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Ju Jingyi
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Ju Jingyi is a Chinese singer and actress. She rose to fame as a member of Chinese idol girl group SNH48 and was part of Team NII until her graduation in December 2017.
As a member of SNH48, during the annual General Elections, she was elected as No.4 (2014), No.2 (2015), No.1 (2016) and No.1 (2017) among over 100 members. As an actress, she is known for her role in the popular historical romance drama "Legend of Yunxi"(2018) mythology drama remake "The Legend of White Snake" (2019), and "In A Class of Her Own" (2020). She has participated in TV shows "I Want To Live Like This" (2020), and "Young Periplous 2" (2020).
Ju Jingyi studied at The Attached Middle School of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, majoring in violin, but dropped out to audition for SNH48.
Ju has been referred to as a "once in 4000 years idol" by Chinese fans since 2014, however, due to a slight mistranslation, she has also been called a "once in 4000 years beauty" by the media, causing her to gain in popularity and criticism. (Wikipedia)
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Dane Rhodes
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Dane is an actor and director in New Orleans La. He has appeared on stages and in films around the world. Some of his favorite experiences have included working on a world premier play called MAcbeth at the Gates with Roy Marsden and his friend David Lumsden and getting to work with John Travolta, Scarlette Johannson, and Shanie Gable on A Love Song for Bobby Long (the movie that launched his journey into film).
When he isn't chasing his career, he is chasing his dog Hunter around the Big Easy... his home away from home. IMDb Mini Biography By: Dane
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Theo Angelopoulos
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Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος) (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.
An acclaimed and multi-awarded film director who dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.
Angelopoulos' work, described by Martin Scorsese as that of "a masterful filmmaker", is characterized by slightest movement, slightest change in distance, long takes, and complex yet carefully composed scenes; his cinematic method, as a result, is often described as "sweeping" and "hypnotic."
In 1998 his film Eternity and a Day went on to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and his films have been shown at many of the world's most esteemed film festivals. In 2000 he was the President of the Jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival. The life of Theo Angelopoulos, his work, and his passion were the subject of a documentary directed in 2008 by Elodie Lelu.
Angelopoulos died late on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, at 76 years old after being involved in a crash with a motorcycle ridden by an off-duty police officer. He was taken to hospital, where he was treated in an intensive care unit but succumbed to his serious injuries several hours later.
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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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Anne Heche
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Anne Celeste Heche (May 25, 1969 – August 11, 2022) was an American actress. She first came to recognition portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), winning her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She achieved greater prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the political satire film Wag the Dog (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).
Following her portrayal of Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's horror remake film Psycho (1998), which earned her a Saturn Award nomination, Heche went on to have roles in many well-received independent films, such as the drama film Birth (2004), the sex comedy film Spread (2009), Cedar Rapids (2011), the drama film Rampart (2011), and the black comedy film Catfight (2016). She received acclaim for her role in the television film Gracie's Choice, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and for her work on Broadway, particularly in a restaging of the play Twentieth Century, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
In addition to her film roles, Heche starred in the comedy drama television series Men in Trees (2006–2008), Hung (2009–2011), Save Me (2013), Aftermath (2016), and the military drama television series The Brave (2017). She voiced Suyin Beifong in the animated television series The Legend of Korra (2014), and appeared as a contestant in the 29th season of Dancing with the Stars (2020).
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Paislie Reid
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Paislie Reid is an Actress, Writer, Singer and Songwriter Paislie began her career in 'I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!' and went on to feature in 2 seasons of the CITV series 'The New Worst Witch'. She has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Frantic Assembly, Open Clasp, Liverpool Everyman, Liverpool Playhouse, 20 Stories High and Contact Theatre. Paislie's most recent work includes filming an episode for the Sky Atlantic drama 'Tin Star' and featuring in the BBC Radio 4 drama 'The Last Woman Killed in the War' as well as working with Open Clasp for a second time on a theatre for film project called 'SUGAR' which will be released later in the year.
Paislie plays The Woman in Storm in the North’s ‘Idlib’.
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Mel Eslyn
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Mel Eslyn (born August 19, 1983) is an American film producer, director and writer. She produced the 2014 Sundance Film Festival hit The One I Love, directed by Charlie McDowell and starring Elizabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, and Ted Danson. At the 2013 SXSW Film Festival Mel premiered Dayna Hanson's Imrovement Club, which played in competition and is currently still on the festival circuit.
Her features as co-producer include Treatment, which premiered at the 2011 TriBeCa Film Festical, and Lynn Shelton's indie hit Your Sister's Sister, which was picked up by IFC at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival before screening at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and garnering a 2012 Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance. The following year, Mel premiered Shelton's follow-up Touchy Feely at the Sundance Film Festival in Dramatic Competition. She is currently in post on Robert Schwartzman's MF, and as the EP on the Seattle-based web series Rocketmen.
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Joseph Ibrahim
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Joseph Ibrahim is a Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine where he is head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, an Adjunct Professor at Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University, and a practising senior consultant specialist in geriatric medicine with over 30 years experience.
Outside of the university work, Joseph is a producer, co-writer and narrator of four short films about ethical issues in persons with dementia and ageing and an advocate for aged care reform.
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Delwar Jahan Jhantu
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Delwar Jahan Jhantu (Bengali: দেলোয়ার জাহান ঝন্টু) is a Bangladeshi film director, producer, lyricist, composer, screenwriter, story-writer, film editor, cinematographer, music director and a freedom fighter. His first directorial released was Bonduk, in 1978. He has directed 75 films in more than four decades of his career, which is the highest directorial venture of any single director in Bangladeshi cinema and has written screenplays for more than 325 films. He won the National Film Awards as Best screenplay for the film Goriber Raja.
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Maëlle
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Maëlle Pistoia (born 4 January 2001), better known as simply Maëlle, is a French singer. She is the winner of the seventh season of the French version of the talent show The Voice. In April 2019, she released her first single, titled "Toutes les machines ont un cœur" (lit. "All machines have a heart").
Born in January 2001, Maëlle Pistoia is from Tournus in the department of Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy. She has two older sisters. In her childhood she studied piano.
Maëlle's musical career started in 2017, when she submitted a video audition for the seventh edition of the French version of The Voice and became a contestant.
At her blind audition, she performed Guillaume Grand's "Toi et moi", accompanying herself on piano. Three of the four judges, Florent Pagny, Zazie, and Mika turned their chairs. Maëlle chose Zazie as her coach.
For the final audition, she sang Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game".
During the duels, Maëlle battled Gulaan singing Sting's "Fragile", and it was her who Zazie chose to advance to the live rounds.
During the first live round, she sang Korgis' "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" and was "saved" by the public. In the quarterfinals, she sang London Grammar's "Wasting My Young Years" and was "saved" by the public.
In the semifinal, she sang France Gall's "Diego libre dans sa tête" and was chosen by the public for the final over B. Demi Mondaine.
In the final held on 12 May 2018, Maëlle performed first Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times", then Vianney's "Je m'en vais" in duo with him, and finally Michel Berger's "Seras-tu là" in duo with Zazie. She won the final with 55,3 % of the public vote, becoming the first female and, at 17 years of age, the youngest candidate to ever win the French talent show.
On 14 July 2018, in Louhans, Maëlle gave her first public concert.
On 5 April 2019, Maëlle released her first single. Titled "Toutes les machines ont un cœur", it was composed by Calogero (who also produced the recording), with lyrics by Zazie. Three days before her BAC (in Social & Economics Sciences, or SES), she was in Barcelona shooting the music video for this song. Directed by Nur Casadevall, it premiered on YouTube on 29 July 2019.
On 6 September 2019, Maëlle released (on YouTube) a music video for a live version of another track from her forthcoming album, a song titled "L'Effet de masse". The song entered the French download chart at number 68 (during the week of 13 September).
On 23 September 2019, she released (on YouTube) a music video for yet another new song from her upcoming album, "Le Pianiste des gares".
At the end of September, Maëlle was nominated for the 2019 NRJ Music Award in the category "French Revelation of the Year".
On 4 October 2019, she released (on YouTube) a music video for the song "Sur un coup de tête". The song entered the French download chart at number 75 (during the week of 11 October).
Her first album, titled simply Maëlle, was released on 22 November 2019. The entire album was composed and produced by Calogero.
Source: Article "Maëlle" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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