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Thanawat Prasitsomporn
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Thanawat Prasitsomporn, also known as DJ Nui, is a Thai actor, DJ, host, and broadcaster. He graduated high school from Wisuttarangsee School Kanchanaburi, then continued his studies until he graduated from the Faculty of Communication Arts, Major in Advertising, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. Then came to work as a radio host of 94 EFM, starting from reading the news of the program, Chaeng Morning with DJ Moddam and DJ Krit on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Until receiving the nickname Nui Chae morning according to the name of the show and also dubbing show, movies and dramas as well. He participated as a committee on The Mask Singer, the detective in I Can See Your Voice Thailand, and The Wall Song.
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Suman C. Tharan
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Suman C. Tharan has always been interested in performing arts from a very young age. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 3rd, 1967, his first appearance on television was in Singapore when he was 10. He went on to do a couple of stage roles, The Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart's "Oliver" (1984) and Malcolm in Tom Stoppard's "Cahoot's Macbeth" (1985). Suman also was commissioned by Education Radio Malaysia to do a series of programs in 1987. Upon returning from England after studying Law and working extensively, front of house in London's West End on Les Misérables, Aspects of Love, and Cats, he moved to the bustling Bangkok. There, he acted in Mark O'Donnell's "Marred Bliss" (2003) as Dink, the dimwit Kretinus in Miles Tredinnic's stage version of "Up Pompei" (2016, Yvan in Yasmina Reza's "Art"(2016) and the resplendent "The Genie of the Lamp" in the pantomime "Aladdin" (2016)! In 2004, he directed Christopher Durang's "Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From" (2004)and just recently "A Gay Thing" (2017) by Joshua James. Out of sheer luck, he was cast as a featured extra in Dennis Gansel's "The Mechanic Resurrection"(2016) with Jason Statham and has a small featured extra role with Blake Lively and Yvonne Strahovski in "All I See Is You" (2016) and a Swedish movie "Hundraettåringen som smet från notan och försvann" (2016). This brought Suman a variety of roles in smaller independent films, a six-episode arc on Thailand Channel 9 "Turakit ASEAN" and television commercials. He now hopes to break into Bollywood movies and try his hand at stand-up comedy, all the while, without leaving his home away from home, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Lizz Winstead
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As a co-creator and former head writer of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," and Co-founder of Air America Radio; Lizz Winstead has emerged as a critically acclaimed political writer and producer. As a performer, Winstead brought her political wit to "The Daily Show" as a Correspondent and later to the radio waves co-hosting "Unfiltered," Air America Radio's mid morning show with citizen of the world and Hip Hop legend Chuck D, and political big brain Rachel Maddow.
Lizz' comedic talents have been recognized in Entertainment Weekly's 100 most Creative People issue and she was nominated Best Female Club Performer by The American Comedy Awards and has appeared numerous times on television including HBO's "Women of the Night", "The US Comedy Arts Festival" in Aspen, "Comedy Central Presents.." and too many basic cable stand-up shows and VH-1 "50 Greatest This" and "100 Greatest That's" to mention....
Lizz is writing, producing and staring in "Wake Up World" an Off Broadway and web show in NYC that satirizes all of our beloved morning shows. Winstead continues touring the country doing stand-up and is a regular contributor on "The Ed Show" on MSNBC.
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Malavika Nair
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Malavika began her career as a child actress in Malayalam television serials. Noted Malayalam film director Shri. Kamal then cast her in his highly acclaimed film Karutha Pakshikal where her portrayal of a poor blind girl, exuding innocence and noble thoughts was highly appreciated. This role won her the coveted Kerala State Film Award. She has also acted in other Malayalam movies – Yes Your Honour, Maya Bazar, Orkkuka Vallappozhum, Shikkar, Penpattanam, Kandahar, Little Master, Vaadhyar, The Reporter, Oomakkuyil Padumbol, Naughty Professor, Ithra Mathram, and Omega.Exe. She recently won her second Kerala State Film Award for her brilliant performance in Oomakkuyil Padumbol. She has also done ad-films, besides acting in devotional albums. She is a good singer and dancer as well. Her performance in tele-serials Sreeguruvayoorappan, Sreekrishna Leela, Devi Mahatmyam was much appreciated. Born in 1999, she is a student of Vivekodayam Higher Secondary School, Thrissur, Kerala.
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Lou Lamoriello
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Louis P. Lamoriello (/læmər.ɛl.oʊ/; born October 21, 1942) is an American professional ice hockey executive who is the president of hockey operations and general manager for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was formerly general manager of both the New Jersey Devils and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Lamoriello's tenure as general manager of the New Jersey Devils from 1987 to 2015 was the third-longest by an NHL general manager with a single team, following those of Conn Smythe and Art Ross. Lamoriello resigned from New Jersey on May 4, 2015, and became the 16th general manager of the Maple Leafs on July 23 of the same year.
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Ibtisam Faread
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An Iraqi actress who was born in Baghdad. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with distinction and worked in theatre, radio, television, and cinema. She also wrote about women and children, worked with many Arab stars, such as Nidal Al-Ashkar, the late Osama Al-Mashini, and Mahmoud Abu Gharib. She acted in various Arab countries and became known for her role as Sultana in the series, Eagle and Eyes of the City. She worked in many Shakespearean plays, after which she received certificates of appreciation as the best actress for many of these roles. She also participated in many Arab and international festivals. She worked in dubbing animated series. She is known for Swan Lake, Four Seasons, and The Little Prince.
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Christian Le Guillochet
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Christian Le Guillochet (20 September 1933 in Albi – 10 February 2011 in Paris) was a French actor, playwright and theatre director.
With his wife Luce Berthommé, he created the cultural center Lucernaire in Paris.
Born in Albi in 1933 from a railway father and a nursing mother, he was a worker when he was summoned to fight in Algeria. Back in France, he attended evening classes and obtained a degree in technical and commercial engineering. He took drama classes to cure his shyness. In 1963, Robert Dhéry noticed and engaged him in Grosse Valse. He learned much by observing the star of the show, Louis de Funès.
In 1964, he founded a first café-théâtre, then "Le Lucernaire" in 1968, near the Montparnasse métro station, rue d'Odessa. Ten years later, expelled because of the construction of the Montparnasse Tower, he installed "Le Lucernaire" at 53 rue Notre-Dame des Champs.
In the 1970s, he began a long-term friendship with Laurent Terzieff to whom he entrusted the artistic direction of the Lucernaire for five years.
On 5 November 2003, on the evening of the premiere of Subvention, a play by Jean-Luc Jeener in which he embodied a theater director, he started a hunger strike so that the city of Paris and the Ministry of Culture did not cut subsidies to the "Lucernaire". In 2004, his wife died, and, at age 70, he sold the "Lucernaire" to the group owner of the publishing house L'Harmattan.
Source: Article "Christian Le Guillochet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Johnny Myers
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Johnny Myers is an American-born actor and singer based in the United Kingdom. Originally working as a jazz vocalist, he moved to London in 1970 and transitioned into acting through West End and National Theatre stage productions.
Myers' screen credits include feature films such as Hackers (1995), Laws of Attraction (2004), The Marksman (2005), and Kon-Tiki (2012), along with television projects like Hiroshima (2005) and Sexy Beast (2024). He also portrayed a building manager in the superhero feature Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).
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Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul.
Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall).
In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France where she successfully passed the first part of the baccalaureate with the choice of Vietnamese as a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently. Duras returned to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found a teaching post. There, Marguerite continued her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the second part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy.
In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in public law in 1936. At the same time, she took classes in mathematics. She continued her education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public law and, later, in political economy. After finishing her studies in 1937, she found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies. In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies.
During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. She then became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and a member of the French Resistance as a part of a small group that also included François Mitterrand, who later became President of France and remained a lifelong friend of hers. Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered.
In 1943, when publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne.
In 1950, her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run. ...
Source: Article "Marguerite Duras" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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