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Becky Sauerbrunn
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Rebecca Elizabeth Sauerbrunn (born June 6, 1985) is an American soccer player for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the highest division of women's professional soccer in the United States. Since 2021, Sauerbrunn is the captain of the United States women's national soccer team. She previously captained Utah Royals FC and—from 2016 to 2018—co-captained the national team with Carli Lloyd.
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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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Dalila Di Lazzaro
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Dalila Di Lazzaro (born 29 January 1953) is an Italian model, actress and writer.
Born in Udine, she started as fashion model and as subject of the most world famous photographers such as Andy Warhol, then she gained attention in tabloid press, as supposed relative of Sophia Loren and even a potential rival in love.
Between the mid-70's and the early 80's Di Lazzaro worked in notable films with directors such as Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Florestano Vancini and Jacques Deray, then focused primarily on television. In 1983 she refused the role of Domino, later played by Kim Basinger, in Never Say Never Again.
Her last participation in a movie is on 2013 : L'Ultima ruota del carro, movie of the director: Giovanni Veronesi
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Gene Stupnitsky
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Gene Stupnitsky (born August 26, 1977) is a Ukrainian-born American film and television writer, producer, and director. He usually works with Lee Eisenberg, with whom he founded Quantity Entertainment. From 2005 to 2010, he served as a writer, director and producer of the NBC sitcom The Office for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He served as a co-creator, writer, and producer of the HBO comedy series Hello Ladies (2013-2014). In 2023 he co-created Jury Duty with Eisenberg.
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Narumi Yasuda
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Narumi Yasuda is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Inuji ni seshi mono, Minami he hashire, umi no michi o! and Sorobanzuku. She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film Award for Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad.
Initially she was the winner of a competition to find a singer to sing the theme song and promote Hayao Miyazaki's now-popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, "Kaze no Tani no Naushika", composed by Haruomi Hosono (former Yellow Magic Orchestra member).
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Toshinori Kondo
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Toshinori Kondo (近藤 等則, Kondō Toshinori, 15 December 1948 – 17 October 2020) was a Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter trumpeter whose daring instinct and deep expressive resources slashed through a spectrum of experimental and ambient music.
A trailblazing figure in his native Japan, Kondo earned much of his reputation while based in Amsterdam or New York City. He was a sought-after collaborator in free jazz, locking horns with the incendiary German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and courting revelation with other avant-garde luminaries, like English guitarist Derek Bailey and Dutch drummer Han Bennink.
Kondo also thrived in electroacoustic settings where groove was paramount — whether leading his own groups, like Toshinori Kondo IMA; on a range of projects with bassist-producer Bill Laswell; or in a joint effort with DJ Krush, notably on the mid-1990s trip-hop album Ki-Oku.
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Cheb Hasni
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Cheb Hasni (الشاب حسني), whose real name Hasni Chakroun (شقرون حسني), is an Algerian raï singer, nicknamed the "Rossignol du Raï", he was born on February 1, 1968 in Oran, Algeria, and died on the 29 September 1994 in the same city. He is considered the king of sentimental raï.
Hasni Chakroun, his name in the civil register, was born on February 1, 1968 in Gambetta, a popular suburb of Oran, the son of a welder father of seven children. Young, he pushed his voice as soon as he left school. He was also a football player, which he started at the age of 9 with ASMO. At 15, he injured himself and stayed in hospital for several weeks. Back on the field, his weight had increased, and despite the encouragement of the coaches he could not continue his sporting career. Hasni reportedly performed for the first time during the club leader's brother's wedding. In the process, one of the wedding guests offers him to perform in the cabarets of Oran.
In 1986, Hasni Chakroun recorded his first cassette with the Saint-Crépain publishing house. In 1987, he performed songs in duet with the raï singer Chaba Zahouania. He married in 1987, at the age of 19, and had one child, named Abdallah, born in 1989. His wife "Melouka" whose real name is Zahzouh Malika, was for years the main inspiration of his greatest titles like "Tal Ghyabek ya ghzali" or "El Bayda mon amour".
Singer adored by young people in Algeria and around the world, Cheb Hasni likes to sing sentimental love, and becomes the most prolific and biggest seller of cassettes in the country. Coming from the second generation of raï, which appeared after 1985, the year of the first raï festival in Algeria, and of which Cheb Hasni and his emulator cheb Nasro were the first representatives. Their music is labeled "Raï sentimental" or "Raï love" compared to the "vulgar" and harsh raï of their predecessors. More melodious, the genre is widely popularized through weddings, so the bar and the cabaret are no longer essential spaces for the dissemination of the genre. In 1990, prolific, he recorded 10 clips with a French company, and in 1992, he signed a contract with the manager Nourredine Gafaïti (Manager of Chaba Zahouania, Cheb Sahraoui and Chaba Fadela) and went on tours all over the world with the other stars. Inducted King of "Raï love", Hasni recorded more than 150 cassettes during his career, with at least six songs per audio tape. At the height of his art, on September 29, 1994, Hasni was assassinated in his neighborhood of Oran (Gambetta) at the age of 26. The Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A) claimed responsibility for the assassination, the news set the whole country ablaze and a huge crowd gathered in his neighborhood. Every Algerian, wherever he is on earth, carries his memory within him, the memory of a time when Hasni gave a little hope in the midst of the chaos of the "black decade". He will leave behind him the image of a martyr, man of the people, attached to his district of Oran and to Algeria that he will never want to leave us even under the threat of terrorism, and remains the idol of a whole people. , Algeria but also the whole Maghreb and its diaspora.
He will be decorated with the medal of the Order of National Merit in the rank of "Achir" posthumously.
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Erika Ura
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Erika Ura (浦 えりか, Ura Erika, born June 2, 1986) is a Japanese actress, singer, professional wrestler and former gravure idol from Kanagawa Prefecture. Her husband is DJ LOVE of SEKAI NO OWARI. She is affiliated with Fine Motion. Previously, she was affiliated with Stardust Promotion for five years. In the past, in addition to working under her real name Erika Ura (浦 絵理香), she also used different stage names, such as Suzuka Mizuhara (水原鈴花) and Erii Takamine (高峰えりい). In 2006, she joined the fujoshi idol unit Nakano Fujoshi Sisters (currently Nakano Fujo Sisters). From 2008 to 2017, she was a member of the group Fudanjuku (腐男塾), a unit derived from Nakano Fujoshi Sisters, under the stage name Uramasa Seimyoji (青明寺 浦正, Seimyōji Uramasa). On September 20, 2018, she announced her marriage to DJ LOVE, a member of SEKAI NO OWARI.
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Vicky Nitinegoro
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Vicky Nitinegoro is an Indonesian actor, model, and presenter. Starting as a commercial star, Vicky then debuted to the world of TV shows by joining the soap opera "Kisah Sedih di Hari Minggu" opposite Marshanda. He made his name through the soap opera "Putri Cahaya". Not long after starring in several series, Vicky plunged into the big screen playing a cameo in the film The Shaman (2007). On 14 July 2007, he joined 9 other TV actors, namely Nicky Tirta, Ian Arya, Roger Danuarta, Dimas Seto, Dwi Andhika, Kiki Rizky, Rifky Abdullah, Gugun Gondrong, and Atoy Herlambang to release their first compilation album titled "10 Male Sinetron Artist: Compilation Album".
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Hiroshi Okochi
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Hiroshi Okochi is a Japanese actor born on May 11, 1956, in Tarumi-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Production JinriSha. He used the stage name Takiyama Eigo during his appearances in works filmed at Toei Kyoto and Shochiku Kyoto studios from 1980 to 1982. Since 1983, he has been using his real name for his acting career. Okochi is known for his roles in television dramas, movies, and stage productions. He has a height of 175 cm and holds the special skill of a second-degree black belt in Judo.
Source: "大河内浩" - Wikipedia Japan
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