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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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Arthur Byron

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur William Byron (April 3, 1872 – July 16, 1943) was an American actor, the son of actors Kate Crehan and Oliver Doud Byron. He played a mixture of British and American roles in films. He was a nephew of the stage actress Ada Rehan, his maternal aunt. Byron started his theatrical career at the age of 17 with his father's dramatic company. In 1939 he celebrated his 50 years in show business. He appeared in more than 300 plays and played with stars like Maxine Elliott, Ethel Barrymore, John Gielgud, Katherine Cornell, Maude Adams and Minnie Maddern Fiske. He was the founder and one-time president of The Actor Equity Association and he also served as an officer of The Lambs and the Actor's fund of America. Byron appeared many times at the Lakewood Playhouse in Maine. Arthur Byron died of a heart ailment, from which he suffered for some years, in Hollywood in 1943. He was cremated and his ashes were sent to the Byron summer home in Maine.
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Scott Pickett

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Scott Pickett discovered his passion for cooking at a young age and started working as an apprentice chef in various South Australian restaurants. At the age of 18, Scott entered the Salon Culinaire, at the time Australia’s largest culinary competition, securing three gold medals and recognition as ‘one to watch’ by Judge Bruno Cerdan. This helped secure Scott a position at restaurant Paul Bocuse with his mentor, Philippe Mouchel. Scott followed Mouchel to Langton’s Restaurant and Wine Bar and then Brasserie by Philippe Mouchel, before stints at Melbourne’s three-hatted restaurant Ondine working under Donovan Cooke. Not one to rest on his laurels, Scott travelled to Europe to feed his hunger for classical cooking, spending three years in London as Junior Sous Chef to Philip Howard at internationally-renowned, two Michelin star restaurant The Square.
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Ane Dahl Torp

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Ane Dahl Torp (born August 1, 1975) is a Norwegian actress known for her versatile performances in film and television. She was born in Bærum, Norway, and is the daughter of linguistics professor Arne Torp. Torp made her film debut in The Woman of My Life (2003) and gained recognition for her roles in Svarte penger, hvite løgner (2004), Gymnaslærer Pedersen (2006), and Lønsj (2008), winning multiple Amanda Awards for her performances. She was also named a Shooting Star at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006. Her television career includes starring in the Norwegian political thriller series Occupied (2015–2020), as well as leading roles in Home Ground (2018) and Deliver Me (2024). She has also appeared in films such as The Wave (2015), The Quake (2018), and Charter (2020)1. In her personal life, she married jazz trumpeter Sjur Miljeteig in 2007, and they have two children.
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Patrick Chêne

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Patrick Chêne (born 26 April 1956 in Lyon) is a French journalist who worked mainly on France TV, where he commented on the Tour de France between 1989 and 2000. Educated at the Lyons High School of St. Mary Lyon, and then becoming a law graduate, Patrick Chêne began his journalistic career in 1977 as a freelancer at the Progrès de Lyon. He then worked in the letters department, then the sports section of the newspaper. In 1982 he joined the newspaper L'Équipe, then in 1985 he worked on television at Antenne 2 as a journalist for Stade 2. He commented on the Tour de France from 1989 to 2000 in the company of Robert Chapatte, then Bernard Thevenet. Patrick Chêne was appointed sports director of Antenne 2 and presented Stade 2 between March 1992 – July 1995 before moving to newscast the newsshow 13 heures on France 2 from 1995 to 1998. He was then director of the sports department of France Télévisions from 1998 to 2000, succeeding Jean Reveillon. From 1997 to 1999 he co-hosted Telethon with Sophie Davant. He also co-hosted Les Trésors du monde with Nathalie Simon in 1994. After leaving France Télévisions in 2000, he founded and directed the group Sporever which specializes in publishing and content production. He was also host of the Histoires de Sport on Orange sport. In September 2010 Patrick Chêne had taken over for Pierre Sled – Also a former presenter of Stade 2 – on The Parliamentary Channel and presented Politique Matin, the "little political lunch" of the TV channel. He was also executive producer of the show. In September 2012 Patrick Chêne created a TV channel dedicated to sports news, Sport365 where he hosted the show Incognito. In July 2015 Patrick Chêne announced he was leaving Politique Matin and CPAC but that the shows will continue. In 2009 he wrote a play, C'est pas gagné (It is not won). The main performers are his daughter Juliette and his son-in-law Jean-Charles Chagachbanian. Given the success of the performances, a tour was organized until 2011. He wrote four TV movies about a policeman in the series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes: Un mort sur les pavés. The action takes place during the Paris-Roubaix and Patrick Chêne appears as himself. Patrick Chêne is the father of five children. One of his daughters, Juliette, is an actress, best known for the role of Juliet in the soap opera Plus belle la vie. His niece, Astrid Veillon, is also an actress, and best known for her role in Quai numéro un. Source: Article "Patrick Chêne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Daniel Kwan

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Daniel Kwan (born February 10, 1988) is an American filmmaker and one-half of the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels, alongside Daniel Scheinert. He began his career as a director of music videos, including ones for "Houdini" (2012) by Foster the People and "Turn Down for What" (2013) by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, both of which earned Grammy Award nominations. Kwan co-wrote and co-directed the absurdist comedy dramas Swiss Army Man (2016) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). The latter became A24's highest-grossing film and earned him several accolades, including Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniels (directors), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Victor Shamirov

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Victor Valeryevich Shamirov (Russian: Виктор Валерьевич Шамиров; born 24 May 1966; Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian filmmaker and actor. Victor was born in Rostov-on-Don. He served in the army, after which he entered the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. He worked in the theater Epos as a handyman. He put on the lights, mounted the scenery and rehearsed with the actors. In 1992 he moved to Moscow, where he graduated from the directing department and began working as a theater director and actor. Since 2006, he has been directing films.
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Nour

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Marianne Philip Aby Habib, known professionally as Nour, is a Lebanese actress. She began her career as an advertisement model after graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Beirut in 1995. Her first major film role was in “Short w' Fanella w' Kab” (Shorts, T-Shirt and a Cap) opposite Ahmed El Sakka in 2000. She then starred in many Egyptian blockbusters like “Ashab Walla Business” (Friends or Business) in 2001, “Okal,” (2004), “Matab Senaa'y” (Artificial Speed Bump) and “Zarf Tareq” (Urgent Incident) opposite with Ahmed Helmy in 2006. She also starred in the television series “Al Amil 1001” (Agent 1001) in 2005, and “Domoa' Al Qamar” (Moon's Tears) in 2008.
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Claire Etcherelli

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Claire Etcherelli, born January 11, 1931 in Bordeaux (Gironde) and died March 5, 2023 in Paris 13th, is a French writer. She was the recipient of the Femina Prize in 1967 for her first novel, “Élise or real life”. Claire Etcherelli was born in Bordeaux on January 11, 1931. Her docker father, who was drafted, was then detained in a prison camp. She then went to live with her grandfather in the Basque Country. She became an orphan at the age of 11. Having become a ward of the Nation, and therefore a scholarship holder, she entered a chic Catholic boarding school in Bordeaux, where she said she was uncomfortable because of the difference in social classes. To stand out, she refuses to take her baccalaureate and abandons her studies. She married in 1951. She began writing at 19, without finding a favorable reception from publishers. Her first son was born in 1955. In 1957, she moved to Paris, where, out of necessity, she worked first as a controller on a production line at Citroën, then as a worker in another factory. She was hospitalized following health problems, survived thanks to a few households, then found a less grueling job in a travel agency in 1960, which allowed her to start writing again. She began writing “Élise ou la Vraie Vie”, which highlights assembly line work, conflicting human relationships and especially the racism particular to this period of the Algerian War. In 1959, she gave birth to her second son, and completed her novel in 1963, searching in vain for a publisher. The following year, “Élise ou la Vraie Vie” was accepted by Maurice Nadeau, who published it with Denoël editions. The novel quickly received a favorable reception, with a first review from Claude Lanzmann in Elle in November 1967, followed the following week by a second from Simone de Beauvoir in Le Nouvel Observateur. This first novel won the Femina Prize in 1967, in a controversial climate both within the jury and in the far-right press. It was adapted for the cinema by Michel Drach in 1970. In 1968, she temporarily stopped working as an employee, and in 1971 completed her second novel, About Clémence, which deals with the heroism of men and violence against the women. The literary framework of the novel is significantly more complex than that of the previous one, with a triple level of narration. The book received a less favorable reception from critics. In 1973, she became editorial secretary of the magazine Les Temps Modernes. In 1978 she published “Un Arbre Voyageur”. Qualified by some, like his previous novels, as a Bildungsroman, the book is again a social critique. It describes the way in which a woman, Millie, realizes herself in the meager choices left to her in a constrained environment within the working class, by claiming her political rights, against the backdrop of the Algerian war. She died on March 5, 2023 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, at the age of 92. Her funeral was held in the strictest privacy on March 9 at the Pantin municipal cemetery where she rested next to her grandmother.
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Mohamed Farag

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Mohamed Farag is an Egyptian actor. He was born in 1982. He joined the High Cinema Institute, but was forced to quit it and join the faculty of commerce in Cairo. He also joined Khaled Galal's acting workshop in Cairo's creativity center, and participated in the acting troupe's play “Ahwa Sada” (Black Coffee) in 2009, which premiered to widespread acclaim from audience and critics alike. He then went on to land supporting roles in television series and films, including “Elrahina” (The Hostage) and “Alf Mabrook” (Congratulations) alongside Ahmed Helmy. In 2013, Farag made his debut leading role in the action film “El Qashah” (The Sweeper).
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