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Hoji is a US and EU based, Africa Movie Academy Award winning actor performing internationally in film, TV and theatre.
His performance as the menacing crime lord César in internationally acclaimed drama 'Viva Riva' is lauded as one of the best performances of all times in African cinema.
His first directing project, the short film A Lisbon Affair, was nominated for the Africa Movie Academy Awards and the Portuguese Film Academy Awards.
Hoji also lends his voice to animated films having performed in at least two award-winning films.- Director
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Carlos Conceição is a Portuguese-Angolan filmmaker. He specialized in English Literature of the Romanticism and authored monographs about Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe, J. G. Ballard and J. M. Coetzee. He then enrolled at the Lisbon Film School, where he graduated in filmmaking in 2006. In the early years of his career, Carlos created video art, installations and music videos for bands such as Pop Dell'Arte. His first short fiction film "The Flesh" (2010) put him on the map as a talent to watch out for, but it was the short films "Goodnight Cinderella" (2014) and "Bad Bunny" (2017) that established his name as an important new voice in European cinema. After his run at the Cannes Film Festival, his short films have been shown in retrospectives at various venues, including the Cinémathèque Française, the Amiens Film Festival, the Vila do Conde Short Film Festival or SiciliaQueer in Palermo. A compilation of his short fiction was released on DVD in France in 2014 and another in the US in 2023. Carlos Conceição's first feature film, "Serpentarius", premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, presenting a more experimental and hybrid style than the short films had anticipated. The sci-fi film was widely praised and circulated around film festivals for several months, receiving numerous awards. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Carlos premiered a medium-length horror film, "Name Above Title" (2020), which became a surprise hit at genre festivals and a favorite among horror fans, winning the prestigious silver Méliès in Strasbourg, competing in Sitges for the gold Méliès and taking the award for best film at the Seville Film Festival. 2022 saw the release of Carlos Conceição's second feature film, "Tommy Guns", at the Locarno Film Festival, where it was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film. It is distributed in the US by Kino Lorber.- Sofia Alves was born on 25 September 1973 in Luanda, Angola. She is an actress, known for Remédio Santo (2011), Flor do Mar (2008) and Mulheres (2014). She has been married to Celso Cleto since 2 January 2007.
- Maria Borges is an Angolan model. She was born in Luanda, Angola and raised by her siblings during the Angolan Civil War. She was discovered in 2010 when she placed second at the Angolan edition of the contest Elite Model Look. In 2012, she signed with Supreme Agency. One month later, she debuted her first fashion week where she walked 17 runways. For her second season, she was a Givenchy exclusive. In 2017, Maria Borges was the first African woman to feature on the cover of the American version of ELLE, 20 years after Sudanese model Alek Wek in 1997. Borges has appeared in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show from 2013-2017.
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Cláudio da Silva was born on 8 August 1974 in Nova Lisboa, Huambo, Angola, Portugal [now Angola]. He is an actor and director, known for Disquiet (2010), Pilgrimage (2017) and Ferro Sangue (2017).- Stunts
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From when I was 9 years old, I sought to better understand the people around me, and learn what is necessary to both find peace amidst the psychoemotional chaos I felt inside, and to figure out how to be less socially awkward.
As time went by, I ended up investing much of my free time on deepening my knowledge related to Biology, Sociology, History, Emotional Intelligence, Human Psychology, Body Language and Spirituality.
However, it wasn't until I was 21yo that I began to realize that this was something I'd likely continue to do for the rest of my life, regardless of how much better at it I had gotten.
After graduating from medical school, I worked as an English teacher at the Wall Street English School (Luanda, Angola) to help with paying household expenses, and to improve the public speaking skills I had managed to develop during my 7 years of college.
Having stood out as one of the best English teachers for my speaking and interpersonal skills (after an initial period of difficult adjustment), I had the opportunity to become the Head Teacher and improve my teamwork and leadership skills.
Eventually, having felt I had learned what was necessary, I organized myself to leave my job as an english teacher, and invest my time and efforts in to helping other people as a psychoemotional therapist. But things didn't go as planned.
After a year of attempting to make a living from this, I was forced to accept I'd likely have to go back to a regular job, and that's when my cousin suggested I apply to work as a Cabin Crew for Ryanair, in Europe.
I took the Leap of Faith, despite all my fears and insecurities, moved to Malta for the job, and had both a fun and a succesful short 2 year run working in aviation.
It was during these 2 years that I began giving Acting, Modeling and Stand-up comedy a proper chance, after it being pointed out to me several times by passengers that I should do it.
Choosing not be stubborn without at least giving it a try, I found myself thankful for these passengers, as it is thanks to them that I rediscovered myself as an artist.
Since that discovery, every one of my life choices has been geared towards living a life dedicated to these art forms that I love. I took the time to build my portfolio in Malta as much as possible. And now I'm set to move to LA.- Actress
Leila Lopes was born on 26 February 1986 in Benguela, Angola. She is an actress, known for HeartBeat, Criança Esperança (1985) and Elite Model Look South Africa (2013). She has been married to Osi Umenyiora since 30 May 2015.- Actor
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Eric Hoffman (aka Eric Von Hoffman) was born in Angola, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, writer and producer, known for Mr. Show with Bob and David (1998), W/ Bob and David (2015) and Girlfriend's Day (2017). He is a frequent collaborator with Bob Odenkirk and the Upright Citizens Brigade.- Actor
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Eurico Lopes was born on 2 October 1968 in Angola. He is an actor, known for Maré Alta (2004), Addictions for a Happy Family (2016) and Tudo Por Amor (2002).- Actress
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Ciomara Morais was born on 14 March 1984 in Angola. She is an actress and writer, known for Querida Preciosa (2018), All Is Well (2011) and A Ilha dos Cães (2017).- Actor
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Monroe Salisbury was born Orange Salisbury Cash, the son of David Cash and Ellen Louise Salisbury Cash, and grandson of Aaron Cash and Ann Roat Cash of Evans, Erie County, New York. He grew up with two sisters, Adelaide Mary Cash and Anna Louise Cash. By 1900, he was a working actor supporting his widowed mother and living in Providence, Rhode Island. He performed on Broadway between 1903 and 1906. By 1914, he left New York for Hollywood to work in films and became well-known, playing opposite such actors as Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Lon Chaney, and Ruth Clifford eventually becoming a movie idol. He was six feet tall and ruggedly handsome, making him a great choice for western films. His most famous part was that of Allesandro in the film "Ramona" (1916). By the late 1920s, the aging actor was less in demand and he struggled to find parts. His last movie was in 1930 after which he disappeared from the Hollywood scene. On July 2, 1935, Salisbury was admitted to Patton State Hospital for the Insane in San Bernardino, California, his name unknown, his occupation a hotel clerk. A month later, on August 6th he fell, hitting his head and fracturing his skull. He lay in the morgue for two days before his sister, Adelaide Cash Bosche, identified him giving his real name as Orr S. Cash. His cremated remains were buried in the same grave with his mother, Ellen, who died in 1929, in the Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.- Actor
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Eric Santos was born on 31 January 1972 in Luanda, Angola, Portugal [now Angola]. He is an actor and talent agent, known for Kaminey (2009), The Compass (2008) and Jikulumessu (2014).- Pedro Lima was born on 20 April 1971 in Luanda, Portuguese Angola (present-day Luanda, Angola). He was an actor, known for At an Uncertain Time (2015), Anjo Selvagem (2001) and El Contrato (2009). He died on 20 June 2020 in Cascais, Portugal.
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Rui Goulart was born on 16 May 1962 in Luanda, Angola. He is a director and writer, known for Fábula em Veneza (1991), Nascido em Angola (2017) and Mix pensão internacional (2012).- Filipe Duarte was born on 5 June 1973 in Nova Lisbon, Angola, Portugal [now Angola]. He was an actor, known for Variações: Guardian Angel (2019), Cinzento e Negro (2015) and Nothing Ever Happened (2022). He died on 17 April 2020 in Lisboa, Portugal.
- Manly Wade Wellman was born on May 21, 1903, in Kamundongo, Portuguese West Africa (now Angola), where his father, Dr. Frederick Creighton Wellman, was a physician at a British medical outpost. It was there that he first encountered African tales of magic and the spirit world, a fascination that would stay with him for life. His first story published, "The Lion Roared" (Thrilling Tales, 1927), was based on the stories told to him in his African childhood upbringing.
He later moved to the US, going to grade school in Washington, DC, prep school in Salt Lake City and college at Wichita, Kansas, where he received a BA in English in 1926. Around that time he started a friendship with Vance Randolf, an acclaimed folklorist and expert on Ozark mountain magic and traditions. Randolf took Wellman on trips through the Arkansas Ozarks, where Wellman absorbed folk traditions and met the isolated people of the American back country. It was through Randolf that Wellman met folk music legend Obray Ramsey, whose music would have a profound affect on Wellman and his writing.
Also in this period he worked in Wichita on The Beacon and The Wichita Eagle newspapers, and married Frances Obrist "Garfield" (her pen name), who is a horror writer in her own right; she sold her first yarn to Weird Tales magazine in 1939. During the Great Depression Wellman's newspaper work started to dwindle, so he moved to New York where he became Assistant Director of the WPA's New York Folklore Project.
In the late 1920s Wellman was writing for "Ozark Stories" and "Thrilling Tales" magazines, and then in the 1930s and 1940s the bigger publications "Weird Tales", "Wonder Stories" and "Astounding Stories". At this time "Weird Tales" published stories based on three of Wellman's most famous characters: Judge Keith Hilary Persuivant (which he wrote under the pen name Gans T. Fields), psychic detective and New York playboy John Thunstone and possibly his most famous and enduring character, John the Balladeer. He also wrote for comic books (what he called "squinkies") and wrote the first issue of "Captain Marvel Adventures" for Fawcett Publishers. Later he would be called into court to testify against Fawcett in a lawsuit by National (D.C. Comics) about plagiarism of its "Superman" character by the creators of Captain Marvel. Wellman testified that his editors had encouraged their writers to use Superman as the model for Captain Marvel. Though it took three years, National won its case.
In 1946 Wellman won the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award over William Faulkner for his Native American detective tale "A Star For A Warrior". Apparently Faulkner was quite upset playing second fiddle to a sci-fi and horror writer. He indignantly wrote to the editors of the magazine, proclaiming that he was the father of the French literary movement and the most important American writer in Europe.
After serving as a lieutenant in WW II, Wellman moved his family to Pine Bluff, North Carolina (population 300), to be closer to the folksy backwoods people he was starting to write about. There he immersed himself in American southern mountain folklore and history, becoming an expert on the Civil War and the historic regions and peoples of the Old South. Then in 1951 he made his final move to the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he lived out his days writing and teaching fiction.
Wellman built a vacation cabin on what he called Yandro Mountain in the Smokies, next to his friend Obray Ramsey's place, where they would invite friends for a taste of mountain music, food, fun and a good lick of blockade whiskey.
In 1986 Wellman took a fall from which he never recovered and he died on April 5 that year. Before passing on he finished his novel "Cahena", about an African warrior princess (possibly the inspiration for Xena?), and the John the Balladeer short story "Where Did She Wander?". - Marisa Cruz was born on 27 June 1974 in Angola. She is an actress, known for Kiss Me (2004), Olhos nos Olhos (2008) and Casos da Vida (2008). She has been married to João Pinto since 2 May 2009. They have two children.
- Valdemar Santos was born on 6 August 1963 in Benguela, Angola, Portugal [now Angola]. He is an actor, known for A Ceia (2013), Surdina (2019) and Ministério do Tempo (2017).
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José Fonseca e Costa was born on 27 June 1933 in Caala, Angola. He was an actor and director, known for A Mulher do Próximo (1988), Sem Sombra de Pecado (1983) and Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1996). He died on 1 November 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actress
Laura Soveral was born on 23 March 1933 in Benguela, Angola, Portugal [now Angola]. She was an actress, known for Tabu (2012), Angústia para o Jantar (1975) and Portugal S.A. (2004). She was married to Edmundo Gastão da Costa Ribeiro da Silva and José Maria de Barros Alves Caetano. She died on 12 July 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Petrina Solange was born on 21 August 1990 in Angola. She is an actress, known for Bonusfamiljen (2017), Mina problem (2018) and Bert's Diary (2020).
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Graça Castanheira was born on 10 September 1962 in Angola. She is a director and writer, known for Logo existo (2006), Angst (2011) and Laura, a Inquietação de Estar Viva (2006).- Actor
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Grandson of the actor José Soveral. Studied architecture in the university of Lisboa, Portugal, and started working as an architect on 1985. His acting career began in the film A Clean, Well-Lighted Place directed by William Alspaugh, as the main actor.- Christian Laettner is a retired American basketball player whose Hall of Fame career for the Duke Blue Devils is widely regarded as one of the best in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history. He was the star player on the back-to-back National Championship teams of 1991 and 1992, and the NCAA player of the year in his senior year. He is particularly famous for his game-winning shot against Kentucky in the 1992 tournament and for the hatred he received from opposing fans.
Laettner was the only collegian selected for the elite "Dream Team" that dominated the 1992 Olympics; the team is enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was drafted third overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves, then played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for six teams. The highlight was being selected for the 1997 All-Star Game while with the Atlanta Hawks. - Actor
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Carlos Paulo was born on 11 June 1951 in Angola. He is an actor and writer, known for The Consul of Bordeaux (2011), Operation Autumn (2012) and Cacau da Ribeira (1988).