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A. Michael Baldwin
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A. Michael Baldwin (born April 4, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter.
He is the son of animator Gerard Baldwin, who worked on classic shows such as The Jetsons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle and many more.[1] Michael Baldwin began acting in his teens and was also a member of the Teenage Drama Workshop at California State University. He is best known for his roles as Mike in the Phantasm films (except for Phantasm II). Baldwin practices Eastern Mysticism, and in the 1980s temporarily left acting to explore his spirituality. Some of his latest accomplishments are writing, producing, and appearing in Vice Girls, and its sequel. He has also taught acting classes and workshops in Los Angeles.
As of March 2005, he teaches acting in Austin, Texas.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who 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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Nick Stringer
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Nick Stringer (born 10 August 1948 in Torquay, Devon) is an English actor.
In a thirty year career, Stringer has appeared in numerous well-known British television shows, including The Bill, Open All Hours, Only Fools and Horses, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Coronation Street, Family Affairs, Minder, Johnny Jarvis, Butterflies and My Family. He also had a small part in the film, The Long Good Friday.
Stringer appeared in the first two series of The New Statesman as the fictional Member of Parliament Bob Crippen, a Labour opponent of the Conservative Alan B'Stard.
Other roles have included a cameo role in Goodnight Sweetheart in the episode "You're Driving Me Crazy" as an undercover detective, and as a deputy headmaster Mr Sullivan in Press Gang (mainly appearing in the first two seasons). He appeared in the BBC drama Holby City, in an episode entitled "Doctor's Dilemma", on 18 June 2008.
Stringer lives in Swansea, Wales, and is married with two children.
Stringer has also made two guest appearances in the BBC Sictom Only Fools and Horses, in the episodes Go West Young Man, as an australian man, and in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he plays Del's old business partner, Jumbo Mills.
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Alun Armstrong
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Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor.
Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic."
His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks.
Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
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Liz Smith
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Betty Gleadle (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, was an English character actress, known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma Speakman ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2000, 2006). She also played Zillah in Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1984 film A Private Function.
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Jeremy Swift
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Jeremy Paul Swift (born 27 June 1960) is an English actor. He studied drama at Guildford School of Acting from 1978 to 1981 and worked almost exclusively in theatre throughout the 1980s, working with companies such as Deborah Warner's Kick Theatre company and comedy performance-art group The People Show. During this period Swift also worked on numerous television commercials. In the 1990s, he acted at the National Theatre working alongside David Tennant and Richard Wilson in Phyllida Lloyd's production of What the Butler Saw.
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Tina San Antonio
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is an American female wrestler who is currently working on the Independent circuit. She has wrestled in various promotions including Women Superstars Uncensored, American Wrestling Alliance New Jersey, IndyGurlz Championshp Wrestling, National Wrestling Superstars, and Jersey All Pro Wrestling.
Debut; Belle Saints (2010-2011)
Tina San Antonio made her debut for Women Superstars Uncensored at the 3rd Anniversary Show on March 6, 2010 with her tag team partner, the debuting Marti Belle. As The Belle Saints, Tina and Belle were defeated by The Boston Shore (Amber and Lexxus). A month later, Tina was defeated by Alicia in the first round of the J-Cup Tournament, and had her first title opportunity the next night; a losing outing to Spirit Champion Brittney Savage. On November 6, 2010, Tina and Belle captured the WSU Tag Team Championship by defeating Cosmo Club members Cindy Rogers and Jana. On March 1, 2011, Tina was attacked by an unknown culprit and was unable to take part of WSU's 4th Anniversary Show. Jazz replaced Tina and successfully retained the titles with Belle four days later at the event. Tina returned and took part of that year's J-Cup Tournament on April 2, losing in the first round to Jamilia Craft. On June 25, 2011, Tina and Belle lost the WSU Tag Team Championship to The Boston Shore at Uncensored Rumble IV. Tina debuted at Shine Wrestling as a villainess in a losing effort to Santana Garrett at SHINE 1 on July 20, 2012. On January 11, 2013, Tina was defeated by Mia Yim as SHINE 6, but she would defeat La Rosa Negra and Luscious Latasha in a three-way match at SHINE 7 on February 22, 2013.
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Ruut Tarmo
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Ruut Tarmo (26 April 1896 – 28 January 1967) was an Estonian stage and film actor and stage director whose career spanned more than five decades.
Ruut Tarmo was born Harald Rudolf Klein in Tartu in 1896 to Julius Klein and Sohvi Klein (née Anja) and he began his career on stages in his hometown in 1912. In 1914 he began an engagement at the prestigious Vanemuine Theatre and would later travel the world's stages (including at least two appearances on London stages with fellow countryman Ants Eskola), as well as at the Estonian National Opera and the Estonian Drama Theatre. In 1927 he would make his film debut in the Aksella Luts and Theodor Luts-penned and directed silent film drama Noored kotkad (English: Young Eagles), which chronicled Estonian soldiers fighting in the Estonian War of Independence from 1918 to 1920
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Agata Kulesza
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Agata Kulesza (Polish pronunciation: [aˈgata kuˈlɛʂa]; born 27 September 1971) is a Polish film, television and stage actress, and a member of the Polish Film Academy. In 2013 she appeared in the critically acclaimed Ida. She was a contestant in season eight of Taniec z gwiazdami (English: Dancing with Stars) in 2008. She gained wide popularity in mass media after winning the competition. Kulesza was also the first winner of the show who donated the prize to charity.
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Harry Eden
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Harry Eden (born 1 March 1990) is an English actor who won a British Independent Film Award in 2003 for Most Promising Newcomer for his role in Pure.
Eden was born in Old Harlow, Essex. He attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He played Nibs in the 2003 movie Peter Pan, and the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist. He was inspired by Lionel Bart's Oliver! and the role of the Artful Dodger. He said that he prefers acting in a challenging role and that he would not like to be Harry Potter, even though he loves the films.
As well as acting, Eden is also a keen golfer with a handicap of just 1. In a BBC Radio 5 interview he expressed an interest in playing golf professionally. He partnered Oliver Fisher at the 2008 Dunhill Links Championship, the European Tour's annual celebrity pro-am.
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