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Jennifer Connelly
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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model before making her acting debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America. After having worked as a model for several years, she began to concentrate on acting, starring in a variety of films including the horror film Phenomena (1985), the musical fantasy film Labyrinth (1986), the romantic comedy Career Opportunities (1991), and the period superhero film The Rocketeer (1991). She received praise for her performance in the science fiction film Dark City (1998) and playing a drug addict in Darren Aronofsky's drama film Requiem for a Dream (2000).
Connelly was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education in 2005. She has been the face of Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton fashion advertisements, as well as for Revlon cosmetics. In 2012, she was named the first global face of the Shiseido Company. Magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, and Esquire, as well as the Los Angeles Times newspaper, have included her on their lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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Nashoua Mostafa
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Nashwa graduated from the Institute for Theatrical Arts. She has worked on the television series “Khalty Saffiyah wa al-Deer” (“My Aunt Saffiyah and the Monastery”), “al-Ameer al-Maghoul” (“The Mysterious Prince”), “Nahnnu la Nazra’ fee al-Shawk” (“We Do not Sow Thorns”), “Raddya Raddya wa Arda mosh Raddy” (“Satisfied”) and “Zaman ‘Emad al-Deen” (“The Age of ‘Emad al-Deen”). Moreover she has also taken part in the theatrical productions “Iz’areena”, “Lan Tasqut al-Quds” (“Jerusalem Will not Fall”) and “al-Nass al-ly fee al-Talit”. Nashwa made an outstanding comedy actress when representing the character of the spinster looking for a husband. Thus she has portrayed such roles in “Film Thaqqafy” (“Educational Film”) and “al-Raggul al-Abbyad al-Muttawasit” (“The Average White Male”). However it should be noted that she has sometimes exaggerated her performances of such roles.
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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 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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Renee Michelle
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Renee Michelle is an American female professional wrestler. She is known for her work in independent promotions including Maryland Championship Wrestling and East Coast Wrestling Association where she became a multi-time Women's Champion in both promotions. She also became a one-time NWL Ladies Champion during her time in National Wrestling League. Michelle also gained notice in promotions including SHINE Wrestling as well as in the WWE.
Professional wrestling career
Shine Wrestling (2015-present)
Michelle made her debut for Shine Wrestling at SHINE 28 on July 24, 2015, losing to Amanda Rodriguez.
Independent circuit (2013-present)
Renee Michelle had her first title match on June 22, 2013 while working a show for National Wrestling League and the House Of Pain Wrestling Federation. She wrestled Rebecca Payne for the vacant NWL Ladies Championship but was defeated. Her next title match was in East Coast Wrestling Association at ECWA Toys For Tots II Title Vs. Career, for the ECWA Women's Championship held by Kennadi Brink. Their match ended in a time limit draw. While in MCW Pro Wrestling, Renee won her first MCW Women's Championship reign when she defeated Amber Rodriguez at MCW Waldorf Warfare on October 3, 2014. She won her second MCW Women's title reign on December 26, 2015 at MCW Seasons Beatings 2015, when she defeated the champion Kimber Lee in a title match special refereed by Mickie James. On November 5, 2016 during Day 4 of the MCW Autumn Armageddon Tour's pre-show, Renee defeated Brittany Blake to win her third reign as MCW Women's Champion. Later on during that same event, she lost the title to Melina.
On June 6, 2015, Renee made her World Xtreme Wrestling debut at WXW C-4 Heat where she defeated WXW Diamond Division Champion Jenny Rose, Niya and Sammi Pandora to win the WXW Diamond Division title.
World Wrestling Entertainment (2014, 2017)
On the December 8th edition of RAW, Michelle appeared as one of the Rosebuds in Adam Rose's entourage during the 2014 Slammy Awards.
On July 13, 2017, Michelle was announced as an entrant in the WWE Mae Young Classic. She was eliminated in the first round by Candice LeRae.
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Anne Margiste
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Anne Margiste (often credited as Anne-Reet Margiste; born August 3, 1942), is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress whose career began in the mid-1960s.
Anne-Reet Margiste was born in Vääna, the only child of Vootele Margiste and Vanda-Dagmar Margiste (née Altberg). She attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn, graduating from Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 (now, Tallinn English College) in 1960. Afterward, she studied acting at the Viktor Kingissepp Tallinn State Academic Drama Theatre in Tallinn (now, the Estonian Drama Theatre), graduating in 1965. Margiste also attended the University of Tartu, majoring in the Estonian language, graduating in 1970.
From 1965 until 1973, Anne Margiste was engaged as an actress at the Rakvere Theatre in Rakvere. Her first major role was that of Miranda in a 1966 production of Max Frisch's Don Juan or The Love of Geometry. Margiste left the Rakvere Theatre in 1973 to join the Ugala Theatre in Viljandi, where she was engaged until 2005.
During her long stage career, she has appeared in productions in works by such varied international playwrights and authors as: Eduardo De Filippo, Ray Lawler, Anton Chekhov, Lope de Vega, William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Molière, Lion Feuchtwanger, George Bernard Shaw, Truman Capote, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Frank Marcus, Isaac Babel, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Ostrovsky, Friedrich von Schiller, Mark Twain, J. B. Priestley, Eino Leino, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. She also appeared in many productions in works by Estonian playwrights and authors, most memorably in productions of works by: A. H. Tammsaare, Oskar Luts, Hella Wuolijoki, Juhan Smuul, August Gailit, Jaan Kruusvall, Aino Kallas, Jaan Oksa and Ingomar Vihmari.
Anne Margiste has also appeared in several Estonian films. Her first role was in the 1991 Jüri Sillart directed drama Noorelt õpitud for Tallinnfilm. This was followed by appearances in three short films; Hüvasti igaveseks, värdjad! in 2003, and Hirm and Sügise palett in 2010. In 2015, Margiste had a small role in the Elmo Nüganen directed war-drama 1944 for Taska Film.
In addition to her work on the stage and film, Margiste has appeared in several television series. Most notably, in the Kanal 2 crime series Kelgukoerad, the long-running Eesti Televisioon (ETV) drama serial Õnne 13, the Kanal 2 crime series Siberi võmm, the Kanal 2 drama series Saladused, and most recently, in the TV3 comedy-crime series Kättemaksukontor in 2017 as the character Marta Suvi.
Margiste has also recorded a large number of audio books from several authors for the Estonian Library for the Blind.
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Akilah Hughes
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Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and YouTuber based in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Edgewood, Kentucky and was raised in the Northern Kentucky area. She attended Berea College in Berea, KY where she graduated in 2010 with a B.A. in Broadcasting. Akilah moved to New York in 2012 to pursue comedy, attending the Upright Citizens Brigade on scholarship. She's gone on to write and star in videos on her own YouTube channel, MTV, Fusion, Vh1, Elite Daily, Oxygen, Allure Magazine, Elle Magazine, and many others. Akilah Hughes is a Sundance Episodic Story Labs Alum for a half-hour comedy series. A book of her essays will be published by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin in 2019.
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Nora Benshoof
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Nora Benshoof (born Nora Kristina Greenwald) is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment from 2000 to 2005 under the ring name Molly Holly. She is also known for her appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Miss Madness in 1999 to 2000. Holly began her professional wrestling career in WCW, where she also worked as a trainer. In 2000, Greenwald debuted in the then-WWF as part of the The Holly Cousins stable, an alliance of storyline cousins. She was later aligned with The Hurricane. During her time with the WWF/WWE, Holly held the WWF Hardcore Championship once and the WWE Women's Championship twice.
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Miranda Otto
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Miranda Otto (born December 16, 1967) is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films.
Her first major film appearance was in the 1986 film Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. In 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade. She starred in the 1997 films Doing Time for Patsy Cline and The Well, for which earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination. Her next project was the romantic comedy Dead Letter Office (1998). The film was Otto's first with her father, Barry, who makes a brief appearance. Later that year, she starred in the film In the Winter Dark, directed by James Bogle, for which she was nominated for her fourth Australian Film Institute Award.
After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, she gained Hollywood's attention after appearing in supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998) and What Lies Beneath (2000). In 2001, she was cast as a naturalist in the comedy Human Nature and appeared in the BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, as a strong-willed American Southerner. Her breakthrough role came in 2002, when she portrayed Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Her character was introduced in the trilogy's second film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002 and appeared in the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the following year. Her performance earned her an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Director Steven Spielberg, impressed by Otto's performance in The Lord of the Rings, called her to ask if she would play opposite Tom Cruise in the big-budget science fiction film War of the Worlds (2005). Otto, pregnant at the time, believed she would have to turn down the role, but the script was reworked to accommodate her.
Her next project was playing the lead in the Australian film Danny Deckchair (2003). She then took on the Australian television miniseries Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story (2004). At the 2005 Logie Awards, Otto won Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role.
In 2007, Otto starred as Cricket Stewart, the wife of a successful director, in the television miniseries The Starter Wife. She had a starring role in the 2008 American television series Cashmere Mafia, and Australian films such as In Her Skin and Blessed (2009). She starred opposite Stephanie Sigman and Anthony LaPaglia in the horror prequel Annabelle: Creation. She portrayed Zelda Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020).
She made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company.[28] Three more theatrical productions for the Sydney Theatre Company followed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2002, she returned to the stage playing Nora Helmer in A Doll's House opposite her future husband Peter O'Brien. Otto's performance earned her a 2003 Helpmann Award nomination and the MO Award for "Best Female Actor in a Play". Her next stage role was in the psychological thriller Boy Gets Girl (2005).
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Lauren London
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Lauren Nicole London was born on December 5, 1984, in Los Angeles, California. She is of African-American and Jewish descent. London is an up-and-coming film and television actress, model, and occasional music video actress. Beginning her career in music videos and later transitioning into film and television, London earned recognition for her performances in the film ATL (2006) as well as the television shows 90210 and Entourage. She appeared in various films including: This Christmas (2007), I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009), Next Day Air (2009), Good Hair (2009) and Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011). Along with her acting career, London is also a spokesmodel for the Sean John women's collection.
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Megumi Ogata
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Megumi Ogata is a Japanese voice actress and singer from the Greater Tokyo Area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tokai University, but left due to lack of interest. She is also best known for voicing Makoto Naegi and Nagito Komaeda from the Danganronpa Series, Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon, Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho, Tier Harribel from Bleach, and Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion, as well as playing Yugi Mutou and Dark Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh! and also Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue in Cardcaptor Sakura.
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