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He Changxi

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He Changxi, born on November 24, 1997 in Yueyang, Hunan, is a male singer and actor from Mainland China. He graduated from Beijing Modern Music Training Institute. At the beginning of 2019, he participated in the youth inspirational variety show "Youth with You" as a trainee, and finally became a member of the UNINE group with 9th place , thus officially debuting; on May 6, the group's first music was released with UNINE EP "UNLOCK"; On October 21, the group's second music EP "UNUSUAL" was released with UNINE. In September 2020, he joined the Tencent Video character competition reality show "Actors Please Take Your Place Season 2"; in October, his group UNINE officially disbanded after issuing graduation photos; on November 24, it was released His first EP "THE MAN".
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Rahul Bose

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rahul Bose (born 27 July 1967) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player. Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English, August and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. He is also notable for his social activism: he participated in the relief efforts that followed the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and is also the founder of the anti-discrimination NGO, The Foundation. Bose is also a former member of India's international rugby team, the National Orange Indian Rugby Team. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rahul Bose, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Jessica Cameron

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Actress Jessica Cameron was born and raised in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada and moved to Toronto to initially study fashion at Ryerson University. After finishing her degree, she moved to Ohio in order to work as a fashion designer, though after taking an acting class, and being bitten hard by that bug, Cameron decided to make acting her full-time career. Relocating to Hollywood, CA, Cameron In the last few years has been cast in more than fifty projects including music videos, TV shows and feature films, and n 2010 won an industry award for being a Rising Movie Star. Some of her favorite recent performances include playing Princess Areola in the film Potpourri directed by Elliot Diviney, and her turn in the feature Mr. Hush, in which she starred alongside horror icon Steven Geoffreys. She also had the chance to work with legendary director Jim Wynorski on the Syfy channel film "Camel Spiders", and with established horror director Jeff Burr on Resurrection. Cameron was also thrilled to play screen legend Marilyn Monroe in The Black Dahlia Haunting, having been a fan of the Hollywood icon for many years. 2013 was the first year in which Cameron stepped behind the camera to direct and produce Truth Or Dare, a torture film that she co-wrote. Truth Or Dare would screen nearly 50 times all over the world and win 34 awards. Cameron would direct several short films in 2013 including a segment for a Blood Drive PSA. She would produce 2 more feature films in 2015 (Utero and Save Yourself) before embarking on her most ambitious project yet - filming 3 movies while traveling across the USA in a motor home with a small group of crew and cast members. The team shot 2 narrative features (Lilith and Mania) and the documentary surrounding the process called Kill The Production Assistant. Mania would mark Cameron's 2nd time directing a feature film. Mania would win 28 awards and screen at over 37 festivals. Her third film, An Ending, is in post production in 2019. Jessica Cameron is still a busy working actress and film maker today, some of her notable credits includes a part in director Steven C. Miller's fan-favorite horror feature Silent Night, the classic holiday horror film All Through the House, the gore filled American Guinea Pig : Song of Solomon, the cult classic The Sleeper, the action packed Run Like Hell and the documentary Haunters in which she speaks about her love for extreme haunts.
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Shannon Leto

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Shannon Leto (/lɛtoʊ/; born March 9, 1970) is an American musician best known as the drummer of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He co-founded the group in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, with his younger brother Jared. Their debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), was released to positive reviews but only to limited success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Their following releases, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success. As of September 2014, the band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. Leto has worked on several side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Antoine Becks, a recording with the short-lived supergroup The Wondergirls, and performing on occasional dates with Street Drum Corps. His creative contribution to music has received praise from musicians and critics. He is noted for his dynamic drumming style and his energetic live performances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shannon Leto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Mandy Evans

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Mandy is an Irish/Italian jersey girl who started her career as a dancer. After a few decades of training, she landed her first job dancing on the International tour of Fosse where she had the honor of performing with Ben Vereen at the Chatelet in Paris and Ruthie Henshall in the U.K. She spent another 6 months touring Europe as a dancer and stage actress before returning to the U. S. Mandy made the transition to acting by studying Meisner with Wendy Ward at the Ward Studio in NYC. During this time, she became one of the iconic Radio City Rockettes. In 2010 she made her TV debut as an under 5 on One Life To Live. Since then, she has made appearances in several independent films, commercials.
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Taichiro Maki

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Taichiro Maki (born March 19, 1980), better known by his ring name Taichi, is a Japanese professional wrestler who debuted in 2002 for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), having joined the promotion's roster full-time in 2009, where he made his G1 Climax debut in 2019 and is a three-time King of Pro-Wrestling Champion, four-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, two-time NEVER Openweight Champion, and two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. He has also held titles outside NJPW, including one reign as GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion in Pro Wrestling NOAH and one reign as CMLL World Trios Champion in Mexico. Among his accolades, Taichi was ranked No. 89 in the PWI 500 in 2019, while his partnership with Zack Sabre Jr. as Dangerous Tekkers earned a No. 3 ranking in the PWI Tag Team 50 and the Tokyo Sports Best Tag Team Award in 2021.
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Françoise Gilot

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Françoise Gaime Gilot (26 November 1921 – 6 June 2023) was a French painter. Gilot was an internationally known artist working largely in watercolors and ceramics as well as a bestselling memoirist of the book Life with Picasso. Gilot's artwork is showcased in more than a dozen leading museums including the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2021 her painting Paloma à la Guitare, a 1965 portrait of her daughter, sold for $1.3 million at Sotheby's in London. Gilot first made her mark in the post-war milieu of artists who redefined the European artistic landscape; her career then went on to span an impressive eight decades. Delving into the realms of mythology, symbolism, and the power of memory, Gilot's work explores complex philosophical ideas with spontaneity and freedom. Gilot is also known for her romantic partnership with Pablo Picasso as well as her later marriage to Jonas Salk, the American researcher who developed the first safe polio vaccine. In an interview questioning how she came to be with two of the most influential men in the world, Gilot responded "Lions mate with lions." Today, the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania is an international center for the study of Gilot's works. In addition to her personal archives, the museum houses over 270 works of art by the artist, including the most comprehensive collection of her lithographs and etchings outside the artist's estate. Gilot was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to Émile Gilot and Madeleine Gilot (née Renoult). Her father was a businessman and agronomist, and her mother was a watercolor artist. Her father was a strict, well-educated man. Gilot began writing with her left hand as a young child, but at the age of four, her father forced her to write with her right hand. As a result, Gilot became ambidextrous. She decided at the age of 5 to become a painter. The following year, her mother tutored her in art, beginning with watercolors and India ink. Gilot was then taught by her mother's art teacher, Mademoiselle Meuge, for six years. While training to be a lawyer, Gilot was known to skip her morning law classes to study art with Monsieur Gerber, a retired artist living in Paris. Gilot had her first exhibition of paintings in Paris in 1943. --- Source: Article "Françoise Gilot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Yannis Tsortekis

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Yiannis Tsortekis (Greek: Γιάννης Τσορτέκης, Neo Psychiko, 1967) is a Greek actor and director of cinema, television and theatre. He was born and raised in Neo Psychiko, Athens. He is a graduate of the National Theater as well as a graduate of the Department of Theater Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Patras. He is widely known for his participation in the television adaptation of the short story "To 10" by Miltiadis Karagatsis on Alpha TV in the 2007-2008 season. Then followed some participations in the cinema, in the film "The Little Fish" and recently in the film "The Ballad of the Holey Heart". In 2021, he won the "Best Actor" award for his role in this film. In the 2021 season "Postcard" series on ERT1. In 2022 he returns and participates in three productions, in "Dark Sea", in "Maestro" by Christoforos Papakaliatis at MEGA and in the series "This night stays" at Alpha. In 2009 he was awarded the "Karolos Koon" award for his performance in the play "Black Calm" by Dimitris Maronitis
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Lucia Morris

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Lucia Morris was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an actress and semi-professional dancer, known for The Casket Girls and Nobody Dumps My Daughter (2024). Lucia has had extensive training within acting schools in Vancouver, and as a dancer, has achieved award winning performances in countless productions. While pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Performance she continues her dance training with a semi-professional performance dance company under the guidance of some of Vancouver & LA's top choreographers and instructors. - IMDb mini biography by: Lucia Morris
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