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Rifna Chandra
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Rifna Chandra is a cinematographer from Jakarta, Indonesia. He studied film at the Jakarta Institute of Arts with a focus on cinematography. His works explore different visual styles and storytelling forms.
His short film Mikrokosmos premiered at the 24th Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine in Uruguay, while Will Today Be a Happy Day screened at Jakarta Film Week 2025. His latest film, Throughout These Cages (Sekat Sekat), premiered at the 30th Busan International Film Festival in the Asian Short Film Competition.
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Patrick Fournillier
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Patrick Fournillier (born 26 December 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French conductor, particularly associated with opera and with the works of Jules Massenet.
He studied in Paris with Louis Fourestier and Pierre Dervaux, then in Strasbourg Conservatoire and Salzburg Mozarteum. Between 1983 and 1986 he was assistant conductor in l'Orchestre National de Lille, then become Artistic Director there. Since 1988 he is Music Director of the Nouvel Orchestre de Saint-Étienne and, since 1990, co-founder and Music Director of Massenet Festival at Saint Étienne, bringing many and the most neglected operatic and vocal works of Jules Massenet back to light again.
He was a recipient of many international rewards and prizes of conducting, including such as: the Hans Haring First International Prize (Salzburg 1982); Second Prize in the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 1984; Václav Talich Competition Prague, Prize Winner in 1985; and Second Prize in The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice in 1987. Those many rewards brought him international acclaim and keeps him extremely busy, since many symphony orchestras and opera theatres around the world invited him either to be their guest conductor or even become their visiting music director.
From 1989 to 1992 he was the Director of the Picardy Sinfonietta in Amiens.
In 1989 he conducted the Paris Opera Ballet in Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, and also the gala re-opening concert at the Opéra Comique in Paris, with June Anderson and Rockwell Blake. In 2018 Fournillier was appointed as principal guest conductor at the Finnish National Opera.
Source: Article "Patrick Fournillier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Surakshya Panta
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Surakshya Panta (born 2 Feb, 1992) is a prominent Nepalese actress, creative director, and producer who has made a significant impact on both domestic and international cinema. Born on February 20, 1992, in Butwal, Nepal, she initially pursued a technical career, earning a degree in civil engineering from Kathmandu Engineering College and later an MSc in Integrated Water Resources Management. Her transition into the entertainment industry began as a media personality and VJ before she made her acting debut in the 2015 film Ajhai Pani. She rose to widespread fame with her performance in the blockbuster Dhanapati (2017) and solidified her critical standing with her award-winning role in Aama (2019), for which she won the National Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Beyond her work in Nepal, Panta achieved international recognition as the first Nepali actor to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022. This milestone coincided with her international debut in the Italian film The Eight Mountains, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes. Her diverse portfolio includes notable roles in films like Gopi, Changa Chet, and Bulaki, as well as a significant presence in music videos, including the widely discussed Pir. Panta is married to Manav Subedi and continues to be a highly influential figure in the Nepali arts, winning Best Actor at the 2026 Nepal International Film Festival for Kosedhunga.
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Joseph Graves
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Joseph L. Graves Jr. is an American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. He is a professor of biological science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and a former associate dean for research at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina A & T State University and UNC Greensboro.
His past research has included an examination of the evolution and physiological performance in Drosophila, a genus of small flies often called fruit flies. His work includes the genomics of adaptation, as well as the response of bacteria to metallic nanoparticles. A particular application of this research has been to the evolutionary theory of aging.
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Robert Miller
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Robert Miller, better known by his ring name Butch Miller, is a New Zealand retired professional wrestler best known as one half of the tag team known as "The Sheepherders" on the independent scene and in the National Wrestling Alliance and as one half of The Bushwhackers in WWE. Butch Miller started wrestling for NWA New Zealand (later known as All-Star Pro Wrestling) in 1964 where he achieved a great deal of regional success. Miller, along with his friend Luke Williams, was brought to America in 1965 by fellow New Zealander Steve Rickard, who was also the booker for NWA Hawaii. Luke and Butch initially worked in Canada among others for Stu Hart’s Stampede Wrestling billed as "The Kiwis" (Butch was known as "Nick Carter" and Luke was known as "Sweet William"). The first recorded title that the Kiwis won was in 1974 when the duo beat Bob Pringle and Bill Cody for the Stampede International Tag Team Championship on 6 January 1974. The Kiwis lost the titles to Tokyo Joe and the Great Saki only to regain them a short time later. The Kiwis lost the titles for good when Stan Kowalski and Duke Savage defeated them and kept the titles away from them in subsequent rematches Miller moved back to New Zealand from Florida in 2003. He lived in Paraparaumu Beach until 2016. He was ever present at the Robert Harris café and City Fitness gym in Coastlands. He met his wife Helen in a Paraparaumu gym and the romance blossomed. His wife Helen used to work in the shoe shop in Coastlands. Miller and his wife Helen moved to Otaki Beach in 2016 because of the sand.
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Pam Martinez
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Pamela Rose Martinez, better known by her ring name Bayley, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand. She began her career on the independent circuit as Davina Rose from 2008 to 2012 before signing with WWE and joining NXT, where she captured the NXT Women’s Championship in 2015 and earned Female Competitor of the Year and Match of the Year honors.
Bayley debuted on WWE’s main roster in 2016 and went on to win the Raw Women’s, SmackDown Women’s, and Women’s Tag Team Championships, becoming the first women’s Triple Crown Champion and Grand Slam winner. She also holds the record for the longest SmackDown Women’s Championship reign at 380 days, won the 2019 Money in the Bank ladder match, and became the first woman to defend a WWE title in Saudi Arabia.
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James Ray Hart
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James Ray Hart is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE in a Legends deal. He is best known for his work in WWE and World Championship Wrestling under his nickname "The Mouth of the South." He has managed many professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart (no relation) and Jim Neidhart (The Hart Foundation), Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Jerry "The King" Lawler, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, King Kong Bundy, Earthquake, Dino Bravo, the Nasty Boys, The Giant, and The Honky Tonk Man. He is a one-time AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion. Before becoming involved with professional wrestling, Hart was a member of rock band The Gentrys, best known for their 1965 top five Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Keep on Dancing".
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Debrah Miceli
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Debrah Ann Miceli, better known as Madusa, is an Italian-born American monster truck driver and former professional wrestler. As of 2015, she has been the commissioner of Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. In professional wrestling Miceli is also known by the ring name Alundra Blayze, which she used while in WWE. Outside of WWE, she wrestled under her professional name of Madusa, which was shortened from "Made in the USA". Her early career was spent in The American Wrestling Association, where she once held the AWA World Women's Championship. In 1988, she was the first woman to be awarded Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Rookie of the Year. The following year, she signed a contract with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, making her the first foreign wrestler to do so.
She later joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where she was a member of The Dangerous Alliance, a group of wrestlers managed by Paul E. Dangerously. In 1993, she joined the rival WWE under the name Alundra Blayze. In the WWE, she feuded with Bull Nakano and Bertha Faye, while holding the WWE Women's Championship three times. Two years after joining WWE, Miceli returned to WCW, showing up on an episode of Monday Nitro to throw the WWF Women's Championship belt into a trash can; she was blacklisted by the WWF for the next 20 years as a result.[8] In her second WCW run, Miceli feuded with Bull Nakano and Oklahoma, and became the first woman to hold the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. After training wrestlers such as Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and Nora Greenwald (Molly Holly) at the WCW Power Plant, she left the company in 2001. On March 28, 2015, she was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015, under the Alundra Blayze moniker.
Miceli competes in the world of monster trucks. She drives a truck named Madusa, and won the 2004 co-championship at the Monster Jam World Finals for freestyle in the first-ever three-way tie. The following year, she was the only female competitor in the Super Bowl of Motorsports, and she won the Racing Championship in the Monster Jam World Finals.
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Saturn Alyx
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Saturn Alyx (born 21 February 2002) is Singaporean writer and producer. His films are usually enhanced by their emotional complexity, sensual visuals, and authentic experiences.
Born in Singapore, he spent part of his childhood in Thai when he is not in his birth country, He began his career directing short films and documentaries in LASALLE College of the Arts. He has been seen referencing queer narratives and produced queer based films during his time in school. Aside from that he has been credited as a host, and a creative producer for several advertisements
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