1925 - December 28, 2018), or Joan Whitfield, a British radio, television and film actress. Her major breakthrough role in radio drama came in 1953 when she starred in the BBC Easy Show radio comedy Take It On, and offers for various television roles followed. Joan Whitfield's TV career began with her participation in Tony Hancock's TV series. In 1966, she starred in the TV sitcom "Beggar My Neighbor" and starred in it for three consecutive seasons. Jon Whitfield starred in four "Spring Series" movies, including: "Nurses Have Fun" (1959), "The Holidays Are Crazy" (1972), "Pretty Girls Have Fun" (1973) and "Columbus" (1992). In 1968, Jon Whitfield and Terry Scott began their long-term television partnership. They played husband and wife in the TV series "Happily Ever After" (1974-1978) and "Terry and Jon" (1979-1987) respectively. Beginning in 1992, Jon Whitfield played the mother of the protagonist Edina Monsoon in the TV series "Auntie" starring Jennifer Sanders. She is also a series regular on the TV series "Last Summer Wine" and a recurring character on "The Grass Is Green." From 1993 to 2001, Jon Whitfield played Miss Marple in 12 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels on BBC Radio 4.
Joan Simmons
Film & TV · U.K.
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE Simmons (January 31, 1929 - January 22, 2010), a senior British film actress, joined the film industry during World War II. In 1950, she moved to Hollywood in the United States. She has participated in and starred in many films. Her representative works include "The Beauty of Mountains and Rivers" "En" and "The Gathering of Heroes" and so on. In 1956, she won the Golden Globe Award for "Guys and Dolls". She was one of the most popular Hollywood actresses in the 1950s. She has worked with movie stars including Laurence Olivier, Spencer DeLisi, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Jane Simmons has focused on stage plays and TV series since the 1970s, and won an Emmy Award in 1983. In her later years, Jane Simmons performed in several films and participated in the dubbing work of the film "Howl's Moving Castle". In 2003, she was awarded the OBE by the British government in recognition of her contribution to the entertainment industry. Jane Simmons was married twice, to British actor Christopher Glengart (1950-1960) and director Richard Brooks (1960-1977).
Joan Rivers
Film & TV · United States
Joan Rivers (June 8, 1933 - September 4, 2014), whose real name is Joan Alexandra Molinsky. is an American comedian, writer, producer and television host.
Ryan Gosling
Film & TV · Canada
Ryan Gosling (English: Ryan Gosling, November 12, 1980 -) is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, producer, musician and businessman. He began as a child actor on the Disney Channel television series The Mickey Mouse Club (1993-1995) and continued to appear in family entertainment shows such as The Fainted (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). Starring in the movie "Blade Runner 2049" in 2017 and "Barbie" in 2023. Gosling starred in the 2004 romance film "The Notebook," which earned him high attention and four Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie Award. He played a drug-addicted teacher in the 2006 movie "My Leftist Teacher", which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor; and in 2007, "Blow Up Doll Love" saw him nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and won the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. In 2016, the musical romance film "La La Land" won the 74th Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film, and was nominated for the 89th Academy Award for Best Actor. This was his second Oscar nomination after ten years. In 2022, he will star in the Netflix movie "The Gray Shadow". In 2023, he starred as Ken in the movie "Barbie". Gosling is also a director. His first directorial work "Mysterious River" was released in 2014.
Joan Crawford (English: Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur, March 23, 190? - May 10, 1977), born in Texas, United States, is an American actress and one of the chairman of the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola Company. She is the 18th Oscar-winning actress. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected her as the 10th greatest actress of the century.
Joan Woodward
Film & TV · United States
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (English: Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward, February 27, 1930 -), born in Georgia, United States, is an American film actress and philanthropist who was a child star. She is one of the winners of the Academy Award for Best Actress and the winner of the Kennedy Center Honor Award. Joan Woodward and Paul Newman, Hollywood's silver couple, have both won Oscars as Best Actor and Best Actress. They are also the second Best Actor and Best Actress couple in the American film industry after Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In addition to being recognized by Oscars for their acting careers, Joan Woodward and Paul Newman, a deeply in love couple, stayed together from their marriage to the end of their lives, which has also become an enviable love story in Hollywood.
Qiongyao
Film & TV · Republic of China
Chen Zhe (April 20, 1938 - December 4, 2024), mostly known by the pen name Qiong Yao, was a Taiwanese romance novel writer, screenwriter, film and television producer, and Chinese pop song lyricist. Born in Hengyang, Hunan, in Chengdu, Sichuan, he came to Taiwan with his family in 1949. His pen name comes from the poem "The Book of Songs", "Give me peach, give me peach, give me Qiong Yao", which means the most delicate and pure jade. She is a representative figure of romance novels. She became famous in the literary world for her novel "Outside the Window", so she met and fell in love with Ping Xintao, the owner of "Crown" magazine. The two got married after divorcing their spouses, and together they established companies such as Firebird Film Company, Superstar Film Company, and Yiren Communication Company to adapt Qiong Yao's creations into movies and TV series. However, Qiong Yao also encountered controversy because of her emotional experience. Qiong Yao's film and television dramas are famous for their "Qiong Yao romance films". Qiong Yao's dramas made famous stars such as Qin Han, Qin Xianglin, Brigitte Lin, and Lin Fengjiao in "Two Qins and Two Forests". The actresses among them are often called "Qiong girls". His film works are often called "three-hall movies", with the living room, ballroom, and coffee shop as the core scenes. The TV series is called "Qiong Yao drama" and is characterized by rich emotions and beautiful lines. BBC News called her "the world's most popular Chinese romance novelist", and her production of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is also called one of the most popular Chinese dramas in history.
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Film & TV · Italy
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Italian: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, November 16, 1964 -), born in Turin, Italy, is an Italian actress and the half-sister of Carla Bruni, Mrs. Sarkozy.
Donnie Yen
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor, action director and martial arts instructor, member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.