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Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy
2-Time Primetime Emmy Award Winner and 2-Time Academy Award Nominee

Film

Melissa McCarthy is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and fashion designer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman
Actor

Film

Hugh Jackman is an actor, singer, and producer. He is best known for playing Wolverine in the "X-Men" film series from 2000 to 2018, a role for which he holds the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero".

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Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn
3-Time Emmy Award Winner

Film

Hume Cronyn was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife of over fifty years.

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Lana Turner
Lana Turner
Actress

Film

Lana Turner worked in film, television, theater and radio. Over the course of her nearly 50-year career, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a dramatic actress. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid women in the United States.

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Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy
Academy Award Winner and 4-Time Tony Award Winner

Film

Jessie Tandy was an English-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving such accolades as an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Jamie Kennedy
Jamie Kennedy
Actor and Comedian

Film

Jamie Kennedy is an American stand-up comedian, television producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for playing Randy Meeks in the "Scream" franchise and playing various characters in "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment" on The WB.

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Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn
Academy Award Winner and Golden Globe Award Winner

Film

Goldie Hawn rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Cactus Flower" (1969).

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Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
Academy Award Winner

Film

Matthew McConaughey is an American actor and producer. His portrayal of Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS, in the biopic "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013) earned him widespread praise and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Emmy Award Winner and Golden Globe Award Winner

Film

Kiefer Sutherland is an actor and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his starring role as Jack Bauer in the Fox drama series "24", for which he won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards.

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor

Film

Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor and film producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in "City Slickers" (1991).

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Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson
Satellite Award Winner

Film

Rosario Dawson is an American actress and singer. She made her feature film debut in the 1995 independent drama "Kids". For her role in "Rent", she won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

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Gal Gadot
Gal Gadot
Actress

Film

Gal Gadot is an actress. She went on to earn worldwide fame for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", followed by the solo film "Wonder Woman" and the ensemble "Justice League".

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Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Film Director

Film

Mel Brooks is a director known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. In 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar, he joined a small list of EGOT winners with his Tony Award for "The Producers".

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Jared Leto
Jared Leto
Academy Award Winner and Golden Globe Award Winner

Film

Jared Leto is an actor. He achieved recognition for his role on the television series "My So-Called Life" (1994). His performance as a transgender woman in "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013) earned him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Academy Award Winner

Film

Dame Judi Dench is an English actress, artist, and author. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998).

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Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson
Actress and Recording Artist

Film

Rita Wilson is an actress and singer. Her film appearances include "Volunteers" (1985), "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), "Now and Then" (1995), "Jingle All the Way" (1996), "The Story of Us" (1999), "Runaway Bride" (1999), and "It's Complicated" (2009).

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Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Golden Globe Award Winner and Primetime Emmy Award Nominee

Film

Uma Thurman is an actress. For her performance in the made for HBO film "Hysterical Blindness" (2002), she won the Golden Globe Award, and for her five-episode role in the NBC series "Smash" (2012), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Golden Globe Award Winner and 2-Time British Academy Film Award Nominee

Film

Emily Blunt is a British-American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards.

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Riz Ahmed
Riz Ahmed
Emmy Award Winner and Golden Globe Nominee

Film

Rizwan Ahmed, also known as Riz MC, is a British actor, rapper, and activist. As an actor, he has won an Emmy Award and has received nominations for a Golden Globe and three British Independent Film Awards.

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Nicholas Tucci
Nicholas Tucci
Actor

Film

Nicholas Tucci, the actor known for his roles in "You're Next" and "Long Lost," has died at age 38. He attended Yale University, where he was a member of the sketch comedy group Suite 13. He has acted in numerous theatrical productions across the country.

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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
4-Time Academy Award Winner

Film

Woody Allen is an American director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. He has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director. He also garnered nine British Academy Film Awards.

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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
2-Time Academy Award Winner and 5-Time Grammy Award Nominee

Film

Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker. His films have garnered both critical and commercial success. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and has been nominated for five Grammys.

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Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer
Co-Founder, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Co-Founder, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Film

Louis B. Mayer was a film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924. Under his management, MGM became the industry's most prestigious studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.

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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
Juvenile Academy Award Winner

Film

Mickey Rooney was an actor, vaudevillian, comedian, and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent film era.

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Roman Polański
Roman Polański
Film Director

Film

Roman Polański is a French-Polish film director and producer. Since 1978, he has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system. He fled the country while awaiting sentencing in his sexual abuse case, in which he pleaded guilty to statutory rape.

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