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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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Karen Black
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Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned over 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
A native of suburban Chicago, Black studied theater at Northwestern University before dropping out and relocating to New York City. She performed on Broadway in 1965 before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an acid-tripping prostitute in Dennis Hopper's road film Easy Rider (1969). That led to a lead in the drama Five Easy Pieces (1970), in which she played a hopeless beautician, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Black made her first major commercial picture with the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974), and her subsequent appearance as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974) won her a second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
Black starred as a glamorous country singer in Robert Altman's ensemble musical drama Nashville (1975), also writing and performing two songs for the soundtrack, which won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack. Her portrayal of an aspiring actress in John Schlesinger's drama The Day of the Locust (also 1975) earned her a third Golden Globe nomination, this time for Best Actress. She subsequently took on four roles in Dan Curtis' anthology horror film Trilogy of Terror (1975), followed by Curtis's supernatural horror feature, Burnt Offerings (1976). The same year, she starred as a con artist in Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot.
In 1982, Black starred as a trans woman in the Robert Altman-directed Broadway debut of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a role she also reprised in Altman's subsequent film adaptation. She next starred in the comedy Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), followed by Tobe Hooper's remake of Invaders from Mars (1986). For much of the late 1980s and 1990s, Black starred in a variety of arthouse, independent, and horror films, as well as writing her own screenplays. She had a leading role as a villainous mother in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses (2003), which cemented her status as a cult horror icon. She continued to star in low-profile films throughout the early 2000s, as well as working as a playwright before her death from ampullary cancer in 2013.
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Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa (December 23, 1896 – July 23, 1957), was a Sicilian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard) which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn and solitary man, he passed a great deal of his time reading and meditating, and used to say of himself, "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people."
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Britt McKillip
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Britt Analisa McKillip (born January 18, 1991) is a Canadian actress and singer.
Her father is the producer Tom McKillip, and her mother the songwriter Lynda McKillip. She has an older sister, Carly McKillip, who is also an actress. Britt performs together with Carly in the country group One More Girl. Their debut album, Big Sky, was released on October 6, 2009, in Canada. The group released a new single The Hard Way in 2014.
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Lea Müller
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Lea Müller is a German actress. Lea Müller made her film debut in 2007 in the TV movie 12 is called: I love you as the film daughter of Devid Striesow. In the same year she appeared in the Christmas comedy Meine schöne Bescherung alongside Martina Gedeck and Heino Ferch. Between 2008 and 2010 she appeared as Paula Fabian in five episodes of the ZDF television series Unser Charly. In 2010 she appeared with a small role in the production Die Grenze, directed by Roland Suso Richter and broadcast on Sat.1. In the summer of 2012 she played the young Wilhelmine in the musical Friedrich - Mythos und Tragödie in Potsdam's Metropolis-Halle[1] For the television adaptation Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzer (The Girl with the Sulfur Woods), which was shown in the Christmas Program 2013 as part of the film series Six at One Stroke, she took on a title role for the first time. In the adaptation of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen with Nina Kunzendorf, Oliver Korittke and Jörg Hartmann she impersonated the orphan Inga.
Since August 2012 Lea Müller has been attending a grammar school in her home town of Potsdam.
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Julián Enriquez
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Julián Enriquez was born in Buenos Aires in 2003. From an early age, he developed an interest in literature, music, and religions. He is currently studying Film Editing at ENERC and Psychology at UBA.
As a director, he has made the short films "No hay tiempo" (2022) and "La Espera" (2023), which have been selected in more than fifteen international festivals, as well as "Trilogy of Light" and "Trilogy of Time" (2025). His experience as an editor focuses on short films and music videos, and he has also assisted in the production of several feature films. His work explores the relationships with time and nature, using everyday life scenarios to address psychological and existential themes.
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Sutara Gayle
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Lorna N Gayle (born 14 April 1963), known professionally as Sutara Gayle, is a British actress and singer, known for appearing in the films Run Fatboy Run (2007), The Dark Knight (2008) and One Day (2011). In 2015, she played Shontal in the BBC Three sitcom Fried. As Lorna Gee, she won awards as a lovers rock reggae singer. Between 2021 and 2022, she played the role of Gloria Mason-Walker in Silent Witness.
Since beginning her career in 2007, Gayle has appeared in films, on television and on stage. Gayle's first audition was for the tap-dancing play Stepping Out. She has also appeared in the West End musical Tina. She portrayed the role of Gloria Mason-Walker in Silent Witness on a recurring basis between 2021 and 2022. In 2022, she appeared in four episodes of Magpie Murders as Gemma Whiteley and as Kim Sullivan in the BBC drama Strike.
Whilst on a trip to India with her brother in 2011, Gayle made some "personal discoveries" and was given a naming ceremony, in which she was given the name "Sutara" which has used professionally since 2020.
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Ariana Greenblatt
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Ariana Greenblatt is an American actress. Her first starring role was in the Disney Channel comedy series Stuck in the Middle (2016–2018). Other early roles included the comedy film A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and the musical film In the Heights (2021). She rose to greater prominence with the science-fiction film 65, the comedy film Barbie, and the space opera television series Ahsoka, which were all released in 2023. For Barbie, she received nominations at the Critics' Choice and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Carlos Fuentes
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Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist.
Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999). He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.
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Li Nanxing
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Li Nanxing is a Chinese Mediacorp actor from Singapore. Li may be the best-known male actor in Singapore in modern times, and is widely regarded as the 'king' of Caldecott Hill, alongside Zoe Tay who is the 'queen', both having consistently been voted as the 'Top 10 Most Popular Artistes' for their respective genders in the annual Star Awards. Li has also won a couple of 'Best Male Actor' awards in the same award ceremony in his Television career which begun in 1987. Some of his more famous shows include The Unbeatables series and The Magnate; Li has also acted in 6 telemovies to date, and even sang the theme song of several of his shows. He mostly played in anti-hero roles. Li has an English name, Jonathan, which he seldom uses. He divorced his wife, Yang Libing in 2005, ending a marriage that had lasted 11 years.
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