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Margaret Whitton
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Margaret Whitton was an American stage, film, and television actress, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Whitton did her primary film work between 1986 and 1993. Her most visible roles were that of baseball team owner Rachel Phelps in Major League (1989) and its sequel Major League II, and as Michael J. Fox's vibrant, sexy and underappreciated aunt-by-marriage in The Secret of My Success (1987). She also appeared in the Robin Williams-Kurt Russell vehicle The Best of Times (1986) and in Mel Gibson's The Man Without a Face (1993).
She first noticeably appeared on the stage in 1973, billed as Peggy Whitton. In the early 1980s, she began to be billed as Margaret Whitton and made her Broadway debut in 1982's Steaming. After her seven year experiment with film, she returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in And the Apple Doesn't Fall... (1995) and in the original, award-winning musical Marlene (1999), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich.
Today she is the president of independent film producer Tashtego Films (www.tashtegofilms.com).
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Nathaniel Brown
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Nathaniel Chaplin "Nathan" Brown (born May 20, 1988) is an American actor and director whose career started by playing the lead role in the 2009 thriller Enter the Void, which was directed by Gaspar Noé, and nominated for a Cannes Palme d'Or. He starred alongside American actress Paz de la Huerta.
Born in Hershey, PA, Brown had been taught at home by his mother until the 10th grade. He has one older sister, Hannah, two younger sisters, Elizabeth, and Abigail, and one younger brother, Wells.
Nathan moved to New York City in 2007 when he was street cast by Barbara Pfister to model shows during Fashion Week. His modeling career spanned two seasons and ended when he was cast for Enter The Void. After the shooting of the movie, he appeared in a Barneys New York ad campaign alongside Gabe Nevins shot by Nick Haymes. He was also shot by Nan Goldin for V Magazine where he gave an interview for the July 2009 issue.
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Mark Fairchild
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Mark Fairchild grew up in the small town of Corry, Pennsylvania and earned several degrees (B.S., B.A., M.Div., M.Phil. and Ph.D.) from The Pennsylvania State University, Toccoa Falls College (GA), Asbury Theological Seminary (KY) and Drew University (NJ). Fairchild received an academic appointment at Huntington University and is currently serving as the Professor of Bible and Religion at the university. Professor Fairchild was twice asked to participate in research projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and contributed to projects at Yeshiva University (NY) and the University of Chicago (IL). He has published several articles for academic dictionaries and journals. Fairchild’s Christian Origins in Ephesus and Asia Minor was first published in Istanbul (Arkeoloji ve Sanat, 2015) as a paperback.
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Suhana Khan
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Suhana Khan, born on May 22, 2000, in Mumbai, is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actor Shah Rukh Khan and producer Gauri Khan. Notably, she portrayed Veronica Lodge in the film "The Archies" (2023).
Suhana Khan was born in Mumbai to Hindi film actor Shah Rukh Khan and producer Gauri Khan on May 22, 2000. She has two siblings, including an older brother named Aryan. Following both her parents' religions of Islam and Hinduism, she attended Mumbai's Dhirubhai Ambani International School for her schooling. Subsequently, she graduated from Ardingly College and pursued further education at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.
Khan has been under media scrutiny since her birth due to her father's fame, a spotlight she has expressed disdain for. In 2018, she graced the cover of Vogue India. The subsequent year marked her acting debut with the short film "The Grey Part of Blue."
In 2023, Khan became a brand ambassador for the cosmetics company Maybelline New York and Reliance Retail's beauty brand Tira. That same year, she portrayed Veronica Lodge in Zoya Akhtar's teen film "The Archies." Additionally, she lent her voice to the song "Jab Tum Na Theen" for the film's soundtrack. While some critics, like Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com, recognized her as "ready-to-ship star material," others, such as Sneha Bengani of CNBC TV18, criticized her acting as "wooden" and "too plastic."
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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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M'hamed Issiakhem
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M'hamed Issiakhem (in Kabyle: Mḥemmed Isyaxem), born June 17, 1928 in Taboudoucht in Algeria and died December 1, 1985 in Algiers, is an Algerian painter, representative of modern painting in Algeria. He spent his childhood in Relizane, it was there that in 1943, he handled a grenade, picked up in an American military camp, the explosion of which caused the death of two of his sisters and a nephew. After two years of hospitalization and several surgical operations, his left forearm was amputated.
At the end of the 1940s, M’hamed Issiakhem enrolled in the Society of Fine Arts of Algiers. Until 1951, the student of the miniaturist Omar Racim followed courses at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers before meeting Kateb Yacine. In Paris, where he met the author of Nedjma, M’hamed Issiakhem exhibited at the André-Maurice gallery and entered the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A scholarship holder at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 1962, he preferred to return to Algeria - independent since July. Again in the company of Kateb Yacine, he joined the daily Alger republican where he spent two years as a cartoonist. Later a professor at the Fine Arts of Algiers and Oran, the artist held numerous exhibitions in Algeria and abroad before being awarded the first Golden Simba for painting, a distinction from the Unesco for Africa, presented to Rome in 1980. Kateb Yacine declared having "seen, more than once, finish a painting in a few hours, only to destroy it suddenly, and redo it again, as if his work also was a grenade that never finished exploding in his hands.”
M’hamed Issiakhem died on December 1, 1985 in Algiers, following a long illness. “In front of his painting,” writes the sociologist Benamar Mediene, “Issiakhem is the disconcerting, the paradoxical, the irreverent demiurge, who, in his prophetic lucidity swallows gunpowder and lights a cigarette. Art, for him, is always a risk which involves the very existence of the person who assumes it.”
Writer, activist and former editor-in-chief of the literary magazine La nouvelle critique, Jacques Arnaud was offered a painting by M'hamed Issiakhem, while they were working on a special issue devoted to Algerian literature. Entitled "Algeria 1960", the work was created in 1960. Having died in 2008, Jacques Arnaud wished to donate it to an Algerian museum and instructed the Art et Mémoire au Maghreb association to carry out his last wishes. The painting, which was first the subject of a restoration operation in Paris thanks to a sponsorship action, was presented, during a ceremony on January 8, 2017, to the National Museum of Fine Arts of Alger.
On the sidelines of the 25th anniversary of his death, M'hamed Issiakhem was dedicated to a vast tribute exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Algiers (Mama) which brought together more than a hundred paintings from public and private collections. For the 30th anniversary of his disappearance, on December 1, 1985, the wilaya of Relizane organized a tribute to M’hamed Issiakhem. Google will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of M'hamed Issiakhem on June 17, 2018, with a Doodle visible on the search engine's home page.
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Ashtine Olviga
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Ashtine Olviga (born May 19, 1999) is a Filipino actress and singer widely recognized as a breakout star of her generation. Initially rising to prominence in the P-pop music scene, she was a member of several groups under Viva Records, including UGG, Ppop Generation, and LITZ, before making a successful transition to film and television. Her cinematic journey includes supporting roles in Miss Granny (2018), The Ship Show (2023), and the 2024 films Sunny and Road Trip. Olviga reached a career turning point in 2025 with her breakthrough lead role as Jay-jay in the hit Viva One series Ang Mutya ng Section E, which established her popular on-screen partnership with Andres Muhlach. This success was quickly followed by her first lead film role in the 2025 blockbuster Minamahal: 100 Bulaklak Para Kay Luna. By 2026, she has established herself as a versatile dramatic actress, earning critical acclaim and a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 2025/2026 Metro Manila Film Festival for her portrayal of activist Agnes Magtibay in the crime drama Manila's Finest, directed by Raymond Red.
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Eleanor Burkert
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Eleanor Burkert is a rising British actress known for her versatility across horror, drama, and psychological thrillers. She first gained attention in the psychological horror film HairScare, portraying a character at the center of a terrifying suburban mystery. Her performance drew praise for its intensity and ability to leave audiences questioning reality and identity.
She later starred in The Black Screen 2: Retribution, a dark and atmospheric sequel that cemented her reputation for grounded, realistic performances within chilling, suspenseful narratives.
In addition to her work in horror, Burkert has appeared in the relationship-focused drama series How Long Have You Been a Couple, where she explored complex emotional dynamics and added depth to the show’s exploration of intimacy and trust.
Across all her roles, Eleanor Burkert has become known for portraying layered, enigmatic characters, blending vulnerability with tension, and leaving a lasting impression on audiences.
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Leo Laporte
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Leo Laporte has worked as an author, speaker, and broadcaster in New Haven, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, most recently focusing on technology coverage for radio, television, and the Internet.
Currently Leo hosts The Tech Guy Show a national radio technology talk show every Saturday and Sunday from 2-5p Eastern on over 200 stations on the Premiere Networks including KFI, Los Angeles and KGO, San Francisco.
Founded in April, 2005, his TWiT Netcast Network produces some of the most popular podcasts in the world heard by more than 6 million listeners and viewers each month including shows like this WEEK in TECH, Security Now!, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, and the Webby Award winning, Triangulation.
In May, 2008, Leo launched a live streaming video version of TWiT called TWiT Live with 25 hours of original programming each week. 2.6 million people watched TWiT Live in its first month and the numbers continue to grow. TWiT broadcasts daily from a dedicated live-streaming video studio in Petaluma, California. Leo lives with his wife and TWiT CEO, Lisa Laporte, in Petaluma.
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Dorothy Dandridge
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Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.
In 1959, Dandridge was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Porgy and Bess. She is the subject of the 1999 biographical film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, with Halle Berry portraying her. She has been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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