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Alexandra Rodriguez
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Born and raised in South Florida, Alex started singing at the age of 2 and modeling at the age of 4. At 16, Alex was signed by LA Reid to Island Def Jam. She appeared on Season 3 of The X Factor USA, making it into the top 10 in the groups category with her group, Girls United. She was also a finalist on Oxygen's The Glee Project, and has guest starred on shows such as HBO's The Newsroom and Nickelodeon's Hollywood Heights, as well as appearing in national commercials for Macy's, Target, Sears, and Paragard. Alex is currently a series lead on Hulu's East Los High.
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Bill Stevenson
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Bill Stevenson (born February 18, 1969) also credited as Billy, is an American actor.
Stevenson contributed music to the comedy film, Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985). Early on in his acting career, he landed roles in various films, including Like Father, Like Son (1987), Little Nikita (1988), The 'Burbs (1989), and Say Anything (1989). His film career continued throughout the nineties in productions like The Last Seduction (1994) and Outbreak (1995).
He also worked in television during the 90's, including appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, Melrose Place, Step by Step, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, NewsRadio, Murphy Brown, Dream On, and Tom (CBS, 1993-94). He shifted from film to television work through the early 2000s and beyond, appearing on series including ER, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives, Southland, Better Off Ted, NCIS, The Middle, Mike & Molly, Hot in Cleveland, Ghosted, Workaholics (Comedy Central), and Fresh Off The Boat, Speechless, Grace and Frankie, and Homecoming.
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Günther Haack
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Günther Haack (born February 20, 1929 in Berlin, † June 16, 1965 in Halle (Saale), and Günter Haack) was a German actor.
After the Second World War, Günther Haack first took acting lessons in Berlin (East). He then played at the Deutsches Theater and at the Volksbühne. In addition, he also worked at the radio and the Berlin cabaret Lachbrett. During this time, the DEFA became aware of him. He achieved a great public success with the role of joiner Peter Iwanow in the film version of the Lortzing opera Zar and Zimmermann. Also the presentation of the teacher Kiepe in I do not forget my Traudel or the border guards room in Every hour increased its popularity.
Following a traffic accident caused by him under the influence of alcohol followed by an accident escape, Haack received a prison sentence of 2 years and 6 months at the beginning of 1958. To the detention he volunteered for mining underground. After his early release, he managed to continue his acting career. As a passenger accident Haack on June 8, 1965 in a traffic accident in which the singer Manfred Raasch was killed. At the age of only 36, he died on 16 June in Halle (Saale) as a result of the accident.
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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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Peter Dreimanis
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The basic structural facts of rock band July Talk are this: two front people, Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis, surrounded by whiplashing guitarists Ian Docherty and Josh Warburton, and double drummers Danny Miles and Dani Nash. For this compulsively DIY, rigorously self-realizing group, the essence of July Talk has always been the tension between precision and chaos. To understand this tension, we can reduce it to sets of twos, or we can magnify it and look deeper as to why we feel the need to frame it one way or the other. What we see says more about what we’re looking for. With July Talk, as with most things, what have we missed? We need not ask what July Talk’s two writhing frontpeople’s relationship is to each other, but rather what their relationship is to us, their audience, and to the world, this tender, villainous, confounding world. These bodies welcome our gaze, they revel and recoil in it while they furiously push back, asking of us what they ask of each other: please see me for who I am. If we see July Talk as a woman and a man, in opposition to one another, what we are seeing is our own projections upon these bodies.
What goes on between these bodies, all of them, that kinetic, staticky, sticky space, is where the truth of July Talk takes shape. On stage, July Talk unfurls and explodes. The action pings from slo-motion commotion to back-bendy communion, fluid (as in bodily) and liquid (as in the dark goo phase of metamorphosis). Things get weird, occasionally grotesque, always enthralling. Each show offers moments of grace that reveal for a moment the inner workings of this unknowable universe. Hold onto those until the next time.
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Ron Kovic
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Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the film of the same name which starred actor Tom Cruise as Kovic, and was co-written by Kovic and directed by Oliver Stone.
Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20, 1990, 22 years to the day that he was wounded in Vietnam, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.
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Urassaya Sperbund
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Urassaya Sperbund (Thai: อุรัสยา เสปอร์บันด์; born March 18, 1993), nicknamed Yaya (Thai: ญาญ่า), is a Thai-Norweigan actress and model. She is the recipient of numerous accolades including: two Suphannahong National Film Awards, a Maya Awards, a TV Gold Award, a Nataraj Award, and three Mekhala Awards.
She initially received recognition with lead roles in Duang Jai Akkanee (2010), Game Rai Game Rak (2011), Torranee Ni Nee Krai Krong (2012), Khleun Chiwit (2017), and The Crown Princess (2018). Her most notable film roles include Brother of the Year (2018), Nakee 2 (2018), and Fast And Feel Love (2022).
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Stephanie Lodge
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Stephanie is an actress originally from South Yorkshire, now based in London. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy graduating with BA (Hons) in Acting in 2006. She has also attended Stella Adler Studio of Acting for a Chekhov course in the summer of 2012.
Since graduating, Stephanie has worked in a number of theatre productions, and also co-founded new writing theatre company Descent with whom she produced a regular new writing event (hosted by stand-up comedian Tom Rosenthal), showcasing up and coming writers and their work.
Stephanie has recently appeared in a number of feature films, including lead roles in horrors 'Don't Speak' and 'Bad Nun: Deadly Vows'. Other film credits include 'Hilda', 'The Looking Glass', 'Devil Djinn'.
Stephanie is also a professional photographer specialising in actor headshots and theatre photography.
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Henri Laborit
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Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success. Laborit was recognized for his work, but as a surgeon searching for an anesthetic, he came to be at odds with psychiatrists who made their own discoveries and competing claims.
Laborit wrote several books where he vulgarizes his ethological laboratory research and marries it, through systems thinking, with knowledge from several other disciplines, being a strong advocate of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. His writings can also be found to have deep roots in anarchist thought. He was personally untroubled by the requirements of science and the constraints of university life. He maintained an independence from academia and never sought to produce the orderly results that science requires of its adherents.
Henri Laborit was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, in 1914. His father was a physician and colonial officer who died in 1920 from tetanus. Laborit contracted tuberculosis at age 12. In Paris, he earned a baccalaureate. He spent two years in Indochina on a hospital ship. He passed the examinations at the Naval Health Service in Bordeaux, and became a navy physician. He was sent to Sidi Abdallah, Bizerte. Feeling that his options for recognition would be better, he switched to become a surgeon. During World War II he was stationed on the torpedo boat Sirocco, where he witnessed the evacuation of the Dunkerque, and then was sunk by the Germans. He was saved by an English sloop that picked him up. He received the French Military Cross with distinction. He was later stationed in Dakar. By about 1949 he was appointed to Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris.
Laborit was the first to recognize the potential psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine. The science of anesthesiology was new since the 1930s. Surgeons were sometimes responsible for anesthetics and as a French navy surgeon, Laborit had seen patients die as a result of or after their operations. He became a researcher in anesthesiology. Laborit's ideas on anesthesia included potentiated anaesthesia, lowering basal metabolism and lowering body temperature (so-called artificial hibernation). He advocated the use of procaine, synthetic antihistamines, Diparcol (diethazine), tetraethylammonium bromide and vitamin B1. He did not like to use morphine. In his years in Bizerte he became interested in the use of the antihistamine promethazine to make patients more relaxed before surgery and in contributing to anesthesia, observations that were the forerunner of his later interest in chlorpromazine. ...
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Chantal Lauby
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Chantal Lauby (born 23 March 1948) is a French actress, film director, screenwriter, humorist, comedian and television host. She is a member and founder of the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Bruno Carette, Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia.
Born in Gap, Chantal Lauby spent her childhood in Auvergne, between Auzon and Clermont-Ferrand. She begins to television as an announcer on FR3 Auvergne. Her career on regional offices of France 3 and Radio France where she meets Bruno Carette.
She is the mother of Jennifer Ayache (born 1983), singer of the French rock band Superbus. In one of her films, the album Aéromusical was the official soundtrack of the movie.
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