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Jane Fonda
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Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy Tall Story. She rose to prominence during the 1960s with the comedies Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and Barbarella (1968). Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the 1970s, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1986). Consecutive hits Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), California Suite (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and 9 to 5 (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Dollmaker (1984).
In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling VHS of the 20th century. It would be the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years, which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by Stanley & Iris (1990). Fonda divorced Turner in 2001 and returned to the screen with the hit Monster-in-Law (2005). Although Georgia Rule (2007) was her only other movie during the 2000s, in the early 2010s she fully re-launched her career. Subsequent films have included The Butler (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Youth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and Book Club (2018). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 49-year absence from the stage, in the play 33 Variations which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, while her major recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012–14) earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2009 and 2012. Fonda currently stars as Grace Hanson in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Adrienne Barbeau
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Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, singer and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Beatrice Arthur) in the sitcom Maude. In the early 1980s Barbeau was a sex symbol, starring in several horror and science fiction films, including The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, and Escape from New York. During the 1990s, she became known for providing the voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series and subsequent Batman cartoon series. In the 2000s, she appeared in the HBO series Carnivàle as Ruthie the snake dancer.
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Gower Champion
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Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer.
Champion was born on June 22, 1919, in Geneva, Illinois, as the son of John W. Champion and Beatrice Carlisle. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated from Fairfax High School. He studied dance from an early age and, at the age of fifteen, toured nightclubs with friend Jeanne Tyler billed as "Gower and Jeanne, America's Youngest Dance Team". In 1939, "Gower and Jeanne" danced to the music of Larry Clinton and his Orchestra in a Warner Brothers & Vitaphone film short-subject, "The Dipsy Doodler" (released in 1940).
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Felipe González Márquez
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Felipe González Márquez (born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish lawyer, professor, and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997, and the 3rd Prime Minister of Spain since the restoration of democracy, from 1982 to 1996. He remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain to be freely elected.
González joined the PSOE in 1964 when it was banned under the Francoist regime. He obtained a law degree from the University of Seville in 1965. In 1974, the PSOE elected González as its Secretary-General after a split in its 26th Congress. After Franco's death and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy, González obtained a seat in the Congress of Deputies after he led the PSOE candidacy in the 1977 general election, but lost to Adolfo Suárez.
After the PSOE victory in the 1982 general election, González formed his first majority government, backed by 202 out of the 350 deputies at the Congress of Deputies, and led the Government of Spain for thirteen and a half years after three additional victories in the 1986, 1989 and 1993 general elections. In 1996, González lost the election to José María Aznar and the People's Party and was elected to the Congress of Deputies for the last time in the 2000 general election, from Seville.
González was born in Bellavista, Seville, the son of a small dairy farmer. He has a sister called Lola González Márquez, married to Francisco Germán Palomino Romera, by whom she has two sons, Felipe and Germán Palomino González. He studied law at Seville University and started his career as attorney specialising in labor law. While at the University he met members of the clandestine socialist trade union Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT). He also contacted members of the PSOE and started taking part in the party's clandestine activity, necessary under the dictatorship of Franco. During that time he adopted the alias Isidoro and moved to Madrid. He was elected Secretary General of the Party at the Suresnes Congress, in France.
By the time of Franco's death, González had become the most prominent figure among the left-wing of the democratic opposition to the regime, and played a critical role, along with then serving Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, in the Spanish transition to democracy. During the Suárez government, General and Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado asked González not to raise the debate of the Civil War and Francoist repression until the death of those of his generation.
In the first democratic general election after Franco's death, held in 1977, the PSOE became the second most-voted for party, and this served González to appear as a young, active and promising leader. However, he did not win the 1979 election and had to wait for 1982 and the dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre party to come into office.
In the 1982 general election held on 28 October 1982, the PSOE gained 48.3% of the vote and 202 deputies (out of 350). On 2 December González became President of the Government of Spain, with Alfonso Guerra as his deputy. He was the first socialist to hold the post since the Spanish Civil War, and his government was the first since then in which none of its members had served under Francoism. ...
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Keren Berger
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ברגר למדה בבית הספר לביטוי בימתי "הדרך" ומשחק מול מצלמה אצל רותי דייכס. בעלת תואר ראשון בתיאטרון ותולדות האמנות בפקולטה לאמנויות של אוניברסיטת תל אביב. דוברת עברית, אנגלית, צרפתית ואיטלקית. בשנת 2003, בזמן לימודיה, השתתפה בסרט טלוויזיה של אורי ענבר, "שתיקת הצופרים". עם סיום הלימודים, בשנת 2005, החלה לשחק בתיאטרון "יידישפיל". בשנת 2006 שיחקה בטלנובלה "ילדות רעות" בערוץ מוסיקה 24 שם גילמה את דמותה של בטי - זמרת וגיטריסטית לסביתהמתמודדת עם שאלות של זהות מינית. בשנת 2007 שיחקה בסדרה "אולי הפעם" ב-Yes. באותה שנה שיחקה בעונה השנייה של הטלנובלה "האלופה" בערוץ הוט 3. בשנת 2012 השתתפה ברגר בסדרת הדרמה "קטמנדו". סדרות נוספות שהשתתפה בהן היו "יחפים" ו"אדמה". ברגר הופיעה במחזות "מחילה", בעיבוד לתיאטרון של הרומן "סיפור פשוט" ובעיבוד לתיאטרון של "פרידות", ושיחקה בתפקיד ראשי בסרטו של איתן פוקס, "בננות" 2013. ברגר השתתפה בשני סרטי קולנוע עצמאיים שצולמו באותה עת: "אף פעם לא מאוחר מדי" של עדו פלו (2012) ו"2 בלילה" של רועי ורנר וירון ברובינסקי (2012). בראיון אמרה על צילומים אלה, כי "היו חוויה מאוד אינטנסיבית, על סף הסכיזופרנית... סיימנו לצלם בתל אביב את 2 בלילהבארבע לפנות בוקר, וב-12 בצהריים באו לקחת אותי לחיפה לצילומים של אף פעם לא מאוחר מדי. לא ישנתי במשך שלושה שבועות, זאת הייתה חוויית אקסטרים".
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Vladimir Andreyev
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Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/14/1963). People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1978). People's Artist of the RSFSR (07.27.1972). People's Artist of the USSR (1985). In 1952 he graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts. A.V. Lunacharskiy (teachers - A.A. Goncharov, A.M. Lobanov). Since 1952, in the Theater. Ermolova (in 1970-1985 - the main director, in 1990-2012 - artistic director). In 1985-1988 - the main director of the Maly Theater. In the cinema since 1954 (film "True Friends"). Member of the CPSU since 1962. He teaches at GITIS, professor (since 1978), head of the department of acting. His students were actors: Kristina Orbakaite, Victor Evgrafov, Nikolai Tokarev, Elena Yakovleva, Viktor Rakov, Boris Mironov, Boris Dergun, Sergey Biryulin, Arseny Kovalskiy, Evgeniy Kamenkovich. Full member of the International Theater Academy (2000). Academician of the Academy of Humanities (1995). Wife - People's Artist of Russia Natalya Seleznyova.
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Emily Osment
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Emily Jordan Osment (born March 10, 1992) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and voice actress born in Los Angeles, California. After working in several television films in her childhood, Osment gained fame for co-starring as Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. Osment went on to co-star in the Emmy Award-nominated Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana as Lilly Truscott as well as the series movie, Hannah Montana: The Movie. She also starred as Cassie in R. L. Stine's: The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don't Think About It and most recently the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped as Melissa Morris.
Osment expanded her repertoire into pop music and more recently alternative/indie rock where she has recorded teen pop hits like "I Don't Think About It," "If I Didn't Have You" alongside her Hannah Montana co-star Mitchel Musso, and most recently "Once Upon a Dream."
Osment's debut album, Fight or Flight was released on October 5, 2010 via Wind-up Records, and it features lead single "Let's Be Friends" which was released July 7, 2010.
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Llewella Gideon
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Llewella Gideon (born 27 September 1967) is a British actress, comedian and writer. She has appeared in a number of comedy series, including Absolutely Fabulous, The Real McCoy, The Crouches, and The Delivery Man, and provided the UK voice of Molly and Trix in Bob the Builder. She wrote and starred in the radio series The Little Big Woman, which ran on BBC Radio 4 from 2001 to 2003. The show was awarded the Critics' Choice by both The Times and The Guardian. In 2024, Gideon starred as Miss Drusilla in the BBC drama Mr Loverman.
Gideon was born on 27 September 1967 in Peckham, South London to a Saint Lucian mother and Dominican father. As a child, she attended Lyndhurst Primary School in neighbouring Camberwell and Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross. Even as a youngster, Gideon was drawn to acting and writing, and her mother encouraged her interests by enrolling her in Saturday classes at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
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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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Danny Cohen
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Daniel Cohen, BSC (born 1963) is an English cinematographer. A member of the British Society of Cinematographers, he has worked on many feature films and television series, and is known for his collaborations with Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, Shane Meadows, and Lenny Abrahamson. He has worked with Hooper on five occasions: Longford (2006), John Adams (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Les Misérables (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The King's Speech, the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Les Miserables, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series for John Adams.
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