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Eminem
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. He attracted attention when he developed Slim Shady, a sadistic, violent alter ego. The character allowed him to express his anger with lyrics about drugs, rape and murder. Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in popular music. While much of his transgressive work during the late 1990s and early 2000s made him a controversial figure, he came to be a representation of popular angst of the American underclass and has been cited as an influence by and upon many artists working in various genres.
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Estela de Carlotto
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Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto (Buenos Aires, born 22 October 1930) is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped and missing while pregnant in Buenos Aires, in late 1977. Through stories, she could ascertain that her daughter had given birth to a boy, and that her grandson was appropriated and his identity changed. She searched for him for nearly 36 years, until, on August 5, 2014, after a DNA check voluntarily made by the person concerned, her grandson was identified, and became the 114th in the list of recovered grandchildren.
Carlotto has received several awards for her work with Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo), including the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights and Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, awarded by the Unesco. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
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Teri Garr
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Teri Ann Garr (December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024) was an American actress, dancer and singer. She frequently appeared in comedic roles throughout her career, which spanned four decades and includes over 140 credits in film and television. Her accolades include one Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award nomination, and one National Board of Review Award.
Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Garr was raised in North Hollywood. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumer mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in six Elvis Presley musicals. After spending two years attending college, Garr left Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City.
Her self-described "big break" as an actress was landing a role in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth," after which she said, "I finally started to get real acting work."
Garr had a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller "The Conversation" (1974) before having her film breakthrough as Inga in "Young Frankenstein" (1974). In 1977, she was cast in a high-profile role in Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Garr continued to appear in various high-profile roles throughout the 1980s, including supporting parts in the comedies "Tootsie" (1982), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Sandra Lester, and then appearing opposite Michael Keaton the next year in "Mr. Mom" (1983). She reunited with Coppola the same year, appearing in his musical "One from the Heart" (1982), followed by a supporting part in Martin Scorsese's black comedy "After Hours" (1985).
Her quick banter led to Garr being a regular guest on "The Tonight Show" starring Johnny Carson and "Late Night with David Letterman." In the 1990s, she appeared in two films by Robert Altman: "The Player" (1992) and "Prêt-à-Porter" (1994), followed by supporting roles in "Michael" (1996) and "Ghost World" (2001). She also appeared on television as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of the sitcom "Friends" (1997–98). In 2002, Garr announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the symptoms of which had negatively affected her ability to perform beginning in the 1990s. After years of declining health, she passed away on October 29, 2024.
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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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Goldie Hawn
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Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, director, producer, and occasional singer. She started as a dancer, first in New York and then in Los Angeles. On the cast of TV's Laugh-In, the mod comedy show of the late 1960s, she flubbed jokes in a bikini and became one of the show's most popular co-stars. She then proved the ding-a-ling act was just an act -- she won an Oscar for a supporting role in Cactus Flower (1969, with Walter Matthau) and turned in a solid performance in Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express (1974).
She had her first blockbuster, Private Benjamin in 1980, and has since had a steady career as a leading lady in hits and misses, often acting as her own producer. Some of her movies include Shampoo (1975, starring Warren Beatty), Overboard (1987, with Kurt Russell), Bird on a Wire (1990, with Mel Gibson), Death Becomes Her (1992, with Bruce Willis), Housesitter (1992, with Steve Martin), The First Wives Club (1996, with Diane Keaton), and The Banger Sisters (2002, with Susan Sarandon), among many others.
She has been in a decades-long relationship with actor Kurt Russell and is the mother of actress Kate Hudson, actor Oliver Hudson, and actor Wyatt Russell.
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Khavn
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Khavn, originally named Khavn de la Cruz, is a very outspoken, experimental filmmaker. He has directed over 100 films, making him one of the most productive filmmakers in the Philippines, and far beyond. He also heads up Kamias Overground, an independent publishing company, and works as a composer, songwriter, pianist and writer. Since 2002, he has been director of the .MOV International Film, Music & Literature Festival. As a jury member, he has been present at multiple festivals, including Berlinale and the Leipzig Film Festival.
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Camilo Bevilacqua
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Camilo Bevilacqua (Gaurama, September 11, 1949) is a Brazilian actor and director.
He began his career in 1968 in Porto Alegre, with the piece Pique Nique no Front, by Fernando Arrabal. Because of the repression of the lead years, he entered the School of Theater of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in the course of dramatic art, in 1970. In college he made important pieces, such as A Lição, by Ionesco, Vestido de Bride, by Nelson Rodrigues and Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. In 1973 he won the MUTEPLA prize with the monologue The Malicious Effects of Smoking, by Anton Tchecov.
In 1975 he was chosen to play the title role of Mockinpot, by Peter Weiss, work with which he traveled throughout Brazil, when he settled in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives to this day. He has participated in 45 plays.
On television, he has made miniseries and soap operas at Rede Globo. His last work on television was the character Jorge in Malhação.
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R. L. Marks
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R. L. Marks is a professional wrestler known for his hardcore and deathmatch wrestling style. He has made a significant impact in the independent wrestling scene.
Lane has competed in various promotions, including CZW, ICW No Holds Barred, and IWA-MS1. He is known for his intense matches and has participated in numerous deathmatch tournaments. Some of his notable matches include the CZW Tournament of Death and various events in IWA-MS.
Throughout his career, Insane Lane has been recognized for his resilience and ability to endure extreme conditions in the ring. His wrestling style and persona have earned him a dedicated fan base and respect among his peers
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Alberto Del Río
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José Alberto Rodríguez is a Mexican professional wrestler signed to WWE and performing under the ring name Alberto Del Río. He is a former two-time WWE Champion, while also being the 2011 Royal Rumble winner, outlasting 39 other participants to win the largest Royal Rumble match ever, and 2011 Mr. Money in the Bank (Raw). Before working for WWE, he used the name Dos Caras, Jr. as both a mixed martial artist and luchador in mostly Mexico and Japan. He worked in both of Mexico's main wrestling promotions and achieved success in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he is a former CMLL World Heavyweight Champion.
Son of noted luchador Dos Caras, nephew of Mil Máscaras and Sicodelico, and cousin to Sicodelico, Jr. and Hijo de Sicodelico, Rodríguez is part of one of the most well known Mexican wrestling families. His younger brother Guillermo is also signed to WWE under a developmental contract under the ring name Memo Montenegro. The name Dos Caras translates to Two Faces, referring to the symbol of a double headed eagle on his mask.
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Nadia Samir
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Nadia Samir (in Arabic: نادية سمير), real name Fatma Zodmi, is a French-Algerian announcer and actress, born in Chlef, Algeria on April 12, 1947 and died in Paris on May 2, 2011 from cancer.
Nadia Samir, after her training as an actress, played in Mendiants et Orgueilleux (1970) by Jacques Poitrenaud with Georges Moustaki. She then had small roles in cinema, notably opposite Alain Delon in La Race des Seigneurs (1973) by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Simone Signoret in La Vie Devant Soi (1977) by Moshé Mizrahi or Micheline Presle in Quelques Nouvelles (1977) by Jacques Davila, as well as in TV films or soap operas. Algerian director Sid Ali Mazif offered her the lead role in Leïla et les Autres (1977), which evokes the emancipation of women in the Maghreb.
She gave birth to a daughter named Roxane in 1984.
Nadia Samir became a presenter on TF1 for seven years, from 1985 to 1992, alongside Il y était Évelyne Dhéliat, Denise Fabre, Fabienne Égal. More than just a cathode-ray pass, she was above all the first presenter of Maghreb origin to appear on TF1 in the 80s, before their definitive disappearance in 1992.
"Nadia Samir was the first Franco-Maghreb presenter in a French audio-visual landscape that had until then been monochrome. Star announcer of TF1, Nadia Samir has marked our collective unconscious, so much has her face been imprinted during these long years in our imagination, thus giving a face to diversity, expected and hoped for by millions of French people. In her own way, she has represented another image of the open, modern and committed Maghrebi woman far from the stereotypes in which immigrant women have too often been locked up. " - Fadila Mehal, President and Founder of Marianne de la diversité.
After these seven years as an announcer, for the small screen, she returned to theater and cinema. She plays the main roles in the series Sixième Gauche and Fruits et Légumes, both broadcast on France 3 in the 1990s. She will also play, among others, in the series Navarro (TF1), Studio Sud (M6), Sixième Gauche (FR3).
She then starred in several films including Bab El-Oued City by Merzak Allouache (1993), Là-Bas... Mon Pays by Alexandre Arcady (1999), Le Genre humain: Les Parisiens by Claude Lelouch (2003), Le Courage d'Aimer (2004) by Claude Lelouch, Cartouches Gauloises by Mehdi Charef (2006) presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where the director Mehdi Charef evokes his childhood memories during the last spring before Algerian independence. This performance remains her last appearance on screen.10
Nadia Samir was also a convinced feminist who had joined the Marianne de la diversité since its creation in 2005. For Fadila Mehal, President and Founder of the Marianne de la diversité, "She humbly wished that her career would serve as an example to all those who doubt and question the place they are given in French society because of their origin. In her own way, she showed that for her, her diversity was a gift for France and not a burden."
She died in Paris on May 2, 2011 from cancer.
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