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Prachi Desai
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Prachi Desai (born 12 September 1988)is an Indian film actress and former television actress. She started her television career as lead protagonist in the successful TV drama Kasamh Se on Zee TV. She made her Bollywood debut in the 2008 film Rock On!!. Her other notable features include Life Partner (2009), Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), Bol Bachchan (2012) and I, Me Aur Main (2013). She is also the endorser, spokesperson, brand ambassador and the face of Goa Tourism and Neutrogena products in India.Desai is also a brand ambassador of Lux Lyra.
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Tetsuya Kobayashi
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Tetsuya Kobayashi (小林 哲也, Kobayashi Tetsuya, August 17, 1980) is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist and music producer from Nagano Prefecture. He commonly nicknamed Kobatetsu (コバテツ). He currently belongs to the "miuG" sound section of G-angle Co.
He specializes in producing music that incorporate various elements such as classical music, jazz, pop and metal, and in recent years has been producing works in a wide range of genres, including sound production, composition, arrangements, lyrics, anime musical accompaniment, theme songs, insert songs and music for video games.
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Charles Millot
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Charles Millot (born Veljko Milojević; 23 December 1921 – 6 October 2003) was a Yugoslav-born French actor who made many film appearances over a 35-year period.
His notable film appearances include: The Train (1964), The Night of the Generals (1967), Waterloo (1970) as Marquis de Grouchy, French Connection II (1975), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and Eye of the Widow (1991). He died aged 81 on 6 October 2003 in Paris, France.
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Laurent Petitgirard
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Laurent Petitgirard (born 10 June 1950, in Paris) is a French classical composer and conductor.
Laurent Petitgirard was born in Paris on 10 June 1950. He studied piano with his father Serge Petitgirard, a pupil of Alfred Cortot and Yves Nat, and composition with his older brother Alain Kremski (Kremski being their mother’s name).
He has composed over twenty works of symphonic music, operas, ballets, chamber music and nearly one hundred and forty scores for film and television, in a style that is “always refined, dramatic and precisely tailored to the images”. He notably wrote the music for several films by Francis Girod and the 1991 Maigret television series. He also composes lyrical works. His first opera, Joseph Merrick dit Elephant man, with a libretto by Éric Nonn, premiered in 2002 at the Prague State Opera, under the direction of Daniel Mesguich. A new production of this opera was presented in 2005 at the Minneapolis Opera, directed by Doug Varone. His second opera, Guru (commissioned by the State), based on a libretto by Xavier Maurel, explores the subject of mental manipulation. It was recorded in Budapest for the Naxos label in October 2010 under the composer’s direction and premiered on 28 September 2018 at the Castle Opera in Szczecin (Poland) in a staging by Damien Cruden, with Laurent Petitgirard conducting, and starring Hubert Claessens, Paul Gaugler and Sonia Petrovna. A new production of Guru was presented under the composer’s direction from 24 to 28 February 2024 at the Opéra de Nice, staged by Muriel Mayette-Holtz. Recordings of his three concertos, performed by Augustin Dumay, Gérard Caussé and Gary Hoffman, of his six symphonic poems and of the complete version of Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, with the orchestra and chorus of the Opéra national de Bordeaux, are available on the Naxos label. The music he composed for Sonia Petrovna’s production of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince was recorded for the Naxos label in August 2013. His latest work is a ballet based on Si Yeou Ki (“Journey to the West”) for Chinese choreographer Whang Yabin (Naxos CD released in April 2023). This work, performed by the Wang Yabin Company, premiered on 29 April 2024 in Beijing and has since been presented all over China (it was performed in France in December 2018). His concerto for oboe and orchestra Souen Wou K’ong was first performed in Edinburgh and Glasgow in March 2022 with François Leleux and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. His trio “La Croisée des Arts” will premier in Madrid in October 2024, played by the Trio Wanderer. ...
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Libby Titus
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Libby Titus is a singer, songwriter, actor, and concert producer. Titus's studies at Bard College in upstate New York were cut short by pregnancy and marriage at the age of nineteen. This did not, however, prevent her pursuing her musical ambitions. In 1968, she released Libby Titus, an album of folk-rock and pop covers, on Hot Biscuit. She continued to perform as a singer, and provided backing vocals for Martin Mull's debut album Martin Mull (1972) among others. At the same time she was developing her songwriting skills. Her second album, also confusingly called Libby Titus, was produced by Phil Ramone and released by Columbia in 1977. In the late 1970s, Titus collaborated with Burt Bacharach. They wrote at least five songs together, two of them ("Riverboat" & "I Live in the Woods") appearing on Bacharach's album Woman, and one ("In Tune") on his soundtrack for the film Together (Amo non amo), both released in 1979. Titus also sang "Riverboat" and "In Tune" on these recordings. Carly Simon's 1979 album Spy included "Love You By Heart", a song she wrote with Titus and Jacob Brackman. Titus later wrote "The Sailor and the Mermaid" with Brackman and sang it with Dr. John on the Sesame Street album In Harmony (1980). Titus and Dr. John wrote the music for Robert Frank's short film Energy and How to Get It (1981), and performed some of it on screen. As an actor, Titus had small parts in Mike Nichols's Heartburn (1986) and Penny Marshall's Awakenings (1990), in which she appeared as a club singer. Titus still performed occasionally at venues around New York in the mid-1980s. In the second half of the 1980s, Titus began producing "rock-and-roll musicales featuring well-known musicians ... in New York restaurants and clubs". She later recalled that her "horrid little evenings" started "at this little Italian restaurant on Thirty-ninth Street that had room for thirty people. One night it would be, say, Dr. John plus Carly Simon, and it was by invitation only." These sessions led to the "informal concert" at the Lone Star Roadhouse on 20 September 1989 featuring Dr. John, Donald Fagen, Phoebe Snow, Jevetta Steele, and Bonnie Raitt that gave birth to the New York Rock and Soul Revue, which Titus produced with Fagen until the beginning of 1992. The Rock and Soul Revue also brought Walter Becker to New York, and so played a part in the 1993 reformation of Steely Dan, which Fagen and Becker had disbanded in 1981. Titus went on to write songs with Fagen, including "Florida Room" on Kamakiriad (1993). In 1996, Pony Canyon Records anthologised three previously unissued songs that Titus recorded for Bearsville in 1971, two by Eric Kaz and one by Kaz and Titus.
Titus's mother, Julia Irene Jurist née Mooney, was an Earl Carroll dancer. In 1966, Titus married novelist Barry Titus, grandson of Helena Rubinstein; they separated in 1968. The couple had a son, the writer Ezra Titus. From 1969 and through much of the 1970s, Titus's partner was musician Levon Helm. They had a daughter, the singer Amy Helm. For some years after Titus split with Helm, her partner was musician Dr. John Mac Rebennack. In 1987, Titus met musician Donald Fagen, who was a contemporary at Bard College, and who still remembered his one sighting of her "from a distance" on campus two decades earlier. They married in 1993.
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Faith Evans
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Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to be contracted with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment recording company during 1994, for which she released three platinum-certified studio albums between the years 1995 and 2001. During 2003, she ended her relationship with the company to contract with Capitol Records.
Other than her recording career, Evans is known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, whom she married on August 4, 1994, a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot. The turbulent marriage resulted in Evans' involvement in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop feud, dominating the rap music news at the time, and ended with Wallace's murder in a yet-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California during March 1997. A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and the band 112, named "I'll Be Missing You", became Evans' best-selling song to date and won her a Grammy Award during 1998.
Also an avocational actress and writer, Evans made her screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up by Robert Adetuyi. Her autobiography Keep the Faith: A Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing during 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best Biography/Memoir category.
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Robert De Niro
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Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. Considered one of his generation's greatest and most influential actors, De Niro has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honoured with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019. De Niro was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016.
De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. His first credited screen role was in Brian de Palma's Greetings (1968). De Niro's first collaboration with Martin Scorsese was with the crime drama film Mean Streets (1973). De Niro has earned two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II (1974) and the other for Best Actor portraying Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's drama Raging Bull (1980). De Niro was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
He is also known for his film roles in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Joker (2019), and The Irishman (2019). He directed and acted in A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). His comedic roles include Hi, Mom! (1970), Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002), the Meet the Parents films (2000–2010), and The Intern (2015).
Also known for his television roles, De Niro portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017), earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He received further Emmy Award nominations for producing the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019) and for portraying Robert Mueller on Saturday Night Live.
De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. Many of De Niro's films are considered classics of American cinema. Six of De Niro's films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" as of 2023. Five films are featured on the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of the 100 greatest American films ever. Timeout magazine's list of 100 best movies included seven of De Niro's films, as chosen by actors in the industry.
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Sheryl Sheinafia
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Sheryl Sheinafia Tjokro (born on December 4, 1996, in Jakarta) is an Indonesian singer, songwriter, actress, model, and presenter. She rose to fame after releasing her debut album titled Sheryl Sheinafia in 2013. Her second album, II, was released in 2017, followed by her third album, Jennovine, in 2021.
In addition to her music career, Sheryl has ventured into acting. She made her acting debut as a cameo in the film Marmut Merah Jambu (2014), directed by Raditya Dika. Her first leading role came in the film Koala Kumal (2016), where she played the character Andrea. She also starred in Galih & Ratna (2017), Bebas (2019), Wedding Proposal (2021), and the horror film Tumbang Kanjeng Iblis (2022).
In television, Sheryl became the co-host of the music show Breakout on NET TV in 2014, which further boosted her popularity. She is also known for her collaborations with other musicians, such as the song Kutunggu Kau Putus with Ariel NOAH and I Don't Mind with Vidi Aldiano and Jevin Julian. For her work, Sheryl has won several Anugerah Musik Indonesia awards.
With her talent and dedication, Sheryl Sheinafia continues to grow as one of Indonesia's most promising young talents in the entertainment industry.
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Sawyer Amadeus
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Young Entertainer Award winner Sawyer Amadeus is an international award-winning actor across Europe, Asia, North and South America at festivals alongside industry giants George Clooney, Liam Neeson, William Shatner, Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, Gérard Depardieu, Millie Bobby Brown, and Timothée Chalamet.
Sawyer was born in Elgin, Illinois, to Craig and Sarah Holmberg, on September 13th, 1997. His great+ grandfather was King Edward III of England, and he's cousins with Anderson Cooper and Eddie Redmayne. Sawyer has won an astonishing 21 awards internationally for his portrayal of an AI who becomes sentient, in ALT + <3 (2018), 14 for his role in the time travel comedy Love Takes Time (2018), and 15 for Say It with Your Vest (2019). He's also won awards internationally for his work in the series Just The Tip (2019) as the whimsical Smokey and received a nomination for his obsessed, bedsheet snorting, exceedingly eccentric character in Roses and Restraining Orders (2017). Sawyer also won a Young Entertainer Award, considered to be the child actor equivalent of the Oscars, for Say It with Your Vest (2019) and has had five additional YEA nominations Be Happy (2017), ALT + <3 (2018), A Family Christmas (2018), Just The Tip (2019), and If the Shoe Fits, Buy It! (2019) respectively.
When he was eight-years-old, his first musical was a youth theater production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999). Later when Sawyer was 16, his first professional, theater performance came when he was cast in an Equity production of the same show with Ozark Actors Theatre playing the role of Zebulun. He was also cast in the 2014 Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's A Christmas Carol (1999) where he played the role of Chalmers and was a resident performer at Burbank Family Theater (2016-2019).
He began singing professionally in 2007 when he sang in the Christmas spectacular, Holiday Showcase at the Sears Centre Arena. In 2008, he sang in Holst's The Planets which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy and performed again in the Sears Centre's Holiday Showcase but this time with Tony award winner Jodi Benson. Since then, Sawyer's sung the National Anthem for the opening of the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, the Chicago Rush at the Allstate Arena, and the Chicago Express at the Sears Centre Arena. He was also selected to perform in the international Aloha Children's Choir Festival at Waikiki Shell in Honolulu with Henry Leck. Sawyer's performed in concert with the Grammy® award winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Dove award nominees BarlowGirl. He also sang in The Queen's Coronation Festival Gala (2013) at Buckingham Palace and for the opening of the Commonwealth Games: Glasgow 2014 Opening Ceremony (2014) on BBC. Most recently, Sawyer has sung in At the Movies at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carmina Burana at the Crystal Cathedral, and in Grammy® award-winning composer Eric Whitacre's Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe (2018).
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Joseph Millson
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Joseph Millson (born 27 April 1974) is an English actor and singer. He trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup, Kent.
Millson married singer and actress Caroline Fitzgerald in the summer of 1999. They two had two children, Jessica and Gabriel. In mid-2012, he dated Downton Abbey actress Michelle Dockery for five months. In October 2012, it was reported in various media outlets that they had split. Millson met his current wife Sarah-Jane Potts in 2011 while they were co-workers on Holby City, the medical drama television series. The two wed on 31 December 2013. Millson has a stepson, Buster, from Potts' first's marriage to actor Tony Denman.
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