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Felicity Mason
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Felicity Mason (born 14 November 1976) is an Australian actress and artist. She has starred in two major film roles, in 2002 and 2003.
Mason was born in Sydney. She is also a writer and visual artist. Her work explores a variety of themes from identity to values within modern culture. Her works range from oil paintings, sculpture, mixed media, installation to video and film.
In 2001, Mason graduated from The Actors Workshop in Brisbane Australia. Mason attended Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University. In 2002, Mason starred in the feature film, Undead directed by The Spierig Brothers. In 2003, Mason starred in the Sandalwood film titled Hollywood released in 2004. She was required to act and sing entirely in the Indian language – (dialect Kannada). The film was shot in both India and Australia. In 2005, Mason held a solo art exhibition titled "Chelsea a Mixed Bag", at Fox Gallery, Brisbane. In 2006, Mason created, wrote and starred in "Oralick Records", a comedy pilot series produced by NBC Universal, NYC. In 2008, Mason attended "The Arts Students League" in New York city. Mason held a one night only art exhibition titled "The Election Show" at a private venue in Soho, NYC. In 2010, Mason is the writer and producer of a surrealist short film titled "ShockArt".
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Victor Garber
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Victor Garber (born March 16, 1949) is a Canadian stage and film actor, and a singer. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has been nominated for three Gemini Awards, four Tony Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2022 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Garber originated roles in the Broadway productions of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Noises Off, Lend Me a Tenor, Arcadia, and Art. He has received four Tony Award nominations for his performances in Deathtrap, Little Me, Lend Me a Tenor, and Damn Yankees. He made his film debut as Jesus Christ in the musical Godspell. He won a Screen Actors Guild Awards for Argo and was nominated for Titanic and Milk. Other notable films include Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives Club, Cinderella, Annie, Legally Blonde, Sicario, Dark Waters, and Happiest Season.
On television, Garber is best known for playing Jack Bristow on Alias, for which he received three consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He received further Emmy nominations for his portrayal of Sidney Luft in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and for his guest roles on Frasier and Will & Grace. Garber portrayed Martin Stein / Firestorm on The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.
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Larisa Bakurova
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Larisa Angela Bakurova (Ukrainian: Лариса Анжела Бакурова, Chinese: 李瑞莎; pinyin: Lǐ Ruìshā, commonly shortened to 瑞莎, Ruìshā; born February 21, 1985) is a Ukrainian-born Taiwanese actress and model. Besides her modeling engagements, she has appeared in supporting roles in the Taiwanese drama They Kiss Again and the film Don't Go Breaking My Heart. In 2012, Bakurova starred in the film Young Dudes directed by DJ Chen Yin-Jung.
Bakurova was a professional rhythmic gymnast from ages 3–15 and won numerous national competitions. She was Miss Kyiv at the age of 18. Bakurova is a graduate of Odesa National Economics University, where she holds a master's degree in economics.
In 2013, Bakurova obtained the Taiwan Permanent Resident Certificate and began the naturalization process. She married a Taiwanese national in 2015 and gave birth to a daughter in 2016. On January 24, 2019, Bakurova became the first naturalized Taiwanese citizen of Ukrainian descent, which required a long process to renounce her Ukrainian citizenship since Ukraine does not have a consulate in Taiwan.
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Victoria Hopper
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Victoria Hopper (24 May 1909 – 22 January 2007) was a Canadian-born British stage and film actress and singer.
Hopper was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and brought up in Dunston, Gateshead, County Durham in North East England. She was popular during the 1930s. She was married from August 1934 until 1939 to Basil Dean, a British stage and film writer, director and producer. Dean grew interested in her because of her resemblance to a former lover, actress Meggie Albanesi, who had died in 1923. Dean promoted Hopper's career and cast her as the leading lady in several major films for Associated Talking Pictures in the mid-1930s. However, the films did badly at the box office and her career began to wane. Two films she was scheduled to appear in, Grace Darling and Come Live with Me, never materialised.
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Lydia B Kollins
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Lydia Butthole Kollins, better known simply as Lydia B Kollins (born May 29, 2001), is an American drag performer, filmmaker, and model who competed on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17 and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10.
Her in-drag first name, Lydia, is derived from the Beetlejuice character Lydia Deetz. She is a filmmaker, and cites Tim Burton, John Waters, and David Lynch as inspirations. As a model, she walked for Susanne Bartsch’s "Bartsch Summer Camp Pride" event in 2021. She opened for Chappell Roan’s Pittsburgh show as part of The Midwest Princess Tour in April 2024.
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Ryō Ikebe
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Ryō Ikebe (11 February 1918 - 8 October 2010) was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Rikkyō University and originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but ended up debuting as an actor at Tōhō in 1941. He did not achieve popularity until starring in a series of youth films in the late 1940s. He expanded his acting range in the 1950s, while still frequently appearing in genre films, such as Tōhō tokusatsu films and yakuza films at Tōei. He was also known as an essayist.
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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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Josef von Sternberg
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Josef von Sternberg, born Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-born film director and is among the few whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era. He is considered one of the earliest 'auteur' filmmakers, having filled many other roles on his films including those of cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor. Sternberg's style influenced later directors, particularly those of the film noir period. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich. Among his most important works are The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and The Scarlet Empress (1934). Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
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Rachid Benallal
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Rachid Benallal is an Algerian director, screenwriter and editor (sometimes credited under the name Rachid Benallel), born in 1946 in Algiers, Algeria.
Rachid Benallal began his cinema studies at the INC in Algiers and completed them at the IDHEC in Paris (graduated in editing). Upon his return to Algeria, he worked as an assistant director for Algerian television and directed two short films. From the early 1970s, he became chief editor and edited a dozen Algerian feature films, including some of the most significant of the moment (notably for Mazif, Allouache and Haddad). In total, Rachid Benallal has edited more than 32 feature films and as many 35mm short films. He also worked in Morocco as an editor on 15 feature films and 7 short films in 35 mm between 1994 and 2001. Screenwriter of the film "Un Toit, Une Famille" 35 mm fiction feature film (1979), Rachid Benallel, directed his first feature film in 1993, "Ya Ouled", about childhood between war and independence. He co-directed the film "Si Mohand u M'hand" on one of the most important figures of Berber culture in 2003 with Lazid Khodja. His latest film was made in Algiers, capital of Arab culture in 2007 and is entitled "The Last Solution". Benallel also worked in the audiovisual sector as a director and directed a series of 17 episodes of the show "Tranche De Vies" between 1993 and 1994 as well as the game show "Chkoun" in 1995.
During his career, he received several distinctions, including an editing prize in Marrakech 2001 and that of best advertising spot (Tebessa, 1993). Rachid Benallal also worked in training as supervisor of the UFC show (1991), as a teacher in cinematographic techniques at the Abane Ramdane Cultural Center (1976), at the ENTV Training Center, Berlioz (1982) and at INADC Bordj El Kiffan (1986). In 2011, he was President of the Jury of the 2nd Algiers Cinematographic Days.
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Christiane Martel
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Christiane Martel (born Christiane Magnani on 18 January 1932) is a French actress and beauty queen who became the second woman to win Miss Universe in 1953.
Martel was crowned Miss France by outgoing titleholder Claude Godart and represented France at Miss Universe 1953 where she became the second Miss Universe. She was crowned by actress, Julie Adams as Miss Universe 1952, Armi Kuusela of Finland gave up her crown.
Martel's runners-up in the 1953 pageant was Myrna Hansen of the USA, followed by delegates of Japan, Mexico, and Australia.
Shortly after her reign, Martel embarked on a successful career in international films, appearing in movies such as Yankee Pasha, So This Is Paris, Abajo el Telón, the 1956 version of Corazón salvaje (playing the villain Aimée), Viva el Amor!, Rosa Blanca and her last film to date, 1961's Leoni al Sole.
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