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Sian Brooke
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Sian Brooke is a British actress, known for portraying Laura in All About George, Lori in Cape Wrath, and Eurus Holmes in Sherlock. Sian Elizabeth Phillips was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England and is the youngest of three siblings. She took on a stage name to avoid confusion with fellow actress Siân Phillips, choosing Brooke after an English Civil War general who served at Lichfield. She is the daughter of a police officer and a teacher.Her parents are Welsh. Brooke's early education was at The Friary School in Lichfield. She initially joined the Lichfield Youth Theatre at the age of 11 before becoming a member of the National Youth Theatre and subsequently training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from where she graduated in 2002.
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Atthaphan Phunsawat
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Gun Atthaphan Phunsawat is a Thai actor signed under GMMTV. He started to study Business Administration at Bangkok University before switching his studies to Political Science at Ramkhamhaeng University.
At a young age, Gun entered the entertainment industry supported by his mother who knew about her son's ambitions. He auditioned for film companies and became the first winner of The Boy Model Competition 2003. He had his first lead role in 2004's "Gomin", one of his more popular works domestically.
He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 7th Chalerm Thai Awards and the Performance of the Year at the Bioscope Awards 2015. For his performance in the 2018 TV series "The Gifted", he won 'Best Fight Scene' at the LINE TV Awards (2019) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 24th Asian Television Awards (2020).
Outside his acting career, Gun owns the clothing brand GENTE, a beauty products brand called Gun’s Shine Glow Gun, and co-owns another clothing brand Too Cute To Be Cool. He is a co-owner of the café Last House on the Right.
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Lana Young
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Lana comes from the beautiful island of Bermuda where her love for acting began. As a little girl sitting in the movie theater watching ORCA, she thought, I want to be up on that screen. But making a living as an actor in a small Island like Bermuda is not an option. So, she got caught up in the corporate world and found herself navigating the challenges of being a 20 something woman working on a trading desk at an investment company full of men. She sought out sanity and solace in the local theatre world and her love for acting bloomed. At 28 the universe intervened and decided it was time to change course and she found herself in Boston. There she was cast in her first film, a one woman show and an adaptation of Checkov's "The Lady With The Pet Dog" at the Leland Center all while still working in the corporate world. But these life changing acting opportunities set her on the path of acting as a career. After a life changing event, she decided that she had the gift of a fresh, new start and decided that this was the time to pursue acting for real. At 33 she moved to London where she received her Masters in Acting at the Arts Educational School of London. Some of her performances while there include Phyllis in Bernard Shaw's "The Philanderer", Lady 'you know who' in that Scottish Play by Shakespeare, Lona Hessel in an adaptation of Iben's "Pillars of The Community" and "The Graduate" at The New Vic Theatre with Charity Wakefield. She then moved to Los Angeles where she fell into the arms of the Classical Theatre Lab and spread her wings. It was a difficult time in her fledgling career. It was early 2000s and casting wasn't very representative of what the world actually looked like and as a mixed race actress in her 30s, auditions were very few and far between. In her 5 years there, she managed to book her first TV gig on Zoey 101, her first National commercial (Cricket Wireless with Jessica Sanchez) and an exciting supporting role in the independent film "Beginners" with Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor. But it wasn't enough to keep her fire alive and it was time to take a break and regroup.
She moved to Charlottesville VA and opened an acting school for kids and adults called the Hollywood Theatre Lab (teaching life skills through acting). It was an exciting time. Charlottesville welcomed her with open arms and the school grew rapidly with so much support. She was able to keep the machine well oiled by working on indie films shot there.
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Sonnyboy Skelton
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Sonnyboy Skelton was born in Epsom on 22nd August 2001, he discovered his love of acting during the Christmas of 2010 when he appeared as a Lost boy starring alongside David Hasselhoff in panto, a role he played alongside him for 3 years. He as worked professionally in many theatre productions including a short piece at Guildfest. Following several short films including the award winning "Boy with a camera for a face" his TV and film work include: Young Gareth in the Ammerican Sitcom Galavant playing a young Vinnie Jones, Jamie in Neil Gaimens Likey Stories, Estate Thug in feature film Accident Man, Andy in Call the Midwife, Martin in Sky 1's In the long run, and Josh in the TV adaptation of the film by the same name Hanna.
Sonnyboy Skelton was born in Epsom on 22nd August 2001, he discovered his love of acting during the Christmas of 2010 when he appeared as a Lost boy starring alongside David Hasselhoff in panto, a role he played alongside him for 3 years. He as worked professionally in many theatre productions including a short piece at Guildfest. Following several short films including the award winning "Boy with a camera for a face" his TV and film work include: Young Gareth in the Ammerican Sitcom Galavant playing a young Vinnie Jones, Jamie in Neil Gaimens Likey Stories, Estate Thug in feature film Accident Man, Andy in Call the Midwife, Martin in Sky 1's In the long run, and Josh in the TV adaptation of the film by the same name Hanna.
Sonnyboy over the years as also been in numerous music videos and featured in many modeling campaigns.
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René Ferlet
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René Ferlet, born in Accolay (Yonne) on January 22, 1920 and died on April 9, 19891 in Montpellier, was a mountaineer who participated in 1946 in the third ascent of the Walker spur on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses.
René Ferlet was born in Accolay, in Yonne, in 1920. Before the Second World War, he met Pierre Allain on the rocks of Fontainebleau. Engaged as a volunteer in 1939, he was incorporated into a section of scouts-skiers in the Queyras then was demobilized in 19412. In 1943, he met Lionel Terray in Chamonix with whom he made a series of ascents including the first ascent of the face direct northwest of the Peigne. In the post-war years, the party was one of the best climbers in the forest of Fontainebleau, around the "master" Pierre Allain. Ferlet particularly distinguished himself in 1946 at Bas-Cuvier, by completing the first climb of the Marie-Rose, the first boulder rated 6a, a slab highly coveted by the “bleausards”. Pierre Allain did the first rehearsal immediately afterwards. At the time, the Marie-Rose was rated 6b, the Angle Allain being considered the first 6a (opened in 1935). But with advances in climbing shoes, these two historic passages have been given a notch discount: the Angle Allain at 5c and the Marie-Rose at 6a. They retain the "obligatory passages" highly respected by bouldering enthusiasts.
In 1951, René Ferlet led the first French expedition to the Patagonian Cordillera during which Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone succeeded in the first ascent of Fitz Roy (February 2, 1952). In 1953, he supervised the French expedition which climbed the south face of Aconcagua for the first time.
René Ferlet was a member of the Groupe de Haute Montagne and of the Société des Explorateurs Français and administrative secretary of the French Alpine Club and the Club Alpin Français and Fédération Française de la Montagne et de l'Escalade.
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Larisa Shepitko
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Larysa Efimovna Shepitko (6 January 1938, Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR – 2 June 1979, Kalinin Oblast) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director. She went to the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow as a student of Olexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovzhenko's for 18 months until he died in 1956. Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize winning diploma film Heat, made when she was 22 years old. It tells the story of a new farming community in Central Asia during the mid 1950s.
Shepitko's next film Wings concerns a much-decorated female fighter pilot of World War II. The pilot, now principal of a vocational college, is out of touch with her daughter and the new generation. The film aroused considerable Soviet press controversy at the time, as films were not meant to depict conflicts between children and parents (Vronskaya, 1972 p 39).
Shepitko's third film was You and I (1971). This was her only film in colour. It was favourably received at the Venice Film Festival, but lacked proper public exposure in the Soviet Union.
The Ascent (1976) was her last film and the one which garnered the most attention in the West. In it, Shepitko returns to the sufferings of World War II, chronicling the trials and tribulations of a group of partisans in Belarus in the bleak winter of 1942. Two of the partisans are captured by the Nazis and then interrogated by a local collaborator, played by Anatoly Solonitsyn, before one of them is executed in public. This depiction of the martyrdom of the Russians owes much to Christian iconography. The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977.
Shepitko's growing international reputation led to an invitation to serve on the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978. However, she was unable to complete any other films. Shepitko died in a car crash with four members of her shooting team in 1979 while scouting locations for her planned adaptation of the novel Farewell to Matyora, by Valentin Rasputin. Her husband Elem Klimov, also a film director, finished the work for her.
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Loïck Peyron
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Loïck Peyron (born 1 December 1959 in Nantes) is a French yachtsman, younger brother of the yachtsman Bruno Peyron.
He is particularly famous for winning many races in the 1990s on board his trimaran Fujicolor.
Among his notable achievements, he won the ORMA Championship four times in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2002, the STAR transatlantic race three times, the transat Jacques Vabre twice and won the Jules Verne Trophy in 2012.
After Benjamin de Rothschild gave him control of the Gitana Team in April 2006, the team built Gitana Eighty, a 60 feet monohull, launched in July 2007 with which Loick Peyron won the Transat. On 9 December 2008, he began his participation in the 2008-2009 Vendée Globe with Gitana Eighty. After having led the race for 16 days, Gitana Eighty's mast broke.
In 2010, Peyron sailed in the 33rd America's Cup as part of the Alinghi Team, in the roles of 'floater' in race 1 and relief helmsman in race 2. Alinghi were defeated by the American challenger BMW Oracle Racing. In early 2012 he won the Jules Verne Trophy in a time of 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds, breaking Franck Cammas previous record by 2 days.
In late 2012 he was asked to join Artemis Racing, Challenger of Record for the 34th America's Cup, as one of the helmsmen. He brings a great amount of knowledge and expertise of multihulls to the campaign.
In November 2014, he won the Route du Rhum single-handed transat on Banque Populaire VII maxi trimaran. He set the new record, travelling from Brittany to Guadeloupe in 7 days 15 hours 8 minutes and 32 seconds (22.93 kts average speed) and beating Lionel Lemonchois 2006 record by 2h 10mn 34s.
In May 2016, he entered the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race aboard Pen Duick II, the boat sailed by Éric Tabarly to win this very race in 1964.
Source: Article "Loïck Peyron" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Tommy Davidson
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Tommy Davidson (born November 10, 1963) is an American comedian, film and television actor.
Born in Washington, D.C., Davidson was adopted when he was 2-years-old. He is the product of an interracial adoption, with his parents being Caucasian and he being African-American. He attended high school at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, in Bethesda, Maryland. After graduating, he enrolled at the University of the District of Columbia, but dropped out shortly thereafter.
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Erich von Stroheim
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Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was a multifaceted Austrian-American actor, director, and writer known for his contributions to cinema during the silent film era. He was renowned for his meticulous attention to detail as a director and for portraying intense, often morally ambiguous characters on screen. Stroheim gained fame for directing and starring in films like "Greed" and "The Merry Widow." His style was marked by elaborate storytelling and a commitment to realism. Stroheim's career was impactful, though often marked by conflicts with studios due to his uncompromising vision, which led to some of his films being heavily edited against his wishes.
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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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