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Ryan Dunn (June 11, 1977 - June 20, 2011) was an American reality television personality, actor and stunt man. He was a member of the Jackass and Viva La Bam crew.
Ryan Matthew Dunn was born in Medina, Ohio, to Linda Sue (Reese) and Ronald James Dunn. He came to prominence as a member of the CKY Crew along with long-time friend Bam Margera for their extreme stunts and pranks recorded on camera which led to the rise of MTV's Jackass and its three later feature films, which have all been commercial successes. Aside from Jackass, Dunn also hosted Homewrecker and Proving Ground and appeared in feature films such as Street Dreams and Blonde Ambition, as well as in Margera's films Haggard: The Movie and Minghags: The Movie.
Dunn died in an alcohol-related automobile accident in West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of June 20, 2011, alongside his friend Zachary Hartwell.- Writer
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Matthew Patrick was born on 15 November 1986 in Medina, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Game Theory (2011) and MatPat's Game Lab (2016). He has been married to Stephanie Cordato-Patrick since 19 May 2012.- Actor
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Grant James was born on 19 June 1935 in Medina, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for UHF (1989), Tombstone (1993) and Bernie (2011). He was married to Juli Erickson and Barbara Grant. He died on 23 November 2022 in Spokane, Washington, USA.- Jamal Khashoggi was born on 13 October 1958 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He was married to Rawia al-Tunisi. He died on 2 October 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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David Rocha was born on 16 April 1954 in Medina de las Torres, Badajoz, Spain. He is an actor, known for That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), The Killer of Dolls (1975) and Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana (1981).- Donna VanLiere is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She's an in-demand conference speaker and gifted teacher and has 14 published books including six that have been adapted into movies. Donna is the recipient of multiple industry awards including a Retailer's Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, two Audie Awards for best inspirational fiction, a nominee for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year and is an inductee in the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Hall of Excellence.
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Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning director, producer, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. His work ranges from documentaries aired on Netflix, The Discovery Channel, The National Geographic Channel, NBC, CNN, PBS, and Al Jazeera, to Sundance Film Festival premieres, to ethnographic films made for the China Exploration and Research Society.
He has also directed, produced, shot, and edited documentaries for online outlets like The New York Times, TIME, Salon, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, and PBS Arts.
Huffman has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for over two decades in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. These films have gone on to win numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy, Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival, IAFOR Documentary Award, MacArthur Foundation Grant, Best Film at CinemAmbiente International Environmental Film Festival, Grand Prize and Audience Award at Arkhaios Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Festival, Best Conservation Film-Jackson Hole, seven Cine Golden Eagle Awards, and a Grand Jury Award at the American Film Institute's SILVERDOCS.
Huffman was also an editor of Julia Reichert's and Steven Bognar's Primetime Emmy winning PBS documentary series "A Lion in the House". Huffman is also a writer whose work has been featured in CNN, The New York Times, Asia Society, Tricycle Magazine, The Wilson Quarterly, FRONTLINE and The China Digital Times.
Huffman's documentary "Saving Mes Aynak," about the fight to save a 5,000-year-old ancient city in Afghanistan threatened by a Chinese copper mine, has won over 30 major awards and has been broadcast on television in over seventy countries. It can currently be seen on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and on special edition DVD.
Huffman is currently directing "The Iron Friendship" about China's creation of a new Silk Road beginning in Pakistan. He is also producing "Finding Yingying", a Kartemquin film about a Chinese family searching for their missing daughter in the U.S.- Actress
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María Luisa Ponte was born on 21 June 1918 in Medina de Rioseco, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain. She was an actress, known for The Executioner (1963), La colmena (1982) and Ensayo general para la muerte (1963). She was married to Luis López Rueda. She died on 2 May 1996 in Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain.- Actor
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Mark Overholt is an award-winning actor and writer. His work as an actor includes television, film, commercials, and more. He is known for For The People, Snowfall, Grey's Anatomy, Days of Our Lives, and The Young and the Restless. His production experience began early in his career in the world of independent films where he learned about creating and selling content. Mark later became very involved with the various technical aspects of building a film, the importance of picture, sound, and editing as well as the economy of storytelling. Mark created Map on Fire Films at first to tell socially relevant short stories with a cinematic flair and collaborate with professional actors and filmmakers.- Actor
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Dan grew up in Frederick, Maryland.
He received his B.A. in Theatre Art & Communication from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in Westminster, MD.
Dan has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2003.
In addition to roles on HBO's "Veep" and "The Wire," he's appeared in regional theater (including Baltimore's Mechanic Theatre's production of "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding"), commercials, and several web series (including ParaAbnormal" from the creators of the "Blair Witch Project" and "Lovely Molly" and the MAC/PC parody series "Indie vs. Studio").
Dan's award-winning films, "The Night Watchmen" (a feature-length horror/comedy) and "The Recursion Theorem," (a Twilight Zone-inspired noir short) are available on Amazon Prime.
Dan is a co-founder of "Actor's Club," an ongoing acting workshop in the Baltimore area.- Ricardo Merino was born in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain as Ricardo Merino Castanedo. In the sixties he acted in theater when he decided to take the step to television and shortly afterwards to the cinema where he managed to establish himself in the new films called Destape (1975-1989) mainly by director Mariano Ozores. He was an actor, known for The Bachelor of Don Quixote Riding Again (1973), Unusual Women (1977) and The War of Children (1980). He died on September 12, 1994 due to a brain accident in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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Dorothy Andre was born on 7 December 1913 in Medina, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) and The Roy Rogers Show (1951). She was married to Leo Andre. She died on 30 July 2002 in Modesto, California, USA.- Animation Department
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A sculpture major from Ohio cons his way into the film industry and accidentally earns two Oscars, two Golden Globes, one Visual Effects society Award (that lights up) and three ZBrush Top Row Statues - all while lurking in the shadows of Disney Animation, siphoning their powers of masterful story development.
Zack has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a major in Sculpture and a dual minor in drawing and digital media. He studied anatomy at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and figure sculpture in Florence, Italy.- Stunts
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Paul Hawk, Stunt Performer and Actor. Experienced in several martial arts (bujinkan, taekwondo, kung fu, jiujitsu, MMA) and other disciplines like parkour, acrobatics, stunts, and in addition to the military service in the Spanish Parachute Brigade. Dramatic training with great film industry professionals and courses.
Worldwide professional, base in Spain and UK. Experienced as stunt performer with All4Action, Stunt Club, Action Crew and Stunt3G stunt teams in Spain, Powell team in UK, Wanted Stunt Squad and Scandinavian Stunt Group around Europe, and many others.
Commercials of Ubisoft (Watch Dogs Legion), Real Madrid-PlayStation, CocaCola, Surya ProMild (Indonesia), MAGGI and MC Donalds.
Creator and developer of "Pending Bussiness" & "One Minute" short films and "Skyland" series.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Jay Ellison was born on 8 April 1982 in Medina, Ohio, USA. Jay is a producer, known for Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Rush Hour 3 (2007) and The Eye (2008).- Sound Department
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Joshua Kobak was born in Medina, Ohio, USA. He is known for Live from Gramercy Park (2014), The Sonnet Project (2013) and I Am Not a Dummy (2008).- Bobby Rahal was born on 10 January 1953 in Medina, Ohio, USA. He is a producer, known for Stars of Tomorrow (2003), Formula 1 (1950) and ESPN Speedworld (1979). He has been married to Johanna Maher since 30 September 2006. He was previously married to Debi Rahal.
- Steven Andrews is an American-born, English-taught actor and classically trained tenor who has recently broken into the major motion picture and television market after formative years in independent film, opera, musical theatre, in jazz clubs and on the New York stage.
Performing since the young age of eight, Steve was born to a centuries' old family lineage in the rolling hills and pastoral farms of the Ohio Valley and quickly developed an interest in the arts. After focusing his grade school years on the development of his talents through varied experiences in musical theatre and upon the classical stage, as well as within the realms of visual art, voice-over, dance, screen writing, and instrumental music, he migrated north to attend an internationally renown conservatory of performing arts, The Cleveland Institute of Music, for a foundation year of training and then took to New York City to begin his career, where he worked under the sharp eye and tutelage of Ruth Kulerman, a Juilliard graduate, English-schooled actress and Princeton University professor of Literature running an incredibly selective private studio after her over 5 decades of work in Motion Picture and on the Broadway and West End stages. Steven is a specialist in historic and period performance and has a decade of stunt, historic and modern firearms handling, equestrian, and stage fight training to supplement his now nearly sixteen years of acting and classical & contemporary music study.
Mr. Andrews cut his teeth on an intensive 30-day shoot in West Virginia as one of twelve principal background performers forming a trusted unit of reusable near-camera military personnel to fill scenes in J.J. Abrams' throwback thriller 'Super 8', during which he had hours of immersion training and the opportunity to form lasting friendships with members of the cast and crew, a number of whom affectionately referred to him as "Doc Hollywood" after the lesser known 1991 Micheal J. Fox picture. And now in 2015 he makes his Major Motion Picture Principal debut opposite Rooney Mara in 'Carol', acclaimed director Todd Haynes' forthcoming adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel "The Price of Salt" also starring Cate Blanchette, Kyle Chandler and Sarah Paulson. - Director
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As the creator of the book/film series Junga the Dancing Yeti®, Stephen is known for his extensive work as an anti-bullying advocate while presenting "Meet the Author" to primary school children. This Ohio native is also the author of 'Motivated to Act' (2012), 'Junga the Dancing Yeti' (2018) and 'Junga the Dancing Yeti Meets Heidi' (2020).
(May 2022) Promoting anti-discrimination and anti-bullying with winning 7 International Awards for his two books & films based on Junga the Dancing Yeti®. The third book and film are expected to be released in 2022. He also is an international motivational speaker sharing with Irish, Polish, Ukrainian, Scottish and American children how he was bullied as a child and uses those experiences to fuel his writing work and his passion to inspire leadership skills for children.
Creator of Motivated to Act, anti-bullying non-profit organization providing unique lesson plans and products based on the Junga the Dancing Yeti® books, films and characters. This organization is dedicated to helping children in the United States with leadership skills as well as anti-discrimination and anti-bullying lessons.
Has been hosting the Los Angeles Movie Awards, NYLA International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood since 2010.
Member of SAG/AFTRA since 2011. As of 2022, lives with his fiancé in San Diego and has one son living in Santa Clarita, California.- Actor
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José Pedro Carrión was born in 1951 in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain. He is an actor, known for Medea 2 (2006), Estudio 1 (1965) and Isabel (2011).- Actress
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Jennifer is an American actress and was born in Medina, Ohio on May 3, 1973.
Following an avid interest in Theatre in high school and her induction into the International Thespian Society, she initially pursued a Theatre Arts major at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. Her goal was to be the "Dead Poets Society" teacher and to teach Theatre Arts and English Literature. Following some family turmoil, she was spurred to change majors and pursued a degree in Social Work. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Work in 1996 and began working in the medical field. Despite changes in her career, she always kept a foot in Theatre. She has appeared in community theatre productions such as "Catherine" in Larry Shue's "The Foreigner". She later went on to work in local commercials and in the film "Underdogs". She has recently appeared in several independent films as well as more mainstream media.
She now primarily pursues acting and enjoys participating in productions filmed in her native Ohio.- Matt Amodio was born on 4 December 1990 in Medina, Ohio, USA.
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Dr. Awkward is a wildly innovative gentleman - visualization - meister. His first professional effort "He Did It" was shot in cinema verite to the rather obtuse soundtrack of "Adventures in the Pit of Lost Souls", a previously unavailable tape-loop experiment in conjunction with the Hutchinson Brothers. His other, now out-of-print, productions include "Neumenon's Breakfast", "Anathema of the Apocrypha", and the rare "He Did It Again" of which only one copy exists. Nowadays, he is working on a mammoth tribute to the early Ska era.- Editor
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James Gibbon was born on 21 June 1900 in Medina, Illinois, USA. He was an editor, known for Sergeant Murphy (1938), The Gorilla Man (1943) and The Mind Reader (1933). He died on 19 November 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- María Jesús San Segundo was born on 25 March 1958 in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain. She died on 17 December 2010 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.