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Professional Poker Player Cameos in "Casino Royale"?
Were any of the poker players in Casino Royale legitimate professionals in cameo roles? Some of the ppl looked vaguely familiar, but maybe I was imagining it. Don't watch that much Poker on TV, but a little bit. Did you recognize any cameos in the movie?
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- Wikipedia has nothing on professional poker players as cameos in the film. Although it is interesting to note that the two card players listed in the Credits (John Gold and Jerry Inzerillo) both have no real history as actors, there is nothing on the internet that I can find where either of these names is tied to professional poker. Here is the cameo run down for the film from Wikipedia: The movie features cameo roles by British entrepreneur Richard Branson (seen being frisked at an airport), American hotel tycoon Jerry Inzerillo, Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio (seen when Bond first approaches the Ocean Club), and Sens Unik rapper Carlos Leal. Key members of the production also feature in cameo roles — producer Michael G. Wilson appears as the corrupt Montenegrin police chief, continuing his long-standing tradition of Bond film cameos dating from Goldfinger, while director of cinematography Phil Meheux features briefly as a treasury bureaucrat and the film's director Martin Campbell makes a fleeting cameo as the face of the murdered petrol tanker driver at Miami Airport. In addition, Tsai Chin, who played Ling in the opening sequence of You Only Live Twice, and Diane Hartford, who had a small part in Thunderball (as the girl Bond dances with while escaping from Fiona Volpe) appear respectively as Madame Wu (the Chinese Woman playing cards with Le Chiffre aboard his yacht) and one of the players in the Bahamas poker game. Sixties model "Veruschka" von Lehndorff also appears in the background at the casino.
- i watched the poker scene again, and I thought I saw Chau Giang, but it wasn't him. it was a different guy. I did not recognize any of the players as professional.
