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Svetlana Khodchenkova

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Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, known for her roles in Blagoslovite zhenshchinu (2003) and in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). She was born Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova on January 21, 1983, in Moscow and spent her childhood in Zheleznodorozhny, a small city about 6 miles east of Moscow, Russia. She was raised by a single mother, attended a public school, and once dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. In 1998, at the age of 15, she started a career as a fashion model in Moscow, and also made a few international gigs. In 2000 she began her studies at the Moscow Institute of World Economics, but quit in favor of acting. From 2001 to 2005 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There she attended the class of Nina Doroshina and Alekandr Lyubimtsev, graduating in 2005 as actress. While a student, she starred in films of directors Stanislav Govorukhin, and Viktor Merezhko, and also appeared in popular Russian TV series. In 2008, she earned the best actress award at Gdynya Polish Film Festival, for the leading role in Mala Moskwa (2008). In 2012, she won COFCA Award for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate, actor Vladimir Yaglych, and also took her husband's name, changing her name from Svetlana Khodchenkova to Svetlana Yaglych.The couple married on the 13th on purpose; because all their filming contracts were signed on the 13th, they believed that 13 would keep working as a good number for them. However, their marriage did not last, ending in divorce. Svetlana has been involved in several stage productions of Independent stage project in Moscow. She made stellar appearances in such plays, as "Moulin Rouge Hospital" and "Theatre with and without rules" earning herself much critical acclaim. Outside of her acting profession, Svetlana is skilled in horse-back riding. She is also fond of winter sports, such as alpine skiing: she practiced her downhill at the ski resort of Courchevel, France. Source IMDB, original author Steve Shelokhonov
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Goldie Hawn

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Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, director, producer, and occasional singer. She started as a dancer, first in New York and then in Los Angeles. On the cast of TV's Laugh-In, the mod comedy show of the late 1960s, she flubbed jokes in a bikini and became one of the show's most popular co-stars. She then proved the ding-a-ling act was just an act -- she won an Oscar for a supporting role in Cactus Flower (1969, with Walter Matthau) and turned in a solid performance in Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express (1974). She had her first blockbuster, Private Benjamin in 1980, and has since had a steady career as a leading lady in hits and misses, often acting as her own producer. Some of her movies include Shampoo (1975, starring Warren Beatty), Overboard (1987, with Kurt Russell), Bird on a Wire (1990, with Mel Gibson), Death Becomes Her (1992, with Bruce Willis), Housesitter (1992, with Steve Martin), The First Wives Club (1996, with Diane Keaton), and The Banger Sisters (2002, with Susan Sarandon), among many others. She has been in a decades-long relationship with actor Kurt Russell and is the mother of actress Kate Hudson, actor Oliver Hudson, and actor Wyatt Russell.
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Kevin Cecil

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Kevin Robert Cecil (born 1969 in London) is a British screenwriter. Writing alongside Andy Riley (with whom he has been friends since attending Aylesbury Grammar School), he has won two BAFTA awards, the first for writing the Comic Relief one-off special Robbie the Reindeer in 2000, and the second for Black Books in 2005. He has also written for The Armando Iannucci Shows, Armstrong & Miller, Little Britain, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony and Spitting Image and on radio he co-created The 99p Challenge. Kevin also co-created and wrote a Sci-Fi comedy series for television entitled Hyperdrive. The first series aired on BBC2 in 2006, and the second series aired on the same channel in 2007. The programme starred Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon and Miranda Hart who was nominated for best newcomer in the British Comedy Awards in 2006 for her role in the programme. An animated series Slacker Cats he and Andy Riley created was broadcast on the ABC Family Channel in 2007. He has worked on a number of feature films including Gnomeo and Juliet, the Aardman adaptation of Gideon Defoe's The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists and The Corpse Bride (uncredited). In 2013, he co-wrote Gangsta Granny. In 2016 he won a Writers Guild of America award for his work on Veep. He has also appeared in the episode of the IT crowd 'Something happened', where he starred as Norman the geeky keyboard player.
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Amelia Bullmore

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amelia Bullmore (born 31 January 1964) is an English actress and writer. She was born in London and studied drama at the University of Manchester. Bullmore started working as an actor but turned to writing in 1995. Her writing credits include episodes for This Life, Attachments and Black Cab. She appeared as 'Sonja', the Ukrainian girlfriend of the protagonist in the comedy I'm Alan Partridge. She is currently featuring in commercials for Direct Line insurance where she plays a prospective customer at a car show. Bullmore was a finalist for the Dennis Potter Award in 2000 for her 90 minute drama entitled The Middle. Her first stage play, Mammals was the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and was shortlisted for the What's On Best New Comedy Award. From 1990 she played the role of Steph Barnes in Coronation Street. She has also recently appeared on BBC Radio 4's phone-in spoof Down the Line. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amelia Bullmore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ronaldo

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Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (born 18 September 1976), commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian business owner, president of La Liga club Real Valladolid, and a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Popularly dubbed O Fenômeno ("The Phenomenon"), and also nicknamed R9, he is widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. As a multi-functional striker who brought a new dimension to the position, Ronaldo has been the influence for a generation of strikers that have followed. His individual accolades include being named FIFA World Player of the Year three times, and winning two Ballon d'Or awards. Ronaldo started his career at Cruzeiro and moved to PSV in 1994. He joined Barcelona in 1996 for a then world record transfer fee, and at 20 years old he was named the 1996 FIFA World Player of the Year, making him the youngest recipient of the award. In 1997, Inter Milan broke the world record fee to sign Ronaldo, making him the first player since Diego Maradona to break the world transfer record twice. At 21 he received the 1997 Ballon d'Or, and he remains the youngest recipient of the award. By the age of 23, Ronaldo had scored over 200 goals for club and country, however after a series of knee injuries and recuperation he was inactive for almost three years. Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2002 and won the 2002–03 La Liga title. He had spells at AC Milan and Corinthians before retiring in 2011 having suffered further injuries. Ronaldo played for Brazil in 98 matches, scoring 62 goals, and is the third-highest goalscorer for his national team. At age 17, he was the youngest member of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup. At the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo received the Golden Ball for player of the tournament, helping Brazil reach the final where he suffered a convulsive fit hours before kick-off. He won the 2002 FIFA World Cup where he starred in a front three with Ronaldinho and Rivaldo. Ronaldo scored twice in the final, and received the Golden Boot as the tournament's top goalscorer. At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo scored his 15th FIFA World Cup goal, a FIFA World Cup record at the time. He also won the 1997 Copa América, where he was player of the tournament, and the 1999 Copa América, where he was top goalscorer. One of the most marketable sportsmen in the world during his playing career, the first Nike Mercurial boots–R9–were commissioned for Ronaldo in 1998. He was named in the FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players compiled in 2004 by Pelé, and was inducted into the Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame, Italian Football Hall of Fame, Inter Milan Hall of Fame and Real Madrid Hall of Fame. In 2020, Ronaldo was named in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team, a greatest all-time XI published by France Football magazine. In retirement from sport, Ronaldo has continued his work as a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, a position to which he was appointed in 2000. He served as an ambassador for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ronaldo became the majority owner of Real Valladolid in September 2018, after buying 51% of the club's shares. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Anatoli Lunacharsky

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Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman, writer, translator, publicist, critic, art critic. From October 1917 to September 1929 - the first People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR, an active participant in the revolution of 1905 and the October Revolution. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (February 1, 1930). In 1896-1898, the young Lunacharsky traveled to France and Italy, and in 1898 he came to Moscow, where he began to engage in revolutionary work. In 1904, after the end of his exile, Lunacharsky moved to Kiev, and then to Geneva, where he became a member of the editorial boards of the Bolshevik newspapers Proletary and Vperyod. Soon Lunacharsky became one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks. He became close to A. A. Bogdanov and V. I. Lenin; under the leadership of the latter, he participated in the struggle against the Mensheviks - Martov, Dan and others. He took part in the work of the III Congress of the RSDLP, where he made a report on the armed uprising and the IV Congress of the RSDLP (1906). In October 1905 he went to Russia for agitation. Started working for the newspaper "New Life"; was soon arrested and put on trial for revolutionary agitation, but fled abroad. In 1906-1908 he was the head of the art department of the magazine "Education". By the end of the 1900s, the philosophical differences between Lunacharsky and Lenin intensified, soon escalating into a political struggle. In 1909, Lunacharsky took an active part in organizing the extreme left group "Vperyod", which included "ultimatumists" and "otzovists", who believed that Social Democrats had no place in the Stolypin Duma, and who demanded the withdrawal of the Social Democratic faction. Since the Bolshevik faction excluded this group from its ranks, later, until 1917, Lunacharsky stayed outside the factions. “Lunacharsky will return to the party,” Lenin said to Gorky, “he is less individualistic than those two (Bogdanov and Bazarov). An extremely richly gifted nature. " Lunacharsky himself noted about his relationship with Lenin (refers to 1910): "We personally did not break off relations and did not aggravate them." Together with other "vperyodovtsy" he participated in the creation of party schools for Russian workers in Capri and Bologna; representatives of all factions of the RSDLP were invited to give lectures at this school. During this period he was influenced by the empirio-critical philosophers; was subjected to harsh criticism by Lenin (in the work "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism", 1908). In 1907, Lunacharsky took part in the Stuttgart Congress of the International, then in Copenhagen. He worked as a columnist for Western European literature in many Russian newspapers and magazines, spoke out against chauvinism in art. From the very beginning of the First World War, Lunacharsky took an internationalist position, which was strengthened under the influence of Lenin; was one of the founders of the pacifist newspaper Nashe Slovo, about which I. Deutscher wrote: "Nashe Slovo gathered a wonderful circle of authors, almost each of whom wrote his name in the annals of the revolution." At the end of 1915, he moved with his family from Paris to Switzerland.
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Nik Ranieri

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Former character animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been supervising animator of many characters, and remained so until his layoff in 2013. "After graduating from the Classical Animation Program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Ranieri went to work for Atkinson Film-Arts animation production studio (in Ottawa, Ontario)." He began animating for Disney in 1987 on the London, England-based animation crew of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, working with director Richard Williams. Soon after that he moved to Disney's feature animation studio in Glendale, CA where he animated on The Little Mermaid (working primarily on the character of Ursula the sea witch, under supervising animator Ruben Aquino). On his next film Ranieri was promoted to Supervising Animator on the character of "Wilbur" in The Rescuers Down Under. In 1997 he won an Annie Award in the category 'Individual Achievement in Character Animation' for his animation of Hades in Hercules. While Ranieri is regarded as one of the modern-day masters of hand-drawn character animation (especially excelling in subtle dialogue scenes and facial expressions) he also successfully made the switch to animating in CG on films such as Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons. Ranieri returned to his roots in classic hand-drawn animation for the 2009 Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog. -Wikipedia
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Tómas Lemarquis

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Tómas Lemarquis (born August 3, 1977) is a French–Icelandic actor. Lemarquis was born in Reykjavík, the son of an Icelandic mother and a French father, Gérard Lemarquis, who is a schoolteacher. His most distinguishing physical feature—a complete lack of hair of any kind—is the result of alopecia universalis, which made him completely hairless by the age of 14. He grew up between Iceland and France, and studied theater at the Cours Florent in Paris, where he was a classmate of actress Audrey Tautou. He also attended the Reykjavík School of Fine Arts in Iceland. Lemarquis is possibly best known for his starring role in the 2003 Icelandic film Nói Albínói (e. Noi the Albino). Lemarquis' played a lead role in the 2018 Berlinale Film Festival winner, Touch Me Not. He has also appeared in films such as Snowpiercer, X-Men: Apocalypse and Blade Runner 2049.
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Georg af Klercker

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Ernst Georg af Klercker was a Swedish writer, actor, photographer and director. After being forced to take leave of the military he became an actor. Two years later in 1912 he directed his first film, "Två bröder/Two Brothers". The film was however banned for moral reasons. But Klercker was unstoppable. He made three other feature films during the same year. Ingmar Bergman has appointed Georg af Klercker the first master of filmmaking in Sweden. Not least for his ability to create that magic depth in his pictures.
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Gloria Prat

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Prat was a renowned actress who had her heyday in Argentine cinema and theater during the 1960s and 1970s. She began her career after being chosen from little-known actresses who were able to adapt to the film budget of that time. In film she was the "fetish" actress, along with Susana Beltrán, of the director Emilio Vieyra with whom she worked in seven of his films, giving her the opportunity to act with stars such as Norberto Aroldi, Osvaldo Pacheco, Ricardo Bauleo, Soledad Silveyra, Federico Luppi and Sandro, among others. During 1965 she was arrested along with Emilio Vieyra for filming nude scenes for the film Feast of Flesh (Placer sangriento). On television she was part of the staff of the humorous program La Nut in 1965, and later in La butaca del batuque in 1970. In theater she was part of comedy companies during the golden age of the magazine genre of the Maipo Theater during the direction of Carlos A. Petit.
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