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Miss Guy

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Miss Guy is best known as a cutting-edge songwriter and solo artist, as the lead singer of Toilet Boys, and as "a pioneer in the DJ world" (Marc Spitz/Spin). Born in Southern California, Miss Guy grew up in the Rock scene of New York City with mentors including Deborah Harry and Boy George. Miss Guy co-wrote the hit single "Charm Alarm" with Deborah Harry, which was certified gold. He co-produced the Blondie hit "In the Flesh" with Super Buddha and co-wrote "Stay Away from Pretty Boys" with Boy George. With the Toilet Boys, Miss Guy toured the US, Europe, and Asia with Blondie, The Ramones, Rancid, The Damned, Joan Jett, Motorhead, The Donnas, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. They also opened for Guns 'N' Roses at Webseter Hall in NYC in 2012.
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Annie Corley

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Annie Corley (born January 11, 1960) is an American actress who has appeared in a wide variety of films and television shows since 1990. Her most notable role to date was playing Meryl Streep's daughter in the film The Bridges of Madison County. A graduate of DePauw University in Indiana, she first appeared in Malcolm X. Since then, she has been featured in several other Oscar-nominated films, such as The Cider House Rules, Seabiscuit, 21 Grams, and Monster. She co-starred in The Lucky Ones and 2009's Crazy Heart. She also played Judge Burch in Law Abiding Citizen. Among her television appearances, she has guest starred on The Closer, NYPD Blue, as the mother of Zachary Quinto on Touched by an Angel, conservative Christian pundit Mary Marsh on The West Wing, Without a Trace, Murder, She Wrote, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Practice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annie Corley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  
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Jean Anderson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the 1980s Second World War series Tenko . She is also notable for playing the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957. Other TV credits include: Police Surgeon, Maigret, The Odd Man, The Man in Room 17, The Borderers, Paul Temple, Codename, Oil Strike North, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sacha Distel

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Alexandre "Sacha" Distel (29 January 1933 – 22 July 2004) was a French singer, guitarist, songwriter and actor who had hits with a cover version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in 1970, which reached No 10 in the UK Charts, "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1997. He had also scored a hit as a songwriter when Tony Bennett recorded Sacha's song for The Good Life in 1963. It peaked at #18 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and Top 10 on the Easy Listening chart. Distel was the son of Russian-French emigre Léonide Distel who was born in Odessa (Russian Empire) and French-Jewish pianist Andrée Ventura (1902–1965), born in Constantinople. His uncle was bandleader Ray Ventura. After Ventura settled in Paris with his orchestra Les Collégiens, Distel gave up piano and switched to guitar. During his career, Distel worked with Kenny Clarke, Jimmy Gourley, Lionel Hampton, Slide Hampton, Bobby Jaspar, Barney Kessel, John Lewis, Pierre Michelot, Bernard Peiffer, Henri Renaud, Fats Sadi, Art Simmons, Martial Solal, René Urtreger, and Barney Wilen. As well as his musical career he also did some acting, primarily on French television. He had a cameo appearance in the 1960 film Zazie dans le Métro. He appeared in "Fallen Angels" by Noel Coward on British television in 1974. Distel was involved with actress Brigitte Bardot in 1958, having invited her to his birthday party in Saint-Tropez. The relationship ended in 1959. He married championship Olympic skier Francine Bréaud in 1963. Distel publicly stated that he remained faithful to his wife: "Anything I want in a woman I can get at home." Distel died of cancer at the age of 71 on 22 July 2004 at his mother in law's home in Rayol-Canadel, near Saint-Tropez, France. Source: Article "Sacha Distel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Jesse Heiman

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Jesse Wayne Heiman (born May 23, 1978) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his uncredited work as an extra in a wide variety of films and television shows and for appearing with Bar Refaeli and Danica Patrick in a Go Daddy commercial at Super Bowl XLVII, in which Refaeli, a supermodel, and Heiman share a graphic french kiss. On April 11, 2011 Jesse appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno alongside Jamie Foxx. Despite his age, he still portrays teenagers and young adults as an extra. As a play on the Go Daddy commercial, singer Michael Bublé cast Heiman in the opening scene of his video "It's a Beautiful Day" where Bublé walks in on Jaime Pressly, who plays his significant other in the comical video, and Heiman sharing a kiss, to which Bublé responds by singing the song. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jesse Heiman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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AJ Raval

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AJ Raval is a Filipino actress, YouTuber, and social media star. Having the genes of such talented parents, AJ also sparked interest in the business. She has considered an upcoming star and has high expectations given her famous family. Before becoming an actress, AJ was a member of a girl group called The Fabulous Girlfriends when she was only 15 years old. She has starred in several movies under Viva Films and appeared in the first‑ever Philippine longest-running drama of all time "Ang Probinsyano."
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Zasu Pitts

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Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed. Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". He also featured her in his films The Honeymoon (1928), The Wedding March (1928), War Nurse (1930) and Walking Down Broadway, released as Hello, Sister! (1933). However, for the most part, with the advent of sound Pitts was mostly relegated to comedy parts. A bitter disappointment was when she was replaced in the classic war drama All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs, despite her intense performance. She had viewers rolling in the aisles in Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). In 1936 and 1937 she portrayed Hildegarde Withers in two movies, succeeding Edna May Oliver as the spinster sleuth, but they were not well received. In the 1950s she started focusing on television. This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to Gale Storm on CBS's The Gale Storm Show (1956) (also known as Oh, Susannah) in the role of Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the shipboard beautician. In 1961, Pitts was cast opposite Earle Hodgins in the episode "Lonesome's Gal" on the ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In 1962, Pitts appeared in an episode of CBS's Perry Mason, "The Case of the Absent Artist". Her final role was as Gertie, the switchboard operator in the Stanley Kramer comedy epic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
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Marie Doro

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From Wikipedia Marie Doro (May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era. She was born to Virginia Weaver and Richard Henry Stewart. She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty. On Frohman's death in the RMS Lusitania in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor; most of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Marie Doro was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1725 Vine Street in Hollywood, California, USA.
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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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Christoffer Bro

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Christian Christoffer Christoffersen Bro er søn af lærer Viggo Johannes Christoffersen Bro (død 1937) og hustru søndagsskolelærer Anna Christensen (død 1964). Han blev stud.mag. og havde læst hos Einar Juhl, da han kom på elevskole på Aarhus Teater 1958-60. Der fik han straks debut som Puk i "En skærsommernatsdrøm". Han viste også sit komiske talent som Jonatan i "Folk og røvere", som Elin Reimers partner i musicalen "Rose Marie" og som Herløv i "Eventyr på Fodrejsen" i 62. I 1959 var han med til at oprette Forsøgsscenen i Århus. Han spillede i revyer på ABC-teatret i 62/63, og på Dansk Skolescene var han Peter i "Anne Franks dagbog" i 62 og Leander i "Scapins gavtyvestreger" i 64. I 1963 var han også på Folketeatret som Pierrot i "Don Juan". I tv spillede han Les i "Jimmys tog" i 63 og Lexy i "Candida" i 64. I København fik han mange gode opgaver - bl. a. som Kirsebærkat i "Sommeren" på Boldhus Teatret, som "Kong Ubu" i Riddersalen og som Søren Brun i "Radiserne" på Allé Scenen med søsteren Vigga Bro som Trine. Christoffer Bro var pioner i det opsøgende teaterarbejde på landets arbejdspladser. Han var direktør på Gladsaxe Teater i årene 1972-1984, hvor der bl.a. blev vist følgende forestillinger: "Niels Klim", "Heksejagt", "Hvem er bange for Virginia Woolf?" og "Kristihimmelfartsfesten". Efter tiden som teaterchef fortsatte Christoffer Bro som skuespiller og har været instruktør på teatrene. Han iscenesatte bl.a. revyen "Spektakler i juli", "Lille Malcolm", "Arbejderen kan 300 ord", "Hvem er det der blir snydt", "Månebørn", "Henrik og Pernille" og "Med hatten lige på hovedet". Han havde roller i "The Boys in the Band", "Seks på Weekend", "Den gamle dame besøger byen", "Clockwork Orange", "Rygter, rygter", "Eventyr på fodrejsen", "Brok" og i mangfoldige andre opsætninger. Fra 1963 til 1978 var han gift med skuespillerinden Helle Hertz, med hvem han fik 3 børn. De er alle - Anders Peter, Nicolas og Laura - uddannede skuespillere. Han filmdebuterede som marinesoldat i filmen "Sorte Shara" og har gennem årene haft en del småroller. Han spillede Tom i "Paradis retur", Soldaten i "Sommerkrig" og han medvirkede i en række sengekantsfilmm ligesom han havde roller på TV. Bl.a. huskes han for sin rolle som Fiffig Jørgensen i julekalenderen "Nissebanden i Grønland" fra 1989 og han spillede den usympatiske Nicolaisen fra Taxanævnet i TV-serien "Taxa" i 1998-1999.
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