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Jürgen Prochnow
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Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.
He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner.
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Trent Reznor
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Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, actor, leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. Reznor left Interscope Records in 2007, and is now an independent musician.
Reznor began creating music early in his life, and cites his Western Pennsylvania childhood as an early influence. After being involved with a number of synthesizer-based bands in the mid-80s, Reznor gained employment at Right Track Studios and began creating his own music during the studio's closing hours under the moniker Nine Inch Nails. Reznor's first release as Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success, and he has since released seven major studio releases. Outside of Reznor's chief project Nine Inch Nails, he has contributed to many other artists' albums, including Marilyn Manson and Saul Williams. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music."
Reznor, in collaboration with Atticus Ross, composed the score for The Social Network, a 2010 theatrical film about the founding of Facebook. The duo won the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score for their collaboration. The soundtrack album was released by The Null Corporation, Reznor's own independent record label. Earlier this year, Reznor announced that the pair would once again be collaborating with David Fincher by composing the score to the US film adaptation of the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, set for release in late 2011.
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Ignacio López Tarso
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Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
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Leo XIV
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Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost; September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 conclave on May 8, 2025, following the death of Pope Francis.
Born in Chicago, United States, Prevost joined the Order of Saint Augustine as a young man, and was ordained priest in 1982. His service has included extensive missionary work in Peru from 1985 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1998, where he variously served as a parish pastor, diocesan official, seminary teacher, and administrator. Elected prior general of the Order of Saint Augustine from 2001 to 2013, he later returned to Peru as Bishop of Chiclayo (2015–2023). In 2023, Pope Francis appointed him prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and made him a cardinal the same year.
A dual citizen of the United States and Peru, Leo is the first pope born in the United States, and the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenship. He is also the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine. He is also the first Pontiff of Creole descent.
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Henry O'Neill
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Henry O'Neill (1891–1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly roles during the 1930s and 1940s.
O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage.
In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown, Santa Fe Trail, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, and The Reckless Moment. His last film was The Wings of Eagles.
Henry O'Neill died in 1961 at the age of 69.
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Harry Bracho
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Born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised between Paris, Mexico and London. Harry first studied Media & Communications with a specialization in Audiovisual Arts at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and worked for many years in Production and as Assistant Director in a number of films and commercials.
As he started to write and direct his own projects, he decided to move to the UK to study a MA in Filmmaking at The London Film School, where he focused mainly on Direction and Cinematography. He obtained his Masters with Distinction in the summer of 2015 with his film Bird Songs from Amazonia.
He then moved to Paris where he also obtained a MA in Theory, Aesthetic and Memory of Cinema at the Université Paris 8. At the moment, he is living between Paris and Biel/Bienne in Switzerland where he is collaborating with different artists and working on his next film projects.
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John Browne
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John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, is a British businessman and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Browne was the chief executive of BP between 1995 and 2007. This period has been described as the company's "golden period of expansion and diversification". During his tenure, Browne oversaw the mergers with Amoco and ARCO and gained access to Russian oil reserves with the creation of TNK-BP.[citation needed] Nicknamed the "Sun King" for his management style, he was also praised for transforming the oil and gas industry's approach to climate change, and for creating a renewable and alternative energy business within BP.[citation needed] He resigned from BP in May 2007 in controversial circumstances surrounding his personal life and sexuality.[citation needed]
He is a former president of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2006 to July 2011), and has served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Intel and Daimler Benz. He joined the House of Lords in 2001. Browne is a former partner at Riverstone Holdings, where he was co-head of its renewable energy private equity fund. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Cambridge and later attended Stanford University. Browne is a candidate in the 2025 University of Cambridge Chancellor election.
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Rachael Holoway
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Rachael is not only a versatile actress, she is also an accomplished martial artist with a black belt in Taekwondo. She was born and raised in England where she started her acting training at the age of 11. Rachael knew from a very young age that all she wanted to do was act, so her parents let her pursue her career early on. Her natural talent for acting got her accepted into one of the most prestigious acting schools in London, 'The Anna Scher Theatre School' where she trained for 3 years. It didn't take long for Rachael to start booking roles and she has enjoyed a wonderfully diverse career thus far. Rachael's career has relocated her to Los Angeles where her unique acting and martial arts skills really do make her a stand out actress.
Her talents also include singing, playing the drums and other martial art forms such as kick boxing and Muay Thai.
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Madelyn Deutch
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Madelyn Deutch is an actress and musician from Los Angeles, California. At the ripe age of 10 she began singing Broadway duets with heavyweights such as Dick Van Dyke, Wayne Brady, the cast of Frasier, Seinfeld, and more. During her time at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts she became a nationally recognized singer - participating in the very selective Grammy Ensemble, and Brubeck Summer Colony. Sweeping the Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th Anniversary, receiving an Outstanding Soloist Award from Downbeat Magazine, winning the esteemed Silver Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and being granted a scholarship to the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. And upon high school graduation she performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in support of the Presidential Scholars ceremony. She completed her first film "Mayor Cupcake" in the summer of 2009 starring alongside Judd Nelson and Lea Thompson (for which she also composed three original pieces) - and graduated from the New School in May of 2011 with honors. Madelyn lives in Los Angeles, working as an actress, and performing with her indie-rock band Maddie and the Bad Hats.
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Margaret Lindsay
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Margaret Lindsay (born Margaret Kies; September 19, 1910 – May 9, 1981) was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive. She was noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s such as Jezebel (1938) and Scarlet Street (1945) and her leading roles in lower-budgeted B movie films such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940s. Critics regard her portrayal of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hepzibah Pyncheon in the 1940 film adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables as Lindsay's standout career role.
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