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Toomas Hõrak
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Toomas Hõrak (March 22, 1951 Tartu – February 25, 2020 Tallinn) was an Estonian theater artist.
In the years 1958–1969, he studied at Tartu 2nd Secondary School. He graduated from the Tartu Art School in 1975, majoring in applied art. In 1980, he graduated from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR, majoring in glass art.
In the years 1980–1994, he was the artist-director of Tallinnfilm. Later, he worked as a freelance artist and taught scenography at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His caricatures were published in Pikker magazine. Designed films and TV shows, was the artist of the 2004 General Song Festival.
Since 1989, he was a member of the Estonian Cinema Association.
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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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Simran
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Rishibala Naval (born 4 April 1976), known professionally as Simran, is an Indian actress who has predominantly appeared in Tamil, Telugu and few Malayalam films. She debuted in Bollywood and acted in several Hindi films, before starring in her first Tamil film V.I.P and her first Telugu film Abbai Gari Pelli in 1997. After some highly successful films, she went on establish herself as the most successful actress in Tamil and Telugu film industries. She started her career with glamour roles initially, by the mid 1998 she reinvented herself through playing powerful characters and off beat roles.
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Malisa Longo
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Malisa Longo (born 13 July 1950) is an Italian actress, model and writer.
Born Maria Luisa Longo in Venice, at young age Longo moved to Rome where she started a career as a model; she entered the Miss Italia beauty contest, winning the Miss Cinema and the Miss Lazio titles. After having appeared in a number of commercials, Longo made her acting debut in 1968, in the Antonio Margheriti's giallo film The Young, the Evil, and the Savage. She then appeared in a number of films, sometimes in main roles, and was especially active in the Nazisploitation and commedia sexy all'italiana genres.
She is perhaps most famous worldwide for her cameo early in Bruce Lee's film Way of the Dragon.
Longo retired from acting in 1997. In 2000 she debuted as a writer with the novel Così come sono, and her works include poetries (Il cantico del corpo) and essays (Aggiungi un seggio a tavola).
Longo was married to film producer Riccardo Billi and resides in Chicago, Illinois.
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. In a film career spanning more than thirty years, Pitt has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and one Volpi Cup. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $7.5 billion worldwide.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film Thelma & Louise (1991). Pitt emerged as a star taking on starring roles in films such as the drama A River Runs Through It (1992), the western Legends of the Fall (1994), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994), the crime thriller Seven (1995), the cult film Fight Club (1999), and the crime comedy Snatch (2000). He cemented his leading man status by starring in blockbusters such as Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's film trilogy (2001–2007), Troy (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), World War Z (2013), Bullet Train (2022) and F1 (2025).
Pitt earned Academy Award nominations for his performances in the science fiction drama 12 Monkeys (1995), the fantasy romance The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and the sports drama Moneyball (2011). For his portrayal of a stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in acclaimed films such as Babel(2006), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Tree of Life (2011), Fury (2014), The Big Short (2015), Ad Astra (2019) and Babylon (2022).
In 2001, Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment. As a producer, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave (2013). He was nominated for Moneyball (2011) and The Big Short (2015). An influential figure in popular culture, Pitt appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list from 2006 to 2008, and the Time 100 list in 2007. Regarded as a sex symbol, Pitt was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1995 and 2000. Pitt's relationships have also been subject to widespread media attention, particularly his marriages to actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, the latter of whom he shares six children with.
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Garret Dillahunt
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Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead. He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Burn Notice, Justified, and The Mindy Project. He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).
In films, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave.
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Song Yi
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Song Yi, also known as 宋轶 (Sòng Yì), is a talented Chinese actress born on October 31, 1989, in Jingmen City, Hubei Province, China. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2006, which laid the foundation for her successful acting career.
Song Yi made her television debut in 2009 with the series The Dream of Red Mansions, where she portrayed Xiangling. Over the years, she has gained recognition for her versatile performances in various dramas, including The Pretender (2015), where she played Yu Manli, and Joy of Life (2019), where she portrayed Fan Ruoruo. Her role in My Heroic Husband (2021) as Su Tan'er further solidified her popularity.
Apart from her acting achievements, Song Yi has won several awards, such as the Most Popular Actor of the Year at the 2019 NetEase Entertainment Festival. She is admired for her elegance and dedication to her craft, making her one of the prominent figures in the Chinese entertainment industry.
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Kwon Hyun-bin
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Kwon Hyun-bin (권현빈) started his career as a model under YG KPlus in 2015. He joined Produce 101 Season 2 in 2017, placing 22nd overall, which led to him debuting in the temporary boy group JBJ. After JBJ’s official disbandment in 2018, Hyun-bin pursued solo work under the name Viini. In 2019 he released his solo debut single Genie, through YGX, which he composed himself. Alongside music, Hyun-bin has been building an acting portfolio — he’s appeared in dramas like Borg Mom (2017) and The Red Sleeve (2021) among others. Hyun-bin is known for being stylish and versatile — from modeling to music to acting. Early on, he expressed interest in writing his own music and exploring fresh, atypical lyric styles.
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Chris Wedge
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John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–2022).
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Betty E. Box
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Betty E. Box (full name Betty Evelyn Box) was a prolific producer of British films, mainly comedies, between 1946 and the early 1970s, working mainly for Pinewood Studios and often together with director Ralph Thomas.
Originally a commercial artist, she started producing documentaries during World War II for her filmmaker brother Sydney Box's company Verity Films. In 1946 she was followed her brother to Gainsborough Pictures, where she produced several features before the company closed in 1949. She then moved to Rank's Pinewood Studios, where she and Ralph Thomas made some 30 films together. All in all, she produced 47 features and was awarded an OBE in 1958.
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