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Joe Son
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Joseph Hyung-min Son (born November 22, 1970) is a South Korean-born American convicted murderer, as well as a former actor, mixed martial artist, kickboxer, and professional wrestler. He partook in Ultimate Fighting Championship, and K-1 Kickboxing during his combat sports career. As an actor, he is best known for his appearance in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
In 2008, he was arrested for forcible rape, kidnapping, and torture in connection to a 1990 cold case after DNA evidence linked him to the crime; there was an accomplice who was also convicted. Due to the statute of limitations, some charges were dropped. In 2011, he was found guilty of torture and sentenced to seven years to life in prison in California. While incarcerated, he was convicted of beating his cell mate to death and was sentenced to an additional 27 years for voluntary manslaughter.
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Andy On Chi-Kit
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Andy On Chi-Kit (Cantonese: 安志傑) (born 11 May 1977 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States) is a Chinese American actor and martial artist.
He was born Andy Tien and as a child, he idolized Jackie Chan and would perform back flips and attempt to do martial arts in his backyard. While working as a bartender, someone suggested he go to Hong Kong to pursue a film career. Tien would leave and was discovered by Charles Heung and Tsui Hark, who cast Tien and gave him the new name "On Chi-Kit". Andy scored the titular role in Black Mask 2: City of Masks. To prepare for the role, On went to Shaolin Temple to train in wushu for a month. Andy is a practitioner of kickboxing and Wing Chun Kung Fu under friend and fellow actor Philip Ng. He is married to Jessica Cambensy, whom he met on the set of Zombie Fight Club. The couple have two children, daughter Tessa and son Elvis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andy On, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Natassia Malthe
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Natassia is the younger of two daughters. She was born in Norway but is half Filipino. She is usually credited by her birth name however is sometime credited as 'Lina Teal'. In Canada, Scotland, and Norway, Malthe went to dance schools at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Goh Ballet Academy, and the Norwegian Opera House respectively, where she sang and danced while finishing high school. Later she moved to London, England to study musical theater. From there she went to Canada and landed her first part on television.In 2009, Malthe starred as an elf bounty-hunter and sorcerer-in-training in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries Knights of Bloodsteel.She also does fashion modeling and is among the Girls of Maxim and Toro Women.
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Tino Monte
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Tino Monte began his broadcasting career as News Announcer/Program Host in radio almost 25 years ago. From 1984 to 1987, he produced, wrote or hosted a number of entertainment-driven shows for his hometown televison affiliate of Kitchener, Ontario, in Canada. Monte began his film work in 1989, and founded his own production company, establishing himself as an independent producer, writer, host and distributor of various television shows shot in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles.
In 1991, Monte won a CAN PRO award for excellence in Canadian Television and was elected Broadcaster of the Year by his peers in 1991 and 1992.
Tino Monte is an entertainment producer for CTV, Canada's largest independent television network and his company, www.montemedia.tv, provides quality and inspirational television programming to outlets around the world.
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Katy Karrenbauer
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Katy Karrenbauer (born December 31, 1962, in Duisburg) is a German actress, voice-over artist, singer, and author. She rose to widespread public prominence through her role as Christine "Walter" in the television series *Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast*.
Her acting career initially began in the theater—including at the Urania Theater in Cologne—as well as on various stages throughout Germany. She made her on-screen debut in 1994, playing the paramedic Karo Kaiser in the RTL series *Notaufnahme*. This was followed by numerous guest appearances in series such as *Verbotene Liebe*, *Balko*, *Die Wache*, and *Nikola*.
Karrenbauer achieved her breakthrough in 1997 with her role as Christine Walter in *Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast*, a character she portrayed across a total of 16 seasons, continuing until 2007. For her performance, she was nominated for the German Television Award in 1999.
In addition to numerous television films, she also appeared in feature film productions such as *7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug*, *Zettl*, and *Cloud Atlas*. Furthermore, she collaborated on several occasions with director Rosa von Praunheim, including on the films *Härte* and *Darkroom – Tödliche Tropfen*.
Karrenbauer also remained active on the theater and musical stages, appearing in productions such as the Karl May Festivals in Elspe and Bad Segeberg. Moreover, she works as a voice-over artist, lending her voice to projects such as the series *Glee*.
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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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Chung King-Fai
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Chung King-Fai (鍾景輝) is a Hong Kong stage, film and television actor. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, he lived in Taishan, China and later in Hong Kong. After graduating from Pui Ching Middle School (香港培正中學) in Hong Kong, he majored in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He then moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama at the Oklahoma Baptist University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University's School of Drama. Back in Hong Kong, he worked a teacher at Baptist College, and as an actor and television producer for Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and later Asia Television Limited (ATV). In 1983, he was appointed the founding Dean of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performance Arts and remained in the post for 18 years.
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Anne Teyssèdre
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Anne Teyssèdre is a French actress. She began her career in theatre at the Cours Simon, then in film in the leading role of Véronique ou l'Été de Mes Treize Ans (1975). She entered the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique in Michel Bouquet's class, and pursued an interesting and atypical career that spanned theatre, television, commercial cinema and auteur cinema. She was the heroine of Éric Rohmer's Conte de Printemps (1990) and one of the main characters in several films and television series. Anne Teyssèdre eventually gave up her acting career for health reasons and turned to writing. She published two essays on the work of Éric Rohmer and short stories in collective works, film reviews, literary reviews, among others.
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Joanna Gleason
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Joanna Gleason Sarandon (née Joanne Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She is known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She is also known for her film work in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). She has had television roles in shows such as Friends, The West Wing, The Good Wife and The Affair.
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Tommy McLain
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Tommy McLain is perhaps the last great artist from rock ‘n’ roll’s pioneering first generation awaiting rediscovery. The signature swamp pop sound that he helped create spawned multiple national hits in the 1960s and inspired artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Little Feat, and Tony Joe White, among others. His best known songs - “Sweet Dreams,” “Before I Grow Too Old” and “Try To Find Another Man” - are to this day considered cornerstones of the genre. He’s been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (twice!), earned a gold record for writing “If You Don't Love Me (Why Don't You Just Leave Me Alone)” for Freddy Fender, and even appeared - as himself - in the 1975 Paul Newman thriller The Drowning Pool.
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