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Edward Albee
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Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Raegan Elizabeth Parker
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Raegan Elizabeth Parker is an actor, director, dancer, and artist based in NYC. She started performing at the age of 10 when she joined her middle school drama club. Raegan attended a performing arts high school and studied at NYU Tisch (BFA) with the Atlantic Acting School. Recent theatre credits include 'McClub' in The Trial of Ubu (Atlantic Acting School), 'Decius Brutus' in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Atlantic Acting School), and 'Kate' in Timmy (Columbia University). Raegan enjoys performing for both stage and screen. She will continue storytelling by creating work of her own or by helping others bring their stories to life.
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Anne Sylvestre
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Anne Sylvestre (born Anne-Marie Beugras; 20 June 1934 – 30 November 2020) was a French singer-songwriter. Anne Sylvestre was born in Lyon on 20 June 1934. She was the daughter of Albert Beugras and the sister of writer Marie Chaix. Her father was a politician turned collaborationist during the Occupation of France. Marie Chaix wrote a book about their father's role during the Occupation, Les Lauriers du lac de Constance (1974).
While studying Literature in Sorbonne University, Anne Sylvestre started singing in cabarets in the fifties and was discovered by Michel Valette. Jean-Claude Pascal recorded her song "Porteuse d'eau" (Waterbearer) under the title "La terre" (The Dirt, 1958). She started recording in 1959, and Georges Brassens wrote a preface for her second album (1962). Since 1962, she also wrote and sang for children (Fabulettes). She wrote a song for Serge Reggiani, "La Maumariée" (The Wrongly-Wed Bride, 1968). She recorded a comical duet with Boby Lapointe, "Depuis l'temps que j'l'attends mon prince charmant" (I've been waiting for my prince charming for ages, 1969).
In 1973, she created her own recording company to release her albums. In 1976, along with Isabelle Aubret, she recorded album Fabulettes et Chansons d'Anne Sylvestre. In 1987, she put on a show with singer Pauline Julien from Quebec (Gémeaux croisées, Crossed Gemini, 1987-1988). With fellow singer Michèle Bernard, she put on a show aimed at children, Lala et le Cirque du vent (Lala and the Wind's Circus, 1992-1996). She also sang on scene with Agnès Bihl in the show Carré de Dames (Four of Queens, 2012).
Her songs encompass a large range of subjects. Her love songs are often in a nostalgic mode ("Le Pêcheur de perles", The Pearl Fisher, 1967; "La Chambre d'or", Golden Room, 1969). Some of her songs could not be broadcast because of their strong engagement, and others contain profanity, for instance "Les Gens qui doutent" (Doubting People, 1977). Some songs deal with difficult subjects such as poverty ("Porteuse d'eau", Waterbearer, 1961), homelessness ("Pas difficile", Not difficult, 1986), education in a consumer society ("Abel Caïn, mon fils", Abel Cain, my son, 1971), war ("Berceuse de Bagdad", Lullaby from Baghdad, 2003). Numerous songs give a feminist take on women's life: "Non, tu n'as pas de nom" (You have no name, 1973) about abortion, "La Vache engagée" (Engaged Cow, 1975), "Une sorcière comme les autres" (A Witch like any other one, 1975) about maternity, "La Faute à Ève" (Eve's Fault, 1978) about women's rights, "Rose" (1981) about teen pregnancy, or "Juste une femme" (Only a woman, 2013) about sexism.[13] She also supported same-sex marriage ("Gay marions-nous", 2007).
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Matthew Goode
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Matthew Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German-British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on the comics by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.
Other notable film roles include The Lookout (2007), A Single Man (2009), Cemetery Junction (2010), Stoker (2013), Belle (2013), The Imitation Game (2014) and Self/less (2015). As well as appearing in films, Goode has appeared in numerous television shows. His most notable television roles include Henry Talbot in the final season of historical drama Downton Abbey, and Finley "Finn" Polmar in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He also had a lead role in the critically acclaimed British mini-serial Dancing on the Edge, as music journalist Stanley Mitchell. In 2017, Goode portrayed Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. As of 2018, he stars in Sky One's fantasy-romance series, A Discovery of Witches, as Professor Matthew Clairmont.
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Jomo Fray
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Jomo Fray is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on Nickel Boys (2024), for which he won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. He is also known for his work on Port Authority (2019), Selah and the Spades (2020) and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023).
He was featured as one of Filmmaker's 2018 "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and one of the 2022 "Rising Stars of Cinematography" by American Cinematographer.
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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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Gerald Huether
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Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther (geb. 1951) leitet die Abteilung für neurobiologische Grundlagenforschung an der Psychiatrischen Klinik der Universität Göttingen. Als Präsident des Stiftungsrates der SINN-STIFTUNG (www.sinn-stiftung.eu) bringt er seine wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse in die praktische Anwendung in Potentialentfaltungsprogramme ein. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte betreffen die Auswirkungen von Angst, Stress, psychischen Abhängigkeiten und Ernährung auf das Gehirn, sowie die Beeinflussbarkeit der kindlichen Hirnentwicklung durch psychosoziale Faktoren und psychopharmakologische Behandlungen. Weitere Themen sind die Wirkungen und langfristigen Folgen von Drogen und Psychopharmaka, Beeinflussbarkeit der Hirnentwicklung durch soziale und andere Faktoren und die Evolution des Bewusstseins. Gerald Hüther ist bemüht um die Verbesserung von sozialen Beziehungen und die Schaffung einer Beziehungskultur, die es Menschen ermöglicht, die in ihnen bzw. in ihrem Gehirn angelegten Potenziale auch wirklich zu entfalten. Um es Menschen in Zukunft zu ermöglichen, ihre Potenziale optimaler zu entfalten, müssen dafür günstigere Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen werden, muss eine auf Potenzialentfaltung ausgerichtete Beziehungskultur in Familien, Kindergärten, Schulen, Universitäten, im Berufsleben, und nicht zuletzt in den Kommunen entwickelt werden. Damit ist grob umrissen, worum es in G.Hüthers öffentlichen Aktivitäten geht. Nämlich Erkenntnisse über die Plastizität des menschlichen Gehirns anzubieten, als Hilfe zur Selbsterkenntnis und zur bewussten Gestaltung und Weiterentwicklung der von Menschen auf der Grundlage ihrer jeweiligen Erkenntnisse bisher geschaffenen Lebenswelten.
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Matthias Habich
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Matthias Habich (born 12 January 1940) is a German actor who has appeared in more than 110 film and television productions since 1965. Habich was born in Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) and lives in Paris.
In his career, he appeared in a number of internationally recognized films. In the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates about Stalingrad, he played the part of General (later Field Marshal) Friedrich Paulus. In the 2004 film Downfall, he portrayed Werner Haase. In the 2008 Oscar-winning drama The Reader he appeared as the father of the title character.
Source: Article "Matthias Habich" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Spencer Kayden
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Spencer Kayden (January 30, 1971, in Costa Mesa, California, USA) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for her role as Little Sally in the Broadway musical Urinetown (2001) and as a cast member of the sketch comedy series MADtv. She appeared in films such as Big Stan (2007), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and C Me Dance (2009). She also voiced Mrs. Pepper in the children's series Blue’s Clues. In theater, she performed in Don’t Dress for Dinner (2012) on Broadway. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Clarence Derwent Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Kayden is the sister of film director Michael Almereyda and has been married to actor Mark Harelik since 2004. They have one child together.
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Lau Ching-Wan
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Lau Ching-Wan (Chinese: 劉青雲; born February 16, 1964) is a Hong Kong Film Award winning and Golden Bauhinia Award winning film and former television actor based in Hong Kong, sometimes credited as "Sean Lau" despite never adopting it as his own name. Lau was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He joined the TVB acting classes in 1983 and made his first appearance on TV the following year with TV drama Draw Out the Rainbow. Dark-skinned with no matinee-idol look, he struggled to be cast until in the immensely popular stock market drama The Greed of Man (1992), when he acted opposite Adam Cheng. His wife, former (1991) Miss Hong Kong Amy Kwok, is a well-known former television actress. Lau is one of a handful of HK actors who has made the successful transition from TV to film; he is now exclusively a film actor.
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