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Dylan Neal
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Dylan Jeremy Neal (born October 8, 1969) is a Canadian/American actor. He is known for his roles as Dylan Shaw on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, Doug Witter on Dawson's Creek, Detective Mike Celluci in the supernatural series Blood Ties, and Aaron Jacobs on Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Additionally, Neal took on the role of Corey in Aaron Spelling's short lived drama, Pacific Palisades and detective Alexander Black in the film The Traveler (2010).
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François Barbeau
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François Barbeau CM (July 27, 1935 – January 28, 2016) was an award-winning Canadian costume designer. He was a professor at the National Theatre School of Canada and the Université du Québec à Montréal who worked on over 700 productions in Quebec and around the world.
After taking sewing in high school, he began his career in the 1950s at the theatre The Caravan of Paul Buissonneau. He afterwards worked as a designer at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert. Among the films he worked on are Léolo (1992), for which he won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design, and Laurence Anyways (2012), sharing the Genie with Xavier Dolan. In film, Barbeau mentored fellow-costume designer and Genie winner Louise Jobin.
In 1996, he received the Governor General's Award, and in 2000 he joined the Order of Canada. He died on January 28, 2016. Dolan's 2016 film It's Only the End of the World is dedicated to him.
Source: Article "François Barbeau" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ivan Goncharov
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Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812–1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels 'The Same Old Story' (1847), 'Oblomov' (1859), and 'The Precipice' (1869, also translated as 'Malinovka Heights'). He also worked as a literary and theatre critic. Towards the end of his life Goncharov wrote a memoir called An Uncommon Story, in which he accused his literary rivals, first and foremost Ivan Turgenev, of having plagiarized his works and prevented him from achieving European fame.
His novel 'Oblomov' caused much discussion in the Russian press, introduced another new term, oblomovshchina, to the literary lexicon and is regarded as a Russian classic. In his essay 'What Is Oblomovshchina?' Nikolay Dobrolyubov provided an ideological background for the type of Russia's "new man" exposed by Goncharov. The critic argued that, while several famous classic Russian literary characters – Onegin, Pechorin, and Rudin – bore symptoms of the "Oblomov malaise", for the first time one single feature, that of social apathy, a self-destructive kind of laziness and unwillingness to even try and lift the burden of all-pervading inertia, had been brought to the fore and subjected to a thorough analysis.
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Andrée Lachapelle
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Andrée Lachapelle (November 13, 1931 – November 21, 2019) was a French Canadian actress. Born in Montreal, she trained at age 14 at the Studio XV theatre school under Gerard Vleminckx, later attended teacher's college and taught elementary school for a few years. In 1952 she met actor Robert Gadouas, performed with him, and had three children before his death in 1969. She later appeared in plays by Michel Tremblay, Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams and in the films Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou), YUL 871, Laura Laur, Léolo, Cap Tourmente, Route 132, The Last Escape and Don't Let the Angels Fall.
In 1985, Andrée Lachapelle was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.
On November 21, 2019, Lachapelle died via assisted suicide at the age of 88 following a battle with cancer. She posthumously won the Prix Iris for Best Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, for her final performance in the film And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux).
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Paapa Essiedu
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Paapa Kwaakye Essiedu (/ˈpɑːpə ˌɛsiˈeɪduː/) (born 1990) is a British actor. He started his career in 2012 when he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, acting in numerous productions, including The Merry Wives of Windsor (2012), King Lear (2014), Hamlet (2016), and Romeo and Juliet (2016).
His breakthrough came with his role in the HBO miniseries I May Destroy You (2020), which earned nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award and British Academy Television Award. He portrayed George Boleyn in the Channel 5 miniseries Anne Boleyn (2021). He had starring roles in the AMC+action series Gangs of London (2020–2022), the science fiction series The Lazarus Project (2020–2023), and Black Mirror: Demon 79 (2023).
Essiedu debuted his feature film acting as a policeman in Kenneth Branagh's mystery film Murder on the Orient Express (2017). He took roles in the horror film Men (2022), the fantasy film Genie (2023), and the drama The Outrun (2024). He gained acclaim for his stage roles in Caryl Churchill's play A Number (2022) and Lucy Prebble's play The Effect (2023–2024).
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Brigitte Engerer
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Brigitte Engerer (27 October 1952 – 23 June 2012) was a French pianist.
Born in Tunis, French Tunisia, Engerer started piano lessons at the age of four, and by the age of six was performing in public. When she was 11 her family moved to France and she entered the Paris Conservatoire to study under Lucette Descaves. In 1968, aged 15, she was unanimously awarded a first prize in piano, and the following year she won the Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud. Engerer was subsequently invited to undertake further training at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she joined the class of Stanislav Neuhaus, who said she was "one of the most brilliant and most original pianists of her generation". Though her scholarship was originally for one year, she loved Russia so much that she studied there for nine years.
In 1980, her career took a decisive turn when Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. She subsequently received engagements with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Barenboim, and she was a favourite of conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Zubin Mehta. Her subsequent career was divided between giving recitals and teaching at the Paris Conservatoire. Her last concert took place on 12 June 2012 at the prestigious Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 50 years after playing there for the first time. The performance featured the work of Schumann. She died less than two weeks later, on 23 June, after a several year struggle against cancer. She was 59 years of age.
She had been married to the writer Yann Queffélec, with whom she had a daughter, Leonore. She later married Xavier Fourteau, and together they had a son, Harold Fourteau.
Source: Article "Brigitte Engerer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Carol Moseley Braun
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Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 after defeating Senator Alan J. Dixon in a Democratic primary. Moseley Braun served one term in the Senate and was defeated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald in 1998.
Following her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 1999 to 2001. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election; she withdrew from the race prior to the Iowa caucuses. In November 2010, Moseley Braun began a campaign for mayor of Chicago to replace retiring incumbent Richard M. Daley. She placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the 2011 election to Rahm Emanuel.
Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first African-American U.S. senator from the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. senator in a primary, and the first female U.S. senator from Illinois.
In January 2023, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a member and chair of the board of directors for the United States African Development Foundation. She began her tenure in April 2024.
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Alethea McGrath
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Alethea Ada McGrath (1 June 1920 – 9 February 2016) was an Australian actress and comedian. She played Jocasta Nu in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. She is also widely known for her roles on television, playing Dot Farrar in Prisoner and she has had three parts in Neighbours: Miss Logan in 1985, Mary Crombie from 1989 to 1990 and Lilly Madigan in 1998. Most recently she played the older character of Miss Taylor in Knowing (2009). Before concentrating on acting professionally, McGrath taught Drama at Methodist Ladies College in the Melbourne suburb of Kew.
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Harry Kõrvits
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Harry Kõrvits (born March 21, 1953) is an Estonian actor, musician and advertising businessman.
He graduated from Tallinn 22nd Secondary School in 1971 and from Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in 1975, majoring in leadership by example.
In 1975 and 1977–1992, he worked as an actor at the NUKU Theater. Later, he has been active in the field of business and advertising, since 2005 the manager of the production company Pumpkin Production.
Played the instrument and sang in the bands Apelsin and Radar, since 1978 he plays drums in the band Rock Hotel.
Harry Kõrvits' father was composer and musicologist Harri Kõrvits. He has three musician brothers: Tõnis Kõrvits, Toomas Kõrvits and Tiit Kõrvits. Harry Kõrvits is the father of Henry and Robert Kõrvits.
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
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Amir-ul Kafirs, a.k.a. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: I am, to the best of my knowledge, the MOST PROLIFIC MOVIEMAKER IN THE ENTIRE 127 YEAR HISTORY OF MOVIEMAKING. As of today, May 12, 2022E.V., I've made at least 685 movies. 205 of them are feature-length. If you think that that means that they must be all one-shot things made with a so-called 'smart' phone I suggest watching at least 50 of them. I think you'll find that they're very varied & often complex. At least 560 of the current 685 are online. You can see an index of them here: http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/tENTMoviesIndexanchored2.html . That includes links to everything that's online. The ones that aren't online are often ones that I take for granted will be censored.
I am a Free Thinker. That's even more unpopular than usual these days. I'm also a Mad Scientist / Sound Thinker / Thought Collector / d composer / As Been / Psychopathfinder / Spleenius / Jack-Off-Of-All-Trades / Homonymphonemiac / IMP ACTIVIST / Practicing Promotextual / Anti-Neoist / Anarchist.
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