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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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Brian Cox
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Brian Edward Cox, OBE, is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. He is working on the R&D project of the FP420 experiment in an international collaboration to upgrade the ATLAS and the CMS experiment by installing additional, smaller detectors at a distance of 420 metres from the interaction points of the main experiments.
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Olga Bisera
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Bisera Vukotić (born 26 May 1944), known professionally as Olga Bisera, is a Bosnian film actress and producer.
Born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, she entered the Drama Arts Academy in Belgrade. At 19 she made her film debut in Sidney Pollack's Castle Keep, and was put under contract by Columbia Pictures, moving in New York and attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. In the early 1970s Bisera moved to Italy, where she founded a production company, "Cinemondial", and became a starlet of Italian genre cinema. Her first Italian film was Valerio Zurlini's La prima notte di quiete. Bisera also appeared as a Bond-girl in The Spy Who Loved Me. She retired in the early 1980s.
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Oliver Wnuk
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Oliver Wnuk is a German actor, author, and audio drama narrator, born on January 28, 1976, in Konstanz as Oliver Konrad Wnuk. He completed his acting training at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich and celebrated his cinema debut in 2000 in the thriller "Anatomie" alongside Franka Potente, followed by roles in comedies like "Der Schuh des Manitu" (2001). He gained international fame through the role of the laid-back, scatterbrained Ulf Steinke in the ProSieben series "Stromberg" (2004–2012, including the feature film in 2014), which brought him his breakthrough. His further engagements include the chief detective Murat Alpay in "K3 – Kripo Hamburg" (2003–2007), Detective Chief Inspector Hinnerk Feldmann in "Nord Nord Mord" (since 2010), Thomas Zuhse in "Die Kanzlei" (2012–2019), as well as appearances in series like "Die LottoKönige" (2012–2015), "Der Bergdoktor" (2009), and films like "Das Leben ist kein Kindergarten". In addition, he is successful as an author with books like "Luftholen" (2013), children's books about "Kasi Kauz", and screenplays for TV films, and he narrates audio dramas; he weighs 68 kg at 174 cm tall, speaks fluent English and French, and resides in Munich.
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Mélanie Laurent
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Mélanie Laurent (French pronunciation: [melani loʁɑ̃]; born 21 February 1983) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is an accomplished actress in the French film industry and the recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award. Internationally, Laurent is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me (2013), Operation Finale (2018) and 6 Underground (2019).
Laurent began acting at age sixteen, cast by Gérard Depardieu in a small role in the romantic drama The Bridge (1999). She gained wider recognition for supporting work in several French films, including the comedy Dikkenek (2006), for which she won Étoiles d'Or for Best Female Newcomer. Her breakthrough role came in the 2006 drama film Don't Worry, I'm Fine, for which she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Prix Romy Schneider. Laurent made her Hollywood debut in 2009 with the role of Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster war film Inglourious Basterds. Her performance won the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics Association Best Actress Awards.
While she has worked mainly in independent films, including Paris (2008) and Enemy (2013), Laurent also appeared in commercially successful international films, including the comedy-drama Beginners (2011) and the caper film Now You See Me (2013), the former earning her a nomination at the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable works include the art-house drama The Round Up (2010), the comedy-drama The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011), and the mystery thriller Night Train to Lisbon (2013). She is also known for voicing Mary Katherine and Disgust in the French dubs of Epic (2013) and Inside Out (2015). Additionally, she starred in Chris Weitz's 2018 drama Operation Finale, telling the story of the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
In addition to her film career, Laurent has appeared in stage productions in France. She made her theatre debut in 2010 in Nicolas Bedos's Promenade de santé. The short film De moins en moins (2008) marked her debut as a filmmaker. Her feature film directorial debut is The Adopted (2011). Respire (2014), her second production as a director, was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. She made her singing debut with a studio album, En attendant (Waiting For You), in 2011.
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Tyler Schnabel
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Tyler Schnabel is an actor, filmmaker, and producer. As a kid, Tyler started making short films using his mom and dad's VHS camcorder, and from the early age of five, developed his passion for entertaining and creating. In 2006, Tyler immersed himself into the digital world of internet media and since then has been entertaining the masses online with his fun and zany short films on YouTube under the channel name, NANOshorts. In 2011, Tyler earned his BA in Theatre from Kutztown University, and within months ended up moving to Los Angeles to continue his pursuit of acting. Upon arriving, Tyler was hired to work as a production assistant on the film It's A Disaster, breaking him into the film industry. By late 2012, Tyler was working full-time as a Stand-In and Body Double on MTV's hit television show, Teen Wolf, further launching his career in the industry. He now works under his new production company, NANO Pictures, where he produced his first feature film, Frazier Park Recut.
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Angelo Rossitto
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Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (February 18, 1908 – September 21, 1991) was an American actor and voice artist. He had dwarfism and was 2'11" (89 cm) tall, and was often billed as Little Angie or Moe. Angelo first appeared in silent films opposite Lon Chaney and John Barrymore. On-screen, he portrayed everything from dwarfs, midgets, gnomes, and pygmies as well as monsters, villains, and aliens, with appearances in more than 70 films.
Rossitto was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Salvatore Rossitto and Carmela Caniglia, both born in Carlentini, Province of Siracusa, Sicily, Italy, and had a sister, Josephine Rossitto.
He was discovered by John Barrymore and made his screen debut opposite Barrymore in The Beloved Rogue (1927). That same year he appeared in Warner Brother's Old San Francisco. He appeared in the controversial 1932 film Freaks directed by Tod Browning, and another controversial film, 1938's Child Bride. During the 1940s, he appeared in several poverty row movies starring Bela Lugosi. He appeared frequently in television series and mini-series, particularly best known for the police drama Baretta, and his later film roles included appearances in Alex in Wonderland (1970), Brain of Blood (1971), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), Little Cigars (1973), and Fairy Tales (1978). His last major role was as "Master" opposite Mel Gibson in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).
Rossitto appears alongside singer/songwriter Tom Waits and Lee Kolima on the cover art of Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, which pays homage to his performance in Freaks. He also appears on the cover of Bob Dylan's album The Basement Tapes.
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Aleksandr Demich
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Honored Artist of the RSFSR (13.05.1960).
People's Artist of the RSFSR (4.04.1966).
After graduating from the Higher Experimental Workshops of V. Meyerhold in 1926, he worked at the Blue Blouse Theater (1926-1929), the Moscow Drama Theater (formerly. Korsha, 1929-1933), the Central Theater of the Red Army (1933-1936), in the theater named after Yermolova (1936-1939).
In 1939-1955, he was repressed. Since 1939, he has been in Kolyma. He performed in the plays of the Magadan Gorky Music and Drama Theatre. In 1957-1975, he was an actor at the Kuibyshev Drama Theatre.
He also performed at the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. He is the father of Yuri Demich, an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR.
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Darby Stanchfield
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Darby Leigh Stanchfield (5' 7" (1.7 m) born on April 29, 1971 in Kodiak, Alaska, USA, where her father owned a successful commercial fishing business, is an American actress. She received a Masters in Fine Arts from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Currently married to Joseph Mark Gallegos (2009 - present), and is the niece of legendary Disney Studios animator, Walt Stanchfield, whose work includes major features The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). She is best known for her role as Abby Whelan in the ABC political drama series Scandal. Stanchfield is also known for roles as April Green in the CBS post-apocalyptic drama series Jericho, and as Helen Bishop in the AMC period drama series Mad Men.
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Amanda Lear
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Amanda Lear (originally Tapp, born 18 November 1939 or 1946, in British Hong Kong) is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist.
Lear began her career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. She first came to the public attention as the model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. She was a multimillion selling Disco Queen in the mid-1970s to the early 1980s mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia with hits such as "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)" and "Fashion Pack". Lear has sold 15 million albums and over 25 million singles worldwide.
In the mid-1980s she positioned herself as one of the leading media personalities in mainland Europe, especially in Italy and in France where she hosted many long-running TV shows. Since the 1990s her time has been divided between music, television, writing and movies as well as pursuing her career as a painter. Currently she lives in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès near Avignon in the south of France.
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