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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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Yuen Biao
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Yuen Biao (Chinese: 元彪, born 26 July 1957) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has worked on over 80 films as actor, stuntman and action choreographer. Along with Peking Opera School "brothers" at the China Drama Academy, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, he was a member of the"Seven Little Fortunes" performance troupe in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School. Was a member of the Sammo Hung Stuntmen's Association.
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Scott Gryder
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Scott Gryder is a three-time Emmy Award-winning, professional entertainer in Chicago. Currently performing in the cabaret circuit and at local music venues, Scott specializes in character songs, with musical styles ranging from pop and cabaret to specialty numbers and show tunes; covering the works of local talents like Susan Werner, show music from Sondheim to Kerrigan & Lowdermilk, pop from stars such as Elton John, and many more. Referred to as a belting “super tenor” and a “one-man parade,” Scott blends a musical cocktail of the zingy warbles of vintage Judy Garland with the spirited enthusiasm of the cast of Glee, paired with the poise and show business charisma of Billy Crystal. Critics agree Scott is “tremendously funny” with his improvised audience banter and showmanship alongside his physical comedy.
Scott has been seen throughout Chicagoland, with most recent appearances in Eleanor’s Very Merry Christmas Wish (DMT Productions) the Jeff-Award-winning Buyer & Cellar (Pride Films & Plays), Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera of Chicago), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drury Lane Theatre at Water Tower Place). He has performed in a multitude of cabarets, including SIMPLY SCOTTY (with Nick Sula), WOZ: A Rock Cabaret, and Life Is A Cabaret – The Music & Words of Kander & Ebb, at such venues as Davenport’s, Skokie Theatre, and Auditorium Theatre’s Katten/Landau Studio.
In February 2011, Scott joined the cast and creative team of WCIU’s Emmy-winning cast of Green Screen Adventures, a national children’s television show that promotes reading and writing among elementary school students. Many of Scott’s roles were animal characters and puppets.
Scott’s debut album Pure Imagination (2011) is available on iTunes and Amazon, featuring his long-time, award-winning musical director Nick Sula.
Starting in January 2011, Scott began puppet cabaret performances with a felt family of his own creation. Under the guise of his crafting company, TSGpuppetry, Scott used a blend of patterns and freehand designs to create an assortment of completely handmade, customized character and human hand puppets.
Gryder has a B.A. in Theater from Texas Tech University.
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Aarif Rahman
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Aarif Lee (born Aarif Rahman on 26 February 1987) is an actor and Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. After singing "Only Friends" at a gathering, he was signed by Alvin Wang and Leon Lai of East Asia Record Production and became one of the new artists in 2009. Lee also won "Best New Performer" at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2010, for his performance in Echoes of the Rainbow.
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Yûki Maeda
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前田有紀 (Maeda Yuki) is a former Japanese singer, stage actress, and radio host. She started her career under the management of enka singer Itsuki Hiroshi in 1994, before joining Hello! Project as a soloist in 2000, debuting her first single "Naki Usagi" under the renowned enka label Teichiku Records. She graduated with the rest of the Elder Club in March 2009, but continued her singing career as part of UP-FRONT AGENCY. In June 2012, she announced on her Twitter account that she was five months pregnant and would retire to focus on being a mother. She slowly started her career again in 2022 when she became more active on YouTube and started acting in stage plays leading up to the release of her 12th single the same year.
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Bob Johnson
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Robert Cleveland Johnson was an American actor who played supporting roles on series television and in films. Johnson is probably best known as the "voice behind the scenes", who gave the recorded mission briefings on the Mission: Impossible television series. In spite of never being credited for any of his work on Mission: Impossible, Johnson was the only performer to be involved in all seven seasons of the original series, and the two seasons of the 1988 revival. He also reprised the role for a 1968 episode of the sitcom Here's Lucy. His voice was also heard in episodes of The Outer Limits and Star Trek: The Original Series.
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Erin Gray
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An actress, model and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
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Kokoy de Santos
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Ronald Marquez de Santos Jr., known professionally as Kokoy de Santos, is a Filipino actor, singer, dancer, and commercial model. His movie "Fuccbois" was an official entry to 15th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival that gave him a break in to acting. In May 2020, he was cast as one of the main actors in the YouTube series, Gameboys. Produced by The IdeaFirst Company, it is a boys love (BL) series in the Philippines that tackles the story of two young boys who found each other online amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. He plays the role of Gavreel Alarcon alongside Elijah Canlas who plays the role of Cairo Lazaro, a famous online game streamer, in this thirteen-part web series.
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John Billingsley
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John Billingsley (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, known for his role as Doctor Phlox on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
John Billingsley was born in Media, Pennsylvania, and subsequently lived in Huntsville, Alabama and Slidell, Louisiana before his family settled in Weston, Connecticut.
Billingsley is married to fellow actor Bonita Friedericy. She first became interested in him after seeing him perform in a stage production of Great Expectations. Friedericy appeared with Billingsley in "Regeneration", a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise in which she played Rooney. The couple of have subsequently appeared in other productions together.
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Henry Lohmann
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Henry Lohmann Nielsen, der var søn af gårdejer Mads Lohmann Nielsen og hustru Anna Sofie Kristine Kathrine Jensen, skulle oprindelig som gårdmandssøn på Fyn være landmand, men brød efter et ophold på Ollerup af og aflagde prøve for Helge Rungwald som prinsen i "Der var engang". Han læste hos Kai Lind og kom som elev til Odense Teater fra 1948-1950, hvor han bl.a. spillede med i "Nøddebo præstegård" og "Mikkel Larsens drenge". Året efter blev han optaget på Det Kongelige Teaters Elevskole. Under elevtiden spillede han i småroller bl.a. "Den Gerrige" og "Søskende" og siden i "Maskerade" og "Det lille hotel". Da han efter afgangseksamen fra elevskolen var blevet fast engageret på Det Kongelige Teater erklærede hans lærer Holger Gabrielsen at han med tiden skulle blive Rasmus Christiansens arvtager. Han var knyttet til Det Kongelige Teater 1953-1966. Med sit joviale lune og sit runde korpus spillede han en række mindre roller i klassiske og moderne komedier. Henry Lohmann besluttede året før sin død at bryde ud fra Det Kongelige i håb om at han på en anden arbejdsplads kunne få kunstnerisk luft under vingerne. Han blev knyttet til Gladsaxe Teater, hvor han havde glædet sig til sin første opgave i "Tiggeroperaen". Han havde adskillige roller i Radio og TV og havde mange H.C. Andersen-oplæsninger.
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