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Richard Lynch

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Richard Lynch (February 12, 1940 – June 19, 2012) was an American actor best known for portraying villains in films and television. His film credits included The Sword and the Sorcerer, Invasion USA, The Seven-Ups, Scarecrow, Little Nikita, Bad Dreams, God Told Me To, and Halloween. He appeared in science fiction productions, including Battlestar Galactica (as Wolfe) and its sequel series Galactica 1980 (as Commander Xaviar). He also appeared in such shows as Starsky and Hutch, Baretta, T. J. Hooker, Blue Thunder, Airwolf, The A-Team, Charmed and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Lynch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Shaan Shahid

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Shaan is a Pakistani actor, model, writer and film director. With his career spanning more than two decades with over 500 films, Shaan has established himself as one of the most popular leading actors of Pakistan.[3][4] Shaan started his acting career in 1990 by making debut in Javed Fazli's film Bulandi opposite to Reema Khan. He has won many awards in Pakistan including one Pride of Performance, four National Film Awards, fifteen Nigar Awards, five Lux Style Awards, one Pakistan Media Award, ARY Film Award.[5] He is considered as the highest-paid film star in Pakistan.
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Nagah El-Mogui

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Egyptian Actor Nagah El Mogy, whose real name is Abdel Al Maaty Mohamed El Mogy, was born in 1945 in the governorate of Dakalia. He received his bachelor’s degree in social work and started his acting career working with Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah (The Three Lights Theatre Troupe) when he appeared in the play “Funduq El Ishgal El Shaaqa” (The Hotel of Hard Labor). He also appeared in several other plays with Three Lights Theatre including: “El Motzawjon” (Married People), “Mawlid Sidi El Marab” and “Ya Ana Ya Enta” (Me and You). In addition to his theatre work, Nagah El Mogy has played dozens of well-known roles in cinema, starring in films such as: “Tata wa Rica wa Kazem Bey,” “El Bahr Biyidhek Ley” (Why Does the Sea Laugh?), “Eyam El Ghadab (Days of Rage), and “El Harif” (The Street Player). He died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 53.
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Sean Connery

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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Dhritiman Chatterjee

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Dhritiman Chatterjee (Bengali: ধৃতিমান চট্টোপাধ্যায়) is an Indian actor. He began his acting career in 1970 as the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi (The Adversary). Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen, among others. He has also worked in English films with well-known filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta and Jane Campion. He has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards. Chatterjee pursues a parallel career in advertising, social communications and documentary filmmaking. In 2019, he lent his voice for narration in If Not for You[1], a documentary about Kolkata's long lasting love affair with legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Never a part of mainstream "Bollywood", he's made an astonishingly small number of films. In recent years he's taken roles with filmmakers as diverse as Jane Campion and hugely successful Mumbai directors Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Mani Ratnam. Dhritiman is his screen name. He is otherwise known as Sundar Chatterjee and is quite active on the English stage in Chennai. Born on 30 May 1945, he was educated at Kolkata's St Xavier's Collegiate School and Presidency College, and the Delhi School of Economics. About his acting qualities, Satyajit Ray once remarked, "I do not know what definition of a star these filmmakers have been using, but mine goes something like this. A star is a person on the screen who continues to be expressive and interesting even after he or she has stopped doing anything. This definition does not exclude the rare and lucky breed that gets lakhs of rupees per film; and it includes everyone who keeps his calm before the camera, projects a personality and evokes empathy. This is a rare breed too but one has met it in our films. Dhritiman Chatterjee of Pratidwandi is such a star." - (Our Films Their Films) Dhritiman is currently the anchor of Pradhanmantri in Bengali on ABP Ananda from 14 December 2013.
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Brian Blessed

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Brian Blessed OBE (born 9 October 1936)is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. He portrayed PC "Fancy" Smith in Z-Cars; Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of I, Claudius; King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder; Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon; Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre; Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, in Henry V; Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; and the voice of Clayton and the Tarzan yell in Disney's Tarzan. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity. Blessed was born on 9 October 1936 at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of William Blessed, a socialist coal miner at Hickleton Main Colliery (and himself the son of a coal miner) and cricketer for the Yorkshire second team, and Hilda (née Wall). He had a brother Alan, seven years younger, and the pair "went everywhere together" when they were growing up. Alan Blessed died from leukaemia aged 52; their mother died aged 87, and their father died aged 99. Blessed's great-great-grandfather, Jabez Blessed, was the father of 13 children and worked as a china and glass dealer in Brigg, Lincolnshire; many of Blessed's relatives hail from Brigg. Blessed went to Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, and completed his national service in the RAF, in Bicester, before enrolling at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1956.
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Sherrie Rose

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At 16 Sherrie Rose left the trailer park she grew up in and attended USF as an engineering student. She was on the Dean's List for electrical engineering and theatrical performance at the same time. She became an actor after installing the sound board in the theater at the University and saw how much fun and camaraderie the actors had on the stage. She got great reviews from her first play, and got parts in "Miami Vice" (1984) and a lead in the comedy Summer Job (1989). She was entered for an Emmy nomination for her work in "Tales from the Crypt" (1989). She shares the same birthday as Billy Zane, who acted with her in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), and they often celebrate together. Rose wrote, directed, produced and starred in her own movie, Me and Will (1999), that opened the "Women in Film" series on the Sundance Channel, and her friend Keanu Reeves did a cameo. She was engaged to Michael DeLuise, and dated Ray Liotta after being in Unlawful Entry (1992) together and more recent boyfriends were rocker Dave Navarro and young Shane West. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
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Lucie Lucas

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Lucie Lucas is a French actress, producer, and former model. She's best known for being Clémentine Boissier in French TV Series Clem, alongside Victoria Abril. Lucas started taking acting classes at age 9. During her teenage years, she was part of a modeling agency. Lucas's first role in a movie was 15 ans et demi in 2007. She started on TV in 2009 with Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie and Femmes de loi. In 2010, she got the main role, Clémentine Boissier, on in French TV Series Clem, a 16-year-old who gets pregnant. This was supposed to be a TV movie but with the success it had, producers decided to make it a TV series and since 2011, there is one season every year, at first composed of three episodes, and five since season 4. In December 2013, she was amongst the celebrities appearing on a television special of TV series Nos chers voisins. She met her future husband, Adrien, at the age of 13 in school, but they did not get together until they were 19 years old. They have three children, Lilou (born in August 2010), Moïra (born in January 2012) and Milo (born in March 2018). She lives in the countryside, in a small town in the east of Côtes-d'Armor, where she owns an ecological farm. Source: Article "Lucie Lucas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Tattybyubyu Tursunbayeva

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Tattybubu Tursunbaeva (July 12, 1944 – December 21, 1981) was a legendary Kyrgyz theater and film actress, widely revered as the "Pearl of Kyrgyz Cinema" for her breathtaking beauty and profound dramatic talent. She was honored with the title of Honored Artist of the Kirghiz SSR. Born in the village of Chaek in the Naryn Region, she graduated from the acting department of the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute. She became a leading actress at the Kyrgyz State Academic Drama Theater, portraying iconic characters from both world classics and national literature. In cinema, Tursunbaeva became a central figure of the "Kyrgyz Miracle" cinematic wave. She delivered unforgettable performances in masterpieces such as "Ak Moor" (1969), where she played the tragic titular heroine, "Bow to the Fire" (1971) as the revolutionary Urkuya Salieva, and "The Red Apple" (1975), based on Chingiz Aitmatov's story. Despite her tragic and premature passing at the age of 37, Tursunbaeva left an indelible mark on Central Asian art and remains an eternal icon of Kyrgyz culture.
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Robert Bruce

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Robert Bruce (born John Charles Young, 3 November 1943 - 2 March 2009) was a Scottish-born professional wrestler and talent agent, stuntman and actor in Auckland, New Zealand. He began wrestling in London in 1967, and toured the United Kingdom, South Africa, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, eventually settling in New Zealand in the 1970s after wrestling John da Silva there for the Commonwealth championship in 1972. Bruce retired from wrestling due to injuries to his back and elbows, and decided to form a talent agency in 1978 when he realised that there was no such company in New Zealand. In addition to representing several of New Zealand's top actors, Bruce worked as a stuntman and fight co-ordinator on several New Zealand films, television shows and theatrical plays, working on 73 TV series, 39 films and 21 live shows, and as an actor played the role of a former international rugby player in the 1991 film Old Scores.
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