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Mikkey Dee

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Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou (born 31 October, 1963), known professionally as Mikkey Dee, is a Swedish rock musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer for British rock band Motörhead from 1991 until December 2015. Dee also played temporarily in the German metal band Helloween in 2003 and is currently the drummer for the German rock band Scorpions, becoming a permanent member in September 2016. Dee is famous for lengthy drum solos, often lasting between five and fifteen minutes. Some notable examples include those that appear in Sacrifice, In the Name of Tragedy, and The One to Sing the Blues.
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Peter Stormare

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Peter Stormare (August 27, 1953) was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. He is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Abruzzi in Prison Break and as Gaear Grimsrud, one of the two kidnappers in Fargo. Peter Stormare began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions of many Shakespeare plays, including "Hamlet". In 1993 he moved to New York, where he appeared in English productions. He continues to work in both the United States and his his homeland of Sweden. He resides in Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife.
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Travis Knight

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Travis Andrew Knight (born September 13, 1973) is an American animator, producer, director, actor, and former rapper. The son of Nike co-founder Phil Knight has worked as the lead animator and current CEO for the stop-motion animation studio Laika, including directing the company's films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and the upcoming Wildwood (2025). He also directed the live-action films Bumblebee (2018) and the upcoming Masters of the Universe (2026). Knight received three nominations for the Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Travis Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gavin Watkins

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is a Welsh professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE performing in the United Kingdom division of their developmental territory NXT UK, under the ring name Flash Morgan Webster. Watkins is also known for his appearances in Attack! Pro Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Southside Wrestling Entertainment and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla among others Webster made his WWE debut at WrestleMania Axxess in 2018, being defeated by Pete Dunne. On May 18, it was announced that Webster would be a participant in the 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament. He would defeat Jordan Devlin in the quarter finals before being eliminated by eventual tournament winner, Zack Gibson. The following night, Webster, Travis Banks and Mark Andrews were defeated in a WWE United Kingdom Championship number one contenders match by the returning Noam Dar. Webster made his 205 Live debut teaming with Cedric Alexander and Mustafa Ali where they defeated James Drake, Joseph Conners and Drew Gulak
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Damian Mackle

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Damian Mackle is an Irish professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Killian Dain and since his departure from WWE he has reverted back to his ring name on the independent circuit Big Damo. That ring name Big Damo is derived from his first ring name, Damian O'Connor. Prior to joining WWE, he won the ICW World Heavyweight Championship while wrestling for Insane Championship Wrestling. He also wrestled for numerous promotions on the British independent circuit, around Europe, and in the USA including All Elite Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Westside Xtreme Wrestling, Absolute Intense Wrestling, Beyond Wrestling, Premier British Wrestling, Scottish Wrestling Alliance, What Culture Pro Wrestling and IPW:UK. On 19 October 2016, WWE announced that Mackle had signed a developmental contract with the company and had arrived at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. He began to work in the NXT brand as part of the stable Sanity, along with Nikki Cross, Eric Young and Alexander Wolfe. In 2018, Dain, Wolfe and Young were drafted to SmackDown, where they worked as a stable until the dissolution. Then, he was drafted again to NXT, where he stayed until his release, in June 2021.
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Rogério Duprat

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Rogério Duprat (7 February 1932 – 26 October 2006) was a Brazilian composer and musician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duprat spent much of his life in São Paulo, where he died. It was there in the early 1960s that he developed an interest in the avant-garde art and music that would soon lead to him studying in Europe with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. Returning to Brazil, Duprat wrote scores for Walter Hugo Khouri's films. Against the background of military dictatorship, Duprat met the leaders of Tropicália: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. He found himself instantly drawn to the movement by their determination to absorb universal culture and revolutionize Brazilian music. He wrote most of the arrangements of tropicália albums by Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, including the album Tropicália ou Panis et Circenses. He also made arrangements for other artists, such as Chico Buarque, Alceu Valença, Geraldo Azevedo etc. Duprat's arrangements received much praise over the years, and he became known as the "George Martin of Tropicalia" and the "Brian Wilson of Brazil". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Kakia Analyti

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Kakia Analyti (Piraeus, 23 March 1934 - Paleo Faliro, 1 June 2002) was a Greek actress. She was born in Piraeus. She studied at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory. Her debut on the stage was in 1955 in the troupe of Dionysis Pagoulatos with the play The Flower of the Levante by Grigorios Xenopoulos. She collaborated with the troupes of Manos Katrakis and Kyria Katerina (Katerina Andreadi). In 1963 she created her own troupe with her husband, Kostas Rigopoulos, which was housed in the ANALYTI theater, which was located on Antoniadou Street, in the Pedio tou Areos area. Together they staged many plays, such as: A Bed for Three, Love and Politics, Glass World. The troupe's huge success was the play My Love Wow, which was performed in the seasons 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72. The last play in which he participated was Kissing You on the Cheek. She participated in a multitude of films, including: Almond Blossom, Bloody Sunset, Bloody Crowns, Triumph, People and Kolonaki, Divorce Greek Style, Twenty-Four Hours of Life, Villa of Orgies, Cinderella, A Thief's Tale, etc.
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Matteo Corradini

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La sua principale attività nel mondo del cinema è quella di interprete e tra i lavori più interessanti possiamo citare la partecipazione nel film The Pills (2011) di Luca Vecchi.  Nel 2016 ha inoltre lavorato con Luca Vecchi per la realizzazione del film  The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare dove ha interpretato la parte di Matteo. Il film è uscito proprio in questi giorni nelle sale cinematografiche italiane e distribuito da Medusa da giovedì 21 gennaio. Oltre al ruolo di interprete Matteo Corradini ha lavorato come sceneggiatore nel film commedia di Luca Vecchi  The Pills - Sempre meglio che lavorare (2016).
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Corey Page

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Corey Charles Page was born in Launceston, Tasmania the island state off Australia's south coast, To June Page and Charles Looney. Corey has a younger sister, Kyla who lives and works in Australia. Corey went to Willyama High School in Broken Hill NSW, and after leaving he attended Flinders University Drama course in South Australia. Corey first came to public attention from his work on the Australian hit series Heartbreak High, in which he played Steve Wiley. This gave him his first break in the television industry. He has also appeared in other television projects such as White Collar Blue, McLeod's Daughters, Cops LAC, Providence, and Home And Away. His first international breakthrough came when he was cast in The City along side Morgan Fairchild, playing her characters illegitimate Australian son. He is every fan's favorite in the comedy hit, Dead Man On Campus, where he played the faux suicidal show tune singing Matt Noonan. Currently Corey lives in Los Angeles.
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