José Ben Cura is an Argentine-born British actor, musician and director of film, television and theatre.
José Ben Cura was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Argentine tenor/conductor José Cura.
When he was a year old, he moved to Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy, where his father's grandfather was from.
The family first lived in a convent while his father struggled to find work as an opera singer.
He has two younger siblings, Yazmín and Nicolás.
The family moved to France when he was six and then to Spain when he was 11.
During this time, he frequently travelled with his parents around the world.
Cura's first acting role came at age nine, as a supernumerary in a production of La Forza del Destino at the Opéra de Marseille, France.
Whilst living in Paris, he received formal piano and solfège training.
He subsequently attended the New York Film Academy in Paris before eventually training and graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2011 with a bachelor's degree with honours in professional acting.
Tad accidentally unleashes an ancient spell, endangering the lives of his friends Mummy, Jeff, and Belzoni. With everyone against him and only helped by Sara, he sets off on an adventure to end the Curse of the Mummy.
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February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.
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