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Irandhir Santos
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Irandhir Santos Pinto (Barreiros, August 22, 1978) is a Brazilian actor. He has received several awards throughout his career, including an APCA Award, five Guarani Awards, and an Extra Award, in addition to receiving nominations for seven Grande Otelo Awards, an ACIE Award, and a Quality Brazil Award. Santos is revered for his work in cinema, which earned him awards at the most important festivals, including a Kikito Trophy for Best Actor at the Gramado Festival. Recently he has stood out for his performances on television.
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Adam K. Batchelor
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Adam K Batchelor is a Writer/Director from London, United Kingdom. He currently works as a self-shooting Producer at a creative agency and as a Freelance Director on various commercial, editorial and creative film projects internationally. Adam has previously collaborated with Filmmaker Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull as a Cinematographer on his short films - I.R.I.S and SYNC, and on his first feature film ‘The Beyond’ (previously on Netflix). More recently Batchelor has transitioned into the Director chair for his first proof of concept short film Satori [Awakening], which he is currently developing as a feature film and TV series.
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Sujit Kumar
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Sujit Kumar (7 February 1934 – 5 February 2010), born near a village in Varanasi, was an Indian film actor and producer. He appeared in over 150 Hindi films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and 25 films in Bhojpuri. From the late 90s, he latterly concentrated more on production. Kumar was the first superstar of Bhojpuri cinema. He played pivotal roles either as a villain or as a character actor regularly in the most of films with Rajesh Khanna as the hero and in the films directed by Shakti Samanta. His indelible screen image remains of the guy playing the mouth organ while driving a jeep as Rajesh Khanna serenades Sharmila Tagore in the 1969 superhit, Aradhana.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas.
Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history.
In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi however did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the bicentenary of his birth in 2013 was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.
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Emanuel Fernandez
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Emanuel Fernandez is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for different independent promotions. He is best known by the his ring name "The Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez. Fernandez had success in 1979, becoming Florida Heavyweight Champion after a feud with Terry Funk. He also formed a tag team with Dusty Rhodes, and they won the NWA World tag team title from Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle. They feuded with them and Ivan's "nephew" Nikita Koloff until losing the title to the Koloffs in early 1985. Fernandez soon became involved in a feud with Arn Anderson after being attacked by Anderson and laid out. He teamed with Thunderbolt Patterson to feud with Arn and Ole Anderson. In late 1985, he started helping Jimmy Valiant in his war against Paul Jones and his "Army". He formed a team with Valiant called the "B and B Connection" ("Boogie Woogie" and "Bull"). He had some matches against Abdullah the Butcher and The Barbarian. He also formed a tag team with Hector Guerrero in 1986 called The Latin Connection. In the summer of 1986, Fernandez accepted Jones' money and turned on Valiant starting a feud between the two. Later in the year, Jones also brought in Rick Rude. Pairing Fernandez and Rude together, the duo defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express for the NWA World tag team title. They feuded with the Express and kept the titles until June 1987 when Rude left the promotion, which was resolved with a "phantom title change". Fernandez & Chavo Guerrero came to CWA in Memphis in 1987. Fernandez teamed with Ivan Koloff for the rest of the summer and left for the Mid-Southern promotion in late 1987. He was soon in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) feuding with Wahoo McDaniel after he attacked Wahoo and destroyed his headdress. The two veterans, who had feuded briefly in the NWA, engaged in an "Indian Strap match" at the AWA pay-per-view Super Clash III. After that feud ended in late 1988, Fernandez headed to Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council (WWC) where he stayed through 1991 and then he headed to the independent circuit. Fernandez sparked controversy in the WWC in 1989 when he wrestled Invader #3. During the match, Fernandez landed a knee drop off the top rope to Invader #3's midsection; the impact apparently ruptured Invader #3's stomach cavity, causing him to vomit blood all over the ring while Fernandez landed two more knee drops. There have been debates on whether Invader #3's injury was a work, with some theorizing that the incident came about due to real life bad blood between Fernandez and Jose Gonzalez, the booker of WWC who was acquitted of murdering Bruiser Brody earlier that year. Others say the blood was a combination of pig's blood and vodka.[2] In an interview with Bill Apter, Fernandez claimed that it was not a work and deliberately injured Jose as a way to avenge the death of Bruiser Brody, though his match with Gonzalez took place nearly 2 months prior to Brody's death in July of the same year.
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Clea Lewis
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Clea Lewis (born July 19, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend Audrey Penney in Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom Ellen.
Lewis was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a writer mother and a former vaudeville performer and lawyer father. Lewis graduated from Brown University in 1987. She and her husband, Peter Ackerman, have two sons, Stanley born in 2002 and Alvin born in 2005. Lewis has also appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Flying Blind. She also appeared in the first episode of Friends, in which she played Frannie. She has appeared in numerous films, including Scotch & Milk, The Rich Man's Wife, andDiabolique. In 2000 she did the voice of Amy Lawrence in Tom Sawyer. Lewis played Gina, a chatty ad agency worker, in 2007's Perfect Stranger. She also voiced various characters in the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. She also appeared on the short-lived Andy Barker, P.I. as Jenny Barker, the wife of the title character. Her somewhat nasal, squeaky voice has meant a great deal of animation voice-over work for Lewis, including in both television (ABC's Saturday morning cartoon, Pepper Ann) and film (Ice Age: The Meltdown). She also recorded the book-on-CD for The Princess Diaries.
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Robbie Dias
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Robbie Dias was born in Santa Clara CA. Studied acting at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He furthered his film education receiving degrees in Producing, Screenwriting, Directing, Post Production, and Cinema Arts from Los Angeles Valley College. Robbie has written app games for Game Garden, as well as two produced feature films one being a festival award winner. He also directs web content professionally and has over thirty film festival wins and nominations including four-time best director. Robbie's first passion was football having played semi-pro in the Bay Area.
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Yuki Morita
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Yuki Morita was born and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She studied English literature at Otsuma University, and at the same time, studied acting at the Enbu School. After graduating, she relocated to England to study English, and then traveled the world -- an experience that inspired her to become an actress. In 2007, Yuki moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. There, she studied acting at New Image College of Fine Arts, while working regularly as a background actress on numerous films and series, including "The 4400," "Smallville," "Psych," "The L-Word," "Bionic Woman," "Intelligence," "The EYE," "Doctor Doolittle 5: Goin' Hollywood," and "Operation: Espionage." However, Yuki's talent and graceful beauty is quickly earning her notice as a principal and lead actress in film and stage. After appearing in the short drama "Milos," Yuki played the matriarchal Queen Shogami in the sci-fi romantic drama, "Food for the Gods." Soon after, Yuki was cast in the starring role "Mindy" in the dramedy stage production "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball. Yuki continues to garner major roles on stage, as well as pursuing a film and television career.
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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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Maitê Padilha
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Maitê Pacheco de Castro Padilha is a Brazilian actress and singer. She became known for playing Gaby Estrella, protagonist of the Gloob series Gaby Estrella.
On August 24, 2021, she was announced as the protagonist of one of the films in the An Unforgettable Year franchise, where she will bring Mabel to life.
The franchise will consist of four films, starting with 'An Unforgettable Year - Autumn', followed by 'An Unforgettable Year - Winter', then 'An Unforgettable Year - Spring' and ending with 'An Unforgettable Year - Summer'. The production and artistic supervision of the franchise are by Rodrigo Montenegro and Mara Lobão, from Panorâmica.
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