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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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Kim Hee-jung
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After studying at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, KIM Heejung made her first feature film The Wonder Years (2007), the story of a girl who embarks on a journey to find her real mother. The film focuses on the troubled identity of a person who longs for something that doesn’t belong to her. Her second feature, Grape Candy (2011) is a rumination of memories which dominate the present. Her third feature Snow Paths (2015) is the story of a man attempting to overcome trauma who is sent to a Catholic sanatorium for alcoholism, and meets a nun who can spiritually commune with dead souls. Her latest feature, A French Woman follows the delirium of a woman who confronts her painful past through a mysterious time gate.
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Kerry Condon
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Kerry Condon (born January 9, 1983) is an Irish actress. She was the youngest actress to play Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet (2001–2002). She played Octavia of the Julii in Rome (2005–2007), Stacey Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul (2015–2022), and was the voice of the artificial intelligence entity F.R.I.D.A.Y. in various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Condon has collaborated with Martin McDonaghin on the plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (2009), as well as the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). She received several accolades for her performance in the last of these, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Brendan Vink
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Vink debuted as early as May 31, 2008, under the ring name Elliot Sexton. Wrestling primarily in Australia, Sexton appeared in promotions including WRESTLE RAMPAGE (WR) and Melbourne City Wrestling (MCW). During his time in both promotions, Sexton became a one-time MCW Heavyweight Champion and a one-time WrestleRock Champion. In 2018, he made his international debut in matches for the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling and the British promotion PROGRESS Wrestling.
Early appearances (2019–2020)
On February 11, 2019, it was announced that Vink had signed a contract with WWE and that he would report to the WWE Performance Center.[4] Vink debuted under his real name at an NXT house show on March 15, 2019, defeating Nick Comoroto. He went on to spend the remainder of March and the following month of April wrestling on house shows. Vink made his televised debut on the March 25, 2020, episode of NXT, teaming with Shane Thorne in a losing effort against Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch.
Vink made his debut for EVOLVE in 2019 as part of EVOLVE's business relationship with WWE at EVOLVE 141 where he defeated Colby Corino in his first singles match. Vink would then go on a winning streak in EVOLVE, defeating the likes of AR Fox, Stephen Wolf, JD Drake and Leon Ruff.
In March 2020, Vink began appearing on Raw alongside his former TMDK stablemate Shane Thorne where they faced teams such as The Street Profits and Cedric Alexander and Ricochet but were defeated. On the April 27 episode of Raw, Thorne and Vink became MVP’s newest associates as he challenged Alexander and Ricochet to a match the next week on their behalf. On the May 4 episode of Raw, Thorne and Vink defeated Alexander and Ricochet earning their first victory. However, their alliance with MVP ended after they were both traded back to NXT and Thorne and Vink would quietly disband as a team soon after.
NXT Breakout Tournament (2021-present)
In July 2021, Vink, under the new ring name Duke Hudson was announced to be a part of the 2021 NXT Breakout Tournament. On the July 13 episode of NXT, Hudson defeated Ikemen Jiro in the first round. On the August 17 episode of NXT, Hudson was eliminated in the semi-finals by Carmelo Hayes. Hudson would then confront Kyle O'Reilly and a brawl would ensue leading to a match being made between the two on next weeks episode of NXT.
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Loletta Lee Lai-Chun
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Loletta Lee Lai-Chun (Chinese: 李麗珍) is a Hong Kong actress and a singer born on 8 January 1966.
Lee started out by playing small roles in Hong Kong movies in the 1980s. Her first role as a lead actress was in Devoted to You, and she became a beloved mainstay of Hong Kong commercial films. Lee continues to work in Hong Kong cinema. Her performance in Ordinary Heroes earned her a Taipei Golden Horse Award in 1999 for Best Actress. In 2022, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards. In an interview with FHM, Lee revealed that her parents were Indonesian Hakka of Meixian ancestry.
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Amariah Faulkner
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Amariah Faulkner was born May 13, 2001 in Newmarket Ontario, the only child of Thomas Faulkner and Danielle Faulkner. She is known for voicing such characters as Clara O'Dea in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015), Katerina Kitty in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (2012), Annie in Creative Galaxy (2013), and Amanada in Arthur (1996). Her TV and film credits include A Perfect Christmas (2016), Max & Shred (2014), and Odd Squad (2014). In addition to TV and film, Amariah has performed on stages across Canada including The Sound Of Music (Princess of Wales Theatre), Mary Poppins (Neptune Theatre), The Heart of Robin Hood (Royal Alexandra Theatre), Grey Gardens (Berkley Street Theatre). Amariah is a student member of the Royal Academy of Dance and studies all forms of dance completing exams in ballet, tap and modern. She also studies Royal Conservatory of Music voice.
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Danny Pino
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Daniel Gonzalo Pino (born April 15, 1974) is an American actor who starred as Detective Scotty Valens on the CBS series Cold Case from 2003 to 2010, and as NYPD Detective Nick Amaro in the long-running NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2011 to 2015. In 2002, he appeared in London's West End in Up for Grabs with Madonna. In May 2003, Pino played Desi Arnaz in a CBS special on the life of Lucille Ball, Lucy. He played drug cartel leader Miguel Galindo on Mayans M.C. which airs on FX, and FBI agent John Bishop in procedural crime drama Gone.
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Micaela Ramazzotti
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Micaela Ramazzotti (born 17 January 1979) is an Italian actress. Her film credits include Non prendere impegni stasera, The First Beautiful Thing and Il cuore grande delle ragazze. Ramazzotti was a regular cast member of the show Crimini bianchi.She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress for her role in The First Beautiful Thing in 2010.
She married film director, writer and producer Paolo Virzì, on January 17, 2009, in Livorno. Together they have 2 children: Jacopo (born 1 March 2010) and Anna (15 April 2013).
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Lesley Joseph
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Lesley Joseph was born on October 14, 1945 in Finsbury Park, London, England as Lesley Diana Joseph. She is an actress, known for Birds of a Feather (1989), Night & Day (2001) and Celebrity Juice (2008).
She was a guest call taker for the phone lines of the donations to The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live.
Joseph's mother (Rebecca Mundy, née Maccoby) was born in May 1912 and died in March 2016 aged 103.
Appeared in TV adverts for the now-defunct British supermarket chain comprising of Gateway and Somerfield in the 1990s.
She has 2 children, a son and a daughter
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Irving Finkel
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Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is an English philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.
Finkel was born in 1951 to a dentist father and teacher mother, one of five children, and grew up at Palmers Green, North London. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew but became an atheist as a teenager. He earned a PhD in Assyriology from the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Wilfred G. Lambert with a dissertation on Babylonian exorcistic spells against demons
Finkel spent three years as a Research Fellow at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. In 1976 he returned to the UK, and was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum, where he was (and remains) responsible for curating, reading and translating the museum's collection of around 130,000 cuneiform tablets.
In 2014, Finkel's study of a cuneiform tablet that contained a flood narrative[8] similar to that of the story of Noah's Ark, described in his book The Ark Before Noah, was widely reported in the news media.The ark described in the tablet was circular, essentially a very large coracle or kuphar and made of rope on a wooden frame. The tablet included sufficient details of its dimensions and construction to enable a copy of the ark to be made at about 1/3 scale, as documented in a 2014 TV documentary Secrets of Noah's Ark that aired as an episode of PBS's NOVA series.[11] The reconstructed ark was floated with partial success given that the bitumen used as sealant for the vessel walls immediately succumbed to leaks and a gasoline powered pump had to continuously be used to pump out water.
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