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Raul Talmar
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Raul Talmar (born January 6, 1959 in Tallinn) is an Estonian choral conductor.
He graduated from the 22nd High School in Tallinn in 1977 and Tallinn State Conservatory. Since 2008, he's been teaching choir conducting at Tallinn University. He is also the chairman of the Board of Estonian Song and Dance Festival. He has been the chairman of Estonian Choral Association. He has conducted the Estonian Song Festival on numerous occasions.
In 2012, he was awarded the Order of the White Star, V class.
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Chi Yi
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Chi Yi, born on January 6, 2004, in Bengbu, Anhui Province, is a Chinese singer and a member of the cross-dimensional idol group Yi'an Music Club.
He joined the group as a first-generation trainee in 2017. That same year, the group launched their self-titled comic series on February 14 and officially debuted on March 30. In December, Yi'an Music Club won the "Rising Group of the Year" award at the 1218 Live Festival Huajiao Night and released the single 365 Days of Fantasy Flight.
In 2020, Chi Yi took part in the web drama Youth Melody.
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Chigusa Nagayo
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Chigusa Nagayo (born December 8, 1964) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for her time in Japanese promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s. She was one-half of the Crush Gals tag team, with partner Lioness Asuka, and achieved massive mainstream popularity before her first retirement in 1989. In 1995, she founded GAEA Japan, and in 2014, created its successor Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling, which she still operates. Nagayo is often regarded as the most popular female wrestler of all time, as well as being one of the greatest and most influential.
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Thomas Huck
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Actor, voice actor, screenwriter but above all living, Thomas HUCK is a complete artist with numerous artistic projects.
His career in the eyes of the general public began at the 48h video marathon of the UGC of Strasbourg edition 2022 where he made a remarkable appearance in the role of Jerry in the short film Un Jour Une vie 3 from The Gredingues. In the following edition, he will also play the role of François Beauffroi in the short film Le Don de Soi with La Gare Entertainment
But his notoriety took off from his collaboration with the Intercalaire Productions association where he began by playing the antagonist of the film Zest: The Owner
He will continue to play the antagonists with Doctor Hoffmann from Hydrozoa, The Typewriter on Fire from Between the Lines, The Truth or even the cult classics Toothbrush in Emaillé and Dominique LeMéchant in Point Dead. But he has roles on the bright side of the moral spectrum, playing Simon in Clowneries, Georges in Number 16, or even his biggest role to date, that of Robert Hie in Passionately Robert Hie.
In addition to his machiavellian acting, Thomas wrote numerous successful screenplays such as Cookies and a Glass of Milk, In all Penality, Point Dead, AB Positive and the acclaimed Emaille.
In summary, Thomas Huck's career proves his irrefutable and unique talent: being human
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Robert Hossein
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Robert Hossein was a French film actor of Parsi origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His most recent roles include starring as Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series and as a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Prêtres interdits (Forbidden Priests) in 1973.
Hossein started directing films in 1956 with Les salauds vont en enfer from a story by Frédéric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Hossein with much of his later film material. Right from the start Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its conventions (sometimes to the extent of a complete disregard of the traditional demand for a final twist or revelation) in order to concentrate on ritualistic relationships. This is the director's running preoccupation which is always stressed in his films by an extraordinary command of film space and often striking frame compositions where the geometry of human figures and set design is used to accentuate the psychological set-up of the scene. The mechanisms of guilt and the way it destroys relationships is another recurring theme, presumably influenced by Hossein's lifelong interest in the works of Dostoyevski.
Although Hossein had some modest international successes with films like Toi, le venin and Le vampire de Dusseldorf, he was much singled out for scorching criticism by the critics and followers of the New Wave for the unashamedly melodramatic frameworks of his films. The fact that he was essentially an auteur director with a consistent set of themes and an extraordinary mastery of original and unusual approaches to staging his stories, was never appreciated. He was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, making the strikingly different spaghetti western Une corde, un Colt and the low-budgeted but daringly subversive period drama J'ai tué Raspoutine. However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Hossein virtually ended his film directing career in 1970, having concentrated on theatre where his achievements were never questioned, and subsequently returning to film directing only twice. With two or three exceptions, his films remain commercially unavailable and very difficult to see.
He is the son of André Hossein a Zoroastrian French composer of Azerbaijani-Tajik descent, and a Jewish comedy actress from Kiev. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (he has two sons with her, Pierre and Igor), later to Caroline Eliacheff (with whom he has a son, Nicholas). He is currently married to actress Candice Patou, with whom he has one son, Julien.
According to an article written by Emannuel Peze, Hossein experienced a conversion to Catholicism in 1971 during a visit to the Marian apparition at San Damiano in Lombardo Italy.
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Tracy McGrady
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Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr. (born May 24, 1979), nicknamed T-Mac, is an American former professional basketball player. McGrady entered the NBA straight out of high school and was selected as the ninth overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1997 NBA draft. Beginning his career as a low-minute player, he gradually improved his role with the team, eventually forming a duo with his cousin Vince Carter. In 2000, he left the Raptors for the Orlando Magic, where he became one of the league's most prolific scorers. In 2004, he was traded to the Houston Rockets, where he paired with center Yao Ming to help the Rockets become a perennial playoff team. His final seasons in the NBA were plagued by injuries, and he retired in 2013 following brief stints with the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the San Antonio Spurs. McGrady's career accolades include seven NBA All-Star selections, seven All-NBA selections, two NBA scoring titles, and the 2001 NBA Most Improved Player Award. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2017.
Since retiring, McGrady has worked as a basketball analyst for ESPN.
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Pierre Turgeon
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Pierre Turgeon (born 9 October 1947) is a Canadian novelist and essayist from Quebec.
He was a journalist and literary critic at Perspectives and Radio-Canada. He is also a co-founder of l'Illettré with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Poupart, Jean-Claude Germain and Michel Beaulieu. He is the author 22 books and of many screenplays, including a dramatization of the October Crisis.
Turgeon's family has deep roots within Quebec's history; his ancestors were among the first to settle in New France in 1662. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec and completed his studies in literature at the Collège Sainte-Marie in 1967. In 1968, he joined Radio-Canada, where he became a literary critic, signing broadcasts on foreign writers and becoming the host for Book Club, a radio weekly critical review of current literature directed by Gilles Archambault. He also pursued a career as a journalist in Perspectives. In 1969, he founded l'Illettré with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Poupart, Jean-Claude Germain and Michel Beaulieu. In 1970, he published his first novel, Sweet Poison, which received a warm welcome by critics and the public.
In 1972, Turgeon won first prize for Dramatic Works at the CBC for The Interview, which he wrote with Jacques Godbout. This radio play served as inspiration for the feature-length movie La Gammick (1975), starring Marc Legault, Julien Poulin, Serge Thériault and Dorothée Berryman. In 1975, he founded Quinze Books, and was a publisher there for three years. During this period, he published many novels, including Coming Attraction and One, Two, Three. He wrote La Fleur aux dents, a movie starring Claude Jutra. The Quiet Revolution, which changed the Quebec society in the 1960s, greatly inspired Turgeon in his works during that period.
In 1970, the October Crisis was one of the key moments in Canadian history. It gave birth to the controversial film The October Crisis produced by the CBC and Radio-Canada and directed by Mark Blandford. In 1978, he became director of the press at the Université de Montréal (PUM). From 1979 to 1985, he was the manager and publisher of the Sogides Group (L'Homme, Le Jour, Quinze). In 1981, his talent as a novelist was recognized with the release of The First Person which received the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction. ...
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Ayana Prewitt
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Ayana Prewitt was born in Houston, Texas and has one sibling, Zaire Prewitt. At the age of 8 she decided that she wanted to pursue an acting career and was discovered by Page Parkes Talent where she was featured in commercials, print media, and fashion events. She was featured in theatrical roles in "The Wind and the Willows" (2012) and "Bugsy Malone" (2013) at the Katy Visual and Performing Arts Theatre. Most recently she is known as Katarina in the short film "Burn" (2016).
In 2013 Ayana started living in Los Angeles, CA after signing with AEFH Talent Agency. She has been featured in short films "Special Valentine" (2014), "Summer in the Water" (2014), Promo for Food Network (Venice Beach Food Truck Brawl-2014), and a PSA "Erin's Law Changing the World Campaign" (2015).
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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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Elliott Hanna
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On July 17, 2013, 10-year-old Elliott Hanna became the 34th and youngest boy ever to play Billy Elliot on the London stage. He also became the 71st worldwide in the role. Elliott is from the home of the Beatles – Liverpool – where he has been dancing since the age of four, beginning with break dancing and gradually expanding his dance repertoire at Nazene Danielle’s Dance Dynamix. Before his involvement with BETM, Elliott attended St Cecilia’s Junior School in the Liverpool community of Tuebrook.
Elliott Hanna started dancing at the age of four at the Nazene Danielle's Dance Dynamix in Liverpool. He started with break dancing and soon became interested in other styles of dance including ballet, tap and modern theatre. Elliott has performed locally in The Wizard of Oz and Dick Whittington and sang in the touring Abba - the Show for two years running at Liverpool's Echo Arena. At eight years old he became the youngest winner of the Janet Cram Modern Theatre Award. After coming third on Sky 1's Got to Dance, he and his dance partner Tayluer Amos, went on to perform at the Savoy Theatre as part of the Queen's Jubilee celebration.
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