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Virginie Ledoyen

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Virginie Ledoyen (born Virginie Fernandez; 15 November 1976) is a French actress. At the age of 2, she was already shooting advertisements for television. At 9, she started going to the École des Enfants du Spectacle, and made her film debut at 10 in Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1986). She was then nominated for the César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for most promising actress in 1993, 1994 and 1995. Her international breakthrough was in 1999, when she became ambassador for the cosmetics L'Oréal; this led to her casting in The Beach (2000), with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Norma Lazareno

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Norma Lazareno (Alvarado, Veracruz; November 5, 1943) is a Mexican actress. She is part of the cast of actors from the last stage of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Her father, Francisco Lazareno, was an opera and popular music singer, as well as a singing teacher. Her acting studies were carried out at the A.N.D.A. school. Norma Lazareno began her film career during the 1950s in the film Maldita Ciudad, at the age of 11 in the last stage of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Four years later she made his television debut on the program Variedades de Mediodia, alongside Héctor Lechuga, Manuel Valdés and Leonorilda Ochoa. She is winner of the Diosas de Plata award.
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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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Chelsea Brown

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Chelsea Brown is an Australian actress who grew up in Sydney, Australia as the precocious oldest child of six, with a keen fascination for film and stories. A commercial actor at two years old, she later became a youth ambassador for Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company during high school. Graduating dux of her year, Chelsea took a break from her acting ambitions to study law and writing, and to travel the world. She returned to her creative passion in her final years of university, before studying full time at the International Screen Academy, Sydney. Chelsea has been working as an actor in the Australian industry for a number of years since, in both local and US productions. She can be seen in Shine’s miniseries ‘Peter Allen, Not The Boy Next Door’, as well as the Australian independent film ‘Mindset’ currently touring the international festival circuit. She also writes and works as a photographer in Vancouver, Canada.
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Matt Lattanzi

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Matt Lattanzi was born in Portland, Oregon, the son of Jeanette (née Slowikowski) and Charles Paul Lattanzi His father is a maintenance foreman of Italian descent, while his mother is of Polish ancestry. He was raised in Portland as well, graduating from Benson Polytechnic High School in 1977. While filming Xanadu, he met Olivia Newton-John, whom he married in 1984. The couple have one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, born on January 17, 1986. By 1992, Lattanzi's acting career was largely over, and he took a job as a construction worker for a home-building company in California. Lattanzi and Newton-John moved to their ranch in Australia in 1993 so that Lattanzi could audition for the new soap opera, Paradise Beach. He won a six-month contract for the show. Lattanzi and Newton-John separated in 1993 after Lattanzi had an affair with another woman. They divorced in 1995. He then married Cindy Jessup, but they divorced in early 2007. In 2008, he briefly appeared in the MTV reality series Rock the Cradle, supporting his daughter Chloe (a contestant on the show). That same year, Lattanzi— A life-long environmentalist —was reported to be living off the grid near Malibu, California.
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Maria Pia Conte

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Born Maria Pia Vaccarezza in Genoa, the daughter of a carpenter, Conte spent her youth in Sestri Levante before moving to Genoa to study classical ballet. After a few experiences as a child actress, she was first noted as a fotoromanzi model, then she decided to pursue an acting career and enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1962. Conte made her acting debut in 1961, in the Marco Bellocchio's short film La colpa e la pena, then she appeared in a number of films and TV-series, often in secondary roles, being sometimes credited as Mary P. Count. She was also occasionally active as a voice actress and a dubber. She retired in the late 1970s. She was married to actor Giuseppe Rinaldi (1919-2007) and is the mother of actress Francesca Rinaldi.
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Alessandra de Rossi

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Alessandra Tiotangco Schiavone (born on 19 July 1984) is a Filipino actress, director, and screenwriter. She is best known for her roles in the films Azucena (2001), Hubog (2001), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), Kita Kita (2017), Watch List (2020), My Amanda (2021), and Firefly (2023). Her work has received accolades from various award-giving bodies including an ASEAN International Film Festival and Awards, three FAMAS Awards, three Gawad Urian Awards, three PMPC Star Awards for Movies, and a QCinema International Film Festival Award.
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Salma Al-Masri

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A Syrian actress, born in Damascus to an artistic family. Her grandfather was the famous oud player Omar El Naqshbandi. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Damascus University, but she did not practice law, as she pursued a career in acting. She started her career through children's programs. She participated in many productions in theater, cinema and television, and her beginning was in the early seventies. One of her first movies was A Prank in Mexico, and her first play was King Lear, while her first television roles were in the series Fawzia, The Wings, and Narrow Paths.
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Neal Schon

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Neal Joseph Schon (born February 27, 1954) is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the bands Journey and Bad English. He is Journey's last original constant member, having participated in every album and tour to date. He was a member of the rock band Santana before forming Journey, and was also an original member of Hardline. Schon was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame on August 23, 2013. He will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017.
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Nas-T

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Nas Muammar Zar bin Nasruddin or better known by his stage name "Nas-T" (born 4 October 1983) is a Malaysian musician, DJ, host,actor and model. He began his career in 2001 with a band called Dragon Red and was active as a DJ at leading clubs in Kuala Lumpur. He then ventured into acting in his first feature film Goodbye Boys, directed by Bernard Chauly in 2006. In 2008, he gained recognition for his role as Abu in the TV series KAMI and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 22nd Malaysian Film Festival for the same role in the film KAMI The Movie.
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