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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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Syafinaz Selamat

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Datuk Syafinaz Selamat (Jawi: صافيناز بنت سلامت; born 11 January 1973) is a Malaysian singer who sings in Malay, English, Italian, Spanish, and German. She is a reputed soprano soloist; well known as a voice teacher, vocal coach and a lecturer in universities and private classes; a leading voice master in adult and children choir groups; and regarded as a connoisseur of voice art who's often invited as a professional jury or critic in local singing competitions and reality programmes.
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Sukrit Wisetkaew

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Bie Sukrit Wisetkaew is a Thai pop singer and actor. He was discovered in the third season of a Thai television talent contest The Star. After winning the position as the first runner-up in The Star 3, Bie became one of the hottest rising singers and gained immense popularity after his debut single I Need Somebody. He is well known as Bie The Star. Besides his career as a singer and an actor in TV drama and sitcoms, he was also trained to be a stage actor in several musicals. Behind the Painting is one of his musical masterpieces in which he acted in one of the leading roles. In 2008, after under 2 years in the entertainment business, Bie became one of The Most Influential People in Thailand, according to a poll by the Thai Positioning magazine and Siamrath.
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Poul Bundgaard

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Poul Arne Bundgaard was a Danishactor and singer. He is probably best known for his role as the henpecked Kjeld in the Olsen Banden films. In addition to having appeared in a large number of Danish films, Bundgaard starred in a number of operettas in the late 1940s until the 1950s, and worked at the Royal Danish Theatre as a singer between 1958 and 1973; however, he focused mostly on acting later on in his career, partly due to stage fright. He died during the shooting of Olsen Bandens sidste stik and Tommy Kenter was used as stand-in for some of the scenes while Kurt Ravn did his voice.
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Jack Lowden

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Jack Andrew Lowden (born June 2, 1990) is a Scottish actor. Following a four-year stage career, his first major international onscreen success was in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace, which led to starring roles in feature films. Starring as River Cartwright in the Apple TV series Slow Horses since 2020, he has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.  Lowden starred as Eric Liddell in the 2012 play Chariots of Fire in London. In 2014, he won an Olivier Award and the Ian Charleson Award for his role as Oswald in Richard Eyre's 2013 adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts.  In 2013, he began to take on substantial roles in British television series and feature films, including The Tunnel (2013) and '71 (2014). He also had leading roles in the BBC miniseries The Passing Bells (2014) and War & Peace (2016). Other screen roles include the title role as golfing legend Tommy Morris in Tommy's Honour (2016); the starring role of Morrissey in the biopic England Is Mine (2017); a main-cast role as an RAF fighter-pilot in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017); a starring role in the Scottish Highlands thriller Calibre (2018, for which he won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Film Actor); Lord Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots (2018); a starring role as a plantation owner in 19th-century Jamaica in the 2018 BBC miniseries The Long Song; and as Zak "Zodiac" Bevis in the 2019 comedy-drama WWE film Fighting with My Family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Lowden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Miru Shiroma

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Miru Shiroma is a Japanese singer and model. She is a member of Team M[3] of the Japanese idol girl group NMB48. Shiroma passed NMB48's first-generation auditions in September 2010, debuting on 9 October 2010 at Tokyo Aki Matsuri. Her stage debut was on 1 January 2011. In March 2011, Shiroma was selected to form Team N. In February 2014, during the AKB48 Group Shuffle, it was announced she would be transferred to Team M. In the 2014 general elections, Shiroma ranked for the first time, placing 43rd with 17,745 votes. In September 2014, during AKB48's 2014 Janken Tournament, it was announced she would be selected for AKB48's 38th single Kibōteki Refrain. In the same month, it was also announced she and Fuuko Yagura would be the centers for NMB48's 10th single Rashikunai. In May 2018, she participated in the reality television series Produce 48 and ranked 20th, unable to debut with the show's project group. In 2019, her first photobook, "LOVE RUSH", was released. In 30 November 2020, she was tested positive for COVID-19. She recovered from the disease on 8 December. In 2 March 2021, during the finale of the NAMBATTLE project at the Orix Theater, Shiroma announced her graduation from NMB48 - the last first-generation member to do so. Her graduation concert will take place at the Osaka Castle Hall on August 15.
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Marisa Orth

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Marisa Domingos Orth (São Paulo, October 21, 1963) is a Brazilian actress, singer, comedian and presenter. She graduated in psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) and in acting from the Escola de Arte Dramática (EAD-USP), having studied both at the same time, one in the morning and the other in the evening. Marisa has a son named João Antônio, with her ex-husband and businessman Evandro Pereira. As a child, she did classical ballet and was a swimmer at Clube Pinheiros de São Paulo, winning the Paulista Championship twice.
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Danielle Legovich

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Danielle Legovich is a visual effects producer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) London. She transitioned into visual effects around 2010 and, early in her career, contributed to films such as John Carter (2012) and Captain Phillips (2013). Her work includes involvement in augmented reality and immersive experiences; for instance, she produced Eternals: AR Story Experience (2021) for Marvel Studios/ILM London. Her credits also include work on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). She was nominated for a 2024 Hollywood Professional Association Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Live Action Feature for The Creator (2023).
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Renate Reinsve

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Renate Reinsve (born 24 November 1987) is a Norwegian actress, best known for Oslo, August 31st (2011), Welcome to Norway (2016), The Worst Person in the World (2021) and Sentimental Value (2025). At the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Reinsve won the Best Actress Award for The Worst Person in the World, the first time ever a Norwegian actress has won an award at the festival. She has also starred in the Apple TV+ legal thriller series Presumed Innocent, the A24 satirical dark comedy A Different Man, and the thriller Armand (all in 2024).
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Molly Ivins

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Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined The Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered in 1991. Her column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers. A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith.
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