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Jason Mraz

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jason Thomas Mraz (born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Mraz's stylistic influences include reggae, pop, rock, folk, jazz, bossa nova and hip hop. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z that Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008, Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of many international charts. Mraz's international breakthrough came with the release of the single "I'm Yours" from the album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single. The song was on the Hot 100 for 76 weeks, beating the previous record of 69 weeks held by LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live". The song was a huge commercial success in the US, receiving a 5x platinum certification from the RIAA for sales of over five million. The song was successful internationally, topping the charts in New Zealand and Norway and peaking in the top ten of multiple international charts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Mraz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Lin Lan

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Lin Lan 林岚 (September 1922 - 2000) was originally named Lin Dao-Chuan 林道传 and was born in Guangfeng County, Jiangxi Province. He studied at a private school when he was young, and in 1938 he graduated from Shanjiang Middle School in Guangfeng County. In 1939, he joined the anti-Japanese propaganda team in Shangrao area. In 1940, he was transferred to the third unit of the anti-enemy drama team. After the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, he went to Shaoguan, Guangdong to join the seventh unit of the anti-enemy drama team. In 1947, he entered the South China guerrilla area and joined the Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan column of the People's Liberation Army. Served as the person-in-charge and editor-in-chief of "People's Daily" and "Beihui Daily". In 1951, he served as the head of the Beijiang Cultural Works Troupe in Shaoguan, Guangdong. In 1953, he served as a member of the Art Committee of the Guangdong Repertory Troupe. During the period, he played Jue Xin and Jue Hui in the drama "Home", Dirua in "Scattering the Storm", Biao Mu in "Julius Voček", and Hou Chaozong in "Peach Blossom Fan", Shi Yang in "Red Storm", Boris in "Big Thunderstorm", Liang Shangjun in "Same Ups and Downs", etc. In 1956, he played Chen Yiping in "Ordinary Creation" and won the third prize of the first national drama observation performance.    In 1959, Zhujiang Film Studio was adjusted. Played roles in the film "South China Sea Tide" (underground party member old horse, after the film adjustment is final), Li Minggang in "Tracking and Pursuit", Xue Jianbai in "Big Waves Washing the Sand", and acting in the films "Big Waves Washing the Sand" and "New Songs in Mountain Village" (drama films) )Deputy director. Since 1966, he has served as director, directing the opera film "Sending Food". In 1976, he co-directed the film "Maple Bay". In 1980, the independent director's feature film "People Dealing with the Devil" won the Excellent Film Award from the Ministry of Culture that year. After filming "Dr. Toad" in the mid-1980s, he was sent to Hong Kong by the Guangdong Film Association and began to systematically collect foreign stories about various genres. As a "cultural ambassador" with a "special mission", Lin Lan "stayed" there for a long time, making friends with the Hong Kong film and cultural circles, and has collected more than 1,000 overseas feature film videos and discs.
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Urassaya Sperbund

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Urassaya Sperbund (Thai: อุรัสยา เสปอร์บันด์; born March 18, 1993), nicknamed Yaya (Thai: ญาญ่า), is a Thai-Norweigan actress and model. She is the recipient of numerous accolades including: two Suphannahong National Film Awards, a Maya Awards, a TV Gold Award, a Nataraj Award, and three Mekhala Awards. She initially received recognition with lead roles in Duang Jai Akkanee (2010), Game Rai Game Rak (2011), Torranee Ni Nee Krai Krong (2012), Khleun Chiwit (2017), and The Crown Princess (2018). Her most notable film roles include Brother of the Year (2018), Nakee 2 (2018), and Fast And Feel Love (2022).
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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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J.P. Valenti

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Born to a working-class Italian-American family; JP learned at an early age the importance of hard work, dedication and perseverance. His parents Paula and Jeffery Valenti constantly instilled in him the idea that he could become anything he set his mind to. From the time he was a young child he has always gravitated toward creative arts. Whether it was writing, doing comedic impressions or creating his own talk show. In addition to this, JP has always been very active in athletics. Participating in sports like Baseball, Football, Track & Field, Soccer and Basketball. He attended the University of Connecticut where he double majored in Communication Sciences and Sociology.
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Doro Pesch

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Doro Pesch is a German heavy metal singer-songwriter, formerly front-woman of the heavy metal band Warlock. Dubbed the "Queen of Heavy Metal", Doro's contributions to music and culture along with her publicized personal life made her a global figure in metal culture for over three decades. The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer, whose members have continuously changed in more than twenty years of uninterrupted activity, the most stable presences being those of bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee. Doro started her career in garage bands in native Düsseldorf underground scene and achieved media visibility and some commercial success with Warlock in the 1980s. Warlock were starting to have an opening in the U.S. market, when they went through many line-up changes and Pesch was left the only original member of the band. She started a solo career under the name Doro, in order to avoid legal battles between her record label PolyGram and her former manager. She released two albums in the US with producers Joey Balin and Gene Simmons, but they were not the breakthrough that she hoped.
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Olallo Rubio

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Olallo Rubio Maauad is a Mexican filmmaker and broadcaster. He is known for his documentaries (So, What's Your Price?, Gimme the Power, and Ilusión Nacional) and the feature film This Is Not a Movie. Rubio's career began in radio at XHDL-FM. His first film, So, What's Your Price?, a documentary film critical of consumerism, premiered at the 2007 Guadalajara International Film Festival. His next film, This Is Not a Movie, stars Edward Furlong as a man who grapples with existential questions during the end of the world. It premiered at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2010 and had a budget of $3 million. Gimme the Power, released just before the 2012 Mexican general election, is a rockumentary about the Mexican band Molotov that is also critical of Mexican politics.[6] His latest film, released in 2014 just prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup,[5] is Ilusión Nacional, a documentary about football in Mexico.
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Sadako Sawamura

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Sadako Sawamura (沢村貞子, Sawamura Sadako; 11 November 1908 – 16 August 1996) was a Japanese stage and film actress and essayist who appeared in more than 350 films between 1935 and 1976. Sawamura was born in the Asakusa district of Tokyo. After dropping out of Japan Women's University, she was active in left-wing theatre groups and was twice arrested for her political beliefs, spending over a year in prison with much of it in solitary confinement. She started acting in films in 1934, first at the Nikkatsu studio, later at Toho. She appeared in many supporting roles after the war, often working with director Mikio Naruse. Sawamura also acted in films by directors including Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita and Kaneto Shindō. Her brothers were the actors Daisuke Katō and Kunitarō Sawamura. Her autobiography Watashi no Asakusa has been translated into English as My Asakusa. She was married three times: to actor Shigeo Imamura (1931-33), actor Kamatari Fujiwara (1936-46) and subsequently to film magazine editor and critic Yasuhiko Ohashi (1968-96, though domestic partners from 1946 onward).
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Christos Politis

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Christos Piatoulakis (Heraklion, 27 December 1942 - Athens, 5 January 2026), known artistically by the pseudonym Christos Politis, was a Greek actor of theater, television and cinema. He worked in the theater from 1966-1967 to 1997-1998, in more than 45 theater productions, while in the cinema, mainly, from 1968 to 1974, participating in 18 films. He worked on television from 1973 to 2005, starring in 8 television series. He was born on 27 December 1942 in Heraklion, Crete, where he grew up, originally from the village of Kavousi, Rethymno. He was a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theater (1965). He first appeared in the troupe of Yannis Fertis - Xenia Kalogeropoulou, in the play Ten Little Negroes (1965-1966) and was followed by the troupe of Titika Nikiforakis - Nikos Hatziskos in the plays Too Bad for Nothing (1968) and Tea and Sympathy (1969) while he collaborated with the troupe of Kostas Mousouris and the National Theatre. He worked in theatre from 1966 to 1998, participating in over 45 theatre productions, and in cinema, from 1968 to 1974, participating in 18 films. He worked in television from 1973 to 2005, starring in 8 television series, with the best known being the series Lampsi by Nikos Foskolos. He first appeared in cinema with a very small role in 1968, in Nikos Foskolos' film Avenue of Hate and with a leading role in 1969 in the films Saint Nektarios: The Protector of the Poor. In 1969, he also won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, for his performance in the film The Girl of 17. He then collaborated mainly with film producer James Parris. He reappeared in cinema in 2022, after many decades of abstinence, participating in the film Broadway by Christos Massalas. He first appeared on television in 1973, in the series The Nets of Terror. Among other things, he participated in the series Queen Amalia with Al. Vougiouklakis and Dimitris Papamichael (1975) and Aphrodite with Nora Valsami (1977). In the 1980s, he had few participations in television programs. In 1991, he reappeared on television with N. Foskolos' daily series I Lampsi, a collaboration that established him in the consciousness of the television audience as "Iago Drako", a role he performed for 14 years, until the summer of 2005. His participation in Lampsi was one of his last artistic activities. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in several theatrical productions for radio and television and in two video productions, in the late 1980s. He died on January 5, 2026, at the age of 83.
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Ingrid Rubio

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Es una actriz de cine y televisión nacida en Barcelona (Cataluña). Debutó en la televisión en la serie de TV3 'Secrets de família' en 1995. Su primera incursión en el cine fue con el papel de Paz en la película 'Taxi' dirigida por Carlos Saura y estrenada en 1996. En 1997 gana el premio Goya a la mejor actriz revelación por su papel de Helena en 'Más allá del jardín'.  Ha participado en películas como 'Que se mueran los feos', 'La estrella' o 'Ciudad Delirio'. Y entre sus trabajos en televisión destacan sus papeles en 'Infidels', 'El corazón del océano', 'Velvet' o 'Cites' ente otros.
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