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Iréne Söderblom

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Iréne Eleonor Söderblom, born 19 November 1921 in Gothenburg, was a Swedish actress, singer and accordionist. Iréne Söderblom is the daughter of the ball bearing worker Erik Herman Söderblom and Hulda Maria, unmarried Ahl. She started playing accordion early, took lessons for Fredrik Tancred and was discovered when she won an accordion contest in Gothenburg in 1941. She then went to Åke Söderblom (with whom she is not related), Sickan Carlsson, Lasse Dahlquist, Maritta Marke and Thor Modéen. She was accordion soloist at Chinavarietén in 1944. Söderblom took talks at Calle Barcklind and was adopted in 1945 at Terserus Teaterskola. That same year she was engaged by the Casino Force where she played for ten seasons. She is one of the founders of the Stall Birds. She was married to the actor and casino director Gösta Bernhard (1910-1986) in 1947-1970 and received her daughter Lillemor (born 1948). Then she was married to PR man Torsten Adenby (1918-1992) in 1971-1980. (Wikipedia)
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Vanda Margraf

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Li Wanming, born in 2003 in the original rainforest area of ​​Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Her father is a German doctor of ecology who is engaged in the restoration and reconstruction of Xishuangbanna tropical rainforest. Her mother is a well-known environmental worker. In 2012, she attracted widespread attention with the "China Talent Show". In 2017, she was admitted to the Song and Dance Major of the Middle School of Beijing Dance Academy. On March 18, 2019, she announced that she had signed a contract with Zedong Film Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Wong Kar-wai, and officially entered the entertainment industry with her film debut "Ip Man 4".
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Hassan Hosny

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Hassan Hosny was born in the Al Qal’aa neighborhood of Cairo, his father was a construction contractor. Housny’s mother passed away when he was only six years old and he was educated at the Radwaniyeh Elementary school. Hosny participated in theater productions at his school and received several awards for his efforts. Thereafter he took part in theatrical works whilst in the army and joined the “Al Keim” theater He was known for El Nazer, El basha telmiz and Zaky Chan. Widely regarded as a veteran of Egyptian cinema, his acting career spanned over 50 years and included performances in almost 500 films, television programs, and theatre plays
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Ivete Sangalo

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Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo (Brazilian Portuguese: [iˈvɛtʃi sɐ̃ˈɡaɫu], born May 27, 1972) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host. She is one of the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singers, with six albums released with Banda Eva, and seven more albums in a solo career. Sangalo is most often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances. Her music is also very popular in Portugal. She has sold 15 million copies of her albums.
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Pat Boone

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Pat Boone (born Charles Eugene Patrick Boone on June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs (when part of the country was segregated) and sold more copies than his black counterparts. He sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood movies. Boone's talent as a singer and actor, combined with his old-fashioned values, contributed to his popularity in the early rock and roll era. He continues to perform, and speak as a motivational speaker, a television personality, a conservative political commentator and a preacher. According to Billboard, Boone was the second biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley but ahead of Ricky Nelson and The Platters, and was ranked at No. 9—behind The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney but ahead of artists such as Aretha Franklin and The Beach Boys—in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955-1995. Boone still holds the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with more than one song. At the age of twenty-three, he began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired for 115 episodes (1957–1960). Many musical performers, including Edie Adams, Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey and Johnny Mathis made appearances on the show. His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broad popularity of rock and roll. During his tours in the 1950s, Elvis Presley was one of his opening acts. As a prolific author, Boone had a No. 1 bestseller in the 1950s (Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Prentice-Hall). In the 1960s, he focused on gospel music and is a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pat Boone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Fernando Sancho

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One of the most popular performers in Spanish cinema. Born in Zaragoza, Sancho began acting in the theatre. After fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he entered films in 1940 and amassed over 400 credits in a career that spanned 50 years. During the 1960s and 1970s he played villains in several spaghetti westerns. His films include "Mariona Rebull" (1947), "Agustina de Aragón" (1950), Terence Young's "That Lady" (1955), Juan Antonio Bardem's "Muerte de un Ciclista" (1955), "King of Kings" (1961), "Lawrence of Arabia"(1962), "55 Days at Peking" (1955), "Historias de la Televisión" (1965), "Tres Superhombres en el Oeste" (1973), "1919. Crónica del Alba" (1983) and Berlanga's "La Vaquilla" (1984).
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Alan Paul

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Alan Paul Wichinsky (born November 23, 1949, Newark, New Jersey) is a Grammy Award-winning singer and composer, best known as one of the founding members of the current incarnation of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer. Raised in Newark and Hillside, New Jersey Paul graduated from Hillside High School and attended Newark State College (now Kean University) where he earned a BA in Music Education. He received two Honorary Doctorate degrees, one in The Humanities from Kean University and another in Music from Berklee School of Music. He began his professional career on Broadway at the age of 12 in the original cast of Oliver! After college, he returned to Broadway as Teen Angel and Johnny Casino in the original cast of Grease, where he introduced the songs "Beauty School Dropout" and "Born to Hand Jive". In 2004, he released a solo CD called Another Place in Time. He also provided Dino Spumoni's singing voice on the animated television series Hey Arnold! As a writer and arranger for The Manhattan Transfer, he earned four Grammy nominations for his compositions "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" and "Code Of Ethics" and for his vocal arrangements for "Ray’s Rockhouse". He received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocalist, Male. Paul has been married to writer/model Angela Paul for 30 years; they have one daughter, Arielle. Source: Article "Alan Paul" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ulf Pilblad

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Ulf (Jean Loup) Pilblad was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a film producer, actor and script writer. In his childhood, he began early in theatre schools in Stockholm where he studied 8 years with different teachers. He also worked as an assistant to the operetta-singer and dancer, Hasse Funck, who had started an activity called Minifunckarna in 1965, where he educated children in acting! In Bangkok since 1996, he has started his own company, a Destination Management Company, PCE Travel Consultants, and worked as Production and Location Manager for several Scandinavian TV productions. He has also participated in several acting workshops with Maurizio Mistretta, Fulvio Ianneo and John Marengo and participated in several performances with ALL SOUL Production Company in Thailand and Italy! One of the plays - True Story - is based on his personal experiences during the Tsunami 2004 which was played for the first time in the Art and Culture Festival "Dramophone" in Bologna (Italy) in June / July 2012. Ulf has participated in the film The Impossible (2012) directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. In February 2013 he has participated in Bababoboa project Festival "Paura-fear-klua" at the TADU Art and Exhibition Center in Bangkok! In 2013 Ulf produced the film "Fufu - 99 Minutes of Life" in Thailand. He also played one of the main characters in the film: Roland. In 2014 he produced the film "Fatima's Secret" in Thailand. He also played one of the main characters in the film: Gogo. Ulf is also owner, together Maurizio Mistretta and Patchanee Poonthong, and producer of the All Soul Production Co., Ltd. (Thailand), All Soul Production (France). He is also owner and President of the travel agencies AFS Chic Paris (France) and PCE Travel Consultants (Thailand).
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Gillian Tan

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Starting out as a commercial model in tropical Singapore, Jilly Tan has made a living as a professional performer since 1999, carving out a career in Singapore television, the main media in her local industry. Besides a multitude of lead episodic, guest and recurring roles on all the local network channels, she has also landed series regular roles on four different TV dramas and comedies, three in the English language (Channel i's Durian King, Kids Central's Kids Rock, Channel News Asia's Bertha's Nest) and one in Mandarin (Channel U's Hu Jia). Fortunate enough not to be stereotyped as any particular character type or specific Asian race, she has taken on various challenging roles from the start to develop versatility in her craft. Though local feature films are independent and rare, she played lead and supporting roles in three in 2007. Jilly has always supported new ideas and short films as she believes that the industry is ever evolving. Therefore she is also constantly learning and growing as an performer. She can also be seen in local plays and musicals, be it for the literary or corporate stage. Grateful for her stage debut as "Oberon" in Action Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by the Dennis Tan, under Krishen Jit's supervision, her stage credits now include Hemang Yadav's Stage, Lionel Chok's Adultery, and Elangovan's Oh!. She has also served as a production manager, writer, youth theatre trainer, host and singer, most often in the genre of jazz. Having worked in and for Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, the USA, and of course Singapore, Jilly now intends to build a respectable acting career all over the world. Full of energy, enthusiasm, positivity, a strong sense of justice, and a corny sense of humor, Jilly relishes in the joy of just being a simple low-maintenance team player in the magical process of storytelling.
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