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Race Wong

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Race Wong is a Singaporean actress, singer and businesswoman. She was one of the former Hong Kong cantopop duo singer group 2R alongside with her elder sister Rosanne Wong. Born in Malaysia, raised in Singapore, she pursued her career in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong with her sister Rosanne Wong which won her various awards for her singing career as the cantopop group 2R, including Most Promising Newcomer and Most Popular Group Award in the Annual Top 10 Song of the Year Awards (2003), Metro Broadcasting Music awards (2004), TVB Top 10 Songs of the Year (2004) and Hong Kong Commercial Radio Music Awards’ (2003). Race Wong became a spotlight when she was chosen to star alongside Stephen Chow in his famous annual San Miguel TV advertisement. Following that, she rose to fame for her leading role in a TVB youth series Hearts of Fencing. Which jumpstarted both her singing and acting career.
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Cle Sloan

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Cle Shaheed Sloan (born May 22, 1969), aka "Bone", is an American director, actor and activist from Los Angeles, California, USA. While still a member of Athens Park Bloods, a Los Angeles street gang, Sloan worked to reform gang culture to put an end to gang violence from the inside. Sloan was introduced to the film industry by football legend Jim Brown, who helped him secure a job as an assistant when he was released from prison. The job allowed Sloan to meet director Antoine Fuqua and sparked his interest in becoming a cinematographer. Sloan has since worked on two of Fuqua's hit movies Training Day and Tears of the Sun. During the production of Training Day, Sloan worked as a gang adviser and helped persuade actual gang members to lend their credibility to the project on-screen. He has also directed and appears in the 2006 documentary film Bastards of the Party which appeared at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and at the 2006 Hollywood Black Film Festival. Bastards of the Party aired on HBO on February 6, 2007. He was featured on Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor and Anderson Cooper 360º speaking out against gang violence on behalf of his non profit organization AKTIVE which is helping to "Change the gangs from the inside" by working with active gang members in communities nationwide. Recently, he starred in the 2008 film Street Kings (originally titled The Night Watchman) which also features Forrest Whitaker, Common, and Keanu Reeves. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cle Shaheed Sloan, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  
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Bernice Liu Bik-Yee

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Bernice Jan Liu Bik-Yee (born January 6, 1979 as 廖碧兒) is a Chinese Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model from Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing her fame in Hong Kong. Liu is best known for her role as Princess Sam-tin in the long-running TVB sitcom, Virtues of Harmony, which was also her first role after joining TVB in 2001. Liu's singing breakthrough came to an attention in 2005 after she lent her voice for the theme song of the 2005 TVB serial drama, Into Thin Air. The theme song, "Truth," was Liu's first theme song and was one of the primary promotional songs for the TVB compilation album, Lady in Red (2006), which sold past 10,000 copies in the first day of release. Liu is also listed by critics as one of the few TVB artists to look forward to in a future singing career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernice Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Rayan Dashti

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Rayan Dashti (born October 16, 2008) is a renowned Kuwaiti actress, best known for her leading role in both seasons of "The Exchange", the first Kuwaiti series produced by Netflix. Her performance in the show earned her recognition as a rising star at a young age (14–15 years old). Rayan Dashti is also known for her work with "Trend Production", one of Kuwait’s largest and most successful theater companies. Beyond acting, Rayan Dashti is a well-known Kuwaiti influencer on social media platforms such as TikTok and Snapchat, where she engages with thousands of followers.
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Angelika Rainer

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Angelika Rainer is three times World Champion and two times Vice-Champion in Iceclimbing. Already as a child Angelika liked hiking with her mother in the mountains of South Tyrol and climbing trees in her garden. After she got in touch with a rock for the first time in her life at the age of 10, doing her very first fixed-rope route, she couldn't think about anything but climbing. The climbing hall, that was opened two years later in her hometown Merano, gave Angelika the possibility to indulge her passion with every fibre of her body. In 2008 Angelika's childhood dream came true: she won for the first time an Iceclimbing World Cup competition in Saas Fe, Switzerland. In 2012 and in 2015 she won the Overall World Cup ranking. In addition, she also won two times at the prestigious International Mixed climbing competition in Ouray, Colorado and at the single event Red Bull White Cliffs. But in the Winter Angelika does not only participate in competitions, but has also repeted some of the most difficult ice-, mixed- and Drytooling routes in the world. In November 2017 she climbs the Drytooling route 'A line above the sky' and becomes the first women to climb a route graded D15. On the rock Angelika climbs routes up to the grade 9a and with the first female ascent of the route 'Italia 61', 8a, 250m on Piz Ciavaces in the Dolomites, in 2008 she got a nice result also in this ambit of climbing. Not only in sports Angelika loves to be in touch with nature. In 2008 she earned a B.A. degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Bolzano.Subsequently she works for several years at the agricultural research centre Laimburg, before she took the decision to totally dedicate herself to climbing.
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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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Rick Sebak

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Rick Sebak is an American public broadcasting television producer, writer and narrator who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. Rick makes unusual television programs. His slightly wacky documentaries celebrate various aspects of modern American life and the unexpected charms of Pittsburgh. Audiences have learned to recognize his friendly narrative style and the unusual topics that he obviously loves. Sebak is the creator of the "scrapbook documentary" genre, many of which he has created for WQED and PBS. This scrapbook style incorporates lots of old films, home movies, postcards, old photos and memorabilia of all sorts. Rick does not appear on-camera in these programs, but audiences have learned to recognize his voice and distinctive narrative style.
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Tay Ying

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With both her parents as celebrities, it is no surprise that Tay Ying has contemplated a career in acting. Her pleasing appearance led her into spending her teenager years modelling for commercials and magazine covers. In 2017, she made her on- screen debut in While You Were Young where she acted as a model, alongside with the other new generation artistes. Two years later, she was starred as one of the main characters in the Channel 8 Martial Arts blockbuster drama, The Good Fight. Her versatile fighting moves in the drama garnered her good reviews. Bilingual in both English and Mandarin scored her the role of a female lead actress for a Channel 5 English drama, Slow Dancing which is based on the best- selling e- book by Singaporean writer, Noelle. It was a milestone for her as she played two different roles in the show. While Tay Ying works hard for her acting career, dancing remains as a point of pride for her since young as she practices the dance moves in her spare time and was a former member of the Temasek Polytechnic Dance Ensemble (TPDE). Her passion towards dancing continues after schooling, as she recently forms a band named TTYL with her fellow artiste friends, which specializes in Kpop dance.
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Martin Whitmarsh

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Martin Richard Whitmarsh is a British businessman and Group CEO of the Aston Martin Performance Technologies team since 21 September 2021. Whitmarsh is best known to motorsport insiders, media, and fans for his long and successful period at McLaren, for which he worked for 25 years (1989–2014) in various senior positions, including group chief executive officer, as well as Formula One Team Principal for six years (2008–2014). Under his leadership, McLaren diversified its business activities beyond its core activity of Formula One, launching McLaren Automotive and McLaren Applied Technologies. Whitmarsh played a senior and leading role in the winning of more than 100 Formula One Grands Prix and multiple Formula One World Championships, and was at the centre of the development of several Formula One World Champions, including Lewis Hamilton. Whitmarsh was also chairman of the Formula One Teams Association for three years (2010–2012).
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Rita Ramnarong

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Rita Ramnarong, nicknamed Chacha, is a Thai-British actress and singer born in Thailand. She graduated the Faculty of Arts from Bangkok University and, another, at the Faculty of Architecture Chulalongkorn University. Besides, she has a master at the Faculty of Arts from Chulalongkorn University. Rita is cousin of actress Tanyares Ramnarong (Tanya) and she is in a relationship with actor and singer Leo Saussay. Chacha first appeared in the entertainment industry was the result of shooting an advertisement. In 2001, she released a children's album together with Nicole Theriault, Piem Joy and Ping Piam Rak on the album "Play Time 1 & 2 with Nicole". Later, she became an RS artist in 2003 and released an album called 'Zig-Zag' comprised of 6 members: Chacha-Arit Taramnarong, Micky-Isry. Thawangthamroj, Toi-Naritip Srisatanawong, May-Napasanan Srisutthisan, Mai-Panita Kruewong and Bonus-Nicha Sangsuwan with the album with the same name as the group says 'Zig Zag (Zig-Zag)'. In 2009, she released a solo artist under GMM Grammy, an album called 'Chacha'. After that, there were several other separate albums: Love Status, singing 'Don't Love Is It?', Calling Love 2, Singing 'Don't Answer Call ... Crying', Single Chacha Song 'I'll be nearby. Beside you 'later in the year In 2017, Chacha released a single again with an independent agency, 'Not bad enough' Her first acting work was the drama 'Raung Ngao' acting as Mok, which aired on Channel 3, brought her a certain reputation as an actress. Since then, she has been taking part in some TV dramas. Nowadays, she is a DJ at Atime Media Co., Ltd. Chill 104.5 as a Thai-English bilingual host.
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