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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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Carolina Markowicz

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Carolina Markowicz is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She has written and directed two feature films and six short films, which have screened at over 400 film festivals, including Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, SXSW, and San Sebastián, and have received more than 100 awards. She has participated in several international development labs, including TIFF Talent Lab, Berlinale Talents, and the Locarno Filmmakers Academy. Indiewire highlighted the latter program as showcasing "some of the world's most exciting new filmmakers."
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Boby Lapointe

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Robert Jean-François Joseph Pascal Lapointe (16 April 1922 – 29 June 1972), better known by his stage name Boby Lapointe, was a French actor and singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words. Lapointe was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of southern France. A brilliant pupil, he prepared for the entrance exam to the Centrale (engineering school) and Sup-Aero at Montpellier, but was conscripted into the Youth Building Projects in 1942 and sent to Linz, Austria, in 1943 for compulsory work service. He escaped the same year, and found work as a diver in La Ciotat, a suburb of Marseille, in 1944. In 1946, he married Colette Maclaud. They had two children, Ticha (born 1948) and Jacky (1950). His first published work, Les douze chants d'un imbecile, appeared in 1951. He moved to Paris and opened a fashion and baby clothes shop, still writing and producing plays. Later, he switched to being a fitter of TV aerials and began singing. His fame grew when the actor Bourvil sang Lapointe's song Aragon et Castille in the 1954 film Poisson d'avril. In 1960, film director François Truffaut offered him a part in Tirez sur le Pianiste in which he sang Framboise, accompanied by Charles Aznavour on piano. This marked the start of a career that saw Lapointe perform at major venues throughout France. His joyful character led him to build friendships with the likes of Anne Sylvestre, Raymond Devos, Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens. Lapointe was also a mathematician, and developed the bibi-binary system (also known in French as the système Bibi) in 1971. Source: Article "Boby Lapointe" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Eli Mathewson

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Eli Matthewson is one of the Aotearoa’s most prolific comedians, and was the winner of the Fred Award for Best Show at the 2021 NZ International Comedy Festival. He has been seen on screen in 7 Days, Have You Been Paying Attention, The Project and in 2022 was part of the first ever same-sex couple on Dancing With The Stars NZ. As a stand-up comic he has appeared five NZ Comedy Galas and has received 5 Star Reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe. He’s performed at the World Buskers Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and, as part of FanFiction Comedy, performed in Glasgow for the New Zealand Team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Judi Dench

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Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968. During the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series As Time Goes By. Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she played in each James Bond film until Skyfall (2012). She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001). Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as the leading British actress in polls, Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television; her awards include ten BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. She was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001. They are the parents of actress Finty Williams.
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Raden Ahmad Kosasih

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Raden Ahmad Kosasih (April 4, 1919-July 24, 2012) was an Indonesian comics author. Raden Kosasih was born in Bogor, Indonesia, at April 4, 1919. At the start of his career, he worked as a book illustrator. Kosasih published his first comics, a five-part comic book series featuring the female superheroes Sri Asih and Siti Gahara, in 1954. It was the first popular indigenous comic book in Indonesia. Kosasih started from the wayang (Indonesian puppet theatre) stories, traditions and techniques and applied these to comics. His major works were his adaptations of the ancient Indian epics Mahabharata between 1957 and 1959 (the main series in 37 volumes, and many other comics about characters from the epic) and the Ramayana. Other comics by Kosasih include Wayang Purwa and Sri Kresna (four volumes, 1983). His Mahabharata diverged from the typical wayang Indonesian elements in the stories and turned back to the original Indian versions. Its popularity lead to a renewed interest in the wayang versions as well, and many wayang puppeteers incorporated elements from the comics into their stories. Kosasih continued to write and draw comics until 1993, when Parkinson's disease made it impossible to continue. At the time of his death in 2012 he lived in Ciputat.
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Pocholo Martínez-Bordiú

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Jose María Martínez-Bordiú was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1962. Soon his family moved to Malaga, where he lived until 1978. Pocho is part of the aristocracy, since his father is a Baron and he will inherit this title. His uncle married a daughter of Spanish dictator Franco. He had a happy childhood, but suffered from hepatitis A and B and had lung problems as well (that's why he is known as Pocho-Pocho - it means sick in Spanish, because doctors thought he wouldn't recover from those illnesses). Pocholo attended elementary and secondary education in several boarding schools in Málaga, and was fired from almost all of them because of his nervous manners. In 1980 he moved to Miami and graduated in Marketing and Finance. In the meantime, he worked in a bank and in a real state agency. Then he started to go to castings, and knew agent Barbara DiPrima (who supported Pocholo amazingly) and Don Johnson. That's why Pocho appeared in two episodes of "Miami Vice". Afterwards, he shot a film called "The Rift" (1990) where he was killed very soon because of his problems with the director (as far as Pocholo is concerned, "The Rift" is a miserable film). In 1990 Pocholo was back is Spain and met Sonsoles Suarez, the daughter of Adolfo Suarez, ex-Spanish president in the late 70s. Pocho and Sonsoles got married, but divorced after a few months without any children. They remain friends and Pocholo states that the divorce was nobody's fault but his own. Currently Pocholo lives in the island of Ibiza (Spain), where he owns a club and prepares rave parties that usually last 4 days and 4 nights and makes special appearances in TV shows such as "Hotel Glam" and "Crónicas Marcianas".
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Cesar Rosas Jr.

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Cesar Rosas Jr. is an American Indie Filmmaker, YouTuber, Actor, Director, Producer, Story Writer, Music Composer, GoAnimator, and the founder of the indie film production, [CJ] Studios. Cesar is the creator of web series such as Digital Vids, The Adventures of Vyond City, & [CJ] Slides. Cesar Rosas Jr. was born on September 26th, 2004. Since he was a toddler, Cesar has had an interest in being in videos. It started from Cesar at his toddler age watching old family videos, he always enjoyed watching himself on the camera. At age 3, Cesar learned how to make videos himself, and would often play with cameras. At around age 8, Cesar would begin to make his own videos for fun. In 2016, Cesar began posting on YouTube. Freshman year in high school in 2019, Cesar decided to sign up for a class known as Digital Video Production, where his teacher, Joel Munoz would teach his class about filmmaking, making skits, and learning movie effects. Cesar became inspired and gave filmmaking a try, in result, he was good at it and would evolve with it as he gets older. On October 10th, 2020, during pandemic, Cesar decided to make a return to YouTube and launch his skits to a brand-new channel what we all know to be as, [CJ] Studios. Cesar began his new chapter of videography and become an indie filmmaker. Cesar would then encourage his friends and family to join in on the projects and would share his work to the world, giving his loved ones the chance at the spotlight. [CJ] Studios would later be known as a multi-series filmmaking channel, now ran with a small team of Cesar's closest friends.
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Kalpana

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Kalpana Priyadarshini (13 October 1965 – 25 January 2016), known mononymously as Kalpana, was an Indian film actress best known for her work in South Indian films, primarily Malayalam and Tamil films. Kalpana has acted in over 300 films in various South Indian languages. Kalpana started off her career as a child artist in the late 1970s. Although she came into the industry with the intention of being a lead actress, she turned out to be popular for her comic roles among the audience. At the 60th National Film Awards, she won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Thanichalla Njan (2012) On 25 January 2016, she she died of heart attack.
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Josh Pais

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Josh Pais (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor of film and television. He has appeared in many Hollywood films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in which he both was in the costume and was the voice) as Raphael, Music of the Heart, Scream 3, It Runs in the Family, Little Manhattan and Find Me Guilty. He played Assistant M.E. Borak in 15 episodes of the series Law & Order, between 1990 and 2002. He also played the Spanish teacher in the film Assassination of a High School President. Pais is the son of Lila Lee (née Atwill) and Abraham Pais, a Dutch-American Jewish physicist, professor and writer. Pais married actress Lisa Emery on August 27, 1990; the two have a son, actor Zane Pais. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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