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Shari Headley

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Shari Headley (born July 15, 1964) is an American actress. Headley made her acting debut on The Cosby Show in 1985. Since then her career has mostly focused on television acting; she is perhaps best known for portraying police officer Mimi Reed Frye Williams on the popular soap opera All My Children from May 1991 to April 1994, briefly returned in February 1995 and again from June 2005 until her final appearance on October 14, 2005. She has also acted occasionally on the big-screen, and is well-known in this capacity for her role of Lisa McDowell, Eddie Murphy's love interest in the comedy Coming to America. Headley co-starred in an episode of Miami Vice in 1984 & on Andy Griffith's Matlock series in 1990 playing a model. The episode entitled, The Cover Girl, aired on November 20, 1990. In 1997, she had a leading role in the short-lived FOX ensemble drama 413 Hope St. Headley also made a cameo appearance in Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" music video and also starred in Blackstreet's video "Before I Let You Go". In 2004, her role was of Mack Johnson's (portrayed by Steve Harvey) wife, Jacqueline in Johnson Family Vacation Headley also portrayed Felicia Boudreau on Guiding Light from November 2001 until May 2002. Headley was married to rapper/actor Christopher "Play" Martin from May 1993 and got divorced in June 1995. In April 1994, Headley gave birth to a son, Skyler Martin. 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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ

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Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (born 27 October 1983) is a Turkish actor, model, and former basketball player. He is one of the highest-paid actors in Turkey and has won many awards, including three Golden Butterfly Awards and a Yeşilçam Cinema Award. Tatlıtuğ won the pageants Best Model of Turkey and Best Model of the World in 2002. Tatlıtuğ has established himself as a leading actor of Turkey with roles in several of the highly successful television series, that includes Menekşe ile Halil (2007–2008), Aşk-ı Memnu (2008–2010), Kuzey Güney (2011–2013) and Cesur ve Güzel (2016–2017), all of which garnered him critical acclaim and international recognition, portraying researcher Arman in the Netflix original series Into the Night (2020–2021) and Into the Deep (2022).
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Sylvio Gonçalves

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Sylvio Gonçalves is a Brazilian writer, known for film and TV productions like The Secret Diary of an Exchange Student (2021), Rich in Love (2020), The Spectaculars (2021), I Feel Crazy (2017), S.O.S. Women to the Sea 2 (2015), S.O.S. Women to the Sea (2014), Teens Confessions (2013), The Last Madness (2007) and The Brazilians (2011/2012). He directed the short movies Play-Rec (1994) and Roleta (2002). He graduated in Journalism at Faculdade da Cidade in 1990 and in Film at Unesa in 2002. After his first graduation, he started out as movie critic, writing for Cinemin magazine (1990-1995) and Radio MEC (1995-1998). He wrote a TV trivia quiz book and three novels for young adults. As a literary translator he has translated to Portuguese hundreds of novels from such authors as Mario Puzo, Tom Clancy and Ira Levin.
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Poojappura Ravi

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Poojappura Ravi is an Indian actor, primarily concentrating in Malayalam films doing comedy roles.He was a stage actor and was a part of Kalanilyam Drama Vision, the famous drama institution. He started doing Malayalam films in mid-1970s. He has done many " black and white " movies produced in Kerala. Ravi is actually a very flexible character actor who can do almost any roles which is evident from his movies. Even though the exact count of his movies list are not updated, he has surpassed 600 films. In the 1990s he also did TV serials. Now he still continues as a busy actor in both Malayalam television and movies.
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Himoud Brahimi

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Himoud Brahimi born in Algiers on March 18, 1918, was a poet, inspired writer, swimmer - he broke the world record for freediving in 1956 at the Paris swimming pool - memorable actor of the Algerian National Theater and best cinema Algerian in the 1970s and 80s, (he notably distinguished himself in the film "Tahya Ya Didou" by Mohamed Zinet and "Taxi El Makhfi" (The Clandestine) by Benamar Bakhti), an essential character in the heated debates from then to the Algiers cinema library. Mohamed Brahimi, baptized "Himoud" by his nanny M'Barka, nicknamed Momo by his French admirers, is a profound and multifaceted character, his career will be dominated by his relationship to the sciences of metaphysics, publishing, among others, The Supreme Identity (1958), a manifesto on theology and philosophy. This Sufi Muslim was interested in Christianity, Judaism and even Hinduism, revealing a philosophy inherent in integral love and knowledge through light: "I learned that the value of man lies not in not in what he can imagine and create for the world of the senses; but to encourage the infiltration of light into what is still unknown in it, to enlarge the knowledge of the infinite that it conveys.” Described as a blessed poet, Momo – it is true – left his mark with these verses and especially with his text “Mienne Casbah”. The love he has for her – and by extrapolation to his entire country. Friendly humanist without limits has always advocated love of one's neighbor, whatever the country and its culture, but proclaiming his city as a "sleeping conscience of a civilization" in the Mediterranean, a reference to the historical and cultural memory of Algeria and an immutable link between the past and the present. He led this fight until his death on June 30, 1997 in Algiers. He will have lived rebellious, loving freedom and dignity.
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Angie Dickinson

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Angeline Dickinson (née Brown; September 30, 1931) is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during the 1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in Gun the Man Down (1956) with James Arness and the Western film Rio Bravo (1959), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. In her six decade career, Dickinson has appeared in more than 50 films, including China Gate (1957), Ocean's 11 (1960), The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961), Jessica (1962), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), The Killers (1964), The Art of Love (1965), The Chase (1966), Point Blank (1967), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), The Outside Man (1972) and Big Bad Mama (1974). From 1974 to 1978, Dickinson starred as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson in the NBC crime series Police Woman, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nominations. As lead actress, she starred in Brian De Palma's erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill (1980), for which she received a Saturn Award for Best Actress. During her later career, Dickinson starred in several television movies and miniseries, also playing supporting roles in films such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994), Sabrina (1995), Pay It Forward (2000) and Big Bad Love (2001).
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Meilee Condron

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Meilee Condron is an American actor of mixed Caucasian and Taiwanese descent who is fluent in English and Mandarin, and performs professionally in both languages. She works in television, movies, commercials and also has voiceover and commercial modeling experience. Born in Connecticut, Meilee moved to Los Angeles at age five. She began studying acting formally at age six, and, following her first theatrical play, she knew she wanted to be an actor. At age seven, Meilee landed a role in her first of several Sesame Street (1969) segments, instantly falling in love with on-camera acting, and began pursuing her career in the entertainment industry. Meilee continuously studies acting, singing, dancing, and golf, and always brings her enthusiasm and love of learning to everything she does.
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Aamna Shariff

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When Sharif was in her second year of college, she began receiving modelling offers for brands such as Close-Up Toothpaste, Beetel Mobile phones, Emami Cosmetic Cream, Clearasil Skin Cream, Set Wet, Nescafe and many others. Up till now, she has done more than fifty ads.She also appeared in Kumar Sanu's "Dil Ka Aalam Main Kya Bataun Tujhe" 1989 music album Aashiqui song video in 2001, music video as well Falguni Pathak's "Yeh Kisne Jadoo Kiya" video in 2002, Abhijeet's "Chalney Lagin Hain Hawain," Daler Mehndi's "Eh Le 100 Rupiya" and Shael's "Nachana Kamal".
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Olga Damani

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Olga Damani (Athens, November 17, 1943) is a Greek actress. He was born in Athens on November 17, 1943. In 1975 he graduated from the Dramatic School of the Art Theater. She began her career with various theater performances at the "Karolos Koon" Art Theater, later followed by various television series and films. From 1975 to 1985 he collaborated with the "Karolos Koun" Art Theater and participated in works such as Seven on Thebes by Aeschylus, Hens by Aristophanes, Bacchus by Euripides and many others From 1986 to 1995 he collaborated with the National Theater in the plays: Exile by Pavlos Matesi, Churchmen by Aristophanes, Bengera by D. Kapetanakis, The Murder of Mara by P. Weiss and many others. With directors such as Vassilis Papavasileiou, Giorgos Armenis, Stavros Tsakiris, Nikaitis Kontouris, Yiannis Diamantopoulos, Vassilis Nikolaidis, Andreas Boutsinas and others. in performances of ancient drama and modern dramaturgy: Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Moliere, Maribaud, Goltoni, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Lorca, Arthur Miller, Eduardo de Filippo, D. Solomos, Palamas, Gouzelis, Hurmouzis, Scurtis, Armenis, etc. On private television she has appeared in the series Like Crazy Birds, Fanny, Dyed Red Hair, Department of Morals: Grace and Rhinestones, The Wedding Dress Rehearsal, Dusty Clouds, Due to Honor, Vendetta, No Problem, Airy Silences, Dancing in Silence, Jordan , Secrets and mistakes, Angelina's treasure, 10th commandment, The stories of the policeman Beka, Yugerman, Karyotakis, The Island, Kato Partali, Wild Bees (Season 2) and Sasmos.
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