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Generates a list of actors with their data for Android Academy Minsk homework (Lecture 3: lists and adapters)
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DataUtil.java
import android.net.Uri;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class DataUtil {
public static List<Actor> generateActors() {
List<Actor> actors = new ArrayList<>();
actors.add(new Actor(
"Alicia Vikander",
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/hFZZPT/alicia_vikander_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/jmHhB8/alicia_vikander_large.jpg"),
"Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. Born and raised in " +
"Gothenburg, Vikander began acting as a child in minor stage productions at the Gothenburg " +
"opera house and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm " +
"and the School of American Ballet in New York. She began her professional acting career by " +
"appearing in Swedish short films and television series and first gained recognition for her " +
"role as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt in the drama series Andra Avenyn (2008–2010). Vikander made " +
"her feature film debut in Pure (2010), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. " +
"She gained wider recognition in 2012 for playing Kitty in Joe Wright's adaptation of " +
"Anna Karenina and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the Danish film A Royal Affair. In 2014 " +
"and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition for her roles as activist Vera Brittain in " +
"Testament of Youth, a humanoid robot in Ex Machina, for which she was nominated for " +
"the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and painter Gerda Wegener " +
"in The Danish Girl, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, " +
"Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award. In 2016, Vikander was listed " +
"by Forbes in its 30 Under 30 list. In 2018, she starred as Lara Croft in the adventure " +
"film Tomb Raider."));
actors.add(new Actor("Amanda Seyfried",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/cfpnB8/amanda_seyfried_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/nkHSdo/amanda_seyfried_large.jpg"),
"Amanda Michelle Seyfried (born December 3, 1985) is an American actress, model, and " +
"singer-songwriter. She began her career as a model when she was 11, then her acting " +
"career at 15 with recurring parts on the soap operas As the World Turns and All My Children. " +
"In 2004, Seyfried made her film debut in the teen comedy Mean Girls. Her subsequent " +
"supporting roles were in independent films, such as the drama Nine Lives (2005) and the crime " +
"drama Alpha Dog (2006). She also had a recurring role on the UPN television series " +
"Veronica Mars (2004–06). Between 2006 and 2011, Seyfried starred on the HBO drama series " +
"Big Love. She also starred in the musical feature film Mamma Mia! (2008). Seyfried had lead " +
"roles in the black comedy horror Jennifer's Body (2009), the erotic thriller Chloe (2009), " +
"the romantic war drama Dear John (2010), and the romantic drama Letters to Juliet (2010). " +
"She then starred in the dark fantasy historical romance Red Riding Hood (2011), the dystopian " +
"science fiction thriller In Time (2011), the thriller Gone (2012), the musical drama " +
"Les Misérables (2012), the biographical drama Lovelace (2013), and in the Seth MacFarlane " +
"comedies A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) and Ted 2 (2015). She starred in the drama " +
"Fathers and Daughters (2016), the drama First Reformed (2017), the crime comedy " +
"Gringo (2018), and the musical romance Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)."));
actors.add(new Actor("Anne Hathaway",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/ec6pPT/anne_hathaway_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/jywndo/anne_hathaway_large.jpgg"),
"Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress and singer. " +
"One of the world's highest-paid actresses in 2015, she has received multiple awards, " +
"including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a British Academy Film Award, and an Emmy. " +
"Her films have earned $6.4 billion worldwide, and she appeared in the Forbes Celebrity 100 " +
"in 2009. Hathaway graduated from Millburn High School in New Jersey, where she acted " +
"in several plays. As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999–2000) " +
"and made her breakthrough as the protagonist in her debut film, the Disney comedy " +
"The Princess Diaries (2001). Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 " +
"dramas Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. The comedy film The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which " +
"she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success " +
"to that point. She played a recovering alcoholic in the drama Rachel Getting Married (2008), " +
"which garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed this " +
"with roles in the commercially successful romantic films Bride Wars (2009), " +
"Valentine's Day (2010) and Love & Other Drugs (2010). In 2012, Hathaway starred as " +
"Selina Kyle in her highest-grossing film The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in " +
"The Dark Knight trilogy. That year, she also played Fantine, a prostitute dying of " +
"tuberculosis, in the musical romantic drama Les Misérables, for which she earned multiple " +
"accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to play " +
"a scientist in the science fiction film Interstellar (2014), the owner of an online fashion " +
"site in the comedy film The Intern (2015), the White Queen—a role she first played in Alice " +
"in Wonderland (2010)—in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), and a haughty actress in " +
"the heist film Ocean's 8 (2018). Hathaway has also sung for soundtracks, won an Emmy for " +
"providing her voice in The Simpsons, appeared on stage, and hosted events."));
actors.add(new Actor("Emma Stone",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/msHw4T/emma_stone_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/b2ryjT/emma_stone_large.jpg"),
"Emily Jean Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. The recipient of such " +
"accolades as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe, she is the highest-paid " +
"actress in the world. She appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013 and the Time 100 in 2017, " +
"and has been cited in the media as one of the most talented actresses of her generation. " +
"Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone began acting as a child, in a theater " +
"production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles " +
"with her mother, and made her television debut in In Search of the " +
"New Partridge Family (2004), a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After small " +
"television roles, she made her film debut in Superbad (2007), and received positive media " +
"attention for her role in Zombieland (2009). The 2010 teen comedy Easy A was Stone's first " +
"starring role, earning her nominations for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and " +
"a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. This breakthrough was followed with further success " +
"in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and the drama The Help (2011). " +
"Stone gained wider recognition for playing Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film " +
"The Amazing Spider-Man, and its sequel in 2014. She was nominated for an Academy Award for " +
"Best Supporting Actress for the role of a recovering drug addict in the black comedy-drama " +
"Birdman (2014). Her Broadway debut came in a revival of the musical Cabaret (2014–2015). " +
"Stone won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the highly " +
"successful musical film La La Land (2016), following which she portrayed Billie Jean King " +
"in the biographical sports film Battle of the Sexes (2017)."));
actors.add(new Actor("Keira Knightley",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/f1a5yo/keira_knightley_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/f5uJjT/keira_knightley_large.jpg"),
"Keira Christina Knightley, OBE (born 26 March 1985) is a British actress. Having worked " +
"extensively in both the British and the American film Industries, she has won an Empire Award " +
"and multiple nominations for the British Academy, the Golden Globe, and the Academy Awards. " +
"Apart from acting in films, Knightley has also starred in Broadway and West End Theatre " +
"productions. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 " +
"Birthday Honours for her services to drama and charity.\nKnightley began acting as a child " +
"on television and made her feature film debut in 1995; she ventured into such supporting " +
"roles as Sabé in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Frankie Smith in " +
"the psychological horror film The Hole (2001). She made her breakthrough with the 2002 " +
"film Bend It Like Beckham, and achieved international fame in 2003 after playing " +
"Elizabeth Swann in the $4.5 billion grossing Pirates of the Caribbean film series. " +
"The 2005 romance film Pride & Prejudice marked a significant turning point in Knightley's " +
"career; her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet earned her critical acclaim and a Best Actress " +
"nomination at the Academy Awards. She later became known for her roles as the heroines " +
"of other such period dramas as the 2007 productions Atonement and Silk and the 2012 " +
"release Anna Karenina.\nKnightley's transition to roles in independent films including " +
"the dramas The Duchess (2009) and Never Let Me Go (2010) was well received; both " +
"the productions earned her nominations at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2014, she " +
"was nominated for the London Film Critics' Circle's British Actress of the Year Award for " +
"her performances as an aspiring singer-songwriter in the musical romantic comedy Begin Again, " +
"a young underachiever in the comedy drama Laggies, and Joan Clarke in the historical drama " +
"The Imitation Game. For the last of the aforementioned, she also garnered nominations for " +
"a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress."));
actors.add(new Actor("George Clooney",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/gnZXdo/george_clooney_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/kBEvW8/george_clooney_large.jpg"),
"George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, " +
"screenwriter, and businessman. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work " +
"as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana (2006) and the other for " +
"co-producing Argo (2012).\nClooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later " +
"gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ER " +
"from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. While " +
"working on ER, he began attracting a variety of leading roles in films, including " +
"the superhero film Batman & Robin (1997) and the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), " +
"in which he first worked with director Steven Soderbergh, who would become a long-time " +
"collaborator. In 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire " +
"set during the Gulf War.\nIn 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest " +
"commercial success, the heist comedy remake Ocean's Eleven, the first of what became " +
"a trilogy starring Clooney. He made his directorial debut a year later with the biographical " +
"spy comedy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed the historical drama " +
"Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the sports comedy Leatherheads (2008), the political drama " +
"The Ides of March (2011), and the war film The Monuments Men (2014). Clooney won an " +
"Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005), " +
"and subsequently earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) " +
"and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). In 2013, he " +
"received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. " +
"He is the only person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories."));
actors.add(new Actor("Lucy Liu",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/m41dJo/lucy_liu_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/c93NB8/lucy_liu_large.jpg"),
"Lucy Alexis Liu (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, director, film producer, " +
"singer and artist. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered " +
"Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she was nominated for " +
"a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and " +
"a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. " +
"Liu's film work includes starring as one of the heroines (Alex Munday) in " +
"Charlie's Angels (2000), portraying O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill (2003) and starring roles in " +
"the main casts of Payback (as Pearl; 1999) and Chicago (as Kitty Baxter; 2002), and " +
"the animated film series Kung Fu Panda (2008–present) portraying the character " +
"Master Viper.\nIn 2008, she starred in an ABC comedy-drama, Cashmere Mafia, as Mia Mason, " +
"which ended after one abbreviated season. The show was one of only a few American television " +
"shows to have an Asian American series lead. In 2012, Liu joined the cast of the TNT series " +
"Southland in the recurring role of Jessica Tang, for which she won the Critics' " +
"Choice Television Award for Best Drama Guest Actress. She is currently co-starring in " +
"the Sherlock Holmes–inspired crime drama series Elementary as Joan Watson for which she won " +
"the Seoul International Drama Award for Best Actress and voicing Silvermist in " +
"Disney's Tinker Bell film series."));
actors.add(new Actor("Matthew McConaughey",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/niNkyo/matthew_mc_conaughey_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/d4qPPT/matthew_mc_conaughey_large.jpg"),
"Matthew David McConaughey (/məˈkɒnəheɪ/; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor, " +
"producer, model, writer and director. He first gained notice for his breakout role in " +
"the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), before going on to appear in the slasher " +
"film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), the legal thriller " +
"A Time to Kill (1996), the comedy film Larger than Life (1996), Steven Spielberg's " +
"historical drama Amistad (1997), the science fiction drama Contact (1997), the comedy " +
"EDtv (1999), and the war film U-571 (2000).\nIn the 2000s, McConaughey became best known " +
"for starring in romantic comedies, including The Wedding Planner (2001), How to Lose a " +
"Guy in 10 Days (2003), Failure to Launch (2006), Fool's Gold (2008), and Ghosts of " +
"Girlfriends Past (2009). Since 2011, he has preferred dramatic roles, in such films as " +
"The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Bernie (2011), Killer Joe (2011), The Paperboy (2012), Mud (2012), " +
"Magic Mike (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Interstellar (2014), " +
"The Sea of Trees (2016), and Free State of Jones (2016).\nMcConaughey achieved ample success " +
"in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, McConaughey portrayed Ron Woodroof, a cowboy diagnosed with " +
"AIDS in the biographical film Dallas Buyers Club, which earned him the Academy Award, " +
"Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, all for " +
"Best Actor, among other awards and nominations. In 2014, he starred as Rust Cohle in the " +
"first season of HBO's crime drama anthology series True Detective, for which he won the " +
"Critics' Choice Television Award and TCA Award, and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy " +
"Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award."));
actors.add(new Actor("Morgan Freeman",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/dsVur8/morgan_freeman_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/ftdB4T/morgan_freeman_large.jpg"),
"Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman " +
"won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with Million Dollar Baby (2004), and " +
"he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in Street Smart (1987), " +
"Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009). He has " +
"also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.\nFreeman has appeared in " +
"many other box office hits, including Glory (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), " +
"Seven (1995), Deep Impact (1998), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Bruce Almighty (2003), " +
"The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), Wanted (2008), RED (2010), Now You See Me (2013), " +
"The Lego Movie (2014), and Lucy (2014). He rose to fame as part of the cast of the 1970s " +
"children's program The Electric Company. Noted for his deep voice, Freeman has served " +
"as a narrator, commentator, and voice actor for numerous programs, series and television " +
"shows. He is ranked as the fifth-highest box office star with $4.31 billion in total " +
"box office grosses, an average of $74.4 million per film."));
actors.add(new Actor("Ryan Gosling",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/jugCdo/ryan_gosling_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/mybLyo/ryan_gosling_large.jpg"),
"Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. He began " +
"his career as a child star on the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995) and went " +
"on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of " +
"the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). His first starring film role was as a Jewish " +
"neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, " +
"including Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of " +
"Leland (2003).\nGosling came to the attention of a wider audience in 2004 with a leading " +
"role in the commercially successful romantic drama The Notebook. His performance as " +
"a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson (2006) was nominated for an Academy Award for " +
"Best Actor and his performance as a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl (2007) " +
"was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. After a three-year acting hiatus, Gosling starred " +
"in the marital drama Blue Valentine (2010), earning him a second Golden Globe Award " +
"nomination. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011–the romantic comedy-drama " +
"Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March, and the neo-noir crime thriller " +
"Drive–and received two more Golden Globe Award nominations. His directorial debut, " +
"Lost River, was released to poor reviews in 2014. Greater success came to Gosling when he " +
"starred in two critically acclaimed films–the financial comedy-drama The Big Short (2015) " +
"and the musical La La Land (2016). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for " +
"Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and received a second Oscar nomination."));
actors.add(new Actor("Will Smith",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/cNUyJo/will_smith_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/ddbLyo/will_smith_large.jpg"),
"Willard Carroll “Will” Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, " +
"comedian, rapper and songwriter. In April 2007, Newsweek called him \"the most powerful actor " +
"in Hollywood\". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two " +
"Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.\nIn the late 1980s, Smith achieved " +
"modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased " +
"dramatically when he starred in the NBC television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which " +
"ran for six seasons until 1996. After the series ended, Smith transitioned from television " +
"to film, and has gone on to star in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor " +
"to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, eleven " +
"consecutive films gross over $150 million internationally, and eight consecutive films " +
"in which he starred, open at the number one spot in the domestic box office tally.\nSmith " +
"has been ranked as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes. As of 2014, 17 of " +
"the 21 films in which he has had leading roles have accumulated worldwide gross earnings " +
"of over $100 million each, five taking in over $500 million each in global box office " +
"receipts. As of 2016, his films have grossed $7.5 billion at the global box office. " +
"For his performances as boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001) and stockbroker Chris Gardner " +
"in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Smith received nominations for the Academy Award " +
"for Best Actor."));
actors.add(new Actor("Robert de Niro",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/jxT3jT/robert_de_niro_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/ejypr8/robert_de_niro_large.jpg"),
"Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and " +
"director.\nDe Niro was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film " +
"The Godfather Part II, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. " +
"His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese earned him the Academy Award for " +
"Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He received " +
"the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, " +
"and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2016.\nDe Niro's first " +
"major film roles were in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Scorsese's crime " +
"film Mean Streets (1973). He earned Academy Award nominations for the psychological " +
"thrillers Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991), both directed by Scorsese. De Niro " +
"received additional nominations for Michael Cimino's Vietnam war drama The Deer Hunter (1978), " +
"Penny Marshall's drama Awakenings (1990), and David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama " +
"Silver Linings Playbook (2012). His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorsese's crime " +
"film Goodfellas (1990), and his role as Rupert Pupkin in the black comedy film " +
"The King of Comedy (1983), earned him BAFTA Award nominations.\nDe Niro has earned four " +
"nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, " +
"for his work in the musical drama New York, New York (1977), the action comedy " +
"Midnight Run (1988), the gangster comedy Analyze This (1999), and the comedy " +
"Meet the Parents (2000). Other notable performances include roles in 1900 (1976), " +
"Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), " +
"The Untouchables (1987), Heat (1995), and Casino (1995). He has directed and starred in " +
"films such as the crime drama A Bronx Tale (1993) and the spy film The Good Shepherd (2006)."));
actors.add(new Actor("Zoe Saldana",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/b00ur8/zoe_saldana_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/ka3djT/zoe_saldana_large.jpg"),
"Zoe Saldana-Perego (born Zoe Yadira Saldaña Nazario; June 19, 1978), known professionally " +
"as Zoe Saldana or Zoë Saldana, is an American actress and dancer. Following her performances " +
"with the theater group Faces, Saldana made her screen debut in an episode of " +
"Law & Order (1999).\nHer film career began a year later with Center Stage (2000), where " +
"she played a struggling ballet dancer, followed by a role in Crossroads (2002). Saldana's " +
"breakthrough came in 2009 with the roles of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek and Neytiri in " +
"James Cameron's Avatar. The latter film received widespread acclaim, and is " +
"the highest-grossing film of all time. Saldana continued her career with films such as " +
"Colombiana (2011), Star Trek into Darkness (2013), Out of the Furnace (2013), " +
"Star Trek Beyond (2016), and Live by Night (2016).\nSaldana portrays Gamora in " +
"the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), later in " +
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)."));
actors.add(new Actor("Amy Adams",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/fX4yJo/amy_adams_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/bM4jPT/amy_adams_large.jpg"),
"Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both her comedic " +
"and dramatic performances, Adams is, as of 2017, among the highest-paid actresses in the " +
"world. Her accolades include two Golden Globes and nominations for five Academy Awards and " +
"six British Academy Film Awards. Born in Vicenza, Italy, and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado, " +
"Adams is the fourth of seven siblings. She trained to be a ballerina, but at age 18 found " +
"musical theater a better fit, and from 1994 to 1998 she worked in dinner theater. She made " +
"her feature film debut with a supporting part in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous. After " +
"moving to Los Angeles, she made guest appearances in television and took on \"mean girl\" " +
"parts in small-scale features. Her first major role came in Steven Spielberg's 2002 biopic " +
"Catch Me If You Can, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, but she was unemployed for a year afterward. " +
"Her breakthrough came in the part of a loquacious pregnant woman in the 2005 independent " +
"film Junebug."));
actors.add(new Actor("Cillian Murphy",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/mFeXdo/cillian_murphy_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/eDCSdo/cillian_murphy_large.jpg"),
"Cillian Murphy (/ˈkɪliən/; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. He began his performing " +
"career as a rock musician. After turning down a record deal, he began his acting career in " +
"theatre, and in short and independent films in the late 1990s.\nHe rose to fame after " +
"appearing in the films 28 Days Later (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Intermission (2003), " +
"Red Eye (2005) and Breakfast on Pluto (also 2005), for the latter of which he was nominated " +
"for a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.\nHe played the character of " +
"Dr. Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow) in the highly successful films of " +
"The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). He starred in The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), " +
"Sunshine (2007), The Edge of Love (2008), Inception (2010) and Peacock (also 2010).\nIn 2011, " +
"Murphy won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actor and the Drama Desk Award for " +
"Outstanding Solo Performance for Misterman. He also became patron of the UNESCO Child and " +
"Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is closely " +
"associated with the work of Professor Pat Dolan, Director UCFRC and UNESCO Chair in " +
"Children, Youth and Civic Engagement. He was also in the films In Time (2011), Retreat (2011) " +
"and Red Lights (2012).\nSince 2013, Murphy has portrayed Thomas Shelby, the lead of " +
"the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders. He was in the films Transcendence (2014), " +
"In the Heart of the Sea (2015), Anthropoid (2016) and Dunkirk (2017)."));
actors.add(new Actor("Emma Watson",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/etbOjT/emma_watson_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/i70DJo/emma_watson_large.jpg"),
"Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress, model, " +
"and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School " +
"and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. As a child artist, " +
"she rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger " +
"in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. Watson " +
"appeared in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, earning worldwide fame, critical " +
"accolades, and around $60 million.\nWatson continued to work outside of the Harry Potter " +
"films, appearing in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and lending " +
"her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008). Following the last Harry Potter film, she took " +
"on starring and supporting roles in My Week with Marilyn (2011), " +
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) and The Bling Ring (2013), made an appearance " +
"as an exaggerated version of herself in This Is the End (2013), and portrayed " +
"the title character's adopted daughter in Noah (2014). In 2017, she starred as Belle in " +
"a live-action adaptation of the musical romantic fantasy film Beauty and the Beast. Her other " +
"roles include Regression (2015), Colonia (2015) and The Circle (2017).\nFrom 2011 to 2014, " +
"Watson split her time between working on film projects and continuing her education, " +
"studying at Brown University and Worcester College, Oxford and graduating from Brown with " +
"a bachelor's degree in English literature in May 2014. Her modelling work has included " +
"campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. As a fashion consultant, she helped create " +
"a line of clothing for People Tree. She was honoured by the British Academy of " +
"Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year. That same " +
"year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women " +
"campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality."));
actors.add(new Actor("Javier Bardem",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/kxoEr8/javier_bardem_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/dsBLyo/javier_bardem_large.jpg"),
"Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. Bardem won " +
"the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin " +
"Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men. He has also received " +
"critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, " +
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Boca a boca, Los lunes al sol, Mar adentro, and Skyfall, " +
"for which he received both a BAFTA and a SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor.\nBardem " +
"has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya Awards, two " +
"European Film Awards, a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes (ex-aequo with Elio Germano) and " +
"two Volpi Cups at Venice for his work. He is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for " +
"an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls), as well as the first Spaniard to " +
"win one, for Best Supporting Actor in No Country for Old Men, 2008. He received his third " +
"Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, for the film Biutiful."));
actors.add(new Actor("Julianne Moore",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/fxeyJo/julianne_moore_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/kTCSdo/julianne_moore_large.jpg"),
"Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific " +
"in films since the early 1990s. She is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally " +
"troubled women in both independent and Hollywood films, and has received many accolades, " +
"including the Academy Award for Best Actress.\nAfter studying theatre at Boston University, " +
"Moore began her career with a series of television roles. From 1985 to 1988, she was " +
"a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy for her performance. " +
"Her film debut was in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), and she continued to play " +
"small roles for the next four years – including in the thriller " +
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992). Moore first received critical attention with " +
"Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and successive performances in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) " +
"and Safe (1995) continued this acclaim. Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months (1995)" +
" and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) established her as a leading actress in Hollywood.\n" +
"Moore received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar " +
"nominations for Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002) " +
"and The Hours (2002). In the first of these, she played a 1970s pornographic actress, while " +
"the other three featured her as an unhappy, mid-20th century housewife. She also had success " +
"with the films The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), Hannibal (2001), " +
"Children of Men (2006), A Single Man (2009), The Kids Are All Right (2010), and " +
"Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and won several awards for her portrayal of Sarah Palin in " +
"the television film Game Change (2012). The year 2014 was key for Moore, as she gave " +
"an Academy Award-winning performance as an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice, was named " +
"Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Maps to the Stars, and joined the lucrative " +
"Hunger Games series."));
actors.add(new Actor("Kevin Spacey",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/gcmOjT/kevin_spacey_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/mkByjT/kevin_spacey_large.jpg"),
"Kevin Spacey Fowler KBE (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer. " +
"He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in " +
"film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his " +
"first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller " +
"The Usual Suspects (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife crisis-themed " +
"drama American Beauty (1999).\nHis other starring roles have included the comedy-drama film " +
"Swimming with Sharks (1994), the psychological thriller Seven (1995), the neo-noir crime " +
"film L.A. Confidential (1997), the drama Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction-mystery " +
"film K-PAX (2001), the musical biopic Beyond the Sea (2004), the superhero film " +
"Superman Returns (2006) and the action film Baby Driver (2017).\nIn Broadway theatre, Spacey " +
"won a Tony Award in 1991 for his role in Lost in Yonkers. In 2017, he hosted " +
"the 71st Tony Awards. He was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London " +
"from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. From 2013 to 2017, Spacey played Frank Underwood " +
"in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards. For his role as Underwood, he " +
"has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and two consecutive " +
"Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.\n" +
"In October 2017, Spacey was accused by actor Anthony Rapp of making a sexual advance toward " +
"him when Rapp was 14. Shortly after, numerous other men alleged that Spacey had " +
"sexually harassed or assaulted them. As a result, Netflix cut all ties with him, " +
"shelved his film Gore and removed him from the cast of the last season of House of Cards. " +
"He was to appear in Ridley Scott's film All the Money in the World; however, all his scenes " +
"were cut from the film, and Christopher Plummer replaced him in reshoots."));
actors.add(new Actor("Robin Wright",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/eJ9nB8/robin_wright_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/cxidjT/robin_wright_large.jpg"),
"Robin Gayle Wright (born April 8, 1966) is an American actress and director. She is " +
"the recipient of seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has earned a Golden Globe Award " +
"and a Satellite Award for her work in television.\nWright first gained attention for her " +
"role in the NBC Daytime soap opera Santa Barbara, as Kelly Capwell from 1984 to 1988. She " +
"then made the transition to film, starring in the romantic comedy fantasy adventure film " +
"The Princess Bride (1987). This role led Wright to further success in the film industry, " +
"with starring roles in films such as the romantic comedy-drama Forrest Gump (1994), " +
"the romantic drama Message in a Bottle (1999), the superhero drama-thriller Unbreakable (2000), " +
"the historical drama The Conspirator (2010), the biographical sports drama Moneyball (2011), " +
"the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), the biographical drama " +
"Everest (2015), the superhero film Wonder Woman (2017), and the neo-noir science fiction " +
"film Blade Runner 2049 (2017).\nWright starred as Claire Underwood in the Netflix political " +
"drama web television series House of Cards, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for " +
"Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2013, making her the first actress to win a " +
"Golden Globe for a web television series. Wright has also received consecutive " +
"Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the Outstanding Lead Actress category for " +
"House of Cards between 2013 and 2017, and the Outstanding Drama Series category in " +
"2016 and 2017 as a producer on the show."));
actors.add(new Actor("Tom Hardy",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/e1Fur8/tom_hardy_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/bSONB8/tom_hardy_large.jpg"),
"Edward Thomas Hardy, CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor, producer, and " +
"former model.\nHardy made his debut in the Ridley Scott film Black Hawk Down (2001), and " +
"has since had notable roles in films such as Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), RocknRolla (2008), " +
"Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Lawless (2012), Locke (2013), " +
"The Drop (2014), and The Revenant (2015), for which he received a nomination for " +
"the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, Hardy portrayed \"Mad\" Max Rockatansky " +
"in Mad Max: Fury Road and both Kray twins in Legend. He has also appeared in three " +
"Christopher Nolan films: Inception (2010), as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and " +
"Dunkirk (2017). In 2018, he will play Eddie Brock/Venom in a live-action film adaptation of " +
"the same name.\nHardy's television roles include the HBO war drama miniseries " +
"Band of Brothers (2001), the BBC historical drama miniseries The Virgin Queen (2005), " +
"ITV's Wuthering Heights (2008), the Sky 1 drama series The Take (2009), and " +
"the BBC historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders (2013 –2017). He created, co-produced, " +
"and took the lead in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on " +
"BBC One and FX.\nHardy has performed on both British and American stages. He was nominated " +
"for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his role as Skank in " +
"the production of In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (2003), and was awarded the 2003 " +
"London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in both " +
"In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and for his role as Luca in Blood. He starred in the production " +
"of The Man of Mode (2007) and received positive reviews for his role in the play " +
"The Long Red Road (2010)."));
actors.add(new Actor("Idris Elba",
Uri.parse("https://image.ibb.co/eyWt8o/idris_elba_thumb.jpg"),
Uri.parse("https://preview.ibb.co/cWkBTo/idris_elba_large.jpg["),
"Idrissa Akuna Elba OBE (born 6 September 1972) is an English actor, producer, musician, " +
"and DJ. He is known for playing drug trafficker Stringer Bell on the HBO series The Wire," +
" DCI John Luther on the BBC One series Luther, and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film " +
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). He has been nominated four times for " +
"a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, and " +
"was nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award.\nElba appeared in " +
"Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007) and Prometheus (2012), Thor (2011), and its " +
"sequels Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017), as well as Avengers: " +
"Age of Ultron (2015) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). He also starred in Pacific Rim (2013), " +
"Beasts of No Nation (2015), for which he received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for " +
"Best Supporting Actor, and Molly's Game (2017). In 2016, he voiced Chief Bogo in Zootopia, " +
"Shere Khan in The Jungle Book, Fluke in Finding Dory and played the role of Krall in " +
"Star Trek Beyond. He will make his directorial debut with an adaptation of the 1992 novel " +
"Yardie by Victor Headley.\nIn addition to his acting work, Elba is a DJ under the moniker " +
"DJ Big Driis (or Big Driis the Londoner) and a hip hop and soul musician. In 2016, he " +
"was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World."));
return actors;
}
}
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