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Josephine Joseph
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Josephine-Joseph (c. 1896/1897) was an American performer who was prominent in circus sideshows and the carnival circuits during the early 20th century.
She is best known for her only film role in the Tod Browning, pre-code production Freaks in 1932. Her body was supposedly split down the middle, one side female and the other male. She claimed to be an intersex person ("true hermaphrodite" as it was called in her times), but there is no evidence to confirm whether this was the case; she may have just been a very skilled impersonator, in the style of Albert-Alberta Karas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josephine Joseph, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Greg Davies
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Greg Davies is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer and actor known for starring in his critically lauded sitcom Man Down (Channel 4). After playing the infamously psychotic Head of Sixth Form ‘Mr Gilbert’ in The Inbetweeners(Channel 4) and its two spin off feature films, Greg went on to appear in Cuckoo (BBC Three) alongside Andy Samberg and Taylor Lautner, which earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. He made a guest star appearance as King Hydroflax in the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas Special (BBC One), and voiced ‘Balloon Man’ in the feature film Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (Warner Bros).
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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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Kie Kitano
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Kie Kitano (北乃きい, Kitano Kii, born March 15, 1991) is a Japanese Actress, singer, TV host, and former gravure idol.
She entered the entertainment industry in 2005 at the age of 14 by winning the Miss Magazine Grand Prix Award, marking her as the youngest winner in the event's history. She made her acting debut with: 恋する日曜日「夏の記憶」BS-i drama broadcasted in 2005. She starred on "Yubisaki", directed by Isao Yukisada, "Mother at Fourteen", and NHK drama "Junjo Kirari" in 2006. She did her first lead role in 2007 with "Happy Dining Table" (also known as Kōfuku na Shokutaku) directed by Takashi Komatsu, in the same year, she starred in the Fuji TV drama "Life", an very successful drama, which helped elevate her reputation as a talented and highly capable young actress, Kitano won the 4th Annual TV Navi Drama Award for Best New Actress and the 54th Television Drama Academy Award for Best Newcomer, since then, she starred in various dramas and movies.
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Mayuri Deshmukh
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Mayuri Deshmukh is a TV and film actress particularly known in Marathi world. She basically from Mumbai but has grown in Visakhapatnam wherein she was raised and had her schooling from Rishi Vidyalaya Gurukulam. Since her school days she remained very much active in cultural activities, which turned the base for her acting career.Soon after completing her primary education, she headed to Mumbai to join the Academy of Theatre Arts wherein she did her graduation in drama and arts considering her interest in the acting world.
Soon after she completed her studies, she headed to get a role in a TV serial. Soon she got a small role in a movie showcasing Baba Amte and his work wherein she played the character of a journalist. Soon she got another TV serial apart from working in theatres.
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Joey Lawrence
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Joseph "Joey" Lawrence Mignogna Jr. (born April 20, 1976) is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and game show host. He got his start as a child star in the early 1980s and is best known for his role as Joey Russo in Blossom and Joe Longo in Melissa & Joey. He also starred in Gimme a Break! (1983–1987), and the series Brotherly Love with his real-life brothers Matthew and Andrew.
He's been married to actress Samantha Cope since 2022 and they have 1 child. He has 2 other children with his second wife.
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YAMA
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Yama is a former professional sumo wrestler who fought from Onoe stable beginning in January, 2007 at the age of 22, and at his peak weight of 586 lbs. was the heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler in history. A graduate of Nihon University, he won several amateur championships at national, world, and university levels before turning professional, making the top makuuchi division by the January, 2009 tournament. He fought under the ring name Yamamotoyama, formed simply by adding the suffix "yama" (mountain) to his birth family name. Despite his meteoric rise through the ranks, he struggled with injury after reaching his highest rank of maegashira 9, and fell to the second-highest juryo division. He returned to makuuchi for a single tournament but then suffered further injuries, forcing his withdrawal from several tournaments and ultimately dropping down to the fourth-highest sandanme division. In April of 2011 he was implicated in a wide-reaching bout-fixing scandal. Although he maintained his innocence of any putative bout-fixing, he accepted the punishments handed out by the Japan Sumo Association and retired from professional sumo.
Besides his forays into acting and reality TV, he promotes the sport of sumo in the United States by staging training exercises and exhibition matches with other amateur sumo wrestlers.
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Smaro Veaki
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Smaro (Smaragda) Bola - Veaki (Greek: Σμάρω Βεάκη, 1895 - 1982)
She was the daughter of the actors Apostolos and Ioulia Bola and the second wife of Emilios Veakis. The theatrical family was completed with their three children Mary, Giannis and Dimitris, also actors. She was born in 1895 in Kefalonia and made her first appearance on stage in Cyprus in the play "The Lady of Lyon" with the G. Saramantis troupe. She then collaborated with the troupes of Aikaterini Veroni, Marika Kotopouli and Kyveli. She met her husband and from 1922 she participated in the A. Veakis-Chris Nezer troupe. In 1926 she returned to her collaboration with Kyveli at the "Dionysia" theatre. In 1932 she joined the National Theatre, where she remained until 1941. After the war, she appeared only in cinema. For her performance in Pantelis Voulgaris's multi-awarded film "Anna's Suitor", she was honored at the 1972 Thessaloniki Film Festival with the Best Supporting Actress Award. Smaragda Veaki died in 1982.
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Natalia Avelon
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Natalia Avelon (born Natalia Siwek; * March 29, 1980, in Wrocław, Poland) is a German-Polish actress and singer.
Natalia Avelon moved to Germany with her family at the age of eight and grew up in Ettlingen. After graduating from high school, she initially worked as a fashion model and later studied theater studies in Munich. She gained her first on-camera experience starting in the late 1990s through commercials and the television series *Verbotene Liebe*. Further roles followed in various television productions, among others, as well as in the extended prologue of *Der Schuh des Manitu*.
Avelon achieved her breakthrough as an actress in 2007 with the lead role of Uschi Obermaier in the biopic *Das wilde Leben*. For the film, she recorded a new interpretation of the song "Summer Wine" together with Ville Valo, which reached number two on the German singles charts. She later released her debut album, *Love Kills*, featuring collaborations with artists such as Bela B and Guy Chambers.
In addition to her work as an actress and singer, Avelon is a member of the SWR3 LiveLyrix ensemble and has appeared in various entertainment programs, including *Das große Backen*. During the 2023/24 season, she also took the stage at the Theater am Dom in Cologne in the comedy *Weinprobe für Anfänger*.
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J.A. Preston
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James Allen Preston Sr. (born November 13, 1932) is an American actor. Preston is best known for his role as Ozzie Cleveland on the NBC primetime television series Hill Street Blues which originally aired from 1981 until 1987. Preston was born November 13 (1932) in Washington, D.C. In addition to his role on Hill Street Blues, Preston is also known for his roles as Leo Daltry in Dallas, Richard Matthews in Santa Barbara, court-martial judge Col. J. A. Randolph, USMC in the 1992 film A Few Good Men, and the minor but important role of a USAF Major General in Air Force One (1997). He was a series regular in the short-lived CBS sitcom All's Fair which ran just one season (1976-77). In it he played an assistant to conservative newspaper columnist Richard Barrington (played by Richard Crenna). Preston also appeared on the NBC television series The A-Team as a judge (Col. Thomas Milo) presiding over a military tribunal convened to try the A-Team. He also appeared in 3 episodes of Martin as Gina’s (Tisha Campbell-Martin) father Dr. Cliff Waters.
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