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Melissa Sagemiller
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Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974, height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is an American television and film actress.
Sagemiller was born in Washington, D.C. to a political activist mother and a professional American football player father, who played in the NFL for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. She attended Georgetown Day School. Her entry into the performing arts was at age 3 when she began studying tap dance, ballet, jazz dance and modern dance. She made her stage debut in To Kill a Mockingbird when she was 9 years old, and soon after she became a regular on her local stage. At 14, however, acting took a backseat to modeling after Sagemiller was scouted by Eileen Ford in a jewelry shop. She eventually left modeling to take an undergraduate degree in Art History at the University of Virginia.
Shortly after graduation, she decided to return to acting full-time, and studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, New York University's Stonestreet Studio and at Michael Howard Studios. Sagemiller appeared in Movieline magazine in August 2001. In November 2001, Sagemiller appeared in Gear magazine. In early career, she starred on number of teen films, like Get Over It and Sorority Boys, and was lead actress in 2002 box office bomb thriller Soul Survivors.
On television, Sagemiller portrayed the character Michelle Ernhardt in the TNT series Raising the Bar from 2008 to 2009. After that series was cancelled, Sagemiller joined Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in a recurring role as ADA Gillian Hardwicke. She replaced Paula Patton when Patton departed the series after just one episode. Sagemiller was featured in ten episodes of the 12th season of SVU. She was replaced in the 13th season by Stephanie March and Diane Neal. In 2013, she was cast as female lead on Chicago Fire spinoff Chicago PD,but later left from show.
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Dany Caligula
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Dany Roucaute (September 5th, 1992), known professionally as Dany Caligula, is a French YouTuber, streamer, writer and producer based in Paris, France. Born into a family of proletarian workers, he quickly became sensitized to the left's economic and social views through philosophy, especially with the writings of Albert Camus. In 2013, he launched a web series called Doxa where he would partake in media analysis with humour and sarcasm. After three years and 20 episodes, Doxa ended, and Dany started creating more diverse videos on France's politics and current social topics. In 2016, he made a video lightly criticizing the far-right French YouTuber, Le Raptor. This video would earn him an immense wave of cyber-bullying that would make him cease artistic activities for some time, while also facing personal financial issues during 2016 and 2017. In 2018, Dany returned to YouTube with the video 'Réponse à Internet' (Response to the Internet), addressing the insults he received throughout this harassment wave. A year later, in 2019, he wrote, edited and directed 'Le Seum du Sens' (The Annoyance of Sense). This experimental video essay serves as a melting pot of his artistic and philosophical influences. This marked his first collaboration with the streamer and musician Raz. It's with him that he would start 2020 on the Twitch channel 'Dany et Raz' (Dany and Raz). As of 2024, the channel has 50k followers and an average of 4k viewers, during those live streams, the duo mostly discusses and reacts to political content they saw online or on TV while giving their commentary. This content can spark long discussions in the duo that last for minutes while the video remains on pause in the background.
As of 2024, Dany and Raz are the two owners and primary producers of Zawa Prod, their production company that specializes in creating political events and talk shows where they offer a platform to political actors they find compelling, like the French-Algerian activist Houria Boutelja, the leader of the Left party La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and more.
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Cyril Féraud
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Cyril Féraud (born 15 March 1985 in Digne-les-Bains) is a French radio and television host and audiovisual producer. Féraud has been working primarily for the public broadcaster France Télévisions since 2008, where he is currently the host of the game shows Slam, Duels en Familles and La Carte aux Trésors broadcast on France 3, in addition to Le Quiz des Champions and 100% Logique on France 2, and a number of live annual events.
Féraud was a co-commentator for France 3's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest final from 2012 to 2014, having previously acted as the French vote spokesperson for the 2011 contest. He is the founder and manager of the audiovisual production company CyrilProd.
Cyril Féraud was born on 15 March 1985 in Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). He is an only child and was passionate about television game shows from a young age. In the early 2000s, from the age of 16, he sent game ideas to the production team of the show Fort Boyard. After a master's degree in communication and management, he took his first steps in the industry as an assistant for this same programme "which made (him) want to do television".
From 2005 to 2015, Féraud worked as a journalist for the weekly Télé Poche, as a reporter, head of the entertainment section, then as head of information.
In 2006, he made his radio debut as a columnist on Jean-Marc Morandini's Le Grand Direct program on Europe 1, with whom he worked for four seasons on the radio and television on the Morandini! program on Direct 8.
From 29 August 2016 to 30 June 2017, he hosts Midi avec vous on MFM Radio, each weekday from noon to 1 p.m.
Féraud began his career as a television host in 2004 at the helm of children's programs Art Attack and the programming block Zapping Zone on Disney Channel. He provided French commentary for the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in 2008 and 2009, respectively with singers M. Pokora and Sliimy, on the local variant of Nickelodeon. Spotted by the national lottery operator Française des Jeux, he presented the new Loto draw live on France 2 in October 2008. He continued as a host of the draw for three years.
Since 26 October 2009, he has hosted the game show Slam, which combines quizzes and crossword puzzles, every weekday afternoon on France 3. During his first two years as host, the show tripled the audience of the time slot with 1.4 million viewers on average, quickly making Féraud one of the channel's flagship hosts. Since 1 March 2015, he has been in charge of Le Grand Slam, the weekly version of Slam in which the best candidates in the game compete each Sunday.
From 2010 onwards, France 3 entrusts him with the presentation of various prime time programs: Le Tournoi d'orthographe and Le Grand Bêtisier in 2010, Le Grand Jeu in 2011 and 300 chœurs pour + de vie in 2012. After being the voting spokesperson for France at the contest in 2011, he was co-commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest grand final for three years: on 26 May 2012, with Mireille Dumas from Baku, Azerbaijan, on 18 May 2013, again with Dumas, live from Malmö, Sweden and on 10 May 2014, this time with Natasha St-Pier, in Copenhagen, Denmark. In March 2022, he was a member of the jury to help select France's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. ...
Source: Article "Cyril Féraud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Peggy Smithhart
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Peggy Smithhart, born on February 17, 1954, spent much of her upbringing in Texas before pursuing her education at Baylor University. She gained recognition in the mid to late 1980s as the "Grape-Nuts girl" alongside actor David Brooks in a series of well-known commercials. Her career spanned numerous commercials and soap operas throughout that decade. Notably, she co-starred in the series "Diamonds" from 1987 to 1989 alongside Nicholas Campbell. Since 1992, Peggy has made Paris, France, her home.
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Angela Fontana
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At fourteen, with his twin sister Marianna Fontana, he toured America and sang in theaters in Chicago and Atlantic City. At the age of sixteen he obtained a scholarship, again with his sister Marianna, to attend the "La Ribalta" film school in Naples.
She played the role of Viola in Edoardo De Angelis' 2016 film Indivisible, while her twin sister Marianna, in the same film, was Daisy. The Indivisible film was presented in 2016, during the "Days of Authors", at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, then at the Toronto International Film Festival, in the "Contemporary World Cinema" section and at the BFI London Film Festival.
Enrolled in Philosophy at the Federico II University, Angela Fontana continues her studies at the Naples Conservatory.
The career of the twin sisters stood out in 2017: Angela starred in the drama Likemeback, directed by Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli and presented in August 2018 at the Locarno Festival. She also played the part of the protagonist in the film Lucania by Gigi Roccati and also in the film for Rai Two soldiers, by Marco Tullio Giordana, which aired in December 2018. In 2019 she interpreted the character of Cecilia Gallerani in the film Io, Leonardo for directed by Jesus Garces Lambert; alongside Luca Argentero.
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Simon Pegg
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Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the UK as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the films Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), known collectively as the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, all of which saw Wright directing and Pegg starring alongside Nick Frost. Pegg and Frost also wrote and starred in the sci-fi comedy film Paul (2011).
Pegg is one of the few performers to have achieved what Radio Times calls the "Holy Grail of Nerd-dom", having played popular supporting characters in Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (2009–2016), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He starred as Benji Dunn in six Mission: Impossible films, beginning with Mission: Impossible III (2006) and ending with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He has also provided the voice of Buck in the Ice Age film series (2009–present).
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Maria Michi
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Maria Michi (14 May 1921 – 7 April 1980) was an Italian supporting actress who worked with Roberto Rossellini on his two early neorealism masterpieces: Rome, Open City and Paisà.
Michi worked first as a typist at a law firm, then as an usherette at Teatro Quattro Fontane in Rome. She was noticed and given small parts in the company of Sergio Tofano and Diana Torrieri during the 1942-1943 season. Critic Irene Bignardi called her "a woman very near the resistance and the Communist Party". In 1948, she worked with Christian-Jaque in La Chartreuse de Parme. She was married in September 1949 to Duke Augusto Torlonia, and left the world of cinema for the theater, particularly working with director Guido Salvini. The marriage was annulled in San Marino in 1956. She resumed her film career in the 1960s and 1970s, when she did 12 films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Tinto Brass's Salon Kitty, her last film.
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Yannick Pudlorz
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Yannick Pudlorz is a German model and actor.
He was born and raised in Berlin. Pudlorz started modeling for a Flynn Skye advertising project at the age of 16. In addition to actor Ben Barnes and Holly Copelands Smoking Hot, he also appeared in Swan Sittings.
He was a model for designer Hannah Hayes' fall / winter campaign and was featured in various advertising projects and in the ChromeHearts summer 2020 campaign. In June 2020, Pudlorz was added to the Top 50 model list in the Models card index. This led to the signing with Model Management shortly afterwards. In October 2020, Yannick Pudlorz also appeared for Gucci for the first time.
Yannick Pudlorz played his most famous role so far in 2010 in the youth fantasy film Percy Jackson - Thieves in Olympus. He made his acting debut in 2012, after which he played recurring roles in White Collar and Parenthood, as well as in Vaterfreuden and Kokowääh.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Aika Mitsui
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光井愛佳 (Mitsui Aika) is a former Japanese singer. She was an 8th generation member of Morning Musume. under Hello! Project. After suffering a leg fracture in 2011, she was unable to keep up with a new dance-oriented Morning Musume., and graduated alongside Niigaki Risa in May 2012. However, she stayed within Hello! Project and was the first Morning Musume. graduate to do so since 2007. She was listed as a soloist, but she never released any music due to her going on hiatus twice since 2013 to study English in New Zealand. While on her second hiatus in November 2018, Mitsui decided to graduate from Hello! Project and retire from the entertainment industry.
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