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Matthew James Thomas

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Matthew James Thomas (occasionally credited as Matthew Thomas) is a British actor, writer and director. Best known for such films and TV series as Summer of Rockets (2019), The Devil You Know (2015), Britannia High (2008), Trevor's World of Sport (2003), and About a Boy (2002). He relocated to the USA in 2009 to play the title character in Julie Taymor's Broadway production of Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark (2009). He later originated the title character in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Pippin (2013), directed by Diane Paulus.
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Gabriella Farinon

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Gabriella Farinon (born 17 August 1941) is an Italian television and radio presenter and actress. Born in Oderzo, after appearing in several films, in 1961 Farinon joined RAI as announcer. Starting from 1968, she presented several programs of various genres, notably several editions of the Sanremo Music Festival and of Un disco per l'estate. The last program she presented was the 1997 Rai 3 talk show TeleSogni. Farinon's daughter Barbara Modesti, whom she had with documentarist Dore Modesti, is a RAI journalist. Her sister Luisa married businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone. Source: Article "Gabriella Farinon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Chase Kim

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After more than six years of the corporate grind in New York, Dallas, San Francisco and Chicago, Chase came to the realization that there was more to life than Hi-Tech companies and start-up businesses. Like many others who come to Hollywood everyday with stars in their eyes, Chase had aspirations of becoming a professional actor. The Los Angeles native didn't have far to go, geographically speaking. He knew he would be giving up his financial stability and would probably have to wait on a few tables to reach his dream, but had little doubt it would all be worth it at the end of the day. Needing to clear his head, Chase traveled to Barcelona, Spain before returning to LA to pursue acting full-time. Although born in LA, he was raised all over the world in locations including South Korea, Panama and Peru. Chase graduated in 1997 with a BA degree in History and Political Science from UC San Diego and is a huge fan of the LA Dodgers.
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Laura Ingraham

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Laura Anne Ingraham is an American conservative television host. Ingraham formerly hosted the nationally syndicated radio show The Laura Ingraham Show for nearly two decades, is the editor-in-chief of LifeZette, and beginning in October 2017, has been the host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News Channel. Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Reagan administration in the late 1980s. Afterwards she earned a J.D. degree and then went on to work as a judicial clerk in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York and then for United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She also worked for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City. Ingraham began her media career in the mid-1990s.
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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Benoît Hamon

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Benoît Hamon (born 26 June 1967) is a French politician known for his former role within the Socialist Party (PS) and Party of European Socialists (PES) and his political party Génération.s. Hamon joined the Socialist Party in 1988 and by 1993 became the leader of the Young Socialist Movement, serving until 1995. In 2004, Hamon was elected MEP for East of France and during his time as MEP he ran for leadership of the Socialist Party, losing in the first round of the Reims Congress and endorsing the Eurosceptic option in the 2005 European Constitution referendum. In 2012, Hamon was elected to the National Assembly in Yveline's 11th constituency, though he resigned after being appointed as junior minister for the Social Economy at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and External Trade by President François Hollande. Hamon was then appointed Minister of National Education in Manuel Valls' new government. He was removed from this position alongside Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg when they both publicly opposed the government economic policy. He later returned to the National Assembly in September of the same year, running in his previous constituency. Hamon's stint in the National Assembly consisted of voting in line with a group labelled the Frondeurs, a socialist group opposed to the social-liberal politics of Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls. In 2016, Hamon declared his intention to run in the Socialist Party primary for the 2017 presidential election. Being dubbed the "Jeremy Corbyn of the French-left" and "reinventing the French left", Hamon ran on ideas accused of being "far-out" such as legalising cannabis, taxing automation and introducing a universal basic income. Hamon eventually won in a run-off against former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and campaigned on similar ideals in the general election, though only gathering 6.36 per cent of votes. Shortly following his loss in the legislative election, Hamon left the Socialist Party in July 2017 to found his own political party called 1 July Movement, later renamed Génération.s. After failing to win any seats in the 2019 European elections, Hamon will step back to reflect on his and his movement's political future. Hamon was born 26 June 1967 in Saint-Renan, Finistère to an engineer father who worked for Naval Group in Brest and a secretary mother. Hamon lived in Brest until 1980, moving with his parents to Dakar, Senegal where he attended a Cours Sainte Marie de Hann private school. Hamon credited growing up in Dakar as influential to the future of his life due to the religious and ethnic diversity of the region. Hamon returned to Brittany following his parents divorce in 1984 and eventually enrolled in the University of Western Brittany studying a degree in History where he joined the Young Socialist movement. Hamon lived in an apartment with current Socialist Party first secretary Olivier Faure during his academic life. ... Source: Article "Benoît Hamon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sarah Smith

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Sarah Smith is an English film director, broadcast producer, and screenwriter. She is the co-founder and former CEO of Locksmith Animation. She is writer and director of the animated feature films Arthur Christmas (2011) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). Smith began her career in radio before serving as a television producer for live action British comedy, including as writer for the Armistice news review shows. She later served various other assisting production roles in television, and as writer for the adult animated series I Am Not an Animal. She then joined Aardman Animations as creative director, going on to direct her first feature film Arthur Christmas. She left Aardman and set up Locksmith Animation to direct Ron's Gone Wrong. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uttej

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Uttej (ఉత్తేజ్) is a Tollywood actor.His uncle Suddala Ashok Teja is a popular lyricist of Telugu cinema. He was introduced by Ram Gopal Varma with Shiva in 1989. He was one of the natural actors in Tollywood. His mentor Krishna Vamsi gave him life on the Silver Screen though introduced by Ram Gopal Varma. He received Nandi Award for Chandamama as a comedian. He acted along with many lead actors. He also worked as assistant director to Krishna Vamsi for the film 'Gulabi'.
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Irina Abraham

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Talented, up and coming American actress Irina Abraham has garnered critical acclaim for her roles in stage theatre before working in film (According to Her, Dir. Estelle ARtus) and TV series (The Black List, The Americans). Her diverse acting career has spanned film, theatre and dance. Born in Belarus, Irina began studying dance and dramatic arts at the age of 7, at 13 she joined a dance company that toured Europe, and at 15 she was part of a Youth Theater Company. Once in New York, Irina graduated from the HB Studio full time program in dramatic arts. There she studied with Aleksey Burago and Snezhana Chernova in the tradition of Stanislavsky. After acting in number of short films and web-series, Irina was offered the lead female role in According to Her. The same year she was to play again the lead role in another feature film: The Girl On The Ledge (Dir. Paul Rothman). Irina also worked with the Russian Arts Theater & Studio, Nylon Fusion Theater Company, Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, and the Bedlam Ensemble.
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Claire Gordon

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Claire Gordon or Clare Gordon (was born 1941) in the City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK. Her father was a doctor, and her mother a make-up artist, who worked for Max Factor. Gordon is a British actress known for leading and cameo roles in many British movies, mainly in the 1960's and 1970's. She also worked with most television and comedy stars of this period. She made her West End theatre debut on a motor bike in The Darling Buds of May and then created the role of Peggy Evans in Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn. She later made theatrical history as the first actress to appear naked on stage in The Three Musketeers, playing Lady De Winter. The New Statesman wrote, "watch out for the bath scene; it's a breakthrough." Most recently, she played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at the Princes Theatre, Hunstanton and is currently working on her memoirs. She was married to the roue William Donaldson and later divorced. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claire Gordon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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