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Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the Field. Other accolades include two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a competitive British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Major films featuring Poitier in a starring role include Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), To Sir, with Love (1967), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sneakers (1992), and The Jackal (1997). Later in his career, he turned to directing with features such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Stir Crazy (1980), and Ghost Dad (1990). At the time of his death, Poitier was one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

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Judith Amanda “Judy” Geeson (born 10 September 1948) is an English film, stage, and television actress. Her first major film appearance was as wayward teenager Pamela Dare in To Sir, with Love in 1967 alongside Sidney Poitier and popular singer Lulu. In the same year, she appeared in Berserk!. She became well-known as a result of a regular role in the BBC early-evening soap opera, The Newcomers. She also had a major role in the popular 1970s costume drama Poldark as Caroline Penvenen Enys.

Her other notable films include Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), Prudence and the Pill, 10 Rillington Place, Doomwatch and Brannigan. In the TV series Danger UXB, she played the female lead, Susan Mount, opposite Anthony Andrews and had the lead role of Fulvia in Sci-Fi series Star Maidens.

In 1984, Geeson left London for Los Angeles where she decided to stay. Among other roles she appeared regularly on hit US sitcom Mad About You as the neighbour from Hell, Maggie Conway. She also had a recurring role as Sandrine on Star Trek Voyager episodes “Twisted” and “The Cloud”.

Having always had an interest in antiques, for ten years she ran her own antique store, Blanche & Co, on West 3rd Street in Beverly Hills, in addition accepting occasional acting roles. The store closed in December, 2009.

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Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1937) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her blonde attractive looks got her leading roles in some fairly prestigious productions. She later appeared in increasingly lower-profile films, including several giallo thrillers made in Italy and several TV series in the 1970s before retiring to spend more time with her family.

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Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s. She is internationally identified, especially by North American audiences, with the song “To Sir with Love” from the film of the same name and with the title song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. In European countries, she is also widely known for her Eurovision Song Contest winning entry “Boom Bang-a-Bang” and in the UK for her first hit “Shout”, which was performed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

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Thomas “Tom” Joseph Welling is an American actor, director, producer, podcaster, and model. He is best known for his role as Clark Kent in The WB/The CW superhero drama Smallville (2001–2011). He also co-starred in the third season of Fox fantasy comedy-drama Lucifer as Lt. Marcus Pierce/Cain (2017–2018)

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Kristin Kreuk (born 30 December 1982) is a Canadian actress known for role on Smallville. She was also a regular cast member of Edgemont, and has starred in movies such as Eurotrip and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

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Michael Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Lex Luthor on Smallville and Flash in the DC animated universe.

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Allison Mack (born July 29, 1982) is an American actress. She is best known for her role of Chloe Sullivan on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.

In 2018, federal authorities arrested Mack on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy related to her involvement in NXIVM and its subgroup, DOS. She pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges and in 2021 was sentenced to three years in prison. Mack served 21 months in Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, in California and was released in July 2023.

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Annette O’Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Lisa Bridges in the television series Nash Bridges, adult Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s epic horror novel It, Lana Lang in Superman III, Kathy in the romantic-comedy film Cross My Heart and Martha Kent (the adoptive mother of Clark Kent) on the television series Smallville.

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Mark Alexandrovich Eydelshteyn (born February 18, 2002) is a Russian actor. He gained fame after playing the leading role in the drama The Land of Sasha (2022). He is most prominently recognized for his role as Ivan “Vanya” Zakharov in Anora (2024), directed by Sean Baker.

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Yuri Alexandrovich “Yura” Borisov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов, romanized: Yuriy Aleksandrovich Borisov; born 8 December 1992) is a Russian actor. He made his acting debut in the crime drama Elena (2011). Then, he won a Golden Eagle Award for his portrayal of Mikhail Kalashnikov in the Russian propaganda biopic AK-47 (2020). He also starred in the films The Bull (2019), The Silver Skates (2020), Compartment No. 6 (2021), and Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021).