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Antonin Baudry
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Antonin Baudry, born May 6, 1975, also known by the writing pseudonym Abel Lanzac, is a French diplomat specializing in cultural affairs, comic book author, screenwriter, and film director.
After finishing his studies at lycée Louis-le-Grand, Antonin Baudry began at the École polytechnique in 1994, graduating as an engineer of bridges, water and forest. He graduated second in literature from École normale supérieure in Paris in 1998. and obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) en cinematography.
In April 2004, he became a conseiller of Minister Dominique de Villepin at the Ministry of the Interior.
From 2010 to 2014, he was the cultural counsellor at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., United States and counsellor for cooperation and cultural action at the French Embassy in Madrid, Spain.
Under the pseudonym Abel Lanzac, he used his diplomatic experience to help him write the comic book Quai d'Orsay (2010-2011), in collaboration with Christophe Blain. After the second comic book in this series won the prix du meilleur album at the festival d'Angoulême 2013, he revealed his true identity.
In 2014, he founded Albertine, the only French-language bookstore in New York. Named for the mysterious beloved in Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, the bookstore shares the Payne Whitney House with the Cultural Services arm of the French embassy.
On January 28, 2015, Baudry was appointed as Ambassador for French Culture at the Institut français. He resigned after a few months to work on personal projects.
He was president of the jury for the 43rd festival international de la bande dessinée in January 2016.
In 2019, he directed his first film, Le Chant du loup, a submarine thriller.
Source: Article "Antonin Baudry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Rod Serling
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Rodman Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the "angry young man" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.
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Tristan Tate
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Tristan Tate (born on July 15th, 1988) is an American-British internet personality, former kickboxer, Andrew Tate's brother, actor and television personality known for Kings of the Internet (2022), Shipwrecked, Worlds Greatest Social Stars and Top 22 Internet Millionaires. He is a 2x IKSA British Kickboxing Champion, entrepreneur and self-made multi-millionaire.
Tristan Tate has been called nicknamed 'The Talisman' and has been featured in series alongside many other celebrity entrepreneurs, authors and actors including Dan Bilzerian, Iman Gadzhi, Josh King Madrid/JetSetFly, Andrew "Cobra" Tate, Logan Paul, Jake Paul, GaryVee, Patrick Bet-David, Justin Guerra, Branden Condy, Alex Hormozi , Andy Frisella, Ed Mylett, Lewis Howes, Anthony Morrison, Grant Cardone, Gary Cardone, Leila Hormozi, TheBlondeJon, Jay Shetty, Adin Ross, Sneako, Lewis Howes, Dan Pena, Jordan Welch, Dan Lok and Sebastian Ghiorghiu.
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Ursula Andress
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Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and former model who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986).
Ursula Andress, the third of six children, was born on 19 March 1936 in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, to a Swiss mother, Anna, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat. Her father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, became her guardian. She has a brother, Heinz, and four sisters, Erika, Charlotte, Gisela, and Kàtey.
Andress went to school in Bern until she was 16 and learned several languages, including English, French, German, and Italian. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she worked various jobs including being a children's nanny.
Andress was at a party when she met a film producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film. She was successful and was cast in walk-on parts in An American in Rome (1954) (starring Alberto Sordi), Sins of Casanova (1955) (starring later Bond ally Gabriele Ferzetti), and La catena dell'odio (1955). She was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood.
Andress arrived in Hollywood in late 1955. That spring she was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, starting at $287 a week. The contract brought no acting roles, owing to her reluctance to learn English. "I spent most of my time watching old Marlene Dietrich movies", she said. Andress received some publicity for dating James Dean shortly before the actor's death. She bought herself out of her contract and in 1956 signed with Columbia Pictures. She made no films for them either. She stayed in Hollywood when she married John Derek in 1957. In 1959, it was announced she and Derek would star in a film, High Variety, but no film resulted. Source: Article "Ursula Andress" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Fredson Paixão
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Fredson Paixão is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructor. He has competed as a featherweight in the United States with the UFC and WEC, in Japan with Deep, and in Brazil with Jungle Fight. He is a four-time Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion and a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu professor, who teaches in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has affiliate schools in California and Okinawa, Japan, under the Fredson Paixao Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Association banner. He is a former member of the Gracie Barra Combat Team.
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Robert Curtis Brown
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Robert Curtis Brown (born April 1957) is an American television, film and stageactor. He has appeared in such TV shows as Criminal Minds, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, The West Wing, Family Law, Murder, She Wrote, Supernatural, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Wings, Matlock, Herman's Head and Search for Tomorrow and films such as Halloween 2(2009), Guess Who, After the Sunset, Catch Me if You Can, Bean: The Movie, Zenon: The Zequel, Legal Eagles, and Trading Places. He is in High School Musical 2, HSM3 and Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure as Vance Evans. His most recent films in 2009 include Men Who Stare at Goats and It's Complicated.
Brown is a 1979 graduate of Yale University.
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Frank Gerdelman
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Frank Benedict Gerdelman is an American professional wrestler. He is signed with Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name Frankie Kazarian and is a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with Christopher Daniels. He is best known for his work with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), under the ring names Kazarian and Kaz, he also wrestled under the gimmick of Suicide where he became one-time TNA X Division Champion under the character.
Kazarian also wrestled in the independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he is a two time former world champion, having won the PWG World Championship in 2003 and 2004. Also, he is the inaugural PWG World Champion when he won the Bad Ass Mother tournament. Kazarian is also a five-time TNA X Division Champion and a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion.
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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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Stephanie Hsu
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Stephanie Ann Hsu (/ˈʃuː/ SHOO: born November 25, 1990) is an American actress. She received critical acclaim for her dual roles as Joy Wang and Jobu Tupaki in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Hsu trained at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and began her career in experimental theatre before starring on Broadway, originating the roles of Christine Canigula in Be More Chill (2015–2019) and Karen the Computer in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (2016–2017). On television, she had recurring roles in the Hulu series The Path (2016–2018) and the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019–2023).
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Ayten Amin
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Director Iten Amen studied film directing at the AUC and her graduation project then was the movie “Her Man” from Art Lab in the AUC, which stirred a storm then because of its daring boldness. The movie was played in 10 international festivals. Item also presented 2 short movies about actress Madeeha Kamel and about the oriental belly dancing in Egypt. Iten won an award at the Cairo International Cinema festival in 2010 for her movie “Area 69”. She also presented her movie “Spring 89” that discusses all the adolescent problems and everything they go through.
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