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Dayo Wong Chi-Wah
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Dayo Wong Chi-Wah (Chinese: 黃子華) is a Hong Kong stand-up comedian and actor. Wong gained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Alberta in Canada.
He began his career in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong in 1984, but he is best known for his works in live stand-up comedy which he started performing regularly in 1990. Since then he has starred in TV dramas and films and has recorded several albums.
In comparison with his stand-up comedy and TV dramas, his movies are not as successful. When asked the reasons behind it, he explained that his ultimate goal is to look for something new in his movies. His visions make his work good to watch, but it is not good enough to attract people to pay for a cinema ticket. Additionally, he hates doing promotions for his work.
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Lillian Culver
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Lillian (Roberts) Culver was born in Loveland, Colorado, the daughter of William Porter Roberts and Clara Ellen Lackey. Her ancestors included Brigadier General Isaac Roberts of the War of 1812 and Anne (Robertson)(Johnston) Cockrill, heroine of the Revolutionary War and sister of James Robertson, "the father of Tennessee." She was an aspiring actress in silent movies when she met Harry H. Culver in 1915; they were married a short while later. She gave up her acting career until her husband's death August 17, 1946, whereupon she played small speaking roles in movies and guested on several television shows.
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Bea Alonzo
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Bea Alonzo (born October 17, 1987) is a Filipino film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in One More Chance (2007) and Four Sisters and a Wedding (2013). She is a two-time recipient of the top Box Office award given by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation — for The Mistress (2012) and A Second Chance (2015). She has starred in several blockbuster films such as Now That I Have You (2004), Dreamboy (2005), Close to You (2006), And I Love You So (2009), Miss You Like Crazy (2010), She's The One (2013), The Love Affair (2015), How to be Yours (2016), Kasal (2018), First Love (2018), and Eerie (2019).
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Angélique Ionatos
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Angélique Ionatos (Αγγελική Ιονάτου: 22 June 1954 – 7 July 2021) was a Greek singer, guitarist, and composer. Much of her focus was on setting and singing classical and modern Greek texts. She lived as a member of the Greek diaspora in France from 1981 or earlier, having originally left Greece, in order to be reunited with her family, as a fifteen-year-old in 1969. Her family's emigration the previous year had come in the context of the widespread political persecution that followed the Coup d'état of 21 April 1967, which had seen a far-right military junta take power in Athens. Between 1969 and 1981 she grew up with her parents and elder brother in Liège.
Angélique Ionatos died in Les Lilas, near Paris, on 7 July 2021, at the age of 67.
Angélique Ionatos was born in Athens, Greece. She would later describe herself to interviewers as "a sailor's daughter". Photis Ionatos, her elder brother (by approximately four years) is also a musician: Photis Ionatos is still based in Belgium.
In 1972 she teamed up with her brother to issue her first French language recording. The disc, entitled "Résurrection", comprised a series of loosely political "chanson-style" songs. It won for the siblings a Grand Prix du Disque award from the French Académie Charles Cros. For Angélique Ionatos, still aged just 18, the reputational benefits in France were immediate. Her next disc, "Angélique et Photis Ionatos", was also a joint performance with Photis Ionatos. Between 1973 and 1975 the Ionatos siblings appeared in a number of television shows. Most notably, there were several memorable appearances on Jacques Chancel's recently launched Grand échiquier television variety show.
During 1976–77 the professional careers of Photis and Angélique diverged. Paris became the focus of Angélique Ionatos' work, while her brother continues to make his career in francophone Belgium. Both as a composer and as a performer, Angélique increasingly returned to the Greek language. She turned initially to contemporary Greek literature. Although she set to music the texts of many writers, the modern poet whose work most frequently triggered her muse over more than four decades was the Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis.
She also set many classical texts, notably those of Sappho, using not the ancient texts themselves, but the modern translations of them by Odysseas Elytis, such as the quasi-archaic version of "Sappho de Mytilène", which she performed and recorded with Nena Venetsanou. During a recording career lasting more than forty years Angélique Ionatos produced 19 albums: many were co-productions with either the Théâtre de la Ville in the centre of Paris or the Théâtre de Sartrouville, on the western edge of the city. She had already held an appointment as one of a small team of "artistes associées" at the Théâtre de Sartrouville. The job title and position were the "invention" of the theatre's long-standing pioneering director, Claude Sévenier. In 2006 Angélique Ionatos and Katerina Fotinaki met each other at a "Sappho de Mytilène revival" show in Lausanne. Since that time the two frequently performed together. Like Ionatos, Fotinaki is a guitarist-singer, and part of the Greek diaspora in Paris. ...
Source: Article "Angélique Ionatos" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sian Breckin
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Sian Breckin is a British actress. After graduating from Drama School, Sian was cast by Des Hamilliton in Donkey Punch for Warp Films which was her first role on screen. Sian went on to begin her television career and work again with Warp Films in the role of Kelly in Tyrannosaur. Sian continues to work in Theatre with credits including, The Old Vic, The Bush and The Arcola Theatre. On television she was a series regular in Truckers and has guested in Casualty, The Bill, Scott and Bailey and DCI Banks.
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Juli Reding
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Esther Fay Reding (November 28, 1935 – September 16, 2021), better known as Juli Reding, was an American actress and model, best known for her role in the horror film, Tormented (1960).
Reding, usually presented as a curvaceous platinum blonde starlet, won a Warner Brothers contract in a publicity contest in the 1950s. She appeared in several films, most notably the horror film Tormented (1960), and murder mystery Mission in Morocco (1959). She held various beauty queen titles and also appeared on the covers and in pin-up pages of magazines including Scamp, Escapade, Fling, Vagabond, Vue, and Foto-Rama.
Later in life, Juli Reding Hutner was a socialite in Los Angeles, often photographed at charity galas. She was named to the board of directors of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in 1994. She died in Springfield, Missouri on September 16, 2021, at the age of 85.
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Ellen Muth
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Ellen Muth (born March 6, 1981) is a retired American actress best known for her role as Georgia 'George' Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me (2003–2004 series, 2009 film). As of 2004, she was a member of Intertel and Mensa, high-IQ societies. She attended the Skip Barber Racing Schoo and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
After a brief stint as a model with Ford Models and Rascal's Agency, Muth pursued a career in acting, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City, and getting her first professional experience doing commercials in 1993. Her first major role was in the 1995 film Dolores Claiborne. She followed that with a role in the eighth-season premiere of Law & Order. Her appearance as the daughter in the 1999 film The Young Girl and the Monsoon earned praise from Stephen Holden of The New York Times for her range in portraying a character "who one minute can be as clinging as a baby and the next delights in cruelly demolishing the nearest grownup with laser-like sarcasm" and her chemistry "whenever Constance (who narrates the film) is on the screen with her father Hank (Terry Kinney)"
She starred in the 2003–04 Showtime television series Dead Like Me in the role of Georgia 'George' Lass, the protagonist and one of a team of grim reapers. After some delay, Dead Like Me: Life After Death, a film directed by Stephen Herek based on Dead Like Me and featuring many members of the show's cast, including Muth, was released direct-to-video in March 2009.
In 2012, she returned to the big screen in the romantic comedy Margarine Wars alongside Robert Loggia and Doris Roberts. The film debuted in Los Angeles on March 29, 2012
In 2013, she made a guest appearance in two episodes of the first season of the TV series Hannibal, produced by Bryan Fuller, the creator of Dead Like Me. In a 2015 interview, she confirmed that she had "hit the pause button on the acting" part of her life.
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Michael Philippou
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Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou (born 13 November 1992), known together online as RackaRacka, are Australian twin filmmakers, YouTubers, and stunt performers. They are known for their horror comedy YouTube videos and for the career as horror filmmakers which those videos spawned. They have won numerous awards for their work, including the Best International Channel Streamy Award, Best Overall at the Online Video Awards, and the AACTA Award for the Best Web Show.
Originally from Adelaide with Greek heritage, the brothers moved to Los Angeles in January 2019 but continue to make films in Australia. They made their feature directorial debut when they wrote and directed the supernatural horror film Talk to Me, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was released internationally on 27 July 2023. Their second film, Bring Her Back, was released in 2025. Both received positive reviews.
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Nancy Lan Sai
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Lan Sai attended kindergarten, primary and secondary school at the Sacred Heart Canossian College. She graduated from Department of English, City University of Hong Kong in 1994 with bachelor's degree. In 2008, she obtained a master's degree in anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She joined Commercial Radio Hong Kong in the mid-1990's and co-hosted a show in Ultimate 903. In the late '90s, she switched to Metro Radio and continued to participate in radio shows at Metro 997.
Lan Sai in recent years has retired from entertainment, transferring to work in public relations.
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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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