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Sammi Davis
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Sammi Davis (born Samantha Davis; 21 June 1964) is a British actress.
She gained considerable praise for her performance in Ken Russell's The Rainbow (1989). She also had significant roles in Mike Hodges' A Prayer For The Dying and John Boorman's Hope and Glory (both 1987) as well as a leading role in the Emmy Award-winning American television series, Homefront (1991–1993).
Davis was married to the director Kurt Voss, whom she later divorced. After taking a few years out of the film industry to raise her family, she returned to the screen in a cameo role on Lost, playing the mother of Dominic Monaghan's character.
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Stromae
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Paul van Haver (Born 12 March 1985), better known by his stage name Stromae, is a Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter and producer. He is mostly known for his music blending hip hop and electronic music. Stromae came to wide public attention in 2009 with his song "Alors on danse" (from the album Cheese), which became a number one in several European countries. In 2013, his second album Racine carrée was a commercial success, selling two million copies in France. The main singles from the album include "Papaoutai" and "Formidable". Stromae also has a series of “leçons” that show how he makes his songs.
Paul van Haver was born in Brussels and raised in the city's Laken district, to a Tutsi father from Rwanda, Pierre Rutare, and a Flemish mother, Miranda van Haver. He said in an interview that he also has distant Somali heritage from his father's side. He and his siblings were raised by their mother, as his father, an architect, was killed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, while visiting his family. He attended the Sacré-coeur de Jette, a Jesuit school in Jette, the Collège Saint-Paul in Godinne, after failing in the public school system at the age of 16. He formed a small rap group with his friends while still in school. His early influences included Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, son cubano and Congolese rumba.
In 2000, Stromae appeared as a rapper called Opsmaestro, though he later changed his stage name to "Stromae", which is "Maestro" with the syllables reversed following the French slang practice, verlan.
At the age of 18, he founded a rap group called "Suspicion", along with rapper "J.E.D.I." in Eichhof. They produced the song and music video "Faut que t'arrête le Rap..." before J.E.D.I. decided to leave the rap duo. To finance his private school education, Van Haver worked part-time in the hospitality industry, but his academic performance was not up to standard.[citation needed] It was only later, when he registered at the Institut national de radioélectricité et cinématographie, that he released his first EP "Juste un cerveau, un flow, un fond et un mic...".
In 2007, during his studies at the film school of Brussels, Stromae decided to concentrate fully on his musical career. This resulted in his debut-EP "Juste un cerveau, un flow, un fond et un mic…". In 2008, he signed a four-year record deal with "Because Music" and "Kilomaître".
In 2008, Stromae worked as a young trainee at the music radio station NRJ in Brussels. Vincent Verbelen, Music Manager, was impressed by the talent he perceived in Stromae's first single "Alors on danse" and decided to air it for the first time on NRJ.
Vertigo Records, a label of Mercury Records France (Universal Music Group), signed him for a worldwide licensing deal soon after this.
By May 2010 the track "Alors on danse" had reached number one in Belgium, France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Romania and the Czech Republic.
On 2 September, Stromae collaborated with Kanye West and Gilbere Forte in a remix of his hit "Alors on danse". In 2010, he was nominated for Best Dutch and Belgian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards. ...
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Hussein Al Samraey
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Hussein Alwan Al-Samarrai, born in 1927 in Baghdad, transitioned from a football career in his youth to pursuing the arts. After graduating from the Fine Arts Institute, he directed plays like "The Victim" and "Layla's Mad." In cinema, he starred in "Nadim" and co-founded Samiramis Films, producing and directing "Taswahan." Beyond his artistic pursuits, Al-Samarrai held official roles in the Ministry of Youth, Public Culture, and the General Cinema and Theatre Corporation. As a director, he crafted documentaries such as "Sports and Decoration," "This is How Basra Will Be," and "Iraq, Ancient and Modern.
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Polina Malashenok
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Singer, actress, People's Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2021).
Polina Malashenok was born on August 8, 2005 in the village of Svihanovo, Mogilev region. From the age of four, she was engaged in acting, as well as oriental martial arts. At the age of fourteen, she began studying at the Minsk Regional Cadet School in the city of Slutsk. In 2020, she gained popularity when, during anti-government protests in the Republic of Belarus, she climbed onto a barricade and sang the romance "Fragrant Clusters of White Acacia" in front of security forces. At the insistence of the Minsk OMON security officer Ivan Nazarenok, she was invited to make music recordings at the Belteleradiocompany of the republic. After that, she met and was close friends with the chairman of Belteleradiocompany Ivan Eismont.
Since 2021 - the youngest People's Artist of the Republic of Belarus (as of 2024). In 2021, she became one of the highest-paid singers in the country, but lost most of her fees as a result of a fire in a village house. In October 2021, she moved to live in Luxembourg, where she helped her cousin after a car accident. In Luxembourg, she worked as a cleaner in a cafe in the city of Clervaux. In 2022, having written a letter to the Minister of Culture Anatoly Markevich, she returned to Belarus. In the winter of 2022, she continued to tour, but after one of the concerts she fell ill with a severe form of pneumonia. She was treated at the Minsk City Hospital, later at the Berlin Charite Clinic, and in May 2022 she was discharged and continued her concert activity.
In 2023, she starred in several films - both documentaries and feature films. The filmings were mostly organized by Slutsk television.
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Tia Texada
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Tia Texada (born Tia Nicole Tucker on December 14, 1971) is an American actress and singer. She is probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt. Maritza Cruz from the American television show Third Watch and for her role as Shay on ABC Family's Huge. Texada was born in Louisiana to a reflexologist mother and an insurance agent father. She has been acting since she was young. Texada's most recent appearance was as a guest star in an episode of Chuck ("Chuck Versus the Coup d'Etat"). Before that she was a guest star in Saving Grace and in two episodes of The Unit and appeared in Criminal Minds (Season 3, Episode 17) as Detective Tina Lopez[2] . She played Sgt. Maritza Cruz in the NBC Drama Third Watch. She also has appeared in movies such as Paulie (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), Glitter (2001), Phone Booth (2003) Spartan (2004) and Everybody Hates Chris (2008) (as Miss Rivera) . She also has a singing career, and her songs have been featured on shows such as Dawson's Creek. She also played at the Lilith Fair tour in 1998. She has lent her voice to TV's Static Shock as well as many television commercials. She has also done layouts for magazines, and has been featured in FHM.
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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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Jesper Odelberg
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Jesper Odelberg (born 23 July 1970) is a Swedish sit-down comic with cerebral palsy. His appearance on Norwegian television in 2006 with his band, Boys on Wheels, brought him wider fame, when it appeared on various Internet video sharing sites. Jesper Odelberg, born the 23rd Juli 1970 is a Swedish stand-up comedian. His big breakthrough was 1997 in the TV show “Släng dig i brunnen”. He is known for being very selfexposing and often jokes about Celebral Palsy, CP, since he suffers from it himself. He is brother to the songwriter and artist Joakim Odelberg and he has a sister named Pia Emanuelsson. Jespers first stand-up performance was in Ljungskile October 1992 and started working professionally as a comedian 1995. He worked at Backa Teater in Gothenburg during 1994-1998 as a production assistant. Jesper was touring since 1995 throughout Sweden, Norway and Finland as a stand-up comedian and since 1998 as a folk singer together with the pianist Thomas Darelid. 1998 Jesper did 70 shows performing the “Den onde, den gode och den fule” with Thomas Oredsson, Jan Bylund and Håkan Jäder under the direction of the Swedish National Theater.
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Chris Tucker
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Christopher "Chris" Tucker (born August 31, 1971) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy and Smokey in the 1995 film Friday. Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest son of Mary Louise and Norris Tucker. Tucker was raised in Decatur, Georgia. After graduating from Columbia High School, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy and movies. In 1992, Tucker was a frequent performer on Def Comedy Jam. He made his cinematic debut in House Party 3, and gained greater film recognition alongside rapper Ice Cube in the 1995 film Friday. In 1997, he co-starred with Charlie Sheen in Money Talks, and alongside Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element. Tucker did not reprise his role of Smokey in Next Friday (2000) because he had become a born-again Christian after filming Money Talks (1997).He later starred in the 1998 martial arts action comedy Rush Hour and its sequels, Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3, in which he played James Carter, an abrasive wise-cracking detective. Tucker is good friends with fellow Rush Hour star Jackie Chan, and was also close friends with the late singer Michael Jackson, introducing and dancing with him at his 30th Anniversary Special, appearing in Jackson's video "You Rock My World" from his 2001 album Invincible and attending Jackson's memorial service. A friend of Bill Clinton, Tucker has traveled with the former President overseas, though he endorsed Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries. On February 13, 2009, Tucker participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Celebrity Game.
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Chen Duling
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Chen Duling, born in Xiamen, Fujian, is a Chinese actress. She is an undergraduate student of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and also a graduate of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
In February 2013, she gained attention for winning the Facejoking "Goddess Ranking" champion. She won the 2018 Most Popular Icon by iFeng Fashion Choice Awards. She is best known for her role in the coming-of-age film The Left Ear directed by Alec Su, Love In Flames of War and Till The End Of The Moon.
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Octavia E. Butler
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction.
She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards soon followed. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington state. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library.
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