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Betty Vakalidou
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Elisavet Vakalidou (known as Betty) (Ελισάβετ "Μπέττυ" Βακαλίδου, 1950) is a Greek transsexual, one of the best-known transgender people in Greece, who publicly displayed her identity and fought for the rights of homosexuals and transgender people. She participated in the founding of the first Greek homosexual movement in Greece, A.K.O.E. (Gay Liberation Movement of Greece), has written two autobiographical books and has appeared in theater and cinema. She was also nominated as "Person of the Year" (2007) during the "European Year of Equal Opportunities for All".
Vakalidou has appeared in several Greek films and documentaries. Her first movie was "Betty" (1979) a 33-minute dramatized documentary of her life directed by Dimitris Stavrakas. The film, due to its subject matter, was left out of the competition section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. It was first screened, along with other cut films, at a special screening of a cinema independent of the Festival. She also started on Strella (2009) which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards , “Olefs” (2021) by Paola Revenioti, The Seven Deaths of Antona (2022) by Bijoux de kant, "AKOE/THE STORY OF A REVOLUTION (TO SLEEP ON HIS BREAST)" and "Mahi", Directed by Elias Giannakakis
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Varada Sethu
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Varada Sethumadhavan is a British actress born on May 12, 1992, in Kerala, India, and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally studying sciences at university, she later trained at the Identity School of Acting in London.
She began her career with indie films and TV roles, gaining recognition in Hard Sun and Strike Back. Her breakout role came as Cinta Kaz in Star Wars: Andor, and in 2025 she joined Doctor Who as companion Belinda Chandra alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor.
Sethu is known for her versatility, grounded performances, and her background in classical Indian dance.
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Edie Falco
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Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007), and as Nurse Jackie Peyton on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–2015). She is also known for her role as Diane Whittlesey in HBO's prison drama Oz (1997–2000).
In 2016, she played Sylvia Wittel on the web series Horace and Pete. In 2017, she portrayed defense attorney Leslie Abramson in the first season of the true crime anthology series Law & Order True Crime. Falco's film work includes lead roles in Laws of Gravity (1992), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and Judy Berlin (1999), and supporting roles in films including Sunshine State (2002), Freedomland (2006), and The Comedian (2016). For her role in the 2011 Broadway revival of The House of Blue Leaves, she earned a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Falco's work has been widely acclaimed - among other recognitions, she has won two Golden Globe awards (from eleven nominations) and four Emmy awards (from fourteen nominations), all for individual performances.
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Kirsty Child
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Kirsty Child is an Australian actress, best known for playing three roles in the cult drama Prisoner. She played two guest roles – prison officer turned drug dealer Anne Yates in 1979, and Glynis Johnson, the sister of an inmate, in 1983. In 1985 she played a more prominent part in the series as supercilious fence Willie Beecham. She returned for a cameo in late 1986.
Child acted in the 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock and appeared in serial Neighbours as Carmel Tyler. Other television guest roles include Blue Heelers.
Child is the widow of Australian actor Peter Adams, who died in 1999.
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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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Mehran Modiri
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Mehran Modiri is an actor, producer, and director who was born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran. He started his activity from the radio and drew the audience's attention in Daruish Kardan's "Norouz 72" comedy."Visit" by Mohammadreza Honarmand, was his first work in the cinema as an actor. He has been featured in Saeid Alamzadeh's "Tokyo Non-Stop ", "Tambourine" by Parisa Bakhtavar, and "Wooden Bridge" by Mehdi Karampour. He also released his first cinema movie, "At 5 o'clock" movie. He directed series such as "Pavarchin", "Garden of Mozaffar", "Shabhaye Barare" and "Man of Many Faces".
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Tchuba Dimalo
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Tchuba Dimalo is an actor and producer, known for LIFE InsTru (2022), Anzor Alem: Leloyo (2021) and Viva Riva! (2010). Tchuba Dimalo Gracia was born on December 15, 2001 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo to two older brothers, Serge and Kasimu and his sister Fanny. whose cousin son Anzor Alem enrolled.
Madeira Island was also where Tchuba Dimalo learned to master his footballing skills. He spent his early years playing for his local team, Nacional, and by the age of 12 he had already made a name for himself as one of Lubumbashi's top footballers. It was quick to attract the attention of other top clubs. Among the hope was Benfi, a team that Tchuba Dimalo . However, he eventually chose to play for Esperanza, a team his mother loved and followed growing up, playing with players like Trésor Mputu was her son's dream.
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Sujit Kumar
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Sujit Kumar (7 February 1934 – 5 February 2010), born near a village in Varanasi, was an Indian film actor and producer. He appeared in over 150 Hindi films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and 25 films in Bhojpuri. From the late 90s, he latterly concentrated more on production. Kumar was the first superstar of Bhojpuri cinema. He played pivotal roles either as a villain or as a character actor regularly in the most of films with Rajesh Khanna as the hero and in the films directed by Shakti Samanta. His indelible screen image remains of the guy playing the mouth organ while driving a jeep as Rajesh Khanna serenades Sharmila Tagore in the 1969 superhit, Aradhana.
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Junjun
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ジュンジュン (Junjun; Chinese: 純純), real name 李纯 (Lǐ Chún), currently known as 李沁謡 (Lǐ Qìnyáo) in China and best known by her Japanese stage name Junjun (ジュンジュン), is a Chinese singer and actress. She was announced to be joining as an eighth generation member of Morning Musume. on March 15, 2007. Along with Linlin, she is one of only two members in the history of Morning Musume. that is not of Japanese origin. She graduated from the group on December 15, 2010 with Kamei Eri and Linlin.
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Yolande Donlan
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Yolande Donlan (born June 2, 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American actress who has worked extensively in the United Kingdom.
She is the daughter of James Donlan, who was a hard working character actor in Hollywood films of the 1930s. It is thought that she had some uncredited roles in films including Pennies From Heaven and Love Finds Andy Hardy immediately following her father's death in 1938, but these have not been confirmed.
Her early credited roles include Frenchy the maid in the horror film The Devil Bat in 1940 and she followed this up with several small roles, generally as similar French-accented maid characters.
A notable stage success as Billie Dawn in a Boston production of Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin was the start of bigger things for Donlan. The production transferred to London's West End for a long run. Donlan was initially denied a work permit to star in the lead in Peter Pan due to complaints from Actors Equity who felt that a British star should have the lead.
After it ended, Donlan remained in the United Kingdom and began accepting film work. After Traveller's Joy in 1949, Donlan worked for the director Val Guest in several films including Mister Drake's Duck, Penny Princess (in the title role) and The Body Said No.
Donlan married Guest in 1954 and afterwards her film work included many of her husband's films such as Expresso Bongo and 80,000 Suspects, as well as a small number of films for other directors. In 1955 she penned the autobiographical travelogue, Sand in my Mink an amusing tale of adventures taken with her husband, across Europe, which makes a light hearted read of how travel used to be.
A further stage success came in 1959 in Jack Popplewell's And Suddenly It's Spring opposite Margaret Lockwood.
Her most recent film credit is Seven Nights in Japan from 1976. The same year saw publication of her autobiography, Shake the Stars Down, which concentrates on her childhood years growing up in the Hollywood of the 1930s.
Guest retired from directing in 1985 and the couple moved back to the United States of America in the late 1980s, where they resided in Palm Springs until his death in 2006. Donlan now lives in Belgravia, London.
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